Cant thank you enough ! What memories,that photo of Connick's Shop,corner of Vaughn Rd,well,used to walk to school with Peter Connick,his Dad would give us an apple each,as we went to St Annes on Glenfield Rd.Wow !
How wonderful to see all that - so many memories. The house with the 3 big steps leading up to it at 5:23 was the house I grew up in on Ince Street. 3:36 was the corner shop that we used to get our sweets from on the way home from school. I remember that chippy at 7:55 - every Friday night. Wasn't Stockport so much nicer to walk round in those days? THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE ROBERT XXXXX
god no joe,, dirty derelict terrace houses falling into the road, rats everywhere, smoot over walls, having to clean windows daily to keep it off from the "101 mills".... the loss of community is heartbraking though, theirs a great vid on here " film clip memorys of a northern town stockport,
just found this jem, but their is a few of the Lancashire hill estate, that were where the blocks of flats are, those houses dated back early 1800's, most serving the monster of a mill that is heaton norris wreck / park now, that used to dominate the skyline above the railway tunnel that went under the school and hole in the wall shop on lanky hill, back then their were shops and pubs down both sides of lancashire hill, and looked similar to Hillgate but wider for the goods traffic ;-), hard for us 40+ ish to imagine the stockport of the 1950's our parents grew up inn, and the utterly derelict, 10's of 1000's of terrace houses abandoned and falling apart. that adjoined the center. portwood estate, heaton norris estate, most of the lancashire hill estate, (though a few survive, at the top of lanky hill, and a few on penny lane, and the estate at the back of the town hall down to underbank, (lower hillgate). all leveled, that our grandparents lived through. gone.... some bits of the brinksway estate survive, steps, ect, and the old community hall, that looks like a derelict building opposit the park
It was being cleared when I was a child. The very worst bit I can recall was Old Road which ran parallel to Manchester Road. It was even worse than Portwood, completely unfit for habitation.
Cant thank you enough ! What memories,that photo of Connick's Shop,corner of Vaughn Rd,well,used to walk to school with Peter Connick,his Dad would give us an apple each,as we went to St Annes on Glenfield Rd.Wow !
I lived at 9 Vaughan Rd from birth 1947 to 1967. Graham Elliott.
Absolutely Brilliant
Thank you so much for the memories .
How wonderful to see all that - so many memories. The house with the 3 big steps leading up to it at 5:23 was the house I grew up in on Ince Street. 3:36 was the corner shop that we used to get our sweets from on the way home from school. I remember that chippy at 7:55 - every Friday night. Wasn't Stockport so much nicer to walk round in those days? THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE ROBERT XXXXX
god no joe,, dirty derelict terrace houses falling into the road, rats everywhere, smoot over walls, having to clean windows daily to keep it off from the "101 mills".... the loss of community is heartbraking though, theirs a great vid on here " film clip memorys of a northern town stockport,
just found this jem, but their is a few of the Lancashire hill estate, that were where the blocks of flats are, those houses dated back early 1800's, most serving the monster of a mill that is heaton norris wreck / park now, that used to dominate the skyline above the railway tunnel that went under the school and hole in the wall shop on lanky hill, back then their were shops and pubs down both sides of lancashire hill, and looked similar to Hillgate but wider for the goods traffic ;-), hard for us 40+ ish to imagine the stockport of the 1950's our parents grew up inn, and the utterly derelict, 10's of 1000's of terrace houses abandoned and falling apart. that adjoined the center. portwood estate, heaton norris estate, most of the lancashire hill estate, (though a few survive, at the top of lanky hill, and a few on penny lane, and the estate at the back of the town hall down to underbank, (lower hillgate). all leveled, that our grandparents lived through. gone.... some bits of the brinksway estate survive, steps, ect, and the old community hall, that looks like a derelict building opposit the park
It was being cleared when I was a child. The very worst bit I can recall was Old Road which ran parallel to Manchester Road. It was even worse than Portwood, completely unfit for habitation.
Wow that was a great trip down memory lane.
Harlow's valve works on Wellington Road North.We lived opposite 1948-58.
I lived in Stanton Gardens not far from the new Moss Rose. It's a supermarket now!!!
Are any of these near didsbury road? or even better near bankfield avenue??
+Rebecca Bell, i may have some of that area will have to check
It doesn't have the constant rain and smog that was so acid it burnt your throat. Nothing wrong with the people, a lot wrong with the environment.