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Me too :) I try to name all my sources so people can see what's genuine in this brave new world of AI that's confusing everything, so I'm pleased the algorithm chose to show you my video and it was nice to hear this. Thanks for watching, and Happy New Year!

Thank you for watching, and your kind comment. Happy New Year!

It can be tricky choosing music but I thought this track was great and suited the photos. Thanks for watching, and for sharing your memories. Imagine the sights you saw on the bus trips, and how different the same route looks today!

@@localhistoryvideos It use to take 3 hours by bus. Now it's not even 90 minutes!

Yes, you are right about the doubled images, well spotted - they were from stereographs. (For anyone reading this who is unfamiliar with the term - A stereograph is composed of two pictures mounted next to each other, viewed with a set of lenses known as a stereoscope. A stereoscope is a device for viewing a stereoscopic pair of separate images, depicting left-eye and right-eye views of the same scene, as a single three-dimensional image.) But because they were quite faint, I left the one on the left hand side in its normal appearance so people could see what they actually look like, and then colorized the right hand side. This helped make some of the details stand out a bit clearer.

@localhistoryvideos I couldn't think of the name. I had a stereo viewer a long time ago. It used circular cartridges with transparencies which were quite popular at one time.

It astonishes me how construction in the late 1800s quickly went from basic wooden buildings to beautiful tall buildings made to last a century. There was so much built with real civic pride and we should cherish what's left. Thanks for watching :)

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It's tricky to get about some of these streets by car now, especially to find parking - taking a bike is a great idea!

Oh wow! I wonder what they'd make of Penzance now, even though so many of the old buildings are still there?

Unfortunately TB took its toll on two of the family whilst living in Alverne Buildings they are buried in Penzance. One was born in the cottage and survived.Thank you for putting the photos on TH-cam.@@localhistoryvideos

That's such a special memory, what a nice thing to do with your grandmother

Thanks for alerting me to this. I think I'll have to pull the video and redo it. I appreciate the heads up

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Yes, it's definitely a mixed bag that each generation gets. Thanks for sharing your memories...old photos only go so far in showing us how things were so it's always interesting hearing what life was actually like back then

It's difficult to strike the right balance between too fast and too slow depending on who is watching...especially as it's already 5 minutes. Perhaps I need to go back and make two or three slower videos. But I have good news - all of these photos are on my website. If you head to localhistoryvideos.com/portland-oregon/ you'll find them all there. I hope this helps

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It really is a good trip, and thoughtfully designed for all ages

It's difficult to strike the right balance between too fast and too slow depending on who is watching. But I have good news - all of these photos are on my website. If you head to localhistoryvideos.com/portland-oregon/ you'll find them all there. I hope this helps

I've changed it to another track, which will update sometime today. Still Classical though, apologies if that's not your thing. I agree with you about the vehicles, it's just a shame we can't really hear even on film just how noisy they used to be

It's difficult to strike the right balance between too fast and too slow depending on who is watching. But I have good news - all of these photos are on my website. If you head to localhistoryvideos.com/portland-oregon/ you'll find them all there. I hope this helps

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Much appreciated. Thank you for watching!

Yes there must be some around somewhere given it was the 1970s, but I haven't found any. Perhaps in an age of expensive film and development costs it was considered too expensive to use any of the shots on a new building. I think people notice change more and think it's worth recording when they see it disappear, but perhaps with everyone walking about with mobile phones they'll be more pictures of buildings going up now.

Ha ha that's so funny :)

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Remember all the birds that lived on the dump ponds next to IKEA where Aldi and the new Barker and Stonehouse is now? Seems incredible now that little area was turning into a mini nature reserve in such an unloved spot.

True for some things but others needed changing. It's a shame we can't pick and choose to keep the good bits we liked. Thanks for watching, I really appreciate it :)

Sounds like a few great tales to tell the grandkids in future years :)

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We didn't have a car when I was a child, and looking back it was probably very tough on my mother carting children and groceries around the streets before walking to an evening shift of manual labour. But in a street where hardly anyone had a car, it meant we could all safely play ball games outside, with the biggest danger being the muck left by roaming dogs. The same street looks very cluttered now with all the vehicles jammed in, and the children are nowhere to be seen.

@@localhistoryvideos UK kids now are being shown that to “stay safe” is to stay indoors or be inside a 2-ton SUV. Holland got it right prioritising safe streets over cars giving children early independence-what they lost from car dependency they regained, we just lost…

Thank you for sharing about those happy times up here. A lot will have changed even since you last visited, some of it for the better, but those precious childhood memories always stay with us.

Wow, that's class. Hopefully be back soon pal, great little town our Blaydon.

@@Blaydoner I will just have to be happy with my memories in my eighties now . I would love to meet my heaps of cousins for the first time . Facebook is handy . 👍

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It's difficult to know what the solution is when online shopping is taking over - except keep shopping locally where you can. Otherwise it will just get worse :(

That's very sad to hear - let's hope the decline stops and things start to improve

Some of them looked like they'd give a hefty right hook if you annoyed them though :)

Thanks for watching! Yes, I had a chat with the ladies working in the library, who clearly loved their job. They had to carefully check and clean each and every book, which takes weeks to do!

Thanks for watching! Yes they were different times and grand buildings were a great source of civic pride. It's easy to overlook some of these remaining gems scattered across the town and cities that were so important to the Industrial Revolution.

Thank you for watching, and your kind words!

He was an incredible photographer and deserves to be better known. What insight to have realised that these images of everyday life were worth preserving.

All the old pictures of North East England are fascinating. So much has changed beyond all recognition.

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