Memories of Layton

Mexboroseasider said:
George Frost. Nice bloke from what I recall (although very religious). But it didn’t make the experience any pleasanter. 😂

First and only time I had gas for an extraction. Horrible and insisted on the needle for the next one.
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I went to Mr Frost as a kid , & looking back now , I can’t believe that a dentist would give a kid a bar of chocolate, how times have changed 😀
 
Does anyone remember Kerr’s ? They had a house that they would sell clothes from, off Westcliffe Avenue. Think my mum was quite poor but they ran a savings club in order to purchase clothes from them .
 
CAGU said:
know the name but just cannot place him, I lived there 1946-54 - bloody hell I'm old!
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They were definitely there at that time. Mr Hopwood was a porter, or something, at The Vic. Long service there.
Ronnie Talbot was a GPOI telegram Boy like myself, his dad was a Postman, as was my Dad.
Had a sister called Marion, who also was a Telegraphist at the GPO.
 
clappers said:
Yep.Was a regular at the Tyldesley club and snooker. Worked on the planes for BAE. Pat worked in shoe shops. Passed away only a couple of years ago. Lovely folks.
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Clappers, I went to Tyldesley Youth Club also. Would have been around 1950/53.
Sorry, just realised you didn't mean the Youth Club. 🙄
 
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TOON Seasider said:
I used to go to the dentist on Westcliffe Drive early/mid 60s and I deffo saw a guy called Mr Frost
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Birtwistle was at the top of Westcliffe Drive, across from St Marks Church. I seem to remember Frost was on the same side of the road where the shops are at the bottom of the hill.
 
Thelaneends1 said:
Do you remember the guy who lived on Fordway who was always pissed up on Newcastle Brown Ale, he once fell through the newsagents window on Toresway.
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Are you thinking of Alan? I lived (one of the houses I lived in round there) on the corner of Torsway/Fordway, and regularly chatted with Alan as a nipper. He was always half cut.
I lived round there from about ‘72 to ‘82.
Murphy’s had the Post Office and the corner shop was Bamforths then Inghams.
 
Great read I grew up caunce street area in 70/80's - devvy then warbreck school - playing on queenie and flashings park
Nots club youth club - 5 a side foot x with Aussie rules most evenings
Good memories and good read OL
 
Not a Laytoner myself. Sadly too young to have seen greens like the old Talbot Hotel or The Welcome, but of all the greens I've played in Blackpool the Institute stands head and shoulders above the rest.

Superb condition, and a monster to play against home knowledge. And now happily, thanks to investment and a lot of hard work, it's been resurrected and will be played on competitively this year, Covid allowing.
 
Thelaneends1 said:
That's him Alan think he had an allotment.
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He once showed me and my mates a couple of old £1 notes that he’d got in a consecutively numbered bunch, and altered the one ending in 3 to an 8.
Showed us two identically numbered notes and had us convinced for months that he was printing his own money!
(We were only about 10 at the time).
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That was in the good old days when old fellas could chat with young ‘uns without being badly judged!
 
Atchetman said:
Old Laytonian I think you are Stewart...I was the one with the Polish name.... unfortunately not related to Robert....
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only just seen this and you are correct. You lived at the back of the Institue bowling green,Granby Avenue. I've just remembered there used to be a disused tennis court on Pelham Avenue we used to play on
 
Bought our first house in Garrick Grove Layton forty years ago, crikey where have the years gone?
Our eldest son was born when we were there. Remember going to Mr Birtwhistle the Dentist, decent chap sadly killed in the Abbeystead explosion.
He was replaced by a guy called Bradley who would have made a decent butcher if he'd moved a few doors down to Ken's Meat Market
Enjoyed our 3 years living in Layton.
 
Fargo99 said:
Bought our first house in Garrick Grove Layton forty years ago, crikey where have the years gone?
Our eldest son was born when we were there. Remember going to Mr Birtwhistle the Dentist, decent chap sadly killed in the Abbeystead explosion.
He was replaced by a guy called Bradley who would have made a decent butcher if he'd moved a few doors down to Ken's Meat Market
Enjoyed our 3 years living in Layton.
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Garrick Grove Fargo? Did you know any of these who lived there - Butterworth, Shaw, Mottram, Brown, Benson ? Might have been a bit before your time there.
 
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CAGU said:
I remember a very steep hill at St Walburgas ? where they used to take poor souls to do a hill start on their driving test
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remember the very steep hill being used by is young ones for our home made go carts. looking back, we were mentlists
 
Rock and Roll Star said:
Anybody out there grow up around Bardsway Avenue/Torsway Avenue area?
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I did. ‘72-‘82. First house was 6 Blairway (near park gates), then corner of Torsway/Fordway, and finally corner of Torsway/Bardsway.
Grandparents lived on allotment end of Bardsway for 50 odd years.
 
