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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

this may have been prior to George Hoyle having the shop.
After all the original poster is talking about the time of 1900...and he also mentions his grandmother, so it might even have been before then That Bleasdales had the shop
I lived in Henry Street in the late 60's. I remember George Hoyles shop very well and Thornbers Chemist on the opposite corner of Henry St.

I had a Great-Auntie Lizzie (marrried to Nicholas Croston I think) who lived up Henry Street and can remember going to visit her there often as a little girl when mum took the washing to be done at the Launderette on the other side of Whalley Road, which was run by another of my Gt aunts (Lucy) for a while. Thornbers chemists I remember but not the other shops - will try asking my mum if she remembers the tripe shop or any of the others.