5 years on and i just love this. i have a lowry print of my old birthplace " clitheroe" east lancs. every time i go to cricket i visit the lowry centre .
Great video Martin thank you. I found Lowry ‘s grave in southern cemetery where I often have a nice walk, very peaceful and beautiful as cemetery’s go, a simple grave and somebody had left an old jam jar on the plinth, brought a lump to my throat, maybe consider a southern cemetery video, plenty of famous Mancunians in there.
Betty Swallocks my grandfather and grandmother are buried just in front of Sir Matt Busby’s grave. Always pay my respects to him when visiting my grandparents
We should be thankful that a humble man with Lowry' talents and love for his native Salford was around at a critical moment in time. Long may his memory live on and long may we appreciate his work. The industrial scene is not to be despised. It is in many ways inappropriate for the present private hoarders of so much of Lowry's work should be basking in the appreciating value of such because I very much doubt most of them have any love for the area in which he worked. Kudos to the many public galleries around the north that hold Lowry collections for all to view and appreciate. Well done, Martin, for your insights.
I think you might be onto something with that footbridge. I also don't think you can truly appreciate Lowry without having some connection to the North of England.
I absolutely love this video! I'm an artist and Lowry is one of my favourite artists. It's absolutely brilliant to see the actual places he painted and compare them to the paintings...thank you! I took a photo of the steps at Irk Place a few years ago when I went on a tour around Collyhurst with my Mum and Uncle looking for the street they used to live on. Great video!
Hi Martin ,what a video you have certainly done your homework, my gran helped put an exhibition of his work in Lewis's dept store in the 1930s he was a rep for company making artists supplies Winsors and Newton cant shine any more info cheers Chris .
Ancoats Hospital? Lowry did a painting of the waiting room. I once did some work in a property developers big house, I counted NINE original Lowry paintings on the walls! Insane!
Martin i used to live on Salford Brow near Bury New Road and would see Lowry sitting on the kerb, me and my mates would sit by him and talk. Now we called him Nick and i wonder was that his name??? Jim.
I always enjoyed the Lowry painting and saw the movie Lowry.he never had a happy life living with his mother thank you for s very interesting video,as we still in lockdown here in NZ
Hi Martin was served this up this evening purely by chance. Some years ago when I was frequently in England working on my Masters I spent a couple of days before heading home wandering your city. I went out to Salford Queys and to the Lowry, which at the time was running an exhibition called Lowry's people. One of the paintings I saw was of the central park in the city and I remember finding the setting so I truly enjoyed this. I will have to pull out the book I bought while there and now look at some of the sites in your tour. All the best from State side.
Martin, if you're interested, you're just in time! Two other scenes featured on Lowry paintings - 'Funfair at Daisy Nook' is the Good Friday/Easter fair run by Silcocks. That was our Good Friday treat every year when growing up. It looks as though it's still on over Easter, 11-22 April. silcocksfunfairs.com/event/daisy-nook-easter-fun-fair/. Also 'Crime Lake' isn't far from there - just over the hill in the direction of Oldham.
Parts of “A Taste of Honey” were filmed in a street next to the street where I was born and lived in Bradford, Manchester. It is the area now known as Eastlands and Manchester City’s Football ground. The school netball match was filmed in the grounds of the school my sisters attended.
Brill little film, thanks. You're great to watch and listen to. Even you making a brew and some toast in the morning would be brill, the way you are. Cheers
Fantastic.... Angel Meadow and now Collyhurst have been my home for 5 years. It's incredible to see so much rich history and heritage where I'm now settled
I was a policeman in Swinton in the 70,s, I was always aware of Lowrie and where used to live on Station Road Pendlebury. Great Videos Martin....I’m hooked. As someone suggested you should consider a follow up around Southern Cemetary and the interesting people buried their...keep up the fascinating work...very professionally done.
There was a painting of what was called Oldfield Road Dwellings. As a kid around about 1970, I went and took a look. Proper terrible looking block of tenements, I mean scary place. I walked around to the back of the building and what I saw was like a scene from Charles Dickens. I must have stood there mouth wide open. The scene was epic in its awfulness. It must have been really bad, as I was still living in what were considered 2up-2down slums with an outside bog in Pendleton! Long gone now, as you say. Great video.
Omg, I got into Th Smiths a couple of years ago, knew you had to be a fan when I heard certain tunes at the end of your videos; now after following you for about a year heard your reference to A taste of honey -- what a coincidence, I love Shelagh Delaney and the film. Ps. Part of taste of honey was filmed around St. Mary's Church in Stockport Market Place, beyond which one shop looks the same. Keep up the good videos, you and your team are great. This video is great, don't you just love old things still preserved if only you look.
