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As I mentioned in my "New Member" posting, my family had the ironmonger's on Towngate just south of the "Regent Corner". I think it was 143 Towngate and originally 27 Water St and we were in the premises where Leyland Motors first started, as the Lancashire Steam Waggon Comapny.
My wife's family had a greengrocery at 90 Hough Lane, taken over after my father-in-law retired by Jimmy Ditchfield.
Rocketman, was it your Dad who had the appliance shop 4 doors closer to Turpin Green from Nixon's? I remember Eileen's dad getting a fridge and a washing machine from that shop and I'm sure the name was Burrell's.
I'd be interested to hear from descendants of other owners of old Leyland businesses.
Frank Damp
Anacortes, WA, USA
Frank Damp (wife Eileen, nee Nixon)
Leyland resident 1941-1965, emigrated to the US in 1968,
retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999.
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Frank,
The electrical shop was "Berrills',no relation, but a lot of people think the same as you. My dad was a postman and later a subpostmaster in Preston.
My mum was born across from Rawcliffes chippy, which, as you said, was called 'Water Street' in those days [1912]. Her mum [my grandma] owned a shop [woollens] on the opposite corner to Rawcliffes which I think is now a bank.
I have loads of stories about the area, which I'll post piecemeal.
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Frank my uncle and aunt owned the shop facing Wellfield Rd. back in the fifties/sixties. It was on School Lane looking almost down Wellfield Rd. Not sure what they sold though. There names were Jack and Margaret Watton, Jack died in the seventies I think. They had a daughter Linda , my cousin who ran the book shop on Hough Lane next door to Dean's bakery for a while.
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Frank my uncle and aunt owned the shop facing Wellfield Rd. back in the fifties/sixties. It was on School Lane looking almost down Wellfield Rd.
Sorry meant looking down Yewlands Drive, towards Wellfield School.
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Hey, Noel, that was my 'tuck shop' during my time at Wellfield.
Ah yes, I remember it well, and they were nice people too.
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Hey, Noel, that was my 'tuck shop' during my time at Wellfield.
Ah yes, I remember it well, and they were nice people too.
Glad to hear that Magicman, the shop seems to change hands regularly now. I guess they need to be in a certain location nearer the town centre.
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Noel - I didn't realise it was still there! Good to hear.
Does it not still 'serve' the school as a tuck-shop?
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Noel - I didn't realise it was still there! Good to hear.
Does it not still 'serve' the school as a tuck-shop?
No . It's been all sorts since, a second hand shop, tool hire shop, record shop, mobile phone shop, at the moment I think it's being refurbished again. The pie shop across the road is the nearest "tuck shop" but a note says school children unaccompanied by adults "not welcome". A sign of the times.
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Didn't there used to be a UCL or Macfisheries at the bottom of Chapel Brow, ? I vaguely remember it being opposite the Co-op .
Thornley's shop on Towngate was something I always regret disappearing. It was like Pandora's box with everyone rushing around in the back of the shop. And all those pork pies in the window.
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Sorry I think I meant UCP not UCL . UCL is the name of the local cinema of course. For some reason I have tripe associated with it, UCP tripe. Surely not.
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