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a quote from another thread said .............

"I remember buying the record at Mary's music on Whalley Rd."
....was that the place adjacent to the motor-cycle shop which sold Lambretta and Vespa parts ? opposite a Lion pub , (The Hope and Anchor ?) I also remember a great pub up one of the streets behind there somewhere, I think somewhere near Emerson and Renwicks , had one of the best jukeboxes in town ......this would be the late 60's, it was part of our Friday night crawl
 
The pub with the jukebox could it be the New Brewery Inn?, The motorbike shop no longer sells Vespa and Lambretta parts, it is all Japanese stuff now. The Hope and Anchor is still going strong!
 
anyone know if there is a map in any of these threads showing the location of past and present pubs and clubs ?
thx John
 
think you mean the new brewery they had a great jukebox, was the start of a good little tour lol (1)new brewery (2)royal oak (3) st johns (4) great eastern (5) boars head (6) broadway (7)hope and anchor (8) castle (9) back to brewery, and you had only been around a couple of blocks.:D
 
Thanks Mick and Cashman for the info
Yep , it was the New Brewery I was thinking of , looking at the pub link site it seems some of the towncenter pubs have been renamed.
There used to be (maybe still is)another good pub in the area behind the Canine club ,Plantation st area, if I remember it was on a street parallel to Abbey st. could have been a Massey house
Is the Antley still in business (corner of Newark st. and Blackburn rd.) near to the Accy/Church border ?
thank John
 
Are you thinking of the Old House At home on Melbourne Street, opposite the old Manchester bus stop? That was a Masseys House. Alternatively it could be the Queens, but I don't think that was ever a Masseys House, was it?

The Antley is long gone - last time I went past it, it was a muslim girl's school. Another sad loss is the Block - what a cracking pub that was when Joyce and Eddie Berry had it!
 
I used to go to my Gran's in Sheffield for the school hols.....we would go down to Melbourne St to catch the Manchester bus well too early....Gran would leave me at the bus stop with the bags and nip into the Old House at Home for a pint of mild. I was always told not to tell my mum about this little trick of hers....my reward...half a crown bribery money.
Gran used to say that the mild was good for her kidneys....well it must have been because she was always busting for a P when we got to the bus station at Manchester!
 
yep think thats the one ..........thanks
anyone remember the Greyhound on Whalley rd near top of Dill Hall , they used to have some local bands playing , trying to remember the band Jon Anderson played with before he moved on to greater things
 
What about corners as well? that used to be on our crawl after Hope and Anchor and Broadway, don`t really remember corners that much, hmm maybe my memory was impaired by the alcohol?

Mary`s music - used to love browsing through the singles there, and you used to be able to play the older ones to 'check' it was the one you wanted. I think all my mid 80`s records came from there, and what was the other one called was it Reidy`s? up near top of little blackburn Road?
 
Corners???...Where was Corners?

The shop at the top of Little Blackburn Road was called The Disc & Tape Exchange. Reidys was on Penny Street in Blackburn.
 
those were the days said:
and what was the other one called was it Reidy`s? up near top of little blackburn Road?
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Holds Shady McGough back.... "Leave her alone Shades, shes not worth it!!":D
 
steeljack said:
not the Old House at Home , looking at an old map I have it could have been on Lee st. ?
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the old house at home was on melbourne street across from fenners works which became karrimor, hughie was the landlord who took a strop with me cos i told him his bitter tasted like vinegar lol
 
I do remember old house it was dead! went in one night and the bandit was unplugged so i thought i'd do em a favour and plugged it in, stuck 5p in and got a winner..and paid cash. spun again and it froze on the winner! again and again but shellin out tokens
the landlady comes up and turns it off, i had what was a night out to me in cash plus tokens i cashed in at the astronaut.. sad to see the place go really
 
does anyone remember the small record shop that sold singles for 5p? it was near the black horse on abbey street, sometimes it would have singles that were still in the charts.. used to by them and take em to mary's music and say we needed a refund or replacement for some other single cos my sis bought me 2 by mistake,(singles were about 30p at the time, and I can't think they had till reciepts in them old days.)

worked a few times but then mary herself took a look and sussed it had been played to many times.. ha ha worth a go!
 
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