Wednesday, April 2nd 2008

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Rob Tynan: Sorry I forgot, I think they finished it in about 1968/69 Rob

in response to Irlam, Manchester

Rob Tynan: Hi Martin, They started to build the estate about 1964. Rob

in response to Irlam, Manchester

Martin Kavanagh: Hi, I left Neville Drive when I was about 6 or 7 and returned to Ireland with my family. As far as I can remember it was just built, we moved from a place in Salford called Westpark St. We had only been living in Irlam...

in response to Irlam, Manchester

Angela Bentley: Looks like no one has been on look at this wonderful site and letting people remember the past. I am still trying to find out if any one remembers kathleen fisher who lived on Palmetto Street. I grew up on gates ave then on ondondonk ave in 1971...

in response to My House in Bushwick

colavitos ghost: are those government buildings in pictures 5-8? i really like that flowy one with the green domes!

in response to Parliament Hill Cats, Rideau Canal, and RCMP Stables

Picturian: Hydro?

in response to Oldskool Coke Machine

POWcityblog: That machine is secured pretty well for something abandoned - coupla padlocks and a bracket. It probably is in use & gets hydro from the same line as the phone.

in response to Oldskool Coke Machine

Lefty: E John btwn Broadway and 10th. Just past the Ethiopian restaurant.

in response to Oldskool Coke Machine

RANE: I'm a graffiti Writer. I have a normal job, but I also write jsut about every night. People see our work and outlaw it, but we see it as ART. S.A.F.E crew. Screaming Artist Find Expression. -RANE

in response to NYC Style Graffiti Throw Up

Historygraffman: I remember when ghost ris crew was smashing all the redbirds back in the day!

in response to NYC Graffiti Train, 1995

This note is for you: To all who is not happy in Hutchinson: do something about it. Don't just "talk", if you think you are better off far away, then go far away; if you think there are problems, then give a solution for them, do something! If you don't feel happy living in Hutchinson, you...

in response to America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10

Anne Priestley (nee Rigby): Hi Cyril Is the Beswick's you refer to connected to a shop on Liverpool Road near Gallier's sweet shop, I seem to recall someone called Joan Beswick? Do you remember just past the GPO building there was the Creamery? I remember there being chickens in the back do you...

in response to Irlam, Manchester

cyril bagshaw: Hello Sheila, Just a flash from the past.Delivering bread was a major task in Irlam and Cadishead, and the main players in the game were, Goodiers, Lennies and the Eccles Co-oP horse drawn van. Cars to the supermarkets now have seen the end to home deliveries of bread and the trotting...

in response to Irlam, Manchester

Sheila Hilton: Hi Cyril I still prefer your version of events - exploits on the high seas has a much better flavour to it. Changing the subject back to Goodier's bakery shop on the corner of Boat Lane, after all the changes that have been made (Now H & L taxi firm) it always...

in response to Irlam, Manchester

Sheila Hilton: Hi, Rob, I must be about 15 years your senior. Left St.Pats around 1966.

in response to These Things No Longer Exist

eric: if im correct thats knickerbocker near flushing ave.

in response to Bushwick Tire Repair

joey: there one year later, and times are not as good as they were back then.

in response to 5 Times #

Bones: It's a shame to say this but I remember when I was teenager in the late 80's and early 90's me and a bunch kids would drive up there every weekend for drugs. I remember going to 5th & Indiana and also Lee Street all the time. I look...

in response to Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004

sheila: Very nostalgic to see the photos of Benny Farm. I lived there from 1953 until 1965 and my fondest memories stem from the many friends that I made. there. I would love to be able to communicate with my old buddies.I particularly loved field day, winter carnivals, halloween. and...

in response to The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects

Pat: as a montrealer, it was a very interesting outsider view... (most of the time more informed than the insider view of course...) Yes, I agree with CE, Montreal changes a lot with a 5-10 minutes walk, for good and for bad... And as a Red Light...

in response to Red Light District

cyril bagshaw: Hi Sheila, I think your excellent research throws a great deal of doubt on Little Woolden Hall having an Elizabethan sea going captain as lord of the manor.( unless of course, Captain Blood wasnt his real name) I wonder if there is anybody still remembers the historian who gave the talk...

in response to Irlam, Manchester

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