Plymouth, Devon. 1964

8mm cine film, taken around Plymouth in 1964.

[@daydays12]

A gem of a film! The Plymouth I knew! Golden days! 😀 Thank you.

[@daydays12]

Same here!!! The Plymouth I knew too back in the day

[@stephenwilliams1269]

When you see the footage so many memories flood back in the mind. The Guinness Clock , Saltash Street etc. How clean everything looked. Gracious over the decades we have become slovenly we've become.

[@WhoThisMonkey]

It looks clean now, I'll have you know. PCC workers are constantly hard at work everyday, making sure the streets of Plymouth are free from litter. It's a thankless job.

[@thebishopmj]

Great vid. I grew up in Plymouth, left 1980. Still love to come back and visit. Great to see the old buildings that are now long gone.

[@alanbrown9178]

Joined the navy in Plymouth in early 1964..... a whole new experience for me to be so far from home (Scotland) on my own for the first time. All my ships, except the last one, were Devonport based. Loved my time there.

[@millymaggs9638]

Born and raised in Plymouth and it reminds me of how it was in the 70’s, went back a few years ago, grim.

[@daunrussell]

My home town, the year I started school. Brings back a lot of memories. Thanks for posting this.

[@stephengraham1153]

We lived just around the corner from The Hoe. There were still a few bombed out houses in the area and a lot of wasteland. I started school at St Andrews around the time this film was taken. I think I was only there for a year or two before we moved. I remember going to St. Andrews Church for a Christmas Service as part of a St. Andrews Primary School class. The Army used to have displays of tanks and other military vehicles on The Hoe. At the age of five after school I used to look around the displays instead of going straight home, much to my mother's annoyance.

[@mmesooubadigha8675]

My home❤️❤️ so amazing to see what it was like! Everyday i fall more in love with this ocean city!

[@joebee1558]

If only we were on a ocean!!!

[@MrJohnHDay]

Thank you for the view of Plymouth I grown up in and know so well, 13 that year and now in NZ.

[@doraldeddy1836]

Thanks for posting. Went to a small boarding school in Hartley, Kingsland for 4+ years from 1965. Happy happy days. Used to be sent to St Andrews Church every Sunday! Then Methodist Central Hall (?Rev John Ashplant?) in the evening followed by a visit to Pretes on the Barbican. Happy memories. Now 68 and seeing this is very nostalgic!

[@julianmoore3091]

I also went to Kingsland up until July 1965 when I left to start a dockyard apprenticeship

[@doraldeddy1836]

@@julianmoore3091 hello Julian. You must of left in the July and I pitched up in the Sept of 65. Teachers were Tony B, Jenkins,Stone,Hitchman,Baker, Johnston,Wonnicott from memory. Were you a boarder or day boy? I loved my time there(with family split it was a "happy place" to be), but wished I'd put a bit of grunt behind my education 😇. Some old boys used to pitch up at OKA events like Blowey,Murrin, Youlden,Rickard, that I'm guessing were from your era. Anyway 70 now and memorys getting misty! Best wishes to you Julian

[@keystonedriving8180]

I'm pretty certain that the minister at the Central Hall would have been Ronald Frost, I was at school with his son. Some years later I met the Rev again in Tottenham, of all places!

[@nectafarious8842]

Wow - I wasn't expecting that! I can see my old room in the Hoe Centre at the start when I was at Plymouth Poly in 1973. Demolished for a Tesco now I believe. Some progress....

[@nialloneill5097]

They've put some student rooms next to it though, if that appeases you any.

[@helmetmcbaron]

Every little helps :)

[@kevmills8825]

Ah yes, I remember it well. Left Plymouth nearly 50 years ago and had a great life but still miss Plymouth and return every year.

[@steves5172]

Hi! I too left Plymouth 50 years ago, in October 1974. I lived at Crownhill and attended Widey Technical along the Forder Valley Road. Later, in 1969 I was a Technician Apprentice in the Dockyards. I noted with regret that both the school and the Dockyard College have now gone, sad. I was a member of Plymouth Model Railway Club, our local was the Waterloo pub! I retain very vivid memories of Plymouth and of the Drake cinema with the large Golden Hind over the front entrance and the old railway bridge across Union Street. Mother was a nurse at Greenbank Hospital, a very austere building as I remember. You’ve started me off now, many thanks for uploading!

[@kijerakate]

I have shared the cine footage of Plymouth 1964 & it has gone down a storm..well done.

[@stuartkennedy4202]

I too was born in 64 and visited as a kid as my dad was in the navy, years later my sister married and stayed in Torpoint for 25 years only returning to Scotland to settle for retirement so I continued visiting until just last year, Plymouth is a very big part of our lives and always will be.

