Memories of Layton

Tangerteeny6 said:
Judith Hodgson is my cousin!
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After Layton Primary School, Judith was at Blackpool Collegiate Grammar School when I was there and I remember her at Blackpool College of Further and Higher Education too!
Other pupil's names from Layton Primary I remember are Dawn Miller, Keith Anderson, Paul Parkinson, ? Walker, Terence Jordan. Some more may come to me..
 
I also remember four fish and chip shops in Layton when I lived there:
One on Westcliffe Drive on the corner, one on Onslow Road, one on Layton Road and one on Talbot Road on a corner near the Queens Pub. It may have been called the Queens Chippy.
I know the one on Westcliffe Drive is still there as I visited it a few years ago, not sure about the others..
 
still three chippies in Layton. The one at the end of Melrose on Onslow Rd is very good but ridiculously slow service. The one on Westcliffe Drive used to be very good and perhaps the best but since the last owners sold up it's become crap and ridiculously expensive and I now avoid it. The Merry Cat on Layton Rd has big portions and is ok,that's all. So Onslow Rd for me. I've now lived in Layton for over 30 years.
 
Anyone remember the Cafe by Donaldson newsagents, I often played the pinball machine in there, it was near Farm garage.
 
Terry61 said:
I also remember four fish and chip shops in Layton when I lived there:
One on Westcliffe Drive on the corner, one on Onslow Road, one on Layton Road and one on Talbot Road on a corner near the Queens Pub. It may have been called the Queens Chippy.
I know the one on Westcliffe Drive is still there as I visited it a few years ago, not sure about the others..
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Used to be one on the Corner of Caunce St and Layton Rd many moons ago
 
Lived on Delaware rd, great times playing on crossleys bridge , sliding down the grass bank on cardboard and causing mischief in the old Blackpool council yard! And on the subject of Dentist’s am I right in saying Mr Birtwistle was killed in the explosion at the trough of Bowland water works .
 
Block j said:
Lived on Delaware rd, great times playing on crossleys bridge , sliding down the grass bank on cardboard and causing mischief in the old Blackpool council yard! And on the subject of Dentist’s am I right in saying Mr Birtwistle was killed in the explosion at the trough of Bowland water works .
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Used take my box on 4 pram wheels to Crossleys saw mill to collect off cuts used to light the coal fire. Did it for my parents and other neighbours in the street. Sixpence a load!
Had my own fretsaw at 10 year old so used some of the wood to make pea guns that fired dried peas- lethal!
Saturday morning I’d take the box on wheels to North Station and take holidaymakers luggage to their boarding houses and earn good money.
Good old days growing up in Layton
 
CAGU said:
I lived in Brockway Ave off Torsway. Used to walk up to nearly Newton Drive to get the school bus to Devy Rd school when I was 4 years old

Mr Partridge wasn't a teacher at Devy school before becoming headmaster? Bald head and glasses?
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I went to Devy too. The bus stopped on Ingleway, at the corner of Torsway.
I used to sit at the front room window (corner of Fordway) and race to the bus stop as the bus turned onto Torsway.
I’d never get there in time nowadays!
😂
 
Briggsysgonagetya said:
I wouldnt class the Victory as in Layton either, anything east of devy rd between st Wallburgers and north of Caunce st upto warbreck rd is Layton
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i think those of us growing up on Torsway, Bardsway, Fordway, etc would disagree with ‘north of Caunce St !!
 
I think my Grandad lived down Onslow road. He was the cellar man at the Institute and was Deaf and dumb called Cecil Walker. Anyone remember him, he passed in 1983
 
Briggsysgonagetya said:
I wouldnt class the Victory as in Layton either, anything east of devy rd between st Wallburgers and north of Caunce st upto warbreck rd is Layton
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Briggsy

It's 18 months since I posted the chite that I did, I've changed my underpants 3 times since then but I still none the wiser when it comes to the boundaries of Layton.

