Fantastic memories, Thanks so much! I’m a Levenshulme girl but my Granny used to live in Longsight, so did My Aunt and cousins and many friends. I’ve shared this with those of us still breathing. ❤
Longsight in the 1970s as a kid. An affluent area. Heavily white working class dominated with families from the West Indies, Caribbean and Jamaica. Mid 1970s saw an influx from Pakistan due to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. No real prejudices as I remember although the Pakistanis kept themselves to themselves but I had black and Asian mates. Heavy industry was up the road in Gorton and Openshaw as well as a direct bus route either way to Manchester City Centre or Stockport. The only upset during the 70s was the strikes. Electric strike, firemans strike, ambulances and so on. Crowcroft Park was STUNNING every spring going into summer. The park keepers speciality seemed to be roses. They were everywhere. The bowling greens were perfect. There was even public toilets. It was a safe park. Everywhere seemed clean, the pavements and back entries. Always an elderly lady outside her house sweeping, or my dad in the alley collecting litter. I don't recall obesity. A lot of beer bellies with the Irish navvies, but in school no one was overweight. A lot of home cooking, schools had their own kitchens so we ate really well and healthy. Stockport Road was a living breathing consumer paradise. You could shop for virtually anything from Levenshulme to Ardwick, you didn't need to go anywhere else. Dickenson Road market, what couldn't you buy on that? Such a magic place, record stall, butchers, fruit and veg, the Sikh who sold big brand jeans and fashions at cut prices, loved by parents shopping on a budget. One weekend my mother bought on the market, a hoover, Wrangler jeans for me, Adidas Samba for my brother and underwear for my dad as well as pork chops for Saturday evening dinner and a load of fruit and veg! Every so often there would be a parade, usually on a Sunday, either scouts, boys brigade, church or similar. Everyone knew everyone else on the street. We had Help The Aged in 1977 in schools. We were all encouraged to do chores/shop/clean etc for our elderly neighbours. Easter was a magical time but only because in our house Easter eggs were displayed on a shelf near the telly, on top of each other, and it was a competition between my brothers who had the most. Easter weekend TV was brilliant, movies galore, but we usually had to watch a movie on the life of Christ. Nothing could top the run up to Christmas. Our street, nearly all the houses had a Christmas tree lit up in the front window. 'Joy to the world', certainly was in my street. Carols singers would knock occasionally. I've loads of other memories, too many to share, but the rot set into Longsight and Manchester in 1979. A new government. The first thing they did was cut funding for public parks. It was noticeable in Crowcroft Park, 1980 onwards. Cuts to everything. The heavy industry in Gorton and Openshaw started to disappear. Redundancies. Families started moving and moving away from Manchester. The decline was very noticeable mid to late 80s. Shops closed. Pubs closed. Houses pulled down. Nothing built to replace them.
Know exactly what your saying ,peel Grove then got moved as there was going to be a new road built (kirkmanshulme lane ) to the awful new estate facing st joeys cop shop ( that has been rebuilt 4 times to my knowledge ) remember all the houses getting knocked down to build asda,chell st ,,,,,,etc
Yes, spot on - miss the Bellevue Zoo where every weekend my brother and I with our parents used to go and enjoy. My dad had a restaurant on Stockpot Road next to the Longsight Police Station called Shahnaz Restaurant in the late 60's-70's before it got knock down.
Belle vue dogs racecourse as gone now so sad really! I was born and raised in gorton but i knew parts of longsight especially the market and Stockport road
Thank you so much for returning me to my childhood in longsight , some pictures where of places in Levenshulme and Gorton but hey brought back so many memories, what an innocent time it was ,lots of pubs now sadly gone , Stanley Grove infant,junior school ,,,spurley hey high school , oh to be young again and not an app needed
I remember that Police Box, outside the original Longsight Library ( Stockport Road )I lived with my Parents a few doors further along ( 1945 ) Sorry for being boringly nostalgic. Anyway, Peace to all.
Looking at all the pictures one thing stands out every street is clean. Not now crap everywhere as I'm sat in the car waiting to pick the wife up from work on Dickenson Road.
I've just posted a message on your Longsight Memories, site. I now live in South England, for over past 50 years but lived in several areas of Manchester, in my past,the first area being Longsight. Peace to all.
Remember Longsight well from my childhood,going down Kirkmanshulme lane to Belle Vue fun park when ever you could afford it with friends, Also some School mates,( Parrs Wood High)who lived on Stanley Grove Link,and Rink street as well. The first Girl I had a crush on lived at the chip shop on Link St,I wont mention her name to save her blushes,but if she reads this I think she may remember, but fifty years is a long time.
