A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

[George Hannah]

when I was younger, seeing the prows of ships right by the road, Salford (Manchester Docks);
1/9 container berth.
enough for now
Excellent post OP, you bugger. I'm missing the place more than ever now!

what was the name of that night club boat on the quays?

Lived off Trafford Rd Salford for a while as a kid and used to go to the docks to look at the ships, Manchester Liners always seem to have had their ships nearest the dock gates and trafford rd, all sounded the hooters on their funnels on New Years Eve, it was deafening

Trafford swing bridge would open quite a lot in them days and you could watch the ships from the canal banks hence the song 'the big ships sail on the alley alley oh'

I know an ex-stevadore there who said he thought the nightclub ship was moored at Pomona Dock and was called the Paloma - ring any bells?

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Frank 'foo foo' Lamar walking round Failsworth with his Afgan hounds

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

The old bus station near the Cathedral.

And then there was Cannon Street. Some folk have really screwed up Manchester.

 

[Ducado]

Some great memories, Manchester in the 70's & 80's was a completely different place in many ways it's a lot better now but I liked it all the same

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

The Magic Village
The Twisted Wheel
Friday night at M/cr Art College
Stamford Park Boating Lake 100 yards from our house.
Chadwick Dam
Rare Records
Underground Market
Stolen from Ivors
Concerts at UMIST
Stoneground
Swingin Sporran
Yates - Piccadilly (All ins)
Satellite Youth club - Uppermill
Warren youth club - Stalybridge
Shaws pie shop - Stalybridge
Bennet Street - Stalybridge (gone now)
The Crystal - Glossop
Bamboo club - Hazel Grove
Birdcage - Ashton
Kings - Stretford
The Moon - Duckinfield It's Dukinfield
Bower Club - Stalybridge
SIDS - Stalybridge
Shakepeare pub

Walk down memory lane hahah

 

[The Colonel]

The Kendall's subway under Deansgate when it was on both sides of the street. I can still recall the smell of meat from the butchers there.

The chimney skylines in Stockport.

Mr Pools arcade.

 

[George Hannah]

what was the name of that night club boat on the quays?

Lived off Trafford Rd Salford for a while as a kid and used to go to the docks to look at the ships, Manchester Liners always seem to have had their ships nearest the dock gates and trafford rd, all sounded the hooters on their funnels on New Years Eve, it was deafening

Trafford swing bridge would open quite a lot in them days and you could watch the ships from the canal banks hence the song 'the big ships sail on the alley alley oh'

I know an ex-stevadore there who said he thought the nightclub ship was moored at Pomona Dock and was called the Paloma - ring any bells?

Not the Paloma then!

On 10th January 1974 a nightclub was opened by George Evans, only it was aboard a moored ship.
Manchester’s first ship club was the North Westward Ho and included seven different bars (including the Binnacle Bar and Pilots Bar), a dance floor and the Canal Room restaurant.
The ship was decommissioned as an Isle of Wight passenger ferry due to an explosion in the engine room in 1971.
The ship was so popular that later the same year the owners purchased the Dehavilland Comet, an RAF aircraft, and parked it besides the ship to act as an overflow restaurant and dance floor. It was scrapped in 1981.

and anybody know who George Evans is/was? (I don't think he's related to our EDS lad currently on loan at Crewe)

 

[PinkFinal]

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Hulme just before the demolition.

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

The 1967 Stockport air crash disaster, plane crashed right in the centre of Stockport, saw it the next day, absolute carnage...

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Some more:-

Smokies, Bardsley Brew, Ashton.

Bardsley and Hulse model shop...Denton

The Amsterdam bar...Huddersfield

Wrestling at The Bower Club, Stalybridge with Count Bartelli....(From Crewe lol)

Hurley's golf shop...Piccadilly

Tench sports...Middleton

Harry Hall cycles...Cathedral street..(now moved)

Gigs at the Free trade Hall, Wishbone Ash/Barclay James Harvest etc.

Central Radio...Shudehill

JD Sports first shop in Bury in 1982, on the same spot it is now, about as big as your living room. (They had a small shop in Mossley selling models/sports for a few months before)

A ww2 pill box on Abbey Hey lane opposite the entrance to Aysgarth ave in Gorton, before the flats were built.

The Palace cinema, Stalyvegas.

Ian Anthony sports cars...Knutsford

The "old" Altrincham Ice Rink.

Wigan Casino

The original Nevada rollor skating in Bolton....(Burnt down)

Original Tommyfields market hall Oldham...(Burnt down)

Fun House Blackpool pleasure beach...(Burnt down)

 

[Zubrman]

Belle Vue Bowl - Was it Granada Bowl?

I remember going there when it first opened. No computer screens, just score cards with little boxes and diagonal lines. Had no idea how to score, (or how to bowl for that matter.)