Oxford in the 1960s

[@gabriellebaalke6704]

Oh, how marvellous! Thank you for uploading and sharing. Truly a treasure.

[@redabdab]

Thank you so much for uploading this. I was a student from 80-87 (so a bit later than this) but it's great to see how things used to be. This content is very precious indeed!

[@davidkennedy8929]

Looks like early 70s to me judging by some of the cars and fashions!

[@jibicusmaximus4827]

Amazing footage, a real treat, thank you.

[@arunparkin2552]

It's from the early 1970s, as one can see from the Poppy Red livery on the buses and the Hillman Avenger at the beginning.

[@rsqyoung]

Near the start of the film there is an x South Midland Bristol LH in National Holidays colours, that dates this to at least 1972/1973. At Queen's Lane, two buses appear, GJO634F and MJO383H, MJO was delivered in 1970 in proper Oxford Colours. MJO 383H would have been repaintd in October 1972 in new Oxford colours and was in these colours still in Jan 1973. Most of these buses were in Poppy Red by end of 1974, so by my reckoning, would expect this graduation to be May/June 1974. GJO 634F was an AEC swift, notoriously unreliable and would have been scrapped by 1976/1977

[@None-zc5vg]

​@@rsqyoungOxford's buses used to have one of the most-striking liveries in the U.K.: it disappeared rapidly from 1970 when the local bus services were absorbed into the National Bus Company.

[@rsqyoung]

@None-zc5vg I was born in Oxford in 1956. I joined City of Oxford Motor services in August 1974. By that stage there were only a handful of vehicles in the original colour scheme and a small number in the interim scheme before poppy red. By mid 1975 they were all gone. Poppy red was introduced during 1972. The last vehicle in the original colours was probably 783, which was withdrawn and sold I think, and one of the unreliable swifts in the interim colours.

[@TM-xb3wy]

i wish there was some footage of east Oxford back in the day, where the normal folks live.

[@TM-xb3wy]

@tobiasisback4605 that’s what I’m commenting on, your ignorance basically

[@TM-xb3wy]

@tobiasisback4605 go and talk to your neighbours. Still plenty of down to earth people live here.

[@Rinahoidhche]

If I want to see normal I can just go outside.

[@TM-xb3wy]

@@Rinahoidhche You are missing something.

[@davidharwood9552]

Yes footage from 1974 1975 the figure head’s around the Bodlian Library were replaced. They looked new. I saw them being hoisted into place

[@davidharwood9552]

Sorry got the location wrong it was the Sheldonian Theatre emperors heads 74 75. The old ones were disfigured the ones in the clip were the new ones. Sorry not the 60s

[@MrWindermere123]

As other people have commented, it looks more 1970s than 1960s - the white flared trousers at 1 minute & 7 seconds look just right for a groovy disco with records by Slade and Mud.

[@valeriekrueger91]

I kept expecting to see DC Endeavour Morse and DI Fred Thursday walking along the street ! 😆 This was "their" time .

[@ABC_DEF]

3.22 to 3.31. Isn't that Christopher Tyerman, now a professor of history at Hertford College?

[@brianthesnail3815]

It looks very similar to my time there 20 years later. It's really changed now though and not for the better. Dirty, crowded and nothing like the liberal seat of learning it once was where ideas could be freely expressed. The later part 5.10 onwards is Blenheim Palace and the church nearby is where Winston Churchill is buried.

[@TBOTSS]

2:26 Damn.

[@TM-xb3wy]

ey, thats my granny!!

[@TBOTSS]

@@TM-xb3wy Does she still have the boots?

[@scottyk200]

Where’s Cowley etc?

[@farman1221]

I love it❤😊

[@katedrucquer6588]

Hi Kim! Great footage. I'm making a film about someone who moved to Oxford in the 1960s. I would love to talk to you about this!

[@CallumMcPherson]

Did you finish that film? I'd love to see it! I'm obsessed with Oxford and its history.

[@naomiajones]

I am writing a Book about an Oxford student from the 60s :)

[@None-zc5vg]

​@@naomiajonesI was there in the '60s. My tutor (still living) spent more time talking about Bob Dylan than (say) John Milton. Three wasted years.

[@naomiajones]

@@None-zc5vg Ha! Thank you for sharing that! Was there anything about Oxford that was different from everywhere else back then? Perhaps a certain characteristic that set Oxford apart from other places?

[@caltblake6112]

Like watching endeavour

[@andrewajjones122]

Oxford University in the 60s/70s

[@kristianferencik8685]

It seems like not much has changed.

[@None-zc5vg]

The city was full of bike thieves: my 'Hawes' cycle was stolen from a college bike-shed in January '69. I still have the lock with its snapped chain (the thief didn't need it) that I retained as a sort of 'memento mori'.

[@jibicusmaximus4827]

Not to be disrespectful to the 'owner' but I think you can use the footage under fair use policy and that it is in the public domain, I may be wrong and obviously getting permission is better.

[@BlackGriffin195]

Halcyon Days. Gone and now a menagerie.

[@michellebou997]

Hi Kim, We'd be interested in using this footage for a documentary. Would you be able to contact me on [e-mail] ? Thanks so much!!

[@lordlucan3706]

Rich people on show. Where are the real people?

[@None-zc5vg]

I was a 'pleb' at Oxford (at a 'genuine' College) in the late '60s. My contemporaries were clearly well-off and behaved accordingly (and as I'd expected). It turned out to have been 'three years in solitary' and it served me right.

[@mihaicraciun8678]

@@None-zc5vg I've also struggled to make friends while attending and felt very lonely most of the time. Most of my fellow Romanians that attended Oxford struggled a lot with this, even though we're very sociable. I'm doing a Master's at Cardiff Uni right now and have made more friends in the first two weeks than I did in 3 years of Oxford. Such a shame, the place was lovely to look at.