Growing up in Heaton Park
I grew up in Heaton Park. Stanley Street. The Prestwich and Whitefield Guide Office was at the top of the street. I went to St. Hilda's School and at 11 went to Hope Park School for Girls. My earliest recollections are of the German Path Finders dropping flares to light their way. They were trying to locate the park where the RAF had a base. After the war ended we had a huge victory party on Egerton Street. In those days it was safe for the kids to play on the street until it was dark and wew hgad lots of fun. My best friends were Margaret Thomas, Pat Gay, and Pauline Downs, Mavis Whittaker and Mary Mellor. I left in 1968 and came to Canada.
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It is a funny old world as they say! Born in 1965, i spent most of my life in Prestwich, only leaving there in 2001 to move to Radcliffe. I went to St Hilda's Primary School then later to Heys Road, later known as Prestwich High. As a child I spent most of my youth playing behind 'The Guide office'! Prestwich was a great place to grow up and I wouldn't change my youth for anything!
Comment from Nick Mcclellan on Sunday, 25th December 2011.