Fredericks Ice Cream

A Memory of Earlestown.

My father was from Newton Le Willow, and spent his childhood at 73 Oak Avenue. As a child that grew up in cheshire where my father moved to on getting married, i would go with my parents to the same house to visit my grandmother. I remember playing in the streets with the other children. Going to Earlstown and Newton high street. I remember in the summer buying Fredericks ice cream from the street when their ice cream van came. I can remember the low flying airplanes coming in to land at the US air base at Burtonwood in the late 1950’s. My cousins still live in Newton le Willows and its a real pleasure for me to visit them as it brings back a lot of happy childhood memories.