Sunday afternoon drive through Old Lower Hutt, 13th Nov 1988
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- Starts on Waterloo Rd at the corner with Bloomfield Terrace. Foodtown supermarket is on the left. Queensgate carpark and Event Cinema are there now. Crosses Queens Drive at the stop sign. Turns left into High Street by Music Manor. Proceeds south across Margaret Street, past the old Post Office on the right, blur of shops on the left with a brief glimpse down Laings Road. The very old block of shops on the right at the south end of High Street has since been demolished. DIC used to be there somewhere, also Smiths Cycles and a computer shop. I remember Woolworths and McKenzies used to be about there too, on opposite sides of the road. Continues past St James Church, around the old roundabout, past Homestead Chicken and the ambulance station (about where KFC used to be), over the old Ewen Bridge and over the new flyover to Railway Ave. Turns right into Aglionby Street and zigzags onto the Normandale bridge.
Shops were closed on Sundays in 1988, so there was very little traffic.
My brother was trying out his brand new Sony CCD-AU200 Video 8 Handycam. I applied a software filter to smooth out the bumps.
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The fact he said it’s a busy Sunday afternoon is what blew my mind, goes to show how much it’s changed over the past 30+ years
You don’t think he was being sarcastic? Back then everything was closed on a Sunday so he was comparing it to a Saturday morning or week day
Hillman's, cortinas, Vauxhalls , mini's, and Ford anglias , boy how times have changed !
Damn the Hutt look more clean and nice in the 1980's than now haha.
Homestead Chicken went into Liquidation in 1989 and was closed down and then KFC opened in it’s place, and it’s a pity, I never had Homestead Chicken. My dad migrated here in the 50s
Grew up in lower hutt . Moved in 1987, was husbands last wish. After visiting the Hutt a few times over the years , realised i couldnt live there again . Best described as dingy and depressed
that was brilliant! !!! I'd forgotten how much noise cars use to make...all the humming and clicking haha
Nice flashback! I miss Homestead Chicken!
No one did roasted potatoes like homestead!! I have never come across anything like them since !
@@melbourn6655 So true, they were the best. I loved their sweetbreads and yellow buns too.
So do I, big time. The chicken, potatoes, chips, sweetbreads and mushrooms were utterly sensational. Kentucky Fried Chicken was bypassed altogether by my family.
there was a Homestead Chicken in Porirua too, it was much nicer than KFC in my eyes back then. This is certainly a great flashback!
Hi I grew up in alicetown 75 to 93 my mates use to have Chompers takeaways high street we use to go to the Family hotel for dinners and the silverball palace great times great video
I shifted to the Hutt in 1962 and again in 1966 to 1981. Such clips are gold!
u know b or k raines
1:00 'gosh it's so busy' lol - compared to nowadays it looks so empty!
Thank you so much for posting this. My parents owned a corner store (dairy) on the corner of Railway Avenue and Hutt Road all through the sixties and I know this area well. Railway Avenue supported two schools, two service stations, four corner stores numerous factories and smaller businesses, and a pub, a very industrial part of Lower Hutt. I remember Railway Avenue being flooded and the Shell service station being partially under water. But the highlight was the day Dad and I stood on top of our shop and watched the Queen and her Husband being driven past (still have the B+W photos). I love those days.
That store - I don't recall a dairy in the exact spot you mention, BUT there was one by the Railway Ave Hutt Central School gate. It did great trade in school lunches and no doubt some grub to DUX manufacturing across the road - the slipper factory and that Tomato sauce company. I know the F&C shop down Victoria Street was also frequented.
When he turned at Petrol Stn ! Must have been close to where your Parents shop was ?? Opposite crn?? Perhaps a few more blocks down though?
The shop was on the corner of Railway Avenue and Hutt Road. Straight across the road from Lower Hutt Railway Station. Incidentally there was a big shunting yard between the Station and Hutt Rd. That whole corner where the shop was is now a car yard. I was there a couple of weeks ago and walked down Railway Avenue onto Victoria Street and turned onto Te Mome Rd and back onto Hutt Rd. A lot of changes as you'd expect after 60 years. The houses are still the same though. We stayed at Petone for a week and the foreshore is looking very rundown, so much tourist potential with the wharf and beach. The local council need a good kick up the backside for letting such a beautiful part of the Harbour go to ruin. Lots of beautiful eateries on Jackson Street. Shout out to The Victoria Tavern, fantastic night.
