This is the Swansea I was born in and grew up in. I was 3 when this was filmed. You passed within a few feet of my wonderful grandparents' house on Port Tennant Road, my heart stopped when you turned onto it and I saw it as I did when I was very young. You stopped just a few doors up from my auntie and uncle's house on Danygraig Road. Thank you so much for posting this, it brought a tear to my eye
Seeing this, you forget how much has changed in nearly 30 years (not the weather!!) This was filmed the week before I quit my job as a part timer in Debenhams and started the job I still do today. Oystermouth hasn't changed much but the transformation of the area around the old leisure centre is amazing. Lovely to see this!
God it's so weird seeing the old walkbridge going over to the Leisure Centre without the new Arena and stuff. It hasn't changed massively, but this has been one hell of a blast from the past to watch. Thank you for posting!
it was strange seeing the bridge in brynmill where it shoud be,. no tescos. the lovely old bridge near the leisure. i was so young and my mother was alive and living in her house. memories
Amazing post - my childhood on video capped off by driving through St Thomas and showing my school, the old and best St Thomas primary school, even with all the stairs. My family still live there now on Osterley Street and always have and will love Swansea and St Thomas.
My grandparents moved to swansea in 2003, same year I was born. I have very fond memories of this place growing up. They've since moved to llantrisant about 2 years ago, I miss Swansea a lot.
It certainly was during the seventies, eighties and early nineties when I was living and drinking in Swansea. If you wanted the best pint of “Worthy” dark in the seventies, then you would have needed to visit The Jersey Arms when it was being run by “Shrevo”. He and it were famous for the Worthy dark and customers came from miles around just to taste it. Oh the good old days.
@alanc286 thanks for your info here in the midlands "mild" or "dark" was the main beer for many years and in some ways still is I used to drink in a pub in birmingham called the "white swan" and there main beer was ansells mild they literally sold thousands of pints every week and it would be lined up on the bar for when the punters came in after mass on a Sunday it would just be topped up then and it was absolutely gorgeous people would come for miles to drink it! We also had m+b mild and highgate mild all literally superb as you say "oh the good old days"!! God I miss them!
@Hellie's Travels You're right, most of them were either crashed, stolen, rotted out or modified beyond the modern boundaries of physics. I had a mk 1 GTE back in the day and the floor pretty much fell out
I had a Mk1 Astra GTE back then too, I bought it from Shadows Car Sales in Swansea and guess what, the floor was rotten too even though the rest was mint. Only 9/10 Mk1’s registered on the roads today.
@@helliestravels14 Remember Swansea well . The first 20 seconds of the video- I Took a bus full of Japanese tourists to rhosilli, got stuck when a touring caravan came the other way! Traffic chaos for at least 1 hour after 🤣🤣🤣on a bank holiday aswell.
I am Australian and lived there between 2000-2003 when I was in my mid 20s. A very special time.
This is the Swansea I was born in and grew up in. I was 3 when this was filmed. You passed within a few feet of my wonderful grandparents' house on Port Tennant Road, my heart stopped when you turned onto it and I saw it as I did when I was very young. You stopped just a few doors up from my auntie and uncle's house on Danygraig Road. Thank you so much for posting this, it brought a tear to my eye
My Nans house was Danygraid Road, I spent lots of time in holidays there. Glad you like it ! I am hopeful to return some day too.
Seeing this, you forget how much has changed in nearly 30 years (not the weather!!) This was filmed the week before I quit my job as a part timer in Debenhams and started the job I still do today. Oystermouth hasn't changed much but the transformation of the area around the old leisure centre is amazing. Lovely to see this!
God it's so weird seeing the old walkbridge going over to the Leisure Centre without the new Arena and stuff. It hasn't changed massively, but this has been one hell of a blast from the past to watch. Thank you for posting!
Better than the taco bridge
@@hoppersdoppers Yeah the Alien Spaceship, half eaten Crunchy Bar Bridge with Laserbeams. Hasn't grown on me at all lol.
what's fascinating are the cars and buses....hasn't changed too much in 27 years lol...
I have not been back since 2006 but my family tell me it has changed. one day i will re visit.
Lovely part of the world. Been many times but not recently..
Great film. 4:10 Such a pity that they removed the span of that bridge. Only the abutments now remain.
One day I will return to see !
Great film, so much has changed in such a short time along your journey's route, I will share to a local history group.
Please do. Thank you
WOW. So grateful for people taking video. Thank you for sharing! x
Your welcome x thanks for watching
it was strange seeing the bridge in brynmill where it shoud be,. no tescos. the lovely old bridge near the leisure. i was so young and my mother was alive and living in her house. memories
Amazing post - my childhood on video capped off by driving through St Thomas and showing my school, the old and best St Thomas primary school, even with all the stairs. My family still live there now on Osterley Street and always have and will love Swansea and St Thomas.
I was 7 when this was filmed. So many memories from Swansea
My grandparents moved to swansea in 2003, same year I was born. I have very fond memories of this place growing up. They've since moved to llantrisant about 2 years ago, I miss Swansea a lot.
My childhood was spent with my grandparents too. Swansea has changed in this time.
@@helliestravels14 SPICE has changed swansea alot!!!!
we are the same age
Seems like just a short time ago, then you realised it was over thirty years!. some good times in Swansea . Different times now...😢
How so?
I worked at the Coop which was near Newton Rd during the summer of 1969 I think, we lived in Sketty .
This was recorded 10 days before my 11th birthday.....
thanks for posting, a couple of weeks before my 26th birthday.. i thought my city had changed a lot by then....
Thank you for your comment . I think I need to do a 2023 version too !
Love this.
Shoulda kept the old trams
Now that was well before my time !
Love it .why stop filming when you arrive at port Tennant????
We arrived at our destination.
Blast from the past
It’s a bit nuts looking at this as I was 17 at the time. It feels like not so long ago, yet it looks a long long time ago
By what i have seen it has changed so much in the time.
Did you ever do a stint with Anglian Home Improvement or Timeshare?
Swanseaaaaa Glamorgan Wales!!!!!!
Was worthington dark a popular beer in swansea then?
It certainly was during the seventies, eighties and early nineties when I was living and drinking in Swansea. If you wanted the best pint of “Worthy” dark in the seventies, then you would have needed to visit The Jersey Arms when it was being run by “Shrevo”. He and it were famous for the Worthy dark and customers came from miles around just to taste it. Oh the good old days.
@alanc286 thanks for your info here in the midlands "mild" or "dark" was the main beer for many years and in some ways still is I used to drink in a pub in birmingham called the "white swan" and there main beer was ansells mild they literally sold thousands of pints every week and it would be lined up on the bar for when the punters came in after mass on a Sunday it would just be topped up then and it was absolutely gorgeous people would come for miles to drink it! We also had m+b mild and highgate mild all literally superb as you say "oh the good old days"!! God I miss them!
No having to crawl around at 20 mph
Where’s this woman from cause she ain’t from Swansea
By the sounds of things her mother was, so I imagine they visited a lot
I seen a white mk 2 Astra GTE lol
not many of those on the roads now!!
@Hellie's Travels
You're right, most of them were either crashed, stolen, rotted out or modified beyond the modern boundaries of physics.
I had a mk 1 GTE back in the day and the floor pretty much fell out
@@Richy101 "modern boundaries of physics" love it 😅
I had a Mk1 Astra GTE back then too, I bought it from Shadows Car Sales in Swansea and guess what, the floor was rotten too even though the rest was mint. Only 9/10 Mk1’s registered on the roads today.
@cerealkiller4248
Ditto!
I had a rotten black Mk1 on an A reg with Astra GSI wheels on it, what colour was yours?
J.
When petrol was 77p a litre 😂😂😂
gallon most probably lol
@@helliestravels14 Remember Swansea well . The first 20 seconds of the video- I Took a bus full of Japanese tourists to rhosilli, got stuck when a touring caravan came the other way! Traffic chaos for at least 1 hour after 🤣🤣🤣on a bank holiday aswell.
Nicely done 😁