A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

Barcon said:
We never had any of them. If we wanted adventure we would throw a few tires on a fire or nick a car.
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A fire on the croft or "back fields". Who's bringing the potatoes and who's bring the aerosols?!
Funny really...the jacket potatoes always came of rock hard, filthy and too hot! Yet we'd all sit there trying to eat them. Only, if I'd have got home and me mum served me one for dinner..... "what da fck's this, mam?"
 
Marklr said:
A fire on the croft or "back fields". Who's bringing the potatoes and who's bring the aerosols?!
Funny really...the jacket potatoes always came of rock hard, filthy and too hot! Yet we'd all sit there trying to eat them. Only, if I'd have got home and me mum served me one for dinner..... "what da fck's this, mam?"
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We used to get a fire going in the clay pits and throw sheets of asbestos on from the garages behind Briscoe lane school. Can't believe nobody got decapitated. Little bastards. : )
 
Fat Chance said:
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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'...
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My gran lived on Bradford Rd and we lived in the prefab's around there in the late 50's. Later moved to Burnage, but whenever we went to gran's we'd often pass the Don, and my mam used to always tell us about sheltering in the air raid shelter underneath it during the war.
Also, she used to say that in the blackout, when the air raids were on, and the German bombers were trying to blitz the gasworks - but missing - if one of them had to go out to use the outside loo (They didn't always get to the air raid shelter in time) their Dad would tell them not to pull the chain (to flush, for you youngsters) so that the German pilots wouldn't hear it - the water!
And as we all know, from living round there, I've been to Every Street in Manchester :-)
 
A57 the snake said:
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.
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Houses on the Green End now. Apsley Cottage a legendary hangout of bands and roadies, a handy place to pick up spare tickets for sold out gigs
 
A57 the snake said:
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.
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One of my sisters had her wedding reception at the Green End - May 1970. I was 12, living off Fog Lane.
11 years later, I had mine at the Sun in September on Burnage Lane.
Small world back in those days.
 
A57 the snake said:
Spoilt bp in modern terms .. but those lift gates /shutters in Lewis’s terrified me ;)
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Lewis's was one of the shops we always seemed to finish up in as a nipper with me mam. I remember that I'd start to get asthmatic and breathless in there. Usually while she was looking at hats that she'd never buy....mmmmmm -
this is turning into quite a therapy session.
Then, queuing for the 95 or 96 bus home. That 30 minute bus ride home to Fog Lane was like an eternity after shopping with me mam. One Saturday it'd be Longsight - the market for clothes and broken biscuits, and Mark Down's store, and Glass's where she got stockings or underwear or something; the next Saturday Lewis's in town. Every bloody Saturday. I was saved by her getting me a toy for 2/11d in Woolworths sometimes. Happy days? Mmmmm, not sure.
 
bellbuzzer said:
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.
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Could have swore there was a duck pond in folg lane park !. My 5 year mind seems to think I fed the ducks every day and it was just across the road from us ! I can remember being on my dads bike and going rowing with him , so that's definitely Platt Fields and remember the small zoo.
 
the blue panther said:
Lewis's was one of the shops we always seemed to finish up in as a nipper with me mam. I remember that I'd start to get asthmatic and breathless in there. Usually while she was looking at hats that she'd never buy....mmmmmm -
this is turning into quite a therapy session.
Then, queuing for the 95 or 96 bus home. That 30 minute bus ride home to Fog Lane was like an eternity after shopping with me mam. One Saturday it'd be Longsight - the market for clothes and broken biscuits, and Mark Down's store, and Glass's where she got stockings or underwear or something; the next Saturday Lewis's in town. Every bloody Saturday. I was saved by her getting me a toy for 2/11d in Woolworths sometimes. Happy days? Mmmmm, not sure.
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Mrs KS tells a similar story. Every Saturday her dad took her out in his sidecar to the country, motor bike scrambles etc. Then he died and every Saturday after that it was into town shopping with mum. Trailing round and round. She hated it and would get a clip if she kicked up a fuss.
 
ColinBellsjockstrap said:
Yep, remember that...wonder what happened to Fred?

Also:-

Eric Bottomley's motorbike spares, Manchester.

Bradford model railway exchange, Piccadilly Plaza

Stensby's gunshop, Shudehill

Pickmere lake funfair

Mother Hubbards, Oldham
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Pickmere lake funfair!!!

That just brought back many a happy childhood memory. Mum and Dad used to take us there for a day out as we couldn’t afford holidays.

Going to the airport to listen to the ATC on a radio and then going to the Romper for a lemonade in the beer garden afterwards.

Happy happy days
 
Bill said:
all the pubs that had an "outdoor", a name that we ended up giving to all off licences.
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That’s right! I only stopped calling it the outdoor recently. It was ALWAYS referred to as “go to the outdoor and get me 20 Craven A” when I was a kid (in them days if they knew your mum or dad they would serve you).
 
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