Gary James
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I've still got mine (just). Use it for decorating. Along with my Manchester 1992 (yes, 92 not 96) Manchester Olympic bid Tshirt. Flint stone includes the line 'not now Wilma, I'm off to see the Blues'.
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Does anybody remember shopping here ?
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silverback
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Gary,I've still got mine (just). Use it for decorating. Along with my Manchester 1992 (yes, 92 not 96) Manchester Olympic bid Tshirt. Flint stone includes the line 'not now Wilma, I'm off to see the Blues'.
Would you know if City rented houses on Platt Lane near to its junction with Lloyd St? A couple of houses were bombed during the war (hopefully not Uwe's Grandad) and local folklore had it that one of them was occupied by a pre war City player. You can see the pair of semis not being the same build as those around them.
Gary James
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Yes City did buy houses in that area. Frank Swift lived in one around there, but never heard anything about a City player being killed in a bombing raid. Two points worth thinking about - only first team players or new signings from elsewhere were offered housing by the club back then, but others would've been put in rooms around Beveridge St (at one point 3 first team players boarded in a terraced house on Wansford St I think c. 1946.Gary,
Would you know if City rented houses on Platt Lane near to its junction with Lloyd St? A couple of houses were bombed during the war (hopefully not Uwe's Grandad) and local folklore had it that one of them was occupied by a pre war City player. You can see the pair of semis not being the same build as those around them.
The other point is that there's a great map in one of the archives in Manchester showing where bombs landed in the city of Manchester. Bombs did destroy a house on Thornton Rd if I remember correctly. I'll see what my notes/records say to see if a house was destroyed where you say as well. Cheers
gordondaviesmoustache
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My dad lived round there too for much of his childhood and a particular story he loves to tell, which would probably have been after the war as he was evacuated to Colne in 1940 (born in 1935), was how he followed Frank Swift home from the ground after training (even though he was a united fan), saw which nearby house he went into and knocked on the door. A woman answered (not sure if it was his mum, I think she was a lot older than Frank) and my dad asked if he could have Mr Swift's autograph and she insisted Frank came to the door and gave this young man what he wanted so he would go away.Yes City did buy houses in that area. Frank Swift lived in one around there
It was another world, really.
silverback
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Thanks for that Gary but if I remember correctly there wasn't any casualties in the incident.Yes City did buy houses in that area. Frank Swift lived in one around there, but never heard anything about a City player being killed in a bombing raid. Two points worth thinking about - only first team players or new signings from elsewhere were offered housing by the club back then, but others would've been put in rooms around Beveridge St (at one point 3 first team players boarded in a terraced house on Wansford St I think c. 1946.
The other point is that there's a great map in one of the archives in Manchester showing where bombs landed in the city of Manchester. Bombs did destroy a house on Thornton Rd if I remember correctly. I'll see what my notes/records say to see if a house was destroyed where you say as well. Cheers
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Brookers
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I used to shop in the one opposite in the 1960/70`s, that I think was owned by someone (Paul ??) who had something to do with Granada.
Was that the shop diagonally across the road on the corner?
If so I think it might be the one that the players opened and they used to sign the pictures and the like when you bought them.
law74
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I didn't realise that you lived in Moss Side during the war :-)Thanks for that Gary but if I remember correctly there wasn't any casualties in the incident.
silverback
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Mr Hitler gave up just before I was born. Coward.:-)I didn't realise that you lived in Moss Side during the war :-)
The back story is me walking down Platt Lane and trying my best not to be accosted by an old bloke. Somehow he always managed to appear at his gate when I went past. He used to regale me stories of the War and the preceding years and every story was finished with the tag line of " you will remember that wont you". Anyway this particular day he said that opposite his place was a pair of semis that were rebuilds and had been levelled during a bombing raid. He told me that a City player used to live there and obviously had to move away. My regret now is not finding out the name of the player.
silverback
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It suddenly came to me last night while I was drinking my Horlicks that I had become the old man. :-(