HANLEY In the 1960s & 70s

[@mick1406]

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.

[@dallassukerkin6878]

I was just going to comment on how a trip up Hanley on a Saturday to go to Terry Bloods and Lotus Records was a monthly ritual :D I shall remember to my dying day meeting up with the guys from Hawkwind in Lotus Records ... and by sheer luck I had my camera with me!

[@robinhind3207]

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.

[@Sirlaughalot101]

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

[@jillcarlin7226]

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

[@gordonemery6949]

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

[@lratcliffe9151]

oooh... so many memories of my childhood. as they say "I wish things could change to remain the same"

[@kevinhancock9475]

Brilliant nostalgic pictures.

[@winstonpoole9906]

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

[@cappuccinokid6772]

Great memories. Thank you 🫶

[@jacky1966]

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 💔.......

[@IshmaelSkyes]

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.

[@johntomlinson8977]

Hanley the town in which I was born, watched my mother at her work on Johnson's Imperial pot bank, I was a signal box reporter lad at Stoke junction till 1961 then joined up.

[@johnbeggs9669]

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. 😎

[@paulnicholls8683]

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.

[@bigmiler808]

I remember Browns butchers all the delivery vans had numbers and they were all sausage van No. I remember the two markets meat market and the general market as well as sherwins music shop hanley deep redmans vale car park and lot's, lot's more all gone in the name of progress that was in 1966 roughly it is now 2017 and I have yet to still see any progress it is a dirty old town but I love my dirty old town I was born and raised here and I am proud to be a stokie and always will be.

[@johnmaxnodiff5875]

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.

[@stephennewill6549]

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.

[@Mr2watty]

I think that was my dad operating that crane that was demolishing the buildings. He was photographed and was in the Sentinel..

[@davidnixon7214]

Absolutely brilliant and true,love it.

[@noorsafi11]

Awwwww my lovely town ....

[@Ansaf-t8v]

Old hanley😭😭😭😭😭

[@stevekings6462]

excellent excellent video & its my town

[@Woolliscroft1]

Lovely to see Sherwins again.

[@davidnixon7214]

On the opening slide is the Hanley Meat Market and the nearest door is where I entered to start my first day at work my employer W S Brown had a stall just inside on the left that was 1958 !!

[@margaretwright4631]

+David Nixon the "Wrights" butchers stall was on the right as you went up the steps, and several of my relatives had butchers stalls in the old meat market. Memories !

[@morbidangel5249]

Saturday in the seventies for me were the best play football for hanley high then go up hanley to go round the several record shops . Remember lotus and Virgo, and downstairs in sherwins piano shop great days . They ruined hanley when they built the shopping centre

[@debhunt6555]

Saturday in the mid 70s were good for me too. I went to Hanley high school. We went Swimming in the public baths by the bus station. Trying clothes in Chelsea girl ( now Specsavers) my mum worked on the tinned goods stall in the indoor market and my brother worked downstairs in Sherwin's. C&A was always good for clothes and I remember queing outside the ABC cinema to watch grease. Good times

[@grantshenton7079]

Mike Lloyds ...queuing up to buy tickets for the VIcky 😁

[@paulkelsall8733]

Hanging out in the Wharf down Stoke playing cards then going to the match. Later doing the same at the Shakespeare in Castle

[@TIZWAS]

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?

[@DrippedOutPoodle]

Never knew the bus station was that old. Now I wish I wasn't this young...

[@veegerman6135]

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.

[@paulkelsall8733]

Still got an aunt living at calvary crescent, top end of Bentilee. Went to st.johns school before they built the bus station and lived on gilman Street at the top end in the 50s and 60s

[@paulkelsall8733]

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

[@captnodge]

Still there mate my dad lived there 1940s and my cousin still does

[@paulkelsall8733]

@@captnodge I lived in the top end, 33,in the 50s,,60s and signed up for the RAF at the recruiting office that used to be at the top of the street .Came home in 2004 and could not believe what I saw. Still my home town just not as I wanted to remember it. Cheers

[@captnodge]

@@paulkelsall8733 yes it stands alone I remember the cobbles and small back yards with an outside toilet just like in steptoe and son .Stay safe

[@ericcooper1709]

Wasn't there a trendy boutique in Gilman street in the 60's?

