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  • Опубликовано: 11 дек 2024

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  • @petergivenbless900
    @petergivenbless900 Год назад +116

    It's funny; I was 7 years old in 1976, and this is the kind of thing that would have bored me to tears if I saw it on TV but, almost five decades later, I watch it on RUclips, and I am entranced!

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno Год назад +13

      I love looking at stuff from when I was a kid. Like a different world. So familiar but so strange at the same time.

    • @joshuataylor3550
      @joshuataylor3550 Год назад +1

      What you do in your own home is none of my business, but do you need to broadcast it on the interweb?

    • @EMKWANREVIEWS
      @EMKWANREVIEWS Год назад +4

      how times and we as adults change

    • @bim-ska-la-bim4433
      @bim-ska-la-bim4433 Год назад +1

      100% spot-on 😊

    • @tonyclifton265
      @tonyclifton265 Год назад +4

      lol me too. i was 5 and would have begged me mam & dad to change the channel but here i am ensconced in it now i'm 51+

  • @X2LR8
    @X2LR8 Год назад +69

    -Don't you think it's got any attractions at all?
    -Well......me
    Bless that lady ha!

  • @MichaelGrimshaw-w4j
    @MichaelGrimshaw-w4j 10 месяцев назад +45

    49 secounds into the vidio the lady with the blue coat and black handbag is my grandma....OMG so happy seeing her....

    • @bonghittaz1502
      @bonghittaz1502 8 месяцев назад +1

      Ur nans a baddi🥵

    • @beatlebrian4404
      @beatlebrian4404 7 месяцев назад +3

      Iam really happy for you! the camera, moving or still is the only time machine we have got

  • @suebrown4224
    @suebrown4224 Год назад +77

    I was a southener and married an Oldhamer in 1974. We lived in Oldham for six years and my children were born there. Oldham was not then the most beautiful town in England but the people of Oldham are the nicest warm hearted people you could ever meet. I wish them well.

  • @ctcurry1777
    @ctcurry1777 Год назад +22

    Another little gem. The 70s was truly a great decade.

  • @Tmuk2
    @Tmuk2 Год назад +53

    Pity they didn't have a time machine - I'd book a weekend in mid 70s Oldham in a shot, it'd be fascinating

  • @brianmmacu
    @brianmmacu Год назад +95

    This is like a Monty Python sketch

    • @andrewmorse4324
      @andrewmorse4324 Год назад +8

      He does look like a bit like Terry Jones.

    • @tomvernemusic
      @tomvernemusic Год назад +6

      "Oldham Mumps"

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK Год назад +4

      You're confusing it with nearby Notlob.
      Oldham is bleak, though. The grimmest areas of Manchester urban blight on one side, the various Royston Vaseys of the high Pennines on all the others. From the part of the world that brought us Harold Shipman, the Moors Murderers and Cyril Smith. My advice is, move to Stockport or Bolton, even. Maybe not Burnley or Halifax, though, they're just as bad.

    • @growlerthe2nd712
      @growlerthe2nd712 Год назад +2

      Stop that, it’s silly 😂

    • @jamiecurran3544
      @jamiecurran3544 Год назад +1

      John Stapleton!😂, I'd say it's more like an episode of Coronation Street though!😂😌

  • @martinflannery9695
    @martinflannery9695 Год назад +25

    I wish I could go there now in 1976.

    • @michaelroberts7374
      @michaelroberts7374 Год назад +1

      When Latics kicked off at 3.15 to get the stragglers out of the pubs❤

    • @jamiecurran3544
      @jamiecurran3544 Год назад +1

      @@michaelroberts7374 lol good times!😂

    • @ritaroad
      @ritaroad 8 месяцев назад

      Me too ❤

    • @Springamatul
      @Springamatul 7 месяцев назад

      I wish l could see Putney and Wandsworth South London in the seventies on video because l lived there 😀

  • @tinahardman9805
    @tinahardman9805 Год назад +14

    I was six years old then and lived in Oldham. Actually the market was great at the time and I used to love going 'up town' with my Grandma on a Saturday. So much of what we had then has gone and the town has no heart anymore. I don't live in Oldham now but I remember quite a vibrant place back in the day.

