Finally found video of Manchester l remember poking at names of stores remembering seeing Piccadilly gardens as l remembered them left Britain in 59 for states went to Manchester high for girls worked on street all newspaper offices were also for British rail payroll next to central station rode train from London road to Longsight every day lived on kirky lane on embankment across from station. house is still there this was a great video bringing back good memories thank you
@tinahardman9805
10 жыл бұрын
Went into the refurbished Central Library today. Remembering myself as a student sitting in respectful silence at polished tables surrounded by bookcases, reading quietly with the assistance of a small, friendly light. Sitting in Piccadilly Gardens with my Mother among rows of hungry workers anxious for a place in the sun and a sandwich. Flower beds blooming with surprises in the heart of the city, now trampled under concrete. Manchester is hiding somewhere, little pieces surviving among the mediocrity of urbanisation. I mourn for the place I once knew.
@user-ye7xp6es4i
4 ай бұрын
Me too. I wish I could go back in time.
@leaellis2198
2 ай бұрын
Beautifully worded 👏🏻
@rupertstiltskin8778
Жыл бұрын
This vid is a drug to me, and many other, old SKOOL, Mancs. How I miss those days. What a brilliant choice of records to accompany the vid. Hopefully, I'll be back In years to come, and able to comment again. BTW, I'm living a few hundred yards where Sharston baths used to be.
@rospalmer6042
7 жыл бұрын
I left Manchester in 1967. I was born 1951 so I remember my mam taking me shopping every week in town and this show brought back so many fantastic memories well done.. I now live in Tasmania half a world away. Mam passed away 4 months ago aged 87 I wish she could have see this! When she went back home things had already changed and the same for me when I returned... A shame what has happened. My name is Frank Halliwell I'm using someone else's iPad to send this. I was brought up in West Gorton when it was all terraced houses and I still miss the community feel it had back then so thanks so much for the memories, well done..
@MJ-sk4qh
Жыл бұрын
Surprising how much remains much the same .. Thank you!
@PriestmanCub
9 жыл бұрын
Good video, I was born in Manchester in 1947 and served as a Fireman in the city for a number of years, finally moving to Yorkshire in 1992.
@moodyguymick
Жыл бұрын
I worked in Lewis's from 1973 - 1975. Used to have a pint in the Trafalgar most lunchtimes. Great days !
@donnaelizabethcampbell5559
2 жыл бұрын
Ahhh the Whitwalks of Manchester, and we would all assemble at Albert square, Happy days❤️💕⭐
@rodgermoss8975
11 ай бұрын
This was so emotional I was in tears at the end, I am so glad that I lived my life I when did, being born in 1946 in West Gorton.Accept no substitutes -Town Was Town
@chrislethbridge1759
Жыл бұрын
I love Manchester - great city. I never knew there were so many illuminated signs in the past - shame they’ve gone!
@stuartbroome1258
Жыл бұрын
Nice to see my old workplace Sparrow Hardwicke where I worked in Linens, 1964/65. I remember it all. 😊
@barbarapratt9360
8 жыл бұрын
The Manchester of the 60's wasn't much different from the 50's when I was a teenager.Going into town meant catching the trolley from Stalybridge & hanging out in Bellevue & maybe taking in a movie & necking with a boyfriend in the back row of the Roxy or Odeon.Xmas time we always went to Lewis's to do our Xmas shopping.Just loved every minute of the slide show,brought back so many fond memories.I now have lived in Canada for almost 50 years ,still support Man. United & hope to return to my roots someday.THANKYOU
@dibbledob2
12 жыл бұрын
My heart leapt when I glimpsed what has been captured in this magic montage - the backdrop of my Manchester youth - all sadly destroyed by insane planners, and replaced with buildings that couldn't hold a candle to the neo Baroque and Florentine edifices that were once the body and soul of King Cotton's capital. Gone is The Queen's Hotel, Exchange Station, Rylands, and the Kardomah Cafes - all pictured here - in favour of a concrete Dusseldorf, where PIccadilly Gardens is now a skateboard pan.
@michaelroebuck1340
Жыл бұрын
When we used to have nights out it was always let's go to town Friday night. Memories .
@dibbledob2
12 жыл бұрын
I landed my first job as a junior clerk, via the Office Service Bureau, in Fountain Street, Spring Gardens, in 1955, and there I fell for all those gorgeous pencil-skirted, young ladies, who sent me off to work in Brown Street. What a city it was then, with the Kendals, the Kardomah Cafes, Saint Anne's Square, Lewis's 6th floor silver service restaurant, C & A, Oldham Street, Sam's Chop House, Wiles' Toy Shop, Rylands, with its giant chrome sign. Alas all gutted on the mindless altar of change.
