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i was brought up round here how things change,any 1 remember . it joseis shop used be there , they all gone , or kebab shops

Oh lord... how easily we forget.

It just seems like the other week I walked down there... just as it is above. It was my regular route to he Platt Bridge Inn.

the three shops on the right are no 1 Jennie Kenyons the Grocers, centre one is Browns Wallpaper and Hardware and the end one was Salters Chemist. The man walking down with his hands in his pockets is John Grimshaw.

prior to being browns the hardware shop was oned by my friends parents his name was david grundy. the wood work shop made my first sled it didnt work till we used greease on the rails

no one in platt bridge called the king william that it was affectionately known to all as the king "billie"

DAVID GOVAN I WAS BROUGHT UP IN THE HOUSES JUST AFTER THE SHOPS AS YOU WAS BROUGHT UP BEFORE THEM YOUR SISTER BRENDA AND YOUR BROTHER JIMMY AND DAVID GRUNDY'S PARENTS OWNED THE SHOP ALONG WITH HER SISTER DOROTHY.

DAVID GOVAN DO YOU NOT REMEMBER THE DISLEY FAMILY WHO LIVED NEXY DOOR TO HELEN'S FLORIST OR DENNIS LINDLEY WHO LIVED ACROSS THE ROAD. AND MAVIS SHAW WHO LIVED NEXT DOOR TO US.

Isn't the shop just above the car roof rack, right hand side, Drony's the gents outfitter? My Uncle & Aunty Mr & Mrs Rosbottom was the owner, anybody remember them? she used to tell fortunes with a crystal ball.

DRONY'S HAD THAT SHOP A LONG TIME,CAN YOU REMEMBER BOLANS CAKE SHOP AS THAT WAS NEAR DRONY'S

Droney was actually his forename his full name being
Droney Rosbotham.

Fred...I remember Mr & Mrs Rosbottom very well. And Harry and Edith too their relatives next door. All lovely people who I and my family thought a lot of. I knew their daughter Carol who unfortunately I have lost touch with over the years. Weren't they great times then!

its changed alot! my grandma and grandad live on walthew lane and have done since the 60's i cant believe the difference!

I was born in Platt Bridge, I remember all the shops along Walthew Lane. Just to let you know that the shop in the picture , called 'Helen's Florist, was a chip shop called 'Maggie Howarths'.

Andrew. Mr Rosbottom was my Father's brother, when we visited them, my wife always asked mrs Rosbottom to get her Chrystal Ball out and tell her fortune. Lost touch with them after Mum and Dad died, do you know if Harry or his sister are still alive?

Does anyone remember the tripe shop on the left hand side of the road just out of view, almost opposite the King Billy. It later became a bookie's. I lived there until I was 21 and remember all of the shops mentioned in the comments. John Bolan, who had the cake shop, was my uncle and recently died, he was in his nineties. These pictures are magic!

I lived in 10 Walthew Lane from 1949-1955 behind the Barber Shop that my father, Eddie Phillips owned during that period. I remember John Bolan. He came to the barber shop one day with some fresh boiled ham which was hard to get in the early 50's. Went to St.Nats. Eventually went to Australia and then the USA where I have lived for the last 50 years

I was born at 108 Walthew Lane. Went to St Nats. Next door neighbours were the Boardmans, then the Harts and then Ellison's chippy. Next door to them was Massey's grocers. Shops further down were Lunns and the cobblers. Further down on the right I remember Latham's pie shop. Does anyone remember Edward's pie shop near to St Nats school? Buy a pie and you took your jug for some gravy.

hello linda massey i was born at 104 walthew lane i remember yr mam&dad thay had the shop do u remember john lane e lived across rd corner off victoria st thay use 2 store for yr dad

This really does bring back some memories to me. I lived at number 16 Walthew Lane, opposite Latimers Grocers Shop and the Post Office. Blackledges had a plumbing business just near where the windows are on the left of the photo and I seem to recall Highams Florists a little further up near the light coloured car parked on the left of the photo.

A Mrs Dearnley I think lived in a shop a bit further up on the left going towards the King Billy. Didn't she originally have two sons and she sadly lost one of them when he was quite young?

I working in Helen's Florists in the late 1960's as a Saturday girl for pocket money while still at secondary school.

