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Lancashire memories
SCHOOL DAYS
I REMEMBER GOING TO HAUGE STREET SCHOOL AND LIVING IN ROBERT STREET JUST A STREET AWAY AND ONE MORNING I HAD FORGOTTEN TO TAKE MY LUNCH SO I STOOD AT THE SCHOOL GATES AND WATCHED FOR MR MERGAROIDE WHO WAS THE LANDLORD OF THE GREYHOUND PUB AFACING OU R HOUSE AND WHEN I SEEN HIM I ASKED HIM WOULD HE GET MY MOTHER TO BRING MY SCHOOL LUNCH FOR ME AND HE DID I WAS WELL CHUFFED
Newtonheath Loco Football CCub
I remember sneaking into the match by going past the lodging house on Warden Lane and going by the railwayside and through a hole in the fence that the railway men had made so that they could watch the match on their break. If the football was boring, me and my brothers would watch the trains and the freight wagons being shunted back and forth.
LOCAL HISTORY PROJECT About COLLYHURST - VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!
Dear all,
I've just been reading all of your posts about Collyhurst and am astounded at how vivid your memories of the area are! It really is fantastic to see. From working in the area I've never before met a group of people more proud about the area they live in. I am part of a small steering group that is working on a project called "Once Upon a Time" which is specifically about Collyhurst. The posts you have put are exactly the types of memoreis we are looking for...memories of school, memories of clubs and societies etc... If you would like any more information at all about this then please don't hesitate to get on touch with me. My contact details are as follows:
Tel: 0161 655 7822
Email: s.anderson2@manchester.gov.uk
The project is well worth getting involved with. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Simon Anderson.
Gorton Lane, Manchester
I lived on Gorton Lane and I rememeber the shops and the pub which is the Gardeners now, I lived a few doors away. I used to go to the shops and I remember the corner shop, I forget what it was called but the owners were Mrs Middleton and Audrey who ran it and there was the chippie and record shop further down near Peacock School, I went to St Francis School and the church, I was upset when the church got smashed up but it looks good now, I am glad they saved it. Gorton was a nice place when I was growing up. I do have some happy memories. I used to walk to school every day there and back.
Newton Heath Childhood 1950s.
Hi, I was born in Harpurhey but moved to Newton Heath in about 1949. I went to Hague Street School till I was 11, then on to St Mary's Road Secondary Modern. Hague Street was a nice school, we all seemed to get on very well, our head teacher was Mr Sowerbutts, quite a genial chap as I remember. If you got a merit award in class, you would go to Mr Sowerbutt's office on a Friday, and you and the other merit pupils would get a small Walls ice cream as a reward. Mr Jackson was my teacher, I think he trained as a teacher after the war. We would play on Mather & Platts big open field alongside the canal, and on the 'rec on Tenacres Lane, we were always out playing, in the local streets, Pearson Street /Elvey Street and across the road in Robert Street and Pilling Street. I remember going to the Loco football matches, and going to the Ceylon picture house on Thorpe Road,... Read more
Love my Roots
I was born in 11 Higher Duke to Alice & Fred Musgrave in 1939. My early memories are being rushed out to the back entry into the shelter when the bombs were dropping, I don't remember being that scared it must have been the good humour and attitude of all the neighbours sharing the shelter, I remember lots of singing. Dad worked at West Gas I think, or it could have been AVRO. I went to Corpus Christie School until I was 8 then moved to the Crumpsall Open Air after one of those medicals where the doctors came round the school. I remember my life in Hr Duke St as very happy with lots of friends Ray Blears, the Kendal family Joan & Louise Hayles the Ashbrooks, the Sunderland girls, Maureen & Tommy Hitchen, I often wonder where they are now. Right at the top of our street accessed by the back entry near the Hitchens was Morans the bookies. My Dad bought... Read more
Clowes Street West Gorton And St Marks'' School
I was born at 124 Clowes Street, West Gorton in 1947 and attended St Marks' School between 1953 and 1959. The Head was the formidable Mrs Clayton, and the Deputy Head was Mr Platt, but it was the lovely Mrs Butterworth who taught me to read and write. Clowes Street was the busiest street in Gorton, with a school, church, chapel, cinema, thirteen public houses and every kind of shop imaginable along its length. All before supermarkets, convenience stores, bingo and clubs, there was no need to travel anywhere else to shop or be entertained. The house I was born in was rented by my grandparents from a private landlord, but when I was a few weeks old we moved next door into 126 Clowes Street. This was a converted Tripe Shop owned by the Beswick Co-operative Society, which had a butchers next door (128) and a grocers next door to that (130). The houses were Victorian, damp and dark, having been built in the 1800's on ancient small-holdings with... Read more
