Colchester Drive 2012 (Part 1 Town Centre and The Hythe) (1986 footage inset)

[@KayakingVince]

Nice editing and synchronisation of both journeys. Thank you for making this piece of history.

[@MikeTheBike600]

Thankyou for uploading this and adding the old footage in too! Its been really interesting to watch.

[@evelyncurl1120]

This was really interesting to watch! Brought back memories of my home town.

[@NZherewecome]

thanks for doing this... anyone who had lived in Colchester would or will appreciate this at some point ;-)

[@stevealexR1]

Loved this! I lived in Colchester from 1979 to 2002 and was 21 in 1986. I recognise everywhere you drive. I used to live in Glentress Close in Magdalen Wood / St. John's until I moved to Whitstable in Kent.

[@Audittr2108]

I was 19 in 1986 and lived in Valentines Dr just across from you. Great to see how it used to be. Brings back a lot of memories. Thanks for posting.

[@paulpreston439]

Brilliant. Thanks for the memories..

[@TheWurn2]

You are welcome!

[@Madmark99]

Really good to sync up the 2 videos, i watched the originals not long ago and was amazed at how much has changed around Colchester and had forgotten lots of features. Nice work

[@H9Gamings]

These videos are so interesting, I was born (1993) and raised in Colchester and some of this I remember but others I don't, so good :D

[@KatPettitCherry]

Really great job once again! Great editing skills, too. Like with the originals, I'll be sharing this one round, too!

[@danwok]

Brilliant videos. I was ten in 1986 and remember going to Colchester with parents, parking at the multistory then walking over the street to keddies. A lot has change if you look hard.

[@aprenderlife]

This is excellent! No doubt you've started something, someone will do this exact route in 25 years time. Excellent foresite in the 80s to do this

[@TheWurn2]

It definitely wont be me!

[@TD-Plays]

​​@@TheWurn2 do a 2025 version! :)

[@DaveTheTrain]

Thanks so much for doing this, it is amazing! I live on Suffolk Close, the road the car passes at 1:52 and this is exactly our drive to town.. Plus I was born in 86 so its all a bit exciting.

[@TheSuffolknomad]

Wow Pewl, Loved it, what memories I have of my old stomping ground. However glad I'm now a suffolk man. Really fantastic work, credit where its due mate, like your playlist as well.

[@TheWurn2]

Thanks for your comments. not a lot of control over the playlist, good old Radio Caroline 50 this week!

[@davideldred.campingwilder6481]

Great footage...

[@inter794]

great job guys nice contrast between old and new

[@julietzena2041]

I love this. Please do another one! A fair bit has changed even now (2017)

[@TheWurn2]

It would have to be a virtual reality one now! Now wouldn't that be interesting?

[@julietzena2041]

TheWurn2 omg yes 😂 360° as well! would be very interesting 😉😂

[@KentEssex]

It is surprisingly that Colchester didn't change much for 28 years after. Now, I live in new town Colchester.

[@shaunperry1]

Great work.

[@JASPURGEON]

Like these videos. I've got one myself from about 1993 ish from when I was living off of hythe hill and my dad picked me and drove me to his new house just off of berechurch hall road. I think I may have to upload that now.

[@TheWurn2]

Thank you for your comment.Regarding First Site, my opinion is that it should never have been allowed to go ahead until the completion of the original Vineyard Street project with the bus station under the shops.I also find the design totally inappropriate for the location and as an arts facility.Being born and bred here I have a great affinity for Colchester but over the last 40 years I find some of the Councils decisions mind boggling to say the least!

[@richardkirkham788]

Really like your videos brilliant idea ! Personally i think Colchester has been pretty much ruined by unsympathetic councils !

[@TheWurn2]

@@richardkirkham788 I don't think you are alone there.

[@DominicButler3D]

Great work!! 2 split screens the same size would be good too...ie see more of the 1986 glory days! :)

[@DominicButler3D]

Excellent! Thanks again!!

[@quicklung]

Superb. Thanks for doing this

[@anicetune]

1:08 - 26 years later, the owner of that house still likes gold cars.

[@thomasalvarez6456]

Car was worth the price, they seemed to last longer then.

[@colchesterpete2]

Nicely synced,great too see.

[@TheWurn2]

+colchesterpete2 All thanks to Gary Rowe of Crisp Aerial.

[@jameslynch7826]

What was the outfitters type shop called, next to the main Gpo? I still have a wool reefer coat that I bought there mid £90s for £25! Great shop. Similar to Jacks And a couple of flannel Levi shirts too but they are long gone. Thanks for the memories.

[@TheWurn2]

I tend to agree with you there, perhaps it will become iconic like The Sydney Opera House which was hated originally! Having said that, due to its construction techniques we may not have to make the most of it for too long.

[@queencolin]

cool i like the new 2012 drive to Colchester becuase when you got into the town you saw the Colchester network buses but i like them Colchester network uses that are in Colchester

[@TheWurn2]

You can see it in glorious full screen at Colchester Drive 1986 Parts 1-5 !!

[@MrStevenWicks]

I watched the original last night and it took me ages to work out where you started from I live off the Mersea Road (O:

[@66CLASS]

that bridge over the road i pulled down when i worked for CDC DEMO we pulled that down on a sunday morning .we put loads of sheets of ply wood on the road and pulled it down with a digger dident take long . GREAT VIDEO 5/5

[@TheWurn2]

Thanks to Gary for all your hard work! Think I prefer my original accent, 26 years back here has turned me back to a swede basher again.

