Angel Meadow, Manchester's Hell On Earth (NEW VERSION)
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- Angel Meadow in Manchester, England is steeped in history and legend. Here John Harris gives an insight into the area and its mixed fortunes through the years.
This short film was entered into the 2020 British International Amature Film Festival (BIAFF) and was awarded the diamond award for Best Documentary. - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
Angel Meadow in Manchester England is steeped in history and legend. Here John Harris gives an insight into the area and its mixed fortunes through the years.
This short film was entered into the 2020 British International Amature Film Festival (BIAFF) and was awarded the diamond award for Best Documentary.
And so it should. Just watched it. Not going to lie, it moved me. We don't know we are born do we. Great film John and your team. Thank you. 😊
If your family are Mancunian from the Industrial age onward, odds have it that we have kin laying in Angel Meadow. There is no honorable way that such a place should be desecrated, it is a relequary for the mortal remains of those unheralded saints on whose backs Britain was built. Never forget St. Peters Field, The Comunist Manifesto and Suffrage. Those souls laying in that field are those that worked and fought for what we take for granted today. At the very least we owe them a peaceful rest.
Raise a glass to our suffering forebears. In life they suffered the hardships of the working classes of the Industrial Revolution. In death they are suffering the unrest from the greed of the second millennium.
It may not be an historical heritage that you would print on a Tea Towel to sell to tourists, but it's a heritage that's runs through and bolsters the core values of the free world.
Many of these people immigrants from Ireland. They dug thr canals , built the railways. They made Britain Great
The Navigators weren't only of Irish birth. The story of the Navigators is very very interesting. The extreme work and conditions was the difference between life and death for Irish English Scottish and never forgetting the Welsh who were the Navigators
About 80% of those who constructed the canals and railways were English, but yes, many 'navvies' came over from Ireland.
Brits always use immigrants ...
For dirty, hard, menial work.@@nanablabla1167
An expertly-made and produced documentary that I would in different circumstances have said was particularly enjoyable to view.....instead it was deeply moving, with a pervading air of sadness. As a southerner living in Mcr for a number of years, as I gazed from the train window I had no concept of the scale of deprivation and hardship endured by the people who had lived here.
My second great grandfather James William Bryan was born in 1848 at the Kings Arms Yard boarding house at 19 Charter St (now the northern end of Dantzic St) His parents were William Bryan and Caroline Bryan. William was a silk weaver. James worked as an umbrella hawker. This video is great information about the early life he must have endured. They lived there from the 1840s - 1870s so would've seen it all.
Fascinating!! They would have had some amazing stories to share
WOW! What a wonderful video. The sinister burial yard, where I guess paupers were buried without coffins? wrought chills in my spine. St. Michael’s Flags ….And Angel Meadow, may the souls of those children rest peacefully in Paradise. ❤❤❤. Thank you for this video.
Leave the area alone as a reminder of the past sufferings of who made Manchester. To much redevelopment will hide our history. We should preserve not build and line the pockets of the developers. It's a small area in collyhurst and should stay as it is.
Thank you for this footage.
Where exactly did Engel live during his stay in Manchester
@@davecroft8220 some good information here Dave ... pastinthepresent.net/2014/11/27/in-search-of-the-father-of-communism-finding-friedrich-engels-in-the-shabby-back-streets-of-manchester/
Thankyou John for such an eye opener from the past history, each school should be taught the history of there hometown and see the progress through time and respect what we have
RIP TO THE 40,000+ 💞 🌹
Very well done thank you for remembering the pour souls.
I work in the £300m building overlooking this park (mass grave) i didnt know its history until someone at work mentioned it. Really is an eye opener how this area influeced the studies of Engel and Karl Marx which led to communism.
Manchester was the shock city of its age. It is the world’s first industrial city so it was visited by the great and the good who were equally impressed by the wealth it generated and appalled by the squalor and pollution. It is now in the process of becoming the first former industrial city to successfully reinvent itself. It has done it despite years of central government indifference and on its own terms. It has not forgotten either the art of money making or its radical soul. Not a Manc myself but all power to it- truly a great global city
Superb video thank you for this informative and moving story of Angel Meadow. My father was born in Ancoats in 1920 and spoke only when pressed to do so of the hard times he experienced in his youth.
