My dad’s mother was a Mottershead, and he died in 1966.  Although my mum is in her 90s and still with us she only knew bits & pieces of my dad’s mum’s (Mottershead) side of the family history.  We think that Joseph & Elizabeth Mottershead, who would have been born in the 1850s probably, may have bought 14 Crystal Rd after selling their ironmongers shop in Ancoats Manchester.  My grandma Cissy Mottershead, shown in this picture sitting on her mum’s knee, was one of their children.  She died in 1950s; and she told of waiting at table there when a girl.

By Colin Ainsworth

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