A Tour of Manchester Town Centre 1974
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Manchester city centre 1974
Let sleeping corpses Lie movie
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Born in Crumpsall Hospital in 1955, lived in old Ancoats, terraced slums with no electricity. Things had improved immensely by 74 and this looks like heaven to me, it’s like hell now.
The bus station looked better back then than it does now!
kottonmouthUK even then I hated the orange buses. Everyone knew buses should be red.
Their was 2 b4 the arndale opened,Victoria served north Mcr and Salford,Piccadilly served South Mcr,
We want our orange buses back.great upload.
GM buses
@@icekitty400 NO SELNEC Plus Greater Manchester was created in April that year
@@zenko247Yes, South East Lancashire North East Cheshire if memory serves me right.
I worked i manchester in the 70's .I never thought it was grim.More compact than London but we had many of the same shops,all thriving.public transport was great.20 minutes and you were in the countryside.
more compact would imply there being denser quarters...Montreal, e.g., is so compact a city for the continent because of being on islands along a mightily fertile valley
Wow so this is what my city looked like in the 70's, I vaguely remember the orange and white Greater Manchester buses, I noticed at the start of the clip a bus going to Tottington, Bury at the start. Really good film.
Manchester Corporation Transport buses were red (Salford's were green). The orange/cream buses were in SELNEC livery and that body came into being in 1974. I moved down to London in 1973 but came home often to watch United and visit family and friends.
The original feel and heart of Manchester has been ripped out, chopped and changed beyond recognition forever. Some of my elderly relatives used to be a dab-hand at finding their way to places, but with roads being blocked off, buildings knocked down or refurbed for something else they were screwed, they had to ask some students where things were and even some of them didn't know lol....
It's unrecognizable
And there no English peaple around
@@izaakdamon1979 what a load of bolllocks.
@@paulheap1982 have ya been? Tell ya all the white faces are slavs or irish
Its all looking abit Japan or China and it`s lit up at night like the Sun.
great times i remember them buses like it was yesterday
The biggest buses were the Mancunians, but there were many smaller older front engine Leylands and Daimlers still in use. Nearly all orange and white by 1974, but the odd Salford, Bury or SHMD in green, Manchester, Lancashire United, North Western, Oldham and Stockport in red, and Ashton and Rochdale in blue.
0:53 Covid ’74! Also looks like Alan Partridge walking in front!
Quality footage, I need to see this film.
Damn true son this guy was smart he knew covid was coming lmao 🤣
Born in St Mary’s Hospital 1974
Left Manchester at 8yrs old and returned 22yrs later.
I couldn’t live anywhere else now!
Greatest city in the world!!
#❤️MCR🐝
I remember town in the 70s chelsea girl stolen from lvor etc
Still were good old days, despite of its grim and pollution. No mobile phones while you driving.
My Manchester 😘
This is the start of the 1974 george grau film, living dead at the manchester morgue
The flats at Hulme, (just outside the town centre) were a crime against humanity.. There's some UA-cam footage somewhere from that era .
The year I was born. I didn't make it to Manchester until I was about 5 years old when my dad left the army. Today's Manchester isn't anything like it used to be. Sadly the heart of Manchester no longer beats. Way to many apartment blocks and way to many people.
ahh they were the days ! whats happened to piccadilly gardens now, its a disgrace
This is the intro to 'The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue'!! Great film
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_Sleeping_Corpses_Lie_(film)
Great bike the Norton.
1:31 I remember a great snooker store in the row of buildings on thef right hand side of Deansgate there.
Gene Hunt would've been knocking around here then :P
I was conceived there in Oct/Nov 1971. A Manc born and bred.
Cheers son....how u doin ?
I do miss the 70s Manchester but is a great city today!
It’s shite now, born in Ancoats in 55 and I remember when it was a proper English working city. Look what they have done to Piccadilly gardens, for example, it’s a concrete monstrosity full of bloody foreigners.
Fantastic. Really takes me back. Shame the proud City of Manchester is totally unrecognisable now and a shadow of its former self.
That’s your opinion and your entitled to it.
I live in M’CR and I see a diverse, culturally rich and unique city.
Times change, people change and so do places.
It’s about accepting that change for me personally.
I bet you can’t explain why you believe it’s a shadow of it’s former self.
I also can imagine what your referring to lol 😂
@@HGee420 I just feel it’s dirtier, full of druggies and lost its charm. The local council is a shambles the police are next to useless and it’s a concrete tomb. I feel you are trying to insinuate I’m opposed to other cultures and people of colour, if you are, you are sadly wrong my fellow Mancunian.
@@HGee420yes! Thank you this is exactly what I love about living in Manchester. While I love it’s recent history and such, I adore the diversity and the community.
Looks a dump in this film. It is spectacular now.
Mate, it was a scruffy hell hole back then. If that's what you want to live in, feel free to move to somewhere in the undeveloped world.
Manchester was grim in those days and was considered to be a dump - poor planning and architecture, so whatever they have done since is always a vast improvement (apart from the Arndale Centre). Interesting that Piccadilly bus station was actually a proper bus station back then - I remember it well - with a roof and a proper places to sit compared to a collection of exposed bus shelters on a badly deformed and potholed strip of tarmac.
I remember those old double decker tractor's, used to choke me as a kid being lead to the bus stop on Oxford road by my mother, handkerchief spit face washes are another memory .And I used to hear you don't know your born every time I sulked about something.
With the Norton motorcycle
I’d love a then and now if this
I'm going to put my orange mini-dress on and stand at the bus stop.
0.35 Columbo trying to avoid being recognised.
The music is more suited for us city in the ghetto love it
And to think Karl Pilkington was a toddler living in this city here.
