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Sheila Vaudrey: Hello Sheila H and Norma, I am quite sure that Hapgoods lived at no 20 unless they moved house, like I said I went to school with Arnold and he always lived at No 20......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Anne - Ontario: Hi John Birchall, Did you live on New Moss Road and worked at the Tar Works? If you did then you will know Brian and I we used to go to the George with you and also......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Sheila Vaudrey: look under Manchester Irlam, on citynoise, Dean Ogden has got a couple of posts on there, he is Edna's Grandson,...

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

Dave Moore: Stumbled on the site while attempting to get images of King Street in Stretford from the 60's and 70's. Excellent images. Brought back memories from when I worked near to Barton Bridge (Manchester Oil Refinery)......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

Sheila Vaudrey: Hiya Dean, I was telling my older sister about your grandma's dare devil stunts, she wasn't surprised, then went on to recall that while she lived in Harewood road she went to Urmston swimming baths......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

anon (host86-136-117-239.range86-136.btcentralplus.com): Hi Andrew, Rob et al, Just in case you're interested, there is a copy of a 100 year old ordnance survey map of Manchester - including Higher Irlam - free with this morning's Guardian newspaper (Sat,......

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

Lesley: hi there all ....well i came across ur site by accident as i have been looking for a long lost friend. I live in Sydney Aust now but when i knew Dave lived in......

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

The terrible disaster: This article has been republished as I was asked to supply the details a second time. --- We had walked on Cadishead Moss in the morning on Jean Dodd’s health walk with possibly 60 inspired walkers. When......

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hello Sheila V Joe Nelson did take over from his Dad, must have been just after the war because Joe made a trailer for me in 1947 to carry my greengrocery from Smithfield Market at Shudehill......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

James: This is great site, have just discovered it. I have many happy memories of schooldays at Irlam in the 1960s. Spent half my time down at the canal watching the big ships pass through, especially......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

James: This is great site, have just discovered it. I have many happy memories of schooldays at Irlam in the 1960s. Spent half my time down at the canal watching the big ships pass through, especially......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Helen Salmon: Hi Rob, The other Irlam/Manchester page is: http://www.citynoise.org/article/3344 Best Wishes Helen....

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

Rob Tynan: Hi Cyril, Yes, its been a bit slow at times!! On the 29th Feb you mentioned to Graham about "the other Irlam/Manchester page" Could you let us know its address> Cheers Rob...

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

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Hey, I don't care who the author is, as long as the info keeps coming. You guys have fantastic memories and a good eye for detail..... My grandad (Frank Bolton), worked at the Steel......

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Rob Really interesting old photos.I can all but see the "back entrance" under the railway to the Steelworks canteen. I wonder if there were many loyal workers there as my father-in- law was, after spending 50years......

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Rob, Thanks for resourcing the old Irlam area map.Even from the small version I believe I can recognise what would be Silver street and Fiddlers lane.It is interesting to see where the Manchester Ship Canal......

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

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Graham, If you happen to read this, I am sure you will recognise a couple in the photograph that I have just posted on the "other" Irlam /Manchester page All the best Cyril...........

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

Alan Taylor: Hi Marissa, Three different books, The Salford Council inspired book as you have, another of same size called The Manchester Ship Canal, then a rather older one in A5 size Irlam to 1914 by James GOODIER,......

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

lesley: hiya eeerm i emigrated to australia a few light years ago, but dated a guy called dave from manchester who's fam owned a bakery in manchester somewhere. He live in the channel islands for......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Joanne Amorello-minor: Cadishead and Irlam Guardian Fri Dec 3rd 1976 front page Died after overdose An Irlam man with a "tremendous amount to live for" was......

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

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

Rob Tynan: Hi Alison, Yep I know Steve. Didnt he become a music teacher and a conductor. He was always trying to be in the lime light in the band. Ask him if he remembers......

