Technically there are no parks in Longsight. As a child I remember visiting 4 different parks, but of those, three were outside of the Longsight boundary and the one, that was within it, is now no more than a patch of rough ground. The Grey Street Recreation Ground, which we knew as the Sand Park sat right on the boundary between Longsight and Ardwick. It was always more of a playground than a park. If you wanted a place to run around in, you had to go to Crowcroft Park, Birchfields or take the 53 bus to Platt Fields.