The images of those poor little children was heartbreaking. We can only hope that things got better for them in later life.
Yes, the older generation is often reluctant to talk about those times.
My father was also born in Ancoats in 1920
Magnificent presentation and well informed documentary, pictures and photos and camera work along narration very well put together. Thank you 🙏
Thank you Ged.
Poor Souls 😢 RIP ❤️
Almost puts a tear in ones eye. Thanks for posting.
Incredibly moving piece of work! Thank you.
Thanks for your comments.
"my mum (gran) was born in MANCHESTER with 6 people in DANZIG st and went to the ragged school my gran left the ragged school at the age of 13 in 1912 on the monday morning started her working life in the leather trade and finally retired in 1973 at the age 73 yrs.
We went to Angel Meadow about ten years ago and even managed to go inside the Ragged School, the sad thing is timewise it's not that long ago.
The comparison of past and current photos was seamless. Well done
I agree. This remarkable short video has left quite an impression on me, especially the images of the poor wee children. We can only hope that for some at least, life became a bit gentler for them in later life.
Thanks for watching and commenting.
This was a excellent video but very sad history of the working classes thank you from New Zealand
Thank you Terry.
A lovely piece of work, John, thank you.
I have the book angel meadow.an absolute must read if you are interested in local and social history
Who is the author ?
I’m interested in social history, I know a it about Angel Meadow, but I found your presentation very good and learned a bit, well done, thanks. Salford
What a great video! I'd love to see more like this. Great presenter!
Thank you.
Fabulous video, thank you.
Thanks John.
Brilliant video, extremely well produced
Thanks Alex, much appreciated. 😉
Great video, well put together and really interesting.
Thanks for watching, commenting.
Some ancestors come from Manchester, so this is interesting to me. Thank you. Australia.
to you sir a glass of what you fancy if we ever meet , very good video , thankyou
Moving
Great short film, which resonates so very loudly today, thinking about hungry children at school and ever increasing reliance by many on food banks; it seems we are slipping back into our tainted and long forgotten past in the blink of eye!
Very interesting and informative video. Thank you for sharing with us.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment.
God Bless all those beautiful people buried in Angle Meadow.
This is truly fascinating and I am about to buy and read Dean Kirby's book written about this. I stumbled across this earlier as the new Friedreich Engels was mentioned. My elderly aunt (95), has done a lot of research on our family tree and it turns out that Fred was married to both Mary Burns and her sister, Lydia (Lizzie) Burns. They are connected to our family tree in some way which we are just researching now. I work in Manchester and all this history is literally on my doorstep. Thank you so much for sharing. I found this very informative and have just subscribed to your channel. Thank you, Julie Burns
I was born in Melbourne Australia. My Husband was born in Manchester 1949
I have had the pleasure of visiting Manchester. I never new my natural parents
Born 6/3rd 1950. Adopted by the most loving family in Yarraville. Melbourne.
Our Cherished Aboriginal people were not the only ones taken from family.
I'm of the Buchannan Clan. Taken from my natural family.And taken. To Royal Park Depot.
August 1950. Never knew I was adopted until other siblings found out about their sister
I was 1 of 5 And had a step brother Charlie when I visisted in hospital .Was told sorry we
have just given him the last M/Injection to make him comfortable.
There are so many of us /not only the Aboriginal . Which should be said SORRY to.
Charlie died peacfully of cancer.Donald McPhail also died too young a lovely brother.
My Birth name was Judiana Constance Buchananan /Womens Hospital born
2.am 6/3/50. Melbourne.
I was 37 years old when contacted by C.S.V About other siblings trying to contact me.
I had a wonderful childhood. Judith Ann Gardner.
Very interesting. I'd heard of it and guessed it must have been where what is now a park when I walked through to the Angel pub.
I must go again to have a good look round and get some photo's.