    • @jamiecurran3544
      @jamiecurran3544 Год назад +1

      Indeed great time's😁, it's so sad to to see what it's now become along with it's speedy demise😥, due to the crooks at the top filling their greedy pockets and putting nothing back into the the place!😣✌️

    • @Truerealism747
      @Truerealism747 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@jamiecurran3544let's hope the upswing will come in our time

  • @borderlands6606
    @borderlands6606 Год назад +19

    To be fair to Hold 'em, there is stunning countryside on the doorstep.

  • @magirusdeutzjupiter2234
    @magirusdeutzjupiter2234 Год назад +6

    Oldham is beautiful for a family holiday full of things to do. We love going there better than any where else.

    • @jjxoxo3508
      @jjxoxo3508 9 месяцев назад +1

      Is this sarcasm?

  • @mamaduck9370
    @mamaduck9370 Год назад +10

    This was so cute...people had such a sense of humour about the hum drum of life. Couldn't resist a quick look online at houses for sale there in 2023 after watching this - looks rather nice!

  • @martinsheldon7319
    @martinsheldon7319 Год назад +21

    The journalist seemingly looking down his nose at Oldham was John Stapleton... an Oldhamer born and bred no less.

  • @helenamcginty4920
    @helenamcginty4920 Год назад +14

    I grew up in Blackpool which had been the holiday destination for folk from towns like Oldham. It was ruined in the 1960s when the local council replaced the old Golden Mile with its fairground type stalls with one armed bandit venues. Bland, boring but money makers for the company that owned most.
    They also demolished Victorian buildings replacing everything with plastic coated concrete.
    It wasnt just the weather that drew folk away to the sun of Spain in the 1960s. It was the awful 'hotels' and b &bs with their grasping owners. Giving as little service as possible fir as mich income as possible. Most of that stuffed under the mattress away from the taxman. (They weren't averse of course to claiming benefits paid for by other folks taxes to see them through the winter. )

  • @cashcrop70
    @cashcrop70 Год назад +17

    I remember competing against their young athletes in the mid 80s; they were among the best in the country. One was called 'Grime' and another 'Grimes', which now takes on a new significance after watching this.

    • @OldhamSteve52
      @OldhamSteve52 3 месяца назад

      Ian Grimes was an international 1500, 3000 metre runner. He’s still an active veteran athlete.

  • @davedogge2280
    @davedogge2280 Год назад +22

    The dirty little parks, the beautiful brick council buildings and the sophisticated locals. I'm booking my flight there right now !

    • @mrmyorky5634
      @mrmyorky5634 2 месяца назад

      Yes and don't forget to visit the wonderful Oldham Council Housing estates lovingly renamed by the locals such as
      Plywood City, Scabbyhills, Con-Crete St, Slimeside, etc.

  • @markmanc-zw3td
    @markmanc-zw3td Год назад +10

    Hearing a Lancashire accent is like coming to a warm fireside on a winters day 🙂.

    • @jamiecurran3544
      @jamiecurran3544 Год назад +1

      Or falling headfirst into an episode of Coronation Street!😂👍

    • @markmanc-zw3td
      @markmanc-zw3td Год назад +2

      @@jamiecurran3544 mmmmm not sure about that one 😁

  • @colinfrancis7229
    @colinfrancis7229 Год назад +14

    I went to Oldham last week. It was shut.

  • @slash196
    @slash196 Год назад +31

    I was about to feel sorry for Oldham that the BBC sent a reporter there to make fun of them, but then all the locals were even more scathing.

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK Год назад +6

      He wasn't sent there, he came from there.

  • @heathstjohn6775
    @heathstjohn6775 Год назад +6

    The Councilor's serious faced, calm demeanour was terribly convincing, and made me question my assumptions: till we stepped back outside.

  • @deanothemanc5281
    @deanothemanc5281 Год назад +4

    My parents moved to Firwood Park in Chadderton on the early 80s, i think it was the biggest private estate in Europe at the time. Happy days.

  • @bonghittaz1502
    @bonghittaz1502 8 месяцев назад +11

    I wish Oldham was still like this today

  • @ozzie-sk9dh
    @ozzie-sk9dh 7 месяцев назад +2

    I worked in Oldham for a bit ten years ago. It was one of the most deprived towns in the country but the people were so warm and friendly.

    • @mpwheatley
      @mpwheatley Месяц назад

      Unless you were jewish.

