Re: [peterborough_memories] Re: Peterborough in pictures
Hello Christine.
Glad to see someone named the fish and chip shop for me "Orchards" I remember it well.We would carol sing around Christmas until we collected enough for a bag of chips and some pop ! After consuming them, off we would go again, talk about sing for your supper, taking empty pop bottles back also helped.
Someone named the butchers shop where I was errand boy "Sansby's" When I was there I think the butchers daughter mostly ran the shop 1945 ish.Gordon Boughton.
Subject: [peterborough_memories] Re: Peterborough in pictures
--- In peterborough_memories@yahoogroups.co.uk, "Gordon Boughton" <quilletman@...> wrote: > > Hi there Christine.Thank you for the information,and you can tell Ron that although I left Peterborough 60 years ago I am still a Posh supporter much to the disbelief of my Devon friends.I well remember going to the London Rd ground with father in those days.My dads name was Tom.I also watched Posh here in Devon at both Plymouth and Torquay in recent years.I did wonder if the "Revels" remember the Butcher's or the Fish shop I mentioned ?Your whole area has changed unbelievably since we were children,we used to walk to the end of M'S avenue,across Lincoln Rd into Sages lane, over the railway (There was a foot crossing then) it was all fields wonderful for kids.During the war there was a small tented group of soldiers with an anti aircraft gun just over the crossing in the field.I remember them giving us tins of Mconikies ?" Like thick beef soup"For home.Speak to you again.Gordon. ---------------------------------------------------------- When I lived in Walton in the early 60's, the fish and chip shop was called 'Orchards'. My brother went to school with Ronnie Orchard. The Fish shop was called 'Orchards' for many years under different ownership. It is now revamped under new management -again- but since last year it is owned by Chinese people who do chinese food as well as fish and chips. (I haven't used the chippy for around 20 years - don't like greasy food!). The butcher's was made into a private dwelling house after the last butcher died a few years ago, but previously to that owned by a Mr Sansby, whose daughter has married one of Mr and Mrs Revel's grandsons.
I used to walk over the foot crossing (which was mainly used for farm vehicles I think) at Sages Lane in the 60's, with dogs, over to all the fields and foot paths the other side - which is now Bretton. I think that was closed when the line was electrified, the same time as the road crossing was closed in Marholm Road - now a monstrous concrete foot bridge over.
I lament the loss of so much nearby countryside - you need a car to find it these days. Until the age of five, I lived in the Marholm village, which is just outside Bretton. Bretton has swallowed up all the countryside in between. I daresay you could remember more than me. Mr and Mrs Revel can remember when my house wasn't there, and fields through to Paston Church (hence 'Churchfield Road').
I was astonished to see the 1930's pictures of Browns farm pond.I remember it vividly exactly as it was photographed.We lived in Mountstevens avenue in the...
Hi Nick,pleased to help,I also enjoyed other photograph's on the site, I will look to see if I have any that may interest people later.Regards.Gordon Boughton....
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Hi Christine.I remember the little shop well. I had an Aunt & Uncle living opposite.We lived on the corner of Churchfield rd, in M/S avenue and I see from the...
... living opposite.We lived on the corner of Churchfield rd, in M/S avenue and I see from the google earth maps our old recreation ground is still there along...
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Hi there Christine.Thank you for the information,and you can tell Ron that although I left Peterborough 60 years ago I am still a Posh supporter much to the...
... Ron that although I left Peterborough 60 years ago I am still a Posh supporter much to the disbelief of my Devon friends.I well remember going to the...
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Hi. My family lived in the farm over the railway from Sages Lane, which was called Headings farm, and my Grandfather worked as a horseman for Browns farm....
Hello Christine. Glad to see someone named the fish and chip shop for me "Orchards" I remember it well.We would carol sing around Christmas until we collected...
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