I don't think you'll be too far away with what you say to be fair.
 
Johnno said:
i think those of us growing up on Torsway, Bardsway, Fordway, etc would disagree with ‘north of Caunce St !!
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Johnno

I think those all fall within Briggsy's boundaries ?

I wouldn't be an expert but surely they are in Layton, a stones throw away from Kingscote Park.

Not pretending to be a Laytonian - although somebody above was happy for me to have a Layton passport - but I messed about more on Collingwood than Kingscote in my youth.
 
SEASIDE2020 said:
Johnno

I think those all fall within Briggsy's boundaries ?

I wouldn't be an expert but surely they are in Layton, a stones throw away from Kingscote Park.

Not pretending to be a Laytonian - although somebody above was happy for me to have a Layton passport - but I messed about more on Collingwood than Kingscote in my youth.
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It’s a bit like Didsbury-there’s Layton village, and then there’s East Layton between Kingscote and Stanley Parks, where the monied set like to reside. If you are around any of the ‘ways’ (Tors, Ingle, Lake, Bards etc) you know you’re with a higher class of Laytonian.
 
During the Second World War and for a good few years after it, my Grandparents ran a Grocers shop on the corner of Layton Road and Larbreck Ave. I've got a photo of a mega street party on Larbreck Ave celebrating the end of the War. My old dear and my Uncle are on it as kids. I think the shop is a Vets these days.
 
Bought my first house on Nethway overlooking the park and my daugher went on to become a successful solicitor in London, depiste having to go to Devvy Road School. I hear it went decidedly downhill in the years after she finsished.
 
Terry61 said:
I also remember four fish and chip shops in Layton when I lived there:
One on Westcliffe Drive on the corner, one on Onslow Road, one on Layton Road and one on Talbot Road on a corner near the Queens Pub. It may have been called the Queens Chippy.
I know the one on Westcliffe Drive is still there as I visited it a few years ago, not sure about the others..
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There used to be a really good chippy up near the Queenstown Estate on Talbot Road near Birds Plumbing shop.
 
CAGU said:
I lived in Brockway Ave off Torsway Ave and went on my own by bus to Devi Rd school aged 4 while my twin sisters who were older went to Layton school.
Nowadays kids go nowhere without being dropped off by their parents.
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I used to go to Devy on the bus from the same place likewise aged 4. Lived on Blairway. My kids think I made that up about going alone to school at 4!
 
Seaside Aggro said:
It’s a bit like Didsbury-there’s Layton village, and then there’s East Layton between Kingscote and Stanley Parks, where the monied set like to reside. If you are around any of the ‘ways’ (Tors, Ingle, Lake, Bards etc) you know you’re with a higher class of Laytonian.
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Higher class Layton 😂 all my childhood days on ingleway and I wasn’t aware I was higher class.
 
Seaside Aggro said:
It’s a bit like Didsbury-there’s Layton village, and then there’s East Layton between Kingscote and Stanley Parks, where the monied set like to reside. If you are around any of the ‘ways’ (Tors, Ingle, Lake, Bards etc) you know you’re with a higher class of Laytonian.
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Yeah, we were the posher Layton dossers. There was definitely a higherarchy
 
Does anyone remember the bakers that was either close to or where the chemist is now next to what used to be the garage? Or am I making things up in my head?
 
Just been in Google maps to have a look at Layton Primary School, the view from Lynwood Ave of the old school front I didn’t recognise!😳
There is a new build in what used to be the play ground, has the original school been completely demolished or does it sit behind the new buildings? Only thing I recognised is the school wall!! Not been down there for nearly 40 years!
 
