Went to St. Anne’s Crumpsall, I sat my 11 plus in the school hall same side as the pub … !!!!!!! My father was Forman bricking on the ICI building in the early 60’s As tough as it was, they are fond memories. Cheers to all.
Up to 3:41 The Building Has been Demolished In Aril-May 2022 Is now making a new apartment house before in 2012 it was a sign shop called "Vision Signs" closed down in 2018 left abandoned for 5 years
Pretty sure that bus was a 126. Got that to and from my gran and grandads at Tunstall Court Blackley. Salad days. Ho how far we have travelled to come bak to....
No, it was the 26. Went from Gardeners Arms, Moston Lane by the roundabout top of Greenway and Hollinwood Road to Cannon Street. Used to stop outside where I lived on Charlestown Road.
Notice how clean the streets were. Not a scrap of litter anywhere. That tells you that people had pride in their community. They weren't rich..... far from it......but they had pride in what they did have. Also, none of those horrible tin roller doors on shop windows. They weren't necessary since people respected other peoples' property. They were honest, hardworking, decent folks, not thieves and vandals who smash and pillage anything which isn't protected by a metal shield. These days, North Manchester is a zoo populated by wild animals who can't even be called civilized.
We had similar scenes in the 1950s and 60s going down into the town centre from where I used to live in Bolton. loads of retail shops, restaurants and pubs. You didn't need to actually go into the town centre to go shopping or have a pleasant night out, it was all nearby. All gone now, like in most parts of northern of England.
Brilliant. I was born in 1951 and these shops were my life. It got even better because there were shops all along Conran Street/ Upper Conran Street and Rochdale Road formed the third side of thd triangle. Many an hour lost just wandering, and that was without the market. Town? Who needed town in the 50s and 60s?
Great video, but would have helped with the addition of context. I recognised places, but others had me bewildered! Would have been great if you had subtitled each image with its location :) Cant believe how much has changed in the last 50 years of my life :)
It really was beautiful back then wasn't it?, I loved this slide show from the Year of my birth too, I remember so many of those lovely shops too, it's so sad to see it now, I have never been back since leaving after 57 years.
The funniest U.K. comedian ever, he slagged everybody. The Leftie Labour hated him. The English white working class -the big minority Labour forgot - hence Boris as PM, serves the bastards right (Labour traitors).
Had goodfriends lived there who worked at Ferranti Hollinwood . Jackie Elliott . Had a girlfriend Eileen Lycett this was back late 1959 Era or slightly earlier. Lost contact when I changed jobs. Often wonder what happened to them. I moved around Africa and now live in South of Johannesburg . Would be interested if anyone knew These two people.
Lovely reminder of how Moston was when I was growing up there in the 1960s. It actually started going downhill in the early 1970s when, almost overnight, you couldn't leave your plants on the doorstep or they'd vanish and you had to lock your front and back door even nipping to the corner shop. My Gran always said it was because some rough types were moved to Moston when their slums were demolished. No idea if that's right but I did see the place decline back then. We lived on Norman (later Nigel) Road, just round the corner from Ronnie Camp's paper shop, and I'd walk up the road to Lily Lane primary.
My late parents were married at St Peter's in 1958 and both me and my sister were born and spent some of our childhood living in Blackley Village.What was the point in pulling them down and destroying a thriving shopping st and homes? They were not slums. My old house is still there on Blackley New Road. Much of Old Market St is still just an empty croft where the the main shops were.
at the back of the paintworks? there was one with a huge underground bunker. i learned later that there was an anti aircraft battery there during ww2. memories of making grass slides in summer and sledging in winter on the hills next to pike fold.
Hi, @Muffin19ify I have been looking for pictures of my grandma's shop that was on the corner of Moston lane and Acton st she ran it right through the war but sadly passed away before I was born in the 40's. I think i have found it but not sure as the street sign is a bit blurred. Does anyone know the one? or better still have any pictures? Or perhaps some stories her name was Small so I would think that was what it was called? I would make me very happy if you could help at all.
Hi , at 8.32 the off licence is on the corner of Acton St., on the opposite side was Wykes music and record shop. Miss Wykes used to teach at Alfred Street School and , I think, had had polio. My grandmother lived on Acton Street in the 1950s. It used to be a wonderful area. I hope this is helpful to you.
@@jpennill Thank you but it looks like I may have the wrong corner my grandparents names were Mr and Mrs Small and they had 5 children. But thank you for the reply.
@@caroleuktv Hi Carole , if you look on the Manchester City Council website and go to local images collection you will find more images of Moston Lane from the 50s and 60s. Meanwhile I have a Kellys Directory from the mid 1960s which I will check for you to see if your family are listed. I will let you know if I find anything.
@@jpennill Thank you munster, however that may not be early enough as my grandparents had past away before I was born in 1953, all I know is that the shop was still open during the war. What I do know is that it was on the corner of Acton street and Moston lane.
I totally agree. I've worked this beat for most of my career and look at these old photos with envy and wish I'd policed it those days. Only a couple of the original buildings left there now. Shame! 😞
I agree - I was born Blackley Village and lived there from 1964-72 before I moved to Boarshaw with my parents and sister - the council destroyed the community of the village to a large extent when they demolished many of the shops and houses in the village which were in the main not slums - and just needed a bit of modernisation.
Remember all those places growing up in the 60s and 70s. Dad used to take me to the Barbers on the corner and then if I was lucky some sweets or even a toy after. I remember collecting football stickers from the Cleveland garage and picking up Grandma from Blackley Cables after she had finished work and lord knows how many times I took the 26 from Crumpsall. Good days and great memories
Having been born and bred in the new, clean and green Wythenshawe in the 1950s I never knew any of the "dirty old" Manchester until I started work in the 70s. By then much of it had been lost to slum clearance. So these old photos fascinate me. I'd loved to have walked those streets.
