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Can't remember that MrC but I do remember em' coming int' Bridge selling War Cry..alway thought it was a strange title for what was a religious pamphlet ??

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Yes, you"re right cashman, but that was a place of worship, not a hostel.

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Ah that explains the singing i remember.:) always used to buy a war cry in the boozer, at the time never really knew why.:D

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Hedging your bets you unrepentant sinner! :D

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Well he never bought it for the crossword DinG;)...judging by his spellin' :)

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Our Cashy likes a flutter & a couple of bob for a placing seemed a good shout. (that & the chance to rescue his immortal scoundrel soul). ;)

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Think they had a place on Charter Street at one time, towards the willows lane end, looked like a prefab

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It is an asian centre now.

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Cha...,33.94,,0,4.39

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Ho Hum looks like they're taking over the area altogether:(

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Quite right Jaysay. All us kids from Crown St, Ranger St,
Brown St, Canning St. used to go there on a Sunday morning/Afternoon about 1955/6/7. Sing a few songs, Say a few prayers and you got a drink and some cake or something to eat. We even got days out to Southport and Fleetwood with them.

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Just wondering Mog when it changed into an Islamic centre, the centre used to be a house in the adjoining street.

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Dont known about that as I left long time ago. But it was called Charter Hall all the time I was there.

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It was a long time ago, but my husband thinks the painter was Ronnie Ashworth, he also knew the chap on his left but cannot remember his name.

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I remember Ernie lee and John Duffy on the "Deck", and a guy we called Ernie Glasses also Alan Sutcliffe. I don't recall t being grammer school boys - quite the reverse, it was fast and dangerous types that my mother certainly would not approve of, and who I had to dream up complex "excuses" for going past the "deck", to suss out who was hanging out there. There was also an older man called Arnold, who had a cottage up near Spire Farm at the top of the "green" part of Sandy Lane. This cottage had a stone carving dating from the 1600's and was reputedly where Oliver Cromwell once stayed. Arnold was famous for riotous parties, with "guests" from the visiting West Indies cricketers, who first introduced us to illicit smoking substances! Arnold also rented a house at the bottom end of Burnley Rd, near the then English Electric showrooms in Abbey St(now Age Uk! - Does anyone else recall Arnold? and the parties?....

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I don’t remember any of us being on the deck that much!
Vito, Isaac, Kev Florrie, Billy Cook, Brian Abbott (& Monica)
Steve Astin, Pop Floyd & me (Seddy) were always in
the Derby skinning up! Hello......is anyone out there
still alive?
It’s 2019 now.

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I was one of them Greasers and we had a coffee bar on Union st where Shaws Amusements are now in the eariy 60's