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Alice 30/06/2008 11:01:46
mary bennett 29/06/2008 17:55:24
I lived in moss-side most of my life, used to live on crosscliffe st just off moss-lane, have 6 sisters and 2 brothers, my mums name is stella, he maiden name is lavanini, if anybody knows how i can get any old photos or remembers us please email me at marymcinerney1@hotmail.co.uk, would love to hear from you.
Red Ruth 19/06/2008 20:49:03
I used to go through Hulme on the bus on my way into town as a teenager. The site of all the hippy rigs fascinated me so much - I wanted to be a part of that lifestyle. Saturdays were the best days and the punks picnics were wicked. I hung out in Hulme at parties and squats I loved every minute of it. When I left home I stayed at friends squats on Chas Bas and ended up moving to Brum when things went a bit tits up. I went on the road myself for a few years - mainly round Europe, putting on Raves with a load of mates (Sound Conspiracy). Met up at did some parties with Dessert Storm - wicked posse. You can never go anywhere without a Manchester crew being in the area!! Still love it, now I'm a DT teacher - putting a little bit of subversion in the classroom .................love you all
Sandy 10/06/2008 21:38:05
In 1990, when I was 18, I traded Holland for Manchester, to go live with my boyfriend at the time, who was living in Old Trafford. After 3 weeks of intense argueing and fighting, I had to find somewhere else to live...and I eventually ended up living in John Nash Crescent (I think it was 337) with a friend of a friend of a friend, named Ian. Said I could stay in his flat, and even gave me my own 'room', in which I had not much to put (I was a strong believer in not needing more belongings than one could fit in one big bag, which also proved to be very practical while travelling a lot) except for a dirty old matrass, one spare pair of trousers and some pictures of friends I had in Holland. To brighten things up I painted a massive sized Tank Girl on the wall and there was my home for the next six months or so.
It's 2008 now, so obviously this part of my life has had quite an impact on me, since I still remember it so vividly. Every day was different from the last, you'd never know what you'd be in to in the next hour or so. A constant factor though was drugs, we woke up with it and fell asleep with it. What I remember very well, was going over to Japi's house (upper floor W.K. crescent), where he'd make us space-icecreams. Driving to some caves just outside Manchester, with a couple of people whom I'd never met before, in a sort of borrowed car being driven by a demonicly pretty girl named Beth, who (while driving with almost closed eyes and a drugged smile) admitted she didn't have a driver's licence or anything. I can't remember how we got there, but I know we did, and we returned to Hulme and all. I spend considerable time with Ian, painting our frontdoor and the panels next to it, with fluorescent paint. Whenever I find photo's or footage of old Hulme on the internet, I'm always looking for 'our' front door, but I've never spotted it. I have just found this site, and I'm thrilled to find all these stories and footage - I've even seen moving pictures of my old flatmate Ian, wearing a freakish hat and drinking lager. It was good to see him standing there as one of the die-hards, as I expected he would be.
It's 2008 now, so obviously this part of my life has had quite an impact on me, since I still remember it so vividly. Every day was different from the last, you'd never know what you'd be in to in the next hour or so. A constant factor though was drugs, we woke up with it and fell asleep with it. What I remember very well, was going over to Japi's house (upper floor W.K. crescent), where he'd make us space-icecreams. Driving to some caves just outside Manchester, with a couple of people whom I'd never met before, in a sort of borrowed car being driven by a demonicly pretty girl named Beth, who (while driving with almost closed eyes and a drugged smile) admitted she didn't have a driver's licence or anything. I can't remember how we got there, but I know we did, and we returned to Hulme and all. I spend considerable time with Ian, painting our frontdoor and the panels next to it, with fluorescent paint. Whenever I find photo's or footage of old Hulme on the internet, I'm always looking for 'our' front door, but I've never spotted it. I have just found this site, and I'm thrilled to find all these stories and footage - I've even seen moving pictures of my old flatmate Ian, wearing a freakish hat and drinking lager. It was good to see him standing there as one of the die-hards, as I expected he would be.
