What is Manchester to you?

[remember arthur mann]

Lol, not a Barker this time.
Aspinal. Lived on Newton rd. next door to the Palfemans. Went in the Nelson.

Did the Quad, Nelson, Brookdale, Bells and Windmill but moved behind the latter in 77, still there now !
Never know, I might have known him.

 

[Barcon]

Did the Quad, Nelson, Brookdale, Bells and Windmill but moved behind the latter in 77, still there now !
Never know, I might have known him.

Rose Hey lane?

You might have known my Dad from the Brookdale from when we lived on Summerset rd.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Rose Hey lane?

You might have known my Dad from the Brookdale from when we lived on Summerset rd.

Defo knew Grandad big Ted ! Not sure about your dad, must have seen him in the Phoenix or on Scotland Hall.

 

[Alan Oakes Shinpads]

Born in the MRI in 1955,lived in Rusholme,at the back of where Curry Mile is today.Went to Heald Place primary school and then to Burnage High .
The houses were knocked down by the council in 1974 and then moved to Fallowfield.

Even though I eventually ended up in lobby gobbler land(Leigh) I am and always will be a Mancunian and very proud of that fact.

 

[ws01]

A city in England which has crap weather, not much sunlight, but the greatest football team in the world

 

[Manc in London]

Salford are staunchly Salford and very much dislike being referred to as Manc in my experience.

I have met plenty who are like that. No doubt about it. However, a substantial number of those in Worsley and Swinton, in my experience, regard themselves as Manc. Not sure why. Some probably think Salford is below them. Two-bit millionaires.

That's based on living in Salford for a while, including school for a year or so and watching Salford Reds home and away for a few years.

 

[idahoblues]

Full of cunts

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Moved to Manchester 35 years ago and don’t think there’s another place I’d rather live.

You need to get out more!

 

[west didsblue]

You need to get out more!

I’ve been to loads of places including Chicago and enjoyed visiting them but I don’t want to live in any of them.

 

[asahartford1]

The way we came in (via Colne) the areas I remember seeing are Blackley. Collyhurst, Harpurhey, Ancoats. On the way back Newton Heath and Moston I think.

You, probably came in M66, Rochdale rd and left via Oldham rd, Failsworth..

Those are my areas, my history, my memories. How dare you call them shabby sir!

They are run down, lacking economic regeneration, have subsistence facilities, Zilch future planning, shabby never.

Manchester is North, South, and City centre.
Born and bred in Blackley, I had 20 years to escape, and return only for City and to reminisce. The centre is World class, some of the South is posh, and the North is as it was when I was a kid ,only more so, it is all Manchester.

 

[MCFCTrick]

We always used to call people from Failsworth plastic Mancs

Us in Newton Heath called them Biffos ;-)

I grew up on the last street in NH before it becomes Failsworth (Albert Gardens, backing onto Brookdale Park) but spent ten years 'over the border' and got tagged a Biffo for doing so by NH mates ... :D

 

[west didsblue]

I have met plenty who are like that. No doubt about it. However, a substantial number of those in Worsley and Swinton, in my experience, regard themselves as Manc. Not sure why. Some probably think Salford is below them. Two-bit millionaires.

That's based on living in Salford for a while, including school for a year or so and watching Salford Reds home and away for a few years.

That's because until the City of Salford council area was created in the 70s, places like Worsley, Eccles, Swinton, Walkden etc were nowt to do with Salford. They were places in their own right with a Manchester postal address. Salford proper is Ordsall, Weaste, Pendleton, Broughton, Seedley etc.

 

[levets]

That’s the one...

I played for Hodge Clough FC (Oldham Sunday League) in the mid 70s. We took the name as we trained there, also had an all weather pitch back then.

 

[levets]

Us in Newton Heath called them Biffos ;-)

I grew up on the last street in NH before it becomes Failsworth (Albert Gardens, backing onto Brookdale Park) but spent ten years 'over the border' and got tagged a Biffo for doing so by NH mates ... :D

I lived on Averill St, NH.

 

[levets]

Us in Newton Heath called them Biffos ;-)

I grew up on the last street in NH before it becomes Failsworth (Albert Gardens, backing onto Brookdale Park) but spent ten years 'over the border' and got tagged a Biffo for doing so by NH mates ... :D

Biffo’s were Yonners/Oldhamers. Oldhamers would class Failsworth as Manchester. M35. I worked in Failsworth and the address was Crown St, Failsworth, Manchester, M35. More recently it has been regarded as Oldham due to the council being Oldham.

 

[Manc in London]

That's because until the City of Salford council area was created in the 70s, places like Worsley, Eccles, Swinton, Walkden etc were nowt to do with Salford. They were places in their own right with a Manchester postal address. Salford proper is Ordsall, Weaste, Pendleton, Broughton, Seedley etc.

May, in part, explain it.

 

[Scottyboi]

My address was:
45 Lord Lane
failsworth
Manchester 10

You are from Manchester if your bins are taken out by Manchester City council, anything else is just Greater Manchester and plastic manc.

 

[Barcon]

You are from Manchester if your bins are taken out by Manchester City council, anything else is just Greater Manchester and plastic manc.

My bins are taken out by The City of Toronto and I live in the Greater Toronto area.

Born in Ancoats hospital.

Makes me more of a plastic Canook mate,

 

[chaddblue]

Biffo’s were Yonners/Oldhamers. Oldhamers would class Failsworth as Manchester. M35. I worked in Failsworth and the address was Crown St, Failsworth, Manchester, M35. More recently it has been regarded as Oldham due to the council being Oldham.

BIFFO’s stands for Big Ignorant Fuckers From Oldham

 

[ChicagoBlue]

I’ve been to loads of places including Chicago and enjoyed visiting them but I don’t want to live in any of them.

Fair enough! Were it me, and I had to live in N. England, I’d probably pick the Lake or Peak District, but to each their own.