Missing friends

clarence road is were I lived from the age of four till I was fourteen and it was great then bullough park, sledging down past duxburys shop at the end of fern gore ave finishing up at the bottom of willows lane going to spring hill council school old bill spencer cane in his hand the headmaster miss hindle my favourite teacher them were the days
 
used to live at no 6 Rimington Ave Fern Gore for about 12 years from 1971 to 1983 roberts family. Robinsons live next door. Tom had the papershop and bill and edna had the VG. i always remember he was a city fan. Dad used to work behind the bar at the jenny and my mum used to clean. :D
 
I think the last name was Wallace but I remember the dog they use to have

I can get HP sauce now at the commissary here on post. I moaned about them not having any British food so much that the manager got rich tea bicusits Ty Phoo tea Robertsons jam plus about 10 -15 other items.
I do not have the heart to tell him we are moving in dec to the west coast.
 
KLnow the feeling as well.Go mad on anything over here.Can get HP now.Walkers crisps i do myself.Nice little side line business.Wanted to get Hollands Pies going but well, the Germans will not allow them over the border.Try www.expatshopping.comThey deliver all over the world and you never know there may even be a  store in Vancouver
 
Yes chippy people were called Wallace. Their daughter was called Pauline. She was a friend of mine and went to Holy Family. Sorry I dont know where thy are now I left in 1968 and I think they left before me.
 
Mik  if it is the Wallace's your talking about they lived in the flat above the shop. Other shops at the time were of course Tom's papershop and Ruth had the clothes shop.
 
Keith which shop at the end of Fern Gore Ave. The one on willows Lane near phone box was owned by The Britcliffes and then by the Stantons.  What year did the Duxburys have a shop there. I used to slide down the grassy hill just behind the shop on flattened cardboard boxes.  That was when I couldn't find wheels to make a trolly. Now they were mean machines. ;D
 
duxburys shop was at the willows lane end later the shop was owned by the newalls who later moved to rishton and with the help of their daughter shirley and her husband jack ran two paper shops As regards the sledging the king of the sledges was kenny hanson as many as six could get on kennys    sledge for  the ride of your life  starting at dunnyshop ave and ending at blackburn road were platts club is now  This was at a time when the estate was often isolated from the town due to the snow and the salting wasnot on the scale it is now in fact we had five very bad winters in they early forties an during those five years the snow was on the ground often from november till the and of march I remember my  older brothers taken sledges down to the  scaithcliffe pit then at the bottom of ormrod street and taking all day to get back with two bags of coal and the neighbours coming round cadging because every one had run out of precious coal through therebeing no deliverys due to the snow  yes I REMEMBER those days
 
ferngore estate when I lived there was a totally different place to what it is now I could name nearlyevery family who lived there in my  time even now 50 years on All the children went to either springhill council school or st oswalds catholic school and if your dad wanted a pint at night he had to walk to accrington during the war hardly any buses ran at night or walk to the plough inn in fielding lane through a mucky lane past lightbrowns farm another good walk was to the pickup  arms on moscowmill st which my mum and dad did occasionally at the weekend but only when it was fine to end this message I will name some of the familys who were on ferngore in my time there ferngore ave the godwins ainsworths silvestors coxes dunnyshop ave the andrews lowes finns  podmores shepherds Icould go on and on but I will end with the name of my good friend teddy barnes everone on the estate knew teddy  ps to get to the pickup arms you had to walk through nelsons farmyard and watched were you walked
 
Wow Keith that was a bit before my time.As i read your post i can picture it all in my mind.I lived up there before they put up that new estate on High Street.Used to all be field when i lived up there.Plough is now a belting little pub.Used to go to the Shoulder of Mutton and Red Lion when i was a little bit younger
 
Well Keith thats a bit before my time too. My parents also were regulars at the Plough.  I went to St. Oswalds and later Holy Family. Many of us on here were from Fern Gore we must know some families in common. Some from my time. Franny and Peter Daly. Arlene Burton. Barbara and David Young. Angela Walmsley. Malcolm Hill. Rotherham. Hankinson. Rae. Boast
Did you never go sledging up Sheep Coats Farm at the top of Willows Lane after Miller Fold.
Do any of you remember the motorbike scrambles they held up Green Howarth before they turned it into a golf club.
 
Sorry lynne none of the names ring any bells as regards green howarth the main family living there  was the lynches who owned the shop facing the pub I  sat next to eric lynch  at school  who went on to work for his older brothers at the garage next door to the shop when he left school I believe the business is still going but is based at huncoat now as regards the chippie the one we used was on willows lane and owned by mrs illingworth my older brother both mated out and worked at  the scaitcliffe pit with her son albert they were both electricians the shop itself was on the one row of houses on the left were bullough park finished the chippie at the far end  and a grocers  nearest to the park  At the corner of ferngore ave were it led down to the path going towards what is now high street was an old cabin which was the gloggers shop run by john roberts and of course we nearly all wore glogs in them days so he was always kept busy and of course he repaired shoes but he did long hours and never closed 7 days a week I still bump into the odd person who was on the estate in our time there but the only one who is still there I met recently in accrington his name jack hargreaves  Icould go on and on but its getting late so when I get chance I will come back with a few more names and memories                                  keith
 
LYNNE,KEITH.do you remember the jarman family lived near the Red Lion pub?I'm sure malcome hill was in the same class as me at school. Hollins.
 
janet i remember the Jarman family.Dave Jarman was the eldest if i remember correctly.Had many a pint with him in the Lion and the Shoulder.Do you remember Bob Dickinson who lived right next to the Red Lion.Also had a pen up there too.
 
mik.maxine is the eldest , david and his youngest brother christopher still live in the same cottage, i'm there cousin.my auntie and uncle died a few years ago. Dont keep in touch with them much, but we see each other knocking around town.
 
In reply to the message from vinny our family moved into accrington 1944 but there were still some large familys still on ferngore at the corner of clarence road and wordsworth road lived the ainsworths my brothers were very friendly with tommy and on the same road the lowes one was called roland another big family lived on dunnyshop the Finns there dad was a great bowler and his sons have inherited his skill and are still playing  as regards the family called hill the ones we knew lived in a house along side nelsons farm there was clare who married cris hindle a farmer on the top road haslingden margaret who I us to fancy mary I cant remember there brothers but there dad drove the three wheeler scammel at accrington railway station and of course colin nelson the farmers son was in the same class as me at springhill school maybe those names may have stirred someones memory
 
Janet  the name Maxine rings a bell but I cant bring her to mind.
Malcom Hill had dark blonde hair and kept ferrets. I wont give your age away but from an earlier message you sent me, yes he would be about your age.
 
Also new the addison family from fern gore bernard also went to my school. My grandma was  called addison before she got married, so i know that we were related to him somewhere down the line.did you know the mc intyres i knew linda.have'nt seen her for, must be 35 years.
 
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