The death of Supercars as we know ‘em

[Wanderer]

I can remember being 16-18 and working part time at ASDA, Southgate on a Saturday. We would walk up the high street to the White Hart for a little lunchtime tipple. Three lads would order 3 x Babychams as they were on the bottom shelf and we got an eyeful from the bar girl when she reached for them! We made sure we ordered one first......then the I'll have a Babycham second....then lastly the last....I'll have a Babycham. Horrible drinks but the view was worth it at the time

We used to drink brown and bitter purely cos we knew the barmaid couldn't judge a half in an pint glass so 9 times out of 10 you got two thirds bitter and a half pint bottle of brown, bonus!

I used to live near Magees Brewery, was an imposing building at night, very creepy in the gas lights we still had ten, late 60's and we were still in the 30's.

Anyway, we used to climb on the parked up drays, and pour the dregs of one bottle of brown into another, and eventually amassed an quarter pint and necked it, after fishing out the dead jaspers (wasps to Southerners) - but one time we found a full crate of Cherry Brandy's - 13%, and necked a few - wow! Even not I have a taste for it, they sell them in ASDA, drinking one or two those and memories come flooding back....

This wert top of our street....

 

[Oneball]

Still got gas lights in Malvern.

They’ve turned the M&B Springfield brewery in Wolverhampton into student accommodation!

 

[Wanderer]

Still got gas lights in Malvern.

They’ve turned the M&B Springfield brewery in Wolverhampton into student accommodation!

We were so poor we didn't have one penny to rub together.

I didn't have any clothes until I was nine, then me dad bought me a cap so I could look out of the window....

Copyright Eric Sykes for the last one! (and Lenny Henry for the first).

 

[jemgee]

Have a look at Harry's garage for the Jag I pace review.
No thanks. Only makes sense to me if you do no more than 20 miles per day and charge overnight on a 13 amp plug. Plus you need to factor in the extra purchase cost and no one mentions how long the batteries will last or the replacement cost

 

[Wanderer]

Still got gas lights in Malvern.

They’ve turned the M&B Springfield brewery in Wolverhampton into student accommodation!

Malvern? I echo what Bernard Sumner (Joy Division, New Order) said about the light in the evenings in Manchester and the surrounding towns in the 60's, seemed to give off a black light, made everything grimmer.

 

[Oneball]

Malvern? I echo what Bernard Sumner (Joy Division, New Order) said about the light in the evenings in Manchester and the surrounding towns in the 60's, seemed to give off a black light, made everything grimmer.

Malvern is a retirement home for the elderly who can still walk, als where the make Morgans and put water in bottles. The lamps are what C S Lewis based the lamppost in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe on.

The light in the middle of the day in Manchester has a similar effect!

 

[Corranga]

I bought a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV

No offence to you, you’ve explained very well your reasoning and in the same situation, I’d probably do the same.
The Outlander PHEV is one of the best examples of how bad hybrid technology can be. Clearly it’s been developed as a tax / cc etc dodging vehicle, with awful EV performance and a fairly agricultural and not so efficient ICE.
They also take up charge points where an actual full electric car could be, for minimal savings and a touch over a dozen real world miles. At least they don’t have a full on Tesla battery pack full of lithium mined by kids..
The government really should be much harsher on these things and put an end to pointless hybrids.
Another interesting example from a year or 2 back is the Yaris hybrid. Costs 30 or 40% more than the petrol equivalent, and uses more fuel than the smaller petrol engined equivalent in all but chock a block commuting.

ICE clearly isn’t the answer, but the current range of EVs are barely even a stop gap

 

[Silvercat]

Malvern? I echo what Bernard Sumner (Joy Division, New Order) said about the light in the evenings in Manchester and the surrounding towns in the 60's, seemed to give off a black light, made everything grimmer.

Next thing youre going to say is you used to go to 'Rafters" nightclub on Oxford road
( opposite the old Odeon), or "Tommy Ducks," or "The Shady Lady", opposite the BBC, or Rosie's wine bar next to the Brittania Hotel on Piccadilly square. Those were the days......I was in Manchester when 'The Smiths' first appeared on the scene....