Rita Mannion used to work in Salter's Chemist's for many years she is my Aunty Teresa's sister.

I Lived at 164,Walthew Lane,It used to be a Grocers,sweets and sold cigs.It was owned by my grandma,but my mam and dad run it, Bert and Alice pennington.It closed when the war started in 1939.as everything was rationed.Mam and Dad went to work at Maypole Colliery.my dad wanted to open it again after the war,but mam said she had had enough of business.As regards the Meadows brothers they lived opposite from us further down.Although I was a couple of years older I and my friends used to clash with them,we called them the Meadows gang.That tragic day i had to go to Wigan shopping with my Mother and heard the news when we got back.Their headstone is in Hindley cemetary against the wall near the toilets.Arthur Silcock the fairman paid for the headstone.His grave is on the left as you go through the main gates up Castle Hill.it is engraved with items of the fairground.

I am sitting here with close to tears> So many memories. I was born inplatt waz in 1931 and my grandparents lived at no 9 New st. opposite edwards bakery. We moved to no1?3 Warrington rd HINDLEY which must hve been from where the photo was taken! At the end of the row there was a st called elm st and there was a huge clock in an upstairs window owned by Harry Foster a watchmaker. I could go on at length and correct one or two facts but I tire easily now . Just to say that my aunt Nurse Pollit from Dower house farm must have delivered quite a few of you or your parents as she literally worked unyil she was 91!!David Govan, If you lived in the houses with a garden next to Salters chemists, I might give yo a laugh if you havent been tol previously! I assume it was your grandad who had a monkey just before the war started and he would put it in the garden on a sunny day (on a chain of course) and we would go into kenyons and buy 1/2d of nuts and feed it. This was ok but if anyone talked to it but didnt give it a nut it turnd round and farted or peed at them!!!!!Was your dad the jimmy govan who went to Moss lane school during the war with me we left in november 1945 we worked together for a very short time at "Foscolouur" in Bickershaw Lane.If he is still with us ask him does he remember getting drunk whilst cleaning the machines with toluene which was the active agent in the ezplosive TNT (tri-nitro-toluene)

Hi Eddie,read your comment about your aunt nurse pollit.i knew her only because when i was a kid with my mother holding my hand,she would say this is nurse Pollit,she brought you into the world.she must have told me that over and over again.When I was a lad my mates and I used to walk along the wall of her land to the cricket pitch.and clinker valley. I an now 76yrs old.

Does anyone have any information about Latimers greengrocers shop? When did the cease trading? Are they still living? Any contact details for them?

i remember this well i was born at 21 walthew lane in november 1960 what great memories i have of this place ifeel like im back at home.i feel so emotional thinking about the people and places around platt bridge i once knew. ahhhh the good times.

I used to go to Dower house farm when i was a kid early 1980's with a family friend (Eva Woods) who helped me through a rough time after my dad Ronnie Worgan died. There was a lady called Nellie who i think was nurse Pollits sister who lived in the cottage.

I used to go to Dower House farm every Sunday from being 1year old to 18 years of age. Nurse pollit was married to Jim Pollit who was a coal merchant by trade. He had a horse and cart. The horse was called Bonny. Next door to the farm lived Millie and Harry pollit nurse pollits son. Nurse pollit was the midwife who brought over 5,000 children into the world as well as dealing with minor ailments. She also smoked Craven A up to dying. I lived opposite at 125 then 99a Moss lane.

Hi Marjorie,why didn't you say that John Grimshaw was your dad I know he was my uncle,and you lived in Walthew Lane too

I lived in Moss Lane. Delivered in Victoria road, by Nurse Pollit. Stored my first car in her Barn.Went to Salters for Liqurice lemon and Ether cough bottles.Stoned on half a bottle(the ether)If I went in Bolans I hoped to see the lovely Alexandra.Nurse pollits father Owd Mr Pollit would give me straw for the school nativity play. The rats in his Barn were as big as dogs. I stayed close to him while he got the straw.

I know were this is and know that Brenda Govan grew upon walthew lane on the right before silver street. She looked after us when she met my dad David Rudd and then married him not long after.

Oh for a bag of Maggies chips and scratchings walking home from Dickie Balls Temperance Bar.