8mm Cine Film Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester 1959

Filmed in Manchester City Centre in 1959 at Piccadilly Gardens. Later footage in Cheadle, Cheshire . See vintage cars, Buses, clothing, people in city, some old cinemas, roller skating in street and briefly, a hamster! (my Dad seemed to have a habit of finishing film rolls by filming pets!)

locations indexed below:

00:10 Piccadilly Gardens
00:12 Kendals (now House of Fraser.)
00:17 Sinclair’s Oyster Bar
00:19 The Corn Exchange
00:22 Victoria Station
00:26 The Old Wellington
00:30 Old Shambles
00:40 Piccadilly Gardens
01:06 Buses
01:08 Manchester Town Hall ( East side)
01:09 Bus to Cheshire
01:16 Belle Vue street sign
01:19 George and Dragon, Cheadle ( old road sign now lost)
01:24 Cheadle Cheshire
01:38 Withington hospital Manchester
02:05 Oxford Cinema, J Lyons Tea room
02:08 Tatler’s News Cinema (later Cornerhouse). Designed by Peter Cummings and completed in 1935
Oxford Road Station Approach, Manchester, M1 5NH
02:13 night time in city
02:28 family scenes (cigarette rolling, playing in street,
03:15 Gaumont and Oxford cinemas at night 44-50 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5EJ https://manchesterhistory.net/manches…
03:19 Roller skating in street, Cheadle.

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