It strikes you how clean and smart everybody looked back then.

@yourgay3226

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly this Alan, now they are walking adverts for sportswear blimey what happened. Loving the cars back then too not the euro boxes we have today

I was born in 1960 at St John’s Hospital Chelmsford. I could well have been in this film as a three year old with my mum. Brought back many a happy memory. Thank you for sharing. 👏👏👍😀

I was raised in Chelmsford from 1968 and remember it more or less as depicted in this film. A fascinating piece and everything looked much cleaner , tidier and nicer. And so did the people. Thanks for sharing.

Very interesting, it's hard to imagine traffic flowing through the high street.

Touching film, i was born in 73 but great to see how the town was then, still remember clearly when traffic could use the high street, loved the little bit capturing the railway, i used to love travelling on the class 309 essex express units and they are largely the reason why many years later and still today i am working on said railway as a driver.

I'm 15 and live in Chelmsford and its amazing to are the transition between how it was then and how it is now, made me smile x

Love this short 60's gem, I was born in st Pancras in 57, my folks moved up north to Lancashire in 59. a cotton town, back then, 63 holds special memories for me, thanks for the reminder.

Thank you for this! Seeing my home town when cars were allowed on the road is quite something! The train station looks like it was in better condition back then than it is today!

@steveschannel7956

10 жыл бұрын

I am 28 and just remember the high street as a road, I believe it was 1992/93 that it was pedestrianized. Also the railway station is a different one that is here today. That was demolished in 1987 for todays.

Lovely film. The shots of the trains was great, no yellow ends, and the stock fairly new then. How times have changed-and not for the better!

wow i moved to chelmsford to study at university in 2014, and im leaving next month. while working here i always used to hear about how cars used to drive up the street... ive always wanted to see what it looked like! thank you s much and i will miss chelmsford when i leave xxx

@kentcyclist

5 жыл бұрын

Zoes Way I rode my motorcycle through town centre on way back to work from lunchtime in late seventies

Lived there from 1970 until 1982 and I clearly recognise the high street and duke street where I believe I witnessed the carnival from with my parents right under the railway bridge. I watched a clip of Chelmsford from 3 years ago and hardly recognised it at all. Nice to see shops and streets I visited and walked down as a lad many thanks for this lovely trip down memory lane.

I'm 12 and I live in chelmsford and my Mum is 50 and used to work for marconi so I'm definitely going to show her this THANKS!!!!! :)

Shortly after this film was made, I moved from Lancashire to live with a foster family on Baddow Rd. A long story! I was 5 and returned north when I was 9. We were rehoused to The Ridings just off Beehive Lane, when that of section of Baddow Rd was knocked down to build what must be the Parkway. My foster mum worked at Marconis and I went to Meadgate school. No doubt nostalgia is playing its part, but they feel like happy times and your film took me right back. Thank you Barry.

Thanks Barry for good memories, I was born in Chelmsford in the 1940s, a great town in those days, i can remember the old cattlemarket near the wreck and the cattle escaping into the town, also oaklands park and admirals park and we would really enjoy going to the fair when it came to Kings head meadow,also the old Cromptons factory when i first started work, thanks for letting me remember it as it used to be, am now in Norfolk.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I was five when this was shot and well remember the High Street being "open" like that.

What a great film. I'm a 1947 Galleywood vintage and it brought back memories of the town - great to see Bonds and the old Boots.

Love the coach built prams xxx

We moved to Chelmsford in 1971,some great memories there

thanks barry.. this is great... i was born in 53 so was 10 when this was filmed..i was looking for all my family..and granny and me as we always walked from her job in springfield working for mrs bollingbrokes...and stopped off in woollies on the way back to westlands... home is where the heart is..... iv been in norwich now for 40 yrs....a bootiefull city............ but my heart is chelmsford and all my school friends..

I am a 15 year old boy who lives in chelmsford... to see the City as it once was 51 years ago is remarkable let alone seeing 'CAODS' producing one of their shows... i am fortunate enough to say I am part of that society and am extremely excited!

