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A very enjoyable one seeing the post-war reconstruction. I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s so I can recognise a lot. Always great to see proper Bristol buses and the bus offices in the Centre.

Has anyone else noticed the sense of community in those days? Everyone knew each other and there was always time for a quick chat. All that seems to have gradually disappeared over the following decades which I find very sad. I'm just so glad I was born and grew up in that era. Feel to have been a very lucky man.

I was born in 1952, I remember all these things! Looking back a these b/w images they like all photo's date us, I agree there were tough times but these were times when we weren't materialist, we understood our parents and grandparents lived within their means yet we never truly felt we were denied anything and if a time came when it was affordable we "might" possibly have seen it. One thing I do remember was in these times which constantly changed was people used to say the older generation didn't like change. When I look at these photo's I realize how much life has changed and how we all have adapted. It makes me wonder about the changes my Grandparents who were born in 1901-03 must have seen in their lifetimes. It makes me realize the reality of a comment I recall vividly "No matter how bad the times, when we look back these were always the good old days!" These videos make me so aware of that.

In the 50s no supermarkets our milk was delivered by the local farmer and his huge Shire horse

Thanks from New Zealand for posting these photos which have stirred many memories. My great uncle was Arthur Burchill who ran Renown coaches and my grandfather Sidney Bracey was initially a tram driver and later a bus driver working out of Staple Hill and Lawrence Hill depots.

went to speedwell school in the 80s love you stuff dave good work !

amazing i remember before wetherspoons and other companys it was a place to buy beds maybe kk bed centre ? grew up on acacia road some 40 years ago, a lot has changed for the worst sadly

The red mk 2 ford capri with black vinyl roof would be worth a few quid now if its still on the road 👍

Great video. Having just walked along the new flood prevention scheme path it was great to see what the place was like many years ago. Then IU watched your video for the Aust ferry where we walk all the time from a campsite on Passage road when there :) Keep up the videos

THEE, MOST COMPREHENSIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY, OF A LARGE CITIES URBAN CHANGES, THAT I'VE SEEN ON Y.T. EXCELLENT. ALTHOUGH I LIVED OUTSIDE OF BRISTOL DURING MUCH OF THE MODERN PERIODS COVERED HERE. MY DAILY WORK , OFTEN TOOK ME THROUGH AND INTO THESE ROADS; MANY OF THE NAMES , LIT A LIGHT I THOUGHT WERE OUT FOR EVER. THANK YOU.

Was the Beatles show recorded?

A before and after of bristol would look like a before and after of a post apocalypse. Amazing to see it so clean and colourful. No, half the shops are closed, bordered up, drunks, druggies and homeless everywhere (saw one who died from the cold once just lying there not moving, that was fun), shit literred streets, trash and grime on every surface. The galleries is an utter ruin. Bare faced corridors, empty shops, dead amount of customers, a mausoleum of what it once was. Itll be demolished soon to make way for yet more student housing as the city becomes just an expensive, bloated carcass of a city filled with nothing but gentrified, overpriced student accomodation with no local trade or investment. What a craptastic shitshow.

I was born in the 1960's in a semi rural village and still remember the rag and bone man riding around on his cart! One of my first memories.

5:30 George and Sentinels Children are still sworn ENEMIES to this DAY🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾

Some of the People TODAY you can swear they are Descendants of Prirate Captains....

He authorised parking fees in Raleigh Road and ruined my friends hairdressing business 🧑‍💼

Local architect and Bristol City Council Mayor George Ferguson buys one of the few remaining factories on Raleigh Road, the previous year (September 1993),

I also grew up in this location, worked in Imperial Tobacco offices when I left school 🏫. WD & HO Wills built factories in Bristol and helped the city in many ways, including as a major employer and a pioneer of worker benefits : Yes, WD & HO Wills built factories in Bristol and helped the city in many ways, including as a major employer and a pioneer of worker benefits: Factories The company built factories in Bristol in the late Victorian period, including in Redcliffe Street, East Street Bedminster, and Raleigh Road Southville. The East Street factory, also known as Factory No. 1, was designed by Sir Frank Wills and is now the Tobacco Factory Theatre. Employment WD & HO Wills was a major employer in Bristol, especially at the turn of the 20th century. The company was known for its progressive employment culture, which included benefits such as paid holidays, health care, canteens, and sports facilities. Tobacco brands WD & HO Wills produced many popular brands, including Woodbine, Embassy, Capstan, and Wills' Fine Shag. The company also made cigar brands, pipe tobacco brands, and Golden Virginia hand-rolling tobacco. Imperial Tobacco WD & HO Wills was a founding company of Imperial Tobacco. Wills Memorial Tower The Wills family also left an architectural legacy in Bristol, including the Wills Memorial Tower on Park Street. The factories closed in 1988, and some were demolished, while others were converted for new uses. The former Wills Building, for example, was converted into luxury apartments and reopened in 1999. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Factory😊

