A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

[mcfcinprague]

Getting the 53 bus from Trafford Bar to Great Western Street to get to Maine Road
Queuing up outside Hime and Addison on John Dalton Street overnight for tickets to see Led Zepp, The Who etc. Always saw the same faces
Queuing up outside Maine Road overnight for tickets for the Derbies
The fights at lunchtime between us from Stretford Grammar and those from Greatstone Road at the Top Rank bowling alley on Greatstone Road - now a B & Q, in between it was the HardRock /Village concert hall/disco
Manchester Exchange/Victoria having the longest railway station platform in the world
Drinking beer on the bridge over the River Mersey at the Jackson's Boat pub when I was 14 and riding home on my bike
Trainspotting (steam trains) around all the sheds - Trafford Park, Agecroft, Patricroft, Newton Heath, Stockport, Longsight etc.....

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Getting the 53 bus from Trafford Bar to Great Western Street to get to Maine Road
Queuing up outside Hime and Addison on John Dalton Street overnight for tickets to see Led Zepp, The Who etc. Always saw the same faces
Queuing up outside Maine Road overnight for tickets for the Derbies
The fights at lunchtime between us from Stretford Grammar and those from Greatstone Road at the Top Rank bowling alley on Greatstone Road - now a B & Q, in between it was the HardRock /Village concert hall/disco
Manchester Exchange/Victoria having the longest railway station platform in the world
Drinking beer on the bridge over the River Mersey at the Jackson's Boat pub when I was 14 and riding home on my bike
Trainspotting (steam trains) around all the sheds - Trafford Park, Agecroft, Patricroft, Newton Heath, Stockport, Longsight etc.....

one of my first jobs when I was an apprentice was to work on the steam trains at Agecroft Power Station, I must be getting old!!

 

[Ding Dong]

Jilly`s
Genevivees
Rotters
Placemate 7
Pip`s
Twisted Wheel
Bier Kellars x 2
Tommy Ducks { knickers }
Smokies
Broadway Club [ mystry fire ]
Sinnatras Club [just up the road from Broadway Club........ Mystry fire a few weeks later ] Hmmmmmm.
Candlelight.
Cat`s Whiskers.
Belle Vue
Aytoun St Match Bus
Pink Final
" Half time scores, Racing results "
Sandwich boards with " Jesus saves "
Frido A`s fly aways
Mitre school balls { with pimples }

 

[bluesteve1964]

Walking down here.

To get to here.

 

[cyberblue]

Pauldens is now Debenhams?

Remember the underground market on Market St?

Rotters - great night club haha and the long bar?

Worked there 1969

 

[Mike N]

When me and my mates first started going to clubs we were 17, we could only ever get into Rotters. Not bad because it was easy enough to walk down from Hulme. Really enjoyed it but every now and again we'd bump into lads from Liverpool or Wigan, etc and the night would end with a bit of bloodshed, usually ours! Happy days

 

[BWTAC]

The Record Peddlar
Yanks Records
The record fair under the Piccadilly Hotel
Tony Justs in the underground market for Northern Soul
The underground bogs at Piccadilly gardens
Shambles Square
Fagins
Ronnie's in St Anne's Square and then in the Conservatory
Having to wear a jacket to get in The Ritz

 

[Mike N]

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

Used to love that flyover, there was one point of it going towards Deansgate that if you really put your foot down you could take off.

The 94(?) bus, top deck going over the fly-over, it was a proper white-knuckle ride!

 

[BlueBearBoots]

When me and my mates first started going to clubs we were 17, we could only ever get into Rotters. Not bad because it was easy enough to walk down from Hulme. Really enjoyed it but every now and again we'd bump into lads from Liverpool or Wigan, etc and the night would end with a bit of bloodshed, usually ours! Happy days

didn't you just love how your feet used to stick to the carpet in Rotters - ahhh happy days

 

[peoffrey]

It was always Afflecks Palace for me. I'd buy magic tricks I could never perform from the stall on the top floor and buy posters and badges lower down. The Colosseum is also sadly missed. Does anyone know what happened to The Rock Stop t-shirt shop? They moved to another place but I couldn't find it last time I was wondering around the Northern Quarter.

I just remember it as a normal department store. And there was no "northern quarter.

Was it called Affleck & Browns before?