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Amazing video mate,proper interesting, so much wasted space in that station if it was in London it would never still be left to decay, cheers for showing it

I lived in Salford all my life and at 56 it blows my mind that these things are still here out of sight, it literally is a forgotten world right under our feet, just amazing...

Back in the 1990s I worked for British Rail, mainly as a signalman in the Manchester area. Up in the buildings were the actual signalling school where signalmen (signallers) were trained. Also in the upper station buildings were the AMI's offices (Area Movements Inspector's) & admin etc. Back then as a member of staff you could just have a look & wander around downstairs (which I sometimes did) but sadly never took a camera. I understand that in the 1940 'Manchester Blitz' the Manchester Victoria A.O.C. (Area Operations Control) office was more or less destroyed in the Luftwaffe bombing, so the railway authorities of the time hastily moved the control office quickly underground by utilising the deep level space below the station during the WW2 era. I mainly remember the area beneath the station in the 1990s mainly being used for ad hoc storage of low value items & archive & detritus etc. At one time there was also the fibreglass front from the other end of unit 142059 that was written off at Liverpool Lime Street on the 5th October 1991, apparently I understand that there were some (short lived) plans to use the surviving 'good' undamaged cab end as part of a train driving simulator... that soon died a death & was never used, although I believe that the cab end still exists & is now in a collection somewhere on the Fylde. Victoria was once a much larger station, consisting of 16 platforms (& a siding road so technically making it 17 platforms). The area of what was platforms 1 to 10, (the area that is now mainly used for the Metrolink) is predominately built on the site of a deconsecrated cemetery consisting mainly of cholera victims, when the station was enlarged in the 1890s, the dead were apparently exhumed, moved & reburied in Manchester Southern Cemetery. The dead were moved out so that the trains could move in. Despite the area being supposedly cleared of bodies, human remains were found during redevelopment works in the 1990s & as recently as 2013. I wonder just how many people realise that a large part of the Manchester Victoria station complex is built on the site of a cemetery. There were also test bores sunk in the early 1970s as part of studies to build the 'Pic Vic' link, a scheme that would have seen Manchester Victoria get another two 'deep level' platforms located in tunnels deep beneath the site of Walker's Croft cemetery & in tunnels bored under the River Irk (these would have been Manchester Victoria 'deep level platforms). The 'Pic Vic' scheme was cancelled in 1977, although an empty concrete box void still remains to this day long forgotten about & located somewhere beneath a retail unit in the Arndale Centre that had it been used it would have formed part of an underground 'station box' for a station to serve the Arndale (I think that it was to have been called 'Royal Exchange & Arndale). A testament to a Manchester Underground that never was, had it happened it would have no doubt seen Manchester's heavy rail network being something like Liverpool's "Merseyrail", although the Pic Vic was to have been overhead electrified at 25KV AC, with services being from Bolton (via a reopened link from Bolton to Radcliffe) where it would meet the then existing Bury to Manchester line in a triangular junction format. In the area of Queens Road the Bury line would have left it's present alignment to go underground in a new tunnel beneath tunnelling beneath Cheetham Hill Carriage sidings, the River Irk the city centre & Piccadilly station to emerge somewhere in the Ardwick area where it would then join up with the existing network. The only bits of this scheme to ever really get built were .. The new Bury Interchange station & the 25KV AC electrification of the line as far as Hazel Grove. Had the Pic Vic scheme took place then stage one of the Pic Vic scheme would have probably seen a pattern of services running from Bolton/Bury/Hazel Grove & back etc. Later on I worked on the engineering planning & engineering liaison side of British Rail & was told that back in the 1970s the people involved in the planning & civil engineering of the Pic Vic scheme & in particular the major projects team had to sign the official secrets act due to having to know about the exact location, depths & intricacies of the top secret cold war 'Guardian Underground Telephone Exchange'. The Pic Vic scheme had to be constructed in such a way as to completely avoid & thus not impact upon the guardian network, so people who weren't in the know were somewhat puzzled as to why the Pic Vic tunnels had to be at such a depth & take such an odd circuitous route, the people in the know were sworn to secrecy & couldn't say why. At 11:48 is a signal box train register book (looks like it's from Ashton Moss North signal box) As for the photo at 23:29 the guy in the photo looks like Arnie Furniss (a former Woodhead route/Guide Bridge guard & later train driver).

Locked and loaded 😂👌🏼 Just discovered your content, fkn love it 💙

Hey I'm new to your channel, I've been a fan of Fred Dibnah for several years & like your content. I've lived in Australia 🇦🇺 for 44 years but I was born in Bradford 1972

My sister was a trainer there in used to go there all the time love visiting the new puppies riding with Ernie on his huge horse and cart my sister brought one dog home they were going to put down. Sure side sandy after my moms food and all the love we gave him the original owner asked for him back to breed but he had also got his speed back great memories of long ago early fifties

Used to go explore that cemetery years ago it was overgrown then but very interesting, I always remember seeing the grave of a ww2 air force man, just stayed with me ( at least I think I remembered that) Eccles

Wonder where billy is now

My Grandparents Clara Buckley and Thomas H Ratcliffe married in St Thomas Church in 1917. They lived in Pendleton before they relocated to Leeds due to Grandads job. My Son was a Student at Salford University, his halls of residence was in the areas where my Grandparents lived with their parents, life differently did a full circle with my family.