  • @emilian7052
    @emilian7052 Год назад +21

    1:35 christ that wallpaper

    • @AtheistOrphan
      @AtheistOrphan Год назад +8

      I’m still tripping on it!

    • @davewalker7126
      @davewalker7126 Год назад +7

      I think they had a load of old TV test cards left over so glued them to the wall

    • @LucasOliveira-tt2ll
      @LucasOliveira-tt2ll Год назад +2

      got the same reaction haha quintessential 70's decor right there

  • @fairytaleworld777-v8
    @fairytaleworld777-v8 8 месяцев назад +1

    I love BBC Archive the best programs ever!! thank you xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  • @ChrisMartin-b7l
    @ChrisMartin-b7l 8 месяцев назад +3

    I lived in Cambridge in the 1980s and had to travel to Oldham. I went to Cambridge Railway Station and asked for a return ticket to 'Oldham Mumps' [that being the name of one station, the other was Oldham Werneth, I think]. The ticket guy laughed. He'd never sold a ticket to there and thought the name was very funny.

  • @GrahamHeap-be2nm
    @GrahamHeap-be2nm Год назад +33

    Incredibly, Oldham has deteriorated hugely since 1976. This film probably shows its glory days.

    • @TrueFilter
      @TrueFilter Год назад +3

      Jesus haha

    • @Dan23_7
      @Dan23_7 Год назад +5

      A lot of places have since the 70’s 🤔🤔

    • @deadsouls72
      @deadsouls72 Год назад +1

      No immigrant rape gangs.

    • @jamiecurran3544
      @jamiecurran3544 Год назад +1

      @@Dan23_7I agree most of the country has!😂👍

    • @PopularesVox
      @PopularesVox 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@jamiecurran3544 Your right, what happened to Oldham is now common throughout the country.

  • @ktsmells
    @ktsmells Год назад +10

    Win an action packed trip to Oldham

  • @Gutenmorgenside
    @Gutenmorgenside Год назад +12

    Love that wallpaper, it's like the test card from hell. Keep thinking of Billy Liar and Councillor Duxbury.

  • @onlyme219
    @onlyme219 Год назад +15

    I was going to go to Blackpool this easter, stuff that it's Oldham for me and mine this year. Can you hire deckchairs or do you have to bring your own?

    • @williamboot9307
      @williamboot9307 Год назад +1

      only me. You have given me the best laugh of today.

    • @jjxoxo3508
      @jjxoxo3508 9 месяцев назад +1

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @adelemcgow1191
    @adelemcgow1191 Год назад +8

    I came here looking for this video as l was 16 in 1976 and used to do some modelling for an agency in Halifax and l got picked with some other girls by Nationwide to be in this video but unfortunately they didn't use the bit l was in, l remember being in a park with a lake and wearing a swimming costume we had to pretend to be sunbathing and had to laying on a towel and also going paddling in the lake which was freezing.

    • @jamiecurran3544
      @jamiecurran3544 Год назад +1

      Wad it Alexander Park by any chance?😂

    • @jacko717
      @jacko717 9 месяцев назад +1

      Sounds like Alexander Park.

  • @mpwheatley
    @mpwheatley 6 месяцев назад +2

    I love the honest incredulity of the ladies at 03:32

  • @workonesabs
    @workonesabs Год назад +8

    Crazy most of the people here are dead, though the Oldham Tinkers are still active as of 2023 and still performing. See their page.

  • @chazwalker7156
    @chazwalker7156 Год назад +6

    Well the plan worked, in fact, they enjoyed the visit that much...

    • @PartyScars._1988
      @PartyScars._1988 4 месяца назад

      Ffs 😂😂😂 they enjoyed it that much...they never went home 😂😂😂

  • @keithswindell6212
    @keithswindell6212 Год назад +5

    Maybe take home a bottle of that lovely smog to remember your stay...😂

    • @jamiecurran3544
      @jamiecurran3544 Год назад

      Nowadays it's been replaced by weedsmoke and takeaway curry fog!🤣😂✌️

  • @David_H-73
    @David_H-73 Год назад +11

    Please tell me someone has still got one of those keyrings!

