Nostalgic memories of Failsworth's local history
Share your own memories of Failsworth and read what others have said
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.
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My Great Grandparents, Jim and Elizabeth Grindrod, lived at 10 Sydney Street, along with my Grandfather, Brian Grindrod, and my Great Great Grandparents, Michael York and Lily York.
From the 1930s- late 1940s, Jim was a Grocer's Assistant at a Grocer's off Mather Street.
He later became a bus driver in the 50s, then worked as a warehouseman at Littlewoods mail order, Marlborough Mill.
In the 50s Jim and Elizabeth ...see more
Hi I lived in Roman Road 1965-75
Went to Stansfield road primary then onto Parkinson Street in 1973
I remember the field next to the park that used to have the fair every summer and the carnival parade came down Roman Road
Sadly houses now on the rubber factory football field and the dirt track through to Oldham Road now gone.. used to try walking down here and not stepping on the cracks on the pavement 🤣
Breaking ...see more
I was born in Dean Street Failsworth 1944-1967.
I went to Mather street school and then to Failsworth boys Partington street.Probably started school in 1949. I remember Miss Williamson, infants, and Mrs Kershaw in the Juniors. I remember George Warren, Christine Ward, Barbara Wood, Cliffette Fox and Mike Telford, Hazel Taylor and Peter Turner. I see one or two of them still.
We had great fun down on the moggy. I was ...see more
I lived in Failsworth from 1953 to 1961. I lost contact with all of the friends I had then when we moved to Leicester in the Summer of 1961. Their names were Keith Barnett, Peter Rigby, Martyn Payne, Eric Hall, John Roberts, Roger Stafford, Kerry Gilder. Graham Birtles. I was a member of the 41st Oldham Cubs and Scout group and had great memories from those days with Norman Gray and Mr Bierman who were the Scoutmasters. We ...see more
I live in Australia now . I grew up on Alan Avenue [off Lord Lane] . I was the eldest of 5 children [the Martins] . We had a great life there. I have countless memories of those days in the early 1960s. Walking to Stansfield Road school. Playing football in Brookdale Park. Bonfire nights on the fields at the back of our house. Looking at the trains going into Manchester over Medlock Vale. One highlight was being on the ...see more
Those head mistresses were awful & My favourite teacher was Mrs Needham in the top year, she lived on roman Road & had a son Andrew. She used to read us stories whilst we put our heads down on the desk & often fell asleep. I was ink monitor then... You had to mix powdered ink with water in an enamel jug & fill up the white porclein Ink wells in the old victorian desks we had. Was great in really cold ...see more
hi every one , we lived at 26 somerset rd in the 60s when the house was brand new up untill 1975 when we moved over seas i went to stansfiled rd school and i have very fond memories , i have now moved back as i love failsworth it will always be home after living all over the world some 48 years later i now live on paddock lane ,, although im still intouch with some old neighbours some who still live in the same houses id ...see more
Hi my name is Brian Ratcliffe and I lived in Dalton street for 10 years or so in the 50's&60's,then Lancaster ave and Brookdale street.
I had 2 brothers [howie & titch] and we spent most of our childhood "down the moggy",making dens,playing or fishing for newts and frogs. We all went to Mather street school and I remember many of the names in the the other memories.
The farm was Hardman fold farm and ...see more
Living in Glenmore Drive in the early 60's, it was a new house. I still get aches from the amount of time I spent bent over my bike in the ginnel.
From Stansfield Rd. primary and at Kaskenmoor in the first year it opened.
First time I ever ate peanut paste was in the tea rooms at Crime lake.
Won a goldfish at the fair at Daisy Nook, got home and my Mum pointed out we had nothing to put it in.
Playing war ...see more
Hi,my name is Stephen Smith, I lived in Regent Crescent through the 50s and 60s. I guess you all remember the Rochdale canal that runs through Failsworth. What a great place to spend your time. Who needed Disneyland. We used to fish, make rafts, throw discarded spindles from the cotton mills into the wooden locks and attempt to walk across it over a steel pipe. We even swam in it until my Dad found out. Boy did I get into ...see more