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  • Smudger
    Smudger reacted to Barbara Tarbuck's post in the thread Who do you tip? with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I agree. Royal Mail cant keep postmen/women as the conditions are poor at the moment as well as the pay...........confession, I have...
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    Donbogen reacted to Barbara Tarbuck's post in the thread HS2 progress 2020 and beyond with Appreciate Appreciate.
    My Grandad used to be a signalman just outside Blackpool. The signal box has now been demolished
  • mikejee
    mikejee reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Crescent Wharf with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We didn't have a Kingston Row thread in our Neighbours and Streets section, so I have created one and copied posts about this...
  • brummy-lad
    brummy-lad reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Crescent Wharf with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Post 13 shows a photo by Phyllis Nicklin of Kingston Row. Apparently she also took this one of the Row, though have not seen it before...
  • brummy-lad
    brummy-lad reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Crescent Wharf with Appreciate Appreciate.
    hi mike i have that photo labelled as kingston row edward st off king edwards road and its dated 1967 as opposed to the one you posted...
  • brummy-lad
    brummy-lad replied to the thread Crescent Wharf.
    Dated 24/4/1967 on Skyscraper City
  • brummy-lad
    brummy-lad reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Ashted Row with Appreciate Appreciate.
    sadly yes...the pub used to be the dog and partridge..below is a 2010 view showing it in better days..also below a map showing ashted...
  • brummy-lad
    brummy-lad reacted to odowdchr's post in the thread Ashted Row with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Does anybody know, is this the last bit of evidence left of Ashted Row (taken in 2021 according to Streetview)
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    Peter44 reacted to Barbara Tarbuck's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Remember these? I have many more as I was born in 1947 and everything that I held so dear is now so much out of date. I remember mum...
  • NoddKD
    NoddKD reacted to John L's post in the thread heatwaves 2026 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Yes, we didn't have the "Nanny State" warning us that it was too cold, too hot or too something else either, Lyn. Our parents and...
  • S
    Stokkie reacted to mikejee's post in the thread heatwaves 2026 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Plant some buddlea. That might help, though you will have to deal with all the extra little infant buddlea which will try and inhabit...
  • B
    Barbara Tarbuck replied to the thread HS2 progress 2020 and beyond.
    My Grandad used to be a signalman just outside Blackpool. The signal box has now been demolished
    • grandad in signal box.JPG
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Crescent Wharf with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We didn't have a Kingston Row thread in our Neighbours and Streets section, so I have created one and copied posts about this...
  • B
    Barbara Tarbuck replied to the thread Who do you tip?.
    I agree. Royal Mail cant keep postmen/women as the conditions are poor at the moment as well as the pay...........confession, I have...
  • mikejee
    mikejee reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Crescent Wharf with Appreciate Appreciate.
    hi mike i have that photo labelled as kingston row edward st off king edwards road and its dated 1967 as opposed to the one you posted...
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