Amazing video it was such a magical day for my home town of Coventry, everybody came to together to celebrate, such fond memories which seems such a long time ago now
I would have been on my way home from Wembley as a 17 yr old with my late father, happy memories , used to love going through all the back entries and then across pork chop hill as a kid to Highfield rd too. PUSB
Whilst he was filming that I would have been walking home down Red Lane and along Ball Hill, ie. just up the Walsgrave Road (the road running alongside of the park). I was there again the next day with tens of thousands of others to welcome our "journeyman team" back to the city that they made feel significant and important again.
By chance i was in Cov and this neck of the woods on Thursday. i used to live on Grantham St when a student - for two terms. I was researching what led to Blue Sky Way. Now i know! Next time pick up Charlie's crap please!!
Amazing that you captured that actual afternoon in Coventry. Check out Cov Kid's video marking 30 years since that day and all things 80s Coventry! th-cam.com/video/2E6fQCieNVs/w-d-xo.html
This vid is TOTALS WICKET! I wishings i was borned bag then but i not. I watchings da Cup Final dvd lots and lots. Sum teams will NEVER be winning da PROPER CUP ( licks Leices*er ) so wotever hapnings to us wiv dem SISU idiots thems can never be takings this DAY OFF JOY away form us! PUSB
Wrong. In the eighties Coventry was full of Irish and west Indian folk as well as many many Asians. Difference is, mostly we all just rubbed along. All this hateful fascist racism has been stoked up by the likes of Johnson (born in the US), Farage (non-British spouse) and all the other tinpot nationalists including those who are only first or second generation British from immigrant families. Thoroughly disgusting. Britain needs to rediscover tolerance and reject fascism.
great little video - back in the days when cars looked better, and when our relatives were still with us in the city
Amazing video it was such a magical day for my home town of Coventry, everybody came to together to celebrate, such fond memories which seems such a long time ago now
Great bit of footage... captures the atmosphere like only video can. And the footage of Far Gosford Street is fascinating.
I would have been on my way home from Wembley as a 17 yr old with my late father, happy memories , used to love going through all the back entries and then across pork chop hill as a kid to Highfield rd too. PUSB
Whilst he was filming that I would have been walking home down Red Lane and along Ball Hill, ie. just up the Walsgrave Road (the road running alongside of the park).
I was there again the next day with tens of thousands of others to welcome our "journeyman team" back to the city that they made feel significant and important again.
Great old footage - just as I recall it! Thanks for posting
Covs greatest moment and the Camera concentrates on a dog having a shit!
video thanks very much. x
Good video,remember it like yesterday
Class 🌈
Great vid thanks for posting,as a kid I had to go to wellsbourne market that day,shit don't it look old though look at all the motors
Fantastic video. 1980s TH-cam.
Excellent. Thanks a lot for putting this up.
Did your friend make any other videos around this time?
If so, please upload them. Cheers!
Great memories thanks for the video =)
This is when Coventry had factories and the football team had a stadium to call there own. All those classic cars, who would have thought it.
Yep my old man worked at the standard then the jag in Radford.
@bridesheadrev I suspect he has loads of footage of Coventry hidden away on tape though much of it is probably related to the railways.
By chance i was in Cov and this neck of the woods on Thursday. i used to live on Grantham St when a student - for two terms. I was researching what led to Blue Sky Way. Now i know! Next time pick up Charlie's crap please!!
Great camera work and commentary ... wonder who it could be? ;)
That's Nigel from moldey old doe number one in the charts,no him and remember Charlie the dog.
PLAY UP SKY BLUES
Coventry is a nice city in parts.
Pardon?
Seems like yesterday
rip Charlie dog
I hope you cleaned the dog shit up I was always getting it on my shoes as a kid in cov!
Yep be a big fine today, lol
Amazing that you captured that actual afternoon in Coventry. Check out Cov Kid's video marking 30 years since that day and all things 80s Coventry!
th-cam.com/video/2E6fQCieNVs/w-d-xo.html
@TheMoosehead99 :D
what beep
This vid is TOTALS WICKET! I wishings i was borned bag then but i not. I watchings da Cup Final dvd lots and lots. Sum teams will NEVER be winning da PROPER CUP ( licks Leices*er ) so wotever hapnings to us wiv dem SISU idiots thems can never be takings this DAY OFF JOY away form us!
PUSB
It's still a dump round there. In fact, most of Coventry is a dump!
Not a Cov lad then?
Before all the immigrants came to Coventry.
There were immigrants in the city then. Grow up you racist prick and just enjoy the video
Immigrants have been in Coventry for many many years, pre WW2. You are clearly an ignorant racist.
Wrong. In the eighties Coventry was full of Irish and west Indian folk as well as many many Asians.
Difference is, mostly we all just rubbed along.
All this hateful fascist racism has been stoked up by the likes of Johnson (born in the US), Farage (non-British spouse) and all the other tinpot nationalists including those who are only first or second generation British from immigrant families. Thoroughly disgusting.
Britain needs to rediscover tolerance and reject fascism.