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

liesbeth: Do you know if the new Beetham tower is built on top of the Great Bridgewater Street Wesleyan Chapel? or if not, where that might have been? I love all these sites on Manchester. Does......

in response to: Sunday in Town by Andrew Smith

Werner Muller: Its not the town hall. Its another building and the end of the market but still on Albert Square. http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&q=manchester,+UK,+albert+square&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&ll=53.479009,-2.245587&spn=0.001935,0.004281&t=h&z=18&om=1...

in response to: Christmas Presents in Manchester, UK by Werner Muller

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

sisters birthday: Eric and Maxine were married on the 11th May 1959 and Eric Broome had lived at 86, Silver Street, Irlam. Eric worked at the Irlam Council Offices as a clerk before moving to a......

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

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

Les Birchall: Hello Roy Bamber. Your name certainly rang a bell. I lived in Lyndhurst Ave from 1947 onwards and attended Irlam Council School 1951-58. Friends at the time were Martin Sproston, Malcolm Royle, Paul Hawkes and......

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

Mark: Thanks for posting the photos of Barton power station; they have assisted me enormously with my research. I'm a legal academic in the field of environmental law and am putting the final touches to a......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

Carole W: Stumbled onto the site by accident, really appreciated the photographs,not sure about the comment not much happening, there are things happening but they are not very well advertised. We also have access to lots of......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

February 6, 1958 United players killed in air disaster: The Munich air disaster took place on February 6, 1958, when the British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at the Munich-Riem airport in Germany.......

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

Bobs Ferry Accident: We had walked on Cadishead Moss in the morning on Jean Dodd’s health walk with possibly 60 inspired walkers. When the walk had ended I had a chat with Mrs Heap the ‘Irlam Historians’......

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

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

Alex: Hi. I loved Irlam. I was there last January and February.(2007) I also got to spend my birthday and Val's day there. Both of them best ever!!! Irlam's people are warm and friendly. I loved......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

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

Jamie: again. that last shot, were it not for the flamboyantly colonial building on the end this scene could easily be anywhere in {manchester} or {leeds}. Totally {English} architecture. Is much of St. Louis and Missouri......

in response to: Old North St. Louis Pt. II by maybetoday

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

Alfonso Criscuoli: My partner is from Cadishead, and like some people have said, there isn't much happening there but that is not a bad thing at all. Living in London, which I hate, I find Cadishead......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

not important: the projects is like inner city manchester in britain where i grew up...

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Dave: [[img:17931]] The construction of the Manchester Ship Canal resulted in the need to replace the famous stone aqueduct at Barton, which had been constructed as part of the Bridgewater Canal in the eighteenth century. The old......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

Dave: [[img:17928]] Barton Bridge was completed on the 17th July, 1761. It was built by James Brindley, and shows the bridge looking downstream and the road bridge is behind. The old bridge was removed for the opening......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

DAVE: [[img:17868]] Tar and other coal products and eventually some chemical wagons were moved from the Cadishead British Rail sidings by locomotives from the Manchester Ship Canal Company and the Sentinel was used to shunt wagons form......

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

DAVE: [[img:17829]] The construction of the Manchester Ship Canal drew large numbers of sightseers, eager to see the vast works in progress. This photograph appears to show some inquisitive members of the public. Other more official visitors......

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

DAVE: [[img:17828]] With the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal, sections of the existing railway network had to be rebuilt. Lines which crossed the Canal had to be taken on higher level bridges. With changes to the......

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

DAVE: [[img:17793]] Irlam Ferry T2214. The Manchester Ship Canal Company provided several ferry services to enable pedestrians and vehicles to cross the Canal. Originally known as M.S.C. No.1 Horse Ferry, Irlam Ferry was a cable hauled ferry,......

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

DAVE: Irlam Old Bridge ......

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

DAVE: [[img:17791]] T2533. The Irlam Steel Works was situated next to the Manchester Ship Canal for most of the Twentieth Century. This is a photograph of the wharf, Irlam Wharf, on the Ship Canal used by the......

