Look at Life Vol 01 Transport The City's for Living In 1968

[@routeman680]

I like Ann MacEwen's presentation style: very clear and straight, no emoting or self-promotion.

[@MrSvenovitch]

She died 13 years ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_MacEwen

[@misyd72]

Outside the electrical shop at 5.16-5.19 -love the Sooty charity collection box for 'Help The Blind';such collection boxes were so much a part of the high streets when I was a child at this time -such as those for Help The Blind , The Spastics Society (as was then-now 'Scope') and my favourite ,the RSPCA dogs.Fond memories. Like the life-size cut-out 60's model behind Sooty too-there was a similar one near me in Forest Hill, SE London in an old electrical shop,still in the window advertising Roberts Radio in the mid-1980's ;in it's last weeks before closing down I regret not offering to buy it.

[@heathstjohn6775]

When reluctantly reconciling myself to the need for an income, in the early '80's, I too had a similar regret; so I'll ask you. Living not too far as you then did from Downham Way, I don't suppose you remember ' Langley's record shop, near a pub called 'The Garden Gate ', on the Bromley Rd., a little way before Bromley Hill Cemetary, on the hill leading to Bromley High St. ? I ask, because, like you, it was a shop I thought that might provide a musically enthusiastic, labour-avoiding person a reasonable income: just before cd's were invented ! Still, the switch could have been made.

[@RossPatzelt]

I live in Norwich and loved seeing how it all looked.

[@dangerman8625]

Informative, picture, sound, graphics, good quality.!

[@charlescalthorp5375]

Beautiful speaking voices that most people had back then. I remember my grandparents who were born and bred cockneys yet still didn’t speak with the exaggerated accent that Londoners seem to have acquired these days.

[@NR23derek]

So glad all this traffic chaos was solved by all the 60's road building. Sorry for the sarcasm, Norwich was ripped apart for the never completed inner ring road which, even had it been finished, would have been totally gridlocked by now. It all seemed so simple back then.

[@michael32A]

Totally agreed. I was born in Norwich, raised nearby, and - oddly enough - now live a similar distance from Bath... Sadly, there's no contest which city the late-20thC treated more kindly.😔

[@heathstjohn6775]

Could somebody tell me if these plans were realised, please ?: especially the tunnel.

[@dolvaran]

Certainly not the tunnel. Getting to anywhere in Bath is a nightmare.

[@heathstjohn6775]

@@dolvaran Thanks very much. I hope another person may come along and say why it never happened.

[@unconventionalideas5683]

@@heathstjohn6775 The people of Bath felt the tunnel was really expensive and not worth losing those buildings, even if they could be rebuilt elsewhere. I'm unsure why Bath has never built a tram system and/or invested more heavily in cycling infrastructure on through roads.

[@heathstjohn6775]

@@unconventionalideas5683 Thanks very much.

[@johnmehaffey9953]

They tried driving the cars out of the cities and the high st died, free parking at the shopping malls resulted in loss of revenue from business rates, so as usual the ratepayers pay for an architect,s dream

[@NR23derek]

And the alternative was just allowing cars to clog up cities? It was the Tory government of Maggy T in the early 80's that gave the green light to out of town shopping malls and sure, lots of space for car parks they attracted car drivers. If you plan your urban transport around cars, that's what you get - everything around the outside, spread out and inaccessible by any other form of transport. The solution isn't really difficult - no more free car parking.

[@reasonrestored9116]

I don’t agree. There were multiple reasons for the death of the high street, the internet is the main one.

[@NR23derek]

​@@reasonrestored9116 The internet is the latest development which has hit retail across the board very badly and that includes the out of town shopping centres just as much as inner city centres. Because of the internet, retail is pretty much finished. However the "high street" has been dying for a long time and, as I said, can be dated to Thatcher's desire to provide for the "great car economy" (remember that?) by encouraging out of town malls. That was 20 or more years before the internet.

[@stephenborsbey4350]

good old ann mcewen. no longer with us, sadly

[@museonfilm8919]

I like to hear a real 'Naaarfuk' accent.

[@davidsirett5560]

every time i here the word Norwich said i expect it to be followed by the word "nil".

[@davidpanton3192]

The 'spontaneous' voxpops look like they were done by bad actors.

[@DasTubemeister]

No vape shops, halal butchers or Turkish barbers.

[@mclare9817]

We need this Woman to adress the Migrant problem....

[@eugenechester8748]

We need this woman to address the racist twat problem