@TheModdyFox

2 жыл бұрын

Fancy seeing you here W :)

Simply wonderful. Can't tell you how much It brought back fond memories. I'm a born and bred Chelmsfordian (1950). I was a Saturday boy in Bonds. I notice the church on the town side of the bridge is gone which made way for Caters. Great stuff. More, more, more

The happy years..like a different planet. Everyone worked at Marconi.. Sad to see it paved blocked ,and characterless now..the people made Chelmsford. Golden times for sure.

@davybass

Жыл бұрын

"Everyone worked at Marconi.." or Hoffmans Ball Bearings, or English Electric Valve, or Britvics.

My Grandmother was in that production of Showboat. I think I still have the programme somewhere!

I now live in Chelmsford, many of my ancestors lived and died here. Very interesting video. Thank you

Really enjoyed your video Bob. I was born in the Chelmsford area in the late '40s but left in the 1980s to live in the West Midlands. The film brought back memories of Chelmsford as it was in the year I left school. How well I remember the Regent and Pavilion cinemas, the Eastern National buses, Boots corner and the Shire Hall. When the day shift ended at Hoffman's and Marconi's New Street would be filled with cyclists - mostly dressed in dirty gaberdine macs and cloth caps. Happy days!

Fabulous to look back & remember. I was a child in 1963, but even as a teenager I remember riding my motorcycle down the high street.

Lived around Chelmsford from 1967, firstly in West Hanningfield Road, way past the Mushroom Farm, then on Galleywood Common in Rous Cottage which was a Tea Rooms.Those were the days when you could jump off the train when it was still going, leap on and off a bus and no traffic lights. My step Dad worked for Marconis and I worked at Hoffmans in the offices. Took me right back.

@gailcrook2687

3 жыл бұрын

I worked at the Mushroom Farm for years

Thanks for sharing. More please! I have lived in Chelmsford for the last 40 years and really enjoy watching how it has changed through these priceless films.

I went to secondary school here in the early 90's, know it well and it's changed so much just from my time let alone in the sixties. I still live in a town not far away, woodham.

Born and bred in Chelmsford all my family lived there grand parents and great grandparents my mum and dad both worked at Hoffman’s my uncles worked at Marconi we lived at Springfield park avenue went to trinity road school and then on to moulsham school some very fond memories went to YMCA played football for local teams if any my mates reading this hope you are all well now live on Canvey island mr Norman LEE

Cars have been banned from most of the roads shown on this video. Great video - nice to see traffic flowing for once.

Happy memories of Essex . The "Good Old Days" , living in Romford during the '50 s . That special County blazer badge , sadly long gone .

Really enjoyed that film. I was born in Ipswich in 1960 so it may have looked a bit like that. Interesting to see all the old cars, and green buses! Saw the Class 309 emus in my trainspotting days, but they were blue and grey by then, but they still had the curved cab windows.

A great find and a great share - thank you!

great film! thanks for sharing.

Thanks for this, I started working for Marconi Communications in New St. in 1983 ( and now after they reformed into BAE Systems, I'm still working with them nearly 28 years later. ) There is some archive film available on dvd of the entrance of Marconi's New St. with a Jazz band playing at the entrance !

Thank you so much for sharing such vintage footage. I wish you'd shown the part where Parkway is now as I've never seen what that looked like when it was just one long road. Brings a warm nostalgic feeling to my heart. Was 8 years before I was born but I remember much of this.

