a tour around Northampton in 1963, showing the wonderful shopping centre, market, the new housing estates, factory's , and recreational facilities,everything you could hope to find in an up coming town.
Into my heart, an air that kills. From yon far county blows. What are those blue remembered hills? What towns, what spires are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain. The happy highways where I went. Can never come again. My hometown, the town I still love. In 1963 the year I was born. I now live in Cornwall, far away from a town that is not even a shadow of it's once thriving self.
All mid-sized UK towns and cities are the same, all rotten from industrial death, incompetent public financial management and mass immigration. Northampton isn't the worst either...
Thanks for posting, much better days and 2 years before I was born. but it isn't somuch different from my earliest memories. if we vote correctly we could get it some way back to the olden days.
Yes I was 14 and living in Northampton then. Why is the town centre now dead when the population has doubled? We should find the answer so that it’s not repeated somewhere else.
council and other related authority: we call it moving with the times, progression and well-being general public: we call it destroying a once fuctional town with rural sights and some outstanding buildings, public transport that worked and didnt bail out at 10 bays (north gate bus station) and not 1 but 3 train stations (st johns street and bridge street), high street shops that were practicle and of course a thriving market.
Compare those streets to today.. most front gardens gone, paved over for car parking, and the streets themselves, cars nose to tail, blocking footpaths.. Very few had cars back then. Now it’s at least 2 per household. These were the last few years..before ‘multiculturalism’ & ‘entitlement’ took over.. not for the better, sadly.
Into my heart, an air that kills.
From yon far county blows.
What are those blue remembered hills?
What towns, what spires are those?
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain.
The happy highways where I went.
Can never come again.
My hometown, the town I still love. In 1963 the year I was born. I now live in Cornwall, far away from a town that is not even a shadow of it's once thriving self.
Take a look at it now!
What a lovely place it was and as you say look now, crap hole 😢
@@liveanadventure429Move?
@@MartinHammersley oh yeah it's that easy
All mid-sized UK towns and cities are the same, all rotten from industrial death, incompetent public financial management and mass immigration. Northampton isn't the worst either...
Thanks for posting, much better days and 2 years before I was born. but it isn't somuch different from my earliest memories. if we vote correctly we could get it some way back to the olden days.
I was seven years old in 1963 and remember the town just like that.
Wow... When Northampton "Market Square" still had a Market!
Nice.❤
Not without it's problems then I'm sure, but in comparison it looks like it was thriving, especially the town centre.
back when we had a market, its a dump nowadays
The markets back and it looks great. Come check it out Mate
You can walk in the town centre and not hear any English spoken at all.
Thank god some people still visit the town centre then or there would be literally no one there at all. Maybe us Engliah speakers should use it more.
all turned to shite now, very depressing..
Yes I was 14 and living in Northampton then. Why is the town centre now dead when the population has doubled? We should find the answer so that it’s not repeated somewhere else.
The tories
Immigration
We want our town back! Remigration now
K.
Some of these comments are a disgrace. Id like to think Northamptonians back then were not quite as ignorant and dumb as the ones commenting here.
council and other related authority: we call it moving with the times, progression and well-being
general public: we call it destroying a once fuctional town with rural sights and some outstanding buildings, public transport that worked and didnt bail out at 10 bays (north gate bus station) and not 1 but 3 train stations (st johns street and bridge street), high street shops that were practicle and of course a thriving market.
Wonderful to see immigrant free.
You think there were no immigrants in the 60s? Not very bright are you.
Not many asylum seekers how bliss
Compare those streets to today.. most front gardens gone, paved over for car parking, and the streets themselves, cars nose to tail, blocking footpaths.. Very few had cars back then. Now it’s at least 2 per household.
These were the last few years..before ‘multiculturalism’ & ‘entitlement’ took over.. not for the better, sadly.
Any Brits left in that city?
yawn
No
Fucking Polhampton.
Not a city. And yes, me!
Been here 10yrs and it's got worse every year. Hardly an English voice down my street
Nice. ❤