Fat Chance
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A trip down memory lane around Manchester....
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BertTrautmann'sParachute
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Went in there once. Took it John Willie Lees was rhyming slang for mushy peas as that's what the bitter tasted like.
Who?
Further to my post about Bishop Bilsborrow, its most famous alumni was Anthony Burgess the author of "Clockwork Orange". I seem to remember JimHarri mentioned along time ago that he went there as well but not at the same time though. I might be mistaken the grey cells are not so sharp these days. By coincidence Burgess attended my infant school St Edmunds Monsall.
denislawsbackheel
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No it wasn’t mate, not the one I went to in the early 60s.
It was opposite Mescki’s ice cream shop on Princess road.
Blootoof
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Great site(https://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass) for looking at old roads and stuff. South Manchester, early 1900's, the houses only spread out to Hulme, Mosside. It was farms after that. The houses on Prinny park(after the old bus depo)were built around 1920. Same as Prinny rd itself.
Stoned Rose
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Must've been two then Den.
I think yours was the original as mine was in the 80s.
LongsightM13
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Burgess went to Xaverian College back when it was a grammar school
Burgess at Xaverian College - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Burgess's earliest poems in the school magazine. By Will Carr.
www.anthonyburgess.org
the princess rd shop may have moved to fallowfield, been in both great places.
Blootoof
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The one on Wilmslow/Wilbraham road was called Alexandra sports or somethin like that. Defo named after a road or area. Speakin of sports shops, how come no fucker ever buys a ball when buying a baseball bat?