My dad knew Tom pepper well

hes my great uncle!

Great memories of being brought up in Salford , remember walking most days through Buile Hill park to go to school St Lawrence’s and playing in there also at Chimney pot park close by.. Had a drive round Salford precinct couple years back couldn’t believe it was the same place and took me a while to find where I lived for close on 20 years Edgehill Close..

I remember watching this from the roof of Agecroft power station where I worked. They were a part of my life, as my Nan and grandad, then my aunt and uncle lived in the same house in Bradley Avenue. Also had many friends that lived in the flats.

Nice film of the pleasant side of things. It would also be interesting to see a contrasting one about the drug culture that would have been in full swing at that time and has never retreated.

Oh the good old days when man united could string a few passes together and hit the back of the net 😢

My Uncle and great grandma and my friend alf are in this video..good old days, when a dead rat could keep you occupied all day as a kid.

I wonder if the COPD and other respiratory illness people now elderly have from.this generation are because of this

Sexy ❤❤❤

Always thought Tony Wilson was a really attractive man. x

They fell straight down, even Tower 7, wonder if they used Thermite?

Whats this prison tv😮

Would appear that the "socialist housing experience" didn't work.

Why why, ruin a great community.

No hard hats, scaffold, co-ordinated signs, roads closed!!! Bish bosh done 😂 for a fraction of the price no doubt.

I couldn't imagine relying on the government to house me

Why have so many children?

Wonderful, insightful video excellent research. My parents are Irish and Caribbean and my Grandmother was from this area. She would have loved this video, I've recently settled not far from the area after living in the Midlands for most of my life and such research really grounds you in the areas heritage and history. Fantastic stuff

Please could you timecode which part was Little Hulton - thanks for the beautiful film!

The houses should of been saved and fully modernised not torn down just to build even worse slums . It was 1984 before i got a inside toilet and a bathroom . It didnt bother us because we knew no better

Propaganda for building awful new high rise flats

Just bought a copy of "Love on the Dole" so this is great.

Lovely view. James Callahan has a lot to answer for... Housing act 1977

It's so funny to me that often the people saying ''ahhh these were golden days, we were so brave for getting on with the hard times and had such a wonderful positive attitude'', are the people who were the kids in those days. Of course it's lovely and nostalgic, you weren't working like a dog, with barely a shred of human dignity, to feed a bunch of oblivious kids who would grow up to experience a revolution in human development unlike anything ever seen before. 😂😂😂 Maybe I'm wrong ....but I wonder if the elderly & adults in this film would be particularly nostalgic for these days 🤔

I have good memories from kersal flats in the 70s.

Very good exhibition on at Salford Gallery/Museum at the moment regarding slum clearance and tower blocks going up in that area. Well worth a visit

My Grandad and Grandma lived on Wallness Lane on Peel Park.. I spentany weekends there in the 60s

Was poo 💩 and still is all this roamanticising oh the good old days my backside....

I'm his son

great video !! i dod this a few weeks ago kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6isp2irr5Z2ircsi=VCBFYKwWGp4YsR5s

The original Coronation Streets.

Byron Hse the epicenre

Very steady video. Also love the songs. 👍 Is this area where the old Kersal Flats used to be? If so, it's so very radically different from how I remember it when I studied at Salford University, 1982 - 85. 😮

I lived in those flats the first few years of my life. Early 70s

if old houses are in cornwall, they call them cottages. if they are in salford they call them slums. its bigotry.

Salford is a waste of money

What's all the new development towards the end of the video, about? Ruined a lovely landscape.

By christ this takes me back

I was born an& brought up in a house like these .no indoor bathrooms had to bathe in a tin bath and go down yard to toilet .. happy days and I never thought of our house has a slum mam cooked cleaned and made a fire up before we all got up out of bed ..

Our once beautiful Salford. It was more than slums as it is often depicted as sadly.

Funny how in these days dogs used to roam around. They are too precious today hence rarely seeing this anymore.

Its still a doghole

The Falcons got a bird's eye view of the demolition

Thank you for posting! I grew up on the edges of this, hardly any money but the bills were paid, there was food on the table & "cleanliness was next Godliness".. We forget WW2 didn't actually just stop in 1945, it took many many years to rebuild & to pay Germany a type of "compensation" .. Older family members were grateful for survival, kids had freedom to roam & knew no different. Happy days.

Am i the only one who had the worst time there?😂

I went to this school and HATED IT! Glad the damn thing closed.

Shockingly condescending commentary

What happened..... Where did it go wrong ???

Wasn’t the song “Dirty Old Town “ written about Salford?

Watching this made me remember the horrible constant musty stench of timbers burning on demolition sites. It was revolting.