We are on St Mary’s Gate, looking up towards Market Street.
And depending when you were born, you will remember the old Marks and Spencer with its distinctive curly wurly canopy, and the underground Boots the Chemist, which occupied the space below the Royal Exchange.
But you will have to be older to have bought a shirt or suit in the Burtons store, opposite the M&S or walked up Market Street with its assortment of shops stretching up to Pauldens.
And the rest is encompassed by those words, IRA Bomb and the Arndale.
Location; St Mary’s Gate
Picture; St Mary’s Gate, 1963, Courtesy of Manchester Archives+ Town Hall Photographers' Collection,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/albums/72157684413651581?fbclid=IwAR35NR9v6lzJfkiSsHgHdQyL2CCuQUHuCuVr8xnd403q534MNgY5g1nAZfY
But you will have to be older to have bought a shirt or suit in the Burtons store, opposite the M&S or walked up Market Street with its assortment of shops stretching up to Pauldens.
And the rest is encompassed by those words, IRA Bomb and the Arndale.
Picture; St Mary’s Gate, 1963, Courtesy of Manchester Archives+ Town Hall Photographers' Collection,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/albums/72157684413651581?fbclid=IwAR35NR9v6lzJfkiSsHgHdQyL2CCuQUHuCuVr8xnd403q534MNgY5g1nAZfY
I remember it well, even though I could only have been 11 at the time when my best friend and I went shoplifting in Boots. We were caught in Kendals but they let us off with a telling off.
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