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Comment Category: General memories
Does any body no of fanny widdall ( gledhill ) lived at 15 Heywood Terence crumpstall Manchester 1936time
She lived with my grandad James gledhill.
Have been trying to find old photos or any body who new my Nan who I never met.
Comment Category: General memories
Hi, i am looking for an old friend who i went to school with in the 70s, we went to Princess road primary school in moss side, he came from cheetham hill originally and moved back there approximately 1975, his name is paul Munroe, he had a brother called john and a sister called gloria i think she was called, if anybody knows him could you ask him to try and make contact on here, my name is Conrad, thank you so much.
Comment Category: General memories
My father was living at at 381 Waterloo Road, Cheetham Hill, as another member of Clyne’s family. He was one of the Basque children refugee. He arrived to Cheetham Hill after Spanish civil war, in 1939 until 1954.
Comment Category: General memories
My grandparents lived at 12 Penrose Street Hightown, Sarah and Ike Kaye.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
For those people who enquire about Cheetham Collegiate School I was a pupil there from 1954 to 1957 when I won a scholarship to Hulme Court Grammar school in Oldham. Our uniform at the Collegiate was brilliant – black blazer, cap and tie with bright yellow stripes. Although it’s a long time ago I remember the Misses White – one of whom (Joyce) was the Headmistress. Without her faith in my potential I would never have got to Hulme Court. Can anyone tell me what happened to Cheetham Collegiate, as we moved down South in 1959? Great times!
Comment Category: General memories
My Dad Bill Edgington (born 1932) he played for Adelphi lads during the time they won the Manchester League for 5 seasons on the bounce. I’ve also got a press release when they beat a Manchester United team that included the great Dunken Edwards.
If you would like me to post pictures and reports just ask and I’ll put them on
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Does anyone remember the name of the private girls school in Cheetham Hill? I was really young when it closed but I remember the lovely uniform they had.
For some reason and could be completely wrong, Esmeralda comes to mind but can’t find anything online.
Comment Category: General memories
I came to this page looking for Reece’s Butchers.
I grew up in Hodgson Street off Waterloo Road. My father taught at Temple school and that’s where I went before going briefly to Bury Grammar for girls and then to Australia on the day the Beatles played Manchester.
I have fond memories of going into the butchers with my Mum. Mrs Reece would give me a small Frankfurter (cocktail sausage here in Oz).
I remember Rin Tin Tin at the Temple Cinema, and the sweet shop next to the cinema where I’d get ‘flying saucers’ and such sweets on the way to school.
I saw Blue Hawaii at a cinema on Cheetham Hill Road.
There was a park on the corner of Waterloo Rd & Cheetham Hill Rd where Mum used to take me to play. She also used to shop at the Co-op.
In The Village I remember a magical shoe shop, a bicycle shop where I bought my first bike with saved up pocket money (I think called Hylands or Rylands), and Woolworths. And there was a street off to the left in The Village where there was a health food shop owned by I think the name was Morris Klein and his wife. They also emigrated to Australia and lived within walking distance of us and I used to go over to their place to play with June (daughter).
I used to go ice skating at the Ice Palace in Derby Street and after we moved to Wilton Road in Higher Crumpsall I went to Chiltons dance studio.
Then there was swimming in the baths on Cheetham Hill Road, followed by Ice cream (best in the world) in summer or hot Ribena and a packet of crisps in winter at Lorenzini’s.
Mum used to go on a Sunday to a hairdressing salon run by a woman called Mini (I think in Prestwich).
My ‘Auntie’ Beatty had a tobacconist/corner shop somewhere in Strangeways.
Great memories
Comment Category: Schools
my name is philip azoff i went to the jewish school on waterloo rd manchester from 1948 to 1958 is their anbody out their who attended the same school and left about the late 1950s who might even remember me i livin spain nowerdays and also worked abroad a lot would like to hear from u if their is anyone
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Anyone recall ‘the murder house’, as locals referred to it, on Cheetham Hill Rd. It was just past the top of Heywood St., before you got to the Premier Cinema. As a small child, I used to walk with my mum up Heywood St to shop in ‘the village’ and, every time we passed that tall, red-bricked house, she would say ‘that’s the murder house’, though she had no idea who’d been murdered there, nor when. I was astonished to see the murder feature in the BBC TV series ‘Murder, Mystery & My Family’ in March 2018. The programme persuaded me that the man executed for the crime, a homeless man named Burtoft, could not have killed the elderly Jewish lady, but they did not go on to investigate who might have committed this terrible crime back in 1933. I decided to do so myself and have identified a much more obvious suspect, someone with an especially bad character and an overwhelmingly strong motive – someone whom the police did not bother to interview at the time. I’ve written a book about this: ‘The Cheetham Hill Murder’. Would love to know if anyone else recalls ‘the murder house’?
Comment Category: General memories
My grandparents had a greengrocers on Haworth Street at the bottom of Waterloo rd ,Opposite Esther Rosenthal had a grocers. Round the corner on Waterloo rd was Ribeiros Bakery , opposite was Issy Wise the barber.I remember the prison Warders flats nearby and Waterloo road school where my mother was a pupil from 1924.My great grandfather lived on Broughton Lane .
Comment Category: General memories
Herewith a little something you may use or refuse. Memories from a parish magazine saved by the writer circa 1977. My interest is simply one of looking back and very often chancing a smile. If below proves useful you may leave my name out of it, I have no wish to hog a page. Stay safe. Joe Dawson
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Modernity had begun to make its mark on the area: B Mitchell once a highlight of Waterloo Road now traded from 490 Gt. Cheetham Street. East, Salford. M8 7EW. A new postcode and a newish telephone number, BRO 2438 had become 792 2438, the Broughton identity gone for good. Television, Radio and Electrical Repairs and Service, P/a Sound Equipment for hire at low rates continued as before from the new address.
I’m sure many will have kept their money safe at the Trustee Savings Bank 555 Cheetham Hill Road M8 7HZ were we learn that for over 150 years the bank has provided a range of services designed to meet the requirements of people of all ages. Their friendly attitude to your problems takes the worry out of money matters. The manager and staff are always available to explain and assist with any financial problems that may arise. Finally, a note in the blurb to the effect that: Could over 9000 customers in this area be wrong? P.S. I had a blue and yellow egg money box and later a green metal money box in the from of a book from this bank as a child.
A short distance away from the bank you would find T. & J. Levy Home Furnishers, Fitted carpets and Upholstery, located at 448 Cheetham Hill Road. M8 4LE. A town shop on your doorstep stockists of: G. Plan, Austin & McIntosh, Vono, Meredew, Beautility, Myers, Stag and Slumberland and all other leading manufacturers. A footnote draws a readers attention to: ‘We Fit Bedroom Furniture.
For good shoes one was encouraged to go to:
Tysons Shoes ltd. 463 Cheetham hill Road, M8 7LR telephone: 7540 5000.
My mum always got her coal from A. Saunders and Sons. Coal and Smokeless fuel Merchants
38 Brideoak Street, Cheetham, formally Manchester 8, now M8 7LR. A shared postcode with Tysons Shoes Ltd above.
In need of a haircut? Perhaps Russell’s Gents Hair Stylists 366 Cheetham Hill Road was a port of call, where reviewing their advert in a local parish magazine, All ranges of styles including hair dyes, and all long hair styles. Also, advice given free for all hair and scalp disorders. O.A.P.s catered for Monday to Friday. Closed on Saturday. Open Sunday 8am to 2 pm. 366 Cheetham Hill Road M8 7LS. Opposite late Premier Cinema.
Chimney need sweeping?
J. H. Poulton Domestic and Commercial Chimney Sweeps and Boiler Flue Cleaner.
52 Cravenwood Road, Crumpsall M/C. M8 6AN Tel: 061 740 5455
For Spuds and fruit
Premier Stores (Trevor Glass) Finest Fruit and Vegetables, bring your basket to: 467 Cheetham Hill Road, M/C. M8 7LR
The Village Vac Shop
Specialist vacuum repair service. Main dealers: Hoover – Electrolux. Bargain reconditioned cleaners always in stock. Good part exchange Allowances. 15A King Edwards Buildings, Bury Old Road, Manchester 8. 740 0176
Bob Steele & Co. (Prop: Mr J Wray) Shell Petrol and Oil, Quality Used Cars (Green Shield Stamps) Queen’s Road Filling Station. Queens Road. Cheetham Hill, Manchester 8 Telephone: 061 205 2704.
J. C. Lewis
Religious Cards and Figures – Cards for all occasions
Pens and Gifts – Toys, Sweets and Tobacconist
479 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester. M8 7LR.
H. Lomax
Quality Pork, Beef, Lamb, fowls, Chicken, Eggs and Bacon.
10 Progress Buildings, Cheetham Hill Road. M87HY
and 41 Leicester Road, Salford, M7 0AR.
J Emanuel. F.B.O.A.
Ophthalmic Optician
4 Progress Buildings, Halliwell Lane,
Manchester. M8 7ER. Tel: 740 9009
The Buttonholer (Prop: W & L Culshaw)
Quick Service for your Buttonholing.
Overlocking, Haberdashery, Foam cut to size.
Good Selection of plastic lace, Mats and tablecloths.
488 GT. Cheetham Street. East, Hr. Broughton,
Salford. M8 7EW.
Fox Funeral Service (Late E Fox)
Night Service – Private Chapel of Rest
469 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester M8 7LR
Tel: 740 2362 & 773 2749
‘Violetta’ (H Goodman)
For flowers of Distinction – Member of British Teleflower Service
Weddings, Bouquets our Speciality. Wreaths and Decorations to Order.
3 King Edward’s Buildings, Bury Old Road, M/C 8
Tel: 061 740 4163 (Opposite Woolworth’s)
P & B Dunn
Quality Butchers. Beef, Pork, Lamb & veal of the finest quality.
412 Cheetham Hill road, Manchester 8 Tel: 740 3631
$40 Bury new Road, Prestwich. Tel: 773 3192
D & A Jones
Newsagent, Stationers, Tobacconist, Games and Toys.
Sweets, Chocolates, ices & Minerals. Greeting Cards for all Occasions.
114 Marlborough Road, Higher Broughton Salford M8 7LS. Tel: 792 3033
Thos. Reynolds, Senr. & Sons Ltd
Musical Instrument Makers. Dealers and Repairers.
120A Gt. Clowes Street, Salford M7 9RN
Tel: 834 5530
J. W. Holme Ltd
Wholesale and Retail Tobacconist
Specialists in all smokers Requisites. Pipes. Cigars etc.
16 King Edward’s buildings, Bury Old Road, Manchester 8 Tel: 061 740 2400
Finally, I should perhaps mention that my grandmother always bought meat from Mr Brown the Butcher crossing a sawdust laden floor to reach the counter. The shop was located almost opposite the swimming baths on Cheetham Hill Road.
Hope this jogs a memory or two. Stay safe, stay well, Joe Dawson
Wednesday 18th November 2020
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I was born the night of the Manchester Blitz 23rd December at Dennison House, Mum having been sheltering in the cellar of Grandma’s pub,The British Queen. The Jewish hospital was nearby but it had been bombed the night of 22nd . It must have been horrific for her and the friend, Dr. Samuel, who drove them from Cheetham Hill to the other side of Manchester. Did anyone on this site have a similar experience?
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
My Mother and Father owned the sweet shop and tobacconist shop just down from the ABC Cinema
Mr Tison had a shoe shop on the corner of the block and Mr Lemon owned the grocery next door to our shop. There was a fur shop on the otherside of us
They were there from1949-1957 until they moved to New Zealand. My father was a policeman in the Manchester Force during the was where they lived in Greensted Avenue. If anyone can remember any of this please write
Comment Category: General memories
Growing up Hightown was a very special experience for me; without actually realizing it at the time Hightown/Waterloo Road was incredibly ‘live and let live’, people were busy and folk got on with their lives, working together as a diverse community. One would be hard pushed to find anything like it today, I recall Mrs Gedall’s record shop, on the same block as a paraffin, clock and pot shop at the bus stop near Bignor Street. Needoff’s bakery a little further down, then a tailor dashing away with the biggest steam iron I have ever seen in my life, and a little further towards Elizabeth Street, the Novelty Box. An extraordinary toy shop, where in its time a sophisticated electronic organ, (said to be the first of its kind; transistors were rather new in those days), a complex beauty in process of construction on the counter for all to see and examine. I believe the instrument also appeared in the Manchester Evening News or the Evening Chronicle, where a model hovercraft also the work of the proprietor was reported.
On which point there was a goodly choice of newsagents, one on Garnet Street, two on Waterloo Road, one on Marshall Place. Tobacco and sweets shops were paces apart; more people smoked than they do today, choosing brands such as Embassy, Bristol, Nelson, Park Drive and Woodbines, their stubs and empty packets littering the gutters and pavement. Waterloo Road was notable for choice, Valentine’s newspaper shop, Mrs Wilson’s hairdressers, Siroto’s Chemist, a pharmacy that during my childhood moved from the Bignor Street side of Waterloo Road to the Vernon Street side. Mr Siroto told me he was the uncle of the 1950s pop singer Lee Lawrence born Leon Sirota in Salford. Odd that, as I recall the chemists was always referred to as Siroto’s, a local thing or mispronunciation perhaps. A micro-mystery – discuss – was there an Italian connection?
There was much to recommend Hightown and Waterloo Road, the Maypole and Mrs Walklett’s pot shop on opposite corners of Larch Street, Kinder Scout Children’s outfitters, a well frequented Jewish butchers just before one reached Garnet Street and the two telephone boxes over the street from the Hightown Hotel public house, both always working and both always in possession of the latest telephone books, now where would you find that today? Returning for a moment to the Maypole grocers, who could forget the lavishly mirrored entrance where final touches were put to many a hairdo and dress whilst waiting for a date.
But the future beckoned, supermarkets were on the horizon, and as an apprentice electrician there was much work to do in the district. I remember meeting Ronnie Singer proprietor of the Bendix Launderette on the corner of Vernon Street and Waterloo Road and working in the cellar beneath the lines of washing machines; heat and steam gave rise to cockroaches in great clumps on the ceiling and pipes, ready and willing to fall on the heads of those working below. I worked with Benny Mitchell (BRO 2438 as I recall, if anyone answers put the phone down at once) and it was Ronnie who gave Benny the job of electrically connecting a huge new dry cleaning machine in the basement of his new shop Granada Dry Cleaners just up from Granada TV studios in Manchester. An undertaking of some size, the back wall had to come out to get it in and then a good days work to get it up and running.
Hightown, a positively thriving community. A family of people and trades, not all mentioned here by any means, but I have to stop somewhere and there’ll be another time I’m sure. Stay well, stay safe. With all best wishes. Joe Dawson
Comment Category: General memories
Les Lazarus,
I am sure you played football with me. You took us in a van !!!
Comment Category: General memories
Trinity Presbyterian (Church of Scotland) Cheetham Hill Road, corner Greenhill Road. I still have the book Black Wing by George E. Rochester and printed by the Epworth Press London which I was presented with for regular attendance Christmas 1957. My Sunday School teacher was Mr S. H. Kerfoot. I was in the Boys Brigade and joined in many of the many activities at that wonderful place of worship. The church brought much happiness to my life as did another church a short walk away, St John the Evangelist (Church of England) Waterloo Road where I met a new friend Author Price, who lived at the rectory on Brideoak Street. There was tennis court in the grounds of the church (at the back) which during my childhood was I recall often in use. Stay well, stay safe. Joe Dawson
Comment Category: General memories
The way we were
Sunday was such a beautiful day. Fit only for beautiful thoughts and one came along immediately. China tea served in dainty cups with a fine slice of bread and butter. Not much to write about but enough to refresh genteel ladies in the 1940s when stockings were at a premium and silk parachute undies all the rage; although quite how so much parachute material reached back street seamstresses is still a mystery.
A decent cuppa was often the highlight of the day. Rations went nowhere and by mid-week most larders were bare. The weekly shop a quarter pound of butter carefully scraped from greaseproof paper, a little sugar to the last grain vigorously teased from a paper bag and a few eggs carefully transferred by enamel bowl to the kitchen.
Nights out weren’t what they might be either. What girl today would apply home-made gravy browning leg tan followed by when dry, a pencil or crayon with which to draw an imitation seam down the length of each leg – the straighter the better. Madness to think of it now, yet once it was all there was if a lady was not to be seen barelegged at the Palais de Danse.
And then there were the spivs. Ten-a-side moustaches fine as you like, trilbied black marketeers grinning over suitcases poised precariously on one knee or on the back of a lorry offering hard to get goods at inflated prices. ‘No coupons love, just cash, you won’t find better’ When it didn’t come out of a suitcase it probably appeared from under a counter, corned beef, Spam, you name it. Plain blue ½ Ib unbranded packets introduced Britain to a mysterious powder that when mixed with water and heated turned into something resembling mashed potato – dried egg or a knob of margarine was often added to improve the taste.
