I spent a large part of my childhood on the edge of the ‘Northern Quarter’ and don’t know whether to laugh or cry. It might be the trendiest part of the city but it also looks something of a ‘shit hole’ and unloved. No doubt it is used and enjoyed by thousands, but it and most of the city looks unloved and uncared for. Engels would need to bring a spray can with him, if he ever returned and leave another ugly mark on what could be, should be a beautiful city.
@keh.32
2 жыл бұрын
Bullshit
@dickiegreenleaf750
2 жыл бұрын
I agree. I was going to visit a couple years ago until I saw the KZitem videos.
@Nathan.Manchester
3 жыл бұрын
Wow your channel had boomed well done you deserve it 👍👍
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks mate!
@ianp7661
3 жыл бұрын
Just found this video, it's great! I live in the northern quarter, just off great ancoats street. I've been fascinated about the history of the buildings which seems to have been (mostly) forgotten or erased. Most people living here are probably oblivious to the reason the beautiful buildings they're living in are standing. My Grandad who died back in 1989 was born and raised in Ancoats, I only found this out a year ago after finding his birth record online. It's nice to know that a man I never knew but I'm so closely related to lived just over the road!
@wendylim1936
3 жыл бұрын
Would be interesting to know about your Grandad and the history of the buildings.
@dazhatch7458
3 жыл бұрын
Just found this channel. Wow. Absolutely superb. Lucky enough to be mancunian so it's all familiar to me...
@gigteevee6118
2 жыл бұрын
I visited Manchester today for the first time on a day trip to visit an art exhibition, as a life long Londoner I was seriously impressed with the cities historic architecture and general good atmosphere. After seeing your whole history playlist back to back I’ll return in the spring to explore, thanks for the well produced inspirational work on your city 🐝
@BeeHereNowuk
2 жыл бұрын
Aw that's great to hear. You're welcome back any time!
@viennacat1
3 жыл бұрын
Superb video! This is such a rich & interesting period that's always captured my imagination. Despite the rush of new builds in the city over the last 20 years its still amazing that there are little pockets of history doted around. Technically your presentation and the quality of your work is right up there too, well done!
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much! That's nice to hear 😊
@CirclingDuck
3 жыл бұрын
An absolutely fantastic video. Thanks for all your work on this and the rest of the series.
@PeterCrighton
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for doing these videos! They are hugely interesting to me, as my ancestors came down from Scotland to Manchester in the early 19th century. They were machine makers and had their iron works under the name of Crighton & Co. and Crighton & Sons at Lower Mosley Street, Great Bridgewater Street, and later at Castlefield for the most part of the century. Someday I’ll need to visit the city!
@VimyScout
2 жыл бұрын
Whole family grew up in Manchester some years past. Wonderful to see it's legacy like this out there for many to see. Would love to see you do a tribute to Belle Vue.
@finlayhopkins5984
2 жыл бұрын
Manchester has a proud history and is now the fastest growing city in the uk
@ste.h9825
3 жыл бұрын
Another excellent video,very well presented.Easy to follow,looking forward to the next one.
@mrlister2000
3 жыл бұрын
I'm a Scouser, but that was an amazing video about Manchester!
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers thanks! Wait till I get round to Liverpool one day!
@mrlister2000
3 жыл бұрын
@@BeeHereNowuk I watched the train one you did in Liverpool recently, another excellent video
@GrahamCahill-uj3sc
4 ай бұрын
Liverpool retains a cotton exchange to this day. The cotton trade was vital to Liverpool -a global industry!
@Stno3582
Жыл бұрын
Great video! For example a city in Poland called Łódź was nicknamed "Polish Manchester" - just like it, it grew exponentially in the 19th century as a textile manufacturing city, becoming one the largest such cities in Europe with Polish, German, Russian and Jewish capital flowing in. Most famous factory (still standing and redeveloped) was Manufaktura. The city is also a stage was an amazing book by Wladyslaw Reymont "The Promised Land", telling the story of an early 19th century cutthroat capitalism.