[@TheWurn2]

Showing my age here but when I was a boy Valentines Drive would have gone through the farm yard and a huge thatched barn that belonged to Dilbridge Hall farm which stood where the King Cole pub was. They also used to bring the cows in for milking up Ipswich Road occasionally! And I am talking as late as the mid fifties.

[@TheWurn2]

Thanks for the comment but the more I get the older I feel ! Doesnt seem like 6 years ago let alone 26.

[@UK31337]

Loads more cars today than in 1986.

[@alan4391]

just shows you how things have changed

[@svenolley]

The change in the type of traffic.

[@TheWurn2]

Good idea, it would be nice to build up a library of clips like has been done with audio history.

[@sosoalsharif]

I was born in that year and next year I'll move to colchester to get my MA at Essex University :)

[@ChrissyboyH44]

No more Radio Caroline, that's one thing I noticed.

[@TheWurn2]

Not for much longer now they have a licence (50 years late!). Pity its only going to be on AM and low power (1KW). I prefer it on the internet where I use Bluetooth in the car or through my sound system at home.

[@rzathamesmer]

the weather is still shit though.. some things never change ;)

[@luciatilyard2827]

And are there crumpets still for tea? Thanks for that, live in Australia now, but that's my town.

[@TheWurn2]

Not today and it's raining. Glad you enjoyed it. Have you looked at my original 1986 videos? I had a much broader Ozzie twang then!

[@luciatilyard2827]

TheWurn2 It' was really interesting. Your other vids I'll have a look at. Are you an Aussie or English? Colch certainly does seem to have changed, was back for a short visit last year, and couldn't find my way around! Might come back to live there at some stage. Been keeping an eye out on the internet for houses. X

[@TheWurn2]

Lucia Tilyard Born and raised in Colchester but lived in Sydney for 9 years, came back here in 86. All the vids are on TheWurn2 channel, I am amazed how popular they have been.

[@luciatilyard2827]

TheWurn2 I'm in Victoria. What was it like, going back to the U.K.? Will most def look at your other vids.

[@TheWurn2]

Lucia Tilyard Good at first as I missed the pubs and seasons but at this time of year I would like to be there.

[@samviking1999]

Weather sure got a lot more crap in 20+ years. I blame the Tory's.

[@shaunpierce4174]

Do you still live in Colchester?

[@TheWurn2]

Shaun Pierce , Rowhedge these days.

[@Audio456]

Nice video but you are definetly going over 30 down magdalen street and on hythe hill which has always been 30mph.

[@TheWurn2]

Ah yes, those were the days when you could still do it.

[@Audio456]

+TheWurn2 no I meant in 2012, date of video. The point that's interesting about speed that not a lot of people realise is how it effects kinetic energy, which is the moving force your car has. I drive a small car weighing 3306 lbs. kinetic energy is half mass (or weight) multiplied by speed squared so at 30 mph half 3306 is 1653, multiplied by 30 times 30 (or 900). At 40 mph my car has 56% more moving energy than at 30 mph, it's not a bit more by virtue of a 10 mph increase. It won't matter what your car weight is to change these percentages. It means a boxer would punch someone with more than half as much force again - 56% more. If you double car speed it's 4 times the kinetic energy. It's why a child is odds on to live being hit at 30 and running out of those parked cars you were driving by, than if you were going 40 where odds on they will die. I think most people speeding in built up areas are doing it innocently and don't have an idea they are doing it because not monitoring speed

[@TheWurn2]

Most of that was running through my brain as I left the Mersea Road roundabout and I was trying to slipstream the car in front for less wind resistance. I have managed to avoid all those children running from between parked cars for 50 years now and not killed any (to my knowledge). That drive was very sedate for me as I was commentating at the same time and it is difficult for men to multitask.I have always driven at what I consider a safe speed and I have done it all over the world in left and right hand drive cars, also taxis in city centres plus motorbike riding and owning a Lotus Esprit Turbo and I am yet to have an accident.There is no substitute for experience and as far as Health and Safety is concerned, dont get me started!

[@Audio456]

+TheWurn2 yes I've no reason to doubt you have had safe experiences, but speed is speed and there are plenty of other reasons as to how a car and person can come into contact. They say people are never that far away from first accident. Fatal Accidents are multi factorial - the person in the road at the same point of the car is one, the car at 40 not 30 etc. Take one away and the person survives. The number of pedestrians hit in London is quite obvious when I used to do 25k business mileage a year. Experience won't have much to do with physics I'm afraid. Some of my friends and relations drive round Colchester (I'm from the town) at 10mph more than speed limit and it does my head in because there is surely a palpable risk of driving past parked cars at 40mph. Surely people can recognise that. My attitude to it is that I'll do 30 where it applies and take the odds of fatality out of the equation if anyone were to be in front of me with no or limited time to stop.

[@Audio456]

+TheWurn2 it's mainly about attitude to driving. If you are at 40 in a 30 because you've experience of not having hit someone in the way I mention, how would that belief stack up if say God forbid and hypothetically speaking, you were to hit someone in the manner I've said . I think this type of attitude of 'it won't happen to me' applies to lots of drivers. I should say I have a bit of an interest as I know a family friend whose child was hit and killed by a speeding car. Just stack the odds in the persons favour and go 30.

[@toyadavin]

D0 a 2023 version :)

[@thomasalvarez6456]

Your accent has changed quite a bit

[@TheWurn2]

I have reverted back to my original one!

[@djloco3000]

Im from israel wanted to see how british town looks like.... that was nice..... i will visit the oldest british city of colechester one time.... I love british history..... but driving on the other side loojs confusing... ;)

[@TheWurn2]

You will soon get use to it. Just watch out when you are walking and look the wrong way. Thanks for the comments.

[@djloco3000]

my pleasure :)