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cyril bagshaw: Hi Anne I dont know if you have managed to see any of the old Twenty Row photos yet, but one in particular has come to light on the Irlam and Cadishead Ancestry site.It was taken......

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cyril bagshaw: Hi Tony Gerrards Close is a cul-de-sac off Ferryhill road Irlam. This estate was only built in the 1930's, and was built on farm property. Cheers Cyril.......

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cyril bagshaw: Hi John I believe you have captured the feelings of most of the contributors to this page most eloquently.No matter how far away from the nest some of us have flown, those childhood images are still......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Peter As an ex Soaking pit worker, you would probably remember Johnny Jaques, my father in law.He and Venice emigrated with us to Adelaide in 1980. All the best to guys in Woolongong. Cyril B...

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Joanne, Here is a photo of my old family home where I was taken to live after being born several months earlier in 1925 the one nicely painted in pink and nicely kept......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Dean, Yes, next to the newsagents. I wish we could get some treacle toffee in Adelaide.....and some Blackpool rock too..and while I'm at it, a few of Morris's meat and potato pies.!!!! Cheers.... Cyril........

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Dean You can see your family home in Fiddlers Lane on Google Earth. It is the last house in the lane, which is a semi detached at a 45 degree angle, making one half in......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Peter (nsw) Small world isnt it? I had the greengrocery business opposite Boundary road on Fiddlers lane amd my Mum and Dad had the fish and chip shop next door until I opened the shop......

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Peter Lawford: Hi Cyril, I Do remember your shop or should I say shops, as I remember a green grocer and a chip shop under the of Bagshaw in Fiddlers Lane. I lived in Boundary Road from birth......

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cyril bagshaw: Hi Anne So glad you have made it to the Ancestry site, its like Aladdins cave, gems popping up everywhere. The curly headed child of course is non other than yours truly. Must say, the "mop" has......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Stuart As an ex Fiddlers Laneite now in Adelaide,I will tell Debbie ( my niece)that you have found this active little site. She is now living in Queensland and has made some very interesting contributions......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Karina, Welcome to the site.There must be some magnetic attraction of that little place on the banks of the River Irwell for so many people of all ages and from all over to look back......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Gary, I am sure I must have met you and your Mum if you did your shopping in fiddlers lane as we were from 1947 to 1980. If you open up the other web site that......

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Cyril Bagshaw: I wish someone had offered me even money on that one... Cheers .....Cyril and thanks Alan....

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Rob, You have bowled me out for a duck on that one !! I thought I had heard of most of the streets in the district, but I have never heard of Occupation road, but......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hello Mabel, I remember your parents fish and chip shop very well, especially as we we called in just after coming out of The Palace cinema, which was owned by the Barnes family. So it would have......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne, Our family had great respect for Dr W A Walker, we only lived just across Liverpool road from his surgery, and on many occasions whether it was scarlet fever, measles, births of my sisters,......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hello Anne, Yes, Jim is Millie and Dick's son.He has 3 children and 5 grandchildren. Wakefield's chippy and Mrs Milner's little hardware business no longer exist, and is now the site of the Irlam Library, photos you......

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Alan Taylor: Arrgh! I remember Captain Austin of the Eccles Army Cadet unit and visiting his home - can't remember if he lived next door or ND but one to Cyril Bagshaw senior. Alan......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hello Anne in Ontario, I married Ellen and Jim Massey from Cadishead married her sister Edith. You may not know, but there is a sister site to this one,"Citynoise these things no longer exist" and I have......

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Anne Fahy: Hi Keith (Smith) What number did you live in Atherton Lane? My husband Brian Fahy lived at #43 for most of his early life. They moved to 19 Victory Road, when he was already working at......

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Anne Fahy: Hi Keith (Smith) What number did you live in Atherton Lane? My husband Brian Fahy lived at #43 for most of his early life. They moved to 19 Victory Road, when he was already working at......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Sheila The hairdresser you mention, actually was opened by Eleanor Cooke, wife of an old friend of mine Tom, whose parents had the grocers shop at the Nags Head end of Twenty Row, which they......

