Butt Lane / Talke Part ONE Visiting the areas from Kidsgrove the Bygone days musical

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  • @bascule42
    @bascule42 Місяць тому +2

    Joe Whalley! Yes, we got our paraffin for the outside bog! This was the early 80's still. Got sent for firelighters and pigeon corn a lot. Grew up in Chapel Street, right opposite the Church. We moved to Skellern Street in 86 and was backed onto the Millstone car park. Used to jump over my wall as a short cut to the chippy. Definitely a bookies at the top of Chapel Street. Was just "The Bumpy"! 5 and in 'em on the playing fields!!! The drive going down to the newer methodist chapel was quite steep, homemade go-karts, steep bank. Right on my doorstep. Where you are stood talking about what was at the old chapel was my house! No 41 - it's not there anymore they knocked all those terraced houses down - (see my previous comment about the outside toilet). Corner Pin was my Dads local. Many trips down there to get the 10p on the empties Barr pop bottles at the outdoor.

  • @sharronwaterhouse5864
    @sharronwaterhouse5864 Місяць тому +3

    Absolutely brilliant again! All the nostalgic feels … yet again. RIP DUDS ❤

  • @chucksavage3712
    @chucksavage3712 Місяць тому +4

    Thanks again!
    So many great memories of Butt Lane and Talke.
    R.I.P. Duds.

    • @EricHolford-v1i
      @EricHolford-v1i 22 дні тому

      Hi, Eric Holford replying from Canada born at Bunkers hill farm 1946, moved to 77 Coal Pit Hill lived there until 1967 married and moved to Canada Vera Holford worked at the mill until retired really enjoyed this movie thank you

  • @paulcolclough1522
    @paulcolclough1522 Місяць тому +6

    My Father was David Colclough from the Newsagents which is now Scotts barbers, we had the shop from around the mid 50's to early 80's, that row of shops was fantastic back then and started with Kennedys chip shop then us at the newsagents, then the chemist, Bill Leason at the VG grocers then Barnets fruit and veg, I also remember the old co op bakery where the co op is now before it became Popeys gym, happy days but I have never seen any photos of that row of shops from that period.

    • @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov
      @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov Місяць тому +1

      Thanks Paul.... i keep searching for photos and if i find any i will let you know.

    • @chrisbettani5280
      @chrisbettani5280 Місяць тому +1

      I remember that shop, was an Happy Shopper shop early ninties

    • @db2805
      @db2805 Місяць тому +1

      I used to work with your brother Leigh nice bloke so funny.

  • @julierogerson7997
    @julierogerson7997 Місяць тому +1

    Another great video dad (bob watts) would of loved to have been part of these videos there wasn't much he didn't know about buttlane and talke being a buttlaner for over 80 years with many a tale he could of told😊 thank you for his mention feels good.and what a beautiful dedication to mark dudsy ❤
    Look forward to the next video 👍

  • @Trevorz999
    @Trevorz999 Місяць тому +2

    Big flea ❤ big film star now ... Good to see you looking so well , some good happy memories makes me feel old now ... Trevor prince 👍👍👍

