It's right about part of Failsworth being connected to Manchester and some being connected to Oldham. All of Failsworth has a Manchester postcode but our bins are emptied by oldham council. If you live at the end of Failsworth near the Pole and ring an ambulance, you get taken to Oldham Royal. If you live at the end of Failsworth near Morrisons/Farm Street and ring an ambulance, you get taken to North Manchester hospital.
The piece of wood under the bridge was to stop rope from wearing away the stone on the side of the bridge when the horses pulled the barges. I lived next to a canal in Ancoats and you could see marks where the rope had marked the stone think if you looked you might still be able to find bridges that have rope marks made by horses when they pulled the barges
HI sarah ian here the mill was once Thomas walmsleys mill 1800s who had the mill and a shop oppisitte and what he did was pay is staff in tokens but they had to spend them in his shop very crafty man and the big house that you featured earlier in the video was his house thought you would appreciete that info xx
Ahhhh that's why it's called walmsley bridge. Fab fact about the house and I reckless n the walmsleys married into the Radcliffe platts family up in werbeth park. Interesting
@@SarahsUKGraveyard It came to me as an old family story. My grandparents lived in Timson Street and then School Road. My grandma, born Kenyon, worked at Stotts mill "just opposite the fire station" (where her father had worked before her), spinning and then weaving for 20 years before another 20 years as a dinner lady. My grandfather, Tommy Sledge, was a grocer at the coop and a clerk at AV Roes before he died in 1965. I think also a councillor. I've researched a lot of family history around the area. It's either the Kenyon or the Preston line in the family who ran the Hare and Hounds pub before and during WW1 (not the same pub I don't think as the one you showed in another video. It was not as elaborate. It was in Cowhill). My grandma was a little girl there in the pub (I'm talking about 1915). We used to drive up to Oldham and Chadderton every month and then over to Bredbury to see my nana. I remember the fire station at the top of Oldham road as I think it is just before the turn off "over the tops" back to Yorkshire. Your videos have sparked so many memories. Thank you so much for that!
I used to love drinking at Failsworth pole,I think there's still a few decent pubs there Sarah,care to join me at Failsworth pole? Lol 😉 Sarah could I contact you?
I spoke to a girl yesterday who works at lady Jane's she said they have been shut cos of covid but her and the other girls are going to open up again next week !!
The building that used to be Legatts was originally built in 1804 for Thomas Walmsley, a local industrialist, when the adjacent Rochdale canal was opened. It consisted of a canal-side warehouse, grocers shop and house and is a Grade ll listed building for its architectural interest.
Firs Hall. Was. Our school. Clinic when I was. A. Kid in the 50s &. 60s. We. Moved. To no. 7 Firs, Avenue in 1956, the Alston family, the a damsons lived. @ no. 1, the bolgers. @ no. 3, spinks no. 5, us no. 7, Dean family no. 9, Mrs. Connor no. 11 and the last House no. 13 the Bents.... That was all the houses. The Big House was originally a mill owners and the small terraced houses were the mill management. There was a huge concrete air raid shelter at the back from wartime to the 70s, before which it was railed off and was all lawns. We used to swing. On the old gas. Lamp on the corner. The building next to the town hall was our library before they built. One at Failsworth pole. I used to play in that canal which was Filthy and full. Of rats. All shops were. Local and no such thing then as a "gentleman's, club". We had a real community then, women donkeystoned their steps on Friday nights, no rubbish all over the place. We had Sunday schools,. Boys brigade, scouts, guides. Failsworth was a happy family place. To live. All my relatives. Lived around in Dean, mather, Dalton Street, at the bottom ofn Which was a pig farm, our food was cooked on site at mather Street school and the pig man collected all the waste for his animals. The "moggy" at the back. Of Dalton Street where we played in Filthy water & bloated around in Old tin baths, used to be a clay mine.... I could tell you such a lot about Failsworth, as could most of my relatives... Jaques Alston
Firs Hall used to be the school dentists in the 60s. I had my first tooth extraction there and woke up on the floor of the surgery being given smelling salts after having half the wrong tooth ripped out. To make things worse, the next time I went, with my parents, the lad in front of me in the upstairs corridor waiting area and from my class, took fright from the surgery after going in and ran out down the stairs, out of the front door and down the road. My dad went after him in the car and caught him on Lord Lane... lucky me then I had another extraction, with gas, which is not an experience that I ever wish to repeat. I never actually took to dentists after this...