1:24
Queens arcade and the round donuts fried fresh in the window and the lingering waft down the arcade..
There was a 20c /50c piece stuck into the concrete path just outside towards the High St end, people used to stop and try to pick it up all the time.
The ice cream parlour 🍧
And wizards 👍
Plus the pool hall upstairs
I loved that donut place- alway used to get one after school sometimes ( if I managed to find enough 5 cent pieces
nice to see what a nice place the hutt used to be like, i remember the old ewen bridge
I'm back here again 🤣🤣
Great video. Truly is a time capsule from that era. Nowadays, that area would be packed with early Xmas shopping.
2.07 homestead chicken i used to go there thanks for video
ohh the memories
OH those roast Potatoes,sweetbreads and Mushrooms
Preferred homestead chicken instead of KFC ... come back homestead
When it's gone it's so quickly forgotten. Thanks for the memories.
Wow! I just moved to Lower Hutt a few months ago and it's so crazy how many of these streets haven't changed much. Some of them are totally different though.
The bridge across to Railway Ave is wider now, and more road markings.
Looks at that old damn bridge, this video will become history.
That bridge is still there! Just a wee bit wider now.
A new bridge was built alongside the old one and the old one demolished
My god, this takes me back. I lived on Bridge St (that one as you turn right to Normandale in the last part of the video). Lived in a 1 bedroom flat basically under the bridge. Used to hang out at the Silver Ball Palace I think it was called...I think that would have been around 1984 or so though. I think the pinball place was gone by 1988. Used to drive my Dad's Hillman Hunter - 1725cc of pure grunt LOL.
Probably would of passed u in the silver ball palace,,monarco gp was my favourite racing car game
Ha ha! Hillman Hunter! Man the cars were shit, huh. I remember a mate was one of the first boy racers in Wellington back in 82-3 with a Mazda.
Old Boarding House used to be there, owned by Mr n Mrs Andrews
I lived in Pharazyn st
I grew up in Lower Hutt & left HVSH early 80s, went to the hawkes bay then the UK for about 15 yrs.
Got back to see the Hutt in 2007 and I didn't recognize anything on the high street. The was fantastic to see thank you, starting to remember it now!
This is over ten years before I was even born..
That takes me back. I was actually in England when this was taken, but I moved back to LH from1989 till feb 1993.
Thanks for the memories. A couple of points to bear in mind. Being a Sunday afternoon in Nov 88. - This was a year or so before full Sunday trading arrived in 1990. And obviously, it isn't a 'busy' week day of the period. Also, the first stage of Queens Gate Mall was up and running at this time. Taking some of the emphasis away from the main shopping streets. But overall, what is clear by comparison with the 2020s...Is that today, the roading and driving environment, is much more pressured, congested and micro controlled!! Even though, back in the day. There were some, bottlenecks and 'traffic jams'. Overall the roads were not so cluttered and complicated!
Wow so much but so little has changed, this took me back, I was 5 years old back then being driven around in my Mum's rusty white Mazda 323. Foooooodtown! You were also driving up to my firends house if the video had gone on about a minute more. My house is on Knights Rd very close to the start of this video. I now live overseas but this brings the feels.
I lived in Petone in the 90’s until the late 2000’s. Interesting to see how different it was in the 80’s.
I remember the 70s and 80s very well, I wish we were still living in those days,
Thanks for this clip! I was born in Lower Hutt and spent the first five year (1985-1990) there. My grandparents looked after me during the day whilst my parents worked in town and we used to visit Music Manor quite regularly as there was a cafe/tearoom inside. Nice memories...
That might be "Old Lower Hutt" for you - if so you must be young. So many places I remember are not there, although the Round-about is and so is the Ewan Bridge. Its missing a few theatres. My recollection goes back to 1957. Aglionby Street was all housing, as was "Bridge Street" and that fly-over to Normandale was not thought of. Still it stirred a few memories. I learned to drive up Normandale & saw the machines arrive to start work on Maungaraki. Ah, memories.
It's so nice to see that area, near by Hutt Vally high.where I used to go.Thanks for up roading.
Lived in Acamar flats on Jackson Street 85,86,87 and worked Ajax at Seaview making bolts. Played rugby league for Korodale Valance was our coach awesome days days.