Sirens wailed and Britain ran for cover, Torches proliferated their glow shielded by greatcoats and pinnies. Only scurrying shoes were faintly visible as searchlights scoured the night sky and adult stoicism hurried little feet to safety.
50s Britain
50s Britain. Dark, threadbare, exhausted people, exhausted houses and somewhere in the distance a wireless giving voice to Dickie Valentine’s The Finger of Suspicion, its heavy 1930s glass accumulator bubbling out the last few volts before need of recharge. Housewives Choice, Worker’s Playtime, Listen with Mother, The Billy Cotton Band Show. No end of programmes geared to raise the morale of a war-weary nation. A time when radio variety was at its height and loved by millions.
Come nightfall, should the accumulator be back from Mitchell’s charging station, half way down Waterloo Road top end of Garnet Street and following BBC Radio Newsreel. There came a happy choice of evening entertainment: Radio Luxembourg with its fading and recovering signal or AFN (American Forces Network) glowing spots on the dial from where exciting music streamed over the airwaves and Rock & Roll launched itself across the Atlantic.
So long ago and yet still fresh in many a heart. A time of abject poverty, scarcity of food, milk rationing, make-do-and-mend, and no bananas at the Co-op. Undaunted by whatever the remnants of war might throw at them, people stuck together, looked out for each other, and put a capital C in Community. Little money about at the time but a glimmer of hope shone at the end of the tunnel; beginning perhaps with the Festival of Britain in1951 when people at last began believing in the possibility of a brighter future.
Lee Cooper jeans landed on our shops, Maxwell House coffee brightened our breakfast, and the first supermarkets began to appear. Meanwhile, something stirred in Liverpool, and early in the next decade the Beatles burst onto the scene and The Liverpool Sound was born and the rest as they say is history.
A fleeting image
It was just a fleeting image of a familiar skyline towering high above the shiny trousers of a bus driver ready to take his seat behind the wheel. A something and nothing moment that so often invokes memories secretly waiting to come tumbling out with a smile or a tear.
Boarding such a bus would, I recall, whisk me home from school and into the bosom of the family. Whilst next door and in the next street were chums and confidants, rascals and rascalettes now grown-up and gone and so too the streets, demolished to make way for modernity. But what can never be demolished are the memories of a time when all was young and around every corner lay adventure.
Returning for a moment to Marshall Place and the 50s, enterprise I recall flourished from top to bottom. Albert the then manager of the Shakespeare cinema on Halliwell Lane organised boxes of oranges for us kids at Christmas and a kinder man would be hard to find, he was a friend to everybody. Joe the cobbler corner of Marshall Place and Hammond Street always had a smile and a wave from his elevated position, a shop reached by many steps. Mr Burke at the off-licence opposite the cobblers never appeared without a crisp white shirt and pristine waistcoat. There was a ballet school run by Mrs Gimbert, another off-licence further down at the corner of Marshall Place and Wigton Street. Next a busy plumbers, then Mrs Gimbert’s butchers corner Perth Street, opposite Mr and Mrs Thorpe’s Newsagents and grocers. A violinist with the Halle Orchestra lived next door, followed by Hey’s school of motoring and finally, Mr and Mrs Rosenthal’s vegetable front room, corner Marshall Place and Cluny Street, directly opposite Weiner’s grocery store and popular pickle barrel located in the hall, turn left into the shop. A number of shops were really houses converted for the purpose of selling necessities in a time of need.
Joe Dawson
Comment Category: General memories
Yes, I went too went to Cheetham Collegiate school on Brideoak Street, and I remember Miss White, Miss Marjorie, and upstairs Mrs Tyler and Mrs Jefferson. There really where some pea soupers in those days and Waterloo Road in dense fog was a risky enterprise in the dark. Across the croft on (Waterloo Road) a young lady by the stage name of Sylvia Sands was about to cut her first record. I may have mentioned this before, but I was a paperboy at Thorpe’s paper shop and grocers corner of Perth Street and Marshall Place. I lived two doors away at number 9 with my gran and aunty and remember the little park opposite being built on what was a croft that to the best of my knowledge (’cause I played on it a lot) once housed several air raid shelters as did Cheetham cricket ground opposite. My first girlfriend Josephine, was the daughter of the groundsman, a wonderful man (as too Mrs Hall) who lived in a bungalow in full sight of the pitch, Josephine also attended Cheetham Collegiate at the same time as I. Your memory put me in mind of so much, Gimbert’s butchers, Mrs Gimbert’s Ballet school at number 10 Marshall Place, Pauline and Susan Burke who lived at the off-licence top of Marshall Place and then off the Shakespeare cinema on Halliwell Lane. Better stop now, or I’ll keep going forever. Thanks for the memories. Stay safe, stay well. Joe Dawson
Comment Category: General memories
Angela Thorpe: Now there’s a memory, I was a paperboy at your mum’s shop corner of Perth Street and Marshall Place in the mid 1950s, lived at number 9 with my gran and aunty. I believe the shop was formally owned by Mrs Middleton who lived directly opposite the shop top of Perth Street – best street for roller skating in the district, surface as smooth as silk. Joe Dawson
Comment Category: General memories
Hi, My Aunt lived in Salford as a child. Her daughter who lives in America recently told me she’d been searching online because her mum told her the reason she was named Mandy was after a shop on
Lower Broughton Road Salford called Mandy’s Does anyone remember this shop or know if there are any old photos showing this shop. I’d love to help her find this.
Thank you in advance
Comment Category: General memories
I was born at Bentley’s Buildings weaste in 1948. We moved to alder st a year later. Anyone remember a club on Broad street,His Excellency’s.
Comment Category: General memories
St Lawrence weaste lane opened in September 1950,I mistakenly said I attended 1950,it was 1959.i remember the Flynn’s,Pete was in my year
My mam knew Mrs Flynn. The Flynn’s known as the Fighting Flynn’s.gre
Comment Category: Schools
I went to St Lawrence from 1950 to 1964.stayed on a year for GCEs waste of time.first job was at Co_Op funeral service on Broad St. it was a dead end so I chucked it
I had a go as a betting shop clerk. Factory work,hgv driving, machine driver. Happy memories of Salford and living in a 2 up 2 down, outside toilet, but still alive.. Mike
Comment Category: General memories
Looking for family .
John Henry Smith married Alice Walker Salford 1920
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
I’ve recently been researching my family history and would like to know if anyone remembers the Bentham family who lived on Bristol Street, Broughton in the 1940’s/50’s. Specifically Lilian Bentham who worked as a shop assistant. She had a young daughter who sadly died after being struck by a lorry on Leicester Road in 1950.
Comment Category: General memories
I was born in 1952 and have fond memories of numerous shops and people of Cheetham Hill as it was my playground . From Queens rd up to Heston Park we would roam feeling completely safe , As a kid in those days you knew loads of kids from different schools, i went to Cravenwood school then ont Dixie
Denis Parfitt
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
We lived first on Perth St, Hightown then moved across Waterloo Rd to Brideoak St. We lived 3 doors down from Collegiate school in Brideoak St and my sister & I went there even though it was a fee-paying school. It was run by 2 sisters – the miss Whites. There was a small play park between Perth St & Waterloo Rd and after playing there we would go to the corner shop and buy jublies!
Collegiate School is no longer but my dentist occupies the building.
After Collegiate school we went to St Chad’s school.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Does anyone remember a furniture shop on great cheetham street west called ellisons also the other shops there in the 60s I’m searching it for my mam cheers
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Born and raised in Ansdell st ( 1960’s ). Went to St Annes R.C. School in Crumpsall then St Andrews R.C. on Tetllow Lane Salford ( 1973 – 1978 ) . Recall playing on the sand hill behind Shirley Rd and between the Northen Hospital . Normas Chippy off Halliwell Lane on Highfield St. Played cricket around the garages behind Shirley Rd petrol station . Hand a paper round working from Joes Newsagent across from the Stone masons on Cheetham Hill Rd. mam used to go to Edna’s hairdresser on the same Rd . We had a few corner shops .I remember the off licences on Edmonds Rd and the Ukraine shop ( Peter ) at the corner of Cheetham Hill Rd opposite the cinema .
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Elsie Ewing has written in to ask if this photograph was on the corner of Greenhill Road? We have it described as the corner of Halliwell Lane and Cheetham Hill Road.
https://salfordandcheethaminfocus.co.uk/object/pomc04614/
Comment Category: Work and Industry
At the time of the 1911 census, a tailoring/sewing business was running at 5 Upper Camp Street. The business was run by Russian Jewish immigrants, Jacob and Sarah Marks. If anyone has any information on the business (name of it etc), please get in touch. They were my Great, Great, Grandparents and I’m trying to connect as many family dots as possible.
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
Id like to know more about my Jewish heritage. My Grt Grandfathers family sold poultry and lived in Salford. The family name was Firestone and my Grt Grandfather was Micel or Michael. He married a welsh lady named Jessie and they had 2 children
Bessie (my grandmother) and Merton
Comment Category: Schools
I was put into a training school called blackley hall or blackley house? In 1962/63, does anyone remember this place and is it still in existence
Comment Category: General memories
I went to Thomas Street Methodist School in the 30s, and to Bella Vista.
My uncle had the Milk Bar on Cheetham Hill Road, I well remember Smith’s “Bakery at the corner of Thomas Street and many of the people at Thomas Street, headmaster, Evgans, who made us sing the Welsh national anthem each morning, Miss Rydiard and Miss Woolley, who rapped our knuckles with a ruler. Miss Rydiard used to write in our autograph albums “I must never say I can’t but I can if I try”
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Does anyone know of the address 26 craven street in hightown. And does it still exist? I’m researching my great grandad and this is the address of his widow on the war graves commission website…only it cites Eightown which I believe is a mistake.
Comment Category: General memories
I lived at no 82 Bent St and went to St Chad’s school on Cheetham Hill Road.I remember the nuns and Miss Tunney also Father Morris.Our corner shop was called Greens wich was on the corner of Elizabeth St and Bent St.It sold everything including “esso blue”.
Shopping in Hightown and Cheetham Hill Village.
My uncles Hughie,David,Edward and Brian Quinn all worked around there.Edward and Brian worked in the bacon works on Bent St and they all drank in the Berwick Arms near the prison.The smell of the hops from Boddingtons and Holts brewaries.The Jewish Boys School which backed onto Bent St.Kennings car showroom.
I remember all the cinemas that have been mentioned and one was later (late 60s) the bowling alley which played soul and Motown music on Sunday afternoons.
I also remember the shopping on Cheetham Hill and when I am ever in the area still call for bagels,Blackbread,fishcakes and cheesecakes,wonderfull.
I remember the Whit Walks and the “italians”walking then all the kids playing outside the pubs(and being given two bobs and half crowns for being smartly dressed) drinking orange juice and eating Smiths crisps with the blue packet of salt inside.Mamas and the Marble arch were my dad’s favorites,granddad used to run The Marble Arch.
I also remember Elizabeth Park and the man selling ice cream from a tub fixed to the front of his bycycle.
The wash house and the kosher chicken factory.
I could go on,but lovely memories.
Im looking for a guy known as ‘Becky’ from Salford. Born around late 50’s. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.
Comment Category: General memories
My name is Joyce Fitton i was born in 1944 and lived on Winifred St opposite Hortons coal merchants which was on Howel Street ,Wardleys shop was at the top of Winifred street .I went to the Collegiate school from the age of 3 .I think it was 2 semis made into small accommodation for miss Joyce and Miss Margaret White and then 4 large rooms divided into seniors and juniors.I adored Miss Joyce not to fond of Miss Tyler or Mrs Jeffers she used the strap so not that popular.She also travelled from Blackpool each day. My elder brother Brian also attended the Collegiate he now lives abroad.He has been trying to find one of his old friends Norman Kaufman .I have so many memories all trying to escape.I then attended the High School of Art just an amazing place Mr Goodman Nickname Benny was the headmaster. I did all the usual things ice skating Chiltons dancing and the ovaltinies club at the Premier Cinima .My parents moved when I was about 9 to Crupsal but my grandma still lived on Bellot st and my aunt uncle and cousin SANDRA still lived on Bignor St.
Comment Category: General memories
Hi Rick,
I lived in Sycamore st the other side of Waterloo Rd, I also went to Marlborough school, and I remember your family you lived further up Garnet st than where a pal of mine lived, Sid Lowe and another pal Billy Jones.. Didn’t one of your family get injured while working at the brick works back of Elizabeth st park can’t at the moment remember his name.
Regards Hutch
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
One writer mentioned Brideoak St., I remember it well, when I was about twelve I was madly in love with a beautiful girl who lived in Brideoak St. We used to ride our bicycles together, her name was Marcia. My heart was broken when she married her boss at age 17!
Fortunately at age 18 I met a girl in a million and we have just had our 65th wedding anniversery here in Australia wher we’ve been since 1964.
Comment Category: General memories
I attended Ordsall Secondary Modern Girls’s School in 1967 -1968. I remember the Headmistress Mrs. Hall. She was always so very kind to me. It was an all girls school at that time with the boys school located across the street. The Peacock was still there in 1971 and in 1980 when I visited the school.
My best mate was Tina Viney, 2S. I also remember Veronica, 2O, who’s father was a manager at the mill. She lived across the street from Ordsall Park.
Yes, most of the teachers were women, but our Music Teacher was a man. He gave me piano lessons after school. I visited the school in 1971 when I competed at the Eisteddford Music Competition. I believe Mrs. Hall was still there.
I remember taking the sports bus over to the soccer fields by Hope Hospital. We also had a day trip to the Opera House.
I was the American Girl from Missouri, Beverly Higgins, who lived with her Aunt and Uncle, Mrs. Lily and George Jones on Clements Street. I attended St. Clements Church with my Uncle. Some of you might remember confirmation classes?
I learned how to sew and cook in those home economic classes. I remember the dress material was very 60’s, different colored squares with a black border.
We used a treadle sewing machine. I actually have one of those that works!
I loved living in Salford but realized that my Aunt sheltered my impressions of Salford. She worked at the Palmolive Company. We had to walk up to the laudromat on Regent Road and would always stop on the way back for fish and chips or meat pies.
The short time I shared in this environment helped shape my future and confidence. I became a United States Army Nurse and later a private music teacher.
My daughter went to the Eisteddfords in 2005 and won first in the instrumental category. She is a percussionist. I accompanied her on the piano on stage. It was another highlight of my life.
Would love to hear from any of my classmates.
Beverly Higgins Morton
[email protected]
Comment Category: Schools
The Ordsall Peacock and Ordsall Secondary Modern school
The first thing we used to see in the morning and at dinner was the Peacock. It was one of the meeting places for everyone. It never got damaged, or vandalised at the school. It was something that we had that no other school had.
Comment Category: Schools
Peacock Sculpture, Ordsall Secondary Modern
I was in the first year at the school in 1960. There was a collection for the Peacock at the school. There was a magazine for both schools (boys and girls schools) called ‘Magpie’. If you bought this it contributed to paying for the Peacock. The Peacock was placed on a plinth originally. Someone tried to pinch the sculpture, so it was put on a smaller plinth later on. Originally the girls school wasn’t built, the boys school was built was first and contained girls and boys. There were no first and second years originally. The boys school was at the front of Trafford Road and the playground was at the front of the school (on Trafford Road). The main entrance to the school was on Smith Street. Cotton and asbestos used to drift across the playground when they were unloading at the docks or from the wagons, like tumbleweed. They brought the Halle Orchestra and some of the ceiling tiles collapsed during the performance.
Salford Schools
Comment Category: Schools
Ordsall Secondary Modern School
In 1971 or 72 it was boys and girls, it was mixed (I left in 1970). We used to congregate around the Peacock, smoking. I often wondered what it symbolised to Ordsall – it was on our school badges. That Peacock was put there and its been through think and thin, it’s seen Ordsall come down and come back up. People used to say ‘I’ll meet you at the Peacock’, and then we’d go and play football or whatever.
Comment Category: General memories
my dad ran the royal oak pup known as brass handels in the early 1960s. i believe he was the penultimate licensee before the building was demolished to make way for the precint. does anyone out there remember this pub and who may have frequented while my dad was manager?
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
I was brought up in Havelock St, Lower Broughton. Round the corner was the police box and the Dry Cleaners, with Timothy White’s Chemist over the road, near Sussex St. Havelock St used to come off Hough Lane (which met Lower Broughton Road at one end, and Peel Park, at the other end), and the next streets up were Clyde St (where they had a corner shop, and an off license), and Raglan Street. Right at the top was Peel Park, where I played all my football, with my best mates, Frank Seenan & Steve Pope. I remember the fire at the waxworks (near the park) and the wax coming all the way down to the dry cleaners, which used to be next to Bob’s the Barber’s on Lower Broughton Road.
