Manchester Evening News
Update to the collection so far - at least 1970.
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Nick Parkman
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I was born in Openshaw in 1936 and lived there until I left for good in 1960. My father was born in Stoke on Trent, my mother in Clayton, Manchester, and I have always regretted that I never learned about their early years. Their occasional comments made me understand in a very vague way that their lives had been very different from mine, but I didn’t have the interest then to ask for more information. So what this site is about is putting down details of my growing up years so that, long after I’m gone, there will be a record of them
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Angie
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Hello. My gran and dad lived on gill street. Gran was Lillian Eyre, she had two children Maureen and frank. Frank was my dad but sadly he died in 1964 at his mums home in gill street, I was only 9 months old. I have no memories of my dad what so ever. Does anyone have phtos of memories of them. Thankyou
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Simon Morris
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I lived at boscastle St.off Louise St.moved to cheeryble St.went to Clayton brook and wheeler St worked at g.e.c
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Alison Webster
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I just had a browse through one of a series of booklets I bought on my last visit back to Manchester some years ago: More Tales of Manchester Jewry by Monty Dobkin, in which he lists from a 1927 directory, all the shops along Bury New Road. Some of them were still there in the 1960s. There was a fishmongers called Gordon's, which in 1927 was owned by one Rose Gordon, but which in my day was owned by a short, pale-faced, bald Jewish gentleman, who was not named Gordon but who had kept the name on the shop front. I do not mean to be disrespectful to the old gent, but he really did resemble some of the fish on his slab! My memory deceives me now as to which was Bury New Road and which was Bury Old Rd. As for The Temple, I have a picture of the pub & cinema taken in the 1880s which, if I could work out how, I might upload onto this site. The cinema, which kep going for 40 years, had two integral shops. On the left was a barbers (I used to go and wait for my father on a Saturday as he had his hair cut, and the kindly barber used to put some 'bay rum' on my hand). On the right was a 'high class confectioners' where we used to buy posh chocs before going into the cinema. I used to attend the Saturday matinees here, seeing awful westerns, cliffhangers and the 3 stooges
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Peter
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We used to go along Bury New Road (quite near Cheetham Hill Rd) on a Sunday. There were lots of shops along there, in those days belonging to Jewish people. There was a furniture shop along there
belonging to 2 brothers, real gents. I bought an oval onyx and brass occasional table which is still in
use today, had it about 34 years. Shops there were thriving. -
Ken
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I didn't live in Cheetham but I travelled up and down Cheetham Hill Road to and from work 5 days a week (1960 -65)
I met my then girlfriend ,who lived in Heaton Park, at work and every Wednesday night we would alternate between the Temple cinema and The Premier. This would be followed by a couple of drinks in The Temple and The Halfway House respectively before I put her on the bus.
Happy memories
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Phil
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Anyone care to share memories of Cheetham & Cheetham Hill in this era? Remember: Lorenzini's ice cream parlour; Herbert St wash house; Saturday matinees at The Temple Cinema; the parks at Elizabeth St, Heywood St & Waterloo Rd; taking the bus from Queens Rd garage to Grey Mare Lane Market; rag & bone men & coalmen had horse drawn carts; Saturday afternoons watching Dixon of Dock Green & Doctor Who & the Daleks (in black & white); Saint Chad's School; the buzz of the industrial sewing machines in the shirt factories and the girls in there singing "Volare"; Titanics' delicatessen (started by a survivor); being kept at home whilst the Moors murderers were snatching children off the streets; corner shops; elderly neighbour chaps who'd been gassed in the trenches of world war 1; when Cheetham got 'slum-clearance' demolition in 1969; the wonderful Jewish bakery down Waterloo Rd; the fish & chip shop in Garnet St that sold 'babies 'eads', etcetera etcetera
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Becks
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The Colonel
The Kendall's subway under Deansgate when it was on both sides of the street. I can still recall the smell of meat from the butchers there.The chimney skylines in Stockport.
Mr Pools arcade.
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Derek Phillips
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Some great memories, Manchester in the 70's & 80's was a completely different place in many ways it's a lot better now but I liked it all the same
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Alan White
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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
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Rosemary
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Victoria bus station
The bombed out hotel at the start of Deansgate (Victoria Hotel?)
Oasis boutique in the underground market
Millets on Deansgate
The mobile chippy on Victoria Bridge (pretty girls working in it)
The Auld Reekie on Market Street
Millionaire Club (1 pound a pint when it was 25p in pubs)
Watching the papers being printed in the Express building on Great Ancoats Street
The nightclub across the road from Romanofs (sp) (Rotters), you go upstairs and it was full a plastic palm trees -
Christine
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The Magic Village
The Twisted Wheel
Friday night at M/cr Art College
Stamford Park Boating Lake 100 yards from our house.
