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• Re: how do i start a kids football club by simon jones (Member 10083842) on 7-Feb-2003
  why not take your kids to church or "sunday school". They can play soccer on saturday.Every child has the right to know about Jesus. check out cumbria4christ.com

• Re: how do i start a kids football club by jay (Member 10074864) on 8-Feb-2003
  Jesus plays football on a saturday for Everton

• Re: how do i start a kids football club by simon jones (Member 10083842) on 9-Feb-2003
  I wondered who was performing the miracles at Goodison this season

• Re: Looking for Dave Towle by Sam. May (Member 10053771) on 11-Feb-2003
  Hi Maureen I had several contacts with dave towle ,but he had some bad luck & we lost contact I sent him an E_Mail & told him that you were looking for him , so I hope he will make contact. the last that know is that he was in Blackpool, good luck with the others Sam in Canada

• Re: Looking for by maureen grant (Member 10089122) on 11-Feb-2003
  Hi Sam,Thank you for contacting me about Dave Towle,I remember his brother Brian more than him and thank you for sending him an e-mail.Did you know him in Canada or England?

• Re: Looking fordave by Sam. May (Member 10053771) on 12-Feb-2003
  Hi Maureen I met Dave when we were in the C-L-B it was a youth club operated out of christ church in the early 1950s He did live in the Bootle village area so it could be his brother. I have not heard from Dave yet but I told him of your message, His wife passed away in Dec of 2001 sa he was going to retire ,& Inot contacted him since,I came to canada in 1965 & have loved every inch of the place g
  ood luck in your hunt Sam
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• Re: Looking for by Sam. May (Member 10053771) on 21-Feb-2003
  Hi Maureen I got an answer from our mutual friend Dave,he has had no luck getting in to the board so he got intouch & asked me to give you his E Mail info hope you are listening I will only do this once [margdave@towle1952.fsnet.co.uk let me know how it goes in your conection,if I can help again let me knowhope it works out for you Sam.

• Re: Looking for by Dennis Cain (Member 10005922) on 23-Feb-2003
  I was talking to Donny Rivers on Feb 18.
  He was an old school mate of mine from Bootle Grammar and I used to go to his prefab on Hawthorns Road.
  I now live in Canada and my best friend bumped into him a while back. I just visited Netherton last week and looked up Donny. I hadn't seen him since 1964. I recognized him immediately.
  I gave him my e-mail address and he will be contacting me shortly
  via his sisters e-mail.
  I wiil mention this to him when he contacts me
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• Re: Looking for by maureen grant (Member 10089122) on 23-Feb-2003
  Dear Dennis,thank you for contacting me,I presume that the sister Donny is talking about is Carol who I have been looking for ,if you get an e-mail address would you pass it on to me?Thanks.

• Re: Looking for by Sam. May (Member 10053771) on 1-Mar-2003
  Hi maureen this is Sam ,did you get in touch with Dave yet or do you need more help Sam

• Re: Looking for by maureen grant (Member 10089122) on 2-Mar-2003
  Hi Sam,I hav'nt got in touch with Dave yet(I am really slow)I will tell you when I do.

• Re: Looking for by maureen grant (Member 10089122) on 3-Mar-2003
  Hello Sam,I tried to send an e-mail to dave but it was returned apparently the address was wrong,if you contact him tell him I tried on Mon 3/3/03.Thanks Maureen.

• Re: Looking forDave Towle by Sam. May (Member 10053771) on 4-Mar-2003
  Hi Maureen. I sent Dave an E-Mail &double checked the address, so if that one gets to him I will try again with you it is Monday 3rd of March 8-52 pm so it will be about 5-00am English time so it will take a day or so to get him, if it dont work we will get the cid the fbi &the cia after him Sam

• Re: Looking for by maureen grant (Member 10089122) on 4-Mar-2003
  Hi Sam,You forgot the good old Canadian Mounties.Thanks for your help. Maureen.

• Re Disapering dave by Sam. May (Member 10053771) on 5-Mar-2003
  Hi Maureen. This is super Sam I got a reply from Dave & he got your E Mail but could not recive your E-mail address so will you give it to him again if you have trouble again send me an E-Mail at samthebusdriver@shaw.ca& I will forward it on to him, it was the mounties day off so they could not help & did you know that they found bones on the moon-------- the poor old cow didn't make it good luck Sam

• Re: Looking fordave towle by dave towle (Member 10091725) on 10-Mar-2003
  hi sam i am finally back on the notice board.
  i have been in touch with maureen, just waiting a
  reply.roll on retirement sam. dave.p.s.if anyone
  out there remembers me post us a line, does anyone
  remember eddie huttchins, dave moisher,peter griffiths,and fishing in derby park before they
  filled in with rubbish.

• Re: Hi Dave &Maureen by Sam. May (Member 10053771) on 11-Mar-2003
  Hi Dave . Welcome back itis nice that you got into the land before time& also to find MaureenI hope everything is going ok for you, I liver not far from the park by the aintree pub & it was a sad day when they filled it in. Hi Maureen you finally got your Man & according to the Mounties you got a good one If ever you get to Canada drop in & help me paint the house Good luck to one & all Sam

• Re: The Scouse House! Forum by John Crawford (Member 10071928) on 31-Jan-2003
  Mal,
  Got in the other day and, as you say, its addictive alright! Very professional, as well, and has more "gear" than other sites I have been to. I recommend it to anyone, especially scousers.

