kingston upon thames in old photos by jason blackman
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2012
- hi i spend a lot of time making these small films of when the days were a lot different. most of the photos are from old books or old post cards. i love doing this to show you how life was way back then. some people can not buy books or find things to do with local history so this is why i have done this for all of you.
i do not do this to make money in any way, it is just for free so i do hope you all like the small films i do as it takes a long time to do. i did use to live in SW London but now moved to bucks where i find this is much better for me and my family.
all the best --- Jason Blackman.
Stunning, recognise all the places
Beautiful video. Such rich heritage and great architecture. Thanks for sharing.
Kingston-upon-Thames' town centre has been architecturally wrecked over the course of the last several decades, much of it is now so mind-numbingly blandly modern that it could be a Chinese "ghost city" that was build from scratch in the last 5 years, rather than a town with more than 1500 years of history behind it. This is the price a place pays in the 20th/21st Centuries for being a popular retail centre & having a Town Council that allows builders to run amok seeking short term capitalization on property price bubbles. Nice film, thx,
Lovely film, thanks for that.
thanks so much i was born and grew up here, ive never seen these,
I was born in Norbiton and grew up in Kingston. Trying to find photos of the fish n chip shop and fish shop on Coombe Rd. Norbiton. Beautifully edited video and music was very touching. Kingston was so much nicer in the 70’s before they blocked off roads and stopped traffic.
Lived in Kingston my whole life. It used to be such a nice, pleasant market town. I rarely go there any more, Its sad how its declined.
Lovely, I grew up in Tolworth and New Malden, it will always be home 💗
Fantastic set of memories. I lived in New Malden in my teenage years and Kingston was my social focus even if it meant walking home after the last bus. Thank you.
thankyou....so many memories!
I recall my many visits to Kingston with considerable fondness in my mind’s eye…
I wish I could travel back in time and just walk around. Go to the places I recognise, and walk back to where my house now stands, and do so for every decade after leading up to my birth year 1996
Lovely song I lived in Kingston for 8 years in the 90s
My home since 1989 (4 years old).The Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames has a special place in my heart.The only complaint i can have is the expansion of the University has made house prices so expensive that most local people of my age have little to no chance of buying a home in the Borough.
That's a loverly memories for people who knew but it's so nice the tune was too
I was born in Kingston and lived in Surbiton although I was too young to remember when moved out of the area. I still have family in Kingston and I am related to one of the market families from my grandmother's side. Very fond memories of visiting the town as a child, especially the market around Christmas time. Now living in Ashford Middlesex which is only 6 miles from Kingston so quite oftened in Kingston shopping etc. Great video and makes me imagine of a better, simpler time.
Great collection of photos.. I just moved to Kingston a couple of years ago and wondered what the riverside looked like before development
I lived in Kingston and went to school in Kingston and Surbiton. So many of these photos bring back memories but I'm sad to see how much the place has changed over the years. My dad had a business in Vicarage Road, near the bridge, and the area around there was my playground in the mid fifties. I climbed on the timber stacks in Gridley, Miskins and fished off their wharf. Old Mr. Turk was still ensconced in the house next to his boatyard and a chap called Alec worked as a boatbuilder there. The Steadfast Sea Cadets paraded just a bit further along from there. The old Bentalls was an amazing place in the grand tradition of department stores and was huge. There were all the usual departments plus ladies and gents hairdressing and a special salon for kid's haircutting where you could sit on a variety of zoo animals to have your hair cut. There was a wood pannelled restaurant, the Tudor as I recall, that was for lunches and afternoon teas but in the evening the Normandie Restaurant across the road above Bentalls parking garage was a good choice. The trolleybuses were still going during my time and you'd occasionally see one with its collector arm hanging askew where it'd come off the wire, often at the junction of London Road and Eden Street. I sang in the parish church choir and played in the churchyard before choir practice after a sixpenny fruit pie and a cuppa at Jo Lyons. The whole area on the Kingston side of the bridge between the market and the railway bridge has pretty much been obliterated since those days and many, if not all, of the shops and businesses will have gone. Does Bardwell's still exist where you went for school uniforms? Who remembers the Kenya Coffee House that filled the market with the smell of roasting coffee beans? Thank you Jason for compiling this collection and bringing back these memories. JP
Thats really lovely - good for you....very giving.
thank you so much - a lot of the town still recognisable.