@mikethepsych2084
3 жыл бұрын
Didn't L.S Lowry live in Victoria park for a while? Wow! You covered some ground in this video. Good effort.
@mikethepsych2084
3 жыл бұрын
Would you consider doing a video about the hospital that used to stand on Piccadilly garden's?
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, defo. Id need to learn a bit more first though.
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers mate thanks!! 🤜🤛
@mikethepsych2084
3 жыл бұрын
The only place ive heard or seen Anything about it were Photos in weatherspoon's on Dean's gate.
@markbooth1117
2 жыл бұрын
I am old enough to remember the slum dwellings. When I was Primary school age, we lived at 5 Peacock Street in Gorton, long demolished in the early 1970's the street named after Bayer-Peacock in an Victorian old 2 up, 2 down with no hot water, except for a small gas boiler above the kitchen sink, a tin bath, outside toilet down the bottom of the yard and a cast iron range in the downstairs back room. I went to Peacock Street Primary, I believe the same Primary school as Myra Hindley did. It seems ancient, but I am only in my middle 50's. My kids and Grand kids think I was brought up in the Stone Age, but it is only 50 or so years ago. They take for granted such things as double glazing, central heating and wifi.
@philhermetic
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video!!¬ I was lost in it for every minute of it, although I come from over the border in Pudsey twixt Leeds and Bradford. I can remeber everything there being black too! The only let down was the fact that you didn't sing Runcorn! Phil, East Yorkshire
@davefb
3 жыл бұрын
But, everybody loves Runcorn! It's where the chemicals come from and everybody loves chemicals!
@quickclipsbyjmj
3 жыл бұрын
Another great video, Ollie. Belle Vue was bought by the Trusthouse Forte group in the 1980s. They ran it into the ground and sold the site for redevelopment.
@jimmyviaductophilelawley5587
3 жыл бұрын
Hi olly...what can I say? I effin love this series. .each one is like a historical video painting..well researched well put together well done mate! Best wishes and take care
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers Jimmy 👍👍
@andyshacks7812
3 жыл бұрын
Such an interesting and informative video. You’ve obviously put loads of work into it. Love your videos mate
@markanthony4655
3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic stuff, I am a lover of our Manchester Industrial history. Have you ever thought of working on a collaboration with Martin Zero, he has the same passion as you about our city ?
@Fr.FintanStack
3 жыл бұрын
I went to a really good rave in that old police station in about 2007/8
@bazza5699
3 жыл бұрын
blimey that john snow map of cholera outbreaks is terrifying. just looking at where I live..it must have been devastating..
@bazza5699
3 жыл бұрын
@Ross Bourne and wearing snazzy socks
@lukeykishlukey3193
9 ай бұрын
I’m from Manchester and I see these houses and buildings often and had no idea how interesting our city is and how much history it has. Great video
@GrahamCahill-uj3sc
4 ай бұрын
Great city this built on CASH! Manchester was the brokerage centre for cotton but Oldham had far more cotton mills The driving force in Manchester was money and invention - I love it!
@islaws4589
3 жыл бұрын
Superb video, thank you for this!
@mikeheap7978
Жыл бұрын
Love the history of Manchester series, great content, can't get enough of it. Any thoughts on doing a series about the oldest pubs left in Manchester before they've all gone. I'm 57 and used to come into Manchester in the early 80's on pub crawls with mates and I'd say 50% of the old pubs have now gone. Thanks for your content and great efforts 👍
@lifeschool
3 жыл бұрын
Such a shame that modern graffiti spoils the area. Its bad when the graffiti looks like an improvement! Sala-Mana Chester? Once Manchester swallows up Salford then no more problem. :)
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I didn't realise how much graffiti was in the back of my shots until I got round to editing haha
@radiowyn1703
3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fantastic! Loved it from start to finish. So professionally put together and well researched. Cannot wait for the next video.