I absolutely loved it! It was so interesting and your enthusiasm was contagious. I didn't formerly appreciate Lowry but I'm going to have a look at them all now. Thank you for the glimpse of Angel Meadows. A very poignant place ✨
Hi Martin love this as I'm a tour guide as angel meadow is one of my stop's and you have confirmed with nearly with what I say on my tour's and Lowry was also was firewatcher in the city centre of Manchester and was on buildings during the bliz and I found out now where the bodies were floating into the river erk as I thought it was goild street
daisy nook fair was one of his paintings and i personally have stood on the spot lowry painted it from.the river medlock was running under his feet.its 5 mins away from where i live.
Very interesting Martin, I love Lowry's industrial landscapes. I have quite a number of prints including The Footbridge. You did well locating these vestigial features from his paintings. Very atmospheric the past landscapes of the city. I think it's such a shame so much of our heritage has been swept away in the name of progress.
Loved the Lowery vid. I was born in Salford and grew up there. The history that you speak of in these videos is amazing to me! Living in Cornwall now you bring a lot of home to me as that is where my heart is....thank you so much!!!
Interesting bit about angel meadow too! I never knew it was a burial ground. I love cemeteries and burial sites, there's something so appealing about them!
This is a brilliantly presented video, he's my favourite artist. My family are from lower kersal, Salford. But since moved 10-20 minutes west. But it's still great to see the landscapes that you can see in his art. I have subscribed for more
Swizz Thank you very much. Yes that bridge is very tucked away. On old photos it's completely in the open. I agree I really do think it's the bridge. Lowry painted a lot in Collyhurst as well 😃👍
I remember Bob Smithies or was it Greaves? doing the interview with Lowry on the news maybe Granada reports? I think in Lowry's house and they were talking about where he gets his cardboard and I even think he painted a head and shoulders of Bob?, my god I couldn't find the clip anywhere and wondered if I had imagined it, maybe I did haha. You did some fantastic detective work there, very well done.
There’s a Lowry of Clitheroe looking up Moor Lane likely from the doorway of the Brown Cow pub, nowadays you’d be looking directly at the Castle chippy!
I grew up in South Manchester, on an estate of detached houses buit in the sixties on ground that was once the hamlet of High Grove. We used to see Lowry when he visited a house on the estate, I believe it was his niece's house and he went around for his Sunday dinner. Before the estate was built there was a grand old house which stood there called High Grove House which had a long cobbled drive that was lined with poplar trees. Lowry must have been visiting this area for years as I found a scetch he made of the house just before it was demolished in 1964. Loving your videos Martin, I left Manchester in the mid nineties and now live on a small "remote" island off the north coast of Scotland. I've always been fascinated with Manchesters past and the forgotten places and am finding your films fascinating and compulsive viewing. It's like being home again. :) Gibo.
A bit late to the party (just found this channel and have been playing catch up) but Lowry did a few paintings in Stockport as well, if I recall, specifically the viaduct and some bits around Underbank.
Love your videos. One of Lowry's paintings "Going to Work", was Mather & Platt, Park Works. I worked there in the 70's, and have a print of it hanging on our wall here in California. Keep up the great videos.
Another fantastic installment mate. Really enjoyed this. They're definitely Lowry places, including Irk place, I agree with you. I'm more interested in how you managed to find the places! Well done. Can't wait for the next one.
Wow amazing perspective into Lowry works, never knew they were depictions of actual places! Grew up loving Lowry's paintings finding them fascinating as there is a statue of him near my home town and so everyone learns about him
Hi again Adam. Yeah well they were real places but he used artistic licence sometimes they were a mish mash of different places in one picture. But on the whole real scenes of real places 👍
If you wish to further your investigations of Lowry, Salford’s current “ Lowry,” is Harold Riley. the Salford artist, who was a great friend of his. Harold is a world renowned artist and is a mine of information on Lowry. He still lives in Salford at Irlams o’th Height. Shelagh Delaney who wrote “ A Taste of Honey, “ was born in Broughton, Salford. Mick Coleman, who wrote “Matchstalk Men,” still performs with his brother, and lives in Hyde. In case you wonder why I have knowledge of these people, I was photographer for the Salford City Reporter in the 70s, early 80s, and had much to do with these people. Bob Smithies started his journalistic career at the Manchester Guardian.
