A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

[denislawsbackheel]

Fck me...you must be almost 100...

Modern kids and their maths…

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

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.

There was a duck pond at Fog Lane in the 90's next to where the pets corner was (is that still there?)
Was run by a bloke called Brian who had lost both legs.

 

[give it to gordon]

There was a duck pond at Fog Lane in the 90's next to where the pets corner was (is that still there?)
Was run by a bloke called Brian who had lost both legs.

I am talking around mid 60's ! Sure there was a pond than. But as I say in was only 5 or 6. The thing I remember is because mum worked over the road at the cake box and would have fed the ducks after mum finished work :)

 

[yerwot?]

There was a duck pond at Fog Lane in the 90's next to where the pets corner was (is that still there?)
Was run by a bloke called Brian who had lost both legs.

google maps shows it is still there :) no ducks though....

 

[give it to gordon]

google maps shows it is still there :) no ducks though....

Just looked that's how my 5 yr old mind remembers it ! Walk up Austin drive across over Fog Lane , thought a wooded bit to fed the ducks. Happy days

 

[Fat Chance]

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The only sports we were interested in in West Groton in the late 50's/early 60's were football and cyle sppedway. We had organised teams and race d at various tracks. Our home track was, I think, at

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[LongsightM13]

Also remember having my hair cut in the basement in Lewis’ .. then queuing up to see Father Christmas .
Also remember a cafe facing Piccadilly gardens called the milk maid .Great memories.

There was a weird barbershop in the subterannean mens toilets at Piccadilly Station back in the 70s and 80s, and probably before that. I always wondered who would choose to get their hair cut while inhaling the piss of a million commuters

 

[Marklr]

There was a weird barbershop in the subterannean mens toilets at Piccadilly Station back in the 70s and 80s, and probably before that. I always wondered who would choose to get their hair cut while inhaling the piss of a million commuters

I remember that barbershop ... weird. I bet it meant something else when he asked if you wanted owt for the weekend!
I wonder how many people missed their trains whilst getting a short back and sides.

 

[A57 the snake]

There was a weird barbershop in the subterannean mens toilets at Piccadilly Station back in the 70s and 80s, and probably before that. I always wondered who would choose to get their hair cut while inhaling the piss of a million commuters

Good call that ... half way down the stairs a barber shop !! Wasn’t the bar in Piccadilly called bonerparts ( excuse the spelling) some odd reasons Piccadilly is a big memory for me regarding Manchester always remember the diesel smell and the glass roof . Getting off the special in the early eighties was just sound.

 

[A57 the snake]

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

Didn’t know that the green end had gone sad that for me.
I was very lucky to have my auntie and uncle in the apsley some superb memories especially after the gigs I used to have a look at the signage on the bus home to Glossop at the Apollo and if I fancied it just one phone call and I was in .
The stand out memory was I took my brother in law there ( I wasn’t into his music) was mr meatloaf what absolute star and gentleman he was absolute diamond of a fella.