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Forum: Accy Photos 09-10-2004, 21:47

Replies: 71 Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Views: 10,154 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Wow! Modernised version! I don't remember seeing that. I do remember the old horse drawn cart.

Forum: Accy Photos 08-10-2004, 23:31

Replies: 71 Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Views: 10,154 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Yes it was. I can see that my post doesn't make that clear. The farmhouse (the icecream was made on the premises) was in Lowergate Rd (or Highergate Rd - I'm never sure where it changes names) in...

Forum: Accy Photos 07-10-2004, 13:16

Replies: 71 Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Views: 10,154 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Albert ("Hi scream he-yar")has long since passed away. The building which used to be his farm has now been converted into a row of houses bearing the name "Piper's Row" which is actually the name of...

Forum: Accy Photos 20-09-2004, 13:10

Replies: 71 Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Views: 10,154 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? :) Thanks Atarah. Grimshaw Street, as I now remember, is the name of the street up the side of Clayton Con and as Whitewell occupied those premises (entered on Grimshaw St and located directly behind...

Forum: Accy Photos 17-09-2004, 16:37

Replies: 71 Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Views: 10,154 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Can't remember the name but the shop is on a corner in Chatburn, just where you turn off to go to Downham. Mind you I haven't been there in ages so for all I know they could have closed down too.

Forum: Accy Photos 17-09-2004, 15:13

Replies: 71 Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Views: 10,154 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Curioser and curioser because it was certainly no earlier than the 70s when I recall this refridgerated something or other behind Clayton Con.

Forum: Accy Photos 17-09-2004, 12:53

Replies: 71 Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Views: 10,154 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? If that ad was 1956 I wonder if they had other branches by the 1970s (when I was working in Clayton) or I wonder if it was a different firm? I'd love to find a later ad now.

Forum: Accy Photos 16-09-2004, 23:35

Replies: 71 Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Views: 10,154 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? No I never lived there but I used to work there. Don't remember any soap factory. Perhaps it had already gone, but the pubs were still there.

Forum: Accy Photos 14-09-2004, 15:55

Replies: 71 Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Views: 10,154 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? I can still remember a sign about ice cream at the back of Clayton Con and hearing the whirry wuzzing of refridgeration type equipment. Maybe they just sold the stuff.

Forum: Accy Photos 12-09-2004, 22:03

Replies: 71 Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Views: 10,154 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? I don't know. I'm not even sure they still exist.

Forum: Accy Photos 11-09-2004, 22:04

Replies: 71 Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Views: 10,154 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? I thought the houses were on land next to the old dairy. I didn't realise it had covered all that area. I just recalled I'd seen buses going up that road where the dairy wagons used to go.

Forum: Accy Photos 11-09-2004, 14:32

Replies: 71 Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Views: 10,154 Posted By WillowTheWhisp Re: Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Hmm I remember something round the back of Clayton Con. Was that Whitewell daries? Do we have any local daries now or have they all bitten the dust? There was one on Park Street on the site where...

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