• Re: Mr Lyonette (Head Master At St Robert Bellarmine's Shool) by KARL (Member 10057618) on 23-Jan-2003
  Hi Jay,
  I have hunted high and low for info on St Robert Bellarmines;I went to that school between 1974-the end of 77,I used to live in Captains green;Yes I agree with you;Mr Lyonette was a fantastic headmaster,who always gave you the benefit of the doubt,even though I was cained a couple of times by him,but I still respected him,he always listened to you if there was a problem!
  Can you r
  emember in the hall with the stage,where he used to show slides of trips to the lake district and lake windermere and his fantastic water colour paintings of his?
  I've never really come across another headmaster like him,"GOD BLESS HIM".
  How old was he,because he must have been in his 50's when I started there!
  I've also been trying to get info on thewhere abouts of the late Father Byrnes and also the where abouts of Father O'Donald,who where at the nearby church during those periods.
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• Re: Mr Lyonette (Head Master At St Robert Bellarmine's Shool) by jay (Member 10074864) on 24-Jan-2003
  Hi
  Mr Lyonette was 77 . We had a mass for him last Thursay and all the old teachers where there. Mr Malone, Mrs O'Malley,Mrs Beaumont, Mr Billing and more. It was strange speaking to them all again. Do you remember Fr O'Connor he said the mass which was nice. Sir still went to Castlerigg with our kids now at bellies. They loved his ghost stories before bed. I must know you whats your surname?

• Re: Mr Lyonette (Head Master At St Robert Bellarmine's Shool) by KARL (Member 10057618) on 6-Feb-2003
  Hi Jay,
  Was father O'conner at the church at the same time as father Byrnes,back in the 70s,It's been such a long time sice I have been back to my roots in Bootle;I probably got father O'Conners name muddled with O'Donald,I remember this priest being Irish and he had a short back and sides.
  I do miss Bootle with all my heart,it's full of very happy memories for me,because life was differen
  t for me then;I used to live at 5,Captains Green and my late Grandparents lived in No 13,Galsworthy Avenue for over 40yrs,until my Grandmother died in 1986 and a couple of years late,my Grandfather had to go into a home.
  I was looking on friends re-united and seen a clean shaved picture of Mr Johnston and Mrs McNally,I remember Mr Malone with his Gold rimmed Glasses and his blazer and Mrs O'Mally;she had the darkest hair I had ever seen on a women and I think she had very blue eyes,but I could be wrong,it has been 26yrs!
  I would love to know where father Byrnes is buried,because he was the one who married my late parents in 1958 and also he christened me in 1967.
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• Re: Mr Lyonette (Head Master At St Robert Bellarmine's Shool) by KARL (Member 10057618) on 6-Feb-2003
  By the way Jay,my name is Karl,my old surname was Smith,but I changed it to Spencer-Smith,before I got married for the second time in 1995,as my wife hasn't got any brothers to keep te name going.
  When I lived in Captains Green,I used to call for a girl named Andrea,who was a dwarf girl,she used to make everyone laugh,because of the things she used to come out with,also I used to call for a girl
  named Karen,she also lived in Galsworthy Av;she was a tomboy,there was a lad named Gary Molinuex,who moved from the green to captains lane.
  My sister Sabina used to call for a lad,she used to fancy,who's name was peter reid;he lived off captains lane,I can remember so many people;does Beryl still run the sweet shop on captains green?
  Keep in touch!
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• Re: Mr Lyonette (Head Master At St Robert Bellarmine's Shool) by jay (Member 10074864) on 8-Feb-2003
  Hi Again, I was in the same class as Sabina and Peter Reid, Still friends with quite a few people from school.

• Re: Mr Lyonette (Head Master At St Robert Bellarmine's Shool) by Rochey (Member 10006121) on 12-Feb-2003
  I remember Mr Lyonette an all. Don't no why burr I do. Remember the Father's Byrne an all. Think thee were twins wern't thee? Bruthers any way.
  
  Also remember Father Gogarty. Canadian Irish I think? Well eh, e usta call inta the Mount for a jar wen e was doin is Fridee night rounds!An e always usta make arr ouse the last one to call into wen me Dad was ome from sea. Wunder why?
  
  Now, I lived
  in 84 Galsworthy, amazin wen people write in an mention places yeh no but yeh carn't remember them innih?
  
  All the best people.
  Rochey
  
  
  
  
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• Re: Mr Lyonette (Head Master At St Robert Bellarmine's Shool) by KARL (Member 10057618) on 14-Feb-2003
  Hi Jay,
  So you was in the same class as my sister
  (Sabina),what a small world;Sabina recently e-mailed Sally Senior,who I haven't seen for donkeys years;I was in the same class as her sister,Elizabeth Senior!!!.....I can remember Peter Reid well,as me and a cousin of his used to go and call for him sometimes;his cousin lived in Thackery Gardens in one of the flats as you go in.
  Whats your
  surname?....I might know you;I'm sure Sabina will;I'll have toi give you her e-mail address,you could have a good old chin wag with her;cuddlyandsexy@aol.com............it would be nice for her to talk to someone from her old class......Did you live far from St Robert Bellarmines?..........Do you still live in the same area?......Is it true,that the old huts have been pulled down or are they still standing;I loved that school and the diners were nice too.
  Keep in touch!
  Karl;Sabina's youngest brother!
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• Re: Mr Lyonette (Head Master At St Robert Bellarmine's Shool) by sabina stockwell (Member 10089874) on 15-Feb-2003
  hi jay this is sabina (smith) my brother karl said you were in my class at school please get in contact thanks sabina.I remember mr lyonette very well and mr malone and peter reid,sally senior,marie white. please get in touch will be good to here from you, you might have to jog my brain abit as old age is creeping in lol.
  sabina

• Re: Mr Lyonette (Head Master At St Robert Bellarmine's Shool) by sabina (Member 10147623) on 1-Apr-2005
  hi jay be nice to hear from you, you can email me at sabina1906@aol.com be nice to catch up xx

• Re: Mr Lyonette (Head Master At St Robert Bellarmine's Shool) by Eileen Jones (Member 10169491) on 27-Nov-2005
  I am sorry to have just read about Mr. Lyonette's death.
  I was in the infants at St Robert Bellarmines when he first arrived following the retirement of Mr.Kirby.
  I agree he was a great headmaster.
  Eileen

