The Pickering Arms, Bell Lane, ThelwallAlly, an ex-resident of Thelwall, wrote:"I’ll be honest that the only memories I have of the Pickering Arms or the “Pick” as my Dad use to call it was walking past each day to school or church. I used to gaze at the wall - the writing words wall from a seat on the number 10 bus that was always a |
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double decker with a
conductor at the back and wonder about this suppose
“city”
…. It was certainly classed as a landmark in my days of
living in
Thelwall. The housing estates were a far cry away and it was
nice and
cosy until some drove round the bend at top speed and screeched when
they
realised that it was a BEND and not just a slight kink in the road
… am
sure the house nearest the post office had its wall knocked down many
times
over.
"Another thing I noticed about more recent photos of the Pick was
that the forecourt or car park … there were no iron posts up
and it was
cobbled … the car park at the back I cannot remember whether
it was there
when we first moved in or when it was built. I remember
jumping over the
iron rings between the posts of the car park entrance on the way home
from
school many times and on one particular day tripped and badly gashed
the back
of my leg on one of the spikes …. That
part of the Pick
always seemed to be not a part if you know what I mean … it
had lost its
old worldeness though how it could be constructed to be kept I have no
idea! I seem to think one always entered the Pick via the
back door and
not via the front door I presume because one would park at the back so
for that
reason the car park has always been there in my memory!
"I am
sure Jack and think Vera ? Goodall
were the landlords at the time I was there. They lived in
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