Hi - just looking at your photo and I think I recognise my grandmother Dorothy Porter, but if that's her, it must be 1950s rather than 60s. I may be wrong of course as I never met her but have seen her in family photos. I was born at 44 Sun St, but we moved to Neston when I was 4.
The name Raymond Deer rings a bell, and I remember Richmonds & Portbury's well.
Anyone remember by grandparents, Dorothy & Walter Porter at 44 Sun St? My mum was Joyce Porter.
Last edited by Tranmere_Rover; 14th Aug 201310:15am.
hello and thankyou for your message and reply . you may be quite right about the photo being 1950 ish early 1960 .nellie heggies grocers on the corner of sun st and bentinck st, i lived 4 houses down in bentinck st from nellie heggies . my next door but one neighbours were called porter leslie and alan .my surname is robinson,i know most of the faces in photo but not all the names.nice to hear from you. ta ra bye.
Didn't Miss Heggies have a big advert for Bovril, on the shop ceiling? It was a picture of a bull and it scared the life out of me when I was little. I remember the Porters. They lived next door to the Duffs, Rita and Jimmy. Then there was Mrs Griffiths at No48 Sun St. The Deers lived opposite Mrs Griffiths, Ronnie was the only one I knew.
Was it Mrs Gittins who lived at 48? The name Duff rings a bell too.
Definitely Griffiths. She had two daughters, Doreen and Joan. All related to me but now, sadly, all passed away.
Jimmy Duff went to sea. He once bought home a spider monkey and they kept it in their cellar. I remember it escaping and everyone chasing it around the back yard. Don't know the outcome. I was only about aged five at the time.
Mrs Griffiths was my Nan and Doreen my Mum. We left Sun St when I was five but I although I cannot remember the Porters personally I always remember your Mum and Dad because of the old song, 'Oh, Mr porter what shall I do?'. Funny how some things stick in your mind, isn't it?
Yep - it really is funny the bits I remember from Sun St because, a bit like you, I left there just before my 4th birthday.
One clear memory I have is sitting on the blue window sill at the front of the house when it was a really hot Summer's day. No idea why such an irrelevant memory has stuck all these years!
I knew Raymond Deer and I went to school with his brother Ronnie Deer. They also had brothers and sisters. There was a family called Rhodes in Sun St. I believe they were related .
re J cartwright i was your dads mate and i think i was his best man when he got married in Rock Ferry, it was a long time ago and a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then I remember going to the wedding with the usual suspects Tony Mick + me what a team, if the Devil could have cast his net that night he would have done well I watched a programme with Paul OGrady about Lowther st just at the back of where your dad lived it brought back a lot of great memories, had a few problems with my computer so i could not reply to any messages
I lived at 47 Sun Street from early 60's up until just before it was all pulled down...loved it around there, we had a great speck looking straight down Hilton Street 😊 I don't remember many of the names getting bandied about, I do remember the Deers and I remember that our neighbours both sides had the same name but weren't related, sure it was Owens.
