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Buildings that tell a story --ORMSKIRK 2008/11/03 20:56  
Dad has just been showing me how to upload the photos we took yesterday in Ormskirk . He has ask me to ask if anyone knows the story of this building and the significance of the ship

I will upload some pics tomorrow --been in Leeds all day looking around the Uni so am a bit tired
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Re:Buildings that tell a story --ORMSKIRK 2008/11/03 21:13  
Hi John's girl.

Originally the building was a pub called The Ship.

Before Clarks took it over, it was Ablett's shoeshop for years.

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Re:Buildings that tell a story --ORMSKIRK 2008/11/03 21:25  
Thank you for a very quick response --OK then who where these houses built for --They must have been very skinny people
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Re:Buildings that tell a story --ORMSKIRK 2008/11/03 21:31  
I've been told that they were built like that because the original building plots were reduced by the railway coming through (don't know how true that is though).
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Re:Buildings that tell a story --ORMSKIRK 2008/11/04 00:34  
That's a weird looking building, residents must all have been animal lovers tho cause in that place you really couldn't swing cat around by it's tail, could ya?
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