My Home Town

A Memory of Walkden.

Hi, I was born in LLay north Wales in June 1939, three weeks later we moved to Walkden. The family joke was, I was the cause of the WW2. We lived at 67 Westminster Road, just down from where the monument was originaly located. Whilst I will concede there was a war going on my early recollections were of hiding under the table and under the stairs when 'gerry' was bombing. I also remember quite vividly telling the Yanky soldiers who went to the local swiming baths just around the corner, "give me some gum chum and I'll make sure Gerry will not steal your jeep". The yanks luved it and gave us all kinds gum and chocolate. It all sound's very nostalgic, but as a young boy I had no idea of the magnitude of world events going on at the time. My dad worked down Mosley Common coal mine (he worked in the coal mine 50 yrs), God bless him. I grew up in Walkden, I got married at St Paul's, I'm a Walkden lad and I'm proud of it. I went to St Pauls Infant School where the monument is now, across from where Massy's auto shop was. From there I went to St Pauls Junior and then onto Birch road. I got married at St Pauls in 1962 to my Mary, by the Rev Paul Chalmers and guess what, my Mary still luvs me and I still luv my Mary. We had three children all born at Havacroft nursing home Bolton. We emigrated to Canada in1969. My family are all Canadian now, that means they all talk funny. Me, I'm still a Walkden lad. I've been back home a few times, but it's not the same any more. Good nigh,t God Bless, David Norris