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Accy-mad · 27-11-2004, 09:18

Colin Poole was a nice lad. He lived near to us on Whalley Rd in Clayton around 1953/4 and his family had a wind-up gramophone in the attic and we used to go up there and play old records. I can't remember a thing about the Pop manufacturing but thought his father ran the garage on the left hand side going up the steep hill to the canal bridge (about opposite the entrance to Pickup St). They moved to Whalley Road Accrington, again on the left hand side between the Crown bus stop and Oakleigh. I remember the Whitewell Ice cream shop in Infant St., you could buy an ice-cream cornet for one penny. The ice-cream was the best in the world and nothing has ever matched it since. Wasn't the shop next door to Mr Marriott's (have I got the right name) who made meat and fish pastes. The glass-covered counter was full of large oval shaped dishes with the hugest variety of pastes available, again no pate or paste has ever tasted as good since.

27-11-2004, 09:18	#35
Accy-mad Junior Member+ Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 7 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 0	Re: Do Whitewells still do ice-cream? Colin Poole was a nice lad. He lived near to us on Whalley Rd in Clayton around 1953/4 and his family had a wind-up gramophone in the attic and we used to go up there and play old records. I can't remember a thing about the Pop manufacturing but thought his father ran the garage on the left hand side going up the steep hill to the canal bridge (about opposite the entrance to Pickup St). They moved to Whalley Road Accrington, again on the left hand side between the Crown bus stop and Oakleigh. I remember the Whitewell Ice cream shop in Infant St., you could buy an ice-cream cornet for one penny. The ice-cream was the best in the world and nothing has ever matched it since. Wasn't the shop next door to Mr Marriott's (have I got the right name) who made meat and fish pastes. The glass-covered counter was full of large oval shaped dishes with the hugest variety of pastes available, again no pate or paste has ever tasted as good since.