Driving through Ipswich heading north . 1999

[@ragingaspie7464]

That phone box by the opposite lights at the beginning is where I smoked my first joint 😂😂😂😂

[@importedmusic]

Reported comment. You think thats cool?

[@zachariah74]

@@importedmusic ?

[@importedmusic]

@@zachariah74 smoking drugs? or do I have to spell it out for you

[@zachariah74]

@@importedmusic sorry neighbourhood watch, i'll be on my best behaviour. i wont take up any more of your valuable community policing time.. in the youtube comments..

[@importedmusic]

@@zachariah74 its ok but in just giving you the heads up

[@EcchiGamingYT]

Fcking love the music. I'm glad people had the foresight to make these driving videos back in the day. I bet they weren't even thinking "I bet this will be interesting to look back on and see how things have changed since then". They probably just randomly recorded them as a bit of a laugh or for no real reason at all, but here we are, 23 years later, watching them and noticing how much things have changed, especially the cars on the road.

[@hk-qn4xl]

Music were far better then compared to the crap existing now and back in the mid 2000s.

[@urmumsbaps]

@@hk-qn4xl every single generation thinks this. You just stopped looking for music because you're lazy - there is so much good music in 2022 if you actually look for it instead of expecting to be spoonfed it by the radio.

[@hk-qn4xl]

@@urmumsbaps oh stfu. You've seen anyone nostalgic about the 2000s or 2010s? The 90s and every other decade before that had good quality music...everything else after the 90s is pure shit. I turned 18 in 2001 and 20 in 2003..from movies, music and fashion, hands down, the 90s had the most enriching cultural moments in my life. BTW, peep TikTok, most of the zoomers there remixing the hell out of music circa the 90s.

[@Lou-yf1jo]

@@urmumsbaps there's no good music these days, heading to music in 1999-2014 was amazing!

[@SlayerRellikALT]

@@urmumsbaps okay can't tell if this is a joke or satire 🤣🤣🤣🤣 cause music back then was so much better LOL

[@costipredoiu]

I simply like the old cars, old music and everything old because those were cool and interesting, in my opinion

[@ryunzen074]

Same

[@reubensingh1430]

I was born in 02 but I agree

[@CrystalClearBruv]

As well as the tunes and social environments- It’s the innocent Ignorance I miss… but time to face the disaster-case that we call the human race head on now 🌍 💥 💧 🏭 🥩 🔥👇 🤯

[@Fubar1462]

No time in history was ever perfect but I'd take 1999 over 2022 any day god I hate the present.

[@adamwilliams4377]

​@@Fubar1462 agree with you l was about 19 then I ramber these days life was more fun back then.

[@myvhsarchive6057]

3:48 S731 SBJ - 1998 Vauxhall Vectra 1.8i Estate - Untaxed since September 2013 (Likely scrapped) Done 135,164 miles. 4:48 E257 CWC - 1987 Ford Escort XR3 Injection 1.6 - Untaxed since April 2002 6:51 G584 WDX - 1989 Mazda 323 SE Executive Automatic Saloon 1.6 - Untaxed since February 2006 (Quite a rare car now. Only currently 10 taxed and 28 on SORN as of Q4 2020) 8:11 N113 HMJ - 1996 Peugeot 405 Executive TD 1.9 - Scrapped around 2009 Done 210,553 miles Very interesting piece of film!

[@TrashhMack]

XR3I would be a pretty penny now, shame

[@liamisfillipinoandmore]

Bro I don’t see that Peugeot anymore

[@rei_frajernami_philleotardo]

man all those old UK fords and opels, love it

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

I found more recently there were a lot of old or vintage cars dotted about Ipswich. Particularly in the estates around Nacton Road - around there I saw a 1976 Austin Allegro, some 1970s American town car, a vintage Ford Sierra, a Morris Traveller, probably something else I've forgotten about. Someone near the hospital had various BL relics on their drive and a place near Landseer Road had one of those Rover SD1 designs the Human League used. This was all within the past couple of years. I also remember seeing a VW Karmann Ghia and a Harry Potter-esque Ford Anglia pootling about town before, and one day in late 2021 I was on Bixley Road and got passed the other way by an M-reg Pug 405. Haven't seen one of those in forever and it was lovely.

