Winster Rd.,
A Memory of Peel Green.
We moved to Peel Green when I was 9 we lived in Winster Rd., it was a new house when we moved in it was one of the first to be finished, When we moved there the houses on the opposite side were just being started, I remember the shop at the bottom it was owned by Mr & Mrs Forbes. and there was a little shop round the corner it was like a little stone hut they sold fish.. Peel Green had plenty of shops then 2 bakeries, Post Office, Mrs. Mollinue sweet shop, Lords Potatoe Crisp factory , The Co-op Grocers and Butcher, Harry Carters the ironmongers, Post Office, Wheatleys paper shop, that was on one side of Liverpool Rd., The other side was Hoopers Newsagent, Jack Hills Butcher, Mary Durrant greengrocer, Twiggs,Carpets, Twiggs Ironmonger, The baby/wool shop, Mrs. Fitton Hat shop, Goddards photographers, Bike shop, Pattersons Sweet shop, a butchers. then the Waggon and Horses, Seymore Meads, a greengrocers, Westend hair dressers, Lomaxs butchers, Evans chemist, Claytons sweetshop and Mrs. Broomes wool shop. all these shops were from Peel Green Rd., to Clifford St., It was a very nice place to live and still is though it has changed a lot. I went to Lewis St Primary then on to Winton Senior, my sisters went to Godfrey Ermens, one of my sisters went to the Open Air School down Schofield Rd., and my other sisters went to C of E on Brookhouse. I hope this will bring back some memories to people who used to live there and to those who still live in Peel Green
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It was lovely to see your recollections of the ''old'' Peel Green!! I remember many of the shops that you list.
Next door to us lived the Forsythe's and of the other side of us lived the Simpsons. My sister Aileen was 10 years older than me. You may remember us I think?
Mr and Mrs Shaw lived at the end of the road , opposite Forbes shop, (on Peel Green Road),Mr and Mrs Harrison lived over the way, a bit further up.
The Quinn family also lived on the other side from us. I think that the Smith family lived directly opposite to us. The house that had a bit more land than everyone else and a wooded area backing onto Regent Rubber Works. I also remember the Bethel family, the Featherstone family and the Cassidy's .
God,, how time flies! How things change! But how I wish I could go back to those carefree days of childhood when Peel Green was a lovely place to live in!
It isn't anymore,,,!
Lets get Peel Green back to the lovely place it once was I say!!
We lived on the side backing the ship canal and it was great to watch the ships go along the canal and read the names like Manchester Merchant and Manchester Trader as they went by. I remember the sky being the colour of blood when the Manchester blitz was on, you never forget.
My grandmother lived opposite the vicarage of St.Michael's church and
when we go over the motorway these days I can still see the ash tree that was in her front garden when I was a small child. It all brings back memories. Dorothy Mercer