Peel Green, Peel Green Road c.1955
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Photo of Peel Green, Peel Green Road c.1955

A Selection of Memories from Peel Green

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Peel Green

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Yesterday I wrote in my memories of Peel Green but I missed out some of the shops, Mrs. Scott grocers, Meg the herbalist where we all met up and had saspirella, dandelion and burdock and hot vimto, she used to chase us out when we had finished our drinks , then there was the Co-op bread shop on the corner, also I missed out Turners Chippy, Sadie was a lovely lady she used to sing in old peoples homes she had a lovely ...see more
We moved to Peel Green when I was 9 we lived in Winster Rd., it was a new house when we moved in it was one of the first to be finished, When we moved there the houses on the opposite side were just being started, I remember the shop at the bottom it was owned by Mr & Mrs Forbes. and there was a little shop round the corner it was like a little stone hut they sold fish.. Peel Green had plenty of shops then 2 bakeries, ...see more
I started school in 1938 at Godfrey Ermans and the headmaster was Mr Stephenson. My cousin also went there. We lived on Peel Green Road.It was wartime and we had a shelter at school that we went into when there was a raid. Agreat treat was gathering Shatnell after the raids.I was there until I was Nine. My name then was Anne Flannery.
I have lived in Peel Green all my life, it was a lovely area. I went to Godfrey Ermans and Winton Senior. I was the eldest of seven children and we lived in Rowsley Road, we used to play on Goddies Park and go over the Barton swing bridge and play down Lovers Lane as it was called, it was like being in the country with all the farms, my mum didn't know where we were, it was safe in them days, we always came ...see more