Davepick said:
Clappers, I went to Tyldesley Youth Club also. Would have been around 1950/53.
Sorry, just realised you didn't mean the Youth Club. 🙄
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Played soccer for Tyldesley Youth Club with Russ Perkins, Tim Stewart, and Andy Ladkin if anybody is that old that they remember them! We were under 18’s top dogs and pretty much unbeatable
 
Eternaloptimist said:
I waited on at Leyton Institute for a while.
Got more money in tips that wages😂
Busy every night of the week and some decent (if not well known) acts as well.
Good memories.
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Oh for a pint of the Institute Mild!
they don’t have anything that good down here in Cambridge and twice the price
 
tommytwojags said:
Garrick Grove Fargo? Did you know any of these who lived there - Butterworth, Shaw, Mottram, Brown, Benson ? Might have been a bit before your time there.
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I used to know a Derrick Shaw. Not sure if it’s the same person. I also used to know Johnny Mottram who I think died of a heart attack!
 
CAGU said:
yeah Alan was his son a good looking blonde lad who did very well with the ladies
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I remember Alan. I went with a pal to look at a BMW when they were a rare car way back. My pal said 'aren't they expensive when they go wrong' ? He replied 'they don't go wrong'. He always looked a flashy and always had a nice bird on his arm.
 
Johnno said:
I did. ‘72-‘82. First house was 6 Blairway (near park gates), then corner of Torsway/Fordway, and finally corner of Torsway/Bardsway.
Grandparents lived on allotment end of Bardsway for 50 odd years.
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Must have missed each by months, I I didn't live on Blairway but had good friends in the Thornley at number 2 and cardwells at number 5. Also knew a girl called Andrea who lived I think at 8, whose mum owned the step in shoe bar! Knew a couple of lads who lived at the top of Blairway as well or may have been over the other end. They had minis with a few others who were always flying around, unfortunately one of them committed suicide on Kingscote.

I was on t'other side of the park, on birchway. Greatest days of my life and each day was fun.
 
SirHarryThomson said:
I remember Alan. I went with a pal to look at a BMW when they were a rare car way back. My pal said 'aren't they expensive when they go wrong' ? He replied 'they don't go wrong'. He always looked a flashy and always had a nice bird on his arm.
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That’s him alright, great lad, I think he ended up as a ski instructor as well as running the garage
 
What a lovely thread. Not my area of upbringing but I am familiar with all the areas / roads mentioned.

Out of interest where do Layton's boundaries begin and end? It's a bigger area than most people think I rekon.

On this 1800's Map Hoo Hill is an area and there is a Layton Villa.

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CAGU said:
Played soccer for Tyldesley Youth Club with Russ Perkins, Tim Stewart, and Andy Ladkin if anybody is that old that they remember them! We were under 18’s top dogs and pretty much unbeatable
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Was in the same form as Andy Ladkin at senior school ( Arnold) . Played against him some years later when he was playing for the Blue Room.
Is he still around locally do you know?
 
Great thread this one.
Even though I have never lived in Layton I know it very well from my PO days. Knew every street etc.
Just remembered, I do have a connection. Both my Grand mothers are in the Cemetery. 😀
 
FessParker said:
Was in the same form as Andy Ladkin at senior school ( Arnold) . Played against him some years later when he was playing for the Blue Room.
Is he still around locally do you know?
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Don’t know as I left the Fylde in 1983 and we never kept in touch
 
Lived on Deneway for a short time. Can't believe Gordon's the barbers is still on Westcliffe Drive. Probably not the original. Me & a mate were desperate for a haircut on a weds afternoon early 80's back when most shops shut. Thankfully 🥺Gordon's was open. Old boy's only line was "side parting or not". We tossed a coin I lost. As I explained in detail the fantastic bird pulling hairstyle I had in mind....glazed expression "side parting or not". Worst haircut possible & when I turned round my mate was out of the door 😪
 
Willie Mcgrotty said:
Lived on Deneway for a short time. Can't believe Gordon's the barbers is still on Westcliffe Drive. Probably not the original. Me & a mate were desperate for a haircut on a weds afternoon early 80's back when most shops shut. Thankfully 🥺Gordon's was open. Old boy's only line was "side parting or not". We tossed a coin I lost. As I explained in detail the fantastic bird pulling hairstyle I had in mind....glazed expression "side parting or not". Worst haircut possible & when I turned round my mate was out of the door 😪
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😂😂

Surely it can’t be ‘the’ Gordon still?
He was cutting my hair nearly 50 years ago.
 
Willie Mcgrotty said:
Lived on Deneway for a short time. Can't believe Gordon's the barbers is still on Westcliffe Drive. Probably not the original. Me & a mate were desperate for a haircut on a weds afternoon early 80's back when most shops shut. Thankfully 🥺Gordon's was open. Old boy's only line was "side parting or not". We tossed a coin I lost. As I explained in detail the fantastic bird pulling hairstyle I had in mind....glazed expression "side parting or not". Worst haircut possible & when I turned round my mate was out of the door 😪
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Gordons is still there. If he's retired I don't think it's that long ago in terms of the length of time he was there. Less than five years perhaps- but not certain.
 
Used to be taken to Gordon's in the early 60s by my old man.
Back then think it was Gordon's dad cutting hair as well as him, anyone on here confirm that ? They used to have a plank of wood placed across the arm of the barbers chair for little one to sit to boost you up so they could cut your hair.
 
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