yep n just next door was the council yard for refuse wagons, me grandad worked there until retirement.he looked after the horses before they went mechanical, have often wondered if the horses sensed what was going on next door.
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I'm sure they did.....my brothers used to accompany the farmer taking his sheep for slaughter, and the nearer they got to the abbatoir, and the more unruly they became......heading off in all directions but the right one. The farmer said that they could 'smell' death.
yep i remember that now,they used to bring em down maudsley street past me nans then down the "Pleck" past the Australian, we used to follow them, n they did used to act-up big time going over Bull Brig.
Cashy I think we are going to be related before long.
When I left school in 1954 I worked at the abbatoir on Moreton Street.
Meat had just come off ration and public slaughtering became legal.
I had my dinners in the canteen next door in the council yard.
We had sheep at Plantation Mill in Accrington and drove them to the abbatoir passed the Bull and Hyndburn Road.
Accrington butchers rented individual stalls; Chadwick Bros (Joe & Harry)
Thomas Grime, Slingers, Walter Henderson, George Feathers and a few more from Accy Market.
I could tell you a funny story about events at the abbatoir but I don't think my mates stomach would stand it so I'll keep that on the back burner.
I might have had a brew with your grandad?
thats quite possible, royboy, he was called Reg.slingers was me first job leaving school easter 63,but that was the boning factory at load of mischeif.
thats quite possible, royboy, he was called Reg.slingers was me first job leaving school easter 63,but that was the boning factory at load of mischeif.
I know it well...Tom Slinger would be the bossman in 63.
Same family that had stalls in Accy market and at the slaughter house.
I cant remember Reg by name afraid.
yep tom used to lash us apprentices with a pigs tail if we wern't boning fast enough, happy days
though the namby pamby PC Brigade would go nuts now.
yep tom used to lash us apprentices with a pigs tail if we wern't boning fast enough, happy days
I know.......thats why tale spelt t.a.l.e is on the backburner.
Your lucky it was a bulls wissen when I was a lad.
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Don't remember that one
Ooh, I used to work in the Peel Street shop......we used to get our potted meat sent down from the Stanley Street shop. This would be about 1963.
I liked Tom Slinger.....his brother John used to try to get me to go out with him....but I wouldn't do. Work and personal relationships never mix very well, and I wanted to hang onto my job......my family depended on my wage (dad was sick at the time). Isn't it a small world?
I liked Tom Slinger.....his brother John used to try to get me to go out with him....but I wouldn't do. Work and personal relationships never mix very well, and I wanted to hang onto my job......my family depended on my wage (dad was sick at the time). Isn't it a small world?
Slight thread wander about butchers - does anybody remember Amos on Cambridge St? (Corner of Water St) and Joss? We used to get our meat from there and I remember asking for bacon to be 'cut on number 8'
I can remember being sent into the Market Hall one day when we had had a run on pork sausages......I was kind of sweet on one of the young lads on the stall......he was a couple of years older than me. He gave me the tray of sausages,wrapped up and when my hands were full he dropped something into my pocket and winked at me.......I was over the moon. When I got back to the Peel St shop (blushing like mad at my impure thoughts) I plonked down the sausages on the counter and delved into my pocket.....to find that the lousy blighter had dropped a pigs eye into my pocket......no wonder he winked.
Strange, I went right off him after that!
Strange, I went right off him after that!
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Margaret.....I'm not going to make any suggestions on who that might have been..........I would get into trouble again.
I wish you would, because I have been scratching my head trying to remember who it was.......I couldn't really have been that sweet on him, could I?
Incidentally I remember all the butchers stalls that you mentioned.
Incidentally I remember all the butchers stalls that you mentioned.
Oh, and by the way....my impure thoughts were not impure by todays standard....I was only wondering what it would be like to be kissed by him.
I never found out. But some years later I did find out that he was going to ask me out....but he got the cold shoulder after the 'Pigs Eye' incidents.....so it was kind of 'in a pigs eye'.
I never found out. But some years later I did find out that he was going to ask me out....but he got the cold shoulder after the 'Pigs Eye' incidents.....so it was kind of 'in a pigs eye'.
I don't know but it would not surprise me if John had suggested it........He was a bit of a Jack the Lad.
There were others that I have not mentioned: Reg Gorton, Melville Ingham,
Reggie Watkinson, Suttons. Jack Lomax and Lens (Cooked meats).
I had the honour of knowing Johnny Nolan.
was top of the block past the Dyers n Finishers, with the Stanley Arms on next corner across washington street.
was top of the block past the Dyers n Finishers, with the Stanley Arms on next corner across washington street.
Now I've got you Margaret jogged the mem a bit when she mentioned potted meat. We sold them heads and tongues.
Did'nt Walter Marriot have his cooked meat factory somewhere up there?
Remember, but my mum used to send me to the one on Norfolk Street or sometimes Dixons on Addisons/Maudsley Street.
Gosh, knew all these mentioned and the families .. were a lot, weren't there..