Good video! This wasn't the Arndale Centre bus station though, this was Cannon Street. The Arndale bus station was underground, just off camera to the left of the central reservation. It was closed after the IRA bomb in 1996 and never re-opened.
This isn't the arndale bus station. This was cannon street where all the buses were moved to after the bomb. The Arndale bus station was a fume fill cess in the bowels of the shopping centre! It was roughly where the birdcage nightclub is now!
I remember the Arndale bus station very well, you couldn't avoid all the pollution coming out from the diesel buses. The only thing now that can show any evidence of the station would be where veichles still use the same exit to access the arndale (not the official carpark for everyday visitors) that the buses used to use at the back where sudehill is situated just before the birdcage.
If your standing in the triangle area at the front of the arndale it was where the big glass entrance is now with next on your left. All the North end of the arndale was demolished after the bomb
A communist built design by the looks of it, it's boxy but with an extremely "I don't give a crap" style of air vent at the back, which was probably letting out smells worse than a burning landfill site
@@emilypowell1405 I think I found out what that was since I wrote that. I think it was an Alexander bodied Volvo B10L, there were a few in Birmingham that had radiator vents more like the common B10L's & later B10B's. They must have been outsold by Volvo B10M's with Alexander PS body as well as Alexander Strider and Wright Renown bodied B10B's. This is one of the later ones in Birmingham www.flickr.com/photos/john-s-91/6220631657
Between Corporation Street and the High Street. An extension to the Arndale Centre took its place. The junction with Corporation Street was where the big main entrance now is opposite that new tram station.
I didn’t start visiting Manchester until 2008, but when I found a picture of this, I was like “wtf?” My initial thought was that it looked like a 60s swimming bath. I think the centre even earnt the nickname of Britain’s longest toilet wall.
I'd like to see footage of the inside of the arndale back then.
Good video! This wasn't the Arndale Centre bus station though, this was Cannon Street. The Arndale bus station was underground, just off camera to the left of the central reservation. It was closed after the IRA bomb in 1996 and never re-opened.
I can only IMAGINE how toxic that air was. Imagine the ACTUAL Arndale bus station - the indoor one.
Pat Murphy, i was an inspector for first Manchester, we had buses in the arndale station and on cannon street, great days.
I was a driver at queens road started in 1992. I remember you pat. And your craig. You are a dubliner I seem too remember. A lively irish guy🇮🇪
This isn't the arndale bus station. This was cannon street where all the buses were moved to after the bomb. The Arndale bus station was a fume fill cess in the bowels of the shopping centre! It was roughly where the birdcage nightclub is now!
I don’t think this is where buses were moved after the bomb.
Cannon Street always had a really weird warm fishy smell that wafted up from the underground market
LOL! At 2:35, did the bus driver wave at the camera?
I remember the Arndale bus station very well, you couldn't avoid all the pollution coming out from the diesel buses. The only thing now that can show any evidence of the station would be where veichles still use the same exit to access the arndale (not the official carpark for everyday visitors) that the buses used to use at the back where sudehill is situated just before the birdcage.
I always look out for myself in vids like this. Not seen a historical me in one yet, it would be interesting!
Arndale... bus station?
@ThePostlethwaite Yes, I know. Sadly, Cannon Street is no more!
Wow, this brings back memories from when i was 10. Great vid 5*
@mistofoles the arndale now covers this road
Call me soppy in my old age but nice little wave from the driver.....
Where was this in comparison to where Arndale shopping centre is now?
If your standing in the triangle area at the front of the arndale it was where the big glass entrance is now with next on your left.
All the North end of the arndale was demolished after the bomb
@@leerobinson6781 Wow, this has changed a lot. Wasn't this after the bomb though?
@@emilypowell1405 Yes, 7 years later.
What was that at 2:59?
A communist built design by the looks of it, it's boxy but with an extremely "I don't give a crap" style of air vent at the back, which was probably letting out smells worse than a burning landfill site
@@emilypowell1405 I think I found out what that was since I wrote that. I think it was an Alexander bodied Volvo B10L, there were a few in Birmingham that had radiator vents more like the common B10L's & later B10B's. They must have been outsold by Volvo B10M's with Alexander PS body as well as Alexander Strider and Wright Renown bodied B10B's.
This is one of the later ones in Birmingham www.flickr.com/photos/john-s-91/6220631657
@stevealston185 Is it hell. There isnt one anymore. You have Shudehill and Piccadilly n thats it! :P
I can't place this. I was too young to remember, but I don't recognize the street.
Between Corporation Street and the High Street. An extension to the Arndale Centre took its place.
The junction with Corporation Street was where the big main entrance now is opposite that new tram station.
@@leicestertravels4705 Thank you. 😊
This must be sooooo old now
Memories
Possible gone for the better dosnt seem to be many passengers
Not an atlantean in sight. 😭😢
Voted the dirtiest street in Britain. And I'm sure it was. The air was like diesel. Very unhealthy.
I didn’t start visiting Manchester until 2008, but when I found a picture of this, I was like “wtf?” My initial thought was that it looked like a 60s swimming bath. I think the centre even earnt the nickname of Britain’s longest toilet wall.