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#106 OFFLINE   Thumpa lumpa

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Posted 10 May 2012 - 07:47 PM

How about this photo, taken in 1897, it is my Great Grandfather with his 5 year old son standing on the trailer, taken in Heyes Farm Tasker Terrace, his name was William Holden, as was his son.I think they were the only coal merchants in Rainhill at the time.Attached File  img016.jpg   370.38K   13 downloads

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Posted 11 May 2012 - 08:13 PM

Did Stan Lowe make coffins at one time ?

He erected a Larch garden fence for me about 45 years ago and it is still good today.

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Posted 12 May 2012 - 09:57 AM

Sorry about my previous post, I should have read the first post on this thread which stated that Stan Lowe made Coffins.


My memories are mainly from the 1930s

Welsbys Bakery delivered Bread fresh Daily to Sutton Manor .

Does anyone remember a man name Prescot owning the Stoops garage he had a good engineering machine shop at the rear of the premises and the Stoops smithy next door used to be a busy place.

Anyone old enough to have attended the dances at Rainhill School during the war should remember Mrs Lowe who always managed to provide the refreshments during the dance interval despite the war time rationing.

The Yeomanry had a barracks in School lane and in the 1930s we walked from Sutton Manor to the Rainhill War Memorial every year for the annual Armistice Service.

The house opposite the Smithy on the corner of Mill Lane and Warrington road was used as a Shop.

Hurst's Sandstone quarry in Mill Lane was supplying Stone for the builders of St Teresas RC church in Gartons Lane Sutton Manor.

The remains of a Rainhill trials Locomotive was in a glass case at Rainhill Station.

Dukes Clough was a place where kids spent happy times having innocent fun.

Warrington Road had a cobbled surface from Rainhill Village to Loyola Hall that jogged my rear oil lamp on my bike and put the light out resulting in me being prosecuted at Prescot Court and a fine which cost me the biggest part of my weekly wage from the BICC which in them days was 8 shillings and 10 pence. You could rob a bank today and get less punishment.

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Posted 17 May 2012 - 12:19 PM

the piston from the trials loco is situated in the trials exhibition in the carriage behind the library, apparently it was also used at rainhill gas works.........

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Posted 18 May 2012 - 03:39 AM

One of my memories of Rainhill goes back to about 1957 and a tragic accident. A young friend of the family, Stuart Ashall, was cycling along Stoney Lane and was crushed by a lorry on the railway bridge - it was a Z shaped bridge and was straightened soon after the accident. Other memories include potato picking on Blundell's farm. and many happy afternoons at Duke's Clough.

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Posted 18 May 2012 - 06:45 AM

Yes I remember that accident, that bridge was always dangerous, Blundell's Farm belonged to Sammy Strettle , living over there now Pete you wouldn't believe there is a golf club house built on the very spot where the quarry was in Dukes Clough.

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Posted 18 May 2012 - 06:52 AM

True Mal, but don't go digging up the ground, the asbestos'll get you.

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Posted 18 May 2012 - 06:54 AM

True Les, very dodgyPosted Image





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