A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

[Ducado]

Does anyone remember Chester's Brewery and their beers?

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[Bill]

didn't get over eccles much but I remember collyhurst flats, we lived on paget st, right next to the albert remorial. also that block of flats that was built shaped as a battleship, smedley iirc.

 

[BWTAC]

Does anyone remember Chester's Brewery and their beers?

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I remember their dark mild.

My old fella used to have a contract for painting there, I don't recall ever seeing him sober around then.

 

[Rascal]

Does anyone remember Chester's Brewery and their beers?

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I remember their dark mild.

My old fella used to have a contract for painting there, I don't recall ever seeing him sober around then.

My old fella referred to Chesters mild as Fighting mild.

 

[BWTAC]

Does anyone remember Chester's Brewery and their beers?

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I remember their dark mild.

My old fella used to have a contract for painting there, I don't recall ever seeing him sober around then.

My old fella referred to Chesters mild as Fighting mild.

I seem to recollect, my Mam referred to it as grounds for divorce.

 

[mackenzie]

I remember Ladywell Flats. In fact I visited friends of a friend there on the day I was expecting my baby. Can't remember their surname but there were twin lads in the family called Dean and Craig and an older lad called Anthony.

Anyone remember the Unemployment Benefit Office on Aytoun Street? It's still there, boarded up.
It was a complete shithole but anyone I've worked with that spent a few years there said it was the best office they ever worked in.

 

[StrangewaysHereWeCome]

I remember Ladywell Flats. In fact I visited friends of a friend there on the day I was expecting my baby. Can't remember their surname but there were twin lads in the family called Dean and Craig and an older lad called Anthony.

Anyone remember the Unemployment Benefit Office on Aytoun Street? It's still there, boarded up.
It was a complete shithole but anyone I've worked with that spent a few years there said it was the best office they ever worked in.

The labour exchange on Aytoun St is and has been for years a much talked about issue as to what will happen to it. Much like the Fire station around the corner.

Must be at least 30 years since it was open Mac?

 

[mackenzie]

I remember Ladywell Flats. In fact I visited friends of a friend there on the day I was expecting my baby. Can't remember their surname but there were twin lads in the family called Dean and Craig and an older lad called Anthony.

Anyone remember the Unemployment Benefit Office on Aytoun Street? It's still there, boarded up.
It was a complete shithole but anyone I've worked with that spent a few years there said it was the best office they ever worked in.

The labour exchange on Aytoun St is and has been for years a much talked about issue as to what will happen to it. Much like the Fire station around the corner.

Must be at least 30 years since it was open Mac?

I've often wondered why it hasn't been used since it closed so thanks for that.
I remember going to a Union meeting there in about 1987 and it was just a few years after that it closed.

 

[unicorn]

Does anyone remember Chester's Brewery and their beers?

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Did a very good mild until late 90s; the "fighting" tag more to do with the roughness of the pubs than the strength of the beer.

 

[totallywired]

Sooooo my daughter posted this on FB whilst we were having a reminisce about the good old days - check out the 80's perm - come on girls we all had one lol

Does anybody else see the ghost of a donkey in her blouse?

Or am I pissed?

Can`t see the donkey mate, bit i`m sure i can see a pair of puppies.

 

[George Hannah]

Anyone remember the Unemployment Benefit Office on Aytoun Street? It's still there, boarded up.
It was a complete shithole but anyone I've worked with that spent a few years there said it was the best office they ever worked in.

it was the the fear of being posted there that drove me to get promoted in the Civil Service. Monday mornings when the Dublin boat train arrived were a high spot in the 60s.

 

[scotty123]

Does anyone remember Chester's Brewery and their beers?

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Did a very good mild until late 90s; the "fighting" tag more to do with the roughness of the pubs than the strength of the beer.

That Chesters Mild was quite strong, smelled like real beer as well, not like the wishy washy crap knocking about today

 

[mackenzie]

Anyone remember the Unemployment Benefit Office on Aytoun Street? It's still there, boarded up.
It was a complete shithole but anyone I've worked with that spent a few years there said it was the best office they ever worked in.

it was the the fear of being posted there that drove me to get promoted in the Civil Service. Monday mornings when the Dublin boat train arrived were a high spot in the 60s.

Lol!!

Honest though, anyone I've ever met who worked there loved it! I guess it was the camaraderie against the odds kind of thing ;-)

 

[George Hannah]

Anyone remember the Unemployment Benefit Office on Aytoun Street? It's still there, boarded up.
It was a complete shithole but anyone I've worked with that spent a few years there said it was the best office they ever worked in.

it was the the fear of being posted there that drove me to get promoted in the Civil Service. Monday mornings when the Dublin boat train arrived were a high spot in the 60s.

Lol!!

Honest though, anyone I've ever met who worked there loved it! I guess it was the camaraderie against the odds kind of thing ;-)

first job of the day was to wash down the stairwells with disinfectant after their use as a convenience by impatient customers.

 

[mackenzie]

it was the the fear of being posted there that drove me to get promoted in the Civil Service. Monday mornings when the Dublin boat train arrived were a high spot in the 60s.

Lol!!

Honest though, anyone I've ever met who worked there loved it! I guess it was the camaraderie against the odds kind of thing ;-)

first job of the day was to wash down the stairwells with disinfectant after their use as a convenience by impatient customers.

I've been told fumigation was almost a weekly event.

 

[George Hannah]

Lol!!
Honest though, anyone I've ever met who worked there loved it! I guess it was the camaraderie against the odds kind of thing ;-)

first job of the day was to wash down the stairwells with disinfectant after their use as a convenience by impatient customers.

I've been told fumigation was almost a weekly event.

true - happy days ;-)

 

[mcfcinprague]

Did anyone go to Stewarts in Ardwick for clothing ?

we did, he was our club man. them and Harts.

Yep, our club man too

I can still see his face now, blimey

 

[EalingBlue2]

Didsbury fair

Pissing about down the old railway in Didsbury avoiding glue sniffers

Jim hall sports

Spending hours in Sifters pretending to be cool when I was probably looking at bananarama records

The wooden rhinoceraus in the Armdalr

Teachers strikes and having to go to my mates mums wine bar for lunch - anyone remember Fobs

The first ever McDonald's drive through in Europe in fallowfield - that was a treat then

Derek parlane and Jim tolmie banging them in

Hours of football in fog lane park with white dog shit everywhere

Mrs Scott's sweet shop and newsagents

Pink final

Sneaking in to fielden park and building bases

Currys in rusholme

The snakes and croc in the Manchester uni museum

Swimming in wytenshawe or in 100 year old baths in withington

Teachers strikes and getting the whole day off

Farah trousers , pony trainers and power Cardin ski jackets

Belle Vue zoo - though having seen photos zoo is a stretch



Lyme park and the deathslide

School trip to Alton towers

The nuclear free sign coming in

Trying to get chips or other items through open sun roofs from the parra wood bridge on kingsway

Chicago diner in withington

 

[waterloo blue]

Does anyone remember the Chester's house on Ashton New Rd.;that had the heads of Prime Ministers on the facia.
The pub was very close the Corpy direct works and just before Smithfield Market,it was demolished in the late eighties after being empty for ages.
A bloke at work reckons his dad was a regular in the seventies,but can't remember the pub's name and I thought this thread would be a good place to ask.

 

[Bill]

use to love the clayton "wars" with newton heath. they had clayton vale and we had the lime hills to defend :)