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Sheila Vaudrey: Hello Cyril. what a memory!! spot on with where we lived, I do seem to recall the greengrocer my mother used, but I always thought he was from twenty row, that maybe because she......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hello Sheila V Joe Nelson did take over from his Dad, must have been just after the war because Joe made a trailer for me in 1947 to carry my greengrocery from Smithfield Market at Shudehill......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Rob So many of Irlam and Cadishead old heritages have been lost through lack of interest and of course , money, as so often happens in non politically sensitive areas. The little cottage I was referring......

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Cyril Bagshaw: On the Warrington side of the Cadishead bridges there was an old thatched cottage, almost opposite what was The Lombardian store near Fir St. Does it still exist,and has anyone had heard of the ghost......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Rob, Truly, the old village character of Irlam and Cadishead is disappearing from what was a about a Two mile narrow strip with very little either side of the main road. I was thinking only the......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Dom, I will pass on to my son John the photos of the housing estate shops where he and his nana Jaques ( Vi as she liked to be called) had the greengrocery at the......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Rob, Looks as though there has been more devastation there than Adolph's bombs !! Cheers.... Cyril.......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Andrew Thanks for adding Dom's photos.The frontage of the Rialto cinema is very little different from when it was The Globe picture house. Even the Large door to the right of the main entrance is......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne Thank you for your kind thoughts. Yes it was a large blue van that I made my deliveries in, but finished up concentrating building up the business which I had just transferred to The......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Alan, I can tell you from my own experience, circling The Bull Ring in the dark on one of those old fashioned pea soupers in my old van,eyes smarting from that deadly sulphuric smog, I......

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cyril bagshaw: Hi Rob, Born 1958 and 1963 Cyril.....

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cyril bagshaw: Hi Sheila Yes, that was Lennies, There was also a furniture business near there called Motlers,who also had another shop in Eccles,but I dont know when they ceased trading along with The Lombardian store the other......

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cyril bagshaw: Hi Rob, Would you have known my 2 nieces Diane and Jean Ennis ? Cheers Cyril......

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cyril bagshaw: Hi Anne, Yes it was Joan, the lady who wore riding breeches and leather leggins as she trotted round the district with her nippy little horse and buggy ladling milk from the churn. [[img:26749]] And here is another......

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cyril bagshaw: Hello Sheila, Just a flash from the past.Delivering bread was a major task in Irlam and Cadishead, and the main players in the game were, Goodiers, Lennies and the Eccles Co-oP horse drawn van. Cars to......

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cyril bagshaw: Hi Sheila, I think your excellent research throws a great deal of doubt on Little Woolden Hall having an Elizabethan sea going captain as lord of the manor.( unless of course, Captain Blood wasnt his......

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cyril bagshaw: Hi Sue Must get those photos on somehow..... I've only just been tutored in posting photos by Alan. If you like,email cyrilab@optusnet.com.au and I will pass on the routine. Certainly do remember McKinnell's Taxis....we got our first......

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cyril bagshaw: Hi Susan The bakery which you knew as Potter's Bakery for many years previous, was owned by James Goodier, brother of Joseph Goodier, who incidentally was the organist at St John's church in Vicar Lee's era,and......

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Alan Taylor: Hi Cyril, That's it Beswicks Creamery, and Alan did have a brother Don who married a lass called Jean who still lives in the area and is computer literate. So they were your serious business competition......

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cyril bagshaw: Hi Alan, Ah! Musnt be the same family,Ken is at least 11 years my junior. The Beswick brothers I mentioned both delivered on their greengrocery round to the Margarine works estate in the 1950's. The double fronted......

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cyril bagshaw: Hi Alan There was an Alan Beswick in my class at the old Central School son of the Owner of the greengrocery business at the corner of..was it Dixon st or Caroline street, who had a......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Andrew Woolden Hall..Would you know if it is true that it was given to Captain Blood by Queen Elizabeth The First as a reward for his contribution to the nations economy via his exploits on......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma One of the week's highlights during and for a few years after the war, was the saturday night dances held above the Higher Irlam Co-op.The haunting music produced for the evenings by the Fred......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Deb Your aunt ( born 1929) can only identify her Mum and Aunt Edie,and the photo was probably taken in the garden of the newly built Princess avenue houses opposite the Margarine works entrance. The......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma Great,our weather will hopefully be a lot kinder to you when we are able to meet up in Adelaide in June. Our Email address is cyrilab@optusnet.com.au. All the best ......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Marissa There was a reason it was named as such, because that piece of ground they were built on and the land stretching back to where it meets Boat lane, has only a couple of......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Deb I hope Alan manages to fix his new anti-spam ( I always thought it came out of a tin) and you can trade info. Your cousin Venice and her husband Val James of Cadishead descent......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Andrew I could just see the goal post of Irlam AFC though the railings, but really not sure where they play now. The ground they used first of all that I remember was on Gill Field......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma We dont seem to think that the "old Dr Walker" had a son, we do know he had a daughter Helen, as my wife happened to play tennis with her at Moss Side tennis......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Rob The Dr Howard Walker that you mention was no relation to the Dr Walker of the 1930's who retired from practise around 1960.In my childhood I remember a gentleman knocking on our front door......

