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Thread #48907   Message #4164693
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
07-Feb-23 - 11:19 AM
Thread Name: Help: Dirty Old Town? Meaning??? (MacColl)
Subject: RE: Help: Dirty Old Town? Meaning??? (MacColl)
It is set in "Hanky Park" triple guest. Residential but barely habitable which is why it was demolished in the 60s. I remember the area well although we were fortunate enough to never live there. There would have been prostitutes but they would not have got any custom from local residents. Besides which, even though poor, the women prided themselves on keeping 'clean and decent'. Any streetwalkers would have been chased off with a broom! The local habituation of prostitutes were mainly the docks and the pubs that the sailors went in. I remember one or two of the pubs on Cross Lane and Trafford Road where, barely old enough to drink, I was accosted by one or two, errrrr, ladies :-) They were near to Hanky but well away from the wrath of the goodwives!