Hey Priscus

The site of your old home in Bryn is on this Video

Finny Haddy row at 2.53

When I whur a kid, it was not uncommon for cyclists to fail to make it up Rag Brew. Most ended up walking, wheeling their machine for t' last bit.

Never seems to be as steep these days. Guess it hasn't changed though, just lighter bikes and more gears!

I wonder if you will do another Snowman video, but from cycle in place of car?

If someone builds a snowman, I will,

And, here's me thinking you built the snowman specifically as a prop for your vid.

I had a phone call last week, from a lady who was in the same class as me at school, and now lives on Rose Hill. She told me about the building starting, and how dischuffed folks felt.

No it was a spontanious video, My late, great mate of long standing ,Graham Brindle, Lived by that bus stop and he was about the size of that snowman too, So it was/is a tribute to him, I mention in the video his username on another forum, ' tetleyman' A realy good man who left us at the young age of 67,

Let me know if the houses are any good.

I could buy one, and move right back to where I spent my childhood! HAHA. The view at night: the strings of different coloured street lighting, stretching out into the distance, was quite spectacular.

Moved there when I was three years old, so other places of memory, even earlier.

I can tell you without seeing them, they will be like all modern houses and built to make money and not built to make homes,
cheapest materials,agency labour,plastic piping,mdf woodwork, compressed paper doors,if you get an average settee, you have to take a window out to get it in, built so close together, you'r struggle to get a wheel barrow round the back, small gardens, parking for 2 cars max, So when a family move in, they are parked in the street,
Wigan Road is a busy road now, So just imagine the feat of getting out of the estate at skool times,
Youn could not give me one for free but I'll wager they'll be asking £175,000 for a semi and £250,000 for detached,

Reminds me of when I lived in a Barratt's house.

You'll like this, being a plumber: The overflow pipe from the cold water cistern, turned 90 degrees, and ran vertically upwards, so as to be completely redundant - tank overtopped, with no head to drive overfilled water along a vertical pipe!

(Also had building ties upside down, and lintel tray directed water into wall rather than away.)

believe it or not priscus compared to todays builders the barratt boxes are top quality,

I was born in Perry Brook, middle of 2nd row on right hand side,going from Bryn to Landgate.. I grew up with that view, always loved that view looking over from Rose Hill.. When I was over 4 yrs ago, there was talk of the building going to happen.. So I went and took photos , just in case I didn't make it over again before the building started.. Thank Heavens I did, as I haven't made it over and now the view is gone... So sad.. next will be Drummers Fields....

jouell,
It would be great if you could post your pics on here.

Hi jouell I lived across from you on the left side from 1962 to 1972, 1 door up from the bus stop, the Brickyard was our playground,

TP, I was born 1944, moved to Downall Green when I was 4.. But my Auntie and Uncle Molyneux whom we lived with, were still there when you were.. Do you know David Molyneux?

Yes, that was almost opposite our house, I was a mate of his Son Geoff, they had an older son called Eric and they lost a son in a car accident,they moved to Wales to run a Hotel in the 60's ,

Small world innit, I wouldn't like to paint it though,

It is sad when you see what is happening on them fields where i worked my but off with Richard Baldwin to get it looking so nice,and now they are spoiling everything.I can remember jumping over the wall at the top of the brew and looking out and thinking how nice it was.spending hours working in them fields.and now it has gone.No more bean pickers or spud pickers,thanks for the pictures Tom.