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Deb Simpkins (nee Massey): Wow! My Uncle Cyril (Bagshaw) put me onto this site and I have just spent the last hour reading all the comments. My mum (Edith Jaques) was born in Irlam and my dad (Jim Massey)......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Rob On the last of your photos, you can just about see at the edge on the left, a little opening cut under the railway that led into LSC (British Steel). I never worked at......

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cyril bagshaw: Hi Alan Father-in-law once showed me "his" soaking pit. Looking down into that gas heated pit watching with what had to be an experienced eye the"cooking"(bringing up to an even temperature) those giant steel ingots......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne I dont seem to know the couple you referred to. My junior school was The Endowed, and then on to what was Irlam Central School (Alfred Turner).The only time I was in The Council......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Rob Really interesting old photos.I can all but see the "back entrance" under the railway to the Steelworks canteen. I wonder if there were many loyal workers there as my father-in- law was, after spending 50years......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne, The doctors that I have known in Irlam....well our family doctor was a Dr. Walker who had the big house and surgery on the corner of Moorfield rd and Liverpool rd Then there was a......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Graham, Would you be the young lad that played chess with our John all those years ago? I have not found the website sporting an internet providing service that you mentioned, but I will get......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma Whiskins in Twenty Row were in business there from about the 1930 or so.I lived just across the road in the old cottages, and as a child my mother would send me for 2......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Rob, Thanks for resourcing the old Irlam area map.Even from the small version I believe I can recognise what would be Silver street and Fiddlers lane.It is interesting to see where the Manchester Ship Canal......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Sheila Platt's brook as you refer to did make its way down to the Old River,two sources of run-off water from the Irlam moss met at Liverpool road between Wrenche's butchers and the last shop......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Great photos on both sites Andrew. Harry Bates's hardware premises were as you quite rightly say, were where the "new" semis are now. As for the butchers shop with the red stripe blind, the adjoining......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne, Before we sold the greengrocery business in Fiddlers lane which we ran for 33 years from my demobbing from the RAF in 1947, and left for the sunny shores of Adelaide in 1980, we......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Graham, If you happen to read this, I am sure you will recognise a couple in the photograph that I have just posted on the "other" Irlam /Manchester page All the best Cyril...........

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne, My sister and her younger daughter some years back, bought the old Holywell stationhouse at Holywell in north wales ,and have turned it into accommodating and looking after disabled people. Best wishes Cyril..... ......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne, My youngest sister is just peeping over the edge on the right has the original photo, a copy of which she sent to me. I will ask her what the occasion was for the group......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne, I do remember your mother June, in fact I have a copy of an old photo taken in about 1949 of a group of the local shopkeepers which included your mum, and your grandparents.......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Thanks Helen, also to Andrew for producing such an active site for the meeting up with and the enjoyment of old acquaintances and friends. Cheers everyone........

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cyril bagshaw: Hi Norma, Very sorry to hear the loss of your husband...we hope you too have good family and friends around you. As for snow in Adelaide, the nearest we got to it was a few......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Viewed from our shop about 1970 of Fiddlers lane primary school [[img:26036]] Our young son Brian at the time and now sadly missed having passed away on the 19th january this year is seen ouside the school......

