green lantern was my favorite ! But my favorite thing about them was the adverts for Daisy BB guns " powerful enough for small game " they said ( if the small game was a Ladybird perhaps ) 😂
Always wanted a Daisy Red Ryder
This molly was behind Merton Bank near the railway and was Dumping ground for all kinds of toxic waste if you walked on it your shoes would melt and it was always catching fire ! As kids we would run down the street shouting "The molly is alight " and we would go watch the fire brigade try to put it out
Its fingerpost looking down Park road towards Blackbrook ! Thats the Giraffe Church on the left with Nannygoat park center right and the sankey brook
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it was still there when I started at Parr Cent in about 62 !
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You can just about see the Black Horse Pub (now a Chinese Restaurant ) with Roper street where I grew up Behind it although Black Horse street is gone by then !
All the empty spaces around park road was later filled up with three stories whick have since been knocked down although the terraced houses before them had been there for a hundred years
Me mam used to say that "Changes are not always for the better " She was right !
on the picture top right the flat grassy part when I was a kid was a massive quarry that was previously the spoil tip from a chemical works that I was told was called Paddys blunder I myself would love to know more about what went on there in those days !
I went to Merton Bank School my fave teacher was Barry Halpin the folk singer !
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Does anyone remember the Rag and Bone man with the wooden leg ? he was my grandmothers Brother he lived in Wain street !
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His name was Johnny Traynor and his wife was Elsie
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