• Re: Balfour rd. by george edwards (Member 10088291) on 26-Jan-2003
  Hello "Bowman", I used to live at 123 Balfour road with my family.We moved there in appoximately 1962.The people who lived at no.125 where a Mr and Mrs Taylor,they lived alone and I dont think they ever had any children. I think they had been there for quite a while prior to 1962.They both died elderly, in the 1970s/early 80s. Yes, the area was bombed during the "last bash with Gerry" (May 1941).
  No I don't mean "Gerry and the Pacemakers",they weren't that bad! The houses on the side where 125 is seem to be pre - war.Across the road was bombed, it was nearer the railway line,an obvious target.I hope this is of use to you,please dont hesitate in contacting me if I can be of further help.
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• Re: Balfour rd. by Bob Hodgson (Member 10052830) on 4-Jul-2003
  to Bowman. I am a Hodgson and was brought up and lived in Bootle 30+ years. I lived in Bailey Drive- Roberts Drive School- Bootle Grammer School-evacuated to Southport during the war-married in Bailey Drive Church lived in Netherton-worked for Scotts Bakery-went into business on my own before retiring. I now live in Manchester AM I ONE OF THE HODGSON FAMILY YOU ARE LOOKING FOR.
  BOB HODGSON

• Re: Balfour rd. by Peter Bowman (Member 10077664) on 11-Nov-2003
  To Bob H. Member 69679
  My apologies for tardy reply. Bob, we are trying to trace an aunt,(a nurse at royal Inf. Oldham) who ,in 1930, gave 125 Balfour, as her 'permanent address'? Bob , I would like to contact you directly, please reply, direct snoman@aei.ca

• Re: Balfour rd. by Peter Bowman (Member 10077664) on 11-Nov-2003
  To Geo. and Bob, I appreciate your replies. We are trying to gather information on a HODGSON family, that lived in Bootle, between --1905 and 1930 ++? We have gathered conflicting info. as to the given names. From Source 1. Charles and Sarah (McV??) Hodgson, and from source 2. Edward George and Sarah (McC??) Hodgson. These would be our grand parents. We would like to communicate with you further,
  and would like to know if there is some way to correspond with cemetaries in the immediate area (Anglican) to see if there are any records available.Hope to hear back from you. pb
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• Re: Clemmey Drive by Mark Webb (Member 10052918) on 13-Feb-2003
  One of my best mates from Bootle Grammar lived on Clemmey drive - Graham Topping. We lost touch after school and I believe he joined the Navy.
  
  Mark Webb

• Re: Clemmey Drive by Liz Coulthard (nee McLeod) (Member 10076953) on 8-Oct-2003
  My Auntie Mary, lived at No. 12 Clemmey Drive from at least 1939 until the early sixties. Uncle George, and family, who consisted of Syd, Tommy (or Tucker) Grace, Maurice, Margaret and Betty lived there too, until George died just after the end of the war and the children grew up and married. I used to spend a lot of time there, but knew more people who lived in the next street, as the entry bet
  ween the two streets was one of those really wide ones, (at least 15ft) and the kids from both streets played there quite safely.
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• Re: Clemmey Drive by susan boden (Member 10109832) on 11-Nov-2003
  hi everyone is thet you betty im graces daughter susan i remember clemmy drive well do you remember mrs wright next door to nan

• Re: Clemmey Drive by David McLeod (Member 10114622) on 13-Jan-2004
  Susan this is david betty,s brother and I can remember Mrs wRIGHT AND aLAN ETC .What happened to your brother Dennis

• Re: Clemmey Drive by Liz Coulthard (nee McLeod) (Member 10076953) on 13-Jan-2004
  Hi Susan, Yes, it's me that was Betty Mac. I'm now living in Australia, and so is my brother David, but he's in Sydney and I'm in Adelaide. I haven't looked at the site for a while because I changed computers a while ago and forgot some of my favourites. It was David who told me you had left a message for me on the site. As they don't print e-mails on the site now I can't give it to you here,
  but your Aunty Margie knows my home address and your Aunty Betty knows my e-mail as we are in touch. Hope to hear from you soon, love Liz
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• Re: Clemmey Drive by susan boden (Member 10109832) on 26-Jan-2004
  hi betty great to hear from you im doing family history and enjoying it our derek has been trying to find david i will find your e-mail and get intouch susan

• Re: Clemmey Drive by David McLeod (Member 10114622) on 29-Jan-2004
  Susan Boden
  
  This is david mac you can get me on david@intermedia.com.au, david_mcleod640@hotmail.com or davidmcl@tpg.com.au

• Re: Clemmey Drive by Liz Coulthard (nee McLeod) (Member 10076953) on 29-Jan-2004
  Hi Susan, great to see your reply on the knowhere website. As David has left his addresses I will too. It's lizken@hotkey.net.au I did send you an e-mail via Friends Reunited but not heard anything, so hopefully this message will get to you O.K.

• Re: Clemmey Drive by derek lloyd (Member 10117004) on 9-Feb-2004
  Hi Dave and Betty (Hi Sue). Ive been trying for a long time to find out some thing about where the both of you went to in Australia. Aunt Margie promissed to give me addresses so I could write but never did. Are you both keeping well?. Sue put me on to this site (she never stops supprising me sometimes how she finds these things out)
  Derek

• Re: Clemmey Drive by David McLeod (Member 10114622) on 10-Feb-2004
  Derek
  
  Good to hear from you, you can contact me on the email addresses a couple of messages above that I sent to Susan. Dave

• Re: Clemmey Drive by Liz Coulthard (nee McLeod) (Member 10076953) on 10-Feb-2004
  Hi Derek, Dave rang me to let me know that you had left a message here. Good to hear from you and would love to have some e-mails from you at the address I left for Susan. Have been writing to Sue re family history. Love, Liz (Betty Mac)

