I remember wythenshawe in the 60's,left in 1970, but this brought back memories. My playground was where the M56 now runs through. My beloved ' "Nana"" lived on Greatfield Road. It was to me, a heavenly place for kids to play. Thank you
Hand the film to Manchester uni and ask them to remaster it, this needs to be preserved and enhanced, far too little of Wythenshawe's happy past remains
Great film and thanks for putting it altogether. I first went to live in Wythenshawe when i was 6 in 1958 . My playground was when they were building Civic Centre. This has brought back lots of good memories. Well done.
Great film of Wythenshawe ! Really enjoyed remembering how it used to be ! Especially the Golden Garter as i worked as a waitress there in 1970 - 1971 , great times and saw all the top acts including Roy Orbison !
Thanks for posting, the only thing I regret about growing up in Wivvy in the 70s was that we didn't have the tech (video cams etc) we have now, 60s & 70s were the best eras for W/Shawe , I'm still here though ;)
Oh wow, I've come here after it's been shared to a group on Facebook called Wythenshawe 1 😄 I absolutely love this, it was filmed a little before my time but I have always wanted to see some old footage of my hometown. Thank you to the creators and sharers 🙌
Grew up in Benchill, Broadoak Rd, had some great times with all the lads from Broadoak Rd going to the Airport, brings tears to my eyes watching this, don't live round there know.
I learnt to swim in the small pool at the Forum swimming baths...couldn't believe it when I saw it here. We loved going there...and to the library...First began reading Enid Blyton books from there. Long ago memories.
The estate was built on former farms and agricultural land. In the 60s you could still see the remains of ponds and streams. For some children coming from slum housing this was a green paradise.
Wow. For someone who grew up in wythenshawe and likes Roxy music, this is a brilliant video. theres things on here I never thought I'd see again, like the Adventure playground (still have a scar on my knee from there) The woods (not been there since 82) the turnstile at the baths at the forum. The inside of Sharston baths. Thanks for posting. You've brought back fantastic memories.
Loved seeing the paddle boats, we loved those boats. this was our park just around the corner from our home. My sister worked at the Golden Garter for a short time and Sharston baths, brilliant memories bought back...along with a bit of Roxy music.
Pictures Northernden great memories. On Saturday you said you were 12 on the bus to get half fare, then said you were 18 to get into see the Hammer House of Horror specials, then you were 18 again in the pubs down the way and finally back to 12 for the bus home. Never forget the Airport Hotel at end of the runway. Dad took me in there for a treat on my 16th Birthday only for barman to ask if I wanted my usual pint.
Give me such an Weird feeling looking back at some of the things i remember as a kid from these videos holyhedge shops looked way better back then haha thanks for bringing back the good memories
We lived at Moat Road and used to go to holly hedge shops on our bikes with sixpence burning holes in our pockets. Lovely to have such fond memories growing up there.
I’m an 80’s kid but my 2 sisters grew up in the 70’s. I don’t live there now but wow the memories seeing this video!! I wouldn’t be surprised if my sisters were in this video somewhere
When I think of Wythenshawe in the 70s I automatically think of the "war wagon" and Tony O' wrecking the market towns of England!!! I live further up Palatine rd in Didsbury now!! Love the Roxy music !!
I assume you're talking about Tony O'Neil? He wrote a book about his exploits. I remember the book shop in Manchester had a little card where the book used to show saying "This book is the most thieved in the library." - just to let you know how popular it was. Who'd've thought it?
This is amazing thank you for sharing it, Hollyhedge is a shell of what it used to be, all the things that made it great have changed or gone, it was so family friendly, a job for everyone, Then slowly they/Government.... Took it all away, and blamed the people, causing a divide and separation. But it's where the biggest of all ❤️❤️❤️ are found xx
01:35 Edwards Court, Birch Tree Court and the two where Wilkinsons ect are now...Violet Cout and Park Court which were both demolished in 2007! Loved watching this video!!
Looks like they had a really exciting life in those days, playing football and putting windows in. I bet the rest of their lives was equally as memorable and interesting.😵
@@garycross2741 Don't remember Tranter, but I know Fahey was in there now and again. I knew a lot of people who drank in there, mainly 80's but some had been going in there for years.
Thanks for the vid! I always wondered what happened to all the "boot boys"? You used to see MUFC or MCFC Boot boys sprayed on walls. I swam (and peed) in Sharston Baths many times with school and also with my dad and brothers.
