Newsagents by Turf

Claret32yrs · Post by **Claret32yrs** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:28 pm

My memory may be playing tricks but back in the 80's I thought I remembered there being a newsagents on the corner of Turf Moor, or at least a door or two up from the entrance to the old Bee Hole. Please tell me I am not imagining it. Anyone remember it?

Dark Cloud · Post by **Dark Cloud** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:32 pm

There was. Run by the Preston family, if I remember rightly. Big Clarets fans.

ralphdpomeroy · Post by **ralphdpomeroy** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:33 pm

Yes the end house was a sweet shop the newsagents was next door ... I worked in the newspaper circulation department at the Express in the early 90s

Claret32yrs · Post by **Claret32yrs** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:35 pm

Thank God for that. Remember going in there for sweets for the game. Memory isn't what it was. Cheers chaps!

ralphdpomeroy · Post by **ralphdpomeroy** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:35 pm

Burnley1989 · Post by **Burnley1989** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:38 pm

My family had a sweet shop, I’d go and get a mix from all the tubs before every home game. Happy memories

TheOriginalLongsider · Post by **TheOriginalLongsider** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:42 pm

Didn’t Brian Miller own one of them?

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:44 pm

Ken had the newsagents...now a house still lives Their. Nice couple.

ralphdpomeroy · Post by **ralphdpomeroy** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:46 pm

Yes he did at one time...

Edit. Brian that is

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:47 pm

TheOriginalLongsider wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:42 pm
Didn’t Brian Miller own one of them?

Brian had a newsagents, I'm sure, but don't know where it was.

ralphdpomeroy · Post by **ralphdpomeroy** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:50 pm

Brian had the sweet shop then later on he ran the newsagents in Worsthorne ..nice bloke he lived three doors down from us afterwards

Claret32yrs · Post by **Claret32yrs** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:00 pm

Know Brian had a shop. My Dad, being the extrovert he was. Called his shop and congratulated him on getting the manager's job. Was never sure where it was.

Volvoclaret · Post by **Volvoclaret** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:06 pm

Brian's newsagents in Worsthorne now converted to a house called Old News.

ralphdpomeroy · Post by **ralphdpomeroy** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:17 pm

Yes its a long time now since it was a newsagents ..twenty two years since I lived near Brian and Mary opposite the school

Frenchclaret · Post by **Frenchclaret** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:17 pm

The end of the row of houses was a sweet shop. Next door but one was the newsagents. We lived next door at 120 Brunshaw Rd when I was a very small boy in the late 1940’s until the early 1950’s. I used to wait at the garden gate for Tommy Cummings going to training in the morning. He always said hello and it made my day!

Volvoclaret · Post by **Volvoclaret** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:26 pm

Hi Ralph, hows is you dad, still involved with school football?

CrispyClaret · Post by **CrispyClaret** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:44 pm

Is my memory correct that Adam Blacklaw had the newsagents at the corner of Rimington Ave & Brunshaw Road before he became a pub landlord?

ralphdpomeroy · Post by **ralphdpomeroy** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:00 pm

Volvoclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:26 pm
Hi Ralph, hows is you dad, still involved with school football?

Yes on and off ... he doesn't do as much as he used to as he had a couple of hip replacement ops four years ago but he is good otherwise and still on the Turf with me every home game

ralphdpomeroy · Post by **ralphdpomeroy** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:02 pm

CrispyClaret wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:44 pm
Is my memory correct that Adam Blacklaw had the newsagents at the corner of Rimington Ave & Brunshaw Road before he became a pub landlord?

Yes I grew up àt 359 and went to school with Adam's youngest daughter

Volvoclaret · Post by **Volvoclaret** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:04 pm

ralphdpomeroy wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:00 pm
Yes on and off ... he doesn't do as much as he used to as he had a couple of hip replacement ops four years ago but he is good otherwise and still on the Turf with me every home game

Good to hear, he was a great inspiration to my lad when he coached him. Should have continued as Head as well.

ralphdpomeroy · Post by **ralphdpomeroy** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:10 pm

If I remember ...which is an ever increasing challenge these days I will pass that on ! ... I think ..well I know really that he preferred teaching in the classroom to being head ...

