This is a brilliant idea. I lived in Alkrington from 1948 to 1974 and can just about remember Langley being built, which doubled Middleton's population overnight. Then, Mainway was mostly a dirt track ending short of Alkrington Moss. Then the estate came along connecting Mainway almost to Middleton Junction So the whole place changed just in that relatively short time. I see my old school, Alkrington still seems to be there , halfway down Kingsway. Fortunately the west side of Manchester New road where I lived does not seem to have suffered. I suppose they cannot build on Alkrington Wood, thank goodness. In the early 60s, I could still get to countryside at Bowlee within minutes on my bike, or to Slattocks and Tandle Hill. Let's hope that the land behind my father's birthplace in Rhodes does not succumb to development. Green spaces are vital round there.

I used to live on hereford way boarshaw and worked at wincanton on stakehill i really miss those days its only when you move away you realise how middleton stood on its own.I just looked on google maps and it seems to have changed for the worse sorry to say I also had a girlfriend who worked at the who'd a wood street ✌

,I remember Wood Street was green fields from Mellalieu down to Mid. we used to play football there that was bad enough when they built there but when they built on Hollin High/Moorclose playing fields that was enough,Manchester will end up like london,lots of towns with no boarders, just one massive sprawl

How old are you? as a kid from above the Owd a thout it around the Kings Head all the way down Wood Street past the Woodmans pub as far as the Albion pub was back to back houses built in the 1800 hundreds to house the people that came to work in the mills of Middleton,I bought one on Oldham Road in the Eighties that was built in 1897,lets get some facts layed down here.

what an uninformative film..... what planning applications are before the council and for what ? that data would have been helpful....