[@davidriley9194]

9:15 there’s 2 Mk1 Mondeos and a Mk2 Mondeo

[@OrionCrazyCarl]

Thank you for posting this, 16.30 you are facing my old house, my dad's bmw, sisters prelude, my escort and my other sisters micra, and my brother in laws datsun estate, great memories thank you

[@peterlister9626]

I love stumbling across videos like this on KZbin! Brings back memories of the 90's

[@WeMuckAround]

Born in 1999, love that era of cars so perfect video! Drove home from uni today, 175 miles in a P-reg mk1 Clio identical to the one passing at 8:19. Mint car, who needs a 21-plate on finance!

[@j_c2225]

I remember the cars being like this. I was in London 4 years later in 2003 and the cars were still like this

[@EcchiGamingYT]

@@j_c2225 I live in West Yorkshire and most of the cars around here were also like this in the 2000's. My dad's best mate was still driving about in an early 90's Vauxhall Belmont in 2008/09.

[@Secret19977]

@@j_c2225 2009 was when it changed I noticed

[@64bakes]

@@Secret19977 I was about to say the same thing. I was at University In Nottingham back in 2009 and distinctly remember noticing a pretty quick drop-off in older cars on the road (presumably because of the scrappage scheme). Flip forward a year or so and remember seeing a Sierra on the road being used as a daily, and thinking it stood out.

[@slideways8022]

@@Secret19977 scrappage scheme, all the older motors got sent to the scrappy unfortunately

[@marcisawesome0469]

So nostalgic 😢 I was born in 2004 so i rarely got to see these type of cars. I still see the type of cars you would find in the year 92 or 99 to this day.

[@MrPokerblot]

When you were born I was 21 😮. Can you imagine what that will be like when yiu can say that someone 😞🤓💁🏼💁🏼🥹

[@NickOpelBestDriver]

I went to Ipswich in 1994, It's surprising to see how everything changed. Such as the pubs and the shops. This truly gives me good flashbacks of the time.

[@EliaszPimpicki]

this is a banger of a video for us 90's kids. times changed quicker than we thougth and all those cars are gone from the road, with just new ones around... this is a piece of history and the only way to look back at how things looked back then. it's interesting how this video was worthless at the time, now it's oh so valuable to some of us. plus, the music is also just bangers!!

[@daleblake81]

Damn I forgot about Hybrid, must have bought that album myself around this time, funny how the cars, environment change, but some pieces of music remain timeless.

[@theoriginalghostmanghostma2385]

This video introduced me to Hybrid. Your work here is appreciated 😊

[@EliaszPimpicki]

is this the music???

[@theoriginalghostmanghostma2385]

Correct, the album is Wide Angle by Hybrid. I thought I knew all the 90s dance bangers from the UK but this one flew under the radar! Bear in mind I was a child in the 90s so I wasn't out there raving, I just don't understand how this didn't hit the mainstream?

[@EliaszPimpicki]

@@theoriginalghostmanghostma2385 this album was made for driving. He bought it the year it came out. Dude knew what he was doing.

[@SimonMartinForPrimeMinister]

The 90’s was the best time EVER!

[@kirkrammsy]

yes!! :D

[@PepeSnow]

the youth today have nooooo idea how awesome we had it 🤗

[@KirstyCornish]

I miss the 90's so much thanks for this video

[@tomwilliams7391]

All the cars look ancient...I'm 40 and sometimes find it difficult to comprehend how long ago 1999 is, but this definitely shows it

[@lukeboy61]

Similar age, it's easy to forget how rough it all was growing up in the 90s. It makes me wonder what will be different about our streets in 2045?

[@RikMcCloud]

As soon as the music started playing, it made me so happy to hear Hybrid. Then I realised you were playing the album. Thanks for this time capsule!

