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#456911 2nd Jan 2011 4:27pm
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Does anyone remember going into this shop? It is still there but has been closed for a long time.

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There used to be one opposite Huddlestones butchers and another nearly opposite the Saddle

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It is the one by the Saddle I remember.
Come to think of it there was also one on Liscard Road,corner of Bell Rd.

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And one on Rake Lane opposite the Queens

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Every Morn think of Vaughans was above all their doorways

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So it was. Where they a chain then?

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I think they were a small local chain. They always seemed a bit seedy to me. Everything I had out of there it was stale

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Yes that's what started me on this topic. My hubby remembers buying sweets in the 60's and the paper bag they were in had 'help the war effort'or something similar written on it.

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I got the same bags in 1977...

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It's actually Withens lane you are talking about. They had another one on Seabank road. Mr Vaughan but god knows which one ran the Withens lane one and we used to go in there from Manor road school. Not the nicest of men although we were all schoolboy scallies, and as stated previously the sweets were suspect. I can remember them being done in later years for selling rancid sweets.

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I seem to remember going to a sweet shop in Withens Lane opposite the Saddle in the late 1980s. Some horrible old bag was running it. It seemed very dirty and the old bag was like something out of a Roald Dal story.

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That's tha one! I thought that it was Martins Lane but it must be a continuation of Withens.Very dark smelly shop with black floor boards.

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Hey maybe the 'ghosty 'lot could go in there,looks like it could haunted!

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It was probably worse than the infamous Sweet Corner by Oldershaw.

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do u remember the bakery next door to it ? we used to buy "sally luns" and "mersey splits" in there at lunchtime


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