Furniture Store-Stockport Road, Longsight, Manchester

[Barbara.H]

Yes you're right, a stronger sense of identity with each 'village' - and with more  Post Offices than nowadays of course, grumble grumble...
 I have a similar road numbering query regarding Oldham Road, and the boundary between Manchester & Failsworth. Does anyone here know that end of town well? Family of mine had a Pie Shop – what an excellent occupation – at 34 Oldham Rd Failsworth. I always thought that the Failsworth/Manchester boundary would be the junction of Oldham Rd and Broadway, but my 1970 map has a boundary line just below Broadway, seems to be following Moston Brook. So no. 34 would be just south of Broadway. Can anyone confirm?
Back to Stockport Rd, here's a photo of Crowcroft Park from a 1911 postcard of mine. Possibly looking into the park from Stockport Rd, but I'm not sure.
Barbara

[tony h]

Hi Barbara,
From memory the oldham/failsworth boundary sign is about 20m south of Broadway junction. I'll check later. But again due to demolition you are in for a long haul on this one.

Tony

[uk2003]

Barbara/Tony

The Failsworth boundary sign is next to Morton Road (couple 100 mts down from Broadway)

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01on/

Ken

[Barbara.H]

Thanks guys,
I had this idea of getting my kids interested & taking them to hunt down old addresses in Manchester over the school hols. I don't expect to find many original buildings in the Newton/Failsworth area. Finding the former pie shop's location and handing out a pre-purchased pie will be good enough! Their grandad's childhood home has been replaced (approximately) by the Great Ancoats St branch of toys r us; that should go down well.
 
Barbara

[manmack]

Thanks Mack, glad to know my long-term memory isn't completely shot; I believe it gets better as youget older??  I couldn't remember Pat O'Shea's name, but I can see him sitting outside his shop in the sunshine. My house looks a bit like his place at the moment, good stuff but all over the place.... 
Still can't get the scanner to work, but here is a photo of the 1905 map (from Godfrey no 104.16, Gorton and Belle Vue), hope this works OK. The row of shops is there next to East Rd, but Attwood St hasn't been nuilt yet.
The second image is from a map of 1895, from the Gay Sussex 'Longsight Past and Present' book. The row of shops hasn't been built yet. Haven't found out who the occupants of Barnfield Cottage were yet.
Anna, I see your Goulds are of Irish extraction? Have you tried contacting the Irish Heritage centre in Manchester for your family business history?
And Mack, do you remember Wojtas' antique shop on that row? Late 1960s I think?  He was a woodcarver and had a wooden panel by the door telling his life story. It was a beautiful thing, wonder what happened to it?

hiya barbara,yes i remember old mr wojas,your right,he was a wood carver,he was from poland,i did some work for his son greg,mack