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Where was this Yard? I've looked along Ince Green Lane in the 1925 Directory, but cannot find it mentioned.

The entrance to this yard was between houses on Ince Green Lane numbers 130 (which was an Off-Licence)and 128.This yard was formed by back entrances to a row of terraced houses on Ince Green Lane and a row of terraced houses at the bottom of Anderton Street ( numbers 119 to 125? ).The chap shown inside the rear entrance of a house on Anderton Street was a well known local character Billy Rutter. All the houses that once formed this yard have now been demolished and new ones built. I hope this is of some help David.

Billy Rutter that name brings back memories as a child , but I dont remember the yard .I used to work in the off licence in the late seventies and eighties when it was owned by Maureen and Brian and then Winnie and Ray .I would walk between 130 and 128 to go home as I lived in Leaway ,the land behind the shop at that time was just spare land .

no wonder the guy collecting is smiling ,the place looks like the guy in the house should be paid for living there

aldreds yardwas at the back of the original outdoor licence which was next door to the original chippie now demolished about 20 yards nearer the railway