Hello, Sorry I just outlined the boundary streets, not the ones running between.
The School on the croft near the top of Clifton St. round the corner was for children with special educational needs. It was called Leacroft I seem to remember.
The houses did suffer from the subsidence of the Roger coal seam which ran below the colony.One week the house doors would close ---- the next they would not!
We were in "The Catahrral zone," so called by M/C University who were doing a survey of how the air quality, mainly the acidic fumes from Hardman and Holden`s , affected the linings of our noses! ( and the subsequent runny noses-----ugh).
We played as children on nearby Holland St recreation ground where many huge slabs of beautifully carved masonry were stored from the bombed buildings in central M/C of the Christmas 1940 blitz.They were like ready made castles to us.
A fair used to visit and pitch on the red rec. It must have been hard to play football on that shale especially as the rain made lots of quite deep gullies .
Mr, Kendal--Pop Kendal-- headteacher at Holland St School..Miss Howarth, Miss Sidebottom,Miss Shepherd( later Mrs. Hopkirk I think,) Mr. Timms, and lots of lovely students teachers who did a crash course when demobbed but were very good.
Always in trouble for running up the coke pile round the back near the toilets, from Mr. Whitehouse the caretaker. The open fires in the classroms, frozen milk put to thaw,saving the cardboard discs from the bottles to make pom-poms with wool.
The folk dancing and folk singing, I loved it all.We got a good education, and discipline. Even when pop Kendal`s strap was hidden up the chimney!!!!! I`ll stop now , bye for now. Joynson.