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I must have known your Mum - I worked in the RCI office 60/61 - left to join Civil Service. I well remember Denis Varley, quite a character, Edna Pullen, husband Arthur worked in another EE office. I remember Gladys Cornwall, Joan Hughes, Connie Herbert, May Maudsley, Eva Swindell, Joan...

Thank you all for the replies re Chapel St and Crawshaw St- I remember the little shop on the corner of Quarry St very well, how interesting to know it once was a chapel!! - I always wondered how the street was so named as I never saw any sign of one. Thanks also for the Crawshaw St info -...

Any info re either Chapel Street (off Adelaide St) where I lived for few of the war years (40's) with my Mother in the smallest house you've ever seen - one up, one down, small scullery with slopstone, shared outside lavatory - any idea when that was demolished? and also Crawshaw St where we...

I've heard that - Josef Locke - also heard that Charlie Chaplin appeared there in his very early Fred Karno Circus days before he went to America - that must have been early 1900's.

I used to visit a friend who lived in High Riley Cottages in the fifties - the last cottage going up the lane - used to think even then how wonderful and full of character they were- they looked Tudor to me. Spire Farm and the cottages seemed so far out of town in those days. but not far atall...