Plans for Wythenshawe Town Centre

[threespires]

We moved to WHP about 1970 before the M56 was built. We played football on what was the old Ringway golf course and a few times cows had wondered from the fields and ended up in the gardens and on the road in front of the houses.

We lived next to the M56, I remember it being built and no longer being able to walk over to the flats that were off Greenbrow Rd on the 'other side'. Every now and then I find myself sat stationery on the M56 and I think back to how empty it was when it first opened. If the ball went down the bank you could just stroll out onto the carriageway and saunter back doing keepie uppies!

 

[threespires]

I used to go swimming in the river Bolin with my mates.

Leeches !!

 

[threespires]

We used to spend weekends and school holidays looking for money in gutters and grids just to make that trip into town, great days, remember once even taking a ferret (on a lead) to sell to the pet shop on Tib street.

Tib street was a proper 'destination' / day out, happy days. Think there's an old thread on here about the joke shop.

 

[-dabz-]

Some of you might not have seen this....

 

[DTKOAG]

It's a shithole... But its my shithole.

 

[normskih]

When Wythenshawe started to get the big influx of new residents, it didn't have enough schools (it still doesn’t!), doctors, dentists, shops… it was pretty much a mass of houses with nothing else there.

When I was growing up there were lots of Secondary schools. Poundswick, South Wythenshawe (just changed from Moss Nook and Brownley Green), Sharston, Yew Tree. For catholics, there were, All Hallows, St Columbus, St Peter’s, St Augustines and that’s off the top of my head. Seems a lot to me?

 

[normskih]

It's a shithole... But it’s my shithole.

and mine and woe be tide those who knock it;)

By the time the first youth club opened on Portway we were refused entry,told to go to the pub.I was about 15 at the time.Still a great place to live for a “young un”

We called it the CA

 

[threespires]

When I was growing up there were lots of Secondary schools. Poundswick, South Wythenshawe (just changed from Moss Nook and Brownley Green), Sharston, Yew Tree. For catholics, there were, All Hallows, St Columbus, St Peter’s, St Augustines and that’s off the top of my head. Seems a lot to me?

I tried to explain to my kids that you used to get large numbers of kids from one school 'waiting outside' for another school to come out, they looked at me in a "wtf was wrong with you lot in the 70s/80s" kind of way.

All Hallows and St Augustines mutated (and i use that word deliberately) into St John Plessington for a short inglorious period and they also set up a less chaotic girls school Cardinal Newman.

 

[Dirty Harry]

Some of you might not have seen this....

Nice one mate, unmistakably Hollyhedge shops and my old nursery (behind St Luke’s church) in those opening scenes.

Just seen the old CA there down the road from ‘The Cock ‘o’ th North, saved so many of us from a life of crime (or most of it).

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I've still got the scars on my knees from when I tripped on a broken paving slab running through the underpass of Simon Court flats on my way down to Minsterly Parade shops.