Name the Place for Kooky ( Manchester )

[kooky]

Just checked The Woodthorpe. It did not become a pub until 1925!
Previously the home of the Holt family,the Brewers.
Back to the drawing board!!
Kooky

[kooky]

Could anyone find a picture of the Co op building mentioned earlier?

Kooky

[LizzieW]

My dad's twin sister (on the left of my avatar) and their younger brother lived side by side when married after the war in prefabs, somewhere a couple of miles of Rochdale Road - would that be Heaton Park?  If so, I remember them looking like the ones in Liverpool Annie's photo.

They loved them but years later were moved into high rise flats somewhere in Harpurhey, which they hated, because the entrances got dirty and smelly and they didn't feel safe.

Lizzie

[Brianm]

I lived in the prefabs right near where Barbara's family lived.  We moved to 2 Kirkmere Drive in 1948 and lived there until we emigrated to Los Angeles, California in 1953.  By the time I came back to visit in 1969 the prefabs were gone.  Only the outline of them remained on the grass.  I couldn't believe how small the house had been!  My best friend in the prefabs was * Bond and I remember * Sedon??  I loved living there and I also went to Heaton Park Primary School and then Thomas St. School in Cheatham Hill.  Anybody out there who remembers the prefabs and the schools?

[uk2003]

Hi Brianm

Firstly welcome to rootschat 

and hello fellow pupil of Heaton Park Primary School, maybe a little later than yourself, I was imprisoned there mid 60's with Mrs Lee

Regards
Ken

ps

My mum her brother & sister all went to it as well Dorothy, Robert & Pat Hilton, do they ring a bell?

[Brianm]

Hello Ken.  Thanks for responding.  I'm afraid I don't remember your family.  Actually, I liked going to Heaton Park Primary because it was in the park and was surrounded by a lot of beautiful nature.  Thomas St.  School was just the opposite.  It was a blackboard jungle just around the corner from Cheatham Hill Road.  Do you remember Bookbinder's Bakery?  It was right near the school.  At Heaton Park Primary I had a crush on Vivian Lee.  I remember her name because it was the same as the movie star's.  All the best

[kooky]

I have been 're-visiting' my Fisher info.
I think I may have found two possible marriages for the wedding photo at the very beginning of this thread! They are both in the suggested time frame.
My gt gr mother Matilda Fisher had 7 children.
Her son Richard married Martha Blackburn in 1884. Their son Richard b. 1887 married Kathleen Davis June 1914 M/c.
Their son Henry married Annie Frith  Sept. 1912 M/c.
Can anyone help me out here?
Kooky

[Barbara.H]

Well Lancashire bmds have Richard Fisher & Kathleen Davis marrying at Manchester Cathedral - so does that location in the photo look like a town centre (or nearby) venue?

Going right back to the beginning, it does have the look of a Co-op building - those sort of flattened arches round the windows.

I still favour 1912 myself on account of the hats!    do you know where the 1912 wedding took place? Fisher/Frith doesn't come up on Lancs bmds

  Barbara

[kooky]

The ref. is just M/c. I do not have the cert.   Yet!
Kooky