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Booths Farm

Unsure just where it stood matey, but your mention brought back memories of working at Williams Greengrocers on the corner of Booths Farm Road and Perrywood. I was going out with a girl that worked at Wimbush's Cake Shop. That would have been back in 1956/7. I have lovely memories of that area.
 
KW,As a kid I lived on the "Beeches Estate" close to where Booths Farm was.Looking on Google Earth there now seems to be a 9 hole golf course where the farm was located.As I live in Oz now could someone living local confirm that.Les
 
Will take a photo next time we go to the farm. Will be sometime next week. Has anyone a photo of the old house please?. Jean.
 
Have tried to superimpose the 1890 map, showing booths Farm onto present day view. Result is below. Map not that clear, but Booths farm is to the left of "ingham" on the view
Mike
 
Is this the house at Booths Farm? I know the caption says it is but I have learnt not to rely on those when you don't know the site in question.

Phil

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Used to play "Over the Brook" which is what we called the old gravel pits near Boothes Farm. Of course everyone knows its famous history of William Booth the forger. The gravel pits were a paradise for kids. Had a friend worked at the fruit shop after Williams sold out.
 
mikejee said:
Have tried to superimpose the 1890 map, showing booths Farm onto present day view. Result is below. Map not that clear, but Booths farm is to the left of "ingham" on the view
Mike
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I lived on the Beeches Estate and played in that area and remember the farm, it was derelict at the time, and it position looks about right relative to the original 'Booths Lane' which was in line with the short spur off Sandy Lane which can be seen on your map. I use to love riding my bike along that hilly lane.
 
thanks for posting those pics...yes william booth the master forger..i used to live a few mins from there around 30 years ago..wished i had realised then the history of it...my brother was fortunate enough to be one of those who helped excavate the foundations when it was demolished...:( all he found was a couple of old pennies....:rolleyes:

lyn
 
Wasn't Booth (Good for Quiz questions) twice caught, twice tried and twice Hanged!!!!
I played over there 1n the 1950's and in 60's on motorbikes.
 
hi leonard...i am not sure where he is buried...have to go out now but will try to find out...unless someone else can have a look...

cheers..

lyn
 
I would like to thank everyone who has helped me find out about the farmhouse and what is now on that site.

kelly:)
 
I lived on the Beeches as a child just off Beeches Road near the brook. There was an exhibit in Blakesley Hall of some of Booths "coins". My mother took me there several times to see them as she had explained the history of the farm and locality. Don't know if they are still on exhibition as I havent been there since the early/mid 70's when I took my two eldest along.
DJRVST
 
i could really kick myself for not having a look at this farm before its demolision..i was only in cramlington road...:rolleyes:

lyn
 
re Leonardjob & Turnberry Road

No in Trehurst-the prefabs and then Hathersage Road till 1971
Dave
 
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I lived in PERRY WOOD ROAD in the fifties and sixties...we too used to play by the farm and ride our bikes by the gravel pits which we called 'third field.'..the 'second field' being behind houses in Foden Road, now built on, and the 'first field' being behind our own house in Perry wood. I remember all the shops at the top of Booths Farm rd...Moyle and Adams, Pitts the green grocer....happy carefree days of playing safely!!
 
Hanna, I'm a Foden Rd Boy. Shops up the road, next to Moyle and Adams was Rodens, the papershop, then Wimbushes, then a haberdashery shop, then the fruit shop who were owned by Pitts at one stage, then there was the fish and chip shop.
My nan lived at 71 perrywood rd.
 
That's just how i remember them!!..we moved to Perrywood in the early fifties...at the other end, 243. My parents had come to England from Poland because of the war....they felt so lucky to be able to buy a house, but how hard my dad had to work to pay the mortgage and educate me privately...but they taught me that you have to work hard and not expect to be looked after by the state..I'm so proud of them, now both dead. My brother went through the fish and chip shop window on his bike!!!!! but was pulled out quickly by the owner before it all came crashing down!! I was bitten by his dog!!...think we returned lemonade bottles to him on a sunday and got our weekly treat of dandelion and burdoch to have with our Sunday lunch!!
 
Hi Gerry
Just found your comment re Williams Greengrocers Booths Farm Rd Gt Barr remember them well my mother shopped there. I remember waiting at the makeshift counter at the front to be served growing up. Pitts bought the shop. Do you rememeber Vickers fish and chip shop on the corner of Perrywood Rd next to the greengrocers. Remember Wimbushes and the yummy cakes if you didnt get there early. Bad luck.
 
My mates brother married into the Pitts, greengrocers . The fish and chip shop was owned by an expoliceman, and had a lovely Alsatian. Was the chemists, Gittins, and up the hill was a shoe shop and barbers. As kids when we went to have our hair cut he always did the adults firest and made us wait.
 
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