@@SarahsUKGraveyard The school dentist moved to Eaves Lane in Chadderton, or, rather, I moved to a school near there. I had a fight with the dentist there, literally, because two of the staff were trying to force the gas mask onto my face before I was ready to accept it. Much arm-flailing ensued. After some struggling they ordered me out of the chair and into the store room to sit on a stool and calm down. They took someone else's tooth out within my earshot, then came back into the room where I was. There was no escape, for I had tooth-ache. They were a lot more accommodating of my anxiety this time, and I went off into the land of gas more easily; it was like being submerged in a claustrophobic deep-sea bathysphere to me. I hated it. Yet it was all that was available at the time. Injections were simply not available. But don't get me started on the psychological requirements of dental employability...
Hi Sarah, next time you are in Failsworth its worth having a look at the original labour exchange. Its behind Ferrantis on the same road as Housing Units. Good looking building
I never knew about Ben Brierley at all until this video! I feel really ignorant now considering I've bought a takeaway from the shop which used to be his home, and I've sat on the benches near his statue. I also never knew it was him who named Daisy Nook! Come to think of it, my old high school is on Brierley Avenue! Completely mad. Thanks for the great video Sarah I unexpectedly learnt quite a lot from it 👍
Hi Sarah, I have a Facebook group called #FailsworthLitterbusters. The first alley you feature has now been transformed by some of our members, please go and check it out (before the fly tippers come back).
There's all scaffolding around the front of Lady Jane's now - it must finally be falling apart from all of the deplorable activities going on inside. 🤣
@@SarahsUKGraveyard you’re welcome was really interested no way did I know Ben briely house was the kebab shop (well what is the kebab shop now) hahah and yes pole be open soon don’t know if that’s a good thing it not 🙈😂
@@SarahsUKGraveyard Talking of Failsworth, can you recall a big Victorian house that stood near the junction of Broadway and Oldham Road, opposite the old Social Security building?? It was demolished in the late 1990s.
@@SarahsUKGraveyard Yes that's right. I lived there between 1989 and 1996. I believe at one time it was known as the "Elite" guesthouse. Inside there was beautiful wood paneling everywhere and a grand staircase.
The building at 9 mins...I’ve had a look at old maps from 1848 up to Ariel photos from 1947 (website: Britain from above) and they all show that building with that cut off corner but never anything attached to it. So it’s prior to 1848 if it was adjoining anything.
1st of April 1972 local government act classes fails worth under Oldham and that's also where the town boundries where officially made and Oldham became a metropolitan bourough and changed from Oldham county
At 13:33 you are looking at a row that used to be called The Rocks, and if you look round on the internet you will find a very old photograph taken there of veterans of Peterloo
The lower level is the original ground level of The Turnpike road that replaced the old main road to Oldham in 1793, what is now Old Road which wound round to the The Pole and up to Wrigley Head then Wickentree Lane (then Stake Leach and Hole Bottom). The road at The Rocks was raised to accommodate the bridge over the canal that was constructed in the 1790s, I think. No, I wasn't there at the time.
@@SarahsUKGraveyard I used to live on nearby Aldred St , and at the time in question was doing an OU degree, with monthly evening classes at Manchester Poly. I remember waiting at the bus stop outside Lady Jane's, for the bus down to Manchester, one evening in the early 80s, and seeing a rather delicious group of attractive young ladies in leotards performing strenuous exercises on equipment in the the windows on both sides. I had previously assumed that it was a knocking shop, but this gymnastic display seemed a little excessive if such was the case. However, i insist that I have no knowledge of the upstairs activities, then or now...
Astburys then turned into leggats, ironically was owned by another Jimmy, Jimmy Leggat who happened to be Jimmy out of Puressance's step dad...oh the irony😂🤣 theres was once alot of knocking shops in Failsworth lol
Hi Kevin & Sarah, Jimmy leggat is Jimmy out of puressance uncle. Think Jimmy leggat still as the tapas bar near the tram stop, used to be the railway pub
@@SarahsUKGraveyard there's a building that still has the "Failsworth Industrial Society" sign. Now transformed into flats. No idea how old it is, Wikipedia says "1859 - Failsworth Industrial Society is officially registered on 22 July."
