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John Handley
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Orpington 1984 Chelsfield Lane, Devonshire Road,
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Video of Chelsfield Lane, Carlton Parade, Chislehurst Road, Devonshire Road and more 1984
Orpington 1984 video part 2- Driving around Orpington-Perry Hall Rd to Chelsfield Lane
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This is a continuation of the previous video, (Perry Hall Rd, Carlton Parade, Sevenoaks Way, St Mary Cray, Chelsfield Lane). More available including Orpington High Street I quite like the cars, especially the bubble car going past Derry Downs.
1984 Video of Orpington, Moorfield Road/High Street area
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When video cameras first came out, I thought it would be a good idea to record the local area, This includes Moorfield Road, Elmcroft Road, the old part of the High Street etc. I have more footage of driving around Orpington, subject to demand. Quality is a bit basic as you would ex[pect
Back in the days when the clouds weren't fake!
Hah, when the top of Angleasea road connected to Welllington Road and Lower Road before they put the blocks in. I used to live at 3 Angleasea Road, dad still lives there.
My dad used to help at the youth club in the old Wellington Rd school. I remember there were dismantled motor bikes all over the floor and hells angel skulls painted on the wall. A lot of the kids from the school moved to Ramsden when Wellington Rd school closed.
@lithic2 I didn't even realise there was a school in Wellington road, I remember the old church near the beginning. My grandad redecorated it back in the early 90s. Was the church the school?
Did you ever film the Computer Lesuire Centre next to the sport shop?
I don't think so, I can't remember either. We're they Moorfield Rd end?
@lithic2 yeah just up from church road, between peacocks and the pub that turned Mexican. Can't remember what it was called back in the day.
The units ate boarded up now I believe.
134 High St. maps.app.goo.gl/DFf1hTURp9CR3NWx6?g_st=ac First unit with grass fencing was the CLC.
Way before the invasion good days
The high street looks a far smoother ride than it is now
Still cant understand why the council narrowed the high street.. I remember the flowers middle of high street..so very pretty then..
The high street was really lovely then.NOW they have narrowed so very much .its horrid.. Orpington is still a nice town I attended school not far from Orpington
Well done on this one, certainly some classic cars here rarely seen now!
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Thanks for this, saw a more recent one on YT and cannot believe the changes especially Cray Avenue areas, certainly some classic cars here. Well done on this.
Anyone know when the tower blocks in Cray were painted cream, they were grey until then ? Both demolished in 2012
Sorry Dave, I don't know. I've been away from the area since 86. Hopefully someone else might know. Thanks for your comment, John
Christ, it dont look like that anymore! More like Lagos these days
See Lez Sez is there, lol....
There was an excellent model shop in the parade with Palmers. I am ashamed to say that we used to nick kits from the display cabinet that used to be on the pavement. Pike's Aquatics was a great shop too as was Cray Motorcycles and Palmer's. Used to get my short back and sides haircut in Andrew's in Chislehurst Road!
I was really hoping it would catch the Cricketers pub in this clip.
5:28 The pale blue Transit van carries the words 'Sandy Jones & the Honeys', advertising the girls' band that she ran a little before this time. This year - 1984 - I joined her trio as keyboard player, and we gigged for years all over London and the south east. We got together and married, settling in Strood, though often visiting her parents' house here. She passed in 2010, and is much missed by me and our two lovely children. Thank you for this video.
Oh my god !!!!! I’ve just seen our car. Yellow celiica
My Dad parked his Cortina in Devonshire road, we lived at 51 Broomhill. Wonder where they park the cars for the lane part of Broomhill now, there wasn't that many cars back then.
remember J Palmer bike shop got a Dawes disco from there
Wonderful ,, thank you
About 40 seconds in, think I spotted an Austin Princess - red - we had a green one. They didn't seem to last long. Nice little cottages - characterful. The High Street used to be great - there was a good discount book shop which was aways worth a look, and at least one fabric shop. Crumbs, just seen another Princess.
I moved to Kent in 1984. I worked firstly in Derek Cadde's, then in Len Stiles, on the High St.. As a musician, I also joined a band led by the young lady who was to become my wife. Her Transit is on the right here at 1:18, parked outside her parents' house on Chelsfield Road - the last one before the fields. She and her mum used to love shopping in the High St and the Walnuts, and we walked the dogs all over the place. Her parents died in the early 2000s and she herself passed only a few years later, after a long and difficult illness. These videos are very precious to me - it is the Orpington of the very year which is a significant 'moment in time' for me. Thank you for this.
Great to hear from you Kevin, I know exactly what you mean by a "moment in time". When I recorded it all those years ago I was aware I was recording history in the making. A video camera (and they were new back then) is a vehicle to seeing an average day as a precious thing. I'm glad I could help a kindred spirit.