janey 05/06/2008 22:28:27
hey mathew l have pass on your comments to felix
janey 05/06/2008 22:25:58
just found this site, after felix kept telling me about it.l lived at 543 william kent from 79 to the cresents demise. i remember the reno/nile/psv eagle spinners iron duke.played a lot of pool in eagle, often beat felix at pool.l recall the viraj mendise taking sancutary at the church.
just to go to man alive club. and rember back in the days, you could walk home any late time after stumbling from psv then reno and walking home back to william kent with out looking over my shoulder.i recal going to the blues at rockdove ave. those were the days.i remeber wally, rip addy aslo,stiks.
recall cooking food with felix for hulme carnival we made a killing thanks to my cooking.we still keep in touch. hi to anyone who knows me
just to go to man alive club. and rember back in the days, you could walk home any late time after stumbling from psv then reno and walking home back to william kent with out looking over my shoulder.i recal going to the blues at rockdove ave. those were the days.i remeber wally, rip addy aslo,stiks.
recall cooking food with felix for hulme carnival we made a killing thanks to my cooking.we still keep in touch. hi to anyone who knows me
Matthew 02/06/2008 04:58:08
FOR THE ATTENTION OF FELIX!
Felix, you used to work in Fallowfield Library on Platt Lane in Fallowfield when I was a little kid. You were the coolest, best, most interesting librarian I've ever met! A good few years later, in adulthood, I met you in either the Spinners or The Eagle....and told you I used to get my Asterix and Tintin books stamped out of the library by you when I was a little boy. We had a spliff together and you said I made you "feel old"...as here was I all grown up smoking weed in a pub with you, and a few years before you were stamping my books out of the children's section of a bloody library LOL (although you never recognized me from childhood). How long are your dreads now? You still got them? Anyway, god bless you....I hope this message finds you happy and in good health. Live long and prosper, my friend. Same goes for all you ex-Hulme heads.
General reflections of Hulme and these comments pages:
I lived in Hulme too in laters years. A few years on Bonsall St and a few years in the 'red bricks'...on Hunmanby Avenue, and I have to laugh at some of the middle class Students thinking they got the Hulme experience....and saying things like "RIP The Crescents"...I bet they're all bloody bank managers now. To them I say; you try living in them because you have to...and not because your plastic 'gold card hippy' leanings thought it was a cool place to 'live'. Sorry, but some are right bloody wankers!. Reading through these comments, one self confessed 'poly student' on these pages wrote "the weed was amazing and had loads of seeds".....how's that for a contradiction in terms? Weed that has gone to seed is the lowest in terms of quality (but clean, natural and still good if you smoke enough). Good job you never smoked the sensi or skunk then isn't it? Your head would have fallen off! The same poly student wrote that they even "saw a pink elephant once". LOL.....seeded cheap bush made you see pink elephants? Sure it did! Anyway, I'm only teasing. Have a nice life in your middle class leafy suburbs, and dream of pink elephants.....while the working/lower classes amongst us still have to live in places like Hulme and Moss Side... and hope to one day get as far away from here as possible. I've made a good start...Fallowfield! LOL, about 5 minutes from Hulme.
Memories of Hulme at various times in my life:
Free parties
The Kitchen
The Eagle
Packs of wild dogs
Malarky's shop
Mini wanabee gangsters (avoid!)
CRAP WEED WITH SEEDS!
Higgy (iggy?), John Robb, Hawkeye, Kristof, Sean, Pob (my best mate to this very day), Rosie (formerly Safron), Kelzo (I used to work with him on a YTS scheme)
and all the other *REAL* Hulme heads.
