And not a bag of monkey dust in sight.😮. With full employment in the Potteries, Micheliin, the pits and Shelton steel works it was a golden period . Tooooo big an area, tooooo little money now for Stoke on Trent to be better. Crewe is as bad, the top end of Stafford high street is all empty, thats progress.😢
As a kid in the 70’s I remember quite a few of the shops ……I didn’t realise it was part of a scheme like this…..where has it gone …..towns like Burslem should be refurbished like this again…..wonderful video
My parents had a stall in the butchers' market. They also had a shop in Hanley. My father died when I was three after having served four years in WW1. My mother struggled to keep the stall open but with rationing it became impossible. As a child I remember walking around the walls of the town hall and underground there was a brewery which children weren't allowed but I did go down there once.
The thing that killed Burslem was the loss of the pottery firms. At 5pm in the 80s you could barely get onto a bus to get home. Now buses barely have cause to stop there. Some areas no longer even have a direct bus to get there. There had never been a strike in the pottery industry, the unions worked closely with the largely family owned companies for mutual benefit to staff and management. Yet they git tarred with the same brush as British Leyland's and a handful of other such unions that abused their power. The high pound and high interest rates of the eighties killed the potteries, unable to export goods and unable to repay the loans that were forced to take out to try to survive. London based financial companies bought them cheap from the receivers upon bankruptcy and assert stripped them to make quick profits for shareholders. The same happened to the dozens of small engineering companies, some employing only a handful of people, but combined together employing hundreds.
Wow never seen Burslem look so full! The buildings and roads look very well look after as well, nowadays the roads are falling apart and the buildings are half destroyed and in ruins, boarded up shops and pubs everywhere and a smack head in every corner, looking back on these old videos makes me think we have fallen so far
Yet more footage which I look at with a kind of nostalgic jealousy. The previous generation clearly took more pride in their community. Burslem is now full of kebab houses and shops which sell those irritating vapour cigarettes. A sad reflection of our industrial heritage from days gone by!
Probably the last time Burslem got any TLC ☹️ love my city to the core but we need help!!! I went to Hanley yesterday and my god I was devastated I’m only 22 but even in the past 5 years I’ve seen such a decline breaks my heart 💔
Wonderful, original, old and very dear to many peoples hearts, Burslem went the way of many towns in Britain, updated, at the price of the wrecking ball destroying Victorian architecture, We have lost many fine buildings and real treasures, in the name of modernity, I prefer to call it madernity,
Despite this video being about Burslem, I'm 32 and used to frequent Stoke a lot in the 90's with my mother, especially in Hanley. I have to say, things have changed a lot now for the worse, even these years on.
What a lovely film and what a brilliant approach the giving the area a lift. This contrasts with some of the city council's disastrous later attempts at social engineering. I can still remember practicing with a band I played in in the basement of the old town hall on a Thursday night. What a terrible shame about the recent 'accidental' fire in The Leopard 🤔
i live in stoke on trent.In 2021 Burslems buildings look exactly like in this 1960 film, except in a far worse state. Burslem town centre is a derelict mess of empty shops and boarded up buildings. if you see 10 people walking about, its packed. The place is dead. stoke on trent is a large spralling mess of building sites, demolished wasteland and regeneration schemes that take 20 yrs to complete and are needing a revamp once they are done. The city centre Hanley is a joke. if you live here you know this.
I come from Burslem and still live in Stoke on Trent. I was 10 in 1974 when I remember Burslem as a busy and vibrant town and a pleasure to visit with a good variety of quality shops which were all occupied and not boarded up like today. So sad to see it so neglected now. It started to decline when all of the emphasis was given to Hanley in Stoke on Trent but Hanley is now looking shabby. In 1974 Hanley was also busy and vibrant and a pleasure to visit.
I worked in Burslem in 85-86 and it was still as you described. I returned in 91 and it was already in a poor state. Over the next 8 or 9 years it turned into what it is now. There used to be three or four little specialist shoos but they struggled as the council refused to allow proper car parking close to them.
@@davidlovatt2335 Heartbreaking. Burslem was the posh shopping town when I was little. It was a treat to go there. There was a great little toy shop on Nile Street that was like an Aladdin's cave.
