I used to play in that park when I was 9

@leemon908

3 жыл бұрын

I hope one day someone from your family may be able to play in this park again 🙏

I grew up in Salisbury, and that film made me really homesick, even though I left more than 50 years ago. The footage that was taken from a hill, was called the Kopje (Pronounced Copy) there was a road up to the top which was used to test hill starts when you took you driving test. Not far from those cooling towers was an area where you had to demonstrate your reversing ability between white barrels. I remember the play area in the park very well, and also as a Sea Cadet attending parade at the war memorial for armistice day.

@normacoope8239

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I remember I did my driving test in that era

@shanesampson9730

3 жыл бұрын

Yes remember all that, and being a sea cadet too, between the old drill hall and QE school.

@fuzzywun

3 жыл бұрын

@@shanesampson9730 Have been trying to find the Drill Hall on Google maps, but I can't remember which street is was on. Found my old school - Ellis Robins, and my brother's - Prince Edward. And old home etc.

@shanesampson9730

3 жыл бұрын

@@fuzzywun The drill hall was on the corner of Moffat street and Rhodes Ave next to GHS and across the road from the main park, Ellis robins if I am correct is and still is in Mabelrign on Sherwood drive, close to MGHS.I was at PE.

@fuzzywun

3 жыл бұрын

@@shanesampson9730 It seems Moffat Street and Rhodes Ave have been re-named. Had a good hunt around the GHS area, no joy. I suspect the drill hall is long gone. You are right about Ellis Robins. I believe the authorities wanted to re-name it, but the parents kicked up such a fuss they left it. Still interesting to see the satellite pictures. Remember the Blue Gardenia on Lomagundi road? Mabelreign Girls High is just along the road from Ellis Robins. Annual Hockey match with them - but they fielded teachers on their team who had no hesitation in cheating. BTW where are you now?

when people love their homeland, they regard it as their own land, and they fight, whether they are right or they are wrong. what a homeland to fight for. what a time it must have been.

Am a Zimbabwean lives in my country, but it's so sad , heartbroken to imagine how this nation was like compared to now, all this paradise have turned into something else, am so disappointed n wish I was there to experience this beautiful nation!!

@AnthonyD-yy2in

3 жыл бұрын

I was last their in 1985 and it was doing pretty good then. I am not Zimbabwean but my late father was.

@carlorossi1261

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@Mtoko94

2 жыл бұрын

I was born in Salisbury and left the country in 1977 as a teenager. I've been back frequently since; my last trip to Harare was December 2019 - just before the pandemic. It is so sad to see how this once beautiful country has deteriorated and it saddens me to see how difficult it is for ordinary people to survive and have a "normal" life. Harare has crumbling, pot-holed streets, sparce working traffic lights, few working street lights etc and the fear of crime gets worse all the time. Zimbabwe has essentially become a failed state with people having to rely on their own initiatives for the supply of basic needs such as electricity and water. Despite all the day-today difficulties, the amazing Zimbabwean people remain up beat, resourceful and hopeful. Zimbabwe is beautiful and it has so much potential - my greatest wish is to see the country be allowed to attain that potential.

@StreetDrilla

Жыл бұрын

@@Mtoko94 is mnangagwa gonna do any good for zim?

@BlesamaSoul

Жыл бұрын

@@StreetDrilla no, he was the one pulling the strings in the background when Mugabe was weak, the Chinese placed Mnangagwa in power he will do their bidding and nothing will help the Zimbabwean people. Smith was proved correct and has had the last laugh, if people had followed his ideas Zim would be one of the wealthiest nations in the world with high standards and a beacon of hope......instead it is a failed state where the WaBenzi live like kings and everyone else can die they don't care

sunshine city in some of its finest moments

I wish I had a time machine!

Awesome to see this all over again. A trip down memory lane. I was eight years old in 1960. Thanks, for the memories.

I was 2 years old in Salisbury then ... looking to see how it was - thanks for sharing.

