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Further on, past The 'Bowling Green' pub was a Co-Op, with a telegraph system suspended from the ceiling, in order to deliver customer's money, in screw capped canisters, to the clerk who used to be on a pedestal at the rear of the shop. The telegraph was an ingenious device which relied on a series of pulley's and springs which enabled one to send monet and messages to and fro within the shop. and who completed the transaction by filling the canister with change and recipt, before pulling the (toilet like) chain and sending the canister flying accross the ceiling back to the assistant. This building is now the 'brasserie 10-16' restaurant.

The veg shop now sells goth/heavy metal videos and game paraphanalia, while the butchers shop on the other side of Brook Pl. passage is a motorcycle parts shop.

There was a wonderful bakery on the opposite corner of 'The Cottage' pub, and of course the dear old 'Majestic' Cinema or 'flea pit where 'Hopalong Cassidy' and Flash Gordon ruled. The cost was thruppence for 2 hours of ecstasy! (...costs a lot more today, I believe!!) Read more »

You can still see the Butchers and veg shop buildings in Brook Street, and the tiny bit which is left of Back Brook Street here.

This is all that is now left of Back Brook Street. From the white sided building on the right to the white sided building on the left. Looking towards Hoole.

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