Wythenshawe has changed for the worse. I am glad I have had the chance to see what Wythenshawe was like 26 years before I was born. I was suprised that so much of it is the same but I do wish I had gotten to see things like that big old red bus, sharston baths, theatre at the forum, the golden garter and the lake in painswick park :(
Sharston dungeon you get nowt to eat, a bit o bread and butter once or twice a week. And sometimes if you're lucky, You get a jam butty, Sharston dungeon we get nowt to eat.
l heard my name mentioned (dave keogh) during the airport scenes, l feel famous...well almost.l am still here not been to airport for a while must go back to see those fire engines as the lad said.
You maybe interested in an article about this film at Wythenshawe Forums Website, it won't let me put a link up but if you search for it, it should show in the results.
Sharston baths was a top laugh. As a Northenden boy, going for guitar lessons after school wearing short shorts and carrying a guitar was pretty scary. You know what, you do need to work out how to not show intimidation in life so useful. My Mum and Dad live in Sharston these days and I have to say Civic is a lot less scary now.
@@garycross2741 it may not have been as rough as I thought, but the streets were always full of kids playing out, which they are not now, and if they didn't know you they did like to give you grief or offer to fight you. I suppose it is the other side of the coin of it being a much more sociable time.
Bloody hell...blast from the past..Hi Andy, still playing? I remember jamming with you in the woods once near Benchill rd. I was about 12 and just learning guitar. You knew our kid, Ian S. from Benchill rd.
We helped make six canoes at Oldwood School which we would take over to Painswick Park lake once a fortnight. Wythenshawe was originally Homes for Heroes, like my dad just coming back from fighting the Natzis. Now they're homes for scrotes.
Liked the video. But had a problem hearing what you were saying. No I don't have a hearing problem Just wished you could have been a bit louder. Part from that top video
Wythenshawe in the 70s was a great place to live , then came the unemployment and the drugs and the underage mums and then it became a massive shit hole. Then came the trams and the yuppies are buying the council houses and making it nice again , hopefully
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Blimey, what a blast from the past, my old stomping ground, such memories of my good years in wythenshawe, thankyou for this video.
What a great film, so many memories.
I remember wythenshawe in the 60's,left in 1970, but this brought back memories. My playground was where the M56 now runs through. My beloved ' "Nana"" lived on Greatfield Road. It was to me, a heavenly place for kids to play. Thank you
Hand the film to Manchester uni and ask them to remaster it, this needs to be preserved and enhanced, far too little of Wythenshawe's happy past remains
urbanmanc What a great idea, l was brought up in Whythenshawe shame it has changed the way it has
Great film and thanks for putting it altogether. I first went to live in Wythenshawe when i was 6 in 1958 . My playground was when they were building Civic Centre. This has brought back lots of good memories. Well done.
Great film of Wythenshawe ! Really enjoyed remembering how it used to be ! Especially the Golden Garter as i worked as a waitress there in 1970 - 1971 , great times and saw all the top acts including Roy Orbison !
Some pretty big names played the Golden Garter! 🖒
Did u know my mum Eileen....Carol Webster, ciggy kiosk.
Absolutely brilliant film, memory's come flooding back, thanks guys for sharing.
Thanks for posting, the only thing I regret about growing up in Wivvy in the 70s was that we didn't have the tech (video cams etc) we have now, 60s & 70s were the best eras for W/Shawe , I'm still here though ;)
Oh wow, I've come here after it's been shared to a group on Facebook called Wythenshawe 1 😄 I absolutely love this, it was filmed a little before my time but I have always wanted to see some old footage of my hometown. Thank you to the creators and sharers 🙌
Great film. Lots of memories. I was in the same class at All Hallows as a couple of the lads who made this film
Grew up in Benchill, Broadoak Rd, had some great times with all the lads from Broadoak Rd going to the Airport, brings tears to my eyes watching this, don't live round there know.
Couldn't agree more Gary.....something about Wythenshawe, at least then.
Same here went to haverley hey. Good times
I learnt to swim in the small pool at the Forum swimming baths...couldn't believe it when I saw it here. We loved going there...and to the library...First began reading Enid Blyton books from there. Long ago memories.
The estate was built on former farms and agricultural land. In the 60s you could still see the remains of ponds and streams. For some children coming from slum housing this was a green paradise.
Wow. For someone who grew up in wythenshawe and likes Roxy music, this is a brilliant video. theres things on here I never thought I'd see again, like the Adventure playground (still have a scar on my knee from there) The woods (not been there since 82) the turnstile at the baths at the forum. The inside of Sharston baths. Thanks for posting. You've brought back fantastic memories.
