Looking for Lost Manchester

In this video we look for Lost Manchester. Through old maps of Manchester and old photo's of Manchester we look at the History of Manchester. We look at what is happening to Redbank carriage sidings in and around Collyhurst road. We find an old L.S.Lowry location and look at the Location of 'A Footbridge' a sketch done by Lowry. We take a look at the canals of Manchester and look at how the names of canals are influencing modern names. We take a look at three traditional pubs in and around Angel Meadow, Ancoats and around the Rochdale and Ashton canals. We look at housing in the early19th century and read what Engels said about Manchester in his book 'The Condition of the working classes'

[@MartinZero]

The Tib correction video kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnzSiZZqh7pma6s Thanks Stuart for the Ducie bridge pics. Correction, Marble arch pub is corner of Rochdale Road and Gould street

[@topshot2787]

That first intro was very "New Order-ish." Great video again. All the best from Lancashire.

[@sputumtube]

I'm convinced that 50+ years from now these videos will be a part of the UK National Historical Archive (and deservedly so). Well presented/researched and with supporting photographic/documentary evidence, future generations will be able to see how it was, how it is now, and how it is changing almost daily.

[@Tom_Samad]

I totally agree! Much like how those old Fred Dibnah videos are today a part of the UK National Historical Archive.

[@mjh5437]

Future generations will look at it and say "My god,it was still quite nice in 2024,where did it all go wrong?"

[@jaredmehrlich6683]

You've always been one of my favorite KZbin shows. For years. The past year, I wasn't seeing your videos in my feed. Which led me to go through and clear out my subscription box rats nest. I was clicking subscribe on too much stuff. Glad you are back in my feed. Sunday tradition. Mellow happenings. Thank you.

[@MartinZero]

Glad its recommended me again

[@MrTylerStricker]

I too was a subscriber from several years back and this is the first vid I've seen in...at least 24 months. I had to manually search "River Med Underground" to refind the channel. So happy to be back.

[@keithfarrell3370]

I've had same problems. Going 2 follow your lead and have a clear out

[@jaredmehrlich6683]

@@keithfarrell3370 yup, there ya go.

[@Steve_Wardley_G6JEF]

I love seeing all the old pictures and how they relate to the topography of today, makes you thankful that our living conditions are much better than then.

[@MartinZero]

Cheers Steve

[@jetsons101]

I've been watching you for 7 years???? Martin finding you channel was a blessing from on high, really. During lunch and breaks at work I have shared your vids with co-workers. Looking forward to the next 7 years. Thanks to you and all of your team.......

[@MartinZero]

Thanks very much. I really appreciate it 👍

[@jetsons101]

@@MartinZero Well earned on your part. I still feel that your River Medlock series is still a great watch, researching lost rivers of London is how I found your channel Years back. Does that torch still shine bright?

[@TheSadButMadLad]

Don't think I've been watching for 7 years,, but definitely for over 5 years.

[@jetsons101]

@@TheSadButMadLad Martin's channel has grown so much from his first vid. His early work was usually "One Man-One Cell Camera"

[@shirleylynch7529]

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[@Hairnicks]

Absolutely brilliant, the speed of change is phenomenal, thank goodness you have recorded as much as you have, and the maps are so interesting.

[@nigelericogden3200]

Thank you gentlemen for another fascinating video. I always think how much my father, born in Worsley 1921, now sadly deceased, would have absolutely have loved your videos. You have been actively creating historic documents … please don’t stop ! Many thanks for your collective efforts 🙏

[@MartinZero]

Thanks very much Nigel

[@scoochysteve]

it makes me cry, the amount of history just wiped away in the name of 'progress'.

[@jeffallen4582]

There was a old swimming baths on the edge of the Cardroom estate in the late 70s called New Islington Baths

[@mikeede49]

God! Have I been watching your vids for 7 years, where's the time gone?

