Hi two points sir. It's featherstall road not featherall lol and the test tube baby was born in the next room to my daughter in maternity at boundary park. We needed passes to get to our own wives. Past the press. What a carry on. But great film sir.
@brizzyoz2462
Жыл бұрын
Left over 40 years ago to see what life was like elsewhere... it's a lot better down under 😅don't let nostalgia trick you... it's a shit hole.
@fy1755
2 жыл бұрын
My mother worked at the dawn Mill she loved it
@paulinehalkyard9312
2 жыл бұрын
Just watched this again one year on brilliant.
@richardhewitt1648
2 жыл бұрын
I am sad my dad is not here. I would have loved for him to see this and listen when he might say I know that street or I went there. He said when he went up through India on the way to Burma during the war he went into a factory and saw Platts of Oldham on the side of a machine. He said that was the start of the end. RIP Harry. Ric from Oz. 🇦🇺👍
@mrmyorky5634
2 жыл бұрын
Even better than Part 1. I was born in Oldham in 1946. I started work at Platt Brothers and saw the inside of many cotton mills. They may have been Dark Satanic Mills in their earlier years, but I remember them as being full of happy hardworking people. The Royd Mill at the bottom of Chamber Road was the first Cotton Mill I worked at and on payday there was a board with numbered holes on it by the Security Lodge exit. All the individual wages (in cash) were left here in little tins that looked like tea caddy's and each one had an employees name on it. There was very little security and each person simply picked up their own tin from off the board, took out the money, and dropped the empty tin into a basket on the way out.
@paulinehalkyard9312
3 жыл бұрын
Great video well done.
@petermaher9789
3 жыл бұрын
So racist!!! Not a Black face anywhere to be seen! All those White People with their White Privilege. Disgraceful. ;) Great Video.
@peterwestcott3475
4 жыл бұрын
Slavery here in the UK
@andrewkitchenuk
2 жыл бұрын
Rubbish.
@peterwestcott3475
4 жыл бұрын
Are these the fabled satanic mills?
@andrewkitchenuk
2 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@doffer1463
4 жыл бұрын
That wasn't Oldham Rugby's training ground!
@1kerednotsobig
4 жыл бұрын
Oldham, my dirty old town. Miss it
@davidclarke6718
4 жыл бұрын
Best move I ever made getting out of that town absolutely terrible place .
@davidclarke6718
3 жыл бұрын
@@yvonnedesmond6053 no
@andrewkitchenuk
2 жыл бұрын
Yep, left on my 16th birthday in 1966. Could see the way it was going.
@lablackzed
Жыл бұрын
@@andrewkitchenuk Same here joined the army came back 1972 stayed 1 year then moved to Spain never look back Oldham is gone destroyed by labour and a huge influx of you know who .
@pommyjohn
5 жыл бұрын
Wonder if we are related I'm John Walkden also born in Oldham now in New Zealand
@Jack-hy1zq
5 жыл бұрын
I'm in Republic of Ireland homesick for my dirty old oldham😊
@r8rapid212
5 жыл бұрын
Was dirty now its clean and brown and very proud fuck chuchill
@nobbytang
6 жыл бұрын
Oldham ...was. Now oldhamistan
@paulinehalkyard9312
3 жыл бұрын
How true.
@lablackzed
Жыл бұрын
@@paulinehalkyard9312 Rate its going you will feel like a dot on a domino so an old mate told me.😂
@michaelroebuck2011
7 жыл бұрын
Attended St.Pats & St. Marys. played rugby for both. started working at Ferranti Hollinwood 1956. with George Layham, Alan Jackson , Ken Hatton. Left went to Tweeddale & Smalley, then to Platt Brothers. worked with Wally walker, Don Drinkwater. Had some laughs and plenty of good night in the Odd House, Bulls Head, Three Crowns. Listons Bar , The Canal Pub , Post Office Club, Belle Vue . Played Rugby are Keb Lane with a great bunch of guys. / hooligans perhaps , Mick Kirwan, , Mel Ashton, George Lytham, Brian Diffley , Tony Purtil, Had some wonderful times.Left it far behind went to Jersey for a couple of years then to South Africa. Moved to Malawi, Zambia , Rhodesia, Kenya , Botswana, Swaziland now back in South Africa. Been back to visit a couple of times but could never return. My life is in Africa with wife , sons & 5:wonderful grandchildren. I love Africa it's in my blood & soul. Seed was planted by Ken Martin History Teacher at Marys with his lessons of the Zulu Wars & Boar Wars. My Great Grand Father had fought in those so I was drawn to this beautiful land . I will have my ashes scattered in the Park I Love " Pilainesburg " at peace with God and his creations. With the love of my life Trevlyn .Amen.