Wait until I see our local councilor about getting rid of all that pigeon shit on my Chaise Longue🤬 it had better be done for when the Crown is reopened😂
It's right about part of Failsworth being connected to Manchester and some being connected to Oldham. All of Failsworth has a Manchester postcode but our bins are emptied by oldham council. If you live at the end of Failsworth near the Pole and ring an ambulance, you get taken to Oldham Royal. If you live at the end of Failsworth near Morrisons/Farm Street and ring an ambulance, you get taken to North Manchester hospital.
The piece of wood under the bridge was to stop rope from wearing away the stone on the side of the bridge when the horses pulled the barges. I lived next to a canal in Ancoats and you could see marks where the rope had marked the stone think if you looked you might still be able to find bridges that have rope marks made by horses when they pulled the barges
Oh brilliant thank you for letting me know.
HI sarah ian here the mill was once Thomas walmsleys mill 1800s who had the mill and a shop oppisitte and what he did was pay is staff in tokens but they had to spend them in his shop very crafty man and the big house that you featured earlier in the video was his house thought you would appreciete that info xx
Ahhhh that's why it's called walmsley bridge. Fab fact about the house and I reckless n the walmsleys married into the Radcliffe platts family up in werbeth park. Interesting
I think my grandfather (or great grandfather) was narrowly missed by Failsworth Pole when it blew down in 1950.
My god your kidding 😲
@@SarahsUKGraveyard It came to me as an old family story. My grandparents lived in Timson Street and then School Road. My grandma, born Kenyon, worked at Stotts mill "just opposite the fire station" (where her father had worked before her), spinning and then weaving for 20 years before another 20 years as a dinner lady. My grandfather, Tommy Sledge, was a grocer at the coop and a clerk at AV Roes before he died in 1965. I think also a councillor. I've researched a lot of family history around the area. It's either the Kenyon or the Preston line in the family who ran the Hare and Hounds pub before and during WW1 (not the same pub I don't think as the one you showed in another video. It was not as elaborate. It was in Cowhill). My grandma was a little girl there in the pub (I'm talking about 1915).
We used to drive up to Oldham and Chadderton every month and then over to Bredbury to see my nana. I remember the fire station at the top of Oldham road as I think it is just before the turn off "over the tops" back to Yorkshire. Your videos have sparked so many memories. Thank you so much for that!
Used to go stansfield Rd school x
I used to love drinking at Failsworth pole,I think there's still a few decent pubs there Sarah,care to join me at Failsworth pole? Lol 😉 Sarah could I contact you?
Good video but you missed where one of the lesser known paintings was created by L.S Lowry 👍
Ohhh go on where ?
@@SarahsUKGraveyard its on Old Road. The painting is called "Children Playing" 😊
Ok will look into thank you x
I spoke to a girl yesterday who works at lady Jane's she said they have been shut cos of covid but her and the other girls are going to open up again next week !!
The building that used to be Legatts was originally built in 1804 for Thomas Walmsley, a local industrialist, when the adjacent Rochdale canal was opened. It consisted of a canal-side warehouse, grocers shop and house and is a Grade ll listed building for its architectural interest.
Brilliant thank you for letting me know. I knew it was early 18's woth the style of the windows. A beautiful building
Thanks for this video Sarah, I hope you do more on Failsworth. The building you think is nice near the bridge is actually grade II listed.
Yes wasnt it the hat factory at one time?