• Re: Clemmey Drive by derek lloyd (Member 10117004) on 20-Feb-2004
  David I have e-mailed you without success so I sent a short note to all your addresses. Liz yours bounced back without delivery I'll try again. hope you are both well.
  Derek

• Re: Clemmey Drive by Liz Coulthard (nee McLeod) (Member 10076953) on 21-Feb-2004
  Hi Derek,
  Sorry your e-mail to me bounced. I think that if you use fsnet, Freeserve, or fsmail as your mail server, this will be the reason for the bounce, as my server will not accept e-mails from them, due to the fact that a lot of spam comes via freeserve, etc., so they are blacklisted. If you can get a hotmail or other address you should have no trouble but if you contact Margie again,or B
  etty, they both have my home address. Also, of course, my brother Dave should have it too if you have managed to get any e-mails through to him.
  Hope to hear from you, love Liz
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• Re: Clemmey Drive by derek lloyd (Member 10117004) on 22-Feb-2004
  Hi liz. Does our Sue have it? I'll contct her if so. Dave has'nt replied yet. Can't wait to be in regular touch with you both. regards Dell(its what all the family call me).

• Re: Clemmey Drive by Liz Coulthard (nee McLeod) (Member 10076953) on 23-Feb-2004
  Hi Dell, thanks for the note on the site. No, sue doesn't have my address. I will write to you on Friends Reunited and give it to you in my e-mail via them. Dave rang to-day, and he was busy sending you a reply at the time. Liz

• Re: Mr Butler by alan size (Member 10129898) on 10-Aug-2004
  i remeber mr butler he was always in the brunny i remember you and your brother marty you lived in peter mahon way

• Re: Re: Staley St. by barkley (Member 10079341) on 28-Dec-2002
  not mothers brothers mine im the youngest dont remember staley street as mum moved the year i was born. mum was hilda dad was jim grandparents also lived in staley street ellen (nell) and harold starkey. Brother would have been george as bill was not born until 1947

• Re: Looking for old friends by peter walsh (Member 10076552) on 11-Dec-2002
  Hi Marg. I used to live in Hertford road, #77,but I cannot recall the name of Burns,I left in 52 for Canada, best of luck in your search, regards Peter

• Re: Looking for old friends by Pamela (Member 10086538) on 3-Jan-2003
  Isn't Hereford Drive close to Masefield crescent and by the pleasure field, which now has the Gyro? What school did you attend? I went to Roberts in the 50's...
  
  Surname is KEEGAN

• Re: Looking for old friends by peter walsh (Member 10076552) on 7-Jan-2003
  Hi Margaret,do you recall the O'Neil family that lived in #5,regards Peter.

• Re: Looking for old friends by Margaret Houghton (Member 10084855) on 29-Jan-2003
  Yes I think I do remeber the O Neils we lived in Hertford road from the late 30s I left in 1965 when I maried do you still live in Bootle ??

• Re: Looking for old friends by Margaret Houghton (Member 10084855) on 30-Jan-2003
  Hi Peter sorry I was so long in answering but we have been away in Sydney for a few weeks ,taking the ferries around the harbour just like the old days when Liverpool had a good ferry service.
  I remeber Mrs O Neil I think she had 2 boys and 1 girl one of them went to live in Canada and she used to go over to see them she always flew with KLM airlines my mother used to keep an eye on her house whi
  le shw was away I cant remeber herhusband .Did you live in Hertford Road yourself???
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• Re: Looking for old friends by peter walsh (Member 10076552) on 30-Jan-2003
  Hi Margaret,glad you had a great vacation, Re #5,I did chum around with both John and Pat ONeil, there wqs an older brother Richard who was a Customs Officerand three girls, Babs was the one who married a U.S serviceman and went to live in the states, Maureen married a chap who had something to do with the railroads and I cannot remember the name of the younger girl.I left Hertford Road in 52 to l
  ive in Montreal.Idid manage to meet up with both John and Pat in 1967 when I returned home for the first time but have since lost contact, I have been able to visit Bootle on a yearly basis for the last 30yrs.Since I retired my wife and I reside in London.Ontario,
  best regards, Peter
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• Re: Looking for old friends by Peter Arthur (Member 10067205) on 4-Feb-2003
  Good day Peter Walsh if you are still using Knowhere Message board- I was just interested if you had a relative called Rose who lived in Hertford Street way back in the 1950's.She used to handg around with a group of lads and girls from round the Derby Park area. Would be interesting to hear from you. Cheers Pete Arthur Kadina South Australia.

• Re: Looking for old friends by peter walsh (Member 10076552) on 6-Feb-2003
  HI Peter,sorry but apart from having the same last name I have no conection with Rose,good luck in your search, regards, Peter

• Re: Looking for old friends by Joyce Wladron (Member 10121015) on 9-Apr-2004
  Hi Peter
  Just thought I should let you know that Exeter, Hertford, Half of Keble and Queens Rd are being demolished in the near future. If you decide to visit old haunts It will not be the same so don't be too dissapointed. Sorry if this is bad news.

• Re: Looking for old friends by jenny tully nee burns (Member 10254162) on 10-Nov-2010
  hi margaret,my name is jenny and i am your brother billys daughter,my mum is maureen and they lived in the familt home up untill 4 years ago when the houses were knocked down,i would really like to get in touch with you,if you agree,thanks

• Re: phone number?????????????? by mesreyviews (Member 10029111) on 10-Dec-2002
  Without wanting to appear rude, can you not write to them?

• Re: phone number?????????????? by Carmel Moshier (Member 10011150) on 10-Dec-2002
  I'll remember that! sorry to bother anyone, always heard scousers were the most helpful and friendliest people in the world.... won't ask again.

• Re: phone number?????????????? by mesreyviews (Member 10029111) on 11-Dec-2002
  Oh don't be soft, You must admit its a strange request and I was just curious (or is that nosey).I wasn't being funny with you, though in retrospect perhaps my reply was a bit glib.

