A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

[RadcliffeRick]

I was always fascinated by Brook's Bar. Seeing so many busses with it as their destination I thought it would be something to see. Imagine my disappointment when I finally got there and found only a big pub

 

[LongsightM13]

The ducks and rowing boats almost definitely Platt Fields, which had a motor-boat called the Archie LIttlemore, skiffs and 4-seat rowing boats. Also a mini zoo and a small pond for model boats and a band-stand that was popular. The big field was used by schools for their sports-days. On warm Sundays the place attracted familys from all over Manchester, and also the last of the teddy-boy gangs at the end of the fifties.

Platt Fields was a very interesting place in Manchester’s history. It was home to the Lincoln statue for many years and has the most active Speakers’ Corner in Manchester up to the late 60s

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It was also a huge leisure destination for the whole of Manchester in its early days

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Pets Corner always brought joy to the locals…



I think it has been discussed on here before but there was the possibly apocryphal story of a pelican escaping from the Pets Corner at Platt Fields and landing on the front of the Platt Lane stand during a City game, I think in the early 70s.

 

[Marklr]

Platt Fields was a very interesting place in Manchester’s history. It was home to the Lincoln statue for many years and has the most active Speakers’ Corner in Manchester up to the late 60s

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Pets Corner always brought joy to the locals…

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I think it has been discussed on here before but there was the possibly apocryphal story of a pelican escaping from the Pets Corner at Platt Fields and landing on the front of the Platt Lane stand during a City game, I think in the early 70s.

Can you imagine the conspiracy theorists and flat Earthers at Speakers Corner? That's what we'd probably get these days.

 

[Marklr]

I remember going to the Northenden Youth club back in the late 70s/early 80s. It was some church and community centre just off Palatine Road. At the time, the big thing in music was the Ska/Two Tone thing and as my older brother was into heavy rock, then so was I! One night around 1979 when I was about 12years old, i was wearing a Motorhead tshirt, playing table football, when some skinhead/mod guy outside was knocking on the window, pointing to me, saying he was gonna "kick my head in" when i got outside! I shit meself!
In the summer the club would organise day outs. One trip was to Salford. I'd never been to Salford before and I loved it!! So much so...it's my home city now. haha. Wythenshawe kids get taken to Salford for a day out!! Oh the irony!

 

[lazerblue]

Can’t we call a truce now lads? Let’s give peace a chance.

no, never, no surrender to the dirty newkers

 

[Big Swifty]

no, never, no surrender to the dirty newkers

Gaumont Long Bar where the ladies of the night sat flashing their goodies.

So I believe.

 

[MillisleBlue]

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Terraced houses on the left were on the bottom of the new road where it collides with beswick st....can spy the don cinema on this pic..for years folk on new road buses would tell the conductor/driver ' the don'...

If they were ever to reform, this has to be a contender for the cover of The Smiths' next album...

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Pauldens’ fire.

 

[Barcon]

Who remembers the clay pits/brick works behind Ten acres red rec when they were still in use?

 

[LongsightM13]

Can you imagine the conspiracy theorists and flat Earthers at Speakers Corner? That's what we'd probably get these days.

Hahaha yes the speakers corner at Platt Fields was probably the Facebook of its time.
The modern day line up for the 15 minute slots would probably be an EDL gammon, followed by a Muslim extremist, then a man in a dress demanding to use women’s toilets, a student Tory boy, a Socialist Worker beardie and finally Ian Brown yelling “Magnoh Cartoh” into a Megaphone

 

[lazerblue]

swing over the medlock tunnel,where the red river goes under the road into phillips park at the bottom of ten acre lane, made out of a cable from bradford pit

 

[LongsightM13]

As a kid when we used to get the bus into town from Longsight in the 70s and 80s, it would come through Ardwick, past the Apollo and the UMIST towers, up London Road past the fire station and Piccadilly station. And it would always pass an eerie little doorway next to the Imperial pub on London Road marked “Dolls Hospital” where apparently damaged toys were repaired in the days when money was tighter and people had things fixed rather than throwing them away. It had been there for decades, a real Manchester oddity. Always fascinated me what it was like inside. It seems the reality was absolutely nightmarish



Good little article about the place here:

Doll Hospital | Mancky

 

[Marklr]

Hahaha yes the speakers corner at Platt Fields was probably the Facebook of its time.
The modern day line up for the 15 minute slots would probably be an EDL gammon, followed by a Muslim extremist, then a man in a dress demanding to use women’s toilets, a student Tory boy, a Socialist Worker beardie and finally Ian Brown yelling “Magnoh Cartoh” into a Megaphone

...and he'd still sound out of tune!

 

[Marklr]

As a kid when we used to get the bus into town from Longsight in the 70s and 80s, it would come through Ardwick, past the Apollo and the UMIST towers, up London Road past the fire station and Piccadilly station. And it would always pass an eerie little doorway next to the Imperial pub on London Road marked “Dolls Hospital” where apparently damaged toys were repaired in the days when money was tighter and people had things fixed rather than throwing them away. It had been there for decades, a real Manchester oddity. Always fascinated me what it was like inside. It seems the reality was absolutely nightmarish


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Good little article about the place here:

Doll Hospital | Mancky

Sounds like the original Bagpuss shop.

 

[yerwot?]

Pauldens’ fire.

my old fire-chief was on that, reckoned it was saveable but needed a word from the very top to start pumping, the hoses were still canvas-wrapped and leaked and the brigade might be sued for water damage. The delay was what created the car park it became for a while

 

[Marklr]

The Osbourne in Rusholme. Who else finished their pint at 2:58 to get to the game just after kick off??!
This pic is from 1967.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

I’m glad I lived and experienced the 80’s as a young man. Local shops. Butchers. Grocers. Community. I look back fondly on that where I grew up.
It’s sadly a shadow of that now, and kids these days won’t have those memories. They’ll have Asda. Morrison’s. Tesco. No real community anymore.

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

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The Osbourne in Rusholme. Who else finished their pint at 2:58 to get to the game just after kick off??!
This pic is from 1967.

Had a couple or 3 pints there before our last game at Maine Road.

 

[A57 the snake]

Loving this thread... my aunties had two pubs one was the green end in burnage always had our family do’s there can remember how huge it was and the other was the apsley cottage built on to the Apollo. Had many back stage passes in my youth there.

 

[Marklr]

Who remembers the Adventure Playgrounds around Manchester in the 70s? I think this one might be Wythenshawe.