Piccadilly Gardens

[Balti]

''Gardens''

lol

 

[WNRH]

Should tar mac the whole lot and make it a square.

An embarresment to the City especially as it's one of the first things you see when getting off the train.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

oh aye forgot about the paraffins on the benches..and that old WW2 sea mine to collect for a charity?

used to walk from there down market st to The Underground market

Stolen from Ivor and JUSTINS then downstairs for leathers or a pair of Wines, Stones or electric blues

Oh the memories

always wondered what happened to the mine ??

 

[sun jihai]

I can vouch for the drug dealer comment.

I've had complete strangers approach me on more than one occasion asking me if I wanted to buy cocaine, when I've walked through on a Saturday night. Openly, in the street.

And I could imagine that it would be the sort of place that would attract paedophiles, especially at this time of year when there are lots of youngsters around those fountains.

I work with the police a lot and they have said, every paedophile website they have taken down or ring they have uncovered it is flooded with pichures from the gardens, I myself have guided police to certain suspects taking photos.

On a hot day when there's loads of kids in the fountains it's a fun game to try and spot them. There's a surprisingly high amount of old men on their own standing and watching with shopping bags covering the front of their jeans...

 

[deedee]

Also remember the wooden animals in the Arndale Centre we used to climb on as a kid. I think one was a Rhino and they had a few more, possibly an elephant.

That brings back memories - there was a rhino outside Mothercare.
One of them you could climb right through, an the other you could stand up in the middle (think that was the elephant)

memories.......

F***ing Provos, killing our fake animals.

 

[vicg47]

The public toilets by Piccadilly Gardens in th 70/80s were a disgrace, when needs must after a night out, you were taking a risk going in that cess pit

 

[jimharri]

The public toilets by Piccadilly Gardens in th 70/80s were a disgrace, when needs must after a night out, you were taking a risk going in that cess pit

What about those ones that are there now (across from the bus stops)? Not all that far removed from whipping it out and pissing in public!

 

[waterloo blue]

Remember the tramps most of all,one black bloke dressed in cricket pads.
Can't believe the mess they made of it,that bus station in the eighties was a war zone at night.