Swindon Walk: Town Centre【4K】
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- Located in the county of Wiltshire, and around 80 miles west of London, is the town of Swindon.
The town's history goes back several centuries. In Saxon times before the Norman Conquest, there was a small farming community in the area. By the 13th century it had become a small market town. Its population remained relatively small for several centuries. In the first Cenus of 1801 there were 1,198 residents recorded.
A number of factors contributed towards a major growth spurt in Swindon. The first being the opening of the Wiltshire and Berkshire Canal in 1810, and later the North Wiltshire Canal in 1819. Then in 1835 the railway arrived, with Swindon situated between London and Bristol on the Great Western Railway line. Under orders of Great Western's chief engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Swindon was to become the location of the Railway Works for GWR i.e. the centre for construction and maintenance.
As the station was situated over a mile away from the town in what is today referred to as Old Swindon, a railway village was constructed within easy commuting distance, with 300 houses completed by the mid 1860s. This was the beginning of what would become New Swindon. In 1900 Queen Victoria signed the charter granting Swindon Municipal Borough status, which in doing so, merged Old Swindon to the south, to New Swindon to the north. The walk begins in Old Swindon and crosses into New Swindon, demonstrating the stark contrast between the two.
During the Second World War, the Great Western Railway Works was repurposed for construction of military hardware including parts for guns, tanks and submarines. After the war, Swindon was designated as an overspill town with around 14,000 people from Blitz-damaged London moving in.
In the 1970s the M4 motorway opened, connecting Swindon to London to the east and South Wales to the West. Shortly after, the notorious Magic Roundabout was constructed. Consisting of five mini-roundabouts arranged in a circle, it has been voted the fourth scariest junction in Britain. Also in the '70s the Brunel Shopping Centre opened and Swindon's town centre was pedestrianised. Swindon's Great Western Railway Works closed in 1986.
Famous people from Swindon include Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues, Nick Hewer off The Apprentice and Billie Piper. Also the band XTC formed in Swindon in 1972.
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Filmed: 16th April 2021
Link to the walk on Google Maps: goo.gl/maps/T9WKtH1VQ13uYDwJ7
Filmed on a Sony FDR-AX700 with a Zhiyun Crane 2 and a Sony ECM-XYST1M Stereo Microphone.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 High Street
1:12 Wood Street
2:52 Bath Road
3:07 Victoria Road
9:10 Regent Circus
11:55 Regent Street
14:16 Havelock Street
15:00 Havelock Square
16:20 Wharf Green
16:55 Canal Walk
18:24 The Parade
19:54 Fleming Way
20:57 Fleet Street
22:30 Bridge Street
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Swindon wasn't always bad, it did turned into a right dump in the end. Glad to have escaped it.
your 1 of the lucky survivors
@@brotube4615 Swindon refugee ✊🏼
Was really sh*tty when I finally got out in 2016.
@@citizenoftheninthdivision Always glad to hear when others have escaped it too👍🏻
@Nigel Day whats so bad about it, i might be moving there
I was born in Swindon hospital, and lived there for twelve years until social services found out my mother was abusing and neglecting me so I got moved three hours away, this video brings back a few
You fine now?
Thanks for making and sharing. Always good to see home. Hope new shops come soon to brighten things up. A lot of shops lost.
Used to live there before I moved to the smoke for uni and never left, I don't miss it that much.
It's a right sh*hole. Museum of computing is cool though.
Sensible.
Thanks for sharing. I lived in this town for 6 years. Good memories.
Wow. So much has changed, but I left in 1976! Still it was incredibly familiar and a really well made, hugely enjoyable video. Great to see the games and toy store called “Spot On” - as a kid I used to buy toys and a “observer books” from a shop in Regent Street called “The Spot” - makes me wonder if the new store wasn’t a reference back to that store! Thanks for posting this!
This video is perfect! Really liked it! Thanks so much!
Thanks for watching!
Brilliant!! I have been hoping to see a video of my Hometown for so long now, you know, a proper walk through. I found myself narrating it as you walked from Old Town down to Fleet Street. Is it still called Fleet Street btw? For some reason I thought the name had changed. I left Swindon back in 1987 but I was there very briefly 3 years ago to bury my brother. I was so busy closing his flat in a week that I didn't have time to explore anything while I was there. Thanks a lot for filming this, I am very happy to see a walk through the place where I grew up.