@alanwalkden3609
7 жыл бұрын
Michael . Thanks for your letter , well done . you have a great life. but never forget your roots,. Regards , Alan Walkden
@tonysmith9817
6 жыл бұрын
Michael Roebuck i wonder if you new my dad and his twin brother they both worked at ferranti...ted smith...fred smith...
@davidturner483
3 жыл бұрын
Used to drink with you Mick Dave Turner i live in Australia now good to see you are going well.
@jasonbarton2136
3 жыл бұрын
Wow nice story
@bruceburns1672
7 жыл бұрын
The entire English speaking world has now degenerated into a Neo Marxist social experiment where the only important issues are what the SJW's deem important , Gay Marriage you know riveting issues like that , issues that you can really build a community on like mass immigration from third world countries that all the incomers end up on welfare for decades , this morning I had a friend tell me he bought a new car , so I said to him which Asian country did you give your money too as in Australia now the industry is all but shut down like everything as we just now dig holes of everything we have with minerals and import every single manufactured article you can imagine , just like Britain we now import our trains from India and China , we have sold off all the electricity assets to the Asians , along with all our minerals which are now 80% foreign owned , million s sit on the dole while European backpackers pick our fruit and vegetables because the Australians cant be bothered as they are to tired from all the Ice and alcohol , and so life continues on in Australia as the Indians and Chinese now pour in in the millions , such is life in a Neo Marxist social experiment , thank you Labor Party .
@tohellorbarbados4902
4 жыл бұрын
That's capitalism you arse...
@pristineclean977
7 жыл бұрын
Great video I would love to go back to them days would be so interesting
@trucktalkvideos
7 жыл бұрын
Oldham my great old town...
@lbam4487
7 жыл бұрын
Its dirty now, full of the umentionables
@tohellorbarbados4902
4 жыл бұрын
No, umentionthem... please...
@Dr23rippa
7 жыл бұрын
Still the same just different times. Less mills... More Mc Donald's.
@lomaxx83
8 жыл бұрын
dirty old town but our dirty old town. grew up there then moved away at age 9. my grandparents would be ashamed of the place now. but still a few hardworking honest people. salt of the earth.
@peterhanlon8324
8 жыл бұрын
Came across and loved it. Brought back memoriesAlso clarified what I think of areaDirty town but the honest working class best people in the worldLike or not it's our heritageMost solid thing from my upbringing
@sharonhinkley3489
9 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your insight into Oldhem, then and now. My grandfather was born in Oldham but moved to the USA with his family around 1865. Now that I know more of Oldham's history it appears that it was about the time the mills were in hardship due to America's civil war and the inability to get cotton. I am thankful that my great grandfather moved his family so his children did not have to experience the hardships of working with coal or in a mill factory. Instead they were able to breath fresh air in central Illinois farmland. I would love to know more about Oldham and hope to visit there someday. My granddaughter is going to attend Edge Hall University in Ormskirk for the 2016-2017 school year. I hope to visit you sometime then, Feel free to contact me I am on facebook. Sharon Hinkley
@alanwalkden3609
9 жыл бұрын
Sharon Hinkley Thanks Sharon, for your comments , You come from good stock. God bless America. Alan xx
@tonysmith9817
6 жыл бұрын
Sharon Hinkley ....good morning...there is lot's of sharon hinkley's on facebook...
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