Reminiscing England: A Coach Tour Experience of Bristol, Coventry and beyond in 1963
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Reminiscing England: A Coach Tour Experience of Bristol, Coventry and beyond in 1963
This video is a 8mm Cine Film digitally converted using a Winait Film Scanner.
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The original film had footage taken inside the coach but I left it out because it was far to jumpy to watch. That was at the beginning of the film.
The film begins with the passengers waiting before boarding the coach and a view of them sat in their seats. Next they are walking alongside a river. Then they are off again on the coach and they are on a road which is very quiet apart from the occasional passing car.
Another stop and this time it is to some Gardens - I have no idea where, so if someone knows where it is please comment below. A view looking down onto the street below followed by a panoramic view of the City, followed by a visit to an old building with gardens. Once again anyone who knows where this is, please comment below.
Views of a river with yachts sailing and this area must be near to a Stately Home.
The Heading "University Gardens" just after the halfway point of the video and more Gardens followed by (I presume) the University Buildings.
Then it is onto Clifton Bridge near Bristol, followed by Coventry. The New Coventry Cathedral had been opened in 1962, but our cameraman films the Original Cathedral, followed by views of a shopping precinct.
Clifton Suspension Bridge
The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset. Since opening in 1864, it has been a toll bridge, the income from which provides funds for its maintenance. The bridge is built to a design by William Henry Barlow and John Hawkshaw, based on an earlier design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It is a Grade I listed building and forms part of the B3129 road.
On 12 February 2014 the bridge was closed to traffic due to wind for the first time in living memory.
Total Length - 1352ft
Width - 31ft
Height - 331ft
Longest Span - 702ft
Clearance - 245ft above high water level
Opened - 1864
Daily Traffic -8,800 (2010)
Toll - £1
Coventry Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of Saint Michael, commonly known as Coventry Cathedral, is the seat of the Bishop of Coventry and the Diocese of Coventry within the Church of England. The cathedral is located in Coventry, West Midlands, England.
The city has had three cathedrals. The first was St Mary's, a monastic building, from 1102-1539, of which only a few ruins remain. The second was St Michael's, a 14th-century Gothic church designated as a cathedral in 1918, which remains a ruined shell after its bombing during the Second World War, apart from its tower and spire, which rise to 284 feet (87 metres). The third, consecrated in 1962, is the new St Michael's Cathedral, built immediately adjacent to the ruins and tower of the former cathedral, which is a symbol of war time destruction and barbarity, but also of peace and reconciliation.
Sorry, but the first city is not Bristol (my old university town) but Nottingham (my home since 2000).
Timestamps:
2:08 Chinese bell tower in the Arboretum
2:43 Castle Boulevard at Peverill Drive junction from the castle walls
3:03 Snienton Church tower and High Pavement church steeple
3:10 Council House dome from the castle walls
4:46 Ogton Reservoir approaching eastwards downhill from B6014
6:03 University of Nottingham Gardens
6:33 Portland Building and boating lake at University of Nottingham
6:55 now we're in Bristol at the Clifton Suspension Bridge and surrounding area
I worked for Coventry City Council for three years so
7:36 Bailey Lane, Coventry looking northwards at both cathedrals
8:43 Upper Precinct from Broadgate
9:05 Spire of old cathedral and Broadgate from Upper Pricinct showing Lady Godiva statue
Many thanks. I only mentioned Bristol due to the Clifton Bridge. I have pinned your post. Will posy in the description when I get on my PC.
Many thanks. I only mentioned Bristol due to the Clifton Bridge. I have pinned your post. Will posy in the description when I get on my PC.
@@capspreadgot some more
5:20 the Orangery and fountain in front of it at Belton House, Grantham
@@nottmjas Thank you once again. Although I have seen similar at Chatsworth House.
@@capspreadhaven't been to Chatsworth in decades, but the orangery is definitely at Belton
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The frontage has seven full width panes with two held width panes at the ends, with a church to it's rear-right and a fountain in front of it
Still trying to rake my brains re the castle with the gardens inside it. I can't think of any matching its appearance in the East Midlands.
How beautiful England used to be shame we let it get ruined
Ruined? I'm not quite sure what you mean.
@@DanJamesJamesOh I think we know what they mean.
I wonder how many of the chaps were called Stan and Reg and Bert? Marvellous video 👍
Thank you very much. What about the ladies though - names perhaps Mabel, Doris or Madge?!!
I have a few more films similar to this one.
I grew up in these times. Wonderful time. It’s never been the same since.
The old adage of an "English Country Garden" rings true, lovely blooms with the bus passengers dressed to the nine for the occasion. Was expecting to see Jack Hargreaves fishing at one of the streams! Have you seen old Jack's programmes "Old Country" and "Out of Town" at all Chris? Great clip Chris...
Thank you Dave. I remember Jack Hargreaves but not sure about his old programmes. Will do a search. Thanks once again.
