THE rhyming names of neighbours in my childhood street, Ivy Spivey and Minnie Finney, made a Tyldesley reader smile.
She says years ago she worked at Courtaulds there and her boss told her about four families who lived next door to each other - Halls, Balls, Greenhalls and Catteralls.
Mrs H you made my Monday morning. Thanks for the laugh. Any more name tales?
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