Weren't there public loos in Paisley Terrace?
As for Lesley Cohen the shopowner, I used to play out with their daughter Annette and bought 'Beech Nut' chewing gum from a machine outside. Mrs Cohen was kind and used to give me the odd ice lolly. In those days, the Cohens lived in a flat over the shop and I remember them having the bungalow built. It did look a little out of place in the middle of all those terraces, which were built in 1910 (according to an inscription we found when we stripped wallpaper off once. They are still standing, by the way, although most of Heywood street was demolished in the late 60s. If you have Google Earth you can see them. They seem to have all been reroofed - perhaps taken on by a housing association? I found some images of the interior of one of the houses in the block where I had lived. It was on an estate agent's website. It was very surprising to see such a familiar interior - with the walk-through dining room with it's window with roof light, as very little light came into those houses. The front lounge had a box in the corner, which houses the gas meter which was accessed from the hallway - 'anyone got a bob for the meter, the lights just went out'!!
Our house had Jewish Mesuzzahs (tiny prayer scrolls in Hebrew script) attached to each interior doorframe, and we had a kitchen light bulb that never needed changing. It was there when my folks bought the house in 1950 and still shining away when we moved out in 1973. We once met the previous owner of the house and she said it had been there and never changed during the years she had occupied the house too. 'Don't make 'em like that any more!
In my time, the Chemist at the corner of Huxley Ave was Mr Malkin. Have you read any of Monty Dobkin's little booklets about Cheetham of yore? I bought some from Central Library some years back. In one of them, he lists all the shopkeepers on Cheetham Hill Road back in his day.
I am sad to see my old school, Notre Dame Convent, was demolished. Although I lived a hop and skip away, I always seemed to be last one in through the door each morning.
I don't remember the Shakespeare cinema (there was a Shakespeare pub downtown in Fountain St Near Lewis's tho). I can only recall the Odeon down Cheetham Hill Rd, the Premier higher up and The Temple opposite Huxley Avenue. The Odeon became a bowling alley and we used to go there for ice cold coke from their vending machines. Sooo sophisticated. I remember the Jewish hospital. As a tomboy, I was always falling out of trees and suchlike and ending up in the casualty dept there. I have millions of small black & white snaps of me as a baby & toddler in Elizabeth St park. Happy, uncomplicated days.