Poem about Manchester: 'This is the Place' - BBC News

[@beetrootfingers]

3 years later and it still chokes me up and hits me deep.

[@bollox21]

Was about to wrote the same. Choked, tearful and proud to be a manc

[@tomcottrell1219]

7 years later ... it still does the same ❤

[@storminateacup9791]

“Mi mam lived and died here, she loved it she did” Mam swore she’d not move away from Hyde Road and as much as my dad tried she didn’t. 🙂 bless her. Gets me every time I listen to it x

[@JW-hb2rc]

Every now and then I watch this as I miss my home town

[@willsrealtalk]

Mcr proud

[@fdama]

Proud Manc right here. RIP to all those cowardly murdered. Faisal D, Fallowfield, Manchester.

[@laidbackjack3166]

Spine-tingling. I am a proud and defiant Northerner. Absolutely phenomenal. You'll never ever beat a Northerner with a soul. Never.

[@vincentbrannelly8786]

if youre not northern you dont have one .

[@joelatimer3078]

Genetically I'm southern. Historically I'm a Yorkshireman. But I've been a manc for 14 years. Both my kids are mancs. Most of my students are mancs, many of my friends are mancs. I was there that afternoon and felt what you see in that crowd. It was special. It is special. I'm proud to be part of that Manchester spirit

[@mikethompson5549]

No one can keep a Manc down. City Utd. Enough said. I love Manchester.

[@SK77M14]

Mike Thompson ❤️🐝

[@lozzimusprime]

2 years later. You 22 will never be forgotten. This is Manchester, where the bees still buzz. Proud to be Manc forever.

[@stevemagnan]

so moving...poetry is not dead...emotion has found its words

[@tylerdurden8662]

he said more than politicians, a proper manc voice

[@katerinamx9145]

This poem will stand the test of time. Everything we love about our home.

[@daincain]

This makes me cry every time! What a proud Manc This makes me! ❤❤❤

[@mattyctill]

Still makes me cry 5 years on....

[@JJ1974z]

And me ❤

[@suzanneholden9315]

Born, breed, and proud to be Mancunian... LOVE Manchester

[@paulrodden]

It’s criminal that this video only has 125k views

[@leannecampbell4551]

pish talk

[@gurmitsingh3179]

Manchester, always a special place in my heart.

[@t814]

"There will be those who seek to divide us and spread hatred and fear here. You know, my closing words yesterday were "choose love". I said them spontaneously, but to choose love we need to reject fear, to reject hatred, reject lies, reject distortion and keep together as a diverse community." - Poet Tony 'Longfellow' Walsh.

[@lennylaa1686]

Far left ranting bollocks. In fear of PC racial eugenics. White genocide. Social and racial engineering = racial persecution of the silent white majority.

[@rosiecahalin9841]

2 years gone but never forgotten ❤️🐝

[@irishvuck2447]

The 22 will remain in the hearts of all who love this fantastic city! 🐝

[@BrianDickinson-yy4no]

Proud Mancunian, my father once said he knew when he was near home when he saw "The North" signposted on the Motorway ,then when he saw Manchester he felt that much closer to home. He was from Yorkshire originally but came to Manchester in the early 50s with his German wife after he left the Army. They made a home and lived and died there and along the way raised My Sister and me , Strange to say I now live in Leeds and the roles are reversed, but when ever I see Manchester /Leeds I know I am near my home. The North is the best part of this country by a long long way.

[@janinehanley8781]

Manc said proud you could offer me a million quid to move but I wouldn’t our history our culture our strength in hard times can’t be matched BRILLANT Poem Manchester IS the place

[@hibbertcs]

Home. Forever Manchester!!!

