Nelson development in the 1960`s ( Pendle Movie Makers )

This short film shows the highlights of the re-development of Nelson in the 60`s. The film shows the building and opening of the Arndale centre and a variety of the officials involved at the time. The music is by Pendle Jazzmen. Narrated and written by Roger Siddall.
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[@MrMjp58]

I own 'Nelson'62' on video [can't remember how I acquired it]. IMO, it is a work of art - bordering on a thing of beauty. The music used throughout is some of the most moving and poignant 'light music' I've ever heard. Nice to see a bit more footage of the era. I have no real views on the myriad changes to the town; I just mourn the passing of a seemingly more innocent [culturally] time and of course, my childhood.

[@mrbazzabee4013]

How utterly TRAGIC !....I can actually just about remember Nelson when it was like this - good old days. Great Vid Howard.

[@paz786]

They don't look like good old days 😂

[@pendlechild7516]

Thank you Howard for making this video available on KZbin. I left Nelson in the mid 60’s as a teenager so I was not there to witness it’s evolution and transformation into what it is today, though I have been back a few times in my senior years. Of the video - I enjoy the familiar scenes of buildings and streets, hustle and bustle of the people going about their days, even the workers going about their business of transforming the old into the new. However, once the video becomes a photo op for those who I suspect commissioned it, my appreciation takes on a different view. It’s certainly a historical document - showing a disconnect between the ‘common masses’ and those with ‘other agendas’. I doubt they would feel so chuffed with themselves today, as they seemed to be then, if they knew how people can now make their voices heard. It must have been quite the feat getting the camera man and equipment up that ladder to catch dear old Pendle just right behind that pipe full of Erinmore. IMHO it’s the entire population who defines a town, rather than merely the privileged few, so hopefully the generations of today and tomorrow, and of all cultures, will give Nelson new glory days - and put a smile back onto the face of it’s namesake. The town and he deserve it.

[@ianwimbles1440]

All my deceased dads was from Nelson, I spent my first 5years in the town and have some amazing memories of the town tragic that the day the mills went so did all the towns especially Nelson,Burnley etc.from the richest towns on the planet to what we see and have nowadays,great film thanks wish it was still like this today!progress?my arse!take care all local red roses yours Ian Wimbles.

[@tripmonk0]

ALL your deceased dads??? How many did you have?

[@ianwimbles1440]

Sorry I put deceased dads;/I meant to say my dads family where from Nelson thx for pointing out the mistake ✌️All my dads wouldn’t have respect for her r.i.p mum if that one would of been true no my parents were old school,courted,fell in love got married then started a family and stayed together until the passing of my dad !i could not of made better parents.anyhow a bit of trivia to go with my mistake in previous comment peace and stay safe!

[@samanthapetty1487]

The arndale was built a year before I was born but I remember as a kid the fountains, sitting on the wall around them putting my hand in & getting bollocked off my mum, and wimpy being at the top of the stairs, there was always colouring pencils & pictures of Mr wimpy to colour, wat happy memories

[@andrewhaines8603]

The beginning of the end. 2019 finally sees the demolition of the long unused bus station and car park. Nelson isn't the only village, town or city to fall by the wayside. And as we've seen, no amount of throwing money at the problem or getting a supposed "shopping guru" in to inject some life back into the town centre, yes you Mary Portas, it's not going to get any better. Sadly I fear it will get worse!

[@philipbancroft]

I was born in Feb 1955 and lived in Harle Syke. Catch the bus into town, meet up with friends and stand around i' th'Arndale until a uniformed man said 'Move along'. So we did until he came up and said 'Move along'. What fun we had in the sixties!

[@naemasufi7588]

MY goodness, I was up that way for a funeral. very sad to see Nelson centre now.

[@scottwilkinson3575]

Nice video. As an ex-Nelson-er, there is one glaringly obvious difference between the town now and the town then, don't you think?

[@howardswayable]

a massive difference scott the town isn't even a shadow of its former glory. thanks for watching.

[@IbnShahid]

Yeah, I know what you’re getting at. The glaring difference you’re obviously referring to is the collapse and disappearance of the textile industry. Tragic for everyone concerned, right?

[@wythenshawekid1597]

Yep asians

[@pstotto]

For 10 years people liked it, nice working and shopping environment and a 1600 E for the effort. swanky car as I remember...

[@kadocooper1]

This ruined Nelson taking down some of the most amazing old buildings. I was born in 78 but my mum and her parents and my mums 8 sister and brothers lived there from maybe 1940s. My uncle was unfortunately murdered outside the Nelson pub. The town has changed so much I left there when I was 12 but I will always see myself as a Nelson girl.

[@howardswayable]

Thankyou

[@russputin6294]

Glory days!!! The civic guests at the mayor's ball had presumably all just been to the Wimpy Bar which was at the top of the staircase they descend from! ;0)

[@tripmonk0]

I gather it's all about to come down soon which is why they're not getting shops in anymore ?!?!?

[@ABCDEF-yf4yu]

Nelson, the epitome of a typical gritty Lancashire and Yorkshire town but lacks the steep terraced streets of nearby Colne. There is no parish church in Nelson, this prominent building with a tall spire has been abandoned since the 1980s.

[@stuartbennett4942]

now we know who where the councillors who ruined nelson heritage shame on them

[@Dan23_7]

I don’t miss being a courier around Nelson, I was from 2016-21, I deliver to one business there at the top of Brunswick street every so often with my current job. When I was there a couple of weeks ago they’ve started work on the old bus station site they flattened about 3 years ago. Is it still doomed to be a McDonald’s? 🤮🤮

[@ominoustiger2962]

I remember it well when I was a kid councillors are to blame I never voted and never will vote any of em

[@sunking.3569]

councillors always speak for themselves, never the peoples voice. nelson was an attractive town full of character, colne even more so and then they ruined our historical legacy. ripping the hearts out of our architectural histories. damned fools. the current crop of political lunatics are even worse. as now they want to desecrate our rural green n pleasant land.

[@ianwimbles1440]

Now the town like Burnley have no mills or any industry at all the land is where the value is but people are still there living in poverty and it was the start and centre of the industrial revolution without Nelson the world would not be as advanced as it is we were the start of the world becoming how it is today now we are forgotten places where we should be known worldwide for what we did,started,example ahead of the times with indoor shopping the arndale now everything is under one roof.

[@funnymarco1]

Sad to see what it`s now become, lifeless and soulless. For years planners have tinkered and changed the roads layout and now the Arndale is slated for demolition with a McDonalds built on the now demoed bus station land. Most shopping is now done online so no need for shops, Just grass over the lot.

[@colinharrison6885]

What happened to this town?

[@shaunhartley2270]

Asians

[@user81222.]

Its still there, just more upgraded.

[@user81222.]

@@shaunhartley2270 What do you mean "aisans" let nelson be a multi-cultural town

[@ianwimbles1440]

Like a lot of towns in the 90's onwards no jobs and an heroin epidemic,so tragic!

[@ianwimbles1440]

Like most ex mill towns early nineties start of an heroin epidemic hence the crime and decline of the high street with the massive amount of supermarkets growing and pushing the everything in one place!our local business could not compete so we now have dead towns all over the country tragic!and the children of parents with substance abuse problems what do you think about the problems they encounter because of their parents problems?then they start resentment towards everyone and everything!a dangerous time bomb!

[@greenfingersgardener822]

Nelson. Is now a packi land, simple as that