barton hill new west 1962

[@historymandave4739]

Brilliant piece of film. Really captures Barton Hill as it was in the early 1960s.

[@stevebuxton9734]

Brings back memories, moved to Holmes Street at age 5 in 1959, recognised Goulter Street (3:59) , Winstanley Street and remember my mum buying wool in the Sta-Tex shop. We never locked our front doors. Wouldn’t do that now…..😊

[@bartonhillhistorygroup5860]

Thanks Steve. Great film. Do you remember the Atterton family of Holmes Street? Regards Garry

[@stevebuxton9734]

@@bartonhillhistorygroup5860 name doesn’t ring a bell. I remember the Uptons children (Margaret and Maureen) lived first house on Goulter Street from Holmes Street, the Waters children (Marilyn and Steve) living at, I think, 15 Holmes Street across the road from me at number 18. I recall the 2 off licences on Queen Anne Road, corners of Goulter Street and Ranleigh Road (think the road name is right) the Rhubarb where my dad bought me a pint but not my first 😂, I went to the infants school at the top of Marsh Lane then St George Grammar in the Park. I remember the cotton factory, Eagle Coaches, the Salvation Army at the bottom of Goulter Street. My great uncle, Ralph Meacham is on the WW1 war memorial that was removed from the school on Jarvis Street. I lived there for 13 years then we moved to Brislington. I was a mechanical and electrical engineer and did the new school where the swimming baths used to be, I lived in there every day during school summer hols as my grandparents bought a season ticket every year. I remember Barrow Road, thr engine sheds and the steam trains. They were good days…….

[@bartonhillhistorygroup5860]

Hi Steve. Alex Smith from our group actually lives in Mr Meacham’s house! Hopefully he will be in touch. Regards Garry

[@stevebuxton9734]

@@bartonhillhistorygroup5860 he lived in 18, my mum inherited it from my grandfather who lived 2 Ida Road, Whitehall

[@TheSTOPlayer]

Incredible to see 2:26 top of Ducie road / Morley street before Barton hill settlement was built.

[@GrenvilleBS]

Fantastic piece of film. I wish we could hear the voices of those filmed.

[@ba55bar]

2:23 the bench the guy sits on is still there and the metalwork is identical. Can it be the same one after all these years?

[@blakey6143]

I was two years old and living in day's road in 1962. We had to move out in1968 because of the slum clearances. We couldn't have asked for better neighbours. A Whole community went the same way as those old buildings.😔

[@neilosborne716]

Wonderful to see but extremely sad, to see those lovely little terraced streets (many of which could have been renovated and still popular and valuable today) and lovely corner shops, torn down and replaced with ugly soulless tower blocks. The government and city planners of the time had a lot to answer for not just here but nationally.

[@annemariecandyflip6531]

Very nice footage! I just can't understand why England knocked down all those beautiful old bay-window and terraced houses.....I mean, they needed better maintanance and being modernized. A proper toilet inside and a decent shower, fighting mildew and damp spots etc. Instead of that they all ripped them off and built ugly multi storey blocks and put the people in it😭 And we know what became of that😞 Personally, I think it's better to live in a normal 1 family house with a garden than to store people in flats of 16 storeys or more!

[@Veedub09]

A lot of them were bombed in the war and were about to be torn down.

[@frankreynolds4547]

Bet they got those Silver Cross'es in Old Market.

[@kookytoots6755]

Look what it's like now jeez, didn't believe my dad when he said it used to be a nice area

[@nomadicsoul34]

It was a slum clearance area . Many of those that lived in the notorious slums in St Phillips were often placed into the high rises in Barton Hill.

[@annemariecandyflip6531]

There's 1 thing I don't understand: how can be once decent built houses, beautiful ones like the terraced bay windows turn into slums?! I think when the landlords should have been more careful of their properties like putting a proper toilet inside and a decent shower. And fighting the damp spots and mildew those houses didn't need to be knocked down at all! They moved the people to ugly, nasty places like those high rises wich were poorly built and maintained as, well, the new slums! And we all know what became of those flats! In the old tenements people had at least a little garden or backyard as well.....