• Re: phone number?????????????? by gordon kayes (Member 10028368) on 12-Dec-2002
  why not pester British telecom. www.BTopenworld.com

• Re: phone number?????????????? by jezz (Member 10011099) on 14-Dec-2002
  is there anyone in particular you want to get in touch with, i,ll ask in the mount.
  ian

• Re: phone number?????????????? by Pamela (Member 10086538) on 3-Jan-2003
  Carmel, did you find who you were looking for? I bet there isn't a phone booth at the bottom of Galsworthy anymore. I know exactly where the location was. I lived up Captains Lane on Masefield crescent...I suggest you try freindsreunited.co.uk for results as I have found quite a few from my area I grew up with..or I suggest you write to your old address and tell them who you are looking for...be g
  reat conversation piece at the Mount pub.
  
  Surname is KEEGAN
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• Re: phone number?????????????? by Graeme (Member 10086747) on 6-Jan-2003
  Is that Carmel Macparland as was ??????????

• Re: phone number?????????????? by Carmel Moshier (Member 10011150) on 19-Jan-2003
  Many thanks to those of you who were nice.....!namely Gorden Jezz and Pamela.....
  And no I am not Carmel McParland.
  Thankyou so much to you three who took the time to be kind.....

• Re: phone number?????????????? by Bluenose (Member 10087988) on 23-Jan-2003
  I will have the number for you by the weekend

• Re: phone number?????????????? by Bluenose (Member 10087988) on 30-Jan-2003
  Did you receive the number ????

• Re: phone number?????????????? by Carmel Moshier (Member 10011150) on 6-Feb-2003
  No I didn't receive it..... do you still have it? If so can you post it here.... thank you so much for all of your help....

• Re: phone number?????????????? by Bluenose (Member 10087988) on 9-Feb-2003
  I Sent it through Friends Reunited as i did,not
  want to place it on here.Because of nuisance calls

• Re: phone number?????????????? by sabina stockwell (Member 10089874) on 15-Feb-2003
  hi carmel dont no if you remember me from galsworthy ave/captains green my name is sabina. i used to speak to you when we lived there as kids

• Re: phone number?????????????? by junelloyd (Member 10125493) on 1-Jun-2004
  Hi carmel,june here nell, and petes,friend just seen your name up on the board .Will be over visiting nell in july, hope to see you then give our regards to your lovely family. love Junexx0

• Re: DOCK ROAD RESIDENTS CIRCA 1947 by Sheila Graham (Member 10000762) on 25-Nov-2002
  Sheila, my cousin Susie lived near Bootle Hospital in Berry Street during that time. I shall be writing her Christmas letter soon I shall ask her. If I talk to Janet I shall if she has her phone number to talk to her. I am also in contact with someone here in Oz who may know...Shall let you know what she sez..
  ...sheila.g.

• Re: DOCK ROAD RESIDENTS CIRCA 1947 by Tommy Mc Gregor (Member 10073785) on 5-Dec-2002
  Hi Bootle Hospital still stands to this day on Derby Road,and is now a medical laboratory testing site.It was in the fifties a busy hospital catering for many accident cases that occurred on the dock estate.When its closure along with others was announced there was a big outcry at the loss of such a valuable amenity.The housing around this area was small cramped terrace housing,and during the sixt
  ies most of it vanished.Hope this may help.
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• Re: DOCK ROAD RESIDENTS CIRCA 1947 by SHEILA RILEY (Member 10063612) on 29-Dec-2002
  Many thanks to Sheila and Tommy for all your information, it has been very useful. Happy New Year.

• Re: Malcolm-Wytzes by frank delamere (Member 10041389) on 19-Dec-2002
  malcolm,try the 1901 census.
  htp://www.censusuk.co.uk/ just put surname in first, see what comes up. join the liverpool requests.{great}={ eng-liverpool-l-request@rootsweb,com }
  try, http:www.genealogy-links.co.uk/html/more.links.html
  this is an excellent site, it would have all the links you require.
  best of luck frank delamere

• Re: Malcolm-Wytzes by frank delamere (Member 10041389) on 19-Dec-2002
  i forgot to mention,on joining eng-liverpool.
  where subjuect put only SUBSCRIBE
  frank delamere

• Re: Old Bootle Pictures Available by Vicki Knox (Member 10024402) on 5-Dec-2002
  Hi, I cannot seem to get access to your web site am very interested in locating old photo's as I use to live in Bootle near the North Park on Melling Rd and do not have any photos during that time frame 1966-1971.

• Re: Old Bootle Pictures Available by Tommy Mc Gregor (Member 10073785) on 5-Dec-2002
  Hi we are looking for any old photographs that may exist of St Joan of Arc Sec Modern school which stood on Rimrose Road Bootle.We would like to post them on the ex-pupils website which is at www.icstjoansexpupils.co.uk.The old school was demolished sometime during the seventies or eighties.

• Re: Old Bootle Pictures Available by patricia bojen (Member 10276345) on 15-Jul-2012
  Hi,VICKI KNOX AND TOMMY MC GREGOR,there´s a TOMMY ROONEY in Bootle who has a lot of foto´s from 50´s and 60´s.I can give you his address and tel:nr: Pat Bojen

• Re: SPECTRUM (St Leonard's, Bootle) by anne evans (Member 10275019) on 18-Jun-2012
  Hi Bill
  
  My name is Anne Evans and I was a member of Spectrum club at St Leonards, I recognised your face. I belong to Kingsway Christian Fellowship and there are some of St Leonards there. Alan and Marian Chester, Gordon and Marion Nelson, Charlie and Jean Green, Bill and Jenny Jarvis and myself.
  
  I don't know whether you know but Marie Seel who married Paul Hunter died about 3 years ago an
  d I attended the funeral service today of Joey Gray. I can't believe that they have died comparatively young and I forget that time marches on and you only have today to enjoy so enjoy!
  
