My mum uses’t to live in crossbank house, tenants got about £6.000 compensate, plus some cost towards removal, plus compensation for carpets and curtains. My mum got Notification the blocks was being demolished in October 2019, and she moved out early January 2020 after 21 years living in crossbank house… They was once very good flats, but after FCHO over took them from Oldham council in early 2003-04, th decline of the flats declined and FCHO allowed anyone to live in them, anti-social behaviour, misuse of drugs, vandalism, and FCHO decided it would cost to much to carry out upgrades internally, construction of the blocks was solid, but internally, because of the damage some tenants caused, and feed back from the tenant that they wasn’t happy, FCHO decided to tear down the blocks.
@@SarahsUKGraveyard yes, my mum lives in Littlemoor house now, residents from crossbank and summervale was given priority of their own choices where they like to move to, so tenants wasn’t really forced to be put anywhere, FCHO had to tread carefully, I actually think, tenants was given about £300 removal cost,, but I know for every room there was a carpet, they got a extra £100 plus and £50 for curtains, plus a decorating grant, so some tenants was moving with over £7.000 richer… but constructionally the flats was solid, it was internal that was the demise of the flats and FCHO having contractors doing the refurbishment done cheap as possible, which added to even more problems, flats was infested with mice because when they installed the new radiators, no pipe works was covered and mice could enter the properties, Like in my mum place, I set mice traps, and in 1 night 5 mice was caught in traps, so this was unacceptable, we complained to FCHO and they put poison down, but I went step further and made my mum property mice free, (I was able to do it since I work repair and maintenance)…. But when the blocks got modernised I think in 2007-onwards, they did re-wiring, and they did it on the cheap and wires was put behind skirting boards corners of the ceiling, I remember I left the country for 10-11 months and came back to uk to visit, and when I went in to my mum place, and seen the improvement, I said, looks a complete eyesore. but many tenants was glad to see back of them, neighbour next to my mum place, was junkies and anti-social, and police would often raid the place. or another example, during summer, you get the unemployed or unable to work on sick, they sit outside drinking all day and they get abusive, and on one occasion, my mum was coming in to the block and some of the guys sitting out side, would give her abuse, and my mum would come in feeling distressed and on this occasion I and my brother was at my mum place and she came in and my brother risked her what was the matter, she told us and I and my brother went out to confront them, they was clueless who we was, so we remained them, little elderly lady was coming in and you shouted abuse at her, and the guys said, so what to us, and started mouthing off at us, so my brother ended up flooring one of them, police was called and ambulance, because the guy my brother hit, ended up breaking is nose, I and my brother r got police cation.. But FCHO allowed ant-social behaviour to continue in the blocks, and even had a fire in summervale flat on 8th or 9th floor, about 5-7 years ago,, but it is a shame they have to be demolished, because they could of evicted all the tenants and re-modernised the flats. because constructionally the blocks are solid, nothing wrong with them Constructionally, I think they are building 26 houses and 62 apartments in the place, I think they will start the demolish the blocks after Christmas, I did some drone footage of the site 2-3 days ago, and when I was flying my drone, there was no work activity at all, diggers parked up and site tidy and no workers in, and only one grab digger, which will be used to dismantle booth blocks, they won’t blow the flats up, because of the close distance to resident homes and major roads, only way them 2 blocks are coming down, is to dismantle them,
It's all very sad. I'm just wondering when people started becoming vile and abusive towards ladies especially older ones it's vile and I would have gone and confronted them as well I wouldn't stand for that x
Who thought it was a good idea to build these flats in the first place? Sadly, the council demolished well constructed Victorian and Edwardian terraced housing throughout the borough for this!
And what for ? By the time the council had finished they were not safe because of the amount of dealers and users . Place being trashed , smashed , alcohol abuse , used as urinals , lifts never working , flats being robbed and crime 🥲
I had a couple of acquaintance living there back around 2005 . One of them used to have something to do with the tyre bay on hollins road and used to look at my car and do it’s tyres 👍
You know what I'm not sure if they were council workers themselves. I couldn't understand why they were piling all the carpets on one unless the council said do that and we will cone and tip it
Wow, I worked for Emmanuel Whittakers in 2001 refurbishing these buildings, I can see so many bits of the building in your video, that I actually fitted myself! ..... Feel really old now☹ hope your pleased with yourself😭 hahahaha
@@SarahsUKGraveyard I fitted loads of Windows, I also replaced the roof and facia on the small building in the courtyard, The best bit I did was the final capping and lightning conductors on the parapet of the tower blocks.
