A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

[LongsightM13]

Savile used to share a flat in Higher Broughton with Roger Moore! True. My mate lived near by....He told me that Savile used to get all the kids ice creams....I obviously asked if that was a euphemism; "NO...it was ICE CREAM"!!!
He always suspected that Roger Moore would be the next celeb to get investigated due to that link.

Maybe that explains the permanently raised eyebrow…

 

[dickie davies]

Savile used to share a flat in Higher Broughton with Roger Moore! True. My mate lived near by....He told me that Savile used to get all the kids ice creams....I obviously asked if that was a euphemism; "NO...it was ICE CREAM"!!!
He always suspected that Roger Moore would be the next celeb to get investigated due to that link.

Roger Moore did loads for UNICEF in his later years
There again, Savile did lots of hospital charity work

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

Does anybody remember The Manchester Show at Platt Fields Park? We used to sneak in every summer in the 70s and 80s. Sort of an urban attempt at a county show, a weird hybrid of dog agility competitions, the latest motors from Manchester Garages, a Piccadilly 261 roadshow, a few bands and comics of varying quality (although Happy Mondays played it in 87, see picture below) and best of all for a young kid, The Red Devils parachutists. From the south end of Longsight we would watch them coming down on the Wednesday and Thursday before as they practiced for the weekend, with the red and blue smoke trailing from their boots.
Remarkably little online about what was considered a big deal in Manchester at the time

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I once won a prize at that Piccadilly Radio stand for saying the alphabet backwards quicker than the other contestants. Turned out I won a poster of the band UFO which didn't make it home with me.

 

[LongsightM13]

I once won a prize at that Piccadilly Radio stand for saying the alphabet backwards quicker than the other contestants. Turned out I won a poster of the band UFO which didn't make it home with me.

Hahaha the swag from Piccadilly Radio was always shit. A mob of us as 10-11 year olds used to go into reception in Piccadilly Plaza, harrassing the receptionist and demanding to go on the radio and/or free records. They used to fob us off with a few car window stickers

 

[mikeyboy]

As a kid getting the bus from Sale into town back in the day and crapping myself whilst it went over the flyover at the top of Chester road.

 

[blue by birth]

Does anybody remember Kennett House flats nicknamed the Queen Mary due to looking like a ship?..
Heath Street school and Cheetham Baths.. School was knocked down and kids had to go to the newly built but not quite completed Abraham Moss.

 

[eboblue]

I remember as a kid every Saturday morning walking up Princess Road to the Sports Depot, which despite its name had the most amazing window displays of toy soldiers, Airfix kits, Dinky toys and other things to grab a boy’s imagination. If I was lucky I’d have enough to buy something. The dilemma of which figure to buy was draining.
I used to do a paper round from Varleys on Lloyd Street. Clever old fox used to let you buy single ciggies against your wages so that by pay day most of your dosh was already spent. Used to hate Thursdays, the day Exchange and Mart came out and all the women’s weekly magazines.

Varleys - was that the one on corner of Driffield St, we knew that as "the gift shop"
And the sports depot had the best selection of Subbuteo teams as well!

 

[Wansford st blue]

I also did a paper round for Varleys. Small world. We lived on Wykeham Street and used to use the shop on corner of our street and also Bernettes opposite Varleys.

I was at a doo a couple of years ago and Carol from tulochs shop was there

 

[Fat Chance]

 

[yerwot?]

I once won a prize at that Piccadilly Radio stand for saying the alphabet backwards quicker than the other contestants. Turned out I won a poster of the band UFO which didn't make it home with me.

Does anybody remember The Manchester Show at Platt Fields Park? We used to sneak in every summer in the 70s and 80s. Sort of an urban attempt at a county show, a weird hybrid of dog agility competitions, the latest motors from Manchester Garages, a Piccadilly 261 roadshow, a few bands and comics of varying quality (although Happy Mondays played it in 87, see picture below) and best of all for a young kid, The Red Devils parachutists. From the south end of Longsight we would watch them coming down on the Wednesday and Thursday before as they practiced for the weekend, with the red and blue smoke trailing from their boots.
Remarkably little online about what was considered a big deal in Manchester at the time

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The Parachute Regiment had a platform/tower set up where you could wear a harness and jump off, it was connected to a kind of wind-mill and it replicated an actual parachute descent. They coaxed a couple of girls who were promoting Rothmans cigs to have a go but they put the brakes on when they were still about 15 foot off the ground, quite an eyeful for those underneath, so i believe....