  I know its a cliche but thanks for the memories of all that St Leonards brought back. Knew all of the crowd that has been mentioned. The friends that I went round with were Phyllis, Brenda and Glenys, also Phyllis and Robbie.
  
  A reunion would be great!
  
  Regards
  
  Anne Evans
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• Re: staley street by Trevor Jones (Member 10067536) on 21-Oct-2002
  I am sorry that I do not have any pictures for you but I did live at #27 Staley street with my aunt Peg until we left to come to Canada in 1966. Did you live their?

• Re: Staley St. by Brenda Montgomery (Member 10071035) on 22-Oct-2002
  Don't have any pictures of Staley St - used to live on Monfa Rd. I do remember some families who lived there at the time you mentioned. Perhaps you remember the Dodds, the Edwards, the Savages, and the Greenhalghs. I also remember the Handleys who owned the dairy on Humphrey St. It's been almost 60 years ago!!!

• Re: staley street by Ron King (Member 10061521) on 23-Nov-2002
  My parents, Sydney and Mabel King lived at number 28 Staley St. when I was born in 1947. When I was over in june I took a photo of the house but not the rest of the street.
  I remember the Greenhalghs or at least one of them I think it was Graham or Derek who went to Orrell School with me. Also remember the dairy on Humphrey St. and old Mr Pratt with his horse and cart selling fruit and vegies
  round the streets. When I was two we moved to Menai rd using a handcart from Jonses' yard on Monfa Rd and our new neighbour there used to follow Mr pratt round collecting the droppings for his allotment. Ron King
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• Re: staley street by Brenda Montgomery (Member 10071035) on 25-Nov-2002
  Yes Ron, I too remember Mr.Pratt and his vegetable cart. I think he lived in Glynn St. I remember the Swifts and the McLeans of Menai Rd and the Jones family who lived on the corner of Menai and Monfa Rd. Orrell has changed but I have fond memories of growing up there. My sister still lives in Harris Dr. and keeps me in touch with the local happenings.

• Re: staley street by Dorothy Griffiths (Member 10083769) on 26-Nov-2002
  I used to be married to Bobby Thelwell and he was born in Monfa Road. His Dad had a small butchers shop next to the cake shop. He worked in his shop until he died in 1969. His brother Stan also worked with him running the greengrocers and kept the shop going for a long while after. Bobby Thelwell lived all his life in Monfa Road with his brother Tommy and Dora his sister (Tommy and Dora were t
  wins). Bobby and I lived in Staley Street (I can`t remember the number now as it was in 1968-1970) - I think it might have been 29. It was halfway up the street on the left hand side looking towards Monfa Road and it had been modernised by a local builder. We lived next door to a very nice elderly couple.
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• Re: staley street by Brenda Montgomery (Member 10071035) on 28-Nov-2002
  Dorothy, I remember Thelwells butcher shop. Our next door neighbor worked there for a short time - small world!! There was a cobler shop on the corner and a chandler's shop next door. I guess they are long gone now. Your former husband's name sounds familiar,what was his address on Monfa Road?

• Re: staley street by Ron King (Member 10061521) on 29-Nov-2002
  I knew Bobby Thelwell quite well as we went to Orrell school together. He had a cousin, Billy who lived on the corner of Monfa and Province. I also knew the Swifts in Menai, Eric was my best mate for years. Other names from the neighbourhood were Lynn Woods and Barbera Lockwood from Province Rd. I think the last time I saw any of this group they were dating Bobby and Billy but that was over
  30 years ago. Another family was the Thompsons in Menai. I believe they were badly burned in an explosion with thier cooker. Lets keep this dialogue going please your'e bringing back lots of memories. Remember Spensleys Sweet shop on Hawthoren Rd? Fabulous.
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• Re: staley street by Sheila Graham (Member 10000762) on 30-Nov-2002
  Wasn't Spensleys sweet shop near a chemist and a wool shop and a hairdressers?...I think we used to go into Spensleys after school, that was Orrell School on Aughton Road. I lived on Fernhill Road, two houses from Ainsdale Road...
  sheila.

• Re: staley street by Brenda Montgomery (Member 10071035) on 2-Dec-2002
  Yes, I remember Spensley's It was owned by two sisters, Maggie and Bessie. There was also a sweet shop called 'Whips' Mr. Whip was an old man who was always in a nasty mood!!! Scotts was on the corner of Humphrey St. - thats where all the local housewives used to hang out to get the latest gossip. Some other Orrell families that I remember are: The Kemps, I remember the Grandma who used to sit
  on the wall on the corner of Willard St. and talk to everyone! Nurse Hoy and the Sutton famiy who lived on Monfa Rd. I also have happy memories of the Boys Brigade from St. John & James parading each Sunday morning through the local streets - playing the same march over and over again!!!! Between them and the clanging bell from St. Bellarmines, there was no chance of sleeping late on Sundays - Great memories.
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• Re: staley street by Ron King (Member 10061521) on 3-Dec-2002
  I remember Whips, my dad used to send me there just before pay day as Mr whip would sell pipe tobacco by the half ounce. I can also remember Irwins on the corner of Province Rd and Jonses "rent Office" on the corner of Staley St. There was also a chippie somewhere in the middle that used to sell Spitfires made up from a layer of fish and a layer of potato done in batter.
  I drove past there on
  my visit in June but although all of the names have changed the shops still looked about the same. A couple of other names have come to mind; The Halliwells in Province Rd and a "girl" called Penny Ingham from either Glynne or Willard St.
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• Re: Staley St. by Brenda Montgomery (Member 10071035) on 9-Dec-2002
  Yes Ron, I remember those spitfires - delicious!!
  I have tried to make them but mine don't taste as good. I think the name of the Chip shop was 'Shaws' I recently heard that the old Tannery on the corner of Harris Dr. had burned down - another old landmark gone! I also remember the laundry on the corner of Willard St. It was my job to pick up the clean shirts each Friday and take them back if
  the collars were not cleaned properly!!! Do you remember the Kelly family who lived on the corner of Monfa and Glynn St?
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• Re: staley street by Ron King (Member 10061521) on 11-Dec-2002
  Brenda
  Yes I remember the Tannery, used to stink like hell. Do you remember the metal work factory opposite the Ribble Depot, during the war they made machines that made bullets for rifles. Two of those machines are in a chocalate factory just outside Adelaide where I live and they are used to make those little tablets, I think we called them musk sweets or something like that. The owners o
  f the chocolate factory converted them and they still work perfectly.
  Just had an email from Helen Place (Thompson) who lived in Menai Rd, her brother,Robert, has cancer of the jaw. Been trying to remember other names but the brain can't cope. I left Menai in 1958 and moved to Thackery Gdns., off Harris Drv. so I lost contact with a lot of people from the neighbourhood.
  Ron
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• Re: Staley St. by Brenda Montgomery (Member 10071035) on 14-Dec-2002
  Ron, was the metal factory Campbell & Isherwood?
  I think they used to manufacture life boats during the war. Interesting that you have the machines there in Australia!! That whole section of Hawthorne Road was all factories and yes, smells from rubber to tar to cow hides. How did we survive with all that polution - couldn't have been all that bad though, we are still here. Ha..

