Stretford, Upper Chorlton Road c.1955

Photo ref: S346001

My uncle's favourite place.

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

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

The photgraph show the Seymour Hotel which was at the junction of Upper Chorlton Rd and Seymour Grove