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Good Old Days in Salford
I was born in Salford, one of six children to Edith Casey and Ken Casey, their other children consisted of Linda, Alan, Barry, Ken, Paul and of course myself. We lived at number 50 Bury Street which was off Ellor Street. My dad worked at Greengate and Irwell. In those days I can remember playing in the streets, making boogies out of a plank of wood and four pram wheels and a bit of rope to stear it. In those day we were quite poor but we made our own games up and did what we could to keep us amused. The house we lived in was a two up two down with a toilet outside in the yard and a tin bath hung on the back door, with an open fireplace where my mum had to make the fire for the next morning. In the kitchen I remember we had an old square pot sink and an old kitchenette that had a leaf that pulled down. The reason why... Read more
My Salford Days From 1953
I have very fond memories of Salford. I first lived in Franklin St, Ordsall, until I was about 4 or 5 years old. I recall the pub on the corner and the church at the other end. I lived on the landings facing the resevoirs. I recall going to see the famiy doctor Yonace. who was a lovely man. From there we moved to Vere St, one house up from the dock gates. My dad was a docker. The CWS was also just off our street. I think it was a box factory. I recall playing out for hours and hours exploring Mode wheel and Weaste cemetary where we had a tyre swing near the canal. I recall our treat was to get the number 15 bus from Eccles New road and go to Worsley Woods for the day. It was another world from where we lived. Also, later on, we used to get the number 10 bus to the new swimming pool at Irlam. Other than that we used... Read more
Playing Out In Salford's Streets
I was born and bred at home, 19 Newall Street Salford 5, in 1960. A small street just off Eccles New Road near to Cross Lane. I often sit and remember the tight, cobbled streets where we played Rallyheaveho, Football and Kick Ball Hide. All the kids, all the time, we just loved playing......Robbers Knock, a game that would get us a clip round the lughole if we got caught!..'The Purse Trick' was our favourite. An old purse would have cotton tied round the clasp and placed outside the door of the corner shop at night. We would hide and be in stitches watching people bend down and have it tugged away when they were within an inch of grabbing it!..Some of the embarrassed faces we seen were priceless.
The rag and bone man, the coalman and even ice cream man, we never see them anymore. Kids playing out on bikes, scooters, pogo sticks and even sharing roller skates with somebody else, flippin' one each!
Running to the... Read more
Salford in The War
As a child I lived in Earl St Hanky Park then moved to Cottrill St off Ellor St. I attended John St school in the Ellor St area. I never really knew my dad. He went in the army when I was 4 years old in 1939 and returned in 1946 when I was 9 years of age. During the Blitz of Manchester and Salford in 1940, when the sirens sounded we all had to go to Unwin St shelters for the night but me and my brother Jack who was 5 years older used to watch the German bombers coming over dropping their bombs over Trafford Park, Salford Docks and Manchester. It's a sight not to be fogotten. When the war finished with the defeat of Germany, we had street parties to celebrate VE day (Victory in Europe). The war was not over with Japan untill 1946. I was playing in the street when this soldier with three stripes, a sargent, and Australian bush hat on and carrying a... Read more
Salford Childhood
I was born in and grew up in Salford. My dad had a pub "The Farriers Arms" off Bury Street, and before that my dad was caretaker of Ladywell flats. We lived in Flint House, the blocks were alphabetically named, Albion, Barry, Corby, Danby, Easton, Flint and Goole. Afacing the flats was a quarry where we used to play and a shop called Stories.
When we moved to the pub in the early 50s things were so different than today - we used to play out with no fear of harm, we used to roam the terraced streets and only came home when mam shouted us in, or it was tea time. We would go to Peel Park, Dean Road Park where they had a parkie who ruled the park, the Rex cinema where we would go to the Saturday matinee, on Sundays all the kids went to Sunday school. I went to Gravel Lane off Blackfriars Road, and attended Sacred Trinity School, Canon Hussey was the then rector of... Read more
Langdale House, Salford
I lived in Langdale House, Salford. It was a block of masonettes, there were two other blocks on the same road, Patterdale and Ennerdale. We lived on the 3rd floor, overlooking a small play park and a row of tiny one bedroomed bungalows. I went to Mount Carmel school, which was just near Boots The Chemist which was on a corner on Regent Road. We used to walk from Oldfield Road right up to the top of Regent Road to the market at Cross Lane. Regent Road was a very busy shopping area in the early 60's there was every type of shop. I can remember my mum buying loose butter at the butchers on Regent Road. I can remember Landies Department Store, where they had a payment system which was piped all around the store, the assistant would take your money and it would then somehow go through the pipes to a cashiers office in a kind of shuttle and then your... Read more
Harry Street
My gran lived on Harry Street in the 1960's and early 70's. I remember playing near the trafford swing bridge and the excitement when it was opened. Old terraced houses slums by then. Corner shops and the horrible smell from the canal. When Man Utd were at home people would park all over the place!! Burtons ice cream (tasted like brylcream), going up to the shops on Trafford Rd - busy busy. My dad lived at Sunnyside Court in the flats in the 70's and 80's. Lots of redevelopment going on then including Harrys being knocked down. I loved to visit Ordsall Hall with him and walk along the canal paths. I like to visit the Lowry Centre now when I'm up north, and see all the changes.
Debra Edwards (nee Rimmer/Byrne)
Patterdale House
Hello, anyone who lived at Patterdale House - I lived at F40, my nanner lived at B29. I went to St Johns Cathedral, my friend was Elizabeth Taylor. She lived in the dwellings on Olfield Road as did my aunty Lizzie. I used to go to the pictures and we had yoyo competitions before the start of the film. I used to ride my bike on the landings, and can remember a girl called Carolyn, she lived on the grouind floor. I was about ten years old. Fond memories.