• Re: staley street by Ron King (Member 10061521) on 18-Dec-2002
  Brenda, How do we manage today without our daily dose from the various factories on Hawthorne Rd., particularly the lead smelter opposite Province Rd.
  Looked for you on friendsreunited but you are not listed. Check it out you may find more people you remember from the neighbourhood via Orrell School or any workplaces or youth groups you were in.

• Re: Staley St. by Brenda Montgomery (Member 10071035) on 19-Dec-2002
  One of the things I remember while growing up in Orrell was counting the factory chimneys on the way to the Regal on Saturday afternoon!! Some recreation Huh!! I am listed on 'Friends Reunited' under Roberts Mod. Sec. Graduation year 1949. I have reconnected with several old school friends. It's amazing how many of my old school friends are scattered all over the world!!

• Re: staley street by Ron King (Member 10061521) on 23-Dec-2002
  Brenda, You must have been bored on the way to the Regal. Did the number ever change? I can't remember any new factories being built down that after the war. I suppose you were going to the ABC Minors, used to be a good laugh then and you got a couple of shows plus some cartoons, not like now with just one movie. Have a great Christmas Brenda and that goes to anyone else from the neighbourh
  ood who reads this, get on the notice board.
  Ron
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• Re: staley street by barkley (Member 10079341) on 24-Dec-2002
  if you lived in number 28 you must remember my family the barkleys my brother Billy would have been the same age as you. have you any photos you could e-mail me from what my mother used to say staley street had some wonderful street parties and a marvellous atmosphere.

• Re: staley street by Ron King (Member 10061521) on 24-Dec-2002
  Sorry I can't help about street parties etc. as I was two when we moved to Menai rd. The whole area had an atmosphere and people helped each other. I remember losing the suger ration cards on the way home from "Spennogs" sweet shop and my mother kicked me and told me not to go home without them. A woman in Willard St. found them and gave them to me. They were a valuable item in those days.
  
  Have a great Christmas everyone and a happy 2003.
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• Re: staley street by Ron King (Member 10061521) on 24-Dec-2002
  Sorry I can't help about street parties etc. as I was two when we moved to Menai Rd. The whole area had an atmosphere and people helped each other. I remember losing the sugar ration cards on the way home from "Spennogs" sweet shop and my mother kicked me and told me not to go home without them. A woman in Willard St. found them and gave them to me. They were a valuable item in those days.
  
  Have a great Christmas everyone and a happy 2003.
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• Re: staley street by Jean Tinsley (Member 10085126) on 24-Dec-2002
  Hi
  My Dad has lived in Orrell all his life and is still living in Marion Road.His name is Maurice Donaldson and my mum was Jean McVitie. My dad was born is Humphrey St, then lived in Eleanor Rd until he married and moved to Elizabeth Rd and then Menai. My mum was born in Arvon Street and lived in 9 Springwell Rd - between Menai and Edith until she got married. Other relations still live in Humphr
  ey Street - The Loverings, my aunties Mabel and Brenda worked in the laundry there, Brenda until it closed. Have a nice Christmas
  Jean Tinsley
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• Re: staley street by Pamela (Member 10086538) on 3-Jan-2003
  Hi Brenda, I went to Roberts Mod school also and left in 1958 for USA. I am on friendsreunited also. I used to go to the Regal every saturday and was a member of the ABC club. Wish I could remember the lyrics to the song...it was so much fun and all the screamin and paper throwing we did back then you couldn't do today, ay? ha
  
  I just heard the Regal is going to be demolished.
  
  Pam Keeegan

• Re: Staley St. by Brenda Montgomery (Member 10071035) on 29-Jan-2003
  Another fond memory of growing up in Orrell (besides all the mischief we got into) was attending Springwell Road Sunday School. I think everyone who grew up in that area went there at one time or another. I remember the parades they had in the summer, marching through the local streets with tea and cakes served afterwards in the Church hall if you were lucky enough to be at the front of the line!
  ! Anyone out there recall those days?
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• Re: staley street by p.barkers (Member 10100241) on 13-Jul-2003
  Trevor Jones was your aunties name savage by any chance

• Re: Staley street by Cathie Black (Member 10113265) on 21-Feb-2004
  I used to live in numbers 42 and 44 Menai Road, 1960 - 1975, my father and brother Philip and Tony Murphy still live at number 44.
  
  I remember Staley Street, and the other roads nearby! I remember Spensley's sweet shop ("Spennogs"), the hairdressers, Scotts grocery store, the Tannery on the corner of Harris Drive (I used to walk past there to go down the road that led to the bridge over the can
  al on my way to junior school at St Elizabeth's), the Ribble bus depot (my brothers and I used to nick old rolls of bus tickets, paint them and twist them for Christmas decorations!), Campbell & Isherwoods, my first boyfriend lived in Wilard Street (no chance of remembering his name, though).
  
