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Post by wynwilliams on Jun 12, 2011 0:41:11 GMT -1
All these lovely memories of Wythenshawe...l left there in 1961...but so love reading about them all.remember the 101 bus.. the cinder path...the shops near the bus stop...the chip shop on the end..the cake shop...newsagent..grocery shop..used to buy penny loaves..very small loaves they were....and every easter looking in the cake shop to find your easter egg with your name written on it in icing sugar..pink for girls and blue for boys..and standing round on sat nights waiting for the Football Pink paper for my dad outside the paper shop...gaw theres a lot coming back to me
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Post by jackaitch on Jun 12, 2011 17:22:02 GMT -1
You mention the Football Pink..I used to sell them every Saturday evening during the season....
anyway to make a shilling or two..I delivered the morning papers also the Manchester Evening News and the Chronicle...not too many people subscribed to the chron.
Unfortunate you are not making the trip back to UK...it would be a long and tiresome trip and
would take quite a while recovering...it takes two or three days for us to get over the "jet-lag
and we are only 8hours away from Manchester..I enjoy visiting places and people but could not
live in UK as I am so used to the way of life in the USA (left UK 1955)
Keep visiting this website on a daily basis
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Post by linda on Jun 12, 2011 19:50:19 GMT -1
I married a man from Wythenshawe and yes I always put a E on the end of it.LOL
He came from Crossacres.
My Aunt and Uncle did all the training for the brewery at the big Sharston Hotel
I lived in Gorton near St Francis's so going to meet Chris in Wythenshawe took ages. If you missed a bus you had ages to wait.
Thankfully he got his own car so bus were a no no then.
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Post by marie fernandes on Jun 13, 2011 15:41:47 GMT -1
Hi all, just keeping up with the memories of Wythenshawe and Manchester. Lovely to hear from Wyn and Eileen who I mentioned in my post. I dont think anybody on MM's goes back as far as I do (maybe Maureen or Jackaitch) but just seeing Linda's post mentioning Gorton near St.Francis's monastery has just brought some memories back to me. I lived over the shops in Brookhouse flats after moving from Bradford Manchester. We were bombed out and all had to take to the air raid shelters under the arches in the flats. I have told a story about this some time ago on the Memories of Manchester page where John Morgan has posted quite a few.
Anyway does anyone remember the SMOG and the open top trams that used to run on the rails along Gorton Lane. I have been on the tram when the smog came down and we had a man with a red flag walking in front of it, in his bus conductors uniform and a scarf wrapped around across his nose and mouth avoiding breathing in the horrible black stuff. I did mention POP Powell's sweet shop on the corner near the Gorton Library. He was found dead behind the counter one morning I believe. We used to love going in his shop for black licquorice whirls (spanish pinwheels with a sweet in the centre and also that twig like stick, with bark on which you chewed and it ended up looking like it had grown yellow hair after you had chewed it for some time. Sherbet dips, red lips and little brown soft teddy bears where my favourite sweets. I have many memories of the blitz and my little baby brother having to be put inside oone of those gas masks that were shaped like a large egg with a perspex window on top so you could see how baby was fairing inside. But that was in Bradford when he was a baby we were badly bombed then moved to Gorton and the same happened there. We still had a nice time in Brookhouse community shelter, hearing funny stories and sharing Toblerone bars shared out by some generous benefactor. I still think about those times and can still see myself in my maroon all-in-one suit zipped up the front (named after Churchill) as apparently he wore a similar one. Anyone know the name of it? maybe a Winnie suit??
