Readers' letters - February 6

By The Newsroom
Published 9th Feb 2018, 14:08 BST
Updated 9th Feb 2018, 15:15 BST
The Looking Back picture comes from Barretts Directory of Preston (1936) edition and comes courtesy of Preston Digital ArchiveThe Looking Back picture comes from Barretts Directory of Preston (1936) edition and comes courtesy of Preston Digital Archive
The Looking Back picture comes from Barretts Directory of Preston (1936) edition and comes courtesy of Preston Digital Archive
Looking Back house was a lovely home

An edition of Looking Back featured an advert from I Spencer and son who were house builders on Liverpool Road, Penwortham (LP Looking Back January

9).

Your article showed a photograph of a house in the advert and asked “Maybe your house was built by this company?”

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I am fairly sure that the house photographed in the advert is 21 Hollinhurst Avenue, Penwortham, which my wife and I, along with our two children, lived at between July 2001 and June 2012.

The stone frames around the lounge windows and

the entrance to the front door are instantly recognisable.

The house was built in 1928 and stands on the site of the former Penwortham Priory, which was demolished sometime

before that date.

The house originally had a very large plot – half of which was sold in the late 1980s/early 1990s to create an additional property which became 19A Hollinhurst Avenue.

We bought the house from Gary Peters (former manager of PNE) and his wife.

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Gary bought the house sometime in 1998 and carried out a full-scale makeover of the property, including extensions and a refurbishment of the whole house.

We did a house swap with Gary who moved into our former farmhouse in Chapel Lane, Longton, which Gary did a further makeover on before moving on a year or so later.

The house in the article was a lovely house with a warm and sunny large back garden and we have lots of happy memories of living there.

Thank you for re-kindling some of those memories.

Clive Portman

Treales