Plymouth development, 25 years after the Blitz, 1966 - Westward Collection ©SWFTA (ID@ 90567)
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- Опубликовано: 1 апр 2015
- Synopsis:
Excellent BW footage showing DAVID MUDD on the top of the Civic Centre reviewing the challenges and changes that Plymouth has overcome in the 25 years after the Blitz. Two gaps are noted at the end, lack of a commercial seaport and airport.
Content:
Rebuilding of the City, future plans, expansion and new housing. High rise flats, schools, roads and traffic. Atheneum and site of the Theatre Royal. The Drake Circus pedestrian underpass and the Tamar Bridge. Two great loop holes, failure of a commercial port and lack of commercial airport.
Technical info:
Duration: 4.56 mins
Picture: BW
Audio: Yes
Original format: 16mm
So much good memories. I was there 1972 - 1983.
Did you live in a nice part like Mannamead?
All I can say, is that growing up in Plymouth in the 50's and 60's, is one of my happiest memories. It used to be a terrific place, but the planners went crazy in the 80's and 90's
the planners had already gone crazy before that. A real horror show of soviet + American grid car obsessed "planning". Were you often in the 'city centre'? I was in the 1960s...
Lego designed
@@davepowell7168 Yes! Considered 'modern' in England back in the day.
Fascinating film.
It's bittersweet to hear the somewhat forced upbeat tone of the presenter, when we know now that the results of '60s architecture were utterly disastrous on all fronts.
Looking at the buildings then, one can already see they're slums-in-waiting. What destruction the Luftwaffe didn't achieve, '60s architects and local authorities completed.
The utter catastrophe of government group-think is a lesson we still haven't learned nearly 60 years later 🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
I so agree. catastrophic.Brilliant comment, sad but true.
Plymouth ended up looking like a city in the USSR. Could be the setting for Pripyat in a film about the Chernobyl disaster, or even East Berlin.
Exactly.... the "re-planning" and on was and has been catastrophic.
Nice to see some old pictures of post war Plymouth!
And 50years still behind
true
The rebuilds of Royal parade have the architectural charm of a housebrick.
You are being flattering to Royal Parade.... I used to struggle up and down that wet windy tunnel motor way , with soviet style/American style concrete blocks...in the 1960s.
@@daydays12 sharpwit lol
@@davepowell7168 thanks ?
@@daydays12 you are a sharpwit is what I meant.
The style was indeed following a US urban grid.
Town modellers can then use lego and start young. Soviet efficiency?
@@davepowell7168 Thanks for that. Poor Plymouth. Take care.
Hi would i be able to use some of the audio and images in this documentary for a project of mine?
Feel free. No 'intellectual property ' here
That's my old school 😊
Sutton?
Mount Wise Primary School
Excuse me, no insult intended 😁
@@davepowell7168 luckily im too stupid to notice mate.
Ignorance really is bliss 😀
@@lovelybitofbugle219 l didn't get any A level so may not have grasped your insights..
Enjoy your weekend !
Eye runn on thee road
Yes. I think.
How could they afford all that?!
debt?
I actually don't really like the layout of the city centre, it aged horribly in the years and the council struggled to make it look better.
agree 100%
@@daydays12I agree too. The fabrication of the buildings has not stood the test of time.
Pull the old civic centre down.
It's a carbuncle.
I agree but for for some incomprehensible reason it has been listed I think.
It has been listed. Was sold for just £1 to developers. Still derelict in Dec 2023 😢@@daydays12
Thanks for that info. It has proved impossible to rectify the awfulness that was the 'Abercrombie' plan and the very unliveable things that followed it @@neilhilton35