Oldham 1968 ( so called slum clearance) 😢

[@sonnysingh2617]

Fascinating video from the late 60s 😊 thanks for posting 🙏🙏

[@darrenfarrell-bn2cb]

They weren’t that Bad They should have been Renovated a House is a House and a lot of Hard working people, God Rest them all

[@Wearenotreallyhere]

56 years later and Oldhams more of a slum now than it ever was.

[@John-c1n9t]

Invaded slum!

[@PaulGregory-y9t]

Yh it is was a good owd town

[@occamraiser]

Oldham may or may not be a dump today. But those WERE slums. In the 60s those types of homes had toilets in the yard, one fireplace, no hot water except maybe an Ascot heater in the kitchen - the windows had ice ON THE INSIDE on a winter morning. I grew up on Teesside in the 1960s and 'modern' council houses were palaces by comparison - absolute palaces.

[@roberttodd2414]

what nonesense, i grew up in teeside and we lived in a terrace that had a toilet in the yard etc, ice on the windows and no central heating. what we did was install a boiler, double glazing and an indoor bathroom. now that terrace will see my mother out, it's solid housing stock, whearas the people who ended up in council flats have to walk through corridors soaked in urine and all the other filth to get to their crumbling front doors.

[@missmuffet3874]

@@roberttodd2414but some people had no option. The council condemned certain areas as slums to be demolished. The owners and/or tenants didn’t have a say in the matter. I don’t know about Teeside because I live and was brought up in NW England. But the ones here that were demolished were “jerry built” quickly in late Victorian and Edwardian times to accommodate the influx of workers that had moved to towns for work in the factories and pits. The better quality ones survived and were given grants in the 70s to modernise and upgrade to make decent homes for modern living that are still around today and are probably preferable to the new housing developments being constructed today.

[@thefire4669]

im 33 born and raised in Oldham, love seeing this content. thank you!

[@JohnRadford-iy7db]

I lived in oldham all my life remember all the terrace houses whuch are gone and other buildings 😢

[@daffyduk77]

Fighting talk from the shop-owner. Understandable

[@lablackzed]

Old school oldhamers long gone replaced by 👳👳a crying shame Oldham is no more just a name on a map I left in the 70s saw it coming.

[@angelapietras1235]

I left in 1980 to the other side of the world best thing we ever did,but now things are changing world wide and not for the best .The UK has been ruined and the world’s going the same way apparently.

[@buxvan]

I felt so sorry for ten shopkeeper. He wasn't a happy bunny.

[@peterbowden2646]

Got to admire danny the tailor he didnt half mince his words he had nothing grand to say about the politicians and authorities over the way him and his customers were being treated over the compulsory purchase of property in the name of progress. Whole communities done away with in a short space of time what previously took years to build. Good on yer danny

[@stievboyo636]

Could have been upgraded still millions of those houses being lived in today that have been modernised

[@Mr.1.i]

Every town in britain was knocking down 1800s housing to be replaced with council propertys and high rise flats between 1960 -1970. Scholes in wigan was knocked down and rebuilt a good couple of square miles

[@tinahardman9805]

I lived in a terraced house in Oldham when I was little. It was demolished when I was seven and was a perfectly nice house. Typical Oldham Council who have always been stupid and greedy. So many lovely buildings demolished replaced by rubbish. A town ruined.

[@frankward8336]

I lived in similar homes. They WERE slums.😢

[@MissRoseLily]

😮

[@nicholasbuttery511]

Housing act starts around the same time as Rationing ends. How Conveinient ?

[@an.oldham-lad]

Are you on my Facebook group same name 👍❤️ loads of stuff there

[@JoeCarroll-tr5hw]

to call this A Slum please 🙏 go and check it out today after open borders policy it is a A Slum in Pakistan 🤣

[@minimaxi802]

Oldham just outside Manchester.

[@AndrewHogarth-o8b]

Or is it Manchester just outside Oldham ?