“Kidderminster ‘61” (Pegg) - Bev Pegg and Friends.

“Kidderminster ‘61” (Pegg)
Performed by Bev Pegg and Friends.
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Thanks are due to the various photographers and artists and particularly the "Kidderminster Past" Facebook Group for many of the pictures that have been used in this short video.
In this year 2021, Kidderminster is a very nice town to visit. The new modern shopping centres with their wide-ranging stores and shops are well laid out and a pleasure to stroll around.
While the writer never lived in Kidderminster, he nevertheless spent a lot of time in the area during the early 1960s, playing in a jazz band and gigging with several other bands at various Kidderminster and Stourport venues.
Walking around the many interesting shops in the town during 1961 for example was always something to enjoy.
This “old part of town”, as a result of the new modern shopping centres a few roads away, in Kidderminster are not like they were sadly. In a way, the “buzz” seems to have understandably gone. Being an old bloke and walking around these streets today causes slight sadness and comparisons to how it was then, and how many of the landmarks of personal memories have gone, due naturally of course to the word progress.
Anyway, this video might bring back a few fond memories to many Kidderminster folks of advanced age, who can recall these happy days of yesteryear.

[@juliemillwarduk5664]

❤️ Truly lovely video ❤️ nan & g, dad (Lillian & Frank Pitt) were last to run the Royal George pub kiddy (Hall St) opposite St Mary's Church. The demise of the carpet factories 😪.
I still live in kidderminster 1966 ongoing😊) , worked in the sling brintons, good old days for sure 👍❤️

[@ColonelBandit]

Thanks for the memories- my childhood home during the 70's and 80's - now sadly now a wasteland

[@composedlight6850]

My Home town 1958 - onwards

[@trevzulu123]

This takes me back to when I was an 11-year-old schoolboy, I too have a lot of fond memories of places I visited in the town back then, such as the Saturday morning ABC minors at the central cinema for one or when I was a teenager my visits to the Blackhorse on a Saturday night is another, if this video was intended to remind us of how the town used to be like in happier times, then for me it has succeeded 👍❤

[@jamesstone6631]

Fantastic old kidderminster . My grandfather had Frank Stone carpets down green street

[@azzifyy5988]

I just find this sad, as someone born in the 90s this looks like a much cleaner and social place to live than what Kidderminster is today.

[@smooth111012]

Such a beautiful town back then, unfortunately the local council have ruined it. They should be held accountable

[@BritishEngineer]

0:17 that was 2010.

[@brigader4heart272]

Where/or how can i get some of the still pics featured in this vid please?.

[@johnhuwroberts7766]

They ruined it by building a ring road………..through the middle. How stupid is that. Lovely video.