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Viv Shackleton: My dad is 80 on 8 November. We are taking him on a trip down memory lane. He used to live on Liverpool Road and his uncle worked on the Barton Road Swing Bridge and......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

gary: pic of liverpool road cadishead, year unknown...

in response to: People Shall Be Banned by an impossible child

Gaynor Miller: I've just come back to this site after a year away and what a great load of memories. I used to live on Prospect Road just down from Lennie's. You all talk about the doctors......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Joanne, Here is a photo of my old family home where I was taken to live after being born several months earlier in 1925 the one nicely painted in pink and nicely kept......

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

Peter Creer: None of you Irlam or Cadisheadites seem to remem Morris's Pie shops. On the coner of Kings road oppsite Royles in Cadishead and some where in 20 row in Irlam. I lived on Morris's pies when......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Rob Tynan: Hi Ron, This is a 1926 Map. The photo was taken at the junction of Whitfield Street and Atherton Lane. You can see the George on the corner of Liverpool Road and Atherton Lane [[img:27427]] ...

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

David Warrior: Ron, I looked on an old 1917 map of Cadishead and Whitfield Street ran off Atherton Lane,(in the area where Anglers Rest is now) The George Hotel is still on the corner of Atherton and Liverpool......

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

Ron Urry: Hi , seeking some more info... I have the 1901 census for Cadishead , RG 13 / 3662 / 113 / 15 with my grandmother on it. They were living at 64 Whitfield Street. Almost the next......

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

Sue taylor (nee O'Reilly): Hi everyone, Here are some photos of Irlam, taken some years ago; one is of myself and a friend as young girls on my father's allotment behind Tramway Road. I think that is Carrington Power Station......

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

M Howells Mabel Scott.: Have just been reading everyone's comments re their childhood in Irlam.I was born there in 1932.My parent's owned a fish & chip shop on Liverpool Rd.right across from Dr Moffats office. We left there after......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne, Our family had great respect for Dr W A Walker, we only lived just across Liverpool road from his surgery, and on many occasions whether it was scarlet fever, measles, births of my sisters,......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Anne Fahy: Hi Cyril Am I too late to straighten out the Dr Walker saga I was reading back postings .....We lived in Moorfield Close and our doctor at the corner of Liverpool Road and Moorfield Road was......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Ron Urry: Hi , I have read Bob Salmons comments with interest having just come across this site. My maternal grt grandmother was a Royle from Flixton and my grt grandfather was a Davies from Cadishead, lately of......

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

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......

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

Marissa Chaplin: I just love reading these memories. Susan, I can just imagine pigs running down Liverpool Rd...hilarious...probably wasn't at the time though!!! ...

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

Susan Taylor (nee O'Reilly): Hi Sheila Thanks for telling me about this site, brings back many memories of Irlam and Cadishead. Someone mentioned Tramway Road Irlam, which lead to the Steelworks. This was where may dad, Thomas O'Reilly had an allotment.......

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Marissa There was a reason it was named as such, because that piece of ground they were built on and the land stretching back to where it meets Boat lane, has only a couple of......

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Deb I hope Alan manages to fix his new anti-spam ( I always thought it came out of a tin) and you can trade info. Your cousin Venice and her husband Val James of Cadishead descent......

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Andrew I could just see the goal post of Irlam AFC though the railings, but really not sure where they play now. The ground they used first of all that I remember was on Gill Field......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Alan Taylor: Thinking of Liverpool Road travelling towards Cadishead you had Tramway Road running diagonal from it to the railway embankment which had a 'tunnel' through to the side of the steelworks main entrance then from Liverpool......

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

Rob Tynan: Just discovered this site!! Howard Walker lived at the large house on the corner of Moorfield road and Liverpool road Irlam. His practise was the shoe box surgery next to what is Lidl. My mum worked......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Alan Taylor: Hi Cyril, That glow would be from one of two sources, when they ran the manganese or pig into the beds aside of the blastfurnaces, was rare really, the other would be from the slag ladles......

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

Anne Priestley (nee Rigby): Hi Cyril Dr Walker was my Dad's doctor I recognise the name. I went to Irlam County Primary School one of my teachers was Miss Cotton who lived on Liverpool Road I think. What......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne, The doctors that I have known in Irlam....well our family doctor was a Dr. Walker who had the big house and surgery on the corner of Moorfield rd and Liverpool rd Then there was a......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Sheila Platt's brook as you refer to did make its way down to the Old River,two sources of run-off water from the Irlam moss met at Liverpool road between Wrenche's butchers and the last shop......

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

Alan Taylor: Andrew, Sheila, Cyril et al, Platts Brook was a popular play area and it went underground through vertical iron bars and waterfalled about 10 feet under Liverpool Road opposite Ferry Road. The part that was from where......

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

anon (d58-106-117-137.adl2.sa.optusnet.com.au): Hi Anne I was brought up in one of those small cottages (Claybank Cottages) on Liverpool road opposite the old Twenty Row where your grandparents had their business. To go down to the Old River was......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Mary McGinty: I can remember the snow falling in Fiddlers Lane and slipping because the council never bothered clearing the pavement. The Fiddlers Lane shop forecourts were salted by the shopkeepers and a gritter......

