Hey, thanks guys! Yeah it did get an A in the end actually! Luckily! I hate my voice in it lol, and it's sooo incredibly cheesy! But ta anyway :) Didn't know there were film making groups, might look into it :)
This is Orpington circa 1990 summat - used to do my Orpington college BTEC National Diploma in HealthStudies, worked at the bowling alley, used to live in Tubbenden Lane aaaand baby sitting! Key skills building its like whattt?!
Wow Orpington has really really changed! I didn't know Orpington once had a big car park where Tesco is! I wonder how Orpington is going to change again in just the near future! Only time will tell!
I have found this by accident and am am staggered by the vitriol that you are receiving! It was as you explained, a school exercise, so why is a retailer being so nasty? Why are others accusing the town as being a rough environment? Why is St Mary cray being included? As someone that lived in the area 50(ish) years ago I thoroughly enjoyed it. Every town changes, I knew the REAL Walnuts!!!! I lay in snow unconscious after a beating by bog-brushes (skinheads) near the War Memorial. Why is the Police Station near the college? Remember Charterhouse school; it produced the next generation that would study at Borstal! I trust that you have found a vocation in in the Media, as you have certainly kicked a hornets nest! I loved it! And, if the responses that you are getting reflect the new Kentish person, then I am glad that I no longer live in Britain. So sad, so very sad.
Haha, thanks Bobbi, and fair play rjohns, cheers for being honest. It got an A but to be fair I've no idea how!, just stuck it up on here for a laugh really!
Why on earth did they narrowed the high street.oh yes when the company bought land for tesco they after a reduced price..then offered to redo the high street..NOT the same now..!!
Not bad at all Paul. Have you considered joining an amateur film makers club like Orpington Video and Film-makers or Spring Park Cine & Video Society - both have web-sites. You have a good relaxed voice-over!
************************* ORPINGTON IS NOT ALL THAT BAD. It's a shame the video was done in the winter where it appears dull, dingy and overcast with not leaves on the trees and flower beds etc. Like anywhere, Orpington has it's good and not so good areas The best: Petts Wood - the Worst - St Marys Cray and inbetween is the around the high st, Green St Green and Locks Bottom. Have a good day and God Bless you. **********************************
Can I ask your opinion...looking at a flat today and just really concerned about the horrific reviews I have read about muggings and I quote 'pikeys'. Apparently it's not safe. Is this true? We're talking William Petty way here.
keston is one if the top 3 most expensive areas close to london
Hey, thanks guys! Yeah it did get an A in the end actually! Luckily! I hate my voice in it lol, and it's sooo incredibly cheesy! But ta anyway :) Didn't know there were film making groups, might look into it :)
Paul Valentine Are you still alive mate
This is Orpington circa 1990 summat - used to do my Orpington college BTEC National Diploma in HealthStudies, worked at the bowling alley, used to live in Tubbenden Lane aaaand baby sitting! Key skills building its like whattt?!
This needs updating. The college expanded, the station renovated & the Police station, abandoned, because Orpington is balls.
The Walnuts Shopping Centre could possibly be the worst ever shopping centre in history.
It's changed now though, kind of lol the new cinema is fantastic though
Wow Orpington has really really changed!
I didn't know Orpington once had a big car park where Tesco is!
I wonder how Orpington is going to change again in just the near future!
Only time will tell!
I live in Orpington now 2020. I love the video. Thank you
We'd love to see an updated version of this please! :) e.g. the total revamp of the high street and two new shopping centres...
its completely different now, its changed so much in the last few years
I have found this by accident and am am staggered by the vitriol that you are receiving! It was as you explained, a school exercise, so why is a retailer being so nasty? Why are others accusing the town as being a rough environment? Why is St Mary cray being included? As someone that lived in the area 50(ish) years ago I thoroughly enjoyed it. Every town changes, I knew the REAL Walnuts!!!! I lay in snow unconscious after a beating by bog-brushes (skinheads) near the War Memorial. Why is the Police Station near the college? Remember Charterhouse school; it produced the next generation that would study at Borstal! I trust that you have found a vocation in in the Media, as you have certainly kicked a hornets nest! I loved it! And, if the responses that you are getting reflect the new Kentish person, then I am glad that I no longer live in Britain. So sad, so very sad.
Good job, i hope you got an A. Living up the road from Orpington i know how hard it must have been making that dump look good.
Lived above a florist near the memorial end in the early nineties. Had fond memories even if it was a boring place to live.
2022 very beautiful place
Haha, thanks Bobbi, and fair play rjohns, cheers for being honest. It got an A but to be fair I've no idea how!, just stuck it up on here for a laugh really!
Everything looks so different now, execept the floor in the Walnuts, that's exactly the same
U need to do a follow up
Why on earth did they narrowed the high street.oh yes when the company bought land for tesco they after a reduced price..then offered to redo the high street..NOT the same now..!!
Sure has changed alot from 2021... its mad and scary I was 2 when this video came out
This made me laugh, not only because so much has changed but because so much hasn't changed either! =P Great vid ;)
Not bad at all Paul. Have you considered joining an amateur film makers club like Orpington Video and Film-makers or Spring Park Cine & Video Society - both have web-sites. You have a good relaxed voice-over!
Better than swanley
Jesus, it was a bloody A Level Media documentary, get over it.
Woo Orpington!!!!!!
Where is Blue Wart'er ?
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ORPINGTON IS NOT ALL THAT BAD.
It's a shame the video was done in the winter where it appears dull, dingy and overcast with not leaves on the trees and flower beds etc. Like anywhere, Orpington has it's good and not so good areas The best: Petts Wood - the Worst - St Marys Cray and inbetween is the around the high st, Green St Green and Locks Bottom.
Have a good day and God Bless you.
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Orpington is now getting a 7 screen odeon cinema near the job centre beat that
Orpington is crap, I moved to Sydney, Australia, and I still miss orpington!!
I Love Pie and Mash.
Its not sold here.
Australia's crap!
This was made before my lil sister.....
I've lived in orpinton all my life and I think everyone is horrible when they talk shit about it
Can I ask your opinion...looking at a flat today and just really concerned about the horrific reviews I have read about muggings and I quote 'pikeys'. Apparently it's not safe. Is this true? We're talking William Petty way here.
First of all pikeys are just idots that u get used to theres been NO muggings in orpington so yeh
Maybe you have a few times because it has been your car burning in the middle of the road
hahahaha
There's some good pastimes you can take part in in Orpington,like how fast you can drive out of the shithole.
holy shit!!!
NOT changed? Where the hell have you been in the last couple of years All the 'IMPROVEMENTS'and bloody Tesco.
aww haha I go to Orpington College, I actually like it! :P
How did it work out?
Thankyou very nice Not cheesey at all
I left Orpington in 1956, thank God I did!
lol, sam?
Haha, oh god! Typical Coalesy
St Marys Cray is not that bad to be honest, Ramsden is far worse.
Dave Donald st mary and paul all fine
so outdated now
this is terrible i hope you did well but I would have given this an E
I've lived there all my life I can't wait to move out of the shit hole I'm going to live in America next year 2018
But what Sh.. hole
He's makeing my town sound boring T_T
Never in my life have I seen a more boring video on an even more boring subject, Orpington is crap, and I live here lol
Yeah right they gave you an A for this piece of shit lol.
Good effort Paul. Not!!
I used to go to the market hall with my nanny