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Four Generations of Bowrings! Hazel Bowring - In 1958 I was born in Salford, sister of Michael Bowring. I was born at 146 Sussex Street in 1958, my parents were Kenneth Thomas & Rita ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1950 by Hazel Donnelly

My gran lived in No1 Blackburn Street,The Adelphi just opposite the Hyde Park pub. Among the many stories she told us when we were kids, was of a 'pieman' who used to sell his wares from a handcart. Each Friday evening he would park his ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1930

I was born in Salford, but in 1936. My grandparents lived in a street just off Regent Road called Comus Street. My grandfather was in charge of a factory that made tallow and soap. I worked early in my life at Hope Hospital and did ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1950 by Jack Boon

We were happy and dirty, playing in the streets, making rafts out of lollipop sticks after the rain with mud, going the the old rec park to watch a Punch and Judy show, also playing in the sand pit where I lost my shoes, went home ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1956 by Barbara Fisher Nee Wilson

"Mister, what are you doing", reply, "just painting", "yer, I can do better then that", "yes, I think you can, hehe". I found out later it was it the great S Lowry, I was only13, yes I was born Salford and have many great memories, I now live in Thailand.

A memory of Salford in 1955 by Larry Farrell

CAIN - I am researching my family tree and also trying to add some meat to the bones - if you know what I mean. My Mom was born in Salford in 1923 and the thing I find most interesting is that she was born, according to her birth ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1920 by Jacqueline De E Scofet

The only connection is a lot of my family come from Salford .One of my ancesters was a river pilot.Quite a lot of them worked on the railways in the 1890s the family name was Rowlands My grandfathers name was John he was married to ...Read more

A memory of Salford by rowlands1944

Hi, I'm looking for the descendants of Isreal Davis and Emma Parsons or any information about them. Isreal and Emma Davis or Davies lived in Little Alne in 1911. I don't ...Read more

A memory of Little Alne by jmdroots

Hi, I'm looking for the descendants of Isreal Davis and Emma Parsons or any information about them. Isreal and Emma Davis or Davies lived in Little Alne in 1911. I don't have the address. Their daughter Anne ...Read more

A memory of Aston Cantlow by jmdroots

My name was Mary Butterworth and I was born at 25 Egerton Street in Winton. I left Winton Senior School in 1946 and began work in a baby linin shop on Patricroft Bridge. The shop was called Turners, next door to Tatham's the ...Read more

A memory of Patricroft by Mary Smith