Photographs of the Urmston Area

Box contains material in various formats relating to the Urmston area.

Pupils and staff at Golden Jubilee of Flixton Girls’ Secondary School, 1983; pupils and staff of Urmston Grammar School, 1927 (2 copies); Urmston Grammar School for boys; row of small shops with parked vehicles outside, unidentified; 6 envelopes of unidentified group negatives; group of people admiring flowering border, unnamed and undated; 13 unnamed ladies at table of food (2 copies); group of men on picnic to Lymm, 2.7.1898; group of men on picnic to Alderley Edge, 24.6.1899; aerial view of  Davyhulme; street scene in colour, with decorated lorry advertising performance of The Merry Widow; outdoor stage scene, lady at microphone with unnamed people sitting behind her, and a uniformed band; trees and shops on Church Road, Urmston (2 copies); unidentified group of men and women outside a house; young girls of Urmston Council School, c.1933; envelope with print and negative of ivy-covered house/s; print and negative of long street-scene with semi-detached older houses; houses with (centre) white-painted house; faint print of buildings on Flixton Road, Flixton; envelope containing original photo with 2 later copies of group of girl guides, possibly mid-1920s, and original photo with 2 later copies of long street procession of girl guides, poss. 1920s, with negatives; 2 pictures of Mrs Susan Walsh, at desk on last open day of Humphrey Park Library, 29.11.1990; Urmston precinct, showing library building, and new Royal Mail letterbox, 16.9.1991; seated group of soldiers, dated 12 September 1943; The Circle, Moorside Road, Flixton, showing cinema; large road junction with island, 1961; The Roebuck Hotel, Flixton; football team players and others outside pavilion; artist’s historic portrayal of people outside Flixton Church; tinted picture of Stretford Road, near church; beaming lady looking at book, in front of library bookshelves; envelope of donated prints, with postcard prints of Davyhulme Park, Urmston, views of Davyhulme, views of Flixton, Church Road, Urmston and Roebuck Hotel, Church Road, Flixton, c.1910 (with view of Tithe Barn, Chassen Road, print of women in Flixton Mill winding room, with names: Annie Goodier, Emily Bromley, Kitty Goodier, Connie Whitnall, Elizabeth Broadhurst and Eliza Marchment; old Barton bridge, with school and church, 1890; old Barton bridge with school, 1890; Barton swing bridge under construction, 1893; group of large, formal buildings, unidentified; strip of small prints of Urmston roads: Church, Stretford, Station, Railway, Flixton, Westmorland Roads, New Bridge and Croft Bank.

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