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Broadway Stores - Bootle.

Andrew Kerr on the Bootle and Sefton History Facebook group posted this original artwork.

It's great stuff :)

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He actually renamed one of the shops in the artwork after an old school teacher who I also remember well from St Wilfrids high school 'Staffo'.

Dobsy will remember him if he is reading this thread.

Staffo's catchphrase when he spotted you when you were getting up to mischief was "You Boy!!!"

You then realised you were well and truly in trouble.

This is a great addition to the artwork because he could not remember the actual name of the shop next door.

Brilliant artwork.

Mack :D
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Should be on the front of the Dandy or Beano Christmas Annual.

Just needs Dennis the Menace or Roger the Dodger coming out of the shop with a catapult or sneezing powder.

Bought lots there over the years. All completely stupid, but fun.


Saw mention of this on one of the Stanley Road threads.

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The name Criddle struck a chord. An industrialist and local philanthropist, his name still lives on today.

I first came across Criddle Billington in the early 90's. We used to deliver feed fat to their Glazebury mill from Frank Fehr in Birchall Street.

The Liverpool feed mill mentioned in the article below was on Great Homer Street, that eventually moved to Ellesmere Port.

It was one of the Billington family who stepped in, at short notice, to open the FF- Man Feed Products terminal by the Alexandra Dock in 1994.

You'll still see the Billington name on bags of demerara sugar. The head office is in the Cunard Building.



27th November 2015 | Animal Feed, Company News, Grain Trading, Top Story

Nidera UK, the domestic arm of the Rotterdam-based international grain trading business, has established a presence in the North West region through the acquisition of Criddle & Co’s grain trading business from Edward Billington & Son. The deal, which completes on December 1st, is Nidera’s second UK acquisition this year.

Criddle & Co trades in over 80 commodities as preferred supplier to the Billington Group of feed and food ingredient, manufactured foodstuffs and bioenergy businesses. This includes the Carr’s Billington Agriculture (CBA) joint venture feed manufacturing operation with the Carr’s Group, which comprises three feed mills and three blending plants. Criddle has its headquarters in Liverpool’s Cunard building alongside the rest of the Billington Group, with a separate grain buying office in Wem, Shropshire.

The Criddle family started in sugar in 1858, and joined Billington in 1898, shortly before the Group’s sugar interests were sold and the Criddle brand transferred to a new Liverpool feed mill in 1902. This compound feed business became Criddle Burgess in 1970 and CBA in 1998.

“This agreement represents a perfect fit between the two companies and a very positive development for all stakeholders,” says Lloyd Whiteley, chairman of The Billington Group. “With its growing presence throughout the arable supply chain, both nationally and internationally, Nidera is ideally placed to develop and grow this business, ensuring that it continues to go from strength to strength.

“Despite the change in ownership, the business will retain its status as preferred supplier of combinable crops to the compound feed business of The Billington Group.”

For Nidera UK, chief executive Mark Dordery adds that the deal will create value for both parties and their customers. “This agreement complements our ongoing strategy of expanding and diversifying our existing business by widening our geographic reach. It brings the benefits of Nidera’s global grain trading strength and marketing insight to local growers, enabling closer links with industry consumers of combinable crops and allowing them to access our expanding range of seeds and fertilisers and associated technical advice.

“The move will allow us to serve the needs of our growing client base of producers and consumers of combinable crops. As we see ongoing concentration within our industry sector, this agreement enhances choice for growers and consumers in this important arable region,” Mr Dordery concludes. “Our intention is very much to invest in Criddle’s existing resources and its highly professional team, which is well established and respected throughout the local region.”

Criddle & Co will continue to be led by grain trading director Stewart Johnson. “This is great news for our farming clients, who will have access to unrivalled market intelligence provided by Nidera’s global network and will enjoy the security that a major international agribusiness provides,” he says.

“Our people will continue to be based at their existing offices in Liverpool and Wem, which will give both farmers and consumers the continued benefit of local service.”

