Absolutely wonderful I am almost 80 years old and I could not even begin to tell you how much pleasure it brings to see these old photos have not been back to Salford since the 1970,s but I can recall almost everywhere big thanks lovely job
I absolutely love these videos . Fill me with happiness. I have been searching for 1 old photo in particular. Inside "The Bridge" pub in salford, a little further around from the prince of wales. Spent most of my childhood in there with my late grandparents. Happy memories
I spent my first years in the 1950s near Ellor Street, first in Marple Street, then in Peel Street. Ellor Street was in easy walking distance, even for my five-year-old spindly legs. There was barber Dougies, where me and my Dad got our short-back-and-sides once a fortnight. Kemmy Cannon's, where we got the dog food for my beloved Brownie. The Cake Shop, where they had loose biscuits in big tins, measured out into paper bags, and weighed by the ounce. The toy shop, with treasured Dinky and Corgi model cars, bought by weekly "spends" saved up until pennies became shillings. The hardware shop, where my Dad bought wood and hardboard and tools, in the vain effort to make the old jerry-built terrassed house more liveable in. And there were our corner shops, Ella's, Tommy Cheadle's, with the sweet-smelling pine sawdust fresh daily on the floor, and Mr Cheedle (Tommy to the grown-ups) in his crisp brown jacket, Capstan cigarette always on the go, either under his golden brown moustache, between his golden brown fingers, or in the big ashtray on the counter. Tommy, managing the cheese, the boiled ham and bacon at the hand-turned slicer; tinned foods, packet foods, and the first ever BIC Biros I saw, a wonder that you could write real writing with, without all the mucky ink all over the place from the sticks with nibs to be dipped into ink-wells that the dreadful dark school insisted on. The BIC was and is a beautiful, light writing tool. All I use for writing until this day, 60+ years later. The tube of ink in the transparent six-sided pipe was/is honest and clear. And the unique smell of the ink. They were a bit pricey at 9d a time back then. My childhood home town was destroyed. Communities trashed and scattered. I belonged there. I have never belonged in any of the later places I have grown up and grown old in. It is only in my fading mind now.
The past is indeed a different country. I've lived in Salford and Trafford so the pictures are often places I know or thereabouts. Thanks for your hard work putting it together.
@ 0:33.. 'The Cattle Market Tavern in 1961'. My grandparents (George and Florence Holmes) were the licencees at that time. I lived there quite often and remember the whole area fondly. There were some great customers, from the likes of the market and the Ice-cream factory (Was it Walls or Lyons?).That's the first photo I've seen of 'The Tavern' apart from the ones I have myself.
Great pictures. I went to Salford Uni in the early to mid 1970s. shortly afterwards I worked for a year or so at a resin factory just off Great Clowes Street, next to Broughton Brdge and the River Irwell (I'm originally from Newton Heath, but lived for 17 years near Heaton Park). Sadly the factory suffered a massive explosion and fire in 1989, when two workers were killed and the factory was razed to the ground, it never reopened. BTW, it's Pomona Docks, to give it the correct spelling in your picture, Well done.
I went to the Temple Cinema many times. just off Bury Old Road. I'd say geography puts it in Cheetham, Manchester 8, rather than Salford, although admittedly it's only just over the border.
I lived in the Langworthy Estate in the 60s. Lived on Regent Road in Ordsall in the 70s. Lived in a few other places around Salford. They was all dumps
Many, many thanks for sharing xx
Absolutely wonderful I am almost 80 years old and I could not even begin to tell you how much pleasure
it brings to see these old photos have not been back to Salford since the 1970,s but I can recall almost everywhere
big thanks lovely job
Lovely collection dear !🎉
I absolutely love these videos . Fill me with happiness. I have been searching for 1 old photo in particular. Inside "The Bridge" pub in salford, a little further around from the prince of wales. Spent most of my childhood in there with my late grandparents. Happy memories
I spent my first years in the 1950s near Ellor Street, first in Marple Street, then in Peel Street. Ellor Street was in easy walking distance, even for my five-year-old spindly legs. There was barber Dougies, where me and my Dad got our short-back-and-sides once a fortnight. Kemmy Cannon's, where we got the dog food for my beloved Brownie. The Cake Shop, where they had loose biscuits in big tins, measured out into paper bags, and weighed by the ounce. The toy shop, with treasured Dinky and Corgi model cars, bought by weekly "spends" saved up until pennies became shillings. The hardware shop, where my Dad bought wood and hardboard and tools, in the vain effort to make the old jerry-built terrassed house more liveable in. And there were our corner shops, Ella's, Tommy Cheadle's, with the sweet-smelling pine sawdust fresh daily on the floor, and Mr Cheedle (Tommy to the grown-ups) in his crisp brown jacket, Capstan cigarette always on the go, either under his golden brown moustache, between his golden brown fingers, or in the big ashtray on the counter. Tommy, managing the cheese, the boiled ham and bacon at the hand-turned slicer; tinned foods, packet foods, and the first ever BIC Biros I saw, a wonder that you could write real writing with, without all the mucky ink all over the place from the sticks with nibs to be dipped into ink-wells that the dreadful dark school insisted on. The BIC was and is a beautiful, light writing tool. All I use for writing until this day, 60+ years later. The tube of ink in the transparent six-sided pipe was/is honest and clear. And the unique smell of the ink. They were a bit pricey at 9d a time back then. My childhood home town was destroyed. Communities trashed and scattered. I belonged there. I have never belonged in any of the later places I have grown up and grown old in. It is only in my fading mind now.
The past is indeed a different country. I've lived in Salford and Trafford so the pictures are often places I know or thereabouts. Thanks for your hard work putting it together.
@ 0:33.. 'The Cattle Market Tavern in 1961'. My grandparents (George and Florence Holmes) were the licencees at that time. I lived there quite often and remember the whole area fondly. There were some great customers, from the likes of the market and the Ice-cream factory (Was it Walls or Lyons?).That's the first photo I've seen of 'The Tavern' apart from the ones I have myself.
Thank you for the video’s love looking at them
I lived in Brighton st Ordsall until my teens.. rough but salt of the earth.. proud of my roots
Great pictures. I went to Salford Uni in the early to mid 1970s. shortly afterwards I worked for a year or so at a resin factory just off Great Clowes Street, next to Broughton Brdge and the River Irwell (I'm originally from Newton Heath, but lived for 17 years near Heaton Park). Sadly the factory suffered a massive explosion and fire in 1989, when two workers were killed and the factory was razed to the ground, it never reopened. BTW, it's Pomona Docks, to give it the correct spelling in your picture, Well done.
Correction here, Cheetham Hill Road, not Bury Old Road...I currently live just off Bury Old Road, but at the other end of it, at Besses, Whitefield
Yeah, the Temple pictures was on Cheetham Hill road. I lived very close by there as a kid.
You can see the spire of St Luke's church too.
I went to the Temple Cinema many times. just off Bury Old Road. I'd say geography puts it in Cheetham, Manchester 8, rather than Salford, although admittedly it's only just over the border.
I lived in the Langworthy Estate in the 60s. Lived on Regent Road in Ordsall in the 70s. Lived in a few other places around Salford. They was all dumps
Loved this video.