Coventry City Centre - Waaaaay Back When!

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@ianpye8938 Жыл бұрын

Totally agree with the comments about Broadgate. Should never have been changed. The greenery and gardens of it were a lovely aspect of the centre.

@Throgmoyd 2 жыл бұрын

As a youngster in the 70s I visited my Coventry-dwelling Grandparents regularly in school hols (they lived in Tile Hill). Where I came from, buses were boring green. The maroon and cream livery of the Coventry buses had me enthralled. I also thought the city centre shopping precinct was amazing with it's multi-levels and ramps. I have very, very fond memories of Coventry in the 1970s.

@lewis72 11 ай бұрын

Interesting that as I've always thought of Coventry centre as being some deeply-depressing concrete jungle reminiscent of an Eastern European city during the cold war... but then, I like Hull for the same reasons of it being where my grandparents lived.

@ClaireQuinn566 4 ай бұрын

It was much nicer back then. I agree Broadgate was much nicer. The town centre is soulless now. A concrete jungle. I've very happy memories using the buses to go everywhere around town. Happy days. 👍❤️

@keithfrmcov 10 жыл бұрын

Broadgate should never had changed. It was far better when it was like this.

@alecjefferson6993 3 жыл бұрын

Good looking back shame all the trees have been cut down gone in the Center city of culture 2021

@francispalmer9737 11 ай бұрын

When I was a kid in the early 70s I used to go up and down the escalators in Owen and Owen just for fun and watch the peeping tom clock. 59 now and miss my childhood days living in Coventry

@michaelgray9234 2 жыл бұрын

That looks like the 22 willenhall bus stop that i used in the day

@chrisweeks6973 Жыл бұрын

Mike, out of curiosity, were you at Whitley Abbey around '57-'61?

@MarkAldrich74 11 жыл бұрын

Not a hoodie or jeans halfway down their bum in sight! British built cars & Broadgate looking great..... Before "Progress"!

@KsaundersPI 12 жыл бұрын

wow the way broadgate used to be when it was beautiful!

@softshallow7435 3 жыл бұрын

It was like that upto the end of 1980’s I remember. But buses only stopped going through here since end of 2010.

@nottmjas 2 жыл бұрын

Broadgate hasn't been beautiful since the night of 14th/15th November 1940. If only the post war buildings on the western side of the square had been designed and constructed to the same high standards as the new cathedral. The front of the Primark building isn't too bad, but its rear from Burges 😱 And as for the Cathedral Lanes complex.....

@t1000eg 11 жыл бұрын

so cool to see my hometown back in the day...i reckon thats from around 68-70

@paulbroderick5358 11 жыл бұрын

You have got that right!

@chrisweeks6973 2 жыл бұрын

Given that the Bedford Viva van at 0.11 wasn't introduced until 1963, the footage must be after this date. It was in production until 1983. The first bus - the one with the mainly cream paint - is possibly a Leyland Atlantean; they were introduced onto the Coventry fleet in January 1965. They were very unpopular, as Coventry preferred the locally-built (Radford) Daimler buses. If the cream bus is a Daimler Fleetline (and I think it is) the first of them was delivered in 1968. At 0.23 the red car reversing out (the position of the lights is a giveaway) is a Jaguar XJ Series III, which was introduced in March 1979. As it's parked behind the bank, the likelyhood of it being a new or near-new car is quite high, so, on balance, it's probable that the footage is from 1979/80.

@golden.lights.twinkle2329 Жыл бұрын

Some parts of the footage are way earlier than that. I think this must be footage from several different eras.

@pburr1973 Жыл бұрын

It's before the WMPTE take-over on 1 April 1974 as the buses still carry Coventry Corporation Transport names on their sides (but after 1968 as has been mentioned). I'd say around 1970/71 for the first part.