Who sells the best pies ?

[mrtrevb]

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Originally posted by Dan barlow

Brian. Is the Parkinsons shop in School Lane at the corner of Yewlamnds Drive, If so it must be the saqme family that used to serve pies at 3d when I was at school in 1936/39
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Hello Dan

I used to live in this area from 1956 until 1976 the shop you refer to was owned and run by George Nelson

[Brian King]

Hello to all !

Thank you Frank, for giving Dan the up date and the history where Parkinson is with it’s location and trading today. Derek & Kath Grimshaw are very good friends of mine do you know them ?

Ant, Mc kerneys in Walton le dale was a great favourite of mine when we where younger. We used to live in Walton le dale and I have to agree they where great.
Not sure what happened but they did shut for years and I think approx 2-3 years ago they opened back up for a short time and then the next I knew they where shut again.
I called in on the way to Preston as I had been told the shop had opened up again now called Piningtons, shop looks great and the woman said the pies where baked on site.
I was disappointed as the filling in the two M & P pies was not very nice. I will tell them next time I am passing.

Mark,
I was in Skipton at the end of Jan and me on the hunt for a great pie, called into the butchers near the castle which is famous for their pies, I was on a Rally weekend and took some back for the lads in the hotel. We weren’t disappointed. I enjoyed every mouthful.

A friend of mine takes pork pies from Yorkshire to a pal of ours in Banks near Southport and they are truly wonderful, If only they where near by I would be promoting this shop


Brian

[anacortesdamp]

Brian:

Back in the late 1950's, Derek was doing a Hotel and Catering course at Blackpool Tech and I was on the first entry into an Engineering Ordinary National Diploma course there. Since we lived in Hargreaves Avenue asnd the Grimshaw's lived about a quarter mile neraer Balsahw's on Canberra Road, travelling together made a lot of sense.

Initially, we took the train, an 07:50 from Leyland to Blackpool North, then the tram to school. When I got my first car (a 1938 Austin Ruby) and started driving to Blackpool, Derek, I and a friend from Preston used to ride together. The highlight of each week was Thursday, when the H & C students made bread and got to take it home. There was nothing left of the stuff Derek brought to the car by the time we hit Preston.

The Blackpool Tech courses were only 2 years and our paths diverged after that. I went on to a four year engineering course at RCAT-Salford (now the University of Salford), and Derek went into the family business. While still in Leyland, I saw him occasionally, but we moved to Coventry in 1965, then Wolverhampton in early 1967, and eventually (June 1968) we emigrated to Seattle where I went to work for Boeing.

I'm retired now (for the third time after two sessions as a bus driver with our county transit authority) and we're still in the US Northwest, living in a smallish seaside town called Anacortes. It's on Fidalgo Island, just off the coast of mainland Washington, about 50 miles as the crow flies from the Canada/US border south of Vancouver.

Nobody here has heard of pork pies, much the pity. There is a shop about 90 miles away called "The British Pantry" that sells them, but that's a long round trip for a pie!


Frank Damp