Hitchin old and new

A selection of slides from the late Bill Palmer's collection with postcards and others I've found illustrating our town's changes over the last century and a half. It takes the form of a tour of the town starting on Windmill Hill. It's in two parts. This is Part 1, running time 19:56.
Part 2 follows and runs for 21:15
Video created for Hitchin Historical Society

[@BadBoyV1]

Fantastic videos, ended up watched part 2 first, Amazing to see all of the changes i wouldn't have ever known about without seeing this video, Thank you👍

[@SamHallas1949]

Glad you enjoyed it! Get out and take some more pictures. Today's snaps are tomorrow's history.

[@ccprasanth]

Wonderful video. I really miss the town. Great work Sam

[@DavidSmith-oy4of]

Thank you for doing this. Really interesting & informative & very much appreciated.

[@geoffryllewellyn7693]

Haha, my aunt used to live in the flat over FH&W, I spent many a happy weekend as a youngster (up from Bristol) in the late 50's early 60's used to play cowboys on the flat roof of the shop below, great times.

[@mikefox5370]

Very interesting I esp liked the 60s and 70s pics as I remember Hitchin then thanks for posting

[@SamHallas1949]

Glad that folk are enjoying the videos. Makes it all worthwhile.

[@whyyoulidl]

I seemed to have watched part 2 first; nonetheless, a fantastic look back at yesteryear of my home town. Thanks for posting.

[@SamHallas1949]

Well the order doesn't matter really. I tried to make some sort of sequence out of the mass of images.

[@baljcheema934]

Thank you for this awesome video. Brought me back to my childhood in Hitchin, I now live far away on the other side of the world and haven't lived in Hitchin for decades. I now feel like going back, it will always be my home.

[@SamHallas1949]

Glad it brought back some good memories.

[@ryanp5052]

Hitchin has some cool history and looking buildings but I can’t help feel slightly sad it’s not get upgraded for the better looks wise. Maybe more functionality but we had two cinemas/theatres and a KFC I think that’s regression.