History of Manchester - 3. Cradle of a Revolution
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- In the third part of the series we're going to try to understand why Manchester of all places came to spearhead the worldwide industrial revolution at the end of the 18th century.
First We'll take a look at the city's prominent old halls - the fine country mansions that once housed its wealthiest inhabitants. Some are where many of Manchester's districts get their names: Clayton, Old Trafford, Baguley. Others are just grand old buildings: Hough End Hall, Wythenshawe Hall, Ordsall Hall and the rapidly crumbling Hough Hall in Moston.
Then I'll try to explain how Manchester fitted into the bigger picture of early capitalism and how it suddenly became the fastest growing city in the world. Key facts that need explaining.
Finally, I'll look at the city's earliest cotton mills, including the superb Murray's Mill in Ancoats, the oldest surviving one.
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I was born in 1947 in Bradford cum Beswick , an area right next door to Ancoats and lived there until the clearances at the end of the 1960’s. In those days we knew that Ancoats was a catch-all name for all the different areas within it. I was like the child in the Lowry song who knew where Lowry painted the “the parts of Ancoats where I used to play”. Some of those areas were New Islington (and it’s swimming baths), New Cross, Angel Meadow and Holt Town. The latter was the route from Bradford cum Beswick to Ancoats Hospital on Old Mill Street. My own mother’s generation (she was born in 1910) even knew one of the areas as St Jude’s which was also the name of its church.
Fantastic series mate. I was born in Longsight and grew up in Wythenshawe, but I left to join the navy in 1968. Manchester has changed a lot since then. As kids we used to get into Wythenshawe Park at night, and the bravest of us would knock on the door of Wythenshawe Hall. Of course, we thought it was haunted.
The town planners really had an eye to show the historical buildings in their context.
As a kid Hough End Hall was derelict and to us kids it was haunted. Access to the house was easy the big wooden doors were open and we would play there for hours. Around the hall were stables and pigsties and chicken pens. It was a farm of sorts with pigs water fowl and peacocks. About where you are standing in that puddle was a big duck pond. I left the area about the time when the high school first opened, but I never saw the Hall refurbished and at the time there was talk of it being demolished. I'm glad it wasn't.
The most startling thing I notice of any vid on Manchester is the red Accrington brick I remember all the buildings being black from the soot stains even the town hall. I'm guessing that even after the cleaning you can still see the occasional soot stained brick work. Manchester was a black miserable place where pulmonary disease was as much an inheritance and heritage, as it was a death sentence.
Great vids
Wow I bet it was great having that to play around when you're a kid. Great info thanks so much!
@@BeeHereNowuk There were also a lot of bomb sites. We used get chased out of them by the watchmen.
In Wythenshawe Hall hanging over a fireplace was a sword. The unusual feature was it had twin blades which had been forged from a single piece of steel. I don't suppose you know anything about it??
My Dad moved to Manchester in the early 60s. He said the air would sometimes get supersaturated with soot and it would come down as a black tarry snow covering everything.
A fascinating, informative video! Here in Germany corduroy is known as 'Manchester Cord' because it apparently originated from Manchester. Your videos make me home sick, but at this moment in time I can only see it from videos like yours. Thanks ever so much! Lesley xx
That's lovely to hear. Glad the vids bring a little Manchester joy. Stay safe and hopefully you'll be back over here soon, missing Germany!!!
@@BeeHereNowuk Thank you. Stay safe :)
am in love with the guy that presents these
love the graphics and production on this one oli. nice one
Haha thanks mate. Took me ages!
Binge watching from the US! I grew up in England and I love the history, especially the lesser known midlands.
Enjoyed this program very much. I'm an American and one branch of my family tree is from, what I understand to be, the Greater Manchester area: Bury, Eccles, Worsley. The censuses from the mid 18th c and later list the professions as Woolen Weaver of Worsley, hand loom woolen weaver, power loom weaver, and then cotton weavers, etc. I'm wondering if those in the outlying areas were tied with the Manchester mills, or if they were working independently somehow. Very curious about the connection between the outlying areas and the city. Would like to learn more to get a greater sense of what these people's lives were like. Most had a dozen children!
Fantastic! Yes Worsley and Eccles and other outlying areas were often linked to the mills in the city, though many places thrived independently. It was really their proximity to bigger industrial centres that helped smaller places grow. Lancashire was full of cotton and wool mills, as well as coal mines. I hate to plug my own stuff, but if you watch the next video in the series it tries to explain how Worsley was one of the first outlying areas to link directly to Manchester, producing the coal that powered the mills.
Fantastic video and looking forward to seeing future history episodes. Took me a minute to figure out why other Halls around Manchester were left out until I realised you were concentrating on the LGA (I'm of the school that thinks more in urban terms for a city rather than political boundaries) as I recently visited Bramhall and that was magnificent. Also worth mentioning the fire at Wythenshawe Hall was by an arsonist who thankfully was caught and sent to prison.
