Trowbridge in 1991 vs 2021
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2021
- Years ago, youtuber shippy555 uploaded a video from August 28th 1991, touring a route through Trowbridge. I thought it may be fun to recreate this video 30 years later to see what has changed and how much has (surprisingly) stayed the same. I could have waited another 4 days to make it exactly 30 years but oh well...
There was one point in the video where we believed we couldn't take the same route, as you'll see in the video. We may be wrong about this; we didn't want to chance it and get in a traffic pickle. Sorry!
Credit to-
shippy555 for the original footage: • Trowbridge 1991
Ian K Clark for "Landing on Distant Stars". It is available on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music and other platforms.
Ben Betteridge for kindly driving me around for this little experiment:
/ @benbetteridge3037 - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Interesting to see how Trowbridge hasn't changed a great deal but for the sad loss of many big businesses that had created a great deal of employment for the town.
Go back just over/under 10 years ago trowbridge was a lovely place to live and it was thriving all the shops were full no empty stores, kids actually playing in the park and upper and lower fields the town centre was buzzing with both wetherspoons open, taxis and buses coming and going like clockwork. Now look where we are 2023 😞
That Wetherspoons is still closed down, it's sad to see the shop space still unoccupied all these years later. If the problem is rent, then clearly the council/whoever owns the land need to lower it as there's no demand for that space now, especially all the other empty shop spaces that are creeping up all over town!
Thanks, love it. The only negative thing I have to say is that your new version really shows what bad quality my version is. That's 30 years of technology!
Excellent! Must be quite difficult to follow what's already been done. It's a shame I broke into time lapse for the return journey. I laughed at the fact that you even repeated my typo! Good that you realised the 30th year anniversary too, I never thought of it. Really enjoyed it, thanks.
I was hoping you'd enjoy the joke at the start! Thank you for watching it! It's a privilege!
This is really excellent. Thank you for creating this. I have a recording from 1995 of a bus journey from Market Lavington to Westbury. I really must do something like this using a dashcam. When I was at Trowbridge College during 1983-1986, there was no White Horse Business Park, so no roundabouts, the only way into Trowbridge from Yarnbrook was via Bradley Road, no Spitfire Retail Park (McDonalds/KFC) - the old spitfire factory was abandoned and covered in brambles etc. We used to walk down College Road, and along Bradley Road and there was a little alleyway that led past the former football club and to Dursley Road before it was bisected by County Way, which at the Bradley Road roundabout is where the little alleyway was! (Houses demolished to make way for that road). Nice to see the back of the old Tesco in your original video. Happy days, 16 - 18 years old then. 55 now.
Thank you for sharing this story. It's really insightful!
This is amazing 🤯 seeing how similar everything is, yet different in a way that feels off for somebody that regularly explores these routes! I can't believe the Tesco I work at used to be a patch of grass in the 1990's! That's wild to think about!
Wtf I would've never guessed you're local. I remember watching your Mario saves peach video in 2011 when I was little.
@@MrJaylensaur haha no way 😆 small world, huh?
@@marksmithwas12 Hell of a small world, only a town over from you (Westbury). Amazing to believe I could’ve bumped into you at some point without realising that’s one of my childhood videos lol
I KNEW yellow lines were less bright than they used to be. I swear back in the day they'd be like proper bold and amber. Now, even when thry're freshly done they're like pale and off colour.
Marvelous video, thanks for sharing. It really seems like people no longer live in the outside world like they used to.
Very good. Thanks for posting. Amazing how much it's changed, but when you're living there you hardly notice it. Lived there from 60's till 18mths ago when we moved to Essex.
haha - appreciate the 90s vibe music. Grew up in `Trowbridge.
The music was taken from the original 1991 video! I thought it would be fun to copy as many aspects of it as possible!
I often play the music in my car..lol, think of the good olw daze
Awesome! 👍
Great video :) though at 5 mins you say the road layout has changed, it hasn't, you can still follow the same route past the old post office but cant go the other way as its buses only :)
Yeah I think at the time we were unable to go that way....perhaps due to road works. Either that or we just made a mistake somehow when driving. Thanks for watching!
Really interesting. Thanks for sharing ? Was it ushers where Sainsbury’s is ?
That's lit