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

Joanne Amorello-minor: Hello Cyril they are great pics..just how I remember it then...do you remember the nursery there just further down...I went there... My deepest sympathies for the loss of your son Brian...I didnt realise it was so recent...bless......

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

Dave: Mist - I'm a fan of your work, from Liverpool. I'd like to get a copy of that documentary featuring Freedom. You can email me at c.sprocket@merseymail.com...

in response to: Sane Smith: Puttin' the Green in Greenpoint by Peter

Joanne Amorello-minor: Hi Mary, hi Rob, hi Marissa,hi Norma,hi steve... as much as I would like to go to the mosslands I cannot as I live in Portsmouth!but I shall listen anyway...you never know my wish may come......

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

Rob Tynan: Does anyone from Cadishead remember the piece of land opposite Victory Road between Liverpool Road and the canal. It was owned by someone called Wilkie who it was said, used to chase kids off with......

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

Marissa Chaplin: The Old St. Pauls Schoolroom, Liverpool Rd [[img:25925]] ...

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

Alan Taylor: Hi Norma, Doubt it very much Norma, the shuttlecock roundabout is practically at the Liverpool Road end Victory Road ;-) Been averaging 2 emails a day from your mam but none today so far. Hi Rob, My last visit......

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

Joanne Amorello-minor: I have this childhood memory.i must of been really young..but my dad used to take me to what seemed to be a nursery or playgroup next to or near the doctors surgery on liverpool road......

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

Marje Givens-Eames: What a wonderful site for Irlam/Cadishead and what memories, many I had forgotten. I remember Goodiers living in the house on Ferry Road/Boat Lane. We lived in Gerrards Close and our house backed onto......

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

Bob Salmon: Hi rob Yes I remember Len Jackson; my mother got her daily pinta from him for a few decades. One of his employees on the milk round was a good friend of mine, his name was Ivor......

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

liesbeth: I have just been doing some family research and have discovered that my grandmother (who I never knew) and her family (1800s) all came from Deansgate, (Alliance and Leicester building) 7,Liverpool Road, (building site), 39,......

in response to: Empty City by Myke

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma The building at the junction of Ferry rd was James Goodier, wholesale potato and corn merchants.They supplied the area chip shop and greengrocery businesses with a very wide variety of potatoes from......

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

Dawn: I heard on the radio yesterday that people in liverpool are campaigning to get rid of it because they think its just graffiti and not 'art'. They also said that because Liverpool is becoming the......

in response to: Giant Rat Destroys Liverpool by banksyfan

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Hey, Just wondering whether the Youth club (opposite Galliers Newsagency) on Liverpool rd is still operating? I remember going there as a teen. I remember when it was on the other side of the road......

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

Andrew Smith: ...and some more taken this morning. Not the best, but they include most of the things you mentioned! Vicarage Road [[img:24962]] Two Churches, Liverpool Road. [[img:24963]] The Band Stand [[img:24964]] The old skateboard ramp, which we used to ride our bikes down......

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

Paul R Taylor : In its heyday Liverpool was the richest city in the world and was the gateway to Europe, Asia, Australia, south America, north America and the world. The River Mersey, the Irish Sea......

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

Robert Patten: Liverpool Road, Cadishead, from the disused railway bridge, date unknown. [[img:24510]] Same shot from March 2006. [[img:24511]] I only moved to Cadishead in 2005 and before that new nothing about the area. I love finding sites like this......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Lesley: I loved the article, it really conjurs up lots of images, I was born and bred in Liverpool, our house had the same sort of lino, but it was yellow and black. My Sister still......

in response to: rapid hardware by elaine

Andrew Smith: Paul - the area opposite Irlam Locks was a bit of green land between the canal and the 'old river' (the River Irwell old course - the Ship Canal swallowed the Irwell). I have always......

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

Theresa Isherwood: Hi I was married to a guy who came from Irlam we visited the moss a lot of the time. His Family still live in irlam and his sister owns the vidio shop a few......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Just found this thread. Those last few comments are not only mean-spirited but way off the mark. In the very first line Elaine establishes it's Liverpool of 1982, during a much rougher time. She's studying......

in response to: rapid hardware by elaine

Paul: Dave, Thanks for the picture of Galliers. It looks just like I remember it. I remember going in there to pick up "The Pink" with all the football results. You mentioned it is......

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

Dave: [[img:17929]] The picture shows a paddle steamer. c1900, which was twin funnelled and used for pleasure trips to Liverpool. The aqueduct is on the right hand side and the road bridge on the left hand side.......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

DAVE: [[img:17866]] St Johns Church on Liverpool rd Irlam ...

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

PABLOMERSEY: Well Elaine you sound like you don't like our city ? If that is the case get out of it and give someone a chance from Liverpool. Im fed up with whinging people like you who......

in response to: rapid hardware by elaine

M.Kenny: I nominate Liverpool UK......a city on the march, home of the beatles, a city reaching for the skies! [[img:17858]] [[img:17859]] ...

