Nostalgic memories of Salford's local history
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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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Hello
Anyone remember John Burgess the butcher? He lived on Nashville St then Branson St. I can't find any record of his shop but he ran it during the war. He was my grandfather.
Thanks
I was born in Butleigh Hospital near Somerton in 1968 and lived in Somerton from then until 1990. My Grandparents Ted and Elsie used to be the landlord and landlady of the Globe Inn. In 1974 my Granfer passed away and my nan moved to Weymouth. Whilst they ran the pub we used to supply the beer tent for local gymkhanas. Somerton had seven pubs and seven churches at that time. I was Christened at St Michael's by the ...see more
Hi All, does anybody remember Chalfont St, it was just off Trafford road a stones throw away from Salford docks, any body have any photographs of Chalfont St.
When my mum died I lived in Salford markendale st with a family my dad knew I called her auntie Esther uncle Walter her husband they had two daughters may and alma I lived there from age two for about 7 years from 1947 to 1953 I remember may had a baby called Terrence she worked in a soap factory alma got married and had a boy named David my brother Alan lived with ted and may they had a son john and daughter called Pamela my ...see more
I was Born 1948 in Portsmouth, my Ex Navy dad wanted to go as far from the sea and war as possible. Thus carpenter on remote estates with tied housing at Liphook, Chard, Broughton. Hell for a poor family and 3 / 4 kids.
FINALLY we moved to Wonderful, beautiful Eastleigh in January 1957 to a house attached to The Crescent School. Free coal/coke, exploding gas water geyser, a bath in the kitchen an ...see more
Salford forms much of my family’s history, although I only spent a little time there, leaving when I was very young, some years ago I started to wonder how? why? what? brought both my families the HARRIS family on my Dad’s side and the KEMP family on my mother’s side, to Salford, what I found was like so many families the industrial revolution brought them in from the fields so to speak.
My GGGranpa William ...see more
Shorltly after the World War 2 I visited Palmers Green with my parents and we visited an Aunt who lived in some flats very close to a Cinema on the Main Mstreet. The flats had a few Garages at the rear and I still have a rough drawing which I did looking down from the bedroom window on a car near the Garages. I remember seein the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and have happy memories of my childhood at Palmers Grreen. ...see more
I was in this home from about 1964 till 1969 would like to speak to anyone else that was thanks susan
I lived at 26 Gerald Road in a big old house at the side of the river Irwell opposite St Bonifaces church and attended St Boniface's school with my two elder brothers Bernard and Terrance, my younger brother Michael and my sister Brenda Court. The bridge crossing the Irwell gave us no end of pleasure. We raced paper boats in the water, played hop scotch chalking the grid at the bottom of the steps leading over ...see more
At the end of petrol rationing during the late 40's and in the 50's we would regularly visit Dunstable Downs to watch the gliders, all piled into my uncles Morris 8.
The gliders would be towed into position at the far end of the lower field heading into the wind when a cable was attached to a powered winch at the opposite end of the field. On some days there was barely enough wind to keep the gliders aloft and they ...see more