Alan Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 Blimey, that takes me back. I spent the 1958 school summer holidays working in the Helena House Co-op food hall and one of my twice-weekly jobs was to take the old delivery bike up to there to collect a couple of huge hams and take back to Helena House 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 Behind that frontage of a small shop was the main Co-op storage area for things like meat, hams etc. You can just see its gable end 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Jeff_Leo Posted October 9, 2022 Author Share Posted October 9, 2022 Rebuilt now of course but an interim measure for many. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HORT Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 They served their purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phyll Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 On 07/10/2022 at 13:17, DEXTER said: I have yet to find any pic of the small block of businesses that used to be between the two. Have a look on this site, it covers all that area... newtownsthelens HOME.FREEUK.COM pictures of people and places in newtown st helens 6 hours ago, DEXTER said: Wonder if Phyll or anyone remember the metal framed frontage houses around clinkham wood.I know quite a few have been modernised but sure there are still some in the same state.WHY? Do you mean the ones in Bassenthwaite Ave? I think they used to call them "Prefabs". They're the ones I remember, but I haven't been back in over 25 yrs. I see on Google Maps that some of them have been modernised, I don't know why the others haven't though? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HORT Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 They were called prefabs. Short for prefabricated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halj Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 Thanks for the reference to the Newtown site Phyll. I enjoyed looking at the pictures especially the ones my wife's relative (Derek Marsden) has posted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wobblybob Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 2 hours ago, Phyll said: Do you mean the ones in Bassenthwaite Ave? I think they used to call them "Prefabs". They're the ones I remember, but I haven't been back in over 25 yrs. I see on Google Maps that some of them have been modernised, I don't know why the others haven't though? They will be a mix of council properties and privately owned. If they were all council owned they would all be modernised or not modernised ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Jeff_Leo Posted October 10, 2022 Author Share Posted October 10, 2022 Here is a floor plan...... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HORT Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 This one is still on Bassenthwaite Avenu. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Jeff_Leo Posted October 14, 2022 Author Share Posted October 14, 2022 They were only meant to last about 15 years,...... 20 Maximum. Just shows how resilient the design actually was. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Jeff_Leo Posted October 17, 2022 Author Share Posted October 17, 2022 This is the old St.Helens reporter office....which was on Church Street next too Woolworths. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Jeff_Leo Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 Its a shame that the old facade could not have been cleaned -up and saved. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halj Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 An old friend of my Dads used to be a photographer at the Reporter and had a studio at this office (Tom Swift). He did our wedding photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony J Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 I remeber my step mother telling me that during the blitz her elder siblings were evacuated from Liverpool to North Wales. Her and her younger brother were too young to be separated from their mother. Nights when heavy bombing was expected the mothers with young children were taken away from the city by coaches, and The Scala is one of the places they used to spend the night. The two houses opposite, my grandad's Aunt Lily Hockenhull lived in the one farther away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dig Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 My brother was born in north Wales when my mother was evacuated from Liverpool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Jeff_Leo Posted October 21, 2022 Author Share Posted October 21, 2022 Look at the size of that!!! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wobblybob Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 Great memories that brings back. Lived on Sandringham Drive 79-87, met the late Fred Dibnah there in his early TV years. A very nice bloke who had time for everyone. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 Sherdley Park as it is known as today brings back many childhood memories. It used to be private land surrounded by a solid wall. In fact my Sutton grandparents referred to it as "The Long Wall". There was a public footpath that skirted the St Helens side of it that they referred to as "The Score" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HORT Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 A park always was an enclosed space. The term now seems to include an open space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 12 minutes ago, DEXTER said: old man casey who used to have shop on lpool rd next to the coop. God that brought back some memories. There were three stamp shops either side of Liverpool Road that we stamp collectors used to frequent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halj Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 My grandparents used to live in Chester Lane and when I visited them, I used to get the bus from the long wall into town. I used to help a friend (Alec Taylor) run the bird show at the Sherdley Show - Memories!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phyll Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, DEXTER said: I got it from old man casey who used to have shop on lpool rd next to the coop. Here you go Dex... There was also a "Doll's Hospital", I think that's when I first had thoughts of becoming a Nurse. Edited October 22, 2022 by Phyll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king kenny Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 in the fifties i bought a new cycle from this shop, sorry cannot recall the name 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Jeff_Leo Posted October 22, 2022 Author Share Posted October 22, 2022 13 hours ago, wobblybob said: Great memories that brings back. Lived on Sandringham Drive 79-87, met the late Fred Dibnah there in his early TV years. I met him as well, he had brought his traction engine...I have a photo somewhere with him giving the thumbs up whilst eating a butty. added 11 minutes later 13 hours ago, Alan said: "The Long Wall". It was a Sandstone Wall. Following the death of Michael Huges in 1938 he had no direct heirs................the land was sold to the Council in 1949 for £18,700 and the Long Wall was quickly demolished leaving only a couple of remnants. one being on Marshals Cross Road opposite the entrance to Eaves Lane. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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