Whiston

[Rubber Ducky]

I left Whiston in 1966 to move to Rainhill then left there in '70 I am told there is a railway station there now but cannot visualise where it is as the was whiston village with a footpath over the railway line led to cross lane area, I remember when we went to Halsnead primary school back in the 50'/60's one day the whole school was marched to the railway bank to see two marvellous sight's which according to the teachers times were due to change and you wouldn't see this again it was 2 steam train's racing each other oh what a sight that was, memory's until I joined this site all of them was locked away I thought for ever but this site broke the padlock haha

[Phyll]

Me again, here's a link to Whiston Station. You can probably Google Earth it too.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiston_railway_station

[gypsygeoff]

Suppose you played in ''big wood'' too ?

And the ghost story.'' The hands of Halsnead''

 

 

[Rubber Ducky]

Suppose you played in ''big wood'' too ?

And the ghost story.'' The hands of Halsnead''

How did you know about?haha also we did bob a job at the caravan park, we never belived in those storys st nick's church when we passed the graveyard we used to shit our selves when we were told THE HAND'S OF HALSNEAD ARE READY TO GET YOU talk about Chris Chataway and the 4 min mile we broke that on quite a few occasion's

 

Me again, here's a link to Whiston Station. You can probably Google Earth it too.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiston_railway_station

My wife just said get of that bloody computer and go to bed started at 200 last night and just got home see you tonight or 2 morrow

[Phyll]

I'm afraid I forgot to tell you it's addictive!

[Rubber Ducky]

I'm afraid I forgot to tell you it's addictive!

what you mean this site? I'm on facebook so I know but at least with this one I can understand and remember what people say and mean I was born in Whiston then moved to Rainhill b4 moving downunder neighbor next door is a scouse and say's i'm a woolyback i'm in no man's land I don't belong anywhere your not a scouse or from St Helen's but as I said to him yea but on this site I'm ACCEPTED AND WAS WELCOMED I wonder what people who read's this think's I would like a bit of feed back to PLEASEas

[Skippy]

You must be a dinky di aussie by now Docker, aint you?

[dickie mint]

Hello Docker, i too am a whiston lad. Reading your opening post i recall those wintery morning walks to school over ropers bridge. Looking over the bridge onto the tracks/fields during foggy mornings, the whole scenery seemed to shift and move and the memories of the smoke from the trains as they passed under the bridge---- only to be then confronted by huge bloody pigs that were ever escaping from pinnies farm.

[Rubber Ducky]

You must be a dinky di aussie by now Docker, aint you?

Yea, I had 1/2 my brain removed on the 13/6/86 and now I'm but still get called a pommie b------------- AND that's byJanice my wife? she's an Aussie but her dad's from Sussex ( THAT BLOKE MUST HAVE BEEN SEX MAD Sussex, Essex, Middlesex

 

Hello Docker, i too am a whiston lad. Reading your opening post i recall those wintery morning walks to school over ropers bridge. Looking over the bridge onto the tracks/fields during foggy mornings, the whole scenery seemed to shift and move and the memories of the smoke from the trains as they passed under the bridge---- only to be then confronted by huge bloody pigs that were ever escaping from pinnies farm.

Hi dickie mint,Can you jog my memory was roper's bridge the one than ran between The village( my mum& dad was the caretaker there years for ST nick's church when I was a kid it seem's everytom,dick & harry knew my parent's) hall & there was a deli/coffee shop to Cross lane or was that one that ran between Clarkes fruit shop & the hardware shop? I fell in that one once when I was suppossed to be at sunday school at the hall, and the ground gave way as I was watching a steamer going through, Pinnies farm they were bloody monster's many a time I felt like jumping on the brutes back for a ride to school

[dickie mint]

The main bridge leading to pinnies farm is ropers bridge ( pinnies farm is now a housing estate) and, i think, the new station is there although i havent sought it out. I only pop down there once in every blue moon. There was a passage that led behind the shops and old school onto an old bridge of sorts. From what i can gather that area of fields was once were Carrs colliery was sited. You will remember Ginos chippy, and Sangers hardware,Bridges paper shop, Fosters, Alfie Birds barbers shop amidst the old cottages,and Bullons on the corner.