I remember going to St. Boniface’s school (where there was also a police box), on Frederick Road (the other end, right at the top, was the college/uni). I remember breaking Robert Leakey’s leg in a fight, and being brought up in front of the class by the headmaster, Mr. Delaney. Hope you’re OK Robert. I also remember sending Sheila Lengden, a love letter when I was about 10, and starting to play with her brother John, who was 2 years younger, so I could go to her house, and see her. She used to pal around with Anne-Marie McGladery. We played St. Thomas’s in the Rounders final, and they beat us 1-0 (incredibly low score for a rounders match). Eventually my mates went to St. Albert’s secondary (Paul Heatley, John Gilligan, Mike McLaughlin etc who had trials for United). Because I passed my 11+ I had to go to St. Peter’s grammar on Bury New (or was it old) Road.
I’ve lived in Blackpool since I was 15 years old, but nothing will ever take away those memories, from the great, great people of Salford, of who I am very proud, even though it was voted the worst slums in the UK, when I left in 1970.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
My name is Francis Quigley I remember living at 134 Bellot Street some time after the war between 1947-1952. I was born on Manchester Road, Lower Ince Wigan in 1944. We lived at 134 Bellot Street, which is no longer shown on Google maps. I went to Waterloo Road Junior or Infants School. I vaguely remember having to get a school bus to go for our school dinners. I had double Pneumonia and was in hospital when I was about 5 years old, I presumed I went in Salford Royal. My step father worked at the biscuit factory in Crumpsall. I used to go to a shop at the back of our house for my mum I think it was called Weeners. I also remember a chinese shop which had a clock in the window with a sign saying ‘no tick’. I would be grateful for any information available.
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
Anybody remember Granyte surface coatings plc in Salford? My dad worked there 1978 to 1987 as a driver spent a lot of time in the Vav pub run by Dot and Austin, great times. Sadly Granyte has gone and is parking now for Salford van hire the Vav pub has been demolished and a lot of people have since passed, good times of my childhood can’t be demolished or forgotten.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Earlier this year, I was appointed Heritage Coordinator for was formerly known St John the Evangelist Church on the corner of Bellott Street& Waterloo Road Cheetham Hill. The church is now called Faith Tabernacle. I know there is a rich history regarding the church, people, life and work in Cheetham Hill. Yesterday we held a Remembrance Day Service at the church. I have as special interest in the soldiers whose names are on the war memorial in the church grounds and also interested in those who fought in the wars. Today we had three groups of children from a local school to share with them some information about the church. I would love to hear from any remaining relatives about any of the men on the War Memorial. It is so important that people living in the Community now can connect with the area they live in. I am also looking for volunteers who have an interest in Cheetham Hill to share stories, share old pictures, we will scan them and let you have them back immediately. If you are interested or know any local historians who might be interested, please will you contact me on 0161 202 185.
Many Thanks
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
LOWER KERSAL
I lived on Mackenzie Road, Lower Kersal and grew up there in the 1960s. There were 4 corner shops – Mrs Kelly’s for groceries and sweets I think, Mrs Hope’s for sweets, Mrs Ashton’s where I was sent for 2 pints of Jersey milk and bacon cut on No.8 setting, and Mr and Mrs Fildes’s who sold fish and greengrocery. They always had a black cat. The social club was at the top of the street. There was also a garage there where I was sent to buy batteries, etc. The lady had blonde hair and glasses – can’t remember her name. The Racecourse Hotel was across Littleton Road. There were allotments there, too – my parents had one. Opposite the pub were Chadwick’s newsagents (this had lots of choice for sweets and the penny tray), Mrs Porter at the drapers – she had a black poodle called Pierre who used to bark when you went in, the hairdresser’s where my mum used to go (Beryl?), Mr Goldstone the Chemist. Further down Littleton Road round the corner from St Philips’ Church were the chippy, Mrs Lancashire at the off licence, O’Brien’s greengrocers, Mr and Mrs Mills at the butcher’s and another newsagents at the end of the row. Opposite was H Bescoby’s and a dry cleaners I think. I remember the playing fields on Littleton Road and the red path which ran along the side of the fields. Noonan’s had a wool shop further down towards Cromwell school. Mrs Noonan had the shop and her husband had the ice cream van. I used to take cups and bowls to him for ice cream so we could have ice cream floats with lemonade. Used to have twist cornets as well which were delicious! The mineral man also used to call round with pop, and I used to take bottles back to Ashton’s to get money back off them!
LOWER BROUGHTON
I remember Poet’s Corner, the Pet Shop, Wheater’s Crescent, and Egan’s Greengrocers (mentioned in someone else’s post). There was also a cake shop where I used to get mini Hovis, and sponge cakes with cream in them and icing on top. There was a wallpaper shop and an ironmongers. I think a married couple ran the wallpaper shop and the owners of the ironmongers were related to them but not sure. There was the Vic Theatre at Broughton Bridge where I would be taken to pantos, etc. There was also the ball bearing works just after Broughton Bridge on the left and Blackfriars Baths on the right further down.
Great memories,
Heather Lloyd
Comment Category: Cinemas
CINEMAS IN SALFORD
I remember the Rialto and the Whisky A Go Go roller rink and disco (which I remember watching on TV with Kathy McGowan).
We lived in Lower Kersal and we often went to the Essoldo (corner of Whit Lane?) and the Ambassador (Langworthy Road area).
Heather
Comment Category: Schools
Hello,
I went to Lower Kersal Junior School, probably starting there about 1963. I remember Mr Gale, Mr Crump, Mrs Quinn, Mr Booth and Miss Walsh. When it was your birthday you used to go to the headmaster’s office and get a bag made from crepe paper filled with sweets – dolly mixture I think. My mum was the lollipop lady in the tme I was there – she is no longer with us sadly. I remember the cherry blossom trees in the playground in the infants’ section.
Then I went to Broughton High School (1969-1974). We were one of the last school years to pass the 11 plus. I remember Miss Cooke, Miss Deakin, Mrs Lawrance, Mrs Spencer, Mrs Hodson, Mrs Dawson and Mrs Partington. There was a ritual when you were new, of being rolled down the hill at the side of the sports field (which I managed to avoid)! I do have a lot of good memories, though. I remember school trips to Chester Zoo and London, weekly trips to the swimming baths by double decker bus, and good friends. Was sorry to hear the building has now been demolished.
Comment Category: General memories
Does anyone remember Albert park football club in the 1940’s ? My brother was a good footballer and Grove house , his name is Sid Lazarus
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I went to Cheetham colliegate school, I remember the sisters Miss Whites. I seem to remember two classrooms on the ground floor and some upstairs,different ages. I also remember doing a Christmas panto wasn’t on a proper stage. I also remember trying to walk home in the pea soupers, my mum made me wear a smog mask and by the time I had got home the white filter was black. We lived in the corner shop on Perth Street opposite the little play park, the shop sold everything from papers to veg later on it became a spar shop. The park had a parkie he watched over us from his little hut, which had a fire in there, where he made his cups of tea. Across the road on Perth street there were holes in the ground and bricks scattered where houses had once been, don’t know whether it had been bombed but that was the rumour. I also walked in the Whit walks. Everyone on the street knew each other and looked out for you we had Catholics, Protestants, Jewish Polish and Italians a great community. My name was Diane Thorp.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I am glad I found this site, so many memories have been stirred. I lived in Perth Street in Hightown. I remember playing near Marshall Place and the park in Waterloo Road.
I went to Colleagate school in Brideoak Street, until I was 7, and then moved to St Marks.
I then went to the High School of Art in Strangeways.
Comment Category: General memories
My mother and her family lived in Salford, probably Devonshire Street area, from 1913, when they left Bangor Count Down, to 1936 when they moved to Blackpool. Their family name was Loughrey and she and her brothers attended St. Thomas’s RC Primary School. My mother’s memories were not particularly happy ones, the family was very, very poor. Items were often pawned. My grandmother would take my mother to a wealthy family’s house to be given second hand clothes. One of her brothers won cups for boxing. Does the name Loughrey strike a bell to anyone?
Comment Category: Dance Halls
I was really delighted to see the old photographs of the old ‘Chilton’s Dance School’ which would appear to date from ’55 to ’57, a time period when it also played a significant leisure part in my younger days, having met lots of friends from there.
It was within easy walking range of where I lived and was believed to have been owned and managed by a semi-professional and married dance duo named Ted and Phyllis Chilton, who, together with various tutors and other assistants, had been running the establishment for some time and which was located in a very quite and pleasant area of Seymour road on the boundary of Cheetham Hill and Crumpsall.
Brian Howard
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
What a wonderful site, stirring up all my wonderful, happy childhood.
My name is Lynda Jasper, I was born on 9.9.51 My dad was called Thomas Jasper, he had 2 brothers Jack and Sidney and 2 sister Mary and Nina, My grandparents Dorothea and Meta Jasper lived at 24 Waterloo Road. My parents and I then moved to Thompson Street which was across the Road from Strangeways Prison. I went to Cheetwood Primary School I remember a girl called Diane Shelmerdine and another called Anita whose father who worked for the Police. I remember the Cricketers Pub on Bury Old Road, the newsagents next door where my dad used to buy me comics and Ladybird books. It was a delight for me to choose a different book each time, I loved to read. Does anyone remember the sweet shop at the bottom of Waterloo Road called Mrs Pollitts, memories of delicious ice cream and juicy 1p lollies, also the bakers which was across the road from my grandparents, I remember waking up to the smells of the freshly baked bread and cakes. Going up Derby Street and looking through the window where all the milk bottles went round and round, the smell was awful, ha ha. Playing in the street with my marbles, whip and top and on hot summer days getting a stick and popping the tar bubbles that appeared on the cobbled road. Wearing my lovely cinderella slippers clippity clop on the pavements. The 26 bus from Cannon Street to Blackley.
Comment Category: General memories
Does anyone know of the Annis family who lived on Chestnut Street, Hightown?
Comment Category: General memories
Does anyone remember the barber shop of my later father Morry Lazarus on Leicester Road, facing the girls school on the corner of Turner Street.
Do you remember any of the Lazarus family? My late Mum, Sophy, late sister and brother, Sheila and Sidney and my sister Judy.
Would be great to hear from you!
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Does anybody remember Harry Ying Louie who had a Chinese laundry on Cheetham Hill Road? This would be in the 1930s / 1940s. I’d love to hear from anyone who remembers him.
Comment Category: General memories
Hi… I’m looking for anyone who may remember Norman & Jessica Hargreaves (known as Jessie) who lived in Coke Street . They had a daughter Norma … they would have later moved to the brand new tower block in High Broughton when houses in Coke Street knocked down. Also just general memories of life on Coke Street in the 1940’s and 50’s?
Comment Category: General memories
Does anyone remember Morris Lazarus’s barbershop at the corner of Turner St and Leicester Rd?
Comment Category: General memories
I lived in the next street, King Street and I remember the barber’s shop very well. My father. Maurice Marks, went there to have his hair cut.
I went to school with Laura and Jacqueline Lazarus, to Cassel Fox and then later to Broughton High School for Girls, first at Bella Vista, which later moved to a purpose-built
building off Moor Lane (Kersal).
Now I live in Barcelona, Spain, I feel very sad that there is little left of my childhood memories…BHS for Girls has been demolished (both the beautiful old Bella Vista and the ‘new’ school (and most references to it on Internet confuse it with other schools which were not Grammar schools. The streets around Leicester Road have also been demolished. Very, very sad.
Linda de Bazarra
Comment Category: General memories
I used to go to the Rialto Cinema for the Saturday matinee showings, I saw Flash Gordon, Robinson Crusoe and lots of other films. I loved watching the old black and whites, like the Three Stooges. I also remember Potters Snooker Club at the Rialto, where Alex Higgins made 147 in practice – i saw it! And Syd and Harry’s barbers in the Rialto complex and a pool hall down the stairs. The band New Order used to practice in the rooms upstairs and we could hear them practice their latest singles.
Mark, Higher Broughton
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I used to go in the Greenhill Temperance Snooker Hall in Cheetham Hill. People used to drink orange juice, Coke and Fanta. A lot of people smoked then, such as bus drivers, dock workers and post office people. I also knew the Ukraine Club. I remember Lower Broughton and ‘Swallow Raincoats’ on Trafalgar Street, where they made the best raincoats in the business. They’d have it ready in three days. ‘Stone Dry’ was on Broughton Lane, which also made raincoats and ‘Style Proof Fashions’, also on Trafalgar Street. They made expensive coats with fur collars. Also Abe Sachs on Lower Broughton Rd, who had a Rolls Royce outside his shop and was a bespoke tailor.
Les Willis, Salford
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Hi Jackie, Yes, I do remember the Roberts at 17 Vernon Street, Hightown. My younger sister Denise does too and I think my other sister Alicia knew the family well especially when she was rose queen at St Johns on Waterloo Road. Mr Price was the vicar and his son Arthur a friend of mine. Sadly, Alicia passed away last year so a link with the past has been lost. I was brought up by my gran who lived on Marshall Place. There is a photo in an album of Lisa as she liked to be called taken in a house on Vernon Street sat at a dressing table in her Rose Queen dress and I wonder if that was your house? Alicia was great friends at the time with a lady on Vernon Street called LaLa. Sorry for the late reply, I only found the site again today 09/04/2018. All my best, Joe
Comment Category: General memories
I went to Marlborough Rd and then Heath St. My name was Ann Martin
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
I lived in Zebra Street, off Marlborough Road – the Duke of York pub, Roses the corner shop, Macs the milk bar, Shells the toffee shop, Ravenscroft the butcher, Krebs the chemist, Sydney Lucas the grocers, the cobblers, Oliver’s the greengrocer, the Lifeboys corner of Dudley Street, the Mission on Wetherall Street, Griffins the chicken shop, Ivor’s the barbershop – he used to give you a penny after he cut your hair so you came back so he could make a mess of it next time.
Steve Oliver
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I am now 84 years old and grew up in #15 Crummuck St Hightown. At the top of the street was Heywood St. and at the bottom was Herbert St. to the right of which was a stable, a ladies hairdresser, Classics sweet shop and a cobblers. I also remember most of the places mentioned in the above posts.
A few houses down from ours lived the Tynas’s, Manny was a close friend and now lives here in Western Australia about an hour’s drive from us.
I left home in Crummuck St. when I got married in 1954 and moved to Australia in 1964.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
My family and I lived on Elizabeth Street, not far from The Jewish Hospital. My memories were of rag & bone men, ice cream vans and friendly neighbours. Yes, it was a very poor area, although my father had an upholstery shop on Waterloo Road. The milk was always delivered, the coal man delivered regularly. We used to go to tea shops and buy half a pound of butter and cheese.
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
As a child, I lived in Tetlow Lane, Salford 7 and attended Cheetham Hill Methodist School in Thomas Street and Broughton High in Bury New Road. I remember buying wellies from Bata on a snowy morning. My mum owned a shop selling baby clothes on the corner of Halliwell Lane and Heath Street. I also remember seeing films at the Shakespeare (or Shakey as we called it).
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I lived in Peter Street then moved to Cluny St. I lived there until 1968 when we moved to Prestwich. I remember going down to Murray clinic for vaccinations and to pick up orange juice, remember the Rialto, later Frank Wong’s chippy, the picture house around there..
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I lived in Thomas Street from 1947 to 1961. I was 4 years old when we moved up from Lower Broughton. Thomas Street ran up the side of Woolworths and across Cheetham Hill Road.
It wasn’t a long street but along the length we had a primary school (Cheetham Hill Methodist) and a cinema (The Globe but known as ‘The Bug Hut’). There used to be a roller skating rink but it was always closed. There was also a graveyard where we would play. My wife says I have to finish now!!
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
My memories are of where I grew up in the 1950s. Playing in St Thomas of Canterbury boys’ band, Higher Broughton. Joining the Army Cadet Force in 1963 at Clowes Street Barracks, 252 Field Battery Royal Artillery. The Rialto cinema, The County, The Tower, The Davenshire, Higher Broughton Assembly Rooms, Whisky Agogo, The Whit Walks, bonfire wood collecting and making dens!!
Comment Category: Schools
Hi. Just noticed this forum on the net. I attended Bella Vista then Broughton Grammar when the school moved. From 1961 to 1965, when my family moved to Australia. I was on the hockey team and sorry to hear the school no longer exists.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Interesting picture of the Bata Shoes shop on Cheetham Hill Road. Mr Bata and his family lived in a large house on Palatine Road, Didsbury. It is now a mental healthcare live-in hospital called Jigsaw.