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

DAVE: The above has the date 1890 [[img:17790]] T1131. This photograph illustrates the huge scale of the Manchester Ship Canal construction. Irlam locks were the third set of locks encountered by users of the Ship Canal. The locks......

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

DAVE: [[img:17789]] T1082. Irlam Viaduct carried Railway Deviation Number 5 over the Manchester Ship Canal. Here we can see the Canal's construction under the Bridge. A line of wagons full of extracted material waits to be taken......

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

DAVE: [[img:17788]] T1208. On the night of 16th March 1969 the Manchester Courage crashed into the gates of Irlam Lock at 23.05 hours. In the Port of Manchester Review of 1969 it mentions that there have been......

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

Mellor: lol, well, I've saw it on a lot of bridges around the country and always been curious to what it was. I just suspected it was the name of a company that made the......

in response to: Call Out Gouranga! by Jamie

mesz: for more about Manchester Street Art...if you're interested in that sort of thing...plase feel free to pop over to www.unitedartcity.net...

in response to: Street Art, Stickers & Things by Myke

Aimee: Travel from Bournemouth to Manchester regularly, so glad someone has come up with this conclusion. Ill drive with a bit more consideration from now on! It has put me intouch with my spiritual side which......

in response to: Call Out Gouranga! by Jamie

martin Loughridge: Hi I have moved to barnoldswick from manchester and just would like to say it,s how much a like living in this town ....

in response to: Barnoldswick by Gus Brennan

Andrew Smith: Myke, thanks for all the Manchester photo's - really good stuff. Make sure you remember your camera when revisiting!...

in response to: Leaving Manchester by Myke

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

anon (spc2-bolt5-0-0-cust758.bagu.broadband.ntl.com): 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) ...

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

jack: manchester is an interesting place. how close to london is it....

in response to: Leaving Manchester by Myke

tangent: these photos are of the highest quality, and i'm especially interested by undergrowth-face and pulling-faces-girl. The old Department of Employment building looks folorn, i love decrepit and abandoned institutuional building like this. they are seedy......

in response to: Leaving Manchester by Myke

Peter: i really like this post. this, also, is an interesting read: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Ship_Canal]] woah! and this too: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Swing_Aqueduct]]...

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Myke: Thanks for the comments every one. Jack it was indeed a Sunday morning. Pic 1: The Beetham Tower. Designed by Ian Simpson Architects, this building is nearly completed and will house a new Hilton hotel......

in response to: Empty City by Myke

Peter: wow, thats crazy how empty, desolate everything looks... but so pretty and well-tended. good shots... so where is everyone? manchester is a large city......

in response to: Empty City by Myke

Myke: Wow, back from the archives. They were taken from the 14th floor of our university halls of residence on the outskirts of Salford, close to Manchester. Thank you Sarah and Spygirl for your comments....

in response to: Morning Fog (07/12/05) by Myke

Myke: Yeah, I've seen a few Obey Giant stickers in Manchester, UK. Nothing as grand as a paste-up though. ...

in response to: Obey by EvilGentleman

Myke: Great post Andrew, welcome to citynoise. I'm a resident of Salford myself. I post quite a bit of Manchester city centre here. ...

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Peter: i echo exactly what jamie said. this is my fav sort of entry... and i do hope to see more from you! that being said, its nice to see the more rural side of {manchester}... a......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I love a trip round a city from a certain viewpoint, especially slightly seedy. Manchester is a great city. ...

in response to: It\'s the Dog\'s... by Myke

groovehouse: Nice shots of Manchester, thanks for sharing!...

in response to: It\'s the Dog\'s... by Myke

Myke: Record shop {robot} face, Northern Quarter, Manchester. [[img:8762]]...

in response to: robot building by elaine

Myke: Heh, the pigeons in Manchester, or any British town or city, look exactly like that. They must be really common. I'm hungry. *Myke sees bagel, leaves computer to make lunch* ...

in response to: Cause and Effect: by Peter

elaine: greenwich mean time. it is the time from which all other times are measured, and was brought in when train timetabling became problematic because time would be different even in Manchester than it was in......

in response to: View from My Office in Calgary by Helen

colavito's ghost: Manchester is fuckin' crazy....

in response to: A Sunday out in Manchester by Myke

Vidal B UK Manchester: I watched a documentary on the bushwick projects/ghetto about 8 years ago and it looked and was very very ghetto. Fiends overdosing and getting clapped up and 9 year old cats blazing dro, Sick! ...

