Manchester City Centre - 1973

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  • Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
  • Various Manchester scenes in the rare film The Lovers
    Disclaimer : This video has been posted up to show the old areas of Manchester, the copyright is still held by the film-makers. If you think the copyright is breached please let us know we will take the footage off.

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  • @jeffreywatterson67
    @jeffreywatterson67 Год назад +16

    Who remembers placemate, Tiffaness, pips and rotters, and Belle vue zoo park.😊

    • @GNeuman
      @GNeuman 7 месяцев назад +1

      My gf had her handbag stolen at Rotters and I played there in the "Battle of the Bands" competition run by Tony Wilson. I don't remember but apparently The Stone Roses were in the comp too and they won that night, lol

    • @ericrawson7669
      @ericrawson7669 3 месяца назад

      ME! I went to them all!

    • @tonyoliver2750
      @tonyoliver2750 3 месяца назад

      I remember watching them shoot the scene outside the George Best Boutique. I must have been about 19.

    • @glovesoffofficial1382
      @glovesoffofficial1382 3 месяца назад

      Happy Days!!

  • @geoffedwards-tb4kp
    @geoffedwards-tb4kp 7 лет назад +13

    Halcyon days,damp on the walls ,so deep and black you had to decorate every 6months, pawn shop on a Monday,we was ok both parents in work,flared cords and bright purple y fronts!!Fly away collars and nylon shirts!!Ford Anglia or mini for mam,Cortina or Granada for dad,chippy tea on a Friday,Town on Saturday,watch the match.Nanas on Sunday for a roast, sandwiches and biscuits for tea and bleeding Harry seacom on songs of praise.(bless his local vicar singing voice).Still better than 80's.Mass unemployment,Hard drugs,depression,robbing the pawn shops,and cars,Gang violence,and organised crime,the break up of traditional families and privatisation.flared cords one week,shell suits the other,then the start of multi cultural, course work instead of exams to qualify,and last but not least political correctness.Progress ay,Oh yes and still every one from Coronation Street is from Yorkshire but depict life in Manchester.Hmmm.

  • @andrewbackhouse5091
    @andrewbackhouse5091 10 лет назад +23

    RIP Richard Beckinsale

  • @christopherdaly9384
    @christopherdaly9384 Год назад +4

    I remember the campaign 'Plant a tree in 73' ,Bob Greaves talking about it on Granada Reports!!🙃

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles 4 года назад +5

    Presumably the fairground/zoo scenes were filmed at the now long defunct Bellevue Park.

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles 10 лет назад +10

    Interesting, but I would I really like to see is archive footage of inside the Arndale Centre from the late 70s/early 80s

  • @PB.JACKSON
    @PB.JACKSON 5 лет назад +7

    Geoffrey Bubbles Bon Bon
    .

  • @3rk4u
    @3rk4u 6 лет назад +7

    remember the woolworths fire in 79, i think?,we could see the smoke rising from our street in Beswick.

  • @GNeuman
    @GNeuman 7 месяцев назад +3

    Amazing footage. Good old GMT with their 256 and 257

  • @michaelberry1028
    @michaelberry1028 6 лет назад +9

    And no Percy filth!

  • @fudgepanda1
    @fudgepanda1 7 лет назад +6

    It's funny seeing St. Anne's Square and St. Anne's Street and church. In August 1973 I started my first job a few hundred yards away in King Street. My weekly wage was £16.32 per week and out of my first month's wages I bought a rather fetching grey check sports jacket with huge lapels, plain grey trousers with big flares and a mauve tie that was as wide as my dad's trouser leg. Eee, them were t'days.

    • @vinnylo6566
      @vinnylo6566 5 лет назад

      This film 1972 actually.

    • @mistofoles
      @mistofoles 4 года назад

      Do you still wear the outfit ?

  • @johncostello3174
    @johncostello3174 Год назад +2

    0:18 That car park is now paved over and called trinity Square and the George Best Boutique is now a bar called 'Crazy Pedros'.

  • @scotia7326
    @scotia7326 3 года назад +7

    It’s not Manchester without Gene Hunt protecting the streets, I’m sorry.

  • @johnw2328
    @johnw2328 9 лет назад +9

    Manchester my birth city👻

  • @Hedgemist
    @Hedgemist 9 лет назад +10

    Richard Beckinsale was gorgeous.

    • @glamdolly30
      @glamdolly30 4 года назад

      Wasn't he just - died far too young at just 31. All that charisma and talent, gone. Tragic.

