LOOKING BACK - BRISTOL IN THE 1950s
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2022
- THE 1950s WAS A TIME WHEN BRISTOL REALLY STARTED TO RECOVER FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. THE NEW BROADMEAD SHOPPING CENTRE WAS CONSTRUCTED THROUGH THE FIFTIES. THE QUEEN'S CORONATION IN 1953 WAS A TIME FOR REJOICING AND MEANT STREET PARTIES THROUGHOUT THE CITY. MEANWHILE A BIG REDEVELOPMENT SCHEME AT BARTON HILL SWEPT AWAY THE OLD VICTORIAN STREETS AND REPLACED THEM WITH BLOCKS OF HIGH RISE FLATS. CAR OWNERSHIP WAS VERY LOW AND MOST BRISTOLIANS USED THE BUS SERVICES. SOME OF THESE IMAGES ARE NOT BRILLIANT QUALITY BUT DO PORTRAY WHAT BRISTOL WAS LIKE DURING THE PERIOD.
Great pictures of Bristol before they ruined it. I grew up there in 50s and 60s and the grass and beautiful flowers in the center was a haven a place you could sit and relax. Thanks for posting 🥰
Bristol City council ruin everything, the excuse of having to clear bomb damage was just an excuse to clear whatever they wanted to clear! I liked Broadmead before the galleries were built (Fairfax house)
No 4 along Bath Rd Totterdown
I went to St Ursula's school in the 50's. Still have my coloring book with pictures and teacher's comments.
heartwarming to see, heartbreaking to see what BCC has done to our city.
Great video, thanks for sharing. Bristol had a lot more character in the 50s
Hello Stuart. Thanks. Regards Dave.
Heartbreaking to see how lovely Bristol once was even the bomb damage looks better than the ugly graffitied dump I see today
Unfortunately graffiti has been allowed to ruin the look of Bristol. Regards Dave.
Enjoyed reminiscing old days in Bristol.
It has changed so much. Regards Dave.
I'm a child of the 50's & 60's around Bristol although I lived south of the city my mother would bring me in on the bus and I can remember when the Bristol bus station was in princes st next to princes St Bridge on the city docks that was the day's I remember in my life.
Happy days. Regards Dave.
Enjoyed looking at these Dave. Trouble is I become melancholy - how different the streets were…clean. When the city Center looked quite beautiful with all those flowers and lawned areas. Go through the Center now, on foot, you risk life and limb with scooters cutting you up. And don’t start me on how dirty that part of town is! When was the last time it was cleaned? 🏴
Everything you say is true. Regards Dave.
I haven't been into the city for 4 yrs, and since the tax on entering, never will
I haven't been back to Bristol, properly, in thirty years.
Something tells me that l'd feel a lot more at-home in these photos than in today's Bristol... Many thanks, Dave.
You've done wise to stay away!
@@shaneraines2094 So l've heard, Shane!
It has changed so much. Regards Dave.
Fascinating. Some subtitles would have helped identify some of the less obvious photographs.
Bristol was so much nicer then not like how it is now........ And they call it progress
I own many books on historic Bristol, and many since photgraphy recorded the City Center's changes. As the record shows, the City Center has been changed many times over the last century.
It is my opinion, that with every change, the City center has become less and less attractive, OR effective, in allowing the flow of traffic to pass through. It is now, an eyesaw.
I remember as an 8 year being taken to the centre and walking around that big green in the middle of the road and being in awe at queen Elizabeth's crown sat right in the middle.it must have been just after her coronation.(perhaps I dreamt it)
Hello Lynda. Yes there was a big crown on the Centre. Regards Dave.
@@historymandave4739 And the crown idea was repeated for the Bristol 600 celebrations in the early 70s
The centre near the Hippodrome looks like a beautiful European city. Whose idea was it to construct the present modern awfulness?
I rode on the zoo elephant in early 50's. I remember her being Dinah. Eventually animal rights activists had that stopped.
Well done Dave. I came to Bristol in '52 t was so much nicer then. Hard to imagine now that it's turned into graffiti city, occupied by layabouts, wasters, students (far too many) and a large detritus of humanity, all led by our wonderful useless Labour council, and the "woke" brigade.
The lord mayor just said of our finest in temple meads 2 lovely old victorian bulildings he was glad to see them go ,well theve been covered up for 20 years what a useless coment .give em concrete and clay steel and glass .city now run by morons making one way streets to pollute. So traffic goes round and round
95% gone today.🥹