Hopkins Street Longsight

A Memory of Longsight.

I lived in Hopkins St for 13 years from 1953 when I was born until 1966, when we moved to North Road. I went to Stanley Grove school , the headmaster was Mr Silver. I remember neighbours The Evisons they had 2 daughters Jean and Margaret. My mum did some dressmaking for Margaret. The Plenderleifs had daughter Anne and son Billy. The Beggs had a son Mahmood who used to play out with us. The Winstanleys had a son Harold, he was animal mad and went hunting for moths when it was dark. Great memories of Harold. I think Lillian Winstanley was the unofficial street midwife. Mrs Melia was lovely, don't remember her having children. The Parkins lived round the corner on Rushford Street they had teenage boys, very handsome. My nana lived at the top of the street near the railway. There were a set of 3 gardened, railway cottages the middle one belonged to the Negus family, their kids John and Christine played with my brother. Their dad was a train driver and often passed the cottage waving to us kids from the footplate of a steam train.