A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

[Fat Chance]

The original Pauldens shop burning to the ground.

 

[BrianW]

Only the other day a mate reminded me of the fabled Manchester Arms which was just outside Victoria Station. It was demolished for Picc-Vic - which never happened.

It was an extremely sleazy Burtonwood pub. There was a topless barmaid who doubled as a stripper, 'performing' in a tiny room with one exit, which meant that the poor woman was mercilessly groped by some of the punters.

In retrospect, it was fucking bizarre, and it is now hard to believe it existed. A real example of the 'Life on Mars' Manchester of the early 1970s.

 

[East Level 2]

Only the other day a mate reminded me of the fabled Manchester Arms which was just outside Victoria Station. It was demolished for Picc-Vic - which never happened.

It was an extremely sleazy Burtonwood pub. There was a topless barmaid who doubled as a stripper, 'performing' in a tiny room with one exit, which meant that the poor woman was mercilessly groped by some of the punters.

In retrospect, it was fucking bizarre, and it is now hard to believe it existed. A real example of the 'Life on Mars' Manchester of the early 1970s.

Used to go in there for an under-age pint then get the 123 to the match.

 

[KS55]

Only the other day a mate reminded me of the fabled Manchester Arms which was just outside Victoria Station. It was demolished for Picc-Vic - which never happened.

It was an extremely sleazy Burtonwood pub. There was a topless barmaid who doubled as a stripper, 'performing' in a tiny room with one exit, which meant that the poor woman was mercilessly groped by some of the punters.

In retrospect, it was fucking bizarre, and it is now hard to believe it existed. A real example of the 'Life on Mars' Manchester of the early 1970s.

Crikey, my dad used to go in there. I thought it was for the beer.

 

[roman totale]

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I wouldn’t want to be the fireman across the street holding that hose on the opposite pavement.

 

[PinkFinal]

Some footage of Hulme in 1975 about 25 seconds into this
And also what looks like somewhere near Maine Road

 

[The Black Shed]

I used to live in Heald Green. Does anyone remember what the pub was called on the corner next to the train station? It's changed now.

Before I moved darn sarf, one of my most vivid memories was a fella walking to the pub on matchday with a huge MCFC flag (blue old club badge type) draped around his shoulders. DMs, flares, scarves around his wrists. 1974ish. That and the pub are indelibly etched into my mind.

I went to a home game not long after that and came home singing 'the referee's a wanker' oblivious to what it meant. Mum wasn't happy.

I also remember a vulcan bomber flying in to land at the airport, Heald Green being on the flightpath, another fantastic sight.

You lot probably won't class that as Manchester, but it's a contribution down memory lane.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

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Thats an amazing photo.

 

[barney*]

Some footage of Hulme in 1975 about 25 seconds into this
And also what looks like somewhere near Maine Road

31 seconds in is Lloyd Street South/Claremont Road junction showing the National Westminster Bank, which was just round the corner from Maine Road

Some footage of Hulme in 1975 about 25 seconds into this
And also what looks like somewhere near Maine Road

 

[m7mcfc]

What was the pub on Market St called, on left hand side heading towards M&S, you had to go down stairs?
There was also another pub roughly where WH Smith and Pizza Hut are now opposite the side of M&S, anyone remember what that was called? I'm obviously an old bastard and my memory's going!

Probably already answered but the pub on the left on Market St that you went downstairs was the Sportsman's. I was in there the day the Grand National got called void due to a false Start.
The pub where pizza hut is now on Corperation St opposite M&S was Seftons and there was a bar/club above it in the Arndale called Checkpoint Charlie I think.
Just googled it and I was right.

Checkpoint Charlies, Arndale Centre

Seftons (Checkpoint Charlies behind), Corporation Street, 1990. (c) deltrems at flickr [1]. Little is remembered of this small bar, ...

pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.com

 

[roman totale]

31 seconds in is Lloyd Street South/Claremont Road junction showing the National Westminster Bank, which was just round the corner from Maine Road

30 seconds in is very likely the rubble of our old house between Claremont Road and Great Western Street

 

[uweuweuwe]

Probably already answered but the pub on the left on Market St that you went downstairs was the Sportsman's. I was in there the day the Grand National got called void due to a false Start.
The pub where pizza hut is now on Corperation St opposite M&S was Seftons and there was a bar/club above it in the Arndale called Checkpoint Charlie I think.
Just googled it and I was right.

