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"In its heyday it would attract hundreds of visitors from all over St Helens. You could see them all walking up College Street, and from Liverpool down the East Lancs Road. Nearly everybody ended

"The "Fairy Steps" area was a popular picnic area with families from all over town and took the "overflow" water from the Dam. The sloping grass area was an ideal place to sun bathe in good weather

up having a picnic on the banks of the steps.

"There was a coin operated turnstile at the entrance to a small beach area. On the beach was a castle with turrets and dark stairways. There were also a few small stalls, doughnuts (I think) and"Inside there were passages, steps and a slide (rather like a "haunted house") It wasn't a solid construction and was built from some sort of prefabricated material. It occupied a position just as

Ray Kimble added this memory: "I remember the castle at Carr Mill. It was on the site were the Waterside Restaurant/Hotel is now. In the mid to late Fifties we used to walk from Parr through

to time Lady Mavis Pilkington also ran a Charity Shop on the same street. I wonder if any one remembers buying bacon from my dad in those "good old days"!

(notably the long hot summer of 1959).

remembers the castle at Carr Mill.

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you went through the main entrance. This would have been somewhere around where the far side of the Waterside Pub is now.

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seventies. Along the same street was Freeman Hardy Willis and Hawkins and Marr's fish shop.

YOU remember a couple of Converse White Womens High Tops weeks ago that Jacky Fitzsimons had said: "I think the photograph of the castle in May 24th Star was at Carr Mill" Well, John Kain of Thatto Heath rang to confirm that he

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Bingo! Kenny Graham emailed: "This is the first time I have contacted you although I do read your column, with great interest, every time I can get my hands on a St Helens Star. You have probably

"I also recall a small ghost castle which you paid to enter. On the roof stood the helter skelter. If you were lucky you could have a ride on the train which took you as far as the boat house.

"I was also interested in Brian Cook's reference to Naylor Street North, as on that street was Redman's grocer's where my late father (John) was manager from 1948 until the shop Shoes Converse Black

Blackbrook and along a woodland path leading to Carr Mill.

"To lots of people this was the only day out they could afford, but happy days. This was 1963."