I moved to Plymouth in 1999, and sad to say so many shops gone, used to love Woolies, Derry's and Dingles at Christmas, with all the Christmas decorations used to put me and my Mum is the festive spirit. I absolutely love Plymouth
Well done for filming this, as the years go by film will become even more fascinating, I left Plymouth in 1996 and have many fond memories of the city.
@@anythingbootneck You're welcome Paul. I didnt realise it was you... or maybe I posted that rep;ly before you came to my channel, not sure, anyway have a nice day, and ps... we just talking about you today and what others videos im supposed to be doing for you, seeing as the weather is picking up 👍
Wonderful and evocative film. This kind of record is the thing we all forget to do; stop and appreciate the world around us. This is a snapshot of Plymouth as I remember it, exactly at the time I left Devon to go to university. The Drake Cinema in Derrys Cross, Dillons, Woolworths, The Virgin Mega Store, Dingles, Currys (where the camera was bought!) and so much more, are all just part of history now. I loved shopping in Plymouth in those days.
Great video! 😍I'm only 22 but I remember many of these shops that are no longer here. I slightly remember the old Drake Circus before the mall was built as well. 😁
I was 6 at the time and remember Plymouth like this. Plymouth is a great city, wedged between the sea and the moors and with a unique heritage and feel... what city can boast that? Love Plymouth.
I think Plymouth is crap which is a shame really because like you said it's between the sea and the moors and has lots of potential to be a great unique city but no it's full of chavs and grey uninspired buildings
Plymouth is a complete pit. went there not long ago and it has the feel of one of those damp, dreary soviet cities that westerners weren't supposed to see. Shame really as the place has so much potential. knock down some of those giant grey lego sets and hire a decent architect or two and Plymouth could be the showpiece of England.
@Chris Page but he’s telling the truth. Plymouth is ugly and washed out it needs a change, if the city was never completely blitzed in ww2 it would look so much netter
Had to laugh at the start, the film captured the typical Plymouth weather perfectly. Damp, draughty, dismal, and dreary.🤣 A peek out of my window at present simply reinforces that opinion. Sad to see so many shops in the film which are now closed and gone. I think the Council have tried their hardest to dissuade people from shopping in the city centre with all the obstructions introduced, (subways replaced with a myriad of traffic light-controlled crossings and sky-high parking fees). I avoid the place now unless I absolutely HAVE to go there. I like the video though, and the city in general - well done, a snapshot from history.😃
Brings back happy memories. I lived and grew up in the South Hams, just outside the Plymouth border. But visited the city center many times. I was there from 1976 until I went off to college in 1985. Came back in 1989 and worked at the dockyard for a year, then moved to East Anglia for work. Eventually moved to the USA in 1994 but have come back for visits every year until just recently (work and covid put paid to recent travel plans). Looking forward to coming back for a visit in 2022.
Ha! I was 16 then -even before McDonald's I believe! Does look uglier today, but thank H&M for bringing fashion kicking and screaming into the 20th century-no more double denim!!
I was born in 1951 and brought up in Plymouth ,so I consider the city to be my home. My father had a hand in rebuilding part of the city centre , working on the Dingles and Spooner department stores after the war. I also had a very small part to play in the pedestrianisation of the city centre when I worked for the contractors laying out the gardens and water features in Armada way. As a personal opinion, The city lost its "soul" when the city fathers pedestrianised New George St. and New Cornwall St. it was then that the decline started. I left the city in 1995 and only returned for a visit in 2019 the rate of shops that I remember that are now closed was shocking.
Nice film. Hubby can see his old room in the Hoe Centre at 4.04 when he was at the Polytechnic (1975). Sad to see the old NAAFI building which was used as a hall of residence for the Poly bulldozed for another soulless Tesco. We had some great discos there. So much else has gone - Pennycomequick Inn, The Waterloo, the Provvie cider heaven, Union Street railway bridge to Millbay and so much more. City Council took advantage of a BOGOF on speed cameras though!
Was definately 1992 as at 03:12 it has a shot of Derrys Cross and you can make out the sign on the TSW building- which closed 31/12/92 and sold to a solicitors.
Well this is brilliant. I sort of want to re-create this video now in 2018 to compare the difference, I did take me while to work out where I was. I was 6 in 1992 and I remember most of Plymouth like this as a child.
Like many, it's nice to relive old memories of Plymuff. Just wondered if you had any pictures or any other videos of the city (Drakes Circus & Mutley), from the late 80's?
