Thanks for posting. I was a student from 1965 t0 1969. Brought back many memories. We had the new student's union building by then, rather than the Victoria rooms. Happy days...
I do recommend "Some People" the film set in Bristol during the first half of the 60s. Mardyke Ferry, Bedminster, Lockleaze, Swimming pool in Bedminster, C&A Broadmead, Filton and the Portway all feature.
My Grandfather and Grandmother had the Coronation Tap until 1954. Taking over from her parents, if we still had it my son would be the 5th generation. I can’t remember much but one I can remember was no cars, we used to play in the streets.
I lived and worked in Bristol from '82 to '94 yet recognise much of these mostly Clifton views from long before I knew the place. I stop by now and then these days - so much I don't recognise any more😥
the background music, is by the eagles, took a bit of finding, as it was nothing like acker bilk 's version of Stranger on the Shore The Eagles were a British music quartet active from 1958 until the mid-1960s. They formed in 1958 at the Eagle House youth club in Knowle West, Bristol.
The Dug Out .... The Deep Blues band, a real fire escape hazard as well, used to get raided as regular as clockwork for drugs and prostitution - great club, great times
I can remember going to the Glen on the downs for Saturday bee-pop and jive - wearing a home made flared skirt that swung around when I danced. Seems like yesterday. I remember Bill Hayley and the comets. I was married in 1965 inn a little church off the Gloucester road - on a visit some years later found it had become a ruin - as had my marriage!!
yes---I still have my membership card of the Tudor club, with my mug-shot on it. dated 1962. My brother met his wife to be there. Later, he got upset with guys pestering her, and caused a ruccus, and was asked to leave by Bouncer , Dave Prowse, who much later, played Darth Vader in Star Wars. Many years later, on a visit to Canada, I discovered that Dave was a cousin of my cousins Husband. Bit complicated. But I was introduced to him, but didn't mention my brother's altercation all those years before.
without bill hayley, their would have been, no rock and roll, but people forget that ? they only remember elvis etc etc. and if yiour doing bristol what about st pauls ? a kind of gheto, but it worked. yes i am a dinosaur, but so what is so great about the modern world ? ? ?
brilliant video of goood old bristol in the 1960.s this was my era my father ran cantors furniture shop on the horsefair from 1960 to 1967 any viewers remeber this shop
Yep I remember that shop we used to hang around the area me and my mates pubbing and looking out for the girls. I lived at Lockleaze. Went for a visit in 2012 changed a bit but not to much.
Oh yes. My mum bought quite a bit of furniture from Cantors. As a little child she would give me and my brother the HP payment book and we’d walk down to pay our bill. She was so proud of always paying up on time - she never missed.
I remember as a kid in the early 60s,when my parents ran the drawbridge pub, on a new years eve all the cars in the centre, st augustines parade, were peeping their horns on the midnight hour, I wondered what was going on as no one had told me that it was tradition & my imagination was running away with me thinking the martians had landed or something.
A substantial part of this has been taken from John Boorman's BBC series, The Newcomers, made in 1964. It focused on the writer ACH Smith and his wife, Alison, then expecting twins. They lived in a tiny flat in The Paragon, Clifton, which is probably why there's so much footage from that area.
Correct. A neighbor of my parents who worked on the documentary had a copy. There are a couple of clips from "Some People" Movie (1962). The music is by Bristol 60's group The Eagles.
@@SwanEntertainment1 I remember when Eagle House was turned over as a youth club, it still had all it's original furniture inside, including a large radio which we would tune to Radio Luxembourg. The Eagles band had two members from my street, great times, never forgotten. Gang fighting against Hartcliffon the airfield runway, Gores Fairwith it's giant man effigy that was set alight. Fillwood Broadway cinema Saturday rush, thruppense each to go in (3 penny) yo yo competition, PJ Proby split trousers sometime mid 60's.
wow--i was 20 in 61', and remember this look. Still War damage and dilapidation in most British cities. Pity it was filmed in winter, which adds to the gloom. This place is so upmarket now.
Back in the early 60s my parents ran the drawbridge pub in the centre of bristol when the city docks were thriving & many of the crews of the ships came into the pub. One night a Chinese guy came in & said, but due to his accent, what my mum thought was hashees ' I want hashees,' my mum said they didn't sell any cannabis products, he then said' I want woman' & my mum replied' that it wasn't that sort of pub', then realising he meant the hatchets pub around the corner which then had a bit of a reputation as a pick up place for certain ladies of the night, some of whom would come into the drawbridge as long as it wasn't for business, which my mum stipulated .
You mean it's not all posh like in the film? (I know it's not - I was there then.) Made by a university student I suspect - but interesting all the same.
@@sideshowbob5237 Clifton was not really "posh" in the 60s, trendy yes, posh no. It was mostly run down student flats. It started to become posh in the late 70s