A Tour of Manchester Town Centre 1974 

GM buses

@@icekitty400 NO SELNEC Plus Greater Manchester was created in April that year

​@@zenko247Yes, South East Lancashire North East Cheshire if memory serves me right.

kottonmouthUK even then I hated the orange buses. Everyone knew buses should be red.

Their was 2 b4 the arndale opened,Victoria served north Mcr and Salford,Piccadilly served South Mcr,

more compact would imply there being denser quarters...Montreal, e.g., is so compact a city for the continent because of being on islands along a mightily fertile valley

The biggest buses were the Mancunians, but there were many smaller older front engine Leylands and Daimlers still in use. Nearly all orange and white by 1974, but the odd Salford, Bury or SHMD in green, Manchester, Lancashire United, North Western, Oldham and Stockport in red, and Ashton and Rochdale in blue.

Manchester Corporation Transport buses were red (Salford's were green). The orange/cream buses were in SELNEC livery and that body came into being in 1974. I moved down to London in 1973 but came home often to watch United and visit family and friends.

Damn true son this guy was smart he knew covid was coming lmao 🤣

It's unrecognizable

And there no English peaple around

@@izaakdamon1979 what a load of bolllocks.

@@paulheap1982 have ya been? Tell ya all the white faces are slavs or irish

Its all looking abit Japan or China and it`s lit up at night like the Sun.

The flats at Hulme, (just outside the town centre) were a crime against humanity.. There's some RU-vid footage somewhere from that era .

@@richardmorton4762 had a friend who lived there. not nice

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_Sleeping_Corpses_Lie_(film)

That’s your opinion and your entitled to it. I live in M’CR and I see a diverse, culturally rich and unique city. Times change, people change and so do places. It’s about accepting that change for me personally. I bet you can’t explain why you believe it’s a shadow of it’s former self. I also can imagine what your referring to lol 😂

@@HGee420 I just feel it’s dirtier, full of druggies and lost its charm. The local council is a shambles the police are next to useless and it’s a concrete tomb. I feel you are trying to insinuate I’m opposed to other cultures and people of colour, if you are, you are sadly wrong my fellow Mancunian.

@@HGee420yes! Thank you this is exactly what I love about living in Manchester. While I love it’s recent history and such, I adore the diversity and the community.

Looks a dump in this film. It is spectacular now.

Mate, it was a scruffy hell hole back then. If that's what you want to live in, feel free to move to somewhere in the undeveloped world.

​@@TheBenson51Aye, going into town, never going into the city.

It’s shite now, born in Ancoats in 55 and I remember when it was a proper English working city. Look what they have done to Piccadilly gardens, for example, it’s a concrete monstrosity full of bloody foreigners.

Cheers son....how u doin ?

the only homeless then were sad old men with long beards and drink problems. no drug problems, no knife crime, no food banks. within 5 years came thatcher who did more damage than the Luftwaffe.

Bikes an M reg so August 73 at the earliest.

" living dead in a manchester morgue" aka " Let sleeping corpses lie"

85 Bridge St.

@@tonykelzo8997 Thanks, yeah I can see it now on google maps

Remember the Market Centre? Pure class (if you was a teen or in your early 20's), with those South Asian radio stores which were just amazing - not forgetting 'STOLEN FROM IVOR' (!)

But it doesn't...does it.

mate, do you need to go to Specsavers?

Yes you can!

Great film, every zombie fan needs to watch it

@TheBenson51 London has so many cultures, countries you have never heard of since the 60s ,London has been far more multicultural than the rest of the UK for the longest , other UK cities are changing but there is lot of racism and divisions in other uk cities outside of London. London is the first place immigrants come to first when they enter the UK.

There's also a lot of unity between cultures. Especially on TV, in music, football clubs, the NHS, workplaces, care homes, mixed race families etc. Let's not just highlight the bad. You're probably part of the, "multiculturalism doesn't work" brigade

@amgonnafartinyaface Manchester and Birmingham have never been multicultural back the because these cities don't have Ports ,London/Essex Liverpool, Southampton have loads of blacks and foreigners as this is the open place where they come into . Manchester is changing, Manchester has loads of racism and segregation issues same as Birmingham even today people mix with who they know.

Manchester has never been multicultural? Are you for real? I was born in Manchester, St. Mary's. Black dad, white mum. Scottish Grandparents. My primary school, saint Phillips, Hulme, was rammed with black, mixed race and Asian kids. Moss side was very multicultural and still is. My family and friends were very multicultural and still are. Nobody was racist towards any of us cos they'd get tw@tted, simple. Why would we put up with racism? I mean I'm all for freedom of speech and everyone's entitled to their views but if anyone was racist towards us and showed any kind of hate based on just our skin colour - that would not be tolerated.

It's off a film he's not done it himself. Living dead at the Manchester morgue

Are you Cornish? Because I notice a lot of nasty comments in newspapers, online, etc. from Cornish folk to Northerners, like that tosser Rory McGrath who cannot shut up about Manchester. Is it an inferiority complex living in the poorest county of England with nothing to do but walk hills and go to tacky Newquay? Countryside? I much prefer the Peak District. You can keep your freezing surfing.

All part of living in a great modern, thriving, busy metropolis, where there is life, culture, music, fun, entertainment, great food, tourism, business, media, infrastructure, sports, manufacturing, travel, fashion, finance, opportunities, style, & things to do!!

@@leod-sigefast im manc born and bred,moved to cornwall 2018,Cornish can be clicky but they usually ok,its the Londoners who move here that are the pompous snobs,all money no class.

no need for sorry Manchester is a major international city today lot's to do and see Cornwall you must be joking go there and vegetate get old too soon

@@brianlingard7894 Totally agree Brian. I have family who live in Cornwall so I visit often. They always try to convince me to move down there but it’s like a flaming ghost town lad!! 😂

Manchester used to be full of Smog the air quality was terrible. That’s why folk used to wear dust masks!

No it isn't. Manchester used to have character and the beautiful Piccadilly Gardens, now it is a total dump.

@@tinahardman9805 There’s more to M’CR than Piccadilly Gardens! Some of the most beautiful Architecture in Europe. It’s full of cultural diversity different people from different places in one great city!

​@@tinahardman9805total facts it's nothing like it was back years ago now