Salford
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- This song was written by Billy Connolly about his birthplace, Glasgow. A friend of mine, Pete MacMillan (very proud Salford lad) changed the words so that he could sing the same song but about his birthplace. I changed a few more words and added a verse to personalise it even more so that I could sing about MY Salford. Hope you like it!
I am a backyard scouser, 1979 went working in Salford. There from Nov 79 until May 94, loved every single minute. Brilliant place , brilliant people.
Thank you , nice words
Born bred and dragged up in Whit Lane Salford in the late 50s 60s.and proud of it.
Me too born and raised Weaste 1977 to 1980s and 90s
Me too born in Leak Street just off Ellor Street in 1957 its all memories now .
I am a backyard Scouser, at the age of 15 got a Saturday job on my aunties fruit and veg stall on Salford precinct. Five years later was working in Salford full time, loved every minute, brilliant place, brilliant people. It breaks my heart to see it now, councils have a lot to answer for.
And I love Liverpool back in 50/60s spent time there🤝
Nice one....good old Salford...
My Town , Where my Heart is , Town where i was born and raised
Listening to this it made me cry the images brought back many good memories and bad ones , thanks
Great video, I lived on shawcross st, behind the mariner pub as a kid in the 80s, I’ve never forgotten where I’m from 😊
Ahh Pete, this is lovely! A wonderful trip down memory lane. Makes me feel so sad to think of all we had and the official idiots threw it all away.
Great song, thanks! :) xxx
My mother's parent's were from Salford.
Hey! That’s the Clock School(St George’s)
Not seen a pic of my old school in years and years but remember it exactly as in that photo.
Great vid of my home town . Dirty old town but lovely old town great chilhood, Happy days. Thank you👍🤝
Brilliant song lovely vibe.... I will share on my channel because I'm Salford through and through plus would like my dad klive James song keep going for he's legacy
Lovely memories, thank you.
Thanks for posting this one. Great to see the old school photo. Miss Roney and a few familiar faces that look like the ones in my class a few years later. (LOL) My Grandfather was The Headteacher of St.Sebastians about 100 years ago so of particular interest.
I find images and film of Salford in previous years fascinating. My mother was born in Cleminson St, Greengate but pretty much all of that area has been re-developed so there is little trace of the surroudings she would have remembered.
Cheers Pete, great pics great memory's thanks mate, shame its all gone now its unrecognizable to the older SALFORDIAN.1962 to present day :-) great song to by the way. Many thanx.
This is great Pete, all Gerald Road. At the Co-op they knew me by name from being 5 years old. All my family, My favourite Little Wooden Library etc. Everything you sing about and show on this film is very much appreciated. You've done a fantastic job, thanks! Love Muriel xxx
Lovely, and brilliant. And I love the song too B-)
Agreed
Ah, 3rd picture in, two blokes walking up the street and a chapel up to the left. That chapel became one of the first ever Tesco self service stores (as ca be seen later on). I lived opposite there on Borough Street. When I was a kid in the 1960's, there was a film crew outside Golds chemist, filming an old bin lorry coming around the corner. I thought it very exciting but I didn't know what it was about - until I saw the shot on a TV show... "Mam, it's the dustbinmen". Great to see Pendleton shots.
I lived on Borough street circa 1966/67 when I was about 9.
We used to have great bonfires on the nearby Pickleworks Croft.
@@daveglynn748 Dave, do you remember a scary old lady that looked a bit like Queen Victoria that used to go about on a strange black contraption that itself looked 100 years old, driven by a hand crank. She used to shout at us kids to push her up the last bit of Borough Street?
@@alanstarkie2001 I remember those contraptions Alan but I don’t remember her.
The other kids in the street around my age that I remember were Pete & Wayne Cunliff Trevor Howard there was a slightly older lad who’s surname was Burke, Terry Fannings, and next door was the Bond family.
I lived at number 29 and our house backed on to Bairds Factory that made TVs.
I lived there for around 2 years before moving to Walton St up the road as we were forever flitting. Usually by night😂.
I remember Sammy Offmans Toy Shop nearby on whit lane and the toffee shop that was run by another pals parents Gary Hamilton.
We all used to have massive pitched battles on the pickleworks Croft with catapult and brick especially around and leading up to Bonny Night when we guarded our wood fiercely.
I’v some great memories of living on Borough street.
Oh yegh’ and I remember the Mayoress of Salford had a corner shop at the top of the street near orchard street facing Ward & Goldstones Factory.
