Coal Delivery, Deepdale, Preston c.1925
Photo captures Harry Aspden and workmate Mickey Dodger outside the coal office of J.H. Martin on the corner of Skeffington Road and Isherwood Street.
Image courtesy of Michael Aspden and the Preston Past and Present Facebook Group.
This image was reproduced in the Lancashire Evening Post on 30th August 2016. The following letter was received by a reader shortly after:
"SIR – May I make some observations following the publication of a photograph showing Martins coal yard in your Looking Back feature of 30th August?
The building in the background had the historical postal address of Deepdale Junction being at the entrance of the yard which is now renamed Acorn Close, and adjacent to the rail crossing on Skeffington Rd. Isherwood St. is some 100 yds south of the crossing.
The older man in the centre of the picture is my grandfather George Hilton, who was foreman at the yard from the twenties to his retirement in 1948, and I would suggest that the photo was taken sometime in the forties.
George Noon, Preston.
P.S. I should be grateful if you would forward my e-mail to Mr. Michael Aspden of the Preston Past and Present Facegroup and Preston Digital Archive, in the hope that he will contact me, should you decide to publish or not. With my thanks and kind regards.
Coal Delivery, Deepdale, Preston c.1925
Photo captures Harry Aspden and workmate Mickey Dodger outside the coal office of J.H. Martin on the corner of Skeffington Road and Isherwood Street.
Image courtesy of Michael Aspden and the Preston Past and Present Facebook Group.
This image was reproduced in the Lancashire Evening Post on 30th August 2016. The following letter was received by a reader shortly after:
"SIR – May I make some observations following the publication of a photograph showing Martins coal yard in your Looking Back feature of 30th August?
The building in the background had the historical postal address of Deepdale Junction being at the entrance of the yard which is now renamed Acorn Close, and adjacent to the rail crossing on Skeffington Rd. Isherwood St. is some 100 yds south of the crossing.
The older man in the centre of the picture is my grandfather George Hilton, who was foreman at the yard from the twenties to his retirement in 1948, and I would suggest that the photo was taken sometime in the forties.
George Noon, Preston.
P.S. I should be grateful if you would forward my e-mail to Mr. Michael Aspden of the Preston Past and Present Facegroup and Preston Digital Archive, in the hope that he will contact me, should you decide to publish or not. With my thanks and kind regards.