[@BeniFilth666]

Ipswich has changed quite a bit in the last 20 years. Very happy to have found your video, I’ve always been interested in what Ipswich was like in the past.

[@Lou-yf1jo]

town was so different before 2006. 0_0 i personally love it, aswell as that music.

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

@@Pfunkpoet I've often walked past where this video begins. The area hasn't changed _that_ much and is still largely recognisable.

[@niknaksim]

​@@halfbakedproductions7887yeah I agree. The only thing that has changed are the shops, but all the infrastructure and buildings are the same. That's the shell garage I still fill up with before going on the a14.

[@JeroMusicLT]

I feeling so nostalgic about late 80s, 90s and early 00s, even though I was born in 95… not sure why, but I’m feeling like it was the best era ever…

[@MultiVitoralmeida]

Déja vu

[@kevinchalmers8361]

even for 1999, that mk1 Nova is getting on a bit. Awesome soundtrack, really sets the scene for a 90s car journey in a Nova.

[@kerimbozkurt3301]

I still can’t get over that 1999 is 24 years ago, at first I thought video was much older like beginning of 1980s. Great music,great drive and great for you to share this video 😊

[@ShedKev]

I think those cars are still in a queue on Norwich rd!!

[@L33KDK]

I lived in ipswich for 25 years, I moved away 4 years ago.. I left school in 2000 Ipswich really was a great town, nowadays it’s so sad to see what it’s become. Thank you for this it’s a amazing step back in time

[@Diniles]

What's happened to it?

[@Westhamsterdam]

@@Diniles The red light district ended & got invaded with foreigners.

[@1tonyboat]

Just say NOVATEL !!!!@@Diniles

[@1992jamo]

@@Westhamsterdam Pahaha. It sounds bad, but you could spend an hour in the Odeon side of town without finding someone speaking English.

[@easydrive3662]

Its amazing how in the 24years the cars we see on the roads have changed so much to whats in this video. literally every motor and model you see in the video pretty much gone. In the vid also a few remaining cars from the 80s, today we see just a few cars from the 90s! Scary!

[@Realbreather]

Quality, vids like these are so important. Thanks for the memories.

[@dansage]

Left Ipswich in 2000 and not been back since. Exactly as I remembered it. Even got the purple shop

[@ajs41]

Fascinating. Thanks for posting.

[@irh1738]

Love the KZbin time machine. Amazing. Memories.

[@scrapyardwarriorvlogging]

Excellent video, my sister is now living in Ipswich so a lot of these roads are familiar. I bloody hate the double roundabout at 7:15.

[@jimmyshops]

Thanks to this video I now know of the track "I know" by Hybrid 🥰 I'm 24 Years late hearing it but love it. Bet you never thought this video would effect someone 24 years in the future like that.

[@BigBleedinSteve]

Sad seeing all the pubs that are no longer there :-(

[@joshuabruce9599]

I was trying to see if I could get a good look at the Grinning Rat's old sign but the quality is too low to make it out. I can't remember exactly when but they switched out the more traditional looking sign for a minimalist look at some point in the last 15 years. Worst mistake they ever made, imo.

[@oddities-whatnot]

I love these old videos from years ago. Takes me back to a happier time in my life. Started a great job in 1999, which I stupidly left four years later. One of the best cars I owned was a 1999 Fiesta, it was less than two years old when I bought it, with about 9000 miles on the clock. Solid car, great handling, excellent 16v engine, not filled with computers and tech that to be honest NOBODY needs these days. The cars in this video are just a great reminder of those great times, although pollution was probably quite bad from the exhausts, especially diesel cars with no DPF or anything. More reliable though. Whats interesting is the lack of German cars on the roads. The main reason is the way people bought them. There was no PCP finance back then, so if you couldn’t pay cash, you got a bank loan or HP at the dealer. Both those options would have meant high monthly payments, so BMW, Mercedes and Audi were reserved for those with very well paid jobs or as company cars. Those brands had a far better image because of it, unlike today where anyone with a job can get one on PCP with much lower payments than traditional HP. Thats why I don’t see those brands as exclusive or special anymore. The roads are filled with them, often driven badly by show offs with no class. A horrible ego driven society these days.

