I can see the house I lived in on your map it was no 8 hall road . There are two houses very closely attached to each other and the gardens ran all the way down to the hampstead rd overlooking Radnor Rd. We used to have water come up in the kitchen many times until the old tiles were re novel and a false floor reveled a round brick well. We also had the bells and handles for the servents.many thanks mike....all buildings still standing...
lyn
I can see the house I lived in on your map it was no 8 hall road . There are two houses very closely attached to each other and the gardens ran all the way down to the hampstead rd overlooking Radnor Rd. We used to have water come up in the kitchen many times until the old tiles were re novel and a false floor reveled a round brick well. We also had the bells and handles for the servents.
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I don't suppose there's a photo of Biddle's chemist shop on Villa Road Lyn, we have one of the Potter's Hill shop but not the later shop.
Hi lyn as a child I remember 2 palour rooms plus celled, large walk in pantry .1 step down from hallway led to what I think was a prep area next a kitchen with a large brick oven and a dip in the top .there was also a chiming above it and a clean out door .the next room had a glass roof with very old frames holding it togeather.a chain was set in the floor and 2 large coal houses. Up stairs were 4 rooms on the first floor and 2 above that .we rented all the ground floor. The big is Belfast sink I have ever seen , and all sash windows.the fire places were around 6 feet tall with double mantles made of wood and tiles.my mum would spend Sunday morning on her hands and knees polishing the long hallway of red tiles and a soon ding patten. Lived there till we had to move out for all the new estate . There was also a stables just at the start of welford/hall rd my uncle kept ed his cat in there.I often wondered who lived there in its time of grand ure? .how fascinating to find an old hidden well..quite a few houses still left there but as you say yours has gone...do you know how old it was ...looking at the map it seems as though it was quite a substantial building
lyn
if it was there in the 80s highly unlikely to find any photos of the shop..most photos of that area were taken before the 80s but never say never
lyn
I think the cat might have visited it.to say hallo to the rats that kept eating the windscreen wiper moter wires on the car.sorry about the editing I am new to this , I don't even have a mobile phone.Noelle
I take it that your uncle kept his car in it. would be very large and palatial for a cat !
Hi lyn as a child I remember 2 palour rooms plus celled, large walk in pantry .1 step down from hallway led to what I think was a prep area next a kitchen with a large brick oven and a dip in the top .there was also a chiming above it and a clean out door .the next room had a glass roof with very old frames holding it togeather.a chain was set in the floor and 2 large coal houses. Up stairs were 4 rooms on the first floor and 2 above that .we rented all the ground floor. The big is Belfast sink I have ever seen , and all sash windows.the fire places were around 6 feet tall with double mantles made of wood and tiles.my mum would spend Sunday morning on her hands and knees polishing the long hallway of red tiles and a soon ding patten. Lived there till we had to move out for all the new estate . There was also a stables just at the start of welford/hall rd my uncle kept ed his cat in there.I often wondered who lived there in its time of grand ure? .
Sorry lyn , something I often re great on having .the only one I found was of me with a irish hurley stick in the garden of the house and then the back round is of a wall. |
hi lynView attachment 90135pic 2..sorry about pic 1 bit too big...can anyone recall these shops..
thats mr mathews in the window,this guy trained me .View attachment 90135pic 2..sorry about pic 1 bit too big...can anyone recall these shops..