Manchester in the 1960s

[blueincy]

Those were the days, jeez, when we used to sell tricks to put in your parents/grandparents/mates fags. There was a banger one and a fluffy one wasn’t there? I don’t remember the above tbh.

Yeah remember them and smoke bombs they were the days...

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Some interesting stuff on this website, the Maine Road page is quite good.

http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/goneforever.html

 

[roj]

Some interesting stuff on this website, the Maine Road page is quite good.

http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/goneforever.html

#istory!

 

[roj]

Yeah remember them and smoke bombs they were the days...

For shock, I’d rather wrap caps round a penny and chuck it at the closest wall :)

 

[Vic]

Fabulous compared to now

It must be faked water though. It rarely worked.

Wiles's toy shop next to Lewis's was the best. Have a go at all sorts of stuff.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

No underground market, no Robinson's Records, no Paperchase, no Odeon on Oxford Rd (not even in the Printworks any more), no Brentford Nylons on the corner of Piccadilly and Portland St, no Piccadilly Radio reception in the bottom of the Piccadilly Hotel in the Plaza; the list goes on, and on, and on.....

Oh, Jim - Brentford Nylons! The curtains they had in that shop!!

 

[Indaparkside]

No underground market, no Robinson's Records, no Paperchase, no Odeon on Oxford Rd (not even in the Printworks any more), no Brentford Nylons on the corner of Piccadilly and Portland St, no Piccadilly Radio reception in the bottom of the Piccadilly Hotel in the Plaza; the list goes on, and on, and on.....

Times change pal, was saying the other day when a shop comes empty there's only 3, company's that want to occupy them, charity shops, bookmakers, or pound shops way of the world I'm afraid

 

[tshirtman]

Fabulous compared to now

I remember the gardens like that in the 70s, then the big wheel came in the 80s facing the Portland Hotel.
Me and my mates always met up outside Lewis's (now primark), that's when you could still drive up and down Market St.
Piccalilli bus station in the late 70s

free uploading site

 

[stonerblue]

Not a spice dealer/addict in sight!
There was a lovely little burger van to the left (80s)we used to get a couple after a session in Town, bloody lovely things they were.

Plenty of winos though in early 80's

 

[INDEEDY DEEDY]

Thanks Jim for those photographs. They brought back many happy memories of living in Manchester, especially in Hulme. All my family and relations lived in Hulme until the clearance in the mid 60s. Great days when people were happy and enjoyed life. Ah well.............