Aylesbury Pubs in the early 1960s - Part 2

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

I remember the Teddy boys and their drapes and then came the Mods . So many boozers to choose from , but sadly all gone . RIP .

[@DrPangloss]

The picture of the White Swan brought back memories; glad to see it's still trading.

[@johnpipkin7198]

The Duck ! My first legal beer on my 18th birthday in 1965. Thanks so much for all these memories !

[@audreybennion5515]

So many lovely old buildings lost :(

[@nobbybravoalpha1870]

ARE YOU ANY RELATION TO PHIL BENNION WHO DROVE FOR DCA INDUSTRIES GATEHOUSE ROAD??

[@audreybennion5515]

@@nobbybravoalpha1870 No sorry Nobby, no relation

[@joss51ful]

Sad to see so many gone but some great memories

[@MOLYN867]

My era. I don’t think I would like Aylesbury now.

[@marvinnappermarvo]

My dad frequently had a drink in the JFK in Quarrendon when we moved from Eight Acres in Tring to Argyle Avenue in the early 70's.

[@stuartswain8785]

Used to live 2 doors down from tbe Duck pub on Bedgrove. Used to take the empty bottles back to the off license to get the money back. Happy Days my friends.

[@stuartswain8785]

Friday night pub crawl start at the Plough on the Tring Road, next the John Hamden up the high street, followed by the Crown, then the Dark Lantern if you wanted some Jamaican Woodbines then ended up at the Saracens Head top of Rickfords Hill. The Brittania on a Friday or Saturday night the only.Nightclub we had. Would do it all again tomorrow.

[@Rapscallion2009]

The ironic thing is that a lot of the buildings demolished in the 1960s and 70s would be worth a mint now. Not just in terms of market value, but in terms of adding value to the town. Never understand why they knock down buildings and build new ones, rather then repurpose old ones.

[@PeterSmith-by2cy]

I've anguished over this for years. The fact is that in the 1950s we wanted Aylesbury to be a go ahead place that could provide jobs and homes and be worthy of being county town of Bucks without signing away its soul and becoming an LCC new town. There was little knowledge or appreciation of the town as an historic place worthy of celebrating. So if the past got in the way of the shining bright future then it had to go. The policy bought more than 50 years of growth and prosperity after 50 years of distress and semi-rural poverty. So on balance it was a success that Reg Maxwell, Bill Cousins and the rest can be thanked for. Mind you I got out in 1974!

[@Rapscallion2009]

@@PeterSmith-by2cy so who was Reg Maxwell of the reg Maxwell centre? I used to swim there and always wondered!

[@PeterSmith-by2cy]

Yes I visited all these at least once the Queens Head was my home from home when I wasn't at the dark lantern. My uncle had a garage next to the Saracens Head in the 1920s and I lived next door to it in the 1960s. Strangely I never spent much time in the Little Vic, Boulborn Street despite working opposite for donkey's years.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

The Rockwood in the sixties was an Irish Paddy pub . Always trouble .

[@barefootdee1]

Sad so many disappeared especially those I have had a drink in. My wedding reception was held in The Duck.

[@prussiangrandson]

Great videos. What is the music?

[@AylesburyRemembered]

I'm glad you enjoyed them. The music is called Dead From The Beginning Alive To The End by Doctor Turtle.

[@leeritenour6158]

Long live our british pubs

[@lukepowell1988]

No such thing as a proper boozer now

[@patrickj8984]

@@lukepowell1988 there are a couple left....use em or lose em!

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

The real boozer died years ago .