Click here to see the photo of Bata Shoes
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I went to St Philip’s RC Primary school in Kersal and Notre Dame in Cheetham Hill (corner of Bignor Street and Heywood Road), so have lots of memories of Cheetham Hill. My mum got her hair done at Joel’s on Cheetham Hill Road and she taught at St Andrew’s RC Secondary Modern on Leicester Road. My sister and I used to go ice skating in Derby Street on Saturday mornings. When I hear the song ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’, it takes me back there. There were group skating lessons and we learned to dance the Polka on ice! There were lots of Polish and Italian children at school, as well as Irish.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I met my husband at Derby Street Ice Palace in 1967 – we’re still going strong!
I also remember having my portrait done sitting on a wrought iron box. This went up in the photographer’s window for a while. I also remember Kenton’s supermarket and I went to school at St Mark’s on Heath Street. Happy days!
I lived at 14 Greenhill Road, Cheetham Hill from 1959 to 1976.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
The manager of Derby Street Ice Palace lived in Ansell Street, off Cheetham Hill Road in the 1950s. I also remember the Premier Cinema and the billiard hall in Cheetham Hill. You could get a copy of the Manchester Free Gazette from Cheetham Hill as they printed it there. I also remember Newhulme Street, off Halliwell Lane and the paper shop and the fish and chip shop there. I also remember Bent Lane, where there was a small fruit shop. Kenton’s supermarket was also on Halliwell Lane.
I lived at 7 Greenland Street, Cheetham Hill from 1955 to 1973, when the street was demolished.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I worked at Bookbinder’s bakery, 383 Cheetham Hill Road, from 1964 to 1966. I was an apprentice baker. They had about six shops in total. The founder of the business was called Frank Bookbinder and the original bakery was at the same address, before production moved to the Woodlands Road area of Cheetham Hill. The man on the right of the photograph is called Charlie Bookbinder and he was the father of the famous singer Elkie Brooks. The bakery eventually closed around 1970.
Click here to see the photo of Bookbinder’s bakery.
Comment Category: Schools
I lived at the bottom of Waterloo Road, Howard Street. I went to St. Clements Church, Broughton Lane.
My infant school was Waterloo Rd. (Cheetwood Primary) we shared the building with the Jewish School. I remember Mr. Bobker was my favourite teacher. Mr Bobker spotted my artistic ways and allowed me into the pottery class one time (this was a class for boys only) He tried to persuaded my parents to think about Art School for me but the death of my father and shortage of money in the early sixty’s sealed my fate. I went to Cheetham secondary instead in 1961, it was a good school but I often wonder? wish there were some images to look at from this area.
Comment Category: General memories
Hello Pearl,
I see from your email you lived in Howard Street,what number and what dates? My grandmother and aunties lived at number 7 Howard Street from 1901 until the late 1960,s.A great aunt and uncle lived at 15 Howard Street at some time and a grandfather lived a few streets down at 4 Hornby Street next to Strangeways Prison.Recognise any of the house numbers?
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I spent every spare moment at the Manchester Ice Palace – best place on earth. Delightful, carefree days.
Comment Category: General memories
Did you know Maureen Phelan..lived at 33 Lime st Hightown in the 50s and 60s?….She knew you…I’m her sister Kath ..She lived with her Gran ..then Auntie…
Comment Category: Cinemas
I used to go to the Saturday matinee at the Devonshire
in the 1950s and it was utter bedlam – children fighting, running, climbing over the seats, throwing food until a Loony Tunes cartoon came which was watched with rapt attention but then it was like an explosion at the end.
Comment Category: Cinemas
What a great cinema the Premier was in the 60s. Saw lots of films here like Zulu, Bullitt, Jungle Book and the last film there was Kes the film by Ken Loach. Golden days. The Premier turned into a garage then a Muslim greengrocers which it still is today.
Walter from Cheetham hill, now in Bury
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Does anybody remember the pet shop and fishing tackle shop called Letty Cremners?
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Forgot to mention it was on Cheetham Hill Rd on the block before the glass shop.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I went to Thomas Street school, I was born in 1952 and lived my early years in Camp Street before moving to 49 Thomas Street Cheetham Hill. I remember going to this school before going on to North Salford Girls School on Leicester Road in about 1963/64. My maiden name was McNeil, many a happy time was spent playing in St Marks church yard, and does anybody remember the chicken place on St Marks lane near Cheetham Hill Road, we used to get the chicken feet to scare each other. I worked at Woolworths at the top of Thomas Street after leaving school. I also remembered Redmans and the Jewish bakery where we used to buy lovely warm begels on a Sunday, I also remember Madleys and Roy’s shop on Coke Street. Our neighbours opposite were Mr &Mrs Richardson, next door were the Dougans, up the Road lived a big family called the Welsbys. I can’t remember all the names we had some happy times and some awful times but I think it’s all part of growing up.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Yes I remember the chicken slaughter house – horrible place. Remember passing one day just as a lorry was pulling up there with hundreds of live chickens on the back. Loads of eggs had been laid and the driver gave me and my mate Ricky an egg each. Ran all the way home egg in hand I also lived 28 Thomas st. Couldn’t wait to eat that egg. Got home following day from school looking forward to my egg only to find my gran had eaten during the day. I was gutted. I was only about 6 never missed an egg so much.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I remember the Richardsons, their son Billy was one of my mates. We both went to north Salford boy’s after they pulled everywhere down. Billy lived bottom end Thomas St I lived top end next to the school. Sadly Billy’s not with us now but he was always a joker in the pack. Remember splitting the back of my head open on his doorstep when I slipped. Told Billy don’t tell me mam who had just walked past to go to Madeleys shop. What did Billy do? yep told my mam – off to Northern hospital for 8 stitches in the back of my head.
Comment Category: General memories
My dad Reuben Lee opened the chicken slaughter house and then extended it to Lees Delicatessen.
As a child I crept into the back and saw all the chickens but thankfully never saw anything else. My sister however won’t eat chicken to this day
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I remember going there Saturday mornings, often with my cousin. It was called the Silver Blades, I think, back then. I think I was about 7 years old when I started going, in 1959. My Mum used to take me on 2 buses, from Moss Side, where I lived. As I got a bit older, I used to go with my cousin. I spent most of my time outside school wearing roller skates, but always loved ice skating. I never had my own boots, just wore the ones that you could hire at the rink. People didn’t have much money in those days, and the boots were expensive. We moved to Brooklands near Sale when I was 10, and so it was too far for me to travel to. I started going to Altrincham Ice rink then.
Elaine Savage
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
This brings back marvellous memories of my childhood, loving local to the Ice palace and going to cheetwood primary school and made class visits regularly to the ice palace to learn how to ice skate and nearly 50 years on I can still ice skate today.
Philip Hardman
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I remember seeing Georgie Fame and the Blue Notes play at the former Ice Palace in Derby Street, Cheetham Hill in the 196os
Val
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I used to live in Cheetham Hill, I lived at 61 Shirley Road, born in the house in 1962, lived there up to 1988 up to when my father died. He was Polish self employed builder John Walter Narloch, always had a sign in our front living room window advertising his business. Those were good days never had that family feeling anywhere else I have lived since. I went to King Davids School & left in 1979. Many happy days. The Woolworths was a major store on the high street, there were many shops, I remember the new shopping centre being built at the side of Woolworths it looked very modern big supermarkets cafes felt a world apart. We used to shop at a supermarket called Lennons I think every Saturday. Anyone out there lived on Shirley Road?
Regards, Steve Narloch
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Our shop was next door to Bookbinders Bakery at 400 Cheetham Hill Rd. Elaine Bookbinder used to call in for sweets on her return from school, later became Elkie Brooks.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I used to live in Thomas St, Cheetham Hill. Our house was built on to the school. We were the Moore family. My gran lived with us, Mrs Nixon. I went to Thomas St and then Brentnall after Thomas St closed. We moved to Rainsough, Prestwich but remember my days in Thomas St. I remember Madeleys on Coke St and Roy’s next door, Woolworths on Cheetham Hill Rd, Mac fisheries opposite Watts paper shop. Thomas St school teachers were Miss Ridgeard, Miss Tress and Mrs Fisher – great days. I remember Baxters on William st. My aunty and uncle lived on William St – the Deans. The Beestons lived next door to them.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Just noticed your blog. I lived near liberal club Seymour Road from end of 1949 to 1966. I married Mike Downs, who is related to the Beestons – lost touch with them now.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Frank Beeston was a big man and used to go fishing on Broughton Park lake.
He had a tank in the back garden with fish in it.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Still see Tony and Phil Beeston both doing great. Strange we all became window cleaners Tony still window cleaning like myself. Phil still doing a Bit now and then. lot of us from Cheetham Hill from 60s still see each other also don’t know if you remember their cousin Bob Harrington, also would you believe a window cleaner works with Tony 1.2 times a week. Also Dennis Massey lived in Cheetham Hill. All still see each other.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I also went to the same schools and remember Miss Tress, very good teacher.
Comment Category: General memories
She was a great teacher Miss Tress lived near the polygan near King David’s school. The Griffiths family are they the ones lived on Littleton Rd after leaving Cheetham Hill had 2 sons? Lived on bottom end William St. near Baxters green grocers.
Comment Category: General memories
yes peter passed away few years back.
bernie and 2 sons anthony and guy all still ok i think.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
My aunty and uncle lived on William Street – the Griffiths
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
The British Legion Club on Waterloo Road adjacent to Goldstone Gardens near Halliwell Lane. The club is long gone but the gardens remain although in much reduced circumstances.
See photo here
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
This row of shops is on Halliwell Lane opposite Goldstone Gardens. It used to be a special treat to have a burger and chips at the Progress Cafe.
Kentons supermarket was on the same side a little further down Halliwell Lane and I remember a disabled old man used to sit on Kentons steps close to his blue invalid car.
See photo here
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Hi Diane. I remember playing in that park in the 60s with my cousins who lived on Halliwell Lane also the Moore family. Charlie was one of my dad’s brothers, his wife my aunty was called Hilda. Some of the children my cousin’s were Trevor Charlie Shirley Jenny. It was a really well kept park in them days, would have picnics also in Broughton park. Couldn’t have picnic in there now you’d be sharing your buttys with 20,000 pigeons!
Comment Category: Cinemas
We used to go to the cinema – The Shakespeare on Halliwell Lane, The Greenhill or The Premier on Cheetham Hill Road, The Temple near to Queens Road or The Odeon. There was another cinema called The Globe on Thomas Street, but I was never allowed to go there as it was known as “The Bug Hut”. Behind the Shakespeare Picture House was a large piece of rough ground, which I think was a bomb site full of broken bricks, slates and suchlike. We used to go and play there and play “house”, marking out the house and rooms with broken bricks. On one occasion I remember a boy throwing a flat piece of asbestos and it narrowly missed my eye. Imagine leaving asbestos there!
Val M.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I lived in Ollier Street from 1943 until 1956. Does anyone remember some of the shops in the area? On Highfield Street there was a pawnbrokers on the corner; a builders yard; a dispensing chemist; the Co-op Dairy (I still remember my mum’s divi number); Maguire’s drapery shop; Firth’s fish and chip shop; the Co-op grocery store. At the top of Highfield Street was a newsagents’ shop, and at the bottom on the corner was Gaffney’s hardware shop to where people carried their glass accumulators containing sulphuric acid (this was a source of power, like a battery) to work their wireless which had to be re-charged (no elf ‘n’ safety then!).
Opposite Highfield Street, on Halliwell Lane at the corner of Greenland Street was Mawdsley’s greengrocers and wet fish shop; Milligan’s cake shop was at the corner of Ollier Street; and “Fred’s” grocer’s shop was across the road. On Oakhill Street at the corner of Greenland Street was Kissack’s sweet shop; on the other side at the corner of Alington Street was Malone’s grocery and sweet shop (I went in there to buy sweets for the first time after sweets came off ration and we didn’t have to produce our coupons); further up near Narbuth Street was another sweet shop. There was a bakery on Halliwell Lane near to Greenland Street and Oakhill Street; there was a spiritualist chapel “the tin chapel” on Halliwell Lane/Greenland Street; opposite at the corner of Marlborough Road was a tiny cobbler’s who used to have shoes stacked up very high – how he ever sorted them out I don’t know; nearby was the only telephone box which usually had a queue outside because nobody had a telephone.
At the top of Heath Street, round the corner on Cheetham Hill Road was what I can only describe as a temperance bar called Lorenzini’s where we used to get penny glasses of Sarsaparilla or hot Vimto. On the opposite corner was another ice cream parlour – does anyone remember its name? There was a row of shops on Halliwell Lane between the Shakespeare cinema and Cheetham Hill Road – a hairdresser’s; Yaffe’s photographic studio and a bank on the corner. There always seemed to be a policeman on point duty at this junction.
Does anyone remember the very disabled man who used to sit in all weathers on the kerb between the Shakespeare and the row of shops (opposite the bomb site) playing an accordion for coppers? He was a lovely man – I don’t know whether he’d been disabled during the First World War.
On Cheetham Hill Road was a row of shops near to the bus stop. Ash’s wood yard was also nearby. There was also a Presbyterian Church, Sunday School and Billiard hall, then the Greenhill Cinema. The Premier cinema was opposite, with a further row of shops before Waterloo Road, which included a sweet shop (? Greeneps), a furriers, and an undertaker’s. Does anyone remember the huge open topped concrete “box” on the spare land between Waterloo Road and Halliwell Lane? I believe it was something to do with water storage during the war, but it was so high you couldn’t see inside it.
Val M.
Comment Category: Schools
I went here and it was definitely Broughton High School for Girls. The original school, which I also attended before the move, was on the corner of Broom Lane on Bury New Road. Broughton High School for Girls should appear in the listing, strange that it doesn’t. I don’t know when it changed to Salford Girls High School but that is not how it started life.
Carol Chapple
Comment Category: Schools
We lived in London St, right opposite but I went to Broughton High School for Girls and had to walk through all the boys going here to the bus stop wearing my grammar school uniform and beret or worse still, in the summer, straw hat. You can imagine the ordeal!
Carol Chapple
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
I lived on Edmund Street, near Langworthy Road in the 1940s. During The Blitz, bombs blew out all the windows from Langworthy Road School and the surrounding houses. One bomb landed on Lower Seedley Road, where there are garages now, and a person was killed in the house. I was six at the time.
Gordon Wilson, Salford
Comment Category: Schools
I was javelin champion at Salford Schools’ Sports Day 1962/63, when North Salford Secondary School took part in the event. It took place at Lower Broughton Road playing fields and my winning throw was 134 feet and seven inches. I also played for the school, city and county at rugby.
Barry Bridgen, Salford
Comment Category: Schools
Hello Barry,
You used to play hooker,Steven Partington and George Edwards props,me second row with Gary Angold and Steven Rix loose forward.I can name all the other players if you have forgot? I also played for School,Salford Colts and Lancashire.
Still have my winners medals on display.
Regards, Alan.
Comment Category: Schools
I went to St Joseph’s School, Ordsall. My dad and grandad went there as well. The pipe band wore orange kilts and green tunics. The drum major’s name was Whittaker. I lived in Tatton Street and Trafford Road. I remember Stanton’s Bakers on Tatton Street, next to St Joseph’s. Later on, my family moved to Little Hulton.
Phil Knox, from Salford
Comment Category: Schools
I went to Langworthy Road Infant School. The motto was ‘Integrity with Industry’ which was also Salford Council’s motto. It was written in the stained glass window and also carved into the stone.
Gordon Wilson form Salford.
Comment Category: Schools
I laid the first brick in the new Clarenden School in 1950/51. I was working for W. Fearnley & Son and I was still an apprentice.
Gordon Wilson from Salford
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I lived on Bignor Street from 1941 to 1958. I went to Collegiate School on Brideoak Steet and used to come home for dinner through Bellott Street Park. I remember Classicks Sweet and Cigarette shop on Herbert Steet. I remember George Masons Grocer Shop on Waterloo Road and Bachmans restaurant and Leventons sweet shop, Sirottos the chemist and Klass Greengrocers and Issy Reece’s butchers and of course the Titanic Deli. Tobias bakery on the corner of Bignor Street sold bagels and the unbleached bread that we ate during the war. Heywood Street library supplied all my reading needs from the age of 5 and if I went missing the family knew to telephone there (we were the first family in the street to have a telephone installed in the house). The buses running on Waterloo Road at that time were the numbers 81, 78, and The 26. The Jewish Hospital was on Elizabeth Street and many an hour was spent in the outpatients there with scrapes and cuts. My husbands father had a raincoat factory next the Boots chemist for 20 years from 1945 to 1965. I had friends who lived in the prefabs in Heaton Park. I have many more memories, too many to write about here but would reading anything from anybody who lived locally during that time
Brenda
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
My father’s two sisters lived in Bignor Street in the forties, also my father’s sister-in-law had a sweet shop, I think it was called Sophie’s.
