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Originally Posted by Ianto.W.
Most of them cashy, the whole area was a small community on it's own St James St ,Paradise St, Eagle st and the back streets as most of them were back to back houses with communal back yards an toilets etc. The characters yes, Tommy two guns said he used to be in All Capones gang when he went to live in America, Mr and Mrs Flaherty in Paradise St a mate of mine married their daughter, also Mrs Best who's nickname was 'Merry Bess' among others, I was brought up on Blackburn Rd Corner house with Grimshaw St, but I knew this area very well as my Grandma was the landlady of the Globe Inn, I bought a house on Eagle St in 1964, I could go on all night naming names but not the done thing methinks?
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now then theres a story about tommy 2 guns somewhere i put in a thread in nostalgia section,an its perfectly true. also i knew merry bess by one of her other names. lol me aunt alice who ican barely remember lived on parsdise st.