Walkers sweet shop : A memory of Northumberland Heath

Walkers Sweet Shop

A Memory of Northumberland Heath.

My father ran the sweet shop on Bexley Road and Ramsden Road i think its name was for Mr Walker and as we lived above the Bexley Road shop i was born there - i remember looking out at the old club house watching the dray horses deliver the barrels of beer. My father became vice president of the new club when it opened for a while - he then went down to the Catholic Club on the commitee when it opened and he was the caretaker at St. Fidelis School where he died.

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Hi Lyn. Just read you memories. My sister Jean Harris as she was worked for your dad in the shop for some years. She married John Smith who had the carpet shop and baby shop on the opposite side. I am sure she must know you. I will contact her to see.

By Peter Harris on Wed Jan 13th 2016, at 1:28 pm

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I was a paperboy at Walkers on North Heath from around 1961 to 1963. Work for Classey's in Mill Road before that (I was 11 when I first started paper rounds). I too remember the old Labour Club on the Heath and the new one in Mill Road. I became a member of the new club and my dad and grandad took me to the old one when I was a little 'un. Lots of old men and beer and a snooker table which I wasn't allowed to play on. I remember the Connor family had a lot to do with the clubs.
My mums family have lived on the heath since around the late 1880's as master builders.
I am John Wilson and lived in Brook Street 1950 to 1969.

By John Wilson on Sat May 15th 2021, at 1:00 pm

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