Now this was a very very popular place. Going around towards Owen and Owens, that was right on the corner, a continuation of Church Street going round to Clayton Square. That was about three f...

Everything was import: matting import, hoses import. Local firms made it for the trade, for ships; anyone who wanted matting for lifts or walking mats, they had it.

Interviewer: "What was special about that pub?" Dennis: "Well there were two ladies, their names were Jean and Ann and they were characters in their own right. They certainly were. They left a...

They were Victorian, it was all tiles, spotless and all around the top all the tanks were glass, the cisterns were glass and there were goldfish in it. People say ‘no’ but there were definitel...

Colin: "Virtually every corner had a pub on it." Interviewer: "Do any spring to mind?" Colin (consults a photograph of the area): "There was a big pub here and that was a Walkers (points to ph...

I used to go out on my veranda and it was lovely, the Lane used to be buzzing. All different people coming from all different jobs and I’d shout to them and they’d wave up to me and I’d wave b...

There used to be a pub on every corner of this Lane. In fact there was one on this short street here; Dickenson Street, it was called The Curio and it was just here on this corner. There was T...

You’d get a lot of the carters and wagon drivers and stuff like that. They’d have to park and back up, while they waited to be loaded or unloaded because they didn’t just go in, they all had t...