Stockport in 1966

Stockport in 1966. First part is the General Election when Labour got in but not in Stockport North. The second part looks at the smoky industrial towns it was with its slums being cleared, but with the posher parts built in the Victorian times.

[@raymondkeen196]

Left stockport in 1968, still have a mirror that came from Peter Carlson interiors. Video brought back some fond memories of growing up in South Reddish and Stockport.

[@webbg6]

I left Stockport in 1980 having been born to a generation of Stockportonians trailing back as far as records will allow. In 1966 I turned six years old and spent much time in the centre with my two nannas, on the bowling green with my granddad and sometimes at the railway or bus station. Your pictures should be shown as a reminiscence session in old folks' homes. Now fifty two years old, I'm holding back the tears. Thanks so much for posting this.

[@aragornthebrave]

*Stopfordian.

[@ianbishop247]

Hello Peter, Interested to hear you worked at Friedland Chimes. I had the pleasure of working with a client who ran a Hifi shop in Cheetham Hill. He used to work at Friedland. He was an Asian chap and had a degree in chemistry and was involved in the rubber mounts on which the chimes sat on. He once told me that they came up with a formula that was too bouncy but they used it to make some super bouncy balls. I do remember such balls in the 1970s. I can't recall his name but I'm guessing he must have worked there in the 70's.

[@angelaegan7511]

Great history lesson and trip down memory lane, thank you.

[@enidshelmerdine4026]

Thanks for this, really interesting. I was born in Reddish in 1949 and went to work for the Stockport Advertiser, on High St in 1965, so most of this very familiar but much of it long forgotten.

[@ballochdubh]

Brings a tear to my eye Enid and I feel quite sad. As you will remember it all played a major part in out lives. Now after much traveling I see how bad it really was, and I would never out of choice return.

[@ballochdubh]

Think my name might help! Gordon Roberts.

[@carolhunter5358]

I found this film very interesting I was born in Reddish and lived there until I was married in 1960 and worked at John Myers which was the Houldsworth Mill, then moved to Heaton Moor, in 1966 I moved to Offerton and still there to this day. I have seen many changes through the 70 years and think this footage is amazing Thank you so much.

[@paulbennell3313]

Fascinating video. Filmed 3 years before I was born, I love to see how things were shortly before my time.

[@v2factoryman]

Really nice nostalgic trip around the town. I was born in Reddish in 1957 and just about remember many of the scenes here, and I now live in Heaton Moor, so very topical for me. Happy days, thanks for posting this!

[@jayjaypen2]

Great commentary. Lovely footage. Thanks!

[@joehiggs100]

A cracking piece, thanks very much.

[@pamhowes9522]

Thanks for that trip down memory lane.

[@v2factoryman]

The clip of the platforms at a station was Edgeley, not Heaton Chapel. Brief clip of Broadstone Bridge.

[@TonyWilliampianoman]

Yeah, great film and well done keeping up in the commentary. I'd just started work as an apprentice printer at The Stockport Advertiser then. Hated it!

[@ballochdubh]

Not suprised you hated it Tony, as I was down in the rotary in the early to mid sixties with Tom Hargreaves and all his simpletons. Nasty people and I to hated the place.

[@TonyWilliampianoman]

@@ballochdubh 5 years later :) yes. Tinston was ok, I liked working for him. Left and did a couple of years at the Express - then Pro. Music and Magic for me :)

[@LaveryTribe]

I left Stockport in 2006, emigrating to New Zealand, but have visited a few times since then, most recently about six months ago. To be honest, I thought the whole place looked a bit tired although the new bus exchange looks pretty good. My dad worked on the market in the 60's putting the tarps over the stalls. Apparently, the stallholders had to pay their pitch fee up-front before they were given these.

[@stevebuckley2429]

Great to see just how busy the Market was.

[@dellsmore]

I am from there, but I live in Ireland, I really miss the place. I miss the people. Ho hum.

[@Deelystaniel]

Thanks very much this is very interesting.

[@ballochdubh]

My family came from Stockport and I grew up there, I remember my early years with affection, but now my discription would be that of a dump and to say the flats that were built on Lancashire hill were very nice there a bloody disgrace that I would not put my dog in.

[@None-zc5vg]

Somehow, as with many housing-redevelopment schemes, they threw out the baby with the bathwater. Peter Carlson moved into the Merseyway precinct, facing into Chestergate. Expensive and unaffordable for ordinary people: it went to the wall years ago.

[@YouNameItILLBuyIt]

i've realley enjoyed this!

[@antfirmin]

I think you will find the plane is a VC10 if you look closely, the wings are too long for a 1-11 or a trident and the engines go too far out.

[@techtinkerin]

Great film, time travel❤️😊

[@paulharrison48]

Hi Peter. Is this your video? I would love to use it on the Stockport Express website in the run-up to the election

[@davidmorris8003]

Hello and thank your for the old films and commentary your mentioned earlier in the short film that your worked in reddish making door chims/bells I remember that my dad also worked there is was only wondering if you'd remember him it was in the early 80s his name is David Morris I remembered coming in wile he was working his shift and showed me want heveryone did thanks again

[@None-zc5vg]

The old Friedland mill became a home for small-businesses but I understand that it's been converted into apartments.

[@lostinfens]

Great film, shame the cameraman didn't linger a few seconds more on each shot though.

