Nostalgic memories of Salford's local history
Share your own memories of Salford and read what others have said
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.
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Displaying Memories 161 - 170 of 185 in total
I was born in 1948 and lived at 40 Florance Street, Salford 7. I went to Marlbrough Road school. Can anyone remember that at meal times we had to go a few streets away to a church hall (I think)for our meals? I can remember my grandad collecting me from school and going to a cake shop at the corner of Marlbourgh Road to buy me iced fingers. Can anyone remember Mods garage (I used to live behind that)? Also ...see more
Reading your comments about Salford Gone and the ice cream man brought back similar memories to me. I was born at 34 Nora Street, Salford 7 in 1950. Albeit Lower Broughton. However, we used to have an Ice Cream seller who came EVERY Friday evening called Mr Serretti. Many a treat was had from his little red and white van. Best part was taking a glass to him for sixpenny worth of ice cream with raspberry sauce, then ...see more
I was born in 1946 at 66 Marlborough Road in the front parlour of my gran's house. We lived at that time at 7 Harrietta Street, Higher Broughton, Salford 8 which was then know as Hightown. The chip shop on Garnett Street, infact there was 2 chippies, Smiths and Faulkners and both of these chippies have never been bettered. We used to have an ice-cream man come round our streets selling the ...see more
I attended Salford for two years 1963-1965, studying Civil Engineering. I suffered from undiagnosed mono and fought fatigue and sleepiness, so much so that I could not keep up with my studies and had to withdraw. I did not enjoy my time there and went through the motions of being a student.
Hi everybody, I remember the Piazza shopping complex as my dad owned the butchers shop on there, Harry Hargreaves. We had some great times working there and I have great memories of the good people that lived in the area, including my mate Andrew Watt who lived on Williamson House. Also the greengrocers shop was owned by a friend of our family, he was called Dave Bowden, then there was the chemist which was ...see more
I was born in Hulton Street, Ordsal, and lived all my life in the same house my mother was born into, no. 56 on the corner of Oxford Street. We were 3 girls and 2 boys, I was the middle one. My dad Jack Neilan was an Irish man who worked on Salford docks for 45 years. Everyone knew my mother and father as her dad and brother also lived in Hulton Street. When I wasn't in school (St Joseph's) I was in ...see more
I was born in 1950 in Salford, lived all my early years at Little Hulton, then man stops on the way took me to Cheshire. I have many many memories of Salford - Walking day, School - Mount Carmel's, Sunday schools etc. I am very proud of being from Salford, and never ever let anyone say 'Salford, thats Manchester isn't it?' without correcting them 'NO Salford is a city in it's own right....' My mum Elsie Mary ...see more
I have lived all over the world, call myself an Australian and I currently live in Prague. But I was born in Salford and lived there probably till I was about 7 years old. Then we moved to Middleton which was considered quite posh back then! I regularly visited my grandad who lived at 23 Harrietta Street in Higher Broughton. So it really wasn't a long time, but my memories of this period are amongst my ...see more
I remember my childhood in Salford very well. We lived on Clarendon Road and I went to Liverpool Street Girls' School. The headmistress was a Mrs Chrighton and the music teacher was a Miss Jones. We used to walk to school and collect caterpillars off the wall that went round the park and took them to school and kept them in our desk all day. We played in the street all the time, quite safely. Those were the ...see more
I was born in Old Ordsall Lane, Salford in 1957. What I can remember was good.
Then I moved to Regent Road what a road that was - lots of shops and good pubs selling good beer.
You could have a good time back in 1960 or so. Salford was good place to live, and still is but without any good pubs thanks to the council. I think Salford now is like a yuppy town, I remember the chippy called Bamfords. What a good chippy that was!