Great ! I have visited Manchester and Oldham in May for making photographs and to Look after all the sites which I have in my archive/ documentery and books for more than 35 years. A great place ! A fine documentary you have made ! Please produce more of it ! Kind regards
Very poignant, but still a lovely video. I’ve seen this and your films documenting the demolition of Hartford Mill. Can I ask where you got the old photos of Saint Johns St and the church from as I’m currently researching Alder Root, Edward St and St John St?
Lived off charlstown rd near moston lane went to Nmhb 75_81 drank in all them pubs including the ben .worked bae 1987 till it closed great memories blue bell
Great video! The MSC, another UK wasted asset. Perhaps now that the retail bubble has burst we could see part of the original docks reconverted for say feeder container traffic - stranger things have happened!
Nice work thanks! Brings back memories - amazing how much nicer everything looks now (including the water) than it was in the early 1970s when I rode on a ship along there (school trip) you would not want to see or smell what it was like back then! I guess it was a standard outing for many local schools, I wonder if modern schools still do the same trips. Trafford to Liverpool and then home by coach.
Fantastic video that brought back some fond memories. My first job after leaving school in 1969 was with the Manchester Ship Canal Company. One of the first things you did as part of the introduction to the company was a trip up the canal from Salford Docks on the Daniel Adamson. Another one was watching a lock gate being changed, which wasn't quite as exciting! I only found out the other day that these trips are working so I'm definitely going to do one with my wife, 55 years after the first!
I grew up at the top of moston lane near the Gardeners Arms, my grandad worked at British Aerospace, it was a great place with a good community where we had respect for our family and neighbours! Oh, how it's changed!
What a superb vantage point you had. May I ask where you were please? Very well done. You could not have asked for better weather conditions than yesterday for filming. I had to make do with filming behind Morrisons and on top of one of the sand dunes for my episode.
Nice video. For ANZAC day here in Melbourne Australia we just got a flyby of 4 pretty modern Pilatus PC 21's. It would have been great to see some real vintage planes to mark the occasion.