[gypsygeoff]

Love the story about you being called a woolyback.I spent 30 yrs in NZ before moving to Oz. . I remember a scouser saying that to me.I answered her by saying '' Typical scouser 12000 miles from home in a land with 70million sheep and she calls ME a woolyback''.

I knew Whiston well.I was born in Wizzy Hozzy and brought up in Rainhill 'till 74 when we went to NZ.

[Rubber Ducky]

The main bridge leading to pinnies farm is ropers bridge ( pinnies farm is now a housing estate) and, i think, the new station is there although i havent sought it out. I only pop down there once in every blue moon. There was a passage that led behind the shops and old school onto an old bridge of sorts. From what i can gather that area of fields was once were Carrs colliery was sited. You will remember Ginos chippy, and Sangers hardware,Bridges paper shop, Fosters, Alfie Birds barbers shop amidst the old cottages,and Bullons on the corner.

Alfie bird cut my hair I wanted a sq neck, dad said def NOT, Sorry but who's paying are you John?( dad's name was felix) NO I said I'm paying so Alfie said sorry john he's the customer the used be a pub opp the village hall And shops there I suppose they got knocked down is the labour club still there , thank's for all this "dickie mint"

 

Love the story about you being called a woolyback.I spent 30 yrs in NZ before moving to Oz. . I remember a scouser saying that to me.I answered her by saying '' Typical scouser 12000 miles from home in a land with 70million sheep and she calls ME a woolyback''.

I knew Whiston well.I was born in Wizzy Hozzy and brought up in Rainhill 'till 74 when we went to NZ.

Funny that I was born at wizzy hospiat as well that was my home more than 122 windy Arbor rd cos I was alway's having accidents haha Janice keeps on saying go to bed you have been up all night working Yea I said ( doesn't I was talking to you guys/girl's all night haha) the way I feel at the moment is this

[SWIMMER]

Anybody who lives in St.Helens to scoucers are "Woolybacks" First time I heard it I was highly insulted, Never heard the term off my Nans side and they were all from Liverpool.

 

Hi Docker are you having a great time remembering all the places we played as kids. I now live in Blackbrook and the only thing I know about Whiston is that it was the place I had my children. I;m glad i hadn't heard about that Ghost Story then it sounds really frightening but I am a wuss

 

Sorry guys spelled scouser wrong that's better I think lol

[Olliebeak]

I was born in Whiston Hospital and so were all three of my kids - eldest was one of the last to be born in the old Maternity Ward in 1973, as they'd already opened the 'Ante-natal Clinics' in the new Maternity Building.

 

I've lived in Huyton for around 38 yrs and STILL get called 'Mrs Woolyback' by local kids - it's one of their pleasanter 'turns of phrase'. My brother calls me a 'placcy scouser' - ie a pretend one!!! The annoying thing is that Huyton used to be 'Huyton, Lancashire' until the re-organisation of the counties, but try telling THAT to folks around here .

[dickie mint]

Docker, the pub you mentioned is the "Horseshoe hotel" and its still there, so are the shops although all different names now i think. Over the bridge was the "Carrs Hotel" and at the top opposite the hospital is the "Green dragon". The hospital has been completly rebuilt now, you wouldnt recognise it now. Do you remember the big old weighing scales that used to be on the warrington road side of the hospital, they must have been used to weigh freight lorries etc ?, I'm not sure- you are a litle older than myself perhaps you knew their purpose.

[leschip]

The Labour Club is still standing, don't know how as it is full of scousers!!! I went to school with Alfie Bird's nephew Dennis Bird. The term wooly back comes from when Lancashire lads ( 1 for you Docker)worked on the docks and wore a sheeps fleece on their backs to protect themselves,other dockers tended to wear leather protectors, a bit like coal-men.

[gypsygeoff]

That was the weighbridge,it used to get very slippery in the rain.Also one of the last workhouses in Lancashire was at Whiston hospital.

My late father in law was a regular in the Carrs Hotel.Or as we knew it ,the LMS club.

