Missing street name, Miles Platting, Manchester

[alanAF]

Dave hall 10.
Regards your relatives in Sheridan St, I looked on the 1911 census, they were boarding at 44 Elias St they had a son then Thomas (2).john was from Rotherham and he was aIron moulder.
hope this is helpful.

Alan.

[alanAF]

Hi Stan.

The Albert had a junior school on Queens rd near the zebra crossing in front of collyhurst flats. In about 1962 they built a secondary modern school on the spare land near the Albert church up near the railway bridge, they took people from the local CofE schools St Augustines being one of them, it has since been knocked down now I don't know what they replaced it with, minni moved to Heywood with my parents she lived opposite us, they opened a chippy on the new estate, , tell your mum there is a very active face book page for miles platting it has some people who didn't leave the area people put on old photos of the area as it was in the 1940/50/60s good memories.

Alan.

Hello, A friend shared the above thread with my mother. My mother is 90 years old and she was born and brought up at number 8 Malton Street, leaving the area when she was in her twenties. Her friend was also born and brought up in Malton Street, but is younger. Mum was able to draw a small map from memory, showing Malton Street, and Junction Street running parallel, and St Augustine Street running at rightangles from Junction Street to Malton Street. Her map also shows Lodge Street running from Junction Street (parallel to St Augustine Street) all the way down to Queens Road. She also remembered Barwick Street off Malton Street. Her handdrawn map from memory pretty well matched some of the official maps posted on this thread. However she was able to add more detail. She remembers Robinsons Grocery shop on the corner of Lodge Street and Malton Street, and Minnies Chip Shop further down on Lodge Street. Also Clowes Dairy (Nancy Clowes was one of her friends). She thinks that Albert Memorial on Queens Road was a church, not a school. She also remembers St Augustines Rectory and St Augustines Church, and the red rec. where everyone did their courting in those days! I asked why it was called the red rec and mum said because it was red! Red shale. She would be delighted to hear if anyone else recalls any of these places. 

[alanAF]

Dave hall 10.
Regards your relatives in Sheridan St, I looked on the 1911 census, they were boarding at 44 Elias St they had a son then Thomas (2).john was from Rotherham and he was aIron moulder.
hope this is helpful.

Alan.

hi I'm doing research into my family and found that my great grandparents also lived at 20 Sheridan street, they lived there in 1915, john Henry wheater and Maud wheater nee Wildbure.

[LianneY]

I think this is a very old post, so not sure if anyone still following?
My relatives lived in Barwick Street, (along with many other local addresses) for many years.
I have a 1922 photograph of some ancestors in a class photo taken at St Augustines.
What did happen to Barwick Street? What did the houses look like? I imagine they were fairly run down.....
Lianne

[alanAF]

The houses in barwick street were terraced, walk in off street into the front room, houses were well kept and very clean old but not run down, there are still houses in failsworth that are exactly the same and still occupied now.Logde st Sanderson st and surrounding streets had a lot of bomb damage whole or half streets in some areas , I think they were private landlords for most not sure but I think as it was the corporation took them over and it was just easier to clear them all and offer people news houses in Heywood Hyde Wythenshawe and others.

[LianneY]

Thank you for the information Alan. Your description was lovely. I was almost there in my head. :-)

[alanAF]

Your welcome, it was a really nice area to live in at the time, new houses were built but it is a very different place now, very deprived in some areas but its not the location but the people who make it was it is.

[LianneY]

Do you know anything of the church that was opposite? St Augustines....

[alanAF]

The church was next to the school which was boys only, Gussies as we called it , we went to the church for harvet festival and xmas it was beautiful inside but now its just houses, if you go back on these pages there is a map of the streets some of them had name changes but barwick street is on it.also I have left other comments, I remember it very clear I can see all the streets shops as clear as if I am still there.