Bristol street scenes 1970s amateur home movie cine footage of city, people and cars

Vintage home movie footage of Bristol around 1973 showing the street scenes, people and cars of the city. Shops have changed hands in Park street and the roads are busier now. This was taken on colour 9.5mm film which is unusual for the 70s as most people shot in the more popular 8mm . Not sure of the exact year but I reckon its 1974 judging by the flares ! Contact us to transfer your film to digital or DVD.

[@nigelmaund9057]

I lived there during this time as it was my home City. So, this video brings back many memories!

[@sineadmclaughlin3095]

Great post indeed. I can remember the boat shop on the corner. It was owned by mr and mrs Shepard. They were friends with my dad. They were very nice people. This video did make me feel old. Probably because I am.

[@anthonygardiner6213]

Great choice of music, compliments the era.

[@marccarter1350]

Its youtube stock music, 1970's rock"!

[@christophernewman5027]

God, l enjoyed that but with a tear in the eye.

[@stephielulu9096]

I can feel the breeze from all those flares flappin' in the wind

[@martinshepherd626]

Born 73 so it's good to see what home was like when I was a young whipper snapper

[@shaneraines2094]

I was born the very same year, but didn't people walk fast then!!!!!!!! I have found if you use the playback settings and reduce to 0.75 it becomes normal speed!!

[@phatman3573]

Love seeing my city as I would of when I was a baby 💜.....Thankyou

[@ThePurleflower]

70s music too. Too cool man!

[@joolspirog]

I love the cars and loved naming them

[@245rct]

A pleasure to watch.

[@anthonygardiner6213]

Great footage, thanks for uploading this.

[@trondog8503]

Something different about people’s demeanour, they look more vibrant, like they’re enjoying life.

[@stevethomas5849]

I must have the same age as those kids climbing up Christmas Steps.

[@westhavengwr4613]

Reminds me of walking to school from the bus stop in Queen's Square to the top of Park Street.

[@snowwhitehair485]

I don't ever remember Bristol people walking so fast in the early 70's. And just look at that road-sweeper go!

[@shaneraines2094]

Reduce playback speed to 0.75 it stop Bristolians rushing around and getting tired!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@peterstudley1804]

Hi great video I'd guess at this being filmed in 77 or 78 , it featured a face lifted morris marina with all aluminium grill released in 76 , and there's a off white scirocco parked up on street corner with its back facing the camera, and the ultra modern looking TR7, as the film ends , brought back great memories 😀.

[@dolmanf]

That evokes some memories!

[@michaeljefferies8711]

So wish I was back in the 70s

[@LivingWalks]

Hi there, we've been enjoying watching this. We film natural sight and sound walks in soulful cities and have just filmed Bristol, so it's interesting to see the contrast, thank you for taking the time to add it.

[@ethanoreilly2002]

It's so weird seeing Nelson Street so busy! It's completely quiet now!

[@ethanoreilly2002]

@Kenneth Perry yes that's true, a real shame

[@davidfrodsham4822]

My adopted City nearly 50 years ago. Best place in England

[@ianmax69]

Love the insurance inspection on the Maxi at 3 minutes in !!

[@darrenquarterman2611]

Amazing how much traffic even back then

[@rbaynton]

Isn't it strange. All those people walking about, looking where they are going and not staring at their phones

[@moviescancouk]

Yes pre phones and pre Pokémon !

[@shaunw9270]

Wow I was 4 or 5 years old ! Looked nice back then !

[@bilbobaggins9765]

its looks exactly the same now, did your mental age ever develop beyond 5?

[@jamesdettmann94]

@@bilbobaggins9765 how long ago did your wife ditch you to turn you into such a miserable brute

[@peteratkinson922]

​@@bilbobaggins9765It wasonly a matter of time that the comments got personal😢

[@betty5064]

Park Street, with George's ,the only bookstore in Town. We hiked up there to buy my first very own book when I could read. No coloured cartoons then. I chose a small book about bees so I could learn about the hives next door.

[@dufushead]

Wow that hits the spot and takes me back. Ace backing music, who's it by

[@Ichthesaurus]

What a great video

[@moviescancouk]

Thanks, its not often you see films of street scenes, its usually of some specific subject .

