Search Results

Came across this place by accident - glad I did. I spent the first 11 years of life down Hawson Street, before moving to Aldham House Estate. I can still remember the "old gas works" the other side of ...Read more

A memory of Wombwell by lez_slack

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 ...Read more

A memory of Oldham by suechalmers

From John Moloney; john@moloney.com I was moved to Oldham as an evacuee from Stretford in 1941 to live at 395 Featherstall Road North. The house was occupied by my great-great aunt, Ellen Farrow, and her son ...Read more

A memory of Oldham in 1940 by John Moloney

Born in 1951 and living in Oldham all my life, I often wonder if the best and kindest teacher ever is still alive. Her name was Mrs Walker from St Hilda's junior school. Mr F J Howker was the headmaster at the time and was also a rugby referee. Good memories from almost fifty years ago.

A memory of Oldham in 1957 by Tony Wallace

Born in Mill Lane in Broughton Astley on 3rd May 1926, I started school at B/Astley C of Primary in 1931 as a five year old. We would be 'called to school' by the ringing of the bell housed in the ...Read more

A memory of Broughton Astley in 1930 by Reuben Reynolds

I lived on Acresfield Road and went to Summerville School then on to Pendleton High Sch. I have very happy memories of living in Salford and can remember long days in Light Oaks and Oakwood Park...stopping off for vimto, ...Read more

A memory of Trafford Park in 1970 by Sandy Boyle

My family moved to Ashbourne in 1942 when I was 6. I went to school at what must have been the last of the old "Dame" schools run by an elderly lady called Ethel Hunter. The school was at the top of a big house in Church ...Read more

A memory of Ashbourne in 1943

My family came to live in Ottershaw in 1952 when I was 5 years old. My father, Charles Coulson, had moved us from the North of England owing to lack of work since his de-mob from the RAF. He was employed as a ...Read more

A memory of Ottershaw in 1952 by Denis Coulson

I lived on Lilley Street (off Queens Road) and used to go in: The Bottom Derby, The Osborne House, The Milan, The Forresters, The Salvage, the Robin Hood and occasionally ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst by Alan Briggs

l was born in the courts in Sylvester St. My mother's family had a pork butchers in Lattimer St, their name was Molden. I have been trying to trace the family in Liverpool, but no luck. It was a very large family, about 14. The lads ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool in 1940 by Margaret Gilmore