Hi @TheBassAlligance, do you know if the footage is public domain? Not pointing the finger, just wondering if I can use it for a project. Cheers

As an outsider, the main problem with Runcorn is the dire road design that terrible circuit that just cuts everywhere off and makes moving around so difficult, I actually go to Runcorn Shopping city occasionally for a retro yesteryear experience, they could embrace that and deliberately encourage a cool 70's atmosphere, it wouldnt take much

We used to live in fenwick lane halton lodge

Wow I lived in Rothesay close castle fields in 1983 but sadly we were only there a year and my mum died suddenly age 48,we had family all over Runcorn though,I went to Norton priory which was a shithole

As a child i lived in deer park square, then rosam grove, then Clayton crescent, moved to Macclesfield when i was 11, now 51..... seeing my early years am through an old mans eyes.

I prefer the 70's,80's and 90's Runcorn rather than these times.The utopia that never really was,but convincing at the time has gone but its no different in any other new town in Britain.I like Runcorn but it could have been so much better.

Omg, just found this vlog , I lived on Meadway just off Halton Brook avenue. Went to the Grange Comprehensive, and hated every minute doing cross country for PE with the wind blowing off the Mersey running around the school field. My fondest memory back as a kid was Mr Jones our PE teacher and football coach, his passion and drive still lives with me to this day. If it wasn’t for him I don’t think I’d be where I am today without hard work. My aunty Eileen lived on Halton lodge and Southfields and I still remember the scousers fighting the wollybacks in the late 70’s………. Wow so bland to see this, memories for a lifetime!

I have bittersweet memories of runcorn we lived at greenbridge close castlefields from 1975 to 1980 when I was a kid and went to norton priory school ,

I lasted until the daft needless music started and then turned off. Another video ruined.

I worked on Southgate on maintenance one block was shut down because the heating system couldn't go the distance to heat it up from a central boiler. so they shut it down. And then demolished all of it .

Good place get lost

Dresssing

so cool I lived in mudishaw back in 1970s

Music - trans Europe express the Runcorn remix..... Place looks better in black and white......

First lived in Beechwood then Frodsham as a kid.Remember the Old Town vaguely.During the 80s went to the shopping city for fruitless attempts to look for work at the jobcentre always remember the maisonettes with the weird round windows.Its changed now,its still there but theyve built a square with houses right where the bus station was.

Great vid, with lots of happy memories, it's not grim, Liverpool's grim, that's why Runcorn was built, in it's day, Runcorn was THE place to move to, unfortunately shit parenting lead to it's demise & the rise of the trackie wearing scally got a grip. I'll never forget the views from Ferry View at night. Unrivalled & unrecognised. Poor tosn planning design ultimately lead to it's demise, as cars started becoming more prominent with increased wealth, the busway (a world 1st) was a great concept, but was a pain in the arse crossing. Believe me, moving from West Derby in 82' to Runcorn was akin to moving from Soweto to Hawaii.🤣

As a citizen of Runcorn, I can say that it has changed dramatically over the years

1:04 James Bond leaving “the shoppo”after visiting Oobidoo to pick up some essentials

Lets all say that We miss The Old Bridge ;-;

Billy beck,been in Leeds for donkeys years went to Norton priory 1973 to 1978 fond memories, up the toffees

I've never been to Runcorn .... but I now feel that I have ...Thank's

Who's watching this is 2018?

Full of fuckin smackheads

My mums lived in one of those flats

Runcorn is awesome back then but now it's just Zombie land

It's not Runcorn that's grim it's some of the people that's grim.

Dukesfield's nowhere near Southgate, ones by the shoppo the other's by the bridge, and the new bridge is going over Astmoor not destroying it!

what the hell has the music got to do with this, idiot

at first i thought 'oh no, what's with the shit music' but to be fair, the lyrics actually help to emphasise what a wannabe shithole runcorn is. i grew up there and it's a total bin. full of idiots like the guy singing who can't even pronounce the word 'depot' properly. 'deporrrrrrr' 'shopping citehhhhhh'. you belong there you wanker. nice footage though.

Good pictures but why he put the shit music I don't no

Runcorn ftw

The Prime minister is deaddead

Wicked