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Comments from around the world : 4
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(26 July 2007) : Sheila Higham writes from Devon ~ Does anyone remember Sheila Unwin of Sodhall Farm,Cleggs Lane? ~ or attended Hulton County secondry school in the late fifties or early sixties, I would like to hear from anyone who remembers me. Now living in Devon and would love to contact anyone from L.H in those days.
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(25 June 2007) : Melvin Booth writes ~ Hi Maggie,
first let me say how surprised I was when I came across your website (by pure accident). Reading the various postings and seeing some old pictures was great.
As for myself I was born in 1949 in the front room of the house where my farther still lives, Green Avenue opposite the old Lucozade factory. Both my mother and farther worked at the factory for years, I wonder if anyone may remember my dad Roy he use to often give out a Mario Lanzo song at the factory and also I was with him one day around 1954/5 when he was asked for a song in the back "School Street" near the church and was very proud young as I was.
I now live in Leeds after moving here in 1974 but most of my family still live there so I visit regularly though your site reminds my just how much it has changed.
I would love to know if any of your readers have any memories of a great 60,s group The Answers! Tom, John, Brian and Dennis. For a short while John sang with the band I played in called Santa Fe' Reunion before his untimely death. Gigs at the Beachcomber in Bolton and the Rivington Barn ect.
Great times.
I shall place this web-site in my favorites folder and visit often. Thanks.
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(14 June 2007) : Garry Lyons writes from Brisbane, Australia ~ Dear Maggie - just found your web site about Little Hulton, one of your photos shows an old house named Pea Cottage. This the house I grew up in from 1965 to1982, and it is in fact called Peel Mill Cottage, and yes, it was an ice cream shop.
My dad ran a coach firm from there called Lyons Coaches . I now live in Brisbane ,Australia and enjoy the memories your site provided thank you Garry Lyons
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(13 June 2007) : Mike Gaynor writes ~ Hi Maggie
My family moved to Rigby Grove on the Kenyon estate in 1956 when I was just 9 months old. We were part of the Salford overspill from Greengate. My first memories were at St. Joseph’s primary. First day age 5, trapped my fingers in a door. 2nd day, had my face buried in the sandpit by a bully. Our teacher Miss Hamer sorted it all out. Our class went on a nature ramble to Bullows farm. (Now the site of Brackley Golf Club) I’d never seen a cow before, it was great. We moved to Our Lady of the Lancs. Martyrs when it opened in 1964. Mr McGrath gave us a maths lesson. We had to count how many times the hod carrier climbed his ladder in 1 hour. So, how many bricks would he move per day?
The Rigby Grove “gang” used to play on the farm, Cutacre tip (the slackies) & the colliery works. These were our dens. There was always a rope swing over the stream. Guaranteed some would always walk home soaking wet. My initials were carved above the rest in the trees. So I had to get up & tie the rope every time it snapped. Moving the clock on. Sunday dinners in the “Lanky” listening to the old boys (my dad Billy, Billy Joyce, Pedro Danson, Eric George, Dennis Riley, Ron Chapman to name a few) singing were great. Uncle Tom’s on Friday, Saturday, Monday nights. Wagging night school at Worsley Tech to go to the “Civic”. L/H in the 70’s was brilliant. Living in Walkden now it’s such a shame the youth are living so different to how we did. But, we had the aforementioned plus, Bridgy, Greenheys, St. Edmunds & St. Andrews youth clubs. I even remember a disco at Brierley House. Incidently, who remembers the orchard behind Brierley House & the ponies. I could go on forever.
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(6 May 2007) : Christine Childs writes from Melbourne ~ Hi Maggie, I have just discovered the Memories of Little Hulton site, much to my delight. I spent the first seven years of my life in Little Hulton, 1959 to 1966 living at 32 Cleggs Lane. I went to St Joseph's school which I think was just off Cleggs Lane? I visited LH for Christmas 1975 but haven't been back since.
My father, Brian Childs was born and bred in Little Hulton and lived in Laurel Drive ...he worked in the Co-op as a young man in the early 1950s. I'm sure my Dad would have had memories of the plane crash everyone refers to on the site but unfortunately he passed away in 1996. I'm sure he talked about a bomb (?) crater in the railway embankment which runs behind Laurel Drive?
My Grandfather, Stephen Childs, was an air raid shelter warden during WW2. For much of his working life he worked at Bennis & Co, Engineers (as did his father and uncles before him) but in the 1960s and early 1970s he was the caretaker at St Georges school.
We are in Melbourne, Australia where we migrated to in 1968
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