A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

Bigg Bigg Blue said:
Fred Fernley’s Motor Mart on Ashton Old Rd.

Yep, remember that...wonder what happened to Fred?

Also:-

Eric Bottomley's motorbike spares, Manchester.

Bradford model railway exchange, Piccadilly Plaza

Stensby's gunshop, Shudehill

Pickmere lake funfair

Mother Hubbards, Oldham
 
blue underpants said:
Green Salford buses, red Manchester buses pre S.E.L.N.E.C. days, both had open platforms with a gripper pole, as kids we would jump on the No1 bus up Langworthy Rd Salford and hang on for dear life until the conductor threw us off, also going to Maine Rd on the 'match special' buses from Aytoun St

The Piccadilly Club near Aytoun St, a real City haunt after the pubs shut on a Saturday night, also the Bier Keller at Belle Vue, a couple of years later they opened a nightclub just inside Belle Vue gates, for the life of me i can't remember what it was called, full of Blues from Gorton though
Belle Vue club, The Zoobeedoo , Les Tate on the door letting all us Gorton Blues in free with a warning. `if it goes off you back us up!` Hardly likely to start a fight with him!!
 
the night Pauldens burnt down there was ash and embers falling on Withington

Hough End was full at weekends. dozens of teams were based there

Fast food was chippys and a few Wimpys

Skyways near the airport, Tenten on Stockport rd and Crimelake were the hangouts for the mobike lads

Miniskirts were a major distraction to drivers, white knickers most common [apparently]

Tiffanys had a great resident group, became the New Seekers

Moss Empires had several night clubs and had some top turns.

The stock-cars at Belle Vue could be heard for miles

Excursions by train to Blackpool were 6 shillings, half that by coach from Gt Western Str
 
totallywired said:
blue underpants said:
Green Salford buses, red Manchester buses pre S.E.L.N.E.C. days, both had open platforms with a gripper pole, as kids we would jump on the No1 bus up Langworthy Rd Salford and hang on for dear life until the conductor threw us off, also going to Maine Rd on the 'match special' buses from Aytoun St

The Piccadilly Club near Aytoun St, a real City haunt after the pubs shut on a Saturday night, also the Bier Keller at Belle Vue, a couple of years later they opened a nightclub just inside Belle Vue gates, for the life of me i can't remember what it was called, full of Blues from Gorton though
Belle Vue club, The Zoobeedoo , Les Tate on the door letting all us Gorton Blues in free with a warning. `if it goes off you back us up!` Hardly likely to start a fight with him!!
Zoobeedoo!! no wonder i couldn't remember what it was called, one night in there i was talking to Johnny Muir who was pissed, i said somat to annoy him and he grabbed my left nipple and twisted it, its still a weird colour 40 years later!
 
Piccadilly Radio. Not the ''Gold'' variant, but the original. Steve Penk, Dave Ward, Roger Day, Susie Mathis, Pete Reeves, Andy Peebles, Brian Clarke, ''IT'S A GOOOOAAAAL'', that rag twat Sweeney, James Stannage.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8NTE6XTEdw[/youtube]

Did just about every house in the City have one of those car stickers in a bedroom window? I must have got dozens of them from their marquee at the Flower Show in Platt Fields every July. Actually, there's another memory; the flower show. Always held on the weekend the schools broke up for the summer hols.
 
bellbuzzer said:
Tiffanys had a great resident group, became the New Seekers

And singer Lyn Paul (Real name Belcher) appeared in the very first ever scene in Coronation Street in 1960

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_7Z3046_dg[/youtube]
 
Placemate 7
Smarties
Pips
The Great American Disaster
Burgerland & Pizzaland (Deansgate)
Affleck & Browns
Cameo Cinema (porno movies)!
Kardomah (st Anne's Square)
Tyldsley & Holbrook
Barnaby Rudge
Sandpipers

School caps

Feeling old now!
 

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