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
@Originalspruce
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent and informative. My Gt grandparents moved from rural Cheshire to Harpurhey in 1885. This would have been there world
@sarahcrowther6267
3 жыл бұрын
I find the level of graffiti disgusting. To me it shows a total lack of respect for other peoples property and of our history. Manchester should be ashamed of itself letting its history being destroyed.......Angel Meadows where my ancestors lived is a prime example. The rubbish that is being thrown up there with no nod at all to its past......well not much to say is there. Carry on the brilliant work.....fab.
@StudioMagnetique
7 ай бұрын
Hi Sarah. As a local in this area, I think it is worth pointing out a few things. Firstly, most (but not all) of the graffiti that is seen in the Northern Quarter area is actually commissioned graffiti, hence it being confined to roller shutters and specific walls. The roller shutter go up in the day, and so the area retains a (mostly) clean and ‘acceptable’ feel, and at night, the shutter come down and the ‘urban artwork’ is more visible to those who may better appreciate it. Both the council and private owners have also given up many building walls in this area to allow for applicants to create vast, and often impressive pieces that remain almost permanently. Graffiti for many is simply a sign of social degradation, but for many it doubles as a sign of vibrancy. Whichever side one falls on, it cannot be denied that around this area of Manchester at least, there does seem to be a lot less unsolicited graffiti, and it is certainly a lot rarer to see outright vandalism by way of graffiti these days.. more likely it will appear in and around those places that sanctioned graffiti is allowed, or tolerated. Ancoats, which is only a street or two away from the Northern Quarter, and can also been seen plenty in this video, is made up of vast, and undoubtedly tempting walls to the graffiti artist, and yet remains almost immaculately untouched by rogue painters. So there is A level of respect operating here. As strange as that may sound. As for the architecture that is, as you say ‘thrown up with no not at all to its past’, I have to agree. That does seem to be all too prevalent, especially when it comes to apartment buildings. That said, the mills are all converted and occupied and the city continues to grow at an incredible rate. Fortunately, much of what this channel covers is now protected by way of being ‘listed’ and so generations in future should still be able to enjoy the jewels of Manchester past, long after the graffiti paint has flaked away.
@wendylim1936
3 жыл бұрын
Lovely buildings. Something should be done to preserve them.
@islaws4589
3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. Without them the Northern Quarter wouldn't be the Northern Quarter.
@RingwayManchester
3 жыл бұрын
Can't wait to watch this tonight!
@basfinnis
3 жыл бұрын
Interesting stuff. Thanks
@mikeclarke3882
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Ollie, as usual your presentation and editing skills have delivered another first class video, packed full of history and real interest. Growing up in Chorlton-on-Medlock I often walked down Daisy Bank Road on the way to and from primary school. Climbing the old stone gate towers from the toll gates, some of which were still in place in the early 60's. I knew people who still lived in cellar bed sits in and around Nelson Street. My old street, Summer Street, off Upper Brook Street, is long gone but I'm surprised to see how many small pockets of history still remain around there. Looking forward to the next episode as always. Thanks again!
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting, thanks Mike!
@NigelHay
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant content. One thing missing, external Mic for better audio, apart from that the video was very well done and put together. Subscribed!
@calpayne_
3 жыл бұрын
Another great video, new subscriber here and love your content!
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers thank you!
@extrude22
3 жыл бұрын
A great video as always. Manchester has such a rich history.
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers thank you!
@neilsutcliffe9782
3 жыл бұрын
Another great video!
@mroconnell1775
3 жыл бұрын
Outstanding well done.
@pauldavid22212
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliantly informative as always.
@niceviewoverthere4463
3 жыл бұрын
Good work! So let me get this right. Albert Square is triangular? Reminds me of a pizza - round, packed in a square box and cut into triangles...Seriously though, a thoroughly professional video. I thank you!
