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@I_Don_t_want_a_handle 6 күн бұрын

Now Abingdon has an almost souless centre with a few picturesque streets snarled with traffic trying to get over the Thames. It's a sea of endless housing estates. It has been destroyed. They are doing the same to Wantage now.

@ktkee7161 10 күн бұрын

Thanks for telling us the music, often a frustration!

@James-dx8qb 2 ай бұрын

At 4:55 he says that "In the 18th century Abingdon said no to the railway", which of course didn't arrive until way into the 19th.The other disappointing feature of this report is the poor poquality of the BBC picture, made in 1976 but looks more like the 30s or 40s.

@marklewis3599 2 ай бұрын

Remember swimming there every weekend as a child in the 1970's... Would save up my 10p coins to slot into the Asteroids and Space Invader arcade games... Sport and culture 🤓

@chairmakerPete 3 ай бұрын

Wonderful! Thankfully, so much still recognisable today. Is there any film of the railway station?

@steveannells9252 3 ай бұрын

Note the correct name is West St Helen.

@rsqyoung 4 ай бұрын

By 1980 I was living in Abingdon. Unfortunately Morelands is gone and the Old Gaol was turned into a Swimming Pool is now long since closed.

@neilp190 4 ай бұрын

Interesting to see the newly built precinct with work still going on at the end (woolies) ! 🙂

@sansovino4124 5 ай бұрын

I remember seeing a class 47 in the yard in the early 1980's. Never saw the passenger service though.

@barnabywild2215 6 ай бұрын

This is 1987 onwards. It's easy to date because the archaeological excavations began on the Vinyard / Cattle market / railway station area prior to redevelopment for the Waitrose and new council buildings. As you can tell from the references to previous commerce, Abingdon was once a thriving and self-sustained market town. It had some wonderful architecture and history, being one of the oldest, if not THE oldest continually inhabited towns in England. The vandalism of the town began in 1960 and has continued over the years in a march to become a bland commuter town swallowed up in a sea of new build homes of little character. It once had a thriving tourist industry and was a nice place to visit. Now people are forced to look at Abingdon courtesy of a series of unnecessary traffic jams and 20 mph speed limits as they meander through to somewhere interesting.

@biblioshelfonhere7821 8 ай бұрын

Definitely 1990s. I watched them pass north along the A34 Oxford Western Bypass near Botley before turning off up the A420, thence I think they went via Cumnor and Farmoor over the toll bridge.

@squeezyjohn1 8 ай бұрын

Definitely not 1980 ... the mural on the subway towards the end of the video featuring the morris dancers and parachute regiment was only painted in around 1985-86 ... and the planter in the Bury Street development was a fish pond back in 1980.

@robertcrewdson8611 9 ай бұрын

Interesting movie, I was there on that day, I remember the station being tidied in preparation. I was told they wanted to use a steam loco, but the one they had at that time was not suitable for the sharp curves.

@robertcrewdson8611 Жыл бұрын

I had a cine camera and regret not taking any film of Abingdon. After passenger services finished there were the MG cars going from there. There used to be a crane there, I remember that beoing cut up also the glass roofed canopy. The signal box, with weeds coming upthrough the floorboards reminded me of the film 'Oh Mr Porter.]. A Business man wanted to buy this and run trains, but the council wanted it redeveloped.

@traceyjane4288 Жыл бұрын

my home town

@geoffphillips8029 Жыл бұрын

I went on the last proper passenger train out of Abingdon with my mother in the early 70s I think. Later my friends and I used to ride the mg export trains to Radley for fun. We never got caught!

@DanielGlover Жыл бұрын

Old school. Nice things you dad Bernard recorded. Added this as a link and a little tap up at the end of my new updated version of this!. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKfNdaywfdqFZ5I

@johnknipe5673 2 жыл бұрын

I remember the long bank holiday queues to get through Abingdon prior to the opening of the bypass

@thewayoftheinterceptingfis4194 2 жыл бұрын

When Abingdon lost its railway it lost its soul it's never been the same since those responsible for its demise need hanging

@Appetite4Rose 2 жыл бұрын

7:09 And that car never did manage to find a gap in the traffic to pull out into Stratton Way…

@Paul-md8de 2 жыл бұрын

I lived not far from Abingdon in the 70s , my friends father was a plumber who worked on the Old Gaol , he said the builders would refuse to work after dark in the area being made into the swimming pool after some builders etc said they saw a ghost of a former inmate of the Gaol on more than one occasion .

@edwardbyard6540 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic footage. I had a flat in Old Station Yard, the building is visible on this film. I vaguely recall the station area being redeveloped as I was very young at the time. Nice to see it how it was. Thank you for sharing.

@andrewholloway231 2 жыл бұрын

Good footage. Nice to see.

@DanielGlover 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Did write, give a push on a local facebook guess late last year. That KZbin went of mine so comments I ever did went. So here we are again. Stuck a last year drone video on my new KZbin and linked to this. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKPUlaiQj9OngLM

@leplessis8179 3 жыл бұрын

American spec MGs - you can easily tell, because they had three wipers. I was lucky enough to be able to buy a 'bare' body like this when the factory closed down, stuck an engine in it and 'found' some wire wheels - and all would have been fine if I could also have found the girl in hot pants. Oh well, there were plenty of other girls looking for an open-top ride ...................

