These photos bring back many happy memories of growing up in Manchester … I especially remember when they cleared all the houses from Ardwick Green almost all the way to Longsight ….. all my mates moved out to Hattersley near Glossop …. Then they built those god awful Ardwick Forts …. a rabbit warren of badly built and designed square boxes that some toffee nosed architect thought that people would like to live in … thank god they have all been demolished now …. I also remember walking back from town (Manchester City Centre) through the clearance of Hulme and again they built these monstrosities of concrete blocks ….there were no proper communities in these rabbit warrens .. the good old days had vanished … the corner shops are all gone … the Ironmongers shops,Butchers,Greengrocers,Off Licenses,Newsagents and Tobacconists,Sweetshops, all gone … what do we have now !! Supermarkets and Shopping Malls …. and most of the Shopping Malls are becoming empty because the rents are too high and besides there just full of lost souls looking for a bargain ….. all the characters have gone … the people who built a community …. Family … Friends … Bob’s your uncle and your Aunt Fanny ….. all these characters have gone … replaced by what ? Diversity !! FFS …….. give me the old days anytime ….
Ah the Domino Club - saw many bands, singers, comedians some before they became famous eg Lulu age !4 singing "Shout". Bernard Manning etc. Had a punch up just outside the main entrance!
This would have been more informative f it had captions I recognise many places though not all, thank you for bringing back memories of days long gone.😊
Yeah … but we had the Parks and the Public Playgrounds …. Crowcroft Park,Platt Fields Park ,Birchfields Park,Swinton Park,the Red Croft Playground (off Grey Street) Whitworth Park … our little gang of friends played in all of them …. Great times and many happy memories 👍😂🤣
The steps shown at 3:02 are the location used in A Taste of Honey where the line, "I dreamt of you last night, I fell out of bed twice" is spoken, later re-appropriated of course by our very own Steven Patrick Morrissey. They are still there, just by the Holt Town Metrolink stop in east Manchester.
These photos bring back many happy memories of growing up in Manchester … I especially remember when they cleared all the houses from Ardwick Green almost all the way to Longsight ….. all my mates moved out to Hattersley near Glossop …. Then they built those god awful Ardwick Forts …. a rabbit warren of badly built and designed square boxes that some toffee nosed architect thought that people would like to live in … thank god they have all been demolished now …. I also remember walking back from town (Manchester City Centre) through the clearance of Hulme and again they built these monstrosities of concrete blocks ….there were no proper communities in these rabbit warrens .. the good old days had vanished … the corner shops are all gone … the Ironmongers shops,Butchers,Greengrocers,Off Licenses,Newsagents and Tobacconists,Sweetshops, all gone … what do we have now !! Supermarkets and Shopping Malls …. and most of the Shopping Malls are becoming empty because the rents are too high and besides there just full of lost souls looking for a bargain ….. all the characters have gone … the people who built a community …. Family … Friends … Bob’s your uncle and your Aunt Fanny ….. all these characters have gone … replaced by what ? Diversity !! FFS …….. give me the old days anytime ….
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Very evocative of a time and place. Some of the locations I was uncertain of, enjoyed this a lot, but somre caption or decsription would be nice
Thanks for the tips!
Ah the Domino Club - saw many bands, singers, comedians some before they became famous eg Lulu age !4 singing "Shout". Bernard Manning etc. Had a punch up just outside the main entrance!
This would have been more informative f it had captions I recognise many places though not all, thank you for bringing back memories of days long gone.😊
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Yeah … but we had the Parks and the Public Playgrounds …. Crowcroft Park,Platt Fields Park ,Birchfields Park,Swinton Park,the Red Croft Playground (off Grey Street) Whitworth Park … our little gang of friends played in all of them …. Great times and many happy memories 👍😂🤣
The steps shown at 3:02 are the location used in A Taste of Honey where the line, "I dreamt of you last night, I fell out of bed twice" is spoken, later re-appropriated of course by our very own Steven Patrick Morrissey. They are still there, just by the Holt Town Metrolink stop in east Manchester.
Don't think all photos were from the fifties, at least one was from late 70s.
Yes. Cars from 1960s and 1970s plus multi-storey flats and decimal currency. The fifties seem to have lasted about two decades.
Very few trees though.