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1 Mrs Cairns Clothes Shop	19 Baths / Public Toilets
2 Bainbridges Sweet Shop	20 Harry Briscoes House
3 Unknown Shop	21 Yatees
4 Job Thomas & Sons Grocers	22 Shellys Fashion
5 Barty Mills Sweet Shop	23 Cottages & Clinic
6 Rosy Brooks Dress Shop	24 Post Office
7 Moreton Picture House	25 Benny Bethels Butchers
8 Coopers Grocers	26 Stintchcombs Cotton
9 Irwins Grocers	27 Rudkins Green Grocer
10 Dewhursts Butchers	28 Brickley & Mail Chemist
11 Tripe Shop	29 Barbers
12 Wine Shop	30 Laws Dairy
13 Fanny Birches Sweet Shop	31 Fish Shop
14 Laid Law Cake Shop	32 Farmers Arms
15 Barber Shop	33 Old Hall Farm
16 Postons Garage	34 Springfield, , , * Bungalows
17 House	35 Coach & Horses
18 Co Op Food Shop	36 Parkinsons Farm (yew tree)

Bainbridges Sweet shop I believe was somewhat famed by the locals around the cross. They used
to make large homemade cakes with black current, pineapple and fresh apples. I am told the cream
would ooze out down your hand. The shop was well decorated with pink steps and you could see
into the kitchen to watch the making the delicious cakes inside. Brookland House Farm stood on
Hoylake Road near Knutsford road. The site was a working farm house for decades. Like many
others the farmers moved on and the site was demolished to make way for new buildings. The
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church now stands on the site of Brookland House. Next to Brocklad
Cottage. Next to Brockland house, but before the Plough inn stood the old Smithy.

The old
Smithy

Postons
Garage

The Smithy stood on that site since 1841 but eventually closed its
door for the last time in 1953. The site was demolished to make
way for a new economy “fuel”.

Due to the increasing traffic in the Moreton area the Poston Brother
opened there garage. The building still stands today, albeit with
some modern upgrades, a testament to old style architecture.

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