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I've been interested in the talk of Horwich End School and the trip to Bagshaws shop on the way home. Well, here's my Mum on the way back from doing her shopping !! I reckon it was taken around about 1935. As you can see, the weather was always good in those days !! 
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Gnats,
Great photos . Keep them coming.
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Brilliant !
These sorts of snaps may be the only record of how that shop front looked. It's great to see them. Thankyou !!
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Being somewhat at a loose end on Saturday morning and rather liking this photograph, I took the liberty of tidying it up a little. Attached is the result.
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Really nice picture, but it looks like Gnatalee's mum forgot her kerb drill that day.
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Well, she may have forgotten her kerb drill but I presume she may have seen someone with a red flag in front of a car 
Seriously though, I assume that traffic wasn't as it is now and that perhaps it would have been 5-10 minutes before the next vehicle passed by. Any ideas anyone on the frequency of traffic in the early to mid-thirties? Its quite an interesting thought isn't it? Goods transport was more likely to be by train, not everyone had a car (whereas these days many families have 2+ !!!)
I can only work on word-of-mouth about the "good old days". What do other members of the forum have to contribute? I, for one, would love to know about such important aspects of village life.
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I was brought up in the 1950's, so as a relative youngster compared with some on the forum I'm afraid I can't help you on that one!
Thinking back to the fifties though, the Trinity church hall organised very popular roller-skating sessions for the kids on Saturday afternoons, and I can distinctly remember being able to skate back home from the Trinity around tea-time along the main road. I mean the actual road, not the footpath. P C Bill Boston wouldn't have approved. So I guess the roads were sometimes quiet, although the traffic must have rapidly got worse after that.
Can you imagine what it would be like on the main road now if the by-pass hadn't been built?
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Dear Snowy,
What memories your posting brought back to me with the roller skating at the Trinity Hall on Saturday. I used to help Laurence Griffin patrol the naughty children of the day. Oh for naughty children like that nowadays. The worst case of naughtiness was one lad chewing chewing gum inside the hall. This was the days of metal wheels and the noise was deafening. After a few years the new rubber wheels came to Whaley and what a blessing that was. Tea or orange juice was available with biscuits in the small side room....Ah, the good old days.... thanks for reminding me.
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