This is a picture posted on old site by Vossy53.
Here is a picture of grandad Charlie at Cookseys. It was just down Pages Walk towards Grange Road. The houses in the background are near the Earl of Derby (flats now). My Dad says that the barrels in the photo are empty vinegar barrels for Sarsons in Tower Bridge Road (also flats).
My Grandad said that the horse manure was good for Rhubarb. I prefer custard on mine!
The old rag and bone man used to come around on his horse and cart and would buy anything that he could recycle. Including old bones! Cookseys Yard is on the site of houses which were bombed in 1941/2 and my great Aunt Rose Stapleton and her sons were killed in the raid.
- Cookseys Yard, Pages Walk.
Like a few other members, I can remember climbing over the barrels in Cooksey’s yard when they belong to Cross & Blackwell’s and eating the Pickled Onions, also when Manfred Mann practiced in the O.B.C. I know the shop on the corner of Pages Walk & Grange Road which has also been mentioned but can anyone remember when it was a Fish & Chip Shop.
Kiwi.
Just spoken to my Dad. Clarkes fish and chip shop was next door to Dads Aunt's house but it wasn't demolished in the air raid. It remained as a chip shop until "well after the war" to quote Dad. He says that the shop was on the corner of Pages Walk and you had to go up a couple of steps to the door.
Vossy53.
. Can you thank your dad for the information on Clarke’s fish and chip shop in Pages Walk? The name and the steps into the shop jogged the old memory Kiwi.
In earlier years c1921 it was Kunter Isaac, Fishmonger. Kiwi.
[/quoteDibley47:] I can remember this! we used to collect newspaper and bring it here to get money. We were never allowed inside and had to cut the deal at the gate. I say 'deal' but try as we might to up the ante, we always had to accept what was offered. I believe he used to take jam jars as well and I got to thinking about this and wondered why; but in reality, jars must have been pretty rare in those days. I can never remember having bread and jam on regular occasions such as we do now, but only for a treat. Bread and sugar was more common, but not available for the asking only for the swiping when Mum wasn't looking!!