This week we have a further walk up Witton Street in good old Northwich until we come to the Waterman’s Arms.

This pub has had a few names but is still open and called The Witton Chimes.

The photograph can be dated quite accurately to the turn of the last century as one of the many advertisements on the wall in the old photograph is for Harry Lauder.

Later Sir Harry Lauder who was a well known Scottish music hall singer and comedian.

He was born in 1870 and died in 1950.

Witton Street is paved with setts and subsidences have started resulting in buildings being replaced.

In this area during the 1950s and 60s was the home of the iconic ‘Pop’ Hornby’s herbalist shop where pints of homemade cream soda, hot Bovril and many other unique drinks, both hot and cold could be purchased.

This was as an alternative to school dinners, especially if partnered with a 6d or 9d worth of chips from the Plaza Supper Bar a few doors up! ‘Pop’ Hornby, whose father started the business and was also known as ‘Pop,’ was behind the counter here for 30 years pouring his unique drinks from stone barrels.

The shop closed in 1969, and ‘Pop’’ passed away in 1996 at the age of 91.

Passing an area of devastating subsidences already covered in an earlier Yester Years and we reach the top of Witton Street at the junction of what was Warrington Road, where on the corner could be found the Bowling Green, later the Flower Pot that opened in 1895 and closed in 1957.

At the junction with Station Road, we find a very early motor car dealership owned by Isaac Robinson.

The garage address is 42-44 and 46 Station Road, and Isaac Robinson sells his motor cars and motorcycles with names now consigned to classic vehicle shows.

Old Isaac would be amazed at the cars for sale where he once sold his.

Here we have a look at this car showroom from another angle, this time using a hand coloured postcard. Isaac or one of his salesmen seems to be handing over what looks like a Renault car.

The church shown on the right is the Northwich Wesleyan Methodist chapel that was opened in 1881 and closed in 1977. Dwellings are now on the site.

Paul Hurley has a popular Facebook group titled, Northwich, Winsford and Mid Cheshire through time