The factory painting where they walking out with two towers was Mather&Platts later Weir pumps..... behind Etihad stadium, they were knocking it all down I believe. Great video.
Well, yet again Martin, I've had to stop 2.47 mins in. You certainly know how to Press people's Button. I was on the opposite side of Manchester to you, but the scenery was exactly the same. And you're so right, most of the Lowery buyers won't have a clue..... Had some great times a kid playing out, on canal etc no ipads thank god !
Hi Martin one of Lowry’s most famous paintings was Going to the Match, which of course was Bolton’s old ground at Burnden Park, and not Old Trafford as lots of people think, no longer available to see as the ground was developed years ago, he also did sketches and paintings of the Cumbrian coast and Berwick upon Tweed which featured places he went on holiday to
A wonderful film with Rita Tushingham, I saw it on TV and it was my first taste of Manchester..... amazing cinematography, really suited black and white......but so sad....
Thanks :) interesting stuff. love the stories !!!. plenty of easily recognisable Lowry paintings in Stockport with blue plaques for exploration that I have visited over time, some look the same
Yeah, thanks for the heads up with that film, I don't think Ive seen A Taste Of Honey entirely, I love films like that, so I'm going online seeing if I can watch it this afternoon. If you ain't seen it? Ken Loach's 'Poor Cow' is excellent, a little later than A Taste Of Honey 1961, but 1967 and in colour (just) and has the same kind of dialogue, though very sad and depressing in parts :( Thanks again for you info and knowledge :) John
The Lowry Theatre at Salford Quays has a Lowry Exhibition. Well worth a visit - not as big as it was a few years ago - possibly they rotate paintings. It is interesting to see his early more conventional works showing how good an artist he was. Although the simplicity of his famous style belies the technicality in creating that look of simplicity.
Just caught up with this episode. Grabbed me as I'm a huge LSL fan.......as well as a Manchester/ Stockport fan. I had many trips to the Lowry collection when they were housed in the Art College in Saĺford before their recent move to the Lowry Centre which I have to say displays them very well. I know that you concentrate much of your productions in Manchester, but Stockport has many areas of industrial and architectural interest.....including two or three sites depicted in Lowrys paintings that can still be found, even though slightly composite. Keep up the good work.
When I was a kid an elderly relative had some Lowry prints on the wall, they always fascinated me. I think that and growing up in a coal mining and cotton mill area gave me a love of old industrial buildings and their history as well as the social history.
Remembered this vid when I saw the altered version of the words this morning. Original writer has altered it as a tribute ti the NHS. It was on Mint Manchester group today, 13l4l20
Lowry also painted Crowther Street in Stockport. It’s at Upper Hillgate, and it looks very similar now. I believe the council has made efforts to preserve the look so that we see the same view that Lowry was inspired by. Being from Stockport, I must also mention our wonderful viaduct which featured in many of Lowry’s pieces.
Brilliant, video, really interesting, shame there aren't plaques up at those locations to show what they were. I have a few prints from a local artist showing fen landscapes from where I live now and I went out to take pictures of the locations in case they changed over time.
I was hoping you'd do a film about Lowry and linking the present with his atmospheric world. Good to see there are still cobbled streets.Thanks Martin as ever.
I was born in Salford and 40 years ago i met many elderly people in care homes that knew LS Lowry during his days as a rent collector and also debt enforcer too ,he was regarded as quite a nasty bleeder actually .The lovable old man image you see him generally portrayed as is not quite correct in truth ,as always in history the truth gets forgotten as stories merge into myths .
Rent collectors had to be pretty tough. They were carrying a lot of money through sketchy areas, and retrieving rent from people who didn't want to give it. The characters in his paintings are more like types than people, and that may be the way Lowry saw humanity.
I've been watching your videos for about a year now and have seen quite a few of the older ones. I love Lowry and can't believe that it's taken me this long to find this video. It's phenomenal. Thank you so much for taking the time to create this. I think that you're right on all accounts here. The final one at the junction of Aspin Lane is shown quite nicely on Google Maps. For a few frames there are older photos dating from July 2008, before Aspin Lane was blocked off, and it creates a 'hairpin' corner identical to that in the Lowry. Great spot. By the way, my introduction to Lowry was as a young kid when the Grattan Catalogue of Autumn / Winter 1978 showed a Lowry on its cover. I was so fascinated by it, instead of wearing out the toy section pages, I studied that painting endlessly engrossed in its detail. If you could do a video pinpointing that Lowry cityscape I would be grateful beyond words! All the best and sincere thanks for all your efforts.
