Coniston Road: A memory of Stretford

Coniston Road

A Memory of Stretford.

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

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Added 02 January 2012

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We live at No 6 "The Walsh's during the 1960's and yep we done all those things. And I can remember a Railway Carriage found opened and boxes of cornflakes, variety packs etc had fallen out. It was only a rumour, that families in the area were fed for weeks with different varieties of cornflakes, etc. It was a different time, and a time that is lost to history. Children sat on the kerbs of Coniston Road and chatted, played hopscotch, and the girls skipped, while the boys dribbled (like devils) an old knob of coal or small ball up and down the road. We were sometimes brought to Salford Market on a Saturday for veg with my father. And getting an egg or bacon sandwich at the start of our bit of shopping. It always seemed to rain in Salford, but I love the market and sometimes a toy we would get. We left in 1969 for Ireland, and I haven't been back since, but I am planning a trip for 2015.

By robertgwalsh on Sat Dec 20th 2014, at 9:23 pm

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