"the Molyneux....."
When we moved to Kirkby (I was 14), because the estate had been built on land that had previously been owned by a church which had made conditions of sale, the only pub there was The Cherry Tree on the East Lancashire Road, outside the estate.
This remained the case until a few years before I moved - no pubs, no cimema, no swimming baths, no dance halls or social centres, no other facilities - no wonder we're all misfits.
There's a story of a car driving through the streets which broke down.
The driver got out and opened the bonnet, and two men came out of a block of flats carrying a car-jack, raised the car off he ground and began to unscrew the nuts on the wheels.
When the driver protested he was told "If you're having the engine, we're having the wheels!"
Good days!!
Jim Carroll