Knight's Tripe Shop, Clayton?
 

Hello Accy!

My name is David Procter, and I live eight miles north of Ensenada, Baja, Mexico, which is about sixty miles south of the border at San Ysidro/Tijuana (fifteen miles south of San Diego). I am a retired professor.

My maternal Great Grandmother was Adalaide Knight who ran a tripe shop on Whalley Road in Clayton le Moors from 1900 - 1949. Anybody remember? I actually got a brick from the old abandoned building in 1978 just before it was demolished to make room for a new motorway.

My mother's maiden name was "Bolton", and she is alive-and-well at age 89, living in Allentown, PA, with my sister Glenys, who is age 67 and is four years older than me.

My Dad, Richard Procter, served in the British Eighth Army during WW2 and was at Dunkirk and in North Africa. Unfortunately, he died in 1969. Also, my mother worked at Broadley's on munitions during the War.

I was born at Rough Lee. We lived on Queensborough Rd. for several years after the War, and then we moved to Moss Hall Road until 1954 when we emigrated to the U.S.

I attended St John's for a year, I think, and then Peel Park for a couple of years. I recall dreadful school dinners!

We still have relatives on my father's side living in Church and Lancaster. We had relatives living on Dill Hall Lane for a long time until the 1960s. Also, relatives named, "Hampson", on my mother's side, one of whom is an author and a former COE vicar.

Any connections or recollections?

Cheers!

David

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Lovely introduction Steerforth, welcome. Will have to think about all your points. I loved the school dinners at Peel Park by the way ... :D

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Hello and welcome

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I am left wondering why you changed from St John's to Peel Park. Are you confusing it with Hyndburn Park?. I bet Harry Place (aka Fluke)the St John's headmaster wasn't pleased, nor Mrs Thurman who taught at St John's and lived up Moss Hall Rd way.Another St John's teacher, Miss Riley, has just died. Peel Park is celebrating its centenary this year. You are an example of the old saying 'You can take a lad out of Accrington but you can't take Accrington out of a lad'

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I'm not certain. I remember Mrs. Thurman fairly well, and I must have only been three or four. I guess it was nursery school, eh? I left England when I was seven.

Mrs. Thurman had (has) a lovely daughter, Freda, who was in the Mother's Union with my mother (Irene Bolton Procter). I had a boyhood crush on Freda, too. There is a photo of her in a chorus line with my mother somewhere in our family memorabelia.

I took the bus to St. John's and got into serious trouble one day for imitating the conductor who would get off the bus before it stopped.

There was also a teacher at St. John's called "Evelyn Bury". She and my mother became fairly close friends -even after we emigrated to the States. They carried on correspondence for many years, and we never knew what happened to her (of course, she died). Mrs. Bury marched with Bertrand Russell in the Ban the Bomb protests in the early 1950s.

Thanks for your warm reply! :)

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Welcome to the site, from n owd St.Johnser.:D

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I am thirteen months older. I cannot believe I am 63. :(

Thanks for your welcome! :)

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Hi welcome to accyweb:)

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welcome to Accyweb

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Hello and welcome

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Hi welcome to Accyweb :D

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Thanks for all your warm welcomes!

Bacon butty and a cuppa anybody?

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greetings and welcome
still yet another old St John scholar,alive to tell the tales :egged:
quite a few Knights still live in and around Clayton
Vic Knight must be in his eighties and all his family

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thats true, mate is one of em, lives sandy lane accy now.:);)

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I don't know of any Knight relatives living in and around Clayton, but I've been advised that if we go far enough back, there will be a connection somewhere.

Ta!

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This is an Introduction section only please use other sections to post and chat in thanks

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How great living in Mexico..................Welcome

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I never know where to put these things, there are so many categories, but I have mentioned my great grandma's tripe shop in Clayton several times. It was located at 158 Whalley Road, and the Star Cinema was directly across the road according to my sister. Found this on Facebook, but we are wondering if we can find a photo of the tripe shop. Any ideas? I visited the area in 1978 before the motorway was constructed, and I manged to get a brick from it that I presented to my mother. When she was moved to a nursing home and her house sold, it was carelessly thrown away. https://ibb.co/wBKVGL8

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Steerforth, this is best placed as question on the general forum.
I have lived in Clayton for fifty three years and do not remember a tripe shop opposite the Star cinema.
There was a corner shop at the bottom of Henry St(George Hoyle) thornbers chemist was on the opposite corner(broadleys side).
Next door to George Hoyle was the chip shop(Chans).....and on the other side of Chans was a haberdashery(run by John Oldham wife....but I can't bring her name to mind right now).
Maybe the tripe shop was one of the two other than Hoyles....he had been there(I am told) since God was in short trousers.

Now I am sorry that none of this answers your question....I will ask some folk who are older than me and know more about Clayton.

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Thanks for your reply, Margaret. We talked in here about the location of the tripe shop years ago. I went by the nick of "Mack" then, and the thread is in "Lost Friends and Family" - "Information about Clayton". You participated in the thread. I think the shop may have been on the corner of Henry Street (Long Row) and Whalley Road. It was torn down to make way for the motorway. Grandma retired in 1949 and closed the shop; she had it for 49 years. She lived with us on Moss Hall Road for a few years before she died in 1952.

I posted this, but it is not available any longer. My mother found the charcoal drawing when she visited the area in the 1970s. Grandma's shop is to the left, and this is where I got the brick from. My cousin from Clitheroe was with me when I got the brick in 1978, and she knew the shop and its location very well.

https://tinyurl.com/qvwxual