Fabulous idea - yes please

A very important newspaper which chronicled the history of the 20th century and beyond.

MEN has been my most trusted source of news and local history throughout my 60 plus years. Constantly check their news site and search for resources about locality and family connections. Excellent.

Do you have any photos of Bedwell street/ Bedford Street? 1933/1973

Do yiu have any photo's of our local area's eg, Fixton, Urmston, Davyhulme, being developed from the 1930's to 1950's era, would love to see that. I often wonder when I walk the dog through Flixton and Urmston why for example we end up with a mish mash of house designs often next to one another that suggests to me that different buliders have over time been given planning permission to build on available land next to existing developments with no consideration of adjacent building designs..It would be very intersting to see how over time our local areas have graduated from farming/empty fields to what we have now. How much thought and planning and empathy was actually put into what we have now

I attended both the infants and junior schools at Davyhulme in the 1950/1960s. I remember the swimming pool, which was a small room with few concrete steps up to it, after the door was opened. I learnt to swim there and was given a certificate stating that I had become waterborne. We used to go to the old Urmston baths and had to stop talking when we got to the house with the monkey puzzle tree in the garden.

I temeber our school caretaker, Mr Daniels. He would fill his wooden wheelbarrow with windfall apples and turn up in the playground so we could munch on them, and they were delicious. For an old shilling, we would also buy a bunch of dahlias to take home for mum. I used to enjoy our gardening lessons and remember planting Virginia Stock seeds and watching them grow.

During the cold winters, before the days of health and safety, Mr Daniels would splash buckets of water in a small in the playground which would freeze so that we could slide. Great fun.

I remember Mr Jolly, would sometimes give us a lift to school on the back of his motorbike if he passed us as we walked to school.

i have photos of when we went on a trip down the Manchester Ship Canal on The Egremont. Mr Williams with his Cine camera and Mrs Whitely.

The harp in the entrance hall/reception was something I remember. Son hard not to rung your hand across the strings.

Happy Days

I wonder if anyone had access to archive editions of the Manchester Evening News for Saturday 19th March 1982.

On pages 2 and 3 there is an article about the Rainhill Tragedies and it mentions my husbands great grandfather, Robert Graydon, a nurseryman working in his garden near Dinham Villa.

If you are able to help I would love a transcript/photocopy/scanned image of this article

Publish the issues from July 1981 centring on the Moss Side riots please which tragically took place in the city

Does anyone know if it is possible to purchase a copy of the Manchester Evening News for a date in 1957? I want to get the details of my aunt's funeral. She died in October 1957 aged 24 and I would like to know all the people who attended her funeral. I'm sure my gran would have put something in the paper, as it was the kind of thing that was done then.

From Manchester Evening News19 January 1987 re. new cancer unit at the Hospital. Went into great detail of the new ward .

Please publish an article about Weizmann's laboratory at the University from Manchester Evening News, 27 March 1974.

I would like to view from Manchester Evening News 8 March 1971 re proposed film by Altrincham Cine Club to raise funds for the Hospice. Thanks

Article entitled "Little hells that made Britain Great", about child labour during the Industrial Revolution. From 1966 please publish

Publish the full listings please

My mother in law's father was Arthur Adshead M.M. he served with H company, and fought in Gallipoli alongside his brother William who later died from his wounds. I did some research on William ans discovered his Commonwealth War grave at East Mudros Cemetery on the Greek island of Lemnos. I have been told they both worked at Moores Hat factory before the great war. Regards

My Granny's brother Thomas Quail lived in West Didsbury in the 80s when I last spoke with him. I'd like to connect with any family. I'm Margret's (Peggy) grand daughter. He had 2 other brothers who died in the War.

My grandmother lived at 6, Moor Street all her married life and after my grandfather died, up until the early 1960s. My mother took me to visit on several occasions. I well remember the narrow lane running along the backs of the houses, and the outside loo across the yard at the rear, and the coal hole in the pavement at the front. Are there any photos of Moor Street before it was built over?

From the bustling Indian port of Manchester please after 1950 please

Just discovered your site and much enjoyed the old photos. I was born in Burnage in 1931 but we moved to Didsbury soon after where we lived first in Claremont Grove then moved to Victoria Ave whre we lived until 1941. Even though I am now 82 I still have fond memories of Didsbury. I went to Beaver Rd school then up to Didsbury High school (Dogs College). One of my favourite places to visit was the smithy at the end of Osborne St, such heat and noise and when I wanted some time on my own on my mongrel bike to Marie Louise Gardens for a bit of peace and quiet.

I was born at Withington Hospital in 1952. I lived at Circular Road, Withington until 1959. I went to Beaver Road School between 1956-59. Used to climb the local conker trees and cycle to the shops on my tricycle to buy bubbly gum. There used to be the rag and bone man, the chimney sweep, the coalman and the gas lighter frequenting our house and the street during this time.