A GRAINY image of two youngsters playing in Carr Mill Road in Chadwick Green has continued to stir responses.

I received a phone call from the girl in the picture, now Mrs Jean Foster.

The photo was taken in the late 1940s and that is her cousin Brian with her. She lived in the red brick cottages nearby. She married in 1951, but the happy couple moved out of Carr Mill Road in 1954.

She remembers the Greer Family and it was Peter Greer, now living in Australia, who identified the location in these pages.

Jean now lives at the opposite end of the borough, in Rainhill. A neighbour passes on a copy of the paper to her and she was on her second read when the photo caught her eye.

Peter Greer also emailed: “Thank you for putting my story in Coffey Time. The photo was taken in 1946, the original is in the history of Billinge website. Moses Heyes, with his wife Polly, took over as landlord in 1950, at the Masons Arms.

“We came to St Helens in 2005, and as we were only there for eight days. We wanted do a lot so a visit to the pub was high on the agenda as my wife Helen is Australian.

“We got talking to the landlord, and in the bar is a history of the pub. I was sent a copy and it is now on the wall in the study, along with a pencil map of Chadwick Green dated in the early 1800s.

“When we moved to St Helens we lived on Liverpool Road between Glover and Phythian Street, above Dr Davis surgery as my mam was the receptionist and cleaner. Dr Lomax was next door and Shuttleworth’s shop was on one corner of Glover Street and Gabbert’s grocery on the other corner.

“My great granddad, Henry Moss Greer, married Jane Cammack, the daughter of Robert Cammack who started the Cammack’s Mineral water company in Haydock Street. I see the buildings are still there, painted blue on Google Earth.

“I have always took a lot of interest in the history of St Helens and reading your column gives me pleasure to try and revive the memory bank. The one thing is to never to lose my love for the greatest rugby league team (and it is not that team from the other side of Billinge).”