My Carlton

A Memory of Carlton.

The first twenty five years of my life were lived in Bakerdale Road, but during the war years when toys were hard to come by, my mother would buy me Dinky toys from Harry Rutherfords on Burton Road when he managed to obtain some My father worked with Douglas Godfrey and used to garage his van at Aileen Godfrey's stables. When I married, I moved into Park Ave (a neighbour of Alan Broadhurst) and worked for Sydney Rutherford's the electrical shop on Burton Road, before taking the business over in 1962. Eventually we had to move as the old shop at No 8 was demolished, to make way for the Carlton Square development. We survived for a few further years in the shop opposite(under the Liberal Club)
After nearly 30 years of retirement in the Lake district, I have finally 'come home' to Parkdale and it is good to read comments from some of my era's survivors

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