I think your slightly mistaken as there was no chip shop on Link Street but there was one if you turned onto Dalby Street also on the corner of Latimer street, as you can see at 3:04
@@Mr.Grimsdale Yes you are correct, I don't know why I put that down, No 2 Latimer St if I remember rightly, and the name of the girl in question had the initials DT (No she wasn't a drunk😄😄) perhaps you remember her?.
@@jackreacher5667 Sorry don't i recall any girl with those intials, i probably wasn't tall enough to see over the counter, i went to Stanley Grove Junior school, do you know if she went there ?
@@jackreacher5667 Yes but left the area when i was 9yrs old in 1973. I remember some of the families that lived in Link St and Dalby St, there was the Wayne's, Coyne's (watched Peter play for England schoolboys, he scored an hat-trick against Germany, played one full game for Man Utd before moving to Bolton Wanderers, his brother Ged was at Man City but i don't think he got into their first team) Keogh's, Woods (Barry was the first kid to get a Raleigh Chopper, i use to help him with his paper-round just to have a go on it) Hurley's, Andrew and Stephen, there was also a lad nick-named 'Choc-ice' but i can't remember why.
My auntie had a ladies hair dressers shop in Longsite in the early 80s. I think the shop was in Hemmings Road or something similar. We visited a few times as kids, kicking a ball in the streets and going down the road to a newspaper shop and visiting Belle view park. Good days.
Grew up in longsight in the 60,s, went to crowcroft park primary then to central high. Played footy every day during the summer hols on crowcroft park. We used to live in the police houses on north rd ( became north moor rd). There’s a little clip off the mechanics pub where my mum use to play the piano at a weekend. She got paid in half’s of mild and cigarettes.
I remember going to the. Shop on the corner of Hamilton Road and Clitheroe Road and asking the shop keeper can I have a look at the half penny tray lol
@chorlton4 Yes, I know what you mean in your comment, a past civilisation gone forever ( visually / population etc ) I'm ex-Manc, live in South England, for past 50 years but remember many of these photos images. Anyway, Peace to all!!
10:38 That's the Palais de Dance. On the right is my father's first photo shop with the 'Wedd..' and Kodak signs and that's his black car. I had the first three years of my life in that shop, upstairs in the flat, until we moved. That small row was demolished and became a car wash.
Thanks once again to my grandaughter Laura in helping me with this video -i mithered her to death to help me and she obliged as she knew how much i loved my childhood in Longsight.
It's a shame longsights gone down use to be so clean with great well kept shop on the high street, now it's full of rubbish and eye sore dirty shops on the high street it's a shame. Great video showing how it use to be.
Enjoyed this very much, wish someone had any pictures of south street near the park gates . I moved away in 1969 . I have never seen any pictures since im 55 now .
Poverty levels down since the 70s, no more rickets or TB, people now keep their own teeth until they die ……..but the Longsight Inn, a Boddingtons pub has gone? It’s not all been progress……..
Saw couple movie theatres wagging and horses across street from kirky lane Woolworth’s openshaws vegetable store used to cross road there to walk to St Johns School didn’t see school or church saw railroad bridge by embankment where my house was didn’t see houses dog track where my sister was a trainer Dents furniture store no pics of Papa Johns ice cream store or stores on corner turning into kirky lane from Stockport road
Fantastic memories, Thanks so much! I’m a Levenshulme girl but my Granny used to live in Longsight, so did My Aunt and cousins and many friends. I’ve shared this with those of us still breathing. ❤
This is the Longsight I remember. Not the craphole it’s turned into now since they started letting everyone in.
