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Beautiful Memories.
Hello. I was born at Crumpsall Hospital 1945 and lived at 59 Dalton St, for seven years. Mother is named Eileen and dad was Fred. I had an older sister Barbara. My Aunty Peggy and Uncle John lived a few doors down - they had three sons, Bob, Malcom and Ian. My dad worked on the docks and I remember well, I think it was the lamp lighter coming to wake him up in the early hours of the morning by tapping on the bedroom window. My grandfather was a Rag and Bone man and often came down Dalton St. Have many happy memories of playing whip and top, hopscotch and ball on the railway wall. I remember my friend Teddy Peacock and his sister Shirley. I went to St. Catherines and my 1st teacher was Miss Jelly, who taught from a lectern, a rather tall skinny lady. We used to say "Miss Jelly had a wooden belly and... Read more
Warts And All
From Ethel Charnock to Ethel Middleton when I migrated and married an Australian.
I was born in 1933 attended St James Church of England, the eldest of four kids, two sisters and one brother.
We lived in Needwood Street off Rochdale Road. I was five when we moved into Collyhurst flats, Kingsley Crescent. From not having hot water on tap or electricity, it was like we had moved into a palace. Turn on the tap and hot water came out, switch on the light instead of lighting the gas mantle.
Instead of the old zinc bath which we took tuns in front of the fire, we now had a bath we could stretch out in. Mam had it easier with washing and ironing instead of heating the iron on the coals, she had electricity, and a boiler instead of all the scrubbing on the washboard.
Dad was demobbed out of the army, we were a complete family again. D Day and the tables end to end along... Read more
Collyhurst Flats
I was born Heather Pickering in 1952 and lived from there on in Collyhurst Flats. I also remember playing on Barnies tip and getting into trouble from my mother for doing so. I went to St James primary school and left there and went on to Harpurhey High. My mother also went to Osborne Street wash house, but she used to go on a Wednesday and on this day during the winter we would have home made ham and pea soup. I used to love Bonfire Night when bonfires would be feet away from the flats. I loved collecting wood and old furniture weeks before and stealing spoils from rival gangs. On Bonfire Night my dad would buy fireworks - there was little Health & Safety then as he allowed us to light them ourselves on occasions. I remember going to buy my dads 'fags' every night, trotting off to the herbalist on Rochdale Road and the reward for doing this chore was a few penny sweets. I used to... Read more
Collyhurst BY ERNIE DIGNAM
I too was born in Collyhurst and we lived on Providence Place. My brother went to the tin school and we have a photo of him walking in the Whit Walks. Marcell Guest Paints is now on the site of Providence Place and they have old pictures of Collyhurst in the factory. My dad first lived in Collyhurst flats on the banks of the River Irk, his name was Ernie Dignam, we are also related to the Kenyons and Hamnetts who were also born round here. My grandad, Thomas Dignam played football with Billy Dale and according to my dad was a great footballer. We moved from Collyhurst after the train went over the bridge in 1953 when I was three years old.
Collyhurst Buildings
May 3rd 2012, I was born at number 3 Collyhurst Buildings, Manchester, England. The fourth daughter of Mary (Cissy) McCarley, and her husband, Joe. My sisters were Mary, Winifred, Margaret, and Vera. There was a son, John Joseph, who died as an infant. We all attended St. Chad's school, Cheetham Hill. Our home was 'The Dwellings' where we lived throughout the war years, apart from the time Vera and I were evacuated and lived in Darwen. Missing our family, we were finally reunited, and returned home to the flats. Later, (our father, deceased) Mam, Margaret, Vera and I moved to live on Susan Street where I was married to an American serviceman at St. Patrick's church in Manchester. I now live in at 8937 Covina St San Diego California, USA. I would love to hear from former residents of the Dwellings, or St. Chad's church! Frances (McCarley) Cross
Abbot Street School
We moved from Northumberland to Collyhurst after the war. My Dad worked at Victoria Station and my Mum got a job at Phillips Soles and Heels. We lived on Knoll Street which was next to the railway and had the gas works at the bottom of the street. At the top of the street was an old man who had a wood shack with a fence round who we called Chippy, he sold firewood. In those days we all had open fires. I remember a family called Marsdons, O'Donnell, Walton and Sweeny. My brother played with a boy called Paddy Price. Next door to us lived a family called Jones. I remember some of my friends, Brenda Crowe, Stan Wilson, John Parker, Sylvia Smith, Brenda Kennedy. We went to Bolton Abbeywith school and to the Festival of Britain - so long ago. It was a great school, Mr.Warburton was the Headmaster while I was there. I remember the Queen's coronation and the street parties. My maiden name was Appleton and... Read more
Barnies Hills.
I always played on Barnies Hills, there was a big hill, we called it the hill, it had a big dip on top where you hid which we often did when we heard our mams shouting us to go in. Then there was the rafts we made to go sailng. In winter you could skate on the thick ice.
A TRUE COLLYHURST GIRL
I was born in Kingsley Crescent in the flats and proud of it, I am, the people were so friendly. I remember playing cricket with Carlo Satori, he became a footballer for Man United. And also making a swing on the lamp post. The rag and bone man used to come and we would follow him round asking for a balloon. I used to love going to the shops for my mam to Brennans and Mays the pawn shop. If I remember rightly, was there a shop called Duckworths and two elderly ladies would be serving? I think it was a clothes shop and you could also buy needles and thread. And when I got to sixteen I started going in the Palladium Club, the Salvage to the Esseldo pictures. I got married and lived in Central Drive, used to take my kids to the sandpark and my little girl to Willert Street nursery, does anyone remember that? I could go on and on.
