Spotted Row with the Grandstand in the Background"

Twenty Row, Burntwood, Buckley

1960

Twenty Row had one house knocked down to build Spotted Row, which had six houses. There was a rough road in between Twenty Row and Spotted Row where the rows of outside toilets and ash pits were.

Alex Hughes' wife lived in a house at the back of the Grandstand with her parents before marrying him. Alex Hughes had a coal wharf there.

There were four houses right at the back of the Grandstand (there was very little room between the pub and the backs of the houses). Three of them had back doors and one only had a front door because there was no room to get down the entry to put in a back door. The houses were very dark and a light had to be on all day. George and Florrie Jeffs lived in one of these houses.

In Butchers Row, in the house nearest to the Grandstand lived the Jonathan family. Next lived Mr and Mrs Connah (she died aged 104 in about 2002). Sam and Clara Parry lived next door and on the end was a butchers shop, belonging to Richard Hugh Jones (Dickie Hugh) from Ewloe.

Both Spotted Row and Twenty Row were knocked down and Pen-y-Coed Road (leading to Bank Lane) was built and, alongside the new road, the new houses.

There was an iron stile between the end of Burntwood and Hawarden View houses. Jimmy Ashton's horse was spooked and took himself and the cart full of coal and smashed into the stile and ruined the cart and the stile. The horse was ok.

Author: Messham, William Arthur

Spotted Row with the Grandstand in the Background"

Twenty Row, Burntwood, Buckley

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