Manchester City Centre - 1973

Various Manchester scenes in the rare film The Lovers
Disclaimer : This video has been posted up to show the old areas of Manchester, the copyright is still held by the film-makers. If you think the copyright is breached please let us know we will take the footage off.

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  • @jeffreywatterson67
    @jeffreywatterson6711 ай бұрын

    Who remembers placemate, Tiffaness, pips and rotters, and Belle vue zoo park.😊

  • @GNeuman

    @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

    @ericrawson7669

    Ай бұрын

    ME! I went to them all!

  • @tonyoliver2750

    @tonyoliver2750

    Ай бұрын

    I remember watching them shoot the scene outside the George Best Boutique. I must have been about 19.

  • @glovesoffofficial1382

    @glovesoffofficial1382

    Ай бұрын

    Happy Days!!

  • @andrewbackhouse5091
    @andrewbackhouse50919 жыл бұрын

    RIP Richard Beckinsale

  • @mnd1955
    @mnd19557 жыл бұрын

    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

    @Metrolivia1

    3 жыл бұрын

    You have never been back since 1973!!! Wow you are in for a shock if you ever do return!

  • @christopherdaly9384
    @christopherdaly9384 Жыл бұрын

    I remember the campaign 'Plant a tree in 73' ,Bob Greaves talking about it on Granada Reports!!🙃

  • @patriciaodriscoll4958
    @patriciaodriscoll49589 жыл бұрын

    absolutely wonderful pictures brings back memories

  • @bonnieandclyde222
    @bonnieandclyde222 Жыл бұрын

    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 ❤

  • @GNeuman
    @GNeuman5 ай бұрын

    Amazing footage. Good old GMT with their 256 and 257

  • @johncostello3174
    @johncostello3174 Жыл бұрын

    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'.

  • @Caskchap
    @Caskchap11 ай бұрын

    Great clip from a lovely film, how Paula Wilcox was gorgeous and so was Manchester back then.

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles4 жыл бұрын

    Presumably the fairground/zoo scenes were filmed at the now long defunct Bellevue Park.

  • @3rk4u
    @3rk4u6 жыл бұрын

    remember the woolworths fire in 79, i think?,we could see the smoke rising from our street in Beswick.

  • @heatherprince1659
    @heatherprince16594 жыл бұрын

    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 👍😍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️👌

  • @geoffedwards-tb4kp
    @geoffedwards-tb4kp6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @paulwild3676
    @paulwild367624 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles10 жыл бұрын

    Interesting, but I would I really like to see is archive footage of inside the Arndale Centre from the late 70s/early 80s

  • @chauffeurdrivenbimbo5850
    @chauffeurdrivenbimbo58503 жыл бұрын

    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. 😏👍

  • @bollox21
    @bollox2110 жыл бұрын

    Love this video..used to go to Henry Barrie in St Annes Square for uniform :)

  • @faltskog36abba

    @faltskog36abba

    7 жыл бұрын

    Same here.

  • @g.m.4877

    @g.m.4877

    7 күн бұрын

    And me! Notre Dame High School

  • @bojack40
    @bojack404 жыл бұрын

    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’....

  • @ericleach7074
    @ericleach70744 жыл бұрын

    I was madly in love with Beryl Battersby :)

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Chrisamusic1
    @Chrisamusic17 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @fudgepanda1
    @fudgepanda17 жыл бұрын

    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

    @vinnylo6566

    5 жыл бұрын

    This film 1972 actually.

  • @mistofoles

    @mistofoles

    4 жыл бұрын

    Do you still wear the outfit ?

  • @garyt3039
    @garyt30399 жыл бұрын

    Seen this first time around to :-) omg how time flies when your having fun a?..

  • @Hedgemist
    @Hedgemist9 жыл бұрын

    Richard Beckinsale was gorgeous.

  • @glamdolly30

    @glamdolly30

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wasn't he just - died far too young at just 31. All that charisma and talent, gone. Tragic.

  • @heatherprince1659

    @heatherprince1659

    4 жыл бұрын

    He sure was Gorgeous agree with you also 👍🌹👍❤️👌

  • @shamshirhussain8198

    @shamshirhussain8198

    2 жыл бұрын

    His daughter is gorgeous

  • @johnw2328
    @johnw23289 жыл бұрын

    Manchester my birth city👻

  • @petek7822
    @petek7822 Жыл бұрын

    Christ, I started work at the Refuge in 1973 😂 And Paula Wilcox, still going strong.

  • @PB.JACKSON
    @PB.JACKSON4 жыл бұрын

    Geoffrey Bubbles Bon Bon .

  • @FiveLiver

    @FiveLiver

    Жыл бұрын

    N O spells no.

