Remember going into belle vue as a kid we lived off redgate lane west gorton so we didn’t have far to walk I loved everything about belle vue it was a good day out but considering we didn’t live far from it my mum only took me twice a year Easter Sunday and in the 6weeks school holidays we had one ☝️ day in there it was like having a day in Blackpool but without the seaside
This is very enjoyable, the poor Travelrs call. Spent many a happy night there, I remember dear Carmel. And the speedway. It really was a golden time. Thankyou once again
Brilliant, it was nearly always better then, I think one of these pictures shows Gorton baths where I was taken from school to swim in the sixties, in the eighties I used to collect my girlfriend ( Sharen) who went to gymnastics classes there. We later married and had two children.
Some lovely memories grew up in west gorton (lynn street west gorton off redgate lane) we was one of the last families to leave that area before it was demolished…but I remember so many of these photos you’ve shown us thank you 🙏 for the memories xx
Lynn Street. Remember all them streets over there. Was the paper boy from Johns newsagents lol. Actually spoke to him the other week because the mad barber “Jim”who everyone thought was Turkish died and we bumped into each other. West Gorton was a great place to grow up. We used to live on the other side of Hyde road in the new houses and play on the field “which is now Alan Turning Way”
Near the gorton brook pub was a little park use to play on their as a kid well if you can call it a park it had a slide lol 😂 but I remember as a kid going into west gorton youth centre but we might not have had much them days but we was happy 😃 kids always playing out and having fun! Not like kids of today they have everything mobile phones laptops ECT we was happy with a swing on the Croft made with a old tyre 🛞 and rope tied to a tree that was our entertainment or making dens out of wood and sitting underneath it telling stories mainly ghost 👻 stories or we kicked a football ⚽️ around or us girls played rounders or we had a skipping rope such happy memories we had
@@ginagina9720 lol. Yeah that park. It was small lol Gorton Brook then it got done up and changed to Gorton Arms. The youth club with Dot Burrows. All happy memories 👍
It was on Hyde road and I think you are right if you came out of the pub and turn left you would see a public toilet and if you crossed over at the lights on mount road you would see where the buses stopped but I’ve got many memories of the pub x
Cracking video, so many places I remember. Nag head, that car showroom OMG, That had some nice cars in it. Forgot all about that place until I saw this video, the field I used to play on is now alan Turing way. How it's all changed. 👍👍👍👍👍
My local pub the nags head in the late 80s and 90s I would call into the imperial also and the travellers call got some happy memories of these pubs especially the nags head
I worked at Ferannti West Gorton end of 1950s. Sent from Hollinwood to gain experience being a student apprentice . Also used to go to Belle Vue. Could spend a full Saturday there. Rugby Belle Vue Rangers. Joe Pye wrestling, speed way, dancing queens hall. Now 2021 living in South Africa. Had some good friends at Ferranti and a girl friend from West Gorton " Doris " memory fails on second name. Left UK in 1966 looking to find adventure . Can still see transformers made at Ferranti Hollinwood installed in sub stations and repaired at Rotek in Johannesburg. Also at Kariba in Zimbabwe / Zambia. Then part of the Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland. I lived in Malawi for 12 years . Memories .
Glad it brought back memories. In your travels did you ever come across a guy called James Gallagher from Coventry? I have a number of friends that would like to get back in touch. Thanks
Spent the first thirteen years of my life in West Gorton went to Thomas St school. My uncle (Tommy) bought me my first milkshake in Sivoris and have never forgot how good it tasted.Family emigrated to Australia in 1967 and in doing so lost all our photographs. To see the place as it was brings back many memories, thank you so much. P
I lived on Queens Road in the 60’s overlooking Groton park across to Belle Vue, my Mums family all went on 10 pound Pom tickets to Oz, whilst we stayed here in Manchester
I lived on the same street as the Corona Picture House in the 1950s 21 Birch street next door to the off licence then Sutton street then the bottling company
As the old photos are fading out, I'm hoping there's still something left there. Majestic buildings gone replaced by throw up structures no one look twice at. Manchester Local Image Collection Manchester City council is a good site just type in the streets you want to see from years ago.
Great little project your created there. I enjoyed watching this, so appreciate your efforts. Would love to see something similar for Rusholme, another area I grew up in during the 70s.
