Demolition of Dukinfield 1969 - 1970

The Town Lane area, and Parliament Street in Dukinfield near Manchester are demolished in the early 1970s filmed by Elsie Roscoe. Dukinfield is now part of Tameside. The music is from The Dolly Suite by Gabriel Faure.

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• elsie
• roscoe
• dukinfield
• faure
• demolition
• tameside
• piano
• music

[MCchampers]

This is beautiful, and sad. A great choice of music to accompany the video. I'm so glad your aunt had the forethought to shoot this and pass it on to us. No matter what was built in place of this community it will never be the same. A taste of the England I remember growing up and will never forget.

[seftonwallet]

@MCchampers Many thanks for your kind comment.

[freethoughtmusic]

Thank goodness for whoever took this film, a great piece of heritage preserved. The irony is that I bet that the old slums were safer than what is now in their place. I would hedge a bet that the new development is now riddled with street-gangs and other social problems.

[seftonwallet]

@freethoughtmusic It was my late Aunt Elsie who filmed this.

That's her ladies dress shop at the beginning of the film.

She died three years ago age 89.

[dimb9]

why was it demolished?

[seftonwallet]

@dimb9 To make way for so called "re-development".

[gorteen]

We have put so much faith in 'progress' and though we have won much, like foreign holidays, warm houses and air-conditioning in our cars, something vital has escaped us. Something leaked from us when those buildings fell, and sometimes I resent the 'experts' who took neighbour from neighbour.

[GamesFrontiers]

This area's a lot more ugly since they demolished the old houses and shops. It lost its character. Same story all over England.

[TamesideOnline]

Interesting to see old parts of Dukinfield from before I was born!

[62Joanne]

I used to deliver papers to Parliament street around 1966, and that red crane you can see at the bottom of the street was always parked there then. Sad to think of all those people that are gone, along with there memories.

[davemckiernan]

This 'progress' is to demolish quality buildings and erect new, ugly, aluminium-clad ones, so that councils or foreign investors can charge huge rents and allow the service industry to boom. Meanwhile, manufacturing in Britain falls to an all time low and consequently we are no longer proud to be British. Couple this with the social problems, mostly brought on by the abolition of corporal punishment, and you end up with a very cold environment in which you are afraid to walk the streets.

[Sp33dDem0n1]

I bet they wacked up a load of tower blocks on the site lol.

[6969Wolf6969]

I love how they put that stick on the bulldozer and use it to knock the building.

That is sweet.

Total destruction.  Nice to see that old crap come down.