Yes I was lucky the day I arrived as I was able to go inside and habe a look in just sorry I didn't try getting into the flats but even if I had I wouldn't habe had light to find my way round
I don't remember Crossbank and Summervale house being built but I have happy memories of visiting my grandmother and grandfather in them. Yet again I have enjoyed your video but so disappointed by the litter.
@@SarahsUKGraveyard Struggling to find it, but a report was done basically saying that it would be cheaper to build a new civic centre rather than throwing money trying to keep the existing one going, just like Ashton did with theirs. All these masterplans that they trot out basically say the council need a new home. Civic Centre is made from concrete, nothing wrong with that as long as it`s done correctly as many Roman buildings will testify. Do it on the cheap and you will be lucky to get 30 years out of them. Up and down the country, councils were building concrete housing estates on the cheap, and they didn`t last long, sheds from B&Q last longer.
My thoughts are this. Yes I know the civic is a relatively young building compared to some that survive in Oldham but it's the image of oldham in my view, I've always known it to be there so I'm probably bias but I for one am sick of our town being stripped of its history. Recently a church burnt down just near the bus station at Mumps. You wouldn't even notice it but it housed several graves of the men that fell at peterloo. I want to know where those headstones are now but no one seems to know
@@SarahsUKGraveyard Think you are going to have to some sniffing around. List of the victims here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre#Victims As for the graves, not sure if it was a church with a graveyard, moving graves is a highly regulated business, have to get exhumation orders from the home office, no regulations as the the headstones though. It was The United Reformed Church. urc.org.uk/
Are these blocks now gone or stripped out I hope that they are still there as I do love a wee derelict tower block and I really want to see inside of it really great video showing the empty houses and even though the tower is blocked off you still done a great walkaround showing the outside of the block
Hi no last time I went every entrance to the flats was closed off with metal doors and I think the intercom is locked so you can't get into the compound. Someone may habe found a way in though 😁
@@SarahsUKGraveyard no probs I hope when restrictions lift the tower will still be there and if I see a way in I go for it even if it means I have to climb up the outside of a building to get in the 1st floor window because most demolition companies leave the ground floor boarded and take out all the other windows but if there is a gutter I will climb up it just to get in lol only me climbs up buildings like spiderman 😂
I noticed just last week that the dinosaur like concrete munching machines had started nibbling away at the tower blocks (15/2/2022). Great to watch and see the piss and shit stinking blocks go. 😎
Hi that's a great idea and a video I would love to do. Infact I will do it before the end of the week. I've managed to melt my cameras battery charger so out of action now until it arrives tomorrow. Will definately do that though and I'll credit you for the idea thank you xx
@@SarahsUKGraveyard hiya yes that would be a really good watch and you need to take the credit me and @roxy&ryan think what you are doing is brill i love history especially about the place I'm from!
@@SarahsUKGraveyard yes no worries just watched the video ha! 👍i think if you did videos about things a bit more futher afield then oldham your channle would go massive .good work
Another Amazing Tower Block That Is Getting Demolished Such A Shame That It Is Like This Now I Just Watched A TH-camr Called J T And He Done A Video On A Derelict 15 Floor Tower Block That Is Now Gone And I Thought Wow Over 300 Homes Being Put To Waste Such A Shame But Really Good Video
@@SarahsUKGraveyard It is really sad seeing these epic looking tower blocks get into this bad of a state and eventually demolished there are so many empty flats in the Glasgow/Dumbarton area in Scotlland yes I do watch J T quite a bit lol but at least you do cover these blocks before they are gone for good
I remember going over the flats years ago, can’t remember for the life of me what I was doing or who I was with maybe with my dad, it’s funny them old bungalows always stink of pee 🤣
I just discovered your channel. Im from NY. They're similair to our projects but most of our are still standing. We have more projefs than any other city. I think there would be a crisis level housing shortage if they demolished the projects in NYC. Also depsite our projects also being run down, dirty and having all the same ctime and anti soclal issues, they at least seem structurally sturdy. The UK estates look like weak death traps that may collapse. When i lived in London one of my other freinds who was also from NY lived on Aylsbury estate, ( I stayed there at one point) his flat on the top floor. Well the whole place felt like a death trap and i still have nightmares from that elevator lol. There have been collapses of council flats in UK history so it was pretty unnerving to be in those places for a whole variety of reasons. I dont think a lot of Americans have experienced anything like living on an estate in the UK. But being from NY it was kinda similair because we have massive tower blocks everywhere too. But the ones in the UK were way more intense because they were like the Carter from New Jack city but if there were 30 tall long ass buildings connected by bridges and ramps that made every single building and floor accessible by bikes. In London im always able to escape the police. I was riding my bike on the top floor and riding across those bridges. Honestly London was a depressing place to grow up but riding my bike up there was so much fun. Theres no other experience that i could compare it too. Thats one thing ill miss about those buildings. But they basically made it a criminals paradise because you could be anywhere in those flats in seconds on a bike.