  • @DavidHodgkinson-no4gm
    @DavidHodgkinson-no4gm Місяць тому +1

    Fantastic another trip into local history 👍

  • @AndrewWardDale
    @AndrewWardDale Місяць тому +2

    Many thanks for this! So many references I remember from my father and grandmother.
    First a couple of questions: at 4:04 there is a B/W school photo. The teacher looks very like Bob Smith from Reginald Mitchell? And a bit later there is a photo of Bath Pool showing a house. I remember what was called the pink house and about 20 years ago had an email from a guy in Australia who said he had grown up in it.
    My grandfather worked in The Mousetrap in the 1930s. He quit his job in the mines after seeing one accident too many.
    I remember Arthur Pace, our near neighbour, had a second garage near Arclid crossroads (or was that his brother?). The area behind his garage at Talke was also called the Brickie Hole by my Dad. He explained there used to be a brick kiln there.
    I remember delivering Sunday papers around John St and Thomas St. A few had to ask for credit…
    The dentist in the Tudor house on Congleton Road was a Dr Birmingham. Many had bad memories of moments there. I remember the foul smell of rubber from the gas mask. I also had many “haircuts” at Baddaleys. Nowadays that style is a fashion among footballers. And there was a Mrs Bossons who was a dinner lady at RMCPS and used to escort groups of girls around the playground. I also remember there being a small orchard on the left as you go down Banbury Street. There are houses there now.
    My grandmother worked in the fustian mill (fustian: ‘thick, hard-wearing twilled cloth with a short nap, usually dyed in dark colours, sometimes used for prison clothing’) and reckoned she walked a dozen miles a day threading the warp (?). I have a photo I found, posted below (this may be in Philip Lees’s book. I haven’t checked.) At the end of the day shift she would sit in the ground floor window bay (now they have grills) and hang her long hair out, waiting for my grandfather to come along on his way home from the pit to tug it…
    I remember Mr Daams well. He was a milkman and lived in Talke Pits. I was at RMCPS with his daughter Jane.
    Popeye’s gym was the former main CoOp Bakery. The boss was a Mr Robinson, who was well known locally. My mother worked in the CoOp bakery and cake shop at the top of Church Street, before taking over the booze section in the main CoOp building. That was .. advantageous.
    For us Butt Lane began at Second Ave. In the 1930s the land between Second Ave and Butt Lane was open fields with small hills, which may have been slag dump from the mines. My father remembered riding his bike there. I have asked if anyone has photos of it, but so far no success.
    My father was born in his uncle’s house, Rose Cottage near St Saviour’s and grew up at 130 Congleton Road near Broadhurst the undertaker. My grandfather kept asking Mr B jokingly “How’s business?”. “Terrible,” he always replied. “Haven’t buried a living soul all week.”
    Across the road from him was Whalley’s, but in his day in the 1930s it was owned by Dickie Weaver, a fishmonger. My dad and his gang used to gather outside Weaver’s and chant: “Dickie Weaver sells fish /Tuppence ha’penny a dish / Cock your leg up / Stick a peg up / Dickie Weaver sells fish”. Then he would come out and chase them away.

    • @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov
      @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov Місяць тому

      This is absolutely fantastic !!! Thank you !!!

    • @AndrewWardDale
      @AndrewWardDale Місяць тому +1

      [No picture of the fustian mill posted: it's the same one in your video]

    • @RobertBateman-x7f
      @RobertBateman-x7f Місяць тому

      Hi Andrew, it's indeed Bob Smith who was in charge of the football team.

    • @chrisbettani5280
      @chrisbettani5280 Місяць тому

      My Great Grandfather worked at one of the cafes, I believe it’s the Mouse Trap - Walter Palin, has it was close to where he lived at the cottages at the bricky ‘Ole, where my Nan grew up and left when they were condemned.
      My Nan said they never mentioned they’ve lived at the bricky ole cause they were embarrassed.
      There was also the Bunns family to the Palins, that also lived at the bricky ‘ole.

  • @RobertBateman-x7f
    @RobertBateman-x7f Місяць тому +2

    I was born in Chapel St in 1961 and my brother and I were friends of Phil Sherman as kids as he will remember. A great video really enjoyed it bringing back many memories. As to the origins of 'Butt' Lane I'm sure I read some years ago that it may get it's name from the 'butt' the targets that the medieval archers used shoot at many hundreds of years ago, just another school of thought.

    • @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov
      @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov Місяць тому +2

      Hi Rob.... the medieval archers was also mentioned by Philip in his top 3 possibles. I am still on the farming connection idea tbh, but we must be close to getting a definitive answer.

    • @Carusus1
      @Carusus1 Місяць тому +1

      1. Butt: a cask, typically used for wine, beer, or water. "a butt of malmsey"
      Origin: late Middle English: from Old French bot, from late Latin buttis .
      2. In French 'butte' has the meaning of a small hill, on which a house might stand. In the USA it means something a bit more dramatic, like the Devil's Tower in Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind.
      My father went with the target practice, but I sort of doubt it.
      We'll never know for sure.
      A place definitely used for target practice is the pool hidden at the far end of Bath Pool park after the walk through the woods, which we knew as 'Blood Pool'. Its far side is a very steep clay hill. In that clay we used to retrieve what looked like musket balls, possibly from around the time of the civil war.

    • @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov
      @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov Місяць тому +1

      Brilliant.... you have me now swaying towards the house on the hill lol

    • @anthonyclowes7331
      @anthonyclowes7331 8 днів тому

      Hi Rob, hope you are well, watched this because I bumped into Phil Sherman at my place of work this morning. All the best old mate,Ant Clowes

  • @peternoble9408
    @peternoble9408 Місяць тому +2

    Born in church street 1944 my gran stayed at number 73 my aunt Sarah lived at number 24 she worked at wright's shop later changed to Kanes worked there as a van boy in the late 50s

  • @martincolclough4387
    @martincolclough4387 Місяць тому +1

    Mr Darms was a scrap metal dealer, he was polish, and the glass man Flea points to was Mr Beresford, who was a carpenter. It was Maurice Colclough who owned the fruit & veg shop in the lower shops. Where the curry shop is was Mrs Brooke’s decorating shop, and the insurance brokers was Nicklins pet shop. Mr Edmunds could fix anything, he had a shed.

