People used to say (including my parents) "You could buy anything you needed from up t' lane, you never needed to go anywhere else!" and when you look at the shops listed here it isn't surprising they said that, also young one's (then) also said that when they walked up and down it on a Saturday night that "You felt that you'd done something", probably because it was busy with lots of people around what with the cinemas, pubs, chip shops etc.

People who have seen my previous list of shops will find this is now reversed, go to the bottom of the table and "Walk" up Sandy Lane and the list will show you what you passed on the left and on the right.
Please click on any links to see a view of that link which now opens in its own window and can be closed individually. Also have a look at the "Then and Now" book to see how they compare to now.

I've tried to list everything so the shops listed are not from any particular year but I've tried to list what shops became as the years passed.
If there are any I've missed or any mistakes then please email me.

Left hand side	Right hand side
High Street	Liverpool Road
Pheasant's Chip Shop (then Jones' then Humfries')	Davies' Chip Shop
Wainwright's Jewellery	Dr Bell's Surgery
William Glynn's Bank	Lennon's Food Shop
Hart's Clothes Shop	Coops Ironmongers
The Brown Cow Inn (later Lambs Chemist)	Sedgebeer's Home Made Pies
Lilly Whally's - Parrafin etc	Jack Welding's Cobblers
Pearce's Fruit & Veg
NatWest Bank	TSB Bank
Peel Street	Ashcroft's T.V & Bicycles
Watkinson's Newspapers & Sweets
Ester Sherringtons Little Sweet Shop	Hutchinson's Chemist
Pye's Furniture Shop (related to Birch's)	Bolton's Wool Shop
Birch's Furniture Shop	Hutton & Lowe's Fruit Shop
Taskers Cake Shop	Madge Dewson's Ladies Hairdresser (later Meadow Dairy)
Simmons' Chip Shop (later Clark's Chippy)
Beamans Terrace	Lizzy Close's Clothes Shop
Market Gate Inn	Stanforth's Chemists (later Post Office when moved from bottom of lane)
Elson Road (to Billy Shaws & Coronation Park)	Smith Street
Co-op's shoes and drapery	Bell's Bakery & Cafe then Sayers Pastries
Dr Fox's Surgery	Eastham's Butchers
	Blackledge's Food Shop
Brown's Dentist (visits twice weekly)	Lilly Varty's Sweet Shop (later 1/2 was clock menders & other 1/2 took in laundry)
Row of houses	Kenyon's Fruit Shop
Bennet's Groceries	Garners Wool Shop (previously a Hat Shop called?)
	Abbotts Newspaper Shop
	Charlie Faulkener's Mens Barbers
	Peets Wallpaper Shop
	Rainfords T.V's & Batteries (now Off License)
Ramsbottom's Fruit & Veg (& flowers)	Row of houses
Hutton Road
Martland's Butchers
Hall's Hairdressers (female)
Carr's Clothes Shop
Fenney's Groceries
Sharrock's Cobblers
Websters Groceries
Ackery's Tobacconists then Betty Berry's Fancy goods
Berry's Clothes Shop ?
Wood Brothers Ltd - T.V's and Bicycles
James Tootle's Cycle shop - later Millie Tootle's Bakery	Billy Gregson's Garage (Buses,Haulage & Petrol)
Russell's Newspapers & Sweets	Buntins Fruit Shop(then Briscoe's Butchers) Chivers' Sweet Shop Hulmes' Chip Shop Rimmers Mens Barbers (to become Noreen Shaw's Milk Bar) A Cloggers (run by ?)(to become Noreen Shaw's Milk Bar)
Witham Road
Post Office
The Victoria Inn
Bank (run by a Mr Webb)	(entry to 2 houses in Railway View)
	Brighouses Fruit & Veg Shop
Cenotaph War memorial	Frank Kiss' T.V's (later diy shop)
Town Hall	South West Lancs Farmers
Ormskirk Road (to Clayton Street)	Ormskirk Road (to Railway crossing)