I stayed in Oldham for a couple of days on my way further north. I was shocked by state of the place, streets strewn with rubbish, unkempt people wearing expensive sports gear, foul mouthed children running around in rags with their mothers sporting duck pout lips smoking a joint. Disgusting place, disgusting people.
Heritage culture and customs now long gone now …as Oldham is run by people who’s own heritage, customs, history and culture do not have the priority of the preservation of Oldhams culture, customs, heritage and history as important for future generations
Nostalgic look at my place of birth..so many familiar names …Ferranti,Platts,Hollinwood + many more…Grandad worked in the coal mine,Mum went to work in the cotton mill at 14… remember Daisy Nook & Alexandra Park…many memories still, even though we emigrated to 🇨🇦when I was 5….thanks for this retrospective,brought a few tears to my eyes I must say
Hi Alan ..Many thanks for putting these clips together it would do the kids good to have a look at these and see just what the kids back then had to do...also where it says Royton think its 7 minuets into it I tend to think its Shaw Market street so the left the Coach and Horses and right behind The Shay Wake ..I may be wrong tho..Many thanks again x
They just got on with it, they had no choice ...says it all really, all those years and during the war effort they still kept on going,everyone did their part, my grandma worked at ferrantis and lost part of her index finger, but returned to work a few days later, was also the days you could leave your front door wide open so neighbours could pop in for cup of tea and a chin wag, i could go on and on with the stories i've been told over the years but saddens me when i see mills being torn down to make way for new housing ripping apart our history, not many left now and also the inside market is being closed down to make way for a car park, moving this to the inside of spindles shopping center, civic center is another thats coming down!
Good video, but you have made a bit of a cock up in your video. At 07.00 into the video you say that it is royton, but in fact it is Market St Shaw. I know as I live in Shaw and the photo is one of Francis Frith's collection.
Thanks for the great collection of photos and the happy memories, I lived in Oldham for 65 years and saw it at it's best. Glad I don't live there now though.
just watched this love it, hard working people, who just "got on with it" love to get some of the prints i saw in there, tks to my daughter for sending this, first thing i saw to day, oops! my eyes are leaking
Thank you so much! I am from Russia, but my English teacher is from Oldham.He is very pleasant and wonderful young man. I respect him very much...Now he works in Moscow. God bless him,his parents,brother and all relatives!!! God bless you, Oldham!!!( Because you gave a birth of such nice people like my dear teacher!!!)
I was Born in Boundary Park 1951,Dad born, Pit St. Glodwick 1922.He would have been proud to see this great vid.Very well done.sadly died 2 years ago.he would go to Town every week rain or shine up till 2015.Always loved it,and hated to hear anyone call the place.oh dear what happened,still you can't take away the memmories Loved Billingtons and of course,The Latics.He worked in the Mills from 1937.and walked home to Denshaw,from Grains Bar, where the Trams terminated. Also got on the train from Glodwick road station,and the H Bus Home.My God.Thanks.
I was taken to see the result golf the bomb that dropped on Abbyhillls. Remember the a German p.o.w stopping me on King St. when walking with my auntie Else Weems. he wanted to touch my hair because I reminded him.of his son. This was out side the odd fellows Hall. do I have memories of that town , yes. picking coal from the street going to Higginshaw Gas Works to collect a sack of coke in the freezing cold with multiple cousins. certainly unusual memories but none I would like to repeat. yet the people cared / worked hard / not always the cleanest you would meet. Meals made from scraps cow heel pie , tripe pieces from UPC ON KING ST. BAG OF TRIPE AND COW HEEL PIECES. WITH STRONG MALT VINEGAR. 6 PENNY MIXTURE FOR FRIDAY TEA BETWEEN 4 KIDS. NO I WILL NOT FORGET MY ROOTS BUT I WOULD NOT WANT MY FAMILY TO LIVE AMONGST THEM. AFRICA. IS MY HOME. JOHANNESBURG THE CITY OF GOLD !!!! SO MANY THOUGHT , IN FACT being turned into a mega slum . small pockets of decent sized suburbs in which the citizens make the place. safe and clean. yet we have good people who want a better life for their children regardless of race / creed / colour. Crime is the enemy of all good people and unemployment and grants from. the ANC sucks the will to work from people. I think in u.k. benefits. soul destroying. so yes my roots may have been there in the 40s/50s but no more I have transplanted in to the red soil of Africa which I love . The people / The Wild Life / The Bush and my Family. Nkosi Ziklele E Africa.
It was not just the linen that was important but the support industries behind it to make it function that was critical for a nation all the machinery with all the trades needed for manufacturing , the metal industries , the lubricants , the trucking industry , accountants , construction for the factories , no country can prosper without manufacturing , so until they resurrect it the nation will go nowhere .
l enjoyed the videos but was hoping to see a picture of horsedge street l lived on the street from birth to 8 years of age when we moved to newton heath manchester my mothers name is vera lees she worked in the lilly mills from the age of fourteen up until we left for manchester she can still lip read which is just as well as the noise from the mill made her deaf.
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Was apprentice painter to Jimmy Newman on Horsehedge st 1964
Such a shame a proud town was brought to its knees . The crowning glory is its war memorial, but I expect in time that will offend the new majority ,. I left in 89... Thank God !
Ex Salford man now living in Oldham. I can remember listening to the folk club singing this famous old Ewan Mcoll song at the Royal Oak at Rhodes Bank.
Doomed... Oldham , The open prison of the UK. I lived there and yes it was a great place long ago . Im really saddened to see the war memorial in the centre being surrounded by the shit those men fought to oppose . And no one gives a damn , they just moan about it
