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Frederick Beeney was born 30.8.36 at Norman Road, Rusholme, near Platt Fields. He went to the following schools: Embden Street Primary and Bangor Street or South Hulme Senior Boys.
Fred lived at 12 Disley Street, Hulme, M/C, and then 32 Correli Street, Miles Platting, before moving to 17 Berkshire Close, Block Lane, Chadderton, Oldham.
He well remembers the following people: Dorothy Cooke and uncle John, Keith Blanton, Brian Yates, Roy Davies, Joan Chambers, Caroline Street, Mrs Gregory, Peter Gregory (Booth Street), Raymond Lee, Taffy Cooper (Wales) and Sylvia from Embden Street School.
Fred started his working life at Robert Walker's Iron Works, Cannon Street, Hulme, before moving on to Duxbury and Hartley's Iron Works in Salford. Then it was to F A Norris Fire Escapes, Transport House, Salford before Allcock's Ironworks, Mill Street, M/C.
For his National Service he enrolled in the Royal Signals at Catterick Camp, Southsea Castle, Portsmouth and served in Cyprus for one year.
Fred recalls one particular tale from when he was a youngster, a memory that has always stuck with him.
There were two picture houses in Hulme: the Popular and the Crescent. They were half a mile apart and used one set of films between them. My part-time job at the age of ten to fifteen was to wait for the film that was showing at the Popular to finish, put it in a tin case and run with it to the Crescent.
Then collect the one that was finishing there, it could be the Pathe News for example, and take it back to the Popular. My pay for this was half a crown and a cup of tea. If the film broke during showing I had to splice it again.
Fred Beeney, Oldham, 2002
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