A montage of Salford in old photographs

Enjoy a trip down memory lane as we take a look at how things looked in Salford years in gone by.

[@dippydipso5355]

Thank you so much. I was born in Pendleton 80 years ago and wish I could go back to being a child there again...

[@creationinmotion4124]

Brought a few tears. I grew up in Swinton in the 80s. Lovely memories. Thank you 😊 ❤

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

Some great photos. Salford has changed so much and not for the better.

[@Parianparlay]

Terrific! Thoroughly enjoyed your film, thanks so much.

[@MarkFromSalfordUK]

Born in 1977 and grew up in the Weaste area , my earliest memories would be starting 1980 and lived in Seedley so back when i was a kid Salford very much resembled alot of old Salford. We had great times playing in Buile Hill park and the side streets and going to Langy Rd Shops and Liverpool street shops. Happy happy bye gone days , now Salford seems so much differnt to wot i rememberd. Great photos ,thanks for sharing

[@jamesmagee890]

Lovely to see. Thanks

[@josephmiller7356]

😃 Brilliant Video Of Old Salford 😃 ~ ❤ I'm From Salford 6 & Proud Of It 👍, I Don't Like How Modern Salford Is Nowadays. So Many Beautiful Old Salford Buildings Have Been Demolished 😖. Even My Secondary School "Hope Hall/High" No Longer Exists 😮, Along With Many Other Schools 🙁.

[@archbell03]

I remember Barmy Mick's on Eccles New Road. Great video

[@speedtriplerider7853]

Bittersweet nostalgia, thanks for doing.

[@BestUserNameUK]

Born in Ordsall 1960's, near the docks. We later moved to Swinton. I now live in rural Ireland. Thanks for this.

[@tommcmanamon8327]

I was born in Ordsall 1957. Nice to see the old buildings from my childhood. I had so many happy memories. My old school's Mount Carmel and Sacred Heart have both been demolished.

[@martinwall212]

Fantastic pictures But so sad great people in Salford them days

[@cw5275]

A lot of memories there! And I spotted myself on Edward Street, Lower Broughton. I'm on the right, my cousin David on the left (he lived on nearby Cambridge St) and my brother Paul in the middle.

[@tonguetwisters]

Great photos. I lived in Salford in the 60s. Derby Rd, then Sussex St (my parents owned the off licence/corner shop) My dad also had a D-IY shop.. Homemaker’s Supplies in Eccles New Rd

[@Parianparlay]

Some great pics again, you did really well putting it all together, thanks a lot!

[@ianmarsden8568]

Very enjoyable. Labelling 99% of the photos made the montage come alive and help me take in the detail, knowing where each one was. Thank you.

[@markmcgrath6592]

Hello, what a great video, I lived on Shawcross st, behind the Mariner pub in the 80s as a kid, I’ve never forgotten where I’m from 😊

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Dad's 94 and an Aussie nowadays but born and bred in Salford. He always mentions Cross Lane barracks where English soldiers left from to fight and die in the Napoleonic wars. Just demolished.

[@mollypotts8924]

Lovely photographs. I did my cadet nurse training at Salford Royal Hospital back in 1963 - 1964 so it was great to see it again. Some of the cadets were sent to Hope Hospital and we got people in our outpatients department from the skin diseases hospital. Poor things, wrapped in bandages head to foot, looked like mummies! I had a friend from Loreto Convent, Bowdon, Penny .Dickson, lived in one of those terraced houses, maybe on Oldfield St, as that rings a bell. I live in the USA now and am very nostalgic for anything about "Home"! Thank you kindly for posting.

[@josephmiller7356]

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[@paulworthington8666]

I was born in Hope Hospital in 1952. My Dad died there in 2005. The nurses and the lady doctor were kind, professional, affirming love of life, even when helping an old man in great pain to die in peace. A place of hope, even to the end.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Just showed dad your video. Jones the chemist was dad's uncle Jacks shop, originally hardware. One of their two sons drowned in a drain. He remembered the Hippodrome. They had topless women and were legal as long as they didn't move. Dad has many recollections about those places. The kids all hooted and hollered. Many thanks.

