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It is a depressing area to live.

Zooms in on St Michaels church.😂

As long as Tommy's chippy still open best chippy ever! Still open was there on Friday 😊

what an uninformative film..... what planning applications are before the council and for what ? that data would have been helpful....

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What a difference. 60 odd years ago when I was a boy, Alkrington Moss started at the top of the dirt track that was Mainway which was much more towards Manchester New Road than now. It was an area of scrub with the Apple and Pear stagnant ponds, and extended all the way to Middleton Junction. No houses there either. Also, I don't remember any or many tress at all.

This is a brilliant idea. I lived in Alkrington from 1948 to 1974 and can just about remember Langley being built, which doubled Middleton's population overnight. Then, Mainway was mostly a dirt track ending short of Alkrington Moss. Then the estate came along connecting Mainway almost to Middleton Junction So the whole place changed just in that relatively short time. I see my old school, Alkrington still seems to be there , halfway down Kingsway. Fortunately the west side of Manchester New road where I lived does not seem to have suffered. I suppose they cannot build on Alkrington Wood, thank goodness. In the early 60s, I could still get to countryside at Bowlee within minutes on my bike, or to Slattocks and Tandle Hill. Let's hope that the land behind my father's birthplace in Rhodes does not succumb to development. Green spaces are vital round there.

I used to live on hereford way boarshaw and worked at wincanton on stakehill i really miss those days its only when you move away you realise how middleton stood on its own.I just looked on google maps and it seems to have changed for the worse sorry to say I also had a girlfriend who worked at the who'd a wood street ✌

Anyone remember Ray Cain? 🤔

Wow, well done 👏

Old Middleton, lovely historical buildings. What have they done to the rest!

I love watching the destruction of demolition.

Well here we are in May 2019. It might be worth doing an update with a camera rather than Google maps to show people what's actually happening in the area. Langley Lane and Hollin Lane will be completely unrecognisable in a year or so. It's a well know fact that we need more housing, but there are plenty of brown land sites in our area that could have been used. But that's not what the building companies want because they're looking to maximise their profits rather than provide a service.

1st bitch

I prefer the newer improved group.

I don't see the year 8s on bikes with puffer jackets...

Looks more like old middleton to me!

Not much about the lovely church, but good views all round, FROM the church.

How old are you? as a kid from above the Owd a thout it around the Kings Head all the way down Wood Street past the Woodmans pub as far as the Albion pub was back to back houses built in the 1800 hundreds to house the people that came to work in the mills of Middleton,I bought one on Oldham Road in the Eighties that was built in 1897,lets get some facts layed down here.

It looked like that before they built Langley,do horses have more rights to fields than people have rights to houses? I wonder where you live? NIMBYism?

also sat on the front row next to Mr Kenny s Mr Kevin Cunningham definitely , the teacher in the second row behind these two is Mr Shay Cunningham (head of maths ) I think

hi everyone the names of the teachers are slightly wrong, you have identified the guy on the front row (in front of Mr Rowen , Headmaster,) as Mr English (woodwork teacher) its not him but me, Paul Scholes I was the science technician, working with Mr Munroe (telephone bill) and my boss Mr Newton head of science .

Another PRIME example of how authoritarian 21st. century britain has evolved backwards with their decision making.....SHAMEFUL!!!

,I remember Wood Street was green fields from Mellalieu down to Mid. we used to play football there that was bad enough when they built there but when they built on Hollin High/Moorclose playing fields that was enough,Manchester will end up like london,lots of towns with no boarders, just one massive sprawl

Beautifully captured, what a stunning clip, and what a beautiful piece to create on such a poignant day

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Bet them Windows were worth a Bob or two

Married there just over 21 years ago. Lovely place

From Sudden to Slattocks roundabout, via Castleton centre, and all points in between!

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Not bad

Thanks for posting this. Brings back memories. From an ex Middletonian, living in Toronto.

no animals hurt!! hahah if your going to get into lots of video's may be worth looking into google adsence :)

Cannot believe they didn't get a reclamation firm in so at least those beautiful capstones and window frames were used again. Scandalous waste of resources at best. Vandalism at worst.

Such a shame to see one of middleton's oldest building to be treated like this when they knew for years it needed work but did nothing about it..just hope they don't do this to Hopwood Hall Manor House.

such a sad day. :(

These clips are from a longer video filmed, produced and owned by Allen Roache. It isn't my intention to breach any copyright, but to promote the existence of this footage to locals, expats, anyone who went to the school and anyone with an interest in it on behalf of Mr Roache.

still wet as ever

Pop pop ;-) don't know who that could be hahaha great day could not have been better RIP HERO !!