Yes, agreed on the quality of the builds. Fact is that they do not build to the level of quality that they used to. I would say I've seen some shocking builds in Detroit. I stayed there with family at the time in a flat that was council or town owned. The walls were paper thin and I was told the build was a flat pack with Brick around. That's what's going on here also now. Those estates though built around the 70s were cool and sadly most are now gone. I want to come to New York in 2024 to do a video on central park as well as walk round and film all the neighbourhoods not shown in the glossy ads xx
Worked on both blocks fitting the door entry systems many years ago.
Thanks for the memories Sarah i spent many hours in these flats whilst working as a mobile warden xx
So sad they have gone now x
@@SarahsUKGraveyard that's true Sarah Most people living in them were so varied but real owdham characters xx
My mum uses’t to live in crossbank house, tenants got about £6.000 compensate, plus some cost towards removal, plus compensation for carpets and curtains. My mum got Notification the blocks was being demolished in October 2019, and she moved out early January 2020 after 21 years living in crossbank house…
They was once very good flats, but after FCHO over took them from Oldham council in early 2003-04, th decline of the flats declined and FCHO allowed anyone to live in them, anti-social behaviour, misuse of drugs, vandalism, and FCHO decided it would cost to much to carry out upgrades internally, construction of the blocks was solid, but internally, because of the damage some tenants caused, and feed back from the tenant that they wasn’t happy, FCHO decided to tear down the blocks.
Is your mum happy where she has gone ?
@@SarahsUKGraveyard yes, my mum lives in Littlemoor house now, residents from crossbank and summervale was given priority of their own choices where they like to move to, so tenants wasn’t really forced to be put anywhere, FCHO had to tread carefully, I actually think, tenants was given about £300 removal cost,, but I know for every room there was a carpet, they got a extra £100 plus and £50 for curtains, plus a decorating grant, so some tenants was moving with over £7.000 richer… but constructionally the flats was solid, it was internal that was the demise of the flats and FCHO having contractors doing the refurbishment done cheap as possible, which added to even more problems, flats was infested with mice because when they installed the new radiators, no pipe works was covered and mice could enter the properties,
Like in my mum place, I set mice traps, and in 1 night 5 mice was caught in traps, so this was unacceptable, we complained to FCHO and they put poison down, but I went step further and made my mum property mice free, (I was able to do it since I work repair and maintenance)…. But when the blocks got modernised I think in 2007-onwards, they did re-wiring, and they did it on the cheap and wires was put behind skirting boards corners of the ceiling, I remember I left the country for 10-11 months and came back to uk to visit, and when I went in to my mum place, and seen the improvement, I said, looks a complete eyesore.
but many tenants was glad to see back of them, neighbour next to my mum place, was junkies and anti-social, and police would often raid the place.
or another example, during summer, you get the unemployed or unable to work on sick, they sit outside drinking all day and they get abusive, and on one occasion, my mum was coming in to the block and some of the guys sitting out side, would give her abuse, and my mum would come in feeling distressed and on this occasion I and my brother was at my mum place and she came in and my brother risked her what was the matter, she told us and I and my brother went out to confront them, they was clueless who we was, so we remained them, little elderly lady was coming in and you shouted abuse at her, and the guys said, so what to us, and started mouthing off at us, so my brother ended up flooring one of them, police was called and ambulance, because the guy my brother hit, ended up breaking is nose, I and my brother r got police cation..
But FCHO allowed ant-social behaviour to continue in the blocks, and even had a fire in summervale flat on 8th or 9th floor, about 5-7 years ago,, but it is a shame they have to be demolished, because they could of evicted all the tenants and re-modernised the flats. because constructionally the blocks are solid, nothing wrong with them Constructionally, I think they are building 26 houses and 62 apartments in the place, I think they will start the demolish the blocks after Christmas, I did some drone footage of the site 2-3 days ago, and when I was flying my drone, there was no work activity at all, diggers parked up and site tidy and no workers in, and only one grab digger, which will be used to dismantle booth blocks, they won’t blow the flats up, because of the close distance to resident homes and major roads, only way them 2 blocks are coming down, is to dismantle them,
It's all very sad. I'm just wondering when people started becoming vile and abusive towards ladies especially older ones it's vile and I would have gone and confronted them as well I wouldn't stand for that x
Who thought it was a good idea to build these flats in the first place? Sadly, the council demolished well constructed Victorian and Edwardian terraced housing throughout the borough for this!