Rock and Roll Star said:
Mr. Partridge was my form master in form 3A at Devonshire Road School. He was a very good teacher...
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Oh it was Partridge then, yes he was my teacher too. He was very good but his party trick if you were naughty was to put your head between his legs, lift your short trouser leg up and slap you hard a few times on the back of your leg!
Something that would be frowned upon today 😂
 
The Catcher in the Rye said:
Just been in Google maps to have a look at Layton Primary School, the view from Lynwood Ave of the old school front I didn’t recognise!😳
There is a new build in what used to be the play ground, has the original school been completely demolished or does it sit behind the new buildings? Only thing I recognised is the school wall!! Not been down there for nearly 40 years!
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Old school came down about 10 years ago now I think. The original first extension building for the juniors was renovated and the school extended out into the playing fields beyond the second extension and new school hall that was tacked on in the 90s. They then built brand new infants accommodation in the playground area. If you look carefully at the far end facing the alleyway at the bottom of Lynwood they incorporated the old school entrance into the new building built in the playground which was a nice touch…those trophy things that tennis balls used to get stuck in live on! It’s a big school now.
 
clappers said:
Old school came down about 10 years ago now I think. The original first extension building for the juniors was renovated and the school extended out into the playing fields beyond the second extension and new school hall that was tacked on in the 90s. They then built brand new infants accommodation in the playground area. If you look carefully at the far end facing the alleyway at the bottom of Lynwood they incorporated the old school entrance into the new building built in the playground which was a nice touch…those trophy things that tennis balls used to get stuck in live on! It’s a big school now.
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Wow this makes me feel quite sad for some reason. Feels like a large chunk of my history has been obliterated! Felt the same when the old BR stands came crashing down!
 
clappers said:
There used to be a really good chippy up near the Queenstown Estate on Talbot Road near Birds Plumbing shop.
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It’s a long time ago but as a kid I remember a chippy at the top of Torsway in the block of shops and fish &chips were four pence in old money
 
CAGU said:
It’s a long time ago but as a kid I remember a chippy at the top of Torsway in the block of shops and fish &chips were four pence in old money
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That was a great chippy when I was a kid. He used to give us bags of scraps for free.
If we had any money it would be a newspaper cone of chips!

Happy days
 
Markobfc said:
Did he have a daughter Janey who was better at football than most lads in Blackpool?
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By a strange coincidence Janey Mottram is the subject of a report on BBC North news today playing football on Layton playing field in her guise as 'Leslie' Mottram, an 8 year old girl pretending to be a boy so she could get a game in the boys league. The situation is a bit different today with talented girl footballers being much sought after. Brilliant retro BBC report and great footage of Layton and Grange Park in 1976.
 
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When I started at BGS in 1970, we used to catch the 8.15 from Blackpool North to Layton then walk up Mowbray Drive. It was cheaper than the 14 bus from Talbot Rd.
 
tommytwojags said:
By a strange coincidence Janey Mottram is the subject of a report on BBC North news today playing football on Layton playing field in her guise as 'Leslie' Mottram, an 8 year old girl pretending to be a boy so she could get a game in the boys league. The situation is a bit different today with talented girl footballers being much sought after. Brilliant retro BBC report and great footage of Layton and Grange Park in 1976.
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I remember that being filmed, Janey and her family lived over the road at the time and she was really excited about it. She really was a class above at footy.
 
Mark_GT said:
I used to get my tropical fish from that little pet shop around the end of the 70s. What was it called? The owner was good bloke, although it was before Open All Hours was on telly he was a bit like Arkwright.
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This would be Bill Goldsborugh. I lived above the pet shop for two month after selling my house in 1997 on Cameron Ave. His son was called Ian and I was best man at his wedding
 
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Wizaard said:
When I started at BGS in 1970, we used to catch the 8.15 from Blackpool North to Layton then walk up Mowbray Drive. It was cheaper than the 14 bus from Talbot Rd.
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Did anyone else ever work at one of the businesses on Mowbray Drive? When I was still at school I had a holiday job at H Parker's slipper factory which was owned by family friends. 15 years old, cycling in from Thornton and 40 hours a week in baking heat to risk life and limb on the clicking press 😬 🤣
 
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