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Old 10-05-2006, 06:47   #16
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Re: Henry Street

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Anyone remember the shops in Henry Street, Church? Thinking about May Jolly's (now June's greengrocers) reminded me. There were lots of shops - looking at Henry Street now, I don't know where they put them all! There was Emily's on the corner, a sort of general store, further down towards Dill Hall there was Hope's sweet shop, and on the other side, a huge (well, it seemed like it) pet shop, with the cobblers on the corner. He not only repaired shoes, he could make clogs - now worn by earnest looking people in Islington, but then the working man's standard footwear. What a shame they all went - but Yates's is still there, still making lovely muffins and meat pies.

I know Mez will remember ....
call in for a pie most days when in delivering around that way.
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Old 10-05-2006, 11:42   #17
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call in for a pie most days when in delivering around that way.
Yes, Stephen Yates still makes pies the way his Dad did - they used to make great jellied pies as well, but haven't seen those for a time. It's such a shame to see it now, it used to be such a bustling busy street. On the block down from Yates/May Jolly's, there used to be another bakers, Mathers, and a butchers, Mr Mackay, who wife taught at Sacred Heart.
It seemed much bigger when I was littler!
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Old 10-05-2006, 13:20   #18
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The best of the lot was the shop at the corner of Barnes Street/Henry Street - The Junk Shop! Anybody remember ? It was run by a right pair of weirdo's - Frank & Fingerdot - and the place was just stuffed full of cheap Japanese tat. The shop window was lined with toy tin motor cars...as ten year olds, using magnets, we would wreck the display at least once a week. One time we did it three times in one day. Lovely.

I recall she ended up being fished out of the canal at Church and he remarried about 2 weeks later.....and two weeks after that, he too was dead . A funny old world.

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Old 30-05-2006, 13:06   #19
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There was Ernie Wrights butchers on the corner of Edward street. Mrs Furness had the ironmongers at the bottom of Walmsley st across from Dowthwaites the barbers.Over the road was a grocers and and at the maiden st end another grocers as well as Morecrofts at the top of Walmsley st at one time Maureen McCann opened another grocers on the other corner far a short time in the fifties in a shop that had been a fish and chip shop.I remember there was an old penny slot machine left which I got.
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Old 22-05-2007, 15:34   #20
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I had the Butchers shop next to Mathers in 1956.
I bought it from Doris Salt when her husband died.
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Old 22-05-2007, 18:03   #21
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used to go to Mathers for a 2d muffin, freshly baked and still warm, first thing in the morning before going to Sacred Heart and during the school holidays take a dish and get a meat pie with oxo gravy - I can still taste it now - fantastic!!!
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Old 29-05-2007, 09:25   #22
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CRUMBS jack bunn! name rings a bell but can,t put a clock to it.
I used to go to school 'Hyndburn Park' with a lad called Fred Bunn, I think he had an elder brother called Derek cashy.
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Old 17-08-2007, 11:46   #23
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Just talking about Henry Street at work, turns out that the lady who actually owned Mathers was her grandma Ellie Lowe. She died last week aged 90 .. so her baked bread didn't do her any harm at all.
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Old 25-01-2010, 20:28   #24
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I remember all the shops you mention on Henry Street. I used to mate with the boy from the pet shop, he was called Jimmy Jackson. I lived in a Chippy on Blackburn Road. It had a cafe attached and we had plenty of fights in there when they all came falling out of the Church Commercial
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Old 22-03-2010, 11:30   #25
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There used to be a barbers shop run by a chap called "Bacigaloopo" (Forgive the spelling
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Old 22-03-2010, 13:04   #26
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there was also Fred and Elizabeth confectioners , my hubbies grandparents.
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Old 12-07-2010, 21:46   #27
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I used to live just off Henry Street on George Street and yes there was loads of shops,there was Vera Cliffs a clothes shop across from there was a pie shop,then a little further down was Prices the greengrocer. I think on the corner of Edward Street and Henry street was a drapers shop and further down a pet shop and cobblers,while on the other side was Hopes toffee shop,and further down George Hodgkinsons paper shop,there was a chip shop but not sure if it was next to the paper shop or was established when the paper shop closed.
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Old 03-08-2014, 06:11   #28
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call in for a pie most days when in delivering around that way.
in the 50s/60s there was a chip shop at 59 henry st
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Old 03-08-2014, 14:11   #29
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in the 50s/60s there was a chip shop at 59 henry st

The owners were Mr & Mrs Butterworth at that time.
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