A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

I remember as a kid every Saturday morning walking up Princess Road to the Sports Depot, which despite its name had the most amazing window displays of toy soldiers, Airfix kits, Dinky toys and other things to grab a boy’s imagination. If I was lucky I’d have enough to buy something. The dilemma of which figure to buy was draining.
I used to do a paper round from Varleys on Lloyd Street. Clever old fox used to let you buy single ciggies against your wages so that by pay day most of your dosh was already spent. Used to hate Thursdays, the day Exchange and Mart came out and all the women’s weekly magazines.
 
give it to gordon said:
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 the Iceland etc.
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Yeah. That's where the depot was. Went there a couple of times with my dad as his buses would sometimes terminate there as he was based at Hyde road. It was a tram depot in the early 1900's before a bus depot
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kippaxwarrior said:
You were lucky. Kids at primary school in Blackley still had to go to Harpurhey baths.

Then I went to high school and we had our own heated swimming pool......
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We only went to Abraham Moss at night time on our own. Always Broadway baths with school.
I seem to remember going to one near Ancoats hospital as well but not sure of the name.
They had big old bathtubs that you could soak in.
 
LongsightM13 said:
Savile at Dickenson Road studios in the 60s. Already at it

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As much as we all despise the monster he became, his influence on the Manchester music scene was immense from his lunchtime discos in the city centre at The Plaza on Oxford St, to his top ten club at Belle Vue, the Higher Broughton Assembly Rooms and The Three Coins on Fountain St which he co-owned (the Beatles first gig in Manchester was at the Three Coins)
 
denislawsbackheel said:
I remember as a kid every Saturday morning walking up Princess Road to the Sports Depot, which despite its name had the most amazing window displays of toy soldiers, Airfix kits, Dinky toys and other things to grab a boy’s imagination. If I was lucky I’d have enough to buy something. The dilemma of which figure to buy was draining.
I used to do a paper round from Varleys on Lloyd Street. Clever old fox used to let you buy single ciggies against your wages so that by pay day most of your dosh was already spent. Used to hate Thursdays, the day Exchange and Mart came out and all the women’s weekly magazines.
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I also did a paper round for Varleys. Small world. We lived on Wykeham Street and used to use the shop on corner of our street and also Bernettes opposite Varleys.
 
kippaxwarrior said:
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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I don't now why but these pics make me feel sentimental! I think it's the orange buses!! So many memories!
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
As much as we all despise the monster he became, his influence on the Manchester music scene was immense from his lunchtime discos in the city centre at The Plaza on Oxford St, to his top ten club at Belle Vue, the Higher Broughton Assembly Rooms and The Three Coins on Fountain St which he co-owned (the Beatles first gig in Manchester was at the Three Coins)
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Savile used to share a flat in Higher Broughton with Roger Moore! True. My mate lived near by....He told me that Savile used to get all the kids ice creams....I obviously asked if that was a euphemism; "NO...it was ICE CREAM"!!!
He always suspected that Roger Moore would be the next celeb to get investigated due to that link.
 
Does anybody remember The Manchester Show at Platt Fields Park? We used to sneak in every summer in the 70s and 80s. Sort of an urban attempt at a county show, a weird hybrid of dog agility competitions, the latest motors from Manchester Garages, a Piccadilly 261 roadshow, a few bands and comics of varying quality (although Happy Mondays played it in 87, see picture below) and best of all for a young kid, The Red Devils parachutists. From the south end of Longsight we would watch them coming down on the Wednesday and Thursday before as they practiced for the weekend, with the red and blue smoke trailing from their boots.
Remarkably little online about what was considered a big deal in Manchester at the time

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