Well edited then and now photos of Grangetown.

Got an article submitted to this week's fanzine about the Grangetown (Boys Club) team now playing in Northern League Div 2.
 
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My Dad was born 14 Institute Terrace. Used to stay at my Nanas in the 60's
Played football in the Market Square. The lads used to ask me where I was from, because my accent was different. When I said Marske they said.... Wheres that?
Then I told them about the beach and the sea they had never seen the sea.
A different time.
 
My mother lived at 32 Alexandra Road until her wedding in 1951. Grandad stayed there till about 1966 when he moved to Eston.
Mother was a teacher at St Mary's infants until 1980's.
 
We moved from South Bank to Grangetown around 1968 when the Church Lane Estate was built. We lived there until I was 14 (1975) and the area played a huge part in who I am today. I played football from Junior to Senior level for the Boy's Club, boxed at a decent level for them and was also a member of the 1st Grangetown Scouts based on Birchington Avenue.

When we first moved up to Grangetown we had to go to church in the British Legion Club until St Anne's Church was built. I remember standing at the back near the bar with my older sister (10) and my younger brother (6) when brother decided to blow down the big brass pipes that people queued at, making a big blowing noise. The congregation had just broken into a hymn and the noise was so loud the organist lost his place and they had to start the hymn again. The three of us got put out of church and got a scolding from my mum.

The pictures are brilliant but I am not sure what the voiceover is about and spoilt it for me.
 
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Got an article submitted to this week's fanzine about the Grangetown (Boys Club) team now playing in Northern League Div 2.
I once played for a team from Grangetown called Harcourt Utd. Harcourt was a Grangetown bookie who paid for the strip etc. I think his son Tommy always got a game
 
I hadn’t really appreciated how decimated Grangetown had been. A little like Canon Park, it has been largely scraped off the map.

I’m guessing the housing was considered to be sub-standard, as was the case with Canon Park?
 
Fascinating stuff, I do a lot of work in Grangetown and often wonder what was there in the gaps. I grew up in Thornaby and remember pavements but no houses whilst they built the a66. Grangetown reminds me of that in parts.
 
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