Childhood memories of the 50's come flooding back - feeding the swans, running around the edge of the pond, sometimes getting my socks wet! & eating ice creams which were usually on sale during the summer. Then in my teens I remember picnic lunches with friends before rushing back to the offices of Derbyshire Motors (Kennings) in Derwent Street. Much later I have taken my daughter andthen my grandchildren there. I like the effects used in this video - really brings it to life.
@2infinitee Thanks, Glad you enjoyed the video. Yes even though they are just postcards I tried to make them look lifelike by paning and zooming, I guess my effect worked for you. Andy
Derby has been ruined by developers the quad is already looking grubby and its in the wrong place westfield has wiped out the old town the riverlights is a joke the jurers inn too the bus station we have waited so long for is rubbish people who have lived here all their life will know what i mean .
@nodnops Thanks for the response the quad would be much better on the sight of the old police office block on full street !And would it not have been better to build a new hospital on some of the large plots on pride park it's more central handy for transport with lots of parking plus it's near the old hospital
your right Andy it is progress , but there`s progress and "there`s progress" .take the quad for instance i agree we needed an arts centre but to put it where they did, well what can i say .that would have been ideal between the industrial museum and the former police office block therefore incorporating the importance of the river, but thats just one of many examples and my opinion :-)
@lillabethsmum thats ok lillabethsmum, but have you seen whats in the old chest clinic building opposite , people who are less fortunate than our selves and i don`t mean that in derogatory way ....................
council destroyed many of great buildings n sites those 6 years between 66 n 72 sad really least i had pleasure of witnessing it before was ruined im 55
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Members of Derby City Council should look at these pictures and see how beautiful Derby use to be.
Childhood memories of the 50's come flooding back - feeding the swans, running around the edge of the pond, sometimes getting my socks wet! & eating ice creams which were usually on sale during the summer. Then in my teens I remember picnic lunches with friends before rushing back to the offices of Derbyshire Motors (Kennings) in Derwent Street. Much later I have taken my daughter andthen my grandchildren there. I like the effects used in this video - really brings it to life.
I even remeber in the 1970s when i was a boy it was really popular with the market next to bus station
@2infinitee Thanks, Glad you enjoyed the video. Yes even though they are just postcards I tried to make them look lifelike by paning and zooming, I guess my effect worked for you.
Andy
Loved it - thanks for the memories
i must have been very young but i remember that turtle - as for the Quad i drove the tower crane on that job
@126lma i agree with you because i can remember a lot of old derby..................
Derby has been ruined by developers the quad is already looking grubby and its in the wrong place westfield has wiped out the old town the riverlights is a joke the jurers inn too the bus station we have waited so long for is rubbish people who have lived here all their life will know what i mean .
where did the pics go?I walked there in the 50`s with my mum as a child..... :(
@lillabethsmum Thanks, glad it worked for you.
@nodnops Thanks for the response the quad would be much better on the sight of the old police office block on full street !And would it not have been better to build a new hospital on some of the large plots on pride park it's more central handy for transport with lots of parking plus it's near the old hospital
The river gardens looked better back then
As well, its called progress unfortunately
If you do have any old pics please let us know.
your right Andy it is progress , but there`s progress and "there`s progress" .take the quad for instance i agree we needed an arts centre but to put it where they did, well what can i say .that would have been ideal between the industrial museum and the former police office block therefore incorporating the importance of the river, but thats just one of many examples and my opinion :-)
Never managed to blend old with new have they really . You wouldn't have Lamb with Pasta would you. Not to difficult is it
Beautiful video, well made, shame derby town now looks like a concrete jungle, miss the old ways the town had
I trust you have seen my Quad time-lapse videos then?
Andy
how sad to see the river gardens now a days so decimated by our city fathers !!
I guess its progress.
@lillabethsmum thats ok lillabethsmum, but have you seen whats in the old chest clinic building opposite , people who are less fortunate than our selves and i don`t mean that in derogatory way ....................
council destroyed many of great buildings n sites those 6 years between 66 n 72 sad really least i had pleasure of witnessing it before was ruined im 55