So thankful You’re doing this Aidan. 🙏🙏🙏

It's lovely to see these areas being rejuvenated, and with the incorporation of green spaces. I think greenery can be used to beautify almost any building.

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the last time it happened in this part of Manchester wars, when the Commonwealth Games took place in 2002. Industrial areas to the east along the river. Medlock cleaned up and renovated.

Loved manchester it's dark & gloomy & dirty & smelly & bustling love it.. Fantastic night life too

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

I think it used to be that, but for quite a few years it's become a lot more spruced up and maybe gentrified. I can see the nightlife is still good.

Your comments are always gratefully received and I do my best to answer them, either straight away or before the next video goes live. Many thanks in advance!

Another great update, thank you. Finally managed to visit Mayfield Park last month, it’s been on the list for a while.

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it’s a very nice park. Very glad to hear your positive feedback, many thanks..

I remember the adverts in the cinema Stewart’s of Ardwick. Those were the days! Mayfield Park is wonderful we’ll worth a visit. Bring your picnics in summer

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Very interesting. I once worked with a member of the Stewart family, Peter Stewart, on the early website, Virtual Manchester, around 1997, 1998. Those were exciting times. Yes, Mayfield Park is great, but I think it’s going to get very crowded in the summer!

awesome ubdate great video

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks, very glad of your positive feedback!

What a great choice you made featuring London Road Fire Station on the cover of your book. What a magnificent building. Enjoyed the video Aidan. Having Morrissey in the video what icing on the cake.

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

That’s not a book! Thaose are just promotional cards for my Manchester Photo Walk and Liverpool Photo Walk. But they would make good book covers I think. I had a feeling people would like to see Morrissey in the frame!

Great update about Cranechester's never ending boom. Thanks

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

There are so many cranes in ‘Crane heater’ it looks like I’ve got my work cut out for me

I didn’t realise that the McDonald Hotel had gone, shows how often I go around there. Heard on the news tonight that HS2 from Crewe to Manchester could be scrapped to save money, just hope that doesn’t have an effect on the Piccadilly East development. We used to go down that cobbled street as kids, on whatever we had that day

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

There’s something very wrong with the way projects are planned when they keep threatening to cut parts of them to save money. Yes I’ve driven down Jutland Street many times, great fun, especially with children in the back of the car!

@bcegerton

Жыл бұрын

@@AidanEyewitness Funnily enough, I drove down it today, not by choice. I dropped a film into the lab in Ancoats on Silk Street, went to the Northern Quarter with the idea of spending an hour in Town shooting Street Photography before making my way to Salford Quays/Media City as was my destination in the first place but after getting out of the car and just getting my camera out I noticed the traffic really starting to build up, I was parked near Clampdown Records but just before Back Piccadilly so rather than try and pull out into the queue on Piccadilly I made my way back to Dale St and headed for Great Ancoats Street, didn’t realise City had had an early kick off. Suffice to say, never bothered with the Quays but ended up with a drive down memory Lane through Ancoats, Beswick, Openshaw, Clayton, Newton Heath, Monsall, Crumpsall then to the place I lived before moving to Horwich, Higher Broughton, onto the East Lancs, M61 and home. NIGHTMARE!!!

@paulwild3676

Жыл бұрын

Manchester is now creating more jobs than London, to cut HS2 to it, is the economics of the madhouse. A bit like Chicago not having links to New York. Crewe takes priority over Manchester? You couldn’t Legislate for the clowns in Westminster and the way they organise infrastructure. HS2 is going to finish up a commuter train for those to the North of London at this rate. It should link Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow.

@valerianocuomo996

Жыл бұрын

Roma,Milano, Torino, Venezia, Firenze, italian city, England is spoiler

@bcegerton

Жыл бұрын

@@valerianocuomo996 ???

Nice to see what a transformation they've made of an area with Mayfield Park, lovely. Hopefully the HS2 Station will actually be built. It's really a shame that the UK didn't adopt high speed trains in the 20th century like a lot of European countries did. The cost of doing it now is almost prohibitive but I'm sure the results will be magnificent. Riding Crossrail last summer was a revelation on how quite and comfortable public transport can be.

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Well, as far as I know, HS2 is going ahead. They’ve already started building the line to Birmingham and they are doing preparatory work on the section leading into Manchester, which will come through south Manchester via a long tunnel. I once travelled on the Shinkansen in Japan. It was fantastic.

so positive, love it !

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks for your comment!

Absolutely criminal how they were allowed to demolish that church. Similar buildings in doncaster town centre were demolished late 60s early 70s.

@NEWCASTLE.UNITED.

Жыл бұрын

Yeah ur right mate, i like the modern skyscrapers but at the same time these historic buildings should be preserved.

@jonmorris1999

Жыл бұрын

@@NEWCASTLE.UNITED. 💯%

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

A lot of churches in Manchester were demolished during the 20th century: St Peters (St Peters Square), St John’s, St Michael’s (Angel Meadow), St George’s survived and became an apartment building. The Reform Synagogue on Jackson St is about to be demolished. Saint Andrew’s Church in the photo looks magnificent, but it was in a bad place. Now, however, if it had been saved it would be a great asset for the newly renovated residential area.

@jonmorris1999

Жыл бұрын

@AidanEyewitness if you Google old photos of doncaster town centre the ones with the curved ends the old co op building its all gone such a shame. That's what I like about Manchester they've kept a lot of the victorian buildings I like the modern skyscrapers in-between the older buildings

@retronostalgic

Жыл бұрын

​@@NEWCASTLE.UNITED. yes, wouldn't want Manchester to be like dubai - all soulless modern buildings

thanks

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

No problem!

Hope they construct HS2 Underground and not have it running on stilts as the government insist…it will be a blight on the city landscape…we must fight this decision - however, I will not see the benefit of HS2 now in my late 60’s…😂 HS2 will take 15/20 years getting to the city - going off the the billions extra it will take to complete the Manchester section.

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

I understand the plan is to construct a tunnel under south Manchester, but they keep changing the plans!

Que guey, un video de nuevo!

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Ideally, I would like to do one Longthorne video of the week and one short per day pero no es posible en este momento.

When did the regeneration of Manchester city centre actually start then Aidan

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Well that's difficult to say. I would say the recent regeneration was already underway prior to the bomb of 1996, which accelerated the regeneration. The Beetham was completed in 2007 then there was the crash of 2008. That caused things to stop. Many building projects were paused or abandoned. Things slowly gathered pace and they are currently at full swing, but is another crash round the corner?

@jasongray4517

Жыл бұрын

And when does it end?

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

@@jasongray4517 Never, cities are self-regenerating. It's just a question of how much it slows down or speeds up.

5.16. They demolished that beautiful St Andrews church? I'm disgusted.

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Many churches were demolished in the 1960s. At the time they would’ve justified the destruction of St Andrews by saying there was no longer a congregation as this was now an industrial area. They were oblivious to the architectural beauty of the building and couldn’t have foreseen that half a century later this would turn back into a residential district.

😂😂 I’ve hated that university building for years can we not just have done with it. Embarrassing when you’re showing someone the city centre for the first time and that scruffs the first thing they see

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Opinions are divided on Brutalist architecture. Who is to decide what stays or goes? The council planning committee. If a building is listed it can’t be demolished (in theory). This one is not listed. Many thanks for your comment! :)

2:30 demolish and rebuild those depressing 50s-70s brutalist buildings.

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks!