War Years In Newton Heath

A Memory of Newton.

I lived in Loring Street off Droylsden Road. With the war on we spent most of time with my grandparents, Tom and Mary Peaker, who lived in Dixon Street with their youngest daughter Dorothy. I went to St Marys Rd School with my cousins and my Grandpa Tom took us to school and brought us home again at lunchtime because my mother worked at Brockenshaws the Bakers on Oldham Road. We were regulars at Hall St Zion Methodist and Sunday was always Sunday School and chapel in the evening. I well remember the blitz and we used to rush to Harrry Booths cellar on Oldham Road when the siren went. My father who was serving in the army came home on leave and announced the cellar was a death trap and I guess he was right but we came through it unscathed. In 1947 we left the area to move to Newcastle on Tyne and become Geordies but I will never forget the happy times in Newton Heath or more known as 'Newt Neath!!'