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The Night Tommy Docherty Sipped Cocktails with Doris Speed

The Night Tommy Docherty Sipped Cocktails with Doris Speed

by The Serf | Aug 4, 2018 | Film, Urban History

Manchester city centre. Monday 14th May 1973. Quarter past seven in the evening. The Odeon on Oxford Road. The stars are gathering. Manchester’s ‘Glitterati’ were out in their finest for a Gala World Film Premiere. Tommy Docherty, Paddy Crerand and Pat Phoenix. Joe...
Out of the Manchester Blitz there came a Wimpy Bar

Out of the Manchester Blitz there came a Wimpy Bar

by The Serf | Jun 19, 2018 | Film, Urban History

Piccadilly Gardens is a scruffy shadow of its former self. A truncated patch of muddy grass and concrete next to a tram stop. Yet for most of the 20th century it was a green oasis of sunken lawns and colourful flower beds tended by Manchester Corporation’s Parks...

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