[@paulkelsall8733]

@@ericcooper1709 Yes there was. I was the idiot who lobbed a brick through the window because in my drunk state I told the police that the mannequins were laughing at me. Had to go up there and apologize to the owners who turned out to be friends, then got a beating from the old man. Good times, good times

[@peterpritchard7959]

So many memories

[@ABWEndon]

Memories!

[@maggieadams8600]

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!

[@chrisparkes2179]

You think that's bad? I can remember when Burslem was the posh shopping town.

[@rooismum1023]

@@chrisparkes2179 I used to go to Burslem with my Dad, I thought it was far nicer than Tunstall.

[@rooismum1023]

It was posh and exciting, Lewis's, Bratt& Dykes.. and going into the Green shield Stamp shop by Mother Care. The Gold Fish bowl for chips.. Think you'd have to give me general anaesthetic to get me there now!

[@chrisparkes2179]

@@rooismum1023 Bizarre gift shop and the Lamb Street arcade.

[@dazzp2]

It was tho

[@peterpann2331]

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

[@xxxxx103]

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

[@chrisparkes2179]

I thought so. That triangle of ground with the statues on it was just dirt in the 90s, later in the video you can see that it was lawns and flower beds in the 70s.

[@alanpedley4945]

I worked on the next stall to WS Brown that was Sam Bradbury's fish mongers in 1958 Alan Pedley

[@davidnixon7214]

I was on the WSB stall in 1958 must have bumped into each other at some time!!!

[@derekrushton1705]

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.

[@paulkelsall8733]

Bet you know my good friend, Pete Mellor from the Black Horse. I was the only skinhead who went in there and didn't get kicked in. Great memories

[@davmax7751]

Those were the days when the buildings in Hanley had character. They have now been replaced with rubbishy Lego style constructions, but I do agree with the closing captions, wholeheartedly.

[@paulclarkson4310]

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 !

[@toddpardoe1352]

My great grandfather immigrated to America in the early 1900's. I came from the states in the 1990's to visit cousins and it has changed drastically just since the 1990's. Sad

[@philiprhodes1891]

Brilliant...and the Pogues.

[@Breezy.m16]

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.

[@eddieMurphy11111]

why don't the council love the city like stokies do

[@eddieMurphy11111]

yes but the council run around in expensive cars while ordinary people have to make do

[@ericcooper1709]

@@eddieMurphy11111 Baron Davies of Leek lived three doors up the road from us in Whitehouse Road Abbey Hulton, can't be many current Barons who live in a council House. Always used to go carol singing outside his door because he always gave 2/6p as a tip enormous amount of money back then.

[@DrDIYhax]

my home

[@peterfrancis149]

Another reason people get put off by Hanley is it's like a Pakistani town not an English one. Unbelievable from only ten years ago. Very, very sad to see.

[@hh-ck3yw]

And its a shithole now

[@Woolliscroft1]

You racist vermin.

[@stefantrbovic936]

I was born and have lived in Stoke on Trent for my 66 years on this planet. I am not ashamed to say that it's probably one of the biggest shit holes in this country. The industrialists together with the Staffordshire Council have made this one of the most deprived areas to live and work. Then when we thought it couldn't get any worst, they close the mining and steel industry and moved most of the pottery business to the Far East. Don't let's live the romantic notion that it a close community that has been the back bone of the north. We have been exploited and our wealth suppresses for nearly two centuries. The city planners have and are still making a dreadful job in our city.

[@deanwright7611]

You are not alone. Some of us have five senses attached to a brain. Yes, an industrial plantation. Wealth sweated out of generations of people, kept with the right sort of stoicism and work discipline. Then everything that is recognisable taken away. Was it a dream?

[@SP-ki5gn]

@@deanwright7611 It was a nightmare, a quintessential product of the industrial revolution.

[@chrisjones7205]

and the 80's....

