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I've lived in Gloucester all my life since 1959 and have been to the top of the cathedral its well worth a visit😊

great video, the drone footage was so still! what drone are you using?

Thank you! How lovely!❤

very very nice video

good video

Wonderful very interesting and informative ❤

Thank you for posting. It was such a wonderful day!

We were the two ladies in pink 7:13 !

Is that Zack MacLeod Pinsent at 11:49?

12:36 ayyye there I am in the green dress!

That is truly shocking to see that allowed to happen. For a building built in the 18th century like that, and having been a major landmark, it is shocking that the building wasn't listed, and that they were even legally allowed to demolish it.

Great video - well shot, well edited!

Absolutely beautiful 💜💜

Thank you. Really interesting

It's a well put together video but the actual gardens are not very colourful or impressive! Thank you for your efforts.

How sad, but alas, goodbye Air Balloon, you was a welcoming sight for a Londoners eye! I have been a regular visitor to Gloucester for the past 15 years and driving past the Air Balloon pub was always a welcoming sight for me because it signified the ending of my journey. I always wondered what it would be like to sit in their for a Sunday lunch as I read somewhere that the food was quite good. I wish I did now as I am quite nostalgic about beautiful buildings once they have disappeared from the landscape!

Why the F####NG MUSIC

Would any one no the name of the pink with a deeper pink splash flowers near the end of the video beside the pink hardy geranium I think its probably a hardy geranium but would love to know which one?

the good news is I would never do it, because I couldn't even walk up the bloody hill......and then you get jumped on by the rugby team

I'd forgotten that Morris! Great show, but the weather wasn't the best - everyone worrying about their shiny armour rusting in the rain.

I was one of the diggers at Crickley Hill just after I'd left the Sixth Form at Belper High School in the summer of 1979, returning the next year, lodging at the likewise demolished Ullenwood Civil Defence Centre, so the Air Balloon was one of the first places I visited at which I could legally consume alcoholic liquor - turning eighteen in July 1979 - which I would do on the long summer's evenings after a hard day's digging and an evening meal at the Civil Defence Centre, usually sat out in the Beer Garden so I may drop in Rubys when I'm on a mini-break this coming early July with my older brother as a sixty-third birthday treat, coinciding with the Diggers' Reunion on Crickley Hill, staying at the Royal George Hotel in Birdlip, so I could sit at those tables once again. From 2011 to 2019, with a rather failed return in 2021, I went to the reunions and I would usually walk down through the woods to the Air Balloon for old time's sake before continuing my walk back into Cheltenham, so I'm very glad I did so before it was demolished! Thanks for this video, Kate and for that information on the picnic tables....and also the historical background.

RV 620, Dublin Bus, (City Swift), UK 🇬🇧

I live in the near by Forest of Dean so I've been to the cathedral on more than one occasion, but I've never been up the tower. I'm glad i found this video to see what it's like.

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Brilliant video Kate!

Surely the planners got the road scheme wrong. Could have taken the duel carriageway half a mile away and kept this pub as part of a services area.

What a shame. Had some lovely meals and pints on the way to the M5 and home. 😢

One question. If the politicians and big business want us out of our cars, then why are they building so many more new roads? Why not put the money into repairing the ones that already exist? And, instead of getting rid of our history (remember the 'Rape of Worcester' where all the 'black and white' buildings were torn down to make room for those awful 'modern' buildings?), why not renovate them and make them homes for people? Homes are desperately needed - ones that will stand the test of time, not these awful new little boxes they seem to be building everywhere, all over the country on green belt land.

Im gonna say something that may be unpopular. The Tewkesbury medieval reenactment weekend is a dying festival unfortunately and theyve got no one to blame but themselves. The reason Everything is stupidly expensive (beer tent included) Traders struggle as its nearly £100 per meter to set up. Barely any Europeans reenactors came this year which was disappointing

The destruction of our historical buildings continues. I see the net zero scam is going well.

So not bieng content with annihilating our cities the authorities are now turning there annihilation towards what little beauty we have left well done Britain can't wait to see what it looks like in another 20 years 🙄🙄

Nothing lasts forever, they say, but this pub was a landmark and deserved its place up there. Well done for making this record. I hope that somebody salvaged the pub sign

great shame. lovely pub it was.

Another splendid video; well done.

great but sad for the people in thaat area

Great video :) Glad you put names on the areas. From the air, and with all that water, I found it had to tell what I was looking at.

Great video! - nice bit of work with a hosepipe at the beginning :)

I used to deliver food there until April 2022 I always thought it was a listed building ? Obviously not

Such a shame they weren't just made to move it a bit away from the new road. Bloody vandals, DfT!

Spent many an hour in here over the decades. Sad to see it go, but the Missing Link has been desperately needed for decades also.... Shame it could not have been saved in some way

Very nicely made video!

Suicide higher than ever. Mental health issues higher than ever. Social media destroying peoples lifes and abilities to communicate. The pubs coincidentally closing at alarming rates. sad times. Its ok though guys.. More mosques being built every single day 🙄

Yeah, who needs historical old pubs. It's more roads and cars is what we really need on our small island.....🫤

Driven past it a thousand times, usually at a snails pace, but time moves on and the new improved road is definitely needed.

Happy memories of Sunday walks from dog lane, then cider at the air balloon

Never envy a judges task. At events like this, it is mindblowingly difficult!

Nice video. I will make a trip next summer across the pond to go to the festival.

i didn't know what to be more amazed at, the beautiful Perpendicular tower or the length of the Tesco train behind it!! 😂😂 really though, marvellous video

O dear - I remember when quite a few of these vehicles were NEW!