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Did You Know? Bury - A Miscellany
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Manchester Photographic Memories
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Greater Manchester Photographic Memories
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Patricroft memories
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St. Joseph's patricroft.
I also have memories of St. Joseph's I, along with my sister & brother were placed there. We had an aunt at the convent she was Mother Hilary. Sr Cecilia was in charge of the girls and I love her to this day. She was a very creative artistic nun. While everything was not like a typical home, we were well fed, well educated and well looked after. Can't speak for the boys though. I remember being in the Gilbert & Sullivan operettas + Pearl the fishermaiden, I was also in choir. I remember going to the movies on Tuesday nights, and to the Seminary in Freshfield every year for our holidays. What fun we had! Also walking to Elocution ...read more here
Contributed by monica walker
Tommy Cocker
Yes I remember Tommy Cocker, I was born in Patricroft in 1941 and lived in Mellor St. After school I used to go to Tommy's shop to do odd jobs for spending money. One of the jobs I did was to pluck chickens, he used to keep them live in his celler, he would take me down there where the chickens were running around, he would then screw there necks and give them to me to pluck still warm, apart from the little cash I received I also finished covered in fowl lice. Some job. I now live in Australia. Just interested, do any of you remember a Barry Wilson from 1940/50?
Contributed by Barry Wilson
Patricroft , Liverpool Road
There was a fish shop named Tommy Cockers' I think and old Tommy used to come out and chase us with a wet, slimy fish.
Contributed by Chris Reid
Patricroft shops
There was an ironmonger's shop on Patricroft Bridge ( the Eccles side) owned by a man called Richmond, whose daughter May attended Eccles Grammar School - though she was too nice a girl to have anything to do with a yob like me! Over the other side of the bridge was the Majestic Cinema (later the "Talk of the North" club). St. Joseph's Home was not always the happy place your correspondent remembers - my mother used to threaten to "...have you kids put away in there" if we misbehaved, so we were much in awe of that big green front door with the big brass knocker.
Contributed by Robert DALE.
St Joseph's Home, Worsley Road
I was at St Joseph's Home from November 1947 to july 1953, and had many happy times.
Contributed by james sullivan
Extracts From Patricroft & Lancashire books
We are in Liverpool Road. The bridge was built over the Bridgewater Canal in 1778, but it has been widened and strengthened many times since. The pubs on the corners of this cross-roads reflect the canal, with names like the Packet Boat, the Bridgewater, and the Navigation. Most of the buildings in this picture were swept away in the late 1960s and 1970s.
An extract from from"Manchester Photographic Memories".
This is a wonderful piece of social history from the 1950s caught on film. Liverpool Road was a long road running from Church Street, Eccles to the airport out at Barton. For much of its length it was all shops, and every kind of shop under the sun was to be found along this road. There were pork butchers’, egg shops, pawn shops, bric-a-brac and second-hand shops, and of course a public house on nearly every corner. Sir John Moore, the pools tycoon, who built the Littlewoods empire, was born in a pub on Liverpool Road.
An extract from from"Manchester Photographic Memories".
It was the opening of James Nasmyth’s engineering works that led to the growth of Eccles and Patricroft. Nasmyth chose Patricroft because of ‘the benefit of breathing pure air during the greater part of the year’; being no fool, he was one of many industrialists who had grasped the fact that a healthy workforce is a more efficient workforce. Nasmyth’s manufactured steam hammers; one even appears on the armorial bearings of the borough. They later developed the steam-powered pile-driver as well as building railway locomotives. Other industries included coal mines, a silk mill, a magnesium works, and a mining equipment manufacturer.
An extract from from"Greater Manchester Photographic Memories".
This aerial view of the swing bridges at Barton again shows them swung to let a large cargo ship through. Note that the cargo ship has tugs fore and aft to guide it through this section of the canal. Barton Monastery stands just to the right of the swing bridges; it was formerly All Saints RC Church, Barton. The area at the top of the picture was the wood seasoning area for one of the large timber firms using the canal, and is now a housing estate.
An extract from from"Manchester Photographic Memories".
This view shows the two bridges at Barton upon Irwell both swung to let the paddle steamer ‘Ivanhoe’ pass. When the Ship Canal first opened (our view is only twelve months after that opening on 1 January 1894), many people wanted to travel, and see the wonders of this new waterway. A Ship Canal Pleasure Steamer Company was formed, and weekends and Bank Holidays would see two or three of these paddle steamers taking passengers on sight-seeing trips up and down the canal.
An extract from from"Manchester Photographic Memories".