When I was at Park Lane school I went to the Molyneux’s house a few times with David. If my memory serves me well it was number 542.
I can remember John getting killed in the road accident, he would have been in his early twenties.

tomplum i see you have a foldaway e-bike . thinking of getting 1 from halfords. how are they & do you have to peddle them or can you just use the battery ? .

whups, Halfords are dear, I went to to
eazi rider

based in Chorley you can go there have a demo and they give full back up after service, I can't praise them enough

to be legal they must by pedal powered and the battery assists you, So essentially they are a bike and you can use them as a bike and when the going gets tough push a button and as long as the pedals are turning the battery will take over and ZOOOOOOOOOM , welcome to modern bikeing

priscus/jouell, if you're on facebook join the bryn against development group and go to the photos section and you'll see lots of photos put on there from the last 4 years before the building started

I cannot remember the houses on Rag Broo

Yooo are a young pup TTS, there was terraced housing from just After the Skool to the Bath Springs pub, they all got demolished in the seventys,

They got compulsory purchased and demolished, I guess in seventies, to make way for extending southwards the dualing of A49. Which, as you know, never happened!

Well I remember the houses on Bryn Road in the 1960's and the big pond which got filt in, Bryn Hospital just off Bryn Road and Levertons having those big earth movers in their shop window and duel carriageway being built in Goose Green, Queen giving me the nod in Landgate on her way to open the three sisters, but cawn't remember those houses

TP, John and David were the ones I grew up with.. Eric and Geoff came along later... I haven't seen Eric since my teenage years and Geoff moved to Rochdale, Auntie Marion moved there too after uncle Arthur died.. At some point she moved back to Bryn.. The only ones I stayed in touch with were Auntie Marion and David.. She passed away 4 yrs?ago.. David is like a big brother to me..

John 59. yes I have seen those photos.. Even though I moved to the USA 43 yrs ago, Downall Green, Bryn, Park Lane, are still very much in my thoughts.. They are places most of my happy memories are from..

Gaffer, I don't remember the house number at Perry Brook, I'm not a numbers person, but you most likely are right.. Not seen you on for a while, that said, I haven't been on much.. hope you are well..

TTS

photo of them, here.

My auntie Bessie Lomax lived there.. I think in the second block of houses, almost opposite the Bath Springs...

The name Ken Lomax rings a bell. I recall he had one of those bicycles with very small wheels, decades before they became commonplace.

Last Summer I did one for the three sisters because if the Friends of Bryn lose the war this will go too

a ride round the 3 sisters boating lake

priscus, where did you know a Ken Lomax from? someone else mentioned a Ken Lomax from Rag brew...but I don't know of a Ken Lomax there....

We lived in Bryn for 1960 to 66,I used to walk over the fields at the back of our house to fish in Nicol Rd flash,and also went to the Long & Narrows,No3 lodge,and Landgate,all gone now except Landgate lodge,and that will be ruined with the new houses being so close.

Everythings rooined

priscus

I remember these houses in Bryn



But I don't remember those houses on Rag Broo

As Tom said, they continued up to the school.

Not found any pics looking inth opposite direction.

jouell,

I hope that I have got the name right. There was a gap in the terrace, called the Big Entry (As distinct from the Little Entry further up) and it is close to the location you had indicated. That is from where I remember him, though whether he lived there, or was just a frequent visitor, I do not know.

Circa 1964, he had a girlfriend {edit: name removed for reasons of privacy}, who I knew from school.

spud1,

Do you remember the hot summer, when we all went swimming in No3 lodge? Until, sadly, a lad drowned, that is.

Priscus,I didnt know about the swimming,or the lad getting drowned,I think that was the year we moved there,and I never went to No3 lodge till the next year, after joining Garswood Hall AC,No3 never fished well anyway,not like the L&N.

priscus.. Joyce Malcrane was Auntie Bessie Lomax's granddaughter..my cousin.. Sadly Joyce passed away July 2017.. she never left Bryn, lived there all her life....

Right, I must be gerrin folk mixed up; sorry, memory def not what it used to be.

Wasn't there also a Derick Lomax around somewhere?

Derick was the grandson of Bessie, Derick's dad and Joyces Mum were brother and sister.. Derick was killed in a accident 1970s ? Not really sure of the year.. .. He was married with 3 young children at the time of his death...

tomplum . halfords foldaway bikes range from £ 225- £ 350 . i cant see eazi rider comming close to that price . wot did you pay for yours ? .

