Now I like returning to stories, especially ones where people pick up on what I have written and take the tale just that bit further.
So yesterday I posted about a ghost sign on Burton Road, and I half expected that my friend Sally would be able to tell me more.
She grew up just off Burton Road and more over went to school with the son of the chap who ran the shop which once proudly displayed the sign on the gable end.
"The newsagents as I remember it was called Gibsons.
There were so many sweet and cake buying opportunities in that area its a wonder all of the children were not morbidly obese, but we weren't, because we played lots of rounders and Rally Vo and we had Chopper bikes.
On Burton road , just in the stretch between Nell Lane and Cavendish Road , there was Bancroft's, Lyngrays, Gibsons, Duwe's another shop (that was actually two shops) and sold greetings cards and stationary in one bit, while the other side was called 'The Chocolate Cabin' and sold the sort of boxes of chocolates you only really saw at Christmas .
If you dared to turn the corner onto Lapwing Lane, there was Smiths and Bennetts , both newsagents and sweet shops.
And a short walk up to ‘the terminus ‘ at the top of Lapwing Lane would bring you face to face with chocolate machines , where you could get those square bars of Cadburys Fruit and Nut..
Under the veranda at the Terminus was also Inmans newsagents ... More opportunities to get rid of your 'spends.' "
And along with these priceless memories she dug up a series of pictures which complimented mine and showed Burton Road back in 1962, which is pretty much how I still remembered it a decade later just before it began to change into what we know now.
But that is another story which of course I hope Sally will tell.
In the meantime having wandered down Burton Road it looks today and in 1962 I decided to visit just once more sometime in 1995.
By then the big hoardings on the gable end had gone and there was our sign which of course is still there today and where we started the story.
Sadly the newsagents is no more an in the course of the last two years has been a restaurant offering up different cuisine.
And that pretty much is that for now.
Picture; the ghost sign on Burton Road in 2014, from the collection of Andrew Simpson and in 1962, by J F Harris, m42962 & m42961 and in 1995 by M Luft m21519, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass
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| Today on Burton Road, 2014 |
She grew up just off Burton Road and more over went to school with the son of the chap who ran the shop which once proudly displayed the sign on the gable end.
"The newsagents as I remember it was called Gibsons.
There were so many sweet and cake buying opportunities in that area its a wonder all of the children were not morbidly obese, but we weren't, because we played lots of rounders and Rally Vo and we had Chopper bikes.
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| Back in 1962 |
If you dared to turn the corner onto Lapwing Lane, there was Smiths and Bennetts , both newsagents and sweet shops.
And a short walk up to ‘the terminus ‘ at the top of Lapwing Lane would bring you face to face with chocolate machines , where you could get those square bars of Cadburys Fruit and Nut..
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| And still in 1962 |
And along with these priceless memories she dug up a series of pictures which complimented mine and showed Burton Road back in 1962, which is pretty much how I still remembered it a decade later just before it began to change into what we know now.
But that is another story which of course I hope Sally will tell.
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| And in 1995 |
By then the big hoardings on the gable end had gone and there was our sign which of course is still there today and where we started the story.
Sadly the newsagents is no more an in the course of the last two years has been a restaurant offering up different cuisine.
And that pretty much is that for now.
Picture; the ghost sign on Burton Road in 2014, from the collection of Andrew Simpson and in 1962, by J F Harris, m42962 & m42961 and in 1995 by M Luft m21519, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass
The Ghost signs were owned by the Newsagents shop which was run by the 'Coates' family. I used to go to Cavendish Road School with their son, Jeff Coates between 1954 to 1959. You can just about see their name above the shop, 'D.Coates' in one of the photos.
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