God bless you all (including you gold card hippies....LOL)
Felix, you used to work in Fallowfield Library on Platt Lane in Fallowfield when I was a little kid. You were the coolest, best, most interesting librarian I've ever met! A good few years later, in adulthood, I met you in either the Spinners or The Eagle....and told you I used to get my Asterix and Tintin books stamped out of the library by you when I was a little boy. We had a spliff together and you said I made you "feel old"...as here was I all grown up smoking weed in a pub with you, and a few years before you were stamping my books out of the children's section of a bloody library LOL (although you never recognized me from childhood). How long are your dreads now? You still got them? Anyway, god bless you....I hope this message finds you happy and in good health. Live long and prosper, my friend. Same goes for all you ex-Hulme heads.
General reflections of Hulme and these comments pages:
I lived in Hulme too in laters years. A few years on Bonsall St and a few years in the 'red bricks'...on Hunmanby Avenue, and I have to laugh at some of the middle class Students thinking they got the Hulme experience....and saying things like "RIP The Crescents"...I bet they're all bloody bank managers now. To them I say; you try living in them because you have to...and not because your plastic 'gold card hippy' leanings thought it was a cool place to 'live'. Sorry, but some are right bloody wankers!. Reading through these comments, one self confessed 'poly student' on these pages wrote "the weed was amazing and had loads of seeds".....how's that for a contradiction in terms? Weed that has gone to seed is the lowest in terms of quality (but clean, natural and still good if you smoke enough). Good job you never smoked the sensi or skunk then isn't it? Your head would have fallen off! The same poly student wrote that they even "saw a pink elephant once". LOL.....seeded cheap bush made you see pink elephants? Sure it did! Anyway, I'm only teasing. Have a nice life in your middle class leafy suburbs, and dream of pink elephants.....while the working/lower classes amongst us still have to live in places like Hulme and Moss Side... and hope to one day get as far away from here as possible. I've made a good start...Fallowfield! LOL, about 5 minutes from Hulme.
Memories of Hulme at various times in my life:
Free parties
The Kitchen
The Eagle
Packs of wild dogs
Malarky's shop
Mini wanabee gangsters (avoid!)
CRAP WEED WITH SEEDS!
Higgy (iggy?), John Robb, Hawkeye, Kristof, Sean, Pob (my best mate to this very day), Rosie (formerly Safron), Kelzo (I used to work with him on a YTS scheme)
and all the other *REAL* Hulme heads.
God bless you all (including you gold card hippies....LOL)
31/05/2008 19:20:37
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a.eastham 29/05/2008 15:45:23
Reading all these stories brings back so many memories of hulme, everybody used to call hulme but if you ask everybody that has lived there ,and still does, you will find that it was one of the best places to live. We had a wicked adventure playground, proctors youth club, barracks park it was great, not to mention the aaben. Everybody was friendly and you could go most places in hulme and find something to do! Parents didnt need to worry like they do now cause everybody knew everybody and you felt safe there was always someone around who you knew. We lived on austonley walk (facing red building on jackson crescent) and in the summer we used to play rounders and all the parents joined in with the kids it was great. I could go on and on with memories from hulme i still live there and wouldnt live anywhere else!.
cazzy 26/05/2008 17:28:20
This is a brilliant site, really great.
My step dad lived off chorlton road in a prefab many many years ago somewhere near the car wash place is or was. His dad (David Kelly) and mum (Elsie Kelly) ran a small shop, they had children who all lived in Hulme back in the day, David Kelly, Diane, Barbara, Stephen and Cindy. He has told me all sorts of stories about Hulme when they were young. His best friend (John Ford) used to live on Lordmead Street and his mum and dad were married in the old St Wilfreds church. Some of the stories will bring back memories for him when i show him.
My step dad lived off chorlton road in a prefab many many years ago somewhere near the car wash place is or was. His dad (David Kelly) and mum (Elsie Kelly) ran a small shop, they had children who all lived in Hulme back in the day, David Kelly, Diane, Barbara, Stephen and Cindy. He has told me all sorts of stories about Hulme when they were young. His best friend (John Ford) used to live on Lordmead Street and his mum and dad were married in the old St Wilfreds church. Some of the stories will bring back memories for him when i show him.
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