Mr Blower owned the brickworks until it was demolished for old kiln lane. Used to be full of frogs around there. Lovely big pond. Love the 1915 "new suburbia" photo and the old car. Lots of photos of clough lane. It was idyllic, had a magical feel.

And a bit of pony club just at the end.

That was great. Used Granby Arms and many more for courting.Good memories.

Who is Quiet John at 5.53? And what is a hob end?

oldham looked better back then than now its a right shxt hole now the life has been kicked out of it even the people walk round like zombeys

thanks saddleworth museum this is pure magic

My mum worked at Tanner Brothers Greenfield.

Aww happy days, I went to Uppermill school in the 60s

Wow! That picture of fletchers paper mill all painted up green and looking in great condition is a surreal sight for me, considering the condition it was in last October when I broke in and took photographs!

absolutely brilliant thank you for posting

Brought up there and left when I was 23. It just rained a lot. These seem quite nice days for photos. Just remember the cold and the rain

So happy to see these photos!

Very enjoyable, thank you

I am desperately trying to find photographs and documents relating to 'Hark to Nudger' inn. My grandmother, Ada Holt was landlady there for some years up until its demolition in the late 60's early 70's to make way for Nudger Green. I am in possession of the gas lantern which hung outside the pub. It's in a terrible state but I want to restore it. I also have one of the original Hark to Nudger china jugs from the pub, depicting the dog, Nudger, I believe. I would love to approach the BBC and the Repair Shop team but feel I need more evidence. Sadly, my mother passed away in 2017 and was my only remaining family member who could have maybe shed more light on where I could find information. I really hope someone out there can help! Thank you, Kathy (nee Holt).

Where are the Greek letters writen in Greenfield?

Does anyone know where the Greek letters where found.

I have really enjoyed looking at these old photographs and reading your commentary. Thank you.

Thank you. Loved these photographs. I have to say I first walked around Dovestones in1973 when I was 14. I now know, thanks to you, that I am older than the dam...... I don't know if that is a good or a bad thing 😂

Hi Lindsay - thanks for answering query

If You look closely at 7.45 You will see a Masonic Sign above the Doorway.Was this an early Masonic meeting place in Saddleworth?

A nice short vlog/ film.. I am after some help. I remember reading a short poem about 30 or 40 years ago. It was, then, the last poem in a recently published book of Ammon Wrigley poems I do not think it was a eulogy but it was along those lines I think it was called The End or The Ending And from memory the first lines may have been .... What is writ is writ. What is said is done. There may have been mention of skylarks too After that my mind is a blank Can anyone help ?

What a marvellous film! I used to make the same journey in reverse, a day out in Oldham, getting off the train at Glodwick Road to visit my grandmas in Derker. I was about the same age as the two boys, and if one of them was Philip Hirst, I later went to school with him in Oldham. Wish my parents were here to watch this!

Wow! What a wonderful window into the way we were. Thank you for posting.

I think The signal Man at Uppermill Moorgate Junction may well be Mr Frank Chapell a Gent who resided in Delph.The line actually closed for passenger traffic the same Year.My Grandfather worked at Clegg St and Glodwick Road Station's

Brilliant 😀Proper Saddleworth before all the Villages became one🤧My Father and his twin Brother travelled this line each Day from 1937.after the War My uncle was a Fireman on the "Donkey" working out of Lees Shed's,My Father worked at Measurements and each Day would get a "Toot-Toot" when the Train passed the Factory.Halcyon Day's Great Film.

Nice to see the old and present l was a postie covering Delph, Dobcross, Diggle, Uppermill, Greenfield also bits of Denshaw 😁

Remember this like it was yesterday this is the saddleworth i remember .👍

Some great images here. Thanks so much from an ex-Werneth resident.

Worked at buckley mill uppermill when they were foam company Kaywool products.

Thanks for putting together a great set of historic photos, i was born in 1931 , and remember them well. Alan Walkden `( My Dirty Old town)

Amazing! Walk all over Saddleworth and Oldham every weekend (10-14 mile walks) and it's breath-taking seeing how it was back then. Much better than now, places had character which has been slowly eroded over time, all for 'progress'. Thankyou for the upload.

I remember that and going into town and saw the aftermath of it.

Lovely. I went to school in Uppermill in the late 70s -81. Lovely area. Lived in spring head and we were always out in the saddleworth area as kids and teens.

my mother and father enjoyed their courting days visiting these community establishments

Brilliant❤

Nice photos, I love this place, Saddleworth. I would of liked to have lived there when I was a young child 😊

Oh how to make me feel old. . I remember going up town the day of the fire

Absolutely nothing there that I'd pay to go and look at and £1 to use the toilets.

Ahhhhhh … those memories …. I was born in 1953 .. Chorlton-on-Medlock about an half hours walk from Belle Vue … spent many school summer holidays sneaking into the grounds via the lake …. In the early 1970’s I worked there for approximately 9 years … happiest years of my working life … I met my wife there and we’re still together 39 years later ❤ …. The opening shots show the Redgate Lane entrance and you can just see the Longsight Inn on the right hand side … I managed this little pub for about 3 months after the landlady (Miss Pat Teirney) passed away … I then moved on to the Lake Hotel at the corner of Kirkmanshulme Lane and Hyde Road … I left when they changed the music hall into a pool hall …. Oh Happy Days ….

Fascinating, more please.

I had a nice long walk around a reservoir in this area

Lovely!

No toothless foreign muck with begging bowls outside shops ! How did we ever manage? And where are all the knife crime specialists that supposedly rebuilt Britain?

Uppermill is not solely Saddleworth! There are other villages that make up Saddleworth! Perhaps whoever works for Uppermill museum has to travel through other villages and look at other pictures of the area. Totally bias for Uppermill!

Oh dear. The Unnameable.

Really curious as to what 'Blood Pearls' are - as sold by Clarence Cottrell Druggist in the video at time 3:42. Any ideas?

What a disappointment! Uppermill, Uppermill, Uppermill. Has the person who put this together never been to Saddleworth? Ok Greenfield got a mention but not one photo. of the rest of Saddleworth! Perhaps this should be renamed Uppermill in the sixties (with a few pics. of Greenfield)!

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT !!

Should be back in Yorkshire

Very nice area there very strong property prices