I lived at 85! The area is now unrecognisable. My Nana lived at 89 so Anthony Burgess lived next door but I don't remember him. Ellis Brigham - the mountaineer - his Dad had a shop on Conran Street
Very interesting. Unrecognisable indeed. I have seen a photograph of the houses just before demolition. A great shame. Thanks for visiting In Search of Anthony Burgess and all the best.
in 1968-71 I lived at 108 Sunderland st.just on the bend at frame 5:21 carisbrook st. ended there, but renamed Sunderland st to carisbrook st after old houses demolished. I went to Burgess st & Burgess Becker school
You can find images of Carisbrook Street in the Manchester Local Images Collection in Central Library. If his parents were tobacconists/beer sellers then they would have occupied one of the corner shops - of which there are several in the collection. His first school, St Edmunds RC Primary, still exists - on Monsall Street.
I visited Manchester again last week: I have never seen so many down-and-outs and desperados in such an apparently wealthy city in my life, with men sleeping rough, in the daytime, right outside Costa Coffees and Nandos and whatnot. What on Earth are the council/government doing about it? Truly disgraceful. And this is what googling Harpurhey brought up: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/harpurhey-the-worst-place-in-england-1108111 Mr G, was that a Slovak Satnav I heard? Do tell! And what about the Burgess I-Ching Centre? Or did I misread the "signs"? ;-}
Yes, the deindustrialisation is something to behold. And what I found depressing about the Burgess birthplace in Harpurhey is that nothing remains, nothing at all. The postwar planners have flattened it. If you didn't know, you could drive down that street and think it had been laid out in the 1990s.
I read somewhere that Anthony Burgess lived somewhere in crumpsall at 1 point of him growing up and in a pub I think, saw a picture of it years ago
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I lived at 85! The area is now unrecognisable. My Nana lived at 89 so Anthony Burgess lived next door but I don't remember him. Ellis Brigham - the mountaineer - his Dad had a shop on Conran Street
Very interesting. Unrecognisable indeed. I have seen a photograph of the houses just before demolition. A great shame. Thanks for visiting In Search of Anthony Burgess and all the best.
in 1968-71 I lived at 108 Sunderland st.just on the bend at frame 5:21 carisbrook st. ended there, but renamed Sunderland st to carisbrook st after old houses demolished. I went to Burgess st & Burgess Becker school
What a shame the post-war planners had to demolish it all.
You can find images of Carisbrook Street in the Manchester Local Images Collection in Central Library. If his parents were tobacconists/beer sellers then they would have occupied one of the corner shops - of which there are several in the collection. His first school, St Edmunds RC Primary, still exists - on Monsall Street.
probably the only thing left is the Milan Pub, where you turned left onto Rochdale Road,
It's a shame.
Don't know if you know much about Harpurhey and Moston, but I wouldn't go putting my iPad on the floor like that ;)
+tj2104 This is good advice. Rochdale Road, Harpurhey and Via Cantonale, Savosa are very different places indeed.
l assumed anthony was born in collyhurst? had no idea he was a harpuhay lad. thanks for in lighting me.😊
Thanks for visiting In the In Search of Anthony Burgess channel.
there is a facebook page 'Old streets of harpurhey manchester" lots of people from there on it
Thanks very much, Gaz. I will take a look.
I visited Manchester again last week: I have never seen so many down-and-outs and desperados in such an apparently wealthy city in my life, with men sleeping rough, in the daytime, right outside Costa Coffees and Nandos and whatnot.
What on Earth are the council/government doing about it? Truly disgraceful.
And this is what googling Harpurhey brought up:
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/harpurhey-the-worst-place-in-england-1108111
Mr G, was that a Slovak Satnav I heard? Do tell!
And what about the Burgess I-Ching Centre? Or did I misread the "signs"? ;-}
Yes, the deindustrialisation is something to behold. And what I found depressing about the Burgess birthplace in Harpurhey is that nothing remains, nothing at all. The postwar planners have flattened it. If you didn't know, you could drive down that street and think it had been laid out in the 1990s.
That Manchester Evening News article is very interesting indeed. Thanks.
The satnav was speaking Malay.
Ha! Even better, tuan Grigson.
My little joke. It's here: th-cam.com/video/GKXF49wWpk4/w-d-xo.html
I guess this is the closest to a blue plaque that AB has in Manchester...
Conran st market
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