They did Angela very true the whole road was full of homes. I think I'll do a video of who lived there x the old houses I mean
And what for ?
By the time the council had finished they were not safe because of the amount of dealers and users .
Place being trashed , smashed , alcohol abuse , used as urinals , lifts never working , flats being robbed and crime 🥲
I can't remember them being that bad xxx
“Stinks of piss” 🤣😂🤣 Brilliant.
Thanks for the uploads x
😂😂😂😂😂 It did though 😂😂
I had a couple of acquaintance living there back around 2005 .
One of them used to have something to do with the tyre bay on hollins road and used to look at my car and do it’s tyres 👍
Another fab video, love watching these, thanks Sarah xxx
Thanks Lauren xx
Really enjoyed it love videos like this liked and subscribed
Thank you xx it's more relevant jow they've been demolished xx
I bet those residents thought you were from the council, checking they were going when they said they would 🤣
You know what I'm not sure if they were council workers themselves. I couldn't understand why they were piling all the carpets on one unless the council said do that and we will cone and tip it
Wow, I worked for Emmanuel Whittakers in 2001 refurbishing these buildings, I can see so many bits of the building in your video, that I actually fitted myself! .....
Feel really old now☹
hope your pleased with yourself😭 hahahaha
,😂😂😂😂😂 what did you build on them ?
@@SarahsUKGraveyard I fitted loads of Windows, I also replaced the roof and facia on the small building in the courtyard,
The best bit I did was the final capping and lightning conductors on the parapet of the tower blocks.
Oh fabulous x
I remember these being built when I was at Richmond school.
Wow really? They should have been down by now but covid has made that impossible
I didn't know they were going to be demolished!
Yes I was lucky the day I arrived as I was able to go inside and habe a look in just sorry I didn't try getting into the flats but even if I had I wouldn't habe had light to find my way round
The Roundthorn youtude the two pubs picked the mayor of Roundthorn in the iron work in Park bridge which was in valley your stuart
I don't remember Crossbank and Summervale house being built but I have happy memories of visiting my grandmother and grandfather in them. Yet again I have enjoyed your video but so disappointed by the litter.
Thanks for watching Karen
@@SarahsUKGraveyard keep up the great work. Not lived in Oldham for decades but still have all my family there.
Thanks Karen I will 😁
My friend used to live in these flats many years ago
The flats? Any memories of them?
@@SarahsUKGraveyard they where a few people having drugs in there but that was a long time ago in the 90s and I can remember a lot of noise
Omg that's not good.
More demolition in Oldham ☹️
always
The Civic Centre tower will soon be going the same way, costing a fortune in maintenance.
how do you know that Jeff
@@SarahsUKGraveyard Struggling to find it, but a report was done basically saying that it would be cheaper to build a new civic centre rather than throwing money trying to keep the existing one going, just like Ashton did with theirs.
All these masterplans that they trot out basically say the council need a new home.
Civic Centre is made from concrete, nothing wrong with that as long as it`s done correctly as many Roman buildings will testify.
Do it on the cheap and you will be lucky to get 30 years out of them.
Up and down the country, councils were building concrete housing estates on the cheap, and they didn`t last long, sheds from B&Q last longer.
My thoughts are this. Yes I know the civic is a relatively young building compared to some that survive in Oldham but it's the image of oldham in my view, I've always known it to be there so I'm probably bias but I for one am sick of our town being stripped of its history. Recently a church burnt down just near the bus station at Mumps. You wouldn't even notice it but it housed several graves of the men that fell at peterloo. I want to know where those headstones are now but no one seems to know
@@SarahsUKGraveyard Think you are going to have to some sniffing around.
List of the victims here.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre#Victims
As for the graves, not sure if it was a church with a graveyard, moving graves is a highly regulated business, have to get exhumation orders from the home office, no regulations as the the headstones though.