Checkpoint Charlies, Arndale Centre

Seftons (Checkpoint Charlies behind), Corporation Street, 1990. (c) deltrems at flickr [1]. Little is remembered of this small bar, ...

pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.com

one of my lasting memories of seftons was sitting enjoying a quite lunch time pint when I noticed the bloke who used to go around wearing a bus driver’s uniform and singing in the pubs. He walked past the front door and down to the toilets. A few minutes later he returned with his pants around his knees to ask the bar staff if they had any bog roll.

 

[barney*]

30 seconds in is very likely the rubble of our old house between Claremont Road and Great Western Street

Yeah, I think your about right with that, you can just see the side of Claremont Road Primary School in the back ground

 

[Prater70]

I used to live in Heald Green. Does anyone remember what the pub was called on the corner next to the train station? It's changed now.

Before I moved darn sarf, one of my most vivid memories was a fella walking to the pub on matchday with a huge MCFC flag (blue old club badge type) draped around his shoulders. DMs, flares, scarves around his wrists. 1974ish. That and the pub are indelibly etched into my mind.

I went to a home game not long after that and came home singing 'the referee's a wanker' oblivious to what it meant. Mum wasn't happy.

I also remember a vulcan bomber flying in to land at the airport, Heald Green being on the flightpath, another fantastic sight.

You lot probably won't class that as Manchester, but it's a contribution down memory lane.

 

[Prater70]

I used to live in Heald Green. Does anyone remember what the pub was called on the corner next to the train station? It's changed now.

Before I moved darn sarf, one of my most vivid memories was a fella walking to the pub on matchday with a huge MCFC flag (blue old club badge type) draped around his shoulders. DMs, flares, scarves around his wrists. 1974ish. That and the pub are indelibly etched into my mind.

I went to a home game not long after that and came home singing 'the referee's a wanker' oblivious to what it meant. Mum wasn't happy.

I also remember a vulcan bomber flying in to land at the airport, Heald Green being on the flightpath, another fantastic sight.

You lot probably won't class that as Manchester, but it's a contribution down memory lane.

I thought it was called 'The Heald Green'.

 

[BlueMoonraker]

Pub on Wernerth Low;
Vinegar Vera;
The Kettle Drum and the Bass Drum pubs;
The Packet House, Patricroft;
The Grapes, Patricroft (Holts);
Boddingtons Brewery (and the odour);
Hydes Brewery.

The ceiling in the police control room at Maine Road, someone had smacked his hand through the ceiling and another had written 'Goaaall!' around it with an indelible black marker pen, on reflection, that may have been created by a rag, bugger.

Tommy Ducks?

Henrys

The Music Exchange

Mamelocks closing down sale (must have been on for around twenty years)

A1 Music

yup, Stoneground

Those little alleyways that run from near Bootle Street to Saint Annes square and perhaps further on?

Sitting on the grass outside the Shambles before it was moved for the first time, never mind the second time (I must have been around 8 at the time).

11/9, outside Broadway Gate;

when I was younger, seeing the prows of ships right by the road, Salford (Manchester Docks);

1/9 container berth.

enough for now

Excellent post OP, you bugger. I'm missing the place more than ever now!

I spent a lot of time in Music Exchange and A1. Great days.

 

[toffee balls]

I thought it was called 'The Heald Green'.

It was

 

[PinkFinal]

‘It was like Blade Runner meets Berlin rave’: the Manchester sink estate with the UK’s wildest nightclub

Hulme Crescents was Europe’s biggest housing estate, and soon deemed its worst. But a vibrant squatter community moved in – along with Mick Hucknall – to make a countercultural mecca

www.theguardian.com

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

one of my lasting memories of seftons was sitting enjoying a quite lunch time pint when I noticed the bloke who used to go around wearing a bus driver’s uniform and singing in the pubs. He walked past the front door and down to the toilets. A few minutes later he returned with his pants around his knees to ask the bar staff if they had any bog roll.

Haha, I remember him, prob around early 90's, pretty sure he was called Anthony, old brown bus drivers uniform quite a character. Was often around the shambles pubs.

 

[johnnytapia]

Haha, I remember him, prob around early 90's, pretty sure he was called Anthony, old brown bus drivers uniform quite a character. Was often around the shambles pubs.

Brown Brian. Boozed in Hare and Hounds