Wow that’s great thanks. My dad remembers it well. The window above the main shop window apparently is where he used to be when recovering from Scarlet Fever. He used to be allowed to step out there and his friends used to send him comics up on a rope He doesn’t have any pics himself except for one in the back garden. He also remembers trap doors where the lads are playing in the photo for rolling barrels down although it was never an off license but they did have coal delivered there. And there was an entry at the side of the shop where the horse came down . A family called Coffey used to live next or near to it too?
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great memories from your dad...i am sure i still have one to find but here is another taken around 1970..i lived at no 118 round about where the middle of the trees are and i cant remember it ever being a shop when i lived there so maybe your family was the last to run it as a shop...shop is on the left the white building is copes pearl button factory
lyn
lyn
Thank you My dad remembers the Pearl Button Factory
your dad has a very good memory...will keeping searching for that other photo and post when i find it...regards to your dad from one villa streeter to another 
myself and 5 siblings i had a very happy childhood there...never had pots of money but had heaps of love
here is the missing photo
lyn
myself and 5 siblings i had a very happy childhood there...never had pots of money but had heaps of lovehere is the missing photo
lyn
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Thanks Lyn, great to have photos, especially as it is now all goneyour dad has a very good memory...will keeping searching for that other photo and post when i find it...regards to your dad from one villa streeter to another
here is the missing photo
lyn
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I’ll try and see what else he can remember tooyour dad has a very good memory...will keeping searching for that other photo and post when i find it...regards to your dad from one villa streeter to another
here is the missing photo
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My father remembers some friends he had whilst growing up at 160 Villa Street: Stanley (Taffy) Morgan, Ray Walker, Doug and David Haddleton, Johnny Moorhouse and Ronnie Edwards. He has a photo somewhere of Doug and David Haddleton with Johnny Moorhouse he thinks. He remembers an Alfie Rowe who had a shop too and Tony Tomlinson. There was also a family called Flaherty. He remembers the Turners and the chimney sweep and that Billy Turner was a paratrooper in the war. Don’t know if anyone else can relate to any of these people but thought it might be of interest .
yes i can...i grew up with the moorhouse family and i am still in touch with them..i am pretty sure the johnny moorhouse your dad knew is the uncle of the moorehouses i know...a few years ago i was able to trace quite a few old friends from villa st and we had a reunion and i am pretty sure uncle john was also there along with the younger moorhouses (i was born in 1953)..he would have been in his 80s then so the age fits in with your dads age now...i would love to see the the photo if possible so that i can show it to the moorhouse family...the chimney sweep that i remember who lived in villa st was mr beech who lived in a house down a very long entry at the back of roughly no 126 (they had about 9 children)...2 of mr beeches sons also attended our reunion...
lyn
I’ll see if we can find it next time I see him
