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Nostalgic memories of Stretford's local history

Share your own memories of Stretford 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 11 - 17 of 17 in total

Gorse Hill
Please can anyone remember if there was a house that sat on the side of Christie Road and the canal? All I can remember was that it was a big red-bricked 4-storey house the you could see from the main road? I believe that this house was owned by a relative of my father's and would be thankful for any info. Many thanks. Bob
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Added 20 April 2011

Memories
It was brilliant to read your memories about Stretford. I lived on Urmston Lane & I went to Moss Park Junior school, the only school I went to that is still standing today! Do you remember a beautiful cottage on Urmston Lane, I think it was called Scholfields. It had a little bridge in the front garden that went over a stream & the back garden was full of fruit & seemed to stretch for miles down to the ...see more
Stretford, Upper Chorlton Road c1955
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Added 11 August 2010

Stretford, Barkway Road.
I loved living in Stretfrod, although I lived at the other end of Stretford, on the Urmston boundary. I can remember those days very well. My mum had an account at Cromptons grocery shop, where she would get most of her shopping and pay at the end of the week. I would pop into the shop now and again and buy something like a bag of broken biscuits, then say, put it on the book please, my mum would go mad ...see more
Stretford, Upper Chorlton Road c1955
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Added 12 June 2010

Upper Chorlton Rd
The photgraph show the Seymour Hotel which was at the junction of Upper Chorlton Rd and Seymour Grove
Stretford, Upper Chorlton Road c1955
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Added 14 October 2008

Jackson Boat Platt Fields
I too remember Jackson's Boat. Living off Derbyshire Lane in Stretford, we would make the mammoth walk down the canal to Jackson's Boat on a Sunday and have a drink sat outside, then walk all the way back. At Platt Fields, now the M60!!, we would 'fish' for newts and frogs and carry them home carefully, put them in a tank and looked after them in the garden. My sister and I used to have newt 'races', and ...see more
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Added 02 November 2006

Jacksons Boat
Reading the post about catching sticklebacks in the Bridgewater brought memories flooding back. I lived in Clifton Street, off Stretford Road. At the weekend we used to get some butties off our Mum, a bottle of pop (if she could afford it), put it all in our ex-army shoulderbag and then make an epic journey up to Sale to a place called Jacksons Boat. It was a pub. We would spend the day in the swimming hole. Now ...see more
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Added 01 September 2006

Bridgewater Canal
My younger brother Russell and I grew up on Coniston Road in Stretford and one of my earliest memories was of going down to the canal armed with pickle jars that had breathing holes stabbed into the lid (a fork from mums kitchen was our tool of choice), some twine around the lip so we wouldn't drop our "catch" and a couple of fishing nets. There were always some older kids or adults sitting on their wicker ...see more
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Added 04 August 2006