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Bayside Watcher: There are many interesting posts here and many interesting questions and facts to check on. In one of the previous posts it is questioned if it is true that Congregation Shaare Zedek used funds intended for......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Humboldt1: PlGrd, Nice to see you are back from CityData. I was starting to get really down about black renters in general, but have had a new renter (black family) in my suburban place in Itasca......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

lucy hart: Hi Catherine,the part of netherne that is now blue leaves avenue did not house any patients,when i moved here in the 70's as a child the area to the left of the green bungalow was......

in response to: Netherne Mental Asylum by Simon Cornwell

Pantera: Unfortunately these cases or even WORSE happen many times. When I was a kid in my hometown Szeged (M.E.-Europe, Hungary) there were 2 abandoned cemeteries, a protestant and a catholic (mainly......

in response to: Bayside Acacia Cemetery by NWhyC

Rohinton Ghandhi: November 27th, 2008 To City Noise Editors, I have recently begun writing articles for the Verdun Messenger's new English Corner segment. They cover Verdun's history and the people within it. I thought your group......

in response to: Verdun Neon by CE

Brodidly AB: Bushwick!! What can I say? It can be an interesting place to live in and it can be a nightmare. To all those who are contemplating moving to Bushwick, on the serious tip you......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

pissed off local: where is the hill or did you miss this on perpose !!!!!! and the last few are a flaming industrial estate !!!!!...

in response to: Morning Walk: Part Two by Jamie

Young meet the old Festival: If you fancy a good old Cockney Knee's up this weekend Bermondsey based Pearly King Jimmy Jukes the Genuine Pearly king of camberwell and Wayne Adams better known as The Barrow Boys, will be entertaining the......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Humboldt1: Arquitecto, Seriously, you don't need to use all the 5 dollar words. I have been in Humboldt Park for the past 3 years, having purchased an apartment building here in which I live. I......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

upfromflames: Lou: It depends on what part of Bushwick you are talking about, as the process of demographic change proceeded differently in different part of the neighborhood. In ther southern side of Bushwick--south of Myrtle--the process......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

admod: the freedom tunnel.top notch graf all the way. leeds band bedlam-ago go. back on the estate,so ya better watch ya bassbins.. ...

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

serlingrod: In response to the last post - first of, let me say that I live in Philadelphia and have worked as a community organizer in Kensington for the past several years. I mention this to......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Who Cares for Kensington: Everyone has someone else to blame and I guess that's the ameriacan way for losers these days. Buildings, streets and real estate agents do no breed ignorance, but sub-cultures do and Kensington is definitely a......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

phantom: Regarding the economic side of the Kensington exodus - Google: Kensington and Globalization. The frst entry in the search findings should be a paper on the topic published at Kutztown State by Mike Kelly on......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

The GumbyUF MSD: Bushwick...oh, Bushwick. How I love and miss thee. Sorry I left you, but I had to explore other states and neighborhoods. Needless to say, you are still the very, very best piece of real estate......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Lynda Phillips , sons Paul and Mike Phillips, Caroline st, Irlam adn Carlisle Dr, Irlam: Hello, Im just blown away by this fantastic site found by accident. I was looking for my old school friend William Mcormick/mcCormack from Salford born around 1955. I lived in Caroline Street aged 18 with......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

JOSEPH BRIDGE: the largest exodus occured in the late 70's and lasted throughout all of the eighties. people who could afford to move did just that. but the neighborhood held its ground til about 1987-88. then, real......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

cyril bagshaw: Hi Tony Gerrards Close is a cul-de-sac off Ferryhill road Irlam. This estate was only built in the 1930's, and was built on farm property. Cheers Cyril.......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Jamie: eh, she's right you know. According to wikipedia [[wiki:Trafford Park]] ##was## the first ever planned {industrial estate}...