It was The United Reformed Church.
urc.org.uk/
Are these blocks now gone or stripped out I hope that they are still there as I do love a wee derelict tower block and I really want to see inside of it really great video showing the empty houses and even though the tower is blocked off you still done a great walkaround showing the outside of the block
Hi no last time I went every entrance to the flats was closed off with metal doors and I think the intercom is locked so you can't get into the compound. Someone may habe found a way in though 😁
@@SarahsUKGraveyard no probs I hope when restrictions lift the tower will still be there and if I see a way in I go for it even if it means I have to climb up the outside of a building to get in the 1st floor window because most demolition companies leave the ground floor boarded and take out all the other windows but if there is a gutter I will climb up it just to get in lol only me climbs up buildings like spiderman 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I noticed just last week that the dinosaur like concrete munching machines had started nibbling away at the tower blocks (15/2/2022). Great to watch and see the piss and shit stinking blocks go. 😎
Have you done any videos on limeside how it came to be and any old buildings ie.the old shops it would be a good watch 👍
Hi that's a great idea and a video I would love to do. Infact I will do it before the end of the week. I've managed to melt my cameras battery charger so out of action now until it arrives tomorrow. Will definately do that though and I'll credit you for the idea thank you xx
@@SarahsUKGraveyard hiya yes that would be a really good watch and you need to take the credit me and @roxy&ryan think what you are doing is brill i love history especially about the place I'm from!
@@RAM335D awwww thank you so much. Well I'm very familiar with the area but I will do some research and try my best xxx keep you posted x
Gave you and your fella mention in my latest video. Hope that's OK, let me know if you'd rather I remove it. X only mentioning video request x
@@SarahsUKGraveyard yes no worries just watched the video ha! 👍i think if you did videos about things a bit more futher afield then oldham your channle would go massive .good work
Another Amazing Tower Block That Is Getting Demolished Such A Shame That It Is Like This Now I Just Watched A TH-camr Called J T And He Done A Video On A Derelict 15 Floor Tower Block That Is Now Gone And I Thought Wow Over 300 Homes Being Put To Waste Such A Shame But Really Good Video
its sad but at least we have a visual reminder
@@SarahsUKGraveyard It is really sad seeing these epic looking tower blocks get into this bad of a state and eventually demolished there are so many empty flats in the Glasgow/Dumbarton area in Scotlland yes I do watch J T quite a bit lol but at least you do cover these blocks before they are gone for good
@@thegiggity7438 I know the tower blocks in Glasgow that your talking about. Are you from oldham?
@@SarahsUKGraveyard no I am from a place in Scotland called Airdrie it is about 10-20 miles from Glasgow
Yes I know it I go up that way often well when the gov let's me 😁
I can vouch that summervale house also stunk of piss in the late 1990's defo, coz my mate had a flat there🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂
I remember going over the flats years ago, can’t remember for the life of me what I was doing or who I was with maybe with my dad, it’s funny them old bungalows always stink of pee 🤣
Lol. It was vile that smell I didn't dare go in the bathroom in that one because god knows what the toilet would be like 😂
I just discovered your channel. Im from NY. They're similair to our projects but most of our are still standing. We have more projefs than any other city. I think there would be a crisis level housing shortage if they demolished the projects in NYC. Also depsite our projects also being run down, dirty and having all the same ctime and anti soclal issues, they at least seem structurally sturdy. The UK estates look like weak death traps that may collapse. When i lived in London one of my other freinds who was also from NY lived on Aylsbury estate, ( I stayed there at one point) his flat on the top floor. Well the whole place felt like a death trap and i still have nightmares from that elevator lol. There have been collapses of council flats in UK history so it was pretty unnerving to be in those places for a whole variety of reasons. I dont think a lot of Americans have experienced anything like living on an estate in the UK. But being from NY it was kinda similair because we have massive tower blocks everywhere too. But the ones in the UK were way more intense because they were like the Carter from New Jack city but if there were 30 tall long ass buildings connected by bridges and ramps that made every single building and floor accessible by bikes. In London im always able to escape the police. I was riding my bike on the top floor and riding across those bridges. Honestly London was a depressing place to grow up but riding my bike up there was so much fun. Theres no other experience that i could compare it too. Thats one thing ill miss about those buildings. But they basically made it a criminals paradise because you could be anywhere in those flats in seconds on a bike.
Yes, agreed on the quality of the builds. Fact is that they do not build to the level of quality that they used to. I would say I've seen some shocking builds in Detroit. I stayed there with family at the time in a flat that was council or town owned. The walls were paper thin and I was told the build was a flat pack with Brick around. That's what's going on here also now. Those estates though built around the 70s were cool and sadly most are now gone. I want to come to New York in 2024 to do a video on central park as well as walk round and film all the neighbourhoods not shown in the glossy ads xx