@davidm793
2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. 60s and early 70s “going into town” on the 80 or 88 from moston. Underground market, Lewis’, afleck and browns for shoes (and the cafe for lunch as a treat afterwards). As others have said, haven’t been back for years and not interested what it looks like now :)
@vaslav030547
8 жыл бұрын
So many wonderful memories. Thanks for posting. Anyone remember Rylands store on Market Street?
@bobjackson6524
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. Thankyou.
@morrisdancer11
9 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this collection. I was born in 1941 in Ashton Under Lyne and Manchester for us was the Big City. So many of these pics were familiar and so glad to see the "rough" pics too. That's how I remember it. Love to anyone who remembers it as I do.
@lomativ
11 жыл бұрын
This brings it all back. All the old businesses, Mazells in particular where I spent hours mooching. The old cinemas. the News Theatre where you could sit through the programme a few times. Theatre Royal Cnerama, The Cinephone on market Street. I worked in cinemas in the 60's and town was the place.
@DaveMuirhead
Жыл бұрын
Manchester, the place of my birth. Still feel a pull towards the place, and have visited a lot over the years. I'm 60 and we moved away in 1966 when I was just 4. I still regard myself as a Mancunian at heart. Wish we had stayed in the area. Still, I don't live too far away. I think most mancs were not happy about what happened to Piccadilly gardens.
@deborahlucas4176
Жыл бұрын
I was born in 64 and lived in Manchester and Stockport area until I was 43. I live in Liverpool now but Manchester will always be my home and where my heart and soul is. Every time I visit now it looks more and more unfamiliar and like the USA will all those awful high rises. This film is a gem and a trip back to my youth. Loved it!
@Driver-UK
Жыл бұрын
Dave I’m 60 born in 1962 New Bank Street Longsight in a 2 up 2 Down back yard and outside toilet tin bath in front of open fire ! Moved away exactly same age to Winsford Cheshire and still living here now …. Love Manchester go back almost every week .. where did you move to ? Andy.
@basstrom79
11 жыл бұрын
This is superb! So many buildings I had forgotten about.
@Goggerator
10 жыл бұрын
Tina I hear you. I left Manchester in 1952, and was very moved to see pictures of The Ritz, where I danced during WW2, and seeing the names of the stores I remember, like Pauldens and Timpsons..... and I remember when the Queen, when she was Princess Elizabeth, opened the new Library - and one of the toilets was cordoned off for her use......I would love to find more on Manchester's past... thank you for posting this video...
@mary49ist
3 ай бұрын
Thank you. Ex pat now living on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia born Ardwick 1954, moved to Heald Green late 60s .
@tonywalkuk
10 жыл бұрын
Great photos, plenty of memories. Thank you.
@ChristineCope
11 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the memories :)
@Mcfads999
Жыл бұрын
I was born in Withington hospital 1966 I do remember a lot of the buildings How beautiful was Piccadilly gardens ?/ And people sat down talking Nearly everyone is glued to their phones now (including me ) I love Manchester I would say for my era the Hacienda night club was a complete legend and part of my younger day Love all the comments too
@DaveMuirhead
Жыл бұрын
We moved away when I was 4 in 1966. But I've visited often over the years, and regard myself as a Mancunian at heart. Feel a "pull" to the place. I was born at Beech Mount hospital Harpurhey. We lived in Broadway New Moston until 1966. Terrible what they did to the gardens at Piccadilly.
@anthonyheathcote1932
2 ай бұрын
I was born there too same year 66
@AnthonyVickersSoulJahTYah
9 жыл бұрын
Moss-side 1961 plus Whalley Range and Hulme great memos :)
@allant53
Жыл бұрын
I preferred the old Market Street, a lot more interesting. Also the side streets off with all the little shops, I used to go in to town to get my hair cut at Steeds, who were on one of the side streets. when I started work in 1968 as a pipefitter/welder apprentice, I worked on what was Henrys store which was changed into the BHS store. I used to get the 105/110 from Broadoak road, get off at Piccadilly Gardens walk down Market Street over Deansgate and down Blackfriars on to Chapel Street, Salford, where our works offices were. I married in 1974 and my wife worked at the Daily Express and had just come out of Woolworths and gone into Lewis's store when she came out, she could see Woolworths was well ablaze.If she had been in there any longer who knows what might have been. Manchester back then, many Happy days.
