School Street Harpurhey Manchester

A Memory of Harpurhey.

I moved to no 52 School Street around 1964 or 65. My parents were John & Vera - they were Irish. We lived next to Edna Brown who had Stephen, David and Lorraine. There were other people on the street - the Entwistle family, George Wren, Anne Jameson the hairdresser at the end of the street, there was Roy and Merl who played music so loud on her stereo - all the 1960s classics. At the top end of the street I remember Peggy who swore like a trooper. We kids went to St Edmunds primary school and I loved going to Burgess becker in the evenings for playcentre.
There was the fourways picture house for Saturday matinees for the kids and we spent our school holidays in Queens Park or the red Wreck.
So many big families from Ireland also lived in the area -
We loved going to Coopers for ice cream and there were so many shops on Conran street I can still vaguely remember. I used to go to the co-op with my mother and swing on the bars whilst she would get the shopping tilled in.
I also remember the market, the old Conran Street market was the centre of the shopping world where anything and everything you could buy at low price.
Yes, so many memories of the area and so many brought back by reading others memoirs. Thanks for this opportunity - appreciate the work gone into this.
My name was Dyer then.