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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!
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
Upper Chorlton Rd
The photgraph show the Seymour Hotel which was at the junction of Upper Chorlton Rd and Seymour Grove
Coniston Road
We lived on Coniston Road, the Smith family in the Fryin Pan, does anyone remember us? Jean, Barbara, Jimmy and Pat, we lived next door to the Kkennedys and no-one either side of us. Lots of happy memories, my brother Jimmy and I used to go off hand in hand off to the coke/coal slips up the side of the railway line, always getting in trouble as we came back black, playing skipping with a really long skipping rope with half the neighbourhood, playing in Vicky Park and Longford Park, Stretford pageant, Metro Vicks fun day, buying sweets from Slinns or Bostocks on Moss Road and playing in the meadows and walking for miles along the River Mersey on a Sunday, having a picnic with corporation pop n jam butties, those were the days. x
Coniston Road
I lived with my grandparents on Coniston Road, the Kenny family. This was the happiest times of my life! Care free. Everyone was your aunty or your uncle, and you felt safe.. The canal was the pull of every child in the area, happy times.
Gorse Hill
Please can anyone remember if there was a house that sat on the side of Christie Road and the canal? All I can remember was that it was a big red-bricked 4-storey house the you could see from the main road? I believe that this house was owned by a relative of my father's and would be thankful for any info. Many thanks. Bob
Jackson Boat & Platt Fields
I too remember Jackson's Boat. Living off Derbyshire Lane in Stretford, we would make the mammoth walk down the canal to Jackson's Boat on a Sunday and have a drink sat outside, then walk all the way back. At Platt Fields, now the M60!!, we would 'fish' for newts and frogs and carry them home carefully, put them in a tank and looked after them in the garden. My sister and I used to have newt 'races', and mine always won!! I too don't EVER remember being scared of walking about even though there was often no-one in sight and we had to walk near to a HUGE electricity pylon. The only way I can travel these routes now is in my car on the motorway!! Not half as healthy, or interesting.
Jacksons Boat
Reading the post about catching sticklebacks in the bridgewater brought memories flooding back. I lived in Clifton Street, off Stretford Road. At the weekend we used to get some butties off our Mum, a bottle of pop (if she could afford it), put it all in our ex-army shoulderbag and then make an epic journey up to Sale to a place called Jacksons Boat. It was a pub. We would spend the day in the swimming hole. Now it's a very posh place called Trafford Water sports centre...still a swimming hole though. We kids could do it then without fear of being accosted by some weirdo... how times have changed... sadly not for better in many cases. Our days out cost next to nowt and we were getting exercise for free. Nowadays the kids stay in and play gammeboys... boring as heck to me but safer for the kids I suppose.
