Old hanley😭😭😭😭😭

Can anyone remember the second hand shop with the bikes hanging up outside, down ftom the ABC cinema...the mother was a charmer and her son was one miserable git...always telling us kids not to touch ..

Stoke on trent....a forerunner and hotbed of American soul music, a forerunner of hip hop music, a forerunner of house and garage music, a forerunner of acid house music.....people forget the musical, club heritage this whole area had. 😎

Was that the videomaker at 0:19 making an appearance?

A bunch of sixty-something fat blokes in Fred Perry's and Adidas Gazelles? Mostly from Essex with a thinning french crop? Weller must be in town!

Great memories. Thank you 🫶

We were stood to the right of you and my 16 year old son kept pogoing to the up-tempo songs. WELLER WELLER WELLER WELLER WELLER. 👍

Where is Paul Weller?

We were there at the Victoria Hall, Hanley. 👍

We were there at the Victoria Hall, Hanley. 👍

BIFF BANG POW!!

Oh, so many memories. I'm over in Ireland now but Terry Blood Records!! OMG! That store took up most of my pocket money and hours from my Saturday mornings when I was about 13 or 14! Thing is - still have most of those albums! Great music never ages!! Thanks for posting.

Top rank and the baths hold fond memmories of friends in the past as i moved to the fylde coast lancs in 86,lovely seeing it again

Hard times, Mods, Rockers, Punks, working mens clubs, Pot Banks, coal mines & real money in pay packets. Buses to everywhere & great fish & chips. Now it's taxis, takeaways, mosques, derelict buildings, drug dealers & thieves. The cost of living has gone from bad to much worse. Time to ditch the old ways & live like we all deserve. Stop funding the scum bags & invest in yourselves folks.

Many happy memories off visiting hanley as a cockney staying with family in blurton Highlight were the visits to "the place roman candle and I think it was steam machine" on a Friday Saturday night. Remember seeing kc and the sunshine band at steam machine around 1975.

God how I wish it was like this now,,,2023,Hanley is the most egregious run down town neglected by a Sxxt council ....we all saw it coming

Go and have a look up Hanley today me ducks and it's enough make you cry.. Lived here all my life and as much as it pains me to say it, but it's gone to the dogs.. A proper Shit Hole..

PMT BUSES

Dirty old town? As measured by what?

Tom Cooper's fishing and shooting shop ,loved it !

Thank you, Derek Hulme, for posting this; that's Hanley as I remember it - before the Potteries Shopping Centre - and very good to see Chico's again, and the bus station looking so spruce, and the fountains in Fountain Square.

I was born in 1966 in Stoke on Trent . I d worked in the pottery industry at Johnsons and Royal Doultons, till i got married in 1991 when I left Stoke . My teens in the 1980s in Hanley were amazing, Such a bustling town my Hanley WAS, when I visit now its heartbreaking, I ll Always be a Stokey girl ,,but its Not and NEVER Will be what it was 💔.......

So was Lewis's replaced by Debenhams then?

That's how I remember it . The Dirty old town and back then we thought it couldn't get worse ,but how wrong were we ? Now the town and rest of the country are fast becoming a Third World Country, you begin to realise that things were so much better back then !

The Place, wow that just brought back some memories! Thank you

Thankyou for the nostalgia,I live here and it’s so depressing to see how the other night at 10.30pm on a Saturday night Hanley was like a ghost town literally.all the clubs have gone,shops are disappearing and boarded up. About 20 people to be seen out on a Saturday night. What is the future for this once bustling city centre?

Lived in Middleport and used to visit my grandparents at weekend who lived in Northwood. Loved visiting Hanley with them as a kid visiting the old markets etc. Then at 16+ going on bike for the day and going the Place at a weekend. Now I NEVER visit as full of homeless n smack heads. Council got a lot to answer for

Even though I've not been to Hanley & the Potteries for decades due to my health, that brought back very fond memories. We had been to Hanley the day JFK was assassinated, I remember watching JACK FROST been erected on Lewis's building, going to the Place & the Roman Candle for dinner. Over 60+ years Hanley was at the heart of my life, so many GOOD memories. Ps. Q??? Who remembers when the MODS camped in Hanley Park in the late '60-'70s to fight with the ROCKERS & HA's who had gathered in BIDDULPH??? I was in BIDDULPH that night with a mate PAUL SHONE, what a sight it was!!! The S-o-T Fire Brigades turned their hoses on the MODS early Sunday morning & dispersed them.

Dirty old town maybe. But it's my town and I love it !

Brilliant nostalgic pictures.

If only most of it could be brought back the way it was it would be a place to be proud of with our shopping done there twice a week to what it is now twice. Year and that is to visit the opticians.

I grew up in Bentilee in the 50's. Hanley was a great place to go as a kid. I remember Webberley's book shop and printers in Percy Street, where I caught the bus home, before the bus-station was built. Cost 2d. The bus fare not the bus station. The meat market was opposite and my girlfriend's Mum worked on a stall there, back in the 60s. Wonder what she's doing now? The girlfriend, not the Mum.

Hanley was brilliant then it was a pleasure walk the town. Now its gone big style. SHIT.

I remember Hanley like this. Although I didnt live there I used to go to The Place and Top Rank . I don't hardly recognize it any more after living overseas for a long time.

Once a shit hole always a shit hole

You are right "town" as it is hard to call it a city especially right now even though we do have a sort of Hilton now.

The Trumpet should never have been knocked down to make way for Mcdonalds.

Is the Mostyn Arms on here somewhere? Back of Century Street and York Street. Had some brilliant nights there. And the Black Horse at the corner of Black Horse Lane. It was wild in that part of Hanley early 80s. Forget The Place & Chicos. Wicked.

I came to England in 2004. The streets were cleaner lots of shops and everything was cheaper. Now everything is very expensive after Brexit, people have no jobs, they look like after the war.

Happy days all gone to shut now 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

The Albion 😀, Argos used to be next door but the Albion had more choice 😉 never seen so much hookey gear in a place 👍👍👍👍👍 brings back memories.

Memories of being dragged around c&a by my ode dear

It's strange to read the enthusiastic comments cause I found this depressing, not least because, when I was little, I thought Hanley was posh and exciting!

Love the bit in steptoe where they have a large vase thinking it was made in China. Not said the old man Hanley is where they make BOGS

How can a council take a shit hole city and turn it into an even bigger shit hole?

Been in the USA 40 years but by God I miss those old days. I lived in gilman street which is now gone

So many memories

Lovely to see Sherwins again.

Today stoke on trent is a craphole

Not all 60's and 70's. The first photo outside C&A is 90's.....how do I know? I'm in it.