Hi Thanks for sharing this, it brings back many memories. Here is what I can make out. It a long time ago now, so forgive me if my memory has faded somewhat.... 00:40 Tea room in Salisbury central park. Livingstone house in the Background. (Monomotapa was not built yet) 01:11 Fish ponds. Not 100% sure but I think they were in the south eastern quadrant of the park 01:37 Bowling greens at the North Eastern corner of the park 02:12 1st World war memorial. Walking South from the tea room toward the Les Brown swimming pool the memorial is about 20 to 30 yards East of the park's centre. The red brick building in the background is, I think, the old reserve bank. Cant remember if there was a 2nd WW memorial on the other side of the plinth 02:36 Children's play ground. There used to be an aeroplane mounted on poles in this area. I spend many hours flying that plane to exotic locations as a 5 year old 03:04 Salisbury airport. I saw a VC10 land as well as Concord and the first Boeing 707 in that part of the world. Notice the Union Jack flags. UDI had not been declared yet, so Southern Rhodesia was still part of the British empire. 04:09 I think this is a BOAC Comet . If so, note the rounded windows 04:25 View of Salisbury from the Kopjie. The Kopjie was a favourite place to be taken to do your hill start to get your driver's licence. Also popular to watch the sun rise on new years day. The view is looking roughly East. 04:46 Panning over the "Cow's guts" a light industrial area spreading out from the foot of the Kopjie. In the mid distance the railway station. 05:01 Salisbury power station. There were two forms of power supply 1) Thermal (coal from the Wankie collieries) and 2) Hydo from Kariba. No idea how the grid worked, but it did .... very well. 05:07 Salisbury (near distance) panning East to South East over Highlands and Eastleigh in the distance 05:32 Flagpole on the summit of the Kopjie. I have no idea who the three cool dudes are... Thanks again for this amazing video

@tigershoot

3 жыл бұрын

100% this is a BOAC Comet, and in the foreground is a Central African Airway's Vickers Viscount. DC3s can be seen in the background too.

@glendodds3824

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Craig. Thanks for the information.

Was once a place I called home............thanks for sharing

@mh53j

3 жыл бұрын

Are you any relation to Ron Reid-Daly? Just wondering....

This film brings back the happiest of times for me I worked in the oil industry in Salisbury and we got married in the Presbyterian church in 1961 finished up in Mufulira N.Rhodesia as it was then

I was born in Salisbury in 1958. I left there in 1984, never to return, sadly.

04:03 The Vickers Viscount in the foreground still exists - it's in the museum in Gweru. Truly amazing footage.

@chrisscott4896

2 жыл бұрын

Never visited the Gweru museum, unfortunately. For fellow aeroplane anoraks, that Vickers Viscount 748D was registered VP-YNA, named 'Malvern' (after a Rhodesian pioneer) and delivered from the iconic factory at Brooklands (near Weybridge, Surrey) to CAA in 1956, soon after the new airport in the footage had replaced the small Belvedere airport on the outskirts of Salisbury. In the background at the other side of the aerodrome, the RRAF base of New Sarum can be seen. Parked there are about six Douglas C-47 Dakotas (military version of the DC-3) and a couple of Canadair C-4s (a development of the Douglas DC-4, re-engined with Rolls-Royce Merlins and with a pressurised cabin).

@tigershoot

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisscott4896 My dad worked at New Sarum. Thanks for your info

My wedding pictures were taken in that beautiful park and I went to Salisbury Girls High so know these sights very well Thank you for t H e memories

Beautiful footage !! Absolute treasure .. Deep memories 👍👍

That was Rodesia it's really times with beautiful look no suffering

Beaautiful country thanks for sharing

Thinking South Africa going to the same way

@georgfriedrichhandel4390

Жыл бұрын

Going? It's already gone that way.

@Pmooli

10 ай бұрын

After Rome left londinium, what happened? Regression is part of civilization. I bet in 1000 years the west will be 3rd world country.

Aircraft at Salisbury airport are a CAA (Central African Airways) Vickers Viscount and the aircraft taxiing in is a BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) De Havilland Comet. I also played in that park when I was a child. The views of the city were taken from a nearby hill known as the Kopje.

@pamclarke6785

3 жыл бұрын

My Dad worked for the Salisbury municipality. He paved the new runway at the airport in preparation for the landinds of the Boeing 747s.

A well-run place.

I arrived here in 1961 from south Africa, came up on the train, took forever. We t to QE school for a sorll then work and I am still here.

@africo9104

3 жыл бұрын

I hope all is well with you. We still have lots of relatives there.

@shanesampson9730

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Norma, went to PE and am still here too 👍🏻

@normacoope8239

3 жыл бұрын

@@shanesampson9730 what year was that

@shanesampson9730

3 жыл бұрын

@@normacoope8239from 74, was at st Joseph's home for boy on Denby ave in belverdere.

@normacoope8239

3 жыл бұрын

@@shanesampson9730 I believe still a wonderful home. I have contact with Everisto Mudhikwa.

Thank you for the reminder.

I was born in '58. I think I have a vague recollection of CAA livery. I do not recall the Comet but do remember the BOAC VC10.

this looks like an idyllic utopian fantasy compared to the country as it looks 61 years later. in many ways now a shadow of how it once appeared, due to mismanagement and similar ills that have taken place particularly over the past 15 to 20 years. having lived here since birth 57 years ago i think that what i have written is very accurate.

@LawrenceRoss1906

Жыл бұрын

You see the racism part in your utopian fantasy?