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

Sheila Vaudrey: Thanks for the photo's legal or otherwise. I remember standing on Barton Lane, to watch the chimneys fall, you should have seen the clouds of dust. also Another first for our area, Trafford......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

John (aged 44 and a bit): Ahh so many memories. I left irlam in 1985 not i may add for the sandy beaches and climate of a far off land but the more mundane surroundings of Oldham. I grew up on......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

sharon, swansea: hi could i explain why i`m posting this please, I LOST MY 19 YR OLD SON KARL,( AKA KARLO...) TO METHADONE MISUSE, IN OCT 2007, AN ABSOLUTE WASTE OF A LIFE, HE WAS......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Stuart Brennan: Hello Norma, I'm going to try and post an old class photo from Cadishead Juniors once I get my dad to scan it for me. He's the computer whizz in the family at 84! I will have......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Sheila Vaudrey: Hello Jenny and Janet(Sutton), I lived at No 42 Harewood Road and I do remember you living there also I remember the field that belonged to your granddad, it came at the side......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Peter: are you crazy, or just seriously uninformed? nothing rebuilt, nothing touched? thats not true at all! i commute through the WTC site/station every day, and theres so much going on there... sure, its a slow......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

walter nyoike: You really inspired me with your wise,well thought and encouraging words which have made me to realise that my childhood thinking and dream is also shared by an intelligent kenyan out there.Am 22 and newly......

in response to: A Call for Reason in Our Country Kenya by magu nguru

anon (spc1-ward4-0-0-cust157.bagu.broadband.ntl.com): Thanks Dom Smith for putting on the picture of shops on Tiger Moth square.It brought back happy memories when I was growing up on the estate.Never thought I would see a picture of how it......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Dom, I will pass on to my son John the photos of the housing estate shops where he and his nana Jaques ( Vi as she liked to be called) had the greengrocery at the......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith: Here's some photo's contributed by Dom Smith (friend but no relation) - photo's of Irlam in the late 1980's The parade on the estate - butchers on the left, newsagent in the middle (run by Dom's......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Martin Kavanagh: Thank Rob, my only memory of Neville Drive was a short cut to school through the estate and most puzzling I seem to remember a shed at the front of the house?? I've looked......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Richard de la Rey: We used to always stay at either the Drum Rock or Bushman's Rock Hotel on the way to the Kruger when we were lighties. I'm talking about the 1970's. Hell we used to love it.......

in response to: Government by Guy McLaren

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

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

cyril bagshaw: Hi Susan The bakery which you knew as Potter's Bakery for many years previous, was owned by James Goodier, brother of Joseph Goodier, who incidentally was the organist at St John's church in Vicar Lee's era,and......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

cyril bagshaw: Hi Alan, Ah! Musnt be the same family,Ken is at least 11 years my junior. The Beswick brothers I mentioned both delivered on their greengrocery round to the Margarine works estate in the 1950's. The double fronted......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

EvilGentleman: The house in the second-last photo is not too bad looking for a recent construction, even though it is somewhat lacking in "soul". Perhaps the soul will be acquired over time, although the building rising......

in response to: 80% of Everything Ever Built in North America... by CE

Gav: real estate is a long slow thing. those properties are being amased by some developer that might be waiting for the last piece (little old lady)to fall into place. Think 20-25 yrs out,it's not that......

in response to: Abandoned Homes by JayEastsider

jeeff: "block-busting" is a little different than what you describe, and probably not exactly what went on here. in the US, real estate agents would leave pamphlets and things in target neighbourhoods warning that minorities......

in response to: Abandoned Homes by JayEastsider

EvilGentleman: El, since they were government-funded homes originally intended for the families of veterans returning from WWII, it is most unfortunate that the government decided to stop funding them. If you look at the comments in the......

in response to: The Destruction of Benny Farm by EvilGentleman

Elicar: If something is dear to you, take care of it. Nobody cared ENOUGH for Benny Farms. Otherwise, it would not be in such a state of disrepair. Would you rather be sentimental and let the mosntrosity......

