Turkey Lane Hip: A memory of Harpurhey

Turkey Lane Hip

A Memory of Harpurhey.

It was around this time the old Hippodrome closed. Well everyone thought it had, us children knew better, we could just open the loading door slightly and squeeze in, many costumes had been left, but we never tried them on, just looked at them and said how nice they were, but we knew all about the ghost that walked the stage and we talked in whispers in case they heard us.
Someone must have realised what was going on, because a new lock went on this door and we could not get in. Mind, we then found an air vent and many of us could crawl through this, so our trips continued, until this was found out and closed off. Wonderful, innocent, fun loving days.

Added 10 August 2010

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I lived at 37 Turkey Lane, the bottom of the hill where the hip was, from 1949 until the slum clearance when I was 18. What great fun we had. I was one of the kids that went into the hip and crawled through the air vent to look at the clothes, if only we had taken them, they were so lovely, but we knew we would be in trouble if we did. I went to Burgess Street School, as did my older brothers and sisters and still remember the names we called across to the kids from Alfred Street. Out of school the best of friends but rivals when there.

By audz9z9z9 on Sun Feb 21st 2016, at 3:19 pm

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