[@dweatherley]

Amazing, this is great. Thanks for uploading.

[@enrico7992]

Starting point from 26 Warwick Rd, Ipswich. Btw this archive is very great ! That's like to feel a nostalgic moment, even if i never been to Ipswich.

[@mxbx307]

It hasn't really changed as much as I was expecting, to be honest. It's all still very recognisable. Fastforward to 2022 and I'm still listening to Wider Angle by Hybrid. Banger.

[@james_-zx2be]

It has degraded over the years - everywhere has.

[@1992jamo]

@@james_-zx2be It's extremely rundown now. Do you remember the fancy lift in Tower Ramparts?

[@jayndee97]

My home town. Nice to have a trip back in time.

[@MrLion1]

Awesome vid. Thanks for introducing me to Hybrid :)

[@garethnoble6699]

I worked for photocopying and litho supplies on St Helens street back then!. I reckon that was me in the silver Peugeot 406 at the junction just before the dove pub at the start of the video 😄

[@matthewsmith2787]

Good old days, only 23 years ago but feels a lot older

[@modeltraingeek6544]

Please finish your work it’s brilliant 👊🏻😎 love those tunes too

[@smidsy2k31]

Lol, always roadworks on Norwich Road. Great vid.

[@EliaszPimpicki]

this video is perfect, everything about it is.

[@mast3rglobe]

I may have not lived in the 90s but i've listen to hybrid for a few years now, really cool to see a 1999 video with hybrid playing in the background.

[@Tom-wf1ru]

Missing those days 😭

[@Mahim.91]

Oh man, the only major change between this video and Ipswich today is the price you pay at the pump. Oh and the cars were hell of a lot more interesting back then.

[@youwot2430]

And the radio was way way better!

[@kawasaki32]

Thanks for showing this.

[@Lewis_Treff97]

Its strange seeing cars from the 70s, 80s and 90s all on the same road. Makes it look strange seeing a mk2 clio and mk1 yaris going about next to boxy old cars. Although i know the video says its 1999 but I spotted a mk1 audi TT @4:33 which i thought they were sold in the uk in 2000 on a W reg. It even has the rear spoiler which the early cars didn't have.

[@easydrive3662]

Yes love seeing what cars were about in certain periods of time. This is the period where you still saw lots of ford sierras and escorts but also mk1 mondeos and i guess this would be the first year the focus would be on the rd. Still lots of 80s cars going about

[@mark..A]

​@@easydrive3662I'm sure that the focus arrived in 1998

[@danb3888]

TT was launched late 1998 and I remember there were a couple of LHD ones imported from Germany which were based in and around Ipswich in 1999. One was black and one silver - I remember seeing one in the wild for the first time after the NYE party at a mate's house on 01/01/1999. Very clearly memory as I was driving a friend home and we were commenting that the next NY would be the Millennium and then we saw a car which looked like the future - probably the same silver TT in the video!

[@ajadrew]

St Margarets Green, The Purple Shop, Tower Ramparts...the list goes on, places I once lived amongst

[@shamimibrahim1724]

Wow... still looks the same. This was little back to the future trip scene here... back to the 90s lol

[@bilalhassan198]

Looks like the roads were in better condition back then compared to the amount of potholes everywhere today

[@Jack-tx2ve]

1999 The peak of the human race.

[@rarevhsuploads4995]

The Matrix (1999).

[@shamimibrahim1724]

Wish I can go back in to the past and see my younger self. This would be remind me of Back to the future lol

[@cmheadbanger]

I like the old Scania trucks driving I recognize them as a lad, the Boxy ones are 3 Series Scania 113 or 143 and the 4 Series they like new here Scania 114-124-144, also ERF Trucks driving, miss seeing those trucks too much!

[@shamimibrahim1724]

Wow this was a huge flashback of the 90s.