    • @jamiecurran3544
      @jamiecurran3544 Год назад

      Somewhere however I'm begrudge if I'm going to go and route it out!😂

  • @Greenwillow
    @Greenwillow Год назад +9

    Is it still as beautiful?😍

  • @heliumtrophy
    @heliumtrophy 2 месяца назад +1

    "They can't get out'uh here quick enough!"
    Hardly a ringing endorsement...not that I can blame the locals' bafflement at the plans still I applaud the council's chutzpah in trying to advertise Oldham to er, holidaymakers.

  • @kevinmichael2538
    @kevinmichael2538 Год назад +5

    The 70's were a fun time

  • @dean6816
    @dean6816 Год назад +3

    1:35 cool wallpaper.

  • @stephenbrierley5957
    @stephenbrierley5957 2 месяца назад +1

    I was 21 in 1976, it was a glorious summer, had my 21st birthday party at the Chaddy Arms, it was a fantastic night. I think the the presenter was a bit unfair in comments , we all have to have live somewhere and Oldham wasn't as bad as he painted it.

  • @akiko7831
    @akiko7831 Год назад +6

    It were grim then and it's grim now

    • @PopularesVox
      @PopularesVox 11 месяцев назад +2

      Worse now, much worse, at least then it had some connection with its past heritage.. Oldham is an indictment of decades of mis management of the country and many towns have since gone the same way and continue to do so.

  • @Gutenmorgenside
    @Gutenmorgenside Год назад +5

    Mr Harris was a Nostrodamus like character :-) Looks grim but the locals were full of fun. Sad to say I don't think its improved much.

  • @zoesmith1536
    @zoesmith1536 Год назад +3

    Come to oldham today.

  • @pureboxofscartcables
    @pureboxofscartcables Год назад +1

    That looks like my ideal holiday.

  • @Benzknees
    @Benzknees 9 месяцев назад +4

    Things may have seemed pretty bad in 1976, but nothing compared to today.

  • @oxouk
    @oxouk Год назад +7

    Seems like a place they send you when you're the losing contestant on on a game show.

  • @garryleeks4848
    @garryleeks4848 Год назад +6

    I’ve packed my bags Oldham here I come 👍

  • @mrmyorky5634
    @mrmyorky5634 2 месяца назад +1

    Having lived in Oldham I can only say that this Oldham Estates Officer has a marvelous sense of humour and is a total optimist. At least his scheme only wasted £14,000 of the ratepayers cash. An absolute bargain when you consider the appallingly expensive and utterly stupid projects regularly decided upon by Oldham Council. Thanks' for the laugh.

  • @deldirk7123
    @deldirk7123 Год назад +3

    At that time, a teatime documentary on for a long-run 5 evenings per week, the sheer volume could put younger viewers off, as younger viewers are more used to animated cartoons as brains develop, the adult teatime TV could seem rather slow moving compared to animation. Oldham got a tram service in 1990s

  • @frankie3041
    @frankie3041 2 месяца назад +1

    I never knew Eric Idle did actual reporting!

  • @petersmith6974
    @petersmith6974 10 месяцев назад +10

    Looks like a foreign country nowadays

  • @scaredyfish
    @scaredyfish Год назад +4

    My god, the smog!

    • @dazednconfused31337
      @dazednconfused31337 Год назад +1

      @The Green Spinet Reminds me of a news report that became a meme. I imagined your grandad said "Ain't nobody got time for that!".
      "Well I woke up to get me a cold pop and then I thought somebody was barbequing. I said oh lord Jesus it’s a fire. Then I ran out, I didn’t grab no shoes or nothin’ Jesus, I ran for my life. And then the smoke got me, I got bronchitis ain’t nobody got time for that".

    • @jamiecurran3544
      @jamiecurran3544 Год назад

      That's not smog it's the smoke from the original takeaway/curry house!🤣😂

  • @midsomerparva5188
    @midsomerparva5188 28 дней назад

    3:41 wow she is so beautiful ❤

  • @hamsterclamper
    @hamsterclamper Год назад +10

    Argh, Mr Harris’ wallpaper🤪

    • @stepheng8779
      @stepheng8779 Год назад +2

      They were curtains, you could see the join in the middle. I want some 😂

    • @GhastlyCretin
      @GhastlyCretin Год назад +2

      ​@@stepheng8779I don't think they were curtains. Curtains usually aren't completely flat like walls lol

  • @Steven_Rowe
    @Steven_Rowe 8 месяцев назад +2

    Very Monty Pythonesque wirh a dash od Grand Master of Eckythump.