in response to: The Destruction of Benny Farm by EvilGentleman

anon (d58-111-103-252.adl2.sa.optusnet.com.au): Hi Anne No private fireworks for us now, the danger of bushfires is too great.Leaving Irlam after spending 55 years there was a big pull, and came about after visiting my wife's sister Edith (nee Jaques)......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Roger: I'm an artist who is not a hipster. I am moving further east in Bushwick because the rent is cheaper for what you can get, as I'm saddled in debt. I'm half Peruvian......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Hi Alan, I lived off Broadway, and we referred to it as "The Cow Fields" too, I never knew it as "The Jezzies" until my now husband ( from the Estate) called it that one......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

anon: Hi everyone the girl julie some of you mention im 100% sure she lives on the mossvale estate near me...

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Julie Skidmore : There was a girl called Julie Skidmore who lived on Broadway Estate who wore leg braces but I do not know the reason why. The last we heard of Julie Skidmore was when......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Re to still in Hutch: I know what you are saying. Five years ago I was really checking Mcpherson out to buy a home there and work,as I allready had a job in Mac. My Gosh,the price of real estate......

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

Alan Taylor: Hi Rob, Yes I certainly remember that wilderness and the stories but my time period in there and along the River Glaze to the footbridge that connected Glazebrook to Cadishead over a big rough n wild......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Alan: I hope you like the Oh Fred sketch as it reminds when we played in the old cemetery near the Broadway estate houses...

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Alan Taylor: Hi Marissa, When they built the Margarine Works Estate then built the roads and laid the services, then built the corner houses, afterwards they built the infills between the corner houses, so there was lots of......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Joanne Amorello-minor: Hi Cyril, Wow a small world we live in,I remember walking into it...You may remember my mum whan we lived there we lived at number 67 her name was sue...I know you came across many people......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hello Joanne, Believe it or not, I drove the blue van that you so rightly recall, it was a walk-in travelling greengrocery that serviced the Margarine Works estate as it was called, and the Harewood road......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Marissa Chaplin: Hiya all Thanks for all the info on the photos. Boundary Rd Church is still methodist, not sure when it was rebuilt, I will try and find out. The Fabric Shop was and still is double fronted (although......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Marissa Chaplin: Hi Rob Sorry I havent, they are mainly the High School and the Margarine Estate, as thats where I live. If I get the chance to go up again, I will get some. Glad you liked the pics......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Marissa Chaplin: The "Bullring" on the Margarine Estate [[img:25644]] ...

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Rob Tynan: Hi Norma, Yep, I remember Mike and Sheila, I can remember me and my dad giving mike a lift home once after a band concert. Correct me if I am wrong, but Mike played......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Deborah Kemp 30th Jan 2008: Like Lucy Hart I grew up in Netherne Lane also as my father worked at Netherne, we spent many a day on the estate playing in and around the hospital, in Boxers wood (end of......

in response to: Netherne Mental Asylum by Simon Cornwell

Ken: What are you people talking about? Kensington (at least parts of it) are getting better not worse, there are many great things going on here and I am offended by some of the comments that......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

pearlykingjim: Wotch ya Tammy Long time no see as you can tell by the post on this forum someone got the hump with pearly kings and queens your not alone in your comments i have in the past been acused......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Lucy Hart: I grew up in Netherne Lane as my father worked at Netherne,we used to go down to the graveyard by crossing over the farmers field stating from Park Lane.Netherne was a great place to grow......