@@ginagina9720 very sad to lose Showcase. Years of happy memories there. Not to mention losing a great and convenient place we enjoyed for watching movies.
More lunatic planning officers demolishing houses to make a nice piece of grassland. Manchester is no different to any other city in that it's guts have been ripped out and replaced with nothing.
The Gorton Brook Hotel was at the top of Clowes St. diagonally opposite Brookhouse flats, also at the junction with Belle View St. was Gorton libirary and Sivori's cafe/ice cream parlour.
The gorton brook (arms) pub was on belle vue street and was facing west gorton youth club The pub as gone now and so as the birch pub not many pubs left now in west gorton or gorton
@@rodgermoss8975 At the back of Gorton library was Birtree st where my great grandmother lived. I played in the library after it was abandoned, I still have some of the books I collected that were left behind. The iron spiral staircase fascinated me.
The place looks like an absolute dump now. Such a shame. Why have we trashed all our neighbourhoods? So many houses now ruined with horrible pvc windows and doors....or no longer existing at all. Wouldn't live here even if someone paid me too. Awful
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An area of Manchester that has had the heart ripped out of it.
Just a shell now sadly.
may be gone ,,, but never forgotten . Thks for the memorines
My Mum was born in Gorton 100 years ago today. She remembers listening to the Belle Vue roller coaster near her terraced house.
Congratulations to Mother. I too remember those sounds and the fireworks during the Autumn months which extended the holiday season for Belle Vue.
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Me too from Birch St opposite
Remember going into belle vue as a kid we lived off redgate lane west gorton so we didn’t have far to walk I loved everything about belle vue it was a good day out but considering we didn’t live far from it my mum only took me twice a year Easter Sunday and in the 6weeks school holidays we had one ☝️ day in there it was like having a day in Blackpool but without the seaside
Hey I lived in the locomotive pub on recall close west Gorton ..great memories
This is very enjoyable, the poor Travelrs call. Spent many a happy night there, I remember dear Carmel.
And the speedway. It really was a golden time. Thankyou once again
Brilliant, it was nearly always better then, I think one of these pictures shows Gorton baths where I was taken from school to swim in the sixties, in the eighties I used to collect my girlfriend ( Sharen) who went to gymnastics classes there. We later married and had two children.
Some lovely memories grew up in west gorton (lynn street west gorton off redgate lane) we was one of the last families to leave that area before it was demolished…but I remember so many of these photos you’ve shown us thank you 🙏 for the memories xx
Lynn Street. Remember all them streets over there. Was the paper boy from Johns newsagents lol. Actually spoke to him the other week because the mad barber “Jim”who everyone thought was Turkish died and we bumped into each other. West Gorton was a great place to grow up. We used to live on the other side of Hyde road in the new houses and play on the field “which is now Alan Turning Way”
Near the gorton brook pub was a little park use to play on their as a kid well if you can call it a park it had a slide lol 😂 but I remember as a kid going into west gorton youth centre but we might not have had much them days but we was happy 😃 kids always playing out and having fun! Not like kids of today they have everything mobile phones laptops ECT we was happy with a swing on the Croft made with a old tyre 🛞 and rope tied to a tree that was our entertainment or making dens out of wood and sitting underneath it telling stories mainly ghost 👻 stories or we kicked a football ⚽️ around or us girls played rounders or we had a skipping rope such happy memories we had
@@ginagina9720 lol. Yeah that park. It was small lol Gorton Brook then it got done up and changed to Gorton Arms. The youth club with Dot Burrows. All happy memories 👍
It was on Hyde road and I think you are right if you came out of the pub and turn left you would see a public toilet and if you crossed over at the lights on mount road you would see where the buses stopped but I’ve got many memories of the pub x
Even the showcase cinema's is now in the process of being demolished
Building a school on it
We used to go to the Corona picture house on Saturdays for the matinee.
It was on Birch st. I lived at number 21 next door to the off licence.
Old charm replaced by the drab eyesore, same story all over the country.
Cracking video, so many places I remember. Nag head, that car showroom OMG, That had some nice cars in it. Forgot all about that place until I saw this video, the field I used to play on is now alan Turing way.
