Yes - I think it was a Miss Simons? Buy the way I have to admit that I only went to the mission to get a place on the summer outing! Not into the religious bit, but each to their own
I remember getting sliced bread from Lees in about 1950 they used to slice it on the bacon slicer ,i dont think you could get wrapped sliced bread then
Your probably right George can't remember that, one of the things I remember at Maggie Lees was when bonfire night was getting close we used to guard the bonny wood in the back of the houses and go to Maggies and get all her bad eggs in her back yard, her permission was always asked and got, of course the bad eggs were used.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
I am a researcher working on a new BBC1 documentary on working class life in Birkenhead and other towns around the UK. We are interested in the community around Lowther Street from the late 19th century until the 1970s.
It is clear from this ‘Lowther, Fox and Craven Street’ thread that many of you think fondly of Birkenhead and your upbringings there. We’d love to hear your memories of this kind, loving and proud community.
I would be very grateful to hear from anyone with memories of living in the Lowther Street area. I’d also love to find any photos or home movies of the area. At this stage it would be just a chat – there’d be no commitment on your part!
You can contact me on my email clementine.mortelman@bbc.co.uk or 02080080711, or feel free to message me on here.
Hi, Clem; hope you get some good contributions from the folks on here. Can't help you personally, but as this is a long-running thread I'm sure there are some who can. Cheers, Chris.
I was very sorry to hear of your dislike of the BBC. I wanted to extend my apologies for any previous offence that may have been caused. If it is at all possible for us to rectify your grievance I would be more than happy to try and do so. It is particularly important to us that our viewers and the people who contribute to our programmes are not left dissatisfied, as we rely on the kindness of people such as yourself to make those programmes.
Dear Clementine unless you can sell the BBC and change the communications act to get rid of the poll tax we have to pay to use other channels other than the BBC then you can't help.
Found out today Dougy Darroch has the street signs for Lowther st at Fort Perch Rock his dad got them when they were knocking the place down, I haven't seen them but will try to get a picture of the signs and put them on here, I will be going to the fort on Friday.
For the Lowther st gang on this forum, as you see the sign is at Fort Perch rock, New Brighton, due to Dougy Darroch snr saving it from being dumped when they knocked down Lowther st, so we have a fort link with the street name, plus, the spitfire engine from Birkenhead park is on show at the fort and there's a picture of Doughy snr and Bobby Boyd on display when they were digging it up, it crashed in the park in the 1940's and as kids they went to see it, surprisingly we've had a few people from the area visiting the fort, my big sis and little sis and nephew and niece Sharon and Jason were there today, even got a photo next to the Lowther st sign.
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