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great to see a ice cream cart, thats the way my dad started to sell ice cream,,,,,brill

Nice old pic' Barry, any idea where it was taken?

When I lived at Holland Moor in the late 40' early 50's we had an ice cream man who came around with a horse & cart....would it have been Di Romeo's? ...something like that anyway. The ice cream was in a great metal bucket like a dustbin & you could have 2 sorts, a cornet or a wafer. You could have some raspberry syrup on the cornet. Spoilt for choice we were !

Yes john back of the houses to ormkirk road pemberton.THe KING on the cart was my great grandad J.T.KING

For Helen
The fella you're thinking of was Tommy Watson, he used to make his own ice cream. I think his house was in Nixons Lane

helen that was tom watson (seem to have lost my capitals and punctuation) we lived two houses away and used to get our ice cream from mrs watson at the back door tom continued with his rounds i believe until his horse died at what mst have been a very advanced age

Have you a more exact location? Is this view taken looking north i.e. towards Norley Hall or south i.e. towards Lamberhead Industrial Estate?

Hi Ron
We at still looking at the photo trying to match it to sum part of ORMSKIRK ROAD.We no the ice cream came from the back of ORMSKIRK ROAD.

If I get chance next week. I'll have a ride up there and see if I can match the houses each side of the gap. As there are no houses opposite. I would guess that the fields are what is now Howard Street, Lambton St.etc. As the ground appears to be flat.
Have you any idea of the date? I would guess at some time in the 1930's???????

If this is Ormskirk Rd the field in the background is somewhere between Sherwood Drive and Leader St. on the 1894 map that is the only place there is a field on Ormskirk Rd.
it looks to me like the photographer was stood where Botts tyres is now.

tom watson came from upholland used to travel to skem selling at pionts along the way then park at the top of sandy lane by skem united ground till he sold up also made is own black pudings best i have ever tasted

Tom Watson was my great-uncle,
my grandfather's (William Watson) brother. My mother often spoke about what a treat it was to have one of his ice creams as he was quite mean about gifting them.