Just checked Edgehill Close on Google maps. street view . Looks like they’ve all been fixed up now.

Is it still there or has it been demolished completely?

Hia Clarky! Just checking in to say ello! I imagine you're busy with your baby boy?! - well,not so much a baby now I expect?! They're on i pads by 1yr old these days! 😂 Hope you're still going to carry on the channel at some point? Anyway, take care mate...stay well 🤍

Cool 👌

Just rewatched this… still can’t believe such an iconic venue disappeared to nothing and after 6 years it’s still nothing!

There’s beauty in everything

Where is this place I live in moston

It’s getting built back up!!!

Wow brov, awesome 👌 job, on the vlog....get it with the handles....shame the estate is gone aswell.....yeah granted, was proper lively....but some good people on here you know.....massive respect 🙏 🫡

I enjoyed that thanks guys that laughing was brilliant made me laugh!!

Anyone know why they stopped uploading? Assuming the channel is completely inactive now 😢

oh my jesus! i am cryin with laughter!!!!

Hi Clarky, i have been binge watching your vids now for 3 days since i discovered you, (just top class vids btw) i have had my heart broken so many times seeing beautiful buildings, with so much history, so much history...about to be torn down, this made me sooooo happy to know that someone cared enough to save some wonderful places (especially this one, as the comments bear out how amazing a place it was to hang out) I feel just great, and i know i am late to the party, and also i have never been to manchester or surrounding areas, Fanbloodytastic mate!!! <3

We got married here on 2nd June 2012 - totally unaware it was destined to close shortly after. Beautiful place with lots of memories. Such a shame it's now gone.

Omg! i could spend an entire week in that antique shop, and still not want to leave!! Fantastic mate! or as you might say..'Mint!' :)

Wow! what a fab building! What a shame its being left to rot like that! :( But very glad you were allowed in to document it, Thanks for showing us :)

Did you overlay that sound of a woman crying at 58.45 ? it goes on for a while

That was a quality explore! Your editing skills are superb,and i LOVE your enthusiasm, glad i found you! Subcribed!! :) Keep up the great work!

Found it! Good to see it inside. I imagine old Fred Dibnah having had a few pints in there when he still lived with his mom down the road. I recently saw his landy at the collery museum and met his daughter and Alison.

Have you guys been in the old Churchill pub near Burnden Park? I've been past it and it looks really interesting. Especially with the little street down the side, and what seems to be an old shop with a bay window and all.

First time watching you, and what a laugh. What you don't know is even better than what you do ! You are just out filming and having a laugh. No need to tell you what everything is as the comments do this. Cheers lads

Love this need a part 3

Bolton is really going to pot isn't it..

Ooh what happened to you whatever happened to me what became of the orrible people we used to be

Is that cannabis

Dilapidated poo hole

Fred also built the front wall that still stands today

Maca is the lad you need to find the best spots.

The Sculpture is by an artist called William Mitchell 1925-2020. There’s some good work of his Coventry.

The street has never looked this good. Being from manchester myself i can honestly say Coranation st is absolute turd and should have been canceled 30 years ago. Love seeing this depressing tv show like this👍

Just watched village of the dead in stockport, brought back memories. I havent lived in stockport since 1996 but i do miss it. Now i live in dominican republic but its not the same

The smoking ban has a lot to answer for.

11:47 LOL mothers life im pretty sure i wrote that 😂 i was with my sister when i was there (we tend to do a bit of exploring too) Moving swiftly, regarding the question i wrote, from what i remember years ago there was loads of graffiti in that place and others close by saying RIP keith everywhere litterally everywhere and me and my sister have never got to the bottom of it and who keith was or how he died plus the relation he had to these places. Interesting. Anyways it was pretty cool to see my writing on some random dudes vid haha. Glad i found this channel 👍

Mint stuff 👌

I had to go into the cafe to read their gas meter once. I walked in and everyone was off their heads! They were all just laughing at nothing. Just in their own little world. Really funny. I also used to workout in the Gym for a while. They had good equipment, and saunas. I remember Stockport Village was marketed and promoted quite a lot, but its ended in detritus. Ah well, shit happens.

I lived in South Langworth Road in victorian terraces 1981 came they did the same under the slum clearances. Communities stolen and childhoods destroyed.

Went in for a quick pint at diner when working at brooke bond tea trafford park in the day sad but hopefully restore wil ldo it justice

If it werent for the Empire the industrial revolution couldnt have happened. Stop hating on immigrants! Theres no need.

It was a more than decent boozer. I used to love it back in the day.

WHO's running this.

You should also check out story of The Top Story Club in Bolton, The Top Storey Club was a nightclub in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It achieved notoriety for a fire which occurred on 1 May 1961 in which 19 people perished. It was situated near Diamonds lap dancing club, above the river Croal. (In the direction you were pointing in at 25:30), 🇬🇧😎👍🏼