A historical look at Caversham over 100 years through photographs old & new. Morphing old photographs into the new ones with an amazing look at how Caversham & Reading have changed at the end.
RU-vid algorithm found this for me after several videos on Reading Today. Grew up in Reading (1942-60) but spent lotsa time In and around Caversham and the Thames so this has been a delight. Very nicely and cleverly done. Put this in my Liked This folder. Thanks again.
Loved this, I was born in Caversham nearly 73 years ago, I well remember the floods, we couldn't go to school for 6 weeks which we thought was great. Hope Caversham is not suffering too much in the present flood conditions. Many thanks for some wonderful pictures.
Absolutely fantastic, love the pictures of the floods, i assume 1947 and the last 3 shots of the whole of Reading, really well done you for taking the time to put it all together.
Brilliant must have taken ages really surprised at how something's really haven't changed that much. I even saw the house I grew up in a few doors away from the Clifton arms on gosbrook road. Thank you for doing this. Not to mention the floods remember my dad telling me about them and we're moaning now!
loved this video, brought back so many memories, lived in a flat in an old Victorian house, right at the top as a small child. my gran lived in Hemdean rd and went to E P Collier school from age 4 to 5.
I lived in Caversham from 1939 to 1946 ( baby to 6 yrs, ) and was hoping to see something I recognized but sadly no. We lived in Norman Road, a cul-de-sac, and my Aunt lived nearby in Mayfield Drive. I also remember Donkin Hill which I used to go up in the bus to school. Pendragon Hall I think was the name.. Loved the video anyway, and the sublime music! BTW I always wonder what happened to my first love, Gwenny Legge, who lived on the opposite side of Norman Road. She'd be in her seventies now.
Brilliant, well put together video. Amazing to see how places change. Would be great to see the same done for other parts of Reading ...... hint, hint ... :)
"Happy' isn't quite the word I would use but I do have fond memories growing up in Caversham (Lower Caversham, George Street). Born in 1971 and moved to a yokels' Oubliette in Western Berkshire in 1983, sadly. Definitely NO fond memories of Newbury. Fantastic to see all the hard work you put into making this lovely clip though (the library was my favourite). My sister, in the late 70s, worked in the Liptons store as a cashier, St. Martin's Precinct, Church Street.
I was expecting this to be about the BBC monitoring place at Caversham rather than the town. He's put a lot of time and effort into researching the old pictures and taking the new photographs. Is the ball on top of the library a time signal to the boats? And is that a mini-one on the Children's library next door? It's a shame the shops look so tatty nowadays. It looks like they see themselves in isolation and never have any regard for the overall look of the street. It's actually 146 years of history, considering the earliest pic was 1865 :)
