visiting grandma and grandad: A memory of Gorton

Visiting Grandma And Grandad

A Memory of Gorton.

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER A LITTLE ROW CALLED ***BRITAINS,BRITONS/ROW*** ??

MY GRANDPARENTS LIVED THERE, IT WAS A BIT STEEP AND IT LED DOWN TO SOMEWHERE I THINK WAS CALLED TAN YARD BROW ? IT HAD A LITTLE STREAM ON IT ANDI THINK MY GRANDAD KEPT SOME GEESE OR CHICKENS ON AN ALLOTMENT
THERE ?? I CANNOT FIND TRACE OF IT ON ANY MAPS ETC.,

MRS. MARY NORCOTT

Added 14 June 2014

#308884

Comments & Feedback

Hi Mary,
I don't know if you ever found any information about Britons Row. Here is a link to a description of it's location. http://www.beggarsbush.org.uk/beggars-bush-gorton-manchester-1869/

Garry

By Garry Hutchinson on Fri Aug 8th 2014, at 6:43 pm

Contact User

Report

Hello Mary , yes it is called Britons row and it is at the bottom of kirk street and you can still walk down to the stream as you put it which is called gore brook and the pub that stands at the bottom is still open called the vale cottage a good little pub it is too there used to be cottages attached to the pub but they have long since gone put as I said the pub still remains

By sdsimondav on Tue Dec 2nd 2014, at 11:09 am

Contact User

Report

Hello Mary,
I remember Briton's Row very well. It was just opposite my dad's pigeon pen and next to the Vale Cottage pub at the bottom of Kirk Street, Gorton. I spent many hours as a youngster/teenager on the "pen" and I remember two drinking mates of my dad's, Frank Gallimore (Gally) and Ken Tyler who both lived in Briton's Row. I have a rather poor quality pic of "Gally" digging on his own pen. Sadly the row of cottages were demolished either in the 1960s or maybe the 1980s. Happy days.
Bill B

By bill.batchelor on Fri Feb 17th 2017, at 8:49 pm

Contact User

Report