A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

Barcon said:
We never had any of them. If we wanted adventure we would throw a few tires on a fire or nick a car.
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A fire on the croft or "back fields". Who's bringing the potatoes and who's bring the aerosols?!
Funny really...the jacket potatoes always came of rock hard, filthy and too hot! Yet we'd all sit there trying to eat them. Only, if I'd have got home and me mum served me one for dinner..... "what da fck's this, mam?"
 
Marklr said:
A fire on the croft or "back fields". Who's bringing the potatoes and who's bring the aerosols?!
Funny really...the jacket potatoes always came of rock hard, filthy and too hot! Yet we'd all sit there trying to eat them. Only, if I'd have got home and me mum served me one for dinner..... "what da fck's this, mam?"
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We used to get a fire going in the clay pits and throw sheets of asbestos on from the garages behind Briscoe lane school. Can't believe nobody got decapitated. Little bastards. : )
 
Fat Chance said:
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Terraced houses on the left were on the bottom of the new road where it collides with beswick st....can spy the don cinema on this pic..for years folk on new road buses would tell the conductor/driver ' the don'...
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My gran lived on Bradford Rd and we lived in the prefab's around there in the late 50's. Later moved to Burnage, but whenever we went to gran's we'd often pass the Don, and my mam used to always tell us about sheltering in the air raid shelter underneath it during the war.
Also, she used to say that in the blackout, when the air raids were on, and the German bombers were trying to blitz the gasworks - but missing - if one of them had to go out to use the outside loo (They didn't always get to the air raid shelter in time) their Dad would tell them not to pull the chain (to flush, for you youngsters) so that the German pilots wouldn't hear it - the water!
And as we all know, from living round there, I've been to Every Street in Manchester :-)
 
A57 the snake said:
Loving this thread... my aunties had two pubs one was the green end in burnage always had our family do’s there can remember how huge it was and the other was the apsley cottage built on to the Apollo. Had many back stage passes in my youth there.
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Houses on the Green End now. Apsley Cottage a legendary hangout of bands and roadies, a handy place to pick up spare tickets for sold out gigs
 
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