My aunt was the recuzans not spent correctly.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Hi Brenda.. we lived at 89 Bignor Street I also went to Cheetham Collegiate school ( two headmistresses Miss Whites) Pat Cunliffe lived few doors down from us do you remember her? I was at school there until 11 when I went to North Salford Girls School on Leicester Road.
I remember all those shops and the library and I played with
Tobias granddaughter just can’t place the name?? Our house was almost opposite the bakery and we had many a hot loaf from them…. my Brother was Danny Tyson ( a handsome devil with a motorbike when 17) he went from Temple School to William Hulmes… what superb memories we all have xxx
Comment Category: General memories
Hi Violet,
One of Abe Tobias grand daughters was Jeannette Davidson. Her mother was Lily Tobias and her Dad was Jack Davidson. My father was Isadore Davidson (Johnny to everyone), Jack’s brother.
Regards. Barry Davidson
Comment Category: Schools
I came from Peabody Infants School (Eccles New Rd) to St Lawrence’s in 1959. We were the first group of children. We were living in a terraced house with an outside toilet. It was amazing to see all the new facilities and the uniforms. The teachers were pleasant (initially), until they got to know us. I personally got in a lot of trouble at school, as i was dyslexic and this wasn’t recognised then and I rebelled. I left when i was 14. I was expelled 3 times. Mr Rice the art teacher was brilliant, he was patient.
Barbara Bentham
Comment Category: Schools
It opened in October 1959. Three primary schools combined to send pupils there. All Saints (Weaste), St Lukes (Liverpool St),St James (Salford Precinct). It was the first catholic secondary school in Salford. There were forty kids to a class. The music teacher used to play Miles Davies songs and classical music.
George Dawes
Comment Category: Schools
We used to sit and play on the peacock sculpture, it was situated in the grounds of the school, it was outside near the front doors of the school. The community police used to chase us away.
Janice
Comment Category: Work and Industry
My mum, Jean McDonald worked at Stone Dry in 1971/72, she was Jamaican. Does anyone remember an Asian man called Billy who worked there in the leather section of the factory?
Comment Category: Whit Walks
We looked forward to Whit Week as this was when we got a complete set of new clothes When friends or relatives saw you in your new clothes they usually gave you a small amount of money. Other than this we didn’t have an awful lot of clothes bought during the year. I went to St Mark’s School on Heath Street and I can still picture a lot of teachers and I was confirmed at St Mark’s Church, but I would never walk in the Whit Walks. We used to go and watch the “scholars” as the Whit walkers were sometimes referred to. The Whit Walks were in two parts-the Protestants walking on Whit Monday and Catholics walking on Whit Friday. We always had “shakers” (paper strips on a stick). After the Walks we usually went up to Heaton Park.
MM
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I lived in Hightown, Sycamore St and I also remember Rose’s on Cheetham Hill Rd. If you couldn’t offord a packet of cigerettes she’d sell you one for 2d.
Anybody remember Sadie’s chip shop on the corner of Elm & Herbert Street, a brisket sandwich and a gherkin Half a Crown, you could also get a good nosh at Cadens chip shop in Vernon Street. Happy days.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
My mother’s family, (Goodman), came to the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester in the early 1900s from Poland, and lived in Elizabeth Street/ Julia Street areas before moving to Bignor Street (l think it was number 72 but not certain) at the bottom of Cheetham Hill Road. My uncle, my mother’s brother, (Benny Goodman) went off to fight the facists in the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. He later returned and served in the 1939-45 War and after the War had a clothes shop on Cheetham Hill Road. I remember visiting this area of Manchester in the mid 1960s and occasionally drive through the area now but much changed.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I can remember lots of the shops from the early 60s in Cheetham Hill when i was only 3 or 4 years old. My dad used to take me and my brothers into Lees butchers at the end of Back St Marks Lane(or Street). They always used to slice off a piece of vorsht for us kids to have. I can also remember cry clearly, Rosie Gottlieb who ran a sweet and wine shop on Cheetham Hill Rd, it was just up from the library and there was a stone step outside. She had red hair and always had a whitish foundation on her face. To this day, i still laugh remembering my late dad saying “she had a face like a floured bap”!
Steven
Comment Category: General memories
That’s my dads shop Lees
Comment Category: Schools
I went to Clarendon Park High School from 1974 to 1979 having first been at New Windsor C of E on Cross Lane.I loved both New Windsor and Clarry school. I remember our dinner ladies at Windsor Mrs Ash, Mrs Coffey and Miss Almond my infant teacher. She later married Mr Russell who became head there after Nobby Vernon.
At Clarry Miss Eleanor the head of English was my favourite ever teacher. She was stern until you were in her class then it was great fun. Every kid in her class always got o level grade c minimum. Other teachers were Mr Healy PE, Mr Sweeney PE, Mr Redgate Geography, Mr Murray Maths, Mr and Mrs Lindoe Maths, Mrs Morris French and Mrs Powell art. In our first year our English teacher was Mr Fielding who was related to Keith Fielding of Salford rugby fame. Great times and great friends. I even married a girl from my class in 1983…
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I worked in the office of the Talmund Torah, on Bent Street, off Derby Street. All the synagogues were down there. There was a youth club called the Study Circle run by Dr. Zlotkis’ daughter Rose Zlotkis. Dr Zlotkis was head of Jewish Education and so was his son Judah Zlotkis. I got married in 1951. I remember Britstones shop near Derby Street too. Everyone was more friendly then as they lived new each other, and had no TV or phones.
Nita Rappaport
Comment Category: Schools
My father bought Talmud Torah School in 1958 when the building’s use was changed to a factory making lampshades it has remained in the family to this day. The family would appreciate it if anyone has photographs of the early days of the Talmud Torah that they wouldn’t mind sharing with them.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Goodmans Chippy, Brunswick Street, was run by my Grandparents, Annie and Wolfie Goodman. Everyone used to go in it, it was well known. My sister was born in 1954 and they still had it then.
Karen Wingate
Comment Category: Schools
My Mother ran the Jewish Schools Canteen next door to the Rialto, Higher Broughton. They prepared dinners for Jewish boys and girls.
Lillie Bialich
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Friday 3 Nov 2017
Was your mother Mrs Bear. I remember her well. She had a strong accent. I went every day from Thomas Street school in the 1950s – we used to get dinner tickets. I was a big favourite of hers.They used to fry up the previous days mashed potatoes and she made sure I got the decicious roasted bits at the bottom of the pot. I think Mrs Bear went to live in Israel and my brother who lives in Israrel visited her
shortly before she passed away.Fond memories.
Comment Category: Cinemas
I used to live on Simons Street, near Heaton Street, Higher Broughton. I remember the Shakespeare Cinema and the Devonshire Cinema, on Devonshire Street. We used to go to the kids matinees – Batman and Superman! We also went to the County Cinema on Saturday morning – Hopalong Cassidy! Then in the afternoon we went to the Rialto!We also regularly went to the County Cinema, for Saturday Matinees.
David Bialich
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
Does anyone remember jumping down the long steps outside the Papermakers in Higher Broughton and swinging on the metal bar around the side. We would bet who could jump down the most sets of steps. Wonder we didn’t break our necks or at least our legs.
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
Yes I remember it well I have a photo of the papermakers and a few of the coronation party in Conway St , with all the kids Dave & John Moron , Phil Barrett , Henry Dear , Tony & Frances Mottram , also one taken from Duncombe St showing Fenny St , and the top of Conway St , and one taken from the top of Conway St showing the garages at the bottom , I have one of your sisters wedding with your family on it and a few of mine . If you would like copies I could e-mail them to you
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
I have moved too many times in my life to say that I ‘belong’ anywhere but I was born in Salford, and my earliest memories are from there. The streets were cobbled, and in the summer, all the radios in our street were tuned to the same radio station. As I walked to the toffee shop on Garnet street, I would hear ‘Shrimp Boats are a Coming, There’s Dancing Tonight’ coming out of every hall and window. I remember lots of people in uniforms, and a community spirit that seems to be gone. And a world without drugs. Please look at my book on my website. It is best on a large screen, impossible on a mobile phone. http://www.wayne.cz
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
Thanks so much for your link to your book – what an amazing record for your family to have! Gail
Comment Category: Migration memories
I came here to Cheetham Hill on 1st June 1952, as a nanny, from Austria. I was twenty two years old at the time. Wedding receptions were often held at Cheetham Town Hall in those days and you could do your own catering , which was common. People bought their own food. Not many people had transport then, so they had to travel to markets to buy it.
Margaret
Comment Category: Whit Walks
I used to watch the Whit Walks go by on Cheetham Hill Road. It took two hours. My eldest daughter was christened at St Lukes Church. The alter was blue and gold, the rector used to march with us. The sunday school teacher was called Mrs Stephens, she was a very strong character.
Margaret
Comment Category: Migration memories
My mother came from The Ukraine as little girl about 1908-1910, during what we call the first wave of Ukranian migration. My father’s father came from Czechoslovakia. My parents were married at St Casimirs, on Rochdale Rd or Oldham Rd, which was a church shared by Ukrainian, Lithuanian and Polish people. I married a Ukrainian man after the war, he worked in Failsworth.
My fathers family were tailors, they lived near the Odeon, on Cheetham Hill Rd. There were six large three storey houses with cellars, the address of my families tailors was no 235 Cheetham Hill Rd. The business was run from the house, they all sewed in the house. They were private tailors, who also also made clerical clothes for the priests, dress coats. They also made tail suits for the dancers which were highly specialist items. My uncle was a dance teacher at Finnigans Dance School, his name was Joseph Zawalinsky.
Irene Karpluch (previously Kowalski)
Comment Category: Migration memories
I came to England on September 9th 1954. The next year I was May Queen at the Italian Whit Walks and we set off from St Michaels Church in Ancoats.
Angelina
Comment Category: Migration memories
I came to England in 1946 with my mother when I was seven. I didn’t have to register right away because I was a child. I later paid five shillings for my registration card, which I got on 15th July 1955, when I was sixteen. I originally came to Longtown, Cumbria (a displaced persons camp). We came to England via Italy. My mother had been sent to work in Austria, labouring on a farm (under the German occupation of the Ukraine), many women were sent away during this period and I went with my mother, to Spital , Austria. The German army came to our house in The Ukraine and if you had three kids, two had to leave to work for the Germans. I went into Kindergarten as I was only twelve months old. The work was extremely hard for my mother on the farm, as there was no pay and the food was very poor. We lived in separate quarters. I stayed with my mother in Austria and after the war until we were sent by the allied army to England.
I stayed in Longtown (Cumbria) for ten years (1946-1956) and then went to Ashton (Greater Manchester). All my family were moved to different parts of The Ukraine during the war. I met my husband in Longtown, he had also come from The Ukraine. I’m now seventy eight years old.
Anna Rewko
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Many people will remember the iconic Woolworths building in Cheetham Hill village and also Bata shoe shop, which was near it. There was also the Premiere Cinema and The Odeon further down towards Queens Rd, also known as the ‘Rivera’.
Terry
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
Linda Eastham…My Dad died at the opening of Gt. Clowes street warehouse…August 5th 1970. He was with my sister who was seven at the time. There is a book in Waterstones with the picture in it. Also I saw it on the internet…I went to St. Andrews..Tetlow lane…left in 1966….my name was Kathleen Phelan..now Beckett…
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
My mother and father lived in Hewitt Street, Hightown in the 1950s. They lived in Red Bank before that and in between they lived in Bellot Street( also Hightown), off Heywood Street. The grocers shop on Heywood St was called Stalberg’s, (at no 80 Heywood st), it was always very busy.
Sheila Harris (formerly Friedlander)
Comment Category: General memories
Hi Sheila, my late grandmother was called Sarah Friedlander before she married my Grandfather Joseph Hoffman. I have a family tree on Ancestry website including the Friedlander. I wonder if we are connected at all!
Comment Category: Whit Walks
My family made shakers (paper strips on a stick), for the whit walks when they lived off Cheetham Hill Road. They sold them in different towns. They also made flags for football matches. They boiled fish glue to stick to the shakers and it stunk the house out. My grandad, auntie and uncle all made them. They also bought crape paper and cut it into strips for the top part of the shakers.
Eddie
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
I remember the smell of Cross Lane Market, the fruit and fish. I remember the cafe for the bus men upstairs and people could go in downstairs. The 71 or 70 bus route went past it.
Paul
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
When I started work at Timpsons (shoe shop) on Cheetham Hill Rd I got £1.75 a week. I was 15 years old, you could buy a blouse for 2/11. They closed on Wednesday afternoons. We worked all day Saturday. I only worked there a couple of years and then I got a job in mail order after that which I loved. Everyone got on in the area, it was mostly Jewish. They later changed the name of my street, Chestnut Street, to Citroen Street when we lived in it(in the 1960s)
Estelle
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I lived on Chestnut Street, next to Bignor Street, Hightown (near Cheetham Hill). I remember The Odeon Cinema, The Temple, The Premiere and The Shakespeare. We went on a Saturday morning. One night my mum had taken me to The Temple Cinema and when it ended you couldn’t see your hand in front of you in the evening. The film finished about 10.30pm and we got home at 11.20pm (normally a ten minute walk). When we came out it was at Bellot Street Park (near Bignor Street). My brother had come out looking for us.
Estelle Szablinskyj
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Hi.
Are you the Estelle who was the friend of Jean Martin, I was a friend of her brother John.
Comment Category: Migration memories
When I arrived we used to have police registration books, we had to report if we moved house, school or jobs within 24 hours. The police used to check on us because we came as refugees or displaced persons.
Anna Rewko
Comment Category: Migration memories
When I came to live in Ashton from The Ukraine we went to Cheetham Town Hall for dances and to St Chad’s to go to mass. When I came here I was seven. I lived in Scotland (on the borders), then in 1956 I came to Ashton. Iv’e been coming to The Ukraine Centre in Cheetham Hill since 1956. My children and my grand kids all speak Ukrainian. My son is secretary of the Ukrainian Association in Ashton and now he is the Chair of The Ukrainian Association of Great Britain.
Anna Rewko
Comment Category: Migration memories
I came to Manchester when I was 25, to Cheetham Hill. It was a big change from Italy. I worked as a domestic for a Jewish family for 4 years. The Italians used to use Cheetham Town Hall for dancing and special occasions, like weddings. There was a dance hall upstairs.
Angelina Ostafijczuk
Comment Category: Dance Halls
I learned the Quick Step, The Fox Trot, Waltz and Jive (I had to learn how to Jive). I started going in 1948 and by 1950 I was travelling all over Manchester, to The Ritz, The Plaza, Levenshulme Palais and Belle Vue. I also went to Sale Lido and The Sale Locarno. There was another dance hall in Oldham Rd called The Salon, it was a lovely place. I also went to Oldham, there were a couple of dance halls there aswell. I went to Hammersmith Palais. London was the place for dancing, Hammersmith Palais was my favourite. They had famous singers who had come onto the music scene.
Bernard
Comment Category: Dance Halls
Joe Loss was a famous band leader. He used to play ‘In The Mood’ at The Hammersmith Palais in the 1960s.
Jackie Harrison
Comment Category: General memories
My mum was a fabulous dress maker. She always made sure we had a new outfit for main festivals such as Passover and Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana).
Jackie Harrison
Comment Category: Work and Industry
There were many textiles companies in the Cheetham Hill and Broughton area of Salford in the 1950s and 60s. They included Cohen and Wilks (Cheetham Hill). CWS Ladies Tailoring (Lower Broughton), Stone Dry ( Broughton Lane) and i’m sure many others. My grandmother worked at Stone Dry, as a cleaner and my mother worked for many firms, often as an outdoor machinist, many were family owned. These are just a few.
Laurence
Comment Category: Work and Industry
I would love to know how many textile companies there were in the 1950’s in Cheetham Hill and who owned them.
My mum who has now passed away, spent an inordinate amount of time in the area. She spent many a Saturday night at the Ritz Night club and she also bought fabrics from the Jewish traders for her dress making business in the day.
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
as a proud Whit Laner l applaud this site and will be back to edit my memories and enjoy the site
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I used to live in Cheetham Hill many years back and I’m interested in finding out about the history of Waterloo Rd Cricket ground and what was there before it if anyone remembers? Some one told me there it used to be a graveyard but I’ve never been able to confirm it.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
My mother was a raincoat machinist who worked in camp street. Remember visiting the factory. She did piece work which meant she was only paid for the raincoats she made. My grandfather lived in Mary Street Strangeways in a back to back. My Bobby had 11 children and never spoke any English only Yiddish. Memories of going to Uncle Morris factory in Hightown. Made plastic raincoats.We used to go to the cinema in Cheetham Hill , the Premier and also every Saturday we went to the Temple cinema to meet boys.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Lord street went from Red Bank to Strangeways Prison. My father was born in the area. My great grandfather Abraham also lived there, he had a horse and cart and sold fruit and veg. He also did house clearances in the 40s and 50s.
