1968 - SLOW - A Drive Around Ipswich

A slowed down (10%) version of A Drive Around Ipswich, without music. (c) Copyright Russell Frost. A drive around Ipswich in 1968.
(((edit - Yes, the video is labelled "~1960" when the true date was unknown)))
** NOTE ** I will remove negative comments about Ipswich, it's council, the people who live here and anything else I find offensive. Just keep your opinions to yourself please.

[@hayley8715]

Someone was ahead of their time waiting for you tube ❤

[@briggsfartblender788]

What a wonderful chance to see how Ipswich looked 50 years ago. I moved here in 2000 and it's nice to see how much and how little has changed. Thanks for posting.

[@shamoodave]

Alot has changed. Many wonderful buildings demolished. Too many mistakes and poor decisions.

[@stuartdobson8146]

Great to see Ipswich as it was when I was young. So little traffic. Thanks for posting it.

[@sidcup1421]

Loved the pictures of the cut I lived in purplet street till 1967 have great memories off the area 😢❤️

[@daleradders7593]

Incredible video! Axa building being built,driving through town centre, i really wish i could have a day of walking through the town like this! Im not old enough to have seen this.

[@keyote3]

I was about fifteen at the time, I recall all the sights seen here as I cycled all over town, plus I had relatives all over. Interesting the lack of Heath Road Hospital as you drove past. The sheer lack of traffic in them days... !! A shame it is a mite cloudy, but well done you, a fascinating look at how it was, before it all went wrong... !!!

[@ajadrew]

I was 10 in 1968 & recognise most of this - Grimwade & Son at 8:29 was where I went for new school uniform. I went to Everton School in Humber Doucy Lane & lived at 22, Fonnereau Road. (I hoped you were going to turn right at 10:14 & drive down Fonnereau Road). The white building at 9:50 was a hospital, I was in there in 1975 after being knocked off my motorbike by a car at Sproughton crossroads! Brings back so many memories!

[@angelabrooke5059]

I also went to Grimwades for my uniform. Northgate Grammar

[@ajadrew]

@@angelabrooke5059 I remember Northgate, used to pass it sometimes depending on which way I went home.

[@angelabrooke5059]

@@ajadrew Yes a few pupils lived in Humber Doucy Lane. 😊They were slightly more middle class in general than the large numbers of pupils from Chantry Estate.

[@angelabrooke5059]

I hate to say this but I was also in that hospital for a night in 1975. I had been involved in a bad car accident and although I was luckily unhurt I guess they wanted to observe me over night.

[@ajadrew]

@@angelabrooke5059 My sister went to Chantry Secondary..we moved to Sandringham Close, Stoke Park after Fonnereau Road. I remember that Hospital as if it was yesterday. I'd been knocked out as my helmet came off + when I came round, they said I was going to have a metal pin in my leg. I guess that's what happened though I don't recall anymore apart from hobbling down towards St Matthews swimming baths on crutches!

[@shaneomac5038]

Lovely video. Would've loved to have seen old chantry ip2 area around the time it was being built

[@samuelfarris1949]

I remember most of the locations of what I saw here, as I frequented the town from nearby Melton throughout my 30 years. Interesting to see how the dockyard complex with its railway lines looked, which was something I never really saw. At 5:32, where the road veers to the left, it takes you toward the roundabout at Hawthorn Drive, right next to where my grandparents on my Dad's side lived at that time, and still did when they both died over 40 years later. My dad would have been 20 and already working (for a timber yard as I recalled him telling me), while their other son was only five/six when this was shot. Regards, Samuel Farris.

[@jammiedodger629]

Are you sure? That's burrell Road leading to the Station. Veering left leads to Belstead Road and St Mary's at Stoke.

[@shotleybert]

Excellent post. Thank you.

[@maureenmcglynn6843]

I lived in Ipswich then. Left England in ,1968.

[@Soapy555]

and?

