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Town Hall Bombing During The Second World War
During the Second World War my mother lived in a flat opposite the Town Hall, above Partington's. She had been suffering with a very bad cold and had been recommended a cure that involved consuming rather more alcohol than she was accustomed to. Apparently she used to look out of the window each morning at the Town Hall clock, to check the time. The morning after the night before, she attempted her usual ploy, only to find that the clock tower had disappeared during the night. The Germans had bombed the Town Hall and my mother had slept right through the entire episode.
The Blue Rooms
It was The Blue Rooms when I was a teenager in the 1980s, good times, legging it for the last train.
Sale Locarno
I will always remember going to Sale Lido for the dancing. The Manager was called Ronald.B. Bloxham, he had a Van Dyke beard and he encouraged the lads to request a dance with a girl, and chat them up. It became the Locarno Ballroom later. We used to go to the local cinema called the Savoy.
1952 t0 1964 Alastair Forrest
I lived at 73 Marford Crescent before moving to 45 Moss Lane (over the road from St Mary's church). I was a member of 2nd Ashton scouts. I then joined the RAF. What a great time I had!
Memories as Clear as Yesterday
I have clear and wonderful memories of 1958 and 1959 cycling down School Road and then Ashton Lane to my girlfriend Joan's house on Totnes Road. I remeber too, taking her into Woolworths to buy a hoop for her skirt which was very stylish then. I have thousands of wonderful and warm memories of those glorious years. A quieter, calmer, simpler time. How I miss those years. Although it's changed a bit since then, I can't wait to walk down School Road and Ashton lane again on my next visit.
Golden Days at The Locarno Ballroom And The Odeon
More of my golden memories from 1958/1959. Going dancing at the Locarno Ballroom with all the great music from that time ( Buddy Holly, Billy Fury, Marty Wilde, Cliff Richard and all the other greats and watching my girlfriend Joan win a Jive/Routine contest dancing to Buddy Holly's " Rave On", and going to the pictures at the Odeon. Precious Days, Precious Times.
TSB
I used to work in the TSB down School Road in 1965/1966. I walked up from Glebelands Road swinging my wicker basket. Sometimes I got a lift off the milkman, it took me longer but he was very nice. I spent my time watching them build Boots and the new precinct.
Urmston Lane, Stretford
Me and my sister Jane were adopted due to neglect and abuse, then lived on Urmston Lane,sadly the abuse continued. However I enjoyed my time at Lostock Secondary Modern and also Stretford Cricket Club. My mates Paul Atherton, Stuart Fish and Paul Newton and his gorgeous sister Zoe Newton. We lived on the corner of Umrston Lane and Manor Road opposite Sandy Lane. I hardly recognise the old place now. I also remember Stretford before the Arndale Centre too. Should anyone like to email me - saltersmeadow@googlemail.com as I now live in Devon.
St Pauls Mission
I was 8 in 1950 and often walked from my house in Brindley Avenue near Dane Road Station to School Road. On the way I would pass the bombed out wereckage of St. Paul's church at the corner of Waverley, and Dargle. I didn't understand Latin writing then and always called it Saint Pavis's because of the latin 'V' for our 'U'. It was a great place to play in there as well. It is now a block of flats I think.
Town Hall Fire.
I am uncertain about the precise date. During the bombing of Trafford Park a stray bomber, probably with a stick of bombs stuck in the bomb doors, released a stick accross School Road up to the Town Hall. The bomb rack wrecked the front wheel of my fathers bike as he was riding it ! The Wardens did attack the fire relatively successfully. My father was the Deputy Chief Warden of Sale at the time. My aunt, who drove a white ambulance was stopped outside Woolworths when the bombs struck - an alarming experience.
Town Hall Fire
I also remember the town hall fire during the blitz. At that time the fire station was just behind the town hall and I understand that all the fire engines were deployed elsewhere during the night of the bombing. The story that circulated was that a team of air raid wardens with a stirrup pump were sent to put out the fire. I don't think they would have had much success. It sounds like an episode from Dad's Army.