[@silkdestroyer]

I could almost cry when I return to Plymouth these days. Loved it in the 80s, hate it now. LG.

[@neilhilton35]

I agree entirely. In the mid 80s it was clean and vibrant. It's a total mess now.

[@OldeJanner]

Socialists playing God with other people's lives again!

[@ericgrey1266]

Everything is pretty much the same over 50 years! I've been here one year for uni and i won't even get lost if i can travel back to 60s..i love this city, it's been part of me..

[@alisonstarchylde8141]

Eric Grey I don't know if you are still at university, but you can still see some of the old Plymouth. The hard stuff is from before the war. And if you walk through the mall you are walking on the old road.

[@soperfectfilmcamerasanalog9483]

Great look back at Plymouth thanks

[@pradaman307]

I was 9 when this was shot-great memories-thanks

[@petermair0212]

I was born in 64 it's weird to think I have been on this earth as long as this video !!

[@comieliphtrip8739]

And it will out live you too

[@mikebennett3812]

Just as I remember; Memories from when I joined the Royal Navy in September 1964!

[@ADMIRALSCORNER]

Just as I remember it. Thank you.

[@BariandHamza]

Born there 1946 left in 1979, I have been back many times for vacations.

[@stevekiberd3474]

Wow. Thanks for up loading this video from the the same city and year I was born in. Even the Torpoint ferry that I would of been taken across on as a new born!!!!

[@davepowell7168]

A World Of Wonder indeed.

[@gcfcos]

I used to love that salt water swimming pool when I was a kid. Is it still there? And I seem to remember a park that had a ride along train. What great footage thanks for sharing

[@Auxinelectro]

it was still there 6 years ago

[@adamstewart7856]

The Lido's still here :P

[@gordondolan6443]

Tinside- recently refurbished.

[@TheDuked]

Just an update, yeah it is now

[@p.g.j6323]

Yes it is, the train was a small one on Plymouth Hoe

[@WhoThisMonkey]

It looks like Pyongyang it's so void of people. 👀 My parents grew up in Plymouth around this era, when they were young and reckless, they got tired of the place, married and moved halfway across the country. Ironically, they did this because they figured it would be easier for their children to get jobs closer to London. It's ironic, because I moved back down to Plymouth in my late 20s. 🤣 Still waiting for my mum to commit and move back down here where she belongs.

[@helmetmcbaron]

Well give us an update

[@voiletwhitehorse]

great bit of footage

[@Elcore]

The most replayed bit of the video is the shot of the building at the east end of St Andrews Cross Roundabout, which has been closed/disused for a long time and currently has botched, half-arsed contractor fencing around the entrances which people have, very reasonably, shat on (as in literally, out of their bumbums). In the 60s it looks like some sort of grand Speer-ian edifice... how did we f*** up so badly?!

[@helmetmcbaron]

Welcome to today's world were every city is ruined

[@Tonysmith-t2o]

Wow that was a trip back to my childhood

[@jimmysaville9202]

Ive been looking at past images of Plymouth for decades and ive never come across imagery of the buildings at Frankfort gate before they were demolished for Pavilions, that's extremely rare. I grew up in the new housing that was built over it, in fact I remember it as a large field of rubble in the latter 80's before Pavilions was built. it had a fireworks night and bonfire in November that my dad and I visited. As kids we used to play in the remains of the old railway walls.

[@bobrose7900]

Eye opening for the appalling development and concrete structures overshadowing Plymouth's heritage - depressing. Many have been replaced fortunately. Certainly not unique to Plymouth though and WW2 was still on everyone's lips with the rush to rebuild - Plymouth was devastated during the war... Videos like this are a wonderful eye opener and wake up call for developers though.

[@plymouthmade7589]

It is a lot worse now. New flats on every corner and the concrete structures have been given listed status so we can not take then down.

[@nialloneill5097]

@@plymouthmade7589 And now we have tall, bland glass structures in addition that are fitted together using ginormous mechano sets!!!

[@neilhilton35]

Civic Centre, once an iconic building, is now abandoned and decaying. The city centre is a mess. It is so sad to see it this way today.

[@daydays12]

Yes...and I hear the the Council, last year, cut down more than a hundred 100 mature trees in Armada Way ....eliminating much of anything organic in the centre..revealing the concrete blocks....poor Plymouth....I was brought up in and went to school in Plymouth. I left in 1970 , have been back once since then and plan to visit this year... tree destruction fresh in mind.

[@MichaelNewton-m1w]

Beautiful footage off the better days. Cleaner, no congestion and happier people.

[@StevenNugues]

Wow, no "Holiday inn" hotel on armada way ...so that huge building had not been built yet !!!

