Pub on Wernerth Low;
Vinegar Vera;
The Kettle Drum and the Bass Drum pubs;
The Packet House, Patricroft;
The Grapes, Patricroft (Holts);
Boddingtons Brewery (and the odour);
Hydes Brewery.

The ceiling in the police control room at Maine Road, someone had smacked his hand through the ceiling and another had written 'Goaaall!' around it with an indelible black marker pen, on reflection, that may have been created by a rag, bugger.

Tommy Ducks?

Henrys

The Music Exchange

Mamelocks closing down sale (must have been on for around twenty years)

A1 Music

yup, Stoneground

Those little alleyways that run from near Bootle Street to Saint Annes square and perhaps further on?

Sitting on the grass outside the Shambles before it was moved for the first time, never mind the second time (I must have been around 8 at the time).

11/9, outside Broadway Gate;

when I was younger, seeing the prows of ships right by the road, Salford (Manchester Docks);

1/9 container berth.

enough for now

yes trolley buses.

jimmy the rag and bone man round newton heath.

the 25 bus to maine road.

the grand in aytoun street.

of course belle vue and that big whale you could walk through, shoot the rapid.and the scenic railway.

George best and that house in bramhall that looked like a bog.

tootal pitch and the red rec football venues. also newton heath loco just behind the cresta.
pauldens moved to Denmark road, think ir burnt down.

the barrow boys.

the under pass from kendals to kendals on deansgate.

silvori's

mr smiths

the essoldo on Rochdale road

Millwards chemicals on Levenshulme road in gorton
The huge wall around belle vue that you could only see over when on the 53 bus
Sharples bakers shops

Placemate 7
Smarties
Pips
The Great American Disaster
Burgerland & Pizzaland (Deansgate)
Affleck & Browns
Cameo Cinema (porno movies)!
Kardomah (st Anne's Square)
Tyldsley & Holbrook
Barnaby Rudge
Sandpipers

School caps

Feeling old now

Genivieves in Longsight, Stoneground, later became the Mayflower on Birch street in Gorton. Some good and dodgy times. The Cyprus Tavern, ended up in there with loads of Blues after we beat Charlton 5-1 to get promotion. A special night indeed.
Golden Garter,

the night Pauldens burnt down there was ash and embers falling on Withington

Hough End was full at weekends. dozens of teams were based there

Fast food was chippys and a few Wimpys

Skyways near the airport, Tenten on Stockport rd and Crimelake were the hangouts for the mobike lads

Miniskirts were a major distraction to drivers, white knickers most common [apparently]

Tiffanys had a great resident group, became the New Seekers

Moss Empires had several night clubs and had some top turns.

The stock-cars at Belle Vue could be heard for miles

Excursions by train to Blackpool were 6 shillings, half that by coach from Gt Western Str

Green Salford buses, red Manchester buses pre S.E.L.N.E.C. days, both had open platforms with a gripper pole, as kids we would jump on the No1 bus up Langworthy Rd Salford and hang on for dear life until the conductor threw us off, also going to Maine Rd on the 'match special' buses from Aytoun St

The Piccadilly Club near Aytoun St, a real City haunt after the pubs shut on a Saturday night, also the Bier Keller at Belle Vue, a couple of years later they opened a nightclub just inside Belle Vue gates, for the life of me i can't remember what it was called, full of Blues from Gorton though

What was the pub on Market St called, on left hand side heading towards M&S, you had to go down stairs?
There was also another pub roughly where WH Smith and Pizza Hut are now opposite the side of M&S, anyone remember what that was called? I'm obviously an old bugger and my memory's going

Just some things I remember as a kid.....

Trolley buses on Ashton New Road and Hyde Road.

Catlows corner shop, Abbey Hey Lane, Gorton.

Gorton Cross Street, Wheelers Records, Phil Green hardware shop.

Playing on the big rock in Ardwick Green park.

Messing about on the escalators in Lewis's

Robinson's records, Market Street Manchester.

Beatties model shop. Manchester

Donaldson's sports shop Gorton.

Cookes sports shop. John Dalton Street.

The "Way Inn" Boutique. Third floor Kendals, Deansgate.

Fields where Makro is now in Irlam

Catching the 53 bus from Belle Vue to Maine Road to watch Johnny Crossan etc.

Suggs sports shop at Merseyway in Stockport

Sports Motorcycles, Liverpool Road (Steve Wynne)

Paraffin lamps on the roadside in thick smog

Manchester United programme covers..Shirts Red/ Knickers White.

Fields before Hattersley estate was built.

Wrestling at Belle Vue Jackie (TV) Pallo/ Mick McManus

Sports Motors Plymouth Grove (Lotus dealers)

Godley's TV Shudehill

Mazel's Radio London Road, Piccadilly

Cowan's bike shop Gorton

UCP Tripe shop Hyde

Fields where Wright Robinson school is now

Seeing George Best in his Lotus Europa and Franny in his pale blue XJ6

Paperchase Manchester

Saddleworth/Diggle railway stations

The Jester coffee shop Hyde

Bowers and Schofields sports shops Ashton u Lyne

The "Moon" Disco Dukinfield

The Black Cat cafe Hazel Grove

Rosette sellers outside Maine Road

Paulden's department store

Manchester Exchange railway station.

Ashton and Stalybridge Baths

Booth Hall children's Hospital Rochdale Road

The Embassy Club with Bernard's Rolls Royce parked outside BJM 1

Programme shop on Lloyd street?, Moss Side

Sadly, only the rock left in Ardwick Green Park......:)

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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 whateve

I attended Ordsall Secondary Modern School in 1967 -1968. I remember the Headmistress Mrs. Hall. She was always so very kind to me. It was an all boys school at that time with the girls 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.