Comments about the maypole

There are 15 comments about "the maypole"

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Gary sparkes, re the maypole there was a shop that sold electrical goods next to the shoe shop and laundrette on the other side. Over near lesters newsagents there was a haidressers. The supermarket was......

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Rob Tynan: Hi Gary, I seem to remember that when the "Maypole" was first built, the centre of the site was grass with a white wooden fence around it. It was later flagged over when the market......

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Pat Fleming (nee Brannan): The supermarket was called the Maypole I think, the market was in the early 70's. I used to buy singles from a man who sold second hand records - which I still have up in......

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Gary Sparkes: i am drawing a overhead plan of the maypole(irlam shopping centre)so far i have the TSB, harrys chippy(lovely),hesketh amd claire(butcher),gemtime??,electronic shop???,bingo place???,supermarket???,norman lownes grocer with mrs egan knittware,optician???,newsagents (stuart???),cant remember any more,does anyone have any......

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Pat Fleming (nee Brannan): What a great site!! Just spent a morning reading through the messages and re-living my youth. I lived at 93, Lyndhurst Ave until I was about 5 years old. I remember a lady called Phylis......

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Pat Fleming (nee Brannan): What a great site!! Just spent a morning reading through the messages and re-living my youth. I lived at 93, Lyndhurst Ave until I was about 5 years old. I remember a lady called Phylis......

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Gary Sparkes: hey ,has anyone got any more photos of irlam shopping centre (maypole) also what happened to tarzan bridge, isnt it there anymore??? you cant find ropeswings like that any more, i remember tying one......

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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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Gary Sparkes: found this site by accident,great to see so many of my childhood memories i went to irlam endowed, irlam high,used to play at tarzan bridge ,steel works ,jezzies,princess park,the maypole,we once stole a wooden rowing......

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Rob Tynan: Before the "new road" was built through Irlam in the early 1800s Platts brook was open with a bridge over it. The Old Road, going towards Cadishead, went up Boat Lane, down Ferry Road,......

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Andrew Smith: Cheers for the pictures of Hurst Fold Rob - I remember at school they said they used to have a maypole on the green there, and a fiddle player, hence Fiddlers Lane. I also remember......

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Dave: Yeh paul there was a newsagents and TSB bank facing it also a chinese chippy that did very well in the maypole at the time. Moorfeild Place which is now an old People,s home used to......

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Paul: Somehow, I don't think that the Maypole Shopping Centre will be winning any architectural awards. I seem to recall a newsagents of some sort in there. My grandmother spent the last 5 or 6 years......

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Dave: Hi Paul An outdoor old saying sorry.Im mean an Off licence that sell,s alcohol and many other things. The chemist is still there Parker,s and Co now .Parker used to live off Roscoe rd if you......

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Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Hi D, My family had the bakery for over 10 years, and the shop next door which we sold and it became peters boutique. When we were there on 20 row, we had Tommy Wrench......

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