@@capspread Jack Hargreaves a great source of British rural knowledge from the old days. His series is published on You Tube under the titles "Out of Town" and "Jack Hargreaves...Old Country" as shown on Channel-4 in the UK. I am sure you will enjoy them Chris as I have.
Thanks, this was really interesting and brought back lots of memories. I moved from Australia to England as a young man in 1965, and what is particularly relevant for me was the way people dressed, and the cars. And I remember smoking on the Underground in London, and in cinemas and restauranrs... as one did.
Thank you for watching. People from 60+ years ago dressed well. Some people even wore their suits on the beach! I'm pleased smoking was banned in public places and not just for safety. Yes! I'm a non-smoker!
@@capspread Thanks for your reply. I'm still a smoker, just 5-6 a day - and never indoors, never around people, and if I smoke outdoors I take my butt with me. Where I live a packet costs £5-6.oo, considerably less than in England!
@@johnfh That's fine. What I don't like to see, is smokers stood outside the entrance to a pub smoking so you have to go past them and the smoke!!
Well that was simply stunning!
It is always wonderful to see old photos but actual film brings everything to life and makes you realise how things have changed so much in just sixty years. Thank you so much for posting this.
Nice coach, think it's a Bedford chassis with Duple super vega bodywork.
Classic 1950s coach, then early sixties the AEC chassis with Harrington Cavalier coachwork became the must have .
Thanks for the film , a less stressful and easier pace of life then I'd imagine.
My uncle probably helped build the wooden frame and body for that coach whilst working at Duples in Colindale, NW. London.
Thank you very much. I have done more coach holiday films still to edit so you may get a glimpse of the coaches.
How wonderful👍👍
Simply wonderful, I'm going to watch this over and over again ❤
Thank you. I have similar films to edit and upload to my channel. So I hope you stay around for more nostalgia.
I had to wait to 1964 before I was born what a wonderful video greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Thank you Ian. You will have to wait for the video of the same group on a coach tour of Scotland from the 1960s. That film needs to be Digitised again as I got the framing wrong. However tonight's film is from the same family who featured in my Camping in Tenby last week. This time they are camping in Dorset in 1964.
BTW what part of Scotland are you from?
@@capspread near Hamilton Lanarkshire
@@capspread my mother in law before the motorways used to leave overnight by coach from Hamilton to Blackpool in the 50/S 60/S and it took them twelve hours you had to drive through every knook and kranie then
@@ianstewartorr8455 ML3!
wasn't life great without the net and smartphones
wtf are you watching the video on?!
@@wellsworldHave to agree on that, no one forces people to use social media and there are some terrific things online , like this upload.😃
Wonderful film. Everyone looks truly happy for going on a trip and all dressed up. I was a boy then but remember all the cars. What a different world then and we were all truly free! Technology and globalisation has made us all prisoners today. You are not even allowed a sense of humour. Those folks in the film would not believe what we’ve become 😢
One or two of the very elderly ladies at the start were probably born in the 1870s. Lovely film all round
Fantastic!. And quite an extensive tour. I'm sure the gardens are at Nottingham University - that's Portland Building beind the boating lake
The first half of the tour took in Nottingham and surrounding places, followed by Bristol then Coventry
Thank you. It's possible that it covers more than one day. But it's roughly the same group of people who appeared in my film about a trip to Scarborough in the 1960s recently.
@@nottmjas At least 2 trips on the same reel.
@@capspread I commented on the Scarborough footage that the roundabout shown at the beginning is at Ollerton, on the Nottingham to Doncaster road, so the group is from Nottingham or possible stayed overnight in the Nottingham area.
@@nottmjas These particular Cine Films were bought in an auction in Nottingham.
No grafitti! no litter! It looked amazing didnt it.
One of the things that is so interesting is how technology has improved over the last sixty years. Yet on the other hand, could you imagine yourself so openly filming almost total strangers today as it was done back then? Can you imagine holding a camera and filming someone's child or baby as seen here? Everybody just smiles at the camera but today there is so much 'social correctness.'
Yeah definitely nottingham uni garden s🎉
Thank you 👍
Have you any old footage of folkestone 1968-1970? Love these ols clips.
Everywhere clean and kept in pristine condition. Men wearing suits and ladies their best frocks. Compared with today, filthy and dirty streets and the inhabitants aren't much better. Children being respectful with their parents (both of them), with no knives or hoodies. No graffiti, either - or fast food places. Has society really progressed?
A look back to a time when we had standards and pride. What happened?
Ergh. People smoking on the coach. Certainly do not miss that
That used to be the case, and you hoped you didn't sit nearby! Same as on passenger aircraft.
I remember being travel sick constantly on coaches as a child in the 1960s and I realise now that it was the heady mixture of diesel fumes and cigarette smoke that was doing it!
Come on Bus spotters what’s the coach? And Thames Trader truck next to it!!!
People smoked just about every where back then.
Its a Duple Vega coach on a Bedford chassis.