Fred Rushton talks to us about the way in which Meir has changed in recent times. Being part of Meir Steering Group gives him a direct link to the issues that are affecting the residents of the area today.
A great video. As an ex-Meir lad from the 40's to the 60's, I went to The Meir Infants over the bridge on Uttoxeter Road, and then to the Juniors and Secondary School in Colclough Road about a year before Fred did. As Fred says, The Meir was a fantastic place to live in with everything one needed. We may have been poor, but it was mostly a respectable place to live. Us kids weren't saints, but neither were we like the underclasses who settled later. Great stuff, Fred. Thank you.
Excellent film. Yes the Meir was a lovely village.I was born 1946 Think I saw the best of the Meir, I remember all the past shops you mentioned. Thank you.
Born in 1960 in the posh end of Meir I just remember the steam trains at the station. Mystery tours that you knew where they were going to by which way the engine was facing. Usually Colwyn Bay =). We moved out of Meir because of the drugs 30 years ago. It's much quieter where we are but Meir will always be our home.
Brings back many memories of my childhood.I was born in bird road in 1944 before moving to pinewood crescent .then on to the wagon and horses where my mother and father kept it for a few years Sam and daisy Tunstall .I was in the 11th boys brigade across the road .and had many happy days .Very good story Fred.
My parents were moved to Macdonald Crescent when I was a week off 5. Our houses in Greendock Street Longton were about to be demolished. We had to all sleep in one room because the floor in the other one was physically collapsing. I went to pinewood country primary and then to Meir secondary modern, until I left School at 15 in 1966. Great memories 👌 My husband of almost 53 years old had our first date at Broadway, so we hated it being demolished. It's not the Meir that it was. Neither is Longton.
To get a train North, Stoke or Crewe but the station in Blythe Bridge is still open that runs the Crewe to Newark Castle in Nottinghamshire journey you can get. Goes Crewe, Alsager, Kidsgrove, Stoke, Longton, Blythe Bridge, Tutbury and Hatton, Peartree, Derby then another 3 or 4 stops to eventually Newark Castle.
My gran used to live in 220 Sandon Road and my brother went to Longton High School. I used to play football on the airdrome while gliders whistled overhead. I've moved away a long time ago and it really upsets me to see what's happened to the place.
This brings back great memories. Went to school in mier. lived in Weston coyney walk to mier school .quite a long walk. loved stoke really friendly people. Moved to bristol when l was 12 put still miss the place.👍
Crikey, if he thought it was going down hill when this was filmed, can’t imagine what he thinks now. We’ve got the worlds problems brought in now, not just those from other areas. The place is a festering dump sadly compared to what it once was 😢.
It was Flackett's Toy Shop opposite the Broadway. Hylands were and continue to be Electrical Retailers. I also enjoyed the train spotting on the bridge. We were always told to "get up the top" by the Station Master............
Worked at Hylands just after leaving school in the early 70s on the servicing side...can't remember them selling toys...it was all "white goods" and TVs oh, and I think they also sold cycles as well..happy memories though...it was a cracking place to work...really friendly people.
