KETTERING TOWN CENTRE 1963 - RARE 8MM FILM FOOTAGE
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2024
- This nostalgic video of the town centre in Kettering, Northants in 1963 was originally shot on Super 8 cine film by the late Phillip Barlow. For more vintage film and photographs, check out the Facebook page Tony Smith's Kettering on this link: / oldkettering
Who from Kettering here nice to see old monuments and the church still looks the same so it must be really old
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This is 11yrs before I was born but they still used the same united counties green buses when I was a kid there.
Good piece of film if a bit squashed.Pity about the ridiculous music,I half expected to see Buster Keaton in it.
I thought the music was good and its happy music, but it was music akin to one of the old American comedy shorts.
We moved to Kettering in 60s
Then it was all intact and Charming
Woah
Sadly they're all bits that haven't changed much.
I'm here because of James Acaster.....
I think at this time he was just a twinkle in someone's eye!
He's my nephew!
I went school with his brother steve. Was a truly wonderful person and a great friend. I would often go round his parents house for dinner as a teenager. Was always a barrel of laughs. The whole family all are very talented at a multitude of things and all truly wonderful people. James always was extremely funny. Steve if you ever read this, I’m still playing guitar. Well trying to. All thanks to you my friend. Guitar has become a huge part of my life and I owe it all to you. Been 20 years, would be great to catch up sometime.
Proper town back then
Back in the days when it was safe to ride a pedal bike on the road as opposed to nowdays when riding a pedal bike on the road is self suicide.
Born here in 1945. The town was great back in the 50's ,hardly any crime. Saturdays were Woolies days, the market, Bell and Billows, and of course Saturday morning pictures at the Granada. All changed when the new centre came about, it ripped the heart out of the town. Very fond memories of the early days.
@@michaelyates5976 I was born in 1960 and how I wish I could go back to those days as opposed to now in 2020. Fair enough we live a better lifestyle nowdays but if you go back to the 50s and 60s, well you know what I mean and Britain was different then.
@@tonitg8021 Nice to hear from you Toni. Yes, far less money about then and hardly any tech stuff. My battery powered Dansette record player was the nearest to high tech that I reached. But I think that people were far healthier then, less junk food and far more exercise. Fish'n'chips were virtually the only takeaway available then. My earliest recollection was 1/3d. (6p) for cod and chips, batter bits were free lol. Chips were 3d. a bag and there was an uproar when the price went up to 4d. Great days and as you say, a different Britain altogether. Are, or were you, a Kettering person?
@@michaelyates5976 I was born in North London and lived close to North London until I moved to Sheffield in 2003. Back in the 1960s when I was young the only junk food we had was fish and chips as the foreign influence was yet to come and Britain was still British. We used to get free crackling from the fish and chip shops and then the Wimpy arrived and then we used to start going to the Wimpy for Wimpy and chips back in the early 70s for about 26 pence. I remember the old currency and black and white tele with two channels and the rag and bone man coming round on horse and cart and the first music player I has was one of those small cassette players that we had in the early 70s. Its a Britain that's gone and never coming back.
Hasn't changed at all really
Actually, Gold Street has changed considerably - the old Post Office buildings seen in the video were demolished in the mid-70s to make way for the Newborough Centre (now Newlands).
@@Cytringanian I mean around sheep street. Same old buildings by look of it.
It has. Its a third world dump now. All foreign and dirty food shops as all the decent shops have gone, horrible place now 😢
Wonderful, no "diversity" at all. Great days.
the bigotry and xenophobia on this thread reminds me of one of the reasons I left Kettering in 1988...narrow streets breed narrow minds...
Thanks for the heads-up - I've removed the offending comments!