This is how I remember the gardens as a child what a disgrace this space is today.
@StevenParrisWard
3 жыл бұрын
A peaceful and calm oasis where I was left to play with my Gran as a kid while Mum went across the road to Woolworths. That was before the fire. Now I believe its a concrete bull ring full of spice addicts.
@patriciane3551
3 жыл бұрын
Makes me sad living so far away but seeing the decline on visits home
@tinahardman9805
3 жыл бұрын
It is! I remember the gardens from the 70's, going into Manchester with my Mum who also visited Woolworths. I don't go into the City very often anymore but it is awful. The beautiful gardens gone. It is dirty and full of drug addicts.
@majorpygge-phartt2643
2 жыл бұрын
@@tinahardman9805 Yeah, and now it's also full of outright evil occult imagery too, so it's not safe in manchester city centre now. And I used to go there regular for about 20 years up until about 2006 to get spares for electronic repairs but then the technology all changed for the worse and the trade counters I relied on moved out and just as well they did.
@ShahidKhan-ke8fe
Жыл бұрын
100% correct. the drug dealers there are friendly.
@neilduran3586
8 ай бұрын
I remember, that is my childhood story too. The centre has been destroyed.
@mollymay4447
Жыл бұрын
I remember picadilly gardens in the late 60 beautiful flower beds everyone sitting around on hot summer days not anymore so sad
@Sanctified57
3 жыл бұрын
Very very sad to see what has become of Piccadilly gardens over the last sixty years
@frankh2811
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, this is the Manchester I remember.
@markszczepanski5293
3 жыл бұрын
It's a shame they got rid of the old gardens these days it's an eyesore
@mikesaunders4775
3 жыл бұрын
It looked like a classic great European city garden then. What the hell has happened to it now.
@paulholland5270
2 жыл бұрын
Communism is what happened. Question answered.
@Bostonite1985
Жыл бұрын
@@paulholland5270 .....I saw a video of Warsaw in the 60s. The city centre there looked pretty much like Manchester (back then) except that there were more large concrete flower pots lined up on the pavements on both sides of the door. It is not about communism. Urban landscape planners have lost their aesthetic sense now. Now it is all about glass and metal eye sore lined up one after the other.
@alankirkby465
5 ай бұрын
@@paulholland5270Hello to you. Please elaborate your comment ( just asking ) Peace to all.
@paulworthington8666
3 ай бұрын
8-year old me could easily have been sitting on one of those benches with my Mum & Dad, having "a bit of a rest" after shopping on Market Street. No junkies then, not even drunks. A beautiful peaceful oasis in the busy town.
@benbow7
Жыл бұрын
It was so much better then than it is now.
@juliepownall2000
3 жыл бұрын
Much better back then
@markanthony4655
3 жыл бұрын
I remember it almost like that in the 1970's, when Piccadilly Bus Station, had a roof, a proper full length roof (I think, as I was 3 at the time in 1970) to keep out the rain. Now, Piccadilly "Gardens" are a dump and everyone gets soaked waiting for buses with little bus open shelters at each stop. So much for progress. I remember sitting on the benches in the Gardens with my Grandad on a nice day, while my Gran went shopping in Woolies and Lewis's.. Of course Woollies has long gone, after the dreadful fire and Lewis's now Primark.
@majorpygge-phartt2643
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and it wasn't built as a stupid glasshouse, so it didn't heat right up to insane temperatures in the summer sun either, like some other bus and train stations elsewhere like in halifax for instance.
@susanick
4 ай бұрын
it's nice to see this piccadilly garden back in 60s, it was a real park, lots of flowers and tress, resting places for citizen. Since the urbanlisation boom from 90s, tram, roads, or other influstracture changed its face. More like a transportarion hub nowadays, it was there in early 2000, for around 5yrs
@glennsanders2962
14 күн бұрын
Somebody PLEASE bring it back!
@bernardmcmahon5377
3 жыл бұрын
I remember it being like this, thanks 👍
@chriswilliams2514
8 ай бұрын
When Manchester was great. Xxxxx❤❤❤❤❤❤
@limeykl
3 жыл бұрын
Waiting for the 102 to wood house park. Mum would sit on the bench near the fountain and d sac he let us take our shoes and socks off and paddle in the “towns water”. Such happy memories thanks for sharing;)
@None-zc5vg
15 күн бұрын
The 100 ran from Piccadilly via Benchill and Portway down to Tuffley Road. The 102 ran from Exchange via Albert Square and up via Hall Lane to reach Tuffley Road. That was back in the '50s and early '60s, anyway.
@davidthompson4662
2 жыл бұрын
I was 16, working for a printers in New Brown St. Every night after work, I'd be queueing for my bus in Piccadilly to take me home to Altrincham rd. Royal Oak. We lived in the prefabs there.
@paulinehalkyard9312
3 жыл бұрын
How nice was this ,now it's a dump full of scroats.
@dimitarmargaritov
4 ай бұрын
I was a foreign university student in Manchester between 2011-2016 and I have seen some older videos, but this is probably the oldest I have seen yet.
