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[Handsome Johnny]

the sooner the better, me and the wife took the grandkids to scotchbarn baths and we were told that because we didn't live in knowsley we couldn't use the facilities, we live exactly 1 mile from the baths but are barred whilst someone from halewood or page moss over 5 miles away can use them.

[Honey]

how ridiculous is that! you'd think they'd welcome you with open arms in view of todays economic climate

[leschip]

Monday 31/10/11 The building is still standing but boarded up
Wednesday 2/11/11 The site is now reduced to rubble

[stephen nulty]

Look on the bright side - there'll soon be more places to park your car !

Sorry, that's a poor joke but it's the best I can think of in this sorry situation.

[leschip]

Plenty of parking------ nowhere to go.

[SKYMAN]

I REMEMBER the old teapot as it was nick named
ii was an old steam lorry that used to deliver to BI
from the docks,its cargo was slabs of copper,
it was slow but sure,

[leschip]

Yes Sky and it was run by "Cherry Lane Transport" I saw it on Manchester Road up to the early 60's

[Thumpa lumpa]

Thinking of Prescot, my Dad was in the motor trade and I was thinking of some of the people he used to do business with in Prescot, Benny Whitehouse, think he had a chippy and a garage, Jim Collie, Jim Whitred, Tommy Howard, someone in Sewell St,? I also remember a lad who used to come for his car repaired, he always had an american car, he only had one arm and used to live in the last house on Warrington Rd before the park across the road from The Dragon, Then there was Van Skykes garage on Warrington Rd, he also used to do some work for J Garth, memory's going now.

[stephen nulty]

I have a vague memory that the last house on Warrington Road used to be a shoe shop. The Google Maps image shows a sort of extension to the house and I think it once had a huge plate glass window........

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[Thumpa lumpa]

Yes that's the one Ste, it was a shop at one time that's where the lad lived

[leschip]

Name that Cobbler John Bibby. Can I have a prize??
TL, Whiteheads garage became the "stables" for the BI fleet cars,

[leschip]

And now one of the last buildings of Wizzy Ozzy has been flattened-- The Nurses Home. Surely summat could have preserved??

[Phyll]

Aww, what a shame, lived there for a few years
when I worked at Whiston. Happy memories.