Pretty darn modernised since I was a kid...there was no second overpass over the Ewan Bridge.....the bridge roundabout was smaller.....Lots of road layouts much different.....I'm talking about the fifties lower hutt....!
this has better quailty than bank security cameras.
Hello Peter! Great video! I never lived in the Hutt in the 80s I only moved here 7 years ago from Christchurch so it is great to get a glimpse of what used to be here 26 years ago :-)
Dude I’m 14 and live in the hutt but omg I can name pretty much where every shop is in 2018😂🙏🏼
A bit of a time capsule. Remember penny farthing cycles on the corner near that round about. Also they used to put huge candles on that round about at xmas
That could be really cool as a throw back!
In retrospect Foodtown would have been the ideal location to have filmed! As that area has changed the most.
Omg those public bins!!! Nostalgic
more than 30 years past, and it still looks the same to the past
Thanks for this. It's amazing how you have this. Lots of memories..
Thoroughly enjoyed this blast from the past.
Grew up in Eastbourne but lived in petone ,maungaraki,normandale ,,central hutt pillmure st by hospital,,now living in Brisbane,,,but that was a blast from the past thanks for posting that
"Gosh its so busy!"
Is it?
Lower Hutt was awesome for a kid in the 80’s to early 90’s, so many cool shops. Now… forget about it
Like 3 of my magic mushy spots are in this video
Where bro?
That was awesome, thanks for sharing.
Geesh I remember the Hutt looking like that back in the early - late 80’s I was living in White line East back then 👌
Hi Peter from your old friend and church buddy ... loved this video and reminded me of HVHS days.
Thanks Sian, great to hear from you! Our Mums were best friends.
Great video, enjoyed a blast from the past! At 2:04 is Vogel House (PM residence during Muldoon years) behind that church? An what year was Homestead built across road from that church? Maybe Muldoon bought the odd dinner there haha. I was just there in June this year driving around in a 1987 Ford LTD 😀
Fantastic
I was eight back then - no roundabout at 0:24, Music Manor i can remember very clearly, Food-town a vivid memory, 0:10 the days before Queensgate-Westfield was expanded into what it is now, the Ewan bridge is was not as wide or as many lanes as it is now, the cyclist at 1:53 without the helmet or Hiviz (mind you helmets where not compulsory until c. 1993) and a "busy" sunday afternoon on the roads - This was the days when shops where not allowed to open on a sunday - Its completely different today and if your 10 years younger than i am you probably wouldnt recognize many parts of lower hutt as it was back then compared to now.
Chris Heffernan i worked on the VIC corner in the mid 70s where PackNSave is now. Miss the old cake shop across the road.
Used to travel over the Ewen Bridge from Wainui to get to General Motors in Ava, was there during the 76 floods.
Wowsers..I was born and bred in lower Hutt from 1973 until November of 1993..
Brings back memories..pity you didn't show case the queensgate mall which would have been in it's infancy..
November of 88 would have been finishing my 4th form year but where ?? And 15 year's old..
I'm surprised I'm not in the video out chasing skirt...
Albert Einstein said time is an illusion, you video is so vivid~ thanks~~~
Einstein also married his first cousin so he couldn’t have been that smart🤷🏻♂️
The good old days
good to know that the poor roundabout layout right before the petone bridge has been there for the last 33 years minimum!!
Wow who would ever recorded in those times.. smart thinking...look how much the hutt has changed since then ..
Mean video..
The noise the car makes brings back good memories for me.
Niiiiice. Born 1976 here, Wainuiomata.
And the hutt was the place 2b.
Thank you for sharing. How I could go back now and not return. Anyone else?
i adore lower hutt🙂
Back when High street was actually popular 🤣
I used to live in Alicetown then, moved away in 1990. Those streets are very familiar! Murray's Computer Village was on the right down towards the end of High St.
awesome video, i remember that old homestead chicken by the roundabout green and yellow building. oO better than kfc in my opinion
WOW!!! What a blast from the past. There used to be an awesome pie shop first building on the right at 0:04. Haven't been in the Hutt for 20 odd years.
I remember it!! Realsen Pies, or something like that
@@cheeseisdelicious111 That's right. It was Realsen Pies! Good memory.
Realson pies ( I think) I remember when they opened - so yummy!
@@melbourn6655 That's right. Well done. Yes, very tasty.
Finally got my bearings when the dudes reached the roundabout heading for Ewen Bridge 😀
Looks familiar, I was teaching at HVHS at the time.
