A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

Anyone remember legendary pub, Tommy Ducks, located behind the Midland Hotel? It was notorious for having hundreds of pairs of knickers pinned to the ceiling and real coffins used as tables! The pub's emblem was two ducks shagging mid-flight, something you'd never see in these 'enlightened' times. It's thought that a former landlord, Thomas Duckworth, wanted his name emblazoned across the front. However, the sign-writer employed to do the job ran out of space and shortened it, thereby giving rise to the name. I recall my uncle taking me in there as a kid - much to the disapproval of my mum - when it was the last building standing in the midst of a huge piece of wasteland. Sadly, unscrupulous developers demolished it in the dead of night in 1993.
 
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Tommy Ducks, I remember going in with my ex and there were knickers on the ceiling and the wall behind the bar. She was asked if she'd exchange hers for a new pair. nearly pissed myself laughing thinking, hope he doesn't sniff the used ones.
The unscruulous developers who demolished it were Greenhalls Brewery or Peter Greenhall {Lord Daresbury} and it wasn't the only one that went illegally.
 
Just popped into this thread and suddenly from the recesses of my subconscious the Nile Club appeared.

Remember going there a few times, worse for wear, in the early 80s. Think there was a pool table.
 
robbieh said:
Just popped into this thread and suddenly from the recesses of my subconscious the Nile Club appeared.

Remember going there a few times, worse for wear, in the early 80s. Think there was a pool table.
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Went there and the Reno a few times, both dodgy as fuck but never had any trouble in either, I think it helped being in the company of a couple of West Indian girls on most visits, like having a passport to paradise.
 
nw42 said:
Went there and the Reno a few times, both dodgy as fuck but never had any trouble in either, I think it helped being in the company of a couple of West Indian girls on most visits, like having a passport to paradise.
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Yes it was a bit edgy. But you sound like you had the right idea.
 
Kippaxpete said:
Anyone remember legendary pub, Tommy Ducks, located behind the Midland Hotel? It was notorious for having hundreds of pairs of knickers pinned to the ceiling and real coffins used as tables! The pub's emblem was two ducks shagging mid-flight, something you'd never see in these 'enlightened' times. It's thought that a former landlord, Thomas Duckworth, wanted his name emblazoned across the front. However, the sign-writer employed to do the job ran out of space and shortened it, thereby giving rise to the name. I recall my uncle taking me in there as a kid - much to the disapproval of my mum - when it was the last building standing in the midst of a huge piece of wasteland. Sadly, unscrupulous developers demolished it in the dead of night in 1993.
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Before the knickers , in the 60s it was owned by my Auntie. My dad worked there running the bar. We would often go there before the match, and I remember sleeping on occasions.
Auntie Dolly was a strange old bird , make up , fur coats and long fluffy scarves( strange what impressions kids get) is what I remember.
My elder brother and sister locked me in the cellar and switched the lights out Hence a lifelong phobia.
TV and theatre people were among the clientele in those days, before it went downhill.
 
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2 Shops near the Cathedral heading towards Vic Stn. They sold Marry Millington's Playbirds and my favourite latex fetish magazine of the time called 'Relate'
 
Vincent van Rough said:
2 Shops near the Cathedral heading towards Vic Stn. They sold Marry Millington's Playbirds and my favourite latex fetish magazine of the time called 'Relate'
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I know the Mary Millington reference means you’re talking a good while ago, but was that the same place that was there in the 80s? I forget the name, but it was the only place in town you could buy Viz for a good while and I remember that it sold a hefty range of bongo mags.
 
roman totale said:
I know the Mary Millington reference means you’re talking a good while ago, but was that the same place that was there in the 80s? I forget the name, but it was the only place in town you could buy Viz for a good while and I remember that it sold a hefty range of bongo mags.
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Are bongo mags about drumming or is my education lacking?
 
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