[Rubber Ducky]

Docker, the pub you mentioned is the "Horseshoe hotel" and its still there, so are the shops although all different names now i think. Over the bridge was the "Carrs Hotel" and at the top opposite the hospital is the "Green dragon". The hospital has been completly rebuilt now, you wouldnt recognise it now. Do you remember the big old weighing scales that used to be on the warrington road side of the hospital, they must have been used to weigh freight lorries etc ?, I'm not sure- you are a litle older than myself perhaps you knew their purpose.

Actually your right I am a little bit older than you haha but according to my dad and as i said in early post's my dad was known to tell pork pies, but he said that in the late 30 & early 40's ( when the war was on) the road used to run near the scales and anything that looked heavy was found wanting ( what ever that mean't), weighed & measured, he said buses ,lorries when I went to school the scales were near the wall, but earlier there was a small office there for the customs officer, but then the road was moved in the late 40/50's a bit to be alighned with the rest of the road, so if the hospital hes been re-bult that big wall with the bus shelter where the H8 & H12( Crosville did they stop running?) used to stop with the old SMELLY toilet's

[gypsygeoff]

Ah those toilets in Dragon lane.I always remember on a Sunday morning en route to St.Lukes there was always spew outside,

[leschip]

Gypsygeoff,

I probably have my thick-head on but did the Carrs used to be a railwaymans club? LMS being the railway company? I'm the same age as Docker and can't remember it being anything other than a pub.

[Rubber Ducky]

Hello Docker, i too am a whiston lad. Reading your opening post i recall those wintery morning walks to school over ropers bridge. Looking over the bridge onto the tracks/fields during foggy mornings, the whole scenery seemed to shift and move and the memories of the smoke from the trains as they passed under the bridge---- only to be then confronted by huge bloody pigs that were ever escaping from pinnies farm.

HI dickie mint or anyone? if you go down to Whiston anytime any chance if taking some photo's of the old place I'll pay for your film? As Tom jones used to sing THE OLD COUNTRY WAS STILL THERE WAITING TO SEE ME ( OR SOMETHING LIKETHAT HAHA)

[Phyll]

Docker, If you google, "Photos of Whiston, Merseyside",

there are a lot of results, that will take you to lots of

photos of Whiston. I would have put on a link, but I am

not sure of copyright. You can also Google Earth, Whiston.

Good Luck.

[Rubber Ducky]

Docker, If you google, "Photos of Whiston, Merseyside",

there are a lot of results, that will take you to lots of

photos of Whiston. I would have put on a link, but I am

not sure of copyright. You can also Google Earth, Whiston.

Good Luck.

thank's good looking hope hubby don't mind haha

[Rubber Ducky]

Docker, the pub you mentioned is the "Horseshoe hotel" and its still there, so are the shops although all different names now i think. Over the bridge was the "Carrs Hotel" and at the top opposite the hospital is the "Green dragon". The hospital has been completly rebuilt now, you wouldnt recognise it now. Do you remember the big old weighing scales that used to be on the warrington road side of the hospital, they must have been used to weigh freight lorries etc ?, I'm not sure- you are a litle older than myself perhaps you knew their purpose.

Here's a very Distant but hilerous memory we went to school at Whiston Central and our Teacher Bill Shankland, was off sick and we got a relief teacher well!! he started reading the role when He got to Tommy Hughes hughes I know your here if you don't stand up and in the ailse I give you six of the best he lost his temper and shouted Ughes stand up so Tommy wouldn't get 6 of the best we all stood up 1 at a time Here Sir poor Mr Roderquize

[gypsygeoff]

Talking of Central school.I had loads of mates who went there from 1962 -1970 .One lad came home having had the stick off a Mr Billington,or was it Noble.Which left him unable to eat his tea.Anyway the lads old man Battered them both ,as they were both in the TA with him in Warrington.

My uncle John also put a Mr Wilkinson in Whiston, for hitting our Kenny with a Tee square.

Had many a happy hour researching in the old air raid shelters by the side of Two Butt Lane.

Edmund Arrowsmith Lad me.

Claim to fame.We had more convicted armed robbers than any other school in Lancashire.