@@MartinZero Well, if you're up for the challenge (which would be amazing), then I've managed to find out that the painting is called Industrial Landscape (Ashton-under-Lyne) and was painted in 1952. Apparently it's crossed the Pennines and can now be found at the Bradford Museum and Art Gallery.
I once lived on Boarshaw Road at the bottom of 24 Steps and the fact that Lowry painted this scene has always fascinated me. I know Bob Smithies' niece and recently asked her if she knew where the painting is now but sadly it is no longer in the family.
@@MartinZero Hi Martin, yes I lived in the row of houses situated at the bottom of 24 Steps in the 1990's. As far as I know the painting was in the Smithies family for many years and I have been told it was then sold for a considerable sum to the Uncle of another friend of mine...unfortunately nobody seems to know where it is now? Can I just say that I am finding your videos very interesting indeed, and your passion for local history shines through...keep it up!
Even the Mona Lisa takes a bow. I have just watched your video of the pomona, you used the big ships sail on the ally ally O and that song was used by Brian and Michel in their song.
5 years on and i just love this. i have a lowry print of my old birthplace " clitheroe" east lancs. every time i go to cricket i visit the lowry centre .
Great video Martin thank you. I found Lowry ‘s grave in southern cemetery where I often have a nice walk, very peaceful and beautiful as cemetery’s go, a simple grave and somebody had left an old jam jar on the plinth, brought a lump to my throat, maybe consider a southern cemetery video, plenty of famous Mancunians in there.
Hello, is that where he is Buried. I actually thought of doing that, Tony Wilson is there as well isnt he ?
Yeah, it has the Mancunian man poem on his gravestone, John ryland, Matt busby just to name a few more
Betty Swallocks my grandfather and grandmother are buried just in front of Sir Matt Busby’s grave. Always pay my respects to him when visiting my grandparents
We should be thankful that a humble man with Lowry' talents and love for his native Salford was around at a critical moment in time. Long may his memory live on and long may we appreciate his work. The industrial scene is not to be despised. It is in many ways inappropriate for the present private hoarders of so much of Lowry's work should be basking in the appreciating value of such because I very much doubt most of them have any love for the area in which he worked. Kudos to the many public galleries around the north that hold Lowry collections for all to view and appreciate. Well done, Martin, for your insights.
I think you might be onto something with that footbridge.
I also don't think you can truly appreciate Lowry without having some connection to the North of England.
Thanks Dylan. It is the actual footbridge 👍
Cool
I know that footbridge. Been over it a few times with my dog.
Spot on Martin! As an amateur watercolourist myself I reckon you got these locations nailed perfectly. Crack on.
I absolutely love this video! I'm an artist and Lowry is one of my favourite artists. It's absolutely brilliant to see the actual places he painted and compare them to the paintings...thank you! I took a photo of the steps at Irk Place a few years ago when I went on a tour around Collyhurst with my Mum and Uncle looking for the street they used to live on. Great video!
Brilliant detective work! A fantastic and fascinating watch!!!
Great video, I admire Lowry’s art and this video took me in his footstep around the places he painted. Thank you so much.
Hi Martin ,what a video you have certainly done your homework, my gran helped put an exhibition of his work in Lewis's dept store in the 1930s he was a rep for company making artists supplies Winsors and Newton cant shine any more info cheers Chris .
Ancoats Hospital? Lowry did a painting of the waiting room. I once did some work in a property developers big house, I counted NINE original Lowry paintings on the walls! Insane!
Martin i used to live on Salford Brow near Bury New Road and would see Lowry sitting on the kerb, me and my mates would sit by him and talk. Now we called him Nick and i wonder was that his name??? Jim.
OMG that sounds amazing....if true! and if it is please post! ....otherwise this kind of local historyi gets lost
His name was Lawrence Stephen Lowry, but i'd say he just let you call him Nick as he wouldnt have been too fussed...!!
I always enjoyed the Lowry painting and saw the movie Lowry.he never had a happy life living with his mother thank you for s very interesting video,as we still in lockdown here in NZ
Hi Martin was served this up this evening purely by chance. Some years ago when I was frequently in England working on my Masters I spent a couple of days before heading home wandering your city. I went out to Salford Queys and to the Lowry, which at the time was running an exhibition called Lowry's people. One of the paintings I saw was of the central park in the city and I remember finding the setting so I truly enjoyed this. I will have to pull out the book I bought while there and now look at some of the sites in your tour. All the best from State side.
Thank you Martin. Brilliant video.
Martin, if you're interested, you're just in time! Two other scenes featured on Lowry paintings - 'Funfair at Daisy Nook' is the Good Friday/Easter fair run by Silcocks. That was our Good Friday treat every year when growing up. It looks as though it's still on over Easter, 11-22 April. silcocksfunfairs.com/event/daisy-nook-easter-fun-fair/. Also 'Crime Lake' isn't far from there - just over the hill in the direction of Oldham.
Fantastic video Martin. Really interesting to where Lowry painted
Hi Martin , i sure you would love the film shot in Salford called Love on the Dole. Very iconic.
I will look it up on here Keith thanks
I knew the nephews of Walter Greenwood who wrote love on the dole
Walter Greenwood was known to have a pint in the Cleveland in crumpsall
Parts of “A Taste of Honey” were filmed in a street next to the street where I was born and lived in Bradford, Manchester. It is the area now known as Eastlands and Manchester City’s Football ground. The school netball match was filmed in the grounds of the school my sisters attended.
What a brilliant piece of detective work Martin - Lowey is a favorite & A taste of honey was groundbreaking - thanks so much for posting
Hi Trev thanks very much. Yep two all time greats
Loved the video mate. Very interesting. I think you’ve got the Footbridge steps location spot on as well
I agree. Such an interesting discovery -- I love background cityscapes, they are our living archaeology!
Brill little film, thanks. You're great to watch and listen to. Even you making a brew and some toast in the morning would be brill, the way you are. Cheers
Thank you Lotty
Martin, I've some info perfect you. It's too much to write here, youtube, but if you let me have your email I can tell you that way.
Excellent presentation mate, you’re interest in social history is a credit to you, thanks for sharing.Eccles
Thanks Bernard
Fantastic.... Angel Meadow and now Collyhurst have been my home for 5 years. It's incredible to see so much rich history and heritage where I'm now settled
Fantastic video again, so interesting
Fantastic. I live in Salford she learned a lot. Thanks mate!
Thank you
I was a policeman in Swinton in the 70,s, I was always aware of Lowrie and where used to live on Station Road Pendlebury. Great Videos Martin....I’m hooked. As someone suggested you should consider a follow up around Southern Cemetary and the interesting people buried their...keep up the fascinating work...very professionally done.
Thanks very much. Might just do that 👍
Think you got the footbridge right, your careful search for detail, ace as usual
Well done, quality video. I think you have them all spot on, nice work.
Thanks Leon
There was a painting of what was called Oldfield Road Dwellings. As a kid around about 1970, I went and took a look. Proper terrible looking block of tenements, I mean scary place. I walked around to the back of the building and what I saw was like a scene from Charles Dickens. I must have stood there mouth wide open. The scene was epic in its awfulness. It must have been really bad, as I was still living in what were considered 2up-2down slums with an outside bog in Pendleton! Long gone now, as you say. Great video.
So interesting. Thank you. I'm just sorry it took so long to find this!
Omg, I got into Th Smiths a couple of years ago, knew you had to be a fan when I heard certain tunes at the end of your videos; now after following you for about a year heard your reference to A taste of honey -- what a coincidence, I love Shelagh Delaney and the film. Ps. Part of taste of honey was filmed around St. Mary's Church in Stockport Market Place, beyond which one shop looks the same. Keep up the good videos, you and your team are great. This video is great, don't you just love old things still preserved if only you look.
4 months later and i still think this is your best work. i am going to investigate lowry and see what i can find .
I absolutely loved it! It was so interesting and your enthusiasm was contagious. I didn't formerly appreciate Lowry but I'm going to have a look at them all now. Thank you for the glimpse of Angel Meadows. A very poignant place ✨
Hi Martin love this as I'm a tour guide as angel meadow is one of my stop's and you have confirmed with nearly with what I say on my tour's and Lowry was also was firewatcher in the city centre of Manchester and was on buildings during the bliz and I found out now where the bodies were floating into the river erk as I thought it was goild street
very well done indeed ,spot on with the footbridge detective work,great to see local people taking the trouble to entertain us.
daisy nook fair was one of his paintings and i personally have stood on the spot lowry painted it from.the river medlock was running under his feet.its 5 mins away from where i live.
Very interesting Martin, I love Lowry's industrial landscapes. I have quite a number of prints including The Footbridge. You did well locating these vestigial features from his paintings. Very atmospheric the past landscapes of the city. I think it's such a shame so much of our heritage has been swept away in the name of progress.
Hi Chris. Yes I do Love Lowry. Finding that bridge was a gem 👌
Great Video Martin very interesting
Just a brilliant video 👍
Loved the Lowery vid. I was born in Salford and grew up there. The history that you speak of in these videos is amazing to me! Living in Cornwall now you bring a lot of home to me as that is where my heart is....thank you so much!!!
Thank you Mary
Interesting bit about angel meadow too! I never knew it was a burial ground. I love cemeteries and burial sites, there's something so appealing about them!
Hi Lewis, yeah Angel meadow, most of the people died of Cholera I think. It was a Godforsaken place back in the 1800's apparently.
I must pay a visit some time! Messaged you on FB too
Catching up on some of your older offerings. Excellent as always!
Great video,Lowry is a very interesting character and I enjoy his artwork.
You and me both. Thanks for the comment 👍🏼
That was haunting Martin.....I loved the paintings and the people ….very human …
I'm a fan of Lowry and this film amazed me ! Thankyou
Thank you so much Martin. Really enjoyed watching your video and as a great Lowry fan myself I found it absolutely fascinating. Cheers, all the best.
Thank you Anthony
Clever way of rediscovering the past . Keep peeling back the layers .
This is a brilliantly presented video, he's my favourite artist. My family are from lower kersal, Salford. But since moved 10-20 minutes west. But it's still great to see the landscapes that you can see in his art. I have subscribed for more
Thank you, yes I do love Lowry myself, it was great finding these locations
💜 this!
Think you're spot on & especially with the footbridge. Looks pretty remote too so a great find.
Swizz Thank you very much. Yes that bridge is very tucked away. On old photos it's completely in the open. I agree I really do think it's the bridge. Lowry painted a lot in Collyhurst as well 😃👍
I remember Bob Smithies or was it Greaves? doing the interview with Lowry on the news maybe Granada reports? I think in Lowry's house and they were talking about where he gets his cardboard and I even think he painted a head and shoulders of Bob?, my god I couldn't find the clip anywhere and wondered if I had imagined it, maybe I did haha.
You did some fantastic detective work there, very well done.
What a great video, it is great seeing some of the places he used in his art ..
Thank you Davy
There’s a Lowry of Clitheroe looking up Moor Lane likely from the doorway of the Brown Cow pub, nowadays you’d be looking directly at the Castle chippy!
The Flags[I played on]were grave headstones laid flat.Someone must have a picture.
I grew up in South Manchester, on an estate of detached houses buit in the sixties on ground that was once the hamlet of High Grove. We used to see Lowry when he visited a house on the estate, I believe it was his niece's house and he went around for his Sunday dinner. Before the estate was built there was a grand old house which stood there called High Grove House which had a long cobbled drive that was lined with poplar trees. Lowry must have been visiting this area for years as I found a scetch he made of the house just before it was demolished in 1964.
Loving your videos Martin, I left Manchester in the mid nineties and now live on a small "remote" island off the north coast of Scotland. I've always been fascinated with Manchesters past and the forgotten places and am finding your films fascinating and compulsive viewing. It's like being home again. :)
Gibo.
Thank you for watching, interesting about Lowry. I bet your little Island is interesting as well
Thanks for sharing this. Martin.
Interesting to see how things have changed.
A bit late to the party (just found this channel and have been playing catch up) but Lowry did a few paintings in Stockport as well, if I recall, specifically the viaduct and some bits around Underbank.
Fantastic video, mate, thoroughly enjoyed it. Long live Lowry 😊💙🎨
very informative , i am a manchester, salford artist and have been inspired by L.S.Lowrys work. looking forward to your next video
Enjoyable video,very good,interesting facts too ,well done ,😁❤
Wow just found your channel because of the video u made with Lewis. This is a great video very much in the stile of Tim Grundy. Absolutely superb.
Hi Gary. Thanks for having a look at my channel, and for subscribing. Much appreciated. Tim Grundy was he off TV ? I remember the radio DJ ?
Martin 0401 yeah same bloke Martin he was a dj and tv presenter. Try googeling Grundys Wonders.
Cheers Gary will do. I only remember him from Piccadilly radio 👍
Fascinating stuff
I want to see some of his work when I am in Manchester, his sense of capturing a time fascinates me.
Love your videos. One of Lowry's paintings "Going to Work", was Mather & Platt, Park Works. I worked there in the 70's, and have a print of it hanging on our wall here in California. Keep up the great videos.
Thank you Alan
Still going back to your videos after watching one of them about 6 months ago. This is one of my favourites, Martin.
Thanks very much Paul
Loved this video, it’s amazing to see past and present 👏🏻👏🏻
Another fantastic installment mate. Really enjoyed this. They're definitely Lowry places, including Irk place, I agree with you. I'm more interested in how you managed to find the places! Well done. Can't wait for the next one.
Wow amazing perspective into Lowry works, never knew they were depictions of actual places! Grew up loving Lowry's paintings finding them fascinating as there is a statue of him near my home town and so everyone learns about him
Hi again Adam. Yeah well they were real places but he used artistic licence sometimes they were a mish mash of different places in one picture. But on the whole real scenes of real places 👍
If you wish to further your investigations of Lowry, Salford’s current “ Lowry,” is Harold Riley. the Salford artist, who was a great friend of his. Harold is a world renowned artist and is a mine of information on Lowry. He still lives in Salford at Irlams o’th Height. Shelagh Delaney who wrote “ A Taste of Honey, “ was born in Broughton, Salford. Mick Coleman, who wrote “Matchstalk Men,” still performs with his brother, and lives in Hyde. In case you wonder why I have knowledge of these people, I was photographer for the Salford City Reporter in the 70s, early 80s, and had much to do with these people. Bob Smithies started his journalistic career at the Manchester Guardian.
Just caught up on this one Martin & found it very interesting, it must have taken ages to research, thank you it gets a big thumbs up from me.
The factory painting where they walking out with two towers was Mather&Platts later Weir pumps..... behind Etihad stadium, they were knocking it all down I believe. Great video.
Well, yet again Martin, I've had to stop 2.47 mins in. You certainly know how to Press people's Button. I was on the opposite side of Manchester to you, but the scenery was exactly the same. And you're so right, most of the Lowery buyers won't have a clue.....
Had some great times a kid playing out, on canal etc no ipads thank god !
Fascinating..Another one on the ‘to explore list’👍🏼
Cheers Carl
Nice one Martin 👍
He was a great artist.
Great video , I wonder what Lowry would of thought of all the changes ?? Really enjoyed your commentary..
Thank you Paul
Hi Martin one of Lowry’s most famous paintings was Going to the Match, which of course was Bolton’s old ground at Burnden Park, and not Old Trafford as lots of people think, no longer available to see as the ground was developed years ago, he also did sketches and paintings of the Cumbrian coast and Berwick upon Tweed which featured places he went on holiday to
A wonderful film with Rita Tushingham, I saw it on TV and it was my first taste of Manchester..... amazing cinematography, really suited black and white......but so sad....
Yeah I love that film. Morrisey mentioned it in an interview thats how I found out about it
Appreciate your passion for your environment. Keep up the good work....
Thanks very much Ian
Thanks :) interesting stuff. love the stories !!!. plenty of easily recognisable Lowry paintings in Stockport with blue plaques for exploration that I have visited over time, some look the same
+J Diffo Hello, thank you. Yes I never realised just how many there were. Plus some of the scenes from A taste of honey were filmed there too 👍😃
Yeah, thanks for the heads up with that film, I don't think Ive seen A Taste Of Honey entirely, I love films like that, so I'm going online seeing if I can watch it this afternoon.
If you ain't seen it? Ken Loach's 'Poor Cow' is excellent, a little later than A Taste Of Honey 1961, but 1967 and in colour (just) and has the same kind of dialogue, though very sad and depressing in parts :(
Thanks again for you info and knowledge :) John
The Lowry Theatre at Salford Quays has a Lowry Exhibition. Well worth a visit - not as big as it was a few years ago - possibly they rotate paintings. It is interesting to see his early more conventional works showing how good an artist he was. Although the simplicity of his famous style belies the technicality in creating that look of simplicity.
Yeah I went to the Lowry a few years ago. Quite fascinating
Just caught up with this episode. Grabbed me as I'm a huge LSL fan.......as well as a Manchester/ Stockport fan. I had many trips to the Lowry collection when they were housed in the Art College in Saĺford before their recent move to the Lowry Centre which I have to say displays them very well.
I know that you concentrate much of your productions in Manchester, but Stockport has many areas of industrial and architectural interest.....including two or three sites depicted in Lowrys paintings that can still be found, even though slightly composite.
Keep up the good work.
