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Recent content by mizzyjo

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    Watery Lane

    How can I get to see the pictures that are being mentioned please?
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    Watery Lane

    This shop is directly opposite no 200 where I lived. At the time I was there it was owned by a young couple who had a baby whilst I was there!
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    Watery Lane

    No, the house numbers weren't odds and evens Mike. My next door neighbours were 199 and 201. My granddads shop was 216 and the White Hart pub was 215, both on the same side as me.
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    Watery Lane

    Yes, I lived at no 200. Quite happy there till we were infested by bed bugs from new neighbours! haaha But they were all friendly people, you could leave your door unlocked at all times! No 200 was opposite a little grocery shop, run by a young couple, they had a new baby there, but I can't...
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    Watery Lane

    I loved the Peaky Blinders, but looking at the mock-up of the street, if you wanted the loo, you would have to run to the end of the road, turn right and find your loo between all the others!! Imagine!!! there wasn't an entry in sight!
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    Watery Lane

    Hi everyone. Not been on here for a while. I've just downloaded some photo's of Watery Lane. I'm interested because my granddad had a bicycle hire shop there and in the 1960's I was given 200 Watery Lane, where I lived for a few years!! When I looked on the 1911 census I think it was, 7...
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    Watery Lane

    Further down was the White Hart, number 215 Watery Lane. My granddad had a bicycle hire shop across the road, that was number 216!! I think they were demolished after 1930's because I found them in Glover street on the next census
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    Watery Lane

    This is right opposite 200 Watery Lane!
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    Watery Lane

    I worked at the High Stool in the 60's! I got the sack from there as I told 2 old ladies, who asked if we used 'real' butter on the toast, that it was in fact Stork margarine. If you had margarine on toast, it was Echo!! I was so disgusted by this state of affairs, I couldn't go along with...
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    Watery Lane

    In the last picture above, no 200, where I lived, is the 4th door down from the camera, next to the wide opening which led to the courtyard at the back and the outside loos!!
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    Watery Lane

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    Watery Lane

    Watery Lane in the '30's! Granddads shop to the extreme left on the first picture and the White Hart pub on the opposite corner, nearest the camera
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    Watery Lane

    Are you sure the cafe was called the White Hart? I worked there in the '60's and it was the High Stool cafe then. The White Hart Pub was on the corner of Watery Lane and Keeley Street!! My granddad had a bicycle hire and repair shop on the opposite side in the 30's!!
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    Watery Lane

    I lived at 200 Watery Lane in the 60's, with husband and 3 children! Mrs Cook and her two grown sons lived in the house behind us!!
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    City Centre Photographs

    It's Galloways Corner isn't it? Jo
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