Thanks so much for sharing. I was brought up on openshaw village from the early 80s. And knew the path as the yellow brick road. At 3.35 in looks like clayton in the background. I also remember the stonewall that went around.
I lived on Walmer street Abbey hey from 1980s to 2023, I always herd the stories of the canal in Abbey hey, walked down it many times but not as the canal, as the yellow brick rd, great video as I've never seen how the canal was thank you
This is great .i live near vana street school and attended it in the 80s. I walk over that aqueduct over the train tracks nearly every day. I always wonder how it looked back then. Thanks for posting😊😊
Yep I played in the coal yard remember collecting coal in an old pram during the strikes. I also went to varna street crossing the bridge never saw it with water, shame . Love the canals and am fortunate to live close to one now @@bertdingle
I fell in the canal between the cemetery and Reddish Bridge/Hyde Road. In those days we would ride our bikes up the towpath , behind the Pomona , and felt very brave heading out towards Stockport. I was there a few weeks back and it annoys me just how neglected and badly treated Gorton is. What could have been a lovely suburb is falling apart and despite the walk by the reservoir and the parks ,something is lost.
I remember a canal running under the bridge at Hyde Road/Reddish Lane in the early sixties. Didn’t ever know where it ended as it meandered around the back of Debdale Park and could only be seen easily from the upper floor of a 210 bus ! Never saw a boat on it, and after a few years it dried up and became overgrown.
@MashUp-ut6jx The road going over the bridge is Alston Road Gorton. The large house you can see to the right was Gorton Hall and is now the bowling green on High Bank and behind you to the right is the back of Abbey Hey School. The houses on the left are still there on High Bank but more houses have been built between them and the canal.
@chorlton4 Where it starts and finishes is in the title and description. It starts in Openshaw, goes through Gorton and finishes in Stockport. The pictures show the section of the canal through Gorton and Openshaw that is now filled in and is now a foot/cycle path. The section through Stockport has been built over and very little of it is traceable today. The "folk Singing" are singing about the demise of canals in general around the time these photos were taken. The photos are in order so you could walk the route and pick out some of the features to see how it has changed.
I lived in Gorton over 50 years ago. I used to Gorton Tank , and Sunny Brow Park. We were moved to Chorlton On Medlock- slum clearance.
Thanks so much for sharing. I was brought up on openshaw village from the early 80s. And knew the path as the yellow brick road. At 3.35 in looks like clayton in the background. I also remember the stonewall that went around.
I lived on Walmer street Abbey hey from 1980s to 2023, I always herd the stories of the canal in Abbey hey, walked down it many times but not as the canal, as the yellow brick rd, great video as I've never seen how the canal was thank you
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
This is great .i live near vana street school and attended it in the 80s. I walk over that aqueduct over the train tracks nearly every day. I always wonder how it looked back then. Thanks for posting😊😊
@cphawud8242 Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Did you play in the coal yard or Scrap yard behind the school. I never did Honest :)
Yep I played in the coal yard remember collecting coal in an old pram during the strikes. I also went to varna street crossing the bridge never saw it with water, shame . Love the canals and am fortunate to live close to one now
@@bertdingle
I lived in higher openshaw off louisa street
I'm sure you know this path very well with lots of memories.
I have lived in both Gorton and higher Openshaw in my time
I'm sure you will have walked this route many times.
I fell in the canal between the cemetery and Reddish Bridge/Hyde Road. In those days we would ride our bikes up the towpath , behind the Pomona , and felt very brave heading out towards Stockport. I was there a few weeks back and it annoys me just how neglected and badly treated Gorton is. What could have been a lovely suburb is falling apart and despite the walk by the reservoir and the parks ,something is lost.
@@stevensarson482 The council are great at putting new investment into Gorton but terrible at maintaining what it already has.
I remember a canal running under the bridge at Hyde Road/Reddish Lane in the early sixties. Didn’t ever know where it ended as it meandered around the back of Debdale Park and could only be seen easily from the upper floor of a 210 bus ! Never saw a boat on it, and after a few years it dried up and became overgrown.
It actually carried on through Reddish to Nelsrtops mill at Lancashire Hill Stockport.
Remember walking along it as a kid in fifties in Openshaw, but , just like all the businesses that used to exist alongside it long gone.😢
All the industrial sites alongside the canal are now housing. I wonder where all these people work now housing has taken over the industrial sites.
They flagged it in the late 1970s , which got stolen, so they had shale over it. As kids we called it the Yellow Brick Road. 😂
@damianleah6744 stolen! sounds about right :)
openshaw lad here born in store street 1960, i fell in that canal a few time collecting sticklebacks. then down to ancoats for a tetanus needle.
Wow, you survived falling in the canal and going to Ancoats Hospital.😂
The photo at 1:10, where was this/now?
@MashUp-ut6jx The road going over the bridge is Alston Road Gorton. The large house you can see to the right was Gorton Hall and is now the bowling green on High Bank and behind you to the right is the back of Abbey Hey School. The houses on the left are still there on High Bank but more houses have been built between them and the canal.
@@bertdingle cheers mate, I thought it was. I ride past there every day.
no real sense of where this canal started. or finished, just folk singing and still pictures,
@chorlton4 Where it starts and finishes is in the title and description. It starts in Openshaw, goes through Gorton and finishes in Stockport. The pictures show the section of the canal through Gorton and Openshaw that is now filled in and is now a foot/cycle path. The section through Stockport has been built over and very little of it is traceable today. The "folk Singing" are singing about the demise of canals in general around the time these photos were taken. The photos are in order so you could walk the route and pick out some of the features to see how it has changed.
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