[@johnhankinson1929]

Great film again Martin and the lads , you couldn't believe what squaller our grandparents had to live through and the Peveril of the peak is named after 18th century historical novel by Sir Walter Scott about a roundhead who fell in love with a cavalier which was set in Derbyshire

[@thomascharnock]

Hello Martin, love your videos. I have a book called Manchester: Mapping the City by Wyke, Robson and Dodge. On page 65 there's an 1833 map of cholera outbreaks and it shows 'Gibraltar' as a location of a 'spontaneous case,' and is shown as being just off Ashley Lane. Thanks for another excellent trip through history of that great city!

[@conalorourke8225]

Your comment about New Islington brought back memories of early morning swimming at New Islington Baths, the first public baths built in Manchester, in 1880.

[@4-dman464]

Ah the Marble Arch. I still have my old Marble Arch T-shirt, circa 1990, with Rodin's The Thinker sat pondering with the thought balloon, "Sod Thinking, I'm Drinking." You can bet your Gerry Anderson collection it doesn't fit me anymore. I can barely wear a smile these days without it going ear to ear.

[@christophernorton33]

First-class video Martin Roy & James. I was so glad to see a new video for my teatime viewing . It's good to reminisce as Manchester continues to evolve into a new animal at an unprecedented rate. The 1877 pictures of the houses in Gibraltar court are priceless. Thank goodness someone had a camera at the time. Keep up the Great work we love it . 👍❤😀

[@MartinZero]

Yeah that picture is something else

[@carolynfield1177]

I worked on the 19th floor of the Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) building in the 1970’s and the Ducie Bridge was one of our pubs of choice for lunchtime drinks together with the Swan with Two Necks on Withy Grove. Incidentally Parkers Hotel was originally built as the CIS’s first Head Office

[@JemTheWire]

Absolutely amazing and nice to see that the team is back! You don’t realise how important the past is until you get to the future. You must be very proud of what you have achieved, a video archive of the past. The gas works is a prime example. As you say, you were there at the right time just before it was gone forever. Those gasworks hold a special memory for me. My late grandad worked there for many years having been transferred from the Gaythorne works at the end of Deansgate. It was amazing to think that you were possibly walking in his steps.

[@malcolmcog]

Central Manchester has changed so much when I knew it in 1999 to 2003 !

[@familylife3624]

Martin another lovely video its like spending a Sunday with old mates now 😊 love to see you and the lads out and about Looking forward to the next one

[@IPFreely1966]

Great to reminisce Martin. Been with you since the early days. Still enjoying your shows.

[@TheRattyBiker]

Martin, you 3 guys ARE the BOSS' of Northern History!! Between your culvert trudging mishaps, James' bad brewing and Roy's ability to keep calm despite a bad brew and a wonky Chorley cake (you know he's secretly livid🤣🤣) You guys make local history bloody fascinating! I can't walk down a street now without noting a simple boundary wall that was actually once probably part of a mill or factory complex... I reckon your and Adventure Me {king of the photo fades} videos should be a part of the Northern National Curriculum!

[@shirleylynch7529]

Fabulous. I need to go back to your beginning and start again. Your videos are amazing. Thank you.

[@jimmcculloch3786]

You showed Ashton House, the former womens refuge, before it was closed and transfered to Plymouth Grove. I worked in the male equivelant in 1985, Walton House, just before it was demolished. We were moved to a brand new reception centre in Downing St, the road that connects the begining of the Manc' Way, to Ardwick, and even that building has gone. The second pub that you went to, was that originally a Magistrates Court! I worked behind there, 1979/80, also, at the Mary & Joseph hostel, next to St Michael's church, for a while. Thank for another great video, and fab memories - James

[@gilles111]

Telling these stories about little bridges you just don't notice when you drive over or old empty building which were just always there or old yards you didn't know were there or couldn't see cause of the bushes in front, that's what your channel stands out for. Watching your episodes makes you look to your own neighborhood with new eyes. Loved this episode, bit like back to the old days of your channel, should do that more often.