in response to: Netherne Mental Asylum by Simon Cornwell

Rob Tynan: Alan Ship hotel is very much the same as the picture you posted except there is a new housing estate in the carpark and over the bowling green, and "Marvels Market" building which was to the......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Alan Taylor: Hello everyone, lots of names cropping up that I recall, but more are from after I left my birth town in 1965/6 although I continued at the steelworks until 1972 & transfered to Scunthorpe Works.......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Thanks guys. Yes it was the building that was next to the doctors surgery, on the corner of Fairhills road and liverpool rd. I remember there was a Lidl supermarket there last time I......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Thanks Bob, that has cleared a few questions up for me. However, What do they do with the bones and gravestones when they develop the land for housing such as the housing estate that was......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

riiiiiight: i was born and raised in bk. i just checked out a new "luxury condo" developement out there a whim (when i was told my rent was being jacked up another 300 bucks). ......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

little ukraine: [[http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/16/real_estate/suprime_and_crime/index.htm?cnn=yes]] ...

in response to: Santa Comes Early in Slavic Village by little ukraine

Robert Patten: Finally (for now), three pictures from May 2007 from what we call Teletubby Hills, near the Northbank Industrial Estate and can be seen from the Cadishead Way bypass. [[img:24516]] You can see the Rehau building, and if......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

nuclearrabbit33: I used to work for a carriage company in Chicago. We had to pass through Cabrini Green every single day...both on the way to downtown and the way back to our barns at night. In......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

james garrow: i'm in grand rapids at the Devos childrens hospital. checking out the web to pass time...i live and sell real estate at the torch river bridge. really enjoyed the site, and it IS......

in response to: Torch Lake by Torch Lake

little ukraine: oops hit post too soon- just a few more words - the area i described has been well under... er, 'development' for over a decade, and it's hitting the point where shitloads of condos are......

in response to: Help This Newbie by lou

Hutchinson Sucks: Let me just restate what Donald Walters said above-- ##I challenge any Hutch resident to name me TEN particular, redeeming, specific traits about the town that make it "special". And not stuff like "it's a good......

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

Big Bank Hank: A lot of murals that are seen in estates etc could be seen to be graffiti, If you lived at an end house with a gable wall it was a prime target for terrorist groups......

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

serlingrod: East Kensington does have alot of problems, but just like everywhere you go there are good people trying to make a difference. I actually work full-time in this neighborhood for the New Kensington Community Development......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Bushwick Girl: My Bushwick...I love this neighborhood. I've been in the bush since 1988 I migrated here when I was 8 yrs old. Back then I was too young to understand what was really happening in this......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Roy Bamber: Does anybody remember the day that the Manchester Ship Canal burst into flames trapping a rowing boat that was ferrying passengers across the canal? One on the passengers who was badly burned but survived lived......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Brooklyn-Pete: Bushwick is not the worst neighborhood in Brooklyn, it's definately no Park Slope but it is not as bad as some would have others believe. The neighborhood is very noisy and extremely filthy on many......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

EvilGentleman: We have both tended to focus on the area of downtown near Guy-Concordia metro, probably due to our being Concordia students. I also hang around with the native crowd in the west end of downtown,......

in response to: RCA Building by Cinic

CT: I am an estate agent locally and have been informed (maybe true or not, I do not know!) that the Aquila site used to have 100' deep water tanks where they used to test-dive to......

in response to: MoD Aquila (Part Two) by Simon Cornwell

Hutch1: To the original poster of the photos. You took photos of only the worst of the town. What state has a year round State Fair? The old hospital is not across from a highway. I do......

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

KB: Lived in Bushwick on Eldert Street, btw Knickerbocker & Irving, from when I was born, until we moved away in 1967, when I was 16. Things had gotten rough in 1966, when there was......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

whowalkinbrooklyn.com: lots of interesting comments here, some ridiculous yuppie wannabes, but many more sincere & heartening-- esp. about Bushwick's Italian heritage & Spanish-speaking peoples. One thing i'd like to add tho' is, all this BULLSHIT about,......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

rudy.sellsius: awesome pics! i remember walking the highline many moons ago - looks pretty much the same. thanks for taking me back in time. - rudy.sellsius° http:blog.sellsiusrealestate.com...

in response to: The High Line: by Peter

upfromflames: Armstrong: sorry for the delay. The answer to your question is an interesting one, since you (as a better off new--white--face the hood) represent one of the forces creating change in this area. Gentrification is......

