Life In Ordsall
Allen Hayes views an exhibition at the Heritage Centre, 1995. |
Allen Hayes - Kids' AdventuresBorn 1911 in Ordsall Salford. Interviewed 1995 (T148)  Click here to listen to this extract in RealAudio format."As soon as we got over there, there was a railway where you are [Heritage Centre site], there was all railway lines where your place is. And over the top we could get underneath the wagons and we were like the sparrows to these dockers. We were like the bloody sparrows. You know they'd just walk .. 'Go on get out of the bloody road'. The docks were such a big area that nobody could police it. I mean there wasn't men everywhere. I mean round the basin, around No 9 Dock itself. Well if you went there more often than not they'd give you a scutch across the ear, and just say 'Go on, get off'. Well what do you do? You get off and go and worry somebody else on No 8 Dock. And err, I'm telling you I've been in every works on Trafford Park Road, I'm not denying it. Not thieving, but adventure. I never had any gain from it. " |
| Salford Docks | Office work Unloading grain Getting work Overtime Dock Police |
| Merchant Navy | Knowing the ropes Getting work Foreign seamen The Great Lakes Getting logged |
| Life in Ordsall | Wartime Mill work Housing Kids adventures Teaching The Hollies |
| Trafford Park | First day at work Wartime food Bombs Engineering Living in the Village |