A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

Kippaxpete said:
Anyone remember legendary pub, Tommy Ducks, located behind the Midland Hotel? It was notorious for having hundreds of pairs of knickers pinned to the ceiling and real coffins used as tables! The pub's emblem was two ducks shagging mid-flight, something you'd never see in these 'enlightened' times. It's thought that a former landlord, Thomas Duckworth, wanted his name emblazoned across the front. However, the sign-writer employed to do the job ran out of space and shortened it, thereby giving rise to the name. I recall my uncle taking me in there as a kid - much to the disapproval of my mum - when it was the last building standing in the midst of a huge piece of wasteland. Sadly, unscrupulous developers demolished it in the dead of night in 1993.
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Damn right I do -but the exact location is hard to find nowadays
 
Kippaxpete said:
Anyone remember legendary pub, Tommy Ducks, located behind the Midland Hotel? It was notorious for having hundreds of pairs of knickers pinned to the ceiling and real coffins used as tables! The pub's emblem was two ducks shagging mid-flight, something you'd never see in these 'enlightened' times. It's thought that a former landlord, Thomas Duckworth, wanted his name emblazoned across the front. However, the sign-writer employed to do the job ran out of space and shortened it, thereby giving rise to the name. I recall my uncle taking me in there as a kid - much to the disapproval of my mum - when it was the last building standing in the midst of a huge piece of wasteland. Sadly, unscrupulous developers demolished it in the dead of night in 1993.
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I went in there with my girlfriend after watching a film at the Odeon on Oxford Road. The following day it had been demolished. Yes, there were knickers on the ceiling, but I had no idea the tables were coffins. I never noticed that.

I remember my mother being upset on hearing about its demise. Apparantly, it was a favourite haunt of American GI's during the 2nd world war, and my mum had many happy memories of being in there at the time. She had a GI boyfriend for a while until he was sent down south just before D-Day.

I remember the City council being pissed off with it's demolition, and saying they would be as obstructive as possible regarding the re-development of the land it stood on. I don't think their resolve lasted too long.
 
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Ribble73 said:
Damn right I do -but the exact location is hard to find nowadays
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There is a Premier Inn just south of St Peters Sqare, opposite the Midland Hotel. It was on Bishopsgate, off Lower Mosley St, at the bottom of the dip where the office block now sits.
 
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NPBlue said:
I went in there with my girlfriend after watching a film at the Odeon on Oxford Road. The following day it had been demolished. Yes, there were knickers on the ceiling, but I had no idea the tables were coffins. I never noticed that.

I remember my mother being upset on hearing about its demise. Apparantly, it was a favourite haunt of American GI's during the 2nd world war, and my mum had many happy memories of being in there at the time. She had a GI boyfriend for a while until he was sent down south just before D-Day.

I remember the City council being pissed off with it's demolition, and saying they would be as obstructive as possible regarding the re-development of the land it stood on. I don't think their resolve lasted too long.
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Went a few times when at the BT training school on Oxford Rioad
 
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