Bill Grundy Looks At Aylesbury (1972)

[@thaiholidayhomes5154]

I grew up in Aylesbury. This was a trip down memory lane. I went back there in 2014 I didn't recognise the place. St. Marys Church was just as I remembered it. Those who know the Gated road out towards Quainton, well there's a bloody big housing estate there now. The Oden has long since gone as well as Woolworths. I could go on but they call it progress.

[@charlesmaximus9161]

Hello, dear cousins in beautiful Old England! - from across the sea in New England! ✝️🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙏

[@townleyjaydon4544]

Gosh, this was fourty-three years ago, and look at Aylesbury now, all full of markets, sweet shops, fast food restruants and phone shops, it has changed!

[@theImmortalsquirrel87]

Things have changed a lot in 43 years

[@mikeyc1348]

If anything it's far worse, along with the traffic. The big County Hall office tower is still there.....

[@josephinemarysheldon6002]

I was born in aylesbury 81 yrs ago right beside the canal in coronation villas. The house was my gran and grandads and i spent some wonderful holidays there in the summer school holidays.❤😊

[@CopiousDoinksLLC]

Your comment makes me a little bit sad. I'm an Australian and my dad's family came here from Liverpool back in the 70s. I've always pined for the "old" England that you're describing and I know I will never experience it now. I feel like there's a whole continent of heritage that I'll never truly understand because it's been erased by the "new" England that globalism has brought.

[@thaiholidayhomes5154]

I don't suppose you knew you knew Mrs Robinson who had a son called Tony?

[@HappyKeith-h5c]

Please be comforted to hear that those Coronation Villas remain splendid 👍😁

[@JHvideos423]

I wish I lived in these times

[@josephinemarysheldon6002]

I did and it was the best times ever, wish I could go back

[@PUSSEEassGANGSTA2013]

BACK DEN NICE TO SEE OLDEN DAYS IN UK TOWN

[@honeybunny9411]

haha even then no one liked that big ugly grey building Dx it still looks terrible if not worse

[@mhuuudhaarrarhhhmmmez4829]

The birdsong on the introduction..

[@Redchannelconditions]

52 years on and they still don’t listen. They want to demolish a 100 year old Art Deco building. Nothing changes.

[@MsJellyfishFan]

Which building are you referring to?

[@Redchannelconditions]

@@MsJellyfishFan gala bingo. Aka the Pavillion. Demolished to make way for a foot path

[@lordlucan7655]

Let’s make this the big one for Otway

[@latitudepost]

Where's Jonesy?

[@kevinmunday6263]

I Like the Concrete Weetabix, You See it from Miles Away, and No its Your Town. Shut Up Mr Grundies(sic) thats My Home Town

[@FighterPilot1945]

Grundy certainly didn't like Aylesbury.

[@ianthompson662]

when England was England look no foreigners

[@evertonfrancis640]

It was #*it then and it’s still sh#* now stop deluding yourself! Poorly planned town nothing to do with foreigners. The only thing good about it was the Friars club and I presume the grammar schools still exist. But hey I suppose I’m a foreigner as I live in Australia.

[@ianthompson662]

@@evertonfrancis640 wake up do not pay tax to look after this crap for free

[@dac545j]

Why not have an orchidectomy?

[@thaiholidayhomes5154]

Sorry that's not true. I grew up in Aylesbury and in 1972 by coincidence, went to the Grange Secondary school. I had friends from the Caribbean, India, Pakistan and Italy. One went on to own a very successful taxi business.. I also remember playing around Aylesbury farmers market. Smelly place. To end with I went to the Kings head many times when I was old enough. Had outside toilets then. Burtons was almost next door to the pub and I guess I mustn't forget the Sun Hong Chinese take away close to St Mary's church. Years later it was noticed that the Pigeon population in Kingsbury square was becoming smaller and so rumours started. And that's all I can say about that.

[@JRStephens5005]

Grundy was an absolute waste of space.

[@casstrippin5586]

grundy mate, wind your neck in