Manchester City Centre - 1973
Various Manchester scenes in the rare film The Lovers
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Who remembers placemate, Tiffaness, pips and rotters, and Belle vue zoo park.😊
@GNeuman
5 ай бұрын
My gf had her handbag stolen at Rotters and I played there in the "Battle of the Bands" competition run by Tony Wilson. I don't remember but apparently The Stone Roses were in the comp too and they won that night, lol
@ericrawson7669
Ай бұрын
ME! I went to them all!
@tonyoliver2750
Ай бұрын
I remember watching them shoot the scene outside the George Best Boutique. I must have been about 19.
@glovesoffofficial1382
Ай бұрын
Happy Days!!
RIP Richard Beckinsale
I left Manchester that year to go off to university and never moved back. Still, this brought back a lot of memories. Thanks for posting it.
@Metrolivia1
3 жыл бұрын
You have never been back since 1973!!! Wow you are in for a shock if you ever do return!
I remember the campaign 'Plant a tree in 73' ,Bob Greaves talking about it on Granada Reports!!🙃
absolutely wonderful pictures brings back memories
I was lucky enough to see George Best play at Old Trafford, about that year with my Dad and brother, i was scared at age 14, walking up the cobble path with lots of men in work boots , but seeing George was worth it ❤
Amazing footage. Good old GMT with their 256 and 257
0:18 That car park is now paved over and called trinity Square and the George Best Boutique is now a bar called 'Crazy Pedros'.
Great clip from a lovely film, how Paula Wilcox was gorgeous and so was Manchester back then.
Presumably the fairground/zoo scenes were filmed at the now long defunct Bellevue Park.
remember the woolworths fire in 79, i think?,we could see the smoke rising from our street in Beswick.
It's wonderful seeing these videos with Richard Beckinsale in🌹✝️ R. I. P. Lovely memories for us all and also his 2 daughters Samantha and Kate Beckinsale 👍😍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️👌
Halcyon days,damp on the walls ,so deep and black you had to decorate every 6months, pawn shop on a Monday,we was ok both parents in work,flared cords and bright purple y fronts!!Fly away collars and nylon shirts!!Ford Anglia or mini for mam,Cortina or Granada for dad,chippy tea on a Friday,Town on Saturday,watch the match.Nanas on Sunday for a roast, sandwiches and biscuits for tea and bleeding Harry seacom on songs of praise.(bless his local vicar singing voice).Still better than 80's.Mass unemployment,Hard drugs,depression,robbing the pawn shops,and cars,Gang violence,and organised crime,the break up of traditional families and privatisation.flared cords one week,shell suits the other,then the start of multi cultural, course work instead of exams to qualify,and last but not least political correctness.Progress ay,Oh yes and still every one from Coronation Street is from Yorkshire but depict life in Manchester.Hmmm.
The girl with the feather cut, is Susan Littler, who played Viv Nicholson in Spend, Spend, Spend. She sadly died very young. She was nominated for a BAFTA for playing Viv, so was headed for big success.
Interesting, but I would I really like to see is archive footage of inside the Arndale Centre from the late 70s/early 80s
2:30. Richard: "D'you ever get the feeling you've been somewhere before?" Me:"Yeah, Belle Vue. Luckily I was adopted by some Mancunians before it closed down".😂 Lots of memories in that video. 😏👍
Love this video..used to go to Henry Barrie in St Annes Square for uniform :)
@faltskog36abba
7 жыл бұрын
Same here.
@g.m.4877
7 күн бұрын
And me! Notre Dame High School
Ah, The Lovers. Soooooo innocent. And yet, many young people were like that. All those location shots give you some sense of the city. For the next forty years it felt only London was treated that way by filmmakers (in the UK). I think it has improved a little more recently, but there’s still room for improvement. To many generic ‘any towns’....
I was madly in love with Beryl Battersby :)
0:52 - Great Bridgewater Street - the building behind is the arrow sign is now a pub called The Britons Protection, not sure if it was then. Beyond the pub you can just make out the tunnel that leads onto Deansgate/Castlefield.
Ah, the old souvenir shop at old Trafford. Bought many a footy shirt from there. Compared to the shop now, that was like a market stall! BTW, Pauline looks gorgeous in this, and RIP Richard.
It's funny seeing St. Anne's Square and St. Anne's Street and church. In August 1973 I started my first job a few hundred yards away in King Street. My weekly wage was £16.32 per week and out of my first month's wages I bought a rather fetching grey check sports jacket with huge lapels, plain grey trousers with big flares and a mauve tie that was as wide as my dad's trouser leg. Eee, them were t'days.
@vinnylo6566
5 жыл бұрын
This film 1972 actually.
@mistofoles
4 жыл бұрын
Do you still wear the outfit ?
