[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by gdm27

I was driving back into Accy from Haslingden a couple of weeks ago and passed the site where "Nobby" had his garage. My misses laughed when I told her that he used to stop the traffic to let you out after filling you up. Anybody remember him and what happened to him?

Knew Norman Taylor and his family very well, His father started that business just after WW1, first selling petrol in 2 gallon jerry cans, then expanded into what it became, when Nobby & his son Joe ran it, Nobby's daughter did the book work.
Old Joseph who started the business, served in the A.S.C., in WW1, he used to come in every day to check the books & count the money, until just before he died.
Nobby were a beggar for playing practical jokes, and he could tell some dam good tales as well.
Retlaw.