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Lancashire memories
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.
LOCAL HISTORY PROJECT About COLLYHURST - VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!
Dear all,
I've just been reading all of your posts about Collyhurst and am astounded at how vivid your memories of the area are! It really is fantastic to see. From working in the area I've never before met a group of people more proud about the area they live in. I am part of a small steering group that is working on a project called "Once Upon a Time" which is specifically about Collyhurst. The posts you have put are exactly the types of memoreis we are looking for...memories of school, memories of clubs and societies etc... If you would like any more information at all about this then please don't hesitate to get on touch with me. My contact details are as follows:
Tel: 0161 655 7822
Email: s.anderson2@manchester.gov.uk
The project is well worth getting involved with. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Simon Anderson.
Gorton Lane, Manchester
I lived on Gorton Lane and I rememeber the shops and the pub which is the Gardeners now, I lived a few doors away. I used to go to the shops and I remember the corner shop, I forget what it was called but the owners were Mrs Middleton and Audrey who ran it and there was the chippie and record shop further down near Peacock School, I went to St Francis School and the church, I was upset when the church got smashed up but it looks good now, I am glad they saved it. Gorton was a nice place when I was growing up. I do have some happy memories. I used to walk to school every day there and back.
Newton Heath Childhood 1950s.
Hi, I was born in Harpurhey but moved to Newton Heath in about 1949. I went to Hague Street School till I was 11, then on to St Mary's Road Secondary Modern. Hague Street was a nice school, we all seemed to get on very well, our head teacher was Mr Sowerbutts, quite a genial chap as I remember. If you got a merit award in class, you would go to Mr Sowerbutt's office on a Friday, and you and the other merit pupils would get a small Walls ice cream as a reward. Mr Jackson was my teacher, I think he trained as a teacher after the war. We would play on Mather & Platts big open field alongside the canal, and on the 'rec on Tenacres Lane, we were always out playing, in the local streets, Pearson Street /Elvey Street and across the road in Robert Street and Pilling Street. I remember going to the Loco football matches, and going to the Ceylon picture house on Thorpe Road,... Read more
My First Memories of Harpurhey
Let me amend my memories of Harpurhey, after looking at some old photos of Manchester I can now remember and recollect other things, like for example holding on to the rails outside St Edmund's Junior School on the first day and my poor mother having to take me home, only to bring me back one week later, I think that was 1951. My first clear memory of Harpurhey was the Coronation in 1953. I expected the Queen to walk down the very street I lived in which was Mitford Street, just off Conran Street, it had a greengrocer's on one corner and an ironmonger's on the other. I remember that the street was concrete because it had to take heavy loads on oit during the war years, transport etc, it was excellent for roller skating on as most other streets were cobblestones, and we had a large Back Street which had no traffic on it, this was where all the children played in safety. Dewhurst's the meat factory was situated... Read more
Turkey Lane Hip
It was around this time the old Hippodrome closed. Well everyone thought it had, us children knew better, we could just open the loading door slightly and squeeze in, many costumes had been left, but we never tried them on, just looked at them and said how nice they were, but we knew all about the ghost that walked the stage and we talked in whispers in case they heard us.
Someone must have realised what was going on, because a new lock went on this door and we could not get in. Mind, we then found an air vent and many of us could crawl through this, so our trips continued, until this was found out and closed off. Wonderful, innocent, fun loving days.