Longsight in the 1970s as a kid. An affluent area. Heavily white working class dominated with families from the West Indies, Caribbean and Jamaica. Mid 1970s saw an influx from Pakistan due to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. No real prejudices as I remember although the Pakistanis kept themselves to themselves but I had black and Asian mates. Heavy industry was up the road in Gorton and Openshaw as well as a direct bus route either way to Manchester City Centre or Stockport. The only upset during the 70s was the strikes. Electric strike, firemans strike, ambulances and so on. Crowcroft Park was STUNNING every spring going into summer. The park keepers speciality seemed to be roses. They were everywhere. The bowling greens were perfect. There was even public toilets. It was a safe park. Everywhere seemed clean, the pavements and back entries. Always an elderly lady outside her house sweeping, or my dad in the alley collecting litter. I don't recall obesity. A lot of beer bellies with the Irish navvies, but in school no one was overweight. A lot of home cooking, schools had their own kitchens so we ate really well and healthy. Stockport Road was a living breathing consumer paradise. You could shop for virtually anything from Levenshulme to Ardwick, you didn't need to go anywhere else. Dickenson Road market, what couldn't you buy on that? Such a magic place, record stall, butchers, fruit and veg, the Sikh who sold big brand jeans and fashions at cut prices, loved by parents shopping on a budget. One weekend my mother bought on the market, a hoover, Wrangler jeans for me, Adidas Samba for my brother and underwear for my dad as well as pork chops for Saturday evening dinner and a load of fruit and veg! Every so often there would be a parade, usually on a Sunday, either scouts, boys brigade, church or similar. Everyone knew everyone else on the street. We had Help The Aged in 1977 in schools. We were all encouraged to do chores/shop/clean etc for our elderly neighbours. Easter was a magical time but only because in our house Easter eggs were displayed on a shelf near the telly, on top of each other, and it was a competition between my brothers who had the most. Easter weekend TV was brilliant, movies galore, but we usually had to watch a movie on the life of Christ. Nothing could top the run up to Christmas. Our street, nearly all the houses had a Christmas tree lit up in the front window. 'Joy to the world', certainly was in my street. Carols singers would knock occasionally. I've loads of other memories, too many to share, but the rot set into Longsight and Manchester in 1979. A new government. The first thing they did was cut funding for public parks. It was noticeable in Crowcroft Park, 1980 onwards. Cuts to everything. The heavy industry in Gorton and Openshaw started to disappear. Redundancies. Families started moving and moving away from Manchester. The decline was very noticeable mid to late 80s. Shops closed. Pubs closed. Houses pulled down. Nothing built to replace them.
Know exactly what your saying ,peel Grove then got moved as there was going to be a new road built (kirkmanshulme lane ) to the awful new estate facing st joeys cop shop ( that has been rebuilt 4 times to my knowledge ) remember all the houses getting knocked down to build asda,chell st ,,,,,,etc
Yes, spot on - miss the Bellevue Zoo where every weekend my brother and I with our parents used to go and enjoy.
My dad had a restaurant on Stockpot Road next to the Longsight Police Station called Shahnaz Restaurant in the late 60's-70's before it got knock down.
I lived in Gorton and what you said chimed so much with my childhood. I didn't appreciate it then but my goodness, I do now!
Yes my childhood home and it was a great area, unfortunately its an absolute dump now.
Belle vue dogs racecourse as gone now so sad really! I was born and raised in gorton but i knew parts of longsight especially the market and Stockport road
As I wipe the tears away I have to flow youre wav. born . oak hill st. so many years ago
Thank you so much for returning me to my childhood in longsight , some pictures where of places in Levenshulme and Gorton but hey brought back so many memories, what an innocent time it was ,lots of pubs now sadly gone , Stanley Grove infant,junior school ,,,spurley hey high school , oh to be young again and not an app needed
It’s a good thing that the Huntington pub on northmoor road is turning into a restaurant
@@Ammo_-mw4vu I remember the Huntington when it was the mad hatter
I remember that Police Box, outside the original Longsight Library ( Stockport Road )I lived with my Parents a few doors further along ( 1945 )
Sorry for being boringly nostalgic.
Anyway, Peace to all.
Looking at all the pictures one thing stands out every street is clean. Not now crap everywhere as I'm sat in the car waiting to pick the wife up from work on Dickenson Road.
Thank you for the memories, very dear to me.
Wow how things have changed, i drive through here every day and dice with death!
Looks very different today doesn't it............
Even now longsight is usually in my dreams every night, always crops up
Thank you for uploading this. I've lived in Longsight my whole life. Nice to see its history!
This video was compiled by David Nelson and Laura Bostock..
I've just posted a message on your Longsight Memories, site. I now live in South England, for over past 50 years but lived in several areas of Manchester, in my past,the first area being Longsight.
Peace to all.
Cool.....so great to see this...so many great memories growing up in the 70s...thanks for the memories 🙌✨✨✨✨✨
Remember Longsight well from my childhood,going down Kirkmanshulme lane to Belle Vue fun park when ever you could afford it with friends, Also some School mates,( Parrs Wood High)who lived on Stanley Grove Link,and Rink street as well.
The first Girl I had a crush on lived at the chip shop on Link St,I wont mention her name to save her blushes,but if she reads this I think she may remember, but fifty years is a long time.
