A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

[MCFCTrick]

Piccadilly Radio. Not the ''Gold'' variant, but the original. Steve Penk, Dave Ward, Roger Day, Susie Mathis, Pete Reeves, Andy Peebles, Brian Clarke, ''IT'S A GOOOOAAAAL'', that rag twat Sweeney, James Stannage.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8NTE6XTEdw[/youtube]

Did just about every house in the City have one of those car stickers in a bedroom window? I must have got dozens of them from their marquee at the Flower Show in Platt Fields every July. Actually, there's another memory; the flower show. Always held on the weekend the schools broke up for the summer hols.

Haha, Yeah I had one on my bedroom window... Also they use to have an Army show every year at Platt Fields.

A house near here still has one in the bedroom window .... od couple live there, and their son left it when he grew up and moved on ...<br /><br />-- Sat Apr 12, 2014 11:20 am --<br /><br />

Jillys and the swinging sporran are a good call, what about the Phoenix Rock Club on a Friday night?

Belle Vue itself, the dogs, the Aces and the bobs!

Never thought much of the phoenix,went to the rock club at UMIST a lot though

The Phoenix was THE best rock club .... went in Weds, Friday and Sundays ... great crowd, stil in touch with many from there, (Got an FB page) and met the missus in there too ...

Also did UMIST on Sats ... and Sporran after Phoenix too .....

 

[pinkwheeltrim]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1aPz90f78

Hulme just before the demolition.

My old house at 1'15! With my mums motorbike outside, someone nicked it, rode it round Robert Adam Crescent, then set it on fire, bastards! We moved back to Yorkshire soon after.

 

[billfromthehill]

Piccadilly Radio. Not the ''Gold'' variant, but the original. Steve Penk, Dave Ward, Roger Day, Susie Mathis, Pete Reeves, Andy Peebles, Brian Clarke, ''IT'S A GOOOOAAAAL'', that rag twat Sweeney, James Stannage.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8NTE6XTEdw[/youtube]

Did just about every house in the City have one of those car stickers in a bedroom window? I must have got dozens of them from their marquee at the Flower Show in Platt Fields every July. Actually, there's another memory; the flower show. Always held on the weekend the schools broke up for the summer hols.

Changed a broken window around 5/6 years ago on the Freetown estate in moss side off Denmark rd,
And I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the 261 sticker ,so I tried to peel it off but it snapped into pieces,
But the smell of the glue was as if you had just peeled it from new, hangin smell I can taste it now YUK.

 

[scotty123]

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)

I'm not 100% sure but i think George Evans was a bit of a Manchester Arthur Daley, bit dodgy but a bit of a business man

From what i remember of the North Westward Ho it was moored at Pamona but at the far end towards Regent Rd Salford, you could see it from Regent Rd bridge

I know my Mam and Step Dad as local publicans were invited to the opening night so if Evans knew my Step Dad he was definately dodgy lol

 

[Rascal]

Fuck me some old fucking codgers on this thread. Suprised none of you have mentioned the Peterloo riots


And no mention of the Hac

The fucking hanging bogs in piccadilly gardens and all the tramps leathered on the lawns

 

[Stoned Rose]

The Alexander Sports Depot (Wilmslow Road / Wilbraham Rd junction).

Pop Art Record Store (Withington Village, next to the Post Office).

Bluebell Woods (Mauldeth Road).

Gorton Tub.

 

[Ste1969]

The stall holder on grey mare lane market 20 stone plus with a beard who had a sports stall .... used to buy cheap footie shirts in the 80's

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

Fort Ardwick

My "playground" as a youngster. Once climbed over the side of the 2nd story footbridge that linked two of the towers and slid down a very tall lamp post. Up there with the most stupid thing i've ever done!!

 

[-nibz-]

Who ever posted this, cheers. I walked up those stairs as a kid. Til this day I've never heard that plane mentioned ever. I thought I dreamt it

 

[Bill]

Fuck me some old fucking codgers on this thread. Suprised none of you have mentioned the Peterloo riots


And no mention of the Hac

The fucking hanging bogs in piccadilly gardens and all the tramps leathered on the lawns

And about 30 phone boxes around each corner of the gardens.