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Vanessa Dixon
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Most of my videos are of the area around Ashton under Lyne, it's changing so fast that I want to capture it before it's too late, they also allow expats to see how their home town is changing. I also feature many videos from the Dumfries & Galloway area, this is where my 3x great grandparents originated from, these videos also allow people overseas to see where their ancestors also came from. The rest are of wherever I am at the time, my camera is always with me.
New Building 29 March 2019
The new building, now known as Tameside One is finished, the library and college have moved in, just the council offices and finally Wilkinsons to make the move, last but not least they can finish the Civic Square in front of the town hall. At the end you can see the ongoing construction of the new bus station.
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New Building February 12th 2019
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Street boarding has been removed on the Wellington Road side, building is due to open in March.
New Building 16 November 2018
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Externally the building is finished, internal fitting taking place with a possible finish mid January.
Ashton Town Centre New Building 22 June 2018
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Work continues on the external cladding.
Ashton New Building 4 May 2018
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Work on the building has now recommenced after the collapse of Carillion, Scottish building company, Robertsons has taken over the project.
Ashton Moss Junction North Upgrade 30 April 2018
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The junction is now finished and the trains running again.
Ashton Moss Nth upgrade 16 April 2018
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The signal box and signals have now gone and preparation starts to lay the new track.
Ashton Moss Nth Junction upgrade 14 April 2018
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The line is closed for 16 days while the track and signalling is upgraded for electrification, sadly the old signal box is no longer needed and is being removed, the signs have already gone on this first day of work.
International Women's Day, Ashton 2018
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Finishing the day with "Jerusalem." Sorry about the bumpy beginning, I'm getting used to a new camera.
New Building 30 Dec 2017
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More external cladding going on the new building and the new windows have now been installed in the former Water Board building.
Ashton Places and Tameside Landmarks Exhibition 2017
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Exhibition of my art work at the Central Art Gallery, Old Street, Ashton under Lyne.
Ashton New Building 12 Sept 2017
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A further layer of insulation is being added plus the brackets to attach the outer skin.
Ashton New Building 5 Aug 2017
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The building has now been topped and the windows are going in. The exterior of top three floors will be white and the bottom two glass.
Turner Lane Bridge Removal 15 July 2017
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Removal of the central part of the Turner Lane Railway Bridge.
New Building Town Centre Ashton u Lyne 7 Feb 2017
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New Building Town Centre Ashton u Lyne 7 Feb 2017
Ashton Town Centre Rebuild 24 Jan 2017
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Ashton Town Centre Rebuild 24 Jan 2017
Land Train, Ashton Christmas Market 10 Dec 2016
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Land Train, Ashton Christmas Market 10 Dec 2016
Ashton Christmas Market Carousel 3 Dec 2016
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Ashton Christmas Market Carousel 3 Dec 2016
Ashton Town Centre Rebuild November 2016
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Ashton Town Centre Rebuild November 2016
Tameside Council Offices Rebuild 29 Sept 2016
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Tameside Council Offices Rebuild 29 Sept 2016
Busk for the Homeless at Ashton Sept 2016
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Busk for the Homeless at Ashton Sept 2016
White Bridge, Ashton, Rebuild 26 Aug 2016
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White Bridge, Ashton, Rebuild 26 Aug 2016
Tameside Council Offices Demolition 25 Aug 2016
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Tameside Council Offices Demolition 25 Aug 2016
Grew up in Ashton not been back in 20yrs
We are so lucky to be surrounded by so much lovely countryside in Droylsden Manchester’s best kept secret that over people are only just now cottoning onto after all these years
I was born then and go to that school!
Notice no pot holes.
Samuel laycock was my high school.
My Father died in a car crash in1976 but i believe that i have family that ive never met in his hometown of Ashton!
Lived in Castle Douglas back in the 80s. Traveled this road to Dumfries many times. Great memories Thanks
Fuck the Scottish music. Racist Bastards
Oh yeah Masonic captain saw 16 / 17 year olds die. Banned from Annan. Richard Gid
Hi my 3 X great grandparents lived at Gravel Hill in 1851 as farmers. Their surname was Hall.
I left Dalbeattie in 1975, it was a nice reminder of the town which doesn't seem to have changed much. I enjoyed the video!
Im looking at buying somewhere to live near there. Nice video.
