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Historic maps of Miles Platting and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Miles Platting maps
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Miles Platting area books
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Memories of Miles Platting
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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
Lancashire memories
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
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
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
Happy Days
I was born in Tebbutt Street in 1951. I went to St. Pat's School. Fond memories of Osborn St. baths, Hunts chippy and the toffee apple shop on Rochdale Rd. Played on Barney's tip as a kid and who can forget the wonderful smell that used to waft across Collyhurst from the bone works off Roger St. Used to deliver newspapers in the Collyhurst Rd. area. Most people didn't have much but crime was very low and people got on. Happy days, things have changed but for the better?
B Tarpey
Olden Days
We used to play on Barney's hills, also known locally as Ashes. I also remember the May Queen and Molly Dancers, the herbalist shop on Rochdale Road, and happy days playing in the muck and near the River Irk! I would have been 8 or 9 then. We lived on Eliza Anne Street behind the chip shop opposite (more or less) to May's Pawn Shop. We used to to to Osborne Street baths where Mum went to the washhouse. Washday was always Monday and we always had stew for tea on this day.
Achool Days in Collyhurst
So sorry, I do not have any photos of Collyhurst, I went to school there but actually lived in Miles Platting, The Ram on Oldhan Road. My school memories of Collyhurst are of St. James Primary School, the most special of which was of its wonderful library, a treasure trove of sometimes quite rare books, also of a teacher I admired and respected, Mr. Cathcart. I also remember skipping in the school yard and, in all due modesty, I think I was quite good. It was cold in the winter though, going to the outside toilets.
