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Originally Posted by keith
I seem to remember when I was a drummer in the church lads brigade 1940/50 period our drum major harry walshs mother was the landlady of the globe pub facing the last orders pub on blackburn road I stand to be corrected
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You are dead right keith, my cousin Harry Walsh was the Drum Major of the Boys Brigade, he lives in Springhill if you want his address pm me, I can well remember our Harry at the front of all the civic parades swinging the Mace and throwing it in the air, our Grandmother Hanna Walsh took the Globe Inn in 1927 with her husband Thomas who died 6 years later leaving her to raise 6 boys alone, she ran the pub single handed untill approx 1960. She died in her midd 90s. Harrys mother Charlotte Walsh nee Allen lived in brewey property 2 door up from the Globe Inn. Harrys Father Jack Walsh was killed Whilst on convoy duties in Bombay, serving with the Merchant Navy in 1944.