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Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:28 pm
by Claret32yrs
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?
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:32 pm
by Dark Cloud
There was. Run by the Preston family, if I remember rightly. Big Clarets fans.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:33 pm
by ralphdpomeroy
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
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:35 pm
by Claret32yrs
Thank God for that. Remember going in there for sweets for the game. Memory isn't what it was. Cheers chaps!
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:35 pm
by ralphdpomeroy
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:38 pm
by Burnley1989
My family had a sweet shop, I’d go and get a mix from all the tubs before every home game. Happy memories
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:42 pm
by TheOriginalLongsider
Didn’t Brian Miller own one of them?
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:44 pm
by tim_noone
Ken had the newsagents...now a house still lives Their. Nice couple.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:46 pm
by ralphdpomeroy
Yes he did at one time...
Edit. Brian that is
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:47 pm
by ElectroClaret
Brian had a newsagents, I'm sure, but don't know where it was.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:50 pm
by ralphdpomeroy
Brian had the sweet shop then later on he ran the newsagents in Worsthorne ..nice bloke he lived three doors down from us afterwards
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:00 pm
by Claret32yrs
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.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:06 pm
by Volvoclaret
Brian's newsagents in Worsthorne now converted to a house called Old News.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:17 pm
by ralphdpomeroy
Yes its a long time now since it was a newsagents ..twenty two years since I lived near Brian and Mary opposite the school
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:17 pm
by Frenchclaret
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!
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:26 pm
by Volvoclaret
Hi Ralph, hows is you dad, still involved with school football?
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:44 pm
by CrispyClaret
Is my memory correct that Adam Blacklaw had the newsagents at the corner of Rimington Ave & Brunshaw Road before he became a pub landlord?
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:00 pm
by ralphdpomeroy
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
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:02 pm
by ralphdpomeroy
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 à t 359 and went to school with Adam's youngest daughter
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:04 pm
by Volvoclaret
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.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:10 pm
by ralphdpomeroy
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 ...
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:11 pm
by Paint it claret
Sure Leighton James owned 1 of em at some point
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:12 pm
by ralphdpomeroy
Yes I think he did
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:30 pm
by Marney&Mee
Is it true there used to be a paper shop further up as well. Until it blew away...
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:31 pm
by Tricky Trevor
I’d pop in for a quarter of Uncle Joes Mint Balls pre-match. Something to suck on.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:40 pm
by Tribesmen
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 ?
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:48 pm
by tim_noone
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...
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:56 pm
by ralphdpomeroy
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
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:03 pm
by LowtonClaret
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.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:12 pm
by cricketfieldclarets
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.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:12 pm
by tiger76
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.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:14 pm
by cricketfieldclarets
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).
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:15 pm
by cricketfieldclarets
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
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:16 pm
by tim_noone
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....
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:08 pm
by cricketfieldclarets
Never knew that assumed itw as coincidence.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:11 pm
by tim_noone
Well I once heard kev call woy ..Roy so he must have known him..
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 6:01 am
by Bfc
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.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:21 am
by Claret32yrs
It's like a little trip down memory lane this
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 2:10 pm
by Frenchclaret
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.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 4:43 pm
by Tribesmen
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
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 5:33 pm
by exilecanada
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.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 5:36 pm
by exilecanada
ralphdpomeroy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:02 pm
Yes I grew up à t 359 and went to school with Adam's youngest daughter
We lived at 349, before moving up the road to 555.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 8:56 pm
by ralphdpomeroy
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.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 9:03 pm
by Bfc
exileincanada, had you moved away from 555 before Jimmy Adamson moved into 557. JA had previously lived on Deerpark Rd.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 9:13 pm
by Bfc
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.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 9:15 pm
by Dark Cloud
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!)
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 10:03 pm
by exilecanada
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.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 10:55 pm
by claretfm
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.
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:07 pm
by XDS
Remember you well, waiting for sports pink after games
Re: Newsagents by Turf
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:54 pm
by ClaretTony
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.