    • @stevenaustin8274
      @stevenaustin8274 7 месяцев назад

      or just maybe Monty Python satirised this particular style of tv presenting

  • @Jack-xb4ny
    @Jack-xb4ny 3 месяца назад

    I work in Oldham. It looked a lot better back then than it does now.

  • @GuessMyName234
    @GuessMyName234 Год назад +2

    The lady at 3:41 was trying her best to sound posh. Even the Oldamers are laughing at people holidaying there! I can imagine them all gossoping about it that's all people done back then

  • @AndysLife27
    @AndysLife27 18 дней назад

    My home town becoming a holiday destination 😅

  • @matthewtrow5698
    @matthewtrow5698 Год назад +4

    I've never been to Oldham, but a quick Google search points it out as being one of the most deprived areas in England.
    Does that mean not much has changed since 1976 or that people are very snobbish?
    No idea, but I probably won't be booking my next holiday there, unless it's in 1976 and a time travellers holiday.
    Then again, in 1976, there'd be quite a few places I'd rather visit first.

    • @wobblybobengland
      @wobblybobengland Год назад

      Thanks mate, you have a good one.

    • @grottonisred6541
      @grottonisred6541 Год назад +1

      If I told you it had gone down hill since 1976 it may give you some idea of what it's like now..!

    • @jamiecurran3544
      @jamiecurran3544 Год назад +1

      I'd say a bit of both,it's gone downhill and people/snobs look down at the place, I'm far from a snob however even I'm ashamed of what it's become!😌😂

    • @heinkle1
      @heinkle1 Год назад

      Has seen some of this country’s worst race riots

    • @leehenry5764
      @leehenry5764 Месяц назад

      It has its rich areas and poor areas like alot of Towns in England

  • @keithogden1770
    @keithogden1770 Год назад +11

    The town is full of...ahem...'tourists' from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ukraine and Romania, just to mention a few. The beauty is that most people don't need a visa to visit Oldham unless...

    • @kay-fg8zy
      @kay-fg8zy 7 месяцев назад +2

      Can’t really complain - blame the government - when the colonizing and starting wars for resources happened then what do you expect

  • @brianorakpohit
    @brianorakpohit 7 месяцев назад +3

    Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we have a raffle and 1st prize is a weeks holiday in Oldham, 2nd prize 2 weeks.

  • @markmanc-zw3td
    @markmanc-zw3td Год назад +5

    Eeee lad get some vinegar on that tripe & loads of salt & pepper then some tomato, nowt like it!

  • @SuryaPrakashKumar-k5t
    @SuryaPrakashKumar-k5t 9 дней назад

    This is real great Britain ❤

  • @whiteonggoy7009
    @whiteonggoy7009 Год назад +6

    Fred dib ah dropped some of those chimneys

    • @Truerealism747
      @Truerealism747 9 месяцев назад +1

      Got his autograph can't believe he's been gone 20 years

  • @malthusXIII-fo3ep
    @malthusXIII-fo3ep Год назад +4

    I wonder if this was an April Fool's joke?
    Everyone is wearing winter clothing so it must have been Spring
    because there is no sign at that point of the blistering hot weather
    due to arrive around Mid-May when we experienced a drought and 90 days at 90* degrees heat.

    • @jamiecurran3544
      @jamiecurran3544 Год назад +2

      Indeed tongue in cheek Northern satire at its finest!🤣😂👍

    • @frankie3041
      @frankie3041 2 месяца назад +1

      It’s called humour. Even this Australian got it! 🤣

    • @malthusXIII-fo3ep
      @malthusXIII-fo3ep 2 месяца назад

      @@frankie3041 I doubt a drab northern town could ever be a tourist attraction!
      But they took it with good spirit!

    • @leehenry5764
      @leehenry5764 Месяц назад +1

      76 was one of the hottest Summers on record

    • @malthusXIII-fo3ep
      @malthusXIII-fo3ep Месяц назад

      @@leehenry5764 I remember it well.
      Sweltered in exam halls taking my ''A'' Levels.

  • @omarnour348
    @omarnour348 Год назад +4

    As far away as Burnley and Blackburn, eh? Crikey!

