This is brilliant, thank you for sharing. My love to everyone Salford, you’re amazing, whether you have always been Salford or you became Salford, you’re all beautiful people.

Thank you, Zarmer. I spent my first years in Marple Street and then Peel Street. In 1957, we were exiled to Little Hulton, but for the next ten years came back most weekends to visit my Nanna and Grandad and Auntie and Uncle (who were then also moved out to LH). I had my wonderful Nana and Grandad, three sets of aunties, uncles and cousins in Salford. And great neighbours, and two friendly corner shops, Ella's and Tommy Cheadle's. There was real community. In spite of all the problems, it was a happy place in which people belonged. A bigger home than just your own house. I've never had that again since. Just posher homes, a bit more money, cars, holidays, travel. And a wonderful wife and son. But no community. All simply demolished and wiped out. There must have been a better way.

Great stuff. Thank you. Staggering to think of all those buildings/streets/communities that no longer exist. Even areas that I remember as being new, which replaced some locations shown here, have subsequently been pulled down eg. maisonettes around the precinct. I always felt that they demolished a lot of property that should have been renovated - not the slum housing of course - but in between there were many magnificent pieces of architecture - a real shame it's all gone ....

THANK YOU THIS WAS GREAT TO SEE I LIVE IN SALFORD ENJOY MY LIFE THERE THANK FOR THE MEMORIES ❤

OMG! I remember yhe majority of these buildings and streets. I lived in Meldrum St near St James church and the Royal pub. I have the booklet that Tommy Lynch put out many years ago. When you look at these pictures etc. everything looks drab but in real life it was bright and a community.. the Zarma company, my dad worked there for many years. When we were kids, life was happier and less danger.. thank you for bringing these memories and places back to life.. we had nowt, but we had frienships.. 💝

The second Unknown photograph Was Islington square My dad Jimmy Wadsworth lived in the corner small house With his mam and dad And brothers and sisters Up until it was demolished. And moved into ladywell flats.

@zarmer16

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Pete

It’s sad how black and white pictures make it look like a “ dirty” old town. Yet I don’t remember it being dirty. I lived there from 75 to 78 and loved it there. Only thing that was dirty was the Irwell but I still rowed on it by Agecroft. The river is beautiful now.

@grimupnorth

8 ай бұрын

If you lived there only from 1975, you missed all the dirt. You should have been there from when the demolision of Ordsall started. The picture at 9:52 shows what it was like (that's probably West Park St. in the distance, where I lived until 1974).

How wonderfull to see Sedan Street where we lived when I was born and there is my beautiful mammy the second lady on the right.

Thank you so much for these videos, I really enjoy watching them and appreciate your hard work in compiling them

The picture at 0.45 is possibly of the factory of Featly Products, next to Broughton Bridge,Great Clowes Street. I worked there for just over a year (1976/77), but had to leave, due to an allergy to some of the chemicals used in manufacturing. In May 1989, there was a massive fire and explosion, two workers were killed and the factory razed to the ground. It never reopened, it was located just behind the Natwest Bank on Great Clowes Street, which was next to the bridge over the River Irwell. The left hand side chimney looks like the one which acted as the steam boiler's flue.

Great memories.

Lower Broughton Rd pic is the old route from Albert Park to Bury New Road before there was a landslide which took the road with it. Hence the river bank area is known as the Lanny.

Bridge across the Irwell looks like the on leading from Gerald Road towards Lower Broughton Rd where ABE Sacs was on one corner and Pets Corner on the other, opposite the Prince of Wales pub. St Bonifaces on the same street.

@donna9374

2 ай бұрын

Don't forget the Bridge pub as well.Also there was the little shops on that side all sadly gone.

Loved it.

i spent my time going around the N/W taking photos of everything my eye catches i,m from Warrington

Griffin pub close to the racecourse and the cliff training ground. My dad once threatened to throw a TV we had on hire,no one could afford to buy one, because they refused to fix it. We ended up with one which was coin operated. They used to come round take the hire money and give us the rest back.

My mum was born in Archie street, and it bacame known as Coranarchie street. She moved then to Clement street, behind the church of the same name.

Photos of the Greengate area I find fascinating because my mother was born in Upper Cleminson St in 1930....

6:43 Hyde Park pub, that was on Silk St, Trinity

Ah such wonderful memories I don’t remember it being dirty at all

At 10:14 the Victoria Bus Station! I've lived in Canada for 50 years. I think it was around 2010 I was in the UK and took the train to Manchester. My father said you'll have to take the bus home you know where it is? Yes! Well how wrong I was I, headed to Victoria Bus Station to catch the #8 (shown) but the bus station was no longer. A few years later I walked to Piccadilly to take the night bus... once again that was no longer! Even the trains were late or cancelled during electrification construction. It seemed like the only reliable transport was Street Cars!. I'm not sure what I'll find if I'm there ever again.

Hope you have shots of Duchess Street lower Broughton, and the park opposite.

7:00 That is St Phillips primary school to the left and it’s behind Chapel St, not Ordsall

That’s where I had my wallet nicked…. That’s where I was beaten up…. That’s where I was felt up…. That’s where I had my first legal pint….. that’s where me mum met me dad….. Commentary from the DVD extras 📀