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Hi Mate.
You wrote under Greengate and Irwell banner.
During the late 1940s, I worked at The Salford Electrial Instrument works in Silk Street.
Many a day I walked to Victoria Rail Station via Greengate on my way home to Bolton.
Opposite the rubber works was a set of tenaments called Greengate Improved Industrial Dwelling, I have a tale about this.One day as I passed by A group of fifteen or so folks were gathered in a bunch in the centre were a fellow and his woman, Knocking H.... out of one another.
As I got closer a young policeman waded into the fight, as he got hold of the fellow, the woman, struck the policeman saying she was the only person allowed to touch the fellow.
The whole bunch then moved off to a nearby pub.
The policeman got up from the ground where the woman had knocked him, dusted himself down, and plodded off, head slumped on his chest towards Manchester centre.
Just shows the hazards of coming between a woman and what's hers.
I noted the lesson, and applied it to my own life.
DON [boltonqueenspark@yahoo.co.uk]

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A memory of Salford in Lancashire shared on Wednesday, 30th March 2011.

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