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Post by Lisa on Jun 13, 2011 17:06:36 GMT -1
Lovely reading your memories of Manchester and days gone by Marie. You would love the sweet shop at the Lowry Centre....it has all the sweets from those days including cherry lips and pinwheels. Those sticks you referred to were actually real Licorice sticks and looked like twigs....we sucked the life out of them!! Have a look at this link: www.aquarterof.co.ukwhere you can indulge to your heart's content.  |
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Post by jackaitch on Jun 13, 2011 17:42:24 GMT -1
Hi Marie..just asked my wife about the one piece...she called them " Siren Suits"...as soon as the warning sirens went off you just jumped into the suit and away you would go to the shelters.. where you could enjoy?  ? spending the whole night with only a "nite lite" to see anything if you were lucky someone would bring a cup of hot chocolate or cocoa |
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Post by jackaitch on Jun 14, 2011 10:34:35 GMT -1
Manchesteronline.......Man shot on Floatshall Road Wythenshawe...apparently he was sitting
in his car..some guy came up and blew him away....sounds like Chicago
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Post by jonesg on Jun 15, 2011 21:27:42 GMT -1
Hi all, just keeping up with the memories of Wythenshawe and Manchester. Lovely to hear from Wyn and Eileen who I mentioned in my post. I dont think anybody on MM's goes back as far as I do (maybe Maureen or Jackaitch) but just seeing Linda's post mentioning Gorton near St.Francis's monastery has just brought some memories back to me. I lived over the shops in Brookhouse flats after moving from Bradford Manchester. We were bombed out and all had to take to the air raid shelters under the arches in the flats. I have told a story about this some time ago on the Memories of Manchester page where John Morgan has posted quite a few. Anyway does anyone remember the SMOG and the open top trams that used to run on the rails along Gorton Lane. I have been on the tram when the smog came down and we had a man with a red flag walking in front of it, in his bus conductors uniform and a scarf wrapped around across his nose and mouth avoiding breathing in the horrible black stuff. I did mention POP Powell's sweet shop on the corner near the Gorton Library. He was found dead behind the counter one morning I believe. We used to love going in his shop for black licquorice whirls (spanish pinwheels with a sweet in the centre and also that twig like stick, with bark on which you chewed and it ended up looking like it had grown yellow hair after you had chewed it for some time. Sherbet dips, red lips and little brown soft teddy bears where my favourite sweets. I have many memories of the blitz and my little baby brother having to be put inside oone of those gas masks that were shaped like a large egg with a perspex window on top so you could see how baby was fairing inside. But that was in Bradford when he was a baby we were badly bombed then moved to Gorton and the same happened there. We still had a nice time in Brookhouse community shelter, hearing funny stories and sharing Toblerone bars shared out by some generous benefactor. I still think about those times and can still see myself in my maroon all-in-one suit zipped up the front (named after Churchill) as apparently he wore a similar one. Anyone know the name of it? maybe a Winnie suit?? If you recall the blitz you'd love the movie Hope and Glory. Its a view of the war through childrens eyes, they celebrated when a stray bomb demolished their school. some clips. www.youtube.com/watch?v=114DhB1oLmYIt was Churchill's England. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApTsPrM7XV8&NR=1www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLJKIsCtkic&feature=related |
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Post by jonesg on Jun 15, 2011 21:29:24 GMT -1
Manchesteronline.......Man shot on Floatshall Road Wythenshawe...apparently he was sitting in his car..some guy came up and blew him away....sounds like Chicago He was probably sitting the wrong way. |
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Post by mo on Jun 15, 2011 23:11:14 GMT -1
Thats the name of them siren suits remember mam telling us about them & puting my brother & I in them very quickly
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Post by Lisa on Jun 16, 2011 6:33:10 GMT -1
The victim was 'known' to the police and a man has been charged with his murder. Manchesteronline.......Man shot on Floatshall Road Wythenshawe...apparently he was sitting in his car..some guy came up and blew him away....sounds like Chicago He was probably sitting the wrong way. |
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Post by Lisa on Jun 16, 2011 6:37:57 GMT -1
The victim was 'known' to the police and a man has been arrested for his murder. Manchesteronline.......Man shot on Floatshall Road Wythenshawe...apparently he was sitting in his car..some guy came up and blew him away....sounds like Chicago He was probably sitting the wrong way. |
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Post by Lisa on Jun 16, 2011 6:42:31 GMT -1
Hi Jonesg, I dont recall the blitz as I was born in 1944 but I do love those old black and white films where everything was so different. A lot of them have been shown on the afternoon tv lately and I always try to watch them. |
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Post by wynwilliams on Jun 17, 2011 0:43:36 GMT -1
Has anyone got photo.s of my old school..."St Pauls Secondery Modern School" on Firbank Road Wythenshawe...would to see them if anyone has !!!
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Post by Lisa on Jun 17, 2011 5:35:12 GMT -1
Hi Wyn, Have you looked on www.images.manchester.gov.uk ? Just type in the name of the school and you might find one on there. JUST LOOKED ON THAT SITE WYN AND THERE'S LOAD OF PHOTOS ON THERE. |
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Post by maureenprice on Jun 25, 2011 20:00:40 GMT -1
Hiya all. just reading ur posts about Wythenshawe. My dad has lived in Wythenshawe all his life and so has my uncle. My nanna and grandad, Christopher and Mabel Buchanan lived there in the 60's through to the early 80s on Kepwick Drive, in fact my uncle Terry still lives in their house now. They all used to drink in the cornishman and my nanna used to play darts for the Nelson. I remember as a child our treat was to visit my nanna and grandad at the weekend and we would go to the airport and sit on the bench eating our sandwiches and watching the planes take off. I lost touch with that side of the family when my parents divorced in the 70s and have recently got back in touch. In fact my cousin whom I havent seen for 40 years visited us in Blackpool a few weeks ago and we spent a lovely afternoon remeniscing and lokking through old photo albums.
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Post by Lisa on Jun 26, 2011 6:41:35 GMT -1
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? spending the whole night with only a "nite lite" to see anything if you
