Manchester City Centre - 1973 

Who remembers placemate, Tiffaness, pips and rotters, and Belle vue zoo park.😊

I remember the campaign 'Plant a tree in 73' ,Bob Greaves talking about it on Granada Reports!!🙃

RIP Richard Beckinsale

0:18 That car park is now paved over and called trinity Square and the George Best Boutique is now a bar called 'Crazy Pedros'.

Amazing footage. Good old GMT with their 256 and 257

I was lucky enough to see George Best play at Old Trafford, about that year with my Dad and brother, i was scared at age 14, walking up the cobble path with lots of men in work boots , but seeing George was worth it ❤

I left Manchester that year to go off to university and never moved back. Still, this brought back a lot of memories. Thanks for posting it.

Great clip from a lovely film, how Paula Wilcox was gorgeous and so was Manchester back then.

absolutely wonderful pictures brings back memories

It's wonderful seeing these videos with Richard Beckinsale in🌹✝️ R. I. P. Lovely memories for us all and also his 2 daughters Samantha and Kate Beckinsale 👍😍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️👌

Love this video..used to go to Henry Barrie in St Annes Square for uniform :)

I was madly in love with Beryl Battersby :)

remember the woolworths fire in 79, i think?,we could see the smoke rising from our street in Beswick.

Presumably the fairground/zoo scenes were filmed at the now long defunct Bellevue Park.

Interesting, but I would I really like to see is archive footage of inside the Arndale Centre from the late 70s/early 80s

Ah, The Lovers. Soooooo innocent. And yet, many young people were like that. All those location shots give you some sense of the city. For the next forty years it felt only London was treated that way by filmmakers (in the UK). I think it has improved a little more recently, but there’s still room for improvement. To many generic ‘any towns’....

It's funny seeing St. Anne's Square and St. Anne's Street and church. In August 1973 I started my first job a few hundred yards away in King Street. My weekly wage was £16.32 per week and out of my first month's wages I bought a rather fetching grey check sports jacket with huge lapels, plain grey trousers with big flares and a mauve tie that was as wide as my dad's trouser leg. Eee, them were t'days.

Seen this first time around to :-) omg how time flies when your having fun a?..

2:30. Richard: "D'you ever get the feeling you've been somewhere before?" Me:"Yeah, Belle Vue. Luckily I was adopted by some Mancunians before it closed down".😂 Lots of memories in that video. 😏👍

Ah, the old souvenir shop at old Trafford. Bought many a footy shirt from there. Compared to the shop now, that was like a market stall! BTW, Pauline looks gorgeous in this, and RIP Richard.

Christ, I started work at the Refuge in 1973 😂 And Paula Wilcox, still going strong.

Richard Beckinsale was gorgeous.

Halcyon days,damp on the walls ,so deep and black you had to decorate every 6months, pawn shop on a Monday,we was ok both parents in work,flared cords and bright purple y fronts!!Fly away collars and nylon shirts!!Ford Anglia or mini for mam,Cortina or Granada for dad,chippy tea on a Friday,Town on Saturday,watch the match.Nanas on Sunday for a roast, sandwiches and biscuits for tea and bleeding Harry seacom on songs of praise.(bless his local vicar singing voice).Still better than 80's.Mass unemployment,Hard drugs,depression,robbing the pawn shops,and cars,Gang violence,and organised crime,the break up of traditional families and privatisation.flared cords one week,shell suits the other,then the start of multi cultural, course work instead of exams to qualify,and last but not least political correctness.Progress ay,Oh yes and still every one from Coronation Street is from Yorkshire but depict life in Manchester.Hmmm.

0:52 - Great Bridgewater Street - the building behind is the arrow sign is now a pub called The Britons Protection, not sure if it was then. Beyond the pub you can just make out the tunnel that leads onto Deansgate/Castlefield.

Geoffrey Bubbles Bon Bon .

Manchester my birth city👻

I remember them filming this...I was about 8 or 9. The film crew were encouraging us all to shout hahahaha

It’s not Manchester without Gene Hunt protecting the streets, I’m sorry.

The next development of old Trafford after these images were filmed was the demolition of the terracing seen at 5.19 and 1800 seats installed into a new stand named "L". But to me this was Old Trafford in its prime.

And no Percy filth!

Paula Wilcox. Man about the house lol

Lol the time United got religated by City that famous Denis Law back heel.

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Great to see this again. I remember being at the premiere of The Lovers during the Manchester Festival! More views of 1970s Manchester in my film "The Maltese Budgie" at ru-vid.comvideos

anyone got film of oldham street of the70s

Think the George Best boutique is now Crazy Pedro's bar/nightclub.

I wonder if any of the crowd in these shots ended up attending Wigan Casino.

I think its 1972 not 1973. I have this film on dvd.

paula wilcox is married to Nelson Riddle jr known as BUD her father in law was a very successful arranger

He never met Percy Filth did he!

Bit of social distancing at minute: 3:34 😀

Is the zoo Belle Vue?

Oh wow that was belle vue fair and zoo use to go there as a kid

Could you really just stroll in Old Trafford like that back in the day?

Richard Beckinsale looks like he could have been in Buzzcocks! dx

Apart from the footage wasted on a bleedin' football stadium, the rest of that brought back lots of memories.

St Ann's Square..NO E..

Good old days when the Mancunian race was represented by peaple from elsewhere,that back wards they have only tried to be authentic in the last ten years.

Who cares about Manchester? I'm more interested in seeing old film of Richard Beckinsale, who died tragically young aged 31 in 1979. Places are just places, but people are utterly irreplaceable.