Queen Victoria Road (inc Drill Hall)

Afraid not Helen, I don't think the outfit would suit me and I am too much of a coward. Don't even know why I went but I did see Mick McManus and Jackie Pallo.

I used to go to the Drill Hall on Saturday nights to watch the wrestlers. Some of the wrestlers were Les Kellett, Kiwi Kingston, Mick McManus, Sky Hi Lee and Khan (cannot remember his first name), they were very skilled and great entertainers.

Never watched it live, only on tv. Les Kellett was an out-and-out star entertainer

I remember watching Mick McManus, Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks on World of Sport (with Dickie Davies)! Was part of our Saturday afternoon ritual.

Another corker from Nicola Young on FB courtesy of the M.Toms collection. Nicola was not sure on the location but I think I've cracked it as a post-war view from the junction with Spon Street and the very bottom end of Holyhead Road (pre Ring Road) looking south along Queen Victoria Road. Cornercrofts is the giveaway - the square tower was part of their works. You can see/match the view with this BFA image

I think the property with the 'Grand Gala' poster on is the one of the very left of The Plough here - If you zoom in on the image the Ad on the corner is from Potteries Plant Hire Co - My guessing is they did the clearance work. They were based in Torrington Avenue.

Another two images have cropped up on FB dated 1985 of the section of housing at the northern end heading towards Holyhead Road/Spon Street.

I'd have passed this way quite regularly throughout the 80s when I worked at the Spon Street GEC (often to or from visiting Electronic Services in the Arcade, a fab shop!). One of my regrets is that I never took a camera around with me back then, but I suppose in my late teens / early 20s the last thought on my mind would have been thinking about the present in terms of tomorrow's history! One of my memories of that street, though, was an old tramp who used to sit about halfway along, and shouted abuse at everyone passing by while waving his stick at them! I guess it made him happy.... it certainly made us smile!

Would I be right in thinking this has been taken from Queen Victoria Road looking west? That 'tower' that was part of the GEC - poking over the top of the rest of the building (Any idea what was in there Rob?) was on the west side so this must be looking from the town centre outwards -

All I recall is that the main section of that strange tower was the inter-floor stairwell - but what was in the protruding top section, goodness knows! (Edit: This conversation has been continued in the GEC Telecommunications, Spon Street topic. )