Tuesday, March 4th 2008

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Sheila Platt's brook as you refer to did make its way down to the Old River,two sources of run-off water from the Irlam moss met at Liverpool road between Wrenche's butchers and the last shop of Twenty Row which was for many years a chip shop, opposite Ferry road. The main...

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Marissa Chaplin: Great pics Andrew, I felt like I was experiencing deja vu haha. I walk that way every day talking my youngest to Fiddlers Lane primary and I work there too. Thanks for the plug Rob

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Re to Tex: You are so right Tex. I love reading your comments because you are right about everything and know what you are talking about because you have lived here.You also are man enough to post your opinions without getting rude and hateful to other posters which does not solve anything,only shows...

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jack: you know, pink makes me puke, but on my granddaughter it is absolutely beautiful, and strangely enough, this hideous suit attracts me, seems to make me think i would look cool in it but i must confess, the tie is great!!!

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Alan Taylor: Recommend you look at Marissa's site, oldirlamvillage.atfreeforum.com and register. I can only repeat what Rob says now;- If everyone enters what ever information they might have in the relevant sections it should build into a very good resource regarding Irlam and Cadishead area. Alan...

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Rob Tynan: Has everyone had alook at Marissa's site, oldirlamvillage.atfreeforum.com yet. If everyone puts what ever info the might have in the relevant sections it should build into a a very good source of information regarding Irlam and Cadishead. Rob

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Tex: Here's a sad example In the Hutch news, was this story, "Owner of Wiley building leaves tenants in the cold" "The coffee group can joke about it - but the tenants of the Wiley building aren't necessarily laughing. They say they've been without heat - except that from space heaters -...

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Alan Taylor: Andrew, Sheila, Cyril et al, Platts Brook was a popular play area and it went underground through vertical iron bars and waterfalled about 10 feet under Liverpool Road opposite Ferry Road. The part that was from where Sandy Lane meets School Lane to around Meadowside Avenue was always fenced off, that area...

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Alan Taylor: WOW Andrew, The Methodist Church looks more like a prison camp with that fencing around it, whereas I was on Boundary Road on Sunday but turned right onto Mond Road through to Fiddlers Lane so missed the chapel. Alan...

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Rob Tynan: Before the "new road" was built through Irlam in the early 1800s Platts brook was open with a bridge over it. The Old Road, going towards Cadishead, went up Boat Lane, down Ferry Road, up Chapel Road, and back down Vicarage Road before continuing along towards Cadishead. Platts brook led...

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Alison: Gosh ive heard my mum talk about Twenty Row, and she used to call it the jerry works my mum was born and bred in irlam from the Crescent, Barbara Roberts she was till she got married.

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Lefty: In college, I used to eat my hangover pho at Thanh Vi on the Ave. Also where I saw my first cockroach. Don't eat there much anymore. That space used to be a Mexican-ish restaurant run by an elderly Russian couple. The matriarch with the enormous pendulous bosom would ask...

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Lady Gray: i'm on the than train

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Trauma Hound: Than Bros on 99 by greenlake. Don't pay attention to Jameth. You even get a desert with it.

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gomezticator: Thanh Vi in the U District (Ave south of 43rd) has a wide selection of dishes to go with their Pho.

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method: Pho Cyclo has terrible service and their Pho is so-so. I would avoid that place like the plague.

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12th grade Diva: I am a student at Acorn Community High School and the school is good but the princpal, Deans and some teachers do not care about the students.They all will try to gang up on you and lye and say stuff that you didnt even do and its sad. I know...

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Sheila Hilton: Hi Andrew, Platts Brook? That rings a bell. You're probably right.

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Andrew Smith: Thanks Cyril - yes you're right about the sweet shop. Sheila - I don't know whether part of Platts brook, which ends up in the old river, or another stream, used to run where you are describing?

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A. Weinstein: Hi Len, Can't understand why you have not received my emails, lost your phone number can you call me at 1-800-442-7966 ext. 107 so we can chat? Regards to the family, Waiting to hear from you. Alma

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Sheila Hilton: My children talked about playing on "the Jezzies". I didn't realise at first that they were talking about the jerry works. It was always the jerry works; never the jezzies when we were younger. We also used to talk about playing on the hills, which was the land at the...

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Cyril Bagshaw: Great photos on both sites Andrew. Harry Bates's hardware premises were as you quite rightly say, were where the "new" semis are now. As for the butchers shop with the red stripe blind, the adjoining business was Robertson's grocers shop, and the toffee shop was the white building in...

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bnh: new york graffiti artist cope2 on a box truck on canal street

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bnh: cope2 best looking train!

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Andrew Smith: Thought I'd try and take a few of the more urban side of Irlam... If ever your playing Irlam Town, get yourself to that football ground...now home of Irlam FC Most of the streets in this area are named after birds. Boundary Road A quick nip over the M62 and, despite the crappy zoom on...

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Andrew Smith: Cyril - it's interesting to hear your memories of the locations of old fun fairs and walks through fields down to the old river - I'd never have guessed as it's always been built up in my mind... plus the different locations of the shops...from my 1980's version of Fiddlers Lane,...

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bnh: tkid 170 did this train

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bnh: cope2 truck 2

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bnh: cope2 toy truck

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bnh: this met was by metro otb

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darius: ok look for all you new people who have no fucking clue im frome frisco cali and stright bus hopping is our thing. look you get a basic mop mini mop shoe polish mop whatever and just use stright ETCH BATH thats all put in in it flows like crazy...

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EvilGentleman: For those of you not in the know, LCBO is the acronym for the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. Their stores have the monopoly in Ontario for all carry-out sales of hard liquor, and they are half of the province's beer duopoly as well.

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fuzzytank: green leaf. and you want the fried duck one

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Heavy Mike: Oh BTW that is not the broadcast tower. That may be the STL (Studio Transmitter Link) that gets the signal from the programming studio to the broadcast site which is out in Dewalt.

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EvilGentleman: El, since they were government-funded homes originally intended for the families of veterans returning from WWII, it is most unfortunate that the government decided to stop funding them. If you look at the comments in the original article, it is immediately clear how much love and effort went into maintaining these...

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anon (d58-106-117-137.adl2.sa.optusnet.com.au): Hi Anne I was brought up in one of those small cottages (Claybank Cottages) on Liverpool road opposite the old Twenty Row where your grandparents had their business. To go down to the Old River was a beautiful walk down Boat lane lined with hawthorne and blackberry bushes, fields on either...

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