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wonder if anybody can help a friend has asked me if i could find out about an old house he remembers very near where the pop club now stands it would be nice to give him an answer i can't remember it but im sure somebody does

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There are a lot of houses near the Pop Club, can you give us any more info about where you mean?

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Hello,
I used to live at 92 Wellington street as a little boy.They were quite old houses,so,I think they may have been demolished now.
jg

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his sorry for not being more specific he says it was a biggish house with gates and a large garden

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I do not understand the message.
What large house?
jg

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I lived on Nelson Street in the mid 70s for a while and can't remember an house like that even then

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Can't you be more specific, ie, which side when coming from Church St end, where abouts on the block, ends or middle. Before Nuttall St or after Nuttall St.
Theres over 50 odd houses still standing, both sides, so about is no good.

Retlaw.

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I lived next to the last house (92) on wellington street,which was just across from nuttall
street 92 was on the left.Round the corner on the left,Spring Gardens,I think it's called now was an air-raid shelter.At the bottom of Nuttall street was a small shop.I had a friend who lived in Nuttall street.He name was Bobby Rushton I think.
I remember sneaking into a sweet factory which had a downspout that had syrup leaking
from the bottom!This was at the bottom of Cotton street.
I also used to go to the Ritz cinema nearby.
jg

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That place were known as Toffee Hodsons.

Retlaw.

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There was a fish and chip shop on a slight bend in Cotton street,where the owner would sometimes give us kids 'bits'.

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i lived on nelson st in the early nineties
before all the little houses were pulled down to build
acorn lodge and the new flats,cant ever remember a big house
with gates....but what was on the same side as the pop club
where all th gras is now just after the car park ?

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sorry about the lack of details i've put on but it was a friend who says he remembers playing in the garden as a boy was there anything near there that had large gates and garden sorry i can't give more details

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Theres Nowt till you get to Oak Hill Park.

Retlaw.

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Yep i can remember the big house that you are talking about. It was on the land where the Concert Room of the Pop club now stands. It was owned by an old lady who died. I can then remember it being rented out, but it fell into a state of disrepare later, and was empty for quite some time. It was later demolished...i think in the 1960's, and until planning permission was given to the Pop club for the Building you now see, the land was often used for a large Bonfire on Bonfire Night!

Best Regards - Taggy

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thanks taggy i will pass this on to my friend you don't happen to remember if there was a name to the house at all annlez

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hi jg the chip shop you remember i think was marsdens

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will have to stop drinking the bombay on sundays
post should have read
lived on grange st in the early 70s
i was steward of the pop club at the time.

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No i dont recall there being any name. The front of the House didn't face out onto Wellington Street, it was at the end of a block and faced sideways towards the Pop Club, with a Garden area in front of it. Ive actually been in the house as a kid when it was empty and derelict, think there was about 6 bedrooms. Dont remember anymore than that really.

Best Regards - Taggy

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Thanks Retlaw.
Oh! dear,what a swelling of emotion inside.Where those two people are crossing,that was the corner where we lived.
At the end of the war,after we'd all made it through,my mother passed away after giving birth to my sister Christine.They both died.
Dad crumpled,and spent a lot of his time in the Popular club.He also went to the British legion,a place I remember as being round the corner of Blackburn road to the right near the arches.
Anyway,thanks for the pictures
jg

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Thanks Annlez,
It could very well have been.I only remember the 'bits' he gave us were tasty because they were cooked in beef dripping.
jg

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Acorn Lodge and the Flats were there when I lived on Nelson Street in the mid 70s beechy:confused:just read your later post beechy:D

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I dont actually recall any Chip Shop on the bend in Cotton Street, i might be wrong. Where the bend is as it goes onto Belfield Road used to be a "selling owt" shop for many years, certainly when i was a kid in the 60's. There was a Chippy in that area though, it was on Napier Street just before it joins onto Belfield Road, again this was in the 60's. There was also a Chip Shop called Marsdens, but that was on Marsden Street and was operating certainly in the 70's & 80's!