Yeah, that's right. Fleet Street, with a couple of other streets nearby with London-ish names. Thanks for the kind words, I appreciate that! :)
Sorry for your loss, glad you some comfort from the video 👍
Excellent, and thanks for the walk. Reminded me of my time and walks in Swindon where I used to come on biz trips very often. The old Savoy is still there)) Have been hoping to see Pipers Way where I used to stay in a hotel with the office being just across the road. Good memories.
Thanks, glad it brought back some memories!
Thank you for the upload. I lived in the city for around a year, kinda miss it now.
City?? Lol
It's not a city
@@Great_WesternTVFan Swindon is not a city?
@@SulaimanSujono no. It's just an urban town.
@@Great_WesternTVFan I'm not native English speaker nor really understands the difference. Care to explain?
Thanks for uploading this. Right now The Parade & Fleming Way are a closed off mess!
I used to live here.
I am crying from the nostalgia
Me too
Dont bother. Save your tears.
@@CARLIN4737 for Swindon is a shithole
@@CARLIN4737 living in that gloomy city gave me a false perception of Britain as whole glad i left it to explore the superior and sophisticated cities Britain really had to offer . Looking back Swindon was a mundane drab cesspool
Really great video, thankyou. Nice to see my hometown after being away since 1999. Many things have changed, but a lot I recognise. I remember working in town centre Sainsburys(not sure if it's still there?) Nice to walk through Old Town as well, vseeing Blaylocks Shoes on the corner still!! Finally nice to see Swindon has a proper library, I remember the prefabs when the town had been promised a decent library! (thought it would never happen) Lots of nostalgia and find memories. Thankyou. Maybe one day I'll return....
Glad you made it out OK 🙏
Very good
I used live at 7:01 flat good memories,nice video :)
Old Town is still nice. The town centre is really grim now.
Nice walk my friend. Beautiful town Swindon :-) Have a great new week. Greetings from Gran Canaria!
Cheers mate, you too!
Enjoyed the walk very much. It was nice to see the town I was born in. But not the same. Thank you.
Ah, well glad to have discovered your hometown! :)
yes, thank you. Still enjoyed seeing Swindon again. We should know nothing stays the same. Like us we all change. as we get older.🖐
My 1980s childhood memories.
Two of my friends live in Swindon, I hope I'll be there for real one day.
Dont bother. Save your bus fare love,
Lovely. At 12 mins 28 seconds you can hear someone clear their throat and spit 😂😂
The Old Town looks interesting
I was walking up/down bridge street earlier, was just as quiet :0
Swindon looks a bit run down now. Its sad, had a great year up there at Bath Road . See Froude and Hext model shop in Victoria Road
impressive that you walked through all the newly developed area's while managing to show 0 of it.
No plants on roadside
23:05 and that's where the continuos take gets cut... did that dude really need to swear?
Good Lord, Swindon is a sh*thole! It's so dystopian.
Rather similar to when I went first in 1995.
Your defo goan
Way too many bikes in pedestrian areas. Shocking!
Wow its got a Post Office thats not in One Stop or WHSmiths.
So glad I’ll left Swindon it’s such a depressing town to live in
Here's Paul......again 🤣
We all say it’s not the worst place to live, but let’s be honest it’s not exactly a nice place is it.
Cold, grey, depressing!
Like your life 😍😜
Yeah I’m not gonna lie Swindon isn’t the best but there are worse places to live 🤷♀️
@@shaunaleigh3500 Slough and Swindon are a lot like eachother only Slough has improved massively, still boring there tho, Swindon doesn’t seem to have changed at all in years
@@yesthen2704 yeah it really hasn’t 😂😭
@@shaunaleigh3500 Hull seems to be much worse but Swindon is horrendous. It really staggers me how anyone can say it's great. The town centre has no vibrancy to it at all. Many shops have closed down and have not been replaced. No wonder so many people are leaving. Swindon is a decaying town and it's only going to get worse.
So dirty. Disgusting grey paths and buildings. Depressing so much.
Shut up
U probs live in New York we’re all the dirty gross rats are ❤️
Swindon council is jest as bad as it ever was, don't have bad sight with a council that's unable to think about it or care, with traffic sign posts in the middle of pavement, jest look at the beginning if this video as it starts on Victoria hill.
It looks like Chernobyl.
When was the last time you went to Chernobyl?
Pripyat more like!
wow its even worse than i remember,
the most boring place on earth
@SpaceboyYT this is what my town looks like