A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

percypawpaw said:
I lived with my Grandmother for a time in the early 60s, we lived on Duncan road the house where she lived no longer stands, we used to walk down to the toy shop near the Anson on a Saturday, with the hope of buying something, I think it may be on one of the pictures, if it wasnt a toy shop it may have been a news agent which sold toys etc.
The Anson was a huge place we had many parties upstairs, most of our family weddings etc were held there.
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There was a hybrid toyshop/household wares emporium just up from the Anson called “Joytown”, maybe that was the one
 
Fat Chance said:
There's a centurys old ryhme suggesting the devil himself knew where he was flying over clayton cause of the smells ( i kid you not)...below the aniline and before the little bradford you'd likely see and smell dead horses...shop on bank st sold horse meat back in the day...

Talking of smells kingston in hyde had a particular nuance
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I worked for a summer on a site rebuilding the sewage works on the outskirts of Hyde. That stank to high heaven on a hot day but it was nothing compared to the putrid, evil reek that came from that Smiths boneyard nearby
 
Mike Cledford said:
Was it horse-drawn ?
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No, but a man with a red flag walked in front. He came in handy as the area around Barlow Moor Road was frequented by thieves, vagabonds, footpads and other ne'erdowells. They were members of the notorious 'trafford red gangs' who came out from Chorlton to cause trouble. We usually saw them off with help from our Guvnors.
 
KS55 said:
No, but a man with a red flag walked in front. He came in handy as the area around Barlow Moor Road was frequented by thieves, vagabonds, footpads and other ne'erdowells. They were members of the notorious 'trafford red gangs' who came out from Chorlton to cause trouble. We usually saw them off with help from our Guvnors.
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Apart from the red flag nothing has changed?
 
I also remember the old Church building at the top of Dickinson road where they filmed the original Top of the Pops, there was a 53 bus stop just to the side.
Also remember the Rag and Bone man with his pony and cart, that was also back in the 60s.
 
The original Smithfield Market in Manchester, that was an interesting place, the atmosphere early morning was great, lots of noise, and different smells, of all the different areas, we went to the fish market very early in the morning to get the best, about 5:30 normally, but the market was open much earlier, lots of characters, it was never the same when it moved. Remember when it closed for the last time, there were loads of stray cats which lived on the market, the owners allowed them because they would keep rats away. When it closed they asked people to take the cats, we took one with us, he lived for another 20 years, named him Holly.
 
Anyone remember Johna's whale that toured round the world in the 60's? It parked up in Prestwich on the area that is now the Longfield centre

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RadcliffeRick said:
Anyone remember Johna's whale that toured round the world in the 60's? It parked up in Prestwich on the area that is now the Longfield centre

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www.theguardian.com

The mystery of Jonah, the giant whale who toured the UK in the 1950s

Decades before Damien Hirst’s shark, a truck full of formaldehyde carried a 70-ton whale around the north of England – but it barely made the news. Now, artist Fiona Tan is bringing back this strangest of sideshows
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
ray21 said:
I always used to pass this place on Grey Mare Lane on the 53 bus going to Maine Road,I was always wishing I was older so I could go into places like that.
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had some great nights in the Domino, seen some top artists and some rubbish one's Des O'Connor singing Dick a dum dum,
 
percypawpaw said:
I also remember the old Church building at the top of Dickinson road where they filmed the original Top of the Pops, there was a 53 bus stop just to the side.
Also remember the Rag and Bone man with his pony and cart, that was also back in the 60s.
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Birch Villa and Roy Clarke`s Sports shop on the corner of Dickinson Road,studios were a bit further down on the left hand side as you went towards Birch Park.
A lot of the stars of the day went in the Welcome Inn nearby before and after performing there including a certain Mr Saville.
 
denislawsbackheel said:
Was that water not chlorinated?
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I know not...presumably everything was pre-prepped for the tour ( sharston and wallasey)...nutty nodge couldnt contain himself and next news he was down to his keks and swan dived in the pool with flipper...teacher had a coronary with nodge throwin him a deaf en...thing was cause of his nuttyness he could hold his breathe for 4 minutes so flipper and the handler thought he was brill...halcyon days.
 
Alan Oakes Shinpads said:
Birch Villa and Roy Clarke`s Sports shop on the corner of Dickinson Road,studios were a bit further down on the left hand side as you went towards Birch Park.
A lot of the stars of the day went in the Welcome Inn nearby before and after performing there including a certain Mr Saville.
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I went to Xaverian College for sixth form, 1986-88, and a group of us would occasionally walk over to the Sunrise chippy on Dickenson Road at lunchtime. One afternoon we noticed some TV cameras, press photographers and commotion on a grass verge across the road next to the Welcome so went over to have a look.
Apparently it was an anniversary (20 years?) of those studios opening and they had gathered a bunch of people who appeared/performed there for a photo shoot.
No Savile but we were treated to a football team-style line up including Ken Dodd, Alan ‘fluff’ Freeman and Bob Hoelness along with a few others I didn’t recognise. Funny as fuck, fair play to Dodd and Freeman, they came over and had the craic with a bunch of teenage lads who were mercilessly taking the piss out of them a few minutes before.
An eccentric elderly West Indian fella who lived in the houses built on the site kept opening his front door and shouting at them to “Gwaaan, fuck off!” every couple of minutes while they were being interviewed. Needed a few takes
 
dave granelli asking if i wanted "jungle juice" on me cornet from his horse drawn ice cream cart.
the ragbone man blowing his trumpet, if you had enough rags you got a bow and arrow,if not it was a balloon on a stick or a donkey stone
 
Marklr said:
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

The lost bus station that was under Manchester's Arndale

The Arndale bus station was open for less than two decades and closed in the most dramatic fashion - 25 years ago this week
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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Hated that place and often got off or on one stop before or after to avoid going in there.
I was delighted to see in the comments section someone mention something that I’d completely forgotten about; when it was built the entrances were too low to fit a double-decker into and they had to lower the road to make it work. Insane.
 
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