@undercovercameras
11 жыл бұрын
thank's a million bring's back many memories just loved it thank's for a great film from my childhood day's
@dibbledob2
12 жыл бұрын
Thank *you*, Dear Sharstonbaths. I owe you an undying debt of gratitude for bringing home to me, the memories of a Manchester I knew and loved; one which, without this unfolding montage, I would never see again. In 1958, I landed a job as a typewriter salesman, with W.H.Preece, Brown Street; the remit letting me roam the city, on full pay. This was *the last hurrah*, because I got called-up in June, and when I returned in 1960, planner J. Cartledge had already set his destruction-ball in motion.
@lulubelleish
12 жыл бұрын
How could anyone not like this, it's history.
@rupertstiltskin8778
7 жыл бұрын
Top vid.I used to get the 101 from Greenbrow road on a saturday to town.We used to go the joke shops on Tib St,then to piccadily gardens,piccadily records,Yanks the record place underground.Arcades then home.
@anyone173
12 жыл бұрын
Great to watch..i always used to say to my mam on saturdays "i'm going down town" also did my yts, (youth training scheme) at lewis's. and seen my bus on here.. the No:77 to newton heath. brilliant ..thanks for posting.
@Biffo1262
Жыл бұрын
Nice to see some of those old buildings before they became flaming confraglations in the 70's.
@alanstarkie2001
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@abdvantage
9 жыл бұрын
Love it. Also noticed the time travelers at 7:29 (only kidding - they just seem unusually dressed for that era).
@69Phuket
10 жыл бұрын
I lived in Woodhouse Park and me and the cat would climb out the bathroom window and sunbathe on the roof of the 'shed' . One part was the coal hole, second part was a disused toilet. The main room had a big sink. All these houses were similar. Somerby drive!
@adminelf
12 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Really great to see these photos. Real treasures of happy days!
@DownBeat90
12 жыл бұрын
Im only 21 and i loved this gorgeous collage of what my city used to be like now its just ruined with all the as we call them "chavs" in town i would have loved to be around back then it looks so beautiful
@xxxchrist1
12 жыл бұрын
That was just wonderful. Thanks for posting.
@Phelps440
8 жыл бұрын
Piccadilly Gardens now is not a shadow on it's former self.Gardens means gardens to relax in with nice wooden benches not the horrible concrete mess we have today with a 'Berlin Wall' dividing the Piccadilly Gardens 'Metrolink' station. If it ain't broke don't fix it I reckon.Anyone remember the skies going dark around dusk with flocks upon flocks of Starlings coming home at night?
@marajax
10 жыл бұрын
thanks for this left Mancs 50 years ago
@Filmitis
10 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing and bringing back the memories.We lived off Princess Rd,Moss Side and me and my brother would get the Wythenshawe buses into town,Nos.44 & 99 to 110 I think.
@314WESTERN
9 жыл бұрын
Great nostalgic footage, loved the music tracks.i remember all the buildings and shops of that era, when I was in my teens. My favourite club at that time was the Magic Village, it was situated on Cronford Court, the owner was a man called Roger Eagle, every thing was bulldozed for the Arndale centre......
@bibekdarjee2833
8 жыл бұрын
You remember them pretty briefly. How old are you?
@Caskchap
7 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, what have we lost? Talking of Smithfield Market, you will Remember John Henshalls, Deakins, John Swift, Somers and Gibsons Etc
@lindaelisabethannemarin3241
4 ай бұрын
Best times! Worst thing they ever did was changing Piccadilly Gardens, it was so beautiful back then.
@johnhilton7787
10 жыл бұрын
Excellent work :-) I used to work on Smithfield Market in the early 70s W.A.Nicholls
@nikkimad100
9 жыл бұрын
WOW......thank you so much for sharing, I was transported back in time big style. And Piccadilly Gardens turning to colour made the ending fab. I worked in town in the early 70's as a 16yo for many years before taking flight to pastures new, such memories, thank you again :)
@braintighe4757
Жыл бұрын
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@allenfairhurst5777
8 жыл бұрын
This is extraordinary! My first cognitive memory of Manchester City Centre aged 6-years-old, with my mum and Auntie Paula, clutching a die-cast model of Fireball XL5 (wish I still had that toy), having had my short back and sides at Lewes' sat on a huge panda; my mum and auntie singing along to 'Down Town' - Thank you so much for the memory.
@gareth630
11 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed that, my granddad and gran had the grousers/ sandwich bar next to the white lion on liverpool rd, and remember staying with them when town was like this :-)
@SisterDogmata
12 жыл бұрын
born and grew up in openshaw/wythenshaw bin away for 36 years happy memories!