This is heartbreaking ...
Top Video.Thank You
Great video
Thanks Chris.
Excellent presentation John, thanks, I’m very interested in manchester and Salford social history, my interest started many, many years ago when my grandad passed a book to me it was a signed copy of the Manchester Man’ by Isabella lineaus banks, it was in the ‘old txt’ but I red it, had to re read many pages, it was a story of true events woven around a fictional young man but many other characters did exist, the actual book has pull out maps and amazing illustrations, ( I bet you know all this), anyway thanks again 👍☘️🇮🇪, Eccles
Wonderful,keeping reality alive so the powers that be are unable to paper over the truth. The bbc have a lot to learn !
Thanks for sharing v nice
Thank you for watching and commenting.
Theres even harder times today in manchester if one bothers to look.At least in those harsh times,people had each other.Now the poor and homeless seem to be lone wolves with no one to turn to in their cardboard boxes.................
great vid
Excellent travel through history and some very dark times
My poor Mam was part of this !, never said a word !
i love it
the price of industrial revolution was the suffering of the people
Same as the new revelution
Yes, an industrial revolution funded by the money made from slavery and colonisation. The powers that be just transfer the pain to those at bottom of society over and over, forever exploiting ‘the people’
@@thehoneyeffect Slavery of whom.
life is about suffering
Believe it ir not there were ( and remain ) pockets of deprivation in the south of england . When i grew up in the 60's there were still plenty of people who had been scarred by the Great Depression of the 20's , 30's . Later on i worked in Salford for a few months and was shocked by hiw cold it was in the winter . When i read ' Love on the Dole ' I thought how miserable it must have been ti have been poverty stricken in that area in the Depression plus having to face the damp and the cold on top of that . Not that is the south if France in the southeast .
Sadly new poverty now stalks us . Mass net inward migration , inevitable shortage of housing , huge increases in rogue landlords due to buy to ket mortgages, plus the loss of relatively well paid manufacturing jobs are a recipe for poverty and misery .
Well done to governments of bith colours for supporting these disastrous policies .
Thankyou
REspect
Wonderful,keeping reality alive so that the powerful cannot paper over the injustice of the past. The bbc could learn a lot. Call the midwife ????
LOST SOULS
Wow..
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Who, but God Alone, will remember. awaken and raise up these long-forgotten shades to that New Life which, though scarcely ever touched through the gloom of their great probations, was yet reckoned "by heart" more surely than dimmed eyes could tell.
I couldn't read the writing on the thumbnail. What awards did this documentary win?
It was entered into the 2020 British International Amature Film Festival (BIAFF) and was awarded a Diamond award, Best Documentary & Best Affiliated Club award.
did Dickens work at Grants Warehouse. I know he based characters of the brother owners
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What an excellent film, and sadly the capitalists move on in again
Thanks, Patricia. Yes.. inevitable I suppose 😞
That is the irony even in death the greedy will exploit the poor
Corporate globalists, not capitalists I would assert. Capitalism is about creating wealth through invention, not imposing poverty by exploitation.
As someone who played on those gravestones sixty years ago and knew three
previous generations that were born in and around what is now known as angel medow( one born in 1877)I think the portrayal of the area as hell on earth is a modern take on life then.
All the stories i grew up with about the area were fun, good times, a friendly place.
True everyone was poor and dodgy dealings went on. Tradgies happened etc. Same as it ever was.
Not looking at the past through rose coloured specs just think the poverty = bad life take is misleading.
Did we really let children live this way
Regeneration or DEGENERATION?..
Good question.
@@mrrandom177 From boyhood and my fathers life story to the present it seems the wealthy will do what they can to obscure the truth and present history as a romantic notion
Excellent, while we move gradually full circle backwards in food bank Britain thanks to Neoliberal economics practised by all of the main parties, for close on half a century.
All that white privilege.
I'm confused as to how you would reach that opinion from watching this video?
@@iamyourfuture808Look up sarcasim. How old are you ?.
The sarcasm was there for all to see.
Great video