A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

Marklr said:
Does anybody else remember an air show at Heaton Park back in the early 70s? I didn't just dream it, did I?
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There was indeed an air show, and not just an air show, there were plenty of stalls and exhibitions. They had guys parachuting from a balloon and the star of the show was a display by a Vulcan. I always refer to it as the RAF show

Royal Air Force Exhibition beside lake at Heaton Park August 1971. Bloodhound missile, Folland Gnat and Hawker Hunter aircraft with nose sections of Avro Vulcan and Avro Shackleton. 356,000 visitors attended the exhibition which was opened by Air Chi

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RadcliffeRick said:
There was indeed an air show, and not just an air show, there were plenty of stalls and exhibitions. They had guys parachuting from a balloon and the star of the show was a display by a Vulcan. I always refer to it as the RAF show

Royal Air Force Exhibition beside lake at Heaton Park August 1971. Bloodhound missile, Folland Gnat and Hawker Hunter aircraft with nose sections of Avro Vulcan and Avro Shackleton. 356,000 visitors attended the exhibition which was opened by Air Chi

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Nice one. I vaguely remember seeing the planes and helicopters on the ground and being too scared to go near them. And yeah....I remember the Vulcan Howl! That's something that stays with you!
 
Baggins.mcfc said:
I used to go in there myself. We would turn into it at the bottom of bunkers hill. From what i remember we turned into a path then followed the river going towards the golf course. Spent hours down there.
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Fuck me. I just googled Bunkers Hill and found this:

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Barcon said:
We used to mess about in the "air dump". I still haven't been able to figure out where it was on google maps.
It was somewhere across the other side of the Medlock near the Failsworth sewage treatment plant.
Looks like it may have been in Droylsden. It was basically a scrap yard full of planes from the war.
We would also ride on the arms of the "shit grinders" at the sewage plant.
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yep, and swim in the Medlock.
 
Fat Chance said:
The record shop was called bowkers...
The jolly carter is a bit further up in droylsden ( catalogue-land)...the strawberry duck was previously called The Crabtree...
You've forgot the noise of eva's hammer..
Gramaphone lounge on the new road accepted a penny in a slot in the window which activated a train set
The smell of the bone yard...
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Of course, it was The Crabtree! How could I forget! Aged 14, I used to fancy the landlord's daughter!
 
Moorland Blue said:
Of course, it was The Crabtree! How could I forget! Aged 14, I used to fancy the landlord's daughter!
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She may have been called Shelley..

The bone yard smelt like the knackerknickers shop ..i believe there was one vrry close to where the little bradford arms ( what a beltin name on reflection) was . Yet walk a few yards and you could kop for a lungful of Prices bread.( the factory bordering the cut)..fresh off the press....walk down further and it was very possible to get yourself blue polka dot dyed passing anchor chemical, the kids called it blue tuesday...what irony...given whats happened since '08
 
Someone referenced Vinegar Vera in this thread. If you were catching a bus anywhere between Eccles & Regent Road or vice versa in the 70s and 80s and Vera was at the stop you had to go to another one as bus drivers wouldn't stop if they saw her.

I was on a night bus out of town once and Vera managed to get on it. The conductor mustn't have known her and tried to collect her fare. She lifted her top up and shook her tits at him whilst saying 'Tek it out of them'.

Gruesome..

 
percypawpaw said:
Hanson Hotel in Longsight, went to so many wedding receptions,and parties upstairs, huge place, all family affairs.
My grandmother going out everyweek to the local Church hall for bingo.
Grandads pub, the Gold Cup.
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The Anson? Grew up a few streets away
Some great pics of Beresford Road back in the day here

 
aka blue jambo said:
Probably posted before but was the Malmaison Hotel not a dolls hospital.
I remember 1980s almost all the city centre pubs shut late afternoon and it was really only a few near the theatres that opened at night

Could be false memory right enough
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It was a pub called The Imperial, the Dolls Hospital was upstairs

LongsightM13 said:
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:
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Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Recall either late 60's / early 70's going to my grandparents in Benchill (back of the Silver Birch) and going swimming at Sharston.
They were building the M56 spur road next to it, the road dug out below street level, it was all cranes and tractors down there with no road laid down at that point.
Years later I always gave a smile when driving on the spur and passing the pool- which is now long gone.
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We lived in Northern Moor. I used to walk diagonally across Wythenshawe Park and along Altrincham Road to Sharston Baths during the school holidays. We used to get a free swimming pass from school for passing your 25 metres, or 50 meters or making a float out of your pyjama bottoms or something. Then we would walk home, exhausted.

Occasionally, City would be training in Wythenshawe Park, so we would watch.
 
Paladin said:
We lived in Northern Moor. I used to walk diagonally across Wythenshawe Park and along Altrincham Road to Sharston Baths during the school holidays. We used to get a free swimming pass from school for passing your 25 metres, or 50 meters or making a float out of your pyjama bottoms or something. Then we would walk home, exhausted.

Occasionally, City would be training in Wythenshawe Park, so we would watch.
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I lived just off Barry Road/Yet Tree Lane. We used to see many City stars going to train on the Uni fields near Chorlton Marina in the summer holidays. Gary Owen in a brand new 'S' reg Capri!! Paul Power used to attend charity events at the Cringlewood too.
 
Paladin said:
We lived in Northern Moor. I used to walk diagonally across Wythenshawe Park and along Altrincham Road to Sharston Baths during the school holidays. We used to get a free swimming pass from school for passing your 25 metres, or 50 meters or making a float out of your pyjama bottoms or something. Then we would walk home, exhausted.

Occasionally, City would be training in Wythenshawe Park, so we would watch.
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At school we got an ASA (amateur swimming assiciation) Bronze, Silver & Gold awards for doing things like rescuing someone struggling in the water and taking your pyjama bottoms off and making a float out of it (like when swimming in Sale Water Park i would have my pyjama bottoms on...
 
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