When folk dressed as men and women, and cars were not boring. How did they survive back then with no takeaways every 5ft and without trackies? 😀

@Perseus7567

Жыл бұрын

The cars look like they've been copy and pasted. They survived "without trackies" because all the men you see there are on their way to/from work, and all the women were housewives so had plenty of time to put on a dress just to pick up a pint of milk. Because of course, before all these people ruined it, the economy allowed you to have just one person working whilst the other looked pretty whilst getting some shopping. Now you can have husband and wife working 18-hour shifts every day and still struggle to even afford to live. But hey ho, let's not talk about why people don't have time to wear formal all the time, let's just talk about that they aren't. And again, didn't need takeaways because there was always the wife at home spending all day cooking whilst the man worked. There was never any lack of time for food. Nowadays, again after both working your butt off all day to afford a loaf of bread, not everyone gets the time to cook the perfect Sunday Roast. Typical of older generations to be honest. Happy to point out how things have 'degraded' over time, but never willing to acknowledge how much of that they caused themselves by ruining the economy. May I also remind you things back then were a lot more dangerous as well. 5,367 road users died in Great Britain in 1956, compared to 1,760 fatalities in 2022. That means 3,607 people got to live in 2022 thanks to our abandoning of the "good old ways". Not good enough, okay let's look at work-related accidents coming in at a whopping 601 fatalities in 1960 compared to just 123 in 2022. It's almost like things back then were unnecessarily dangerous, excessive, and/or stupid. You'll even find most crackheads, burgulars, and general nuisances of society are around 40-50 years old, making them the children of the generation seen in the video. Which means, it's that generations' fault they failed to realise their children properly. This generations failure of their children is what has made the UK less safe to the point you can't leave your bike unlocked in the road like at 2:43. Again, another consequence of this older generation that the older generations refuse to acknowledge. No surprise there.

Absolute Gold. Many thanks.

I had no idea the traffic went up what is now the high street! Thanks for sharing this and the transfer looks great.

Fabulous, thank-you! I lived there from 1959 to 1971 and went through all three Westlands schools before moving to the Midlands with my parents. I did some schoolboy work for the newsagents in the railway station (WH Smith?) and Howards Daries. Later I worked Saturdays at Caters, but that wasn't built when this film was made.

Great! I was born this year. I remember buting chemistry set ingredients from Body's (pronounced Boady's) and I did once see a couple of movies at the Regents before it became a Bingo hall. I also found myself looking for my parents down the high street!!!

@sofiaflo9344

3 жыл бұрын

This was my grandparent’s shop. There was a handful of them, some being in Southend too. Our surname is pronounced ‘body’, the same as that of the anatomical term, although plenty have done and still do pronounce it as ‘boady’. 😉 It’s of Cornish origin. Glad you have fond memories of the shop!

This is brilliant brought back so many memories, 1963 was the year I married in Great Baddow More please!

I was 2 when this was taken. We lived in the flat above Halfords in the High Street. My dad Jim Licence was the manager. Lived there for years. Went to the Cathedral school. Happy memories. I was Deborah Licence then. Would love to hear from old friends.

@jennywren8937

5 жыл бұрын

You may find them on Moulsham School Past Pupils

@TheKonga88

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, I remember you, you was the girl who was licensed to thrill.. 🚶🚶🚶🚶🙌🙌🙌🙌😷🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🐸🐸🎺🐥🐝🐝🐝😸😸😸🎠👫👫🎠🎠👽👽

Great film. Wish I was born then.

Great to see this xI was born in 1944 my mum was in service above the regent x I worked at the co op opposite the bus station and then cromptons then Hoffman’s which my dad worked for 40 years born just out side the town at Roxwell but spent most of my life in the town dancing when cliff Richard came to the odeon and lots more and the long bar x Went to rainsford school and I was really friendly with a girl called Pam King who became my brides maid would love to hear from my dear friends again my maiden name was Bridge I am still in the Chelmsford area x

Superb! Fabulous picture quality too!

This was when there was no such thing as immigration amazing

@footyupdates7913

5 жыл бұрын

Mattie Hancy this was also 1963 when Britain didn’t need immigrants...

