LOOKING BACK - BRISTOL IN THE 1970s 

breaks you're heart to see what it looks like now

A flash back to when I was growing up and taking everything for granted! Ah the good old days! Proud to be a Bristolian!

Much greener back then. Concrete is cheaper to maintain. Sad. Thanks for the video.

Born in easton 1945. Started work 1960, i worked at Colthurst & Harding, Bath Rd Brislington,until my first child was born in 1968.2 buses there and back. When married i moved to Fishponds. Such good photos,bring back memories.😊

Born in the mid-60's..So many great memories growing up in Bristol in the 70's, especially Kingswood and Lockleaze..Great to step back in time for a moment..

Fabulous memories xx left Bristol in 1997 after growing up there x still miss it x

The Brilliantly Sunlit City Center, at 0.42. looks like 1976 summer weather, what a year that was, '75 was great two.

My goodness me, some memories there, how things change. Thank you ❤

2:44 I like the punks photo, that's great.

And quite a few images of stores that are no longer trading; a list as long as your arm.

2.45 think that photo is early 80s. My friend is in the photo.

@2:14 that's my brother Andrew Raines who owned and ran the flower stall outside Thomas Cook for many years until the Council wouldn't grant him a new licence due to the Galleries development.

Traffic still.a nightmare

genuinely interesting seeing what things were like in the 1970s, I wasnt around til mid 80s so this is all new to me, thanks for sharing.

Thoroughly enjoyed that stroll down memory lane. Thanks Dave! 👏 I was a young teenager, living in Bristol and I loved everything about Bristol then. My family moved away in the mid-80's, but each one of us has returned to the city we love. Great pictures, thanks Dave. Keep up the good work.

18 years old, just moved to Bristol as a student. Great city!

Thanks for the memories. I was a student from 1965 t0 1969. Happy days... Rag parades. Corn Exchange 5 bob on a Tuesday night (Uncle Bonny's Chinese R&B jazz club). The new student's union building on a Saturday night. (Beer 1/10d a pint and top bands.) What a time to be alive!

Never see any pics of the mini steam loco’s that chuffed around behind the dock sheds. This was in the late 60’s early 70’s.

Thanks for sharing! Brilliant collection of photos :)

It brings back the view of the old centre near Eagle Star and the 2 way traffic near Lewise as was now Primark

I lived there from 1974 till 1977 working at BAC in Filton. Its just the way I remembered it to be.

Brilliant pictures! I moved to Bristol in 1976, and so much of this is how I remember my early years there.

Lots of memories. I Used to walk from Queens Square bus stops to the top of Park Street to school every day.

That picture of the lane with the old lamp stand is in gloucester rd at the bottom of staple hill going towards soundwell if one not mistaken at the back of my mum's house of place.unbelievable.thsnks for posting.Mint

The photo at 2:48 was taken in February 1982. My husband is in the photo!!

Thoroughly nostalgic for me, thank you!

The guy who owned that bookstore on Christmas Steps actually appeared as himself, in the Kenneth More film set in Bristol, Some People! (1962).

So many memories. Just not the same anymore 😢

Another set of great photos ! Love the old cars, old buildings and the people. Speedway - at Eastville Stadium ? Well done Dave.

Thank you

Park Street with almost no cars on it! Wow.

I lived and worked there once from 1970 to 1980. for a firm of engineers called Strachan & Henshaw of St Phillps Marsh.....that was a long time ago and far away as I am now in OZ.

Amazing! That was my childhood :-)

Lovely! ❤

Last era Bristol was a proud city, all down hill from the 70s onwards. Terrible council decisions one after another has made our city a bloody ruin!

It was a nightmare if you ended up there hitch hiking to London before the M4 was built. I only got lucky once lift from Brittle to the London Royal Mint, but I had to buy the driver an English fry up supper.

Fab video! But isn't that a Mk2 Mondeo on the right in the picture at 0:51?

