Brook Mill

[Alan Marsden]

Good days though , wouldn't you agree John ? (although I didn't work at the Brook mill site ) but at Sandy lane and the Old Co-op on Chapel Brow. Thanks Noel for recalling the name that I had forgotten, ie Lyn Trafford !

I wonder if anyone recalls Maurice Brooks and his paint and wallpaper shop on Chapel brow, we used to buy all of our p&W requirements from him , and at the top of the hill was the photographers ( after he moved from Towngate )- Francis Turner, he proudly said to me when I booked him for our wedding photo's at St.Andrew's church in Aug ,1962, -" if you don't like the pictures, you don't have to purchase them " ! I wonder how many couples returned their wedding albums ?
The pictures were of course monochrome and are still good, but the album itself has seen better days !


me

[shuffy]

I well remember Maurice Brooks as not only were him and Hilda (nee Blundell) his wife, friends of my mum and dads but my mum did work there for a short while and he used to let me 'help' in the holidays ,one day when I was sorting some papers I asked him what was this old piece of white paper and should I throw it away . It was only a five pound note[] Francis Turner was also another of my dads friends as were Tommy and George Vernon who had the fish shop on Chapel brow.

[Colin Damp]

I remember Vernon's fish shop in Chapel Brow. I think it was open-fronted, at any rate they used to deal in game as well sometimes, and it would be hung on S-hooks outside the shop. If the wind was in the wrong direction when they opened the vents on the retort house of the old gas works, Chapel Brow, Vernons and their game would disappear in a yellow sulphurous cloud. We thought nothing of it in those days, of course!

[Dan barlow]

Ding Dong. frasncis Turner has rungthe bell,. I first knew him when he was employed at Leyland Motors in the Photography office, and in 1946 We had our wedding photographs taken by him, I was told that it was one of the first photographs that he took as a Private Photographer.