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My Great Grandmother, Sarah, was born in Flixton in 1832. She was convicted in 1848 of setting fire to haystacks, and sent, as a convict, to Tasmania, Australia. As all her family were farmers, she may have ...Read more

A memory of Flixton in 1860 by Ron Faulkner

I was born in Flixton before moving with my parents to Stockton Road Chorlton-Cum-Hardy. At the time my dad was working at Metrovicks in Trafford Park before getting a job working for the MOD at The Royal Ordinance Factory - ...Read more

A memory of Chorlton-cum-Hardy in 1941

I can remember going for walks on the pathway between the Flixton(?) Golf Course and this hospital and seeing the local gals 'visiting' the 'Yanks', as we kids called them, through the fence. If we knew the girl in question it ...Read more

A memory of Flixton in 1944

This picture shows the Post Office - the nearest of the row of shops. Note the old-fashioned police telephone just outside the Post Office. The next shop is the barbers where I used to get the haircut! The son of this barber had a barber ...Read more

A memory of Flixton in 1965 by Roger Hare

I used to live at Bungay under the flight path of bombers taking off and returning to Flixton Aerodrome. The bombers flew very low over our house on their way to bomb Germany. I can remember my mother counting them out and back. Many coming back were running on only two or three engines.

A memory of Flixton in 1944 by Ronald Mickleburgh

I lived in Urmston between 1951 and 1974 with my parents and twin brother, Michael. We knew most of these shops and business premises very well indeed. On the left side the premises were as follows, The corner shop ...Read more

A memory of Urmston in 1956 by John Owen

I learnt to swim at Flixton baths whilst a pupil at Wellacre Infants/Juniors 1954-1959.

A memory of Flixton in 1958 by Larry Gilsenan

Roger... After reading your recollections of the Woodsend Road I hope you don't mind me adding to your list of memories. It fair to say before I start to write we do know one another and by now we both have a lot of ...Read more

A memory of Flixton by yumapair6

Hello to anyone reading this who has any memories or stories to tell about the flixton werewolf. Accounts of the mystery creature date back to 940 and people have claimed to have seen it right up to present day. ...Read more

A memory of Flixton by Paul Sinclair

Does anyone remember a news agents in flixton ?The owner Ernie Stimpson son Brian ! He was my grandfather and trying to locate where it was as I was only 5 1973

A memory of Flixton by hopwood_karen