  Cathie Black
  Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
  
  Also, visit www.fredcat.net, for an interesting view on the world through the eyes of my (English) cat who emigrated to the US with us! Cathie Black (nee Murphy) Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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• Re: staley street by george fletcher (Member 10137683) on 17-Nov-2004
  Staley Street----There was always something special about the street even when I was a kid and going by the long list of memories on ‘Knowhere‘, it continues to be the case. My name is George Fletcher (nicknamed Mexie----I can’t remember why). I have a brother named Robin and a sister named Vivien. Our parents were Jack and Winnie and we lived at 31 until 1952 when we moved up to Sterrix Lane wher
  e I had the dubious honour of being the estates first paper lad for Bill Brennand who then had his shop opposite Robert Bellarmine‘s. At 27 lived George and Renee Halliwell who moved to Provence Road. George subsequently became a councillor. At 29 were Mr and Mrs Miles, a nice old couple who were in their 80’s and obviously ancient to us. At 33 lived the Edwards family-Mrs Edwards and husband Jack who, my brother claims, was the best plasterer to have ever lived. They had four children as I recall---Margaret ,Davy, who was in the R N, Dylys and Rhona. I believe that Davy survived the war but did not return to Bootle on demob. At number 35 lived Miss Llewellyn for whom Mum did house cleaning. I well remember the day that Mum found her dead in the house, it was quite a shock for her. My compatriots were: Teddy Greenhalgh (Greeneye/Andy Clyde), Jim Daley, Derek Salisbury (Mudd) Georgie Barklay, Norman Smith, Alan Roache, Jimmy Green-----this was our gang. Other notables were Joyce Jones, Marjorie Barklay, Les and Eric Whiting, Paul Roache, John Green and a chap with the surname Cousins who moved in opposite us in the late forties. I particularly remember the street games---arrow tick, Lallyo, what’s the time, what’s the colour and my favourite--whip the can where the base was the manhole cover at the x-road of Staley St, Monfa and Mary Roads. The flattened crushed can was slung up one of the four roads and we would all run like hell, hide and hope to get back to the can, now retrieved by he who was ‘it’ before ‘it ‘got to the can before us. If ‘it’ made it, we were captured and put into a den. But, anyone getting to the can before ‘it’ could, released all prisoners------it was a great game. Thinking about it, the rules were similar to Lallyo. The shops on the bottom road were as I remember--Cullans: cobbler, Roberts: butcher, Ashcroft: hardware, Clark: barber and Jones Estate Office. After Humphrey Street came Scotts: Grocers, Whips; news and tobacco---I remember Whip The younger took over the shop on his return from the war--he also lived in the Street. I vaguely remember a laundry/dry cleaners with the name Bobby’s Valet Service. The fish and chip shop which, indeed, made the most marvellous ’spitfires’ There was a greengrocer and Spenselys sweet and tobacco. Other shops were Whites were the butter was battered into small blocks by old man White himself using two wooden paddle like objects--he also cut the whole cheese with a cheese wire but always seemed to manage to get rind on 2 sides of the cut piece--this was a big bone of contention amongst the womenfolk. I was always impressed by the candlestick phone which stood on the counter. Our street did have the best parties in the area---particularly 1951 for the Festival of Britain. Dad made a magnificent trellis affair around our front door that was covered with crepe paper leaves and roses. Everyone participated in most things and any excuse to get the bunting and flags out was never missed--VE Day, VJ Day. On one occasion with the bunting strung across the street, overnight or early in the morning, a Ribble bus driver took the lot down---we were not impressed. Reading other’s reminiscences I came across Peggy Davies who I think was the sister of Doreen Jones’s --Joyce’s mum. When I was in the RAF in Kuala Lumpur, I came across a Scotsman by the name of Jock Orr who claimed to be Peggy’s husband. I returned to the UK in 1960 and I understand that Jock passed away out there during that year.
  Other memories: street singers trying to get a few pence, great horses and carts and the selling of salt blocks, ice block deliveries to (I think) the butcher, the first gaslighter man after the war, pig bins bin horses, milk cart and horses and the terrible devastation of Annie Road resulting from a landmine. At the back of the bowling green at the Walnut Tree Pub on Aspinall’s field was the remains of a lorry which provided much enjoyment--we drove it everywhere in our mind’s eyes. Just along the road from the Walnut, towards the cemetery on Watts Lane, was a wartime fire station manned by NFS (National Fire Service) firemen. I think that the building they occupied was the old Orrell Lodge. The demolition of the air raid shelters in Aspinall’s Field (who was Aspinall--anybody know?) was the first time I saw bulldozers and earthmovers in action. One memory, which still amuses me, is when I first saw a mechanical shovel doing its job when tidying up the mess in Annie Rd and preparing the ground for new house building, I thought it was a giant hammer flattening the earth---my child’s mind took ages to Oh happy days!
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• Re: staley street by Tom Thelwell (Member 10240395) on 7-Sep-2009
  Just found this site yesterday. I lived in Monfa Road and dad had the butchers in between the chandlers and cake shop at the bottom of Willard Street. Does anyone remember the dairy in Humphrey Street? Someone mentioned Mr Pratt's horse and cart. I remember going up the 'jigger' in between Willard Street and Glynne Road to buy greengoceries from Pratt's back yard. Lot of business in the jiggers in
  those days, from local bookie to a haircut shed in a back yard from Menai Road. Happy memories.
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• Re: litherland rd by joyce van der hoeven (Member 10137451) on 16-Nov-2004
  did she have two daughters shelia and barbara if so shelia was my best friend and have beeb trying to find her ,the last time i seen her was in 1960 and she had got married to johnny murray i would love to no if it is the same family.i now live in holland but came from hawthorne rd .i hope to hear from you joyce