Salford, The Royal Technical Institute 1897

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I remember them well, we lived in Easton House after being moved from Melbourne Street, Ordsall. I delivered the papers up and down all those stairs for half of the blocks every day before school and then after school. My teenage years were spent at the Lyndale trying to be grown up and I had my first shandy in the Hair and Hounds.

I was born in Russel Place off Hankinson St. We had cockroaches all over the house and there was 8 kids & 2 adults in a 2up 2down. We had no money & my dad was a gambler & a violent man. In 1952 we were rehoused to Corby House, Ladywell flats. This was when our gang of kids was formed, we played on the farm near Cock Robin Bridge, we played footie till dark & got belted for ruining our corpie ...see more

I was born in 1933. My family lived in Nansen Street, Salford until 1939, when we moved to 27 Winster Ave off Littleton Rd where I attended St Sebastian School off Whit Lane througout the war. In 1947, by the Grace of God, I won a scholarship which gave me entry to JTS, Junior Technical school, within the Royal Technical College. The first year was hell for a kid coming from a Catholic ...see more