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 shop for a neighbour knowing the prize was a dip in the penny tray for going. Mojos, Black Jacks and Fruit Salad chews..Collecting Bazooka Joe comics and sending off for a torch!
I will write some more soon...
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According to the 1881 census, my great-grandfather, Michael Cain and his family, were living at 19, Newall Street at that time. He was a railway policeman.
As a child I lived in Salford and went to De La Salle College.
I have a lot of details about my Irish ancestors in Salford.
Comment from Michael Cain on Friday, 16th January 2009.
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Great to read all the stories of Salford. We lived in Franklin Street. I had a great pal in Joe Taylor who used to take me round the league grounds in Lancashire. We would spend hours in Ordsall Park. I used to centre the ball for Joe to head goalwards. I often think about him and about Charlie Hughes who lived on the landing in Franklin Street and was a terrific goalkeeper. I lived for the Saturdays and going to Old Trafford to watch United's Busby Babes. So many lovely people, things could be hard at times, but the people made up for it. I live now in Shropshire with my wife Linda. Best wishes. George Lavin.
Comment from George Lavin on Wednesday, 7th March 2012.
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Anyone remember parts of Salford - around Spike Island, Garden Street, Persia Street? I was born there, along with Ken & Philip Crooks, Alan Jones and Les Blower. I went to St Bonifaces and St Alberts they were all at Broughton Modon. My brother Fred was in the Sea scouts were he played the Big Drum. Lr. Broughton Road was our area, sometime called the Monkey Walk. This was all about 1957. Many Thanks. Roy.
Comment from Roy Alexander Garvey on Wednesday, 29th February 2012.
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Hi, just wondering if any of you could help me. My dad was born in salford and so was my uncle and auntie. I'm not sure what part. I was wondering if by a very long chance if anybody might have known them? My father was William (Billy) Molloy, my uncle is John Molloy and my auntie was Elizabeth(Betty) Molloy. Their parents were Hilda and Francis Molloy. Any info would be great, no matter how small if anyone can remember!!! Thanks guys, Liz.
Comment from Liz Molloy on Friday, 3rd February 2012.
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I was born in Harry Street. Does anybody remember St Cyprian's School?
Comment from Joyce Lynch on Wednesday, 26th October 2011.
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My mother also lived at 15 Newall Street, she has enjoyed reading your memories of the good old days. Thank you Rita Robinson ie 15 Newall Street.
Comment from Mark Mith on Wednesday, 20th July 2011.
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Those were the days. I lived in 11 Newall Street and went to St Joey's. I remember climbing over the boards to get caterpillers or playing tic on the old church being used as Redmonds woodyard, climbing into the old sewing machine building off Didsbury Street, and getting chased by the guard dog. Kitkan and rallivenio were popular games then, and a game of football using the entry opposite no 15 as one goal and the lampost on the corner of Clifton Street as the other . Many fond memories... the corner shop owned by the Croppers, then the Nevins, we'd have all the bullseyes, spanish gold, fruit salads, black jacks, cough candies, rainbow kalii ... Those were the days.
Comment from Raymond Cummins on Monday, 30th May 2011.
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Hello Harry Fletcher. I know a George Oxton very well and see him quite regularly so if you want me to contact him and let him know you are asking about him, just let me know and I will get back to you.
Comment from George Williams on Monday, 25th April 2011.
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Hi, Can anyone help? Do any of you remember a family that lived in Franklin Street, Salford 5 ,around 1967 by the name of "Oxton"? One of the boys was called George. I would love to get back in touch with him, fond memories. I lived in Franklin Street up from Mount Carmels Church. Best regards, Harry Fletcher
Comment from Harry Fletcher on Friday, 1st April 2011.
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Hi Susan White. Yes I remember the tapper upper, his name was Tommy and he used to charge sixpence on a Friday night for knocking you up all week for work. My mam and dad used him. I think he lived off Ordsall Lane somewhere. Fond memories. I lived in Franklin Street up from Mount Carmels Church. Best regards, Harry Fletcher
Comment from Harry Fletcher on Friday, 1st April 2011.
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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 I will tell about next time.
Comment from Donald Isherwood on Wednesday, 30th March 2011.
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I remember playing all these in Ordsall park. I lived on West Park Sstreet near the pot-shop and O'Neils .My brother Rob and me were known as them little red headed gets. And Wilf it is Lanie, how are you mate.
Comment from Geoff Lane on Friday, 14th January 2011.