  • @familys1209
    @familys1209 Місяць тому +1

    I think there should still be tiles on the outer wall behind the vets etc from when it was a Slaughter house

  • @chrisbettani5280
    @chrisbettani5280 Місяць тому +1

    The bricky ‘ole had a row of cottages that shared an outside tap and a toilet. The Palins, buns which are related and a few other family’s lived there. My nanna is a Palin, and her grandad worked at the cafe, Walter Palin, he only had one leg and was a night watchmen.

  • @SL1PSTAR
    @SL1PSTAR Місяць тому +2

    I used to work with a chap named Hearson, who mentioned working in a shop on Butt Lane. I'm guessing this can't be a coincidence, considering the name was mentioned?

    • @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov
      @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov Місяць тому

      There were a few Hearsons in the area, do you have Christian name ? I will follow up.

    • @SL1PSTAR
      @SL1PSTAR Місяць тому

      @@DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov I think it was Eric.

    • @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov
      @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov Місяць тому +1

      @@SL1PSTAR Eric owned the off licence that is in the video at 32mins 13 secs. Sadly no longer there, but some fantastic memories.

    • @SL1PSTAR
      @SL1PSTAR Місяць тому

      @@DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov Thanks for that. 👍

    • @bascule42
      @bascule42 Місяць тому +1

      Was definitely Eric Hearson, off license on the corner of Banbury Street/Congleton Road

  • @ashleycartlidge4634
    @ashleycartlidge4634 Місяць тому

    So interesting!
    Recently moved on Walton lived here just over 12 months love the area to bits but love to know is there any old photos of where my house stands

  • @steverathbone1954
    @steverathbone1954 Місяць тому

    Hi All On the first map were was Pump Hollow as wifes father and grand parents live there Meakins and other relations Simkins all so she can remember Little Nell ? is that Nelly Dean Thanks

    • @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov
      @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov Місяць тому +1

      Im on hols @ the mo ... will check when im home on the 8th Oct.

    • @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov
      @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov Місяць тому +1

      Nelly Lowe (Little Nell) ws down in Thomas Hollow i am told

    • @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov
      @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov 11 днів тому +1

      Hi Steve ....i found some photos of Pump Hollow, are you on the face book group Kidsgrove Past In Pictures ??

    • @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov
      @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov 11 днів тому

      @steverthbone954

  • @helenlouiseyoung920
    @helenlouiseyoung920 Місяць тому

    There are lots of misconceptions on this video. Box crossroads is not Talke lights it’s the big roundabout over the A500,
    I’m all for local history but it needs to be correct!

    • @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov
      @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov Місяць тому

      Thnx Helen .... i will look into this, we love this sort of feedback to make sure we are close to the mark. Some is subjective we accept tbh. At first glance the A500 roundabout was not even in existence in the early 1800s when Telford built the road that we know now as the A34. In fact it was only last century when that was built. Talke Rd ran from Talke over Red St into Chesterton. I am away abroad at the moment, but on my return i will double check against the reference library i used for the video. The Toll booth build in the 1820s (demolished 1920) makes reference to it been on the "box crossroads" .... there is a pic in the video showing it on the site of the Caudwell Tavern (Congleton Rd)
      I promise to follow this up on my return. I will keep you in the loop. Thanks again Dave

    • @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov
      @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov Місяць тому

      Incidentally Helen, can you tell me your source of your thinking on the a500 box crossroads, then i can easily check with our local historian and reference library. Please would you also elaborate on any other "misconceptions" and i will check them out at the same time. We must strive to get things right. Many thanks

    • @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov
      @DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov Місяць тому

      Found a map. and Box Crossroads are at the beginning of Telfords Rd, so at where the roundabout is now. Thanks again for this, it is appreciated.

    • @EricHolford-v1i
      @EricHolford-v1i 22 дні тому +1

      @@DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov hi not sure how to do this reply, Eric Holford at Bunkers hill farm 1946, then lived at 77 Coal pit hill Talk until coming to Canada 1967 Mum was Vera Holford and worked at the Mill Vera mainden name was Hulse