@@chrisparkes2179 it was a treat to go there like you say. Every shop was occupied, none boarded up it was clean, excellent indoor market and you could get all you needed. Fond memories indeed.
Great to see the pride being taken in the mother town. Pity the council are not doing the same today. Its criminal how they have left this town fall into even worse decay. Burslem is mother to all the towns and should be treated as such.
Take me back please, got to be England's finest years, before the dreadfull shopping centres, souless, dangerous places, time machine please and leave me there.!!!
You have to laugh at the narrator bemoaning the state of British society in 1960, yeah looks like a right shithole, would hate to have lived back then when communities were polite and proud.
Im not from stoke.but i lived there briefly .its shame those historic buildings are mess now .stoke could be great place if it was restored. hanleys a 1960s craphole .people of stoke need to stop voting career politicans in they dont give dam about stoke.get somone fresh modern thinking that will fight for stoke .I like stoke and the people.I feel proud to tell people in glasgow i was in stoke
My mum worked in a shop in Burslem in 1960. I was born 10 years later and some of my earliest memories are of visiting Burslem.
Free parking…..looks a popular idea…
Thank you for the nice comments. This cine film was made by my grandparents Ken and Kathleen Jupp.
And not a bag of monkey dust in sight.😮. With full employment in the Potteries, Micheliin, the pits and Shelton steel works it was a golden period . Tooooo big an area, tooooo little money now for Stoke on Trent to be better. Crewe is as bad, the top end of Stafford high street is all empty, thats progress.😢
Enoch Powell, should have been listened to, look at the place now.
If the people on the streets of Burslem, in this film could see the town as it is now in 2024 they would weep.
As a kid in the 70’s I remember quite a few of the shops ……I didn’t realise it was part of a scheme like this…..where has it gone …..towns like Burslem should be refurbished like this again…..wonderful video
Jesus if this fella could see Burslem now
Not an empty shop anywhere ❤
I remember Askeys very well
Burslem would have looked gleaming then. Im only born in 2006
My parents had a stall in the butchers' market. They also had a shop in Hanley. My father died when I was three after having served four years in WW1. My mother struggled to keep the stall open but with rationing it became impossible. As a child I remember walking around the walls of the town hall and underground there was a brewery which children weren't allowed but I did go down there once.
The thing that killed Burslem was the loss of the pottery firms. At 5pm in the 80s you could barely get onto a bus to get home. Now buses barely have cause to stop there. Some areas no longer even have a direct bus to get there. There had never been a strike in the pottery industry, the unions worked closely with the largely family owned companies for mutual benefit to staff and management. Yet they git tarred with the same brush as British Leyland's and a handful of other such unions that abused their power. The high pound and high interest rates of the eighties killed the potteries, unable to export goods and unable to repay the loans that were forced to take out to try to survive. London based financial companies bought them cheap from the receivers upon bankruptcy and assert stripped them to make quick profits for shareholders. The same happened to the dozens of small engineering companies, some employing only a handful of people, but combined together employing hundreds.
A wonderful film sadly all lost now, its a ghost town
Goodness me. I recognise some of these people from when I lived in Newcastle.
Wow never seen Burslem look so full! The buildings and roads look very well look after as well, nowadays the roads are falling apart and the buildings are half destroyed and in ruins, boarded up shops and pubs everywhere and a smack head in every corner, looking back on these old videos makes me think we have fallen so far
Ppl painting lampposts, you dont see that no more
My Dad's last job before he retired was Caretaker at the Burslem Art College, he loved it there !
Yet more footage which I look at with a kind of nostalgic jealousy. The previous generation clearly took more pride in their community. Burslem is now full of kebab houses and shops which sell those irritating vapour cigarettes. A sad reflection of our industrial heritage from days gone by!
Love the shop that sold tobacco and baby wear! ….. simpler times.
Probably the last time Burslem got any TLC ☹️ love my city to the core but we need help!!! I went to Hanley yesterday and my god I was devastated I’m only 22 but even in the past 5 years I’ve seen such a decline breaks my heart 💔
Wonderful, original, old and very dear to many peoples hearts, Burslem went the way of many towns in Britain, updated, at the price of the wrecking ball destroying Victorian architecture, We have lost many fine buildings and real treasures, in the name of modernity, I prefer to call it madernity,
'Theere paintin up owd Boslem town It's enough to mak thee stare' from Silicosis Written by Bob Wilson
Despite this video being about Burslem, I'm 32 and used to frequent Stoke a lot in the 90's with my mother, especially in Hanley. I have to say, things have changed a lot now for the worse, even these years on.
