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Are you sure you aren't thinking of the one at the top of Ranger Street, which was run by a lady called Eunice Whittaker?

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I think your right it was Ranger St

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More I think about, the more I think that this was the one. You walked through the door into a corridor then, as you say, turned left into the shop. They always had a great selection of sweets!

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Not just sweets as I recall, the whole shop was stacked with just about everything.There was a small space on the counter to put goods you were buying but everyother bit of space was full of things. I seem to remember a black csat that stalked the shop and gell asleep on the tins sometimes

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Yep, I remember the cat too.

However, king (or possibly queen) of Accy cornershop cats was the one owned by Pennock's (corner of Richmond St and Higher Antley St - did fantastic homemade iced lollies). This magnificent beast was huge and at one time was in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest cat in the world.

Thread wander?...moi? ;)

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More thread wander

I vaguely remember that cat and the lollies, but most of all I remember that this shop (Top Shop from where I lived) gave free sweetes to children who went the errands there. They would probably get arrested for that now , well they would if there were any corner shops and if shildren were allowed to 'run errands'

Re: WHITTAKER OR LIVESEYS
 

There was a family called Livesey who lived on Avenue Parade. Their daughter Jennie was married to Cyril Whittaker, the hairdresser whose shop was at the bottom of Burnley Road. Jennie and Cyril's daughter lived in Kent - her name was Sheila.

Re: WHITTAKER OR LIVESEY'S
 

Have you noticed the thread was started in 2004 and the thread starter is banned;)

Re: WHITTAKER OR LIVESEY'S
 

Aye , and there were Whittakers who had a confectioners on Willows Lane at the corner of Claret St , and my grandfather had a brother on Catlow Hall St called Whittaker , but that was his Christian name . ;)

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Exactly;)

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...and they did cracking steak & kidney puddings! ;)

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This is the first time I have seen this thread. It was never going to get anywhere because of lack of information posted buy the starter. The names are so common that some narrowing down needs to be done, and that could have been achieved by supplying more detail - names, addresses, schools, workplaces, years. I suggest that the
thread be re-started.

Cyril Whittaker's daughter appeals for information about her dad on the website 'Curious Fox', which is worth a look at. It can be seartched using places or surnames.It is cheap to join but can be used for nowt.

There was another Whitaker family living next door to the off-licence near the Boar's Head - Frank & Alan were the sons in the 1950s. A Janice Whittaker lived across the road from them. She married George Plumpton.

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We have a member on here with that surname, Councillor Whittaker

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all the whittaker family i am related too came from oswaldtwistle my grandma and grandad lived in trinity street

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I have just spotted that Fur Baby, who started this thread off, has been banned by the moderators.