@RayJazz1

11 ай бұрын

Zimbabwe has an acronym: Zero Intelligence Means Best Able Bodied Whites Emigrate

Nice clip

Greatest little country the world The park was Salisbury gardens The airport had a lovely restaurant anywhere Loved living there for 15 years and would have loved to stay forever but outside forces entrenched Mugabe a communist who proceeded to ruin the vountry

@kuyahkudey3217

Жыл бұрын

It's a pity the colonizers destroyed that beautiful country. So so sad. TMH will not forget what they did.

When you compare now and then it has to be said there is some irony in morality….😂👍🇬🇧

Yes I remember Salisbury very well - that's where I spent my first 28 years. I may be wrong, but I thought Livingstone House was built after 1960. Anyone remember when it was built? My memory may be faulty here, but I thought it was about 1965/1966.

@glendodds3824

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Stu. According to the attached article, work on Livingstone House began in the late 1950s and elsewhere I have read that the 20-storey building was completed in 1960. file:///C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/620c0652-95ce-46ae-8f6f-7cc38e182dfb%20(1).pdf

@chrisscott4896

2 жыл бұрын

IIRC, the head office of RST (Rhodesian Selection Trust, one of the two main copper-mining companies in Northern Rhodesia), the instigator of its construction, moved its head office from 10-storey Hardwicke House (to the east along the same side of Jameson Avenue, opposite the Pearl Assurance building of about 21 storeys) to Livingstone House (24-storeys and built by Richard Costain) around 1962/3. The copper mines were nationalised a year or two later, when NR achieved independence as Zambia, and most of the diminished head office was transferred back to London in 1965, before UDI.

@glendodds3824

Жыл бұрын

What is certain is that Livingstone House was built before Ian Smith became prime minister in 1964. Some devotees of Rhodesia like to think that the country was a backwater before Smith and the Rhodesian Front, whereas Salisbury's impressive skyline almost entirely dated from the late 1950s and early 60s. Moreover, most of the country's infrastructure, including Kariba Dam, existed before the RF came to power in 1962 under Winston Field.

@smorrisby

11 ай бұрын

@@glendodds3824 I spoke to many old timers of all colours who said the Federation period was Rhodesia/Zimbabwes best. Massive industrialization, convertible currency and falling unemployment.

Beautiful country gone to ruins sad

@edwardamosbrandwein3583

3 жыл бұрын

Which always happens when commies are in power

@blessmorekbonde3349

3 жыл бұрын

Im actually shocked the Zimbabww looked like this

@mh53j

3 жыл бұрын

@@blessmorekbonde3349 Rhodesia looked like this, Zimbabwe never has.

@shanesampson9730

3 жыл бұрын

@@blessmorekbonde3349 No it did not, Rhodesia looked like that then because the people that live there then made it look like that and.kept it like that, Zimbabwe looks like it is now because the people who live there now made it look like it is now and keep it like it is. Credit should be given where it is due.

@chickenalaking1319

3 жыл бұрын

@@edwardamosbrandwein3583 Did "commies" take over Haiti?

Consider this. It's 1961. The Brits are in Rhodesia. The architecture in British. The French were in Vietnam. The architecture is French. Centuries before, the Moors were in Spain. Further back, the Roman built Hadrian's Wall in Britain. Face it. Colonizers restructure the landscape.

@spacechimp3199

3 жыл бұрын

And they do it well, and better than the locals.

@nykwarti

3 жыл бұрын

@@spacechimp3199 And you still got kicked out lol. Sore losers.

@spacechimp3199

3 жыл бұрын

@@nykwarti what? I’m Canadian. Lol idiot

@shanesampson9730

3 жыл бұрын

@@spacechimp3199 That screwed him in the eye, shows who the racists and bigots truly are even 40 years later.....

@shanesampson9730

3 жыл бұрын

@@nykwarti I thought you and your people said we left because we were racist and hated black people????

Salisbury in 1960 appeared to be more modern, than the Brisbane of the same era....where I was born and in which I currently live . My first girlfriend also came from Salisbury...!!! Les Griffiths

@CorpusChristi-j8x

5 ай бұрын

Are you comparing a capital city to some other Australian city. Salisbury was not as modern as Durban how about that

I never realised Livingstone House was as old as that.

The federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is pronounced as it is spelt and not Nausealand as the introduction said.

@ReelLifeCanada

3 жыл бұрын

My apologies in mispronunciation, it certainly was not my intent. In my defense, it's not a term that has been used in over 50 years. Thank you for the correction.

@namiboosterhuizen6610

3 жыл бұрын

@@ReelLifeCanada No problem. Great film of the time I knew it well ;)

I grew up in Salisbury in the late 60s and 70s. All very familiar. We used to go up to the roof deck of the airport building and watch the aeroplanes come in. You could have tea there. Different world. Idyllic in some ways but not every way. We were a little too comfortable. I've long since got over equating cultural superiority with material progress.

