[Mack]

Originally Posted by susie123

Well I have cracked the location of the shops in your photo and it's nowhere near 158 or 144 Whalley Road.

Originally Posted by susie123

A free search of directories on Ancestry turns up the entry Bleasdale and Co, 233 Whalley Road Clayton. Don't know the type of business or the year, think you have to pay for that sort of information. The entry in question is towards the bottom of the first page of search results.

Bleasdale - U.K., City and County Directories, 1600s-1900s - Ancestry.co.uk

Anyway Streetview of that area takes me to the Volunteer pub, further out towards Harwood than we were looking. The address of the Volunteer is 229 Whalley Road, next door is a house, then a pair of houses with exactly the same upstairs window arrangement as in Mack's photo, and the bottom facade has been rebuilt, indicating that there were once shop frontages. 233 would have been Bleasdale's, the shop on the left.

So the photo was of the opposite side of the road to the tripe shop we have been looking for, and much further out of Clayton.

I was wrong about one thing - the shop on the right is on a corner, of sorts - the next thing after it is the canal!

Thanks very much for all your help! This has been very informative. My Mum, who is 91 and has just recently been put into a nursing home is thrilled to bits at hearing about her family and seeing the census records. After her mother (Florence) died when my mother was five years old, her grandmother - Adelaide Knight - raised her at 158 Whalley Road.

Also, concerning other comments, if you look, my nick as "Mack" goes back to 2006. I can't recall what I posted though, and I lost the log in information and began a new account under the name, "Steerforth" in July, 2010. I found the log in information for "Mack", though. I posted some information about William C. Birtwell in "Hall of Fame". Also, my uncle, Lawrence Procter, who held the patent for getting dyestuff to adhere to Rayon. He worked at Steiners before emigrating to Brazil before the war - then to Canada - New York and finally Pennsylvania where our branch of the family caught up with him in the mid-1950s. My name is David Procter; my father was Richard - there were four brothers, Albert, John William (Jack), Lawrence and Richard - and one sister, Betty, and they lived on Dill Hall Lane near the cricket field.

("Mack" is short for "Mack A. Damia". Yes, I'm a nut)

Cheers!