Nicholls St

A Memory of Ardwick.

I lived at 35 Nicholls St Ardwick from 1955 - 1964 I went to Ross Place Junior School and then onto Nicholls Secondary School for Boys. Friends I remember were Peter and Mike Galloway from Nicholls St, Colin Benson and his sister Pauline, Brian Doyle and his brothers from Ford St. We all used to play in Ardwick Cemetery at the top of Ford St and I remember the time when a gang of us followed the smoke coming from Pauldins furniture store in the late fifty's and watched as it burnt down. I remember the great bonfire nights we use to have, storing the bongee wood on the top of our toilet roofs in the backyard and sometimes going on raids to pinch somebody else's wood from across Hyde Rd, then having a great bonfire ( which use to be on the actual night Nov 5th not 3 days before and 3 days after) and our parents sitting round the fire on old sofa's that would eventually end up on the fire eating treacle toffee, parkin, toffee apples and baked potatoes, great times.

Ron Mulligan