Stockport in 1966 

I left Stockport in 1980 having been born to a generation of Stockportonians trailing back as far as records will allow. In 1966 I turned six years old and spent much time in the centre with my two nannas, on the bowling green with my granddad and sometimes at the railway or bus station. Your pictures should be shown as a reminiscence session in old folks' homes. Now fifty two years old, I'm holding back the tears. Thanks so much for posting this.

Great history lesson and trip down memory lane, thank you.

Left stockport in 1968, still have a mirror that came from Peter Carlson interiors. Video brought back some fond memories of growing up in South Reddish and Stockport.

Hello Peter, Interested to hear you worked at Friedland Chimes. I had the pleasure of working with a client who ran a Hifi shop in Cheetham Hill. He used to work at Friedland. He was an Asian chap and had a degree in chemistry and was involved in the rubber mounts on which the chimes sat on. He once told me that they came up with a formula that was too bouncy but they used it to make some super bouncy balls. I do remember such balls in the 1970s. I can't recall his name but I'm guessing he must have worked there in the 70's.

Fascinating video. Filmed 3 years before I was born, I love to see how things were shortly before my time.

Thanks for this, really interesting. I was born in Reddish in 1949 and went to work for the Stockport Advertiser, on High St in 1965, so most of this very familiar but much of it long forgotten.

Really nice nostalgic trip around the town. I was born in Reddish in 1957 and just about remember many of the scenes here, and I now live in Heaton Moor, so very topical for me. Happy days, thanks for posting this!

I found this film very interesting I was born in Reddish and lived there until I was married in 1960 and worked at John Myers which was the Houldsworth Mill, then moved to Heaton Moor, in 1966 I moved to Offerton and still there to this day. I have seen many changes through the 70 years and think this footage is amazing Thank you so much.

Great commentary. Lovely footage. Thanks!

The clip of the platforms at a station was Edgeley, not Heaton Chapel. Brief clip of Broadstone Bridge.

I am from there, but I live in Ireland, I really miss the place. I miss the people. Ho hum.

Yeah, great film and well done keeping up in the commentary. I'd just started work as an apprentice printer at The Stockport Advertiser then. Hated it!

Great to see just how busy the Market was.

I left Stockport in 2006, emigrating to New Zealand, but have visited a few times since then, most recently about six months ago. To be honest, I thought the whole place looked a bit tired although the new bus exchange looks pretty good. My dad worked on the market in the 60's putting the tarps over the stalls. Apparently, the stallholders had to pay their pitch fee up-front before they were given these.

I think you will find the plane is a VC10 if you look closely, the wings are too long for a 1-11 or a trident and the engines go too far out.

My family came from Stockport and I grew up there, I remember my early years with affection, but now my discription would be that of a dump and to say the flats that were built on Lancashire hill were very nice there a bloody disgrace that I would not put my dog in.

Thanks for that trip down memory lane.

A cracking piece, thanks very much.

Does anyone remember the underground toilets in stockport towncentre??

Thanks very much this is very interesting.

Hello and thank your for the old films and commentary your mentioned earlier in the short film that your worked in reddish making door chims/bells I remember that my dad also worked there is was only wondering if you'd remember him it was in the early 80s his name is David Morris I remembered coming in wile he was working his shift and showed me want heveryone did thanks again

Great film, time travel❤️😊

Great film, shame the cameraman didn't linger a few seconds more on each shot though.

The film you had which had a Aircraft in it !! You said a bac11 it was a vc10

The place you couldn't remember the name of at 5:59 is The Three Shires, which is still there. And I think the church at 7:06 is St Mary's, not St Peters. Otherwise a great walk through the past.

When the industries went every thing went

Plane overhead was a Trident..Nevertheless some great lost streets and places featured

i've realley enjoyed this!

Hi Peter. Is this your video? I would love to use it on the Stockport Express website in the run-up to the election

MY SCOOTER DAYS WERE SPENT AROUND THIS TOWN !!...GREAT DAYS INDEED 😎😎😎

Surely that's a VC 10 flying above?

Looks like we have gone full circle, was awful became a nice place and now awful again

An aeroplane crashed in Stockport the following year, 1967 destroying a few houses with people killed.

The editing on this film is terrible, with most shots only lasting for one second on average...so that the contents of the image are not on screen long enough for the eyes to register it. I do find that most amateur cinematographers using Super 8mm in those days, used to film things in very short bursts in order to make the reel of film last as long as possible and, of course, the results were dire. This is probably what happened in this case. Historic shots, though, if you pause them.

nice footage,i live in reddish::O)

Andy Burns definitely not Heaton Chapel as there were four tracks between the two platforms, at that station, not 100% but think your right about it being one of the platforms at Edgerley do they still have a platform "0"?

Wonder if the young girl in the supermarket recognises herself @5.20.

fab I left in 67 for oz, never been back

So glad my parents emigrated to Australia

Are they the markets that angry brigade Anna Mendelssohn helped out on with her parents as a child.

no way I go priestnall

UP THE FUCKING PETER STOCK

What a dump

Stockport looks like the proverbial grim northern town. Dirty dull and poor. Not much different today

I worked in Friedlands next to John Myers from 1965 to 1990. Moved to hertfordshire in 2011 but come back to reddish half a dozen times a year to visit the Fun days in the arks.