Duke Street School Roof Playground

A Memory of Hulme.

I went to duke Street school in the 1950s I can remember the playground was on the roof as well as outside the classrooms, Mrs Moores taught me to knit and sew and Mr Beasley was my last teacher there I can remember Mr Jacks the headmaster who gave us spelling test on a Friday morning.The last day before leaving we put on a play I was Cinderella I took my hair out of pigtails and my mam gave me a good telling off when I got home and gave my hair a good looking through with the nit comb, I struggle to remember names but can recall a Carol Birchall and Peter Farnell the was also a girl called Miriam Abdulla who had a sweet shop on upper Jackson Street i was called Lynda Snaith We lived on Moulton Street next to Ward Street there was Swinns the Chemist and a brewery where we used to beg for bottle tops !!! I remember Bonsall Street where my nan lived my first love lived there called Barry Donelly, we went to the Pop pictures on a Saturday and queued up for ice lollies across the road. I have loads of very happy memories of my childhood in Hulme money was very short and pawnshops were well visited.
Lynda Coulding

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