My dad was littles butcher
Omg..this is so strange..I grew up here
Started my training since 1978. Everybody said it was haunted poor ghosts have nowhere to live now
Howarth timber next to curzon ashton ust to sneak jn behind the train track haha..the primary school on the left and the shale playing area as we called it
Late 70s as akid on richmond street.we ,lived at 37 at friend from school lived opposite we played football all the tiime the mosque now was a church i remember a pub called ringo bells was where the firework shop is now. On the street corner near the maisonettes we played footbal, on there for hours..great memories...even when i go past today i still see it as it was then
I was so pleased when this popped up expectedly. I went to school in Penpont and my grandparents lived in Tynron and Thornhill. Many times in later life I drove those roads myself but have lived much of my later life down South and with the passing of my last relative in the area have not been back for some years. This brought it all flooding back. Thank you
It's where my daughter went to school
This is amazing, you simply drive round in Scotland and get 15k views, and I make videos of exotic destinations across the world and I'm lucky to get a hundred views, what is your secret?
We’ve lived on Lumb Lane since 2000 and absolutely love it 🥰
Starting at Josh whites little shop where we used to hang out at lunch time. We even bought our lunch from there. We could go round the side of the shop away from the road for a smoke.
Has it fallen down yet or is it a block of flats
Still there.
I always watch these hoping to catch a glimpse of my mum who passed away in 2013. She went shopping in ashton nearly everyday. So hopefully i will eventually see her xxx
I live half a mile from Daisy Nook.
I shopped there many times for all sorts of things
Many fond visits to this place. Will forever wonder what would emerge if they dredged the moat
What happened to the videos?
Indeed. This was my window into Ashton.
So many memories.
I used to manage Cable shoes there later to become Curtess. Happy times.
Doesn't look like that now. The only busy day is Sunday at the moment.
i went there in 63/64 was susan harvey then. It was only a short while I was moved there just on my last few months before leaving school
My happy place, the jewel in the crown of Wigtown shire 5*****
Started on GMAS 1979..remember the old hospital well..got to admit it had character..
i love scotland , scotland is beautiful.
When Ashton market was good now crap
Thanks for this Vanessa, I lived here facing the Bungalow from 1952, aged 5 until 1977, when we moved to Ronnis Mount. So many memories. It was a lovely street to live on. Farmer Brown used to bring the milk in a churn on a horse and trap when we first moved here, in later years we walked up to the farm to get it taking our own bottles. Sad to see the big Oak tree at the bottom of the Avenue has gone.
I was born here in 1971 not been back for many years but brings back lots of lovely memories of my Nanna
I'm from Dumfries. And I love their
Thanks for making and sharing this video Vanessa, it was a literal trip down memory lane for me as I no longer live in the Tameside area. I wish there were more videos of Ashton and Tameside from the 70s, 80s and 90s as so much has changed over the years. Its a shame there's not much in the way of visually recorded history. I guess with video cameras more common place and with almost everyone having a camera phone these days it makes it easier. Thanks for the memories though. 🙂
P.S Great music choice. Very nostalgic, storrs the emotion. Great video. 🙂
Just down Henrietta st from me but I have never been inside it.
I spent most of My childhood crossing the settlement as I lived just around the corner at No5 Broadway. Our back garden backed on to the cemetary , which was quite spooky. We used to dare each other to creep through the fencing as kids which would take you into the cemetary and up to the top end of Broadway as the road spiralled around itself. Anyway we always went to the Moravian church's Spring, Autumn and Winter Fayres as well as their Bonfire nights on Nov 5th. My Grandparents also lived at 22 Fairfield Avenue from the 60s until 1983, I spent many an evening having tea there with them , after school finished. The settlement was linked to the Avenue by raster spooky pathway with the schoolgrounds in one side and the graveyard on the other. I hated walking down it coming home from school in the winter time or at night as it just had one lamp at the top end of it and a small one in the middle, it used to scare me as a kid. lol A wonderful place to spend your childhood back then. It was/is a beautiful area. Lovely to see the grounds again. Thank you for sharing this video. So glad to see it being preserved.this way. 🙂 Just to add , to hear those bells chime, I NEVER thought I'd hear that again in My lifetime, it made me quite emotional and You got a photo of My "spooky" path too! The memories have come flooding back. THANK YOU!