@colinains
4 ай бұрын
Not many people had cine cameras then, its me and my brother at the end in our best clothes. Our dad filmed our holidays and our family weddings and parades if he could. Guessing we were dressed up and he took the camera to town for a special occasion. He was probably just using up the end of the film roll in the gardens. No sound with 8mm cine, long before video was in use.
@digofthedump
3 жыл бұрын
wow something we liked and they paved it over ?? maybe they can return it too it's former glory an exact replica .gl
@stephendavies925
11 ай бұрын
How morden society ruin things what a beautiful place to sit and relax now its just nothing
@croesoycymru
6 ай бұрын
Does anyone now prefer Piccadilly Gardens to what it was in the 1960s? Probably not from those who remember. It was once a great place to walk through, to stop to eat one's lunch or just sit. The rose gardens were fabulous and the setting just below street level an absolute pleasure. But even if one wanted to revert to how it once was there is probably not enough money in the authority coffers to even make a start without getting bogged down in planning and health and safety.
@None-zc5vg
15 күн бұрын
It's effectively privately owned because the Council leased-off the land to an insurance giant for "development". The Council didn't give a ****about the aesthetics of the Gardens or about their value as an amenity.
@majorpygge-phartt2643
2 жыл бұрын
This is way before my time, but it's how I remember piccadilly gardens as they were still much the same in the mid 80's with all the gorgeous flowerbeds in the summer, a real garden in the city, and cities NEED gardens. It's just like the old song which said you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. They should use some of the lottery cash to put the gardens back like they were, who wants all that lousy concrete?! They ripped the heart right out of manchester city centre when they buried the gardens, and the ira bombing never touched the gardens, their destruction was all the city council's doing. The town planners have done far more damage than the ira and the luftwaffe combined!
Why on earth did they change it, it was much better like this but I suppose it's easier to manage now it's not sunken and their were issues with disreputables down there so I suppose I've answered my own question.
@None-zc5vg
15 күн бұрын
The Piccadilly area has been leased-off by the Council over the decades for commercial purposes. The Gardens area had to be commercialised and it has been (for good)
@colinyates7485
2 ай бұрын
Wow, not raining.
@oddities-whatnot
3 ай бұрын
Even the winos enjoyed it, a familiar sight seeing half drunk older men wearing stained suits supping out of a bottle. Happy days.
@lynnehamer239
3 жыл бұрын
it's a concrete mess now scruffy
@paulholland5270
2 жыл бұрын
Open tolit
@colinevans39
6 ай бұрын
Wow what a frightening dump it is now 😤😤
@eljonno69
3 ай бұрын
Not a zombie in sight
@chriscallaghan2847
9 жыл бұрын
Great share Colin.
@antoniochianese5910
3 жыл бұрын
I’ve imagined like that but now with all the roadmans selling weed surrounded by all them flowers
@JM-bo7ko
21 күн бұрын
Whoever got rid of this should be in jail. Every year there is public outcry for Piccadilly gardens to change and a demand for a cleanup yet nothing ever changes. Drug dealers allowed to deal in plain sights, absolute ferals walking around intimidating people. It’s a joke!
@dunningkruger4098
Жыл бұрын
Is this shot on positive or negative film please? Also I was wondering if you think there's enough detail to the image to justify a 4K scan? Cheers
@colinains
Жыл бұрын
On a standard 8mm camera. No idea what a 4k scan is. The positive is all I have, and was transferred to video in a professional studio by a BBC broadcast engineer, so I think he did the best job there is.
@dunningkruger4098
Жыл бұрын
@@colinains Do you still have the film? I can't afford it at the minute but I would be willing to send the funds for another higher resolution transfer.
@keithwalsh7191
3 жыл бұрын
Keith walsh there 1960s
@paulholland5270
2 жыл бұрын
I was there in the 1760s even better back then looked more like a farmers field with just a few wooden sheds 😝😋😜😛😉😛🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@stephengoodwin6994
6 ай бұрын
It looked like this in the early 1960ies when I was a kid. It’s an ugly disgrace now.
@alantebb9160
3 ай бұрын
Where's all the Deliveroo riders ?
@T-19-
3 ай бұрын
Outside Primark
@Slayer-xc1ug
3 жыл бұрын
Why they changed from this to how it is now I'll never know. Clueless clowns at the council no doubt. Somebody was probably offended by all the flowers. 😠
@user-yd4mx8lq4b
5 ай бұрын
and look at the absolute state it is today. Disgrace.
@jeanjones6539
9 жыл бұрын
Fab
@paulwright9749
5 ай бұрын
It’s not like that now, and you all know why!
@jameswebb6289
3 ай бұрын
Underfunding from you know who?
@mrsbirf
7 ай бұрын
What a disgusting mess it is now.
@birdyedits4051
5 жыл бұрын
And now it is a bullshit
@robdegoyim4023
2 ай бұрын
What a wasteland, doesn’t even have anywhere to buy spice
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