A trip down memory lane (20+ years - City Centre)

[Anonymous]

Good photos ...... i remember the 'olden days' well , and how the city centre looked back then ......

i was quite a 'regular' in the city centre during the mid-late seventies/eighties/nineties ........ but these days my visits to it are unfortunately far and few between.

 

[garyowensgolfclubs]

Not forgetting Rare Records,Fagins, The Long Bar,Barnaby Rudge,Justins,Tyldesley and Holbrook and the 76 Specials from Aytoun Street.

 

[BluePurgatory]

The only thing still standing from all those decades ago is Louis Famous Hot Dogs. Had many one or two between pub crawls on a sat night. Anone else agree that the indian food tasted better in those days. My favourite was the Bangladesh on Portland Street or the Orient Express on Grt Ancoats Street.

 

[Mike N]

Not forgetting Rare Records,Fagins, The Long Bar,Barnaby Rudge,Justins,Tyldesley and Holbrook and the 76 Specials from Aytoun Street.

Remember them all mate! Funny but when someone mentioned Hurleys the other day I was trying to think of the name of Tyldesley and Holbrook but it would not come to mind. Was it Cross Street or Deansgate?

 

[garyowensgolfclubs]

Not forgetting Rare Records,Fagins, The Long Bar,Barnaby Rudge,Justins,Tyldesley and Holbrook and the 76 Specials from Aytoun Street.

Remember them all mate! Funny but when someone mentioned Hurleys the other day I was trying to think of the name of Tyldesley and Holbrook but it would not come to mind. Was it Cross Street or Deansgate?

Deansgate,where the Spanish Tapa's bar is almost opposite Kendal's.

 

[Mike N]

Re: A trip down memory lane (30 years - City Centre)

jees, can remember getting the orange and brown buses into town with my mam when i was a nipper in the 80's. used to go through hulme. who remembers this.....

Saw some good gigs in the Bullrings as a kid and used to hang about outside The Russell Club listening to the bands. Have a decko at these mate http://www.exhulme.co.uk/

Thanks for putting this on. Grew up in Hulme and remember the crescents being known as The Bullrings. The old pictures are brilliant.

 

[2bluegp]

about 1984?

 

[maineroad68]

Re: A trip down memory lane (30 years - City Centre)

Any recall Rotters on Oxford Road, Any one do the Ranch Bar which later became Foo Foos..

Yes, I remember them both. How about Pips/Thursdays (can't remember which way round) on Fennel Street?

was just talking bout Thursday's before- saying if this was NY eve 1983/4 I'd be getting home from working at Gansgear and get ready to go t Thursday's, get shit faced on pernod & black and get a taxi home (then Whitefield) and make it wait while we got sausage chips and gravy from the Umbrella on Bury New Road. happy days.

Anyone remember the Millionaire Club at the back of Lewis's which Peter Stringfellow ran before he went off to New York and London to create Stringfellows?

was in there loads when late 80's. my sister used to work on the door there so we'd always have lock ins. proper cheesy 80's disco- great dancefloor! Sue,we must have crossed passed many times in 80's if you were in Thursday's and Millionaire!

 

[Dennis.has.done.it]

Remember lusting after the woman who worked in the underground market record stall,used to buy all my punky singles off her.Had loads of singles on display ,picture disc's and picture sleeves up on the wall.Yearned for the Damned deciples song book !!!

 

[crumpsallblue]

The only thing still standing from all those decades ago is Louis Famous Hot Dogs. Had many one or two between pub crawls on a sat night. Anone else agree that the indian food tasted better in those days. My favourite was the Bangladesh on Portland Street or the Orient Express on Grt Ancoats Street.

louis famous hotdogs should have his own thread.. grew up on them things and had one for brekky before the stoke game!