The Kippax

Big Joe Corrigan said:
The Gardners was on Victory Street, off Claremont Road.
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Used to sometimes drink in The Gardeners Arms before and after home games, always thought it quite ironic being in a road called 'Victory' Street. Pretty much 'staggering distance' to the Kippax turnstiles from there wasn't it?
Other times I'd meet mates in The Friendship in Fallowfield,(seemed quite a trek from there after a lunchtime session.)
When my daughter was living in Fallowfield a couple of years back I popped in before a midweek home match. It was the first time I'd been back since the 90s, the locals all looked pretty 'familiar' just more grey and with bigger beer guts. Still a bit of a' City boozer' I believe by all accounts.
 
Zapcity said:
When my daughter was living in Fallowfield a couple of years back I popped in before a midweek home match. It was the first time I'd been back since the 90s, the locals all looked pretty 'familiar' just more grey and with bigger beer guts. Still a bit of a' City boozer' I believe.
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Sadly The Gardeners is now a block of flats, another old City watering hole gone. Incidentally do you remember the young lad who used to collect the glasses, might have been called Norman, a bit of a character.
 
Spurs quarter 69 said:
Always found the Lord Lyon a weird pub never seemed very welcoming after the match. May have been a bit of a rag stronghold, unlikely with its location but never felt relaxed in there.
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Not rags, it was just that sort of pub with that sort of atmosphere, any day of the week you went in.
Every area has their ‘weird shithole’ pub and even in Rusholme, the Lord Lyon had a bit of a reputation for being where the wrong uns congregated.
If Begbie from Trainspotting was a Manc then the Lord Lyon would probably have been his local
 
Vic said:
Pig farm? Top of Cooper St in Withington (now Copson St)? Or was there another?
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the one at the corner of Yewtree/Cooper street next to the allotment became police houses, i dont recall it being smelly. The one next to the railway/stinky brook was the one i meant. Truly awful whiff. It was there before the war, my dear old ma used to pass it on her way to work at the Co-op on Platt Lane. In those days each district had an abattoir and were said to be as bad.
 
bellbuzzer said:
the one at the corner of Yewtree/Cooper street next to the allotment became police houses, i dont recall it being smelly. The one next to the railway/stinky brook was the one i meant. Truly awful whiff. It was there before the war, my dear old ma used to pass it on her way to work at the Co-op on Platt Lane. In those days each district had an abattoir and were said to be as bad.
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I remember above that co-op in the late 60s a club called the Popin,soft drinks only plenty of music and nice young girls,missed my last 53 bus back to Gorton many times.
 
xgorton said:
I remember above that co-op in the late 60s a club called the Popin,soft drinks only plenty of music and nice young girls,missed my last 53 bus back to Gorton many times.
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Don't forget Mr Scott's shop on Platt Lane, when the height of mischief was to go in and say, "How much are your ha'penny chews, Mr Scott?"
 
Zapcity said:
Used to sometimes drink in The Gardeners Arms before and after home games, always thought it quite ironic being in a road called 'Victory' Street. Pretty much 'staggering distance' to the Kippax turnstiles from there wasn't it?
Other times I'd meet mates in The Friendship in Fallowfield,(seemed quite a trek from there after a lunchtime session.)
When my daughter was living in Fallowfield a couple of years back I popped in before a midweek home match. It was the first time I'd been back since the 90s, the locals all looked pretty 'familiar' just more grey and with bigger beer guts. Still a bit of a' City boozer' I believe by all accounts.
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Used to live next door to the Gardeners at 23 Victory Street. We left in 1974 and the pub was extended and amalgamated with my old house. We also had the social club on the other side
 
xgorton said:
I remember above that co-op in the late 60s a club called the Popin,soft drinks only plenty of music and nice young girls,missed my last 53 bus back to Gorton many times.
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That Co-op was there until about 1983/4 when I used to go in as a nipper with my mum. I remember going upstairs for Xmas parties.

I recall it changing its name to One Stop for a few years in the late 80s?
 
xgorton said:
I remember above that co-op in the late 60s a club called the Popin,soft drinks only plenty of music and nice young girls,missed my last 53 bus back to Gorton many times.
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You too!
First pint as 16 year old in the Gardeners.
Later the Fallowfield became our Saturday night boozer.
Us FOCs knew how to live.
 
My mate stole the big City badge from outside the City Social club back in 1990 and had it mounted on his bedroom wall.
 
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