A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

KS55 said:
... LEISURE
Hough end football
Getting a snog off Benchill girls in Wythenshawe Park
Getting off the bus on Princes St., winding thru tne back alleys and coming out at the end of Maine Road....Huge sign..........PLATT LANE STAND>
Twisted Wheel
Cycling straight over Northenden Golf Course (they didnt like it!) my mate and I bought a tandem out of MEN small ads, cost 5/- and adorned it with all sorts of shit including a red road lamp on the back! (Oh yes, we were right tearaways aged 11)
First pint of Boddy's.
Ten pin bowling in Ardwick
Withington baths

OTHER
Barrow boys, winos in Picadilly, London Road Station, when we called the area near Etihad.... Bradford, Busses out of Stockport run by the North West Car Co, with full width benches upstairs.........
Edit. As a kid, I thought the town hall was made of black stone.
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Think you mean Princess Road. Moss Side is my home patch.
 
ste1969 said:
I rememeber kofflers in the early 80's hyde rd near parkdale ave... cowans just up the rd. do you remember Toms chippy chapman st, tight bastard but great chippy.
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I remember Toms chippy back in the 60s,also the cobblers shop over the road on the corner (Turner st & Chapman street )
 
Going to City away games in Finglands coaches, from near Birch Villa in Rusholme.
Watching the great Reg Harris cycling at Fallowfield Stadium The old Temperance snooker hall near Rusholme Trocadero.
 
This was the ultimate city to be a student in. We’d go to The Ritz on a Monday though to The Star & Garter on a Saturday circa 2001. I was sad when The Colliseum shopping emporium went.
 
barney* said:
Its Mauldeth Road West opposite Hough End playing fields, the old Princess Pub is seen at the beginning of the clip
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Don't normally like big pubs but the Princess was decent. My Dr's was on the parade of shops opposite on princess Park way, so used to like getting a sick note, going to the Princess for a few and then back over to that parade of shops to the chemist for whatever was prescribed and a kebab from the kebab place that was there - lovely chicken tikka in naan all done in a proper tandoori clay oven.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
@Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese
Didn't the Princess have some kind of bowling alley attached to it? Never went in but passed it enough times.
What is on the site now? (No doubt apartments)
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Can't remember- slightly shit beer garden out the back I think. Probably not been there since 92-93 though. Can't remember what date they bulldozed it, but maybe had bowling in its last years? It was a bit of a mid/late 90's thing to install 10 pin bowling as a money spinner iirc.
Yes - apartments.
 
LongsightM13 said:
Handy for the police dogs, they didn’t have far to go
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The police horses were just up the road from the Prinny. Top pub in its day. My local for years. Never went in on match day, always fucked off to the Parkside or a mate's house for a massive pre-match piss-up. Holding each other up as we staggered to Maine Road. Most of us were stewards.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
@Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese
Didn't the Princess have some kind of bowling alley attached to it? Never went in but passed it enough times.
What is on the site now? (No doubt apartments)
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Block of flats. They went all US with the bowling and stuff. We came second in a bowling competition while being pissed and stoned out of our faces. My brother took the lights out with a bowling ball just to give you an idea.
 
The Nissen Hut (cinema) at the side of St Anthony,sChurch,Portway/Cornishway circa early 50,s
 
The Forum cinema on Paletine Rd, Northenden. The interior was beautiful art deco. Google it.
Its a mormon temple now, I believe.
 
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