A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

[denislawsbackheel]

I remember going to stand on Princess road pavement as Father Christmas procession arrived on its way to Lewis’s.
Also, as a nipper the school took us to stand along Wilbraham Road, waving paper flags, as Princess Margaret swept past in a big car with steamed up windows. I remember that vividly because I was dying for a piss and held it for far longer than I could today!

 

[Fat Chance]

East mancs of a certain age will remember john edgar ( gulliver)..hes on greggs step here ^ on the old road but could often be found warming his mitts on the fire-barrell outside johnsons wire works....just about where the co-op arena's being built

 

[percypawpaw]

I remember going upstairs on buses and all the seats were bench seats, and the passenger aisle being down the right side of the bus, not in the middle.
Never liked going upstairs on the old Trolly busses, because of the electric box on top.
Pipe smoking, so many back in the 60s, something you dont see today.
Picadilly Gardens, Bellvue and the Bobs, Citys Floodlights, Crowcroft park, Birch fields, all places which i remember.

 

[percypawpaw]

Hanson Hotel in Longsight, went to so many wedding receptions,and parties upstairs, huge place, all family affairs.
My grandmother going out everyweek to the local Church hall for bingo.
Grandads pub, the Gold Cup.

 

[aka blue jambo]

Probably posted before but was the Malmaison Hotel not a dolls hospital.
I remember 1980s almost all the city centre pubs shut late afternoon and it was really only a few near the theatres that opened at night

Could be false memory right enough

 

[RadcliffeRick]

My earliest memory of Manchester city centre was the old deansgate Hotel. I seem to remember it had been burnt (bombed?)out. I always remember it being derelict

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I remember 1980s almost all the city centre pubs shut late afternoon and it was really only a few near the theatres that opened at night

Could be false memory right enough

Pubs everywhere until 1988 had to close between 3pm - 5.30pm.
Then they could be 11am - 11pm.
Pretty sure my local was 11am to 2pm and 7pm to 11am.
When I lived in Sale, Jackson's Boat would be rammed Sunday evening as Manchester pubs closed 10.30pm but Trafford pubs were 11pm

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Probably posted before but was the Malmaison Hotel not a dolls hospital.

2nd post down, page 38

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Recall either late 60's / early 70's going to my grandparents in Benchill (back of the Silver Birch) and going swimming at Sharston.
They were building the M56 spur road next to it, the road dug out below street level, it was all cranes and tractors down there with no road laid down at that point.
Years later I always gave a smile when driving on the spur and passing the pool- which is now long gone.

 

[aka blue jambo]

Pubs everywhere until 1988 had to close between 3pm - 5.30pm.
Then they could be 11am - 11pm.
Pretty sure my local was 11am to 2pm and 7pm to 11am.
When I lived in Sale, Jackson's Boat would be rammed Sunday evening as Manchester pubs closed 10.30pm but Trafford pubs were 11pm

That makes sense
So most city centre pubs did not open up again after the lunchtime close.

I often attended training courses at the BT training centre now the Macdonald Hotel