Tell them to come back kkkkkkk

Beautiful Zimbabwe

This was before Rhodesia, union jack is still flying

Looks like any Place in Australia

@rskb1957

2 жыл бұрын

As I said above, I am the same vintage as this film and grew up i Australia. I would say that Australia looked less "manicured" . I've been to East Africa and seen footoage of Southern Africa and would observe that the residential buildings for whites in Africa look to be perhaps more European in construction and style, more solid, that those in Australia, which were of lighter construction, generally wooden or single skin brick after American models. I also note there were more current model US cars on the road than you would have seen in Australia. The rigid foreign exchange restrictions limited Australians' opportunity to buy many foreign goods in a way that doesn't seem to be the case in Southern Africa settler societies.

That could be anywhere in Australia

@fuzzywun

3 жыл бұрын

Having grown up in Rhodesia - I was stunned when I visited Perth West Australia for the first time. The same buildings, people, and blue skies.

White people built such an incredible civilization ❤ a stable currency a thriving economy, plenty of agriculture and industry, universities, hospitals, public schools, paved roads, plenty of clean running water lots of electricity plenty of air conditioning, railroads banks no trash on the streets no graffiti on the buildings, plenty of petrol at the filling stations, fully stocked grocery store shelves and then it all crumbled. I wonder what happened.

I had a friend who went to one of the government buildings in Salisbury just over after the communist takeover she had some business she had to take care of, and as she approached the building, she smelled the most horrifying stench . She could imagine she was certain they were human bodies decaying in, the hundred degree heat, but she put a handkerchief to her nose and continue towards the building. She realized it was chickenshit The building had been taken over by the locals and they brought in their chickens to live in the building with them chickens, chick shit was baking in the sun, and she said it looked like it had been there for weeks. Naturally no government business was possible

It's crazy how white people they were also migrating like us cz of want to survive

How in the world did you fumbled these infrastructure already built for you?

Harare, Zimbabwe.

Amazing. But is anyone aware there’s not a black person in sight.

@shanesampson9730

3 жыл бұрын

Wow and how clean the place is, If you went to the ttl' (tribal trust lands) you would not have found a single white in sight, and the state there would have been blamed on the whites as well even though we did not live there..... don't pick on my white race and expect nothing in return... if there we no white sympathisers or you were not against white people looking after themselves as you are doing, then you would not have made that comment. Zino Irema mbava,

@chickenalaking1319

3 жыл бұрын

Probably not a Jewish person in sight either.

@miklmiklmtrcycl6009

3 жыл бұрын

@@shanesampson9730 i made the comment sa an observation. And I purport the observation to be true. You sound hurt. That’s fine. I don’t care that you’re hurt. I did nothing to hurt you and intended you no harm. But yes, I am inferring that this white empire was carved out of a colonized land using the labour of a colonized people. It was wrong. Still is. The option was there for western powers to assist and lift Africans. Yeah I know, no conqueror has behaved that way, but that still doesn’t make it right.

@andrewdutoit9571

2 жыл бұрын

@@miklmiklmtrcycl6009 If the Whites were given a chance the Country would have prospered. There weren't enough Whites to man every position as the Country and economy grew. Therefore the Black people would have been brought into the mainstream economy. But it is what it is.

@chrisscott4896

2 жыл бұрын

@@chickenalaking1319 Not so. Many leading members of the community were Jewish, including the medical profession. Some of my schoolmates (usually the brightest ones academically) were Jewish, as was our family doctor and my mother's rheumatologist. After UDI, Israel assisted Rhodesia in sanction-busting operations.

Look at all those peaceful people just living their lives Be a shame if moooogahbeee added communism

I find the comments interesting. Whites claiming Africa???

I think there were more Black Africans in Australia at the time than in Rhodesia going by that video. Perhaps that's why change was necessary.

@rskb1957

2 жыл бұрын

I am the same vintage as this film and grew up in Australia. I get the drift of what you say, however, You rarely saw Aborigines in the main cities. You had to go to the regional centres to see any. .As for Black Africans, or come to that Asians, you have to remember the White Australia Policy was effectively in force until say the very early 1970s. And what a dull old [place it was.

@brendanpaterson5635

2 жыл бұрын

@@rskb1957 Yep, I suppose you're right: as a kid in the 70s the only Asian face you saw was the odd Chinese (and they'd been here for ever, so weren't given a second look). And living in Melbourne, I didn't knowingly meet an Aborigine until I was nearly 28. And then came the Vietnamese boat people, the Latin American refugees, the Poles, the Iraqis, Afghans, Sudanese et al. She's a far more interesting country now. Cheers.

4:37 nothing has changed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harare_montage.png