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Hi daisynook and ele02, it looks like my dad's uncle was a neighbour of your ancestors! I'm researching him and his family at the moment and know that they had a bakery at no.48 Conran Street. I am presuming that this was in the 1930s and 40s. His name was John Fairhurst Byers and my dad remembered being taken to the bakery by his grandad as a young lad. His grandad Joseph Byers died at 48 Conran St in Jan 1940 so I think he must have gone to live with his son John. I have also found that his next door neighbour at 50 Conran St was Mary Hornby Byers who died in September later that year.
My dad always described the bakery as being opposite Queen's Park gates, but having looked at an old map I'm now presuming that he meant Conran St was opposite Queen's Park gates.