[@MartinZero]

Thank you sir 👍

[@malcolmrichardson3881]

Fascinating pieces of Manchester's history - the Engel's exerpts especially vivid about the terrible conditions of life suffered by many when Manchester was the so-called, 'workshop - and sweatshop - of the world'. Thank you.

[@paulfidler3710]

Love the videos. This one was especially great. I’ve long since moved from the north west but run along the Rochdale and Ashton canals when staying in Manchester. Just a walk along is a fascinating insight into the industry of Manchester!

[@MartinZero]

I was running down the Rochdale today 😊

[@anthonyrowe7805]

Wow!!! That was awesome, just stumbled across your channel. I was born in Withington Hospital, lived in Didsbury on Ventnor Rd, also Stockport and Denton. My dad worked at Trafford Park as a lorry driver and was sadly killed there in a work accident and was taken to Ancoats Hospital, buried at Southern. I was sadly moved away from Manchester in my teens to Blackpool, but for those reasons, Manchester will always hold a very special place in my heart. Keep up the fascinating work while I binge watch your other videos and needless to say, you've got a new subscriber 😎.

[@simonholliday9874]

Great as always, gents. All a stone's throw from Chetham's - where I went to school and where Marx and Engels wrote. You forget how long Long Millgate was!

[@littlechris5656]

I love your videos so relaxed and honest, very refreshing! Anita street was such a beauty to behold, softer on the eyes than all the new grey towers of concrete. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 sausage-dog people, we all understood what you were talking about!!!

[@tremensdelirious]

Lowry Bridge is old Red Bank where they had the parcels trains? Remember that in the 80s and 90s

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Thoroughly enjoyed that one chaps 🙌🏽🙌🏽🧱👍🏼

[@dilwyn1]

@Martin ... Great vid, thanks for the up lode. So glad you managed to record how it was , before the contractors got in

[@MartinZero]

Cheers Dilwyn

[@andrewbocho3896]

There were a public baths called Islington baths, I lived at 102 Philips Park Road in the 60s and went to Cambian Street school. My gran and granddad had a shop on Baslow St, The Brit pub was on the corner of Baslow and Rowsley, they were the next corner down Baslow. She was famous for her meat, meat & potato pies. Her name was Mrs Brogan. My uncle lived on Forrest Street, a few house from the little corner shop. Great days as a kid. We had the trains belching smoke, the gas works and Johnson & nephew steel works which formed a triange and we didn't get sick. I have just looked on Google maps and the school building is still there, brings back great memories; the big window which was the hall and I can see my old classroom, though the caretakers house has gone. I am 66 and live in Mexico.

[@petersheridan2993]

It's quite extraordinary people living in terrible conditions! Yet the City was purchasing Works of Art that cost thousands. Present Day The City is spending Millions on restoring the Town Hall. Yet still people sleep rough under the Town Hall extension Arches of St Peters Square. Just as well we have a welfare system!! would be lots more. Worth a Visit to the Art Museum on Mosley St ?????

[@petersheridan2993]

update. Homeless have been removed from the Arches. Barriers/Hoarding have been installed to prevent the Homeless from using them!!!

[@bobjackson6524]

OHHHYYEESSSSS Looking forward to this

[@MartinZero]

Cheers Bob

[@andrewrees4600]

I live in south wales and so much has been erased. My home town of Burry Port and the larger town of Llanelli have changed so much since I was a kid in the 70’s it’s really sad.

[@Bonehead777]

Awesome channel Martin. Glad you have filmed so much before it went. And well presented and researched as usual. 👍

[@nigelblair2182]

Just love your videos. I’ve walked so many times on the streets of Manchester and never thought of what’s below my feet. Wow.

