Kelly's Directories

[hilldweller]

Is there anyone out there who has a copy of a Kelly's Directory from 1948 or 1949 ?

I know that they are available at the Central Library but that is out of bounds to me at the moment due to illness.

I am particularly interested in Stanwood Road, Malin Bridge, and entries for the even numbers towards Wood Lane.

When the prefabs were demolished that end of the road became Deer Park Road.

Regards,

hilldweller. (staggering on--just) 

[THYLACINE]

Can't help you with Kelly's but it's good to see you still staggering on Hilldweller. Just re-read your MG post back in Feb 2017, I remember it well, so difficult to reply to something like that. Please keep posting, we miss your grumpy persona when we don't hear from you. All the best from Tassie.

[neddy]

2 hours ago, hilldweller said:

Is there anyone out there who has a copy of a Kelly's Directory from 1948 or 1949 ?

I know that they are available at the Central Library but that is out of bounds to me at the moment due to illness.

I am particularly interested in Stanwood Road, Malin Bridge, and entries for the even numbers towards Wood Lane.

When the prefabs were demolished that end of the road became Deer Park Road.

Regards,

hilldweller. (staggering on--just) 

1948 shows Stanwood Avenue and Stanwood Crescent.

[hilldweller]

20 hours ago, neddy said:

1948 shows Stanwood Avenue and Stanwood Crescent.

Thank's for that Neddy, I believe that most of Stanwood Avenue, Stanwood Crescent and the outer crescent on Goodison Crescent were built pre-war. The plot of land enclosed by Goodison Crescent wasn't completely  built upon until later.

I can confirm that the prefabs on Stanwood Road were occupied in 1948, I lived in one with my parents  !

Kelly's must have been a bit slow to update, perhaps I should be looking at 1949 / 1950.

[hilldweller]

20 hours ago, THYLACINE said:

Can't help you with Kelly's but it's good to see you still staggering on Hilldweller. Just re-read your MG post back in Feb 2017, I remember it well, so difficult to reply to something like that. Please keep posting, we miss your grumpy persona when we don't hear from you. All the best from Tassie.

Thank you THYRACINE for your good wishes. The MG is mostly under control and with the agreement of my specialist I've been very gradually reducing my dosage of steroids with the aim of coming off them completely eventually.

Unfortunately my symptoms started returning and I've had to increase them to a maintenance dose indefinately.  I began to lose strength in my hands and legs and things came to a head when I had to ask a slip of a girl filling her car at the next pump to unscrew my car filler cap.

My walking is very poor because my left knee has completely collapsed and surgery is out of the question.

It's being so cheerful that keeps me going. 

hilldweller.

[Thorntons girl]

Good to see you posting again Hilldweller , you have said you are sadly not walking now but I bet you have lots of amazing walks and adventures to tell us about. I am a keen walker and would love to hear your tales.

[hilldweller]

19 hours ago, Thorntons girl said:

Good to see you posting again Hilldweller , you have said you are sadly not walking now but I bet you have lots of amazing walks and adventures to tell us about. I am a keen walker and would love to hear your tales.

It's all such a long time ago but some of the best walks I had were in the Lake District in the nineteen sixties.

Equipped (or should that be ill-equipped) with a very cheap pair of what were described as "fell boots" and sold by Millets for about five bob, I managed to walk along Striding Edge to the top of Helvelyn without falling off. I chickened out at "The Chimney" and took the bypass.

Memories of camping at Glenridding and chugging up and down all day on the little Ullswater steamer, (the bar sold draught Guinness while ever away from shore).

The local pub didn't do any meals apart from chicken and chips in a basket, but after a days walk it tasted great, despite the baskets being coated with thick grease from previous meals.

I remember tearing around Lake Coniston in a tiny hired speedboat when I went too close to the shore and didn't notice a spit of sand to the left. The boat stopped as if it had run into a brick wall and I went sailing over the prow into the shallow water.

Unfortunately there was a large brass mooring cleat fastened atop the prow and for the next two weeks I was moved within the choir from the bass/baritones to the trebles .

The view of Tarn Hows ,the day we saw it was surreal, It looked completely artificial, like a Agfa print with 200% saturation.

