Around Aylesbury town centre, Apr 18th 1999
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- A walk around Aylesbury town centre, recording the place just before the turn of the 21st century. A lot has changed since then, but also many things have not.
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My home town :) I've moved away but it'll always be home.
My dad would remember this as he has been going to Aylesbury since he was born
They should have never got rid of Aylesbury vale swimming pool! Or the park with the biggest slide EVER! This brought back so many memories, thanks for sharing!
Wow I was 8 years old at the time, definitely brings back memories of how things used to look
Always good to see what the town looked like before. But I bet those offices above QD were just as empty then as they are currently!
You're correct - still empty. What a waste of space.
@@AylesburyRemembered I'm surprised they haven't made them into flats yet, then again, parking might be an issue despite having the underground car park below
Amazing piece of history!
That was the year that the Odeon closed.
The Odeon is still open?
The Odeon closed when the ABC cinema opened in Exchange Street. That later became the Odeon. The old building has gone now. Retirement flats are on its site.
Great video Karl just as I remember some of it being 34 maybe you have some footage from 1985 👍
Thanks, Lee. No videos from 1985 I'm afraid. What I can do is a series of slideshows using images from my archive. As soon as I find a quick way of doing it I will upload them.
It’s a bit strange to watch for me. I know all these places, but I wouldn’t be born for 7 years plus a few days following this video, so it is ever so slightly different to how I know it, even in my earliest proper memories. It’s a bit like watching videos of close friends you met later in life from before you knew them. Makes me want to take videos of places like this so in 50 years time I can see what everything was like and show my kids.
Also, obligatory (for me) car nerd comment: closest car at 11:48 looks like a Nissan 200sx. Quite retro nowadays and cool to see it as a relatively modern car parked on the street like that.
Believe me: as someone who was 16 in 1999, it's no less surreal. Understand that there was a massive leap in recording technology in the early/mid 90s so you actually have a pretty big advantage over olduns like us: you at least have a sizeable amount of footage to either confirm or deny in your own mind what the world looked like back then. Trying to explain (or sometimes even recall) what the world looked like in _my_ childhood is more or less impossible because everyone from my generation has tainted memories (even myself, admittedly).
Wow
Mad!
Filmed in the days when you could walk about with a video camera, and not have some security twat asking what you're doing, and calling the police...
It wasn't a small camcorder either!
The kings head centre?......wasn’t it a pub then ?
Not at the time, no. It was a conference and functions centre then. Chiltern Brewery took over in 2005.
A then and now video would be ace..
Maybe, but I can see a couple of sites that are now impossible to do which are Station Street which is built over, and Civic Centre car park which has gone so I can't go up the top floor of it to show today's view.
No theatre
I was 9 back the. How time flies hey. Looked so much better bck in the say tbh