Sue Callaghan Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 hello Anybody have any links family or otherwise to this farm and Cook /Preston families? especially around 1920 thank you Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HORT Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Is this on Prescott Road? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizzy Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 If this is the old farm on Prescot Rd. it was run/owned by the Waterworth family during the 1950s. I used to visit the farm regularly to buy farm produce from a shed at the back of the house. They also farmed a number of local fields, one directly across from my home in Scholes Lane 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halj Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Hi, Kizzy, didn't know you where an adopted Thatto Heather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizzy Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Portico end actually - but I went to school at St Austins so knew Tattie Heath well 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 The beauty about conversations like this is that they cause me to get out my ancient street map of St Helens and check up on streets like Scholes Lane 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HORT Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 St Austins. Austin Rhodes went there did you know him? Alec Murphy went to St Austins as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 HORT, I don't think Kizzy is in her mid eighties yet 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizzy Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 I knew of them, Hort! As Alan says they were a little before my time at school, though I knew Alex well because I used to work in a bookies in St Helens, and he and his wife were neighbours when we lived at Bold in the 70s 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phyll Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 Found this... 'Posh folk' brightened up social scene.. WWW.WARRINGTONGUARDIAN.CO.UK THERE was certainly plenty of space to spare at the childhood home of a veteran reader who picks up on an earlier historic theme aired on this page… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizzy Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 That article brought back so many memories of where I grew up. Oppenheim Avenue is off Scholes Lane and is on the Portico/Grange Park estate. I thought the name unusual when I was young, and was told the story of the wealthy family of Oppenheims, who had a big house in the grounds of the then British Legion club. There were still traces of the old house visible and we'd play in the grounds or use it as a short cut through to Upland Rd, (also mentioned in the article). Thanks Phyll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotus Flower Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 I used to go there as a kid and help Derek Waterworth out feeding the pigs and bringing the cattle in from the fields down near red rocks. I wanted to be a vet in those days and their vet Mr Barnes used to let me watch him treat some of the animals as long as it wasn't too gruesome. Sadly my dream of becoming a vet never materialised but I really enjoyed 'helping out'. I remember the old hut where Mrs Waterworth used to sell the vegetables from. She was amazing she could add the bill up as she was going along. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 Lotus, vets are also pretty quick these days adding up bills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizzy Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 @Lotus Flower Maggie Waterworth was a remarkable woman. She ran the farm along with her son Derek and daughter Miriam/Mariam. She often drove the tractor in the local fields and collected potatoes and other crops. Then she'd serve us from the shed in the evenings and all day on Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotus Flower Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 Sadly Derek passed away recently. Maryan is still with us. She married into the Birchall farming family from Rainford. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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