I've just checked eazi rider, they've sold out, I paid £349 for the fold away elctric, It was in their January Sale the normal price is £900,

Thats a good price from Halfords, they must be getting competitive,

just checked Halfords too, the low priced ones are pedal the electric are £600 which is still a good price for a electric fold away with gears,
Halfords

Lad who drowned in No3 Lodge was Micheal Golding. Just found it on another thread. (Bryn Photos)

There was also a lad who drowned on Trinity Sunday it wa 1946 or7 his name i think was Bob Cumberbatch from Downallgreen Road,That was in No 3 Lodge. Tommy Twostroke. as reguards the houses on Rag Brow there were none on the actual hill, They were where the hill finished as in the photo, Would,nt mind getting Tony Robinson up to Bryn to do a dig where the old Lord Gerards hall was , they have it fenced off by the looks of it.

I know Bob cumberburch from Downall green road, he's still live and kicking, they are a family of 8 kids, he'll be about 64/5 now, So he never drowned but well have played in the long and narrows and number 3 as I did,

type in folding bikes & it will bring up 3 bikes which range from £225-£350.just a thought tomplum how about you doing a video on your foldaway for us that may buying 1 ? .

just for you mate I will, Incidental, At Pat Donney's funeral, I was talking to some old skool pals. It seems many have now become cyclists, one is a member of Wigan wheelers and does regular 80 mile plus rides on a Sunday, So its not just me who got bit with the biking bug,

tom,

Ifn you is doing requests, I recon a vid of your adventures with the potato in the vice (peeling) which you once mentioned would be quite amusing.

Wondered what tool you applied to it, Surform, maybe?

(Not making amusement of you difficulty: I suffer the same problem myself.)

PS

I used to have a beautiful Royal Doulton 'Autmn Glory' Dinner Service. Not something which I would buy, it was a gift! I still have one coffee mug and one dinner plate, all the rest casualties of my fingers failing to grip when washing-up! Nice, but too expensive for me to replace my breakages!

Do any of you remember the pie wars?

1950's/early 1960's. Bryn: two pie shops in close proximity.

Cis Pownall's, and Smith's.

And competing with one another, not on price, but on QUALITY!

Which, meant that they were REALLY, REALLY, SCRUMMY!

They really took off from when food rationing ended, and attained a quality which I think unsurpassed to this day: thin delicate pastry, no rubbish but first class quality fillings, and flavour/ spicing spot-on!

When later I was working in a maintenance role, folk would almost fight with each other to get the Bryn/Ashton patch, which held out the attraction of Pownalls/Smiths pies for dinner.

blimey O rieley I' never thought that me peeling a potato in a vice would be entertaining but yes I'll do one, as a matter of fact it could well be useful to others,
I can't remember the pie wars, there are no pie shops in Bryn anymore anyways here's a video for Whups

my fleet of bikes

Hi Jouell. Thank you all for the history lesson about Wigan Road, my Grandparents lived at No 524, in the middle of the first row of house below the Golden Ball pub and the Co Op, spent many hours playing in the allotments backing onto those houses, I always have a good look at the house when I visit home and go by on the bus. I remembered this Christmas the wonderful times that we had when we visited them on Christmas Day and they came to Booths Brow Road on Boxing Day, we thought nothing of the journey up and down Soughers Lane.

Itmust have been a relation tom because i remember it as though it were yesterday the Bob Cumberbirch that i mean would have been 84-5 now, Ask the one you know he could put you right.

very good tom . very informative . a mate of mine phil baines who also went to pats funeral has got 1 & he came up to mine & showed it to me . he did what you said & went to b/pool in his camper van & took his e-bike & did a tour of b/pool & the surrounding area . i think the foldaway would be the 1 for me as i would only use it locally & would be put in my house after use. thanx 4 the info .

Hi Robin, so you must have known John and David Molyneux..you must be of the same age, probably John...

We moved to DG in 48, visited Perry Brooke often after moving and never thought it a chore walking back and forth..
Take care..

bob knowles lives round about there ? .

Number 524!