[@missbutterfly3292]

Does anyone remember the underground toilets in stockport towncentre??

[@martinlanigan9202]

When the industries went every thing went

[@styal5]

Plane overhead was a Trident..Nevertheless some great lost streets and places featured

[@shopmobgm]

It's actually a VC10

[@hammadoolass]

The place you couldn't remember the name of at 5:59 is The Three Shires, which is still there. And I think the church at 7:06 is St Mary's, not St Peters. Otherwise a great walk through the past.

[@thomascarroll9556]

Andy Burns definitely not Heaton Chapel as there were four tracks between the two platforms, at that station, not 100% but think your right about it being one of the platforms at Edgerley do they still have a platform "0"?

[@shopmobgm]

It was indeed Edgeley (Stockport) Station and yes they still have the bizarre Platform 0

[@ANGELICHUMANANGEL]

MY SCOOTER DAYS WERE SPENT AROUND THIS TOWN !!...GREAT DAYS INDEED 😎😎😎

[@broadband01]

nice footage,i live in reddish::O)

[@miaisawesome584]

broadband01 same 😲

[@hjp1hjp22]

An aeroplane crashed in Stockport the following year, 1967 destroying a few houses with people killed.

[@shopmobgm]

It only destroyed a few service buildings in Hopes Carr. All deaths were some of the passengers on the British Midland Arganought. RIP

[@None-zc5vg]

@@shopmobgm An "Argonaut": its engines were starved of fuel which had been pumped into the wrong wing-tanks because of a Heath Robinson fuel-control system whose levers could 'creep' unnoticed into the wrong position, possibly because of vibration.

[@shopmobgm]

@@None-zc5vg so you're telling me something I already know, which has no reference to my reply. Makes sense!?

[@None-zc5vg]

@@shopmobgm You didn't spell 'Argonaut' correctly so I thought I'd help out: the other stuff is irrelevant, as you said, but most comments on Facebook are essentially irrelevant anyway so it's best not to get exercised over them.

[@shopmobgm]

@@None-zc5vg just curious why you felt the need to 'help me out'? You shouldn't of let it bother you

[@neilshaw3071]

Looks like we have gone full circle, was awful became a nice place and now awful again

[@craighowe2527]

The film you had which had a Aircraft in it !! You said a bac11 it was a vc10

[@shopmobgm]

I thought that exact same thing as soon as he said BAC1-11.

[@tonyball3910]

fab I left in 67 for oz, never been back

[@cansee0]

Me too so glad my parents emigrated to Sydney

[@BBWA100]

Same here. Came to Australia in 1965, 10yr old, we first stayed at Fairy Meadow Hostel in Woolongong, NSW. Best move my parents ever made.🇦🇺

[@Desmodromic100]

Wonder if the young girl in the supermarket recognises herself @5.20.

[@zigzogoid4591]

Surely that's a VC 10 flying above?

[@shopmobgm]

It is

[@dan_gamez1239]

no way I go priestnall

[@darrenburnfan]

The editing on this film is terrible, with most shots only lasting for one second on average...so that the contents of the image are not on screen long enough for the eyes to register it. I do find that most amateur cinematographers using Super 8mm in those days, used to film things in very short bursts in order to make the reel of film last as long as possible and, of course, the results were dire. This is probably what happened in this case. Historic shots, though, if you pause them.

[@shaunboden6951]

Are they the markets that angry brigade Anna Mendelssohn helped out on with her parents as a child.

[@cansee0]

So glad my parents emigrated to Australia

[@BBWA100]

Same here. Came to Australia in 1965, 10yr old, we first stayed at Fairy Meadow Hostel in Woolongong, NSW. Best move my parents ever made.🇦🇺

[@Paul-eb4jp]

Why? Stockport's a great place.

[@Tundee258]

UP THE FUCKING PETER STOCK

[@Tundee258]

Scott*

[@ajay999999]

What a dump

[@anoopsahal1202]

Stockport looks like the proverbial grim northern town. Dirty dull and poor. Not much different today

[@None-zc5vg]

All the life has gone out of the town-centre, along with the once-busy shops and the big stores.

[@anoopsahal1202]

Anon Anon I live 4 miles from the town centre, the council does nothing to encourage me to go to the shops which have surly 😠 people serving and who make me feel unwelcome and have overpriced stuff. I use Amazon for all my stuff , M&S Tesco and Waitrose for food and clothing. The shops can close for my liking .they did it to themselves

[@None-zc5vg]

@@anoopsahal1202 I couldn't find any remaining shops and stores in Stockport from which I might have wanted to buy anything. There's nothing left and I don't use the out-of-town retail-parks to which the bigger stores like M&S [ who've lost the plot] have chosen to relocate.

[@anoopsahal1202]

Anon Anon , i would be very interested to hear your explanation of why British retail is so poor. We get what we deserve , or allow to invade our retail space

[@None-zc5vg]

@@anoopsahal1202 It's not about poor service (I hear that the remaining M&S stores are notorious for poor service, but that's hearsay): there aren't enough shops left in Stockport that I'd want to use (and the same goes for central Manchester).

[@peterscott5497]

I worked in Friedlands next to John Myers from 1965 to 1990. Moved to hertfordshire in 2011 but come back to reddish half a dozen times a year to visit the Fun days in the arks.