Eddie
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I was born in 1955 and lived at number 5 Derby Street, Cheetham Hill. The house our family lived in was slum clearance but we lived there for 7 years before moving to a new council house in Stockport. I attended a school on Waterloo Road until we moved. I have many happy memories of living in Cheetham Hill and have photographs taken in Derby Street with my sisters and also of The Queens Arms Pub on Honey Street.
Comment Category: General memories
Paula – I also lived in Derby Street. I must have been about 7, our house was next to the ginnel. I also remember the sirens. We all had to go to the air raid shelter it was opp. the Yorkshire pub. We then moved to Stanley Street.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Lived I Hightown from being a baby, my first job leaving school was Boots the Chemist on Waterloo Rd . I was paid £3. 10 shillings per week, and what I did with that money, you wouldn’t believe !!. After paying my “Keep”, I had the grand sum of £1,10 shillings and still managed to save !!. My nana lived on Peter St and worked at the Butchers on Garnett St, my Grandad worked for Serettis ice cream and my mum worked for Eva Weston, who had the clothes shop next to the Butchers where Nana worked . I remember the wet fish shop at the bottom end of Garbett St, where we used to try and smuggle a piece of ice off the stall to suck on, even though it smelt and tasted of fish . So many beautiful memories , I’m so grateful we were young then ❤️
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Hempling shop was situated at 303 Cheetham Hill Road, it was a drapery shop. My uncle Ralph Levene had it, I lived in Huxley Avenue near the Temple Cinema in the 40s and 50s. We lived behind the shop in the 40s. My dad, Rueben Hempling owned it then. I also rememeber Feingolds shop on Cheetham Hill Rd.
Adele Bergman
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
My mother used to send me shopping (it included 1Ib of biscuits). On the way home I used to try samples of them just to make sure they were any good (my mother didn’t mind). You had to give your dividend number. The butter was prepared and served in slabs using old scales and blue bags. Everything was weighed out. The cheese was weighed out in blocks.
Jackie Harrison
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Hi, I remember the co-op well (with affection). My Mum`s favourite branches were on Great Cheetham Street, somewhere opposite the County cinema & Wellington Street, near Saint John`s church, her “Divi” number was 19436, that number must have meant something to me, it has been in my head from being a child, to now being 70.
The Co-op building on Wellington Street is still there, with its corner tower, check it out…a lovely building, with the surrounding houses having matching brickwork!
Bill.
Comment Category: Dance Halls
A friend of mine won cups and medals at Finnigans Dance Hall. She lived in Heywood Street. Her name is Angela Bloom.
Eddie
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Hightown was demolished from the mid 60s to late 60s. Alot of people went to Hulme and some to Hillock in Whitefield. They started a synagogue in Hulme and Hillock.
Eddie
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
Hi, again. As a child I lived at Great Clowes St; Higher Broughton, next to Duncan St; and I have fond memories of all the “posh” cars (Austin “Princess”, Rolls Royce, Bentley) that were parked in Duncan St whenever there was a Jewish wedding at the Synagogue. During the 50s, when I was aged about 6-7, this was SO unbelievably exciting because there were hardly any cars in the area. So, when there was a wedding, the whole of Duncan St; was filled……a true spectacle in its day!
(anybody got a photo of the Synagogue ?)
Thanks for your time.
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
I lived on Duncan street and remember the weddings at the synagogue during the1950s . We lived opposite the synagogue and in a large rundown house owned by my grandfather Sam Goodwin.the house was big and the extended family amounted to twelve people three dogs two cats a horse chickens and a loft of racing pigeons.
Comment Category: Work and Industry
In the early 60s-70s I worked at S.Maurice & co; 268 Bury New Rd;
facing “Nunns” garage & the back gate was on Back Roman Road.They were button manufacturers & dyers,my job was as a dyer.
It is now (and has been for a while) a car showroom.
Does anybody remember it ? Anyone got a photo ?
They supplied all the local “rag trades” with buttons,buckles & slides.
On a Friday I would finish at 3.30pm then pop into the Papermakers arms, the Landlord was called Walter.
Take care.
Comment Category: Dance Halls
The bands playing at The Ritz in the 1960s were Phil Moss and The Charley Bassett Trio. These were two of the regular bands when I was 19 in the 60s. The stage revolved to the tune of ‘Lonely Lady.’ We honed our dancing skills there. My mum taught me to dance when I was young.
Jackie Harrison
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
I remember two girls called the Baron twins, we were friends with them. Eva Simons, my Mother, moved to Trafalgar Street around 1945 to 1946. I later remembered the Franks family who used to deliver Tizer and orange juice to our street, and someone who delivered fish called Abe Fischer.
Harvey Goldstein
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
The first TV in the street was bought by my Mother in 1953 and the whole street queued up to see it.
Graham Kraft
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
I lived in Marlborough Road in the 1950s and 60s. I remember Klapish Newsagents and Levy’s Butchers on St. James Road. My parents lived on Hewitt Street, Hightown,
Shiela Harris (Freelander)
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
Do you remember the Smith family from Marlborough Road. They lived there for years. Margaret, Sadie, Joan, Harry and Alf?
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I remember working the indoor market when I was 16. I remember Fine Fayre Supermarket, Shoppers Paradise, Black Forest Cafe, The Laughing Lentil, Pandoras Box, George Glass and Lindy Lou’s.
Donna
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
My Mother had a fruit shop on the corner of Melbourne Street and Bramley Street from the 1920s (with my two Uncles Isaac and David Cohen). They had the shop until the mid 1960s. Years later they worked Cross Lane and Bury Markets. My Mother used to serve the wrestler Giant Haystacks.
Harvey Goldstein
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
I lived on Tenerife Street and used to be sent to the fruit shop in Bramely Street.
There used to be a poultry supply shop on the corner of Tenerife St at The Bury New Road end.
My father was the second Asian to open a continental food store on Waterloo Road.
I attended Cheetham Primary School in the mid 60s till 1970.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Hello Faradeeba, What a blast from the past. You lived a few doors down from me in Teneriffe St. I remember you & your Sister was she called Aisha? I’m Sylvia Humphries (then). You may remember the rest of the family Audrey, Herb, Ann & Gerald. I remember Audrey & I helping your Mum ‘looking after you’ when you were very young. We left there in 1975 when the houses were compulsory purchased.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Does anybody remember the prefabs on Barrow Hill Rd Cheetham in the late 1940s/early 50s?
Comment Category: Work and Industry
I worked for Jack Meek’s on Derby Street, they made raincoats, I worked in the offices. My first job was at Manchester Metal Works Auto Office, on the switchboard, copy typing. George Van Colle was the owner.
Sandra Silver
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I lived on Hewitt Street in Hightown. Other streets in the area were Maple street, Chestnut Street, Lime Street, Sycamore Street, Birch Street, Larch Street etc.The ice cream shop there was called Sorettis and the ice cream had proper ice in it then, it was proper ice cream, it wasn’t fatty like it is now.
Sandra Silver
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Hi
I lived in Charlotte Street and remember Jack Olivers, the green grocers Dolly Taylors the Off Licence. Everybody went to Sorettis it was the best ice cream around. My brother James was in the Scouts off St James Road.
Would love to hear from anyone else who lived in Charlotte Street
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I lived in Charlotte Street. In 1962 they were demolished and I went to live in the flats on Silk Street
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Hi Lynn, I lived in Garnett St from 1941 until 1960 and knew Charlotte St. very well. In fact one of the Olivers sons now lives in Spain I was in contact with him sometime ago. Did you go to Garnett St or Marlborough Rd. School. ?
Best Wishes Rick Wallwork
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Mackey Davies was a very well known barber in the Cheetham Hill area and everyone went there. He was a former boxer and was also a friend of my dads.
Jackie Harrison
Comment Category: Migration memories
My grandmother came from Poland at the turn of the last century. She lived on Elizabeth Street, Cheetham and before that on Julia Street in the Strangeways area. They had a milk shop there and the milk was measured out. When I was ten she used to say “get me a soda syphon from Boots Chemist on Waterloo Rd,” she would also say “Our Jackie, get me a pound of marie broken biscuits”. My grandparents on my mum’s side were from Lithuania. My father was a joiner and cabinet maker in Cheetham Hill, he worked with his brother.
Jackie Harrison
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
When the ships came in the sailors from South Africa came into my shop on Regent Road and bought shopping trolleys, ironing boards, coffee table etc., which they took back on the boat with them to South Africa, the West Indies and so on. They also bought scatter cushions and washing powder.
Eddie
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
There was a wash house on Halliwell Lane, Cheetham Hill. We lived also lived on Haliwell Lane and then moved to Peru Street and then to Queen Street. I remember Bert’s Shop, it was a corner shop and it sold everything.
Paulette Holness
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I remember a sweet shop on Waterloo Rd called Leventon’s, they sold jars of sweets. It was opposite Boots the chemist. I also remember Tobias the bakers on Waterloo Rd, where they sold chopped herring and liver.
Sheila Harris
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I was interested in reading your comments about Tobias the Bakers on Bignor St. My uncle Jack was married to Lily Tobias one of Abe Tobias daughters.
He owned greyhounds and raced them at the Manchester dog tracks. As he had limited movement and was a large man my mother used to accompany him to the tracks to place his bets! Happy days!
Barry Davidson
Comment Category: Work and Industry
I worked at CWS ladies tailoring on Trafalgar St, Lower Broughton. I started in 1955 and stayed for about 3 years. I became an approved apprentice and went on Piecework. Mrs Roberts was our Fore lady, she was terryfying. It was a massive building over 3 floors. I heard about 700 people worked there. Mrs Warton taught us how to make ladies coats. There were 3 stages, first the top coat, which included pockets. Then the linings and then the bagging out, where they put the lining and the collar together.
Jean Edwards
Comment Category: Work and Industry
I worked at Co-op Trafalgar St. I learnt how to make a coat /suit from a bundle my teacher were Miss Wharton. We did 12 month learning then on to piece work to earn your own money. My learning wage were £3/43p 7 30 am to 5 30 pm
Comment Category: Work and Industry
Who owned the ladies coat business?
Comment Category: General memories
Do you remember the name of the people who owned the business
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
There was a shop called The Meadow in Coke Street that delivered milk. The owner had a stable there, he had regular orders, he’d dip the ladle in the churn and he left a white enamel milk jug ( or a pot one), which was left on the step-he came door to door early in the mornings. People left the milk money under the jug early in the mornings. It was a hotch potch of houses on Coke Street.
Jean Edwards
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I was born on Coke Street in 1953 , although where we lived was down an ally way so our postal address was Back Coke Street . We got moved out to Kersal flats about 1960 .
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Our family had the off-licence on the corner of Coke Street and St Marks Lane, we left in 1958 and moved to Shirley Road. I have many happy memories of growing up there and playing out, there was a real community feel in the area.
Comment Category: Dance Halls
I remember The Adelphi Lads Club, Salford on Thursdays as it was Girls Night. I remember when they put the price up and I said to Lofty who ran it, “do you really have to put it up half a pence”? Lofty used to cycle everyhwere.
Jane Hamilton
Comment Category: Dance Halls
I was a member of the Lads Club and I remember Lofty very well.
Was in a pub years later (The Broughton Tavern) on Blackfriars Rd at a wedding and who was I sat with, you have probably guessed it, Lofty.
Comment Category: Migration memories
I remember Bata Shoes in Cheetham Hill, it was a Czech Company. I originally came to Manchester from Czechoslovakia in 1939 as a child. I first came to London, then to Manchester. I lived in Manchester from 1956 and I remember Cheetham Hill Road and shops like Woolworths, Bata Shoes etc
Paula Rabinowitz
Comment Category: Work and Industry
Would you remember the names of any textile or carpet shops in Cheetham Hill in and around 1957?
Comment Category: Work and Industry
I remember the night watchman who worked at the Co-op factory on Trafalgar Street. He bred bull dogs. As a kid we were all frightened of him. We sometimes used to sneak in the factory and go up the stairs.
Eddie
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I used to walk down to The Maypole Shop and buy a bag of broken biscuits for a shilling and walk back through the entry and eat the chocolate ones when I lived on Vernon Street, High Town. The Maypole Shops were very popular then.
Eddie
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I remember Simkins fish and fruit shop at 23 Garnett St. I also remember two sisters who had a shop on Garnett Street called Brodkins shop, where I bought fireworks like penny bangers, pin wheels and rip-raps.
Eddie
Comment Category: Work and Industry
My mother and gran worked in machine shops in Cheetham Hill and Collyhurst. At the time my mother was living in Whitely Street, Collyhurst. When she was working in the mills in Collyhurst she met a Ukraine man called Stefanos. My gran also lived on Queens Rd, near Cheetham Hill Rd. All the machine shops were in Cheetham Hill in the 20s and 30s, the women often still wore clogs and shawls. They made rain macks, war materials and coats six days a week. They sometimes took work home and worked by candle light for the war effort (for the first and Second World War). Many came from large catholic families. My gran also lived in Price Street in Ancoats.
Leslie
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Hello. Yes, I remember Vernon Street Hightown just off Waterloo Road. My mum had a grocers shop (Dawson’s) next to a taxi company with a fleet of big black old fashioned Austin saloons on one side (Douggies I seem to remember) and Morris the barber on the other mum also had a greengrocers shop at the other end of the street near to where it joined up (passed the croft) with Douglas Street.
Opposite was a Jewish chippy, Mr Tray the cobbler and a shop selling live maggots to the fishing community… My girl friend at the time was a Miss Beryl Myrtle who I lost touch with. More anon
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
hiya Joe, I was wondering do you remember the Roberts family from 17 Veron st? Eddie, Terry, Syd Hazel and Jackie.
Comment Category: Cinemas
There were two streets at the side of The Premiere Cinema in Cheetham Hill. People who lived in those streets got free tickets to go in, as a lot of cars used to park on the streets.
Eddie
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
The Shakespeare Market was on Halliwell Lane, it had all different stalls, such as a butchers, and other stalls, selling second hand books etc. My wife’s mother worked there.
Eddie
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Morris The Barber had a shop in High Town, he was a real character in the area. I used to go there as a kid and When I went in the shop, there was often a large fellow in there called ‘Knocker’ West who used to hang around there. He had played for Manchester United and it was allegedly reported in the newspapers at the time, that he was banned from the game for match fixing. He later tried to prove his innocence but was never allowed to play again. He lived at the top of Vernon Street.
Eddie
Note: Enoch James “Knocker” West helped Manchester United win the 1911 league medal. He scored 80 goals in his Manchester United career, his most successful season being the 1911-12 season when he scored a total of 23 goals; 17 in the league and six in the FA Cup. In 1915, he was banned for life by the Football Association, along with three other United players and four Liverpool players after being found guilty of match fixing. West protested his innocence, but his ban was not lifted until 1945. His suspension, which lasted 30 years, was the longest in Football League history. As he was 59 by the time his ban was lifted, he was never involved in football again. West died in 1965, at the age of 79.
Free The Manchester United One, written by Graham Sharpe, was a book written about Enoch West’s attempts to clear his name in connection with the match-fixing scandal, many years after his death.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
There were only a few houses in the area with a garden, and this street was one of them. There was a Pub on the corner called the Horseshoe. I played football with them now and again. It was a Robinson’s Pub, the only one in the area.
Chris Rowland
Comment Category: Schools
I was a pupil at the ‘Old’ Salford Grammar School at Leaf Square. In 1956 we moved into the ‘new’ school at Claremont, near Buile Hill Park. I recall the school got £300,000 which was a fortune that time. Soon after we moved into new ‘temporary’ classrooms, which were built on top of the two spurs at the front of the building. They were still there when the school was demolished.
Malcolm Chapman
Comment Category: Schools
I was interested in Malcolm Chapman comments on Leaf Sq and Salford Grammar. I was at Salford Tech when they moved into the Grammar premises soon after the move to Buile Hill. Some of our classes had to be carried out at Hankinson St School due to limited space at that time. The other thing I remember about my time there was during the day some of us used to climb over the back fence and put pennies on the railway lines so that when the train passed over them the pennies were squashed flat ! Happy days !
Comment Category: Schools
I went to Malborough Road Salford school in the 1959/1960 which was not a good time due to one male teacher. Fortunately he left and the rest of the time at the school was great. I was 7 at the time.
Comment Category: Schools
I went to Malborough Road School in Salford. I have no photos but remember a teacher a male teacher who left whilst I attended approx 1960 bad memories until he left then I started to enjoy school and lots of good memories I was approx 7 years old
Comment Category: Schools
The bridge went from the boys playground over the road, to the main part of the school. The railway line was near the main part of the school and the flats were near them. The flats area was called the plaza.
