Kiddies Christmas Outing 1952

Here are a couple more photos from Tony Downend.
The first one shows the Kiddies Christmas Outing from Newton Moor Working Mens Club in 1952.
The second one is a comparative shot taken in 2010.

I love the three open backed doubledecker buses waiting to take the kids!






Thanks Tony :)

Blue Window Club

The Blue Window Club was a club situated on Smithy Lane and Lumn Road. It was a very nondescript looking building but great nights were to be had here with cheap beer and even cheaper acts! After it closed in the late 1980's - early 1990's it reopened for a short while as the "Irish Club".
This club is no longer in existence.

Thomas Street - (disappeared streets 2)

Thomas Street was in three sections : Mount Street to Union Street then Union Street to Beeley Street and Beeley Street to Platt Street.

A 1897 map showing where Thomas Street once stood.

This is the top section of Thomas Street, at the junction with Mount Street.

Thomas Street Working Men's Institute.(Middle section)

On the middle section stood The Working Men's Institute - Hyde was one of the first places to build a public institute to the Chartist cause .It was opened in September 1838, and sermons were preached in the morning and afternoon by the Reverend Joseph Raynor Stephens. This later became St Thomas's School. This building saw action a second time when it was used as a headquarter for 'A' Company of the 36th Cheshire Regiment of the Home Guard in the last war.

Why this building wasn't preserved is anyone's guess. I believe that there should be a sign on Union street where the Working Men's Institute once stood commemorating this building so that the Chartist connection with this part of Hyde is never forgotten. Chartist House now stands on the Mount Street - Union Street section of Thomas Street

The bottom part of Thomas street still stands, technically although it isn't road signed anymore.. It's the road leading into the multi-storey car park from Union Street. It used to run past the side of the gymnasium belonging to Hyde Lads Club. Both Club and Multi Story Car Park are now gone.