1951 WOOLWICH, a post-war borough, market, ferry, ABBEYWOOD rail station, ELTHAM, nostalgic memories
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- 1951 WOOLWICH a post war bourough, Market, Ferry, ABBEYWOOD rail station, ELTHAM, Nostalgic Memories...
A RAH edit of The Wards of Woolwich, this is an intriguing glimpse into the borough's post-war reconstruction and forward-thinking development.
In the video, we see the Beresford Market stalls, which sell fruits, vegetables, fish, and flowers, Some shots of Hinds department store on the High Street are also included. A ferry can be seen crossing the Thames, while improvement works are underway at the Woolwich Power Station. Passenger and freight trains pass through Woolwich.
A couple is shown looking at the windows of estate agents such as Furlong house agency and Savage & Co. before heading to the Borough offices in Woolwich Town Hall. With their finances in order, they make a purchase at Savage & Co. and are shown leaving a train at Abbey Wood Station and taking a taxi to their new home on Howarth Road Abbeywood.
We also see the couple exiting the Woolwich District Registrar Office as man and wife, getting photographed with family and friends outside. In another scene, the man is doing his lawn in the back garden and meets his neighbor. He and his neighbor go through the services provided for the rates.
The film features several shots of the town services such as council workers repairing uneven pavement, a family playing with their baby in the park, and views of 'slum' terraces and ruined buildings around 'Paradise Place' and Woolwich Dockyard.
Scenes of demolition work and new house construction by the council are also shown. A new primary school is introduced with children playing in its grounds. Men from the Borough engineers department are seen performing road works and repairs in the offices of the Borough. Refuse collectors can be seen emptying bins into their dustcarts.
There's a section that may feature the new Coldharbour Estate, and a road sign that's hard to read, possibly for Partridge Green. Another section appears to show Witherston Way and Leasdale.
The Parks service is shown, with facilities including a children's playground, pitch and putt golf courses, greenhouses full of flowers, and floral beds in a park. The public library and museum are introduced, with the couple filmed going to the library. We also see a milk deliveryman and some swimming baths in use. The film ends with the couple going to see a performance of 'Twelfth Night' at Well Hall Pleasaunce and walking through the gardens on their way.
Credits: Director: Harold Smithson; Photography: Leonard G. Wright; Recording: Maurice Tapp; Recording: Victor Whibley; Continuity: Daphne Harrap; Continuity: Joyce Loveday; Lighting: Mary Wright; Lighting: Desmond Hurdidge;
Further information about this video:
Original - The Wards of Woolwich
The film was written and produced for the Woolwich Borough Council by members of the staff. While it was made as a sound film, the original soundtrack could not be transferred, music has been overlaid of that era.
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I lived and really loved Woolwich so much! I am now 85yrs old, but I really do miss the old days and the lovely polite people. Mike ❤❤😂🎉
More civilised times, more courteous times.
I was born in January 1947. My first home was a prefab at McCleod Road, Abbey Wood. We moved to a three-bedroom council house on the Coldharbour Estate, Eltham in 1951. So many scenes depicted in this video are familiar to me. We owe a great debt of gratitude to Woolwhich Borough Council for promoting a better standard of living and community in the aftermath of World War II.
Love the old style dust carts with proper dustman bins on shoulder
What a great film and What a great songs too, just perfect
In 60s.my friend Win and I used Togo on the ferry. Back and forth for hours. Walk down Powis Street. We lived at Eltham but always went to Woolwich, Catford, Lewisham. Beautiful days. Just smiling watching this. Yes my friend, people were polite and kind mostly. Thanks so much for Cine Film. X
I grew up in the forties and fifties in Plumstead and Woolwich also went to Woolwich Polytechnic in the early fifties, thank you for these wonderful memories.
That wa great to see the world of my father and mother! Thankyou.
What a great film
Woolwich born, it’s not like that any more 😢 Last 15 years and it’s changed so much. The old arsenal estate is all flats and we must have every nationality of person living here lol.
Oh dear ,you need a tissue for this one . Loved the song ,,and Ali the places ,so many memories x
My old haunts, back in the 60s. Nostalgic……
How things have changed. I've known Woolwich and Abbey Wood since 1970. Always think people were nicer then. This film 19 years before shows many changes. Remember the Abbey Wood level crossing replaced in 1978, I believe, although I know work started in '75 to construct a flyover. Nice footage.
beautiful thanks
The old ABC featured. Memory Lane.
I lived in marmadon Rd just a short walk over the railway to a wonderland allotments farms and sportfields .the Rofsa and maybloom +cia sports clubs .you could look into the Arsenal from the sewer Bank. What a great time for kids not like today sadly. 😢
I lived in Marmadon road too. Number 222. Late 50's to late 70's. As a kid used to love going over the bridge to play. Also having the park to play football etc.. happy days.
Did you live close to the wood yard .or at the builders yard end
Do you remember er a y family's the rushents +perrymans
Where's the Cashpoint ? ;) No Phones in faces.
WE had brown stone roads behind my house and the whole of Camrose Street and Blythedale Road was it ?
And now look at Woolwich not even safe walk down street I was walking down street in Woolwich past to men and just as I passed them on punched me in face I bet it’s was so much safer back in the days in video
@@JS-zz2hz thanks JS unfortunately in crazy wold it is now and not being able to have a say without being branded this and that I see no hope for future but at les I can remember good times I had in Woolwich good luck with your channel 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Grew up in Woolwich from 1955-1976, believe me Saturday night in Beresford Square was pretty rough, especially when the new intake of squaddies came for their first look round…
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That looks like John Maynard Keynes at the end
Was that Rockmount park ?
At 19.00 the woman looks like the late queen as a young woman.
No subhumans