Patricroft Shops

A Memory of Patricroft.

There was an ironmonger's shop on Patricroft Bridge ( the Eccles side) owned by a man called Richmond, whose daughter May attended Eccles Grammar School - though she was too nice a girl to have anything to do with a yob like me!   Over the other side of the bridge was the Majestic Cinema (later the "Talk of the North" club).  St. Joseph's Home was not always the happy place your correspondent remembers - my mother used to threaten to "...have you kids put away in there" if we misbehaved, so we were much in awe of that big green front door with the big brass knocker.