@trulylovelylady
10 жыл бұрын
Yep i remember it too cos i worked in the city centre in 1955 down Ducie Street - good video looks like a 'rainy night in georgia' lol. Now Sharston baths my dad worked on building those. Recently did a nostalgic trip down town and where i worked has been flattened for yuppie apartments......
@mariaud999
12 жыл бұрын
A wonderful trip down memory lane of the Manchester I used to know and love....haven't been for over 20 years so I still remember it like this - don't think I want to go and see it now and spoil my memories! Great posting :) :)
@Sharstonbaths
12 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for your comments they are a pleasure to read.
@arthur76
12 жыл бұрын
Pure Gold!! Thanks for posting this
@gortonshameless6746
10 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting.
@adam11111
11 жыл бұрын
Great video and great pictures, well chosen music. What more do we what. Im glad we can look back and appreciate how places change and look how big picadilly gardens is, tiny nowadays. The black and white to colour photo was a real treat appreciated!!
@craigwindram7597
2 жыл бұрын
The 101 used to stop outside our house.
@MrTSK27
10 жыл бұрын
Don't know what got till its gone...
@dibbledob2
12 жыл бұрын
So you must know the Micarloo Coffee Bar, Moseley Street - we dubbed it the *muck-a-loo* - but, if you want to know where me and my pals did our skulking (when we should have been selling typewriters), it was in the Kardomah on Market Street, where - unlike today's Starbucks and Costa - one was waited upon, by elderly liveried *nippies* in black dresses and starched white aprons, who brought us Kunzle cakes to have with coffee, that really smelt and tasted like roasted bean coffee ought to.
@Sharstonbaths
11 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the Memories.
@anthonyheathcote1932
2 ай бұрын
lived on heywood house flats used to walk the railway lines to town every other day so many memories good and bad
@Sharstonbaths
11 жыл бұрын
thanks for the words Adam
@IqbalHamid
12 жыл бұрын
Whatever happenned to you Sharston Baths? I recall with fondness your the two diving boards that attracted us there all the way from Rusholme during the 70's and early 80's.
@WOODBINEXX
12 жыл бұрын
excellent
@stedan121
Жыл бұрын
lSharston Baths l love your videos of old manchester i got some videos of old clayton
@marajax
10 жыл бұрын
I would catch the 101 to Withenshaw in the 50s 60s lived in Newton heath worked in Turner st off Oldham st
@Melynnest
9 ай бұрын
Loved watching this
@paulmason6474
Жыл бұрын
1001 memories what a great video. I feel sad at some of the stores that have gone Pauldens ( Debenhams) Sylvana, Littlewoods, Henry’s, woolworth my youth.😅😅😅😅❤
@alankirkby465
11 ай бұрын
@paulmason6474 Hello Paul, Yes, I recall Henry's, you are going back long ago with that memory. I've lived in South England, for past 50 years but somehow still regard myself a Manc. Anyway, Peace to all.
@Sharstonbaths
12 жыл бұрын
@mrsfboomer Snacktime Cafe.used to go in there before starting work on smithfield market after getting off the 101 bus from wythenshawe because the bus arrived in piccadilly about half an hour before the market stall i worked on opend...thank you for the reminder...mrsfboomer
@daveglynn748
2 күн бұрын
Snacktimes Cafe open 24 hours a day along with Nickie's on Oxford street. Brilliant late night fry ups burgers pie's and coffes for hungry night owls🦉
@Metrolivia1
10 жыл бұрын
Thank you brought back some wonderful memories. Wish Piccadilly Gardens was still there. Never knew Chelsea Girl had to be fumigated...but it could be true...Manchester is surrounded by water, lots of rats in Manchester.
@joedomican2286
Жыл бұрын
I love these old footages they make me feel like a time traveller but these are different . I was actually there at the time and in the places filmed . Weird it was now then and now it isn't don't understand this time passing thing and what it's all about thing. Perhaps I will when I die ? or maybe not?
@Denzarki
7 жыл бұрын
picadilly gardens looked so much nicer in the pictures at around 5:00 not sure what year that is. I don't remember the gardens looking any different than they do now but i know they must have changed some in my life time, i'm 28.. i remember the old picadilly gardens bus station at least
@harryplant8579
6 жыл бұрын
Had to visit Central Manchester a couple of years back. Absolutely shocked at what they had done to Piccadilly Gardens. Disgrace. Who remembers PALLDENS burning down ? Some good pics worth looking at but none of 'Takis' or 'Top of the Town' or 'Paragon Jewellers' Market Street, my first real job prior to joining the RAF.
