60s /Irby

A Memory of Irby.

Born 1959 & lived down the bottom of Coombe Road. Looking at the pics of the village I can remember the daily uphill trudge with mum to the shops. Ok I was in a pushchair on the way up but that became a shopping trolley on the way back.

As I recall the shops we went to were:
Newsagent/Post office - Mr.Cavanagh (pay the papers, sweets for me for later "if you behave"). General store next (forgotten the name - was it a CooP?), Constantine's, then past the cottages to the junction by Martins Bank. Quick right turn to a pet shop by the garage for a stinking block of fish for the cat, then past Irby Club to the Oak Tub for sliced meat on their posh slicing machine. Cross the road & back homeward past Brandons the toy shop ("you can point as much as you want but we haven't got enough pennies today") then Lloyds Bank, Day's the greengrocer. There must've been a butchers somewhere as well. Any ideas?

Thinking back, she'd leave me standing outside most of the shops ("Don't run away") alongside dogs tied to lamposts. Times have changed a bit.

A big treat was going on the bus to Aunt Mag's in that great metropolis Birkenhead. The big cream&blue 71!
Anyway, going to ask Big Sis online what she can remember & will add.

And.. where's this Sutton Hill that everyone remembers sledging down??