  • @opencurtin
    @opencurtin Год назад +8

    A lot of people actually did come to Oldham and never left !!!

    • @jamiecurran3544
      @jamiecurran3544 Год назад +2

      100% and changed the whole ethnicity demographic forever!🤣😂👍

  • @aryandefenseleague8243
    @aryandefenseleague8243 Год назад +2

    That wallpaper

  • @ianmax69
    @ianmax69 9 месяцев назад

    In all seriousness when Brian & Michael released Matchstick Men in April 1978 it made Oldham a tourist venue,,, Everybody rediscovered Lowery's paintings of a fast disappearing industrial landscape.. .Helped along the way with Fred Dibnah knocking down chimneys in the area,,, the de-industrialisning North West soon became a tourist destination and in many respects led to the Salford Keys media centre and the re-invention of Greater Manchester...

  • @RoyCousins
    @RoyCousins 5 месяцев назад +1

    "I told 'em, Oldham" - slogan for Oldham brand car batteries.

    • @FITZYIS
      @FITZYIS 2 месяца назад

      how much is it to old em , often asked to big busted lassies at bus stops ! good ice breaker for courting

  • @TheStevenWhiting
    @TheStevenWhiting Год назад +2

    4:12 for the heat, really? Oh dear

    • @johndrakes6867
      @johndrakes6867 Год назад +3

      My dad and his side of the family are from Oldham - think that's the gallows humour you need if you live somewhere like Mumps

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK Год назад +2

      It's called irony. Like goldy and bronzy but made of iron.

  • @clangerbasher
    @clangerbasher Год назад +22

    It is certainly foreign and exotic there now.

  • @petersmithm9
    @petersmithm9 7 месяцев назад +1

    For cultural references listen to Mike Hardings "Ballad of Cowheel Lou"

    • @FITZYIS
      @FITZYIS 2 месяца назад

      and its hard being a cowboy in rochdale , and owdem tinkers on oldham edge tha grass be green neecest view thas ever seen , tha lifts thy head and tha looks about , nowt but smoke from a chimney spout , them wert days lads n lassies

  • @Dan23_7
    @Dan23_7 Год назад +2

    “Oldham Parcs”
    It took off then ?

  • @LunchSays
    @LunchSays Год назад +2

    Anyone from lees road. Mumps.

  • @paulbolton19801
    @paulbolton19801 Год назад +17

    It certainly has had a lot of ‘tourists’ from afar settling there since then

  • @tganet7123
    @tganet7123 Год назад +2

    Least we've always got irony

  • @nicholashanson9508
    @nicholashanson9508 9 месяцев назад +5

    not a burka in sight

    • @FITZYIS
      @FITZYIS 2 месяца назад

      or a kebab or a asian taxi driver or a mosque

  • @Truerealism747
    @Truerealism747 9 месяцев назад

    I winder how many are aluve great video

  • @58stoddart
    @58stoddart 7 месяцев назад +1

    Has Oldham changed much in 50 years I wonder?

  • @jazztheglass6139
    @jazztheglass6139 8 месяцев назад

    If that was Oldham today, the tourist trade would be booming

  • @FITZYIS
    @FITZYIS 2 месяца назад +1

    you`ve only got to see oldham now to realise how what opening the flood gates as done to our once great country !

  • @anthonymark2013
    @anthonymark2013 Год назад +2

    and where is that lady with the glasses today wonder if she still Iives in Oldham

  • @stevenyearn3035
    @stevenyearn3035 Год назад +3

    HEGGINBOTTOMS TRIPE FACTORY Broadway street, happy days as much overtime as you wanted, paid in tripe, cows heel, and elder(cows tit). Any of us cutters still around to remember. Only kebabs and curry nowadays..

    • @jamiecurran3544
      @jamiecurran3544 Год назад

      Lol!😂👍

    • @mrmyorky5634
      @mrmyorky5634 2 месяца назад

      As a lad I used to play near a tripe factory just off Broadway St. It used to stink and my mother always played hell with me for going near it. The name of the old guy that boiled up the tripe was 'Ike' if my memory serves me correctly and the tripe was delicious. We also used to eat Cow Heel with salt, pepper and vinegar on as well.

  • @andydixon2980
    @andydixon2980 Год назад +2

    Lady with the red hair was a ham.

