Sorry, Dennis, we'll have it moved! Actually you're right, I think. Down near the river anyway. And I THINK it was Church street. There is still a sort of Mission Hut thing there, *pace* Ena Sharples. The Exchange building is still there, but there's nobody home I think, unless it is a few Engineers. Blimey, you go even further back than I do, the Granelli vans I remember were in the Fifties and Sixties. I think I have seen the odd Sivori's one too, but the others no. Except Pablo's, I'm sure I remember him - used to do a gorgeous stripey one that amazingly tasted different in different colours! Mostly ice cream just tasted sweet! Was there ever a Pablo's in Blackpool? Why do the tastes stick in your head? Puddin' and chips doesn't taste the same nowadays either! Don't quite remember WW2, just missed it, I was a Bulge baby in 1947. An Italian Ex-Pat runs a restaurant in Westhoughton, oddly enough; I seem to remember his family were originally interned and didn't go home. I even knew a German bloke on the buses in the 60s, who'd driven a tank in the Afrika Corps. Lovely fella. Ian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Turner" <me@recumbentdennis.org.uk> To: <LANCSLIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [LANCSLIFE] More Ice Cream! > Another "clever clogs" Lancastrian exiled in Cheshire writes: The River > Irwell in Bolton ? Perhaps it's the River Croal. > > RecumbentDennis in Chester UK > > PS We had a Granelli's in Bury and most of the senior members of the > Italian > ice-cream families, who didn't have British citizenship were internees in > Warth Camp Bury opposite my home at the start of WW2. > In addition to Granelli ice-cream family, there was Ianussi & Longenotti > in > other parts of Lancashire, not forgetting Pablo's in Southport.

Pablo's, I can remember that this was in a back road somewhere near to Albert Road. Don`t think it is there now. I used to play near the mill lodge in Radcliffe and collect tadpoles, Ian, crikey, when I think back neither I or any of the other kids that played with me could swim. Stone jars of Dandelion and Burdock etc. I think someone called round once a week and took the empty jars and left filled ones. Anybody remember going to Heysham Head and the glasses of Nettle Beer that were sold there. Olive

We were fair swimmers Olive, but the damn place was solid with weed; had any of us gone in there it would've been curtains. We loved the sticklebacks and tadpoles though. Also remember being enchanted by my first Newt. Those stone jars I remember, Mum used to give us one for a hot water bottle when the weather was freezing - no central heating then! That Nettle Beer sounds OK, never tried it! Ian