Buying stuff way back!!! How things have changed!!!

[claytonx]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Sounds a bit like what I did claytonx, only we bought second hand furniture (people did that in those days, now everything has to be new) the inlaws bought the 3 piece suite, my parents fitted carpets and a new twin tub washer (do they still make them) Ya the good old days

I had a good wage John as a underground mechanic at Huncoat Pit and could make my own overtime.While my wife worked at Clayton laundry and had a good wage.Mortgage was £4.25 per month,no car, no telephone,no tv very little outgoing expence.

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by susie123

Thanks, I've seen the blog.

No, Rowland Joynson, think that's the right spelling, was a reporter on the Observer. The grocer I think was Herbert and there was a Herbert Joinson on the Accy absent voters list after WW1 so he would have been approaching retirement in the 50s/60s.

There are 3 Joinson's in the Absent Voters list, they all lived in Clayton.
The Absent Voters list wasn't after WW1.
After WW1 they wouldn't be absent, that list was created in 1918 whilst the war was on. It was supposed to have been created by the soldiers filling in forms, but thats bull shine.
There are three men in the Accrington list, who were killed in action 2 years earlier, who filled in those forms, who filled in the forms of men missing in action, later to be found as prisoners of war.
Retlaw.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by Retlaw

There are 3 Joinson's in the Absent Voters list, they all lived in Clayton.
The Absent Voters list wasn't after WW1.
After WW1 they wouldn't be absent, that list was created in 1918 whilst the war was on. It was supposed to have been created by the soldiers filling in forms, but thats bull shine.
There are three men in the Accrington list, who were killed in action 2 years earlier, who filled in those forms, who filled in the forms of men missing in action, later to be found as prisoners of war.
Retlaw.

Thanks for that info Walter, it's fascinating.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by claytonx

I had a good wage John as a underground mechanic at Huncoat Pit and could make my own overtime.While my wife worked at Clayton laundry and had a good wage.Mortgage was £4.25 per month,no car, no telephone,no tv very little outgoing expence.

The laundry where your wife worked? Was that at the end of Lower Barnes Street?

[mobertol]

My Great-Aunt, Lucy Border (neè Croston) ran the laundry down in Clayton for a long time -it was on the left half way down Whallley Road from The Greyhound pub.

[claytonx]

Originally Posted by Eric

The laundry where your wife worked? Was that at the end of Lower Barnes Street?

Correct, Eric, You are a Cayton lad did you go to school in Clayton

[claytonx]

Originally Posted by mobertol

My Great-Aunt, Lucy Border (neè Croston) ran the laundry down in Clayton for a long time -it was on the left half way down Whallley Road from The Greyhound pub.

I don't remember that. I had a friend called Voll Croston lived in Henry st and had a school of motoring learner drivers.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by claytonx

I don't remember that. I had a friend called Voll Croston lived in Henry st and had a school of motoring learner drivers.

Volney is my mum's cousin -his name comes through from a French second wife of my grandad's uncle (complicated!)

[Margaret Pilkington]

my husband learned to drive with Volney....I believe his son Glenn, now runs the motoring school.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Sounds a bit like what I did claytonx, only we bought second hand furniture (people did that in those days, now everything has to be new) the inlaws bought the 3 piece suite, my parents fitted carpets and a new twin tub washer (do they still make them) Ya the good old days

Same here,only new thing was a Gas Cooker,wouldn't risk a second hand un.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by claytonx

Correct, Eric, You are a Cayton lad did you go to school in Clayton

Yup ... All Saints ... left in '57 for Accy Grammar .... there were others from down Lower Barnes St. going at the same time I was ... David Bartram, Raymond Pye, Rodney Howard ... and probably a couple more that have slipped my memory. I lived up Rishton Road, past the old paint works, at the bottom of Charles St., near the gate and the stile to Ringstonhalgh Farm ... don't know if that's the correct spelling (and I don't think spellcheck would help), but a family called Swale had it. Used to get milk from them, dipped out fresh ... always remember the horse used to like to take a dump outside our house How did I ever survive without health controls on how milk was processed and sold.

[claytonx]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Volney is my mum's cousin -his name comes through from a French second wife of my grandad's uncle (complicated!)

That has sorted how he got that name very unusual name,he also had a friend called Jack
Lightbrown another driving instructor,they both worked at Huncoat Pit while they were getting there schools started. Small World

[claytonx]

Originally Posted by Eric

Yup ... All Saints ... left in '57 for Accy Grammar .... there were others from down Lower Barnes St. going at the same time I was ... David Bartram, Raymond Pye, Rodney Howard ... and probably a couple more that have slipped my memory. I lived up Rishton Road, past the old paint works, at the bottom of Charles St., near the gate and the stile to Ringstonhalgh Farm ... don't know if that's the correct spelling (and I don't think spellcheck would help), but a family called Swale had it. Used to get milk from them, dipped out fresh ... always remember the horse used to like to take a dump outside our house How did I ever survive without health controls on how milk was processed and sold.

You are quite a lot younger than me.The year you left was Jim Bradshaw still Headmaster
he taught me at Mount Pleasant but I left 1950 I was getting married the year you left All Saints 1957 that makes me 77 in July.I thought you might have known some of the Howsen girls they lived at 1 Alexander st.
I lived at 71 Barnes st and when married accross the road at 74
The photo on the post Harry Boyle has quite a few bottom enders on I am the smallest stood next to the teacher (the Billy Bremner of the day)have a look you might reconise someone,two lads stood at the back far end are from below the bridge

Roy Smethurst

[Lost in Cornwall]

Jim Bradshaw was still headmaster at All Saints when I left in 1968.

[Stevie R]

[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;960403]
Biscuits.......if you wanted a pound of mixed biscuits you chose the ones you liked from the glass lidded tins....the grocery assistant would pick them out and put them in a paper bag. The name Huntley and Palmers springs to mind.
My dad was an apprentice grocer (his words) at Redmans in Accrington,he then moved to Duckworth`s,got married,bought a house up Dowry St.Not long after,dad bought a shop in Haslingden.I was born above the shop(1952),the biscuit comment Margaret, was so true,those glass lidded tins were a feature in dads shop, I will never forget that.What I also remember strongly was dad buying a freezer,it was very much the new thing to sell frozen food,tv dinners and frozen peas!