Yes, I suspect I have memories of a brief golden era. At around that time I also used to go to discos at the University and Poly Student Unions. Back around the early 2010s I was briefly in Manchester and went to all three for a bit of nostalgia.
The UMIST Union was shut though still recognisable through the glass doors. The Poly Union now seemed to be an admin block and the Uni Union had changed out of all recognition; talking to a female undergraduate it had apparently fallen into squalid disrepair and needed gutting to make it usable again.
Practically nothing of my childhood memories is still standing, schools gone, homes all gone, even the streets erased, childhood haunts no longer there...