Thanks atarah, will have a look at it when weather gets better.

it's only last year since i rode my bike down the old monkey steps... i used to go that way on the walk home from school .. hollins high.... if we walked down through oak hill park back in the late seventies....:dogrun:

We used to cut through the monkey steps on our way to school ( woodnook Sec )

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There can't be many threads which have gone on for as long as this one has. Started in January 2004 and active over 8yrs later.

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That was one of my route's home from school on many days back in the days...:rolleyes::hothothot

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Used to use the monkey steps to deliver papers every morning and night. Delivered for Sugdens on Plantation St and had one paper to Dr McGloughlins? just before Oakhill park gates. Don,t ask me how I remembered his name after 55 years. Didn,t the path come out on Sandy Lane by the "air raid" shelter?

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Just been smiling to myself as to how things change. This thread was started in 2004 and mentions using the Monkey Steps as a quick way to the college. Of course that doesnt apply now, because the main college entrance is now just around the corner, past the entrance to the steps and in on Broad Oak Road. Also the Hargreaves Arms pub was mentioned. This of course is now known as Grant's.

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The path came out behind the rear of Greensills dentists, and the loading area for the toffee works and Adelaide St back, it then led into the top of Adelaide St, the drive way into Highams was then on your right, don't remember any air raid shelter in that area.

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This brings back memories I used to go that way to school 56 to 60!

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How's that for ideal locating ? :D

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The air raid shelter is still there - it's at the bottom of one of my neighbour's garden on Queen Elizabeth Crescent. You can still see the entrance to it from Adelaide Street, it's a bricked-up former door in his garden wall. From what he's told me it seems that it was a communal shelter for local residents built by the owners of Bank house.

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Went to have a looksee, seems the door in the wall has been restored back to its original state, couldn't get a photo, bloody cars parked on the kerb. Going round the back of Adelaide St, things have changed, part of the old toffee works has been knocked down for some reason, and the rear of Greensills has changed too. Its now over 65 years since I last went round there.

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The "air raid shelter" as I remember, was at the fork in the road at the top of Adalaide st. as the road branched left in to Sandy Lane, the right branch going to the Monkey steps.