Watford Drive about 1988 Part one

[@andrewkelly80]

I like the fact that they are driving round quite effortlessly until they get to Bushey Arches, where they sit in a traffic jam. Some things haven't changed!

[@adnanshah170883]

Thank you for showing Beautiful Watfrd of late 80s

[@martinPatsy]

Appreciate this video!

[@rafiqadarr6217]

If only Olde England was still like that, it has changed beyond recognition. Priceless footage, but very sad music, makes me feel like crying. I yearn for those days of the 1980s, I am middle aged and I feel so old now. 😢

[@SuperMicky123]

Lived in Watford all my life, it’s ruined now with flats everywhere. Fond memories of the carnival in St Albans road. Love seeing it how it was back then, thankyou for the videos.

[@Mehmehmeeeeeeh]

my father worked for Braziers ,his milk wagon was horse powered ,he told the story of the horse knew when to turn the wagon around as it was his last delivery in the Harebreakes ,and then it would gallop all the way back to the depot , then it got fed ,my father said the horse did not slow down as it crossed St Albans Road .Went passed my first house I bought in 1975 in Whippendale Road ,sold it in 1981 ,to move to NZ . Such memorys .

[@JWalking]

Fabulous - brings back a lot of memories. Thank you.

[@macdonald671]

kcorclux Thanks so much for uploading these clips, I've lived in Watford all of my life and seeing this was just like having a real life time machine. I Also love the Mahler in the background.

[@bobmathews9072]

Took me a while to get my bearings there, starts in Baldwin’s Lane in Croxley , down to the two bridges , then on to Whippen-Delhi road as we called it in the 80’s , I’d have probably been sitting in my class at Watford Boys when this was being filmed

[@dld6959]

You were in wbgs in 1988? What year were you in/when did you join and leave the school?

[@bobmathews9072]

@@dld6959 84-91 , "Trog" Turner was headmaster , Neil Turner deputy, Mr Harveson head of lower school

[@bobmathews9072]

Neil HART sorry, not Turner, him and trog definitely weren't related 😄

[@bobmathews9072]

@@dld6959 what year was I in ? If you mean house, N , New

[@dld6959]

@@bobmathews9072 Oh, Fuller for me

[@rjjcms1]

Sun Printers on the right at the bottom of Whippendell Road 2 and a bit minutes in - it'd already been closed by Robert Maxwell by then. By the spring of 1989 it lay derelict with all its windows broken and lay there in that sad state for years until it was eventually demolished and the stuff that's there now was put up. Also mid-way through the old Watford FC frontage before they replaced the big old Vicarage Road terrace with the scoreboard on it circa 1993.

[@paramedicchrisbookseries]

So many memories here. My late nan lived on Gammons Lane.

[@sarahoneill6649]

I used to live in Baldwins Lane (at the start of the video) good to see back in the day! I bet it is much busier now!

[@kcorclux]

Hi...The music to the cassiobury park vid starts with the slow movement from The Piano concerto for two pianos by Poulenc......then at 1-10 the music changes to Ravel's Pavane... it changes again at 60-1 to "In Paradisum" from Faures Requiem....beautiful stuff.....If you get these on CDs they'll sound ten times better than the crap recordings I put up with these clips!

[@TomsOnUK]

What month was this video taken in?

[@lucylastic]

Thats what it was like before I came to canada, aaaaah memories

[@kcorclux]

@macdonald671 Hi......not sure if you'll get this as my computer keeps cocking up! Glad you liked the 1988 clips....I'm sure you know that the Mahler is from his 5th Symphony........I filmed these clips in 1988 cos it took me back to when I was a child in 1958!!

[@kcorclux]

To Chris Ogle.......cant seem to answer you via the normal means!? There are Watford drive abouts 1988 parts two three and four.....and cassiobury park 1988

[@candymintz]

Great, thanks, do a remake of 2010 if you can

[@jacksainthill8974]

02:39 A Brazier's Dairy milk float - I worked for them in the seventies. (Roy Brazier is dead now, alas, and the Oxhey Lane dairy business is closed down.)

[@denisehutchings1335]

i went out with his son

[@jacksainthill8974]

+Denise Hutchings Anthony? When was that?

[@rogerkearns8094]

@@denisehutchings1335 Anthony? When was that?

[@macdonald671]

@kcorclux Thanks for the reply. I actually had never even heard of Mahler until I viewed your video but liked it so much i went out and bought a Mahler CD. Whats the name of the piece that's playing over your Cassiobury Park video? I thought it was Venus frrom Holst's The Planet's at first but don't think it is.

[@katymacvean1923]

How long would it take to do that route now?

[@juststuart]

About 2 hours 🤣

[@simontillett1581]

Hit and Miss pub at 9.20

[@morovichUKxboxlive]

thankyou for putting these clips on,,dont suppose you have or anyone has some footage of the old skatepark behind the leisure centre in woodside watford??photos or film would be awesome,,contact through my utube name if any1 does have :) :)

[@candymintz]

ok, Whippendel Road

[@kcorclux]

Didnt realise how bad the clarity of these clips are!..About fourth generation copy what I remember!

[@candymintz]

rare baby Austin Van

[@badlefthook624]

What a decline.

[@shayfinnighan6311]

Shame its such a dump now