Shops in Peel Street

[les stewart]

well there you go, said it was foggy

[Retlaw]

There is a picture of those shops in the Accrington Observer May 1915.

Walter

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by les stewart

First time post from New zealand. From memory, the original shops were demolished after a runaway truck crashed into them. I think the driver's brakes failed on Manchester Road.

The runaway truck as you call it didn't get to Peel St.

It happened one dinner time the lorry was on the wrong side of the road as it passed the Fire Station it demolished some of the stone work on the left hand side of the door way of the Hargreaves Arms. We immediately turned out with two machines and the emergency tender. The lorry hit a white Ford car waiting to turn into Warner St, peeled the side of a Ribble bus waiting 3rd in the queue at the Traffic light at the top of Little Blackburn Rd, pushed the white car under a furniture van and rammed the whole lot into the Canine club, the lorry then veered left and buried itself into the front of the wine shop at the top of Little Blackburn Rd. Its now a cleared area with a tree planted in it.

It took 20 minutes to cut the driver free from the white car, a young woman aged about 30, she was in a bad way. Don't remember if she survived or not.

Retlaw

[cashman]

Originally Posted by fibi

Hope i'm on the right side of the road here but I think one of the shops was either lighting or carpets it would be the one nearest the market. Let me know if i'm off track and should be on the other side.

I remember the bottom one was carpets they used to hang doormats on the doorframe cant remember the name the lighting shop i think was oconners who also were up abbey st.just next to marsdens chipshop which was just past plantation st.

[Judith Addison]

The shops on Peel Street - Noble's was definitely a shoe shop - sold sensible shoes, such as Clarke's. For our shoes we generally went to Bainbridge's in Blackburn. We had to have our feet x-rayed. You looked down a sort of funnel and saw the shapes of your feet against a green background. Remember the "Startright" advert? A boy and girl walking off along the road?
Veever's was a sort of delicatessen - I remember they sold chocolate ants - I never saw them anywhere else.
Isobel Winter's was across the road. That's where you got your High School uniform. Except for your pullover or cardigan, which you got from "the Blind" (on Bank Street).

[Bob Dobson]

From the 1951 Barrett's directory....No 2, Trustee Savings bank No 4 Nobles, boots,shoes 6 Veevers, grocer 8 harris, outfitter 10 Crompton, furniture
12 Haydock Bros, dry cleaners then Pleck rd 14 Smith, confectioner
16 Douro Wines 18 Darbyshire's florist 20 Singer Sewing machines 22 Fasion fabrics 24 Metcalfe's, fruiterers.

Other side: Lloyd's bank, / Greenwood, newsagent, Caxton printing Co/ Greenhalgh's dry cleaners/ baptist Chapel then Infant St/ Loofe'stailor/ Crawshaw, furniture/Joseph loofe again/ J Hoyle, fancy goods/23/25/27 isobel Winter/ Ingham, wools then t'Palace flicks.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Bob Dobson

From the 1951 Barrett's directory....No 2, Trustee Savings bank No 4 Nobles, boots,shoes 6 Veevers, grocer 8 harris, outfitter 10 Crompton, furniture
12 Haydock Bros, dry cleaners then Pleck rd 14 Smith, confectioner
16 Douro Wines 18 Darbyshire's florist 20 Singer Sewing machines 22 Fasion fabrics 24 Metcalfe's, fruiterers.

Other side: Lloyd's bank, / Greenwood, newsagent, Caxton printing Co/ Greenhalgh's dry cleaners/ baptist Chapel then Infant St/ Loofe'stailor/ Crawshaw, furniture/Joseph loofe again/ J Hoyle, fancy goods/23/25/27 isobel Winter/ Ingham, wools then t'Palace flicks.

Was it Nobles boots and shoes that became Coombs in the sixtie or seventies Bob

[Tetti]

I seem to remember that there was an old wooden building on the corner of Infant st with the entrance in Peel st., inside there was 7 or 8 stalls. One sold second hand books and magazines and I think one sold fruit and veg.. This was about 1950ish. Any body else remember it.
Tetti

[steeljack]

Originally Posted by Bob Dobson

From the 1951 Barrett's directory....No 2, Trustee Savings bank No 4 Nobles, boots,shoes 6 Veevers, grocer 8 harris, outfitter 10 Crompton, furniture
12 Haydock Bros, dry cleaners then Pleck rd 14 Smith, confectioner
16 Douro Wines 18 Darbyshire's florist 20 Singer Sewing machines 22 Fasion fabrics 24 Metcalfe's, fruiterers.

Other side: Lloyd's bank, / Greenwood, newsagent, Caxton printing Co/ Greenhalgh's dry cleaners/ baptist Chapel then Infant St/ Loofe'stailor/ Crawshaw, furniture/Joseph loofe again/ J Hoyle, fancy goods/23/25/27 isobel Winter/ Ingham, wools then t'Palace flicks.

that name rings a bell , seem to remember he also had a sewing factory where my Mom worked during the early/mid 50s, it was up a back street/alley off Whalley Rd, same side as Mary's music , either just before or just after the Railway viaduct .

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Tetti

I seem to remember that there was an old wooden building on the corner of Infant st with the entrance in Peel st., inside there was 7 or 8 stalls. One sold second hand books and magazines and I think one sold fruit and veg.. This was about 1950ish. Any body else remember it.
Tetti

The fruit and Veg stall was Catlows, they moved to the junction of Broadway and Whalley Rd.
I remember the bookstall, they sold mostly paperbacks, westerns and science fiction.

Retlaw.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Tetti

I seem to remember that there was an old wooden building on the corner of Infant st with the entrance in Peel st., inside there was 7 or 8 stalls. One sold second hand books and magazines and I think one sold fruit and veg.. This was about 1950ish. Any body else remember it.
Tetti

yep was dark green coloured tongue @ groove boarding i think, retlaw is correct Catlows was the fruit n veg stall.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by cashman

yep was dark green coloured tongue @ groove boarding i think, retlaw is correct Catlows was the fruit n veg stall.

Ain't it marvelous how you old codgers remember these things

[Atarah]

Memory joggers

[cashman]

Great Pics Atarah.

[lancsdave]

The first one is really interesting because we can see what our shop looked like in bygone years before they built it