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Does anyone remember the name of the shop that sold sweets? I think it was a sweet shop but it could have been a newsagents. I am trying to find out anything I can about my grandparents who lived in Salford, surnames were Barrett and Winterburn. I know they were married in St Stephen's which is now a shared church, I think it was August 1936, and they had a son called Eric who died when he was 3 years old. Any help would be great.
Comment from Pauline Armstrong Bell on Sunday, 2nd January 2011.
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My parents, George and Florence Holmes were the last managers of the Brittania Hotel on Odsall Lane before it was demolished. I remember the fairground next door to the hotel, and the abbatoirs, and watching a cattle stampede one day when the cows apparently smelt fresh blood. I attended Regent Road school.
We moved from there to the Cattle Market Tavern on Cross Lane, opposite the Cattle Market Hotel, renamed I think The Rose Hotel???? We lived there for about seven years. I attended New Windsor Junior school, and remember buying a penny's worth of broken biscuits from a shop near the school. There was a family who used to make ice lollies in a cellar, and a group of us would go down and buy one when we had some money. We always went in a group as we were scared of going down the cellar on our own. We used to play skipping and ball games.
I went to Clarendon Secondary when it was still a mixed school and they built a seperate boys scholl next door. There were a lot of condemned houses around the area, and those where families had moved out from were boarded up, but that didn't stop local kids playing in and around them oblivious to the dangers. After two years at Clarendon I transferred to Odsall Girls Secondary Modern where I sat next to and became friends with Mayling Wong Whose parents owned the Chinese chippy on Regent Road. We moved into 5 Tatton Street. I remember the corner shop run by a couple called Tom and Mary. I remember the sense of community, front steps being stoned, and the streets being safe to play out.I lived there until shortly before moving to Australia in 1964.
Comment from Elsie Dean on Friday, 15th October 2010.
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Maria, Karl and Susan....
If you send mail addresses to wilfveevers@hotmail.co.uk I'll send you something to read that I wrote about growing up in the 60s in Salford...
Best Regards
Wilf
Comment from Wilf Veevers on Thursday, 7th October 2010.
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I was born at 18 Zebra Street in 1962. My parents were called Barbara and Leslie, my nanna and grandad, Harriet and Charlie Hughes, ran the pub on the corner, the Derby Arms. I remember the cobbled streets and the games we played, I also remember the tapper upper, does anybody else? Bath time was great ...Mum would get the tin bath out of the yard and we would have a bath in front of the coal fire. I also remember the cobbled streets where the tar used to oozed up and I would get it on my best Sunday clothes. Mum would send us to the rag and bone man for a stone to do the door step and she used dolly blue on her nets. They were the days x.
Comment from Susan White on Monday, 20th September 2010.
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Reading Marie's article did bring back old memories, good old days. I used to live in Salford 5, we used to have the Albert or the Wooden Hut pub. I remember playing allies & dobbers ironies & we used to play run around the block and race against each other & you could not cut down the alley, that was cheating, but kept us lot fit, you don't see that these days. I remember a bob of chips & you could get scrapings for nowt. We used to deck on back of the ice cream vans, Mr Whippys.
Comment from Karl Higgs on Sunday, 19th September 2010.
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We used to play a game that involved a gang of kids on one corner and only one person on the opposite corner. The name of an auntie was called out, say "Mary", and anyone with an Aunt Mary could step forward - 2 steps if you had 2 etc. The problem with our family was we only had uncles, all bachelors, so we used to cheat, that or else not play. But you had to have a good memory or you would soon get found out. Also whip and top which I loved, also as we lived opposite the park we played climbing trees or jumping off the parky's hut on to the mowed grass. Another favourite game was allies (marbles) and cricket against a lamp post, you got a sixer if it went over the park railings. Tickty was another favourite, no wonder we were all so thin. There were no overweight kids in those days. This was Hulton Street opposite Ordsal Park off Trafford Road during the late 1940s and 1950s. We all played together, boys and girls, older and younger, it was great, only we didn't know it at the time.
Comment from Maria Harding on Sunday, 25th July 2010.
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My name back in 1937-1953, when I lived at 4 Woden Street and went to St Bartholomews School on Tatton Street, was Ivy Stephens. I lived most of my early years at that house, all through the war days - if anyone remembers any of the friends from that era please wrie me on my email at ivy_gross@yahoo.com as I now live in America in Las Vegas Nevada U.S.A. My family used to own The Spinners Arms on Oldfield Road. The last year we were there I saw one of my old friends Jimmy Dimelow, if any one remembers him let me know as I have been trying to find out if he is still alive or passed away.
Comment from Ivy Gross on Sunday, 4th March 2012.