Best Regards - Taggy

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Thanks Taggy,
That was it - Napier street - I remember now.Mind,I'm going back to the 'forties'.
jg

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I remember the chippie on the top end of Napier St, I lived in the confectioners on the corner of Napier and Nelson from about 1950-1955. There was also a selling out shop on the corner of Napier and Royd St. {spelling doesn,t look right**

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I remember there being Two "Sellys" on opposite corners of the Royds and Napier street crossroad, one was owned by a lady called Mary Capell, she had a dog called Whisky that was great with us kids, but used to chase postmen!! The other was owned by a couple called Albert and Margaret Hargreaves! I lived on Royds Street from 1957 till 1988. I'm trying to recall the confectioners on Napier/nelson but cant bring it to mind, where was it in relation to Pollards workshop? I now live on Avenue Parade, but when we moved here, our next door neighbour was called Kathleen, and i'm sure she also said she worked at at confectioners on Nelson St! My Mum used to work at the Confectioners called Smiths on Cotton Street, they also had another shop of the same name on Abbey Street near where Norths cleaners is.

Best Regards - Taggy

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hello Ossykid,
You would remember the Ritz down Church Street then?And further down was the dace-
-hall where Syd Ashmead and his !broadcasting band! used to play.
jg

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Hi jg...well no not really, although ive often heard my parents talk of them. I was actually born in 1957 and lived in Royds Street for the first 31 years of my life!

Best Regards - Taggy

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Hi Taggy,
Looks like I am a bit before your time.
The Ritz was a ballroom where we had some great times.And when I was even younger we would go and sit on the 'planks' at the front in the Kings Hall cinema at the bottom
of whalley road.Snooker hall there as well.We were told to stay out of there!
jg

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Remember when I lived on Nelson Street there was a Wibis selly on the corner of Royds St. and I think it was Albert St, I later worked for a shopfitting firm at had the contract for Wibis, they had shops all over Lancs

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Yep thats one of those two shops i was talking about Jaysay, was actually corner of Royds and Napier. It was the one that was owned by Mary Capell, then later became a Wibis. Which stood for Wines, Beers and Spirits if i recall.

There also used to be another Chippy or Pie Shop, i think, down at the bottom end of Napier Street/Grange Street ,close to Wellington Street, this was run by Annie Sudders who was also on the Council at the time, she used to have the nickname of "Pie Annie" in the area. After the Shop closed, her Husband used to sit with the door open playing his accordian!!

Best Regards - Taggy

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Ya Wibis, Wines Beers and Spirits, its now got me thinking what the guy who owned the business was called, he was an Iranian or something like that, he had this absolutely huge house in its own grounds down the Ribble Valley, must have had nearly 30 outlets I worked on about 15 of them

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My Grandad had a shop in Wellington St in the Forties. Dont know a lot about it or where it was on the st. I seem to recall it might have been a leather shop maybe or a shoe repair type shop as my Uncle used to mend shoes for people. It might easily though have been a confectioners type shop as they also had a shop in Holland st as well.

I have looked on a old OS map for 1909 which you can now buy, and it lists a confectioners shop at No. 20 Holland St (Elizabeth Enthwistle) as mentioned above and also ........No. 89 (Thos Holden) and No. 93 (Alice Crook) Wellington St virtually next door to each other. Where would they have been on Wellington St and maybe one of these was my grandads.


Phil

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I can't go that far back, but i lived on Royds Street through the late 60's & 70's & off the top of my head can recall a shop, which i think was a Newsagents/Sweet shop on the corner of Wellington Street & Nuttall Street. There was also a shop at the other end too on the corner of Wellington Street & Cotton Street. No idea on the numbers though!

Best Regards - Taggy

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Seem to think the cobblers shop was on Wellington St,opposite side to the Pop Club, near Cotton St?

