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Old 30-08-2009, 14:47   #10
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Re: Floods In Rising Bridge

My mum did get the right date.

It was in post 192 of this thread...

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...-30856-13.html

'Neil, my mum does remember your mum's shop, now that I've shown her the photograph, but now wants to know when it opened, as she thinks it used to be a bric-a-brack shop, where she bought a water colour from with her first wage?'

Mothers_Shop_1_.JPG :: thanks to Derek Mooney for this Photo Mothers Shop. My mother had a drapery shop at No.70 union road. (opposite the end of Queen Street) and this photo was taken 18th July 1964 when Union Road was flooded. Where the shop stood

'Incidentally, the 18th of July 1964 was the day when we had terrible floods in east Lancashire. A friend of my grandpa's bakers shop was washed away at Rising Bridge, and that day my grandpa was taking my mum and dad to London, to get the boat train to Nice, and the roads were so bad they nearly missed it. Happily I was asleep in my mum's tummy at the time.'
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