moved up to bredbury in 65 ,i was 7 at the time ,all i remember about chorlton on medlock was playing out all the time like any other kid in the bombed houses ,we had it rough like everyone else did ,as a kid you knew no different ,but when we moved to bredbury ,wow fields galore ,inside toilet ,a bath ,your own bedroom ,and we were still poor as a church mouse but we got on with it ,survived and to an extent prospered .
@bertdingle5 күн бұрын
I remember going to his friends house for a barbecue and he said "do you remember when we ate inside and crapped outside". I do think the things that really mattered in life where in more abundance back then.
@StevenSands-g7t12 күн бұрын
My dad had the Duke of York me my future wife Carole there. Had first drink in Bessemer was 15 Yrs
@StevenSands-g7t12 күн бұрын
My dad had the Duke of York Cross Lane and met Carole my future wife in there, Had my first drink in the Bessemer half of Mild I was 15yrs
@user-dg2zn2jd8w15 күн бұрын
Leesy from gorton me and the lads used to drink at the railway pub on Chapman Street gorton the gardeners we had a laugh in those days 😅
@davidterry203818 күн бұрын
Fantastic. Reminds of the inner city streets of Nottingham in the 1970s.
@bertdingle18 күн бұрын
@davidterry2038 Thanks for the comment. The best photos for any song are the ones in your head.
@trevsblog21 күн бұрын
1. Victor F 2. Mk2 Consul, Oxford 3. Humber, 1100, mini van, HA 4. Herald, Minor, Vanguard 5. Mk3 Zephyr, mk2 Consul 6. Cortina, Oxford 7. Cortina, Herald, DAF, Wolseley, Corsair 8. Mk2 Daimler/Jag, 105e, mini 9. Oxford 10. Mk1 consul 11. Super minx 12. Minor 13. 105e, AEC 14. Oxford 15. Victor f 16. Mini 17. 100e 18. Victor f 19. Humber, mk3 Zodiac 20. Corsair 21. A40 Thames 22. 100e 23. Mini 24. Vitor f 25. Fordson Anglia/pop, Wolseley six, Standard 14 26. Bond 27. Consul Capri, 105e estate, a30 van, Morris minor, zephyr 4, mk2 consul, minor van 28. Mk3 zephyr, Thames 29. 105e 30. P5B 31. Mk3 zephyr, mini 32. PA, 100e 33. Vanguard 34. CA with three speed column change and sliding doors, 105e 35. Morris
@bertdingle20 күн бұрын
Wow, You get 10 extra points for the CA with three speed column change and sliding doors but you loose 5 points for not spotting the big bore exhaust on the mini. You also loose five more points for not naming the dog at 25 seconds.😂
@keh.32Ай бұрын
The plough still there
@RogerBaguleyАй бұрын
Brilliant photos Bert - coming from Longsight we - friends & family & school learnt how to swim here and we spent many school holidays in pool 1 and 3 . its a fantastic building that looks well preserved
@bertdingleАй бұрын
Its open every Wednesday I think to have a wander round.
@MrWhothefoxthatАй бұрын
openshaw lad here born in store street 1960, i fell in that canal a few time collecting sticklebacks. then down to ancoats for a tetanus needle.
@bertdingleАй бұрын
Wow, you survived falling in the canal and going to Ancoats Hospital.😂
@rodgermoss8975Ай бұрын
Hello, the unplaced pub at 9;16 is the Star Inn on Pottery Lane between Ashburys station and Ashton Old Road, exactly opposite Crossleys Engineering works .I enjoy all your posts -A Clowes St. lad born in 1946.
@bertdingleАй бұрын
Thanks for the info and kind words. From your info I have found another photo that states it is on the corner of Hullchester road and Pottery Land. Looking at the old maps I think the photo has been mislabelled and should be Huddleston Street. Thanks again for solving the mystery.
@MrWhothefoxthat2 ай бұрын
it's a different place now, i wouldn't let my rottweiler out around there.
