H Eatough & Son (Herbalists) Park Road

[ReluctantClaret]

Hi guys,

Burnley fan in peace!

 

I've recently found this picture of my Granddad's herbalist shop in Park Road, not sure if it's in Blackburn or Darwen. Never met my Granddad and don't have much information about him either so if anyone remembers this shop, it would be awesome to hear about! He had it in the 60's and  70's I believe, picture below!

Thank you 🙂

 

https://imgur.com/wvbDNx5

Edited November 13, 2022 by ReluctantClaret

[arbitro]

12 minutes ago, ReluctantClaret said:

Hi guys,

Burnley fan in peace!

 

I've recently found this picture of my Granddad's herbalist shop in Park Road, not sure if it's in Blackburn or Darwen. Never met my Granddad and don't have much information about him either so if anyone remembers this shop, it would be awesome to hear about! He had it in the 60's and  70's I believe, picture below!

Thank you 🙂

 

https://imgur.com/wvbDNx5

I'm pretty sure it's not Darwen.

[ReluctantClaret]

4 minutes ago, arbitro said:

I'm pretty sure it's not Darwen.

To be fair I actually don't know where it was, this picture was 1979, I wasn't born then! I just know he had a shop around the Blackburn area. 

[arbitro]

1 minute ago, ReluctantClaret said:

To be fair I actually don't know where it was, this picture was 1979, I wasn't born then! I just know he had a shop around the Blackburn area. 

The Park Road sign might help you. There is a Park Road in Darwen but that unusual building is not something I recognise.

[Riversider28]

The shop was just the other side of Darwen St bridge Blackburn,after you went past Edmondsons furniture shop going towards Grimshaw Park. My grandad lived on Chapel Place where the Blackburn Arena is now and we would sometimes have a glass of Sarsaparilla there as you can see on the shop sign. Hope this helps you Reluctant Claret.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

There used to be a shop selling similar beverages in Rochdale when I was kid. Long gone now though.

[oldjamfan1]

On 13/11/2022 at 18:09, Riversider28 said:

The shop was just the other side of Darwen St bridge Blackburn,after you went past Edmondsons furniture shop going towards Grimshaw Park. My grandad lived on Chapel Place where the Blackburn Arena is now and we would sometimes have a glass of Sarsaparilla there as you can see on the shop sign. Hope this helps you Reluctant Claret.

Yes that's exactly where it was. My mum used to take us in there for a glass on the way to pick my dad's wages up every Thursday night. He was a lorry driver for BRS, and their depot was about half way up Audley Range.

[Mike E]

Would it have been here, chaps?

[Riversider28]

1 hour ago, Mike E said:

Would it have been here, chaps?

No, you have to go under the railway bridge and it is there at the bottom of Park Rd.

[Ianrally]

On 15/11/2022 at 13:43, oldjamfan1 said:

Yes that's exactly where it was. My mum used to take us in there for a glass on the way to pick my dad's wages up every Thursday night. He was a lorry driver for BRS, and their depot was about half way up Audley Range.

The BRS depot was on Copperfield Street next to my aunties house. We used to play footie against the big green doors. Last time  I was up that way it was Holdex Timber. 
Regarding the herbalist, exactly as you described OJF, I’m sure that on the same block there was a barbers run by the dad of Alan Bradshaw, Rovers player of the 60’s. 

[oldjamfan1]

21 hours ago, Ianrally said:

The BRS depot was on Copperfield Street next to my aunties house. We used to play footie against the big green doors. Last time  I was up that way it was Holdex Timber. 
Regarding the herbalist, exactly as you described OJF, I’m sure that on the same block there was a barbers run by the dad of Alan Bradshaw, Rovers player of the 60’s. 

My younger brother knew Alan very well as he coached the town schoolboys teams that he played in back in the 80s.

[JohnD]

I used to love the Sarsaprilla (sp?) and dandelion and burdock there, great memories 👌

[Alan Eatough]

Sorry I'm a bit late to the conversation. This shop is or was in Blackburn and owned by my uncle . In the late 1950s when I was about ten, I went up to Blackburn with my mum, dad and sister. Dad was one of seven brothers and one sister. My uncle gave me a glass of sarsparilla but I didn't like it. He sold kits to make sarsparilla posting some of them abroad  I think that all of their generation have passed on now. 

[oneandycrawford]

On 13/11/2022 at 20:31, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

There used to be a shop selling similar beverages in Rochdale when I was kid. Long gone now though.

There's the famous one in Rawtenstall - Fitzpatricks. Used to go there with my mum for Dandelion & Burdock. Still going although it's changed a bit since then!

Mr Fitzpatrick's Vintage Cordials - Mr Fitzpatrick's Vintage Cordial

[Ianrally]

The best Sarsaparilla was from Walsh’s in the indoor market. 

[Upside Down]

20 minutes ago, Ianrally said:

The best Sarsaparilla was from Walsh’s in the indoor market. 

That's the most true fact that's ever been said.

[Mattyblue]

‘Meet at Spiral at 12 and we’ll go and get a pint of sarsaparilla’