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

sarah: I saw this piece of Banksy work when I moved home to Liverpool for the first time in 6 years and i agree.. his work has turned an eyesore into a work art, that I......

in response to: Giant Rat Destroys Liverpool by banksyfan

Downey: Giant rat destroys Liverpool? Have you not looked at the building behind the rat? Look at the state of it. Hes saved the demolition workers a job and made an eyesore into art. Banksy is......

in response to: Giant Rat Destroys Liverpool by banksyfan

jack: dale, wasn't he with the band of outlaws known as robin hood and his merry band of theives. he probably left the sherwood forest after they were pardoned by richard the lionheart and went......

in response to: Very, Very Old Windows by Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith: Quote "Please could someone explain these comments... Night soil? (It was used to soak up Victorian Manchester's 'night soil'.) as in from sewage?(fertilised by 200 year old human waste)" Hi, Yes, I did mean human waste. I......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

jordan appleton: hi this is jordan and i just want to know were i can get parkour lessons could anyone tell me and if you hasve could you email me on appo2damax@yahoo.co.uk thankz and by the......

in response to: montreal parkour by hool

George T.: Too bad one has to squirm and agonize before saying 'Chinatown' or 'Japtown' or whatever. A Chinese knows that he is Chinese, for heaven's sake. 'ID' my foot - or should I say fish head.......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

I.T.U.C.: Elaine, 1981 to 1989 were my Liverpool years. Did you shop down Berry and Duke Street, near the bombed out church for your jellies? The international deli you mentioned. Do you mean Mr "M"'s in......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

elaine: ITUC, i was in liverpool from about 1979 to 1985, i went to art school there, which as you know is not far from chinatown. this was before all day drinking and there was a......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

jack: they should call it 'asianation'. the fish heads are great for soups. thirty years ago a client of mine invited me to his daughters wedding. it was held at #1 canal street......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

I.T.U.C.: It is believed that the Chinese community in {Liverpool} Uk, is possibly the oldest in the world. The first Chinese people are supposed to have been Merchants and Sailors, who worked the trade routes to......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

I.T.U.C.: Cracking Web site. I'm making plans already. I live a pleasant Cycle ride from Cane Hill. So might try and get over there next weekend, if my old velocipede is back from the repair shop......

in response to: Granddaddy Side-by-side Tandem by I.T.U.C.

Martin: Liverpool city skyline wasn't included which is a shame as are old and new buildings. At present there are skyscrapers being constructed on the waterfront. Maybe in the future. Watch out New York, Liverpool's coming! ...

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

jack: i could have seen the beatles in 1963. they were the liverpool beatles then. i was going out with this black haired beauty from london and she was with her cousins and they......

in response to: Pipes by joey

martin : you must stop smelling the glue it not that good for you. Your comments made me feel quite sad...for you. Liverpool is is jusy like any other city. You need to get out more !...

in response to: rapid hardware by elaine

Jamie: [[img:7537]] i particularly like the view of the seemingly endless urban sprawl you get in this photo. it certainly does look a lot like LA to my mind and totally not what i imagine tokyo to......

in response to: Tokyo Architecture by Chris Jongkind

elaine: well, the middle class bohemianisation of broadway market is not all totally evil, not like some other places i could mention - like spitalfields market [[http://www.smut.org.uk/]] frinstance, which was 'dark' when i first moved to......

in response to: Broadway Squat by elaine

Jamie: i have to say i was kinda shocked to see such a level of violence in {Norway}. I've always imagined scandinavia to be a much more placcid place, but these photos make {Oslo} look more......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

the calm one: i watched these cats along with loads of other writers do some carecter peices on a cafe wall, martha cooper was there but missed the big show. found loads of london police stuff in a......

in response to: tlp - sticker graff by Jamie

elaine: i've got a couple of really ##dark## ones i took in liverpool in the 80's but i've just turned the flat over looking for them and they are hiding somewhere...

in response to: dancing barefoot by elaine

David: You say Eire is the third richest country in the world,well that might be,good for you,but it is not our country.If Russia wants us to be part of them, or Germany or the U.S.A or......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

elaine: some of my favourite domiciles have been slums at the time of living, but i am of that ilk, and maybe i have grown out of it too. when my beautiful faded - grandeur georgian......

in response to: Brownstones in by joe urb

elaine: i am fond of it all. that is part of why i live here. some part of me thinks i should be a grown up and try to be more middle class, but most of......

in response to: good runner, needs a little work by elaine

Jamie: There's some more examples of this in the comments to [[807:this article]] ##(Giant Rat Destroys Liverpool)##. I like that **{Banksy}** is being represented here. I don't think i'd ever heard of the guy before his......

in response to: Designated Picnic Area by banksyfan

elaine: nice to know your local council or whoever is responsible thinks so highly of it's residents... reminds me of Liverpool UK in the 80's. I seem to remember a time when not only was there......

in response to: Junk Yards of Moscow by UHOCTPAHEZ