@bertdingle2 ай бұрын
It's not as bad as you think but then a again Rottweiler's tend to walk round in pairs these days :)
@MrWhothefoxthat2 ай бұрын
it wasn't a slum clearance, it was the biggest property grab across the country, people forced into social housing, knocking family's down the prospect ladder once again throughout history.
@MashUp-ut6jx2 ай бұрын
The photo at 1:10, where was this/now?
@bertdingle2 ай бұрын
@MashUp-ut6jx The road going over the bridge is Alston Road Gorton. The large house you can see to the right was Gorton Hall and is now the bowling green on High Bank and behind you to the right is the back of Abbey Hey School. The houses on the left are still there on High Bank but more houses have been built between them and the canal.
@MashUp-ut6jx2 ай бұрын
@@bertdingle cheers mate, I thought it was. I ride past there every day.
@paulsharp25653 ай бұрын
We were spoilt back then. Where did all the fun go?
@bertdingle3 ай бұрын
Have a look at my slum clearance video. I guess when the council destroyed the community by demolishing all the houses they thought were slums, the pubs either got demolish with them or the communities that used them were moved away and they closed.
@paulsharp25653 ай бұрын
@@bertdingle Will do. I used to find a certain magic in 'estate pubs'. Still do, when I can find one. Each one is its own little world.
@bertdingle2 ай бұрын
@@paulsharp2565 @BeeHereNowuk has done a great video on estate pubs in Manchester. Well worth a watch kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqPWZmyZmdSZidk
@darren65313 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for sharing. I was brought up on openshaw village from the early 80s. And knew the path as the yellow brick road. At 3.35 in looks like clayton in the background. I also remember the stonewall that went around.
@johnmccadden99633 ай бұрын
My auntie, who turned out to be my gran, (another story) was moved from a 2up down in Salford to a 23 story block of flats. Her hubby ended up in a mental institution and her next-door neighbour, a large woman, was in the same block but soon managed to jump from the 11th floor to her death. This was how such drastic change after growing up in a different environment, must have affected many folk. 😢
@bertdingle3 ай бұрын
Such a shame. On paper these flats with indoor toilets and modern bathrooms were so much better then the run down houses people had moved from but you can't quantify or reproduce community. A community is like a fragile eco system and the slightest change can destroy it.
@Freedaaa4 ай бұрын
thank you for this ...
@trevsblog4 ай бұрын
Nice table 🎼
@bertdingle4 ай бұрын
Thanks. I was given it for free many years ago when I was the only one still listening to records. Had to buy a stylus for it a few years ago and the cost made my eyes water. Hope your doing well.
@trevsblog4 ай бұрын
@@bertdingle I’ll send you an email shortly! Or should I say ”I’ll DM you hun” 🤣
@mollymay44475 ай бұрын
I remember the aces pub west gorton landlord was Ged
@bertdingle5 ай бұрын
@mollymay4447 if you remember it you hadn't drunk enough 😂 Thanks for watching.
@TheLucreziia5 ай бұрын
I forgot to mention I used to go in the Cotton Tree back in the 1970's think the landlord was a George Hammer.
@bertdingle5 ай бұрын
One of the few pub still going in Gorton, opposite the Royal Oak.
@paulcummins6216Ай бұрын
Hard as nails - hammer !
@krismc92315 ай бұрын
Superb 👏👏
@TheLucreziia6 ай бұрын
So many pubs in such a small area the Gorton of 2024 looks nothing like this now.
@cphawud82426 ай бұрын
This is great .i live near vana street school and attended it in the 80s. I walk over that aqueduct over the train tracks nearly every day. I always wonder how it looked back then. Thanks for posting😊😊
@bertdingle6 ай бұрын
@cphawud8242 Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Did you play in the coal yard or Scrap yard behind the school. I never did Honest :)
@diane70895 ай бұрын
Yep I played in the coal yard remember collecting coal in an old pram during the strikes. I also went to varna street crossing the bridge never saw it with water, shame . Love the canals and am fortunate to live close to one now @@bertdingle
@Elldeeve6 ай бұрын
Shane ward was from there, oh, and Myra Hyndley and ian Brady.