[@mcmarky1985]

Superb video!!. I'm not from round Manchester but have acquired family there through marriage so have been visiting fairly often the last 10 years or so when I can (long drive from Norfolk!). But Manchester is a lovely city and I always love coming up North. I just love seeing all the old mixed with new, I appreciate the need for change but it's always a shame when something old like Ducie Bridge Pub is lost to bland apartments or whatever will they be as missed as much in 100 years or so when they get old? . Anyway I'm so glad you document all of this while you can I find this channel fascinating and I'm always looking forward what you have in store next! Keep up the good work Martin n Co.

[@oldmanhuppiedos]

It is a beautiful collection of history that you have captured for seven years. Through your vlogs you see places that are now so special and sometimes have disappeared. I hope to enjoy your experiences for many years to come.

[@GrandadTinkerer]

Hi Martin. Dantzig Street, that brought back some memories... In the mid-seventies, there used to exist a 'doorway' on the corner of Dantzig St and Dantzig Place. The doorway led to a very strange 'club', frequented mainly by hippies, bikers and the like. The club was called 'Waves'. Myself and some mates used to frequent the place at week-ends, where we could listen to rock music and drink until the early hours of the morning. To say it was a bit of a dive would be an understatement!

[@MartinZero]

Sounds good then 👌😃

[@lilchris26]

Thanks guys, nice to see how you were corrected about the river Tib.

[@Hillgj1]

Amazing content and history again another cracking slice of our past.

[@seany84uk]

7 years going strong! amazing! i

[@dilwyn1]

This will be awesome !!

[@geemee3364]

Enjoyed it immensely. If there's one thing you have, it's history. Actual infrastructure from hundreds of years ago. Actual industry, that created what we have today. Tragic, that it's being obliterated to put up nothing but chicken coops.

[@GermanWhip-3900]

Your videos are better than anything on TV Satellite or Streaming 😂

[@MartinZero]

Thank you Sir 👍

[@PeteGlyde]

Hello Martin: Another excellent vlog; I praise your attention to detail and the clarity of your explanations. I lived in Manchester from 1971 to 1979 and loved it. Back then a tour of the city centre canals and rivers was like visiting hell; sometimes the Medlock ran bright orange the next day bright green. It is wonderful to think it is now possible to sit by the Medlock as a pleasant place to be. Your exploration of the rivers and canals of Manchester has been a revelation to me and it has answered so many questions. The Tib....I am still not satisfied with the 'final' ruling....I think a dye flow test should be carried out from a known point on the Tib with a check being carried out at the possible outflows into the river Medlock. Many thanks. Pete Glyde

[@philippabaker1078]

Another lovely video Martin.

[@elizabethannferrario7113]

Great video guys thank you xx

[@britishlongbarrows]

Memories are always wonderful to record - good storytelling fella -thanks :)

[@chrish5319]

Fascinating as usual. Sausage dog people will stay with me for a long time. Thank you all.

[@carlosm4798]

Great stuff lads!

[@jules9303]

Top video thank you 😊

[@lindamccaughey6669]

Always love your videos thanks Martin. You are No.1 in my book. They are always interesting and I love history. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care

[@ashman167]

very interesting.. love all this rich history. Thank yoju

[@Quest_For_Britannia]

Well done, Martin. another great video

[@mansdaz]

Thank you for this. enjoyed it Darren..

[@earlt.7573]

"Sausage Dog people, Bless 'em " O lord, had a laugh at that. Wonderful video as always, I'm haven my own Pint as I watch this, and damn glad it didn't cost me 15 or 20 !!!

[@flightcraft0362]

that was absolutely enjoyable..thankyou lads😊

[@hyperballadbradx6486]

Brill photos, a lot of which i haven't seen before. It was actually probably about 2019 that I found your channel, and that Irk Valley video, after moving to Collyhurst and got excited about the local history! You inspired me, so thanks! I really like that Union Bridge is pretty much open of overgrowth and debris at the moment. It's nice to see it. And remember, life's too short to be bitter (though I get it)

[@1958mufc]

Brilliant video as always. Very informative, I just love them. Keep doing what you’re doing…

[@MartinZero]

Thanks very much

[@stevewilcox6375]

Great Upload.

