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Date Posted: 16:04:27 12/16/10 Thu
Author: Tom Ryder
Author Host/IP: 78.151.186.173
Subject: Speke Library

This is a portion of an email that I received from Kathleen Ball, (who now lives in Australia) Hope she doesn't mind me sharing this with you all.......Tom

Hi,
I moved to 7, Greyhound Farm Rd, Speke in 1939 when I was 3 years old ( born in Speke Rd Gardens, Garston).

When I first lived there the Old Smithy was converted to three shops, Gourley's, the Butcher, and Scotts. The wooden hitching rails for the horses were still there as we used to play tossing on them. There was an old cottage in Speke Church Road which had the front room converted to a sweet shop and I rather think they had a parrot in a cage. There was also Mrs Nursall's shop which was a wooden lean to on the side of her cottage further around the corner. She sold sweets, cigarettes and newspapers.

My recollection is that before the library moved to the Old Smithy there was one in the house on the corner of Blacklock Hall Rd and Blackrod Ave. I used to go there with my mum and Dad and I had my own ticket. The two downstairs rooms housed the library and the desk where the books were stamped was in the hallway.

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[> Re: Speke Library -- Elizabeth Nursall, 15:56:44 02/26/15 Thu (86.1.24.89)

Hi, my grandma Dorothy Nursall ran the sweet shop you were talking about, my mum Norma Goodwin married her son Trevor in 1953, I wondered if you had any photo's of my grandmas cottage shop? Thanks, Liz Nursall

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