East Manchester Remembered, by Frank Pritchard
Booklet published by Neil Richardson in 1989, 28 pages. A4 size booklet (N3988P1).
The author was born in Manchester in 1911, and his childhood was spent 'roaming round the densley populated streets surrounding the mills and factories of Gorton, Openshaw, Bradford, Beswick, Miles Platting, Collyhurst, Harpurhey, Crumpsall and Cheetham. In the 1930's, now grown up and married, he settled in Droylsden, and spent the next three decades there. In this fascinating booklet he writes about his experiences in East Manchester in the 1930's and 1940's, concluding with an account of the long hard winter of '47. Sections in the booklet include:
- Early memories of Clayton
- Droylsden in the 1930's
- Daisy Nook, Ashton Moss and beyond
- Gorton and Belle Vue
- The East Manchester Industrial Belt
- Pubs, Cinemas and Clubs
- Newton Heath
- Fairfield and Audenshaw
- The Long hard winter of 1947
The booklet is illustrated throughout with several black and white photographs
Condition of the booklet is excellent. The cover is clean and bright, the staple spine is tight and intact and all pages are clean, intact, unblemished and tightly bound. Has an old price printed on the front cover
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