Remember this bridge

Absolutely not any more than 10 people on it at the same time
made me very very nervous

 

I bet ...

 

Remember it well , when walking over it used to shake and get a echo of your footsteps, think it came out near I think the tavern in the town ( i think that was its name )next to the theatre royal or some were near there

 

Nice one Dave ! I often rode my cycle on there - Thank feck I stopped at the steps, ha ha ha. .........
One thing I never saw, was a gal in Stilettos .......

 

Bit of fancy footwork, and my 3 1/2 inches would have flown over there

 

Talking about this bridge ........ Anyone remember Midland Road Car Auction setting up ?

I bought my first ever car there .......... A real SHED (Trust me ) I was only 17, just passed my test, and saw a Humber Hawk, in 'good' condition - It sold for £65 !! My budget was limited, so ended up buying an old 1962 Austin A40. The Layshaft was knackered, but I found a mk II gearbox, and modified it to fit. (The thrust bearing arm was 1/2" out of line, on it's pivot.) GREAT ...... All OK for for six months, or so .... But then the floorpan started to drop, and fall away. So I cut up some door panels from an old Cortina mk I, and 'patched' her up. I got 12 months and over 5,000 miles from her ! Not bad for £32.50 LOL. ?

OH, the memories, of how Manningham used to be !

 

Cheers Dave, that brings back memories.

 

Is that Mike Harrison trying to stem the flow?

 

The other half bought a passion wagon when he was 19. He used to drive it back and forwards to work to practice before he took his test lol It was Morris Minor Van a brown one cost about £50.

 

It must be in our DNA .......

Following the Austin, I 'up graded' (3 months after) ......... Picked up a bargain (?) Hillman Imp van (Sage Green) 22nd Dec 1975 !! Cost me £100 notes. (I was washing his cars or else it would have been £150 !!)
Anne the Van, I called her ! (Corny, I know !!) Fold away back seat - Two Army sleeping bags covered with imitation 'Leopard Skin' cloth, and four extra speakers - an' we were good to go ....... If ONLY the girls had agreed ?
Ah well, at least me an' my two good mates went all over the UK, that year - No kidding ..... about 20k miles in 15 months, totally Brill ! The best £100 I ever spent, LOL.

 

I was looking at some old footage in you tube and came across this part of my early trudges up to VP

Makes me all fluffy inside no delusion s of grandeur

 

The bridge was still there in 84/85 as that was my first season watching City and can remember walking across it as my dad used to park on Cape Street. I’m fairly certain that we walked across it before a home game vs either Villa or Man City in the 87/88 nearly season on a Tuesday night as there was a massive scrap going on at the midland road side of the bridge as we were trying to get past

 

Here’s one, sorry don’t know when it was