Go 'Down Memory Lane' with us

October 27, 2005

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WE WANT your memories of bygone Stockport for a new feature in the Express ...

We've revamped our Readers Letters pages to include a new section called 'Down Memory Lane'.

This section will be your very own journey back in time to years gone by in Stockport. We want readers to write in with their memories about the town.

Maybe you have fond memories of a particular part of Stockport that has changed or disappeared from the map since them. You might have recollections of your time as a child. Or maybe you look back with happiness on old shops, pubs or businesses that you used to know.

If you have any stories you'd like to share, then we'd love to hear from you.

You can send in your tales in several ways:

Write to Down Memory Lane, Stockport Express, Wood Street, Stockport SK3 0AB
E-mail us at stockportexpress@gmwn.co.uk
Fax us on 0161 475 4868.

Don't forget to include your name, address and a contact telephone number (not for publication).

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Peter Eden, Stockport (15/11/2005 at 14:17)

I saw in last weeks edition Down Memory Lane the article on the Eden family I have tried to send an email as given in the paper but I keep getting the email returned. Valerie Russell is my cousin and I have not heard from them for many years. do you have any more info ie an address or phone no with which I could make contact.

Peter Eden

jim brindley, mellbourne au (27/02/2006 at 08:43)

any one left who lived in angel street 1930 1935. i did work house bottom of street and hat factery .pub at top of street .and sally army.still got memerys nearly every was hurt by 1918 war including my grandad john brindley .jumped ship 1952 austraila .if intersted will tell my memorys of stockport .before i joined merhant navy.cheers old pom jim

bill weatherilt, qld australia (05/03/2006 at 00:30)

during a return nostalgic visit to stockport the first since leaving in 62.noted the place we lived 48/62
was demolised.st mary, gate nr the market.now a car park.
I was a little shocked how small
the area,which supported about 12 houses,9 yards,a passage,3 air raid shelters.and plenty of room for us kids to play.any info/pictures when
demolition

Cyril Roberts, Southport (15/04/2006 at 20:33)

Does anyone remember the 'mile of books' during the warI think it started at the bottom of Brinnington, past my old school (St. Pauls) and down Portwood. It may have gone as far as Mersey Sq., I'm not sure. Books were laid side by side on the kerb, it was all part of the war effort. What would the kids of today make of that I wonder?
Cyril Roberts
Southport ( but Stockport born and bred and proud of it!)
588 Liverpool Road
Ainsdale
Southport Merseyside PR8 3BQ

01704577476

Peter McIntyre, Canada (24/09/2006 at 03:11)

My friends and I used to rummage around in old houses in the fifties that had been damaged by the war.We called ourselves the Demolition Gang.Once we pulled down a house and our friends were accidentally left inside.Fortunatedly they were all right.This past year I put my name on your ex pat's page and lo and behold-one of my Demolition Gang buddies responded.We have been in contact ever since.So if any others of the Gang remember a skinny redheaded lanky sod -it was me!

Peter McIntyre, Canada (24/09/2006 at 03:15)

My family ran a pub in Stockport during the fifties.It was called The Just Another.I remember how cold it got during the nights.I miss the people and the fish and chips.They just don't make them the same in Canada.I have family still in Stockport.

Stacey McGrath (15/05/2011 at 16:47)

After researching our family history we have discovered in my great aunt's obituary in the newspaper ( she died in April 1952) that it mentions Just Another. We cant work out if she worked there or if she was a regular. Her name is Jessie Jones (nee Bancroft) and her husband William Jones. Would be great if you have any memories you can share with us. Hopefully you'll see this post even though its 5 years after your original post!!

Susan Froggatt, Austin, Texas (06/07/2007 at 17:19)

Does anyone remember Froggatt's Funeral Services on Prionce's St. in Stockport. My grandfather George Froggatt was the undertaker and he hadd a chauffeur called Joe Death - it's the truth I swear! I use to love going on the bus from Heaton Mersey down Didsbury Road into Stockport to go shopping with my mum after the war. We would come home home loaded with cream cakes and sausage rolls from the the Cake Shop and on the way we'd always stop in to see my grandfather at his very discreet premises on Prince's St. We always used to go to the Three Shires for coffee and then walk back past the Coop to Mersey Square to get the bus home. Does anyone remember Neil and Hardy's music shop on Saturday afternoons? What fun we all used to have there, we'd get all "tarted up" and my friends and I would go just to see who else was there. Wonderful memories, wonderful days - where did they go?

Alan Challoner, Isle of Anglesey (02/09/2007 at 22:04)

One of my early memories of Stockport in the 1930s was of the Fair Ground near to the Gas Works on Great Portwood Street. From time to time there were challenge boxing matches in a marquee when one could challenge the 'resident' bruiser. Oh dear, that put me off boxing for life!

Adjacent to the footpath that ran alongside the Fair Ground were advertisement hoardings. One of these advertisements has always remained in my memory. It was a self-promoting ad for a doctor who I believe was an Asian and his specialty was 'Eye and Pile Specialist'. I never quite understood how the two were connected.

Also on Great Portwood Street was the Co-op stores. The service area did not have cash tills in the 1930's and the money used to be put into a cylindrical box that was loaded into a pulley system. The shop assistant then pulled a handle, rather like a lavatory chain, and the box of money shot off up into the upper part of the building. The box returned very quickly with any change due together with a dividend check that were collected by the customer and redeemed for cash quartely.

My first school was Vernon Park and it was upwind from the brewery, the smells of which used to waft across the school yard.

My parents had an allotment adjacent to Brinnington Road and these ran down to the railway line that, I think, ran from Manchester through Teviot Dale and on to Sheffield. I used to watch the engines (steam of course) pulling very long trains of goods wagons (possibly coal). The gradient towards Sheffield was uphill and as a small child I can remember feeling so sorry for the engines that had to pull such heavy loads. They crawled past the allotments with long gaps between the chuffs. This of course was long before the Thomas the Tank Engine collection of stories. Did Thomas ever have such an experience?

chris Mc tag (03/10/2007 at 13:51)

1966-1971 stockport clubs, manour lounge- sinking ship-tabernacle ,so diverse in music never got the acknowledgement over the manchester clubs,i lived in manchester during the late sixties,but could not get enough of stockport it was fantastic the TAB was buzzin every night it was open,and a little pub round the corner down the hill i forget its name,does any body remember? (norma on the platform)

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