Walked to Manchester a lot in my teens down the same way. I can't do that now. Houses popping up everywhere, everywhere is changing now. Glad to see some of the older building still remain. Great vid Sarah xxx ❤

Great Video Thanks for making it lived in Failsworth 42 years ago.5 Star Video

H I Sarah Loved this video. I love old buildings too. I have passed this passion on to my wife and daughter. Thank you Regards Rob

My grandad used to live on Lilmore avenue, behind that macdonalds on Oldham Road. He had an anderson shelter in the back garden when I was a kid and the train line ran right at the back of his house. When he was in his 80s he remarried and moved into one of those lovely old houses on the left of Oldham road. I remember it well!😊

Great memories from that walk.. Friday nights Copenhagen then the Amber Club. It was mint.. Saturday nights, Failsworth pole. Loved it. Sunday aswell if I could handle it.

I live really close to the lamb inn so this history is so interesting - thank you for sharing!

Loved this video showing the 'Then' and 'Now' pictures 📸 love the old factory 🏭 where the Supermarket Now sits...very enjoyable...right up my street.. yes 'Pun' intended...thank u 4 the tour Sarah...Great video 📹 😊😊😊😊

Lennards were very famous shoemakers back in the day. It's good to see a few old places that are still recognizable, I left for Australia at the end of 79.

I remember the place you thought was a thunder dome burning when I was a kid

Really enjoyed that there’s a pub in Moston I went in in 1970 called The Ben Brierley, still standing I think, I lived Gorton when that bomb went off it shook the house, yes there was a walk through bridge going from the Armadale to M&S was blown up,

Hiya . I like a good singsong accent and yours is wonderful. Im a Geordie so i allso have an interesting accent .i really enjoyed your video .im gonna check out your other vlogs today Prudhoe Northumberland 👋

Was literally right near my house. The pub with the innkeepers cottage was called The Bulls head

Brook my heart Sarah about poor Winnie Johnson and poor Keith Bennett's body never being found 😢😢😢

Great video Sarah loved the walk I came from Gorton in the 70’s well done 👍🏻❤️

Right then Sarah the Amber lounge as you called it was the Amber club formerly the lantern club up untill 1989 when the name was changed and it finally shut down in 2005 and has stood empty ever since. The odd thing is that there was a planning apllication for change of use submitted in November 2020 to go from a club to a church looks like the plans weren't passed. And the old pub just before McDonald's which is now apartments was the Bulls head. And across the road from there where you were walking was Gartsides garden centre which actually occupied 3 shops and that's also now been converted for domestic housing.The road on which the mare and foal failsworth stands is ashton road west and where them new houses are was the old failsworth mill where Findlater and Mackey (wholesale wines spirits beers etc) used to trade from and the mill also contained failsworth antiques which is now in failsworth antiques quarter. Loved this one, I'm Waffling I know so I'm shutting my gob.🤣🤣xx

Thanks for that. You have some energy! Loved the start in Failsworth, and well done for spotting the Ben Brierley plaque. I have all his books including a signed letter from him. Both my parents lived within 200 yds of that spot. Used to go to the Pop cinema across the road. (Popular Palace) then home along the Rochdale Canal. Those little cottages were amazing - I want one ! I have never seen them before. Thanks again.

Walked home from Manchester to Shaw one dark night when the buses weren't running. I think I could do it again, but I don't really want to. Thank you for this video - the old door and door frame around 24 mins are wonderful finds. Pre-lockdowns, Gullivers would host concerts and spoken word nights. Don't know if that still happens.

Wow. I never knew that was the same, famous Carnegie of Carnegie Hall, NY fame. Will have to find out some more.

Great old pubs Sarah 😊😊😊

Loved your Video Sarah im really familiar with your walk and the disused buildings and pubs which i remember well having been a taxi driver based in north Manchester in a previos Life, also i think the more you are back in blighty your yorkshire Twang gets less 🤣Very informative and interesting as Always XX

I shop in that tesco lol. Another interesting video with lots of information, you are really knowledgeable 😁👍🏼. It’s a lovely drive up on the tops, especially on a sunny day. X

Sarah I didn't know about that post Box

The Mare and Foal was where I had my 1st wedding reception in 1973! If you were to backtrack on that road on the same side, it was Failsworth liberal/labour club ( I think?) Great northern soul dancing there 1971/72ish !! 😊🕺🕺

At 15:08 that is where that old church & cemetery was that I told you about that had gothic style tombs you could sit in, one of the graves said “here’s lies beneath Dracula” which was decorated in crying cherubs and roses etc, we used to sit in there with our maccies as kids 😅 oh and at 15:37 the sign on the lamppost is still there. I have another weird story about that, which I’m not sure many people know about relating to that really old guy in Oldham I mentioned to you a while ago

I'm back again wivver bit more info. My mum new of this shop and what she new give me all I needed to find out a bit of its history. Lennards at 60 Oldham Street was the home of the iconic Lennards shoe makers and factory who had many outlets across the UK. x👍🏻

@15.10 was the bulls head

I know the Moors road so well - lunatics drive dangerously there. I live just up the road from The Pole.

I remember ferranti and the cinema that used to be in failsworth and there used to be a gun shop and bike shop the shops I remember being in failsworth was a fruit and veg then a sweet shop then you had a co op and a butchers in fact I got run over when I was around 10 I think out side the co op crossing on my way home

Beginning of the video, there was a mill there facing the mare and foal.

As a lad the only part of the trip worth while was the train journey from Newhey to Miles Platting and back

Interesting watching this. I used to commute to Manchester for years on the bus if I was skint or by train if I pushed the boat out. It has really changed. Always been a bit scruffy but looking quite rough these day🎉s. Shame as some nice buildings. I was in Saudi when the IRA bombed Manchester. Around the same time we also had a bombing in Dhahran by a terrorist group who went on to bomb The World Trade Centre. We felt very threatened out there and the Saudi Air Force put barriers around our compound and we had armed guards at the entrances and patrolling the perimeters. They checked all vehicles in and out for bombs. You could feel the tension and later on we knew exactly who had made the 9/11 attacks as soon as they had happened. We were surprised that the UK and USA had not reported the growing threat. At the time we felt the whole world was going crazy. Wendy Wilson

Hope you wasn't to late for work Sarah xxx ❤

When I was young I use to walk from waterhead to Manchester every day that's because I had the hots for a bird 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅🐎

walked from glodwick to manchester and back many a time

And that was the old fire station that's half collapsed

That white building used to be the amber club

As usual, didn't recognize much. Thought you would have started at the Pole, missed the turn-off for Belle Vue. Not too sure if I would have walked past Miles Platting in my day. An interesting place you missed in Ancoats was Angel Meadow just before Oldham Road deadheads.

It's like all our towns and cities now. Ruined Beyond Belief

The lantern used to be called the amber club I used to go in there back in the late 90s when I was 19 I'm from Newton heath and the place you thought was a sex shop it was a Chinese warehouse called the yes group I worked there and the church further down you said was locked is now a Christian community centre and the funeral parlor you came across was once owned by knobby stiles who played for Manchester United and the play house was on the opposite corner

But keep up the good work Sarah

The Lamb was a great pub

I used to live there, never stops raining

A for the Playhouse I was traumatised as a kid in the late fifties by having to visit the playhouse for god knows how many Saturdays to watch South Pacific

I know that like back of my hand