Well the biggest change the city has had in recent times is the abomination that is the 3rd incarnation of Drake Circus but the previous Drake Circus wasn't included in this video which sucks it would be cool if some footage of someone walking around the area exists but all I can find is pictures of it. Other changes would be the Drake cinema is now a casino and the car park next to it is now a building. Also the mayflower carpark and overpass is gone. The majority of the subways have been filled up, the University has had a giant new building. Also I hear Brentonside bus station is being demolished to make way for some sort of cinema complex. So really a lot of big changes to the city centre have happened.
Apart from in this video it’s seems to be a lot on British people. The same video today you’d wonder where in the world it was filmed. Far to many foreigners now!
J.J. Yes correct bretonside is gone and a new cinema complex is being built. It’s in the final stages and should be complete in a few months. Also they filled in the subways there so more to add to the list of gone 😞
Some of it was dreadful (Millbay particularly). Its a pity that the Royal Parade underpass and the NAAFI building has gone though. Woolies closing, Poundworld, Top Shop & Debenhams have gone - they complain about that in every town!
Interesting. What strikes me is a lot of Plymouth is still the same 30 years ago they got rid of the wooden animals recently but they were for 30 years so that's all right.
SO sad the lovely old trees in Armada Way which, thirty three years younger in your video, have been savagely secretly and at night by Plymouth Council. Such vandalism and hatred for mature trees and the insects and birds which lived in them and indifference to the views of the inhabitants of people. Many people love trees especially mature trees... PS How on earth do you cross ( as a pedestrian) that 6 lane highway which is the city 'centre'?
i dont think this video is 1992 because they didnt demolish the back of the herald building until march 1993 i was still working in the herald in 1992 i would guess it is 1994
J.J. At 2.45 mins the camera pans in on a building opposite Woolworths the windows are boarded up, this was the Western Morning News and Herald building.
To look at this area of Plymouth today you will see to let signs on a lot of the shop windows the Plymouth high street is dead nearly the city is not what it use to be it is as almost as if it is systematically being killed off
@@rehan2118 - I'm afraid that's the case. Practically all problems (even the really tiny insignificant ones) in today's society are caused by foreign people...... Back then when we hardly had any foreigners as you can see it was a rarified utopia......
I moved to Plymouth in 1999, and sad to say so many shops gone, used to love Woolies, Derry's and Dingles at Christmas, with all the Christmas decorations used to put me and my Mum is the festive spirit. I absolutely love Plymouth
What do you think about the destruction of the trees in Armada Way ( shown, thirty years younger, in the video) ?
So much lovely greenery ,the trees made it look clean and natural.
Well done for filming this, as the years go by film will become even more fascinating, I left Plymouth in 1996 and have many fond memories of the city.
Paul B how could you leave 😂
@@experiment54 Hi, only just spotted this reply! Thanks again for the filming you did for me.
@@anythingbootneck You're welcome Paul. I didnt realise it was you... or maybe I posted that rep;ly before you came to my channel, not sure, anyway have a nice day, and ps... we just talking about you today and what others videos im supposed to be doing for you, seeing as the weather is picking up 👍
Great video. Filmed at a time when camcorders were didn’t fit in your pocket and cost the earth. Well done!! Much appreciated.
Wonderful and evocative film. This kind of record is the thing we all forget to do; stop and appreciate the world around us. This is a snapshot of Plymouth as I remember it, exactly at the time I left Devon to go to university. The Drake Cinema in Derrys Cross, Dillons, Woolworths, The Virgin Mega Store, Dingles, Currys (where the camera was bought!) and so much more, are all just part of history now. I loved shopping in Plymouth in those days.
It will remind the Council of the trees they have destroyed....
Great video! 😍I'm only 22 but I remember many of these shops that are no longer here. I slightly remember the old Drake Circus before the mall was built as well. 😁
I was 6 at the time and remember Plymouth like this. Plymouth is a great city, wedged between the sea and the moors and with a unique heritage and feel... what city can boast that? Love Plymouth.
I think Plymouth is crap which is a shame really because like you said it's between the sea and the moors and has lots of potential to be a great unique city but no it's full of chavs and grey uninspired buildings
Plymouth is a complete pit. went there not long ago and it has the feel of one of those damp, dreary soviet cities that westerners weren't supposed to see. Shame really as the place has so much potential. knock down some of those giant grey lego sets and hire a decent architect or two and Plymouth could be the showpiece of England.
