A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

[LongsightM13]

Sounds like the original Bagpuss shop.

Much creepier

 

[Marklr]

Much creepier

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Yeah. Something sinister going on there with those dolls! Human body parts? Human BABY body parts even?!! That would make a good horror movie.

 

[LongsightM13]

Yeah. Something sinister going on there with those dolls! Human body parts? Human BABY body parts even?!! That would make a good horror movie.

Would make a great setting for an episode of Inside No. 9

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

Yeah. Something sinister going on there with those dolls! Human body parts? Human BABY body parts even?!! That would make a good horror movie.

Or an interesting episode of the Great British Bake-Off.

 

[the blue panther]

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.

One of my sisters had her wedding reception at the Green End - May 1970. I was 12, living off Fog Lane.
11 years later, I had mine at the Sun in September on Burnage Lane.
Small world back in those days.

 

[the blue panther]

Spoilt bp in modern terms .. but those lift gates /shutters in Lewis’s terrified me ;)

Lewis's was one of the shops we always seemed to finish up in as a nipper with me mam. I remember that I'd start to get asthmatic and breathless in there. Usually while she was looking at hats that she'd never buy....mmmmmm -
this is turning into quite a therapy session.
Then, queuing for the 95 or 96 bus home. That 30 minute bus ride home to Fog Lane was like an eternity after shopping with me mam. One Saturday it'd be Longsight - the market for clothes and broken biscuits, and Mark Down's store, and Glass's where she got stockings or underwear or something; the next Saturday Lewis's in town. Every bloody Saturday. I was saved by her getting me a toy for 2/11d in Woolworths sometimes. Happy days? Mmmmm, not sure.

 

[give it to gordon]

The ducks and rowing boats almost definitely Platt Fields, which had a motor-boat called the Archie LIttlemore, skiffs and 4-seat rowing boats. Also a mini zoo and a small pond for model boats and a band-stand that was popular. The big field was used by schools for their sports-days. On warm Sundays the place attracted familys from all over Manchester, and also the last of the teddy-boy gangs at the end of the fifties.

Could have swore there was a duck pond in folg lane park !. My 5 year mind seems to think I fed the ducks every day and it was just across the road from us ! I can remember being on my dads bike and going rowing with him , so that's definitely Platt Fields and remember the small zoo.

 

[KS55]

Lewis's was one of the shops we always seemed to finish up in as a nipper with me mam. I remember that I'd start to get asthmatic and breathless in there. Usually while she was looking at hats that she'd never buy....mmmmmm -
this is turning into quite a therapy session.
Then, queuing for the 95 or 96 bus home. That 30 minute bus ride home to Fog Lane was like an eternity after shopping with me mam. One Saturday it'd be Longsight - the market for clothes and broken biscuits, and Mark Down's store, and Glass's where she got stockings or underwear or something; the next Saturday Lewis's in town. Every bloody Saturday. I was saved by her getting me a toy for 2/11d in Woolworths sometimes. Happy days? Mmmmm, not sure.

Mrs KS tells a similar story. Every Saturday her dad took her out in his sidecar to the country, motor bike scrambles etc. Then he died and every Saturday after that it was into town shopping with mum. Trailing round and round. She hated it and would get a clip if she kicked up a fuss.

 

[Kazzydeyna]

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

Pickmere lake funfair!!!

That just brought back many a happy childhood memory. Mum and Dad used to take us there for a day out as we couldn’t afford holidays.

Going to the airport to listen to the ATC on a radio and then going to the Romper for a lemonade in the beer garden afterwards.

Happy happy days

 

[Kazzydeyna]

all the pubs that had an "outdoor", a name that we ended up giving to all off licences.

That’s right! I only stopped calling it the outdoor recently. It was ALWAYS referred to as “go to the outdoor and get me 20 Craven A” when I was a kid (in them days if they knew your mum or dad they would serve you).