A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

More on Dickenson Road studios here:

Top of the Pops - BBC Studios (Rusholme)

Manchesterbeat - celebrating the North West's incredible music and clubs of the Sixties - 60s
www.manchesterbeat.com www.manchesterbeat.com
An interesting article here about the BBC’s various studios and buildings across Manchester innthe 60s and 70s, including in Hulme, Longsight and Ladybarn (Fallowfield/Burnage/Withington borders)

The end of the Oxford Road Show (video) | g7uk

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roman totale said:
Hated that place and often got off or on one stop before or after to avoid going in there.
I was delighted to see in the comments section someone mention something that I’d completely forgotten about; when it was built the entrances were too low to fit a double-decker into and they had to lower the road to make it work. Insane.
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The Arndale Bus station was headache inducing. The smell and the weird people.. and that was just me! I was the loony that sat next to lonely people on the top deck of buses!! haha.
Kidding...i always ATTRACTED them!.
 
LongsightM13 said:
More on Dickenson Road studios here:

Top of the Pops - BBC Studios (Rusholme)

Manchesterbeat - celebrating the North West's incredible music and clubs of the Sixties - 60s
www.manchesterbeat.com www.manchesterbeat.com
An interesting article here about the BBC’s various studios and buildings across Manchester innthe 60s and 70s, including in Hulme, Longsight and Ladybarn (Fallowfield/Burnage/Withington borders)

The end of the Oxford Road Show (video) | g7uk

www.g7uk.com
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Found this vid of bowie outside the BBC on Oxford Road in the 90s.
 
The Apollo cinema Ardwick Green for the Saturday matinee each week…

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Does anybody remember the old studios at the top end of Gt Western St near Wilmslow Rd, my Ma always pointed out the little building telling me that it was where Frank Randle used to make his films. Apparently he was an old time Lancashire comic, and now I wonder if my Ma was mistaken and confusing it with the old Dickenson Rd site. I noticed in a previous posting a blue plaque saying it was the base for Mancunian Films.
 
LongsightM13 said:
More on Dickenson Road studios here:

Top of the Pops - BBC Studios (Rusholme)

Manchesterbeat - celebrating the North West's incredible music and clubs of the Sixties - 60s
www.manchesterbeat.com www.manchesterbeat.com
An interesting article here about the BBC’s various studios and buildings across Manchester innthe 60s and 70s, including in Hulme, Longsight and Ladybarn (Fallowfield/Burnage/Withington borders)

The end of the Oxford Road Show (video) | g7uk

www.g7uk.com
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Get yourself a copy of @Mad Eyed Screamer s book.
 
LongsightM13 said:
There was a hybrid toyshop/household wares emporium just up from the Anson called “Joytown”, maybe that was the one
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You are probably right my memory is not fantastic, am going back to the early 60s.

Another Toy shop was Wiles in the Lewiss Arcade, loved that as a kid especially at Christmas.

Can anyone remember what year Market Street became pedestrian.
 
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