Leyland on Radio 4

[Caroline]

Lovely 'Invalid Butter Toffee' was to be had from the grocer's in the Sixties!

[Wilko]

I listened to the broadcast while travelling in the car. I thought David Hunt's contribution on the step houes was up to his usual stadard and very informative. There was also a lady contributor whose name I missed. She appeared to be talking about Threlfall's newsagents but then went on to talk about a Threlfall who was a cashier at a mill and started a night school for mill workers. I remember reading about someone called Threlfall who worked in Farington Mill and had a shop on the corner of East St. Did I miss something or was he the same Threlfall who lived in Towngate?

[Colin Damp]

Is I remember rightly, Wilko, the Threlfall she talked about as working at the mill was an ancestor of the Threlfalls I can recall. He featured in the very first census as having moved to the step houses on becoming "upwardly mobile".

As to whether the newsagent's kept the name Threlfall's, I can't remember. We referred to it as Dobson's when my brother, Frank, had a paper round there, but Mr Dobson may not have altered the name over the door.

[Wilko]

Colin,
When I was a kid I always knew the shop as Threlfall's

[Caroline]

Yes, known as Threlfall's for yonks!