A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

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roman totale said:
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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The Arndale Bus station was headache inducing. The smell and the weird people.. and that was just me! I was the loony that sat next to lonely people on the top deck of buses!! haha.
Kidding...i always ATTRACTED them!.
 
LongsightM13 said:
More on Dickenson Road studios here:

Top of the Pops - BBC Studios (Rusholme)

Manchesterbeat - celebrating the North West's incredible music and clubs of the Sixties - 60s
www.manchesterbeat.com www.manchesterbeat.com
An interesting article here about the BBC’s various studios and buildings across Manchester innthe 60s and 70s, including in Hulme, Longsight and Ladybarn (Fallowfield/Burnage/Withington borders)

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Found this vid of bowie outside the BBC on Oxford Road in the 90s.
 
The Apollo cinema Ardwick Green for the Saturday matinee each week…

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Does anybody remember the old studios at the top end of Gt Western St near Wilmslow Rd, my Ma always pointed out the little building telling me that it was where Frank Randle used to make his films. Apparently he was an old time Lancashire comic, and now I wonder if my Ma was mistaken and confusing it with the old Dickenson Rd site. I noticed in a previous posting a blue plaque saying it was the base for Mancunian Films.
 
LongsightM13 said:
More on Dickenson Road studios here:

Top of the Pops - BBC Studios (Rusholme)

Manchesterbeat - celebrating the North West's incredible music and clubs of the Sixties - 60s
www.manchesterbeat.com www.manchesterbeat.com
An interesting article here about the BBC’s various studios and buildings across Manchester innthe 60s and 70s, including in Hulme, Longsight and Ladybarn (Fallowfield/Burnage/Withington borders)

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Get yourself a copy of @Mad Eyed Screamer s book.
 
LongsightM13 said:
There was a hybrid toyshop/household wares emporium just up from the Anson called “Joytown”, maybe that was the one
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You are probably right my memory is not fantastic, am going back to the early 60s.

Another Toy shop was Wiles in the Lewiss Arcade, loved that as a kid especially at Christmas.

Can anyone remember what year Market Street became pedestrian.
 
Marklr said:
The Arndale Bus station was headache inducing. The smell and the weird people.. and that was just me! I was the loony that sat next to lonely people on the top deck of buses!! haha.
Kidding...i always ATTRACTED them!.
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Horrible place,had to have your wits about you as a kid as there were always gangs looking to rob (Tax) you
 
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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The name reminds me of us being sent by the older boys to Sivoris Milk Bar on Stockport Road Longsight to fetch them single Domino cigarettes. Quite a walk for fags but the only place you could get split packets. Later on we made the younger kids do the same for us but we had graduated to Park Drive in paper packets of 5.
These missions took us past Greasy Mary 's Chippie next to Woollies, a mysterious smelly place where it was rumoured you could die from eating Mary's chips. I never tried them, so strong was the rumour.
 
percypawpaw said:
I lived with my Grandmother for a time in the early 60s, we lived on Duncan road the house rdwhere 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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We used to play cricket (never football) on the Anson car park which rarely had cars. I developed my spin bowling there because bowling was always hit or miss on the cobbles in the back entries.
We helped out looking for the early missing victims of the Moors Murderers in the whole area but l particularly remember Duncan Road because there were loads of 'shit parcels' in one entry. They were common but l never understood why people wrapped up turds in newspaper.
 
Cannon Street bus station. Spend many a time in there with my dad on the buses.

Always remember it being dark in there and in the corner there was a chippy and a pub and in the other side was the entrance to the underground market. It always smelt of oil diesel and fish in there

There was actually two entrances. One on Cannon Street and one on Sudehill. It never reopened after the IRA bomb in 96 and that then the transformation of the Arndale began
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Marklr said:
A Road Called Gerald
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Two images of the Gerald Road footbridge in Salford.
The first one is from around 1900 and was one of the first suspension bridges ever made (built 1825/26). Gerald Road was originally called "Suspension Road" and there's a story that goes with it:

"Broughton Suspension Bridge was situated where the Gerald Road Bridge is today. It was built in 1826 by John Fitzgerald, owner of the nearby Castle Irwell, and was one of Europe's first iron chain suspension bridges. In 1831, a squad of soldiers, who had been exercising on Kersal Moor, were marching back to Regent Road barracks by way of the bridge. They felt it begin to vibrate in time with their footsteps. Finding the vibration amusing some of them started to whistle a marching tune and stamp to make the bridge vibrate even more. The front of the column had almost reached the Pendleton side when they heard a sound resembling gunfire. Immediately, one of the iron columns supporting the chains fell and the bridge collapsed. About 40 soldiers fell 16-18 feet into the river. The river was low and the water only two feet deep. Twenty were injured, some seriously, though luckily none were killed. The main consequence was that the British Army issued an order that soldiers should "break step" whenever crossing a bridge in numbers. The Suspension Bridge was rebuilt and strengthened. It was eventually replaced in 1924 by Gerald Road Foot Bridge."
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Resonance!

Rather than being “strengthened,” it just needed to have a frequency that was very difficult to replicate.

I was literally just reading about another example of this last week!
 
Mike Cledford said:
We used to play cricket (never football) on the Anson car park which rarely had cars. I developed my spin bowling there because bowling was always hit or miss on the cobbles in the back entries.
We helped out looking for the early missing victims of the Moors Murderers in the whole area but l particularly remember Duncan Road because there were loads of 'shit parcels' in one entry. They were common but l never understood why people wrapped up turds in newspaper.
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Dont remember turds in newspaper, but we had moved out to the sticks by the early 60s, not so far from where Hindley and Brady lived, my mum and dad remembered them, we delivered news papers to where they lived on Hattersley, and dad remembered serving them in the cafe late at night.
Always remember my Grandmother complaining about all the Irish families on Duncan road, always made me laugh as she was Irish, she had lived there from getting married and had 7 kids.
 
give it to gordon said:
My grandad use to be a bus mechanic most of his life.

Pretty sure the depot was on the corner of Burnage Lane and Fog Lane or around that area
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Was it Brichfields Road? Its now a little retail park with a Burger King and Iceland called Fallowfield retail park
 
kippaxwarrior said:
Was it Brichfields Road? Its now a little retail park with a Burger King and Iceland called Fallowfield retail park
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All I can remember as a kid was we would cross kingsway than turn left onto Burnage Lane and thought it was on our right hand side as we turned left. Looking on Google earth I can see a Costa coffee and a tesco !
 
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