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Warrington Lane Infants School

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Silver street
Silver street
Photo: anne silcock (nee searle)
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Item #: 18618
lady with flower magi tyman became harmer, man with flower dikie harmer, Inbeteen them mrs sherbourne,sissy penman,??mr sherbourne,lady with bottle nelly edwards,rachel and william sinclair, the children are kevin and think kathleen sherbourne, look like they having a good time with the crates behind them would be in 1950's nelly was my mam's aunty but everybody called her aunty nell.

Comment by: anne silcock (nee searle) on 7th October 2011 at 10:42

sorry, folk from silver st not warrington lane school

Comment by: Vicky on 11th October 2011 at 12:01

Great photo, some of my relatives lived in Silver Street, Maggie Tymon was the cousin of my Grt Grandma, nice to see a photo of her

Comment by: catherine jolley on 11th October 2011 at 18:39

LIVED AR 36 SIVER STREET AS A KID TOP LEFT IS MY COUSIN BETTY SHERBURN WHO MOVED INTO OUR HOUSE AFTER WE MOVED DONT THINK THE LITTLE GIRL WAS KATHLEEN SHERBURN SHE NEVER WORE SPECS REMEMBER SOME OF THE NAMES BUT NOT MANY NICE TO SEE OLD PHOTOS MY MAIDEN NAME WAS MCCORMICK

Comment by: marj sherburn on 11th October 2011 at 19:22

The little lad in the photo is James Sherburn and the girl is Kathleen, they were best man and bridesmade at my wedding to Kevin in 1971. The chap in the middle at the back is Jackie Crow.

Comment by: anne silcock on 11th October 2011 at 22:01

jacky crow married helen harmer they had a daughter ,sissy used to let me watch her telly until we got one then we had a house full especially on a sunday, everybody pulled together and knew each other but we aii move on good looking back

Comment by: eric bulpitt on 12th October 2011 at 16:29

it was taken upstairs at the silverwell on darlington street,jackie crowe married margaret harner not helen as helen is my mam& maggie & dickie harmer are my grandparents ithink the occasion was my uncle jimmy harmers wedding to mary berrigan thewoman next to jackie crowe is his mother sarahp-anne & next to her is teddy crowe

Comment by: Vicky on 13th October 2011 at 17:06

was mary berrigans mother called Hilda? she was my nans (lizzie Taylor) friend,My nans sister used to live in Silver street her name was Rebecca Darbyshire nee winstanley

Comment by: anne silcock (nee searle) on 13th October 2011 at 19:41

hello eric yes you jogged my memory Igave a copy of this photo to Jimmy's daughter,Iwent to see your granma when she was in westwood,she was still a happy lady,she told me she had a photo taken on the canal with my dad me and a load of kids if you come across it put it on here.hope your mum keeping well,

Comment by: catherine jolley on 14th October 2011 at 16:48

IT WAS THERA WILLET NEE SHERBURN THAT SAID IT WAS NOT KATHLEEN AS SHE NEVER WORE GLASSES I ONLY REMEMBER MY AAUNTY BETTY WHO IS AT THE BACK . I KNOW JIMMY SHERBURN , SO I WILL BUT TERESA ON THE RIGHT TRACK WHEN I SEE HER SHE COULD NOT MAKE MR SHERBURN out I WAS TO YOUNG TO REMEMBER HIM IT IS GOOD TO SEE OLD PHOTOS I PUT THE ONE ON FOR THE PARTY AFTER THE WAR IN ZULU STREET

Comment by: Lynne on 13th March 2012 at 23:52

I was born at 57 Silver St 1953 some of these names sound familiar but not got a great memory my maiden name was Fitzpatrick went to St Patricks school I was about 13yrs old or there abouts when we moved out into the Woodcock house due to demolition of the area came on to here to see if it could bring anything back but not that much on this st

Comment by: Anne Silcock(neeSearle) on 15th March 2012 at 20:27

hello Lyn yes Iremember you we were married on the same day you just came out st pats as Iwas on my way to st catherines 41years ago.We lived at number 20silver st everybody knew each other and helped one another sometimes see Marie Magan.Used to see your sister Shiela when I worked in town hope you all well

Comment by: sandra coxhead nee fields on 9th September 2014 at 18:23

hi could you please let me know Kathleen sherbournes married name thanks would like to speak to her

Comment by: Liz willetts on 21st February 2018 at 19:14

Hi lynn just seen this it liz pagett we had shop on oppisite corner to u, we where friends when young. And to other question i married teresa sherbournes so james. Sadly teresa died a few yrs ago. Hope ur well lynn small world wonder if anyone remembers my mum betty and dad harry pagett

Comment by: Glenice Hart on 10th May 2020 at 17:46

My husbands grandparents Richard and Mary Hart lived at 1 silver Terrace,Silver St according to the 19ll census.If anyone knows of any relatives or where we could obtain photos of the street we would be very grateful.

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