[@chrysalis4126]

My mum and dad used to reminisce about the dancers at the Hippodrome and how rough they were, with ladders in their stockings hahaha

[@catherineloftus1376]

My Dad's family came from Pendleton Salford, my Grandparents Clara and Tom Ratcliffe, married in 1917 and had 2 children, both sadly dying Clara 13months and Stanley 11months after which they relocated to Huddersfield with my Grandads job. My Dad another Tom and his Sister Lillian were born there. They then moved to Leeds, again with Grandads job where they settled and had Albert and Harry, amazingly Uncle Harry is still going strong at 93yrs young. 🍻

[@joannehoward3202]

Thank you for the. trip down memory lane this was amazing 😁

[@zarmer16]

Thanks Joanne. Volume 4 is due for release any day now. Hope you enjoy that one just as much.

[@colkimber4445]

Great video just found your channel. I lived in Ordsall 1960s and Broughton 1970s and you even put the place names in. Very well done. 😊😊

[@Andrew-se8fy]

All my family ordsall born n bred grandparents born in a house on robert Hall stret my dad was the coal man he delivered coal all over salford

[@clarke7421]

in the picture of the prince of wales pub, in the background is Abe Sacks tailors shop. i cleaned the windows there for years and the pictures inside the shop all over the walls tell a story of salford all by themselves. such a shame they will be gone now

[@catherineloftus1376]

Following on from comment above forgot to add, my Son was a Student at Salford University, his halls of residence was in the areas where my Grandparents grow up and my GreatvGrandparents lived. My Dad would have been so proud, my Sons friends from university are still his long lasting friends, still meet up several times a year. Usually in Manchester.

[@paulworthington8666]

I know many of those places. I knew them when they were still there. But I still know them now that they have been destroyed. I would still know the way from Marple Street to Eller Street, passing Thommy Cheadle's grocers, the bombed church's rubble, on to Eller Street, and there find Kemmie Cannon's pet food shop on the left, Barber Dougie's and the cake shop on the right. And then go on to Broad Street, and find the toy shop where my Nana bought me shiny model cars, the hardware shop, where my Dad bought carpentry tools that I still have today, 60 year's later, and the grand post office with the solid dark-wood counters and shelf along the walls, where the grown-ups could fill in forms and postal orders, with the revolutionary new ball-point biros on little chains, although the old inkpots, dry and unneeded now, were still sunk into the thick wooden surface. It has all gone now, and the ways I know to go have been destroyed. The people have died. There are jabbering idiots all around talking about a weird world they want, but that never was, and never can be, because they do not know reality or truth, and do not even understand those words. I am glad I was young then, when what people said was honest and true, rather than now. And I still know my way around Salford when it was real.

[@Eccles_History]

Great video!!

[@joanpearson2862]

The Red Lion Chapel St. The pub in the picture without a name.

[@proshotgolf]

The pub you asked about was the Red Lion on Chapel Street

[@djkelectrical]

Thank you. 7.45 taken outside the house where I grew up - amazing!

[@deniscudahy4549]

Great memories 👍

[@GrahamOrm]

Enjoyed that Les. Were they better days? Less complicated but everyone was more skint than they are now. Somber observation. All the people you see in these old pictures are long gone. I was born in Hope. My eldest daughter was a Sister there until recently and my youngest is currently a nurse on the ICU. Thanks for sharing Les. I’ll look at your other stuff. Take care.

[@goodweek1965]

Not a kebab shop in sight.

[@888ssss]

i lived here. it was rough but the locals were really sound.

[@archbell03]

I think the pub at 7.58 is called the Red Bull

[@proshotgolf]

Stowell Memorial Church burnt down but the spire is still there at the end of the M621

[@icekitty400]

8:43 Eric's corner shop on Langton Street. The shop had to be knocked down because of subsidence.

[@CrownJewelzMusicGroup]

Still got the bin from my mrs mums old house she lived at number 8 jane street in the 1950s or 60s an the bin still got the number on it 😂😂😂

[@Chris-wl3wb]

Is the thumbnail for the video a photograph of Fitwarren Street and the beginning of Wall Street? It looks very familiar of the Salford Homebrew Shop that has now unfortunately closed.

[@daveflick12]

Not sure that's eccles new rd at 1.07

[@fasthracing]

All now gone I guess?

[@freespeechfordemocracy2152]

Great collection. I have been searching for old photos of Patricroft, around Hampson Street and Beech Street where I lived in the early to mid 50's. Any leads would be appreciated.