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Egremont, Promenade 1898
Egremont, Promenade 1898 Ref: 41017
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Southport, Lord Street c1960
Ref: S160127
I started work at Henry Cardin's hairdressing in Lord Street. Lovely girls, Pam and Vanessa, where are you? I live in Malvern now, I did very well and am now retired.
Arthur.
Shared on 24 June 2009
My dad Leslie had the Talbot Hotel in Portland St from 1955 to 1964, and I went to Sefton St School and then to Bickerton House School in York Rd. I can remember going to Miss Walshe's riding school in Aughton Road where the famous Ginger Mcain of Red Rum used to drive her taxis. The summers always burnt the grass off and there was always snow in winter. As a keen bird watcher my pal Zbignew, a Polish boy would go to the Marine Lake or Hesketh Park to see what we could find, what a time of boyhood, oh how I would love to do it all over again ... Tim Driver, West Beckham, Norfolk.
Shared on 09 October 2008
Trips to Southport over the years.
My father's aunt lived in Southport and worked as a radiologist at the Southport Infirmary in those days. We would visit practically every weekend. As I grew up and married and had my own children we always loved visiting Southport. My two daughters had such a lot of fun at Pleasureland. One of my daughters won the Southport Rosebud contest one year which in those days was held in The Floral Pavillion. I enjoyed Lord Street and we often stopped and listened to the band at the Band Stand on Lord Street. Many happy memories of Southport!
Shared on 14 April 2008
Southport, Leyland Arcade 1899
Ref: 43327
Hi - I have a couple of photos of my great-grandmother taken by Wragg, a photographer in Wigan and Leyton Arcade, Southport. I'd like to hear from anyone who can help me date the pictures by comparing the frames.
The pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicdafis/468472134
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicdafis/468483717
Many thanks.
Shared on 22 April 2007
Freshfield, Ryeground Lane c1965
Ref: f117001
The walk to school - Ryeground Lane
Having walked up the hawthorn-lined path from Graburn Road to Church Road, I would turn towards the Embassy Cinema and The Grapes Hotel (pictured) and turn into Ryeground Lane on the way to St Peter's Infants School in Paradise Lane. In autumn I would shuffle through the almost knee-high drifts of tobacco-coloured chestnut and sycamore leaves from the arching overhead branches, blown aside by the crimson double-decker Ribble buses. Somehow I don't remember the wet days or even the really snowy days of 1947, just the autumn leaves and possibly conkers. Strange, as I made the same journey from 1944 until 1947. Memories of the Grapes are limited to Charlie Bostock, whose mum worked there, say 1949 to ?1954. He had an underground hideout in the grounds, and Kensitas cigarettes suddenly come to mind. Across from the Grapes was a corner group of shops, all clad if I remember correctly in white tiles. Mrs Knight ran the grocers. Her potted meat was a dream, and butter came in small wooden kegs. The next shop was Freddie 'Fish' Sandys, who had a very attractive blond daughter who must have been in the same infants class, but who made more of an impression when I was a few years older. Next to the fishmongers was a shop selling electrical goods. South of Mrs Knights was the paper/sweet/tobacconists, the name Greenhalsh (?spelling) is associated with this shop but only for a few years. A bakers shop was a few doors down. Ah the smell of yeast fresh bread and balm cakes. Robin? Other memories are of The Embassy Cinema, in the Embassy buildings diagonally across from Mrs Knights, and especially watching 'The Conquest of Everest' and possibly 'Genevieve'. There was a great toy shop in the same building. Next to the Embassy buildings was the Air Raid Siren mounted on (I think) the Fire Station, the address would have been Piercefield Road
Shared on 23 October 2009