Audrey Frost
Dancing
I have happy memories of dancing at Sale town hall to Bert Clegg's band. I wonder if any other surfers remember those evenings.
Savoy
I remember Saturday morning matinées there in the 60s, brilliant time spent! Sneaking in sometimes when the cleaner forgot to lock the side exits! Fantastic.
As A Boy
Mum and I would take the 112 bus from Norris road thro' Sale Moor and up to Sale station, then walk down School Road to "Woolies" where I was allowed to browse amongst the toys and confectionery.
Fine days
The Savoy Cinema
I remember my mother taking me to see Annie Get Your Gun about 1950/1 at the Savoy Cinema in Sale. I was ten years old and we had walked from Button Lane. I was only ten years old.
Wartime Memories.
The roof of the Town Hall was set alight by incendiary bombs in the heavy air-raids on Manchester and surrouding areas in late December 1940. I remember seeing it, being a young boy at the time. Sale is about six miles from Manchester centre.
Memories of Cheshire
My Lodgings in Timperley
I stayed in lodgings in Timperley in 1966 in a small cul-de-sac called South Meade. I had to find accommodation as I was transferred from London to work at the Bank of England's branch in Manchester and by chance the hotel that I found for my first couple of weeks was in Timperley - am easy train ride to the city from Navigation Road station. The local paper carried an advertisement by a nearby landlady offering a vacancy which suited me. I believe I paid £4-10 shillings for my board but I had to find another 7/6 a week to garage my car with one of her friends around the corner as she wouldn't let me keep my car at her house! At the tender age of 20 I was by far the youngest of the six boarders in her house and it didn't really suit me at all. Timperley was fine - handy for commuting, shopping in nearby Altrincham, country walks with a girlfriend, Anne Senyszyn, who... Read more
Upper Chorlton Rd
The photgraph show the Seymour Hotel which was at the junction of Upper Chorlton Rd and Seymour Grove
Stretford, Barkway Road.
I loved living in Stretfrod, although I lived at the other end of Stretford, on the Urmston boundary. I can remember those days very well. My mum had an account at Cromptons grocery shop, where she would get most of her shopping and pay at the end of the week. I would pop into the shop now and again and buy something like a bag of broken biscuits, then say, put it on the book please, my mum would go mad when she found out.
We used to play most of the time in the meadows at the back of Urmston Lane, I knew every path and every tree like the back of my hand. We would go to see the horses at Hilliam farm, and Cherry tree farm on Stretford road Urmston, or just wander around the meadows having one adventure after another.
Barkway road was the one of the safest and friendliest places you could live in those days. Although some of the people on Urmston... Read more
Memories
It was brilliant to read your memories about Stretford. I lived on Urmston Lane & I went to Moss Park Junior school, the only school I went to that is still standing today! Do you remember a beautiful cottage on Urmston Lane, I think it was called Scholfields. It had a little bridge in the front garden that went over a stream & the back garden was full of fruit & seemed to stretch for miles down to the meadows! Great fun we used to have in those meadows, those were the days! It was an absolute disgrace that they knocked down that gorgeous cottage to make room for flats! They ruined it!
Bridgewater Canal
My younger brother Russell and I grew up on Coniston Road in Stretford and one of my earliest memories was of going down to the canal armed with pickle jars that had breathing holes stabbed into the lid (a fork from mums kitchen was our tool of choice), some twine around the lip so we wouldn't drop our "catch" and a couple of fishing nets.
There were always some older kids or adults sitting on their wicker baskets with real fishing tackle to check out on our travels along the Bridgewater Canal in search of the magnificent fish of choice, that would be the stickleback fish (aw the stuff of a young lads dreams!).
I couldn't count the amount of hours we must have spent belly down on the edge of the canal, nets in the water waiting for the little slippery buggers to get far enough in the net to scoop em up and deposit our prize catch into the waiting pickle jar.
Of course mum... Read more
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