“Its so busy” compared to nowdays thats pretty much empty 😂
Reminds me of why it was safe for me to cycle around there as a kid :). My cousin did manage to crash his motorbike (with me on the back) though on High St, on a Sunday, by driving into a parked car!! Wow...I just looked up...the video was exactly where we crashed ;) ??!
Gees I remember all of this back in the 80s
It's similar to Lower Hutt, in the mid-late 1970's. Traffics a bit busier these days, and a few changes to the skyline.
Gotta love that RUclips algorithm. I watch a couple of 100 year old videos of drives through New York and LA, and next thing I’m watching a 33 year old video from my own city.
And very little has changed since then. Just more traffic and more lights.
Man I missed the 90s when da LH was still young
Awesome! :)
Reminds me of how the Hutt was throughout the 90's.
That was a cool ride 36 years ago round the Hutt ow lot off building replaced alright Ge 9 years later moved too Lower Hutt Naenae 1997 moved back Waikato 2022 far out
Thanks mate.
All those classic cars, wonder how many survived?
I lived in Alicetown but moved to Aussie in March of 88". 50Tama street, First left after the bridge WoW some 29 years ago. But...I'm interested to know about this video & on what device it's been recorded? There were no phone's with cameras. I'm guessing, a video cassette recorder? VHS or Beta...đã haha.. Na let us know. Choice video, Farr memory's. I always wondered about the place after we left Aotearoa. This is cool I'mgonna watch it again & then share this on Facebook
It was a trial with my brother's first video camera, a Sony CCD AU200 Handycam. It recorded to Video 8 cassette tape
I use to live in Alicetown Valentine st. left nz 4years ago now live in melbourne. And my aunty use to live on Montique st. The old Toyware House is now Hunting & Fishing right on that corner of shops..
Left in 86 so this is clearly how I remember it.
Lower Hutt ❤
hasn't been changed much since 1988 , except the traffic
Man, that takes me back to being at Silverstream
We moved to lower hutt April 1969 540high St still there live Australia now
Apart from the cars it’s pretty similar now days
Wow I remember this....
t about that era, oh i wish i was still there good memories
The Valley Inn, Worked at Ford (Seaview) lived in Pharazyn St Old Boarding House 1 owned by Mr n Mrs Andrews and the other owned by Mr Mckay? Maybe McEwan? Not Sure now. Early Seventys.
Omgggg the mopars
This is like time travel! I wonder what people in this video are doing today.
Cool video!
That was on my 8th Birthday
Such a cool video! Was New World where it is now? Across from Queensgate?
Why does this entire video feel like a rally race car with the passenger sounding like a proper British co-driver
Wow the Hutt used to be so much nicer
I can name the make and model of every car you passed . Dam I’m getting old . 😉
Hi Peter - I would love to use this clip for an upcoming project I am working on. Is there a way I could get in touch with you? Thank you
Are you sure this isn't before 1986? Because Queensgate was opened in 1986 and this footage shows foodtown where Queensgate should be.
This 1988 footage is after the first part of Queensgate opened and before Queensgate was extended over the Foodtown site
Anyone remember cream can ice cream shop across the road from KFC. If we were good the old lady used to drive us there in her awesome orange mini. LoL
When every new car looked like a honda accord and every old car looked like an austin
Hi Peter, Your cool video of the streets of Lower Hutt is going viral on a car page, what we are all trying to guess is what make & model of car you are in, can you you enlighten us please. Thanks Richard
Hi Richard, That's great :) It was my brother's first car: a 1976 yellow 2-door Toyota Corolla stationwagon. I think its reflection can be glimpsed in one or more shop windows.
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Thanks Peter, I've passed it onto the group, they have had a lot of fun with it. I've posted a link on the group to your excellent Along the Hutt Valley Line video on there also as it has some goo car shots in it. Are you related to Robbie McGavin? You can see it posted here: facebook.com/groups/642607519153649/
Hi Richard, Yes Robbie is another of my brothers. He filmed the Hutt Valley line trains when he was 15 or 16, using up his life savings in the process.
Hi Peter, small world, I Knew Robbie back in the 60's as well as your Dad Tom, been to Totara Street a few times, I lived in Waiwhetu from 1956-66 and was always hanging around Woburn & Hutt Shops photographing trains.
Ahhh the good old days 😊
Cool..I was 7 living in mt vic at the time ..must of had a flash camera for 1988 ?