Shaun & Paul Ryder were glueing pigeons to rooftops back then😁
0:21 You can't wait for a bus on Market Street anymore but farther up you can get on a tram.
Top music
It's funny that this film was deliberately trying to make the city look grim and yet it still looks a thousand times better than it does today.
But it doesn't...does it.
mate, do you need to go to Specsavers?
Hertz hire is around what was Cromford Court near the Arndale
Stopped going into Manchester 20 years ago since all the record shop's closed but in the 80's and 90's I was proud to call it my city. Great film BTW, saw it in the 90's and recognised most of it, certainly all the Manchester bit's as well as the Winnats pass. Quick Question though, I always thought the Chemist shown was on deansgate just up from Jilly's but after looking again am not sure, any ideas?
85 Bridge St.
@@tonykelzo8997 Thanks, yeah I can see it now on google maps
Remember the Market Centre? Pure class (if you was a teen or in your early 20's), with those South Asian radio stores which were just amazing - not forgetting 'STOLEN FROM IVOR' (!)
is this from a movie?
CITY centre..Not town centre....So very changed these days..THANK GOD..The 70's were vile....
@@TheBenson51Aye, going into town, never going into the city.
'SELNEC' Orange and white buses! dx
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Yes the classic 'Living dead at Manchester morgue' zombie film 🤣
..born in 1971 so spent many a year walking those streets, remember the Hertz rent a car on corner, and pretty much everything else!
Probably filmed a little earlier, as helmets became mandatory in June 1973.
Bikes an M reg so August 73 at the earliest.
Well cool
Wow
Looked like so many of Britain's cities back then. Scruffy, run down with industrial dereliction as far as the eye could see.
the only homeless then were sad old men with long beards and drink problems. no drug problems, no knife crime, no food banks. within 5 years came thatcher who did more damage than the Luftwaffe.
1 Min 23 Secs - Wasn't that Peter Sutcliffe the Yorkshire Ripper?
This is just a clip off a film, forget the name of it.
" living dead in a manchester morgue" aka " Let sleeping corpses lie"
no crash helmut .
Slight Soylent Green opening credits.😊
SELNEC busses.
Guy in the face mask.this is when the air was really bad greta darling.
Manchester is RED
Leyland atlantean buses
council culture
Spotted a mask!
Different.....
@0.50-1.00... I think it was a foot of s human bring👆
Living dead at the Manchester morgue.
Great film, every zombie fan needs to watch it
Gentrified city now , not my Manchester
Awful camera angles
It's off a film he's not done it himself. Living dead at the Manchester morgue
Its alot better today in 2017
No it isn't. Manchester used to have character and the beautiful Piccadilly Gardens, now it is a total dump.
@@tinahardman9805
There’s more to M’CR than Piccadilly Gardens!
Some of the most beautiful Architecture in Europe.
It’s full of cultural diversity different people from different places in one great city!
@@tinahardman9805total facts it's nothing like it was back years ago now
So what's with the white face masks at 0:35 and 0:52. Didn't know we had Covid-19 back then.
a lot of grim faces had to be Manchester sorry for you guys best move to Cornwall lol x
Are you Cornish? Because I notice a lot of nasty comments in newspapers, online, etc. from Cornish folk to Northerners, like that tosser Rory McGrath who cannot shut up about Manchester.
Is it an inferiority complex living in the poorest county of England with nothing to do but walk hills and go to tacky Newquay? Countryside? I much prefer the Peak District. You can keep your freezing surfing.
All part of living in a great modern, thriving, busy metropolis, where there is life, culture, music, fun, entertainment, great food, tourism, business, media, infrastructure, sports, manufacturing, travel, fashion, finance, opportunities, style, & things to do!!
@@leod-sigefast im manc born and bred,moved to cornwall 2018,Cornish can be clicky but they usually ok,its the Londoners who move here that are the pompous snobs,all money no class.
no need for sorry Manchester is a major international city today lot's to do and see Cornwall you must be joking go there and vegetate get old too soon
@@brianlingard7894 Totally agree Brian.
I have family who live in Cornwall so I visit often.
They always try to convince me to move down there but it’s like a flaming ghost town lad!!
😂
Manchester today is very multicultural catching up with London, back then Manchester was very White English
@TheBenson51 London has so many cultures, countries you have never heard of since the 60s ,London has been far more multicultural than the rest of the UK for the longest , other UK cities are changing but there is lot of racism and divisions in other uk cities outside of London. London is the first place immigrants come to first when they enter the UK.
There's also a lot of unity between cultures. Especially on TV, in music, football clubs, the NHS, workplaces, care homes, mixed race families etc. Let's not just highlight the bad. You're probably part of the, "multiculturalism doesn't work" brigade
@amgonnafartinyaface Manchester and Birmingham have never been multicultural back the because these cities don't have Ports ,London/Essex Liverpool, Southampton have loads of blacks and foreigners as this is the open place where they come into . Manchester is changing, Manchester has loads of racism and segregation issues same as Birmingham even today people mix with who they know.
Manchester has never been multicultural? Are you for real? I was born in Manchester, St. Mary's. Black dad, white mum. Scottish Grandparents. My primary school, saint Phillips, Hulme, was rammed with black, mixed race and Asian kids. Moss side was very multicultural and still is. My family and friends were very multicultural and still are. Nobody was racist towards any of us cos they'd get tw@tted, simple. Why would we put up with racism? I mean I'm all for freedom of speech and everyone's entitled to their views but if anyone was racist towards us and showed any kind of hate based on just our skin colour - that would not be tolerated.
1974 and they were wearing masks then. That's when covid was just a baby I take it. Haha
Can't believe l have seen people wearing masks? How Strange and Coincidental bearing in mind The current problems in 2020.
Manchester used to be full of Smog the air quality was terrible.
That’s why folk used to wear dust masks!