A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

[BlueAnorak]

Some great photos in this article in the MUEN recently.
https://confidentials.com/manchester/this-is-manchester-99-photos-from-the-1970s?id=5a70a26c382a1

 

[PinkFinal]

Some great old photos of. Manchester pubs

https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...und-amazing-pictures-manchester-pubs-14524505

 

[KS55]

So many memories...
DISASTERS
Original Pauldens burning down
Woolies burning down
Stockport air crash
Shadow Moss Lane plane crash (how do i remember that it was BEA Vicount G-ALWE from Amsterdam)

ARCHITECTURE
Knocking down Spring Gardens Post Office, the longest classical colonade in Britain
Arndale building the biggest toilet in the world
Building the CIS Tower in Dantzig St.
Building the 'Toastrack'

LEISURE
Hough end football
Getting a snog off Benchill girls in Wythenshawe Park
Getting off the bus on Princes St., winding thru tne back alleys and coming out at the end of Maine Road....Huge sign..........PLATT LANE STAND>
Twisted Wheel
Cycling straight over Northenden Golf Course (they didnt like it!) my mate and I bought a tandem out of MEN small ads, cost 5/- and adorned it with all sorts of shit including a red road lamp on the back! (Oh yes, we were right tearaways aged 11)
First pint of Boddy's.
Ten pin bowling in Ardwick
Withington baths

OTHER
Barrow boys, winos in Picadilly, London Road Station, when we called the area near Etihad.... Bradford, Busses out of Stockport run by the North West Car Co, with full width benches upstairs.........
Edit. As a kid, I thought the town hall was made of black stone.

 

[PinkFinal]

One of my earliest memories is a square bus station in or near city centre I've been told it was Salford station

 

[RadcliffeRick]

One of my earliest memories is a square bus station in or near city centre I've been told it was Salford station

I think you might be thinking of Victoria Bus Station.

 

[FantasyIreland]

I think you might be thinking of Victoria Bus Station.

Think it was the 12 or 22 i used to catch as a kid into Vic station,proper little adventure :-)

 

[mac]

Watch Sky sports news now. All memories of the rags when they were winning. I thought it was the history channel.

 

[ballinio]

'The Polers' chippy in Rusholme.

What’s this & where ?

 

[m7mcfc]

What was the pub on Market St called, on left hand side heading towards M&S, you had to go down stairs?
There was also another pub roughly where WH Smith and Pizza Hut are now opposite the side of M&S, anyone remember what that was called? I'm obviously an old bastard and my memory's going!

That one opposite M&S was the Sefton. Checkpoint Charlie's was next to it.

 

[m7mcfc]

didn't get over eccles much but I remember collyhurst flats, we lived on paget st, right next to the albert remorial. also that block of flats that was built shaped as a battleship, smedley iirc.

That was Kennat House and was supposed to look like the Queen Mary.