Look at the empty roads in comparison to todays traffic jams

Woolworths

The statue of Colston

The Young Princess Anne and the duke came to visit

Concorde ,

All the red telephone boxes

What an incredibly busy and interesting place. What a shame its gone, great collection on the video well done.

Lovely times. A shame its all gone now.

Great video, captures the times. Tory and Labour crimes closed these places down. Very sad times.

Nice to see a new one. Some good stuff. Pity the trams are gone ( I think). Thank you Dave

Where have you been young Dave? So good to see an upload from you. Brought back some memories for me. We lived in Kingswood when we got married (after two years in Ashley Down) and we had our wedding reception at The Linden Hotel…very posh. Anyway Dave, I hope you’re well, Happy Christmas 2024. 🇬🇧

I remember Dad taking me into the bowling alley before it was pulled down to make way for the new precinct.There was a milk machine and a squash machine with a paddle going round and round.Must of been 1968/69.

I've been going to Aust beach for about 15 years looking for fossils and have seen quite a change just in that time, so I found your knowledge and memories really interesting, cheers.

Strange seeing people hanging out along the portway. I wish it could be developed to become something like the watershed. Its a shame to have nothing there besides traffic.

Tory crimes

I remember these days.❤️

I think Eric Clapton played his final gig with the Yardbirds at the Corn Exchange.

This was an excellent model shop. I think my early models came from here.

I had that set of decimal coins. On the Portway for the arrival of SS Great Britain. Enjoyed the Rovers promotion with Smash & Grab.

Even though I was in short trousers then, great memories especially proper Bristol buses and the Rovers ground.

Remember when the "Blue tits" would steal the cream off the top of the milk before people got the chance to bring the bottles in off the doorstep? Wow! I didn't expect that last picture.

My dad used to drive one of those BRS delivery vans around SOHO sixty years ago. I got to go with him a couple of times.

If we still had these today, the supermarkets wouldn't do the crap business they do now with the food, that isn't food. It was real then.

My dad Alec was born in Bristol (Westbury-on-Trym) 1907. I imagine he will of been familiar with much of these photos

i went to russell town school from i think 1960 to 1967

Carry On Sergeant at the Kings Cinema Old Market, and What A Whopper ! at my local cinema the Rex in Bedminster. Remember going there for Saturday Morning Pictures when we were kids, I think it was 6d to get in. Very interesting video looking back, I lived in Bristol for 24 years up to 1980. Remember nearly all those places in the video, and our first TV set from Radio Rentals. Also the big flood, and I think that Stadium pic in the floods was Eastville, a hundred years of sport, football, and greyhound racing for almost 70 years, also speedway. Closed down in 1997, and now an Ikea superstore ! Stadium was next to a gasworks and in the early days remember that smell of gas fumes. We lived in Ashton Vale and Southville.

Wish those rag & bone men were still on the streets. I have to pay £5 for each item my council collects these days and the limit is 5 at a time! We got milk by horse cart and then electric van, and bread delivered, with a veg and grocery van we queued up to. The new delivery driver with our bread found he and mum came from the same Welsh village, as he recognised her local accent. She hadn't lost it in 30 years and 20 of them in London!

You mentioned the French onion man, I remember a French onion man visiting Beckenham in South East London, he was treated with derision and unpleasantness by the right wing working class of Beckenham who used to..‘knock around’..the pubs, a pity for such a potentially nice area.

I was born in 1958 these bring back memories we did not have a lot of money but we were happy we kids went out on our bikes to the local park and spent hours playing out fun times

Great work!

Great video! I live on Herbert Street and it's incredible to see how much Whitehall Road has changed over the years... It's definitely used to be prettier

Horrendous visit to dentist in middlesbrough strapped to big brown leather chair and gas mask forced onto me....still traumatised😢