Burnley Road
- Thread starter Atarah
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I remember that shop being Dent's. 
Amazing how the Peel's Arms doesn't seem to look anything like the Broadway in that first photo and the road seems narrower too. Must be because it's an old black and white pic.
Amazing how the Peel's Arms doesn't seem to look anything like the Broadway in that first photo and the road seems narrower too. Must be because it's an old black and white pic.
the newsagent was bilsbourgh the couple were called, earned me 1st beer money taking papers for them.
thanks Atarah,amazing pictures, i lived at no14 which on the last pic,was on left hand side, ann parkins shop plus 1 house is shown, that house was 12,so mine was next door,just off the photo, thanks once again.
Was your old house demolished when they created Eastgate?
the houses on Burnley rd n Melbourne st, were demolished for the dual carridgeway i think.
Yes, I know they chopped the end off the terraces, just wondering if that included your old house.
yes it did........
just remembered the house had n big open yard, shared by the houses above Ann Parkins shop n the first block on melbourne st, remember a guy called Jerry Morgan n his missus lived in end one on melbourne, he used to play ball with me in the yard n also took me to whalley/ cock bridge occasionally on sundays. would be about 4-6 at that time.
When did the Peel's Arms pub become the Broadway ? I guessed at c1937, when Broadway was opened, but it is still the Peel's Arms, 20 Whalley Rd, in my 1939 Barrett's directory. Anybody got a 1942 one or later ? No good me asking the library
the newsagent was bilsbourgh the couple were called, earned me 1st beer money taking papers for them.
If that’s the newsagents at the bottom of Burnley Road, on the corner of Moore St (I think), on left-hand side going up, I also earned my first pocket money (too young for beer) delivering papers.
I recall my round was up Water St, and environs, and the bag was rammed to bursting every day. The bags were slightly waxed and you had to put the strap over you’re head, then pull the full bag towards you, off the shop counter. The first time, not knowing how heavy it was, the bag nearly decapitated me as it hit the shop floor!
I think I’d be a couple of inches taller now if I hadn’t had that job.
I've forgotten the name of the people who were in the newsagent's before Billsboroughs. I have two vivid memories of that shop - Buying the first edition of The Eagle comic and going into the shop one teatime with my dad who had just got paid at Whittakers foundry. He had received some back-pay and showed me a white fiver.
I am still pursuing when the Peel's Arms became the Broadway
I am still pursuing when the Peel's Arms became the Broadway
he musta known my dad bob he worked at the foundry until ill health from after the war until mid 70s
Almost certain to have known him, Cashy Didn't they both live in Dowry St, even numbers, at one time ? My dad was at Whittakers into the mid-1950s at least.
I've still not got a definite date for when the Peel's Arms became the Broadway. Not far off 1952 is the best I can do.