[@LooseyGooseyGander5]

Superb 😉

[@williamkennedy5492]

I wonder how safe the streets are now, i was a regular visitor in the 90s due work,

[@Zero_Ninety]

People walked fast back then..

[@youarewhatyouare]

A lot of these lovely old buildings were knocked into flats for out of towners who subsequently caused traffic gridlock that's planners for you tho

[@shaneraines2094]

I'm guessing this was filmed 1974 or later as the TR7 was released in September 1974

[@lukevibertuk]

2:56 - lower left hand side of the frame...look at the dent in the roof of the car!!!!

[@moviescancouk]

Ouch ! It looks like the whole side of the car has been hit, I hadnt noticed that before - I wonder if its just happened and he is looking around the damage ...

[@prs3799]

And no one with a bloody smart phone glued to their ear

[@Ribeirasacra]

Just a random Bullnose Morris parked in Park Street. 0:16

[@Trylobyte]

Only thing thats different are the cars and some of the buildings at the bottom of Christmas Steps -everything else is still pretty much the same today!

[@David-uf8ex]

And NO bloody graffiti Everywhere. Heaven

[@martinshepherd626]

Bristol, my place of birth and home up until 4 years ago before politics and shite ideas destroyed it.

[@southwested]

Must be post 1974 as there is a TR7 at the end. Would say 1975 myself.

[@moviescancouk]

Good point I think you could be right !

[@prs3799]

well good for you

[@nickhowes5348]

The clue to dating this is the pedestrianisation of corn st.

[@KreSade01]

Which Bristol is this? I live in Bristol pa now near Philadelphia.

[@maxventuri-sn2mi]

ive never seen bristol with so many English people in it

[@reynardbizzar5461]

It needs to be watched at 3/4 speed.

[@smudger671]

Bristol before it was ruined and became characterless.

[@dimwit3006]

I guess it did have more character in those times. But it beats London in terms of character.

[@flashdance5574]

You took the words out of my mouth

[@glynbarnes6374]

I was walking across College Green during the late 60's. A guy from St Pauls came up to me and said "was dat place ober der man". I said "it was the Council House". He replied "oh good ah got ma name dahn for one ob dose"

[@mrpopparouni8571]

So what?

[@tonyeastman153]

Now it's all mostly Chinese foods shops and barbers...

[@mikeboyse2566]

My mistake. Have a long and healthy life.....

[@prs3799]

Why did you have to speed it up

[@moviescancouk]

Hi Peter , that's a very good point . As cine film consists of lots of still frames it depends on the frame rate the film was shot at. So you often see old footage which appears to be running fast. This was shot on quite a rare format - 9.5mm film which was likely shot at 16 frames per second. The frame rate we generally use today is 25 FPS so any footage shot at 16 will appear to run fast and anything over 25 FPS will run slow, so footage shot at 100fps will be 4x slow motion. In order to make the footage run in real time we need to pad out the 16 FPS frames with duplicate frames which makes it look correct . I usually speed correct customer footage in this way to make it look more natural, and may upload a speed corrected version of this film so you can see the effect.

[@shaneraines2094]

Copy and paste into VLC media player and play at your deired speed!

[@mikeboyse2566]

Well Glynn Barnes, if you really were walking across College Green in the sixties. we can only hope that that particular brand of crap, unfunny, pathetic racism will soon be dying out. Comments like that that make me embarrassed to be from Bristol. Nice footage by the way - some cool cars, and happily most of it all still recognisable!

[@glynbarnes6374]

+Mike Boyse It was a white guy with a heavy cold.

[@VisorView]

Actually it is you who is the racist snowflake. Mike didn't say what race the guy was in the joke, but it was you who made the assumption that anyone from St Pauls must be black. The joke itself is around 50 years old, humour will always exist, always has and always will. Unless you are going to patrol every house and pub on the planet you will never be able to change anything at all, thank goodness!

[@bilbobaggins9765]

no need to change anything ,all the people that were alive in the 70s will be dead soon ,good riddance

[@Zero_Ninety]

Googel+ So let me get this straight, someone makes a racist joke but that person isn't racist for making the joke, instead the person who pointed out that the racist joke is racist is the racist? Is that the best defence you Farage cultists can come up with? Pathetic.