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WOW, where do I start. First of all, thanks Bert for putting all the work into this somewhat emotional video. I used to play with my friend the licences son Peter Hanvey (who followed his brother to Canada in the sixties) in the Rose & Crown (Gore Street) as kids do while the pubs closed, and then the Hanveys moved to the Haxby which was twice the size! My first pint in a pub, (at 15) was in the Nelson on my way home from work, the Nelson and the Vale both became my locals when I started legally drinking. Gladys, the landlady at the Cotton Tree became a friend when I used to service some equipment there. The Royal Oak was me and my dads local in my teens and early twenties, and that is where I met a lass from a visiting ladies darts team from Stockport. We’ve been together now for 51 years so it was nothing to do with her father being a Boddies landlord! Just realised that most of my life revolved around pubs

Also, where the gravestone lies currently - opposite the cottage with the 1792 plaque - is the garden of the old farmhouse which was owned by the Betts family in the early 1970s. It was fenced and gated before the farm was demolished. The gate was between 2 hawthorn trees opposite No 52.

Having grown up on Far Lane, I found this really interesting. As a child in the 1970s, my sister, our friends and I often played in the overgrown cottage garden of James Barlow’s house and I remember the grave well. The house was at the top of Ryder Brow to the right of the Spurley Hey school gates on the end of a row of cottages. According to local legend, the house was believed to be haunted. Opposite was an old farmhouse and several other lovely old properties which were all demolished to create “green belt” land in the 1970s. The gravestone was at some point removed from the actual burial site and replaced further down the Brow to - if I remember rightly - a spot that was made into a public garden area. I remember the guy who moved it feeling very uneasy about moving it and having some kind of accident with the fork lift truck he was using, leaving him really shaken up. I wonder if the original - now unmarked - grave was left undisturbed?

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moved up to bredbury in 65 ,i was 7 at the time ,all i remember about chorlton on medlock was playing out all the time like any other kid in the bombed houses ,we had it rough like everyone else did ,as a kid you knew no different ,but when we moved to bredbury ,wow fields galore ,inside toilet ,a bath ,your own bedroom ,and we were still poor as a church mouse but we got on with it ,survived and to an extent prospered .

My dad had the Duke of York me my future wife Carole there. Had first drink in Bessemer was 15 Yrs

My dad had the Duke of York Cross Lane and met Carole my future wife in there, Had my first drink in the Bessemer half of Mild I was 15yrs

Leesy from gorton me and the lads used to drink at the railway pub on Chapman Street gorton the gardeners we had a laugh in those days 😅

Fantastic. Reminds of the inner city streets of Nottingham in the 1970s.

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The plough still there

Brilliant photos Bert - coming from Longsight we - friends & family & school learnt how to swim here and we spent many school holidays in pool 1 and 3 . its a fantastic building that looks well preserved

openshaw lad here born in store street 1960, i fell in that canal a few time collecting sticklebacks. then down to ancoats for a tetanus needle.

Hello, the unplaced pub at 9;16 is the Star Inn on Pottery Lane between Ashburys station and Ashton Old Road, exactly opposite Crossleys Engineering works .I enjoy all your posts -A Clowes St. lad born in 1946.

it's a different place now, i wouldn't let my rottweiler out around there.

it wasn't a slum clearance, it was the biggest property grab across the country, people forced into social housing, knocking family's down the prospect ladder once again throughout history.

The photo at 1:10, where was this/now?

We were spoilt back then. Where did all the fun go?

Thanks so much for sharing. I was brought up on openshaw village from the early 80s. And knew the path as the yellow brick road. At 3.35 in looks like clayton in the background. I also remember the stonewall that went around.

My auntie, who turned out to be my gran, (another story) was moved from a 2up down in Salford to a 23 story block of flats. Her hubby ended up in a mental institution and her next-door neighbour, a large woman, was in the same block but soon managed to jump from the 11th floor to her death. This was how such drastic change after growing up in a different environment, must have affected many folk. 😢

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I remember the aces pub west gorton landlord was Ged

I forgot to mention I used to go in the Cotton Tree back in the 1970's think the landlord was a George Hammer.

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So many pubs in such a small area the Gorton of 2024 looks nothing like this now.

This is great .i live near vana street school and attended it in the 80s. I walk over that aqueduct over the train tracks nearly every day. I always wonder how it looked back then. Thanks for posting😊😊

Shane ward was from there, oh, and Myra Hyndley and ian Brady.

One of Ian brady and myra hindleys victims is burried in their Pauline reed

Under the waggon and horses pub .. no idea if still their on hyde road , but it used to be Manchesters Main morturay mourge

My Aunt used to live on far lane , and the sink was poraceline With a date on it of 1928 she's dead now , but remember for it's age been very well built , i live in Norfolk now , but hear Gorton as suffered massive decline

They flagged it in the late 1970s , which got stolen, so they had shale over it. As kids we called it the Yellow Brick Road. 😂

Great video

Moved from ardwick in 67 to hattersley as a baby ❤

Just imagine if these houses had been given decent heating and plumbing rather than pulling them down. Breaks my heart to what we have lost.

Brought back a lot of memories playing round that area in the forties and fifties when kids were safe to roam. Sunny Brow Park seemed a magical place and walking down Far Lane in autumn when the fallen leaves were ankle high, yes Gorton was a wonderful place to grow up. Left to live in lincolnshire in !967, but I know Gorton will never be the same again.

Born and brought up in Oakfield Grove Gorton, I think the Plough is still there but most of the pubs have gone. I remember one on Hyde road called the Bee Hive, but the one i spent most time in was the Cheshire Hunt.

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The vale cottage where we our courting

Slums got knocked down in north Manchester - ( Where my family are from ) We got Moved to south Manchester = Hulme = The Worst Slum In the world

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Brilliant video in all aspects....wow how id love it to be like that again ...even though i was a nipper sat in car with a bottle of coke and pack of crisp were some of my best times ❤

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Youngest of 11. Lived on Bradford Rd in 2 up n 2down until we moved when i 4 to a brand new 5-bedroom House in West Gorton. Bathroom & 2 toilets, thought it was a palace. Then things changed, ended up back in 2up2down of Hyde RD. Back to no bath, toilet outside again, make shift kitchenette as me Mam called it. Then belle Vue st. Times were hard back then, but I'm glad I grew up in the 60/70s. Once again brilliant vid.

God, a lot of memories. Grew up in & around Gorton/ West Gorton. Great pub crawl. Lived next to the Gorton Brook. Brilliant Vid.

My Cousin Nora Taylor was landlady of the Royal Oak in the 90s.