A True Collyhurst Girl

A Memory of Collyhurst.

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.