Well done Spike with your research... invaluable mate..
I went to Holy Cross school...the original tin school around 1962, and my mam and all her family went before me...my mams little brother was run over and killed at the bottom of Hunter St/Byrom St by a milk cart one morning going to Holy Cross school.. my mams other brother Billy was a decent footballer by all accounts... he played for Holy Cross and the combined Holy Cross and St Anthony's teams.. he's on some old team photos..
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I've memories of making christmas cards in underground dank gaslit classrooms in Holy Cross tin school..
memories of the giant dinner hall full of kids with teachers all lined up looking rather stern...like something out of Oliver my memories of Holy Cross.... my mother was a Holy Cross girl all her life, she was well known having her own pubs and from working the Scottie Rd area pubs all her life before getting her own pubs....Holy Cross church was packed out on to the Street when my mam died... she was well liked and well known all over Scottie Rd was my mam..
I've loads of pics of my mams 70th at Holy Cross club..
I was married in Holy Cross church.. still got all the pics, signing the register in the back of the church etc...
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