Manchester City Centre - 1973

[@stevesmith7997]

Plant a tree in 73 and plant some more in 74! I did working for Manchester City Council Parks Department! I still drive past numerous Trees i planted and bore my grandchildren! thanks for posting loved it!

[@jeffreywatterson67]

Who remembers placemate, Tiffaness, pips and rotters, and Belle vue zoo park.😊

[@GNeuman]

My gf had her handbag stolen at Rotters and I played there in the "Battle of the Bands" competition run by Tony Wilson. I don't remember but apparently The Stone Roses were in the comp too and they won that night, lol

[@ericrawson7669]

ME! I went to them all!

[@tonyoliver2750]

I remember watching them shoot the scene outside the George Best Boutique. I must have been about 19.

[@glovesoffofficial1382]

Happy Days!!

[@mnd1955]

I left Manchester that year to go off to university and never moved back. Still, this brought back a lot of memories. Thanks for posting it.

[@Metrolivia1]

You have never been back since 1973!!! Wow you are in for a shock if you ever do return!

[@GNeuman]

Amazing footage. Good old GMT with their 256 and 257

[@christopherdaly9384]

I remember the campaign 'Plant a tree in 73' ,Bob Greaves talking about it on Granada Reports!!🙃

[@patriciaodriscoll4958]

absolutely wonderful pictures brings back memories

[@marypoppins7]

I was lucky enough to see George Best play at Old Trafford, about that year with my Dad and brother, i was scared at age 14, walking up the cobble path with lots of men in work boots , but seeing George was worth it ❤

[@Caskchap]

Great clip from a lovely film, how Paula Wilcox was gorgeous and so was Manchester back then.

[@johncostello3174]

0:18 That car park is now paved over and called trinity Square and the George Best Boutique is now a bar called 'Crazy Pedros'.

[@paulwild3676]

The girl with the feather cut, is Susan Littler, who played Viv Nicholson in Spend, Spend, Spend. She sadly died very young. She was nominated for a BAFTA for playing Viv, so was headed for big success.

[@andrewbackhouse5091]

RIP Richard Beckinsale

[@heatherprince1659]

It's wonderful seeing these videos with Richard Beckinsale in🌹✝️ R. I. P. Lovely memories for us all and also his 2 daughters Samantha and Kate Beckinsale 👍😍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️👌

[@bollox21]

Love this video..used to go to Henry Barrie in St Annes Square for uniform :)

[@faltskog36abba]

Same here.

[@g.m.4877]

And me! Notre Dame High School

[@mistofoles]

Presumably the fairground/zoo scenes were filmed at the now long defunct Bellevue Park.

[@davidcritchley3509]

Paula Wilcox and Richard Beckinsale in The Lovers.

[@3rk4u]

remember the woolworths fire in 79, i think?,we could see the smoke rising from our street in Beswick.

[@fudgepanda1]

It's funny seeing St. Anne's Square and St. Anne's Street and church. In August 1973 I started my first job a few hundred yards away in King Street. My weekly wage was £16.32 per week and out of my first month's wages I bought a rather fetching grey check sports jacket with huge lapels, plain grey trousers with big flares and a mauve tie that was as wide as my dad's trouser leg. Eee, them were t'days.

[@vinnylo6566]

This film 1972 actually.

[@mistofoles]

Do you still wear the outfit ?

[@ericleach7074]

I was madly in love with Beryl Battersby :)

[@mistofoles]

0:52 - Great Bridgewater Street - the building behind is the arrow sign is now a pub called The Britons Protection, not sure if it was then. Beyond the pub you can just make out the tunnel that leads onto Deansgate/Castlefield.

[@bojack40]

Ah, The Lovers. Soooooo innocent. And yet, many young people were like that. All those location shots give you some sense of the city. For the next forty years it felt only London was treated that way by filmmakers (in the UK). I think it has improved a little more recently, but there’s still room for improvement. To many generic ‘any towns’....

[@mistofoles]

Interesting, but I would I really like to see is archive footage of inside the Arndale Centre from the late 70s/early 80s

[@petek7822]

Christ, I started work at the Refuge in 1973 😂 And Paula Wilcox, still going strong.

[@geoffedwards-tb4kp]

Halcyon days,damp on the walls ,so deep and black you had to decorate every 6months, pawn shop on a Monday,we was ok both parents in work,flared cords and bright purple y fronts!!Fly away collars and nylon shirts!!Ford Anglia or mini for mam,Cortina or Granada for dad,chippy tea on a Friday,Town on Saturday,watch the match.Nanas on Sunday for a roast, sandwiches and biscuits for tea and bleeding Harry seacom on songs of praise.(bless his local vicar singing voice).Still better than 80's.Mass unemployment,Hard drugs,depression,robbing the pawn shops,and cars,Gang violence,and organised crime,the break up of traditional families and privatisation.flared cords one week,shell suits the other,then the start of multi cultural, course work instead of exams to qualify,and last but not least political correctness.Progress ay,Oh yes and still every one from Coronation Street is from Yorkshire but depict life in Manchester.Hmmm.

[@garyt3039]

Seen this first time around to :-) omg how time flies when your having fun a?..

[@Hedgemist]

Richard Beckinsale was gorgeous.