Chadwick Dam
Rare Records
Underground Market
Stolen from Ivors
Concerts at UMIST
Stoneground
Swingin Sporran
Yates - Piccadilly (All ins)
Satellite Youth club - Uppermill
Warren youth club - Stalybridge
Shaws pie shop - Stalybridge
Bennet Street - Stalybridge (gone now)
The Crystal - Glossop
Bamboo club - Hazel Grove
Birdcage - Ashton
Kings - Stretford
The Moon - Duckinfield
Bower Club - Stalybridge
SIDS - Stalybridge
Shakepeare pubWalk down memory lane hahah
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Caz Carpenter
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Pub on Wernerth Low;
Vinegar Vera;
The Kettle Drum and the Bass Drum pubs;
The Packet House, Patricroft;
The Grapes, Patricroft (Holts);
Boddingtons Brewery (and the odour);
Hydes Brewery.The ceiling in the police control room at Maine Road, someone had smacked his hand through the ceiling and another had written 'Goaaall!' around it with an indelible black marker pen, on reflection, that may have been created by a rag, bugger.
Tommy Ducks?
Henrys
The Music Exchange
Mamelocks closing down sale (must have been on for around twenty years)
A1 Music
yup, Stoneground
Those little alleyways that run from near Bootle Street to Saint Annes square and perhaps further on?
Sitting on the grass outside the Shambles before it was moved for the first time, never mind the second time (I must have been around 8 at the time).
11/9, outside Broadway Gate;
when I was younger, seeing the prows of ships right by the road, Salford (Manchester Docks);
1/9 container berth.
enough for now
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Jane
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yes trolley buses.
jimmy the rag and bone man round newton heath.
the 25 bus to maine road.
the grand in aytoun street.
of course belle vue and that big whale you could walk through, shoot the rapid.and the scenic railway.
George best and that house in bramhall that looked like a bog.
tootal pitch and the red rec football venues. also newton heath loco just behind the cresta.
pauldens moved to Denmark road, think ir burnt down.the barrow boys.
the under pass from kendals to kendals on deansgate.
silvori's
mr smiths
the essoldo on Rochdale road
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Bill hooks
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Millwards chemicals on Levenshulme road in gorton
The huge wall around belle vue that you could only see over when on the 53 bus
Sharples bakers shops -
Emma began
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Placemate 7
Smarties
Pips
The Great American Disaster
Burgerland & Pizzaland (Deansgate)
Affleck & Browns
Cameo Cinema (porno movies)!
Kardomah (st Anne's Square)
Tyldsley & Holbrook
Barnaby Rudge
SandpipersSchool caps
Feeling old now
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Gail
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Genivieves in Longsight, Stoneground, later became the Mayflower on Birch street in Gorton. Some good and dodgy times. The Cyprus Tavern, ended up in there with loads of Blues after we beat Charlton 5-1 to get promotion. A special night indeed.
Golden Garter, -
Baz
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the night Pauldens burnt down there was ash and embers falling on Withington
Hough End was full at weekends. dozens of teams were based there
Fast food was chippys and a few Wimpys
Skyways near the airport, Tenten on Stockport rd and Crimelake were the hangouts for the mobike lads
Miniskirts were a major distraction to drivers, white knickers most common [apparently]
Tiffanys had a great resident group, became the New Seekers
Moss Empires had several night clubs and had some top turns.
The stock-cars at Belle Vue could be heard for miles
Excursions by train to Blackpool were 6 shillings, half that by coach from Gt Western Str
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James
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Green Salford buses, red Manchester buses pre S.E.L.N.E.C. days, both had open platforms with a gripper pole, as kids we would jump on the No1 bus up Langworthy Rd Salford and hang on for dear life until the conductor threw us off, also going to Maine Rd on the 'match special' buses from Aytoun St
The Piccadilly Club near Aytoun St, a real City haunt after the pubs shut on a Saturday night, also the Bier Keller at Belle Vue, a couple of years later they opened a nightclub just inside Belle Vue gates, for the life of me i can't remember what it was called, full of Blues from Gorton though
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MIke royden
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What was the pub on Market St called, on left hand side heading towards M&S, you had to go down stairs?
There was also another pub roughly where WH Smith and Pizza Hut are now opposite the side of M&S, anyone remember what that was called? I'm obviously an old bugger and my memory's going