0:52 how did that get in there?☺️Ford Mondeo? 90's?😂 Lovely collection of photos, though. I'll be 50 this year. I was a boy in the 70's and I remember the orginal layout in the centre and green buses etc. Too young to remember broadmead before pedestrianisation though👀

Thats my home

3:56 Granville Street, Barton Hill. I had a couple of friends who lived there.

Great video so many thanks. I lived in Bristol, Clifton and Cotham, all through the 70s, working for 4 years in Brights/Dingles Department store (Bristol's answer to Harrods) on the Clifton Triangle before joining British Aerospace in Filton. Great times, pubs and clubs. What memories this brings back, what terrific times, and these photos are also a sad reminder of just how nice and attractive central Bristol was back then. Even Broadmead looks fresh here! I was pleased to see a photo of the BristolGuild on Park Street, I loved that shop and still have a treasured watercolour I bought from there! However, I doubt the photos at 3:08 and 3:11 were taken in the 70s; more likely the 50s as the buildings in that street at 3:11 was clean and tidy when I used to go down there. I was expecting a photo of the great and individualistic flyover near Temple Meads, which I am sure everyone fondly remembers! Oh and 12p a pint in pubs and 14p a pint in clubs like Tiffanys (20p entrance fee!). Funnily enough, during the Queen's visit, shown at 3:50, I was working at Brights/Dingles, and everyone went outside to see the queen's procession, including the staff. I popped back inside the store for some forgotten reason, and the entire department store was deserted, with no-one on any of the floors. Everyone was outside; a huge opportunity missed for shop-lifters! I live in Gloucestershire now, but returned a couple of weeks ago to visit the Fleece, walking through Queen Anne's square and visiting the run-down and badly designed centre, and how dispiriting and sad to see what a dump it all is now. Even Blackboy Hill/Whiteladies Rd/Triangle/Park Street are despoiled now and are certainly sign city! Bristol definitely has an image problem. The council have finally got their way and ruined Bristol after 60 years of trying! There is a very interesting video on RU-vid called 'is the heart of Bristol, UK dying?' that shows many of the same areas as they are now and the not particularly feasible or imaginative plans the current mayor/council have for them. Not happy viewing. A link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mbBrx3nQ4Jo.html

And 80s.

I Love this Cyty

Wonderful Pictures Recognised 90% Titles of some of the residential street scenes would be useful

The picture of the punks aoutside Virgin Records at 2.45 was taken in 1982 so,not 70s.

Born in Kingswood, worked in central Bristol all my life. Started in Natwest Court mid 70's. Definitely the golden years. By the time I was 62 I left for South Wales. I have driven through the centre once since then and I have to say that the place has been wrecked. I can remember when mum used to be able to 'pop into town' and park outside Woolworths?

Not sure the Ford Mondeo came out in the seventies......

Not a fast food shop in sight and that greenery by the hippodrome, can always remember in the summer full of colour with flower beds, not like the concrete jungle there now in 2023.

Not everything changes for the better, pics from when Bristol was for the Bristolians

Bristol to me is hardly recognisable anymore , so many beautiful buildings torn down and most cast iron columns removed , replaced with galvanised sticks , some of the loveliest houses in bishopston torn down for 70s junk Berkeley villa and tynesmore being two sad examples, I do what I can to preserve some cast iron lamps buts it gets harder , it was such a lovely city so sad

Bristol is unrecognisable now. 😢

A far cry from the present mish mesh of today!! Progress you can keep it!! Try and find a toilet on the Centre?Much better back then centre island full of flowers and lawns all well tended, The shops to where better, Park street is a disgrace along with Stokes croft, What visitors think when touring the city must think God only knows,Back in the 70's even ordinary people looked smarter than the scruffy lot of today, Seems to me most of the youth's of today buy there clothing from charity shops 😆

@0:53, that was well into the 80s.

It were gert lush. wtf happened?

And now it’s just sad to see what successive councils had done to, completely changed its identity.. rip bristol