@scottc1589
3 жыл бұрын
I'm from the States and have found this series to be very informative and enjoyable to watch. In this video you mentioned there would be a number 7. Is that still in the works?
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Hey that's great thanks for watching them. Yes it's something I'm working on at the moment but it might not be complete for a while yet.
@danieltoth-nagy5097
3 жыл бұрын
Ollie, you made a great video again. I couldn't close my eyes for a second or look elsewhere until I finished this video. Thank you so much.
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks 👍🏼
@TommiMcC44
3 жыл бұрын
Class video, very well done! Moving to Ancoats soon so looking forward to doing some history hunting of my own.
Worked for a period in Great Marlborough Street. Never been there since, completely different, mostly I understand developments for the University.
@chrismccartney8668
2 жыл бұрын
I wish history was taught like this and a number of other KZitem.. Parks in my London area (E18 South Woodford edge ofindon) We have luckily have Epping Forest a 7,000 acre ancient forest some ground of long gone stately home Wanstead Park that rivalled Blenheim Palace and other land enclosed and taken back by the Public via the courts And given to the people by Queen Victoria.. The Quakers had a huge affect in the UK..
@AJM-timecop
Жыл бұрын
Remember visiting a submarine in Salford Quays in the 70s. Blew my mind that submarines could come up the Manchester Ship Canal.
@garyleroy6999
3 жыл бұрын
Your scores for your vlogs are tremendous 🎩 ✌️♥️
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Wow thank you. I appreciate that 👍🏼
@birotomodachi
11 ай бұрын
Recently new to your channel, I’ve been working my way through all your old films. I’ve been holding off making a comment to request an episode just like this one in the hope that I’ve come across it. My grandmother and her family (Pinner) immigrated from Manchester - leaving Robert St. West Gorton in 1927. She arrived in Australia 6 y.o. Thank you for this excellent episode. It gives us a bit of insight into how ordinary people lived. It would be great to learn even more about how and from where all the people who migrated into Manchester came from.
@elizaann8495
10 ай бұрын
Alfred Waterhouse built the Rochdale Town hall Clock tower in 1866 / 1871 the Town Hall used for the buying and selling of Wool Also Rochdale still has weavers cottages still standing
@sumairajawad6562
2 жыл бұрын
Brill !
@williambell8282
11 ай бұрын
I haven't seen the whole of this series so I don't know if you have explored the history of Salford. Salford, as you know, was a separate and distinct city 'over the river' from Manchester. It too was a powerhouse of the industrial revolution. Sadly, much of the city was demolished in the early 70s including my mother's birthplace of Upper Cleminson Street. Pretty much all the Victorian housing has gone and was replaced by high rise blocks and maisonettes, which in turn are being torn down.
@alisonwilliams4862
2 жыл бұрын
3.20: Why on Earth is there a door to nowhere on the top floor? 🤔 Also, I haven't seen that much graffiti since those 1980s New York subway trains! 😁
@daniphillips9291
Жыл бұрын
It's just a little detail, but growing up and even now, whenever we were going into the city centre, we'd say we're going into town, I wonder if that came about from the city's beginngings as a town. 🤔 Thank you for the video, it's much appreciated. 🐝🐝
@Enemyofthestate.
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent series pal, looking forward to watching the next one 👍🏻 if you ever need a volunteer camera man give me a shout, would love to help out 👍🏻 I’m only local 😂
@thomasfilion9064
2 жыл бұрын
I think of movie with a little kid that's a chimney sweep when you describe the slums. Mary Poppins maybe. Such a long time ago. I bet wherever movie it was was using that for a reference.
@laviniajohnson9210
2 жыл бұрын
Great video, should be taught in schools. You have put lots of work in for this and your other videos. Thanks for bothering! Appreciated.
@chrismccartney8668
2 жыл бұрын
Channel goes from strength to strength these layers of history as you peel it back is always so revealing.. For example what is now Banglatown in London once edge of City and green fields then huegenots then Jewish ghetto and Tailoring then Bangladesh Clothing Trade. In London you can the pump that was investigated Snow and proved his theory..
