Fantastic photos of Manchester in the 1960s

[Jay Park]

A health and safety nightmare.

strenghthen your ankles like the wind does a stem

 

[farmerbarleymow]

strenghthen your ankles like the wind does a stem

I'm going to let UrbaneFox test your hypothesis.

 

[UrbaneFox]

Did this ever get posted here?

This is Manchester: 99 photos from the 1970s

Abandoned stations, vast housing blocks and the birth of a city centre monster - a pictorial snapshot of Greater Manchester in the seventies

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I like the muriel of Alvin Stardust on the side of a house.

 

[UrbaneFox]

strenghthen your ankles like the wind does a stem

Is that Shakespeare?

Anyway, we needed shoes like that in the old days, before drains and street cleaners were invented, otherwise you would sink in shit, scraps and cabbage offcuts.

 

[Wilf]

I like the muriel of Alvin Stardust on the side of a house.

Yeah, it was great. I was brought up in Heywood and used to pass it every couple of days. I remember being quite shocked as a kid that the 'pop culture' I liked was getting 'official' recognition like that. Must have been some progressive thinking in Heywood Council's Recreation Department (or, nerd point, perhaps Rochdale's. Heywood became part of Rochdale in a local government reorganisation in 1974).

 

[Wilf]

I had a vague feeling the Heywood mural was Walter Kershaw's first and so it was:

Walter Kershaw - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Did a few all over Greater Manchester but, basically, first Heywood, then Sao Paulo.

 

[Wilf]

Oh fuck, just as I was bigging him, this comes up - stalking convictions and imprisonments going back 15 years:

Walter Kershaw jailed for four years after stalking ex-lover

Littleborough artist Walter Kershaw has been jailed for four years for stalking his former lover and for breaching a...

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk

 

[deeyo]

Yeah, it was great. I was brought up in Heywood and used to pass it every couple of days. I remember being quite shocked as a kid that the 'pop culture' I liked was getting 'official' recognition like that. Must have been some progressive thinking in Heywood Council's Recreation Department (or, nerd point, perhaps Rochdale's. Heywood became part of Rochdale in a local government reorganisation in 1974).

says here it was really supposed to be elvis, but needs must when beggars can't be choosers...
+ more murals!
Through the Magpie Eye: Murals from the ’70s – Oi Polloi

 

[Jay Park]

Oh fuck, just as I was bigging him, this comes up - stalking convictions and imprisonments going back 15 years:

Walter Kershaw jailed for four years after stalking ex-lover

Littleborough artist Walter Kershaw has been jailed for four years for stalking his former lover and for breaching a...

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk

well, he spent a whole night spraying himself all over a wall

 

[Jay Park]

Fucking Heywood

fort dis waz about Mannie

 

[handy1]

The local rag has an article about which streets used to have cars - this is Market Street in 1953. Shame the Arndale was built as the buildings look OK. The street looks quite a bit steeper than it is now which is weird.

The city centre streets you used to be able to drive on

Deansgate was closed to traffic this week, but cars used to rule the roost on lots of other roads too

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

The area occupied by today’s Arndale was called the shambles. I believe it was beautiful. Maybe not York shambles standard but preferable to today’s eyesore.

 

[Jay Park]

The area occupied by today’s Arndale was called the shambles. I believe it was beautiful. Maybe not York shambles standard but preferable to today’s eyesore.

shame

 

[Puddy_Tat]

The area occupied by today’s Arndale was called the shambles. I believe it was beautiful. Maybe not York shambles standard but preferable to today’s eyesore.

some pictures here (they don't seem to want to be inserted in a post here)

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The area occupied by today’s Arndale was called the shambles. I believe it was beautiful. Maybe not York shambles standard but preferable to today’s eyesore.

This was the street plan pre-Arndale apparently.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

This was the street plan pre-Arndale apparently.

1922 OS map (move-able) alongside current

Side by side georeferenced maps viewer - Map images - National Library of Scotland

 

[farmerbarleymow]

1922 OS map (move-able) alongside current

Side by side georeferenced maps viewer - Map images - National Library of Scotland

Cheers. It's interesting to see that the inside walkway things in the centre sometimes track the old street pattern, more or less.

 

[hitmouse]

Have we had this lot?

27 Snapshots of Manchester In The 1960s - Flashbak

37 Snapshots of Manchester In The 1970s Via: MMU

flashbak.com

 

[Saul Goodman]

Have we had this lot?

27 Snapshots of Manchester In The 1960s - Flashbak

37 Snapshots of Manchester In The 1970s Via: MMU

flashbak.com

There used to be underground toilets just to the right of those phone boxes, and a Wimpy across the road.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

There used to be underground toilets just to the right of those phone boxes, and a Wimpy across the road.

Correct!

 

[hitmouse]

80s/90s Hulme:

Hulme, 1980s-90s | Photographs by Richard Davis

Hulme in the 1980s and 1990s. Photographs by our featured photographer Richard Davis.

britishculturearchive.co.uk

 

[WouldBe]

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Wooden footy boots.

 

[moose]

This was the street plan pre-Arndale apparently.

Sometimes I remember that more clearly than the plan of the Arndale, despite being very little when we went there. We used to drop in on my uncle who worked in a building that was demolished in '71 for Arndale development.

 

[hitmouse]

Of interest to fans of old Manchester photos:

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Open all hours: Manchester shopfronts of the early 80s – in pictures

A new book by photographer Brian Lomas captures the memory of Manchester’s independent shops in the early 80s

www.theguardian.com

 

[Saul Goodman]

Open all hours: Manchester shopfronts of the early 80s – in pictures

A new book by photographer Brian Lomas captures the memory of Manchester’s independent shops in the early 80s

www.theguardian.com

I remember that Phyllis' flower shop. It was the dodgy 'I' that reminded me.

 

[moose]

I wonder when all those kind of primative-looking shops got swept away. The 80s feels like yesterday, sometimes, I just didn't notice it happening.

 

[Wilf]

Of interest to fans of old Manchester photos:

Cheers for posting that. That was exactly the period I started going to Old Trafford, the period just before punk and I'm amazed at the memories that threw up.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I wonder when all those kind of primative-looking shops got swept away. The 80s feels like yesterday, sometimes, I just didn't notice it happening.

Some might have survived - on Oldham Road in Failsworth and up towards Oldham there are some old shop fronts still around, with weird shops in them that never seem to be open. But I guess many have long gone.

 

[moose]

Cheers for posting that. That was exactly the period I started going to Old Trafford, the period just before punk and I'm amazed at the memories that threw up.

Yep, took me right back. When young people could afford to go with their mates, and you could just show up and queue. Or sit on the railway bridge if you couldn't get in the Stretford.

 

[purves grundy]

80s/90s Hulme:

Hulme, 1980s-90s | Photographs by Richard Davis

Hulme in the 1980s and 1990s. Photographs by our featured photographer Richard Davis.

britishculturearchive.co.uk

My band played in a squat in Hulme in '93. We were a bit wet behind the ears and were more or less terrified the entire time, and repulsed at the food. A character building experience.