Werneth Oldham

The Werneth area of Oldham Gt.Manchester England UK

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[brazil10able]

@scarletwest ....keep in touch please Scarlet

[scarletwest]

@brazil10able Well, a few of those were still there by the time I got there. Mrs Cummings, Mrs Bradley and Mr Geldart. The school looked like it had been built in the early 80's when I arrived. Everything seemed quite new. It was like a nice cosy bungalow with all these weird stone sculptures in the playground that you could climb on. I'm sure they've gone now. Health and safety and all that nonsense. I still go to the Christmas fair there. Lovely people still! And the church is nice too.

[brazil10able]

@scarletwest Corpus Christie was the best school in the world....such happy happy times....looks like I was there long before you ib the late sixties....Mr Bryant was Headmaster and other teachers were Mrs Cummings, Mrs Flaherty, Mrs Bradley and our soccer team "manager" Mr Geldart...the school then had a second storey with a big assembley hall upstairs....I think that lasted until at least 1979/80

[3fugitives]

@scarletwest it was chester street, i moved in 2001, so don't know how long they continued to live there.

[scarletwest]

@brazil10able I went to Corpus Christi too and then onto St. Augustines (St. Anselms previously). Corpus Christi was a top school. Excellent teachers and the wonderful head teacher at that time was Sister Mary Francis and before that Sister Birchman. St. Augustines was dreadful though by the time I got there in 1993. Used to spend most days sitting in a bush in Werneth Park reading Catcher in The Rye.

[scarletwest]

@3fugitives Oh wow! What street was it? There's pictures of all the famous people who came from Oldham in the arcade in the town centre and there was a picture of her. I'm a big Corrie fan y'see! Used to hang around outside Sarah Lancashire's house on my lunch break from school eating chips.

[3fugitives]

@scarletwest the lady who plays sunitta in coronation street and her then partner " carlos the chef" from emmerdale

[brazil10able]

@scarletwest I lived on Cambridge street from 1963-66. when I was a little boy......and I remember it clearly with very fond memories...as you know ,it is now an Islamic home from home with an adjacent legal and political centre( mosque ) etc etc etc..... my old junior school, Corpus Christi is still there....I often wish it was about 1970 again and the path that Oldham was forced to take, was completely avoided.

[scarletwest]

@3fugitives Who were the soap stars if you don't mind me asking?

[scarletwest]

@brazil10able I went back for Christmas and it was quite eerie. The snow was deep and there were very few street lights working. The houses on Norfolk Street and a lot on Cambridge Street are all shuttered up with metal but the stupid council hadn't bothered to turn the water off so the pipes in the derelict houses had burst and all you could hear was the running water. I went to Christ Church on Block Lane on Christmas day though and that was really nice.