Another brilliant vid, thanks Martin
When I was a kid an elderly relative had some Lowry prints on the wall, they always fascinated me. I think that and growing up in a coal mining and cotton mill area gave me a love of old industrial buildings and their history as well as the social history.
Same here Carl 👍
Great video mate. Really enjoyed watching that. I just saw his biopic movie with Timothy spall. You've put a realness to his work. 👍👍👍👍
Brilliant Martin...he painted a mill near me which is still up..Newtown mill off station road Swinton..it’s still up and working today
Another really interesting video Martin - look forward to the next one
Chris !! Thank you, am editing as we speak 👍🌿
Remembered this vid when I saw the altered version of the words this morning. Original writer has altered it as a tribute ti the NHS. It was on Mint Manchester group today, 13l4l20
Oh yeah saw that thanks Camilla
Lowry also painted Crowther Street in Stockport. It’s at Upper Hillgate, and it looks very similar now. I believe the council has made efforts to preserve the look so that we see the same view that Lowry was inspired by. Being from Stockport, I must also mention our wonderful viaduct which featured in many of Lowry’s pieces.
Similar tour to the Berwick on Tweed Lowry trail , both interesting . Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , there lays the value .
Brilliant, video, really interesting, shame there aren't plaques up at those locations to show what they were. I have a few prints from a local artist showing fen landscapes from where I live now and I went out to take pictures of the locations in case they changed over time.
I was hoping you'd do a film about Lowry and linking the present with his atmospheric world. Good to see there are still cobbled streets.Thanks Martin as ever.
Thanks very much
As always Martin a very interesting video
I was born in Salford and 40 years ago i met many elderly people in care homes that knew LS Lowry during his days as a rent collector and also debt enforcer too ,he was regarded as quite a nasty bleeder actually .The lovable old man image you see him generally portrayed as is not quite correct in truth ,as always in history the truth gets forgotten as stories merge into myths .
Rent collectors had to be pretty tough. They were carrying a lot of money through sketchy areas, and retrieving rent from people who didn't want to give it. The characters in his paintings are more like types than people, and that may be the way Lowry saw humanity.
Nice I got a few lowrys me great nan bought one from a lowery shop in Manchester when she was in her younger days take care
Nice vlog mate👍 and yes, I think you hit on something with the footbridge.
I've been watching your videos for about a year now and have seen quite a few of the older ones. I love Lowry and can't believe that it's taken me this long to find this video. It's phenomenal. Thank you so much for taking the time to create this.
I think that you're right on all accounts here. The final one at the junction of Aspin Lane is shown quite nicely on Google Maps. For a few frames there are older photos dating from July 2008, before Aspin Lane was blocked off, and it creates a 'hairpin' corner identical to that in the Lowry. Great spot.
By the way, my introduction to Lowry was as a young kid when the Grattan Catalogue of Autumn / Winter 1978 showed a Lowry on its cover. I was so fascinated by it, instead of wearing out the toy section pages, I studied that painting endlessly engrossed in its detail. If you could do a video pinpointing that Lowry cityscape I would be grateful beyond words! All the best and sincere thanks for all your efforts.
Thanks Jack. The Grattan catalogue 😄Think I browsed that. I would have to see the pic
@@MartinZero Well, if you're up for the challenge (which would be amazing), then I've managed to find out that the painting is called Industrial Landscape (Ashton-under-Lyne) and was painted in 1952. Apparently it's crossed the Pennines and can now be found at the Bradford Museum and Art Gallery.
Amazing video
Thanks Gaz
I once lived on Boarshaw Road at the bottom of 24 Steps and the fact that Lowry painted this scene has always fascinated me. I know Bob Smithies' niece and recently asked her if she knew where the painting is now but sadly it is no longer in the family.
Hi Chris. You lived on Boarshaw rd ? Was the painting owned by The Smithies family ?
@@MartinZero Hi Martin, yes I lived in the row of houses situated at the bottom of 24 Steps in the 1990's. As far as I know the painting was in the Smithies family for many years and I have been told it was then sold for a considerable sum to the Uncle of another friend of mine...unfortunately nobody seems to know where it is now? Can I just say that I am finding your videos very interesting indeed, and your passion for local history shines through...keep it up!
@@chrismcdonagh5108 Cheers Chris, much appreciated
Even the Mona Lisa takes a bow. I have just watched your video of the pomona, you used the big ships sail on the ally ally O and that song was used by Brian and Michel in their song.
Yep I know. I bought it when it came out 👍
Good detective work!
Hi Lee, Thanks mate 👍😃