  • @drocles
    @drocles Год назад +2

    I face the same thing where I live, why would you visit Edmonton🤮🤮 when you could visit Calgary🤩🤩

    • @drocles
      @drocles Год назад +2

      Dont get me wrong i love my home, but its a gruff hard working blue collar town while Calgary is the white collar snobby gateway to the rockies

    • @Phil_A_O_Fish
      @Phil_A_O_Fish Год назад +2

      Coincidentally, @@drocles, I've lived in all three places, namely Royton which is a suburb of Oldham here in England, as well as in Edmonton and Calgary in Canada because I was a landed immigrant to your country in late 1974.
      I worked as a night manager for 7-Eleven in both of those Canadian cities and of the two I preferred Edmonton to Calgary mostly because I had some relatives and a lot of friends living there. That being said we used to refer to Edmonton as Deadmonton because it was so boring and joked that it was "....9 months of winter and 3 months of bad skating. " when it came to its climate.
      What I've never really understood about Edmonton regarding sports teams is why its American 'football' team is called the Edmonton Eskimos and its ice hockey team is called the Edmonton Oilers? You'd think that it would be the other way around when it comes to their names, wouldn't you?
      I've since returned to the U.K. and now live in a medium-sized town in East Lancashire which is approximately 33 miles away by road from Oldham. It seems like my life has gone full circle, doesn't it?

    • @jamiecurran3544
      @jamiecurran3544 Год назад

      @@Phil_A_O_Fish I live in Royton however I was born 8n South Africa and also was in Toronto around 1974 as I have family there too!😂✌️

  • @evelynwilson1566
    @evelynwilson1566 7 месяцев назад

    Every industrial town looked grim in the seventies and eighties. I get there's beautiful buildings and nice countryside but still Id rather go to a beach

  • @nigelhall6714
    @nigelhall6714 Год назад +2

    Tourists walking down cobbled streets...peering into your windows?
    Saltaire...Hold my weaving loom.

  • @christopherflux6254
    @christopherflux6254 8 месяцев назад

    That green wallpaper behind Mr Harris is giving me headaches.

  • @heinkle1
    @heinkle1 Год назад +2

    Oldhamers: what became of the place?

    • @jamiecurran3544
      @jamiecurran3544 Год назад +2

      It's changed nationality thats all!😂

    • @PopularesVox
      @PopularesVox 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@jamiecurran3544 The demographics have been totally transformed that's for sure. but the decline set in long before. Don't recognise the place now from when this was filmed.

    • @jamiecurran3544
      @jamiecurran3544 11 месяцев назад

      @@PopularesVox indeed all the cool stuff from back then has been leveled and built on its actually quite sad😔, all we will have now is good memories!🙂✌️

    • @PopularesVox
      @PopularesVox 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@jamiecurran3544 I haven't been back to Oldham since 1978-79 and when I saw this video "Oldham to buy off Tommyfield Market" on YT I didn't recognise the place. The market was such an attraction back in the 70's. The town was on the decline back then of course, but it was still the Oldham of the past with its own identity. The local people deserved far better than what happened to what was one of Britain's foremost mill towns, their home town.

  • @bez23
    @bez23 7 месяцев назад

    That guy's wallpaper is psychedelic af.

  • @googlesucks6029
    @googlesucks6029 6 месяцев назад

    Not sure why tripe went out of fashion in British cuisine. Looking at old menus even in fancy restaurants, there seems to have been more exotic cuts of meet available back then.

  • @johnnydee6340
    @johnnydee6340 4 месяца назад +1

    2024 and nothing has changed its still a hell hole 😂😂😂😂

  • @philipshaw9485
    @philipshaw9485 Год назад +4

    Printed in 3 different languages, Hindu, Urdu and Islam

  • @minimaxi802
    @minimaxi802 3 месяца назад

    Oldham just outside Manchester.

  • @User0000000000000004
    @User0000000000000004 8 месяцев назад

    1:02 ??????

  • @mtns7036
    @mtns7036 7 месяцев назад

    Hmm, bit of a stretch that one!

  • @michaelholt8226
    @michaelholt8226 10 месяцев назад

    How much to oldham😊

  • @thejedsterYT
    @thejedsterYT 11 месяцев назад +2

    Ironically, none of these people knew how good they had it.