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His mother would have killed him for going Alan, he was only six in 1911.


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My Family lived in Dee Street and I was born in my aunts house in Orchard Road. We used to walk along the length of Peel street to visit her.
It was a lovely friendly community. The kind where people took pride in where they lived. The women would be out washing down and sweeping their front steps and the immediate pavements out side , polishing their brass door knobs and sitting hanging out of the upstairs ledges to clean the windows. I used to think how brave they were precariously perched, back to the street high up on a ledge, scrubbing at the panes!
A lot of folk didnt have that much, but what they did have they were proud of! Everyone helped each other out in times of need.

At the Rock ferry end of Peel street there was an old blue police box, like the tardis.
I think if I remember correctly where Livingstone road ran into Peel street there was an off licence with all the windows frosted over. My Grandma said it was to keep childrens eyes from such a den of iniquity!

The sally army often paraded down Peel street on a Sunday morning along with the boys and girl's brigades, flags a flying and drums a banging..used to wake every one up.

That area of little back street terraces was a lovely community back then, everyone looking out for one another, and knowing everyone's business!
Because Peel street was quite long it always seemed full of noise and chattering children playing out in the street, it was broken only by the sound of the trains rumbling past and tooting their horns.
I wish I could time travel and go back again.

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my mum was from Livingstone road,her mother rose stapleton had 6 girls

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I was born in 118 Peel Street in 1940, my mother was also born in the same house in 1903. the house belonged to her father who had actualy bought the house at about 1900.
Prior to that he lived further along the same street at No 135. The house although a terraced house was slightly different than the houses ajoining it. I was built in 1867 and had a date plaque high up on the wall. an odd thing was the numbering of the houses in Peel Street. If you look at the map earlier in this post you will that the road start at the bottom of Farm road but there are no houses till it get to the bottom of Randle Street. But they did not start at no 1 and 2. they started a lot higher. If you go to the other end of Peel Street on the map {St Pauls Road end} No 1 and 2 started there and the numbers ran till you go to the bottom of Livinstone Road. If you look closly at the map you will see a slight kink in the line of the road on the railway side of the sreet at the bottom of Livinstone Road, it is there that the low numbers stopped and picked up again at the bottom of Randle Street to continue in the normal fashion of going higher as you travelled further away from the town hall.


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Great memories from the posts above. My grandparents lived in 24 Livingstone Road, and gt grandparents had the shop on the corner of Allison St and Livingstone Rd.Remember going in with the Ration Books. Biscuits and crackers all in tin boxes,I have joined the two maps together if anyone wants a copy if covers the whole of Peel St

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Originally Posted by alan128
Great memories from the posts above. My grandparents lived in 24 Livingstone Road, and gt grandparents had the shop on the corner of Allison St and Livingstone Rd.Remember going in with the Ration Books. Biscuits and crackers all in tin boxes,I have joined the two maps together if anyone wants a copy if covers the whole of Peel St

Also i think there was a shop opposite the off licence in Livingstone Rd. I remember a fish and chip shop at the Bottom of Livingstone Rd in Peel St

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That chip shop in Peel Street was right where the house numbers changed like i said in earlier post. Yes there was a shop on the oposit corner from the outdoor shop at the bottom of Livingstone rd, there where also one on each corner at the bottom of Gladstone road as well. Of course in the 40s &50s both St Pauls Rd & Union St where also full of shops. In approx 1947/48 there was an outbreak of Small Pox and a lad/girl living at the end of Brougham St next to Gladstone Rd died of it. Was only a youngster at the time so all I remember was been in long line of people on Old chester Rd. An emergence clinic had been set up in one of the shops and we all got inoculated, still got the scar on my left arm where it was cut with a piece of glass and the powder blown into the cut. We where all given red arm bands to weare {not sure if that was to show we had bloody sore arms or what] sorry to have gone off subject. But it is all part of the history of the area

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I remember an outbreak of polio.One girl in Livingstone Rd had it and was in leg calipers.She was lucky to live i think but it left her unable to walk properly. This must have been in the 50s

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i remember there was a pawn shop on the corner of peel st,st pauls rd end.and at union st end there was a paper/sweet shop, on thee other side was a barbers shop called bill the barbers,my brother used to get his hair cut there.there where loads of shops in union st but i can only think of the,veg shop, the chandlers,and parkinsons the dairy,my sister went on to buy it when mr parkinson retired.

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Originally Posted by alan128
I remember an outbreak of polio.One girl in Livingstone Rd had it and was in leg calipers.She was lucky to live i think but it left her unable to walk properly. This must have been in the 50s
we lived in Brougham St in the 50s,
My mums younger brother who lived on old Chester rd opposite st luke's church caught polio
paralyzed him from the waist down confined him to a wheel chair


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Originally Posted by suey30
i remember there was a pawn shop on the corner of peel st,st pauls rd end.and at union st end there was a paper/sweet shop, on thee other side was a barbers shop called bill the barbers,my brother used to get his hair cut there.there where loads of shops in union st but i can only think of the,veg shop, the chandlers,and parkinsons the dairy,my sister went on to buy it when mr parkinson retired.

The pawn shop was Bainses, the paper/sweet shop at Union St end was Bartons, and yes oposit was Bill the barber { he had one leg shorter than the other}, next door to parkisons on the on the corner of peel St was the Co-op. Mr Parkison use to push a large wheeled hand cart with his 2 large milk churnes on it and you got your pint of milk measured out to you outside your front door if your household was one of his customers

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thanks jimbob id forgotten the co-op,

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Originally Posted by kimpri1
we lived in Brougham St in the 50s,


My grandfather and his family lived at 84 Brougham St. at the 1911 census. They also had a team of three rivetters as lodgers; a total of eight people so must have been crowded. The census shows five rooms in total, so probably three bedrooms.


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does anybody have any pictures of the area? peel st, st pauls rd, old chester road, etc? regards

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