in response to: The Bushwick Initiative: Holistic Redevelopment or Urban Renewal Retrofit? by upfromflames

jms: my wife and I have a 10 month old. Currently, we're looking in bushwick - want to save and purchase a home/condo once the real estate market recovers (maybe in bushwick). I've lived in......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Hi D McCormick! This is Steve Waterworth who used to live on the Irlam estate, in Neville Drive. I'm now living in Melbourne, Australia (not in a council house - ha,ha)and I'm married to Natalie......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

upfromflames: Is that a real progam happening or a just marketting-type hopefulness for real estate returns?...

in response to: Revitalize by maybetoday

colavitos ghost: this proves it; public housing--american or otherwise--just pretty much sucks. i've never been to glasgow, london, or any other british city for that matter, but from what i've read and seen in these photos, it seems......

in response to: Glasgow Schemes4 by kobie

VinniethePooh: There's oe on the block of Nostrand between GATES AVE. & QUINCY AVE. The Gates side used to have a club before the arabs took the store on the corner. The Quincy side has a......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Eviva: I just bought a condo off the Dekalb Avenue L stop. I really like the area and while it's true that Bushwick isn't quite Williamsburg, I see ample potential. Also, real estate in Bushwick is......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

blueeyes: Last year, I moved from Williamsburg "Prime" (Bedford stop), where I lived happily but cautiously for 7 years. During that time my next door neighbor was held up at gunpoint at our front door (2005),......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

vvargas: all this talk about bushwick being unsafe and that only ppl looking to flip their properties are going to encourage you to live here is nonsense. change starts somewhere and it has already started.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Mushi: Uponflames and Jimmy QV -- also, when choosing a place to live, no real estate agent did an upsell to me. I didn't go through a broker to find my place, just an add online.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

jack: i have a lot of respect for you, you are a person who cares for humanity. the few mega wealthy don't give a crap for the poor, they figure whats the use, if the......

in response to: Housing Got You Down? Turn to History for Hope by upfromflames

upfromflames: Further clarification on gut renos: OK, now this is making a lot more sense to me. No, HPD does not handle the gut renos shown above directly. But the people who once lived here are not......

in response to: The Bushwick Initiative: Holistic Redevelopment or Urban Renewal Retrofit? by upfromflames

upfromflames: Word on that, from JimQV, although I did disagree with you yesterday for your approach. But on that last point, its true. Real Estate speculators have an interest in manipulating people---but its not just the......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

JimQV: Yeah, over the months there have been people who've posted here, thinking of moving to Bushwick, asking for an opinion about the safeness of the neighborhood. Why not give them an honest opinion, based on......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

EvilGentleman: joey - sometimes, a picture can show a thousand times more than words can, and other times, a picture cannot even begin to describe the horror of reality. This is one of those cases. I......

in response to: Lost by EvilGentleman

upfromflames: [[img:18823]] Take a look at this boarded up oddity, on the short, quaint oddball strip of Goodwin Place. A boarded up house next to a new development, how odd! You'd think they'd try to buy them......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

upfromflames: ** The Urban Ecology of Arson** The power of the Wallace's interpretation is its integrated systems approach. just as flames cannot burn in a vacuum, the flames of July 13th did not arise out of nowhere.......

in response to: Why Did Bushwick Burn? by upfromflames

jack: esmer, your probably too young to know what this is about so i'll explain it simply to you. since the inception of this nation we have always depended upon men and women to fight......

in response to: Untitled by dfwtiger

mark rogers: hi Natalie. Fancy reading your comments here. Nat and I grew up in the same street and I too now live in Australia. Anyone out there from Irlam now living in Queensland. Drop me a......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

LicieLove: I'm a chicago native reading this book for the first time, I'm 20 now. I grew up on the Southside in Inglewood, but I went to private schools my entire life. And at 8......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane