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I'm just a few days short of my 78th birthday now living in Australia for the past 59 years, this certainly evokes fond memories of my time in Ashton

Thank you so much for sharing these memories.

At 2 minutes 14 seconds is that Whiteacre Road?

Did i see stamford park and botanical gardens then?

This country has sadly gone to the dogs now. Great upload.

Amazing scenes. Please post more! Thank you for these.

Great memories, I’d have been Two years old.

A lovely reminder of my time living in Ashton and being at the Salvation army In the brownies and guides in the 1950's and 60's I am 74yrs old but still remember it as if it was yesterday. It's a shame that churches have been depleted over the years. Thank you for posting.

Manchester regiment as escort

I wish it was still like that

Collyhurst past whit walks 1960 1970s

Haha I’ve just found my mother in law pushing the wife in a pram in 1967. St. James Church. Cowhill Lane

In the days of Ashton being a proud community. How nice to see this being a 50s kid. Tameside was definitely a downfall for the lovely local areas. How the memories came back, people were really coming out to see the scholars walk and running out to give them money.

Great to see images of St James' Junior and Primary schools. Spotted Mr Ken Lee's green Austin A40 parked outside the railings, as usual in those days!

I spent many, many summers in Stamford Park, great memories

Oh wow, footage from Woodhead, that's just sensational 👍👍

Wow, what brilliant footage 👏

That looks like St James' Primary School near the start. And some brilliant footage of Heyrod chimneys being demolished; mad to think that what's left of that overhead gantry thing on the right of the screen is actually still there too. Thanks for the upload 👍👍

I lived there 17 years. Happiest time of my life. God bless, I’m 54, now and I remember it this way. X

Think I’ll have to return to my roots

Fantastic

The good old days

Living next door Alice well played .

Nearly 60 years ago in Ashton. I thought it was The Black School on Queen's Road at first (my old school) but then realised it must be St James on Romney St. Notice how the buildings had turned black from all the smoke in the air - people's lungs must have been similar, no wonder so much illness! Very nostalgic and what must have been an extensive (and expensive) library of 8mm cine. Would love to have a running list of locations etc if that had been possible. 6:40 corner of Melbourne St Sth and Lennox Street, house and cobbles are still there on Google Maps. www.google.com/maps/@53.4918759,-2.0906381,3a,75y,30.8h,84.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syoeXagebBpasS7IrpRiJAw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

Excellent ,how Gorton and Openshaw once was 😊

Tulip Sunday in Stamford park! Magnificent.

Early 50's I'd say, perhaps 53? Fair tugged at my heart strings, Gorton & Openshaw was my local station, and I was to see lots of it when I started on the railway!

Congratulations to whoever has put this amazing film footage together - a valuable record of what was once a ibrant town before it became deindustrialised and subsumed into the administrative convenience which was 'Tameside' The recording of the Mayor making of Councillor Percy Travis from the ?mid/late 60s is particularly poignant. I knew Percy in his later years. He became the first Leader of Tameside Council and subsequently Mayor of Tameside. He worked at Platt's in Oldham as an engineer. A man of integrity who represented and safeguarded eminently the interests of local people and the Labour Party for many years. Jack Reece.

This is fantastic! Does anybody know what year it's from?

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Brilliant pieces of history..........................

A lake and a park created by a ridiculously wealthy baron....ensuring his name will last forever....😢😢😢

Classic thanks

Top class thanks