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where in Belle Green lane is this DK? Is it up beyond the Bush? I am trying to work out the sign fixed on the wall behind them

This backyard studio was 89 Belle Green Lane directly opposite the Oak Tree. There was a shop which we knew as John's shop in this row, and the Oak Tree wasn't a stand-alone building but had a chippy with a great green range and a corner shop on the juction with Russell Street.
This enclosure of backs, divided by the long wall, was made up of the eleven houses in Belle Green Lane and the five in each row in Chatham Street and West Street - we were in the Chatham Street half.
At some point, and I don't know why, a council re-numbering took place and our house became 115 overnight.
In the Ince Directory Joe Pearson and Mary Pearson are listed in Chatham Street and they were still there, although quite elderly, when we were kids. Thence was born the legend of Joe Pearson's tree. Also, our Aunty Bet, Cunliffe, lived in the first house of Chatham Street.
The outside petty was a later brick add-on to these houses, I believe, as my Grandad used to tell tales of a communal petty row and the nocturnal activities of a certain type of cart that wasn't in a wedding parade.

Great photo i used to live at 3 Smiths street right at the top of Belle Green Lane then moved to Pennington Lane when i was little, and remember taking bottles back to Johns for something off the penny tray those were the days.

Thanks for the info DK wasn't John the son in law of ALICE who had the little toffee shops next to the Oak tree

Its not a sign on the wall its a cardigan hanging on the washing line.....I've only just spotted that

my great grandma and grandad lived in chatham st think it was number 1 they were the mawdsleys.my mother was born in york st hr ince in 1918 and she tells tales of sleeping at grandmas in chatham st as a child so must have been 1926/7 ish, then they moved to battersby st from there a bungalow in thirlmere ave ince.