Re: roe greave road, ossy.
 

Must have been a bit of a let down having to leave Cornwall behind for the dark satanic mills...

Mind you the local Demelza's probably appreciated the new genetic influx!;):D

Re: roe greave road, ossy.
 

I am guessing the tribe you knew cashy lived on Dowry street, their name was Tregartha, not Tregurtha. They were Ronnie and Edna, and had a few sons and daughters, Norman, Rowland, Sheila, Ann and some more. They are distant relations to the Tregurtha's, we think many years ago when the records were hand written some one didn't finish the "a" off at the top so it looked like a "u" and from then on that branch was Tregurtha.
Norman changed his surname to Blight after his mother's maiden name, she was from Plymouth also.

The two families are related through the great grandfather so the mistake must have happened from him onwards.

Re: roe greave road, ossy.
 

i know this thread is all over the place but the readers fruit and veg was there,, i remember it well going down past it every day on my way to moor end primary school, straight facing readers was a small shop maybe paper shop or toffee shop? not sure, we lived at jack house farm originally, but thats maybe another thread,.

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It would be much easier if members knew what your name is/.was . Nobody will remember Janloot

Re: roe greave road, ossy.
 

Dobson, start paying attention or it'll be late detention for you! :D

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Barbara was their daughter and she married an Ossie lad Albert Dean

Re: roe greave road, ossy.
 

Remember both of those shops, Hilda Taylor's and Reader's. Kathleen was a beautiful girl and I can remember her sister Doreen. Across the road there was a sweet shop near a chippy!

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did she have a sister, kathleen rings a bell, be 50 years since i left ossy, memorys a bit dodgey.i think barbaras dad was called jack, jack was one of my stepmothers brothers.

Re: roe greave road, ossy.
 

my sister was doreen mcclinton, she now lives in clayton le moors, maybe a different doreen,

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Yep thats em gremlin, they lived same block as me,opposite side. Ronnie did one n Nat moved in wi Edna,

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The chippy's still there, though the old sweet's shop's a barbers.

When I started going into the sweet shop in the sixties, it was called Mrs. Taylor's.

You could take a short cut to Moor End if you went through the ginnel, that ran between the sweet shop and the doctor's surgery, which is now the dentist's.

It only sold sweets.

All the usual jars, coconut mushrooms, humbugs, mint imperials etc., and a few boxes of chocolates for the rare adult.

Two glass cases of penny sweets, for her more usual, tiny customers.

She must have had the patient of a saint.

'One, no two white mice please Mrs. Taylor, and one Black Jack, some Spanish shoelaces, one shrimp please, and I'll have the rest in gob stoppers.'

:D

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See the Gobstoppers didn't work.:D

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Up until they did up the Market Hall, Kathleen sold handbags in there.

She was still a very attractive woman then.

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No, well they wouldn't.

I posted the order of the kid in front of me.

I only ever bought those childrens' cigarette sweets, and wine gums.

Or for special occasions, a Spanish pipe, and edible baccy.

:D

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For us girls it was necklaces instead of shoelaces(little pink and yellow sweets on elastic!), lovehearts, parma violets and healthier fruit salad instead of mojos!

For special occasions Midget gems, cherry lips, curlywurlys and my favourites which have always been sasparilla drops (preferably Stockleys).

Early teens had a big phase of eating Revels - Revels originally had orange creme, coconut, toffee, or peanut centres, along with Galaxy Counters!

:p