[@themancunian777]

Makes you proud to be from Manchester - 4 mins 30 secs - This is the place - we should give something back 👍

[@balcomebalcombe561]

Nearly 7 years, can’t believe it ! I’m from Salford and my 21 year old son who lost someone from his school in the bombings has been in London this past year and has just been telling me how much he misses the people, he loves London the place but said if you could just import Mancunians of all creeds and colours into the place it would be so much better

[@unfortunatelynottoldthetru5395]

The world needs this! Stronger United 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@rondameier8168]

Stunning.... My heart is with you all....

[@willsrealtalk]

Manchester proud forever and always 💙 💙💙

[@captwilkie3239]

Every Year I come back to this chokes me up every sngle time

[@danhewett6086]

I'm from the West Midlands. Only been to Manchester 4 times in my life but each time I went I felt welcome and loved. My 2nd home! LOVE MCR ❤️

[@mikeking6164]

Never more proud to be a Manc.

[@laurengilligan5927]

Mike King same😊

[@benupton6616]

The poem was beautiful, it was real, it felt like Manchester. Anybody here to throw any negativity on top of negativity is heartless and has no soul. This city is special.. It does have a vibe throughout its streets and buildings and is a cultural goldmine. Manchester is worth your tears and worth fighting for ❤️MCR forever

[@hibbertcs]

It's Home. Simple.

[@paulbangash4317]

Ben Upton : 👍 Manchester is all about soul

[@apexgym6515]

Well said. There is unique vibe. Unlike most soulless towns and cities up and down UK

[@melissamelia7837]

This gives me happy tears I miss all my family and everything about Bolton, I live in somerset now

[@culainnobrien9110]

This is why Manchester is the best place in the world

[@mcfcste99]

The best poem ever about the Greatest City 👍

[@job2358]

this is manchester.., proud to be a mancunian.. i cry every time listen to it!

[@leedavies4589]

i'm a city fan i remeber this day so painfully this was a day football also came together ..no more petty arguments ..its MANCHESTER we love our home

[@job2358]

@@leedavies4589 a CITY UNITED!!!.... it was a disaster but how we all pulled together humbled me... thank you for your comment xx

[@job2358]

@Return of the grapes. thank you- love and respect straight back at you 🥰 I’m proud all is Mancs can come together when needed x 🥰🤗🥰🤗

[@philiphamer5959]

Brilliantly captures the mood of a great city.

[@laurengilligan5927]

I love how they have a variety of different races on that stage to show that we accept everyone and that everyone is equal!❤️I’m so very proud to be manc and to live here where I know that no matter what, we are going to get through things whether people like it or not❤️😊

[@williambunter3311]

YOU may be going to get through things LaurenDoesThings, but not the children who were murdered. Are you ever going to wake up and realise that we are in a war being waged against us by Islam, and we need to FIGHT, not make sloppy speeches about equality and tolerance - the very things that Islam is against.

[@williambunter3311]

@Crazy Canuck Esstam hoco verbillius aplum! nonferinum plasium bolasus este! Perfidium noststo comprelium forte neium Canuckium vomitus!

[@zeyadhaggag4112]

this out here really is the place.

[@120Livi]

Just heard his Mightier Than War poem at the IWM North, it was incredible

[@Ben-nh8dt]

This should be Manchesters national anthem

[@adelbaroni1364]

All love Manchester All love for families Those criminals will enter hell I feel so broken heart for those innoccents victims I' m a muslim and I will stand side by side with manchestr Love you Manchester

[@samgorton1985]

adel baroni so true

[@jaynemcfadden3361]

Much love to you xx.

[@paulflynn6169]

Muslims are good people.

[@GaryMills-ku3rv]

Left Manchester when I was 6 some back in 1966 but try telling me I'm not a manc. My first 6 years of life spent in Manchester with manc parents and grandparents. I love this poem I'm so proud to be born in Manchester

[@mj3625]

It makes me proud to be from manchester ❤🐝

[@manunitedfan763]

MJ 13 same 😀

[@mcfcok1683]

Me too 😣

[@utawkinterme9428]

So inspiring. Balm to the aching Heart and Soul.

