Bill Grundy Looks At Aylesbury (1972)

Bill Grundy looks at Aylesbury.
Buckinghamshire.
MS driving down streets in the town. MS cottages. CU window. MS man walking through gate. MS scenic views of the old town. MS church and yard. MS Bill Grundy walking through churchyard talking to camera.
MS big sign 'Cadena Cafe' spinning around on top of new building, pan down to new concrete shopping centre. MS clothes stalls on market. MS shopping centre and market. Pan across new office buildings. Various shots new building which Grundy calls "hideous", it is nicknamed 'Pooley's Palace' after the architect. CU signs to Friar's Square shopping centre and library etc., pan to people getting on the bus. MS roundabout and bus, pan down steps to Woolworth's, the second biggest of their shops in Britain. MS Woolworth's from another angle. MS prettier part of town seen through arch. CU statue of lion, pan across old square.
CU and MS statue of John Hampden. MS old buildings. CU Grundy sitting in chair which Oliver Cromwell sat in at the King's Head pub. Exterior and interior of the pub. MS swords, etc., on wall, pan to Grundy speaking. MS Grundy walking into bedroom where Cromwell slept, he shows spy hole down to the bar. Travelling shot along houses and industrial estate, housing estates etc. CU Grundy. MS large plastic ducks in shopping precinct. CU little girls playing in the ducks. MS flowers in marketplace. MS and CU statue of Benjamin Disraeli in front of Midland Bank. CU as Grundy speaks, pan back from church to show town and marketplace.
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[@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!

[@charlesmaximus9161]

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

[@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.

[@theImmortalsquirrel87]

Things have changed a lot in 43 years

[@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

[@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?

[@mhuuudhaarrarhhhmmmez4829]

The birdsong on the introduction..

[@honeybunny9411]

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

[@latitudepost]

Where's Jonesy?

[@lordlucan7655]

Let’s make this the big one for Otway

[@Redchannelconditions]

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

[@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

[@AlesAndBluesGuy]

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.

[@casstrippin5586]

grundy mate, wind your neck in

[@JRStephens5005]

Grundy was an absolute waste of space.