I was just going to comment on how a trip up Hanley on a Saturday to go to Terry Bloods and Lotus Records was a monthly ritual :D I shall remember to my dying day meeting up with the guys from Hawkwind in Lotus Records ... and by sheer luck I had my camera with me!

You think that's bad? I can remember when Burslem was the posh shopping town.

@@chrisparkes2179 I used to go to Burslem with my Dad, I thought it was far nicer than Tunstall.

It was posh and exciting, Lewis's, Bratt& Dykes.. and going into the Green shield Stamp shop by Mother Care. The Gold Fish bowl for chips.. Think you'd have to give me general anaesthetic to get me there now!

@@rooismum1023 Bizarre gift shop and the Lamb Street arcade.

It was tho

Saturday in the mid 70s were good for me too. I went to Hanley high school. We went Swimming in the public baths by the bus station. Trying clothes in Chelsea girl ( now Specsavers) my mum worked on the tinned goods stall in the indoor market and my brother worked downstairs in Sherwin's. C&A was always good for clothes and I remember queing outside the ABC cinema to watch grease. Good times

Mike Lloyds ...queuing up to buy tickets for the VIcky 😁

Hanging out in the Wharf down Stoke playing cards then going to the match. Later doing the same at the Shakespeare in Castle

+David Nixon the "Wrights" butchers stall was on the right as you went up the steps, and several of my relatives had butchers stalls in the old meat market. Memories !

Still there mate my dad lived there 1940s and my cousin still does

@@captnodge I lived in the top end, 33,in the 50s,,60s and signed up for the RAF at the recruiting office that used to be at the top of the street .Came home in 2004 and could not believe what I saw. Still my home town just not as I wanted to remember it. Cheers

@@paulkelsall8733 yes it stands alone I remember the cobbles and small back yards with an outside toilet just like in steptoe and son .Stay safe

Wasn't there a trendy boutique in Gilman street in the 60's?

@@ericcooper1709 Yes there was. I was the idiot who lobbed a brick through the window because in my drunk state I told the police that the mannequins were laughing at me. Had to go up there and apologize to the owners who turned out to be friends, then got a beating from the old man. Good times, good times

Still got an aunt living at calvary crescent, top end of Bentilee. Went to st.johns school before they built the bus station and lived on gilman Street at the top end in the 50s and 60s

yes but the council run around in expensive cars while ordinary people have to make do

@@eddieMurphy11111 Baron Davies of Leek lived three doors up the road from us in Whitehouse Road Abbey Hulton, can't be many current Barons who live in a council House. Always used to go carol singing outside his door because he always gave 2/6p as a tip enormous amount of money back then.

I was on the WSB stall in 1958 must have bumped into each other at some time!!!

I thought so. That triangle of ground with the statues on it was just dirt in the 90s, later in the video you can see that it was lawns and flower beds in the 70s.

This photo is early 2000’s look at the cars, don’t know why it’s in there

Bet you know my good friend, Pete Mellor from the Black Horse. I was the only skinhead who went in there and didn't get kicked in. Great memories

"Finest bog makers in the world" I remember my mother cottoning on to the punchline as soon as the old man read "Han" and Harold started going on about the Han dynasty.

@@chrisparkes2179 bogs were actually made in Bentilee if my memories serve me right

@@captnodge They were made in various places. Armitage Shanks, Twyfords, even Doultons I believe. Presumably with hand painted periwinkles.

@@chrisparkes2179 I remember the big long factory on the bottom Bentilee road near the the old gasometer. I was the first male lithographer at royal doultons that's the Baddeley green one that was .I did country rose .wasn't there that long lol.nice people though

@@captnodge that's right, can't just recall the name of it but it was roughly where the lidl is now, big pot bank that was,, poss, Johnson bros?

My great grandfather immigrated to America in the early 1900's. I came from the states in the 1990's to visit cousins and it has changed drastically just since the 1990's. Sad

Before Argos it was Fine Fare Supermarket where I worked till it closed. The signage was orange, sold their own brand yellow packed goods and the green dress styled uniform was sage green 🤔😂

And its a shithole now

You racist vermin.

Is this the same guy who went to Stanfield Tech?

Performance art!

And they weren't in the 60s or 70s - late 80s, maybe early 90s.

You are not alone. Some of us have five senses attached to a brain. Yes, an industrial plantation. Wealth sweated out of generations of people, kept with the right sort of stoicism and work discipline. Then everything that is recognisable taken away. Was it a dream?

@@deanwright7611 It was a nightmare, a quintessential product of the industrial revolution.

Correct

Yes Derek it is William the grandson of the top man at the time Mr Charles Brown and son of William Brown Senior. The original WSB went with the hierarchy and only Hanley general market survives. At its peak they had shops in Hanley Broad st and Stafford street/Burslem/Tunstall that I ran for them/Longton/Nantwich/Leek and also stalls in Hanley meat market/Stoke/Tunstall/Longton they had a fleet of vans distributing there famous Cambridge pork sausages!! pork pies, sausage rolls and lots more and we're far and away the largest supplier in the Potteries. People used to queue waiting for trays of hot sausage rolls to arrive from the bakehouse in Broad Street into the market. Brown's products were distributed all around the Potteries to other butchers and corner shops and supermarkets such was their popularity. I made some great friends. Hard to believe that where Smithfield is now,used to house the abattoir/sausage and other product manufacture and Broad Street shop it was a hive of activity that was late 50s onwards. I remember a pig escaping and having to chase it up Broad st I caught it near to where the museum is now by diving on it unfortunately in a bed of tulips,people on a bus were surprised. Oh well happy days.

+David Nixon I worked for Henry Ryders fruit and veg up Glass Street in 1977/8 I was 16 and used to deliver the veg by hand cart to both market's so so many great memories and some amazing character behind the counter and if front.

Yeah that's right Derek but you can't get thick Tomatoe Sausages anymore from anywhere

Did you go colledge of knowledge grove.. tierney street , pub at the top, outdoor at the bottom.

Used to go into Brown's in Broad street, fresh, warm pork pies and sausage rolls, HEAVEN !