Most of my videos are of the area around Ashton under Lyne, it's changing so fast that I want to capture it before it's too late, they also allow expats to see how their home town is changing. I also feature many videos from the Dumfries & Galloway area, this is where my 3x great grandparents originated from, these videos also allow people overseas to see where their ancestors also came from. The rest are of wherever I am at the time, my camera is always with me.
I was brought up in the 70,80,s on Penrith Avenue and used to deliver the Advertiser newspaper all around the estate . Is the Chippy still there at the end of the shops on Crowhill Rd . I also used to play for the pool team at the March Hare pub
This use tone a great market ! Then the council did this . All for the big money shops now at the snipe. Labour council is a disgrace and ruined Ashton . And spent our taxes to do it
We are so lucky to be surrounded by so much lovely countryside in Droylsden Manchester’s best kept secret that over people are only just now cottoning onto after all these years
Howarth timber next to curzon ashton ust to sneak jn behind the train track haha..the primary school on the left and the shale playing area as we called it
Late 70s as akid on richmond street.we ,lived at 37 at friend from school lived opposite we played football all the tiime the mosque now was a church i remember a pub called ringo bells was where the firework shop is now. On the street corner near the maisonettes we played footbal, on there for hours..great memories...even when i go past today i still see it as it was then
I was so pleased when this popped up expectedly. I went to school in Penpont and my grandparents lived in Tynron and Thornhill. Many times in later life I drove those roads myself but have lived much of my later life down South and with the passing of my last relative in the area have not been back for some years. This brought it all flooding back. Thank you
This is amazing, you simply drive round in Scotland and get 15k views, and I make videos of exotic destinations across the world and I'm lucky to get a hundred views, what is your secret?
Starting at Josh whites little shop where we used to hang out at lunch time. We even bought our lunch from there. We could go round the side of the shop away from the road for a smoke.
I always watch these hoping to catch a glimpse of my mum who passed away in 2013. She went shopping in ashton nearly everyday. So hopefully i will eventually see her xxx
Thanks for this Vanessa, I lived here facing the Bungalow from 1952, aged 5 until 1977, when we moved to Ronnis Mount. So many memories. It was a lovely street to live on. Farmer Brown used to bring the milk in a churn on a horse and trap when we first moved here, in later years we walked up to the farm to get it taking our own bottles. Sad to see the big Oak tree at the bottom of the Avenue has gone.
Thanks for making and sharing this video Vanessa, it was a literal trip down memory lane for me as I no longer live in the Tameside area. I wish there were more videos of Ashton and Tameside from the 70s, 80s and 90s as so much has changed over the years. Its a shame there's not much in the way of visually recorded history. I guess with video cameras more common place and with almost everyone having a camera phone these days it makes it easier. Thanks for the memories though. 🙂
I spent most of My childhood crossing the settlement as I lived just around the corner at No5 Broadway. Our back garden backed on to the cemetary , which was quite spooky. We used to dare each other to creep through the fencing as kids which would take you into the cemetary and up to the top end of Broadway as the road spiralled around itself. Anyway we always went to the Moravian church's Spring, Autumn and Winter Fayres as well as their Bonfire nights on Nov 5th. My Grandparents also lived at 22 Fairfield Avenue from the 60s until 1983, I spent many an evening having tea there with them , after school finished. The settlement was linked to the Avenue by raster spooky pathway with the schoolgrounds in one side and the graveyard on the other. I hated walking down it coming home from school in the winter time or at night as it just had one lamp at the top end of it and a small one in the middle, it used to scare me as a kid. lol A wonderful place to spend your childhood back then. It was/is a beautiful area. Lovely to see the grounds again. Thank you for sharing this video. So glad to see it being preserved.this way. 🙂 Just to add , to hear those bells chime, I NEVER thought I'd hear that again in My lifetime, it made me quite emotional and You got a photo of My "spooky" path too! The memories have come flooding back. THANK YOU!
My friend lived on Fairfield Road, opposite the entrance to the Square, one night her father was walking along that spooky footpath and bumped into a little old lady, she was wearing all black with a scarf over her head, he apologised and carried on but glanced back to see if she was ok, only to find there was no one there.
@@CrowhillCrazy That does'nt suprise me one bit. I was walking the opposite way quite late at night once and looked up at a window of the High school to see a very similar figure as you describe looking down at me, I did a double take and she'd gone! Spooky! We also had a few incidents at out house, disturbances shall we say, that caused my Mum to take us out of there on one occassion. And another which I slept through where it was so bad we had the then Priest from the church come and pray with us and performed blessings on the house. I'd totally forgotten about all this until last year. My Dad also saw something , the spirit of a little girl. I think the first time there was disturbances were when My parents were getting divorced and the 2nd was after My mother remarried and we didn't get along with our step father. We think that the spirit was tied into whether children(us) were happy or unhappy. Very strange occurrances. I wouldn't be suprised if others who lived in the area had similar tales.
@@ladyjennyanytime5195 oh wow, when my friends dad was a young lad during WW2 he and a friend got into one of the large Victorian houses on Fairfield Avenue, it was empty and had been for a while, they went upstairs to look at the bedrooms and heard footsteps coming up the stairs and ran into a room to hide, they heard the footsteps go into the room next door and walk around, they decided to make a run for it and as they passed the room they looked in and there was no one there, but they could still hear the foot steps, they never broke into any of the empty houses ever again. I heard that the old houses on Fairfield Avenue were well known for being haunted.
@@CrowhillCrazy Yes there were certainly many a spooky going's on in those old houses. We heard stories off of other friends . I mean they're steeped in soooo much history it's not a shock to me that they are haunted especially when you think people died at home a lot more back then, young children and the elderly alike. so it's not too suprising that spirits would imprint on a property or leave some kind of residual spiritual energy behind in the form of a ghost or something. I know ours at Broadway was definitely that of a child, she was harmless until she thought us kids were upset or in danger, then she'd raise merry hell to frighten the adults. It's funny cuz the last house I lived at had a presence and that was an old lady who'd passed there and she wasn't happy at me moving in. She was very noisy and would also flush the toilet. It didn't frighten me, I just apologised to her and said I'm not here to claim her home I was just a visitor and I meant no harm. She behaved from then on in. Things like that really don't frighten me AT ALL. As long as you're respectful, the dead aren't something to be frightened of I don't feel.
