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	We receive many requests for information about Poulton and its residents. We would be delighted to know more about the people and places below. Please email mc.storey@virgin.net if you have any information at all

This is a request for any information about the WELSH family, fish merchants of Fleetwood

Hello,

Hope you can help me please. I am researching the family name of WELSH who were all Londoners but several family members moved up to Fleetwood and set up as fish merchants on Copse Road probably around the 1920’s. The business was eventually bought by Boston Deep Sea Fisheries.

The brothers who I believe were partners in the business were PHILIP THOMAS WELSH (PHIL), FRANK HAROLD WELSH (HAROLD), WILLIAM CHARLES WELSH (aka JIM), and ALBERT EDWARD WELSH.

If anyone has any information on Phil, Jim or Albert I would be eternally grateful. Harold settled in Fleetwood and we do know his family history. Likewise any information about the business would be greatly welcomed.

Thank you,

David Brooks Manchester dj.brooks@blueyonder.co.uk

Mary Maud Quinn liked to visit Leyland, her birth town.

She was friendly with a Mr. Maiden who was a market gardener, growing tomato and lettuce. He lived in a large bungalow on the Garstang Road.

Mary Maud Quinn kept her shop open for long hours - in competition with a sweet shop directly opposite the road.

Aunt Polly (as she was known to the family) would close her shop to listen to her favourite radio programme The Archers, and then reopen.

She suffered for many years with arthritis, and she could not open the till and remove coins, so she kept all her loose change in glass bowls under the counter, not a thing you would do today.



		Birkbecks had a shop on the corner of the Breck and Ball Street. Miss Marian Birkbeck was Head of Carleton school between 1932 and 1941



				This is Higher Compley Farm house which stood on Blackpool Old Road until replaced by houses. It was almost opposite the parade of shops which includes Forsyth & Steel.