Unearthed footage of Manchester in the 60s shows people wearing face masks and a roundabout in St Peter's Square
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukdirect to your inboxFootage of city centre life in the past has emerged - giving a fascinating insight into Manchester's past.Some scenes are quite different - like the sight of cars driving around St Peter's Square - but others have parallels with today, like the people who can be seen wearing face masks on Oxford Road about two minutes in.The threat the post-war commuters were guarding themselves against was air pollution - rather than the coronavirus pandemic which has emptied today's city centre - and many of the buildings appear blackened with soot in the footage.The footage was posted on Twitter by the account Manchester Past, and is an edit of a longer film produced by Talking Pictures TV/Renown Productions, originating from a.
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