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Could well be Cashy, where the "new" houses & flats were built, but not something i recall. I know there definitely was a Cobblers on Cotton Street when i was a lad, it was near the Cotton Street Mission!

Best Regards - Taggy

PS...The only other shop i recall on Wellington Street near to Cotton street was a chap who used to repair old Valve Radios & Tv's.

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Hey it may have been that un Taggy mate,? Ive lost many things the biggest being me memory.:D

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And me my Sanity!!! Lol!

Best Regards - Taggy

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That old chap that used to repair radios was on the corner of Wellington St and Cotton St, next to the Electrical Wholesalers.
Retlaw

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No he definitely wasn't next to the Electrical Wholesalers (Lionel Robinson), that was another shop, can't quite remember which one, but might have been a General "Selling Owt" shop. The Chap who repaired the radios/TV,s was on the opposite corner, on the terrace with the steps out front.

Best Regards - Taggy

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Do you mean selling out shop ie an off licence?

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Yep & all kinds of other household & food stuff really, i assume that's why they called them Selling Owt shops, because if you ran out of anything, you could usually get it there!

Best Regards - taggy

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Could this Cobblers shop have also been a Harness maker as well maybe......??

Phil

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Well I may have been labouring under a misapprehension all these years I thought an off licence was referred to as a selling out shop because they sold alcohol to be consumed off the premises ie "out". We lived near the one at the top of Milnshaw lane which in those days only sold alcohol and ciggies and nothing else and we called that a selling out shop. These days it's also a convenience store so your description Taggy would be appropriate now. There was also one further down Whalley Road - Mr Faulkner's, where the vets is now- which did sell anything and everything as well as booze.

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The only off licence I can remember around there, well in the 70s, was the Wibbies shop on the street which ran adjacent to Nelson street, can remember the name

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Yep, before it become Wibis (Wines, Beers, Spirits) Jaysay. it was owned by a woman called Mary Capel, it sold Alcohol then too, appropriately enough she had a Dog called Whisky!! Lol!...It used to let us kids take a ride on its back, but it had a "thing" about uniforms & the Postman used to dread coming along that stretch of Royds Street!

There was actually another off license on Royds Street too, it was on the left hand side going up past Nuttall Street, just before Clement Street. They used to sell Sherry out of a Cask, so you could bring a bottle in to be filled. Later on another corner shop on nuttall street i think sold alcohol too, it was the one straight across from "Freds Butchers" which later became a chippy!

Best Regards - Taggy

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Just been up Nuttall Street on streetview, didn't realise there were so many shops up there. In the fifties my great aunt and uncle had a green grocers up there, seem to remember it as on the left going away from town but may be wrong.

Interesting taggy you say there was a Fred's butchers - think my g/aunt and uncle sold some fish but not meat... and he died in the fifties - but his name was Fred!

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Wibis, When I worked for Valley Refrigeration and Shopfitters, we had the contract to do all the Wibis shops the Guy who owned it was a foreigner, can remember his name for the life in me, Hand a very big house in its own grounds on the Longsight Road, he had around 15 shops in Lances, was quite a good bloke to work for, always kept the beer flowing if we were pushing for a deadline:D

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I remember that selling out shop to belong to Mc Cartneys. The daughter of the owners was called Janet Mc Cartney and went to Woodnook school.
The selling out shop was opposite to a pub......which if my memory serves me rightly, was called The Star(I am happy to be corrected if anyone knows differently) I am talking about the late fifties and early sixties here.

Oh and the butchers which was across from the other off licence on Nuttall street was Harry Booths.

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Have just quickly read through all the answers to the original question and the RISHTON family lived at Poplar Cottage (Wellington Street cottage) on Wellington Street. The house DID have a garden and railings around it and the front of the house faced along Wellington Street, in the direction of the Police Station area. The Rishton family attended Christ Church and the last member living was a Miss Rishton.

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I think the Whittaker family lived in that house as i remember,
We lived just a few doors away.

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The children names were jaquline and the boys name was Rory I'm not sure