    • @heatherprince1659
      @heatherprince1659 4 года назад

      He sure was Gorgeous agree with you also 👍🌹👍❤️👌

    • @shamshirhussain8198
      @shamshirhussain8198 2 года назад

      His daughter is gorgeous

  • @mnd1955
    @mnd1955 7 лет назад +5

    I left Manchester that year to go off to university and never moved back. Still, this brought back a lot of memories. Thanks for posting it.

    • @Metrolivia1
      @Metrolivia1 3 года назад +3

      You have never been back since 1973!!! Wow you are in for a shock if you ever do return!

  • @patriciaodriscoll4958
    @patriciaodriscoll4958 10 лет назад +6

    absolutely wonderful pictures brings back memories

  • @bojack40
    @bojack40 4 года назад +3

    Ah, The Lovers. Soooooo innocent. And yet, many young people were like that. All those location shots give you some sense of the city. For the next forty years it felt only London was treated that way by filmmakers (in the UK). I think it has improved a little more recently, but there’s still room for improvement. To many generic ‘any towns’....

  • @bonnieandclyde222
    @bonnieandclyde222 Год назад +2

    I was lucky enough to see George Best play at Old Trafford, about that year with my Dad and brother, i was scared at age 14, walking up the cobble path with lots of men in work boots , but seeing George was worth it ❤

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles 7 лет назад +4

    Think the George Best boutique is now Crazy Pedro's bar/nightclub.

    • @glamdolly30
      @glamdolly30 4 года назад

      I wonder how long it actually traded? No doubt he pissed any profits against the wall. A self indulgent, lazy, arrogant fool who squandered his talents and behaved appallingly. His decidedly untalented son is a chip off the old block. Not half as good looking as his father was before the booze ravaged him - and old Calum's lost all his hair too!

  • @bluthebeast3132
    @bluthebeast3132 4 года назад +4

    Lol the time United got religated by City that famous Denis Law back heel.

  • @bollox21
    @bollox21 10 лет назад +4

    Love this video..used to go to Henry Barrie in St Annes Square for uniform :)

  • @stevejones7008
    @stevejones7008 6 лет назад +4

    Paula Wilcox. Man about the house lol

  • @heatherprince1659
    @heatherprince1659 4 года назад +2

    It's wonderful seeing these videos with Richard Beckinsale in🌹✝️ R. I. P. Lovely memories for us all and also his 2 daughters Samantha and Kate Beckinsale 👍😍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️👌

  • @Caskchap
    @Caskchap Год назад +1

    Great clip from a lovely film, how Paula Wilcox was gorgeous and so was Manchester back then.

  • @petek7822
    @petek7822 Год назад +1

    Christ, I started work at the Refuge in 1973 😂 And Paula Wilcox, still going strong.

  • @ericleach7074
    @ericleach7074 4 года назад +2

    I was madly in love with Beryl Battersby :)

  • @paulwild3676
    @paulwild3676 2 месяца назад

    The girl with the feather cut, is Susan Littler, who played Viv Nicholson in Spend, Spend, Spend. She sadly died very young. She was nominated for a BAFTA for playing Viv, so was headed for big success.

  • @stevesmith7997
    @stevesmith7997 Месяц назад

    Plant a tree in 73 and plant some more in 74! I did working for Manchester City Council Parks Department! I still drive past numerous Trees i planted and bore my grandchildren! thanks for posting loved it!

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles 4 года назад +1

    0:52 - Great Bridgewater Street - the building behind is the arrow sign is now a pub called The Britons Protection, not sure if it was then. Beyond the pub you can just make out the tunnel that leads onto Deansgate/Castlefield.

  • @bernardfender5147
    @bernardfender5147 Год назад +1

    He never met Percy Filth did he!

  • @davidcritchley3509
    @davidcritchley3509 27 дней назад

    Paula Wilcox and Richard Beckinsale in The Lovers.

  • @RobertKincaid-vq3hn
    @RobertKincaid-vq3hn 6 месяцев назад

    paula wilcox is married to Nelson Riddle jr known as BUD her father in law was a very successful arranger

  • @terryblueeyes
    @terryblueeyes 10 лет назад +2

    anyone got film of oldham street of the70s

  • @geoffedwards-tb4kp
    @geoffedwards-tb4kp 7 лет назад +1

    Good old days when the Mancunian race was represented by peaple from elsewhere,that back wards they have only tried to be authentic in the last ten years.

  • @vinnylo6566
    @vinnylo6566 5 лет назад +1

    I think its 1972 not 1973. I have this film on dvd.