Paint it claret · Post by **Paint it claret** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:11 pm

Sure Leighton James owned 1 of em at some point

ralphdpomeroy · Post by **ralphdpomeroy** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:12 pm

Yes I think he did

Marney&Mee · Post by **Marney&Mee** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:30 pm

Is it true there used to be a paper shop further up as well. Until it blew away...

Tricky Trevor · Post by **Tricky Trevor** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:31 pm

I’d pop in for a quarter of Uncle Joes Mint Balls pre-match. Something to suck on.

Tribesmen · Post by **Tribesmen** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:40 pm

Hummmm Burnley Express then Ralph that's another job i didn't know you did , but i must say when you were a priest must have been one of your best job ?

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:48 pm

Marney&Mee wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:30 pm
Is it true there used to be a paper shop further up as well. Until it blew away...

That was on the ridge...

ralphdpomeroy · Post by **ralphdpomeroy** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:56 pm

Tribesmen wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:40 pm
Hummmm Burnley Express then Ralph that's another job i didn't know you did , but i must say when you were a priest must have been one of your best job ?

sadly they wouldn't allow me in the seminary for two reasons

1 I'm an atheist
2 I've been married for 32 years

...having said that would either be a problem ?

I like my new job the best I must say

LowtonClaret · Post by **LowtonClaret** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:03 pm

ralphdpomeroy wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:33 pm
Yes the end house was a sweet shop the newsagents was next door ... I worked in the newspaper circulation department at the Express in the early 90s

I was in the news int circulation department. In fact I was deputy Circulation Manager of Times Newspapers.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:12 pm

Dark Cloud wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:32 pm
There was. Run by the Preston family, if I remember rightly. Big Clarets fans.

Ken Preston. Top guy. One of nicest blokes you could meet. His daughter runs the shop on lyndhurst road now.

tiger76 · Post by **tiger76** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:12 pm

Dark Cloud wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:32 pm
There was. Run by the Preston family, if I remember rightly. Big Clarets fans.

Ironic name for die hard Clarets,could've been worse i suppose,they could have been called Blackburn.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:14 pm

Frenchclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:17 pm
The end of the row of houses was a sweet shop. Next door but one was the newsagents. We lived next door at 120 Brunshaw Rd when I was a very small boy in the late 1940’s until the early 1950’s. I used to wait at the garden gate for Tommy Cummings going to training in the morning. He always said hello and it made my day!

Close family friend lived in one of those houses. Pretty sure it was 120 and they moved up in the early 60s Imagine that would be long after you moved out? They then sold it to another family we knew well (although they didnt know one another).

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:15 pm

tiger76 wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:12 pm
Ironic name for die hard Clarets,could've been worse i suppose,they could have been called Blackburn.

Like Keith. An equally big Burnley fan

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:16 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:14 pm
Close family friend lived in one of those houses. Pretty sure it was 120 and they moved up in the early 60s Imagine that would be long after you moved out? They then sold it to another family we knew well (although they didnt know one another).

They Did....

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:08 pm

tim_noone wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:16 pm
They Did....

Never knew that assumed itw as coincidence.

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:11 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:08 pm
Never knew that assumed itw as coincidence.

Well I once heard kev call woy ..Roy so he must have known him..

Bfc · Post by **Bfc** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 6:01 am

Frenchclaret, were you still living near to the papershop, when the Medleys ran it and Ingram Gregory the professional Panel Bowler lived in the last house on the block, which has always looked looked like an empty shop. The Medleys had a big Alsatian dog. Am I right thinking you and Maureen Sullivan were friends, or was that your sister/s.

Claret32yrs · Post by **Claret32yrs** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:21 am

It's like a little trip down memory lane this

Frenchclaret · Post by **Frenchclaret** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 2:10 pm

Bfc wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 14, 2020 6:01 am
Frenchclaret, were you still living near to the papershop, when the Medleys ran it and Ingram Gregory the professional Panel Bowler lived in the last house on the block, which has always looked looked like an empty shop. The Medleys had a big Alsatian dog. Am I right thinking you and Maureen Sullivan were friends, or was that your sister/s.

Hi BFC,
I was very young at the time we lived there and don’t remember a dog next door. Maureen Sullivan was a friend of my elder sister, also called Maureen.
I assume you lived nearby too but I was a bit young to probably remember you.

