General Chat

hi sue where abouts near Accy do you live? tracy

Hi Tracy, Great Harwood Sue x

hi sue I have rellies in great harwood on my side and my girls dad family live there to tracy

Born in Manchester Royal Infirmary! LIved in Hazel Grove, High School in Stockport, worked in Torkington. Joined the WLA and worked in at Caerwen, moved to Cholmondeley Castle Farm. Married and moved to Shropshire and then to Canada. Great Grandfather and grandmother born Shropshire, grandfather born Yorkshire, mother born Lancashire, father born Cheshire. Marrried a Guernseyman - but I'm still a Lancashire Lass - I think!

Hello everyone, I was born and bred in Manchester ,Lancashire(,not Greater Manchester)and am proud to be a Lancastrian/Mancunian. Lived in the city all my 55 years never lived far from the city centre itself. June you have been here as long as me so you are definately a Lancashire lass. brenda

hello everyone was born in blackpool love going back there and showing it to my family chris

Hi Both my hubby and I were born in Manchester in the 50's in Chorlton on Medlock and Gorton. We took the plunge and moved to Australia in the mid 80's. Have been back home three times for holidays and a lot of the areas we knew as children have changed an awful lot. But we both have happy memories of the districts we were raised in. My maternal family all lived in the Rochdale/Oldham areas. Best wishes Leah - Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia

Hello Leah, Many thanks for your note. Looks like we're the first county group to break out and form an Australian branch! Good on yer, cobber (and all that jazz!) Hmm... Rochdale & Oldham... My dad was a curate in Littleborough for a couple of years in the early '30s before going out to the (then) link diocese of Southern Rhodesia. He met and married my mum out there, then returned to Heywood in '38, where they lived through the blitz until '43, when they moved down to succeed my grandpa in Herefordshire. My outlaws live in Shaw, Oldham, so we get up there fairly regularly to check on Pennines goings-on! Philip

HI I WAS BORN IN DARWEN THEN WE MOVE TO BLACKBURN THEN TO RIBCHESTER AND MOVE BACK TO DARWEN AND BACK TO BLACKBURN THEN I MOVE TO ASHTON IN MAKERFIELD AND NOW I BACK IN BLACKBURN . AND I DONT WHAT TO MOVE AGAIN MARILYN

hi marilyn im nearly a neighbour to you tracy

I was born in North London but married a Salford lad in 1998. Have lived in Eccles since 1992.

ok Folks, not quite sure what or who i am maybe you can tell me?? My Parents are both Manchester born, Father was in the Army therefore i was born aboard (germany) but i have a british birth Cert. from the age of 4 i have lived in the Trafford area of Manchester. So What am I ?

I was born in Manchester, as were my parents. Mum's family were mainly from the Gorton area and dad's side were from Pendleton/Salford area. I moved to Coventry in 1991 to live with my then partner who I had met at college. When we split up in 1998 I stayed here. My parents now live in Bury and my two sisters live in Whitefield. My brother moved to Canada about 4 years ago. I don't get back to Manchester as often as I used to but still consider myself a Lancashire lass. Mel

OK Folks, it's all gone quiet! I've been away from home for the past few days, visiting the outlaws in Oldham on family shope business. Distinctly cooler than down here in the banana belt! I'd like to get up more often, but using the M6 is like trying to cross from the alpha to the delta quadrant in Star Trek! Some of the drivers drive me mad! Can we please abolish them and the motorway, and find some quicker and more painless way of keeping in physical touch! Suggestions please! Philip

Great idea, Chris, I'd love to be able to do that (teleport). Would cut out all the hassle of travelling long distances. Actually, they've recently opened the first toll motorway in England, which runs from the M6 well north of Birmingham down the east side to a point well south east, so misses out the whole conurbation completely. Lots of media hype at the time (usual rubbish about tolls being un-English etc! ), but it does seem to have improved things. I've used it travelling up to the north west from Oxfordshire, and it is pleasantly quiet. But my normal use is travelling up the M5 from Tiverton to the old junction with the M6, and even this is much better now. I can usually drive straight through to the junction without queuing for ages, which I used to have to do. Coming back to teleports, I remember the Guardian many years ago doing one of its April fool editions on a new scientific intention that converted people into atoms, so that they could be teleported in a beam via satellite to places like Australia. I would really like to have believed it! lol! Been watching too much Star Trek, I imagine! Now we know where you are, you can form our next overseas branch. Keep 'em coming! Philip

come on we are last now on play the counties

Hi everyone, I was born in Salford (Hope Hospital), brought up in Cheshire, got married and have spent the next 30 years in Whitefield. My paternal family was from Pendleton, Salford, and maternal family, Cheshire, Manchester and further back I have just found out from Derbyshire. Sally

Can I come in please ?... I would like to be a paid up guest !! I really do wish I had been born in Lancs so I wouldn't have to keep asking for help with ALL my Lancastrian ancestors on my Maternal side. Mother was born in Stretford in 1938, GDad was born in Halston St, S Manchester in 1902, and others before him ALL come from Denton/Chorlton/Salford/Urmston etc etc. Wish I knew more about the area so I didn't have to always keep asking for help. I'm a Derbyshire lass incidently, strong in arm, thick in yead !! Elaine :-)

hi philip from philipe,i was born on nile st near oldham brewery in the long ago age of 1952.we moved to royton when i was 10,went to chaddy grammar and left oldham when i was 19.lived in wales for awhile,then berkshire and i now live in france near bordeaux.i still follow the latics!!!!!!!and when i do go back to visit all my family it is still HOME.i think i got wanderlust because my mum added the E to philip so of course i just had to move to france.pssst listen very carefully,i shall say this only once LANCASHIRE is the centre of the known universe

i was born in bolton still live here aye by gum