Re: O/T Industries we have lost : Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:11 pm  

morleys_deckchair wrote:

no doubt about that....

black bear is though

The bus stop there is still called the Dog and Dart...

...and some of the regulars seem to have just transferred across...

Re: O/T Industries we have lost : Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:15 pm  

Urmston Wire wrote:

The bus stop there is still called the Dog and Dart...

...and some of the regulars seem to have just transferred across...

haha... i drank in the little manor when i was 16-21 then they turned it into a food pup... terrible loss...that was an amazing pub..... D&D was always full of pretty bad chavs... most of them i went school with.

Re: O/T Industries we have lost : Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:16 pm  

pocket*trout wrote:

Industries...Winwick Hospital....What did they make there?

People better

Re: O/T Industries we have lost : Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:51 pm  

Wire2000 wrote:

Rigbys Dairy

My Dad used to work there and me when I was in my teens, the memories of getting up at 2.30am on a Saturday morning to help deliver the milk in return for a fiver that would be used to save up for the latest mega drive game

Re: O/T Industries we have lost : Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:05 pm  

A Monk & Co in Woolston (for me dad Len Beswick)

Norstrum Fluid Handling (for me Neil, apprenticed to Barry Williams who was a full back for Wigan in the early 80's)

Thatchers Bloody Britain.....................................

Re: O/T Industries we have lost : Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:01 am  

You know bit of a disscussion in the pub the other night people who use to come down your road well depending where you live?
Milkman.
Breadman.
Coalman.
popman. Usually wanted to screw ya sister!)
Meatman.(DON T ASK!!)
Ice cream man!!!!!!Ernie i think his name was pushed a bike thingy full of ice cream!!
rag and Bone man.
Or People just knocking on your door asking did you have any old newspapers!!!

oh one more the school board man who use to try and chase you with a limp!!!

Re: O/T Industries we have lost : Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:37 am  

Parkside Colliery
Ohh.....and does the burger kiosk at Wilderspool count as well?

Re: O/T Industries we have lost : Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:08 am  

Warrington Timber,
Naylors Timber,
Ferous Light Castings,
Atlas Express,
Warrington Tube Works,
Pierpoint & Bryant,
Alpine Refrigeration,
Sankey Green Wire.

Re: O/T Industries we have lost : Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:10 pm  

Electrohydraulics,
Polycell Tiles,
Vulcan works,
Conveyancer,

.... so remind me once again Margaret T, how does this country pay its way anymore?

Re: O/T Industries we have lost : Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:07 pm  

if all these places were still open where would the workers come from ?