  • @scotia7326
    @scotia73263 жыл бұрын

    It’s not Manchester without Gene Hunt protecting the streets, I’m sorry.

  • @michaelberry1028
    @michaelberry10286 жыл бұрын

    And no Percy filth!

  • @2011pmacz

    @2011pmacz

    2 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @johnallen3297
    @johnallen329710 жыл бұрын

    I remember them filming this...I was about 8 or 9. The film crew were encouraging us all to shout hahahaha

  • @EarlEBird-fz6yr

    @EarlEBird-fz6yr

    3 жыл бұрын

    I remember being there too - holding your hand (again) :-)

  • @tonyoliver2750

    @tonyoliver2750

    Ай бұрын

    @@EarlEBird-fz6yr I was watching them film outside the George Best Boutique.

  • @terryblueeyes
    @terryblueeyes10 жыл бұрын

    anyone got film of oldham street of the70s

  • @aniqakhanvlogs2232
    @aniqakhanvlogs22323 жыл бұрын

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @stevejones7008
    @stevejones70086 жыл бұрын

    Paula Wilcox. Man about the house lol

  • @annoldham3018
    @annoldham30183 жыл бұрын

    Is the zoo Belle Vue?

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles7 жыл бұрын

    Think the George Best boutique is now Crazy Pedro's bar/nightclub.

  • @glamdolly30

    @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!

  • @73reider
    @73reider7 жыл бұрын

    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

    @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

    @FiveLiver

    Жыл бұрын

    5:19

  • @vicgallimore6756

    @vicgallimore6756

    Жыл бұрын

    Qqa0

  • @richardj2216

    @richardj2216

    2 күн бұрын

    No Leaking Roof lol

  • @yogihaughton7646
    @yogihaughton76468 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if any of the crowd in these shots ended up attending Wigan Casino.

  • @fudgepanda1

    @fudgepanda1

    7 жыл бұрын

    My wife did, and she live in Middlesbrough at the time. They used to come down by coach.

  • @Julia-fo4tk

    @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.

  • @vinnylo6566
    @vinnylo65665 жыл бұрын

    I think its 1972 not 1973. I have this film on dvd.

  • @RawMancFilm

    @RawMancFilm

    2 жыл бұрын

    released in 1973.

  • @SandywellFilms
    @SandywellFilms10 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @bernardfender5147
    @bernardfender5147 Жыл бұрын

    He never met Percy Filth did he!

  • @bluthebeast3132
    @bluthebeast31324 жыл бұрын

    Lol the time United got religated by City that famous Denis Law back heel.

  • @patrickmalone1902

    @patrickmalone1902

    Жыл бұрын

    Citeh will know all about relegation lol.

  • @johnhankinson1929

    @johnhankinson1929

    Жыл бұрын

    they've never recovered from it , the red shite have been in the blue shadow for 50 years

  • @patrickmalone1902

    @patrickmalone1902

    Жыл бұрын

    Learn how to spell you liar.

  • @garystewart2263

    @garystewart2263

    3 ай бұрын

    😂

  • @garystewart2263

    @garystewart2263

    3 ай бұрын

    Least we can fill our ground

  • @margaretblack2399
    @margaretblack23994 жыл бұрын

    Oh wow that was belle vue fair and zoo use to go there as a kid

  • @RobertKincaid-vq3hn
    @RobertKincaid-vq3hn4 ай бұрын

    paula wilcox is married to Nelson Riddle jr known as BUD her father in law was a very successful arranger

  • @vahidshahadi9817
    @vahidshahadi98172 жыл бұрын

    Bit of social distancing at minute: 3:34 😀

  • @geoffedwards-tb4kp
    @geoffedwards-tb4kp6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @nick8666-l5d
    @nick8666-l5d4 жыл бұрын

    Could you really just stroll in Old Trafford like that back in the day?

  • @stephanieshefer5545

    @stephanieshefer5545

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes.

  • @stephanieshefer5545

    @stephanieshefer5545

    3 жыл бұрын

    My first time at old Trafford cost 60p. Standing stretford end.

  • @MrTSK27
    @MrTSK278 жыл бұрын

    St Ann's Square..NO E..

  • @2011pmacz

    @2011pmacz

    2 жыл бұрын

    No, if you wanted E, Oldham St was the place!

  • @davidwaterhouse2552
    @davidwaterhouse25522 жыл бұрын

    Richard Beckinsale looks like he could have been in Buzzcocks! dx

  • @gzk6nk
    @gzk6nk4 ай бұрын

    Apart from the footage wasted on a bleedin' football stadium, the rest of that brought back lots of memories.

  • @glamdolly30
    @glamdolly304 жыл бұрын

    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

    @johnhankinson1929

    Жыл бұрын

    many a mancunian does , who gives a shit about you ?

  • @ianmansbridge3646

    @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.