Was a guy called Peter Tranter around them days.
Yeah his local was the Benchill pub. Nice guy, but you would be a fool to cross him!
Loved seeing the paddle boats, we loved those boats. this was our park just around the corner from our home. My sister worked at the Golden Garter for a short time and Sharston baths, brilliant memories bought back...along with a bit of Roxy music.
Great video does anybody remember the dillamore family from brookcot Road?
Pictures Northernden great memories. On Saturday you said you were 12 on the bus to get half fare, then said you were 18 to get into see the Hammer House of Horror specials, then you were 18 again in the pubs down the way and finally back to 12 for the bus home. Never forget the Airport Hotel at end of the runway. Dad took me in there for a treat on my 16th Birthday only for barman to ask if I wanted my usual pint.
Ha ha.....very good/funny
omg wot an absolute gem of a film...so many memories..thanks for uploading this fantastic piece of local history.
Enjoyed your film immensely. Not many films or pictures of old Wythenshawe on the Internet
so great to find this!
Give me such an Weird feeling looking back at some of the things i remember as a kid from these videos holyhedge shops looked way better back then haha thanks for bringing back the good memories
We lived at Moat Road and used to go to holly hedge shops on our bikes with sixpence burning holes in our pockets. Lovely to have such fond memories growing up there.
great video bring back lots of memories good and bad
Liked the part at the airport we used to ride our bike's up and down the escalators
I’m an 80’s kid but my 2 sisters grew up in the 70’s. I don’t live there now but wow the memories seeing this video!! I wouldn’t be surprised if my sisters were in this video somewhere
When I think of Wythenshawe in the 70s I automatically think of the "war wagon" and Tony O' wrecking the market towns of England!!! I live further up Palatine rd in Didsbury now!! Love the Roxy music !!
I assume you're talking about Tony O'Neil? He wrote a book about his exploits. I remember the book shop in Manchester had a little card where the book used to show saying "This book is the most thieved in the library." - just to let you know how popular it was. Who'd've thought it?
Thanks for this, from a 70s wivvy boy.
great film so many memories , life guards checking your fingers at sharston baths , after you have been in there for an hour longer than you should :)
Love it! Born in Woodhoues park , Hatchet Rd , Born in the House! Good old days! :-)
Worked on the tray at the Garter! with big Greg! . Happy Day's!
I was born on Cornishway 👍😀. Happy, carefree days
Brilliant footage. Thanks for the upload :)
Thank you,so many memories
This is amazing thank you for sharing it, Hollyhedge is a shell of what it used to be, all the things that made it great have changed or gone, it was so family friendly, a job for everyone, Then slowly they/Government.... Took it all away, and blamed the people, causing a divide and separation. But it's where the biggest of all ❤️❤️❤️ are found xx
O.M.G.GOLDEN GARTER been there my sister worked there Mary Mclean we lived in Garth Road
My mum worked there too! 🖒
Wow I'm so glad I stumbled upon this really enjoyed watching that..a lot has changed round here since then but I think I prefer it back then lol...
I enjoyed Sharston Swimming pool, lived 2 minutes from it.
01:35
Edwards Court, Birch Tree Court and the two where Wilkinsons ect are now...Violet Cout and Park Court which were both demolished in 2007!
Loved watching this video!!
I am from Wythenshawe and it's
I just love the way the kids are wearing their old playing out clothes and not designer sports wear and trainers.
Great nostalgia - I was 14 in 1970 - I always found great things to do as long I avoided the skinheads - the decade that fashion forgot :-)
Looks like they had a really exciting life in those days, playing football and putting windows in. I bet the rest of their lives was equally as memorable and interesting.😵
I just spotted myself at 0.46 sat in the front of that mini bus and on the Street Life made by list of names.
My Dad was the Licensee at the Benchill pub in the early 70’s.
Was it a tough pub the Benchill heard it was.
Was you're dad Bernard Gallagher you're dad
Did Rob fahey and Pete tranter go in there the Benchill.
@Arc Light did Rob fahey And Peter Tranter go in there.
@@garycross2741 Don't remember Tranter, but I know Fahey was in there now and again. I knew a lot of people who drank in there, mainly 80's but some had been going in there for years.