[@captnodge]

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

[@chrisparkes2179]

"Finest bog makers in the world" I remember my mother cottoning on to the punchline as soon as the old man read "Han" and Harold started going on about the Han dynasty.

[@captnodge]

@@chrisparkes2179 bogs were actually made in Bentilee if my memories serve me right

[@chrisparkes2179]

@@captnodge They were made in various places. Armitage Shanks, Twyfords, even Doultons I believe. Presumably with hand painted periwinkles.

[@captnodge]

@@chrisparkes2179 I remember the big long factory on the bottom Bentilee road near the the old gasometer. I was the first male lithographer at royal doultons that's the Baddeley green one that was .I did country rose .wasn't there that long lol.nice people though

[@adriandavies4012]

@@captnodge that's right, can't just recall the name of it but it was roughly where the lidl is now, big pot bank that was,, poss, Johnson bros?

[@DavidMartinFilms]

0:46 that Martins sign is still there after all that time

[@AdrianTheGit]

This photo is early 2000’s look at the cars, don’t know why it’s in there

[@grantshenton7079]

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.

[@dianescott6482]

Before Argos it was Fine Fare Supermarket where I worked till it closed. The signage was orange, sold their own brand yellow packed goods and the green dress styled uniform was sage green 🤔😂

[@pvfckev8348]

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

[@john111257]

Today the hustle and bustle has gone, empty shops, beggars on drugs, ghost town

[@dazzp2]

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

[@kevindaniels5916]

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

[@IshmaelSkyes]

Those statues at 0:07 were smashed within days of being installed.

[@SP-ki5gn]

Performance art!

[@IshmaelSkyes]

And they weren't in the 60s or 70s - late 80s, maybe early 90s.

[@copee2960]

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 ..

[@aurant5534]

Damn

[@graciefields898]

So was Lewis's replaced by Debenhams then?

[@mrburger9242]

Correct

[@philglover2973]

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

[@paulkelsall8733]

Is this the same guy who went to Stanfield Tech?

[@daveevans9481]

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

[@anglosaxon389]

Cosner gerrover eet yoof Ta duck

[@hh-ck3yw]

Today stoke on trent is a craphole

[@sophieboult310]

PMT BUSES

[@snazzyquizzes2336]

Stoke of 60s/70s had a sort of retro charm.

[@derekhulme1562]

Browns butchers are still going they have a stall in the new market

[@davidnixon7214]

Yes Derek it is William the grandson of the top man at the time Mr Charles Brown and son of William Brown Senior. The original WSB went with the hierarchy and only Hanley general market survives. At its peak they had shops in Hanley Broad st and Stafford street/Burslem/Tunstall that I ran for them/Longton/Nantwich/Leek and also stalls in Hanley meat market/Stoke/Tunstall/Longton they had a fleet of vans distributing there famous Cambridge pork sausages!! pork pies, sausage rolls and lots more and we're far and away the largest supplier in the Potteries. People used to queue waiting for trays of hot sausage rolls to arrive from the bakehouse in Broad Street into the market. Brown's products were distributed all around the Potteries to other butchers and corner shops and supermarkets such was their popularity. I made some great friends. Hard to believe that where Smithfield is now,used to house the abattoir/sausage and other product manufacture and Broad Street shop it was a hive of activity that was late 50s onwards. I remember a pig escaping and having to chase it up Broad st I caught it near to where the museum is now by diving on it unfortunately in a bed of tulips,people on a bus were surprised. Oh well happy days.

[@derekhulme1562]

+David Nixon I worked for Henry Ryders fruit and veg up Glass Street in 1977/8 I was 16 and used to deliver the veg by hand cart to both market's so so many great memories and some amazing character behind the counter and if front.

[@bigmiler808]

Yeah that's right Derek but you can't get thick Tomatoe Sausages anymore from anywhere

[@krisdiamond4045]

Did you go colledge of knowledge grove.. tierney street , pub at the top, outdoor at the bottom.

[@johnfellows2867]

Used to go into Brown's in Broad street, fresh, warm pork pies and sausage rolls, HEAVEN !

[@malcolmnoble4997]

Dirty old town? As measured by what?

[@Duch..]

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.