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Good to see the shop building is still there. Not much of the architecture has changed either...the shutters along the side are a sign of the times we live in. I expect the area behind the shop was living accommodation for the family.
PS Irene I agree, wouldn't it be good to take a step back in time & have a peek round the door. I used to love going into my Auntie Annie's shop in Billinge Rd.

Agreed, Helen. I have a "thing" about old packaging techniques.....how they fashioned bags out of paper and boxes out of cardboard before everything was plastic and pre-packed. I have strings of paper bags hanging in my kitchen; they are my childhood and I just can't resist them!

That building (I think) was one time Galloways bakers, 1970-80s maybe.

Spot on Alan, it was also called The Pie Shop (they did beltin Hotpots) before Galloways.

What a belter!!

Great stuff. I do like a good 'before & after' pic.

The pie shop was owned by galloways.The address given as 215 Ormskirk Road.They changed the shop name to Galloways.This was the first shop they opened.

Was Plessey's (AT&E Works) at the back of this building?

Ian can you e.mail me please tried emailng you but it seems I have an old e.mail address?

this was my grans shop you can see her at the side window my father is standing at the front i lived next door since 1946 with my brother ADRIAN 1948. who sadly has just died on 21.1.2015 , till 1971. it was glovers fishing tackle from 1961 till 1977

In the early 70s I worked on this shop it became the first gallojways pie shop I think she was the daughter of George Bailey caterers of menses street wigan