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

Sadly quite a lot of what you see here just no longer exists, including the brutalist stuff at the bottom of Civic Drive down past where the AXA Building now is (which appears to be under construction in this clip). That, and the roads have been rerouted over the years. I remember seeing something in the Star about expats in the US who used to live where Cardinal Park now is, when it was housing that would still have been there around this time. Mate of mine also lived in the flats on Fore Hamlet directly opposite the church (apparently built circa 2003) meanwhile his ex-girlfriend lived in one of the other buildings round the corner. But interesting that the Bishops Hill flats (16:23) overlooking Holywells Park were there all that time ago. For some reason I assumed they were newer, although whole sections of the wall on the main road look to have been removed and the frontage opened up.

[@gray3553]

I grew up in Ipswich at that time it was a dump then and even worse dump now, apart from happy memories at my old school Westbourne and watching the Town in their glory days in the 60Ss, 70s and early 80s. So thx for reminding me.

[@Dronesteve-72]

Loved the old ipswich

[@VolareAlto]

the original dash cam..great content.

[@alanryan7994]

Brilliant video I wonder if there's more about Ipswich 70s or 80s.?

[@TheAndyfrost]

My channel has a few videos from the 60s that feature Ipswich and Suffolk.

[@paulgreco5471]

Wonder what shops were on the bixley road roundabout in those days

[@martingarner4613]

Half expecting to be following dad in his car, spooky to see civic drive under construction, and can remember it being developed, could've been getting off a bus and be in that film somewhere, would've been 10 years old.

[@zxz1]

If you adjust the speed on playback Veena g you will find thiis clip much more watchable

[@angelabrooke5059]

So many fewer vehicles on the road.

[@ginborgho]

damn my mum wasn’t even born yet is this accurate dating ?

[@chrisharden2035]

Greyfriars....bloody architects!

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

That area has changed so much that I get a bit confused when the car heads up College Street towards where the Novotel roundabout now is. Looks like he makes a right turn up the bottom half of St. Peter's Street, on the section outside the church where the brick-paved pedestrian walkway now is. On making the turn he has a building on his left that no longer exists.

[@Roxie66645]

Is this 1966. Look like police stn being constructed that was 66?

[@jenniferlees9776]

Wish they'd have driven by Portman Road Stadium

[@georgecollins2412]

what car was this filmed in

[@TheAndyfrost]

I believe it was a Morris Mini, registration MPV533.

[@georgecollins2412]

@@TheAndyfrost How do you know?

[@shuts]

@@georgecollins2412 it was his dads car, and he also has great memory

[@georgecollins2412]

@@shuts Do you know his dad then?

[@shuts]

@@georgecollins2412 Nope, however it says his dad filmed the video in the video’s description. (Edit: Check the Description of the Fast Version)

[@AlbinoTheHedgehog]

Goodness 1960?

[@SuffolkNow]

Hi Andy - We would love to use this video for the Ipswich Star Website to share with our readers for some nostalgia. Would you be happy for us to download the video and credit Russell Frost? Please get in touch here or send us an email sophie.barnett@archant ! We would ideally like to run the story today :)

[@OldSchoolChinny]

Do you still have the original cine film Andy?

[@TheAndyfrost]

Yes. At some point I'll be packing all my old cine and sending it to the EA Film Archive.

[@OldSchoolChinny]

Andy Frost Is the original quality of the cine any better than this rather jerky slowed down version? Just wondering as a friend of mine who has experience of transferring film to digital reckons he could get a better result.

[@OldSchoolChinny]

(No offence intended,just would like to be assured that this truly wonderful film is seen in the best possible state.)

[@zeashhazarrived]

This guy over taking everyone and all sorts 😂

[@toodlypip77]

Doesn't play for me??

[@TheAndyfrost]

It probably is playing, it's just very slow and there's a long leader/title slide at the front.

[@toodlypip77]

Yeah, just found that if I moved it forward a bit, that it was playing. Thanks 😊

[@OldSchoolChinny]

Nx The 45 second intro does seem a tad excessive, it has to be said...

[@veenag1663]

Vedio is not clear.

[@TheAndyfrost]

This is a slowed down version (running at 10th of the speed) of a cine film taken in 1960. I think it's clear enough given the limitations of the technology used at the time.