[keith]

duxburys shop was at the willows lane end later the shop was owned by the newalls who later moved to rishton and with the help of their daughter shirley and her husband jack ran two paper shops As regards the sledging the king of the sledges was kenny hanson as many as six could get on kennys    sledge for  the ride of your life  starting at dunnyshop ave and ending at blackburn road were platts club is now  This was at a time when the estate was often isolated from the town due to the snow and the salting wasnot on the scale it is now in fact we had five very bad winters in they early forties an during those five years the snow was on the ground often from november till the and of march I remember my  older brothers taken sledges down to the  scaithcliffe pit then at the bottom of ormrod street and taking all day to get back with two bags of coal and the neighbours coming round cadging because every one had run out of precious coal through therebeing no deliverys due to the snow  yes I REMEMBER those days