CAROLE Heron has a cracking memory for detail and can recall St Georges Road back in the 1940s and 1950s.

She got in touch after spotting our photograph of the road in Looking Back.

Carole, whose maiden name was Lonsdale, was brought up in Orm Street which was off Thomas Holden Street.

This is where St Georges Road joins Chorley Old Road, she explains. “The scaffolding you can see is covering the Royal Cinema and you pass that across Ruth Street,” she says.

The first shop was Larkhill Post Office, she explains and next to that was Jack Whittaker’s shoe shop which did more repairs than selling shoes apparently.

Phyllis Forbes underwear shop was next and a “wireless shop” where repairs were carried out on radios which were all battery run at the time.

One of two large houses was Curwood’s Painter and Decorators and although it was not a shop he did advertise his business from his home.

There was then a fruit shop and “the Temperance Bar where my cousin Rose Fairclough used to go on a Monday night with her mother, who was my Aunt Amelia.

“She used to buy me a hot vimto on our way home from the Royal Cinema,” she says.

Crossing over to the Crofters Hotel you would find Berry’s the shop fitters and a little hairdresser’s where a girl called Jeanette Boardman and her sister-in-law ran it together, says Carole.