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It's a long time since I visited the site I saw somewhere on the site about Irene Howard I went to Woodnook Secondary with Irene & we were pals,if I'm requesting this in the wrong place SORRY:confused::confused::confused:

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I went out with an Irene Howard from Huncoat, but I think she attended Hyndburn Park. She married Andrew Nuttall (RIP)and became landlady of the Stop & Rest She will now be 71 or 72.

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Thats the one,she went to Woodnook & married Andrew Nuttall,funnily enough I went out with him to,was it the Stop & Rest up Fielding Lane?

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It was

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I have set the wheels in motion and sent you a private message. Irene and I have a mutual friend.

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I have PMd Irene with her pal's contact details

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i was born on marsden street and attended woodnook st marys from 1955 to about 1961 then i was Sent to st chrisies. i can recall most people from those dates and places we used to play at ( blackrock , five arches , jacobs lodge etc ).

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I know you Sean......I lived on Riley's Hill.....I have five brothers. Peter, Michael, Philip, James and John...and one sister Vanessa. Your Mum was called Edna....and you used to have a brown dog......I can't think of his name but I want to say Beezer(it was something beginning with B anyway :))
Ma still lives on Riley's Hill

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I welcome Sean's first posting and underlying pride in Woodnook - especially as his family are intertwined with mine. He may not be aware of it, so I am sending him his first private message (PM)

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Hi Margaret, Would the surname be Duxberry? (sorry if misspelt). I used to live at No 5 Rothwell Ave and used to hang out Ma Mick, James and John from Rileys Hill.

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Yes Malcolm...I was called Duxbury in the dim and distant past.
Malcolm, I don't think I know you.....but then there were many of my brothers pals that I didn't know.

And Sean.....I was drifting off to sleep last night and not thinking of anything when tha name of your brown dog popped into my head...It wasn't Beezer....and it didn't even begin with B. It was Topper.....or at least that is my memory.

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Thats true cos she didn,t know me when we met.:D

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I think perhaps you knew our lads when I had left home to get married 1965/66.

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Sean I was at school with you. Woodnook St Mary's. You may not remember me, I lived on Belfield Road then. Name then was Linda Renton.

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Topper.

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I REMEMBER A LINDA FROM BELFIELD ROAD BUT CANNOT PICTURE YOU, happy days we recall now ,not so happy at the time when getting hit with wooden ruler on back of legs by
MISS SUDALL !!

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O what sad things we think about at our age. lol

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what happened to the FLYNN FAMILY ?????

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Yes they were happy times except for getting the ruler on your hands or legs. Not sure about the Flynn family. If you gave me a Christian name I might remember.

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They lived on Riley's Hill...Patrick was the dad, Dorothy the mum...they were a largish family but I can only remember two of the boys Peter...and Craig. Craig was deaf and went to the special school in Preston......there was a daughter too Jacqueline.....and Patricia...Patrica was also deaf.
I am sure they were a branch off the Sandiford family.....but I can't quite remember how they were related.

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Of course. I remember them now. Sure my mum worked with one of them Pat. I think, at high arms mill. Thanks for that anyway.

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Linda - did you marry a Tommy Shanks? One lived next door to me in Dowry St with his grandma and went to St John's. I don't think he is still alive. If he is, he will be just over 70yrs

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No Bob. I married Donald Shanks. He passed away seven years ago aged 61. I know there were Shanks's in the Dowry Street, Water street area but they are not related.

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One of em had a pony I think. Ta XXX

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Wish I had ten pence for every time someone has cracked that joke to me. Would be rich. Haha.

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In that case, perhaps I should have mentioned Shanks, the firm which made white sanitary ware.Toilets etc.

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Now you mention it, I am sure we had a Shanks toilet at one time. Much better than the tippler toilet I remember from when we lived in Mill Street in the early 50's. Terrified of it!!

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Hi Margaret, I'm the same, can't remember too much from the day, but I remember Mick used to ride a Norton 750. I think it was yellow. We used to drink in the Woodnook Inn, which from memory was close to where you used to live (Riley's Hill). There was also a guy named Dave Sourbutts, who used hang around with us. At the time, and for who knows why, my nickname was Molly!! Before we moved to Rothwell Ave, we used to my parents had the Star Inn on Nuttall St.

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paul was one of them and pat was the elder girl both were deaf if i remember correct

sean

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I have quite a good memeory.(for most things anyway)
The time when you Knew our boys was when I had left home.... so I did not come into contact with the people that my brothers were friends with.
That is why we do not remember each other...because we never met:).

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Hi sean remember the amazing pic is we used to have with all the family, up five arches. Great days.anx going to Clitheroe and swimming at eddies ford bridge,we used to stop at garage to get inner to es to float on

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Now I have racked my brain I remember you, and to guarding the bonfire on Riley's hill,and my wife having a crush on a boy named alan jones from the chippy lol

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Peter, Craig, Paul, Patricia and Jackie, Flynn Mum Dorothy dad John Patrick. Related to the Sandiford's through Dorothy who was a Sandiford
Other Flynn's same family but Cousins Tony, Eileen, Cynthia, Charlie, John, Philomena

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I remember all that family as I lived next door to them on the hill.
My dear old Ma(who is 90) still lives up there.

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Sorry Philomena was actually Williams not fFynn