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[SKYMAN]

Does anyone remember the cobblers,( shoe repairers) abit higher up than the post office ,it used to be called Hilldidge or something like that,,,
i also remember the undertakers near to where BETFRED is now
they were called WILCOX,if my memory serves me right i am certain that they also sold pies,,
this was during the War years,
Moses fruit shop in Elephant lane, JOILETS chemist . and HALLIWELLS chemist at the start of Nutgrove on the right, and of course mentioned before the POLICE Station opposite the park ,now the council office,,
and for the time being ,,Thatto Heath jazz band,with the improved version of the comb and tissue paper,,

[leschip]

SKY,
An undertakers selling pies?? Where they next to the local barber Sweeney Todd, I remember Zeena's clothing shop in the 50's

[SKYMAN]

hi leschip ,unusual combination i know ,but they were great pies mate, every ( body ) liked them ha ha

[leschip]

Bet they weren't as good as Jackies or Ray's of Prescot or for those with loooooooooong memories "Peg-leg" Williams in Eccleston St Prescot.

[jimmy c spark]

My auntie Emma Jones has a shop in springfield rd it had being my granparents shop spark family it was on the coner has you came down the side of the springfield hotel on the opposite side of the road stone floors kept the stone jars of stantons ginger beer cold mmm

[SKYMAN]

stone bottle of Deakins burdock never without one under the shelf in the pantry,nice and cold there,

[Harry]

I think that in the late 40s/50s the shoe menders was run by two sisters - the Makins. They also had a shop at Eccleston Park. There was also a Co-op Store, French the butchers bottom of Elephant Lane, the doctors - Manning, Leslie + one other I forget. Near the station bridge there was a hardware shop called, I think, Makins. Up Elephant Lane was Hallwoods bread shop (they did milk and coach trips), Sammy Knowles and two chips shops. At the end of Dorothy street was Vince Pye's grocery.

[SKYMAN]

He was my old doctor Harry ,IT WAS Doc Aslett,,they had a place at sutton opposite the then Library.
yes Makins the hardware shop. the co,op is now the cycle shop,,no one has come back to my undertaker come pie shop,,
WILCOX LTD, which was near were BET FRED is now ,i remember the old sliding money box at the co,op.
and an open gas flame that used to be on view from outside,it was something to do with security,there was no mantle on it ,just the open flame,

[jinx]

Going to Thatto Heath council school, for lunch, and as my mother was working at Nutgrove Co/op I use to have
pies from the undertakers at my auntys in Heath st.
Im sure there was a barbers next door to the Wilcox place and a Lennons or Nevins shop on the corner.
In Elephant ln, Moses fruit,farther down possible Critchleys electrical corner of South st, opposite was Masons animal feed store.

Edited by jinx, 13 December 2011 - 09:47 PM.

[kizzy]

The docs was Lesley, Manning and Aslett. Joaillets was one of the chemist and Dr Hindleys surgery was in Lugsmore Lane. Back in Elephant Lane was Nevins grocery store on the corner which is now Betfred bookie's. Nevins had wooden floors and sawdust was used to soak up the rain in there and some of the other shops. Nevins used to stack cans and packet goods high in towering displays and you had to be careful negotiating your way to the counter. You stood in line and waited for an assistant to serve you - and you had to carry all the bags home. When Mum went for the weeks shopping she used to take a couple of us kids along to help carry it back.

An aunt of mine worked for Nevins and French's butchers at one time. She would deliver meat orders from the butchers on one of those old bicycles with a basket at the front. Austin French butchers was close to the Vine and Moses fruit and veg was (next door..) on the same block. When Moses shop was closed you could go round the side entry and they would still serve you from an outdoor shed.

Bob Mason ran a pet food and grocery store from adjoining premises (now a greengrocers) on the opposite side of the lane. Bob did a lucrative trade in supplying miners and their families with credit and when my aunt (who married a miner from Sandon St,) moved to a new miners house in Derbyshire Hill, Bob would still deliver her weekly food supply in his van. He couldn't afford to lose their trade. Further up was Vincent Pye's shop on the corner of Dorothy St ( I was at school with one of his daughters, Bernadette) and Makins ironmongers next to the Thatto Heath station is still trading.

There used to be a cobblers who worked from a shed at the back of his house in Scholes Lane, between Betfreds and Heath St. I would take grandfathers shoes there to be soled and 'heeled'. I also remember a girl from school named Joyce Hillidge who lived in one of the streets opposite the Elephant pub - I think her family had a cobblers in the area. There was Eadys chippy and on the next corner one of my favourite places the sweet shop, where all the boxes were laid out in the window with the old fashioned sweets. So tempting to us kids on our way to school in Crown Street. So many memories of 1950s Tatty Heath.

[Stoka]

Does anyone know if there's anything left of J Twists the guys who sold pop, records say they were on Station Road?

Edited by Stoka, 14 December 2011 - 01:05 AM.