U KNOW ABOUT MORRISON THERE I LIVE NEAR MORRISON STILL MISSIN 😭😭😭
That buzz was the 85 Manchester Stevenson Square tu saggalwerf 😂✊️☮️
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Firs Hall. Was. Our school. Clinic when I was. A. Kid in the 50s &. 60s. We. Moved. To no. 7 Firs, Avenue in 1956, the Alston family, the a damsons lived. @ no. 1, the bolgers. @ no. 3, spinks no. 5, us no. 7, Dean family no. 9, Mrs. Connor no. 11 and the last House no. 13 the Bents.... That was all the houses. The Big House was originally a mill owners and the small terraced houses were the mill management. There was a huge concrete air raid shelter at the back from wartime to the 70s, before which it was railed off and was all lawns. We used to swing. On the old gas. Lamp on the corner. The building next to the town hall was our library before they built. One at Failsworth pole. I used to play in that canal which was Filthy and full. Of rats. All shops were. Local and no such thing then as a "gentleman's, club". We had a real community then, women donkeystoned their steps on Friday nights, no rubbish all over the place. We had Sunday schools,. Boys brigade, scouts, guides. Failsworth was a happy family place. To live. All my relatives. Lived around in Dean, mather, Dalton Street, at the bottom ofn Which was a pig farm, our food was cooked on site at mather Street school and the pig man collected all the waste for his animals. The "moggy" at the back. Of Dalton Street where we played in Filthy water & bloated around in Old tin baths, used to be a clay mine.... I could tell you such a lot about Failsworth, as could most of my relatives... Jaques Alston
I'll keep in touch and pick your brains. Would you mind emailing me ukgraveyard@gmail.com thanks sarah
Firs Hall used to be the school dentists in the 60s. I had my first tooth extraction there and woke up on the floor of the surgery being given smelling salts after having half the wrong tooth ripped out.
To make things worse, the next time I went, with my parents, the lad in front of me in the upstairs corridor waiting area and from my class, took fright from the surgery after going in and ran out down the stairs, out of the front door and down the road. My dad went after him in the car and caught him on Lord Lane... lucky me then I had another extraction, with gas, which is not an experience that I ever wish to repeat. I never actually took to dentists after this...
My aunty told me having that gas is horrendous
@@SarahsUKGraveyard The school dentist moved to Eaves Lane in Chadderton, or, rather, I moved to a school near there. I had a fight with the dentist there, literally, because two of the staff were trying to force the gas mask onto my face before I was ready to accept it. Much arm-flailing ensued. After some struggling they ordered me out of the chair and into the store room to sit on a stool and calm down. They took someone else's tooth out within my earshot, then came back into the room where I was. There was no escape, for I had tooth-ache. They were a lot more accommodating of my anxiety this time, and I went off into the land of gas more easily; it was like being submerged in a claustrophobic deep-sea bathysphere to me. I hated it. Yet it was all that was available at the time. Injections were simply not available. But don't get me started on the psychological requirements of dental employability...
I live right next to where you was at the start
Hi Sarah, next time you are in Failsworth its worth having a look at the original labour exchange. Its behind Ferrantis on the same road as Housing Units. Good looking building
Brilliant thanks I'll keep that in mind xx
I used to get me re chroming and polishing done in failsworth at a great little back street workshop
Is it still there?
@@SarahsUKGraveyard incredibly it looks like they’re still in business! Around 30 years ago when I taking parts over for cleaning and polishing
Wow that's a long time
Puressance i went to school with Jimmy and watched there early gigs many times
Ahh right yes he's a friend of mine and kevs family went to them all aswell 😁
I knew a girl years back, that said she was one of their nieces:)....
Wow
The building on the canal was Failsworth Hat worked in the 60s across from the pub was sinatra club
Ahhhhh brilliant John thanks. The hat works is now on crown Street I recently worked near by in ivy mill
I never knew about Ben Brierley at all until this video! I feel really ignorant now considering I've bought a takeaway from the shop which used to be his home, and I've sat on the benches near his statue. I also never knew it was him who named Daisy Nook! Come to think of it, my old high school is on Brierley Avenue! Completely mad. Thanks for the great video Sarah I unexpectedly learnt quite a lot from it 👍
Awwww I'm really glad you got something out of it xxx
Hi Sarah, I have a Facebook group called #FailsworthLitterbusters. The first alley you feature has now been transformed by some of our members, please go and check it out (before the fly tippers come back).
Thanks Sandra I will do xx
There's all scaffolding around the front of Lady Jane's now - it must finally be falling apart from all of the deplorable activities going on inside. 🤣
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My home town and I still love it
I'm from failsworth
Still live there to this day great town
Thanks for watching Alan not long until the pole opens 😁
@@SarahsUKGraveyard you’re welcome was really interested no way did I know Ben briely house was the kebab shop (well what is the kebab shop now) hahah and yes pole be open soon don’t know if that’s a good thing it not 🙈😂
It's a good thing. Me and my laye will be bacl down there for wine that's for certain 😁
I've got a few really interesting videos to make about failsworth over the next few weeks and months so if your not subscribed please do 😁
@@SarahsUKGraveyard awwww look forward for to it I’ll subscribe now x I’ll share them on my fb when you do it x
Nicely done as always.
