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Cringle fields Burnage mid 1970,s

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Cringle fields mid 1970,S , the old football changing rooms clearly dates the picture on the top left, and the large chimney at fairies engineering which I remember a few years later being hit by a thunder bolt of lightning!

Elsie Hunter

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About 1928. My mother Elsie Hunter

Brook House, Duchess of York Hospital

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Christmas Party (Pauline Lister as staff nurser on far left) at Brook House,Duchess of York Hospital on Burnage Lane

Butterfly Guild

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Pauline Lister (third on right bottom row) attendant to Butterfly Queen at Butterfly Guild outside Brook House, Duchess of York Hospital

Acacias Nursery Class 1935

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This picture shows Pauline Lister in the Nursery Class at the Acacias

Acacias School - Miss Boyes Class

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Miss Boyes Class in which Pauline Lister was a pupil.

Crowning of Butterfly Queen - Duchess of York

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This was outside The Duchess of York

Burnage Lane

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This shows Burnage Lane with the various shops mentioned by Pauline Butterworth (nee Lister) .

Whit Week Walks

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Photo is of Pauline Butterworth (nee Lister)(centre) and friends.

Memories of Wartime Burnage

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Pauline Butterworth (nee Lister) describes the air raids over Burnage, the wartime shelters in use, hunting for shrapnel, American soldiers in Burnage, VE Day, the shops on Burnage Lane and her family's servicemen.