does any 1 remember the stables at the bottom of milton road,miss braithwaites corner shop, the coffin makers,the pipe cleaner factory at the bottom of shakes peare road, henshaws at the top of the road,that shop is the only thing left over from milton road,and the street sign.do u remember the old wash house,women wud travel from all over to do their washing.pushing their prams thru seacombe loaded up with the family wash.do u remember the old dale inn in oakdale road,just a bit further up the road from the bird in hand ,which is still there 2day.macks the chippy,all the kids went 2 macks 4 their chips cud u stood on a wooden crate and u got a free chip wrapped in paper while u waited 4 ur order.do u remember adams the toy and bicycle shop?oooh,and lots more.

hi mate i remember mrs braithwates sweet shoop on the corner my nan used to live on the oposite corner of milton road also the wash house and bycycle shop now all that remains is the sign post and newsagent at trhe top

hya,just read ur reply,what was ur nans name?

hi,i remember adams bros bike shop as i got my first bike from them and from what i remember they were top blokes,and a offlicence on the corner of ashville road and oakdale road my dad used to call johnny lodgers,a guy with a groggy voice worked there but that was 30 yrs ago.

yes,and before the blokes at adams bros,it was run by 2 elderly ladies ,one of them always had a ciggarette hanging out of her mouth.i used to join their christmas club every year in the sixties,i was 8 0r nine at the time.next 2 jonny lodgers was normans,he sold groceries ect,then there was another shop just past normans,think it was called jacksons,can,t be sure,there was a bookies opposite the bird in hand, and on what is the motorway behind gorsedale road there was the old railway,gypsies used 2 camp ther every year, i remember making friends with a gypsy girl called maria,ther were sinking sands down ther too,we used to walk across them,it stunk ,it was partly solid and partly watery,if my mum had known she would have had a fit.also there were little streams down there cos i used 2 catch little fish there,they never lived long tho,wen i put clean water in their bowl.lol

Does anyone remember the oak daily mission good news club, Where you use to go every Tuesday. And if you went for 6 weeks you got a badge. or lamounts cake shop st pauls road, creswell sweet shop, brismond's jewish shop that opened on a sunday. And a sweet shop next door to them, who use to ask you to come back with more money if you only had a penny, "I'm not walking around to for other side of the counter for a penny." The chip shop which had the first pinball machine where you won a chicken if you scored the highest amount during the week.

do you mean the oakdale mission on the corner of gorsedale road?its a childrens nursery now,as one of my grandsons goes there.i remember my dad takin me and my sister to brizmonds for sum boots,(i think they were lilac lol)

Oh so many memories. My mum worked in Lamonts. There was a veg' shop heading toward the ferry. I remember they had two boxer dogs in there and they took my mum's shopping basket and tore it to shreds in the middle of St.Pauls rd. The shop was opposite the swings that where taken away when the tunnel was built.
Johnny Lodger had throat cancer and had,had a 'vocoda' I think it's called ,fitted.
I was christened at Oakdale Mission, went to Oakdale Nursery, which is now a grassed area by Oakdale Ave. Was there an Off Licence sort of in a house in Edgmond St?

Hi just found your Seacombe memories. Very interesting.
I have added a few of my own. Will add more later.

The Dolls hospital in Borough Rd.

Do you remember the temporary bridge that went across the railway line whilst the tunnel road was being built?
I remember it being quite shacky, like it was only made of MDF!!!

a remember them all the allinsons butterworths gartland jacksons binghams the dennis family usa the bates barrs and the pipe cleaners coffin makers the wash house the sinking sand was a dump for "britsh leather" the tunnel getting built this is when seacombe was decent

One inch ply the wood was, 8 layers in total. Dad made a few ottamans out of the sheets when it was taken down. They weighed a ton.

A friend of mine used to own the pipe cleaner factory. He still relates tales about it.

Bob.

Wow thats brought back loads of memories. Yes there was an off license in Edgmond street called 'Crosses' I think. I remember my nan would buy bottles of stout there. There were two green grocers on st paul's road. There was Mr Lee's and the one with the boxer dogs was Cavanah's. The sweet shop Nicoletties, Martin's grocers, Pullens grocers, Warrens newsagent, Andersons bakers as well as Lamonts bakers. Nico had the chippy. I remember Brizmans (Brizzys)You could smell the new carpets in there. When you think, you had all the shops you needed then without having to go to liscard or elsewhere.

yes, I did work at that Pipe Cleaner factory but cant recall name. It was very dangerous and you had to keep your wits about you, the machines (I operated 3) had uncovered spinning very sharp blades, which we had to keep sharpened with stones, that cut the yarn as it was caught by the twisting wires. Then I would run up to Lloyds corner for the 3 or 5 bus home.

Hewitt & Booth,
Tobacco Pipe Cleaner Manufacturers,
Shakespeare Rd, Seacombe.

John L Brierley group purchased the only other pipe cleaner manufacturer in the country, namely Hewitt & Booth in 1966/67, moved the machinery to Huddersfield and the decision was taken to trade under this new name.

https://www.hewittandbooth.com/pipe-cleaner-manufacturers/history-heritage/

The John Brierley website says they purchased it later than 66/67.

Their timeline has it at 1976.
John L Brierley purchased the only other pipe cleaner manufactured in the country (in Wallasey) called Hewitt and Booth Ltd.
https://www.johnlbrierley.com/about-us/