We climbed the Langdale Pikes one day, up and down all the way around. We were sat eating our snap on a wonderfully hot sunny August day, prior to our descent, when we spied a very strange small black cloud coming along the valley.

As it neared us it began to rise to breast the peaks and suddenly we were being pelted with huge painfull hailstones. We took off our parkas and held them above our heads to protect us.

My favourite spot was a tiny lake above Keswick called Dock Tarn. We sat there for ages completely alone with no sound but the buzz of hundreds of dragonflies.

Happy Days, as they say.

hilldweller.

[Thorntons girl]

On 26/05/2018 at 17:59, hilldweller said:

It's all such a long time ago but some of the best walks I had were in the Lake District in the nineteen sixties.

Equipped (or should that be ill-equipped) with a very cheap pair of what were described as "fell boots" and sold by Millets for about five bob, I managed to walk along Striding Edge to the top of Helvelyn without falling off. I chickened out at "The Chimney" and took the bypass.

Memories of camping at Glenridding and chugging up and down all day on the little Ullswater steamer, (the bar sold draught Guinness while ever away from shore).

The local pub didn't do any meals apart from chicken and chips in a basket, but after a days walk it tasted great, despite the baskets being coated with thick grease from previous meals.

I remember tearing around Lake Coniston in a tiny hired speedboat when I went too close to the shore and didn't notice a spit of sand to the left. The boat stopped as if it had run into a brick wall and I went sailing over the prow into the shallow water.

Unfortunately there was a large brass mooring cleat fastened atop the prow and for the next two weeks I was moved within the choir from the bass/baritones to the trebles .

The view of Tarn Hows ,the day we saw it was surreal, It looked completely artificial, like a Agfa print with 200% saturation.

We climbed the Langdale Pikes one day, up and down all the way around. We were sat eating our snap on a wonderfully hot sunny August day, prior to our descent, when we spied a very strange small black cloud coming along the valley.

As it neared us it began to rise to breast the peaks and suddenly we were being pelted with huge painfull hailstones. We took off our parkas and held them above our heads to protect us.

My favourite spot was a tiny lake above Keswick called Dock Tarn. We sat there for ages completely alone with no sound but the buzz of hundreds of dragonflies.

Happy Days, as they say.

hilldweller.

Thanks for sharing your walking tales Hildweller, they are really interesting.

I have not really explored The Lake district fully, I have been to Haystacks near Keswick and really enjoyed the beauty of that walk surrounded by the mountains.

I tend to do most of my walking in the Peaks and the Highlands of Scotland.

Have you ever thought about doing a book about your travels, these books are popular nowadays. My favourite travel books are Saddletramp in the Highlands and Saddletramp in the Lakes. Have you read them?

[hilldweller]

I'm afraid it would be a very short book, Thorntons Girl.

My walking days covered only a few years from my mid teens to my early twenties.

As I've explained before I've suffered from Lympoedema problems from my late teens, caused by a congenital absence of lymph vessels in my legs.

An attempt at an experimental surgery in my thirties only made the situation worse and things have gone downhill ever since, but at least they tried.

I bought a huge mobility scooter some years ago, (I'm now on my third), and I used to enjoy "walks" on that but the onset of joint problems means that's now  too painful.

We've got a very nice car with a smooth ride and I shall use that to have a run out.

I've got my memories of some wonderful places to fall back on.

Keep On Walking ! 

hilldweller

[Thorntons girl]

I am sorry Hilldweller, I didn't know about your condition, I thought, in my ignorance, you had got the condition as you got older.

I am impressed that even with your condition you used to go in the outdoors with your motor scooter(Been on your third scooter says such a lot!). I bet now you have some lovely trips out in your car, seeing the countryside and scenery from your car is just as good as walking in it, you still get the same benefits of the calming presence, the beauty and the cleansing of the soul which I feel every time I go out with my husband into the great outdoors.

Thankyou for sharing your experiences with me Hilldweller, I think you are a very brave man, your memories will always be yours to relive over and over. I have enjoyed hearing them and I would still buy your book!!. Remember all the feelings you had when you did walk, these will keep you strong and forever young, those experiences and feelings will never leave you. 

I enjoy walking and sharing experiences, it never leaves you, the exhilaration, the achievements and the memories. Keep sharing yours Hilldweller.

Thanks for sharing.