15 things we grew up with in Manchester that kids these days are missing out on

With the summer holidays now upon us and the kids out of school, it's easy for our minds to drift back to our own childhoods.

Back in the '80s, '90s, and even the' Noughties , there were some fantastic places to visit in and around Manchester that made the summer holidays exciting. Yet despite some great additions to the city in recent years, it's still hard not to think nostalgically about those decades.

Sadly, many of the things we grew up with have now gone, or become obsolete and have been replaced. From places we loved to visit to how we once entertained ourselves, all things have their moment before the world moves on.

Of course, we're looking back at our youth with rose-tinted glasses, but isn't that the nature of nostalgia anyway? And who says we can't reminisce about childh