@SH-jx7qu

4 жыл бұрын

Oh fuck off

@matthancy5576

4 жыл бұрын

S H I’m alright

@TheKonga88

3 жыл бұрын

@@footyupdates7913 Britain was hiring migrants from the late 1940s which are called the Windrush General. Britain has always hired immigrants for one reason or another, and hey, guess what, you are also an immigrant.. Do you seriously believe there is such a thing as born and bred British? LMMFAO

Lovely to see this. Well done Barry Holland. I was born on the Moulsham Lodge Estate in 1966, so I'd use the 44A or 44B to get to school in London Road & use it also for going to Saturday Morning Pictures at the Odeon. I remember the traffic on High St but forgot it was One-Way. I saw several films at the Regent (mostly Disney stuff) including The Love Bug (Herbie), Lady & the Tramp, The Aristocats, Robin Hood & The Jungle Book...but The Odeon was bigger & more modern. To the right of Shire Hall is Waterloo Lane which was where the public swimming baths were. Yes Goddards was the place for fishing tackle. My older brother used to go night-fishing alongside the Eastern Gas Towers.

@Musketeer009

8 жыл бұрын

+emenveeuk. I moved to Chelmsford in 1970 and lived at the other end of the 44A/44B bus route, in the Milburn Ceders estate (corner of Melbourn Avenue and Chignal Road). Never went to the Regent to see films (that I can remember), but by the time I was old enough to go on my own or with friends, went to the old Odeon Cinema. The Swimming baths are still at the bottom of Waterloo Road. I also remember the High Street with traffic and also remembered it was one way. The junction with Springfield Road (where those tripple zebra crossings are in the film) had traffic lights when I remember them.

What no MOSQUE 🙀 ohhhh what a shame

@kentcyclist

5 жыл бұрын

Elbow Nesdam ABBA snackbar

@nicgriffiths9838

5 жыл бұрын

calm down elbow masdam

@JJJJ-fi9dg

4 жыл бұрын

Elbow Nesdam stfu racist bastard

@alantilbury6058

4 жыл бұрын

Diversity hadn't been invented then.

@christianmatta_

3 жыл бұрын

My friend hamood has snackbar now I scream allah Akbar

I was 7 in 1963 and from Brentwood - staggering 58 years ago.

Blimey, that brought back some memories. Used to go to the tech. college there

all those classic cars... made in Britain

Lovely reminder of how London / Chelmsford was back then. Not many " enrichers " visible, pity that changed!

AWESOME

This footage is brilliant! I have lived in Chelmsford all of my life and seeing how it has evolved over the years is really interesting. Would you be interesting in sharing this footage with Anglia Ruskin University? I work for them and we're looking at running a campaign about Chelmsford. Thanks.

My father, Bob Taylor worked for Marconi around this time. He was ex-army and lived in Danbury.

I have never seen Chelmsford from 1963 . Really interesting I wasn't born until 1973 . It has more history than my Village . Only nine miles away from the town I live in .

Incredibile footage, was born well after this in 1976 but its fantastic to see how the town was back in the 60's. Its very strange for me to see the traffic moving through the town like that, this was probably one of the main old roads to and from London before any major roads such as the A12 were constructed. Thanks for sharing and would love to see more if there is any.

This is fantastic .. We need more of this x x x

The railway station looks the same on the platform, but I believe the outside of this version was demolished in 1987ish and the new one built which is now there and now being redeveloped again

@kentcyclist

5 жыл бұрын

Steve's Channel I remember the old one with smiths kiosk in enterance where I used to buy mad magazine

I and my mother lived there around 1969! I was 7 years old! My mother was born in Liverpool but lived most of her life in Chelmsford. Her name is Esther and my uncle who lived there as well was Tom Riley. My mother brought me to England from the US after her divorce. We lived on Kings Road. We also lived in Braintree for a few years. Great memories for her, she had tears in her eyes. Thanks for posting this, just wonderful!

Brilliant , I was an apprentice in' 63 at MWTCo., left in 1970, to join BP as a Pipe Stress Engineer, posted all over the World , retired early in 2013. Shared this with David Taylor who remembers it well ...., we often reminisce , about Chelmsford and it's so many pub in Moulshalm Street , when the wives are talking ................. We visited ever one, on his stag night! Can not recall you though but you may my Dad, who ran the Garage and became The Maintenance Supt., before he retired. Best Regards Gavin

WONDERFUL!