Nidera UK has its headquarters near Ipswich in Suffolk, from where it runs the Ipswich Grain Terminal that handles a million tonnes of grain – over a third of the UK’s average annual wheat exports. It also has storage and processing facilities in York, and acquired the specialist seed business Grainseed earlier this year (ATN June 5th).
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Bootle Tmes December 15 1894 Front Page

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S. Gorfunkle, :) 50 Stanley Road, corner of Bedford Road and Stanley Road.
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Bibby trade advert from the 80's.

Monoglyceride estimations. Always came in about 2 o'clock in the morning.

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I've forgotten the specifications for the products. One of them was 3.00 - 3.25 % monoglyceride content.

That calculator was state-of- the-art.
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Big Ray spent 10½ hours on the forum May 19 2009, posting 3 comments about Alt Road on a deleted Lunt Road thread.

One contained this picture of his father.

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Great photo.
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Dan wrote: Sun Jan 13, 2019 6:48 am Graham. It's all me me me, with people like you.
Sorry, I don't use emojis as I invariably pick the wrong one.
You only gave half a post.
Was it St Mary's?
No it is crosby county secondary modern school for boys and girls, the girls moved to manor road, just are luck.
I went to crosby county from st lukes which was just off the photo to the left behind the crown buildings,
all gone now very sad.
regards Les Norman
May 19 1952

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Regards

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From the Liverpool Echo. January 2016 view over Seaforth and Bootle.

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Bit of good news for the area.

Sefton Planning are due to give the go-ahead to the re-development of the old Peerless site, December 9.


Dunningsbridge running left to right, Heysham Road running down the right. Park Hotel upper left.

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From the classifieds in the Waterloo Times January 22 1881.

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Salisbury Hotel and Albert Hotel in Bank Road, and an early ad for Johnson's.
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December 14 2020. Demolition work has started at the Strand, to develop the canal side of the site.

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Bootle Times January 18 1973.

Parr's second hand bookshop on Stanley Road, and Ali Baba records on the Vale were regular haunts.

Terylene, first created in Accrington. Says it all really.

Now more usually seen as clear, plastic PET bottles used for vegetable oils and fizzy drinks.

Remember, in the early 80's, Bibby's management thought moving from PVC bottles was going to be a huge game-changer.

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Bootle Times August 22 1974 Jobs page.

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Really was a different world back then, Dan. :(
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Yes Phil, it's amazing to see the number of jobs being advertised.

I've posted, below, the jobs pages from the July 5 1973 Bootle Times, including the small ads.

Contains the only ad I've ever seen for "The Chickeny" on Bridle Road, officially known as "Country Produce Limited".

Always remember the girls in their white turbans, white coats and white wellies, walking to work along Bridle Road.


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Do I remember rightly, that there was a danger of contracting cancer from handling the chickens, Dan?
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Cheers Phil.

Poultry and turkeys are known to carry viruses that can cause cancer in poultry and turkeys.

There have been several studies of poultry workers, but none have shown increased cancers.


There are seven known viruses that can cause human cancers, with the study of others ongoing.

They include the Epstein-Barr and hepatitis B and C viruses.
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Some good jobs Dan :D :D :D :D :D
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Thanks for that, Dan, maybe it was a Chinese whisper I had heard.
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Couldn't resist. The number of views was 111110 so I had to make it 111111. :D
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A photo from Kathleen@oldpicposter twitter feed.

A fleet of Morris & Jones delivery wagons on South John Street from the 1950's.

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The company was founded in 1878, when Edward Jones and his brother-in-law Evan Morris set up a Wholesale Grocery & Provision

Warehouse in Liverpool.


A company calling card from 1939.

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The head office was Keenora House in Wood Street.

In 1947 the warehouse address was given as Fleet Street/Wood Street.

The company was re-branded as MoJo Cash & Carry and was later bought out by Booker.
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Used to go to the Mojo on Dunningsbridge Road for our family food in the 70s. Remember getting 10lb boxes of cornflakes and 5lb tins of jam. :D
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Cheers Phil

I knew I'd seen the logo , but couldn't remember where.

That must have been one huge cornflake tart you were making. :D

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:lol: :lol: I heard it was last used as a paper store for the Giro, Dan.
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Litherland bus sheds opposite the Essoldo on Linacre Road. A few words in that sentence I thought I'd never use again.