My friend lived on Fairfield Road, opposite the entrance to the Square, one night her father was walking along that spooky footpath and bumped into a little old lady, she was wearing all black with a scarf over her head, he apologised and carried on but glanced back to see if she was ok, only to find there was no one there.
@@CrowhillCrazy That does'nt suprise me one bit. I was walking the opposite way quite late at night once and looked up at a window of the High school to see a very similar figure as you describe looking down at me, I did a double take and she'd gone! Spooky! We also had a few incidents at out house, disturbances shall we say, that caused my Mum to take us out of there on one occassion. And another which I slept through where it was so bad we had the then Priest from the church come and pray with us and performed blessings on the house. I'd totally forgotten about all this until last year. My Dad also saw something , the spirit of a little girl. I think the first time there was disturbances were when My parents were getting divorced and the 2nd was after My mother remarried and we didn't get along with our step father. We think that the spirit was tied into whether children(us) were happy or unhappy. Very strange occurrances. I wouldn't be suprised if others who lived in the area had similar tales.
@@ladyjennyanytime5195 oh wow, when my friends dad was a young lad during WW2 he and a friend got into one of the large Victorian houses on Fairfield Avenue, it was empty and had been for a while, they went upstairs to look at the bedrooms and heard footsteps coming up the stairs and ran into a room to hide, they heard the footsteps go into the room next door and walk around, they decided to make a run for it and as they passed the room they looked in and there was no one there, but they could still hear the foot steps, they never broke into any of the empty houses ever again. I heard that the old houses on Fairfield Avenue were well known for being haunted.
@@CrowhillCrazy Yes there were certainly many a spooky going's on in those old houses. We heard stories off of other friends . I mean they're steeped in soooo much history it's not a shock to me that they are haunted especially when you think people died at home a lot more back then, young children and the elderly alike. so it's not too suprising that spirits would imprint on a property or leave some kind of residual spiritual energy behind in the form of a ghost or something. I know ours at Broadway was definitely that of a child, she was harmless until she thought us kids were upset or in danger, then she'd raise merry hell to frighten the adults. It's funny cuz the last house I lived at had a presence and that was an old lady who'd passed there and she wasn't happy at me moving in. She was very noisy and would also flush the toilet. It didn't frighten me, I just apologised to her and said I'm not here to claim her home I was just a visitor and I meant no harm. She behaved from then on in. Things like that really don't frighten me AT ALL. As long as you're respectful, the dead aren't something to be frightened of I don't feel.
My daughter went to Fairfield High
I live near the Broadoak pub so I go in to Ashton a lot This building is one ugly monstrosity Thanks for your videos Vanessa, Tameside should pay you
I prefer it to the last one and I do like the garden and seating area on the roof of Wilkinson's.
Have you done anything from the Wood lane side?
Sorry, I haven't done anything over that way.
I hope Tameside council pay you for all these records.
What a wonderful lady you are, Ashton should pay you for all the work you do.
I hate this building
Thank you Vanessa, I have lived in Ashton for over 35 years and although I am not a native I wouldn't live anywhere else. I love the place.
I live in Ashton under lyne and let me say you have put together a wonderful video. I'm just sorry it took me so long to find it.
Thank you
@@CrowhillCrazy Thank you for taking the time and effort to do it. I have since posted it on twitter to a couple of American friends and they have enjoyed it. One is coming over next year to check it out. Yes I have told him about the changes. Once again, thank you.
Hi Vanessa, I am trying to locate what was the Waterloo Co-op No.1 Branch which was a grocery department that my grandfather worked at, any chance you may have a photo of that one please?
The co-op was the block of shops on the corner of Oldham Road and Store Street, there was a grocers, drapers and butchers, if you look at this video I did you can see the block at 4 min.03 onwards, the butcher's is the end one with the advertising board on the gable end, the building behind was the slaughter house, the butcher's building is the only one of the ships that still has some of the co-op facade, I've yet to find a picture of the shops when they belonged to the co-op, but I'm still looking. ua-cam.com/video/wfERagVgZFY/v-deo.html
@@CrowhillCrazy Hi Vanessa, from my photo it doesn't look like any of the buildings in the video; it wasn't one of the Ashton Under-Lyne Working Mens co-ops, but the "Waterloo Industrial & Provident Co-op Society Ltd - Grocery No1 Branch". I can't seem to put a copy of the photo on here....
@@shareeberry1648 email it to me vanessal.dixon@btinternet.com