I cant belive that i am now so old i was alive when this was filmed i will have to hide it from the kids as they will think i even older than i am as it looks so old.

I was 8 when that film was taken.

My Grandmother was born in 1892 and worked at Boots when she was 19 in Chelmsford.

What an Excellent video. OH How Great Chlmsford was then Why did they have to ruin it. I was born there in 1951 and left in 1972.

@kentcyclist

6 жыл бұрын

we are glad you left to. Its improved since 1972

Lovely film👌👍

At 1:53 - the 48 bus was from Springfield Park - It terminated at the end of Sandford Road. The via blind reads Hill Road High Street. I think the destination is Pius X School, a morning extension of the service beyond the bus station. At 2:20 the number 11 route bus to Southend would be brand new.

@MrAndysvideos

8 жыл бұрын

I used the catch the 48 bus to where I lived Springfield Park Road.

I was brought up in Chelmsford, played around the cattle market (now Chelmershopping under cover), played footbal at the "rec" & watched Chelmsford FC play at New Writtle St stadium ( capacity > 10,000 ) with crowds often 4,000 for a southern league game. Chelmsford high street flooded to knee high outside M & S, Cloth & haberdasherie shop ( Smiths?) had money containers run on cable from the counter to the cahier in a separate "pulpit", going to see bands at the Corn Exchange by Tindle Sq & having pub cralws along Tindle Street where every few yards was a pub. I left Chelmsford ~ 1971 & returned after being in Australia & France back to live 2013...what a difference !

@jennywren8937

5 жыл бұрын

Believe it was Pope and Smith

Amazing

I arrived more than a few times by train from Romford. My mother's family were from Little Waltham.

this is awesome

Nice- thank you. :-)

I miss the old days back here when I didn't yet exist

Cool bro.

@greengage21 Yes she used to help out serving and doing the rolls at lunchtimes. Les Died about 14 years ago now. Blimey, "The Countryman" that is going back a few years....had a few scraps in there in my younger days LOL. I didn't know you could still get Ridley's Old Bob!

Barry Holland a legend!!

That’s crazy that the roads here don’t exist anymore (or that they’re now pedestrian only)

Wow you can see why they have pedestrianised moulsham street

Eastern National KSW@ 1.54🎉 and an FLF @2.20 bravo🎉 couple more K types @ 4.3

My wifes uncle used to run The Railway Tavern, by the station. Anyone remeber Les Wollard behind the bar ???

@squirrels103

6 жыл бұрын

LOFC Robbo Great Bloke was Les, a true friend to thousands of College Students.

@TheKonga88

3 жыл бұрын

@@squirrels103 A true friend of thousands? LMMFAO

Wow never seen town like this before amazing my nan was working at Marconi canteen for many years around this time Peggy her name was there surely ruined this town now

HOW many of those shops are still there

@greengage21 Hi greengage, I know that les used to love having all the students in, he had a lot of time for them. Probably because they were his best customers also ;-)). Do you remember the barmaid, Sylvia ??? she's my mum-in-law and a lovely lady.

Looks busier then than it does now.

Were you stalking the lady with the cape pushing the pram? lololololo

@MartynClarkeMOFS

5 жыл бұрын

That is Barry's wife Mary

A Couple of years before one of its counties became a new kid,Harlow New Town

Prazer em Conhecer!

Moved there in 1952, no good memories for me , my father, Frank Randall, the world's biggest bully and my cold spiteful mouthed mother,,never want to see the place ever again, bad times

I live in chelmsford

@TheKonga88

3 жыл бұрын

You must be very miserable.. LMMFAO

well the train station hasnt changed!

@theclaret I remember Les well when i used to go in as a underage drinker at 15 or 16 he used to say hi lads what can i get you and twenty years later as an occassional visitor we were still refered to as lads" great shame he is no longer with us and that pub is now a shaddow of its former self i used to love the old juke box.

Chelmsford of today looks nothing like Chelmsford of the Past

:)

check my chelmsford museum vlog out

Pedestrianization ruined it