Oh forgot to mention does anyone remember Mother Gums Shop on Plantation St it was very dark in the shop and always smelt of snuff to me mother gum was a tiny lady if I remember but for some reason I was always a little bit scared of her.

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That's interesting, I started this thread because my cousin wanted to know where the pub was that one of her ancestors used to run. Twelve years ago she lived in St Leger Court! Will have to tell her she was on home ground when she lived there.

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Its been a very interesting thread,at least to me anyway.:D

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I well remember all those names & places, alleys & back streets etc, I lived in Hargreaves St from 1935 till 1955. By the way the Chemist in Abbery St wasn't next to Fosters Paper shop, it was at the top of Black Abbey St, on the corner with Abbey St, the site is now empty, wasn't it called Hothersalls.
Mother Gums shop, she was the 2nd generation to live there, her mother was known as old mother Gum, used to get some of my toffee ration there.

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Didn't have to wait long to tell her - she rang me two minutes after I made that post!

You could be right about the name and position of the chemist I was only young then but that is where my Aunt Emma was run over.

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Higher Pitt St Wesley St Chapel St Elephant St and Law St were all demolished to make way for the flats.
Wesley St. Where did that one come from.
Wesley St is off Tanpits Rd, Church.
Quite a few other places were demolished around that time, for the new flats, and more so for the construction of East Gate.
Bunny's Back, Pinch Belly Row, Prince o Wales, thowd Co-op Joiners, Blacksmiths at top of Elephant St, Briggs Yard, Hilda's Green Grocers, etc etc.

I was probably thinking of the Church that was at the back of the Swan pub if it wasn't Wesly St would it be Hargreaves St ? Tell you this gettin old sucks!!!!!

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I'm a dammed sight older than you but when I close my eyes I can see the area where I lived as clear as any photograph, and as it was then, not as it is today.
The church which you refer to as the back of the Swan pub, wasn't at the back. it was in the middle of the block on Abbey St, from Adelaide St, to Birtwistle St, it belonged to the Swedenbourgs, and was known as the New Jerusalem Church. The Wesley Church was on the Corner of Abbey St, and Spring Gardens.
Behind the Swan, in Adelaide St, was a doctors house and surgery, it was later used by a firm of Printers, then came Cockerell Court, 4 houses in there, one of my ancestors lived there in the 1870's. Next up Adelaide St, was Hargreaves St, then Chapel St, Quarry St, Sandy lane, Midland St, Cobham Rd, and so on up to Barnfield St.

We moved from that area when I was tiny that is why my memory is not as good as yours!!!.But I do remember the little pen that was at the top of Birtwistle Street on the last hand side going up because my dad used to take me to feed the hens it was just before you got to Cobham Road.

Meant to say left hand side of Birtwistle St.

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Hello, I have just stumbled on this post and can provide some info on the Pine Apple pub from my Ancestry research. I have found a very distant "relation" Jeremiah Farrington, born 1856 in Rochdale, and his wife Isabella (nee Hill), born 1863 in Manchester. According to the 1901 census, Jeremiah was the inn-keeper of the Pine Apple at 4 Elephant Street, Accrington.

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Very sorry to hear that the lady had passed away. Thank you for the information Retlaw.

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Was the pub up Manchester Rd on the left just past Nobby's called the Pineapple.