[@justmadeit2]

Manchester is a great city and its actually having some warm weather right now which is welcome

[@TMNickk]

4 years on, still moving

[@Dickie279]

I still come back every year 🐝

[@vincentbrannelly8786]

These lines are written for all to see inside the Etihad . This is the place . Forever Manchester.

[@susanelias748]

Proud to be a manc always my home town forever

[@apexgym6515]

I miss it

[@susanelias748]

I always wear my bee 🐝 pin because even though I don't live there anymore. iam forever a Manchester girl

[@Gettherodsin]

Proud 💪🏻

[@gknox5995]

My daughter has been learning this poem at school

[@denisebell8422]

Always gives me goosebumps this ❤ from a proud Manc ❤❤❤❤

[@mcfcok1683]

This City stands United 🐝

[@Laytown]

Manchester. The Centre of the Universe.

[@Laytown]

The centre of all things. Whether you realise or want to accept it or not. All things started at home.....my heart will forever be in Chorlton Cum-Hardy...

[@tylerdurden8662]

He sums it up perfectly, As one!!!!

[@manunitedfan763]

We stand strong 1 year 😭✨

[@AthertonTravels]

Very cool actually. Manchester looks like its worthy of a visit

[@darrenwilson8042]

Stirs my soul to its very base

[@Mxzdas]

MANCHESTER ALL THE WAY

[@hannahmadden6530]

This is Manchester, we do things differently here. #WeStandTogether. #MancAndProud.

[@supernovalabs]

never forget.

[@chrisbaldwin8186]

This is just special 🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@waqarshah309]

we all love manchester

[@Kraken54321]

Apart from the one's bombing and knifing people. 🤦‍♂️

[@erinmcgarvey5816]

Proud to be manc right now 💔😭 22 angels

[@damiengreenwood7378]

I would like to know why some have thumbs downed this.

[@EllenWst]

​@@oli7290don't be ridiculous.

[@isabellesanderson9241]

I met this guy in school on Wednesday

[@mehreenn]

LOL SAME😂

[@gxrlgamer988]

I was sent here for my school work

[@corrinberry9900]

Samezzz

[@crimson2412]

Same

[@lukea279]

chills

[@sosig1341]

Who’s watching this from a geography online lesson

[@mjlloyd3937]

Powerful

[@laurencrompton8138]

#Manchesterforever ❤️

[@theomoore8917]

This is the place in the North West of England It’s ace, it’s the best and the songs that we sing From the stands, from our bands set the whole planet shaking Our inventions are legends! There’s nowt we can’t make and So we make brilliant music. We make brilliant bands We make goals that make souls leap from seats in the stands And we make things from steel and we make things from cotton And we make people laugh, take the mick summat rotten And we make you at home and we make you feel welcome And we make summat happen, we can’t seem to help it And if you’re looking for history then yes, we’ve a wealth But the Manchester way is to make it yourself And make us a record, a new number one And make us a brew while you’re up, love. Go on! And make us feel proud that you’re winning the league And make us sing louder and make us believe it That this is the place that has helped shape the world And that this the place where a Manchester girl Name of Emmeline Pankhurst from the streets of Moss Side Led a Suffragette City with sisterhood pride And this is the place with appliance of science We’re on it, atomic, we strut with defiance In the face of a challenge we always stand tall Mancunians in union delivered it all Such as housing and libraries, and health, education And unions and co-ops, the first railway station So we’re sorry! Bear with us! We invented commuters! But we hope you forgive us - we invented computers! And this is the place Henry Royce strolled with Rolls And we’ve rocked and we’ve rolled with our own Northern Soul And so this is the place to do business, then dance Where go-getters and goal setters know they’ve a chance And this is the place where we first played as kids And me Mam lived and died here, she loved it she did And this is the place where our folks came to work Where they struggled in puddles, they hurt in the dirt And they built us a city. They built us these towns And they coughed on the cobbles to the deafening sound Of the steaming machines and the screaming of slaves They were scheming for greatness, they dreamed to their graves And they left us a spirit, they left us a vibe The Mancunian Way to survive and to thrive And to work and to build, to connect and create and Greater Manchester’s greatness is keeping it great And so this is the place now we’ve kids of our own Some are born here, some drawn here but we all call it home And they’ve covered the cobbles, but they’ll never defeat All the dreamers and schemers who still teem through these streets Because this is a place that has been through some hard times Oppressions, recessions, depressions and dark times But we keep fighting back with Greater Manchester spirit Northern grit, northern wit in Greater Manchester’s lyrics And there’s hard times again in these streets of our city But we won’t take defeat and we don’t want your pity Because this a place where we stand strong together With a smile on our face, Mancunians Forever And we’ve got this* as the place where a team with a dream (*Forever Manchester) Can get funding and something to help with their scheme Because this is the place that understands your grand plans We don’t do No Can Do, we just stress Yes We Can! Forever Manchester’s a charity for people round ‘ere You can fundraise, donate. You can be a volunteer You can live local, give local. We can honestly say We do charity differently, that Mancunian Way And we fund local kids, and we fund local teams We support local dreamers to work for their dreams We support local groups and the great work they do So can you …help us help… local people like you? Because this is the place in our hearts, in our homes Because this is the place that’s a part of our bones ‘Cos Greater Manchester gives us such strength from the fact That this is the place. We should give something back. Always remember. Never forget. Forever Manchester