  • @Chrisamusic1
    @Chrisamusic1 7 лет назад +1

    Ah, the old souvenir shop at old Trafford. Bought many a footy shirt from there. Compared to the shop now, that was like a market stall! BTW, Pauline looks gorgeous in this, and RIP Richard.

  • @garyt3039
    @garyt3039 9 лет назад +1

    Seen this first time around to :-) omg how time flies when your having fun a?..

  • @johnallen3297
    @johnallen3297 10 лет назад +2

    I remember them filming this...I was about 8 or 9. The film crew were encouraging us all to shout hahahaha

    • @EarlEBird-fz6yr
      @EarlEBird-fz6yr 3 года назад

      I remember being there too - holding your hand (again) :-)

    • @tonyoliver2750
      @tonyoliver2750 3 месяца назад

      @@EarlEBird-fz6yr I was watching them film outside the George Best Boutique.

  • @MrTSK27
    @MrTSK27 8 лет назад +2

    St Ann's Square..NO E..

    • @2011pmacz
      @2011pmacz 2 года назад

      No, if you wanted E, Oldham St was the place!

  • @annoldham3018
    @annoldham3018 3 года назад +1

    Is the zoo Belle Vue?

  • @margaretblack2399
    @margaretblack2399 4 года назад +3

    Oh wow that was belle vue fair and zoo use to go there as a kid

  • @73reider
    @73reider 7 лет назад +1

    The next development of old Trafford after these images were filmed was the demolition of the terracing seen at 5.19 and 1800 seats installed into a new stand named "L". But to me this was Old Trafford in its prime.

    • @harrybroughton4999
      @harrybroughton4999 7 лет назад +2

      Yes - interesting to know though the Scoreboard End they are sat in at the end has never since been demolished - that's one stand that's remained intact minus the terracing.

    • @FiveLiver
      @FiveLiver Год назад +1

      5:19

    • @vicgallimore6756
      @vicgallimore6756 Год назад

      Qqa0

    • @richardj2216
      @richardj2216 2 месяца назад

      No Leaking Roof lol

  • @yogihaughton7646
    @yogihaughton7646 8 лет назад +1

    I wonder if any of the crowd in these shots ended up attending Wigan Casino.

    • @fudgepanda1
      @fudgepanda1 7 лет назад

      My wife did, and she live in Middlesbrough at the time. They used to come down by coach.

    • @Julia-fo4tk
      @Julia-fo4tk Год назад

      There was a terrific atmosphere at the Casino. Does anyone remember the Bird Cage/Tiffanys in A-u-L? The latter had a Northern Soul night.

  • @davidwaterhouse2552
    @davidwaterhouse2552 2 года назад

    Richard Beckinsale looks like he could have been in Buzzcocks! dx

  • @SandywellFilms
    @SandywellFilms 10 лет назад

    Great to see this again. I remember being at the premiere of The Lovers during the Manchester Festival! More views of 1970s Manchester in my film "The Maltese Budgie" at ruclips.net/user/SandywellFilmsvideos

  • @vahidshahadi9817
    @vahidshahadi9817 2 года назад

    Bit of social distancing at minute: 3:34 😀

  • @nick8666-l5d
    @nick8666-l5d 4 года назад

    Could you really just stroll in Old Trafford like that back in the day?

  • @aniqakhanvlogs2232
    @aniqakhanvlogs2232 3 года назад

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @chauffeurdrivenbimbo5850
    @chauffeurdrivenbimbo5850 3 года назад +4

    2:30. Richard: "D'you ever get the feeling you've been somewhere before?" Me:"Yeah, Belle Vue. Luckily I was adopted by some Mancunians before it closed down".😂 Lots of memories in that video. 😏👍

  • @glamdolly30
    @glamdolly30 4 года назад +1

    Who cares about Manchester? I'm more interested in seeing old film of Richard Beckinsale, who died tragically young aged 31 in 1979. Places are just places, but people are utterly irreplaceable.

    • @johnhankinson1929
      @johnhankinson1929 Год назад

      many a mancunian does , who gives a shit about you ?

    • @ianmansbridge3646
      @ianmansbridge3646 9 месяцев назад +1

      Places can be haunted by the spirit of the past and those we have lost. As I walk round these days I keep getting the feeling that I am about to meet a departed friend. It is most uncanny.

  • @gzk6nk
    @gzk6nk 6 месяцев назад

    Apart from the footage wasted on a bleedin' football stadium, the rest of that brought back lots of memories.