Bob Hinton talks about old Aylesbury
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- Опубликовано: 24 апр 2020
- In 2002 I interviewed 97 year old Bob Hinton, an Aylesbury man who lived on Highbridge Road. I brought a pile of postcards and photographs with me to show him. The video shows most of what he saw when he was talking about them. For clarity I've added a few extra images to help tell the story. You will notice his old accent which has all but disappeared. This is a valuable record of how Aylesburians used to sound before the London overspill.
For more great images please visit the website at www.aylesburyremembered.com
I knew Bob well. I used to be a taxi driver in Aylesbury and right up to his death in 2005 I used to take him fish and chips every Friday lunchtime and sit with him for an hour in his kitchen in Highbridge Road and as he ate only small portions I was always offered and ate (!) half of it. Bob was a truly wonderful man with a marvellous memory particularly of his days at Rivets where he worked between 1919 until 1972. For 50 years until his death he lived in a bungalow that he had built in Highbridge Road. I never tired of hearing that rich accent of Bob and this video is to be treasured. How anybody can give this a thumbs down is completely beyond me,
I actually Googled ‘Aylesbury accent’ to get here. I’m in Australia. My grandfather Eric Hicks was born in Aylesbury in 1904. He married my Nana Muriel Ellen and they came to Australia in 1948. My dad Martin turned 6 on the boat over.
I'm glad you found this channel. What an interesting story.
This was so interesting and lovely to hear that old Aylesbury’s accent which has changed so much over the years.
Karl, thank you so much for this video. I was born in Aylesbury in 1960 and can relate to many of the photos and recognise areas of Aylesbury that have changed. I moved to Weston Turville about 30 years ago and met my new neighbour George. He was a Bucks boy and his tone of voice and dialect was so similar to Bobs.
I heard that accent only last year. Still in use by the older farming community. Wonderful ❤
A beautifully put together interview with picture guide .
Mr Hinton clearly enjoyed the interaction, his enthusiasm and pride for his home town’s history, brought to light along the way ...thank you for sharing.
Loving how subtitles are needed...... Our accent almost gorn fa good.
Thank you for posting this. Really enjoyed it...
Glad you enjoyed it
My dad would have loved to have seen this. He was born in Upper Hundreds in 1910, and lived his whole life in Aylesbury. His accent was very similar to Mr. Hintons. He used to get great enjoyment looking through several of the many books that have been published about Aylesbury through the years. My mum met dad when they were working at International Alloys in the Bicester road during the war. Mum worked in the dispensary at the Royal Bucks Hospital for thirty five years.
Wonderful, thanks for the memories. I remember my Dad taking me to see the damage where the land mine landed by Walton pond. I was about 3 years old and was more interested in swinging on the railings round the pond. Miss Baldwins shop near Queens Park where we bought liquorice wood to chew when sweets were rationed. A wonderful film, my late hubby knew Bob Hinton and would have enjoyed this film too.
That is such a beautiful film. What a fabulous gentleman he was. Thank you
At 1:25 building with the white door frame on the right used to be a Dr. Barnardo's home.
Well....that was an absolute delight..a real treasure.Thanks for compiling this and putiing it up
Glad you enjoyed it
My nan and grandad had the same Bucks accent as this man.
Thanks a great video. My Dad was born in Highbridge Walk in 1920.
Ken Grimsure still has a true Aylesbury accent! Great video
you mean ken grimshaw?
big eyes,long hair?
Oh my, not seen him in 40 years
I had been told a bomb had dropped near the pond. But never knew it was true until today. Great video thankyou
At 9:56 the name Plested. There was an ice cream chap called Plested who ran around in a motorcycle and side-car, stopping to sell ice cream cones in the 50's
I believe he was from Stoke Mandeville, is that right?
@@AylesburyRemembered I don't know, all I remember is he used to turn up in the 1950's in Fairmile.
@@alanmackenzie6909 Yes Teddy Plested was from Stoke Mandeville and had a bicycle with the ice cream container on the front. He used to come and park on Chestnut Crescant and us kids all ran home to get aa couple of pennies for an ice cream cornet or wafer. This was in the 1940's soon after the war ended. You couldn't buy ice cream in the shops then, so this was a real treat.
That's a Proper Bucks Accent Karl my Father and his Brother spoke fluent Bucks, The reading Rooms he talked about the same as the Victoria club formerly a Boxing Club I thing were donated by Covent by the Rothchilds the Victoria club to the working Men Born In Aylesbury and I think the reading Rooms were very popular with the Freemasons of Aylesbury who no Doubt Hazell, Watson, and Viney were all members, Bob would have known my Father Who was promoted to an NCO with the Rank of Regimental Sergeant Major in the Oxford and Bucks light infantry after coming back from the war in mainland Europe The old Man like Bob was also a crack shot and I'm pretty sure that Rivetts had their own small arms firing range,my father ran the TA for some years after the War,Cyril Reading was the landlord of the Hen and Chickens another very brave aylesburian that served with my father overseas and i think they both got caught up in the Garage in Hozenbrook France together along with Ken Martin who was a Clicker (foreman) in the Bindery repairshop at Hazells,Kens Family ran Red Rover Buses, wow that bought back some memories of a very happy child hood in Aylesbury Karl and my Grand Mother, Dads side spoke exactly the same.
You're quite correct they are talking with a Bucks accent.
When I worked at “Rivets” I remember seeing a plan of the Spitfire in Bob’s department.Bob and Bill Butcher did the rivet testing.
There's a chap who actually collects old Bifurcated Rivet tins!
nice old time pics ... my great grandad too .. i grew up in mount st and the bakers shop at that time was run by matozza the old italian .. still is i think .
Matozza's bakery has been demolished. There is a dental practice there now.
Aylesbury Remembered : those times I used to sit on the steps of my grandads house and the old Mr Matozza used to give us kids hot Italian bread to taste ... I went to ST Mary’s next door and the bakery smells always filled the playground
I see you are a Weston. Are you related to the duck breeders?
Aylesbury Remembered of course .. direct line .
Aylesbury Remembered . The last person who still has the name at birth and direct father to son linage is my son Sean .
Does anybody know when Bob hinton died as he would be about 115 now if alive today
It says at the end of the video - 2005, a short time after his 100th birthday.
Yes. Watch the film to the end. It’s worth sticking with it.
I lived in Stoke Mandeville village I can remember mum saying under the table boy there is a dodobug going over poit we come as it passed over us and we heard bang as it went off it was about 4pm dad told us it took the building down were live house office now my dad was in Air force so they went up there so some of bob talk is made up
Sorry, Ken I'm having trouble making sense of what you're on about. What do you think Bob made up? He didn't seem the type for telling lies.
We never had a doodlebug (V2 Rocket) land and explode anywhere around Aylesbury. A couple of landmines did, that's all. We had some damage to our house in Carrington Road, some shrapnel came through the roof and made a big hole in Mum and Dads' bedroom ceiling. Other houses down the road had more damage. We kids would lie abed listening to 'our' planes going over at night, usually spitfires, you could recognise the sound.
I was born in no 1 coronation villas. My grand parents were mr and mrs sletcher.