Does anyone remember what the chinese restaurant opposite the Theatre Royal was called in the early 60s?
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Dion.
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Started By Dion, Sep 29 2004 08:31 PM
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Posted 02 October 2004 - 08:54 PM
Hello Dion
The Golden Moon springs to mind- but not certain.
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Bob Hill
The Golden Moon springs to mind- but not certain.
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Bob Hill
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Posted 03 October 2004 - 02:36 PM
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I think the Golden Moon was in Duke st. but this one was called Yung something.
Thanks anyway,
Dion
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Posted 04 October 2004 - 01:49 PM
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Does anyone remember what the chinese restaurant opposite the Theatre Royal was called in the early 60s?
Thanks
Dion.
Thanks
Dion.
Hello Dion,
You are right of course the Golden Moon was in Duke Street and next to the Talbot pub as it used to be called.
You know the funny thing is I ate in that Chinese restaurant opp Theatre Royal and still can't remember it's name.
I do remember a lad that lived near me in Twyford Street, Brian Peace, that was murdered by the chinese staff at the Chinese opposite the Raven pub and near the Cuerdley Arms pub, they only got three years for his murder as well!!
It was a shame because all the local chinese shops were attacked by St. Helens people after that ,which wasn't fair as they hadn't done anything.
Anyway if you want to blame anyone blame my missus, she gave me the Golden Moon as the name ( Typical bloke here aren't I? passing the buck!!)
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I think you are on the right track with the Young wa or whatecver it sounded similar
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Posted 05 October 2004 - 05:44 PM
Are you sure it wasn't "The Silver Star"?
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Posted 05 October 2004 - 07:15 PM
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Are you sure it wasn't "The Silver Star"?
I'm thinking of the time in the early sixties when the man was killed.I think they changed the name after that. I dont know which one he was killed at, but I remember the windows being boarded up afterwards.
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Posted 05 October 2004 - 11:10 PM
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I thought the chinese restaurant where someone was killed was in Duke Street near the Talbot Public House (later the Sportsmans). I remember seeing it boarded up and trying to nosey through the gaps between the boards. That evening I saw myself on TV - didn't notice the TV News Cameras filming across the road for Granada local news!
Thinking about it now - maybe it had been boarded up because of a revenge attack as another contributor has mentioned.
Was only about 10 or 11 at the time!
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I thought the chinese restaurant where someone was killed was in Duke Street near the Talbot Public House (later the Sportsmans). I remember seeing it boarded up and trying to nosey through the gaps between the boards. That evening I saw myself on TV - didn't notice the TV News Cameras filming across the road for Granada local news!
Thinking about it now - maybe it had been boarded up because of a revenge attack as another contributor has mentioned.
Was only about 10 or 11 at the time!
Ollie
Edited by Olliebeak, 05 October 2004 - 11:14 PM.
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Posted 06 October 2004 - 10:29 AM
The name Ming Wah comes to mind
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Posted 06 October 2004 - 02:27 PM
Was it the Golden Sun
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Posted 15 October 2004 - 11:28 PM
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The name Ming Wah comes to mind
With regard to the Chinese where Brian Peace was murdered it was definitely the one opposite but just past The Raven and near and on the same side as the Cuerdley Pub. where Wilkinsons used to be, or very near this site
The Chinese staff ,three were convicted of manslaughter and got just three years in clink, without being too gruesome ,they didn't actually kill him in the restaurant ,they chased him ( because he wouldn't pay his bill) and caught up with him near where CMH car hire is situated today and literally clubbed him to death,
I know this to be fact ,because I lived less than 50 yards from "Queeser" as he was nicknamed, I lived in Ashcroft Street and he lived in Twyford Street second house on right, he was a hard knock and had a bit of a rep we were about ten or eleven years old at this time and he was late teens perhaps ,but didn't deserve what he got from the Chinese staff.
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Posted 16 October 2004 - 11:04 AM
Hi Bob, I didn't know where the man was killed but I remember the restaurants and the chinese laundry being smashed up and after that they changed the name of the one in Corporation st. The thing I remember was it had a neon sign but down the side of the sign you could still see the old name Yung Wah or something like that.
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Dion.
Thanks,
Dion.
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Posted 16 October 2004 - 06:34 PM
I was in town that night aged 16 and there were all sorts of rumours going round which led to "race riots". I went home and next day in school my mates told me of smashing windows in Chinese restaurants and laundries.
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Posted 17 October 2004 - 11:26 AM
I was in town that night at the Co-op dance, it was on a Friday in May 1963 and that was the night all hell broke loose in the town. There was fighting at the dance which was nothing unusual in those days, but that night was worse than any other. The police were called and the fighting carried on outside between rival gangs and the police, then that man was killed by the chinese for doing a runner. If my memory serves me right I think he was hit with a piece of lead pipe, but I thought it was the restaurant in Corporation St not Church St, after that no chinese were safe, the rival gangs that had been arch enemies, united to smash all the windows of the restaurants and the homes where they lived, even the chinese laundry in North Rd got done over.
Oh happy days.
PS can anyone remember the name of the group that played regularly at the Co-op dances on Friday nights, there was a female singer who was married to the drummer and a guitarist called Graham Holland (nicknamed Molly)
Oh happy days.
PS can anyone remember the name of the group that played regularly at the Co-op dances on Friday nights, there was a female singer who was married to the drummer and a guitarist called Graham Holland (nicknamed Molly)
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Posted 17 October 2004 - 12:56 PM
My Mate at Parr Mount school Alf Anslow used to play drums for a group at the Co-op dance, were they called The Incas ??
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