I've cracked it ... Seven Stars > The Old Vic > Helsinki > Seven Stars.
From perusing old diaries and https://throughtheeyesofabrightongirl.yolasite.com/public-houses.php
Wow, I didn’t realise Edward Street had been so narrow.
The streets to the right were slums. One ironically named Sun Street, because so narrow, it barely saw the sun.
I can’t help but think of Savile esque characters going for Santa jobs back in the day.
I thought that too about location, then the new one was destroyed by a fire.
Illustrating the evil Patriarchy. Blokes having a good time drinking yards of Tamplins and puffing away at Capstans. Whilst their other halves in nearby 2 Up/2 Downs toiled with mangles, the scouring brush and coal scuttles :mad: .
Was there a small station in the Hartington Road area, now a tiny park?
My Dad grew up in Canning Street. Near the tunnel entrances, they explored them too.
1938. I remember it well.
[Just found it online :lol: ].
My aunt went to the girl’s school behind there at that time, the original Margaret Hardy School. Two gates next to other in a gap between shops, the other for Fawcett.