Martin Ormrod
Comment Category: Cinemas
The Premiere Cinema was the most expensive cinema to go in. The Globe Cinema was on Thomas Street ( locally known as The Bug Hut)
Jean Edwards
Comment Category: Work and Industry
I remember Cheetham Hill being a centre of furniture-making in the 60’s. I used to work there myself for an upholsterers and I remember lots of characters from the area.
Leslie Darlington
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Our family had an off licence opposite St Marks Church where I lived until I was 11 in 1958 when we moved to Shirley Road. I had a great childhood playing out at every opportunity. The Ennis girls were my friends, we often went to Cheetham Hill Baths, Manley and Brougton Park. Saturday morning cinema at the Shakespeare. Around St Marks Lane was a close community where we knew everyone, the area was mostly demolished along with our shop in the 1960’s. I went to cheetham hill Methodist school on Thomas Street but have no photos of the school. Your site is very interesting and the photographs are great. I do have some family photographs taken outside our shop that show the street but am not sure if I can post them on your site. Regards Pam Worthington
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I lived in a flat at The Grove, Halliwell Lane, next to the Swanns greengrocers at the jcn of Tetlow Lane. The owner of the shop were my grandparents. I went first to St Marks before going to Thomas St school. I also went to St Marks church and the Church lads brigade. My high school was North Salford.
Comment Category: Schools
I lived on Whit Lane, Salford. I went to Wellington Street school on Whit Lane. It eventually closed in 1972 and all the kids then went to Cromwell Secondary Modern school.
John Catterall
Comment Category: Schools
Hi, Just wondering how many people will remember my dad. He had the shop on Whit Lane – Bernard’s, during the 1960s. He was very tall. The children called him big Bernie. He sadly passed away September 2015.
Let me know if you remember him. I’d love to hear from you. Warmest Wishes Pascale
Comment Category: Schools
Hi, I wrote this 5 minutes ago and I don’t know if it has gone through. Just wondering if anyone remembers my dad. He had a shop on Whit Lane in the 1960s called Bernards. He was a very tall man and the children called him Big Bernie. He sold shoes and clothing. He sadly passed away September 2015. My mum was French ( she had sadly passed away Nov 1981). Anyway, if anyone remembers him, it would be nice to hear from you. Warmest Wishes Pascale
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I remember Tom the Grocer on Great Cheetham Street – who I use to clean his shop and Bedford van for ten shillings a week. His wife Laura hated it when he gave the left over vegetables to me for my mother [we lived in Heaton Street] claiming she could still sell them the next day on top of the fresh stock. Tom had a miner bird named Billy who lived in the shop. He was the attraction of all the customers in them days – the bird – (1960s) but died when Tom’s son repainted the inside of the shop but left the bird in the corner, possibly from the paint fumes. Tom died in 1979. He promised the old van to me … but I never got it. Does anyone else remember Billy the miner bird? Does anyone have any photos of the old shop?
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Yes, I remember the talking bird. There were lots of nice shops along Great Cheetham Street East.
I went to St Andrews RC High school on Tetlow Lane – It would be great to hear from any ex students!
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
My goodness I’d forgotten about the miner bird, kept us happy while we waited for mum to be served! 1960’s
Comment Category: Cinemas
I remember the Bijou cinema on Broughton Rd, near Lissadel Street in Salford. There were steps going up to the cinema. When we were kids we used to sit on the steps. Pendleton Lads Club was on this site before the Bijou cinema.
John Catterall
Comment Category: Whit Walks
I walked in the Whit Walks in about 1950, when I was at St Johns Catholic Cathedral School. We walked from the Cathedral on Chapel Street, up Victoria Street past the Victoria Street Bus Station, along Deansgate where they had a service. You couldn’t move in that place. It was a longer walk home and when we got home we were shattered! On the photo is also Shiela O’Toole, to the left, and Maureen Dardis, or extreme right, and Maureen Smith seen at the back. We all carried fresh flowers and we bought all the dresses new. I was only 15 so I was a bit embarrassed walking in the dress, but you had to do it for the school.
Gladys Fitzgerald
See the photo here
Comment Category: Cinemas
In 1958 after the Munich air disaster, I collected contributions from the general public in the Premier Cinema for a full week. I recognised the sweet display of the foyer of the cinema straightaway.
Barry Davidson
Comment Category: Cinemas
I remember the Premier picture house, my parents took me for my 10th birthday, can’t remember what film though!
Comment Category: General memories
Enjoyed your site reading everybody’s comments, also a couple of names were mentioned that I had forgotten such as father Wright from St.Albans Church, Waterloo road, he was a lovely person.
I forgot to put my maiden name on the memories I shared which was HARPER and I now live in Australia.
My parents were brought up in Salford they lived in King William Street before they got married, then moved to Cheetham hill. My father Albert Harper worked for a shirt time at the Queens road bus depot as a conductor, until one day he decided to park the bus for his mate who’s surname was Platt, the only thing was my dad didn’t have a licence and had never driven before, consequently he removed one of the pillows in the depot, ended up being dismissed.
I remember having a friend cannot remember her name, but her father worked at Strangeways prison, and one day for some reason we delivered eggs to the prison, I remember going inside those huge big doors, on the other side was an office on the left, not sure why we delivered eggs.
When my godmother moved to Hornby Street nr the prison,
She had trouble with one if the inmates shining a mirror at the sun and the reflection would be shining in her living room (parlour) she got in touch with the prison and it stopped after that.
Little snippets keep coming back to me, like the time my godmother told me to put the bread in the bin for her, and me replying said I will take it home, she said no I have told you to put it in the bin, which I did !! Next morning she asked where the bread was, I said in the bin, her reply no it’s not, the penny dropped I had put the bread in the dustbin, and not the bin under the table.
On another occasion I had to go to I think it was called the Maypole up Bury New road, she asked me to get her egg order which was 2 doz and a few other things, that was ok but I had been given a wooden scooter the previous week, so I went to the shop on that, on the way back home I put the eggs on the handle bar of the scooter which were not in boxes then, needless to say everyone was broke, she was not amused. So I had to do a return trip to the shop minus the scooter to get another egg order.
When I was 16 I went to work at AEI in Trafford Park also known as Metros they were a very good company to work for happy memories of working there, my mother came from a big family, most of them worked at Metros.
I also remember going on some Saturday mornings to Grey Mare Lane market I thought it was magical place, then we would go and visit her brother my uncle Richard who still lived in King William Street in Salford. Then we would walk up the main road and have to walk across the Manchester Ship Canal bridge I was petrified I thought the bridge would go up and we would be stuck on it.
I paid a visit to the Uk 6 years ago, and went around all the old places, my what a change, visited the docks which has been done up looks great now, King William Street is still there but not the houses. Visited Cheetham hill, still have a half sister living there, also my brother Alan lives in Failsworth.
I also remember a flower lady called Eileen Martin, she use to have a flower shop round the corner from where we lived, then she sold flowers from her barrow on Market Street.
I want to thank you for putting this site together, reading all the memories of people has rekindle my memories that had been buried. My girlfriend of longstanding put me in touch with the site as she has quite a few memories of her own thank Marjorie Maddisin (Hobson) if anyone reading my comments remembers me I would love to hear from you especially anyone from the Massing Family,
Muriel Townsend
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
My aunty had a shop called Pearl’s. It sold hardware, heavy duty brushes, boot polish and bric-a-brac. It was on Lower Broughton Road, Salford.
Maria Howell
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
I remember Great Clowes Street Warehouse and Geoff and Steve’s hairdressers. My brother Noel used to take the towels from Geoff and Steve’s to the wash house. I also remember a shop called Wanderley’s near there.
Joe O’Malley.
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
Re: Great Clowes Street Warehouse – I was there when Ken Dodd did the official opening of the store. I am sorry that we did not take any photos.
Comment Category: Schools
I remember there was a flat there where you learned domestics, where you cooked and you cleaned and everything like that. That was exciting. That was good, i enjoyed that. My sister was there in the year before me and she left as I was going there at the start of 61. My favourite classes were art, music and history. I liked history and the sewing classes.
Joan Allen
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
The street was off Eccles New Rd, Salford, near Stowell’s School. My father sometimes played the mouth organ at the front door. We had bonfires in the street and the next morning you used to kick every bonfire to see if was still lit. We also had maypoles, which we danced around as children, they were hand made. We also had a rose queen, which were part of the whit walks, part of the big parade.
Jean Coward
Comment Category: Work and Industry
There was a company called Lyons Made on Cross Lane. They sold Ice cream vans to the public when it closed down and alot of Maltese people bought them, families such as the Camilleris, the Velas, the Bulos, etc. Joe Bulo had an icecream van for years. I also bought a van off Lyons, It was the same van as in your photo.
Steve
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
I remember Egan’s Fruit and Veg shop on Lower Broughton Rd, I remember the old couple who ran it. My mother came down from Higher Broughton to shop at Mceverley’s Fruit and Veg. She said Lower Broughton was a poorer neighbourhood, so things would be cheaper. I also remember Mandy’s Clothes Shop, The Welsh Stores (they sold babies clothes) and Westons ( they sold jeans and things). Also the chemists and Clarke’s shoes.
Maria Brabiner
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I used to live in Agusta street, Cheetham Hill, I went to Southall street school, nr Strangeways prison, the headmistress was a Miss Young, and I remember a teacher called miss Warburton I went from the age of about 3 until 8 years old, then I moved to wythenshawe. My godparents were Jewish and they lived in the shop called Marcus, I called my godmother little Joe and her husband big joe, although their real name was Sara Massing and Joseph Massing, her son Merton was my godfather.
I owe a lot to that family, they cared for me and my mother,
Sara was at my birth with my mother in Blackpool.
As I got older I would run errands, light the fires, etc., she would take me up to Smithfield market every Saturday morning for the fish. Sara used to embroider the satin that was laid on the alter in the Cheetham Hill Road synagogue they were beautiful done, as I got older she would let me have a go at doing a flower on them. She let me borrow the beautiful 5 Books of Moses to take to school during our scripture lessons.
Although she was Jewish she used to make me go to Sunday school every Sunday at Waterloo road church, she used to work at a factory making coats, think it was called Dani Mac on Waterloo road. When she has to go in the Jewish hospital one time our Minster went to the hospital to see her, there were some raised eyebrows. She had a wonderfull family and friends
Who were very kind to my family. I remember going to the odeon on Saturday morning for sixpence and the premier and temple picture house. Also remember the school clinic on queens road I was a regular visitor there. I used to love the whit week walks, only time I got new clothes. I also remember the maypole dancing, one time my brother Alan dressed me up and took me down market street singing Molly dancers kicking up a row, I know he collected quite a bit of money, but I didn’t see any !! I remember the PC Tripe shop at the bottom of Cheetham Hill Road nor the Victoria train station, and playing on the brew as we called it nr Boddingtons brewery, we also had another brewery near our street can’t remember the name but I remember the big horses pulling the carts.
Also going to Elizabeth park for the day, and passing the derby road skate rink, when they use to clear the ice out we would grab a piece and take it with us for a drink in the way (all those germs) didn’t do us any harm though.
I could go on and on with my memories but won’t bore you,
I have to mention the Knowsley pub that was my dads local, we used to sit outside on the wall at weekends and collect our pocket money of him, I used to have to go and shout him on Sunday to tell home dinner was ready.
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
Exciting, that’s all I can say. There were two big houses. One was a pottery warehouse and one was Luchetti’s Ice Cream. I remember all the shops and all the pubs on Cross Lane, there were that many pubs. I can remember the Herbalists where you could get a hot Vimto and they had little brown tables. If it was cold you could go in there. It was just wonderful really, the market and I had lots of friends around that area.
Barbara Kemp
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I remember Tony Worthington who lived in Japan Street, Cheetham Hill in the 1950s. He learned to dance at Chilterns and later worked on the staff there. He also worked as a Policeman and at Horne Brothers, on Market Street, Manchester, a suit-makers. He was always well dressed.
Bernard
Comment Category: Dance Halls
At the top of Heath Street, Cheetham Hill there was the Betty Whyche School of Dancing. I learned to dance there when I was 9 or 10. My Mum said to my brother “Don’t waste your money on tap dancing, get her to learn ballroom dancing, it will be more useful”. Then we went to Chilterns.
Marjorie Maddison
Comment Category: General memories
What a great site, keeping our heritage alive. Keep up the great work.
Comment Category: Cinemas
Marjorie Maddison was a regular visitor to The Premiere Cinema, Cheetham Hill. Here are the lyrics to the ABC Minors song……also sung by her in the Oral Histories section on this site……
Words to The ABC Minors Song
“We are the boys and girls well known
As the minors of the ABC
And every Saturday we line up,
to see the films we like
And shout aloud with glee.
We love to laugh and have a sing song
Such a happy crowd are we.
We’re all pals together
we’re the minors of the ABC”
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I remember Woolworths, the Wool Shop, Turners Shoe Shop, The Record Shop, Cheetham Hill Baths and the Supermarket. I also remember the Whit Walks as my Mam used to take me – I wore white shoes and a white frock. I went to Cravenwood Road Primary School, Cheetham Hill. My teacher was a beautiful Indian lady. She was the first Indian lady I’d ever seen – she was tall and beautiful and she wore a Sari.
Jane Butterworth
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
My Father had a butchers at 412 Cheetham Hill Road, called Browns Butchers. We lived above the shop for 15 years until 1963, when the growth of supermarkets put my father out of business. It was near Coombs and W. Meedons Decorators shops (near the corner of Woodlands Road).
Peter Brown
Comment Category: Work and Industry
I remember the Cooling Towers. We lived near the Henry Boddington Pub and we played on the playing fields near them. You could walk from there into the centre of Manchester at that time. As kids we used to climb on the pipes and on the bridges near the industries there.
Phil Horridge
Comment Category: Schools
We went to Clarendon School from 1961 to 1965. We both went to New Windsor school when we were 4, so we’ve been friends now for 62 years. Clarendon School was mixed until they built the Boys School in 1961. They used to have a flat where you learnt to iron and cook – they were preparing us for getting married! We were so excited being in the flat, everything was really modern and it was like being on holiday. We used to learn how to iron handkerchiefs starting with the hem, can you imagine that now!?
We recognise some of the teachers (See photo here) Mr Burke and Miss Wolfendon.
The school streamed us into As, Bs, Cs and D’s. If you were in the A stream you could learn how to type, but if you were in one of the other streams you were told you could work in a factory or at Woolworths. They gave you no confidence. Its all different now.
Barbera Kemp (nee Walsh) and Joan Allen (nee Paul)
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
My mam used to shop on Lower Broughton Road at Kentons Butchers. It was in the supermarket was called C and C and then it became Kwik Save. I went to primary school at the old St. Bonifaces. There was a shop there called Abe Sachs who made suits for the Manchester United footballers. There was a blue Police Box facing the Prince of Wales on the St. Bonifaces side.
Bridget Cross Curry
Comment Category: Migration memories
My grand parents came from Katerineberg, Russia. They paid for a passage by boat to New York, but were dropped in Glasgow and told it was New York, around 1910. My Mother was born in Scotland in 1913. My grandfathers name was Mazerowsky and he thought it was foreign sounding so he anglicised it to Moorov. He was a general merchandiser.
Steve Bloom
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
I remember Grubersik’s Newsagents near Hope Hospital (Eccles Old Road). It was near our school, Hope High School. Everyone knew the family in the area; there were four sons, all Manchester United fans. The Dad was a Bolton Wanderers fan.
I enjoyed playing Rugby at school, they sometimes brought one of the professional players from Salford Rugby Club to advise us, as the Club was near the school.
Christopher Stubbs
Comment Category: Migration memories
My Great Grandfather, Zelig Chernick, was a milkman. He came from Belarus (Kobrin). He lived on Long Millgate, Great Ducie Street, near Empire Street, Cheetham. They had a shop on Exchange Street and they sold cheese, milk, bread and pickles etc. It was called Z. Chernicks. They’d leave a jug outside the house and he drove round with a ladel and urn and measured out the milk for people. My Great Grandmother sold cakes in the shop.
Denise Stallman
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I went to Temple School, Cheetham Hill from 1963-67, it was a multi faith school. At that time there were 24 different nationalities represented at the school. The school was very disciplined. I also remember the Ice Palace on Derby Street, we practiced in a band there, as my mate worked there in the 1970s. I remember my mam used to go on the Whit Walks and she used to buy clothes for it.
Tony Myers
Comment Category: Schools
The school’s motto was ‘The Sea.’ There was a large rig from a ship outside the school. After a while they placed a peacock sculpture near the front of the school. The Governors chose between either a small swimming pool or the sculpture and the sculpture was selected.The boys and girls school were across the street from each other, the boys school was opened first and for the first twelve months it was mixed in the early 60s. The school magazine was called ‘The Magpie’.