Tribesmen · Post by **Tribesmen** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 4:43 pm

ralphdpomeroy wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:56 pm
sadly they wouldn't allow me in the seminary for two reasons

1 I'm an atheist
2 I've been married for 32 years

...having said that would either be a problem ?

I like my new job the best I must say

An atheist , well well well ........................... So am i

exilecanada · Post by **exilecanada** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 5:33 pm

CrispyClaret wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:44 pm
Is my memory correct that Adam Blacklaw had the newsagents at the corner of Rimington Ave & Brunshaw Road before he became a pub landlord?

That's correct. The time line is a bit blurry, but wasn't that paper shop once owned by a Mr Mullins, he had a daughter called Angela, if memory serves. Not sure if Mullins owned the shop before, or after Blacklaw owned it.

exilecanada · Post by **exilecanada** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 5:36 pm

ralphdpomeroy wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:02 pm
Yes I grew up àt 359 and went to school with Adam's youngest daughter

We lived at 349, before moving up the road to 555.

ralphdpomeroy · Post by **ralphdpomeroy** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 8:56 pm

exilecanada wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 14, 2020 5:33 pm
That's correct. The time line is a bit blurry, but wasn't that paper shop once owned by a Mr Mullins, he had a daughter called Angela, if memory serves. Not sure if Mullins owned the shop before, or after Blacklaw owned it.

Tommy Mullins .. my Dad lived on Bronte Avene from the mid 50s then moved across into 359 after getting married so that would be 1965 I think ...I've heard him mention Tommy Mullins so he would be before Adam and Sheila Blacklaw had the shop. They lived up on the corner of Springwood Road somewhere before taking the shop.

Bfc · Post by **Bfc** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 9:03 pm

exileincanada, had you moved away from 555 before Jimmy Adamson moved into 557. JA had previously lived on Deerpark Rd.

Bfc · Post by **Bfc** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 9:13 pm

Frenchclaret, I remember your Maureen. If my memory serves me well, she was slim with Auburn hair and wore glasses. I often spoke to her at the front gate. I lived in Fulledge all my young life and for a while after I got married, had lived on the same block as you had.
Re the Preston family, as said elsewhere, you wouldn't meet a nicer family. I took Ken to few away games, in the 90s.

Dark Cloud · Post by **Dark Cloud** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 9:15 pm

tiger76 wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:12 pm
Ironic name for die hard Clarets,could've been worse i suppose,they could have been called Blackburn.

You mean Blackburn as in like one of Jayrod's closest schoolboy friends, who still is? (And massive Claret family to boot!)

exilecanada · Post by **exilecanada** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 10:03 pm

Bfc wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 14, 2020 9:03 pm
exileincanada, had you moved away from 555 before Jimmy Adamson moved into 557. JA had previously lived on Deerpark Rd.

To be honest I can't answer that truthfully, the memory is blurry. To the best of my knowledge my Mum bought 555 from Burnley Football Club.

claretfm · Post by **claretfm** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 10:55 pm

I (Frank Mason) and my wife(Anne) had the newsagents at 118 Brunshaw road from 1968 to 1986. Brian and Mary Miller had the sweet shop next door but one (114), we were very good friends. I have supported the Clarets since I was a young boy - first attending matches in the 1940's. I still go on every match although I am considering becoming an 'armchair' fan next season. We enjoyed our 18 years in the paper shop and made many friends.

XDS · Post by **XDS** » Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:07 pm

Remember you well, waiting for sports pink after games

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:54 pm

claretfm wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 14, 2020 10:55 pm
I (Frank Mason) and my wife(Anne) had the newsagents at 118 Brunshaw road from 1968 to 1986. Brian and Mary Miller had the sweet shop next door but one (114), we were very good friends. I have supported the Clarets since I was a young boy - first attending matches in the 1940's. I still go on every match although I am considering becoming an 'armchair' fan next season. We enjoyed our 18 years in the paper shop and made many friends.

I remember it being Medley’s & Starkie’s before Frank & Anne bought it. Not sure whether Ken Preston bought it then but he and his wife Susan were the last to run it as a newsagents.

The sweet shop on the corner. I remember Raymond & June Cross owning it before Brian & Mary Miller. Leighton James also had that shop for a while too.