Thank you! I agree with you, but funnily enough I was anticipating a lot of people telling me that such and such a place isn't technically in Manchester etc so I thought I'd just narrow it down 😂
beautiful, just discovered your channel, love the history of Manchester, please expand your series on Liverpool as well, you barely touched it
Lovely Thank you for this. Please keep up the good work. Manchester has lost of history thanks for informing us.
Lots in information and great narration. You are very proud of your home and history. Thanks for posting......
Cheers thanks!
Top video. Fascinating stuff
Read a book called ‘the Manchester man’, it’s loosely based on true characters and events , woven into a story
Brilliant book, Mrs G linneaus Banks..Jabez Clegg
@@Jammo1978yes, the book I have is signed by Isabella Linnaeus Banks, my grandfather gave it to me and now I’ve given it to my granddaughter. The book itself is like a history of Manchester with pull out maps and plenty of illustrations, so interesting the social history of Manchester
@bernardmcmahon351 my Dad gave me the Book and I passed it on to my Mum and it was a very old copy of it but im not sure what happened to it since then due to everyone moving on to different addresses throughout the years since then....unfortunately
Fantastic video, thank you so much
Thank you!
Really enjoying this series, thank you so much for your work.
Hey thank you. Glad you like them ☺️
Great video. The emergence of capitalism from feudalism earlier is a huge topic though and the main factors weren’t included. Interesting about the cotton manufacturing inventions and the timeline of growth of the city.
Fantastic informative yet simple .the bbc could learn a lot from this .
Lovin all these videos! Excellent work :)
The city council need to step up and acquire the hall, and bring it back to how it should be.
Rather than allowing the city's history to be ruined (cutting off the original railway station from the network springs to mind.!🤬!.)
Keep the vids coming.
Rich🥰🥰🥰.
😍 Love this video. Thank you so much for your contribution!
Love Manchester my second home my brother ived in Hume by the bride and my brother lived by Smith field market I have spent loads of my time in Manchester most weekends loved all the museums and the Iden gem 💎
I love your videos they are very interesting - I've been to a few of those halls - liked fully watched ✌️
This series is class much like the rest of the videos on your channel mate. Really glad i've found this series almost 2 years after it came out means i can binge watch !
Love what you do Ollie, only one thing wrong mate, not long enough 😊🐝🐝🐝🏭👍Keep safe and well👍
Thank you!! You too. Stay safe
Great video. Thank you!
Another great informative vid.
Great potted story of the cotton mill growth in Manchester. I've never seen it pulled together like that before.
Very professional looking video looking forward to the next one!
Thanks!
Getting better all the time Oli, appropriate music too, love the brass!
Cheers thanks!
I heard something, but can you tell me...
Do I have to watch the adverts all the way through for you to get paid by them.?
If so, I'll sit through them.
Rich 🥰🥰🥰
No don't bother. UA-cam doesn't give you very much money anyway so I'm not bothered. It's fractions of a penny so feel free to skip
That was great Ollie, thanks. Growing up I was familiar with Hugh End Hall and Wythenshawe Hall.
I enjoy your commentary in your videos, politically incorrect at times, but always piercingly accurate. History has always been written by those who had the time to write it, which is seldom the same as those who were too busy making it. Really looking forward to your future posts, your production skills are improving with every program. Really, really, enjoyably and informative. Another great postcard from home.
Fantastic, cheers Mike! Yes I'm trying to make them more informative and less just about me walking around looking at things and pointing. It's been fun learning the editing actually! All the best 🙂
Absolutely love it!!
Time team did a dig for Arkwright mill well worth a watch nearly as good as this series
Manchester earned the nickname “Cottonopolis” 👍
Great Video. I was born in Chorlton and only recently found out that Barlow Hall still exists as the club house for a golf club.
Wow! Now so did I!
Great set of vids but you did forget Ancoats Hall
This is very interesting but how about doing a film on Salford? As you may know it was a city BEFORE Manchester and we have a very long history
Yes defo. I'm gonna finish this series on Manchester first and then have a look. Nice one!
Why do so many Salfordians continue to believe Salford was a city before Manchester. Manchester was granted city status in 1853, Salford only became a city in 1926 previous to that it was a borough
Lovely music. What is it?
I think that you've missed the one that they built the Arndale Centre over that was a red brick building owned by John Marsden and that was in a painting of 1721. Other than that I don't have any other information about it I'm afraid.
I have to watch this for school lmao
Loooolz! That's actually quite funny!
Ancoats hall?
Yep I missed a few 😬
you should team up with martin zero.
hi mrs learys class
Hahahahaha soz everyone
Interesting you mentioned the Genocide bit which British People have historic amnesia about, because they are taught that only one man and group of people were the worst at it, great video
Thanks very much! Yeah, I always find it strange how defensive people get about Britain's past. Things that happened centuries ago - horrible things - people take so personally. Yet these things have transformed the world, and still do.
hough hall is in a seriously bad state ,i cant understand why the council are letting it fall to ruin its a crime to history and once its gone well im angry this has happened .