George Tapp
Comment Category: Whit Walks
The Whit walks in the 1960s in Manchester would take place upon a weekday Friday in either June or May. It was an early start to get a front row view, there were no seats provided, you just had to make do. The crowd would increase in numbers as it got near to the time. It was a tradition that now is rarely done, but in these days it was popular and being there was fun.The different ages of young and old alike, girls wore long white flowing dresses. It was nice to get bought an ice cream as you watched the Whit pass by. They sold flags and shakers that you could wave as the walkers passed by.
Judith
Comment Category: Migration memories
My parents came as part of the European Volunteer Scheme (EVW), from Ukraine at the end of the war. They were brought to near Cambridge, to a displaced people’s camp. Then they settled near Cheetham Hill. My father worked at the Paint factory, near Red Bank and at Ward and Goldstones for years.
I remember Bata shoes on Cheetham Hill Road, as we used to buy our shoes from there and Levy’s.
Alex Mitchell with Zenia Mitchell(Serednycka)
Comment Category: Schools
My favourite teacher was Miss Grady, she taught Human Biology. She was just a pleasant woman, very supportive and helpful. She was dictatorial, she didn’t like pupils in the class talking while she was teaching. Every lesson was just fascinating, she made it as easy as possible. she always appreciated it if you stayed behind and helped tidy up. I thought she was the best teacher there.
The theatre trips were interesting, they went to evening performances at the Library Theatre, and the Royal Exchange trips were good especially with the design of the building. It was a chance to go to the theatre and see drama. And then you got a piece of work to do to describe it. That was my favourite subject, English Literature.
Judith.
Comment Category: Schools
I went to the school from 1974-79. Mr Fryman our physics teacher got me through the sixteen plus exam, as I missed a portion through illness. My sister told me he was later in the band Simply Red, as she saw him on Top of The Pops wearing a black leather jacket and black quiffed hair.
Phil Wilson
Comment Category: Schools
Elaine Crosby (nee Cliff)
The first thing you did, you made your pinny and your headband out of the blue and white gingham. Once you made your pinny, then you could do the cooking.
The Headmistress was called Marjorie Hall. She was tiny, and she was a Quaker. She shouted at you and gave you detention, but she didn’t give you a clout or corporal punishment. She was a little, slight woman and everyone had respect for her. The teachers were nearly all female.
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
Every Sunday it was really a treat,
when the ice cream van visited our street.
We would q up in a line for a double treat
of raspberry ripple lollies and ice cream tubs.
With 99 chocolate flakes if we were very good,
with sometimes wafers wrapped in baking paper bags
which made our Sundays extra special and glad.
Sometimes we were lucky we would see an ice cream van at Cross Lane, Salford and Eccles Market in the days of the week.
It was not just Summer but Winter days when ice cream lollies were a delicacy when our Mum brought us a treat from the ice cream van.
These days its all shops and supermarkets galore
and Sundays don’t seem the same
without the ice cream van anymore.
Comment Category: Schools
I attended King David High school from 1959 to 1966. I recognise several former pupils and teachers. Please correct the name from King David’s to King David .
Comment Category: Schools
I was at King David High from 1961-1966. I remember all the teachers in the photographs. Ben Kershner, Mr Baker cannot remember his first name, Adrian Allen, Louis Weinstock, Miriam Bluakopf. I started in Sept 1961 so was not there when the photos were taken. Also Mr Cowman workwork
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I remember Noonans Ice Cream, I remember the shape of the vans, it had an Edwardian guilded style decoration. The ice-creams were known by how much they cost – I used to get a ‘threepenny one’ I still remember the tune as he came up the road.
Blanche
Comment Category: Whit Walks
When we used to go to the Sea Scouts at night, we did knot making, band practice, on either snare drum or bugle, then we drank stewed tea from the tea urn and had biscuits. It was proper tea made from tea leaves, there was no tea bags then. We would have to be ready for parade on Sunday. We were in the Salford 31st Scout Group and our anthem was called ‘Stevies’. The Whit Walks was a showcase day, it was a day of pride, we marched with four flags at the front, the Navy flag (white enssign), and England flag with 3 lions on, the Fleur de Lys, a French flag, and the other one was the Union Jack flag. The march started at the Boat House about 9am and then went to Albert Square. We used to walk right round and back. It was a very long day. Harold was at the front, in front of the flags, and we were behind. People like Harold Musk, the Scout Master, deserve some recognition.
Paul Kelly
Comment Category: Whit Walks
I DID ALL THAT AS WELL BETWEEN 1957 TO 1961 GOOD TIMES
Comment Category: Whit Walks
Harold Musk’s father was called Lionel and his sister was called Gertrude, they lived in Clement St., Lower Broughton. Eric (his nephew) was a Choir Master at St. Andrews, at the top of Rainsough Brew.
Comment Category: Work and Industry
My Dad was a cabinet maker in Red Bank, Derek Casement. He made bedroom furniture and kitchen furniture, and later classical furniture. Before then, he worked at the Co-op, building the CIS, on the wooden panelling in the 1950s. He also did all the display cabinets for the Manchester Museum. Salford University filmed him in his workshop on Bolton Road, and made a film of him.
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
I remember Pooles Chippy on Leicester Road, owned by Tommy Poole. When you got chips with your parents, he used to wrap one in newspaper for the kids.
Ian Casement
Comment Category: Salford places and streets
I also remember Pooles chippy, they had a chow dog. We used to take a big dish up to the shop on a Friday to put the puddings in. We lived on Welbeck Grove.
Comment Category: Whit Walks
Olwyn Casement (nee Hurst) shared her memories of the Whit Walks that she took part in as a Girl Guide. She recognised herself and her friends in three photographs;
“We were in Marlborough Road Methodist Guides and I went to Marlborough Road School. All the girls in the photo (PMC13017 and PMC13016) were in the Guides together for about 5 years, from when we were 11 until we were about 15. We all went away together to a Girls Friendly Society in Morecombe. The Leifetenant (the front right PMC13016) was called Mrs Norris, and her sister (on the left) Miss Bates, was the Captain. Jean McGinty, (PMC13017, behind the leader) was the daughter of a well known chucker-outerer at the Devonshire Picture House! It’s not there now”.
Olwyn identified (from the left) Shirley Prince (Olwyns friend), Rita Cowey, Brenda Keyes, Alma, Mrs Norris, Jean McGinty, Jean Hughes, Olwyn Hurst, Doreen Brown and Elsie Voyce (See photo here).
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Marjorie Bowker, from Newton Le Willows, shared her memories of being a child in Cheetham Hill, when she visited our exhibition;
“We used to go to Lorenzinis every Sunday after church at St. Mathews.
I always used to order Vimto.
My Dad worked as a forman cutter at a mac factory, Cohen and Wilks, on Derby Street. He got a promotion as a Factory Manager in Newton Le Willows after that, so we moved away”.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
My grandmother worked there all her working life as a mackintosh machinist. Christina Williamson. Wonder if your dad knew her 🙂
Jude
Comment Category: Schools
Paul Blain identified his friend Janice Fitzsimons on a Cromwell Girls school photograph and she’s confirmed it:
“Yes I’m the dark haired girl on the left. I was also on the museums postcards years ago as i worked in the library. They were in Larkhill Place I was posting a letter outside Madame Louisa’s shop”
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I went to St Andrew’s on Leicester road, have great memories of the Jewish community of the area. Playing in Manley park.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I too remember playing in Mandley Park as a kid. I went to Cheetham Hill Methodist School better known as Thomas St school. It was a multi-racial school and I was one of a large number of Jewish children there in the early 50’s. I do not remember ever experiencing any anti-semitism at school even though there were fights over other stupid things. I lived in George St at the Junction with Coke St. The streets in those days looked enormously long but as I go back around there these days they now look tiny! I remember Lorenzini’s and Macky Davis the barbers. I used to deliver papers for the newsagents on King Edward Buildings. It enabled me to buy my first bike called Ace of Spades as my weekly wage paid the weekly payment on the bike. My dad paid the £1 deposit !
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I went to Thomas Street school l think 1952 would have been my starting year, (my parents had the off licence on the corner of St Marks Lane and Coke Street). I really loved the school and got along well with my studies, my parents were persuaded when I was eight to send me to a small private school called Cheetham Collegete off Waterloo Road. I’m not sure what prompted the move and I don’t think my parents appreciated how good Thomas Street school was, my new school was a disaster for me where I was teased for my strong accent etc and the school teaching methods did not work for me. Also my poor Dad must have struggled to pay the fees thinking he was doing his best for me. I have great memories of Thomas Street School and wish I had some photographs of the school. Pam Fearn
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I went to Thomas St. Methodist from 1935 – 1939. There was a sweet shop opposite the school with a Ha’penny Tray or for the rich, a Penny Tray sweet selection. At the corner of Thomas Street and Cheetham Hill Road was Smith’s Scottish Bakery,. I remember before Woolworth’s was built, the site was a huge old Victorian mansion, and we kids played on the broken walls and in the ‘haunted rooms’. there were also empty houses on George Street where we used to play.
Comment Category: Schools
Marie Cash, at Salford Museum and Art Gallery told us about:
“I did my Art and Design foundation course in the old Ordsall High school building, which became Salford Technical College, from 1987 to 1989. When the High School became empty the College Art Department moved in there. We had the run of the whole school. All the gym equipment was still in there, and we use to go in swinging off the ropes. My Aunty lived across the road on Craven Drive and we had to go to her house every Tuesday. I could take one friend with me and the menu was always either egg and chips or corned beef hash. I hate fried eggs and I never told her for two years, I used to make my mate eat it. On the way back to college she used to give us a stale biscuit. If for any reason I never turned up she used to come into the college with her poodle looking for me. Her name was Jean, and my middle name was Jean.
Comment Category: Schools
Christine Allmark at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, told us about;
“Beryl Murray was a teacher at Clarendon School. She would know all the teachers in the staff room. She’s 90 now and she’s still as bright as a button, and she would love to tell you her memories. I can’t wait to tell her”.
Comment Category: Work and Industry
Blanche, at Salford Museum and Art Gallery told us about the cooling towers:
“The two towers on the right were the original ones, you can tell by the ’embroidery’ decoration around the top. I watched the other two being built. We lived in Agecroft Road West, and you could see them from there and the chimney.”
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Gerry Stone, visiting the Salford Museum and Art Gallery, told us about the barber shop photograph.
“That’s my brother! Alan Goldstone. And these were the Four Pennies (wearing gowns). They did very well at the time. They did ‘Juliet’ and ‘Until Its Time For You To Go’. This was at a famous barbers called Alan Powels, on Amber Street, off Shude Hill, who had lots of famous footballers as clients. Alan Lewis (third on the right at the back) was their manager. He was also a car dealer and later became an MP in Yorkshire. The one of the far right was Danny Brown, he was a trainee.”
Comment Category: General memories
I went to see the Four Pennies at the Jungfrau near Manchester Cathedral in 1963/4
I thought they were great
And Juliet was too xx
Comment Category: Work and Industry
Judith Redfern, visiting the Salford Museum and Art Gallery, told us about the textile factory photographs.
“This looks like Cohen and Wilkes, Cheetham Hill. My Grandmother, Christina Williamson was a Macintosh machinist, making what you call “Macs’. She lived in Hightown, on Pemberton Street.”
Comment Category: Work and Industry
That brought back a memory some years ago a friends mum told me she worked there with my grandpa mum and aunty mum was about 18 she said.There name was Margolis.
Jackie Harrison.
Comment Category: Schools
Maria Barlow, visiting the Salford Museum and Art Gallery, told us she went to St. Lawrence’s school.
“We went to a school re-union about 2 years ago, when we were all about 50, all of us who finished in ’81. Just after the re-union we all went to each others 50th parties. We’ve had some good memories and some good times since. I’ve seen people I haven’t seen for 32 years. Since then about 20 to 30 of us go out regularly, we try and do it about once a month.
The school looks exactly the same as it was. And when my son went there it still looked the same. It became Our Lady of St. Carmel and then All Hallows. It was demolished a couple of years. We watched it being demolished.”
Comment Category: Schools
Fred Windsor, visiting the exhibition, Salford Museum and Art Gallery.
“There were two different buildings at Cromwell School, the Boys and the Girls School. I went from ’68 to ’72. I remember the ceramic freeze on the side of the school – we didn’t know what it signified or represented – was it Inka? Was it Egyptian? No-one seemed to know”
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Brilliant site which brought back fond memories of happy times in Cheetham during the 40s and 50s. I hope the following will be of help to you in your project.
Page 16 PMC08041 St. Albans Cheetwood Rose Queen Crowning. Rectory Gardens Waterloo Road Father Harold Wright presiding. Page 17 as above.
PMC 1800 St Albans Annual Patronal Festival Walk of witness. Father Wright and servers leaving Parish Hall on Barrow Hill Road to Walk the Parish boundaries as follows onto Waterloo Road,Marlborough Road, St.James Road,Great Cheetham Street East, Bury New Road, Waterloo Road and back to Church.
PMC 18010 St. Albans Church Choir with Organist/Choirmaster Mr. Haslam.
PMF04001 TO PMF04022
Childrens Xmas Party for families of Prison Officers serving at HMP Manchester Strangeways held in the Prison Officers Social Club on Southall Street Cheetham.
PMG 14019 Looking down Waterloo Road from Cheetham Hill Road. Extreme right Cheetham Cricket Club Ground.
PMH 14046 Ford Zephyr Car parked on Halliwell Lane.
PMI 07036 Alderman Abraham Moss, Chairman Manchester Education Committee, opening the new King Davids High School off Cheetham Hill Road, following the closure of the Jewish Secondary School on Waterloo Road, Cheetham.
POML 02109 Corner of Waterloo Road and Bury New Road. Shop on left, “Issy Wise the Barber” a much respected and well liked character in the area. I believe his son,David, emigrated to New York and established a very successful Hair Salon.
POML 03126 Left is GPO Telecommunications Tower and to the right Manchester Police Radio Mast and extreme right the former Manchester Parks Police Radio Mast.
POML 06606A Looking across the Irk River Valley from Queens Road to Collyhurst.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
Hi Barrie,
thanks so much for all that information, we’ll add it to the records.
I wonder what happened to the hair Salon in Australia and if its still going?
Very best wishes, Gail
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I remember Woolworths on Cheetham Hill really well. It was still really popular in the early 1980s. I used to go in to buy records. The whole of Cheetham Hill Road was full of independent shops. We used to go from Higher Broughton – it was our main shopping street.
Lawrence Cassidy
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
i remember Woolworths as i used to go in there at dinner times from school,as i used to go to St Marks Heath Street primary school.then i got a sat job there doing warehouse work.i also had a paper round right opposite Woolworths but i cant remember the name of the papershop.
Comment Category: Cheetham Hill and Hightown
I worked next door to the record shop in Cheetham Hill it was a gown shop called Rae’s of Chester in the 80’s.and
some years later at Wise Chemist near Woolworths.
JackieHarrison.
Comment Category: Portraits
There is also a portrait photo on page 233 Pom30232B. This is my cousin her name is Muriel Tow. She lived in Marsland St off Marlborough Rd. Not sure how old she is there. I haven,t seen her in many years, she would be around mid 70s now. Her Dad was Sam Tow, and Hilda his wife, muriel,s mum died in her early 40s. Muriel,s sister cousin Phyllis died early after giving birth to a son, The family moved away afterwards, so no contact since.
Regards Carole McCannon.
See the photo here
Comment Category: Portraits
Hi Carole, thanks for the information, we’ll add it to the records. Best wishes Gail
Comment Category: Whit Walks
Hi, the photo of whit walks page 7 of 18. pmc13007 june 1951 shows me in the centre of the line with the white glove on. I would be aged 4yrs 6months at the time. I do have a copy of this photo, and another with my sister on dudley st taken near the mission on dudley st both in the dresses my mother made at the time. We lived charlotte st at the time moving to dudley st when i was aged 10yrs old. These photo,s were in a collection which my dad took. He passed 2005 Mum passed 2013. I think your doing a fabulous job in what your doing.
Regards Carole McCannon.
See the photo here.
Comment Category: Whit Walks
Hi Carole, thanks for the information about you in the Whit Walks photo, it really helps us build a picture of the collection. Thanks for your encouragement too!
Hope you enjoy browsing the website, best wishes Gail
Comment Category: Schools
The photographs in the collection that are called “Salford Girls High” are actually of Broughton High School for Girls, where I was a pupil from 1965 to 1972.
Comment Category: Schools
Hi Alwyn!
thanks for your info spotting the school names! That’s what we hoped would happen when we put the photos on line – we don’t have a lot of information, and
were not sure what we’ve got is accurate anyway, so its good to know we can change it. Do you recognise anyone in the photos? I’ll get them re-labelled for you tomorrow.
Best regards Gail
Comment Category: Schools
I went to broughton high school in the 1970 I was Diane reinersten then had a friend name Karen Jessop in Salford