Chris Page 😘
@Chris Page but he’s telling the truth. Plymouth is ugly and washed out it needs a change, if the city was never completely blitzed in ww2 it would look so much netter
I have so many happy memories tied up in Plymouth..Great footage. Thanks for posting.
+Terry
Thank you Terry, I just wish I had taken a lot more.I do remember taking film of Plymouth around 1966 but where it went I have no idea
All good decent shops and stores have gone now, it's just full of outlets selling rubbish Chinese goods and student accommodation. Sad times.
There are quite a few beauty shops doing nails and other stuff now so that’s a good earner many didn’t see coming
Malsmith. Yep I agree.
it certainly looks prettier and cleaner than now
No I think it's prettier now.
@@r4h4alI think you need to go to Spec Savers mate.
Those lovely trees, thirty years on, have been destroyed by Plymouth City Council ( a year ago?)
Wow I was 11 years old then. Great memories. Thanks for sharing. Hoping to move back soon
Fond memories I was 23 then. I live in Scotland now, miss plymuff though.
Crying. Take me back
Amazing video thanks for uploading! Shocking how much still looks exactly the same!
Simon Pitt dance academy 😊
The trees have been destroyed ( cut down recently by the Council)
great video!! shot, the year I moved to Plymouth so I remember many of these places so well!! Thanks for uploading this.
Had to laugh at the start, the film captured the typical Plymouth weather perfectly. Damp, draughty, dismal, and dreary.🤣 A peek out of my window at present simply reinforces that opinion. Sad to see so many shops in the film which are now closed and gone. I think the Council have tried their hardest to dissuade people from shopping in the city centre with all the obstructions introduced, (subways replaced with a myriad of traffic light-controlled crossings and sky-high parking fees). I avoid the place now unless I absolutely HAVE to go there.
I like the video though, and the city in general - well done, a snapshot from history.😃
Brings back happy memories. I lived and grew up in the South Hams, just outside the Plymouth border. But visited the city center many times. I was there from 1976 until I went off to college in 1985. Came back in 1989 and worked at the dockyard for a year, then moved to East Anglia for work. Eventually moved to the USA in 1994 but have come back for visits every year until just recently (work and covid put paid to recent travel plans). Looking forward to coming back for a visit in 2022.
where abouts in south hams? im just outside Holbeton
@@Harryjw67 Grew up in Brixton
god i was 15 then,the pace is definitely alot faster now, excellent footage, virgin megastore 😔
Ha! I was 16 then -even before McDonald's I believe! Does look uglier today, but thank H&M for bringing fashion kicking and screaming into the 20th century-no more double denim!!
I miss Plymouth and was here in 1992 enjoying Union Street good times.
I was born in 1951 and brought up in Plymouth ,so I consider the city to be my home. My father had a hand in rebuilding part of the city centre , working on the Dingles and Spooner department stores after the war. I also had a very small part to play in the pedestrianisation of the city centre when I worked for the contractors laying out the gardens and water features in Armada way. As a personal opinion, The city lost its "soul" when the city fathers pedestrianised New George St. and New Cornwall St. it was then that the decline started. I left the city in 1995 and only returned for a visit in 2019 the rate of shops that I remember that are now closed was shocking.
Spent some money on vinyl in that Virgin Megastore on Armada Way. Vospers of Plymouth also in Torquay. Happy days.
Loved this video. Would have been 12 at the time. Wish you'd filmed a little further up union street where I was brought up in stonehouse!!
Nice film. Hubby can see his old room in the Hoe Centre at 4.04 when he was at the Polytechnic (1975). Sad to see the old NAAFI building which was used as a hall of residence for the Poly bulldozed for another soulless Tesco. We had some great discos there. So much else has gone - Pennycomequick Inn, The Waterloo, the Provvie cider heaven, Union Street railway bridge to Millbay and so much more. City Council took advantage of a BOGOF on speed cameras though!
The Waterloo as in at Stoke, near the college of further education?
Nice video Memories of the past
Lovely video! Probably 1993/4 as there's an LDV dealer (not Leyland Daf) and saw a Vauxhall Corsa (launched '93 UK).
Was definately 1992 as at 03:12 it has a shot of Derrys Cross and you can make out the sign on the TSW building- which closed 31/12/92 and sold to a solicitors.
Great video.....happy memories
Looked better then
Woolies my beloved 🥺
Back then such a beautiful city !
Well this is brilliant. I sort of want to re-create this video now in 2018 to compare the difference, I did take me while to work out where I was. I was 6 in 1992 and I remember most of Plymouth like this as a child.
