Fascinating video! The contradictions with how similar yet so different life was back then are truly remarkable. The road layout, and signage are literally identical to how they are today. This may sound strange but even the way the radio presenter is speaking is like how they speak today. But then seeing all the 80s cars, the lack of traffic and some of the building signs and fonts is like something from another world.
NGL, this video lowkey freaks me out..why would you just record it randomly? I mean it’s cool it just gives me chills and the quality is pretty good as well so it confuses me..?
Fantastic! I was 4 or 5 years old when this was filmed, must have been on a few of these roads as I grew up in Kippax & Garforth, was often in Castleford and around Leeds.. you earned a sub!
This was filmed with a shoulder mount style video camera (An Olympus VX -301). This was mounted on a tripod bungeed to the front passenger seat, the camera would have being were a passengers head would be. Then the camera lens zoomed in to clear the dashboard. So this made everything look jerky & a lot more nearer than it was.
@@blackhand8903 Glad i`m retired now. Radio 2 was a good station at work. Commercial radio adverts, & a limited playlist drove you mad over a 12hr shift! Will listen to Ken Bruce on Greatest Hits radio. when I`m out in the car now
So different. I suppose Thatcher hadn't QUITE stripped the heart and soul out of the place, yet. I was 13 when this was filmed, and I could swear there was more traffic on the roads back then, but of course its a Sunday, when Sunday meant the day off for almost everyone. It was boring as hell as a kid, but now I crave that day! If you saw a road like it is at 2:00 you'd think there was a pandemic or something mad like that.
That McDonalds drive through on the entrance causes lots of queues onto the roundabout nowadays. And also blocking access to the stores. Because of cars wait to turn right into it. And the ones already queuing on the left won`t let them in !
It was Pollards Bearings. You can see it, passing by on this video No 10. Dashcam 1985 Style...........Castleford to Pontefract & Airedale..10.8.85 ttps://ruclips.net/video/gBmXDF4l9ds/видео.html
Never, traded in for a 1981 Mk3 Escort. In March 1987. Due to the position of the camera, & having the camera lens zoomed in to clear the dashboard. This did make everything look jerky & a lot more nearer than it was. If the camera wasn`t zoomed in. It would have being just all dashboard & car roof. As seen in some of the other videos. If the car is waiting at a junction etc. Passing vehicles & people walking across the junction. Do look like they are on the bonnet..
24 yo when this was filmed, dad was on strike from the pit, I was laid off due to the plant machinery being off hired by the NCB while the strike was on.
This was actually filmed in 1986. As pointed out by an earlier comment Not got around to amending the title yet. And also the other videos, made using this days footage.
On this video. An Olympus VX301 a shoulder mount, video camera. Around 11" long, and around 5lbs weight in old money. And a separate VHS recorder on the seat
Back when every station was an 80s station.
The sheer lack of traffic is unbelievable. The M62 roundabout is unrecognisable by today’s volume of traffic. Xscape has a lot to answer for.
No Sunday shopping in them days.
2 minutes from Ponty to Cas` on a Sunday dinner time !
@@251hanomag thanks for this never really knew how things were before I was born!
That drive down from Ponty as well. No roundabout or wickes etc and the park side pub still standing across from the racecourse.
Great seeing way things was back then & takes u back to that exact time & u knew every car on the roads & knew all the music on the radio. Great stuff
Same here
Fascinating video! The contradictions with how similar yet so different life was back then are truly remarkable. The road layout, and signage are literally identical to how they are today. This may sound strange but even the way the radio presenter is speaking is like how they speak today. But then seeing all the 80s cars, the lack of traffic and some of the building signs and fonts is like something from another world.
1:00 that is definitely a childhood song. Wish I grew in the 80s but I’m going up in the 2010s
Dash cam in the 80's 🙌 never ending story😍
Everything looks so bleak and bare 😂 fantastic to see how our area has changed 👍
This was before my time interesting to see how things have changed!
NGL, this video lowkey freaks me out..why would you just record it randomly? I mean it’s cool it just gives me chills and the quality is pretty good as well so it confuses me..?
Brilliant but a bit sad as well. In 86 I’d only been left school 5 years, and now I’m pushing 60!
Fantastic! I was 4 or 5 years old when this was filmed, must have been on a few of these roads as I grew up in Kippax & Garforth, was often in Castleford and around Leeds.. you earned a sub!
