tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599481671908734427.post4963925955478915437..comments2024-03-23T16:10:12.319+00:00Comments on Hyde Cheshire Blog: Market SquareTomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167792394551286975noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599481671908734427.post-15210978274109656652012-05-10T12:30:04.164+01:002012-05-10T12:30:04.164+01:00LOL, Yes, the Market Place fountain has passed som...LOL, Yes, the Market Place fountain has passed somewhat into legend.<br /><br />From my very earliest memories of it in the late sixties, I can never remember seeing it working.<br /><br />And to say it became a 'giant dustbin' is being very kind, as far as I can remember it became the biggest urinal in Tameside.<br /><br />Many a drunk on his late night pub crawl through the market would stop to 'top it up'.<br /><br />On many occasions during our dinner times out from 'Greenie', we would climb across to the rocks in the middle and sit there like idiots eating our meat pies.<br /><br />Occasionally, we'd try to push one another off into the sewerage, and any unfortunate loser would have to spend afternoon lessons with one soggy foot, stinking the classroom out with the stench of some drunks bladder infection (!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599481671908734427.post-23753299083324529282011-11-26T12:42:27.472+00:002011-11-26T12:42:27.472+00:00Levi thanks for commenting... yes those toilets we...Levi thanks for commenting... yes those toilets were not the best...Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04167792394551286975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599481671908734427.post-68210845584774150552011-11-26T11:37:59.213+00:002011-11-26T11:37:59.213+00:00Yikes , i remember the fountain in Hyde with all t...Yikes , i remember the fountain in Hyde with all the rubbish in it , didn't it have seats cut into one side of the surrounding wall . Remember my mum getting 215 from Glossop to Hyde , and our first stop was always Finefare , then the long market up to Tesco , hated using them underground toilets , haaaLevinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599481671908734427.post-21812614676124780082011-07-12T22:09:42.979+01:002011-07-12T22:09:42.979+01:00Late Seventies early eighties I worked at E Peart ...Late Seventies early eighties I worked at E Peart & Co ltd and used to sit on the back of the benches with my work mates watchiung the world go buy wonder if anyone as pictures of the fountain as a bubble bath loljohnRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599481671908734427.post-53609967816826484502011-07-09T17:06:20.580+01:002011-07-09T17:06:20.580+01:00I still wear trousers like that Mark ;o)I still wear trousers like that Mark ;o)Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04167792394551286975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599481671908734427.post-22058711491141815952011-07-09T16:36:01.660+01:002011-07-09T16:36:01.660+01:00got to be seventies when we were at school,
the c...got to be seventies when we were at school, <br />the car is a morris oxford or austin cambridge and is coming out at the lights by natwest which has been one a way along time. and look at the blokes trousers.<br /><br />markAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com