Thank you 😁
@@SarahsUKGraveyard Talking of Failsworth, can you recall a big Victorian house that stood near the junction of Broadway and Oldham Road, opposite the old Social Security building?? It was demolished in the late 1990s.
My mum can yes she said it was one huge door windows either side said it was gorgeous
@@SarahsUKGraveyard Yes that's right. I lived there between 1989 and 1996. I believe at one time it was known as the "Elite" guesthouse. Inside there was beautiful wood paneling everywhere and a grand staircase.
Oh my god how lucky are you 😮
The building at 9 mins...I’ve had a look at old maps from 1848 up to Ariel photos from 1947 (website: Britain from above) and they all show that building with that cut off corner but never anything attached to it. So it’s prior to 1848 if it was adjoining anything.
Wow well I'd believe that because it's very old I think
1st of April 1972 local government act classes fails worth under Oldham and that's also where the town boundries where officially made and Oldham became a metropolitan bourough and changed from Oldham county
Do you pay for a TV licence?
No. I don't need one X why do you ask ?
At 13:33 you are looking at a row that used to be called The Rocks, and if you look round on the internet you will find a very old photograph taken there of veterans of Peterloo
Brill I'll check it out thanks Richard
The lower level is the original ground level of The Turnpike road that replaced the old main road to Oldham in 1793, what is now Old Road which wound round to the The Pole and up to Wrigley Head then Wickentree Lane (then Stake Leach and Hole Bottom). The road at The Rocks was raised to accommodate the bridge over the canal that was constructed in the 1790s, I think. No, I wasn't there at the time.
Lady Jane's is still open...they just have to ring up then sneak round the back 🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂
They always open up lol
Lady Jane's used to be a gym
before it was a gentlemans club?
@@SarahsUKGraveyard I used to live on nearby Aldred St , and at the time in question was doing an OU degree, with monthly evening classes at Manchester Poly. I remember waiting at the bus stop outside Lady Jane's, for the bus down to Manchester, one evening in the early 80s, and seeing a rather delicious group of attractive young ladies in leotards performing strenuous exercises on equipment in the the windows on both sides. I had previously assumed that it was a knocking shop, but this gymnastic display seemed a little excessive if such was the case. However, i insist that I have no knowledge of the upstairs activities, then or now...
😂😂😂😂😂 I think it's a gentleman's club upstairs now 😁
Sarah's UK Graveyard mr Rogers must of spent a lot of time at the “gym” 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Astburys then turned into leggats, ironically was owned by another Jimmy, Jimmy Leggat who happened to be Jimmy out of Puressance's step dad...oh the irony😂🤣 theres was once alot of knocking shops in Failsworth lol
Yes i believe it was but didn't want to bring names into the video 😂😂😂 comments is no problem. Really how many and where?
@@SarahsUKGraveyard what knocking shops? How would I know 🤔 🤣👍
@@kevins9417 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hi Kevin & Sarah, Jimmy leggat is Jimmy out of puressance uncle. Think Jimmy leggat still as the tapas bar near the tram stop, used to be the railway pub
Ahhhh you mean he's the bloke with the white hair? Think he and his wife had lived in Spain for years then came back and opened that restaurant
I am buying a house at the back of First Hall. There's an old man living there who looks like Stephen King.
Your kidding. When I went I saw a lot of elderly people there. Looks like a nice place to live
@@SarahsUKGraveyard are you from the area? You should make a video about Old Road. There are a couple of interesting buildings there. :)
Yes I'm from and live in Oldham. D Road?
You know what? When I was filming failsworth recently I looked down towards that area and thought it looked interesting. The curved terraces etc
@@SarahsUKGraveyard there's a building that still has the "Failsworth Industrial Society" sign. Now transformed into flats. No idea how old it is, Wikipedia says "1859 - Failsworth Industrial Society is officially registered on 22 July."
Wait until I see our local councilor about getting rid of all that pigeon shit on my Chaise Longue🤬 it had better be done for when the Crown is reopened😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pigeon. Run 😂
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