Not a single person walking about - quite eerie
And not many cars either how much better it was in them day's I loved it life was simple then
Wow this is strange as a 24 year old that's allwags lived here 🤣😄
They go on about global warming now but these old bangers must have chucked out some serious fumes
Shit hole
Nice bubble car
I loved living in Orpington back then. Great to see it from that time.
how much nicer was the high street back then before the town planners got involved and added bits jutting out, narrowing roads, roundabouts etc
Old timber yard on the left as you went past the ponds at the priory...the yard used to back onto the ponds, then Jack Palmer's cycle shop on the left and Fabulous Phones on the right, where they sold lots of CB radio equipment and did repairs...aaah the memories
Yes, I remember buying wood there. You had to buy it by "the unit" which was their standard length. Yes and Palmers he always wore a buff workshop coat. And of course Cray Cycles with its row of secondhand BSA Bantams
Was that the place that used to have a sign that read, 'Get your ashphalt here'?!
Fascinating video as I've known the area for years. I always found the city-countryside border at 6.30 to be one of the most sudden changes in landscape - from open fields on one side of the road to tower blocks on the other.
Yes, the "Green Belt" of London. Hopefully the fields on these fringes with remain as fields despite being owned by property companies. Thanks for your comments.
I used to go to Footbury Hill school !!!
I live near here
Wag1 Alex
It’s mad init
@@snowfnbr7 man like ryan
1:29 my cousin lives on those houses on the left
I lived in broom hill road. Now live in Andalucia. Went to chislehurst school. Wow. Thanks for the memories
Yes we lives at 57 Moorfield Road opposite the school. I remember it catching fire.
I was at Chislehurst Road school when it caught fire, must have been about 1975/76 Got moved back to Footbury Hill school into the temporary huts.
What number Dianne ??
I live in st pauls cray
idiots missed the high street
Straight past my house in this one 👍 it's great seeing good footage like this
Excellent, I knew someone would be interested in it some day
Great video, growing loup on the Cray estate and Orpington in the 80s and 90s, I can remember all these old buildings and factory's.
Did you used to live near the top of Avalon road ?
Yes, I lived in Long Acre
@@johnhandley6406 Our parents were very good friends, we lived in Avalon rd and I would love to speak to you - and I also now live in Deal
Amazing coincidence - I recently asked on the local facebook group if anyone knew you
Avalon Road...had friends at number 40
Hello @John Handely , have you some recordings from Orchard Grove? Many thanks
I think so, I must put more on.....
@@johnhandley9041 ok, I’ll be watching. My grandmother lived there.
Great to see this. I moved away from Orpington in September '84, so this is fascinating.
Hi there, glad you like it. I used to work with Sylvia Kundu in the early 80's
@@johnhandley9041 With Stella!
@@mrinalkundu1521 yes ! and Dot, Laurette, John M....etc. I left in 1981 and still work, now in East Kent. Small world!
@@johnhandley9041 you online now?
@@mrinalkundu1521 you can email me johnhandley@hotmail.com
Wow haven't cars come a long way on 36 years!
Yes, I love the old Fords, Cortinas, Granadas and Escorts, they would be worth a fortune if they hadn't rusted away like my old Escort Mark 1
@@johnhandley9041 my very first car was a Vauxhall Viva Coupe 1976. It was quite old when I bought it.. but no rust was on it at all. (I just moved on to a newer car.) I should have kept it!. It was a really nice design and gold colour.. and it was driven around Orpingtin for a long time.. the old cars did have more charm.. today's cars all look the same!.
There some cars there that looked up to date, some of those cars in this were older models from the late 70's!
Excellent. Hope you have more of these clips, good to watch.
.....yes, I must put more on....
My Mum used to live on Devonshire Road very near to where you were filming !
Hi there, I think I've got a bit driving up Devonshire Road, I must try and put it on at some point. I liked that road and aspired to live there but I moved to the coast instead.
Hi Sajid, I've put on the Devonshire Road bit for you, I hope you liked it, John
Hi Sajid you about
@@danielasparo6341 not any more she had Yam Tseng ....
Next to Greeves furniture shop you can see an old church outline. As far as I can remember that was part of Greeves where you could go and look around. It must have been a old tin chapel long since closed. Jackson and Imms next door was apparently the old fire station, hence the large doors at the side.
My ex husband now passed away worked at Tip Top Bakeries when we first met in the early 1970's happy and nostalgic memories,also I lived in Station Road at two seperate places in the same road,your film took me back thank you
I remember visiting Tip Top bakeries in the 70s when I worked in the Job Centre. I loved the smell of the bread. We got some free samples, probably very frounded upon these days but hey that was the 70's very different from today.
Yes, I noticed in the video the Tip Top still has the loaf on the top of the tower, gone now I understand.
Where you selling your house, hence all the front garden shots?
No, I will have recently moved in, I was building the concrete steps hence the shots. After a while we made the garden really beautiful. My next door neighbour (left) also owned the other house next to him. It was a time capsule with gas fittings copper boiler and ranges. It hadn't been lived in for years.
@@johnhandley9041 always interesting to see how it used to look
Here is another video, mainly Orpington High Street and Moorfield Road. I used to live at No.57. The last bit may be a bit boring.
I lived at 25 Moorfield Road in 1984. Sadly, just a glimpse in this film, but you can see my Dad's red transit van outside. Thanks for posting.
No not boring
Thanks for this video👍 I lived at no.35, on the bend. Great memories.
Wonderful to see! I lived there until 1979 and went to Chislehurst Road School. Thanks for sharing this.
No problem, I must get more up
Nice to see Chiselhurst road school that I went to from 1952 to 1957