@bethell26
Жыл бұрын
Hey, I really like the Cherry Ripe song but I've only been able to find one version of it on KZitem with
@Stno3582
Жыл бұрын
29:25 Very few people realise this fact. I have travelled all around the world and I can 100% say that poverty in the countryside is not equal to the city. Poor villages in poor countires are poor but they have everything they need to survive, they live like that for centuries with nature. It is the poverty in the city that's terryfying, that has social problems, that is dehumanising without a way to escape.
@gerrysmith7031
Жыл бұрын
My parents were Mancunian I lived around Manchester in the 1940s until we moved south when I was eleven the people were great but it was still not very healthy obviously it was nothing like as bad as your film.
@christineduckworth5712
Жыл бұрын
My wife taught at a school founded in Victorian times in Rochdale . In the 19th century when the children were 8 years old they had to work half a day in the local cotton mills . Mornings one week and afternoons the next. Ian Duckworth.
@RD2564
Жыл бұрын
Scuttleropolis ... Alcoholism and working class poverty have never been high on my list of priorities to learn more about so Manchester is not anywhere on my list of places I want to visit in the world.
@matthewsmith6197
3 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for the next part(s) of the story and see how Manchester has developed over the years.
@bruceburns1672
3 жыл бұрын
Why are there no people around ????
@danielaltmann8493
3 жыл бұрын
Filmed during lockdown?...
@earthling1386
6 ай бұрын
I'm concered for your lil tuffed blowing off standing on the top of windy buildings, stay safe out there
@chasedwar2
Жыл бұрын
Excellent documentary, very well researched and presented, thank you.
@editaedita473
8 ай бұрын
Why don't you go to the city over their historical value?! It can bring money as a living museum district.
@saramoor3133
3 жыл бұрын
thanks for doing this. its wonderful. have you ever thought about doing where i live in pendlebury? love it if you did.
@chinoble1
3 жыл бұрын
fantastic video lad.. it deserves way more views than it has.
@matthewgartell6380
3 жыл бұрын
9.05. A few weeks ago i changed the postbox lock and front door lock to that front door on wood street. It is now a high end HMO.
@piggyal
Жыл бұрын
Really interesting and well put together items. I've learnt a lot. Thanks
@EricStanway-ky9ys
2 ай бұрын
It's a shame all of these buildings have been defaced with graffiti.
@joe3hatstv544
2 жыл бұрын
What a great series. Fascinating stuff. Keep up the good work😀👍
@jtr789310
11 ай бұрын
I like your take on History you showing a side we hardly ever see. You are do doing a great job really like your site.
@MrSprocket2u
2 жыл бұрын
Could you do a vid on the old house in deb dale pls ... i grew up in the 70s .. and knew the Davenports that lived there .
@foxhound5699
Жыл бұрын
Interesting that you mentioned how the town hall is actually a city hall as I don't know any Mancunian that refers to the city centre as anything other than 'town'
@mollymay4447
Жыл бұрын
Was brought up on Scarsdale rd in the 1960 brilliant area miss it to this day
@dickiegreenleaf750
2 жыл бұрын
I thought these building would be on the list thing you have there as historical and not allowed to be demolished?
@shirleymilton5178
2 ай бұрын
I love this series. Is there an episode on the music hall and theatres of Manchester?
@paulworthington8666
9 ай бұрын
Excellent video. Thank you.
@MikeJonesManc
2 ай бұрын
Loving this series and channel. I'm a born and bred Mancunian yet I know very little of the City's history beyond the canals (I grew up in Worsley so we learned something if it). So thanks for these, it's been fascinating.
@BeeHereNowuk
2 ай бұрын
Thanks very much Mike. Glad they've been informative :)
@jackmason7823
3 жыл бұрын
Yet another fantastic video! Now please don't make us wait as long for the next one! 😅😂
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers thanks!!
