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Pamela..I just love that little dog,was he your mums..it is a lovely photo.

Is Margaret Walls any relation to Chris Walls,I was brought up in Millers Lane in the 50s and she looks familier,I used to go to the Mission just out of sight in the photo when Iwas a Life Boy 1955, great picture brings back a lot of memories.

I'd have to ask my mum about the dog but I think its Rinty who was a lab/Alsation cross. My grandad used to say they were the best dogs.
Chris Walls was the name of my grandad but also is the name of my mums youngest brother. There was also Marion, and there still is Ken. I remember there ws a shop at the end of the row and also one across the road but I don't rememeber the names. I also think that I remember that the Rickets lived next door - though I could be wrong about that.

HI PAM ARE YOU DAVES WIFE,MY WIFE MARY USED TO TAKE YOUR LISA AND HER BROTHER TO SCHOOL WHEN WE LIVED NEAR YOU IN TEMPLETON RD.THE SHOPS YOU REFER TO WERE POLLYS AND JONES MARY CLAYTON HAD A SHOP IN MILLERS LANE,AS DID NELLIE HOWCROFT,NELLIES SHOP WAS PROBABLY THE SMALLEST IN ENGLAND ANY MORE THAN TWO CUSTOMERS AND IT WAS PACKED.BILL RICKETS AND THIER KEVIN DID LIVE NEXT DOOD TO YOUR MUM.

Yes it is Dave's wife. I thought it was you John but I hadn't realised that you grew up near my mum. Lisa is 32 now and lives in Fredrica Gardens and Chris lives in Moss lane, five doors away from us. I'm really enjoying the nostalgia and information from this site. The photo of the walking day you put on has really got me interested. Its quite a mystery.

hi pam oppsite your mum is the backs of wilson st also oppsite to the right was a gas lamp my uncle fred lived next door to walls near the vicarage wall cliff

What a great dog. Lovely photo.

Hi Henry7, if the dog is Rinty, as I seem to remember my mum telling me, then she lived to a good age as I rememebr her and she was a lovely dog.

Hi Cliff, what was your uncle Fred's last name? I will speal to mum and ask her if she rememebrs him.

Sorry about the spelling, I should check it before I post :)

lovely photo pamela, i love these old natural how it was photos

hi pam my uncles name if i can spell it right was fred briscoe cliff

My gran used to call that area Little Scoles, or she would say it 'Skows'. Just in front of Margarete would have been a shop which was an off-licenses when I was a lad. My family still lives in Vicarage Close, which is behind the vicarage wall.

Pam... your mum cannot deny you, she is the spitting image of you in that photograph.

You've got me thinking now, Dennis. Our Debbie says that our great granddad, Kes Walls who ran the Commercial, came from Scholes. Wonder if something happend and people moved from Scholes to this area of Platt Bridge.

I could be wrong here Pam and I will stand to be corrected... but I got the impression that is was known as Little Scholes because it was a cross road... a smaller version of Scholes Crossing.

BTW... the shop over the road was Greenalches (sp?), I cannot remember the name of the Offie at the end of the row your mum lived in.

cliff,if fred briscoes wife was sally and his daughter phyllis then fred was my uncle, havn't heard anything about them for many years,often wondered how phyllis was.

hi maureen freds wifes name was sarah she was my mums sister they are all gone now but phyllis still lives in platt bridge do you come from freds side or do i know you cliff

hi cliff. I am from freds side of the family,no you don't know me. Phyliss hasn't moved far then,if you see her say hello from me,thankyou for your response Maureen.

there was another shop in the same row as polly allans we called batts battersby it was the end house near the vicarage wall

Hi Pamela, I nearly fell off my chair when this lovely picture of your Mum and Rinty came up, I was looking into the pit winding house that our Great Grandad turned into 'Old Kes's' and found this by mistake. I have called Uncle Chris and my Dad to tell them about it. Just wonderful x Have you any more pictures Pamela from Victoria Road? xx

how great to come across this photo of 'our Margaret'. Your Grandma was my auntie Mary. I was always 'little Margaret' I have recently been along to St Nat's coffee mornings & asked after you. Did I see it that our Chris (your uncle) also lives in Moss Lane now?

hi margart do you have a brother james lived in adalaide st

answer for Cliff. Yes, you are right, we lived at the end house No 19.

hi margaret i remeber you well me and jimmy was out catching butterflys when he cut is hand bad i lived in willson st

Sorry Debbie. From records Kes (Christopher Walls) lived at the Victoria rd pub for a number of years from the late 1920's, the Commercial pub then known locally as Kes's, but he was not the first Beer Seller in the Commercial pub. I do have a photo of one of the previous Inn keepers at the Commercial and some of the locals in the earlier 1900's, including Mr Battersby mentioned above who lived on Victoria rd, after first moving to Platt Bridge as a young chap in the 1800's.The relevant images and history will be uploaded under a different title in due course.I also have a later group image including Mr Battersby in the 1930's, some of the others on that photo may have been Mr Walls customers, but the pub is not on it. The Commercial was Mr Battersbys local for many years.

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