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Dear Readers
We are sourcing what we can from the Library’s holdings and have added 1940-1941, 1943-1950 in the last 24 hours.
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/id/staffordshire-sentinel
Thank you all for your continued interest in this title, and Happy Reading!
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Does anyone have any information about a Mr Derek Lee. He went to Australia in 1953 with his parents, and lived at Wollongong. In the early 1960s he became Wollongong's most popular singer, and won a national TV talent contest. His prize was a trip to the UK. He made the journey back to Britain in 1965 and was signed by the Noel Gay Organisation. After returning to Australia he continued his showbiz career with concerts and TV appearances. In January 1967 he sailed again to England with his manager, Mr. Ossie Byrne. It is thought that he still had relatives in Stoke-on-Trent at that time.
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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.