A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

[Bill]

I often wondered why they pulled down the flyover at the end of deansgate/ mancunian way.

 

[PinkFinal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1aPz90f78

Hulme just before the demolition.

Thanks for putting this on. My old mate Colin is in it, he's the guy with the London accent in the block of flats, Fulton Court I think, in Hulme.

Found it on an old video tape the other day and uploaded it, then came here and saw there was a thread going about old Manchester!

 

[dazdon]

101 to Manchester from civic and hang about the indoor market.

the highlight of my week in the late 60's early 70's :-)

 

[Mike N]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1aPz90f78

Hulme just before the demolition.

Thanks for putting this on. My old mate Colin is in it, he's the guy with the London accent in the block of flats, Fulton Court I think, in Hulme.

Found it on an old video tape the other day and uploaded it, then came here and saw there was a thread going about old Manchester!

My family moved to Hulme in 69 when I was 3. Moved out to buy a house in 89 so know all about the deck access blocks and crescents (or the Bull Rings as we used to call them.) Worked in Hulme a few times over the years and was involved in the start of the reconstruction of the area in the mid 80's.

Hulme is, indeed, where the heart is!

 

[Ducado]

I often wondered why they pulled down the flyover at the end of deansgate/ mancunian way.

They remodelled the road system, as a kid it was great going on the bus over it (we were easily pleased)

 

[mscenterh750]

Spent many a match day, with my dad having a pre match kebab from the topkapi. Buying my weird and wonderful clothing from aflex palace.

 

[Barcon]

We used to hang out all day long at the original Manchester Virgin store (I think it was on Lever st). We would spend all day asking them to put on certain records and writting our names all over the place. Also, Robinsons Records (the people there were great to us), Rare records (I think that was the one where Ian Curtis worked in the basement) and the one in the underground market. I still have all my 7" punk singles that I bought from all those places. Shooting pigeons in Picadilly with catapults we bought from the joke shop on Tibb st.

 

[StrangewaysHereWeCome]

Slightly more recent times:

pissing about on the travelators at the airport when wagging school.

that made me smile - we used to do that too!

Yeah it was IIRC, a form of ticky it we played on there.

I remember taking my son to the airport last year because apparently there was a new viewing platform there. Was closed so it was on that shitty carpark roof I had to take him. He wasn't overly impressed. Although he was amazed by the policeman having sub-machine guns.
Thankfully he'll never remember the armed police raiding the house next door when he was two. Ironic I was raised in Moss Side, Lived in Salford, Moston and Fallowfield but it wasn't until I moved to a satellite town I seen armed police :-S

Who remembers champion sport in the basement of Lewis's?

Who remembers this? :)
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[mr t]

Had some great nights in here - The Land of Cakes - now Bem Brasil

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

Mazel's radio between Piccadilly station and Mancunian way.....