@@daveglynn748 Brilliant! I lived at No 11, next door to old Mrs Addis. She used to tell me about how she worked in the mills as a young girl and during the great war, she looked up and saw a "great big silver fish in the sky". She was talking about a zeppelin. I didn't think that any Zeppelins flew that far inland and thought she made it up but I recently found out that in 1916, a Zeppelin did go on a bombing raid over bury and Ramsbottom and in 1918 over Radcliffe. Anyway, I didn't get to know the kids on the street because I used to hang out with school mates in Lower Broughton. I do recall that the family across the street, on the corner (where you could cut through to the croft I think you're talking about), kept a sheep in the house lol. In 1967 a new shop opened called Woody's - a pet shop. I got a ferret but I don't think he had sheep! Maybe they were fattening it up for the butcher around the corner. I remember about how you had to guard the bonnie or go on raiding parties haha! No 11 was plagued with bed bugs and that freaked me out. We were eventually re-housed to Pendleton Green on Nursery Street in 1970. Cheers, thanks for the memories.
@@alanstarkie2001 Living far away in Sussex now but my heart is still in my beloved Salford.
Good talking to you Alan👍🏻
Ps can’t think why the krauts would fly a Zeppelin all the way from Germany to bomb sleepy Ramsbottom and Bury when the juicy targets of Salford & Mcr are nearby but glad they missed us😂
Good job with the song Pete,cracked it.
I remember living in weaste in the tin houses called hillfield and parkfield goldsmith in the 1950 going tootal drive primary school then on tootal road secondary school also was a member of weaste cong church boys brigade before moving to little hulton we were lucky living in weaste because we did not suffer from poverty that alot of people did although i was not born in salford that not stop me being proud of my city andtje people who lived there
THAT WAS NICE 👍, I JUST WISHED THERE WERE MORE OLD PHOTOS OF SALFORD, INSTEAD OF REPEATING SOME OF PHOTOS IN THE VIDEO LIKE ~ SEEDLEY, IRLAMS O' TH' HEIGHT, CLAREMONT, DUCHY ESTATE (INCLUDING AUSTIN'S FARM ON BANK LANE), WEASTE, TRINITY & ISLINGTON, ORDSALL, BRINDLE HEATH
👍🏴👌.
Nice one my friend
class
Tune 🎉❤
I really want to go to Salford uni, call me mad but I believe my heart is in Salford, hence why I can't find it
went to cromwell girls
I live in Australia now and for almost 40 years. I was born on Hilda St Salford as was my siblings from 1957 to 1966 - this street Hilda St backed onto Mocha Street. We used to have Bonfires on the croft that faced us in November - I think Bellamys Crumpet factory was close by and a chip shop and corner store called Guys???? Possible Frederick Rd or lower Broughton Rd. Bonifaces School was close by but I went to Ascension School further away.... mum got us dressed up all smart for Whit week and we watched the school bands walk passed it was just wonderful....we were moved on when I was 11 and the street knocked down. The best 11 years of my life... QUESTION which school was your photo from Pete ??
St Sebastians! I lived on Broughton Road - not too far from you!
@@petemartin4112 what junior school did you attend ?
I really loved my childhood there - the 11 years.
I was born at Jane Street 1956 moved to Sale when I was 4.
do you have a copy of the song? I am a DJ on Salford city radio 94.4fm. I would if I could have permission to play it on my show.
I asm slightly relieved that there are bigger idiots in Liverpool who had The Cavern, that iconic building that raised The Beatles to such prominence, filled in to make a car park!
Was the Woolpack at the top end of Broad Street, just opposite the Toc H hostel?
The Woolpack was where Bolton Road and Eccles Old Road joined.
Third picture, the chapel with the steps, top end of Gerald Road, became one of the first Tesco's. I lived opposite. Ha, came up later on :)
Alan, this wasn't a chapel. It started life as a cinema called The Bijou (French for the little jewel and ronounced Beezhoo but everyone nearby called it the Bye Joe) then became Adsega, I think, before Tesco bought it.
@@petemartin4112 Spot on Peter.
I remember it as the Adsiga supermarket when I was a little kid before it was a Tesco.
It was the first supermarket I can remember seeing and my mam used to talk about it being the Bijou. I once lived on Borough Street close by.
Wasn’t Gerald road I think that the old supermarket was on Broughton road. Gerald road was the other end of Whit Lane🤔
@@daveglynn748 Yeah, you're right. I don't have many photos of old Salford, but when on my way to Broughton Modern when I was a kid, I noticed someone had scrawled on the door of the old church on Broughton Road, in chalk, before it was demolished "God lives here". I took a picture as you could see the ruins through the door!
That signpost says five and a half miles to Bury and 2 miles to Rawtenstall....it certainly isn't in Salford then!
Born 1977 weaste /Seedley
It's on old channel benJS85
Does anybody know anything about Dirty Dick. An escapee from a Charles Dickens novel who had a junk shop, late 1960's, corner of Borough Street and Cromwell Road?
love the vid tho
great photos ,, dont need the singing,,
what the planners did to salford is a sin
they rubbed it out and replaced it with BLAND