[@glamdolly30]

Wasn't he just - died far too young at just 31. All that charisma and talent, gone. Tragic.

[@heatherprince1659]

He sure was Gorgeous agree with you also 👍🌹👍❤️👌

[@shamshirhussain8198]

His daughter is gorgeous

[@Chrisamusic1]

Ah, the old souvenir shop at old Trafford. Bought many a footy shirt from there. Compared to the shop now, that was like a market stall! BTW, Pauline looks gorgeous in this, and RIP Richard.

[@johnallen3297]

I remember them filming this...I was about 8 or 9. The film crew were encouraging us all to shout hahahaha

[@EarlEBird-fz6yr]

I remember being there too - holding your hand (again) :-)

[@tonyoliver2750]

@@EarlEBird-fz6yr I was watching them film outside the George Best Boutique.

[@73reider]

The next development of old Trafford after these images were filmed was the demolition of the terracing seen at 5.19 and 1800 seats installed into a new stand named "L". But to me this was Old Trafford in its prime.

[@harrybroughton4999]

Yes - interesting to know though the Scoreboard End they are sat in at the end has never since been demolished - that's one stand that's remained intact minus the terracing.

[@FiveLiver]

5:19

[@vicgallimore6756]

Qqa0

[@richardj2216]

No Leaking Roof lol

[@PB.JACKSON]

Geoffrey Bubbles Bon Bon .

[@FiveLiver]

N O spells no.

[@johnw2328]

Manchester my birth city👻

[@scotia7326]

It’s not Manchester without Gene Hunt protecting the streets, I’m sorry.

[@michaelberry1028]

And no Percy filth!

[@2011pmacz]

lol

[@Jomo-x6n]

@3:43 Wow! Was that what Old Trafford look like back in 1973?

[@vinnylo6566]

I think its 1972 not 1973. I have this film on dvd.

[@RawMancFilm]

released in 1973.

[@annoldham3018]

Is the zoo Belle Vue?

[@bluthebeast3132]

Lol the time United got religated by City that famous Denis Law back heel.

[@patrickmalone1902]

Citeh will know all about relegation lol.

[@johnhankinson1929]

they've never recovered from it , the red shite have been in the blue shadow for 50 years

[@patrickmalone1902]

Learn how to spell you liar.

[@garystewart2263]

😂

[@garystewart2263]

Least we can fill our ground

[@stevejones7008]

Paula Wilcox. Man about the house lol

[@yogihaughton7646]

I wonder if any of the crowd in these shots ended up attending Wigan Casino.

[@fudgepanda1]

My wife did, and she live in Middlesbrough at the time. They used to come down by coach.

[@Julia-fo4tk]

There was a terrific atmosphere at the Casino. Does anyone remember the Bird Cage/Tiffanys in A-u-L? The latter had a Northern Soul night.

[@terryblueeyes]

anyone got film of oldham street of the70s

[@RobertKincaid-vq3hn]

paula wilcox is married to Nelson Riddle jr known as BUD her father in law was a very successful arranger

[@mistofoles]

Think the George Best boutique is now Crazy Pedro's bar/nightclub.

[@glamdolly30]

I wonder how long it actually traded? No doubt he pissed any profits against the wall. A self indulgent, lazy, arrogant fool who squandered his talents and behaved appallingly. His decidedly untalented son is a chip off the old block. Not half as good looking as his father was before the booze ravaged him - and old Calum's lost all his hair too!

[@davidwaterhouse2552]

Richard Beckinsale looks like he could have been in Buzzcocks! dx

[@nick8666-l5d]

Could you really just stroll in Old Trafford like that back in the day?

[@stephanieshefer5545]

Yes.

[@stephanieshefer5545]

My first time at old Trafford cost 60p. Standing stretford end.

[@bernardfender5147]

He never met Percy Filth did he!

[@SandywellFilms]

Great to see this again. I remember being at the premiere of The Lovers during the Manchester Festival! More views of 1970s Manchester in my film "The Maltese Budgie" at kzbin.infovideos

[@margaretblack2399]

Oh wow that was belle vue fair and zoo use to go there as a kid

[@vahidshahadi9817]

Bit of social distancing at minute: 3:34 😀

[@geoffedwards-tb4kp]

Good old days when the Mancunian race was represented by peaple from elsewhere,that back wards they have only tried to be authentic in the last ten years.

[@MrTSK27]

St Ann's Square..NO E..

[@2011pmacz]

No, if you wanted E, Oldham St was the place!

[@gzk6nk]

Apart from the footage wasted on a bleedin' football stadium, the rest of that brought back lots of memories.

[@glamdolly30]

Who cares about Manchester? I'm more interested in seeing old film of Richard Beckinsale, who died tragically young aged 31 in 1979. Places are just places, but people are utterly irreplaceable.

[@johnhankinson1929]

many a mancunian does , who gives a shit about you ?

[@ianmansbridge3646]

Places can be haunted by the spirit of the past and those we have lost. As I walk round these days I keep getting the feeling that I am about to meet a departed friend. It is most uncanny.

[@boringbug98]

violence

[@boringbug98]

what the friggin hell is this. wow!. dont know whether to be amazed or reoulsed,,, nice seeing manchester in 1973 but dont know who these pepple are dont like tem acting is terrible.