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Nic: te - you'll not be happy til you fall off, you! was in fact a mothers response in a manchester park to her toddlers proud claim: " I can walk on this wall me!" "You'll not......

in response to: Enniskillen by barry

ram51@japan.com: grat photos...very impressive...i,m gonna rethink my viewpoint of manchester...keep on runnin man.... thanks ram51...

in response to: Manchester Lights A by Myke

Myke: Elaine - It's amazing how small the world feels at times. Peter - I see the robot face. I wonder when the takeover will begin. jeremyoffairport - Thanks a lot mate. I do have lots......

in response to: Manchester Lights B by Myke

jeremyoffairport: These manchester photos are great, theres loads of em recently and yours are the best. i hope you've got lots more to share. i for one would love to see them. there even better than......

in response to: Manchester Lights B by Myke

alice: lovely. incidentally, i know a m(i)ke who lives in manchester......

in response to: Manchester Lights B by Myke

colavito's ghost: Manchester = Tokyo...

in response to: Manchester Lights B by Myke

Peter: wow... your photos are great- theyre quickly making me fall in love with {manchester}, a place ive neither been nor thought much of before. awesome!...

in response to: Manchester Lights A by Myke

jack: i love manchester in june, how about , wait a second, i cant see anything. this is photography of nothing but fog. yet it compels me to look further into the picture. ......

in response to: Morning Fog (07/12/05) by Myke

jack: i like wales in june, how about you. i like the detroit bridge, how about you? manchester really rocks, cant get my fill and the urbis, oh yes the urbis gives me a......

in response to: Manchester Dec 2005 - Part 2 by indykid

Myke: Thanks Peter. It's a nice mix up of old and new. Manchester has many examples of facadism, which I will hopefully find and photograph. Glasgow has similar building projects going on as well. Many of the......

in response to: Manchester (June 2005) by Myke

jamie: heh peter, i was just gonna say the exact same things about the incedental {rainbow}s and the robot face {URBIS} roof. Great photos Myke and it's good to see {Manchester} representing....

in response to: Manchester (May 2005) by Myke

Myke: Thank you Peter for the comments and the links also. I've a lot more photographs of Manchester which I will slowly add over time. ...

in response to: Manchester (May 2005) by Myke

Myke: Thank you very much both of you. There's always something new being built in Manchester, it's going through a sort of city centre living craze at the moment. ...

in response to: Morning Fog (07/12/05) by Myke

Peter: big it up {manchester}! ive loved seeing all the recent manchester content as of late... i really hope y'all keep it up, as im particularly taken with this city. i love the {rainbow} artifacts in the......

in response to: Manchester (May 2005) by Myke

manchester tourism board: i say the most important thing is just to learn and stick with it. it's not a question of whether you start a toy, it's a question of whether you stay a toy. so......

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manchester tourism board: go manchester!...

in response to: Manchester Dec 2005 by indykid

hotdogx: how come you didn't vote sdlp to keep maskey out. The provos are evil b**tards they have no support in the republic, they claim to be for the cause but they are mafia!! people like......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

Johnny: To that Manchesta Wanka,what makes you think we give a damn about your opinion or some welsh person.Your probabally actually a taig from here writin that,but if you are from Manchester.Loyalism has many friends in......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

uk: yeah, they've been around manchester too. they painted a wall inside URBIS, for ill-communication exhibition one year. it was good....

in response to: The London Police by Jamie