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Hi Ben, I can give you some history of your area;
I lived at 4 Beverley Road, the pub? you mentioned (at the corner of Agecroft Road?) used to be the house belonging to the NCB which was occupied until about 1956 by the Manager of Sandiholes Colliery which was just beyond the M60/East Lancs Road Junction - the biggest in the area.
The playing fields used to be undulating ground forming a big bowl dropping away from Bolton Road to the railway which was on an embankment about 40 feet high. About 1949/50, Salford Corporation used the area as a landfill site, eventually filling it to today's level. The land now is nothing like as exciting as it was for us, it used to be the biggest area of silvergrass in Lancashire. There was a spring down near the railway which ran through a little culvert under the embankment. It was an exciting day when divers had to be sent for to unblock the culvert after we boys blocked it up and it reached a depth of about ten feet overnight!
Are the sloping trees still near the war memorial? The estate on the left of Agecroft road was built about 1952 on what was originally a sand quarry, a great place for playing commandoes. There was another sand quarry on the Lumbs lane side of the railway, a big lake and the big spoil tips from Wheatsheaf Colliery - a wonderful playground where we used to play all day.
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