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Audenshaw Public Houses
I am trying to research a Thomas Wilkinson b 1803 in Audenshaw, married a Maria of Buxton, he was an Innkeeper in the 1820s and 1830s when several of his children were born. The 1841 census states that he is a Soda Water driver (assumption that he no longer was an Innkeeper). Perhaps if I knew the names of the Public Houses I could do further investigation.
FAILSWORTH
We came to live in Failsworth in l956 when I was 8, we lived in Firs Avenue where the school clinic was held at what used to be Firs Hall, where I believe the owner or manager of the local mill lived. There was an air raid shelter still in the back which wasn't knocked down until the mid 1970s - so it had 30 years of kids playing in it, sliding down it on coal shovels when it snowed. A lot of my relatives lived in Failsworth, Dean Street, Dalton Street and Mather Street where I went to school until I was ll. There was a pig farm nearby and an old clay mine which was still dug out, full of rubbish and water in which we floated about in old, leaky tin baths - in all that muck, getting covered in lead paint and burning oily rags in tins with holes in, my sister used to make with a handle made out of string so they could... Read more
I Remember Firs Hall
I remember Firs Hall, I lived on Oldham Road next to the Brown Cow pub, our house was 303a. It was this number because it apparently used to be part of the house next door and so when it was made into two they could not re-number the whole road so we got an 'a' after our number. I also used to play in the air raid shelter just like Jaques and I remember the brilliant bonfires we used to have in "the backin" as we used to call it, all the mums used to make food hot pot and parkin and toffee and the dads let off fireworks, good good days they were.
St Johns's School
I was at St John's about this time and I am looking for infomation re teachers' names, the name of the sweet shop on the corner of Flag Alley, plus any other interesting info of that time. I lived in Hibbert Crescent and was born in 1937. Thank you.
Mather Street
I lived in Mather Street from when I was born in 1963 until I moved to Chadderton in 1970. My Dad had lived there as a child too and knew the people at the farm. I remember he used to take me there - pig smells always remind me of that place. I also went to Mather Street school as my Dad did before me. I remember the bonfire we used to have between Mather St and Dalton St ( I think ) - I remember the hot potatoes, treacle toffeee and parkin. My friends there were Marcia and Michelle Roberts and Gillian Kenning. I have a picture of me and Gillian when we were about 5 years old and a picture of me with a bucket and spade in the passagway between the backyards. There was also a boy called Roy I think - I remember him with a runny nose!!! I remember the shops we could walk to - the corner shop on Dean St ( I think... Read more
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.
