What are you watching on youtube right now?

Not really watching & not really on You Tube but if you go onto the website "Britain from above" you can view Aerial Photographs from the late 1920s through to the 1940s and I find it fascinating,
Just been looking at Aerial photos of the Wythenshaw & Benchill areas (where Mum & Dad grew up) from the early 1930s and they are just starting to build the new housing estates, most of the land is still fields but they are also just building the princess parkway road,
Its best if you do the free sign up so you can zoom in on the photos, sorry if its not the right place to post this but I am sure some people will be interested :-)
 



Ah; memories. My old stomping ground. Spent my first 10 years on Claremont Rd, near the junction with Broadfield Rd. From dec 1962 to mid '73. A completely different era. Yes it was a poor area, no point denying it. But there was a sense of neighbourliness (made up word?) that I haven't sense on my occasional visits back there. Society has definitely changed. Rose coloured glasses? I don't know; maybe.
 
Just seen "Looking at Lowry with Timothy Spall."
Excellent actor going around the Lowry gallery looking at the paintings and offering typically interesting opinions.
The video's from about five years ago, 25 minutes long. Actor and artist both among my favourites.
 
jimharri said:



Ah; memories. My old stomping ground. Spent my first 10 years on Claremont Rd, near the junction with Broadfield Rd. From dec 1962 to mid '73. A completely different era. Yes it was a poor area, no point denying it. But there was a sense of neighbourliness (made up word?) that I haven't sense on my occasional visits back there. Society has definitely changed. Rose coloured glasses? I don't know; maybe.
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Not 'rose coloured' at all! I remember these streets as a kid, so much so, I was smiling as an automatic response! It just looked the same all over from Moss Side to Longsight! Seeing the streets/ grass bits being one big rubbish tip is a particular recall!

For me, though, alongside these prevailing memories of poor unison was the threat of 'NF' blatantly in our faces!
 
Bigga said:
Not 'rose coloured' at all! I remember these streets as a kid, so much so, I was smiling as an automatic response! It just looked the same all over from Moss Side to Longsight! Seeing the streets/ grass bits being one big rubbish tip is a particular recall!

For me, though, alongside these prevailing memories of poor unison was the threat of 'NF' blatantly in our faces!
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Yeah; there was a nasty atmosphere at times. The NF on one side of the fence, and the Anti Nazi league on the other. But it was still, in my opinion, a more "friendly" time.
 
mexico1970 said:
An accident waiting to happen? The size of these two stomping around a house that has rotten wood as structural integrity.

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I can't get over that it was about £750!! Sure, it's about a £150 - 200k refurb for a (did he say a 6 bed?) house, but I still think that's some great market value, depending on the area, of course!
 
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