The village round there was named Heyhead where woodhouse lane that stretched from the original ringway road all the way through woodhouse park. I knew a few people who lived in those cottages and on the farms. Behind the old church that was once there with a graveyard, on this farm was an underground tomb but is now covered with a car park. The graveyard is also covered with a carpark and a war memorial is in it's place which is to honour those buried there. There was also a corner shop named "odd bottle" or "fullalove's" as we called it, at the junction of woodhouse lane and ringway road, along with rows of houses and many farms. I played in most of the abandoned farms as a kid in the 70's and 80's and lived in one of the cottages that were compulsory purchased are now all gone. Pretty sad that most of that area is now car parks and concrete for cheap holidays in spain.
That's correct but you're referring to the old Church and Sunday school in the Hamlet/village of Heyhead, Woodhouse Lane to Ringway Road near the Airport Pub. I too remember all of them Cottages, farms and fullaloves corner shop. As a kid my Nanna used to send us to the farm on a Sunday morning to get veg for the dinner. How times have changed and ruined by the Airport. However this guy in the video is walking down near the Romper Pub on Wilmslow Old Road in the hamlet/parish of Ringway (on the other side of the Airport near the cargo centre) The Farm in the video is Cloughbank Farm which is over 700 years old it was my Mum's best friend's house when they were younger. It's an absolute disgrace what the Airport have done to such lovely listed buildings. Then again it doesn't surprise me in the slightest, it's like when the Airport were trying to buy a 400 year old cottage called The Old Thatch on Ringway Road behind Fullaloves so they could expand a car park. English Heritage refused to sell it and strangely enough it got set on fire, deemed too dangerous to repair so it was bulldozed all for about six car parking spaces!
@@bazah3422 Yes, I stand corrected and I know the places that you talk about very well. There are still a few cottages left around moss lane, used mainly by airport workers. I spent many a year picking tomatoes on frank matthews farm, sadly now also a car park.
This guy is talking about the area where the Romper pub is. The place you’re referring to is nowhere near this. It’s about a mile or more away. Different place
My guess is those buildings have been bought up by the airport for future expansion or more carparks. My mother remembers when the airport was mostly fields and you could walk up to the planes. I remember when for 2p you could go through a turnstile and on to the airport roof, they called it the Spectator Terrace.
@@vickiegottfreund5505I always looked forward to a Sunday day out on those terraces. Many people don't know the hidden history of all those old farms. Demolition workers found a very expensive oil painting hiden in one of them. After the war alot of the spitfire propellers were used as fencing posts around the farms. You can still find in the undergrowth if you search for them.
Yeah, I remember those thatched cottages. There was one on ringway road that was feet away facing the runway. Do you remember the "odd bottle" or "fullalove's" shop on woodhouse lane next to them ?
As a kids in the 1950s, we would ride our bikes, going passed this pub, it was called the Romper inn, there was a huge grinding stone outside the front of the pub, which you could still turn.There was also a brick works, it had a tall chimney.
I knew that area from the late '50s/early '60s. The modest airport with its DC-3s, its Viscounts, Herons and Fokker Friendships, was surrounded by farmland and narrow lanes, all to be wiped out by the monster growth of the airport. I doubt that anyone would want to live near the place now, given the noise, the traffic and the mess.
@@Abandont Oooh....please do! No wonder I couldn't find it over on your music channel then! 😅 I do love this tune in particular (Araf is my other personal fave from you). Keep up the interesting work! 😊
Interesting to see places that seem to have been abandoned fairly recently, going by how new those bins look. Maybe worth getting a selfie stick for getting higher/further viewpoints in future?
Hardly a town. Ringway was a village at best, some people might even call it a hamlet. Stockport is a town, Bolton is a town, Macclesfield is a town, but certainly not Ringway!
@@JotHaGie hi, last week I entered the Houses shown in this video. Let me know if you'd like some footage. Once we finally got inside the house, it looked rather modern on the inside littered with kids toys from the early 2000s. Kind of freaked us out on the top floor where some dolls was just placed stood upright. Never the less, it was a very enjoyable explore.
I worked right there in cargo dept in The 70s 80s and 90s In that pub daily and tbh did not even notice the church. Also no idea it had been a village.
That was as interesting as reading a phone book ! You should do a thorough research of an area BEFORE you take your viewers on a tour of an abandoned village .. I put this very poor video down to your inexperience and youth. I am sure , with practice and improved research skills you will improve..
I'm glad my video was entertaining enough for you to give engagement in the comments. This will promote the video to a wider audience, maybe someone will actually make a productive comment instead of whatever that utter mess of a comment was.