My birth certificate says Manchester they missed off Wythenshawe 💙
21.46 sharston baths spent most of my life there friday night swimming from 1930 -2200 and went on to work there
Upto the age of 4, I lived in the flats on wendon road no 50
alan bell is in the crown and wanting some donations to be delivered😂😭
This Amazing
Civic centre i played there it was a field then and near by old maggies farm near ceders she had a pond went there for frog spawn
I worked at sharston pool and the new at civic, plus moss side,heathersage road and withington pool
My uncle Chris Sharpe started as a pool tendent, then went on to manage the place until he retired about 5 or 6 years ago! 🖒
Thanks for the vid!
I always wondered what happened to all the "boot boys"? You used to see MUFC or MCFC Boot boys sprayed on walls.
I swam (and peed) in Sharston Baths many times with school and also with my dad and brothers.
My god the old adventure playground! Lol
Yes james.....loads of laughs in that mad house....health and safety anyone ?....think an ambulance was on permanent standby.
fantastic video, would be nice to know if the 2 teenagers that made and narrated this video are still around
Does anyone remember from Robert fahy from Benchill, used to go in the Benchill pub in the 70s.
Wythenshawe has changed for the worse. I am glad I have had the chance to see what Wythenshawe was like 26 years before I was born. I was suprised that so much of it is the same but I do wish I had gotten to see things like that big old red bus, sharston baths, theatre at the forum, the golden garter and the lake in painswick park :(
Sharston dungeon you get nowt to eat, a bit o bread and butter once or twice a week. And sometimes if you're lucky, You get a jam butty, Sharston dungeon we get nowt to eat.
Great video and some brilliant memories! Do you have any old videos of Northenden?
l heard my name mentioned (dave keogh) during the airport scenes, l feel famous...well almost.l am still here not been to airport for a while must go back to see those fire engines as the lad said.
I think we were in the same class at All Hallows. A few names rang a bell to me..love the film
I was at all hallows l left in 74 to start work.@@karenlandy1
You maybe interested in an article about this film at Wythenshawe Forums Website, it won't let me put a link up but if you search for it, it should show in the results.
the pond in painswick is still there so go see it
Great film. Although I feel no nostalgia for the time I lived there (70-74). It was a depressing place.
16.45 is this the cornish man pub my brother had his wedding buffet there on bus route 103/106
dont forget the "104" special
And the 107 express to Manchester
@@kiwitintinscott Bloody ell the 107.....short lived I think ?
@Habu The 107 ran for quite a while and began its journey at the Airport.
@@kiwitintinscott Ah fair enough....happy days or is that nostalgia talking ? me Crossacres born in 63 and you ?
A.B.C. Northenden greate place A.B.C. Jouners next to farmers arms they were the days
Sharston baths was a top laugh. As a Northenden boy, going for guitar lessons after school wearing short shorts and carrying a guitar was pretty scary. You know what, you do need to work out how to not show intimidation in life so useful. My Mum and Dad live in Sharston these days and I have to say Civic is a lot less scary now.
Why was it rough Civic years ago.
@@garycross2741 it may not have been as rough as I thought, but the streets were always full of kids playing out, which they are not now, and if they didn't know you they did like to give you grief or offer to fight you. I suppose it is the other side of the coin of it being a much more sociable time.
Bloody hell...blast from the past..Hi Andy, still playing? I remember jamming with you in the woods once near Benchill rd. I was about 12 and just learning guitar. You knew our kid, Ian S. from Benchill rd.
@@garycross2741yep,and it always smelled of p*ss.
We helped make six canoes at Oldwood School which we would take over to Painswick Park lake once a fortnight. Wythenshawe was originally Homes for Heroes, like my dad just coming back from fighting the Natzis. Now they're homes for scrotes.
Liked the video. But had a problem hearing what you were saying. No I don't have a hearing problem
Just wished you could have been a bit louder. Part from that top video
fantastic vid, I think I seen my mum with arm round some dude!
can't find it.
pity there isnt similar of Benchill or Sharston
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Wytheshawe park fair
looks like crossacres play area
woodhouse park shops 3.30
Johnny marrs home
He's a 'wivviy' ! 🖒
I'm afraid not Bob.
Very depressing.
Wythenshawe in the 70s was a great place to live , then came the unemployment and the drugs and the underage mums and then it became a massive shit hole. Then came the trams and the yuppies are buying the council houses and making it nice again , hopefully
Way way too much traffic though....and by yuppies you mean people with jobs ?
AND NOT AN IMMIGRANT IN SIGHT,,,HAPPY DAYS