Growing up in Gorton

I was born at 7 Sandown Crescent in 1946. I now live in Vancouver Canada but my Aunt Win still lives in the same house. I remember playing football on the Mellons fields on Saturday mornings, Billy Butt, Nick Butt's uncle, used to play with us. I went to the Sacred Heart School with Pat Morrisroe and Greg Thompson. Our teacher was Mr Lee. We had some great times growing up. My last visit was in 2007, how it has changed since those days. The local pub was all boarded up and there was no fish and chip shop any more. We used to hang around the old army camp at night and weekends or go across from the camp to the dirt track where we would race our bikes. If we were not there we could be found on Jacksons clay pit riding the 'wall of death', as we use to call it. "He He, Great Times they were". You would be gone in the morning and tell your parents "We will be back at 5 for dinner", they didn’t have to worry about you like they would today.