A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

Mike N said:
PinkFinal said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1aPz90f78

Hulme just before the demolition.
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Thanks for putting this on. My old mate Colin is in it, he's the guy with the London accent in the block of flats, Fulton Court I think, in Hulme.
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Found it on an old video tape the other day and uploaded it, then came here and saw there was a thread going about old Manchester!
 
PinkFinal said:
Mike N said:
PinkFinal said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1aPz90f78

Hulme just before the demolition.
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Thanks for putting this on. My old mate Colin is in it, he's the guy with the London accent in the block of flats, Fulton Court I think, in Hulme.
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Found it on an old video tape the other day and uploaded it, then came here and saw there was a thread going about old Manchester!
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My family moved to Hulme in 69 when I was 3. Moved out to buy a house in 89 so know all about the deck access blocks and crescents (or the Bull Rings as we used to call them.) Worked in Hulme a few times over the years and was involved in the start of the reconstruction of the area in the mid 80's.

Hulme is, indeed, where the heart is!
 
We used to hang out all day long at the original Manchester Virgin store (I think it was on Lever st). We would spend all day asking them to put on certain records and writting our names all over the place. Also, Robinsons Records (the people there were great to us), Rare records (I think that was the one where Ian Curtis worked in the basement) and the one in the underground market. I still have all my 7" punk singles that I bought from all those places. Shooting pigeons in Picadilly with catapults we bought from the joke shop on Tibb st.
 
BlueBearBoots said:
StrangewaysHereWeCome said:
Slightly more recent times:

pissing about on the travelators at the airport when wagging school.
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that made me smile - we used to do that too!
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Yeah it was IIRC, a form of ticky it we played on there.

I remember taking my son to the airport last year because apparently there was a new viewing platform there. Was closed so it was on that shitty carpark roof I had to take him. He wasn't overly impressed. Although he was amazed by the policeman having sub-machine guns.
Thankfully he'll never remember the armed police raiding the house next door when he was two. Ironic I was raised in Moss Side, Lived in Salford, Moston and Fallowfield but it wasn't until I moved to a satellite town I seen armed police :-S

Who remembers champion sport in the basement of Lewis's?

Who remembers this? :)
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Had some great nights in here - The Land of Cakes - now Bem Brasil

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Barcon said:
We used to hang out all day long at the original Manchester Virgin store (I think it was on Lever st). We would spend all day asking them to put on certain records and writting our names all over the place. Also, Robinsons Records (the people there were great to us), Rare records (I think that was the one where Ian Curtis worked in the basement) and the one in the underground market. I still have all my 7" punk singles that I bought from all those places. Shooting pigeons in Picadilly with catapults we bought from the joke shop on Tibb st.
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What was that record shop up some stairs off Oxford Road? Can't remember the name. Also the comic shop at the Corn Exchange which was pretty much the only place you could buy Viz from in the 80s.
 
Mike N said:
PinkFinal said:
Mike N said:
Thanks for putting this on. My old mate Colin is in it, he's the guy with the London accent in the block of flats, Fulton Court I think, in Hulme.
Click to expand...

Found it on an old video tape the other day and uploaded it, then came here and saw there was a thread going about old Manchester!
Click to expand...

My family moved to Hulme in 69 when I was 3. Moved out to buy a house in 89 so know all about the deck access blocks and crescents (or the Bull Rings as we used to call them.) Worked in Hulme a few times over the years and was involved in the start of the reconstruction of the area in the mid 80's.

Hulme is, indeed, where the heart is!
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There's loads of photos of old Hulme and other parts of Manchester on this site:
<a class="postlink" href="http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass</a>
 
Barcon said:
We used to hang out all day long at the original Manchester Virgin store (I think it was on Lever st). We would spend all day asking them to put on certain records and writting our names all over the place. Also, Robinsons Records (the people there were great to us), Rare records (I think that was the one where Ian Curtis worked in the basement) and the one in the underground market. I still have all my 7" punk singles that I bought from all those places. Shooting pigeons in Picadilly with catapults we bought from the joke shop on Tibb st.
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I remember the joke shop in Tibb Street and all the pet shops
 
Ducado said:
Barcon said:
We used to hang out all day long at the original Manchester Virgin store (I think it was on Lever st). We would spend all day asking them to put on certain records and writting our names all over the place. Also, Robinsons Records (the people there were great to us), Rare records (I think that was the one where Ian Curtis worked in the basement) and the one in the underground market. I still have all my 7" punk singles that I bought from all those places. Shooting pigeons in Picadilly with catapults we bought from the joke shop on Tibb st.
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I remember the joke shop in Tibb Street and all the pet shops
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Those pet shops on Tib St would never be allowed to get away with it nowadays, they were rancid, they smelled like an Elephants arse
 
blue underpants said:
Ducado said:
Barcon said:
We used to hang out all day long at the original Manchester Virgin store (I think it was on Lever st). We would spend all day asking them to put on certain records and writting our names all over the place. Also, Robinsons Records (the people there were great to us), Rare records (I think that was the one where Ian Curtis worked in the basement) and the one in the underground market. I still have all my 7" punk singles that I bought from all those places. Shooting pigeons in Picadilly with catapults we bought from the joke shop on Tibb st.
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I remember the joke shop in Tibb Street and all the pet shops
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Those pet shops on Tib St would never be allowed to get away with it nowadays, they were rancid, they smelled like an Elephants arse
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Not as bad as the zoo at Belle Vue,now that did honk.
 
Buying OZ magazine in Paperchase in St Anne's Square

I've got the schoolkids issue that they went to court about over obscenity in 1971

It was a classic with Rupert shagging his granny and it also contained a poster of Rupert running with his bottom half naked LOL

Images can be found if you go to google
 
It was always Afflecks Palace for me. I'd buy magic tricks I could never perform from the stall on the top floor and buy posters and badges lower down. The Colosseum is also sadly missed. Does anyone know what happened to The Rock Stop t-shirt shop? They moved to another place but I couldn't find it last time I was wondering around the Northern Quarter.
 
peoffrey said:
It was always Afflecks Palace for me. I'd buy magic tricks I could never perform from the stall on the top floor and buy posters and badges lower down. The Colosseum is also sadly missed. Does anyone know what happened to The Rock Stop t-shirt shop? They moved to another place but I couldn't find it last time I was wondering around the Northern Quarter.
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I just remember it as a normal department store. And there was no "northern quarter.
 
de niro said:
I often wondered why they pulled down the flyover at the end of deansgate/ mancunian way.
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Used to love that flyover, there was one point of it going towards Deansgate that if you really put your foot down you could take off.
 
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