I think your slightly mistaken as there was no chip shop on Link Street but there was one if you turned onto Dalby Street also on the corner of Latimer street, as you can see at 3:04
@@Mr.Grimsdale Yes you are correct, I don't know why I put that down, No 2 Latimer St if I remember rightly, and the name of the girl in question had the initials DT (No she wasn't a drunk😄😄) perhaps you remember her?.
@@jackreacher5667 Sorry don't i recall any girl with those intials, i probably wasn't tall enough to see over the counter, i went to Stanley Grove Junior school, do you know if she went there ?
@@Mr.Grimsdale It's quite Possible, but it would be before and up to 1967, did you live in the area as you seem to be quite knowledgeable about it.?
@@jackreacher5667 Yes but left the area when i was 9yrs old in 1973. I remember some of the families that lived in Link St and Dalby St, there was the Wayne's, Coyne's (watched Peter play for England schoolboys, he scored an hat-trick against Germany, played one full game for Man Utd before moving to Bolton Wanderers, his brother Ged was at Man City but i don't think he got into their first team) Keogh's, Woods (Barry was the first kid to get a Raleigh Chopper, i use to help him with his paper-round just to have a go on it) Hurley's, Andrew and Stephen, there was also a lad nick-named 'Choc-ice' but i can't remember why.
My auntie had a ladies hair dressers shop in Longsite in the early 80s. I think the shop was in Hemmings Road or something similar. We visited a few times as kids, kicking a ball in the streets and going down the road to a newspaper shop and visiting Belle view park. Good days.
Longsight ( just saying )
Grew up in longsight in the 60,s, went to crowcroft park primary then to central high. Played footy every day during the summer hols on crowcroft park. We used to live in the police houses on north rd ( became north moor rd). There’s a little clip off the mechanics pub where my mum use to play the piano at a weekend. She got paid in half’s of mild and cigarettes.
I was at Crowcroft Park Primary from 1959-1966, when Miss Tumelty was the headmistress; Miss Ormiston, Heywood, Gladding, Bishop, Payne, Mr Watson..
I went to Crowcroft as well in the 60's early 70's 😊 I remember Mrs Orminston 😊
I remember the police houses 😊
Englands Shoe shop @5:14 used to work for them around 1969.
Didn't need shutters on shop fronts then .
I remember going to the. Shop on the corner of Hamilton Road and Clitheroe Road and asking the shop keeper can I have a look at the half penny tray lol
Good old days hey
Wow just wow
Going through levenshulme and longsight now is like another world, literally
get used to it pakis running the show 😎
Its like watching a past civilisation, one that has been destroyed. So sad what happened to this country.
@chorlton4 Yes, I know what you mean in your comment, a past civilisation gone forever ( visually / population etc ) I'm ex-Manc, live in South England, for past 50 years but remember many of these photos images.
Anyway, Peace to all!!
Great video great music worked on buses from the 60s to 2014 great memories p,murphy
10:38 That's the Palais de Dance. On the right is my father's first photo shop with the 'Wedd..' and Kodak signs and that's his black car. I had the first three years of my life in that shop, upstairs in the flat, until we moved. That small row was demolished and became a car wash.
Brilliant clips 👏🏻👏🏻, shame its like Nigeria or Baghdad now.
Shut up come say it to our face
Oh, you mean the same way your ancestors terrorised other countries for centuries? Karmas a bitch isn’t it?
Thanks once again to my grandaughter Laura in helping me with this video -i mithered her to death to help me and she obliged as she knew how much i loved my childhood in Longsight.
It's a shame longsights gone down use to be so clean with great well kept shop on the high street, now it's full of rubbish and eye sore dirty shops on the high street it's a shame. Great video showing how it use to be.
Enjoyed this very much, wish someone had any pictures of south street near the park gates . I moved away in 1969 . I have never seen any pictures since im 55 now .
Are you related to joey gilligan
Poverty levels down since the 70s, no more rickets or TB, people now keep their own teeth until they die ……..but the Longsight Inn, a Boddingtons pub has gone? It’s not all been progress……..
Saw couple movie theatres wagging and horses across street from kirky lane Woolworth’s openshaws vegetable store used to cross road there to walk to St Johns School didn’t see school or church saw railroad bridge by embankment where my house was didn’t see houses dog track where my sister was a trainer Dents furniture store no pics of Papa Johns ice cream store or stores on corner turning into kirky lane from Stockport road
Church hotel went in there for 25 years a very good set of lads went in this pub .Does any old lads still knocking about .Sam Gregory.
Less than a hundred years ago but it may as well be the Middle ages 😢
Does anybody have any pics of rollerland on linnet close from the 80s? Its like it never existed 😢
It’s a hole now. It was better then.