Nostalgic memories of West Gorton's local history

Share your own memories of West Gorton 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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I knew billy powell I lived in lynn st alan kynaston and david
hello . my family lived in two or three addresses in west gorton. in the 1930;s to 1950;s my grandma had a chip shop and i wondered if anyone remembers any of my family. the collens and the morans i would love to hear from anyone with any memories of them.
No stranger to Friday bath night (did we really only bathe once a week?), where the tin bath was hauled into the kitchen in summer & in front of the fire in winter & filled by kettle. As I got older my dad would take me down to the public wash baths where I could luxuriate in a 'real bath' in a real bathroom. My dad actually knew the man that ran the baths for the council & instead of the fixed amount of boiling ...see more
I am a West Gorton lad from the 50's. Gregory street between Thomas street & Clowes street, I thought I lived in a 2 up 2 down but apparently now it was a bijou victorian conjoined cottage with sort after features. I attended Thomas street school 1959 to 1961, when the redevelopment of the area began. We were eventually rehoused in Haughton Green council estate (indoor loo/ bathroom, garden, luxury). We lived around the ...see more
Hi there Billy Cullen. I remember all of those you mentioned. I'm Ann Watkins nee Wraxall. We moved up to Wythenshawe.and remain there still. My brother Allen lives just up the road from me. Nice to relive old memories.
My earliest recollection is around 1944, we had a milk cart with a beautiful shire horse to pull it. Ashmore Street ran from Hyde road to Redgate lane, the first building was Edmonds Bakery who made the best eccles cakes in the world. This particular morning was nothing special the Germans were still dropping bombs in the area trying to hit Longsight sheds and the Railway sidings, but as usual the ocasional incendiary ...see more
I was born in December 1947 at 124 Clowes Street, West Gorton in a terraced house between William Street and Elizabeth Street, directly opposite Bert Hall's butcher's shop and next door to the Beswick Cooperative Society's Grocers and Butchers shops. My dad was a boilermaker at Beyer Peacocks' on Gorton Lane and was called William (Billy) Holmes. I went to St Marks' Infants and Juniors ...see more