@Sharstonbaths
13 жыл бұрын
@Trowy237 thanks for the comments and memories.
@BusterCapInYoAss
8 жыл бұрын
Underground Market....I thought it was a figment of my imagination!? It did actually exist lol
@Sharstonbaths
12 жыл бұрын
I have on my channel a walk around town slideshow with recently took photographs.
@1919mum
Жыл бұрын
the 101 bus went from wythenshawe, used to get it most saturdays 72 onwards paperchase, rare records, bit of a walk round ...town,,lol
@johngregson9827
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful memories of the town and country of my youth. And though we never had a pot to piss in , I miss the town and country and it’s people so much, take a good look at what our politicians have given us now
@bojack40
5 ай бұрын
The city centre rivaling Londons nightlife. Big clubs, money spent inside and out…
@justmadeit2
7 жыл бұрын
I prefer Manchester to London. Its a great city.
@IqbalHamid
12 жыл бұрын
07:22: I learnt to drive there in 1984.
@paulnorcross5954
5 ай бұрын
What a city centre it was back then.......all gone now and hardly welcoming.....😮💨...
@jackson6027
13 жыл бұрын
That is when Piccadilly had a nice Gardens to sit in not the dump it is now
@MsSolonge
11 жыл бұрын
Just a thought I live near Maidstone prison could be plenty of explosives experts in there. also now the wall is covered in greenery cany you imagine all the insects and buzzy things that will come forth in the spring oh yuk take plenty of repellent. Sharston the 167 bus was never regular Iknow it came from the top of heywood went to manchester but I can't remember via what route.
@Sharstonbaths
11 жыл бұрын
Flippin eck @MrSpandy61 i am English but with very little education please let me off with this little mistake.
@Sharstonbaths
11 жыл бұрын
MsSolonge Keep us informed as to how you get on, The very best of luck
@fasthracing
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent. Was 12:13 the Mcr Underground market?
@Sharstonbaths
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, it is.
@fasthracing
2 жыл бұрын
@@Sharstonbaths Thought is was. Used to love that place.
@magsimms9049
10 жыл бұрын
Brilliant slideshow some memories there. BTW was it true or an urban myth that Chelsea Girl Boutique had to be closed and fumigated one time? (Top of Market Street across Tib Street from Pauldens)
@jackson6027
10 жыл бұрын
Just look at Piccadilly Gardens now SHIT
@ramsaybolton2839
10 жыл бұрын
You mean Piccadilly Concrete gardens and the Berlin Wall
@leod-sigefast
6 жыл бұрын
Yep, the whole thing needs to go; the scummy bus station too. Pave it and turn it into a square like a European city or a great park with nice, NICE buildings surrounding it - not the tacky crap there now. The whole Piccadilly approach from the station, the 'gardens', that dirty mess of a street with Burger King on it and Market Street (I would even say the Arndale) need demolishing and some serious town planning to make it into a proper attractive world city - since that is what the CC keep saying they want to do. Now those areas are just scrote magnets.
@bodsnvimto
12 жыл бұрын
Unless it has been uprooted & moved to the US then 'Centre' is how it is spelt.
@winniefisher
9 жыл бұрын
Wonderful vid thanks. But why Center and not Centre as spelt in English?
@Sharstonbaths
8 жыл бұрын
+Winnie Fisher Mistake
@leod-sigefast
6 жыл бұрын
Centre is a stupid adoption from French. I am flexible and prefer the much more sensible spelling center. Or better still the true (Old) English word: ord.
@davidlloyd2225
Жыл бұрын
0:11 tune❤️💯🇬🇧 0:22
@mrrandom177
Жыл бұрын
At 6.12 ...is that looking up towards old Market Street?
@bodsnvimto
13 жыл бұрын
It's centre, we're not the 51st State (yet).
@Sharstonbaths
11 жыл бұрын
don't be sorry it has already been pointed out.
@bodsnvimto
13 жыл бұрын
@Sharstonbaths Funny, but don't worry: It won't be long before They're known as American lessons, if the current, ongoing trend continues.
@APublicDomain
12 жыл бұрын
@Sharstonbaths Fair enough, but please change the spelling. This is great stuff and Manchester has no business with dumb down America. Thanks for posting.
@outsidethepyramid
Жыл бұрын
11:47 does anybody know what street the building being demolished is on ?
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