[@Mk7adxm]

Sad to think the majority of the cars here won’t even exist anymore and would be long gone😪

[@liamisfillipinoandmore]

ik

[@garthqueen]

Pieces of sh1t,good riddance

[@clarksonoceallachain8536]

Plenty of retro cars in donegal

[@teevee7678]

go to france or any other european country

[@rezlynxium7400]

The Esso petrol station at 8:58, where the cyclist is going past, is now a Nissan dealership.

[@ellasophia5007]

I was born in 2002, and I can only ever remember it as a glyn hopkins😂

[@user-yn8pk5zr3n]

20 years later, it became Bucharest

[@ipswichroses1554]

Yeah so?

[@user-yn8pk5zr3n]

@@ipswichroses1554 so it's England not Gypsy Land

[@succulent951]

whilst in the same 20 years you became a balding racist meathead

[@urmumsbaps]

@@user-yn8pk5zr3n so move to some derelict Northern town and drink the rest of your life away with the other "proper English blokes" who are all morbidly obese and bright red, you Daily Mail reading Tory mouthbreather 🤡

[@poomar2396]

@@user-yn8pk5zr3n exactly

[@daleradders7593]

I would have been 10! Lovely video!!

[@ifitrollsrideit530]

Ha! I recognise that house and remember who was living there back in 1999. :D

[@PepeSnow]

I walked past where you pulled out of ...not much has changed haha

[@ALexx-d3d]

Ipswich, Cradle of filth album "Cruelty and the beast" just came out, a band from this city, and in a year the world will tremble from the release of "Midian", oh how long ago it was.

[@darioberki4569]

That's right, cradle of filth made this town famous

[@christopherkeeble3433]

Hybird, Wide Angel, great album

[@saltbjorn]

So much nostalgia for a time when I wasn’t even alive

[@1992jamo]

God I feel old reading this.

[@saltbjorn]

@@1992jamo apologies

[@Ashs-mini-vlogs]

You missed out the 90s were awesome had to be there mate

[@matthewjones9259]

I just came back from college in Ipswich and found this video only to find it was covering exactly the same route that I took

[@Ryan-mc7eh]

From 18:01 onwards the A14 dual carriageway trunk road heading westbound is joined at junction 53, and is travelled along for the rest of this video. However, back then the A14 didn't have any numbered junctions for the whole of its length.

[@tezzadezza9174]

A lot of people had a rag in their cars back then because the window de-misters just didn’t work 😂

[@mrorangepeel659]

XR3i with earthing out rear lights at 4:50. Those rear light clusters were notorious for getting water in them.

[@shamimibrahim1724]

I live near Ashcroft Road and kept wondering if I was there walking around. I was only 9 or 10 back then. I would have loved to have seen my younger self.

[@Psylenoz]

Nice tunes!

[@craig374]

Norwich road Petrol at the esso 75.9. Not bad I might pop over there in a min

[@1992jamo]

It literally looks identical to now, but less run down and has old cars.

[@hassankhan384]

When cars were great and different from.each other. Now days they all are the same there still are some from 1999 as those cars back then were new so today even those are 20 years old or near. But life was better then and cars were good compared to today's shit on roads..

[@SlimHandle]

Definitely. For me I suppose it's not so much what I see today that's the issue. But just that I see a very few range of colours and styles (headlights etc)

[@JohnnyPaton]

I've got a 1997 Citroen ZX and a 1999 Peugeot 306, both still on the road.

[@Caliman247]

Left Ipswich in Early 2000 and moved to Lincoln then went back for a warehouse operative Job in Late 2019 and honestly its changed a lot I don't remember much of how it looked but the fuel prices and that block of flats I remember fun fact i smoked my first cigarette 🤣 there aside from that the fuel prices were alot cheaper than today if I'm correct it was about 70 something pence or lower I think so if you could get fuel you were lucky but seeing this 25 years later brings back memories it feels like yesterday things have changed alot, nowadays fuel prices are just a Joke... I wish we could go back

