Great to watch if you remember how quiet the roads used to be and the lack of traffic lights around which made your journey quicker. It would take much longer to do the same journey today. Lovely stuff.
a, soon, as they, start, talking about, dick turpins horse, black bess, you know, that, they haven't got a clue, that crap, is fairytale fantasy for tourists
I recall as a child watching the diggers from my grandparents back bedroom window on Alfreton Road. Then when it was opened the Sunday Afternoon trip to Leicester Forest East services to the posh wastress service restaurant on the bridge.
La verdad que es impresionante haberlo visto así 😢 yo llevo ya desde 2016 o 2017 llena ahí y nunca puede verlo así que lastima y a la misma vez daros las gracias 💯💯 la primera vez que estuve había un guardia ahí felicidades por el vídeo y con permiso poder compartirlo gracias por antemano ❤
The Butterley Ironworks on this video is actually at Ripley, not Codnor, a few miles away. The site where the loading was is now a modern housing estate. Sold off to developers shortly before the works closed for good after over 200 years of business. A once major employers, ruined by greedy asset strippers.
Part of the film is the walk about in Mansfield after the Queen had officially opened the new Library. I recall it well as it was my first ever day at work on one of the shops along the walkabout route
Wow, this is like sitting in the front passenger seat of my Dad's car. I was 10 when this was filmed, we go past a house I used to live in, where friends and relatives lived, past my old school, (Heanor Grammar) and past the pit that my Dad worked at, even @18:08, past the place where I was born, (Mundy street, Heanor). What a journey in space and time.
I could follow his route as far as the entrance to the American adventure park, that was. Was it a pit office he was travelling to. I only picked the route up again, coming back past the American adventure Park. Fascinating look back in time.
I was born and bred in Alfreton and was 15 in 1969. It's a great memory jogger and brings back long forgotten memories of my youth. I worked with Steve for quite a few years when we were on the lorries and am so grateful that his dad Fred had the foresight to do this.
@@elliotttalksf1825 Yes I did. I only knew him for a short while but my overriding memory of him is that he was a very competent cyclist and could beat any of us in a race.
Whether you agree with the subject matter or not this is the stuff that used to be served up on national or regional TV to the population because back then the population could understand it and took the time to understand it. Can you imagine something as in-depth as this being on TV in our soundbite society today? They say the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there - well this certainly shows it, not just in content but style as well.
Alguien del chat estuvo ahí de niño?. Lo visité en ocasiones pero más deteriorado que ahí... Agujeros enormes en el suelo, escaleras inservibles...Hay testimonios de gente que estuvo y los malostratos eran habituales.