[@AnneWaller-rj9hy]

Such good writing, encapsulates my home town perfectly

[@AnneWaller-rj9hy]

Love it❤

[@seltit]

Wow....6000 miles away But still manc is home

[@catcomputer]

2:40 (ignore this)

[@EmilyWallworth]

I'm so proud to be mancunian

[@charliehyndman3909]

Im doing this for english work

[@philipk5246]

no one cares charlie

[@gracewhittallx8016]

1 year today 💔🐝

[@rebekahbrowndanceacademy7236]

🐝 4 years x

[@noamanullahabasi912]

Woooooooooooooooh😌

[@ianp1986]

In bits every time I watch this

[@just_maisie7724]

He came to my school today

[@crazedcomplexmonsters9360]

❤ Never let the minorities spread FEAR, HATE, based on religion's and race, we stand together ❤️ no matter who you are or where you are from, CHOOSE LOVE❤ LOVE EVERYONE❤, LET THE SAD HATER'S CONTINUE TO HATE🥱🙄, THIS IS MANCHESTER WE DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY ❤❤❤❤ONE LOVE❤ 🎉💃🏃‍➡️💋💕✊️✊🏾

[@shauncunningham3228]

#proudtobefrommanchester

[@ghazi2392]

I was there.

[@leedavies4589]

when has BBC paiad tribute to saffie and the rest ..never oh wait London has had a curry house shut

[@MadeInManny0161]

#AllForOneOneForAll

[@ademokanju]

2020 anyone

[@jonathanturner319]

🐝 🙏🏻

[@yungjew2756]

Since I couldn’t do it at the time on my 18th I’m getting a worker bee tattoo 🐝

[@1gchiv]

We are accually nice

[@davidcleasby204]

Whos still here?

[@EAMCFC]

Proud to be manc

[@laurencrompton8138]

🙏

[@dominickcooper5706]

The sound of the videos is not good

[@HommeTerre]

👍💕 👋👋👋

[@aaronjohnson5855]

love briton

[@laurencrompton8138]

manchester home

[@JamesMc.]

Love Manchester 🐝

[@paulbangash4317]

👍✨

[@riastokoe525]

❤🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝❤

[@fdp2904]

how much do Mancunians love their city ?

[@Mikeb1001]

FunkySheet more than you could ever imagine

[@mj3625]

Cant you see by the crowd??

[@MegaTreble99]

More than you'll ever know. No matter what religion, red or blue, ❤

[@willyeckerslike9437]

Its everything to us