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Forum: Lost Friends / Family 08-05-2014, 21:54
Replies: 348
Views: 56,991
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Rhyddings High School??

I remember going to Rhyddings st Con club1965/6.....met some girls who also went there, Pat Holden(or it could have been Eillen), Sheila Parr, Jackie Hetherington( or it could have been her sister)....
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 07-05-2014, 16:22
Replies: 68
Views: 2,828
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Woodnook Secondary

Taddy, if you scroll back to post 39 (just after your post re observer) you will see the names Kenn remembers
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 07-05-2014, 13:53
Replies: 68
Views: 2,828
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Woodnook Secondary

Hi Kenn, thanks for posting the football team photo.No idea where I was that day. I'm afraid the old grey matter has let me down in naming the other two in the photo. I remember we played our home...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 03-05-2014, 19:28
Replies: 68
Views: 2,828
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Woodnook Secondary

Hi Kenn....would love to see that photo, if youv'e still got it. Mr Bell (ding dong)was the gym teacher and Mr Gale took science.....he had the classroom with the long desks with bunson burners on...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 03-05-2014, 19:12
Replies: 68
Views: 2,828
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Woodnook Secondary

I had a look around the museum the other day and saw the football team photo.....didn't recognize anyone, that was my first year at Woodnook. There was another photo witch had Mr Carrol (headmaster)...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 03-05-2014, 11:44
Replies: 68
Views: 2,828
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Woodnook Secondary

Hi Taddy, I too am struggling to remember head boy/girl. If there was I would think Madeline Quinn would have been a candidate, I seem to remember she was very posh and snooty. I remember all of the...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 03-05-2014, 11:37
Replies: 68
Views: 2,828
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Woodnook Secondary

Hi Kenn, I lived in Oswald st (bottom end). Other names who lived round there....David and Andrew Trotter (Spencer st or Hodder st )...David Smith (lived a few doors down from Gillian Coulson and...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 02-05-2014, 21:34
Replies: 68
Views: 2,828
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Woodnook Secondary

I remember you Ken Nash. Didn't you live up Spencer st.....seem to remember we were in the football team along with Pip Rose and Geoff Redmand. I also remember all those names plus Shirley Costley,...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 07-04-2014, 14:37
Replies: 68
Views: 2,828
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Woodnook Secondary

Hi Taddy.....Sheila Goulding lived on Sudall ave, and had an older sister who used to knock around with my older sister. Bridget Swales lived at the top of Fish lane, opposite the school.I vaguely...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 07-04-2014, 13:15
Replies: 68
Views: 2,828
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Woodnook Secondary

Brian and Jimmy Bowker lived opposite to us in Sudall ave Huncoat. My older sister Maureen (Brown) also went to Woodnook around the same time as Brian. I seem to recall Jimmy being a councillor or...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 06-04-2014, 18:29
Replies: 68
Views: 2,828
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Woodnook Secondary

I lived in Huncoat till '57....I remember Benny's sweet shop and getting the telegraph pink from newsagents for footie results. Other names I remember, Martin Whittaker, Bridget Swales, Jimmy Bowker,...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 25-04-2013, 17:55
Replies: 23
Views: 2,027
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Raymond Tattersall

The Ray Tattersall I knew lived on Washington st in the mid sixties, and worked for J Bradley Transport for awhile. I remember he got a contract for cleaning the windows of (what looked like an old...
Forum: DVD/TV/Film Discussion 14-04-2013, 17:57
Replies: 33
Views: 3,531
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Doctor Who

I think the makers of Dr Who realise that the story lines are weak, and the dialogue is to complicated to follow that they are making a big play on special effects in the hope of carrying the series...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 14-04-2013, 17:40
Replies: 68
Views: 2,828
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Woodnook Secondary

Yea I remember you.....went to Woodnook same time. You lived in the fireman's houses on Manchester rd. Going back even further I lived at the back of you in the 50's up Huncoat, I lived in Sudal...
Forum: Heritage and History 10-01-2013, 15:02
Replies: 500
Views: 20,065
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Update on Accrington Conservative Club

I'm not an expert on this, but I should imagine the insurance on this building would be pretty steep. If the owner is now bankrupt then who pays the insurance. Also if the building is deemed to be...
Forum: Accy Photos 14-12-2012, 12:47
Replies: 21
Views: 3,509
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Hippodrome

I worked on Accy buses in'68. Down in the depths of the depot was a snooker table, we used to play on when we had split shifts. Looking at the Hippodrome can't help thinking such an imposing building...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 14-09-2012, 14:38
Replies: 15
Views: 1,370
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Paper Rounds; Jeff Cronshaws Newsagents!

In the60's I had a paper round at the newsagents bottom of Bold st opposite the dairy. Forgot the name of the owner but she had 2 sons and a daughter. Always looked forward to Thursday's.......Beano...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 16-06-2012, 23:03
Replies: 5
Views: 669
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Lost Relatives

Thanks again Acstan.....that info is useful, cheers mate
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 16-06-2012, 21:32
Replies: 5
Views: 669
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Lost Relatives

Thanks for the info and research done.....I appreciate it.My info is that Eliza haworth was living around the Royd st area in the early 60's. How did you manage to find out the Fredrick st...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 15-06-2012, 14:46
Replies: 5
Views: 669
Posted By steve50brown
Lost Relatives

Trying to find information on a Herbert Brown and Robert William Haworth, both lived in Accrington.They both served in w.w.2, but I can't find a site that gives out service records for that...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 27-02-2012, 15:05
Replies: 59
Views: 7,756
Posted By steve50brown
Re: School Photo - Benjamin Hargreaves

Hi Lesley, sounds like we were there at the same time.If you have photo's would love to see them.....Steve
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 13-02-2012, 16:44
Replies: 14
Views: 1,767
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Woodnook c.s.school

If your looking for old school chums, go onto Friends Reunited and type in the school.I was at Woodnook in '61-'65 and found classmates.
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 06-02-2012, 13:09
Replies: 192
Views: 11,015
Posted By steve50brown
Re: The Con club

Yea definantly no tables and chairs around the side.If it kicked off can you imagine the carnage!!I also seem to remember they wouldn't serve bottles over the bar in case you took them onto the dance...
Forum: Introduce Yourself 05-02-2012, 18:08
Replies: 10
Views: 519
Posted By steve50brown
Re: Newbie looking for memories

Thanks for the welcome,here's a little bit about myself.
Lived in Huncoat till I was seven.Moved to Oswald st in 1957,went to Ben.Hargreaves and then Woodnook.Worked at Woolies,Bradleys and Accy...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 05-02-2012, 17:40
Replies: 192
Views: 11,015
Posted By steve50brown
Re: The Con club

Hi Ian good to hear from you.If I remember rightly Gideons way were a cross between the Small Faces and the Who....you did some good cover versions.Also saw you at Rhyddings st club in Ossie (I...
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