'Top Streets & Bolckow'

Grangetown Then & Now 11 Top Streets & Bolckow. Grangetown near Middlesbrough. First of 9 new videos that are mostly remakes of previous videos. A lot of 'Now' pictures are old pictures now as so much has changed in these last few years. In the process of updating for 2021 versions of previous Then & Now videos. None of the 'Then' pictures belong to me so many thanks to the Facebook page 'Proud to be Grangetowner PTBAG' and all its members who have kindly posted all these pictures onto PTBAG and also the now deceased internet site of 'Grangetown in times past' and also many thanks to those I have not mentioned.

[@Junk_World_Templar]

Excellent video. I grew up in Grangetown in the 80’s, just as the original streets were being flattened for the A66. Bleak to think we once had a thriving little town, long gone now sadly. Strange how progress seems to go backwards around here.

[@MyScotty7]

I cant believe how much its changed for the worse,such a vibrant area thank you this is incredible.

[@MadeInGrangetown]

Hello and Thankyou for watching and commenting. The change just in my lifetime is incredible and I think its probably why I do these videos as a hobby. The change for much older people than myself it must be mind blowing.

[@garynichols5879]

brilliant and sad.days gone by. i was born in 69 vaughan street and remember everything in this film....happy days

[@hardcore2thecore]

Amazing how you can still see the yellow lines on the road from the school. ,❤️

[@MadeInGrangetown]

It is. They where a good guide when it came to taking the picture. I still managed not to get it right though😂

[@mraven7507]

Thanks for the memories. Sad seeing it all stripped away . Remember bolcow Road very well

[@MyScotty7]

Its criminal to knock them big beautiful buildings down,its sad watching this memories gone.

[@dornierdo2172]

My great grandparents lived on Sea View Terrace back in the 1920's ironically all that would have been visible was the steel works.

[@johnosborne3281]

I live in 30 wood Street good time 1955 to 1969

[@cwjtd5777]

The very last building has been demolished.. 🇬🇧

[@arthurvasey]

The Lyric bingo hall? It began life as a cinema - but became a bingo hall later - my mother worked there as a bingo caller and my dad, when not on nights or the afternoon shift at British Steel, often played bingo there!
As to the end of Bolckow Road - the T-junction - that used to pass under a bridge - no matter where you turned, it would dip down and come back up again!
Roberts Street, next to the Lyric, had a house numbered 0!
Never knew Lanny’s was called The Lido Café at some point - but I think a lot of the old photos were taken before I was born!
As to trolleybuses - the poles often became dislodged from the wires - especially on the right turning from Bolckow Road into Birchington Avenue!
Also saw my old infant and junior schools - Pochin Road and Bolckow Road respectively - not sure what happened to Pochin Road infants’ but Bolckow Road as a school transferred over to William Worsley - Willy Wett’s, as it was called - and the building became a school furniture store where I worked upon leaving school - like time had gone backwards!

[@alfiegarbo0974]

@@arthurvasey I remember when lyric was burnt