Spring Hill long ago
 

I read in the observer (obits) a while back about a gentleman who ran a cobblers on spring hill road. So I got to looking where it might be, then I started looking at old maps, etc. So now I would like to hear from anyone who lived in spring hill who can remember the cobblers or the post office on spring street or the bakery on the corner of pickup st and springhill road. In fact anything relating to Spring Hill, stories, charactors,photos. I may even write a book!!! Thanks, in anticipation..

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I'm not that old but I remember there being chip shops both at the top of Sharples street ( one of teh first Chinese's in Accy) and also at the bottom of Spring Street. Spring Hill Car club used to have a shop at the bottom of SHR and I remember the shop on the corner of Charter street and Lonsdale being a Post Office and then a shop( the girls who lived there now live up Bash as I play then at Pool in the Bash league). Opposite was a ladies clothes shop.

There was a Butchers on George Street as well as the one at the bottom of Elizabeth street.

My Mum has lived on Elizabeth street for 50 odd years now. I lived there from birth to ~25 years old.

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gotta say spring hill was known for the best pint in accrington @district in the 60s, the Pickups Arms, in Bill n Teresas time, i lived near accy centre, but the Pickups i called in most nights.:)P.S. and dinners as well, when i worked at Raistricks.lol

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my good lady wife worked for many years in the pickups
right up and till it closed many good darts players spawned
good warm welcome always assured
sadly those days have gone along with spring hill :(

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I lived on Lonsdale St in the 60's, (in the Ladies wear shop at one point) and can remeber a few of the shops. There was a sweet shop opposite the Pickup's that used to sell draught sasparilla-MAGIC. Then at the bottom of Spring St there was the Veevo ( I think) good for Mambos and spud guns. Coming closer to home at the bottom of Sharples St was Bridges confectioners with excellent pies and pasties plus Savoys to die for. At the bottom of Elizabeth St was Jack Walmsley's butchers ( a good friend of my dad) where I picked up our meat order on Saturday mornings. I recall having to get my more muscular sister to drag our beagle away from his display of pigs' heads in his window one day. A greengrocers was further round towards the bottom of Exchange st and then a house that looked like it used to be a shop but with some kind of opaque green covering on the inside of the window that had about a million dead wasps and bees trappedin there . Scary!!

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Ooo, that reminds me, wasn't there a pudding shop or sommat just further on than the veg shop.

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...and a barber's somewhere around there too?

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hey you learn summat new everyday on ere, i never knew that about springhill rd etc.....:D

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how would i go about finding which shops where around years and years ago??
would love to know what shops were where in ossy:S


(i know im a boring sod;)

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The Pickup's Arms...what a great pub! When I worked on the bins, our weekly round finished at the end of Pickup Street on the old Accy Borough boundary. The week's work was conducted at a brisk pace, so that we had usually comcluded our toils by Friday lunchtime. Any scrap metal picked up along the way was taken to a dealer on Back Burnley Road to supplement funds for our Friday afternoon "session" in the pub. Everyone partook of a few pints, then it was back to Moreton Street to clock off. Wouldn't be allowed these days and quite rightly so, but, eeh, it were a crackin' pint! :cheers:

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I myself lived on the fern gore estate but a lot of my school friends at springhill council school lived in the pickup street springhill road area a few names I can remember alan riding whose parents had a cake shop on pickup street alan went on to become a boss at platt saco lowells < HOWARD & BULLOUGHS> also the wilkinson twins two excellent amateur boxers as well as allround sportsmen ronnie wilkinson worked as motor mechanic when he left school I cant remember what the other twin did

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Try Goad maps. They give details of retail premises ground floor use and are printed every 5 years or so. They are usualy available at local libraries maybe Accy would be a better bet than Ossy.

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Veevo was at the bottom of Edleston Street I remember it was run by the Halsalls it was next door to a newsagents.

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you're right, :rolleyes: age grows over the mind like moss over stones...

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Was it at the bottom of Elizabeth Street on Pickup Street maybe called Wynns, not too sure.

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For some strange reason I recall the ladies clothes shop being called "Frans".

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seems only you n i wyn remember Proper places, the rest of em SHOPS:D:D

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Only shops I remember are record shops, Mr C...apart from that, just coffee bars and pubs! :D

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What about the snooker halls? - you misspent youth you!- my mum warned me against young men like you (didn't heed the warning :D)

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Of course, Margaret, how could I forget about the Elite?? Problem is, when I first started frequenting these places, my mum thought I was up in the reference library diligently doing my homework!

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was no snooker hall up spring hill, though the club had a decent table once of a day.:D

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Were you the one who always had his face pressed up against the window on outfit changing days Bagpuss?

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My secret is out;)

Cashy I remember the Pickups had many a pint in there. If I remember correctly the landlord was a bald headed guy called Brian Fielding when I started going in there. I was there the night of the Heysel disaster.

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dont know bagpuss:confused: was a regular late 60s early 70s,after that only when i was up that way, which was not very often. Bill n Teresa were the hosts in cashys days.;)

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It's odd how you remember where you were at certain times isn't it? I was just down the road in the Printers'.

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what was that place once that was opposite of pickup arms on the corner on pickup street, was it once a shop?

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It was a bakery at one time but before my time (late sixties)