[@MrBilgey]

superb

[@davidbrett5047]

Brilliant film..

[@matthewking8151]

Great video, I was born in Plymouth in 1962 and left in 73. Always miss it. (Charles King, not Matthew)

[@MellowVR24762]

Thanks for this was cool to watch 🤓👍

[@malsmith3307]

And not a bit of litter in sight. Good happy days.

[@bhyatt007]

shh

[@westcountrylinkben1689]

Look how bright and clean Royal Parade buildings are compared with now 2023

[@plymouthmade7589]

Please remember it was a time with a lot less plastic and everything was a lot simpler then. Life is x5 the speed it used to be and everything is disposable.

[@eeeandeee]

Dad was in the RN. I went to school there in the 70's. Such a clean modern vibrant city. Then the centre was pedestrianised, then people stopped going, then shops started closing....I drove through at Cristmas to revive memories on the way to Cornwall. The proud city was so scruffy and tired and run down, a shadow of its former self. The post war city fathers must be spinning in their graves. So very sad. 😞

[@davecliff3683]

The park is still there including the ride on trains with Gus honeybun on the front 😄

[@alisonstarchylde8141]

Dave Cliff I remember riding on that train.

[@Thatscute43]

They have now taken away that train very fond memory’s of my child hood

[@snapperurban]

Hi this is awesome footage I wondering if I could use a small part of it for a reel on my Instagram please.?

[@TheSkinner55]

I was 4 years old,that year.

[@ed9763]

I was briefly there in the late sixties but I can't remember any of the places other than the polytech building in beginning of the video.

[@helmetmcbaron]

I understand there were less people back then but how come it appears so empty? Did they come out and record first thing in the morning?

[@erepsekahs]

I visited Plymouth once per month to be trained by a national running coach....athletics. I was the third fastest schoolboy in the 880 (yards). On paper I was touted as being the fastest and was guaranteed to win. I did not, I was feeling very weak and was running a temperature. I got home and broke out in German Measles, it has an incubation period of 2 weeks. Like everyone else there I had trained specifically and exclusively for that race. It broke my heart.

[@helmetmcbaron]

TMI

[@hellosimonhq]

Who owns the IP of this video and who can I ask for usage permissions?

[@rainagain6453]

Frankfort Gate has totally changed, no houses at the bottom anymore as in the film, Toys R Us sits there now and more open.

[@davepowell7168]

A railway bridge there before that which freighted goods to Millbay docks.

[@robtaylor5310]

As a frequent visitor to Plymouth since the early 2000's, a lot of the landmarks in this film are familiar... but it's a great shame I never got to see the original Drake Circus and Guinness Clock building... should never have been pulled down, especially with the ghastly 70's outdoor shopping mall which replaced it...

[@Protectchildrenfrompridecult]

Just amazing. So fascinating seeing the old Drake. I wonder if the little kids at the beginning have seen this now, all these years later. They'd be in their 60's I'd imagine now. This is gold.

[@daydays12]

this is the Plymouth I knew! A gem of a film!

[@paulmoss8992]

Plymouth or we say janner town

[@leex187]

Why did they call it that?

[@mikeyfenton3984]

DAM! I THINK I WAS ABOUT 13 OR 14 THEN. BUT FOR SURE, I NOT FORGOTTEN ALL I SEEN HERE! MUCH THANKS. :)

[@tungstenkid2271]

Sutton Harbour is now (2021) cluttered up with yachts and the airport has been closed down, and there's still no fullsize Mayflower replica moored near the Steps, grrr...but at least the city is not overun by hordes of immigrants..:)

[@nialloneill5097]

Yes, the city is owned by Masons, property developers and yachtsmen, who have built around Sutton Harbour with the beenfit of many grants, so they can look at their boats from their fancy apartment windows.

[@Tracer3]

Where is Everyone?

[@bobwilcox1147]

Think it must be a Sunday, all the shops were closed in those days!

[@Mr1215robbo]

This cant be plymouth . There is no litter lying around

[@davedavis4269]

It must of been a Sunday 😂

[@marcbiff2192]

F

[@marcbiff2192]

Far to many white people thank Christ since those dark times we have built a multicultural city because Diversity is Our Strength.

[@TheDuked]

Do you comment on videos of Africa saying "Far too many black people"? probably not because that would be rAciSt

[@joebee1558]

Is this all you could come up with for a comment you total cretin

[@marcbiff2192]

Racist.

[@joebee1558]

@@marcbiff2192 will be reporting you to KZbin

[@revol148]

@marc biff Plymouth isn't even all that diverse - still good to see you leave a provocative comment and wait for the response.If you want diversity go to Birmingham or Manchester - there's not much strength there - just loads of different communities keeping themselves to themselves.