Hulme 1967 68

Hello Elaine. I too used to play on the "crofts". I remember sorting all the old bricks into the outline of a house with weeds for plants in the "garden" and the lads would come and kick it in once I had finished. This would be around 1960. I was born 1952 and my family lived in the Jackson Street flats in Hulme then. I was born in Stone Street, Castlefield just down the road from Hulme. I went to Gaythorn Primary School and my teacher was Mr. Beasley. We used to go to Grannelli's ice cream parlour on Stretford Road for a treat and Woolworths was on the opposite side of Stretford Road from Grannelli's. I remember Belle Vue very fondly, as it was the poor man's Blackpool. There were 7 girls in our family, and I am the eldest, it was hard to get to Blackpool and Belle Vue was a bus ride away. Do you remember the zoo there and the dirt track where the motor bikes would shower you with mud on there fly past. Happy days they were. Back doors open to all, community bonfires and fireworks, it must be so different in Australia. I have been to Adelaide and found it enchanting..