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Archive for June 2011
Roots, and all that ………
13/06/2011 by Ted.
Courtesy of Google Earth, I recently went on a nostalgic tour of the places we knew as a family in the Manchester area. Hmmmm!!!!! I don’t know what we did, but most of them have been demolished and re-built - or at the very least, considerably changed. As time permits I will show photographs of various places today and, where possible, how they used to be.
First, 24 Rupert Street, Reddish as it was circa 1942. Who remembers the dark, dark cellar with the luminous damp rot - or the Heath Robinson contraptions our dad used to construct to help the pestilential mice fall into the bucket of water waiting for them. The outside toilet in the backyard, or the Anderson Shelter in the garden from which we nightly watched the Germans fire-bombing Manchester - or the chimney stack being demolished by the trailing tether cable of an escaped barrage balloon? Or collecting the shiny shrapnel fragments from the previous night’s shells and bombs which littered the streets as we made or way to school?Happy days?
And today ……..
14 June 2011.
Here’s the next one ………
What about St. Alban’s Church, Cheetwood where we were Boy Scouts and Wolf Cubs and Girl Guides and Brownies, where we had a Youth Club, learned to ballroom dance, took part in Nativity Plays and Passion Plays, attended church services and Sunday School and had many friends - and, of course Father Glenday and then Father Wright. I couldn’t find a photograph of the church - which suffered bomb damage during the war years which meant that services were held in the Church Hall probably until it was closed in 1995 - but here is a postcard view copied from Google.
And now …….
I can’t locate a photograph of Waterloo Road School, the original Victorian school building from which we “graduated” to Manchester Central High and Heath Street Schools. (Uni was an option for only the few in those days). It has now been replaced by a new school - it calls itself a school although it somewhat resembles an open prison. See below.
And who remembers Salford Brow Flats on Derby Street? They can be seen in this photograph behind the Brennan Family, friends of little mum, who also lived there.
Today, all is gone, swept away and replaced by:
And, finally,The Star Laundry - as is!
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