Old Businesses

[Martin]

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So glad I'm not the only one with multiple postings.Keep forgetting whether I've clicked or not.OH Dear!!!1

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The new forum software should stop people posting more than once. It won't let people post messages within a pre defined time period.

I need to set a date for upgrading...



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In The Pink

[Guest 01]

Thanks Martin for message re the postings as I was really beginning to get worried about myself.
Amazing how we can probably all recall so vividly our routes especially to school.They were so much more complicated in the early days before buses dropped you off at the school gate, with lots of distractions on the way.A game of marbles to add interest or a turn of the skipping rope.
I remember trudging from Brownedge Rd past the signal box,past Iron Gate Farm where the soccer ground is now,other side over Red Bridge a couple of turns over some iron bars to liven the journey,turn left at Four Lane Ends,then up the hill in Todd Lane down the stone steps along the railway yards to Lostock Hall Council School.
Going by bus to Balshaw's was much less exciting.
It seemed such a huge distance at the age of four plus.

[Caroline]

Sorry about the multiple postings! Yes, I remember the Milk Bar was Robinson's. Anyone recall the coffee bar at Seven Stars? Was it called the Copacobana? I think there should be a prize for the person who remembers the uniform shop name.....

[William R]

Hi Lady G, When you lived in Brownedge Rd.and Lostock Hall Goods Yard was bombed, did you here of a fire watcher being hit a glancing blow with an incendiary bomb? I have his name etc. and actually saw his alleged steel helmet with the dent in it, Can you verify? One for Frank, my sister went to the Union St. school and said that a man lived in Union St early 1930`s who was the last man to sell his wife at Leyland Cross. She is now coming up 80 yrs. and says this is true. I`ve heard of it way back but, did he? Cheersb to all, William R aka Bill. Spelling mistake `here` should be `hear`, sorry!!!

[Guest 01]

I vaguely remember that story but sadly am running out of elderly relatives to verify.My aunt recently passed on but would have known as she was a fire watcher during the war and I remember her going out with her bucket etc on duty plus finding incendiary sticks in the garden.My uncle worked on the goods yard both before and after the war except for war service and I shall ask him.He is now in his mid eighties.
From 1939 -46 I ran along the length of the Goods yard on a regular basis and we kids were under the impression that if a plane came over it was wise to run to keep directly under it, as the plane would not come down straight.Fortunately I never had to test that theory.
What was the chap's name Bill.
The entry in the Preston Directory 1904 for Lostock Hall lists the inhabitants of Lostock Hall and a very high percentage were involved with the railway in some way.
My husband was waiting to leave on war service Oct 1940 and was walking with his mate over the bridges when Ward St was bombed.Was A plaque ever put there? Itwas discussed.
I understood that the enemy bomber was diverted by the army gunners at LM and swerved to release the bombs on Ward St and Princess St.
Still another account is that the target was the railway sidings.

[William R]

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I vaguely remember that story but sadly am running out of elderly relatives to verify.My aunt recently passed on but would have known as she was a fire watcher during the war and I remember her going out with her bucket etc on duty plus finding incendiary sticks in the garden.My uncle worked on the goods yard both before and after the war except for war service and I shall ask him.He is now in his mid eighties.
From 1939 -46 I ran along the length of the Goods yard on a regular basis and we kids were under the impression that if a plane came over it was wise to run to keep directly under it, as the plane would not come down straight.Fortunately I never had to test that theory.
What was the chap's name Bill.
The entry in the Preston Directory 1904 for Lostock Hall lists the inhabitants of Lostock Hall and a very high percentage were involved with the railway in some way.
My husband was waiting to leave on war service Oct 1940 and was walking with his mate over the bridges when Ward St was bombed.Was A plaque ever put there? Itwas discussed.
I understood that the enemy bomber was diverted by the army gunners at LM and swerved to release the bombs on Ward St and Princess St.
Still another account is that the target was the railway sidings.

Lady G, I`ll send the man`s name by e.m to you to `protect the innocent` Your uncle should know my late brother-in law Jim Bolton from Hoghton, he used to be Guard on the 3-17 a.m. goods up to Hellifield I believe, he used to cycle to Lostock yard from Hoghton and then finished his shift as Guard on the local stopper, Bolton to Preston. I don`tknow how he got back to Lostock for his bike. I used to work with Ralph Livesey from Brownedge Rd. Any bells ringing.?? They did say that the Junction at Lostock railway looked just the same as the on at Packsaddle Bridge, Euxton, from the air - I knew a Sgt.Pilot who ferried planes on/out of Salmesbury airodrome who said the Germans could have been mistaken by it, night flying. I`ll do the e.m now, Cheers, William R.

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[Caroline]

I remember my Mum saying she was at school with a girl from Lostock Hall who was killed by a bomb in the war, would this be correct? She also says she and my Aunty Alice were coming home from a dance when the enemy started dropping flares, and they had to shelter under the stairs in someone's house. My dad proposed to Mum outside a barn(Bent Lane?) which was used as a morgue during the War, good start to a marriage which has lasted 56 years!

[William R]

Greetings, I lived at the Bent Bridge end of Bent Lane and I can vaguely remember there being a mortuary, but where? Was it a temporary thing "just in case"? I can remember Ike Dickinson had a scrap yard by Turpin Green bridge, he had a horse and cart and was a well known local character. He used to go for a drink at the Fox Hotel in Preston (Fox Street) and rumour has it that he would lie on the sacks on the cart and the horse found its own way back home. One time he was coming home and collided with a car at Penwortham traffic lights, the shaft went through the car windscreen. Perhaps we should do a thing on local characters long gone. Cheers from William R.

[Guest 01]

Thanks Bill for these gems. It was quite something to hear the clop of the horses' hooves on a cold morning.Lovely when it was the coal man coming especially or the gypsies travelling through on their regular route.

[noel]

It would be great if we could do an item about local characters. Hopefully without offending anyone, good idea William I know of a few, I'll have a think.

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