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Oldest shop in Leyland? - Guest - 25-Jan-2014
Question from @lefatknacker on Twitter. what is the oldest shop in Leyland still selling the same thing? Clarksons butcher?
RE: Oldest shop in Leyland? - noel - 25-Jan-2014
If Haydock's butchers had been 200 yards further south I'd have said them. Clarksons is a good shout, been going as long as I remember. And that's a long time.
RE: Oldest shop in Leyland? - devonman - 19-Sep-2014
Our shop - George Damp & Sons on Towngate opposite the end of Forge Street - must be a contender.
As far as I know Great Grandfather George bought the premises (a one-time smithy turned engineering works) from James Sumner and Henry Spurrier Snr's "Lancashire Steam Motor Company" some time in the early-to-mid 1890s.
It was in our family until the late 1960s-early-1970s when it became a furniture shop before being split into smaller units.
Colin Damp. Plymouth
RE: Oldest shop in Leyland? - Dave H - 19-Sep-2014
Well said Colin, I and my family remember it well, always well run and well kept.
RE: Oldest shop in Leyland? - germinal - 19-Sep-2014
Clarksons is still going so that's 52 years that I know of.
RE: Oldest shop in Leyland? - alanbamber - 23-Feb-2015
(19-Sep-2014, 09:44 PM)germinal Wrote: Clarksons is still going so that's 52 years that I know of.
52 years from this post would make it 1961. I was born at Seven Stars in 1954 and Clarksons were there as long as I can remember. So I might be wrong but I would guess earlier than 1961.
RE: Oldest shop in Leyland? - anacortesdamp - 24-Feb-2015
Haven't visited for years, but is the candy shop immediately next to the archway on the east side of the Cross still in business? I remember it as belong to someone called Teresa (maybe Darwen). Another candidate is the newsagent/tobacconist across the street. It belonged to the Threlfall family then to the Dobson's (I was a paper-boy for them) and I think it's still a newsagent's shop. I remember being a paper seller during the annual Leyland "Wakes weeks", selling newspapers in the doorway of the shop to people who hadn't gone on holiday.
Jerry Threlfall is a member here, maybe he can fill in some of the early history. I think it was his great grandfather who founded the business. It may have pre-dated our ironmongery.
It's probable that some of the pubs have been around a lot longer, particularly the Eagle and Child (or as our dialect speakers called it "the Brid and Babby").
You can't really consider churches as "shops", but the Parish Church dates back to before the Battle of Hastings. If I remember the dates correctly, it was consecrated in 1064.
Frank
RE: Oldest shop in Leyland? - Dave H - 24-Feb-2015
History tells us that when ever a church was built an ale house preceded it to slake thirst of the stone masons so I imagine that the Brid and Bab is the, oldest Frank. It was my local in the days of Mr Smith the landlord and my friend Alec Smith his son.
RE: Oldest shop in Leyland? - frank h - 25-Feb-2015
I was in Leyland today and went in the shop next to the newsagents, the newsagents is empty at the moment. The candy shop as frank calls it is being used as a samwich shop, I belive it was owned by Teresa Darwen who married later in life and diversified in to grocery. The shop I was in used to be the printers and is now a childrens shoe shop. The shop the otherside of the archway is now a Post Office.
frank h.
RE: Oldest shop in Leyland? - anacortesdamp - 26-Feb-2015
Thanks for the update, Frank. All three of those shops used to be Threlfall's. I don't remember tha name of the man who had the newsagents, but the shop next door was Harry Threlfall and he was a printer. The next one was run by Prudence Threlfall and was a candy store (sweet shop in Brit-speak). I'm surprised that the newsagent/tobacconist shop had gone out of business. It was still thriving last time we were home.
The local post office branch when we lived in the area was inside Baker's chemist shop, now buried under Tesco.
Frank