A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

[droylsdenblue]

not read the whole thread..

Roy Clarke Sports
Belle Vue, the bobs, the zoo, the circus, the lake, speedway, scenic railway, rows of 53 buses on match day...
Cross Street Gorton
The Open End at Maine Road

 

[BlueNirvana]

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

Lol when i first move up to the Heath (about 81) form Miles Platting me and a mate who come up from platting for the day found are way on to the vale. Down near the bridge some lad came up to us asking did i know so-and-so, so i was like no. next thing the **** punched me right in the face and leggs it up the hill to the clayton side. next thing about 30 lads ran down from the heath side asking what i was playing at told them i had no clue, they then schooled me in the way of the "wars". Many a happy day was spent on the vale after that. :)

Anyway back to platting anyone remember grenliys (or whatever it was called), vic's net curtains and the motorbike shop. The bike shop is still there.

 

[whipper]

Wishing Well/Olivers in Swinton,you would have Little Hulton in one part,Salford in another and then Swinton.

Pretty much guaranteed it kicking off every weekend

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

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[Barcon]

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

We used to have running battles with newton Heath, droylsden and limeside every night. At the top of rose hey lane and on the canal at the N/H border. Lots of fun until I got dropped behind enemy lines for my last summer in Manc.

 

[Elvis sings theBlues]

Army and Navy store just up from where the Malmaison is now

Hurleys x 2 shops opposite

Cecil Gee's in St Annes Square

Brannigans underneath the Royal Exchange

Belle Vue Speedway - sat on Peter Collins's bike back in 1976

Grays at Stalybridge Celtic

Farrers and Pringle jumpers from O'Briens in Ashton-under-Lyne (it's still open!)

Shades on a Monday night (Simon Frater as DJ my best mate from primary, last heard of in Ibiza)

Best chicken madras in the Akash, Stalybridge

 

[Lemon7277]

The pit hills in audenshaw where the snipe retail park is now...had many an hour having a good mooch round them..use to sneak up the railway line at the side of guide bridge theatre to get on,had many a chase off British transport police up that stretch of line

 

[BlueBearBoots]

Got our first cat from a pet shop on tib st - Jinx, sadly passed away years ago. Why don't they let pet shops sell puppies and kittens anymore? Just boring hamsters and fish

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

Memories of Gorton in the 60's.

Abbey Hey Hotel

Lake Hotel (Belle Vue)

Catlows corner shop, Abbey Hey Lane

Parrys cake shop

Bridges newsagents

Phil Green's hardware...Cross Street

Kofflers Electrical shop

Crawford's Butchers, behind lamp post..(Half a lamb for thirty shillings...:-)

Jerina's butchers, Wheelers Records,...(Cross street..later Gorton cross street)

Cowan's cycles

Johnstones Paints

Essoldo Cinema, Belle Vue

Belle Vue Aces, Peter Craven, Soren Sjosten, Peter Collins.....

 

[Ste1969]

Memories of Gorton in the 60's.

Abbey Hey Hotel

Lake Hotel (Belle Vue)

Catlows corner shop, Abbey Hey Lane

Parrys cake shop

Bridges newsagents

Phil Green's hardware...Cross Street

Kofflers Electrical shop

Crawford's Butchers, behind lamp post..(Half a lamb for thirty shillings...:-)

Jerina's butchers, Wheelers Records,...(Cross street..later Gorton cross street)

Cowan's cycles

Johnstones Paints

Essoldo Cinema, Belle Vue

Belle Vue Aces, Peter Craven, Soren Sjosten, Peter Collins.....

I rememeber kofflers in the early 80's hyde rd near parkdale ave... cowans just up the rd. do you remember Toms chippy chapman st, tight bastard but great chippy.

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

I rememeber kofflers in the early 80's hyde rd near parkdale ave... cowans just up the rd. do you remember Toms chippy chapman st, tight bastard but great chippy.

Kofflers used to be on the opposite side of the road, four or five blocks nearer Manchester, in a much smaller shop.

Don't remember Tom's though.

Cowan's was run by two brothers who always wore khaki long work coats. Great bike shop.

 

[Ste1969]

I rememeber kofflers in the early 80's hyde rd near parkdale ave... cowans just up the rd. do you remember Toms chippy chapman st, tight bastard but great chippy.

Kofflers used to be on the opposite side of the road, four or five blocks nearer Manchester, in a much smaller shop.

Don't remember Tom's though.

Cowan's was run by two brothers who always wore khaki long work coats. Great bike shop.

I always throught kofflers was the old billiard hall type of building? I remember the name, but maybe i have the wrong shop. I never went into cowans just used to get the 169 bus outside.


3rd pic down kofflers

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[ColinBellsjockstrap]

I always throught kofflers was the old billiard hall type of building? I remember the name, but maybe i have the wrong shop. I never went into cowans just used to get the 169 bus outside.


3rd pic down kofflers

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Yes, you are correct, they were in the old billiard hall on the same side as Cowans.

But before that, they were on the opposite side of the road...(RH side as you were looking towards Ardwick).. further down just before the railway bridge at Belle Vue station. I'm going back to the mid sixties though..........

 

[Ste1969]

I always throught kofflers was the old billiard hall type of building? I remember the name, but maybe i have the wrong shop. I never went into cowans just used to get the 169 bus outside.


3rd pic down kofflers

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Yes, you are correct, they were in the old billiard hall on the same side as Cowans.

But before that, they were on the opposite side of the road...(RH side as you were looking towards Ardwick).. further down just before the railway bridge at Belle Vue station. I'm going back to the mid sixties though..........

The difference is about 20 years,i enjoyed my time in gorton as a kid..... good times.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Does anyone remember Chester's Brewery and their beers?

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The Chester's pub, The Salford Arms round the corner from the brewery was famous for its lock-ins.........in the afternoons!

They were also linked to Threlfall's Brewery iirc.

 

[StrangewaysHereWeCome]

Does anyone remember Chester's Brewery and their beers?

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The Chester's pub, The Salford Arms round the corner from the brewery was famous for its lock-ins.........in the afternoons!

They were also linked to Threlfall's Brewery iirc.

That's the Deva centre nowadays?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Does anyone remember Chester's Brewery and their beers?

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The Chester's pub, The Salford Arms round the corner from the brewery was famous for its lock-ins.........in the afternoons!

They were also linked to Threlfall's Brewery iirc.

That's the Deva centre nowadays?

It is mate, yes.

 

[roman totale]

Brannigans underneath the Royal Exchange

When did that go? Spent many a happy night in there. Best jukebox in town.

EDIT: Nevermind. That was Corbiere's. Doh! Getting old...

 

[Bill]

In wagged school an awful lot, spent most of my time in town. Lewis was a haven. On the second floor was a hairdressers and part of it a guy use to rent as a pitch to sell self cutting combs, you just combyou hair with comb with blades and it trimmed your hair. Thing is he needed models so I'd go once a week, he paid sixpence a time. How my mam didn't clock that my hair never needed cutting I'll never know.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

In wagged school an awful lot, spent most of my time in town. Lewis was a haven. On the second floor was a hairdressers and part of it a guy use to rent as a pitch to sell self cutting combs, you just combyou hair with comb with blades and it trimmed your hair. Thing is he needed models so I'd go once a week, he paid sixpence a time. How my mam didn't clock that my hair never needed cutting I'll never know.

Slight tangent, but I knew a guy who used to run a pub in Salisbury in the late 90's who was a barber at Harrods in the late 60's early 70's and used to cut Sid James' hair once a fortnight. Lovely bloke he was.