Twickenham to Teddington 2012

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  • Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
  • This video replicates the journey of the first Trolleybus from Twickenham to Teddington then onto Fulwell Garage, filmed on 16th May 1931.
    This dual version shot in March 2012 replicates the same shots as used in the original.
    The new version features the current Mayor of Richmond-upon-Thames, Cllr. Clare Head
    It was filmed by local TV Cameraman Alan Benns.
    It will be shown at Trolleybus 50, Fulwell Garage Open Day on 12th May 2012.

Комментарии • 30

  • @patsyb63
    @patsyb63 3 года назад +1

    Wonderful. Thankyou

  • @leebennett2387
    @leebennett2387 11 лет назад

    I grew up in Teddington and still make that journey now and again....fascinating to watch..Thanks Alan!

  • @HQBProductions
    @HQBProductions 12 лет назад

    What a very clever film and something I have pondered about many times. Really excellent and most interesting. I wish we had similar films from all over the Country.

  • @AlanBenns
    @AlanBenns  12 лет назад +1

    Many thanks, glad you like it. Have been trying to do this for two years.

  • @AlanBenns
    @AlanBenns  12 лет назад

    Cheers Butch, I don't suppose it will get as many views as the original but glad I was able to make it with the help of the garage and LT Museum. There is an open day at Fulwell Garage on May 12th. 2012 with lots of buses coming from other museums. I will be filming that day as well.

  • @wildbsc
    @wildbsc 11 лет назад +1

    Yep great thanks for sharing. I used to ride on that old trollybus route to visit my aunt Lilly in Ferry rd. Haha! Notice they have knocked a church down at that fork dont often knock a church down do they. Thanks again Will

  • @GEricG
    @GEricG 9 лет назад +1

    This is absolutely incredible.

  • @TheBamBamLove
    @TheBamBamLove 12 лет назад

    Amazing how little has changed in such a long time!! Great video.

  • @kk-transport
    @kk-transport 4 года назад

    Can't lie this is actually so cool

  • @dawnmoors539
    @dawnmoors539 3 года назад

    Love seeing the TUbor Lager advert a nice beer that is

  • @JimboCelt
    @JimboCelt 12 лет назад

    Well done. I live in the area, really fascinating.

  • @piranhavitana
    @piranhavitana 12 лет назад

    Really good, great to see what has changed in the last eighty years and what has stayed the same. Maybe in another 80 years we will have electric vehicles again!

  • @HennaK17
    @HennaK17 12 лет назад

    This is awesome. :')
    Hope they do this again with the flying buses in 70 years time. :)

  • @crossleydd42
    @crossleydd42 4 года назад

    The original film shows many of the antiquated trams (far older than their contemporaries elsewhere in London) which was the reason why LUT decided to convert the route from Wimbledon outwards to trolleybuses. The 'sparks' effect gave a tremendous rise in passenger numbers on the old tram routes. Removal of the tram tracks also reduced track maintenance and road repair costs dramatically.

    • @harstan7333
      @harstan7333 11 месяцев назад +1

      I lived close to Fulwell Depot 1949-73 and worked in Twickers 1966-73, so all of this is very nostalgic for me! In fact, the tram tracks were still extant in Heath Road, Twickenham (under the tarmac) until dug-up during road widening c1968. The tarred wood blocks recovered from the roadway were much prized locally for the fireplace! And I could tell some tales about 'accidentally' de-wired trolleybuses, especially where the 601 and 667 routes split at the end of Stanley Road!

    • @crossleydd42
      @crossleydd42 11 месяцев назад

      @@harstan7333 I used to travel on these trolleybuses, built in 1931, with my mother from Raynes Park to Kingston sometimes, for shopping - routes 604 and 605. Somehow the frail bodies on them (built for a ten year lifespan) were kept together until 1948, when they were replaced by brand new trolleybuses, the last that London Transport ever bought. Each pair of overhead wires from Fulwell Garage were closer together than what the newly-formed London Transport used from 1933 and had to be made wider to the revised standard. The vehicles initially interfered with household radio reception and two drums were put on the roofs containing suppression equipment to cure that. You can clearly see these on the video.

  • @rayrobinson3535
    @rayrobinson3535 5 лет назад

    Grew up on in Twickenham in Carpenters Court on Hampton Road just past the green. Can just remember the old trolley buses and the pole they carried to reattach to the overhead lines when they came of. Pity the film misses the section by Carpenters Court as I would have liked to have seen the almshouses that were on the site before the council flats.

  • @robtyman4281
    @robtyman4281 5 лет назад

    Wow, great archive footage, and nice how the modern day route compares with the same route back in the 30s - Amazing! I notice there's a church on a corner of a junction in the old footage (1:28), but no church at all in the 2012 footage of the same place. I'm guessing it's because the church was bombed in WW2 and demolished soon after. Could be wrong but that's probably why there's no church on the same site in the 2012 footage.

    • @merstone2005
      @merstone2005 11 месяцев назад

      There IS a replacement church there, but it's single storey, set back and is hidden behind the trees.

  • @TomeRodrigo
    @TomeRodrigo 7 лет назад

    not sure if those trees on twickenham green are the same !! 85 years older? They would have to be more massive. What do you think?

    • @robtyman4281
      @robtyman4281 5 лет назад

      They probably are the same trees, but remember they will have been pruned (coppiced) many times since 1931, and the 1931 film is from mid May with the trees in near full bloom, whereas the 2012 film is from March, so the leaves won't be out.

  • @AbsolutelyRuwaydah
    @AbsolutelyRuwaydah 10 лет назад

    `This is amazing x

    • @AlanBenns
      @AlanBenns  10 лет назад

      AbsolutelyRuwaydah Well....thank you.

  • @alastairsaint9631
    @alastairsaint9631 9 лет назад

    any chance of a an extended version with no places skipped?

    • @AlanBenns
      @AlanBenns  9 лет назад

      alastair saint That is all the available old footage that I had.

  • @robertsmith5970
    @robertsmith5970 6 лет назад

    Very interesting and cleverly done though would have preferred popular music of 1931 as background.

  • @lukestanbridge9750
    @lukestanbridge9750 10 лет назад

    Wow!

  • @AlanBenns
    @AlanBenns  12 лет назад

    I would have liked to re cast everyone, but I think Health and Safety might have had something to say about it!

  • @7franny7
    @7franny7 12 лет назад

    I cant believe there used to be a church, I mean a proper church at the beginning of Tedington Highstreet!