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cyril bagshaw: Hi Norma, Tradition has it that the city of Adelaide has this Annual Christmas Pageant with these magnificent floats and bands heading the spectacular entrance of Father Christmas and his team of reindeer. Sorry, but no......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hello Joanne, Believe it or not, I drove the blue van that you so rightly recall, it was a walk-in travelling greengrocery that serviced the Margarine Works estate as it was called, and the Harewood road......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma, I remember your Dad's cousin Eric as a cracking little soccer player in those school days, when Mr Dawson was the headmaster,a mr Pinnington the maths teacher who frequently brought out this thick leather......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma, Yes, we have enjoyed driving through the Adelaide hills up to Hahndorf village many times.We live 5 miles from Glenelg on Henley Beach road. I went to Irlam Central school with a......

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Alan Taylor: Hi Cyril et al, Yes now I remember and heck it was a short period as a flower shop :-) I remember only too well Cyril Bagshaw SENIOR and his chippy, was it 6d [six pennurth] of......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Alan, The old cobblers shop you knew was firstly taken over for a brief time by 'yours truly' for the sale of flowers as we already occupied the next door shop for the greengrocery.......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma, Greetings from Adelaide ( arrived here in september 1980 ),and many thanks for your condolences on the passing of our much loved son Brian.He leaves his wife Jen and their 2 lovely children, Chris......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Alison, Yes, Hurst Fold was a small terraced row of cottages adjacent to the old Post Office originally run by the Keil? family. Many years ago, before the shops on the corner of Fiddlers Lane were......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Alan, Pretty well spot on with the old row of shops in Fiddlers lane, they started with a double being Smallshaw,s grocery which provided the meager rations throughout the war and managed more or......

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Alan Taylor: Hello Graham, from the prefab shop past the old Spring Villas with the last one being an house not a shop, I was born 1944 and lived in the 4th house past on the same......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma The building at the junction of Ferry rd was James Goodier, wholesale potato and corn merchants.They supplied the area chip shop and greengrocery businesses with a very wide variety of potatoes from......

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Alan Taylor: Hello everyone, lots of names cropping up that I recall, but more are from after I left my birth town in 1965/6 although I continued at the steelworks until 1972 & transfered to Scunthorpe Works.......

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cyril bagshaw: Stephen, Many thanks for your good wishes,we still look at the photos of the old shop and remember the enjoyment we had in serving our customers there.The 12000 miles between here and......

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Bob Salmon: Re the Bobs Ferry Accident: As remembered by Bob Salmon, an Inquest Witness. On the morning in question, I was awoken by a neighbour in Lytherton Avenue Cadishead, saying that she thought there was a gas leak......

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cyril bagshaw: Hi Stephen Congratulations on your selective shopping, and you are quite right, I have two sons, John and Brian, who at that time were very busy in the business....

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Stephen Weir: I remember a "Brian" running a green grocers we called "Bagshaws", I rember running errands ther for my Mum, we lived on Ferndown Drive. I was really young but didn't allow Brian to slip me......

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cyril bagshaw: Thank you Chris The Irlam I knew,having lived and worked there from 1925 has obviously changed so much, I wonder now wether I could still find my way round the place. ......

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cyril bagshaw: Hello Les, As the ex greengrocer in Fiddlers lane that you remembered, I was very interested to hear that your mother had worked in the council offices opposite the old Palace cinema.My wife Ellen......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hello Chris, Would your great grandfather,s name be Roland Powell by any chance?...

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Cyril Bagshaw: The picture is the Saints vesus Bradford Bulls match that I though was pretty good Dear Cyril and Helen, This is the first time I have seen this web address and I found the contents incredibly interesting.......

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cyril bagshaw: Hi Natalie,I was just reading your post going back to June 29 06 and the ferryman who powered that heavy boat across the canal with a single oar.I am pretty sure it would have......

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cyril bagshaw: Sure did Sheila,can't forget delivering Harewood road by the light of a cold and frosty moon!...

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cyril bagshaw: Hello Sheila Almost spot on,we had the shops in Fiddlers lane from 1947 to our families journey to Adelaide in 1980. I remember your mother very well and grandmother in Mond road.Is'nt it now a......

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Sheila Hilton: The school on Allotment Road was Alfred Turner Lower School, where the first & second year pupils attended before moving up to the school on the station approach. My mother, Margaret Davies (nee Dakers) attended......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Deborah I attended Irlam Central School from 1936 until 1939.It was then mostly a wooden building situated on the appraoach to Irlam Station.It was later named Alfred Turner where our sons......

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