Um Grande abraço Steve! desde Brasil. - A big hug Steve! from Brazil. - Un grande abbraccio Steve! dal Brasile.

This reminds me of liverpool it looks just like it 50s 60s and 70s with the terraced house's. It brought back some old memories. Great video 👍

I had family before I was born moved out of back to backs and into flats in Hulme

it wasn't a slum clearance, it was the biggest property grab in history, this happened across the country.

Great days. Born and brought up in moston 1960. First job, operating ICL system 4-72 😊

There is only the one

Hi it’s Lorne from Toronto. Keep up the good work. Cheers!

Extra video Regards Janusz from Warsaw Poland

Cracking video!

I enjoyed this film; it reminded me of my childhood but I do wish your video wasn’t called slum clearance. The school children in your photos were obviously well cared for, content and maybe with less anxieties than today’s youngsters. So many streets were inhabited by residents who kept their little two up two down houses warm and cosy, Neighbours could be your friends and in those times most people had relatives living nearby. Memories are about summer evenings spent sitting on your doorstep, chatting with your neighbours while watching the kids playing in the street. In fact it was a true functioning community. It’s also a pity that the last minute effort to record the streets meant that some photos in Manchester archive collections were taken during the demolition period and don’t reflect the proud tidy streets with their washed doorsteps which were so common a few years previous to the demolition.

It’s running around 16 - 19*C Sunny & breezy. Beats the UK for sure.

Stunning views. How was the outside temperature? I seem to get mixed info, because some tourists are with T-shirts and some with winter jackets ....

My gran lived 4th floor Brook house

Hi Steve, we had a lovely cocktail in the sun on our first day thanks to your generosity! Have a great time in Malta all the best Abi & Jamie(easyJet flight friends)

Absolutely wonderful

Fabulous video.

I lived in a 2 up 2 down in Salford. Cockroaches came with the house. When I told my grandson that our toilet was out the back he said “what, in the garage” 😂😂

Thanks for this. You’ll laugh when I tell you that I enjoyed listening to an accent with the same inflections as my own or Buzz Hawkins “Billy Bradshaw”. He came from Ancoats, so Real Manchester too.

Nowadays we call them “slums” and they did need to be updated or cleared, but have you noticed how, in your photos how beautifully clean and cared for they are with no litter cluttering the pavements and streets. I was born and bred next to Christ Church near Bradford Pit and photos of streets there up to the 1950’s show similar tidiness. However, in the 1960’s official photos were taken with an eye for historical reference, but these photos were taken during the time when families had gone, or 🏚️were being moved out of Bradford, Beswick and Openshaw etc and those photos that were taken at that time don’t reflect the pride of the generations of earlier previous tenants. I could cry when I see photos my old street that were taken after we left. And for those of you who weren’t even born then, I can assure you that, Yes, nearly all housewives really did wash and stone their doorsteps and flags (paving slabs) each week.😮

Brought back some memories, dead right! I recognised Central Grammar (I was there in the sixties), was the primary school the one in Varna Street?

YOU TOUGHT ME IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

Merry Christmas 🎄

The photo of the football team at 2 minutes. I assume its Central grammar ? Is that Rod McCord back row third from left ?

Great video 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Enjoy steve' have a wonderful time enjoying listening to you hear😊

those place should have been demolished a 100 years before they were.. they were awfull .. a disgrace.....great people but please... there was NOTHING nice about those slums

Nicely done

Steve, When were you at ICL West Gorton, I was there 1974 to 1979 when we then moved to Ashton

Tastefully done Steve - Enjoy 🇬🇧🌹

I was born and grew up next door in Openshaw during the 60's. Great memories of playing on Blacky Brook at the end of Clayton lane. The White wall which was the railway and the college. How we were blessed to be born during that era, We did not have much, but we were happy and safe.

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My back garden, know those rocks (and sheep) well.😁

I remember those days. We lived in Gorton (Peacock Street) and I went to Peacock Street School until I was 7/8. Manchester Council demolished our house and moved us out to Heald Green, near Wythenshawe. My Mother, crying when we went into the new house and she had a proper kitchen, hot and cold running water, a garden front and back. indoor toilet and a seperate bathroom with a bath and sink. A big difference to the old cold outside toilet, no hot water, except a small gas burner above the old Belfast sink in the kitchen, the tin bath and no green spaces. I didn't see a Cow or Sheep until we had moved, never seen an open field. All we had seen was the animals at Belle Vue. Now I am 56 and show my kids (and Grandkids) the old houses we grew up in and they think it was the Stone Age, not only 50 years ago. These days they expect central heating, double glazing, internet, etc as a right. We, growing up were just glad of being warm(ish) and fed, maybe we were not totally clean.

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Glad you all enjoyed the run, especially after such a long trip. And you’ve supported a super charity too. Regards

Great wee vide of start thanks!.. Saw myself my friend my sis in law and my son in it.. 😊We travelled down from Glasgow too run it... Was a great race... 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️😊x

This was exactly as it was in the 1950s and although not Manchester born it wasn't too far away. I was 18 years old before we had a bathroom. I did not like the toilet inside I thought it was insanitary. 👍 Lovely photographs by the way.

Thanks for the video we love Keswick greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

I used to ride my 3 wheeler bike to the ground, once I got as far as the bridge over the canal at the Salford border. 🇬🇧🌹⚽️

My mum told my dad when he got up after nights. We lived in sound of the ground. My dad cried at the news. I can remember it aged 5. ⚽️🇬🇧🌹

No murmuration 🏌️‍♂️🪕 We spoke near the pier 🐷🇬🇧

Did you used to play near to Gorse Hilk school Stratford? The young U it’s team used to run past my home on Railway Road 🏌️‍♂️🪕

Lovely video Steve, life is all about putting one foot in front of the other and it seems like you're still doing that!🙂

Good for you Steve. Talking about family issues, I have 3 grown up son's, 2 of who for their own reasons don't communicate with me at all. I used to get very upset about it, I don't anymore. I hold those I love close to me and care about those who return the favour. Such a beautiful part of the world you are walking along. Live your life on your terms, not someone else's. From such sad beginnings for you you have come through to get to be 70. Keep smiling.

Hi steve remember those days well

I remember those days, the studs on my first boots were four or five leather discs with nails through which, as you said were nailed to the sole of your boots. The balls had to be coated with Dubin so they would not soak up the water on the pitch. I lived in Manchester so there was always water on the pitch. I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I got my first pair of boots with molded soles, a pair of Adidas with screw in studs were just a dream in a shop window. I played goalkeeper and still bear the scars of diving on pitches made up of red shale (red wrecks we called them). Vividly remember, in my late teens, being woken up on a Sunday morning because somebody had not shown up for the Sunday League team. As you said, happy days, brought back many fond memories.