 

[Wanderer]

Next thing youre going to say is you used to go to 'Rafters" nightclub on Oxford road
( opposite the old Odeon), or "Tommy Ducks," or "The Shady Lady", opposite the BBC, or Rosie's wine bar next to the Brittania Hotel on Piccadilly square. Those were the days......I was in Manchester when 'The Smiths' first appeared on the scene....

Been to Tommy Ducks, near Central Station as it was. Ladies knickers etc on the ceiling.....

Bought my music gear inc my first Shergold Marathon 6 bass, from A1 music, a musical instrument shop/death trap.....

 

[Silvercat]

Been to Tommy Ducks, near Central Station as it was. Ladies knickers etc on the ceiling.....

Bought my music gear inc my first Shergold Marathon 6 bass, from A1 music, a musical instrument shop/death trap.....

It was in the days when Manchester used to be a proper industrial 'gritty' northern city.....I used to live off Dickinson Road in Rusholme when I was a student; days of the IRA marches, Punk, New Wave music.....great times!

 

[Silvercat]

It was in the days when Manchester used to be a proper industrial 'gritty' northern city.....I used to live off Dickinson Road in Rusholme when I was a student; days of the IRA marches, Punk, New Wave music.....great times!

I used to walk into Manchester city centre from Rusholme, get absolutely smashed and then walk back again at 1.00am in the morning without the fear of getting knifed or beaten up. You couldn't do that now....Oh yes I forget to say that that the 'New Romantics' were also starting to appear then as the Punk era started to fade.

 

[Silvercat]

I used to walk into Manchester city centre from Rusholme, get absolutely smashed and then walk back again at 1.00am in the morning without the fear of getting knifed or beaten up. You couldn't do that now....Oh yes I forget to say that that the 'New Romantics' were also starting to appear then as the Punk era started to fade.

1980

 

[zagatoes30]

Oh yes I forget to say that that the 'New Romantics' were also starting to appear then as the Punk era started to fade.

That was a dark time

 

[Wanderer]

I used to walk into Manchester city centre from Rusholme, get absolutely smashed and then walk back again at 1.00am in the morning without the fear of getting knifed or beaten up. You couldn't do that now....Oh yes I forget to say that that the 'New Romantics' were also starting to appear then as the Punk era started to fade.

New Romantics starting was the worst time of my life, even now I can't stand synths, guitars died, but thankfully America came to the rescue, REM, Jason and the Scorchers, Green on Red, 10,000 Maniacs, The Dream Syndicate, even the Bangles, saw them all at the International 1, 2 and 3, and you have to say, the much-maligned U2 kept the indy guitar-based rock genre going during this period, culminating in Live Aid, 1985, album or two later they disappeared up their own arses too. It's inevitable.

Now, for me it's Frightened Rabbit (RIP Scott) Inhaler (Bono's son's band ironically), nothing much else yet, dry period but something always turns up to blow my mind...

And old stuff comes up redone, technical ability generally on average is far better than was, look at this, it's a bastardised version of Fairport Convention's Tam Lin, which is a beautiful (Scottish) song, redone, as and even better...

Child 39...

 

[Silvercat]

All part of the rich tapestry of Manchester at that time.

 

[Silvercat]

That was a dark time

No I think it was actually a great time before they started to gentrify Manchester. The time of 'old' Manchester, full of dilapidated warehouses, scruffy streets, with little night clubs and seedy bars popping up all over the place.....then the Hacienda came along.....
fab times!

 

[Wanderer]

No I think it was actually a great time before they started to gentrify Manchester. The time of 'old' Manchester, full of dilapidated warehouses, scruffy streets, with little night clubs and seedy bars popping up all over the place.....then the Hacienda came along.....
fab times!

Dale Street, some grim streets there. Pub called Ma somethings, again, all I can see in my minds eye is black rain....

Proper Afflecks too - got an ace paisley shirt from there once.

Loved it...

 

[allandwf]

I was in Manchester when 'The Smiths' first appeared on the scene....

And that's a claim to fame?!!!!

 

[Wanderer]

Mother Macs! Looks decent now, was better as a dive...

 

[Wanderer]

Also I do not remember Tommy ducks liking like this, my memory is a white faced boozer, largely detached...