40. LE HURST AND JIMMY
Walter Brocklehurst was born in Prescot, Merseyside, in 1867, the son of the leather currier William Tyrer Brocklehurst and his wife Ann. As a young man, he settled down in Ruthin, Denbighshire, where he became a grocer with his shop at 11 St Peter’s Square (it still stands), married Emily Jones and had a son and five daughters. Walter’s great interest in life was not grocery, however, but ventriloquism: with his large
