Renfrew’s History Bygone Day’s “part seven″

The country returned a Labour Government, and on introducing important legislation, offered us the welfare state and a health service which was then the envy of the world, and legislation which embraced the work of local authorities. It was with this background that Renfrew found itself in 1954 with a Labour controlled council.

Renfrew’s History Bygone Day’s “part five″

Saturday afternoon was the weekly event when children would go to the Regal Cinema or what was then called the “Pictures”, and those of us who were better off had another penny to buy our comic paper and a third to be spent on sweets, either at one go, or In portions of two halfpennies or four farthings.

Renfrew’s History Bygone Day’s “part four″

Circumstances demanded that they use their imagination and initiative, if one boy had a toy gun then the poorer one made his own bow and arrow, and if a little girl could not have a nice doll she would then make her own, and when playing “cowboys and Indians” they had ample space to play, with hedges and grassed embankments to offer realism, the game often ending In an argument as to who had shot first and who was dead.

Renfrew’s History Bygone Day’s “part three″

You could take a walk along Glebe Street and up Sandy Road and find fields the whole way to Cockles Loan with the exception of some private houses here and there, in fact every housing scheme in Renfrew was at one time farmland which changed the face of the town and in itself led to many other changes.

Renfrew’s History Bygone Day’s “part 1″

So I will begin with the view of Canal Street looking down Ferry Road. The Pudzeoch was far longer then and probably came as far as where the old Regal Cinema, now a Bingo Hall stands today, so part of the Pudzeoch was filled in leaving the more spacious part as the Clyde Navigation Trust Dock. But to complete that part of the picture we have to view the Washing Green!, where the burn flowed by and entered the Pudzeoch.

House Clearance Skelmersdale

Northern House Clearance undertake house clearance in all areas of Skelmersdale – Ashurst Aughton Downholland Aughton Park Bickerstaffe Birch Green Burscough Digmoor Halsall Hesketh-with-Becconsall Knowsley Moorside Newburgh North Meols Parbold …

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House Clearance Carlisle – Designer garden boost for glass recycling

House Clearance Carlisle reported last year on a new use for recycled glass as a decorative mulch increasingly being used by garden designers to top plant containers, fill gaps between slabs and similar applications. House Clearance Carlisle reports that demand from the public for their Crystaleis Recycled Glass Gravel has mushroomed thanks to publicity in gardening magazines as well as its use in DIY/Design TV programme, Homefront in the Garden. Consumer magazine, Garden Answers also features the glass mulch as ‘Recommended Product’ of the month in its March issue, predicting that ‘coloured glass mulch is going to be the most sought-after product in gardens this year’.