@eamonnca1
2 жыл бұрын
There is something to be said for small parks, they can be safer than big ones and a large number of them can be beneficial. Jane Jacobs had good things to say about them. Great video as always
@barney2051
3 жыл бұрын
Quality video again. Very much looking forward to the next one.
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers thanks!
@davestarkie9977
3 жыл бұрын
Great video... glad I found your channel, some excellent content!
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much!
@mknight2098
3 жыл бұрын
Great info. My Dad was born and raised there. I have have never been but sent my Daughter to see it. KZitem says spelling error when I try to say where. LOL. Wythen.....
@mknight2098
3 жыл бұрын
Family house still exists but is a council house. Family has been in it since the 20s
@jt0094
3 жыл бұрын
Wow I was watching your videos when you were making them about Roman Manchester/Castlefield and through lockdown your channel has really gone to the next level!!! Hope you stick at this, the history surrounding Manchester is endless and it’s quite rare to find on youtube! Even the translations of area names would make a quality vid.... Wythenshawe (whether you’re a fan or not), is named so because the Anglo-Saxons called it ‘Withigensceaga’, which meant: “small wood of willow trees”, today it means Wythenshawe. Northernden is named so because the Anglo Saxons built a small fort on the Mersey and named it “the northern den”, or so the tale goes! Couple of fun or not so fun facts for you😎!!
@lifeschool
3 жыл бұрын
He already made a vid on Manchester district names some while ago, but cant remember if Wythenshawe was in it. At least he didnt translate Ramsbottom.
@jt0094
3 жыл бұрын
@@lifeschool cheers mate just found that video you’re speaking of👍🏼
@em00k
3 жыл бұрын
Another great video, cheers!
@tonynewman8586
2 жыл бұрын
I remember Manchester when it was a field
@niceguy235uk1
3 жыл бұрын
Christ, how much graffiti?
@chrisshaw9836
3 жыл бұрын
brilliant these vidz mate
@expatexpat6531
Жыл бұрын
Great mini-history. You can see the legacy of the cotton industry in the sewing specialist shops in the Northern Quarter, e.g. Fred Aldous Ltd, and one other shop I can unfortunately not find on Google Maps - a real gem of a store that I discovered pre-pandemic. BTW: You might like to cover the role of the immigrant German and Polish communities in Manchester. There was a Polish community in Manchester long before the EU. There was also a sizeable German commumity in Liverpool (who fell victim to the riots after the sinking of the Lusitania).
@djimo7380
2 жыл бұрын
These videos are wonderful, thank you! They've given our genealogical digging from the states (via our records in Rochdale, Oldham, Shaw, and Shropshire) so much more depth.
@floswason8776
Жыл бұрын
I was born in Manchester not far from Belle vue it was a wonderful place for a child and l remember the big car parks filled with buses every day with visitors it’s many many years since l left Britain for New York and l enjoy the videos showing city of my youth Thank you
@joannegreenwood6063
2 жыл бұрын
Ollie, I am just so thrilled with your films, I wish I had had you as my history teacher when I was at School. You are such a great communicator. I lived near Manchester as a girl, and know many of the places you talk about, but I have learned so much more, that I did not know, by listening to your films. I now live in Yorkshire, but it makes me want to go back into Manchester and go and re-look at some of the places you mention. Thank you so much for the considerable time and effort that you have gone to, to make these, it has brought my husband and myself so much pleasure watching them.
@craiglogistics2092
3 жыл бұрын
Sir Edward Watkin provided 4 public parks for the people, he was a great Mancunian who went on to greater things like the Great Central Railway
@markvickers6641
3 жыл бұрын
Great video. Very informative and excellently edited.
@BeeHereNowuk
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!
@seany84uk
3 жыл бұрын
Finally getting round to watching this now! i have one huge backlog of vids to watch! Great video! :)
@spikethea2630
3 жыл бұрын
This is amazing. Im from london but this is so interesting it gripped me
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