Trafford Park
The first Trafford Park Pageant to be held after the Second World War. Photo courtesy of Mr Byrne. |
Mrs O Ashcroft - Living In The VillageBorn 1953 Dublin. Interviewed 1990 - T002  Click here to listen to this extract in RealAudio format.Q: Were all the houses still occupied ? Yeah, when we left they were; I don't really know, I'd say it was sort of mid 70s that it started to go downhill. Q: All the factories were still functioning ? Yeah ... I think the last people that moved out of Trafford Park only moved in the last, what? Maybe six, eight years - I don't honestly know, cause once I'd left, that was it, I never went back. I've been back occasionally since, but obviously all the houses gone, it's just completely different. Q: What were the houses actually like ? They were quite good houses, actually; we were lucky enough to have a bathroom, so we were considered quite posh because we had a bathroom. I don't think the majority of houses did have bathrooms. We had three bedrooms, a living room, sitting room - as m'mother called it - and kitchen. Our toilet was off the kitchen, so that made us quite posh as well, because we didn't have an outside toilet. |
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