Awesome film, loved all the old trucks, vans, and cars, the attire of the people out shopping ect, in the busy streets, a brilliant snapshot of social life at that time, bet the people thought what the hell is he filming this for!! Well now we are so grateful he did,
Great film. I was in road transport as a driver for 40 years. I remember the timber years over the bridge on the left. Cannot remember the name.something like Nicholls, nicklin, comes to mind. It's been a long time ago now. Some lovely lorrys in the film come to mind. This is why as you know. We needed bye pass roads .And motorways. Happy days of long ago.
I've been looking for years for the bridge my dad used to drive over to cross the River Severn on our way to Port Talbot in the early 60s (after they did some improvements and Princess Margaret went there) before the Severn Bridge days. Looks like this is what I remember (when I tried on Google maps it was all different -- 'modernised' now I suppose!). Thanks. Great to see it all again.
what a charming and beautiful film . britain when it was great . car transporters carrying cars from variuos manufacturers, e.g rootes , vauxhall , austin (B.M.C ) . a foden brooke bond tea box wagon and drag ERF babycham and seddon metal box to name a few . the advertising hoardings advertising bovril , the littleboys cheekily waving at the camera . this is seriously lovely stuff !!!!!!!!!
unbelievable how Gloucester has changed centre nearly all pedestrianised up till last year I was 3days a week seven am delivering to café nero southgate st in an 18 toner hell on market day love all the old lorrys not so complicated.thanks for sharing.
The Tk1971 I did roping and sheeting for 10 years. It was an art but not a pleasant occupation in the winter. I was certainly glad when they replaced my flat bed with a box van.
allsome vid,just to see the lorrys,theres just something about classic british lorries isant there.Its good to see old movies just to spot the motors in the background.
If this was re-filmed today all you would see would be the cars all looking the same, and supermarket / Retail parks everywhere so now all the towns look the same....!! We certainly had class and style in abundance back then, Progress eh? 5*
Ah, the old idea of what "severe congestion" meant ... apart from the bottleneck caused by double parking around 3:20 and the momentary tailback around 5:30 it looks like the normal traffic level of any 21st century suburb ... or indeed modern Gloucester last time I was there...!
Nope, Im 48 ignore my name, and yes I also remember lots of good things from long way back... Not all modern things are an improvement on what we used to have... Looks like I have my Rose tints on again... ha ha....
@airscrew1 I said it *could* be made to work *if* there was the political will. I certainly don't see any, so I expect you're right - it'll never happen. At least until there's no oil in the ground and we move to an electrically based transport network. Also, it's not either/or, it could be a mix - long distance by rail with short journeys by road. Who knows what a transport network might look like in 2100 - maybe totally autonomous maglev networks with each container moving from door to door.
And they do too, all the same, another pet hate of mine is signs for literally everything, there are as many signs for irrelevant information as there are weeds in the pavement... I must be getting old... :-)) ha ha
@airscrew1 Rail could be made to work with the political will. It's only too expensive because it's underused and unsubsidised (and politically unloved for too many decades). Once the oil starts to really run out the true cost of road transport will become apparent and a more radical alternative will *have* to be found. If not, it's back to the stone age for all of us. I appreciate old classic trucks as much anyone, but as a means of moving goods, it's abysmally inefficient.
The cost of wagon load freight trains is too expensive for this small island. Back in the 1990s when BR dropped the Speedlink services, over 70% of the costs incurred by speedlink were due to the local collection workings and the marshalling and remarshalling enroute of the trains; Speedlink carried only 2.3% of the freight handled by BR and BR only handled 1.2% of the freight moved in the UK. They worked out that to cover the costs of the provision if Speedlink a producer would have to dispatch 20 wagon loads per day over 500 miles. They calculated that even if they could cut costs by 40% then only 15% of the Speedlink flows would generate any profit. One of the main costs to BR was the provision of a suitable locomotive and crew for each day the local feeder service ran and ensuring that there was space for it on the timetable for the route(s) it ran on; in some cases 2 crews would be needed to complete the feeder service in a day. BR wrote out to over 30,000 companies in the UK who might use but were not using Speedlink and got very little response.
Just what the hospital needed was traffic pollution, true. Today, the biggest pollution will be all the electro smog from our Wi-Fi routers and wireless transmitters everywhere that can't be healthy for us in the long run, yet there's no concern over this, and why would the government and the telecommunications be concerned about that when there's profits to be made?.