It's good to see what my city was like before I was born
I was in Plymouth a decade earlier and helped move W.H.Smith from Cornwall st to New George st shown in this film. Is that really 40 years ago!!
Plymouth city centre is due for an upgrade , not much has changed since this was filmed!
Still looked identical to that in 2002-5
Rip trees
Yes, it was criminal to fell all the greenery in March 2023.
No CCTV.
Like many, it's nice to relive old memories of Plymuff. Just wondered if you had any pictures or any other videos of the city (Drakes Circus & Mutley), from the late 80's?
Are you sure this is 1992, the Vauxhall Corsa B wasnt produced until 1993/1994 and can see one in the video?
Great footage! Not much has changed, it seems.
Well the biggest change the city has had in recent times is the abomination that is the 3rd incarnation of Drake Circus but the previous Drake Circus wasn't included in this video which sucks it would be cool if some footage of someone walking around the area exists but all I can find is pictures of it. Other changes would be the Drake cinema is now a casino and the car park next to it is now a building. Also the mayflower carpark and overpass is gone. The majority of the subways have been filled up, the University has had a giant new building. Also I hear Brentonside bus station is being demolished to make way for some sort of cinema complex. So really a lot of big changes to the city centre have happened.
Apart from in this video it’s seems to be a lot on British people. The same video today you’d wonder where in the world it was filmed. Far to many foreigners now!
J.J. Yes correct bretonside is gone and a new cinema complex is being built. It’s in the final stages and should be complete in a few months. Also they filled in the subways there so more to add to the list of gone 😞
looks so different now
So much nicer back then. Why? I can't put my finger on it...
When people were more sociable & didn't always have a mobile phone in their hands.
I lived there in 95 and remember it as a nice city. Went back in 2022 and was shocked at the state of the city centre.
Hey John. Great footage. Did you shoot this?
Yes Jon and thank you
Awesome :) Would it be possible to use it in a video I'm doing at the Plymouth Herald. I'd credit you and can link to anything you want me to link to?
Carry on Jon
Even the seagulls sounded different Bk then 😂
And no litter and the stench of fast food...bring back those days...
peaked in 97 imo
Union street looks like now april 5th 2021 ...
Blimey, I remember we used to kick those trees up the main street on the way home to make the starlings fly!
i was 2 lmao
Some of it was dreadful (Millbay particularly). Its a pity that the Royal Parade underpass and the NAAFI building has gone though. Woolies closing, Poundworld, Top Shop & Debenhams have gone - they complain about that in every town!
i think all those shops are gone now. along with anything green.
Interesting. What strikes me is a lot of Plymouth is still the same 30 years ago they got rid of the wooden animals recently but they were for 30 years so that's all right.
SO sad the lovely old trees in Armada Way which, thirty three years younger in your video, have been savagely secretly and at night
by Plymouth Council. Such vandalism and hatred for mature trees and the insects and birds which lived in them and
indifference to the views of the inhabitants of people. Many people love trees especially mature trees...
PS How on earth do you cross ( as a pedestrian) that 6 lane highway which is the city 'centre'?
Dingles!
My mum's first job was in Dingles In the early 70s. It's a House of Fraser now.
Nice video but alas out of focus .
i dont think this video is 1992 because they didnt demolish the back of the herald building until march 1993 i was still working in the herald in 1992 i would guess it is 1994
Phill T Photographic That's correct as I started work at the Herald October 1993 and we left the building about 3- 6 months after.
Where in the video is there a Herald building? I can't find it. I was born in 1993 so idk what it looks like.
J.J. At 2.45 mins the camera pans in on a building opposite Woolworths the windows are boarded up, this was the Western Morning News and Herald building.
To look at this area of Plymouth today you will see to let signs on a lot of the shop windows the Plymouth high street is dead nearly the city is not what it use to be it is as almost as if it is systematically being killed off
why is that.... is it cause of the foreigners?
@@rehan2118 - I'm afraid that's the case. Practically all problems (even the really tiny insignificant ones) in today's society are caused by foreign people...... Back then when we hardly had any foreigners as you can see it was a rarified utopia......
loved plymouth in the 60s ,still love the hoe and barbican the rest has gone to hell
Oh a gloomy grey sky, surprise surprise lol
With the state of the city centre in 2023, it's like we've gone backwards, rather than modernised since 1992!
Oi loikes plimmaff.
Ah Plymouth the most boring, run down place I’ve lived in. It’s sad to see how little has changed in 30 years.