@michingmallecho5143 3 жыл бұрын

A few years later they closed MG. The management of BL said there just wasn't a market for a front engined open top sports car anymore. Not long after that Mazda brought out the MX5 - a cross between an MG and a Lotus that actually worked and went round corners - and it became their best selling model. Another great British managerial success story.

@robertmalyn6493 2 жыл бұрын

The whole problem with British Leyland and its successors from its inception in 1968 to the demise of Rover in 2005, with possible exception when BMW owned it, 1994 - 2000 was that the much more viable sports / luxury car business was always sacrificed in favour of keeping the problematic volume car business e.g. Austin Morris alive in the wake of tough competition from Ford, Volkswagen, and the Japanese. That is what the government, the unions, the workforce, suppliers and British public demanded. Its why Leyland (whose cars were Luxury / Sports) were asked by the Government to take over the failing mainly volume producer BMC (Austin Morris). Yes, BMC also owned luxury / sports brands MG and Jaguar So, at the start of the 1980s why new Austin Morris models were branded as Austin Rover and then Rover, and basically Triumph and MG Marques and models were mothballed as part of then corporate strategy. It was the wrong choice, but it was the only acceptable choice to the various stakeholders. The result - putting a Rover badge on an Austin Morris car was like putting lipstick on a pig - they were ok cars, but they never had the magic of a Rover. Perhaps has the Austin Morris volume car business not being such of a strike prone basket case in the 1970s BL may have had the funds to keep its Luxury / Sports cars business going alongside the volume business. But by the start of the 1980s all the money had run out. Had Leyland not rescued BMC - then Leyland's Rover and Triumph business could have been merged to create a British BMW - with Rover making luxury saloon cars and Trumph making sports cars and sports versions of the Rover saloons. Maybe MG and Jaguar could have had viable future in this group

@suebradbury509 3 жыл бұрын

Great video - Thanks for sharing! 😊👍🏻

@retroclickmedia4422 3 жыл бұрын

Love this, the view from the Church shows the"new" building which used to house the "Busy Bee" newsagents in west St Helens (next ish to the old Electricity Board shop) which I worked on building 1988 / 89 ish so I think the footage is a bit later than '80.

@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206 3 жыл бұрын

Back when we used to manufacture goods 10:46 Thank you so much Margaret Thatcher for turning the nation into a nation of shop and call centre workers. Did NOT see Amazon and internet shopping coming did we Margaret.

@thomas05ish Күн бұрын

Blame Maggie if you want to but don’t forget Red Robbie and his mates and BMC management of the 50s and 60s .

@yossarian6799 3 жыл бұрын

Fella at 12:17 looks like one of singers from The Brotherhood of Man

@MrLC1965 3 жыл бұрын

I have a MG F and she is one of the cutest & loveliest cars ever made. A little lady

@MrLC1965 3 жыл бұрын

@@frankieknuckles9361 I have had three MG F in a row. Till today, very undervalued little roadster; things are changing, her value grew up 2.8 times since 2017. Much rarer than B, she'll have a great future in Classic cars market

@hughjass3047 3 жыл бұрын

Health and safety what? :D

@hughjass3047 3 жыл бұрын

Such a shame this is all gone. Only thing left is the BR style concrete pillar wire fences, all rusted and mashed, tracing the line footprint.

@hpengwyn 3 жыл бұрын

Don't think this is TdF. Have posted a link to this on Twitter. Someone spotted a Tulip Computers team car at 2:18 which suggests Tour of Britain 1990-92. I am guessing 1991 as that had a Windsor to Birmingham stage (1992 comes nowhere near and 1990 had a Cardiff to Birmingham which I would have thought wouldn't come this far East)

@uax12 3 жыл бұрын

I am happy to believe you are probably right. Unfortunately the index to all this stuff including the dates is un-accessable right now but hopefully one day I can clarify. I will change the title in due course. Many thanks.

@hpengwyn 3 жыл бұрын

"Don't vote for R. E. Mote"

@brennanriley7251 3 жыл бұрын

Nice 36:14 🍌🍌🍌🍌

@otissjake 4 жыл бұрын

Abingdon UK

@Imp5011 4 жыл бұрын

Factory had just 4 years left at that point.

@TheSaintsray 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for uploading your rare TV; some of the material you have uploaded and shared is wiped - it's missing from UK TV archives. If you'd like these to be copied and preserved for future generations, please contact either [email protected] or [email protected]

@Usurped 6 жыл бұрын

What was the presenters name? I recognize his face great hair style 😊

@manwithfishhead 6 жыл бұрын

John Stapleton. :)

@Usurped 6 жыл бұрын

@@manwithfishhead thanks thought I recognised him.

@stephenchappell7512 4 ай бұрын

Great source material for Alan Partridge

@traceyjane4288 6 жыл бұрын

ive lived in Abingdon all my life iam now 50 ! :)

@suebradbury509 6 жыл бұрын

Wonderful - thanks so much for sharing this! I lived in Abingdon for 33 years! So many happy memories going swimming at the Old Gaol back in the 1970’s!

@davidtownsend1792 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Sue, I worked at the Old Goal, in the 70s,

@kenziebarber3662 4 жыл бұрын

It's a wonderful place

@leplessis8179 3 жыл бұрын

Just wondering - was Bradbury your maiden name? - cos' I was thereabouts at the same time - and had LOTS of fun, if you follow me ................

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