I'm still enjoying reading all your posts on here. Thank you all for keeping it going. Hearing about Sister Philomena, well she still gives me the shivers!
By the way, I'm currently researching the murder which occurred in 1933 at 453 Cheetham Hill Road. A Mrs Frances Levin was found beaten to death in her living room and a vagrant, William Burtoft was executed for the crime exactly five months later. The murder was featured recently on the TV programme 'Murder, Mystery and my Family' (you can view the programme on You Tube (episode 7), and they examined the evidence and concluded Burtoft could not have done it. However, they made no suggestion as to who did it. Through my research I've found several possible suspects, however.
I'm trying, without success so far, to find a photo of the house, Claremont, which was about the second house along on Cheetham Hill Rd, just to the right after the top of Heywood St. The first house at the top of Heywood St, just to the right of the opening, was Dr Lee's house and surgery, then next to this were two large old semis, the first of which was Mrs Levin's house, and the adjoining house was that of Mr Wigoder, surgeon-dentist. Next, there was a block of three tall houses with shops below them, then Beckenham Rd and then the Premier cinema.
There are lots of photos online of the opposite side of Cheetham Hill Road, of the Greenhill Cinema and the top of Esmond Rd, which faced 453, but none of Claremont itself. Whenever my mother and I used to walk past the house going up to 'the village', she used to point out Claremont as 'the murder house', since she had heard our older neighbours refer to it as such, but she had no idea who had been murdered there. The house is long demolished now. If anyone has photos of that corner of the south side of Cheetham Hill Rd between Heywood St and the Premier, I'd love to see them. I have a 1931 map and will try to upload an image from it.