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social engineering

as a person with a disability hearing the word handicap makes me want to slap whoever invented it.

Lovely is'nt it, a far cry from the mess it is now, a toxic dump ruined by you know who.

Them were proper owdam days then

I have no recollection of the old inside market, even though I’m aged 55 now. I don’t recall even my parents mentioning the market fire.. but the more I learnt about it, I feel perhaps some of the structure could of been saved, just like parts of Ashton indoor market structure was saved after they had a fire.

thank you, this is the England i remember

What part of Oldham was that it looked like eather Glodwick or wearnath or was it waterhead

19.million homes. Did they know the breeding cult were coming with multiple wives

Is that the ltceum in the background xx

When the working class had pride.

Something of an understatement to say Oldham has changed a bit since these scenes... thanks for putting it up

Brilliant, 20000 at Watersheddings...I used to love it up there until the council shafted the club royally...

That was great looking back at that my mam and dad met on those waltzers in 1957! they got married in 1960 she said she'd been in a whirl ever since! 🤣🤣🤣

memories are made of this! 👏👏

Fabulous!

Hard to contemplate how a town full of beautiful, intelligent and so well-mannered people have been replaced by......people very different. An utterly disastrous and unforeseen collapse.

I have more 👍🙂

The best 2 minutes and 55 seconds of my day. 💯👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I’m lay here in Moorside Oldham right now.

Thank you so so much for posting these. My dad was born In Chaddy in 1927 and I find these fascinating. Thank you

YOU NEEDED TO MAKE THE VIDEO FULL SCREEN, ITS ABOUT 6 INCHES IN MY 50 INCH SCREEN, HARD TO WATCH AT MY AGE, CHEERS 😊

Oldham far more impoverished,depressed & neglected nowadays.

If they were not defective before they went in they sure would be after a few weeks of Oldhams "Bottom Block"!

This was made seven years before I was born, and I *don't* particularly *care* for the word 'defective' ....but I don't understand..... I expected swearing the F word and rapine...what's the warning about?

These so called "mental defectives" their words not mine show more sense and initiative than 98% of this country in this period of snowflakes

Good old Huxley language of eugenics

There has never been a shortage of ' Low Grade Mental Defectives ' as can clearly be seen today .

Do we really have to be warned about language? What strange times we live in.

All this happened on the building of the monasteries and the Cathedrals in the Middle Ages. They were employed by the Church before the Reformation. They were looked after in the Monasteries by monks.

How Christ-Like! How intelligently done. What a great idea. From Mrs D in Yorkshire

I remember the old hospital in Oldham we used to call it BOUNDREY PARK the old hospitals were the best spotlessly clean staff sterile uniforms properly run wards not like today to much infections in hospitals today 2024

What waste of a video all intro not needle show the olden times of Oldham when every one helped each other the olden days were happy no crime like today I grew up in the fifty’s happy times not like today in 2024 😢😢😢😢😢😢

This is how it really was, although there were many people around too...not just cats and dogs. Unfortunately Marmadke Street and the Condor Iron works which was situated there opposite our house have sadly gone....🤔

👍When cop's where copper's not like today's bunch of wan+&ERS I miss the 50s 60s 70s .

Remember as a kid doing this the whole street came out and even the brass band's playing OLDHAM IS GONE.

Oldham has gone to the dogs

The return of textile production to the UK is closer in time than most people think.

Not a good video all blared and picture breaking up very poor quality

A bit of sound would have been good

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It’s weird how everything old is in black and white, people and places and everything. It must have been very dull to live somewhere like this with no colour whatsoever. I’m guessing that paint hadn’t been invented nor had coloured dye for clothing. Very sad times .

A window in time.

I worked in Oldham 10 years from 1997 until I retired in 2006. They were the happiest 10 years of my working life. Oldham looked a lot different then ! When this was filmed I was 3 !

2011-2012

How Oldhams demographic has changed😂

Come to Rochdale, the home of asbestos.

Wow, I grew up in Oldham and was a child visiting town on the weekends circa 88 onwards and I always sensed that the town was more buzzing with life in previous ages. it was still bright in the 80's though.

Should have called it How grim was my alley

Such a shame. I remember gigging in there in the late 90s early 2000s in my late teens early 20s. Every weekend I used to meet up in there with my mate.