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Originally Posted by exaccyman
There was a good toy shop (Could it have been Wolstenholmes? . . Wolstencrofts?) just before the railway bridge on Blackburn Road close to the premises which were to become Accrington's first Chinese restaurant. I think E J Riley's (Little Blackburn Road) sold toys as well as sporting goods. I remember, in the late forties, word used to go around at school (Peel Park) that "So-and-so" have got Dinkies in". If we had any money, money boxes were emptied and we made a bee-line for the appropriate shop after school.
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Wolstenholme's did have a shop down Warner St at one time, but it was not a toy shop. He had three sons, one became Wolstenholme's Funeral Parlour, 2nd had a shop near the bottom of Whalley Rd, where the hire mobility shop was/is, the other had a joinery business, I think it was where the frontage is set back from the road near the Abbey Friar.
E.J. Rileys at the corner of Bridge St & Blackburn Rd, mostly sold sporting goods, but did have Dinkies. Babyland was at the top of Warner St, its now Dr Kappenda's surgery.
Retlaw.