[@bruceblackmar9942]

Great gas works photo, Great video.

[@mancdave123]

Love this kind of content Martin ❤

[@Tom_Roberts]

Great 🙂

[@Mantakev]

Nice video. I love your content like this one.

[@gaffladd2003]

it was nice to meet you at piccadilly station a few months back. ive watched this channel from the start. another great video

[@mkendallpk4321]

Very nice and good job in making an enjoyable video to watch.

[@The_Original_KL]

This video is amazing. Feels like one of your vids from a while back, old maps, loads of research.

[@zapperwocky2504]

Another great video. I love your videos Martin. Keep making em…..

[@MrTylerStricker]

Very interesting to see the changes and recent modern development. I especially found the excerpt from Engels about the Ducie Bridge tenements to be pretty fascinating history.

[@ianmansbridge3646]

You're doing sterling work Martin, keep on entertaining us and recording the changes..

[@marilynfauguel5655]

Fantastic video, really interesting thank you 🙏

[@lesley-vj1jh]

Brilliant! More please x

[@alanarmer8069]

Great video 👍👍👍👍👍

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Alan

[@Ruben74]

Brilliant video! Love the soundtrack too. You’ve always had a great soundtrack. Keep up the great work ✌🏼

[@MrSteffen2020]

Thanks you Martin for nice video see you next time

[@davidhodkinson5164]

Brilliant very enjoyable, Martin and team excellent work Dave (bus museum)👍

[@TheEarthHistorysConfusing]

Glad to see you show where you went wrong, lots wont do that, thanks for sharing.

[@BigD63]

Martin, glad to see you and the boys are out and about. Never forget the past and preserve what was. Love your channel. Best regards from Chicago

[@danam2584]

Another wonderful video Martin!!!

[@simonmcowan6874]

Absolutely loved it, I so much like your old days style of posts.

[@MartinZero]

Cheers Simon

[@billydale9779]

Thanks Martin another fantastic video

[@SuperRichhead]

Brilliant video, thanks to you all

[@MartinZero]

Thank you

[@russvhill2]

Another great video guys! I'm visiting the area more frequently now and it's great coming across, and even seeking out, places you've featured. And, there is always the promise of more to come when James signs off with "See y'in a bit!"

[@ChuckKirchner-se6ib]

I wait in greedy anticipation for the next installment of "The Tib". Cheers, Martin

[@kevinswain4441]

Great video Martin. Only been to M once about 30 years ago. and live 1000s of Km away but love the history.

[@tracychiappino2260]

Great to see a new video on a Sunday ... ive spent a few quid n the three pubs you visited and it was like a bit of a walk back into my youth ... keep up the good work and please do more 😂😂😂

[@gazb6176]

as a Ancoats kid, in the 60s and beyond, we used to go go to newissy baths, which incorporates a wash house. and that was newIslington baths. great video.

[@DnBclassictunes]

Beautiful. So nice you show this

[@MartinZero]

Thank you

[@Andy-From-England]

Awesome video Martin 😊

[@davidclark3603]

It was really fascinating that!

[@MartinZero]

Thanks David

[@martincotterill823]

Great video! Cheers, Martin

[@wladniem]

brilliant video...as always

[@philhoultby]

Enjoyed this one!

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Phil

[@havingalook2]

Great fun, thank you. The changes and progress are amazing to the area.

[@MartinZero]

Thank you

[@stannisb7693]

Very entertaining. Martin, Roy and James are the A Team. Amazing how you discovered Roy he is a great character. Great music what band?

[@SiRhodesDriverTraining]

The skyline of Manchester has changed massively in the last decade or so. On clear nights, I send my Drone up to 120m and the Towers stand out massively with the aircraft lights. It’s great to still see some heritage also. Great video guys 😀

[@Granty_lad55]

I do exactly the same with my town Blackpool but we haven’t as much history. But I’ve done it for years, there was massive slum clearance in the 1960s. These videos you do are amazing.