Tapton hill road

[wessie_mick 10]

Any one remember tapton hill road or verrnon terrace late 60 /70s

[mikeG 16]

Was there an off licence at the junction of Vernon Terrace and Manchester Rd.? If so, I remember it. Used to cycle up Vernon Terrace and cut through to Lydgate Lane. 58 years ago.

[strangerthe6 10]

Was there an off licence at the junction of Vernon Terrace and Manchester Rd.? If so, I remember it. Used to cycle up Vernon Terrace and cut through to Lydgate Lane. 58 years ago.

 

Yes there was, it was run by the Jenkins family for many years. There was another shop higher up Vernon Terrace too, at the junction with Tapton Bank.

[John_S6 10]

Yes I remember it, it was definitely there at that time.

[mikeG 16]

The Jenkins family had a son, who, I think, went to Lydgate school 1953 ish.

[Morts 17]

Another good memory there. The Jenkins must have run the offie for years...what's there now?

[hillsbro 32]

Another good memory there. The Jenkins must have run the offie for years...

According to the directories I have, Walter Jenkins took over the shop from Harold Snape some time between 1942 and 1953, and he still had it when the last Kelly's directory was compiled in 1973.

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...what's there now?

To judge from Google Earth, not a lot.. Edited January 25, 2014 by hillsbro

[Morts 17]

Thanks Hillsbro. Wish I'd not seen it as it is now! It must be about 40 years since I shopped there.

[hillsbro 32]

... There was another shop higher up Vernon Terrace too, at the junction with Tapton Bank.

Directories from the mid-1930s to the late 1950s show this as "Albert D. Topham, grocer". In the 1960s the business was in the name of L. Bennett, and from c. 1970, P. Sproson..

[strangerthe6 10]

Another good memory there. The Jenkins must have run the offie for years...what's there now?

 

 

I think it's a private house/flat. I don't go past very often now, I'll have a closer look next time I do.