A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

Really enjoying this thread! Here's a few takes on it. Being brought up in Clayton in the 60s, I remember going to watch The Monarchs on the cycle speedway track behind the Carlton Cinema, loved the scraps with the Newton Heath mob (all reds I assumed!) in Clayton Vale in the days of slag heaps. lime hills and flying down the slopes on lino off cuts, sneaking in to X rated films at The Don (Couldn't do that at The Carlton as my dad drank with the manager in Dargai Street Club), playing football on the red rec at the bottom of North Road (still got the scars), scarily playing jump the locks on the canal next to The Jolly Carter (Strawberry Duck last time I was round there, catching the 53 bus to school and, if we could get away with it, changing the number at the back, getting lost on the way to take the 11plus exam at Ravensbury St. school, arriving late and being too scared to tell my mum what had happened ( I passed anyway), buying my first 45 at the record shop on Ashton New Road, milkshakes at the sweet shop on Edge Lane, seeing The Factotums play at Droylsden Youth Club and lots more!
 
Moorland Blue said:
Really enjoying this thread! Here's a few takes on it. Being brought up in Clayton in the 60s, I remember going to watch The Monarchs on the cycle speedway track behind the Carlton Cinema, loved the scraps with the Newton Heath mob (all reds I assumed!) in Clayton Vale in the days of slag heaps. lime hills and flying down the slopes on lino off cuts, sneaking in to X rated films at The Don (Couldn't do that at The Carlton as my dad drank with the manager in Dargai Street Club), playing football on the red rec at the bottom of North Road (still got the scars), scarily playing jump the locks on the canal next to The Jolly Carter (Strawberry Duck last time I was round there, catching the 53 bus to school and, if we could get away with it, changing the number at the back, getting lost on the way to take the 11plus exam at Ravensbury St. school, arriving late and being too scared to tell my mum what had happened ( I passed anyway), buying my first 45 at the record shop on Ashton New Road, milkshakes at the sweet shop on Edge Lane, seeing The Factotums play at Droylsden Youth Club and lots more!
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The record shop was called bowkers...
The jolly carter is a bit further up in droylsden ( catalogue-land)...the strawberry duck was previously called The Crabtree...
You've forgot the noise of eva's hammer..
Gramaphone lounge on the new road accepted a penny in a slot in the window which activated a train set
The smell of the bone yard...
 
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bellbuzzer said:
tommy ducks was demolished illegally by the developers, never heard of any punishment.
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they ( Fairclough pre Amec i think) got a £20 grand pinch for the demolition. They then sat on the undeveloped land for years and made a fortune when the new offices and Barbrolli square happened.
Not sure if stories that Greenhalls got a fine are true. THey had already sold up to developers.
 
Fat Chance said:
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Cycle speedway | www.manmates.co.uk

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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The wembley of cycle speedway in manchester was in Gatley , with a stand and safety fence cinder shale-track etc. A lot of tracks were on crofts, remember one having a footpath across it.
 
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