@user-zz8qn7ne5w6 ай бұрын
One of Ian brady and myra hindleys victims is burried in their Pauline reed
@user-zz8qn7ne5w6 ай бұрын
read ?
@user-zz8qn7ne5w6 ай бұрын
Under the waggon and horses pub .. no idea if still their on hyde road , but it used to be Manchesters Main morturay mourge
@user-zz8qn7ne5w6 ай бұрын
My Aunt used to live on far lane , and the sink was poraceline With a date on it of 1928 she's dead now , but remember for it's age been very well built , i live in Norfolk now , but hear Gorton as suffered massive decline
@damianleah67446 ай бұрын
They flagged it in the late 1970s , which got stolen, so they had shale over it. As kids we called it the Yellow Brick Road. 😂
@bertdingle6 ай бұрын
@damianleah6744 stolen! sounds about right :)
@brenda65807 ай бұрын
Great video
@bertdingle7 ай бұрын
@brenda6580 Thanks and glad you enjoyed it.
@ingram677 ай бұрын
Moved from ardwick in 67 to hattersley as a baby ❤
@bertdingle7 ай бұрын
@ingram67 I had family who moved into Kingsbridge Ave back then.
@ingram677 ай бұрын
I know that avenue just off Honiton 😁
@g.m.48777 ай бұрын
Just imagine if these houses had been given decent heating and plumbing rather than pulling them down. Breaks my heart to what we have lost.
@user-pf2rx3mj4e7 ай бұрын
Brought back a lot of memories playing round that area in the forties and fifties when kids were safe to roam. Sunny Brow Park seemed a magical place and walking down Far Lane in autumn when the fallen leaves were ankle high, yes Gorton was a wonderful place to grow up. Left to live in lincolnshire in !967, but I know Gorton will never be the same again.
@user-pf2rx3mj4e7 ай бұрын
Born and brought up in Oakfield Grove Gorton, I think the Plough is still there but most of the pubs have gone. I remember one on Hyde road called the Bee Hive, but the one i spent most time in was the Cheshire Hunt.
@bertdingle7 ай бұрын
@user-pf2rx3mj4e The Plough would have been your local but it's good to exercise before a pint :)
@user-zz8qn7ne5w6 ай бұрын
Plough still their dearest pub in gorton so i'm told , i left m18 many many years ago , my mums best mate julie her parents used to own the cheshire hunt , not far from the coach and horses on bellvue st
@LANCSKID7 ай бұрын
Some of my favourite hostelries: The Baldheaded Bastard, The Badger’s Nadgers, The Knuckle Sandwich, The Forty Stitches (formerly the Broken Beermug), The Pissed-Up and Proud, The Old Scrote’s Arms, The Guzzling Gook, The Shitfaced Repeated, The All Beer and Bollocks, The Rat-Arsed and Rowdy.
@suemarham68247 ай бұрын
The vale cottage where we our courting
@mm22808 ай бұрын
Slums got knocked down in north Manchester - ( Where my family are from ) We got Moved to south Manchester = Hulme = The Worst Slum In the world
@bertdingle8 ай бұрын
@mm2280 Hulme re development, so good it lasted 21 years! I've had t-shirts longer than that! :)
@michaelproctor61228 ай бұрын
Soon to be the after party venue for the CHANEL fashion show which is being held in the Northern Quarter December 2023
@bertdingle8 ай бұрын
What a lovely back drop for a fashion show.