Seen this first time around to :-) omg how time flies when your having fun a?..
Richard Beckinsale was gorgeous.
@glamdolly30
4 жыл бұрын
Wasn't he just - died far too young at just 31. All that charisma and talent, gone. Tragic.
@heatherprince1659
4 жыл бұрын
He sure was Gorgeous agree with you also 👍🌹👍❤️👌
@shamshirhussain8198
2 жыл бұрын
His daughter is gorgeous
Manchester my birth city👻
Christ, I started work at the Refuge in 1973 😂 And Paula Wilcox, still going strong.
Geoffrey Bubbles Bon Bon .
@FiveLiver
Жыл бұрын
N O spells no.
It’s not Manchester without Gene Hunt protecting the streets, I’m sorry.
And no Percy filth!
@2011pmacz
2 жыл бұрын
lol
I remember them filming this...I was about 8 or 9. The film crew were encouraging us all to shout hahahaha
@EarlEBird-fz6yr
3 жыл бұрын
I remember being there too - holding your hand (again) :-)
@tonyoliver2750
Ай бұрын
@@EarlEBird-fz6yr I was watching them film outside the George Best Boutique.
anyone got film of oldham street of the70s
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Paula Wilcox. Man about the house lol
Is the zoo Belle Vue?
Think the George Best boutique is now Crazy Pedro's bar/nightclub.
@glamdolly30
4 жыл бұрын
I wonder how long it actually traded? No doubt he pissed any profits against the wall. A self indulgent, lazy, arrogant fool who squandered his talents and behaved appallingly. His decidedly untalented son is a chip off the old block. Not half as good looking as his father was before the booze ravaged him - and old Calum's lost all his hair too!
The next development of old Trafford after these images were filmed was the demolition of the terracing seen at 5.19 and 1800 seats installed into a new stand named "L". But to me this was Old Trafford in its prime.
@harrybroughton4999
7 жыл бұрын
Yes - interesting to know though the Scoreboard End they are sat in at the end has never since been demolished - that's one stand that's remained intact minus the terracing.
@FiveLiver
Жыл бұрын
5:19
@vicgallimore6756
Жыл бұрын
Qqa0
@richardj2216
2 күн бұрын
No Leaking Roof lol
I wonder if any of the crowd in these shots ended up attending Wigan Casino.
@fudgepanda1
7 жыл бұрын
My wife did, and she live in Middlesbrough at the time. They used to come down by coach.
@Julia-fo4tk
Жыл бұрын
There was a terrific atmosphere at the Casino. Does anyone remember the Bird Cage/Tiffanys in A-u-L? The latter had a Northern Soul night.
I think its 1972 not 1973. I have this film on dvd.
@RawMancFilm
2 жыл бұрын
released in 1973.
Great to see this again. I remember being at the premiere of The Lovers during the Manchester Festival! More views of 1970s Manchester in my film "The Maltese Budgie" at kzread.infovideos
He never met Percy Filth did he!
Lol the time United got religated by City that famous Denis Law back heel.
@patrickmalone1902
Жыл бұрын
Citeh will know all about relegation lol.
@johnhankinson1929
Жыл бұрын
they've never recovered from it , the red shite have been in the blue shadow for 50 years
@patrickmalone1902
Жыл бұрын
Learn how to spell you liar.
@garystewart2263
3 ай бұрын
😂
@garystewart2263
3 ай бұрын
Least we can fill our ground
Oh wow that was belle vue fair and zoo use to go there as a kid
paula wilcox is married to Nelson Riddle jr known as BUD her father in law was a very successful arranger
Bit of social distancing at minute: 3:34 😀
Good old days when the Mancunian race was represented by peaple from elsewhere,that back wards they have only tried to be authentic in the last ten years.
Could you really just stroll in Old Trafford like that back in the day?
@stephanieshefer5545
3 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@stephanieshefer5545
3 жыл бұрын
My first time at old Trafford cost 60p. Standing stretford end.
St Ann's Square..NO E..
@2011pmacz
2 жыл бұрын
No, if you wanted E, Oldham St was the place!
Richard Beckinsale looks like he could have been in Buzzcocks! dx
Apart from the footage wasted on a bleedin' football stadium, the rest of that brought back lots of memories.
Who cares about Manchester? I'm more interested in seeing old film of Richard Beckinsale, who died tragically young aged 31 in 1979. Places are just places, but people are utterly irreplaceable.
@johnhankinson1929
Жыл бұрын
many a mancunian does , who gives a shit about you ?
@ianmansbridge3646
7 ай бұрын
Places can be haunted by the spirit of the past and those we have lost. As I walk round these days I keep getting the feeling that I am about to meet a departed friend. It is most uncanny.