That's a lovely photograph. I had forgotten what the church looked like.
I keep thinking of the 'old days' now i have found this website. My mum and I would always walk to the 'village' as it was called then, to the Co-op butchers every week. Our vegetable shop was called Hartley's which was just over the other side of the Tan yard. If my mum did not bake on a Friday, we went to the bread shop on Gt. Cheetham Street near the County picture house. I remember the Globe which is mentioned earlier, we called it the 'bug house' also because you always came out with itchy legs.
We played, as children, on the croft, Barrow Hill Road, just off Waterloo Road, where houses were situated before they were bombed.
We had rope swings tide to gas lamps, lots of memories. Rag and Bone men regularly came down our entry. We always swapped rags for brown and white stone. White for the front step and Brown for the back step. Sue.