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The building is still the same a double frontage, Jack Jones the butchers has now moved down the road a little, used to be next door. When we first moved in we had to get the drains jetted out as the congealed fat from the butchers sausage making had blocked the drains c[ompletely and flooded the basement, there was more fat down there than below my belt. Have started to ask customers about the history and the most suggested uses are a Billiard Hall in the thirties and Ogdens Social Club, Not sure what period they mean, with the cellar used as the bar. One of my customers says that she met her husband in the club and remembers it with fond memories. Having read the history of Ogdens they appeared to have a very structured class system for the various staff levels, with about four to five different dining rooms for various levels of staff, (Imperial Tobacco Site) maybe this was the only place that they could socialise. The other suggestion was that at one time it was a Burtons Clothes shop, don't know at what period this was presumably around 50's - 60's when Burtons had a shop on every main street. Again thanks for the info and photos. John
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Have you had a word with the butcher? throwing anything other than waste water down the drains is illegal?
keep plugging the thread as its always interesting to know some back history of areas,I'll ty and badger this woman I know who actually lives just across from the shopin Hillbury Ave.
The pic in 67 pic one o the shops looks like a Jewlers to me? ie Boores is the name in the window.
Unmistakingly the pub is the flathouse on the next block,got its name because it had no charcter in its frontage whatsoever. :)
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I just logged in to find information on this very building as I photographed it the other day. I wondered what the friezes were above the windows, at first I thought the middle one was a liver bird but on closer inspection it looks like an eagle on a crown?
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I noticed that whatever had been on either side had been defaced so you could no longer recognize the image, strange, hence the curiosity. Any further information come to light John?
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Kelly's 1894 Directory states...
489 West Derby Road, DERBY HALL, Thomas McCracken & Co. proprs.
Unfortunately it does not give it's use and obviously WD Road has been renumbered since 1894.
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It's most recent use,was as function rooms! Though this closed several years ago,maybe this was it's original purpose?
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If the building was originally called Derby Hall that explains the crest
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The eagle is the famous "eagle and child" of the Earls of Derby
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I wonder if the ones on either side were also off the coat of arms?
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The building of 1875 was originall called Derby Hall. St. John the Baptist Church held concerts here. Fundraisers for the Seamans orphanage Newsham Park where also held here. Marlborough College School for boys also held concerts here. The attached photo is of a concert programme 1894 at Derby Hall.Attachment 22221