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used to be church paint and varnish!

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yeh cheers i'd forgot the name,used to get brilliant sheepkin rollers from them-what happened?did they go bust or did they re-locate?

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thay move to huncoat

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can remember them in huncoat and that burned down as well didnt it .

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I lived in Walmsley street in the 1950s and my Mother worked at Chambers Mill over the bridge. When you crossed the canal bridge and turned left down the path to the canal there was a caravan builders. Further down on the left was a foundry with a moulding shop we used to watch them putting the hot metal into the moulds before going to play at the back in the empty ruined building or in the tunnels or waste from Blythe`s. This used to be hot in places and if disturbed you would create different colours of smoke,no health and safty issues in those days. Does anyone have memories of the Queens hall cinema latter the Tudor cinema and a night club.

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do i ......i only lived on george st so the tanpits was my play area, we used to go to queens pictures on a saturday morning ........some paid some didn't.

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Hi Mez
Do you remember an old gentleman Mr Snape or Snake lived in a house behind the Queens Hall he seemed to do all the jobs sell tickets, ice cream and keep all the kids in order. What a laugh on Saturday when the side door would fly open just after the show had started and a dozen kids would swarm in and disapear into the dark to join their mates.

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I remember there being a family called Snape around the Oswald St/Tanpits area. Many happy hours playing on the old engine beds, jumping from one to the other. I didn't know there were ever houses on Bridge St, though.

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re bridge st I used to live at no.10 with nates tommy halliwell, mary clements, jimmy marsh, and dorothy perkins. This was during the war years 1939-45. There many industries over the brig But funnily we never seemed to be upset with the noise of them all working day and night. Our fun and games was playing behind Lords garage and pretending to drive the unrepairable cars dumped there, childhood memories ah so long ago.

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Hello~

I am wondering if you are able to tell me Mr. Snape's actual name? I am searching my Snape genealogy and it seems to center around Accrington. My g-g-g-grandparents, John and Jane Snape are buried at St. Mary's Old Burying Ground between Clayton-le-Moors and Altham. Is there any chance there could be a connection?

Glenn

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For us in Lee's cafe the whistles signalled a change over of customers, a quick pile up of plates in the wash room, we had over 500 and didnt wash any until we closed unless we where very busy, and another two buckets of chips on the go and a fryer full of fish, perhaps butter a few more loaves as well, a hectic changeover.