Early Days In Failsworth

A Memory of Oldham.

I was born in 1947 in boundary park hospital, as it was then. My mum and dad lived in Holt Lane in Failsworth. I can remember the Argyll Mill as a working cotton mill which was just down the lane. My mum was a housewife and my dad worked for George Dews in Oldham who were a construction company. I can remember him working on the building of Barton Bridge. My mother ran in shop from around 1952 for a couple of years it was an incredibly old building probably about the same age as the beautiful old Willow Tavern on Ashton Road East, if anybody remembers that. I went to school in Woodhouses up the age of 11 when I passed my 11 plus and went to Chadderton Grammar.
I was called Susan Robertson but am now Susan Chalmers

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