@nrhoconnor63448 ай бұрын
Brilliant video in all aspects....wow how id love it to be like that again ...even though i was a nipper sat in car with a bottle of coke and pack of crisp were some of my best times ❤
@davidlloyd22258 ай бұрын
2:43 power bak in community+spiritually wolf rook casper❤️🇬🇧💯 3:34
@davidlloyd22258 ай бұрын
1:12 me nan told me i had fam in gorton never met❤️🇬🇧💯 1:50
@mcfcsue9 ай бұрын
Youngest of 11. Lived on Bradford Rd in 2 up n 2down until we moved when i 4 to a brand new 5-bedroom House in West Gorton. Bathroom & 2 toilets, thought it was a palace. Then things changed, ended up back in 2up2down of Hyde RD. Back to no bath, toilet outside again, make shift kitchenette as me Mam called it. Then belle Vue st. Times were hard back then, but I'm glad I grew up in the 60/70s. Once again brilliant vid.
@bertdingle9 ай бұрын
@mcfcsue hard times and good times can go hand in hand.
@mcfcsue9 ай бұрын
God, a lot of memories. Grew up in & around Gorton/ West Gorton. Great pub crawl. Lived next to the Gorton Brook. Brilliant Vid.
@bertdingle9 ай бұрын
@mcfcsue Thanks, glad it brought back some memories.
@deborahwhitney94279 ай бұрын
My Cousin Nora Taylor was landlady of the Royal Oak in the 90s.
@user-zz8qn7ne5w6 ай бұрын
The guy who played jack ducworth in coranation street his son owned it for years as well.
@user-zz8qn7ne5w6 ай бұрын
Sally lindsey's dad , she was an actress in coranation street , her dad Tony used to run the plough on hyde rd he's dead now tony , Used to have a huge alstation dog, The plough still as evidence of servents quarters to it's rear , And is arcutectually very well admired , it also as listed status and a origional bar dating to the early 1900's
@deborahwhitney94279 ай бұрын
I grew up in Gorton Turner Street just off Chapman Street till I was 6yrs old and the lived on Furnival Road for 20yrs. Used to go in a lot of these pubs, The Railway on corner of Chapman Street and Cornwall Street, The Lord Nelson, Wagon and Horses, The Angel,Gardens Arms, the Friendship and the Pomona. This video fetches back lots of memories. My late father used to go to the Bessemer, Steelworks Tarvern and the Railway. I also used to go to the Pineapple.
@bertdingle9 ай бұрын
@deborahwhitney9427 I lived in Carfax St. which was off Turner St. I remember a great lock in at the Pineapple Pub one new years eve in the early 90's.
@user-zz8qn7ne5w6 ай бұрын
used to live on number 21 furnival god that house had very bsd vibes, i hear our old house and next door subsided badly and have since been re built
@user-ye7xp6es4i5 ай бұрын
What a brilliant video. I remember most of them Pub's..
@user-ye7xp6es4i5 ай бұрын
Bring's back great memories. Most of them Pub's. Brilliant. Love the song.. Only a few Pub's left.
@trevsblog9 ай бұрын
Those tiles are astounding 😮 They don’t make em like that anymore!
@bertdingle9 ай бұрын
So many of those tile must have been made bespoke especially on the stairs, its amazing.
@mel200049 ай бұрын
nice job , currently doing my own fox
@bertdingle9 ай бұрын
@mel20004 Thanks. It's been a while since I did this but if I can be of any help just let me know.
@bettyprice63169 ай бұрын
Oh my gosh, all those houses!
@chorlton411 ай бұрын
no real sense of where this canal started. or finished, just folk singing and still pictures,
@bertdingle10 ай бұрын
@chorlton4 Where it starts and finishes is in the title and description. It starts in Openshaw, goes through Gorton and finishes in Stockport. The pictures show the section of the canal through Gorton and Openshaw that is now filled in and is now a foot/cycle path. The section through Stockport has been built over and very little of it is traceable today. The "folk Singing" are singing about the demise of canals in general around the time these photos were taken. The photos are in order so you could walk the route and pick out some of the features to see how it has changed.
@petebowler729511 ай бұрын
A song written by Ken Campbell of the Pennine Folk group of whom I had the pleasure to be a member.
@bertdingle11 ай бұрын
@peterbowler7295 That's fantastic. Hope you still manage to perform even if it's only in the shower.
@willimacdo11 ай бұрын
I live in another country but those high-riser make my heart heavy.