How it's all changed. 👍👍👍👍👍
The Nags Head, one f my Dad and Uncles old haunts
My local pub the nags head in the late 80s and 90s I would call into the imperial also and the travellers call got some happy memories of these pubs especially the nags head
I remember Bobbies croft in the 50's opposite the ambulance depot
My Mother was born at 52 Prescott Street long gone now 1931
I worked at Ferannti West Gorton end of 1950s. Sent from Hollinwood to gain experience being a student apprentice . Also used to go to Belle Vue. Could spend a full Saturday there. Rugby Belle Vue Rangers. Joe Pye wrestling, speed way, dancing queens hall. Now 2021 living in South Africa. Had some good friends at Ferranti and a girl friend from West Gorton " Doris " memory fails on second name. Left UK in 1966 looking to find adventure . Can still see transformers made at Ferranti Hollinwood installed in sub stations and repaired at Rotek in Johannesburg. Also at Kariba in Zimbabwe / Zambia. Then part of the Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland. I lived in Malawi for 12 years . Memories .
Glad it brought back memories. In your travels did you ever come across a guy called James Gallagher from Coventry? I have a number of friends that would like to get back in touch. Thanks
No sorry I cannot recall meeting him.
Looking back it was Jack Pye ??
@@michaelroebuck1340 thanks for the response.
50s? Fuckin ell
Spent the first thirteen years of my life in West Gorton went to Thomas St school. My uncle (Tommy) bought me my first milkshake in Sivoris and have never forgot how good it tasted.Family emigrated to Australia in 1967 and in doing so lost all our photographs. To see the place as it was brings back many memories, thank you so much.
P
I lived on Queens Road in the 60’s overlooking Groton park across to Belle Vue, my Mums family all went on 10 pound Pom tickets to Oz, whilst we stayed here in Manchester
@bobby ewin thanks for that info, glad to hear something survived from the past.
I lived on birch street and went to St Marks in the 50s
@@dorseyjack3206 do you still live in Manchester? I moved to Australia in 1967, but have been back quite a few times. I still miss it all .
@@frankh2811 I moved to Droylsden, then to ashton under lyne. i am still here and 71 years old.
I'm Gorton born and bred... I'm a Pilkington and my cousins are Connors and Quigleys. What a shame x
I lived in W Gorton between 1951 and 1960. I went to St Marks school.
I lived on the same street as the Corona Picture House in the 1950s
21 Birch street next door to the off licence then Sutton street then the bottling company
looked better in 72
Nice to see a lot more green space and trees
Lived on corby st for 21 years and never knew great jones st used to be a church
As the old photos are fading out, I'm hoping there's still something left there. Majestic buildings gone replaced by throw up structures no one look twice at. Manchester Local Image Collection Manchester City council is a good site just type in the streets you want to see from years ago.
Great little project your created there. I enjoyed watching this, so appreciate your efforts. Would love to see something similar for Rusholme, another area I grew up in during the 70s.
I wish someone do this in my arear to that was nice
Bobby's croft at 4:15
A few surprises: Showcase cinemas location used to be a zoological gardens, wow! And to see they were displaying road statistics back since the 50s!
The showcase as gone now they are building a school on the site
@@ginagina9720 very sad to lose Showcase. Years of happy memories there. Not to mention losing a great and convenient place we enjoyed for watching movies.
Showcase gone now
More lunatic planning officers demolishing houses to make a nice piece of grassland. Manchester is no different to any other city in that it's guts have been ripped out and replaced with nothing.
love it, if you like this watch my videos of old clayton
Just on the later part , where was the brook hotel ?
The Gorton Brook Hotel was at the top of Clowes St. diagonally opposite Brookhouse flats, also at the junction with Belle View St. was Gorton libirary and Sivori's cafe/ice cream parlour.
The gorton brook (arms) pub was on belle vue street and was facing west gorton youth club The pub as gone now and so as the birch pub not many pubs left now in west gorton or gorton
@@rodgermoss8975 At the back of Gorton library was Birtree st where my great grandmother lived.
I played in the library after it was abandoned, I still have some of the books I collected that were left behind. The iron spiral staircase fascinated me.
The place looks like an absolute dump now. Such a shame. Why have we trashed all our neighbourhoods? So many houses now ruined with horrible pvc windows and doors....or no longer existing at all. Wouldn't live here even if someone paid me too. Awful