Sutton Flats And Pendleton High School.

A Memory of Salford.

I was born in 1946 and went to live on Sutton Flats when I was 5. We lived there in various flats until I was 21! By then, each block was known by a name rather than just a number and we lived at the top of Littlegreen House, though many people called it Little Greenhouse! When I was 11 I went to Pendleton High School, now a housing estate, as a scholarship girl. It was sometimes difficult to be a scholarship pupil and we were often subjected to snobbery, but we didn't realise it at the time. I remember struggling to school with a cello which had no case, and I couldn't get a bus pass because we lived too close to the school. I later learned the clarinet and piano and moved to the Northern School of Music. When I married in 1970 at St Thomas, Pendelton I moved to North Wales where I live to this day. The flats are no longer there and neither is Broad Street as I remember it with lovely shops, Cross Lane and the market. I call in at St Thomas now and again, but since my mum died I hardly ever visit now.