This must have been 1986 as Steve Wright mentions a 1986 garden show when the u turn is being done at that car hire place in Glasshoughton
Yes your correct. I`ll have to amend the dates on this one. And the others ones using this days footage.
Nice bit of tailgating near Tanshelf Station! And how nice to see a South Yorkshire bus again.
This was filmed with a shoulder mount style video camera (An Olympus VX -301).
This was mounted on a tripod bungeed to the front passenger seat, the camera would have being were a passengers head would be.
Then the camera lens zoomed in to clear the dashboard.
So this made everything look jerky & a lot more nearer than it was.
Tanshelf didn't exist then?
@@thomassmith2227 tanshelf has existed far back to 1800's mate
Steve Wright is still playing the same playlist!
And still better than the music today !
Not for much longer
@@blackhand8903 Now replaced with Scott Mills. Who does not seem to be liked by a lot of Radio 2 listeners.
Pop master and Ken Bruce are going to commercial radio in 3 months too, it’ll be hardly worth listening to soon.
@@blackhand8903 Glad i`m retired now. Radio 2 was a good station at work. Commercial radio adverts, & a limited playlist drove you mad over a 12hr shift! Will listen to Ken Bruce on Greatest Hits radio. when I`m out in the car now
So different. I suppose Thatcher hadn't QUITE stripped the heart and soul out of the place, yet.
I was 13 when this was filmed, and I could swear there was more traffic on the roads back then, but of course its a Sunday, when Sunday meant the day off for almost everyone. It was boring as hell as a kid, but now I crave that day! If you saw a road like it is at 2:00 you'd think there was a pandemic or something mad like that.
Nice one, when driving was fun and clear roads, and cars without all the electrics and computer crap of today
Certainly was. And especially now around the M62 roundabout. With the Xscape, & Freeport, etc
Thanks for posting👍
Literally everything good about Cas and Ponte was removed or left to rot and everything bad has remained. I genuinely hate the era I was born in
Parkside without McDonalds Great.Really how things have changed.From an Olympus to a Next Base
That McDonalds drive through on the entrance causes lots of queues onto the roundabout nowadays.
And also blocking access to the stores.
Because of cars wait to turn right into it.
And the ones already queuing on the left won`t let them in !
The days when the radio lost signal when it went under any sort of bridge
I'm just listening for the music
Bloody hell! Snow! Them were't' days.
Is there a video that goes down Spittal Hardwick Lane/Monkhill Lane? Im just wondering what the demolished factory used to be there?
It was Pollards Bearings.
You can see it, passing by on this video
No 10. Dashcam 1985 Style...........Castleford to Pontefract & Airedale..10.8.85
ttps://ruclips.net/video/gBmXDF4l9ds/видео.html
That's ace. how long was it before you wrote the car off?
Never, traded in for a 1981 Mk3 Escort. In March 1987.
Due to the position of the camera, & having the camera lens zoomed in to clear the dashboard.
This did make everything look jerky & a lot more nearer than it was.
If the camera wasn`t zoomed in. It would have being just all dashboard & car roof.
As seen in some of the other videos. If the car is waiting at a junction etc.
Passing vehicles & people walking across the junction. Do look like they are on the bonnet..
24 yo when this was filmed, dad was on strike from the pit, I was laid off due to the plant machinery being off hired by the NCB while the strike was on.
This was actually filmed in 1986. As pointed out by an earlier comment
Not got around to amending the title yet.
And also the other videos, made using this days footage.
2:09 that road isnt a 70 now, its a 50.
Did gearboxes actually sound like this in the 80s?
What's the song that starts at around 06:50??? Can't make out any lyrics to google them
It`s Red Light by Siouxsie & The Banshees.
Best to use the mobile app Shazam to identify any music
Robert Ascham
The good old days before Tony Blair opened the borders and ruined the country
Must have been a huge “dashcam”.
On this video. An Olympus VX301 a shoulder mount, video camera.
Around 11" long, and around 5lbs weight in old money.
And a portable VHS video recorder on the seat
what car was you in here?
1976 Mk2 Escort 1300L
Grim oop norf.
Everywhere is grim in winter even more so today
Nice empty roads, I bet that dash cam back then was a bit of a lump
On this video. An Olympus VX301 a shoulder mount, video camera.
Around 11" long, and around 5lbs weight in old money. And a separate VHS recorder on the seat
@@251hanomag Top of the range back then 👍