Haha and now the center the clock tower is my college 😂
We often think things are better today than they were years ago. Not in the case of Boslem. Mother town at deaths door.
lovely. when Britain was Britan
I only put it on for the stokey accent, :/
The last of good Town Planners. Town Planning was an actual Olympic discipline. 1928 - 1948.
Burslem = Pitsville !!
UTV ⚫⚪
These lads need to come back and give it a lick of paint and some tlc again!
Zasrane "imperium"
Wonder if the Council have seen this. And I hope that, if they have, that they're ashamed of themselves. Mother Town indeed...
What a lovely film and what a brilliant approach the giving the area a lift. This contrasts with some of the city council's disastrous later attempts at social engineering. I can still remember practicing with a band I played in in the basement of the old town hall on a Thursday night. What a terrible shame about the recent 'accidental' fire in The Leopard 🤔
I was recommended this video out of nowhere, and all the recent arson came to mind. So blooming sad.
Crazy how it's come full circle now. The Leopard fire just cements how dire the town has become. Got some great takeaways though!
Most places are being left to deteriorate I wonder why.
What a dump, always has been and still is bur-slums
i live in stoke on trent.In 2021 Burslems buildings look exactly like in this 1960 film, except in a far worse state. Burslem town centre is a derelict mess of empty shops and boarded up buildings. if you see 10 people walking about, its packed. The place is dead. stoke on trent is a large spralling mess of building sites, demolished wasteland and regeneration schemes that take 20 yrs to complete and are needing a revamp once they are done. The city centre Hanley is a joke. if you live here you know this.
I come from Burslem and still live in Stoke on Trent. I was 10 in 1974 when I remember Burslem as a busy and vibrant town and a pleasure to visit with a good variety of quality shops which were all occupied and not boarded up like today. So sad to see it so neglected now. It started to decline when all of the emphasis was given to Hanley in Stoke on Trent but Hanley is now looking shabby. In 1974 Hanley was also busy and vibrant and a pleasure to visit.
I worked in Burslem in 85-86 and it was still as you described. I returned in 91 and it was already in a poor state. Over the next 8 or 9 years it turned into what it is now. There used to be three or four little specialist shoos but they struggled as the council refused to allow proper car parking close to them.
@@chrisparkes2179 Thanks for your reply Chris. So sad isn't it to see Burslem like it is now.
@@davidlovatt2335 Heartbreaking. Burslem was the posh shopping town when I was little. It was a treat to go there. There was a great little toy shop on Nile Street that was like an Aladdin's cave.
@@chrisparkes2179 it was a treat to go there like you say. Every shop was occupied, none boarded up it was clean, excellent indoor market and you could get all you needed. Fond memories indeed.
Shithole now.
Great to see the pride being taken in the mother town. Pity the council are not doing the same today. Its criminal how they have left this town fall into even worse decay. Burslem is mother to all the towns and should be treated as such.
Take me back please, got to be England's finest years, before the dreadfull shopping centres, souless, dangerous places, time machine please and leave me there.!!!
Fuse the niceness of the 60s with tbe moderness of now
You have to laugh at the narrator bemoaning the state of British society in 1960, yeah looks like a right shithole, would hate to have lived back then when communities were polite and proud.
Commentator would have a fit if he saw today’s high streets.🙀
They spent £22000 on a garden next to the Town Hall. It has gone completely!
Used to be some depressing looking art gallery
Unless your not talking about behind the hall
My dads birth place and his dad too in 1870
England was wonderful, wasn't it? Before it was given away to become modern Britain, where the English have been erased.
1:15 "our shopping areas having an unwelcoming feel..." 2022 has entered the chat.
Im not from stoke.but i lived there briefly .its shame those historic buildings are mess now .stoke could be great place if it was restored. hanleys a 1960s craphole .people of stoke need to stop voting career politicans in they dont give dam about stoke.get somone fresh modern thinking that will fight for stoke .I like stoke and the people.I feel proud to tell people in glasgow i was in stoke