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Patricroft, Liverpool Road c1955 (ref: P158003)

Year: 1951 St. Joseph's patricroft.
I also have memories of St. Joseph's I, along with my sister & brother were placed there. We had an aunt at the convent she was Mother Hilary. Sr Cecilia was in charge of the girls and I love her to this day. She was a very creative artistic nun. While everything was not like a typical home, we were well fed, well educated and well looked after. Can't speak for the boys though. I remember being in the Gilbert & Sullivan operettas + Pearl the fishermaiden, I was also in choir. I remember going to the movies on Tuesday nights, and to the Seminary in Freshfield every year for our holidays. What fun we had! Also walking to Elocution class in Eccles on Monday nights. I left there and went to live with my Dad in Salford.

Posted: 23/08/2008 18:00 by Monica Walker

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Patricroft, Liverpool Road c1955 (ref: P158003)

Year: 1946 Tommy Cocker
Yes I remember Tommy Cocker, I was born in Patricroft in 1941 and lived in Mellor St. After school I used to go to Tommy's shop to do odd jobs for spending money. One of the jobs I did was to pluck chickens, he used to keep them live in his celler, he would take me down there where the chickens were running around, he would then screw there necks and give them to me to pluck still warm, apart from the little cash I received I also finished covered in fowl lice. Some job. I now live in Australia. Just interested, do any of you remember a Barry Wilson from 1940/50?

Last edited: 17/06/2008 12:41 by Barry Wilson

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Patricroft, Liverpool Road c1955 (ref: P158003)

Year: 1953 Patricroft , Liverpool Road
There was a fish shop named Tommy Cockers' I think and old Tommy used to come out and chase us with a wet, slimy fish.

Last edited: 05/03/2008 09:02 by Chris Reid

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Patricroft, Liverpool Road c1955 (ref: P158003)

Year: 1946 Patricroft shops
There was an ironmonger's shop on Patricroft Bridge ( the Eccles side) owned by a man called Richmond, whose daughter May attended Eccles Grammar School - though she was too nice a girl to have anything to do with a yob like me! Over the other side of the bridge was the Majestic Cinema (later the "Talk of the North" club). St. Joseph's Home was not always the happy place your correspondent remembers - my mother used to threaten to "...have you kids put away in there" if we misbehaved, so we were much in awe of that big green front door with the big brass knocker.

Last edited: 01/05/2007 09:20 by Robert Dale.

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Patricroft, Liverpool Road c1955 (ref: P158003)

Year: 1947 St Joseph's Home, Worsley Road
I was at St Joseph's Home from November 1947 to july 1953, and had many happy times.

Last edited: 24/11/2006 17:40 by James Sullivan

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