Found a few videos at my parents house found them interesting to watch. How things change dramatically over 50 years. Shows Pontypridd REGENERATION in the 60s in colour.
This is amazing, it was literally today I was discussing Ponty in the 60's with my father! The Bombay restaurant a the start could that be sweaty Betty's? Awesome video thanks for sharing!
Awesome, I was around in the 60s, my gran lived in Maesycoed then, I had no idea, the town centre was so extensively rebuilt. It looks like a bomb site in parts. Why was it done. Who remembers Sardis Rd, when it was a dead end with a car park, u had to walk up a path to get to Maesycoed....
The building with a cross on it at 3:32 was the church building my dad pastored in the early 60's. Pontypridd Christian Fellowship was the name of it I think. The large parking lot around the church used to be the homing spot for a Roma family which would park their traditional 'caravan' there at times. I remember the flood of 1960 when that whole parking lot and the basement of the church building was flooded out. The photography shop at 3 minutes was owned by a family friend, a one armed photographer named Ivor Alderson. He moved into that location in the very early 60's from his previous studio which was up near the old bridge. Who was the photographer in these films?
Fantastic. What a find!!
This is amazing, it was literally today I was discussing Ponty in the 60's with my father! The Bombay restaurant a the start could that be sweaty Betty's? Awesome video thanks for sharing!
I live in the Beddau, just 3 miles over the top from Ponty.
Much better then than it is now don't you think.
Awesome, I was around in the 60s, my gran lived in Maesycoed then, I had no idea, the town centre was so extensively rebuilt. It looks like a bomb site in parts. Why was it done. Who remembers Sardis Rd, when it was a dead end with a car park, u had to walk up a path to get to Maesycoed....
thank you so very much for sharing.
I can't see a heroin addict anywhere
Great to see again. I've just re-posted on www.pontytown.co.uk board :)
The building with a cross on it at 3:32 was the church building my dad pastored in the early 60's. Pontypridd Christian Fellowship was the name of it I think. The large parking lot around the church used to be the homing spot for a Roma family which would park their traditional 'caravan' there at times. I remember the flood of 1960 when that whole parking lot and the basement of the church building was flooded out. The photography shop at 3 minutes was owned by a family friend, a one armed photographer named Ivor Alderson. He moved into that location in the very early 60's from his previous studio which was up near the old bridge. Who was the photographer in these films?
David Edwards and
It's funny how history repeats, at 5:15, pile of rubble looks like that now in 2017 as they have finally demolished the basement of the old precint
Not anymore :)
Love the Bebb bus.
Great footage mate ....wherever did you get all this colour film from?
where is tom jones?
acapulco ramon, this was the 60's, Tom Jones had already made it big then so he would have moved from the area.