Others that spring to mind are; gramophone record, tansad, casey, slide rule, logarithms, Sally Lunn. :D

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1975. Sale on at Jonathan Silver on London Road.

Will flares, double vented jackets, leather macs ever make a comeback?

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1960's London Road /Lime Street/

Crawford's Biscuits delivery van on Commutation Row.

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Echo delivery vans in Crosshall Street in the 1940s

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Further to the Morris & Jones pictures which Dan posted earlier this month, I found this picture
of the A6 road on Shap Fell in Westmorland, which was one of the main routes North & South
between England and Scotland. I believe the area is now called Cumbria. :wink: The lorry just
to the right of centre of the picture is a Bedford covered lorry of Morris & Jones of Liverpool.
I recognised the artwork and logo on the rear of the lorry, showing " Black Boy Tips Tea ".
Click on picture for larger image.

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Gardner 180 wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:48 am Further to the Morris & Jones pictures which Dan posted earlier this month, I found this picture
of the A6 road on Shap Fell in Westmorland, which was one of the main routes North & South
between England and Scotland. I believe the area is now called Cumbria. :wink: The lorry just
to the right of centre of the picture is a Bedford covered lorry of Morris & Jones of Liverpool.
I recognised the artwork and logo on the rear of the lorry, showing " Black Boy Tips Tea ".
Click on picture for larger image.

Ray.

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People just going about their jobs as they've done for many years, overcoming whatever obstacles they find in their way.

Now always accompanied by an evermore hysterical media, "unprecedented snow bomb hits the roads", "terror from the tundra".

Used to be called a bit of bad weather that'll blow over. :(
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Dan. Just catching up on your posts on this page.
Dead interesting stuff, especially the job adverts. Noticed that most of the companies advertising vacancies no longer exist. How times change.
Thanks again Dan.


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Part of one of the jobs I used to have involved performing environmental audits in disused factories.

Went to Bryant & May Speke, and both of the English Electric sites on Dunningsbridge and the East Lancs.

It hits home walking onto sites that used to provide a decent living for hundreds, if not thousands of people.

This week the decision on the future of Vauxhall Ellesmere Port is expected.

Everything will depend on the financial inducements the government can come up with.


The other big decision due this week, tomorrow morning (23rd) 9.45 am Planning Committee Meeting for the Bramley Moore development.

The meeting is being live streamed.
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Bob, when did you last use one of these ? I did about 15 years ago to trim 3 rolls of
Lincrusta to hang on a customer's frieze 😀😀😀,
Btw it's now about £265 per roll
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Apparently Santander have pulled the plans to re-develop the old Giro building on Orrell Pleasure.

Can't see there being much call for a big office building in the current environment.

So that will be two sites, the Giro and the New Strand, that Sefton will be taking on for re-development.

I don't think the mental toll of working from home has been adequately addressed. That will be one for the future.
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Obituary in The Times today of Bill Collins (died March 3 2021), born in Bootle, who in 1961 as a co-inventor of the Chorleywood Baking Process

revolutionised bread-making.

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Bill Collins (right) with former Chorleywood colleagues Mike Overton (left) and Jim Brown (centre) at the BSB annual meeting in 2011

Bill Collins, co-inventor of the Chorleywood Bread Process, has passed away.

Here, Baketran director Stan Cauvain talks about how his former colleague and friend revolutionised the baking industry.

Mention the name Thomas Hylton Collins to bakers around the world and you will get a puzzled look; change that to Bill Collins and you get instant recognition, not least because of his association with the invention of the Chorleywood Bread Process (CBP). Yet there was much more to Bill’s career than the invention of the CBP, and his detailed knowledge of the manufacture of bread and fermented goods covered all aspects of breadmaking.

Born in 1931, he attended Holt High but was evacuated to the Lakes.

Left school at 17, first job as a cabinet maker.

His father, Thomas, who ran a pie factory(don't know where), encouraged him to try for the City and Guilds bakery course at the Food and Tech College.

In 1956 he took up a post as experimental and liaison officer in the bakery section of Chorleywood, now better known as Campden BRI.

In 1978 he was awarded the Queen's Jubilee Medal.

Most of the bread sold in Britain, and probably throughout the developed world, is manufactured using the Chorleywood Process.
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