Weybridge | St George's Hill | A Town Called.. | 1975

[@ghostinthemachine76]

Love watching these old videos from the 70s. I was 4 in 1975.

[@aerialkate]

Q Patriot Me too. Wish I could go back and give myself a good talking to!

[@melgrant7404]

Love all the old cars

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

I miss those days.

[@1990-t1j]

A wonderful era.

[@darrenwilson8042]

The world was a simpler and possibly happier place back then.

[@vincentdeguard4726]

...it quite a few aspects indeed; though for the poor (as always) they may see it differently. know for sure my parents struggled a lot back then

[@OlafProt]

It was certainly simpler. Too much choice doesn’t buy happiness. But I don’t think it was better. Just… different. This video really reinforces the “all days were sunny and happy” in our memory. I shouldn’t think many people in St George’s Hill were struggling though 😅

[@Tocsin-Bang]

My grandparents lived in Weybridge their whole lives. They worked for the Locke Kings for some years (the Locke Kings built Brooklands race track). My grandfather, Jack Boxall, later became a well respected gardener along with his son John. Jack was a former heavyweight boxer, a special constable and a member of the Homer Guard. This is the way I remember Weybridge, all the lovely shops and pubs., not the way it is now. I moved away from the area five years before this.

[@martinpchandler]

Jack was our gardener in Weybridge... in 1966 I remember my dad asking him to take a break and come inside to watch the World Cup Final which he did ! I often tell this story........ Really nice, decent man !

[@worldwideview6974]

I feel so old looking at this video

[@Surreygirl]

I am Surrey born and bred lived here for most of my life

[@MrCatseyes01]

Surreygirl 1978 I feel sorry for you

[@Urbanshake]

This place was magic. Oatlands Park was where I lived and spent my childhood at Broadwater. Went to Oatlands School, Cleves, then Heathside. Missed it so much when we moved to Bournemouth.

[@elliemaebatchelor7096]

Urbanshake I’m at cleves now just about to go into heathside! Great area x

[@chrisnieto3582]

I was 12 back then. Went to Heathside, spent every minute I could fishing in Broadwater. We moved to Brighton but I miss my old home very much.

[@pamelam555]

I remember Weybridge exactly like this!

[@cosmoszeromusic]

Pam Mason Looks exactly the same now.

[@AlexGW]

holy CRAP! Aside from the shops themselves, the high streets look exactly the same, barely anything has changed.

[@vincentdeguard4726]

sometimes it better that way

[@stevetaylor8698]

Yep, that building to the left of the Monument (Gough Brothers) is a Pizza Express now.

[@abigailphilips825]

At 2.36 with the parade of shops which was Monument Hill I believe, there used to be a hairdressers called Bernadette.

[@clivejohnson580]

Lovely to see these old videos. I was brought up in Addlestone. Bois Hall Rd.

[@abigailphilips825]

Not far from me, just around the corner.

[@MrAug80]

Walking down the street people would have felt the flared trousers flapping against their ankles.

[@denysmace3874]

The monument seen at the start was the original column from Seven Dials in Covent Garden, London.

[@davethebulb]

Back when you could actually park your vehicle in the High Street and support local business.

[@tammyspurdle9208]

1974/5 lived in the flat above Holmans Estate agents, shopped across the road at Waitrose and ate out every week at Philip Lowes Chinese Restaurant.

[@dickieblench5001]

Brilliant

[@tonyclifton265]

i was 4 in 1975 and lived up the A3 from weybridge in worcester park. we werent rich enough to afford weybridge

[@DavidRush-fx7te]

Like being at a classic car show at Brooklands

[@johnwilliam1761]

Anyone know where the house at 2:23 and 2:25 Lex Mead Car dealership was located?

[@DeanHumphreys-l1y]

Lex Mead was in the Queens Road opposite Princes Road

[@cryingonion2]

fab

[@paulmeester5401]

An alfa Romeo alfasud at 0.58

[@nadiadekkari2461]

jolie ♡

[@rockolutheran]

Mi barrio

[@appalachiahiker853]

No multiculturalism

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

Fuck RIGHT off.

[@yellowjackboots2624]

John Lennon lived here during the Revolver era. I can see why.

[@greedysplendour1611]

Literally the same still

[@johnobrien8398]

When there was Islam everywhere it was wonderfull

[@lesleyegg]

I wonder what the point of this film was? It looks appallingly dull, and it still is.

[@vincentdeguard4726]

it a "snapshot" of history: dull or otherwise. it be easy to just film the interesting, but there is a charm now looking back at the "ordinary"/everyday scenes.

[@SuperNevile]

Yes, spent many a dreary Saturday morning in the library (0.21?) 'catching up'. The library is no longer there, but "The Ship" had great discos at the weekend. Had a bedsit opposite the "Old Crown" on Thames street. Expected to see at least one celebrity, but never did. Not much cop if you couldn't afford a car. Didn't realise Ringo had lived a few hundred yards opposite the factory entrance, but behind a massive belt of hedges and trees....……...

[@Realpoweronearth]

@@SuperNevile library is still in weybridge

[@SuperNevile]

@@Realpoweronearth You're right, just checked on street view. My memory playing tricks thought it was across from "The Ship" in the location of Bridge House. Looking at that, memories of all those dull Saturday mornings flood back. I think I've seen you somewhere before. Did you serve behind the bar in "The Old Crown" in 1971? Were you the angry barman who stopped us playing the piano and singing "Your Song" because "we cater for all tastes here" ?

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

It's raw, unedited footage you thick slapper.

[@mi6uk]

OUR UNUSUAL NEIGHBOURS AND LOCAL HISTORY IN SURREY - CHEAM, EPSOM, SUTTON, WEYBRIDGE & WALLINGTON Few people living in Surrey really know their neighbours but how would you know your neighbour if he or she worked for MI6? Most who knew Bill Fairclough didn’t have a clue that from the seventies he was a secret agent (MI6 codename JJ) working for various intelligence agencies. What’s more they had no idea he was following in his parents’ footsteps. So if you lived, worked in or visited any of these places you may well have unwittingly encountered Fairclough and his colleagues, been their neighbours or inhabited the houses they lived in. A quick web-search will even disclose some of the addresses where they lived. Mind you, if you live in any of them now, best sweep them for bugs! Some information regarding where Bill Fairclough et al lived and worked is given in most of Bill Fairclough’s bios on the web such as can be found at everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/bill-fairclough. If you were as fascinated as we were, you can also read the raw fact based thriller Beyond Enkription, the first stand-alone novel to be released in The Burlington Files series (theburlingtonfiles.org/#/reviews). It’s a memorable and distinctively different noir espionage thriller based on his and his family’s experiences in 1974 and he still seems to be operational as Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings might have noticed (theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2021.07.21.php).

[@nadiadekkari2461]

jolie ♡