Sad to see so many Lovely Old buildings gone and replaced by drab modern synthetic construction

Im in the video, my brother mark, my gramps Fred mead and Uncle Terry Mead. Love it

Is Alaister Cook a religious Christian who goes to Church for Sunday mass daily and read the Bible? Does he keep a pic of Jesus in his mobile and home

Too many moany comments about the ‘good old days’ along with some racist undertones… you people are the problem. Stop crying about the old days, build a bridge, get over it and live in the now. Yes I can appreciate how beautiful my town was, but it has its beauty now- which can be found if you allow yourself to see it.

If you look at Kingsbury bottleneck on Google Street View... it's all still there!

Went there today it was a sad effort compared with this

20:55 Never seen this road before. I'm guessing it's Rickfords Hill? And it came out on Great Western Street at the bottom?

With my mum we used to change buses at Aylesbury to go to my grand parents who lived down the bottom part of Bierton.So many memories seeing this video I'm now 80 and have lived in Italy for 58 years, thanks alot for sharing 🤗👍👏💂🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️

Thanks for this. It's interesting trying to place the different shots in today's context. Surprising how many of the buildings are still there, obscured by the more modern developments. I never knew the place as it was here, but everything I've seen conveys an oppressive, almost foreboding atmosphere. It must have been absolutely dire on cold and rainy days. I understand the power of nostalgia for those who have good memories associated with it, and it may be that the town centre has less variety overall now, but in purely architectural terms, I'd take the modern covered centre over that brutalist nightmare every time. I can't help but wonder just how that design language ever appealed to anyone... but I suppose future generations may say something similar about things built today.

Brutalist architecture at its worst.

Whoever is in charge of aylesbury needs sacking.

A very very depressing place now. Like a town in need of robocop like detroit did in the film. Upperhundreds cark park has bags of unused narcotics just left on fire stairs!@!. Hamden car park lower levels has no cctv. No working fire alarm. Burns out lifts and lobbys. Unbelievable.

Aylesbury then to "Failsburys" now. Todays aylesbury is a high street of bookies. Charity shops . Vape shops. East europe booze shops. Showboat and all manner of low quality asian shops. At least at the time of the friars square deveoplment it along with the civic centre had a reasonable aray of shops. As well as the friars club. Most of uk looks like aylesbury now ( luton. Poole. Slough. Peterborough. High wycombe. Stoke on trent. Walsall. Etc etc ) Why is that?

Terry Mead, my uncle

win mead, fred mead and tom henley. my grandparents and great uncle

Well done for posting.

what a wonderful record, born in '56 and broght up on Tring Rd I remember all of these places, even brought back memories of the Queens Head where my school friends dad was landlord...lol.

What a dive!

I've lived in Aylesbury all my life and agree that the older buildings had character - but in 100 year's time, people will watch videos of Aylesbury as it is now and say 'what a pity those lovely old buildings were demolished. Rose-coloured spectacles.

I remember chuck I ad a poop out side that old bar I did 😢😢😢

"Promo SM" 🤗

So lovely to see. I used to play with the bride's mum and her aunt when I was a little girl and I recall her maternal grandparents so well. Some Stewkley faces I recognised were there. What a great film.

Seeing the shops brings back a lot of memories, but even to a young lad in the early 80's, the place was a concrete dump. So much damage was done in such a short space of time... I doubt the centre of Aylesbury will ever look anything other than awful in my lifetime...

Cyclists giving hand signals as they head for White Hill on the Oxford Road. You rarely see that now.

I remember it so well ! Thanks for posting 😉

I know that the old concrete shopping center gets a bad wrap but lets be honest. There were more shops offering a much wider range than what we have now and whilst it was windy and cold you never got groups of dirty poor chavs hanging around everywhere. Yeah the male public toilet area was a place you never went too and the bus station was scarier than most horror films but the underground market was awesome, Zodiac toy store, Our Price, Woolies etc was magic. Aylesbury has changed so much and most of it is for the worse. It's horrible to drive through, it's far too built up and noisy, people have such a crap attitude and its too expensive to buy or even rent here. The 70's, 80's and early to mid 90's it was great.

Good film but a horrible place. The wind used to whistle through it and the bus station was a fume filled concrete cavern. It went rapidly down hill after they turned off the water that cascaded down the glass over the stairs to Lower Friars Square( in the first few months}. I'm glad I caught the bus in Kingsbury.

What a great film

Omg do it see Quarrendon School?

My dad is Simon Wheatley, any of these videos got him in?

Brilliant video, very factual, interesting and just brilliant to see all of the people of Stewkley come together for such an important event, may all of those who fought for our freedom today, never be forgotten.

As an ex-resident seeing the old Silver and Great Western streets and the squares etc really bring it perspective how much was demolished, but some of old buildings with probably no heating or running water must of been deteriorating beyond repair for the decision to bulldoze so much of it. If they could all go back in time , I wonder if the council would do the same thing knowing how much people seem to like the old town rather than the redeveloped one . Precious film though , great viewing

When a boozer was a boozer !

Great footage - really appreciate all the vids you upload - thank-you!

Hope I'l get to see her soon

Fantastic remember these 🍺🍺🍺

My bit of Aylesbuy was farm land redevelopment.

This made me want to cry it was such a beautiful town now totally spoilt I hate going there now. What a wonderful record of life gone by.

when England was England look no foreigners

Golden days before the PC brigade and the woke left destroyed our way of life!

I never thought I'd see the place I live on KZbin, it looks rather decent in the past but for the 18 years I've been alive and lived here it's honestly been a craphole. But what would you expect from a city 🤔

This place is the upside down. If youre a young buck, LEAVE IT AND NEVER TURN BACK. CARTI WAITING ON THE OTHER SIDE VRO, NEVER TURN BACK.

Towns a shithole now like every market town

What a lovely town this used to be. It's an absolute trash compactor now sadly

I can remember this a lot of memory's came back to me I was just 18 years old it was a lovely town not like it is now I worked with a chap that made films and use to take to differenc camera clubs

From a Lovely and Quiet Rural Market town to a Hump Landfill where Any and Everything is Dumped......!

Some of that I can remember as a kid (70s onwards). I remember those pole things on Kingsbury square. I remember being able to drive around the market square in a car (well, my dad being able to). I'm personally a big fan of repurposing buildings rather than demolishing them and building a new one. I'm sure some architect somewhere would disagree with me, but personally I think all buildings boil down to a large box (splutter!) and as such can be repurposed. You can redecorate and renovate a building and come up with something interesting and unique - and I think it's really clever and interesting when a bank is turned into a nightclub an old grain silo into offices or a disused warehouse into a shopping mall.

Roy Knight. Ye village of Aylesbury!! Memories.

Fantastic video and historic record of Aylesbury, can’t believe how many lovely old buildings have gone!

What a fabulous record! It was pure genius to have the foresight to record those wonderful old buildings and sites before they were dug-up and demolished to be replaced with characterless concrete, . Many thanks for posting this film, it gave me so many memories of the town I used to know. I hope it shows the generations that live here now that poor planning decisions made can alter your lives irreparably. Floreat Aylesburia!