[@EliaszPimpicki]

i was 5 in poland in 1999 and we had a completely different set of cars back then. older and international cars. people in england had/have much more cash so even then most the cars looked modern already. we had a lot of USSR cars, slavic/polish cars even from the 60s!!! back then my family had a dihatsu charade 1983, from my grand dad, lasted about a year tho lol

[@JB-368]

All the old motors on the roads how times have changed

[@yellowoceanoriginalsongs7142]

Enjoyed watching your video thanks

[@larry-w8396]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@modeltraingeek6544]

@@larry-w8396 Great vid wife and just watched it you so need to finish it it was a brilliant idea 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 we from kings Lynn and have family that way so cool to see from back then

[@lukem4321]

Better cars, better music and petrol at 79p/litre....what's not to like?! Take me back to the 90's

[@uFlock]

2021: Nothing Changed

[@MintW7]

The camara quality looks amazing for 1999

[@youwot2430]

In my opinion it looks about as 1999 as you can get lol

[@1992jamo]

Because it was cassette and not digital. It was converted later.

[@MultiVitoralmeida]

The best vídeo for me is Smack my bitch up By Prodigy in POV 1997...remember The vídeo clip 20:38....

[@steven-vn9ui]

Vauxhall Nova 1.2 perhaps. Better days then for sure

[@warren6815]

Crazy how 1999 doesn't seem like that long ago, yet everything looks so dated!

[@Ashs-mini-vlogs]

Day by day nothing changes but month by month year by year little changes along the way now we look back and notice all the changes

[@EliaszPimpicki]

music: Hybrid - Dreaming Your Dreams | car: vauxhall nova

[@Rich-em9sm]

Some of the roadworks are still there! 🤣

[@gray3553]

Not much changed on Norwich Road but glad I left in my early twenties (1980). What once a town of industry is now a town of ? well sweet FA.

[@thesaint8400]

It's weird, I don't remember 1999 cars looking so old. This looks like how I remember 1992

[@ronniemackenzie097]

I enjoy looking at all the old variety of cars but i don't see any Rover mini coopers from that period didn't spot a single one in this footage. 2000 was when they stopped making them.

[@rarevhsuploads4995]

Or Rovers in general. I spotted a Mk 1 800, 200, 600 & a 45. Shows the company was already not selling well even in 1999.

[@PepeSnow]

Born in ipswich 89 still living here 🥰

[@zwee_page]

thank you!

[@Ashs-mini-vlogs]

1999 was a great year

[@EliaszPimpicki]

it was but many fundamental things i base my life on didn't exist back then. however, it had great sense of esthetics and music taste.

[@Mk7adxm]

Certainly a better time then these days.

[@djharry2821]

Lol as someone who was born in 88 these cars don't even look old to me 🤣

[@SlayerRellikALT]

I swear that ocean chip shop has been there forever

[@EliaszPimpicki]

loooool

[@david-lt9wj]

Ipswich is just a dormitory...the marina could have been wonderful...I looked for it it didn’t exist.....what were the planners thinking of...I can’t think of a reason a tourist would want to go there..

[@marcisawesome0469]

24:30 name of the song? Absolutely in love with it 😍

[@ryano8768]

Probably Hybrid Wide Angle Dreaming your dreams. I don't know much about them but I think they've got a new fan in me thanks to this video.

[@okcomputer6033]

cool music ,where you listening to radio or cassette or CD or what

[@hhu398ewh9w-3qpo]

The starting point is 26 Warwick Road and the ending point is somewhere just north of Ipswich on A14

[@kieranbaines6077]

what car did you have back then?

[@NickOpelBestDriver]

Vauxhall Nova, by the looks at the stereo and steering wheel

[@lucylocket4740]

Do you know whenabouts in 1999 this was filmed my man? 😊

[@thefunlovingcriminal]

I reckon the rag was for demisting the windows. Were you driving an automatic Vauxhall Nova?

[@djturbine7565]

Anyone know the music that’s playing?

[@ashleyyoungs6252]

i know by Hybrid

[@NickOpelBestDriver]

The songs are by Hybrid, I think you can find them still

[@PepeSnow]

That escort as you go past tower ramparts ....phwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa