omg the little girl on the bike with the drink is me in 1986. My dad used to ride around on this bike still remember the clothes I had on and the white shoes

@lewis72

3 жыл бұрын

@ 5:46 ?? Awww. You looked very angry then, bashing that drinks carton against the seat. 😆

@peterbustin2683

3 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing that bike around Norwich - assuming its the same one !

@johnmiller2290

3 жыл бұрын

I went to the City college in 86, and remember that bike

@peterbustin2683

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnmiller2290 Yeah, I was in that area of the city - I lived on Trafford Road. That bike was everywhere, it seems. I can still see it in my minds eye !

@1969ashley1969

2 жыл бұрын

I reckon I remember seeing that bike often too.🙂

Staff at the shop in London Street are still that way to window browsers.

So much has changed but also so much is so recognisable.

loved the jobs' worth from Windsor Bishop

@simontuffen8243

3 жыл бұрын

It's a well-known fact that people who carry expensive video equipment tend to hurl bricks through windows.

@TheStein474

3 жыл бұрын

Mine you I had robbed the place about 4 years before😀

@SirBoycie

Ай бұрын

Point is as far as the owner was concerned he might have been casing the joint. Ask any jeweller, they need to be super cautious and trust no one. Look at what happened to that young lad who got held-up recently in London by a couple of 'customers' he let in to show some watches to in good faith. If I was a jeweller with 10s of thousands of pounds worth of stock in my shop and you were stood outside carefully filming what's in the window I would tell you to piss off :)

Thankyou Derek. Those's were the days and not a hoodie insight. I remember the water fountain in front of C.& A.

So strange watching this, I have an instictive sense of where in the city things were being filmed, but things were ever so slightly different so I couldn't quite pinpoint!

Hello 1986! This is 2020 calling. Great to watch this "time capsule" sort of speak. And found this while searching for Norwich City of 1980's. lol. Btw Purdy looked lovely!

I was born a year after this was filmed, wow it's so nice to see how Norwich was back then. Never knew there was a fountain at the Haymarket! :)

@OriginalArtOnline

4 жыл бұрын

Yes there was - and the youths of the day (which I was) used to regularly put washing up liquid in it resulting in foam cascading down the hill 😂

@leifcian4288

3 жыл бұрын

Shame they took it out

@hitthelidsracing

3 жыл бұрын

Pigeons no seagulls!Shame loved the water fountain and the famous mister bywrights.The saying if wearing something cheap,did you get that from bywrights 🤣

Those : 'Ahh that man's got a camcorder' expressions! I love seeing the old cars: Peugeot 504, Citroen 2CV van, Audi coupé, Rover SD1, Lotus Esprit.

@JimmyJames-yx1zm

3 жыл бұрын

You make no mention of the MGB 😒 - which I still have! 😊

@underneonloneliness2

11 ай бұрын

When cars were a normal size and you could park and have plenty of room to get now unlike nowadays with everyone having these fake SUV’s

I was 13 in 86. Used to wander round the city as the weekend. Great memories.

This is a great video Derek. We came to Norwich in 1988 so lots of this is familiar to me. Amazing how the city was dominated by cars - still is in some places!

Thankyou so much for this. I am from Norwich but have been living in Australia for the past 25 years and i'm desperately home-sick. I have been planning on returning to England permanently and can't wait to see my beloved Norwich again, even though I have heard that it has drastically changed over the years. So long as the magnificent castle and cathedral are still standing, I know I will feel right at home again. I can't wait to walk down Elm Hill again and browse in the little shops like I used to........hope they're still there. Thanks again, this was a lovely little trip down memory lane. T C 😁

@NR23derek

3 жыл бұрын

Most of it is still there, Elm Hill hasn't changed much. Norwich is bigger than it used to be and there's a lot of new buildings and of course lots of new people. It's a lot more expensive than it used to be as well. But it is still Norwich, you won't be disappointed. Oh, and the castle is being renovated to show more of the original building, should be quite something when it's finished.

@TCHARRISON1

3 жыл бұрын

@@NR23derek That's fantastic! Thankyou😁

@1969ashley1969

2 жыл бұрын

@@NR23derek I remember when they were doing repairs or something to the castle in 1998 and I was doing security, I'd be in the castle over night all alone. 🙂 Had the key to the big wooden front door.

@1969ashley1969

2 жыл бұрын

I too am a Norwich boy living in Australia, love the old videos of the fine city. 🙂

@philiplbrown

Жыл бұрын

The cathedral and castle still look resplendent. Norwich has changed a lot, some will say not for the better, but the component parts that make Norwich a city I have lived in and called home since 1969 are still there. The redeveloped market, Tombland, the iconic Maids Head hotel and the Adam and Eve pub. Yes it's changed very much in 10-15 years but still a great city to live in. Long may it continue.

Those were happier times. In those days, my dream car was a Ford Capri. 🚗🚗

Thank you so much for sharing this, lovely to look back at. I would've been nearly 6...what I would give to go back to then!!

I used to buy Shirts from Mr Buyright when I was 15. Can not help but wondering what Norwich will be like in another 35 years in 2056.

What an absolute treat! Thank you so much for sharing it. 😁 If you have any more do please keep them coming. 😊👍👍👍

I loved the fountains in hay market! I wish they had been kept.

USED REGGIE PHOTO LINK TO WATCH... THIS BRINGS BACK GREAT MEMORIES, THANK YOU FOR POSTING, MOST APPRECIATED... EXCELLENT FOOTAGE, STAY SAFE

@NR23derek

5 ай бұрын

What's Reggie photo?

@petergarbutt9521

5 ай бұрын

@@NR23derek REGGIE PHOTO, ONE OF MANY AUDITORS ON KZread, PROMOTING PINAC, PHOTOGRAPHY IS NOT A CRIME

@NR23derek

5 ай бұрын

@@petergarbutt9521 Oh for sure, this kind of archival video would be very difficult to make now. I've has a few run-ins myself.

MG at 3:51 is taxed until April 2024 ! It'd be great if the owner knew it was caught on video 38 years ago !

I like the man outside his jewellery shop. He acknowledged his own silliness by saying: "I think you're rather silly as well". As i grow older i become more forgiving and less of an arse.

What a plonker from Windsor Bishop.

Thank you for this I was born in Norwich in July 1982 brilliant video

did they have louder shoes in the 80 lol

@marty8535

3 жыл бұрын

People tend to wear trainers now. Less so back then, more proper footwear.

Fantastic - and not bad quality for 1986! All those Goths and shiny suits and the idiot that didn't want the shop filmed! Thank you so much for sharing.

OMG ! I recognise that pigeon, he's a local at our shopping centre, who'd have thought he'd still be here nearly 40 years later ?!

@tankthelord1178

5 ай бұрын

Yer and his twin brother is up here in Carlisle.

I’m 29 and I’d love to go back to that era. Looks allot nicer than it is today.

Everyone looked nicely dressed when out shopping!!!

Nice to see my old mate Eric and his missus at 4:42 He was the front man for several Norwich bands over the years. Worlds Apart being one of them, and no, not that one.

@gingafuzz1

4 жыл бұрын

...so that WAS Eric, I did wonder. Really lovely guy and sadly missed.

@blackshuck615

2 жыл бұрын

YES!! Eric G. Used to hang out with him at the Oval, Festival House & UEA gigs. He was raised in Braconash. A really nice guy & it's so sad he passed away. RIP Eric.

@angelalynch9584

8 ай бұрын

I remember Eric from the festival house. I didn't realised he'd passed away. Sad to hear.

I was born in norwich on march 7th 1986. Thank you for uploading the video of what it was like only a few months into me being here, great watch.

Genuinely happy to see this.. I was 3 when this footage would have been taken and I definitely remember the water fountain by C&S now Next.... and remember the old chocolate factory and library before it burnt down... (the smell of chocolate was lovely as a kid) Brilliant footage and thank you...

I didn't move to Norwich til 2001, strange seeing how it all was back in the 80's, I remember '86 well as I'd just moved back to the UK to start a new life in Huntingdon, wish I'd not waited til after the millennium to come here!

Thanks for sharing, I was 3 going on 4 so not sure if I remember or not but it was so nice to escape in the nostalgia

The 1985 Lotus Esprit "C96 XEX" at 4:08 has been off the road since 1992 !

@byrnemeister2008

4 ай бұрын

Probably in a barn somewhere. Going to make a great classic when it resurfaces.

Watching you film Purdy with my cat on the desk in front of me. RIP Purdy 😞Recently lost one and it made me tear up.

Good old VHS tape. By now I was living in London. I did come back for my fathers funeral a couple of years latter. Thanks for sharing your video.

people walking the streets filming things who'd have guessed that would be everyday normal life one day

@NR23derek

3 жыл бұрын

We don't have to carry heavy recording machines and huge cameras to do it now though!

That was excellent. I was willing you to film around St. Benedicts indoor market, but it was nice to see the window, and the lovely goth boots. I loved that place, and the upstairs cafe.

“I think you’re being rather silly don’t you” some reason really made me laugh, and I was born 11 years after this was made

@Handhandme

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah... that conversation wouldn't have sounded so polite these days 😂😂

This is an amazing piece of footage. I was living in Norwich at the time as a then two year old.

Back when having a video camera was a big deal

@NR23derek

3 жыл бұрын

You knew you had it as well - big and heavy, a separate camera and tape deck with a thick connecting wire and the heavy lead acid battery which only lasted 30 mins...

@underneonloneliness2

Жыл бұрын

@@NR23derek I do remember them as a kid in the 90’s with a VHS. I’m guessing they were smaller in the 90’s compared to the 80’s. Love all the old cars in the video btw.

I remember the fountain in the square by what was Top Shop; not a fortnight would go by in the late 70s/early 80s without someone throwing a load of washing up liquid or washing powder in it so that everyone was treated to a square full of foam!

Still loving your videos, Derek!

Fantastic video. I was hoping to see some faces I recognised.

Not from Norwich, but enjoyed your interesting video, will definitely be watching more of your videos. Was good when the jumped up popinjay had a go at you for filming, reminded me of all these new 'audit' videos, yours has to be one of the first audit videos ever recorded!

In 1986, I Was 11 years old. My first visit to the UK, was 5 years later, in 1991, to Bristol. I was 16 then..

A year after this video we moved first to Wiltshire then Germany. The Norwich we returned too in 1993 had changed a lot

So interesting seeing my city the spring before I was born.

Found you from Reggie Photo - I'm a working dog & wildlife amateur photographer so looking forward to watching your footage.

@NR23derek

5 ай бұрын

What's Reggie photo?

@ajlook5457

4 ай бұрын

​@@NR23derekReggie photo is a youtuber... (Auditor)

If I had a time machine I would go back in time to the 80s and stay there I would not want to come back to this life 2020

@lewis72

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, we only had AIDS to contend with then.

@wondernexus3d482

3 жыл бұрын

@@lewis72 And maggy!

@lewis72

3 жыл бұрын

@@wondernexus3d482 Depends what side of the fence you were on but I think Maggy did more good than bad.

@jabezhane

3 жыл бұрын

@@lewis72 Well that and WW3 but if we knew they were not the apocalyptic horrors we thought they were it would be amazing to go back. In 1985 it was like everyone was going to be dead by 1995.

@lewis72

3 жыл бұрын

@@jabezhane I remember often being scared shitless by the nuclear arms race in the early '80s. The Soviets were a bunch of unhinged communists that seemed to want to press that button any time... then a few years after that fright we were all going die of AIDS as soon as we had any sexual encounter or blood transfusion !

unfortunately i havent experienced norwich in this era looks so nice i wish i was born in around 1975 at least i got some 2000s

Winsor Bishop guy is the manager, Mr Groombridge. I used to look after the security system in there. Actually quite a nice bloke. Camp as Christmas! He’d been robbed on more than one occasion so that probably made him a little on edge when someone was filming the windows and what they had there. He probably thought it was a reconnaissance trip prepping for another hit! Passed away now.

@lstq8873

Ай бұрын

Absolutely loved "Mr Jimmy". He was one of a kind - and very helpful and endearing, no hard sell, always had time for you. I made a few purchases from him.

They should bring back the fountain outside C&A! Now Next! Great video! Thank you for sharing

@marty8535

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, a shame when that was removed. H&S probably, we're all to stupid not to be trusted near water now! The water feature on top of Castle Mall didn't last long either, or the fountain inside.

Not a mobile phone in sight, awesome :-)

I was 10, at Notre Dame Prep, we used to go to Norwich all the time back then, living in Hingham.

The good old days i used to go and sit in chapelfield gardens with my mates drinking Thunderbird and getting stoned then go down to the festival house,

@Kblog777

3 жыл бұрын

Festival House was a great rockers pub back in the day. Remember when they had bank holiday all day gigs.

@astroterf.

3 жыл бұрын

As did I! Wonder if we ever shared a bottle? Good times 😊

@ragnarragnarson5184

3 жыл бұрын

@@astroterf. quite possibly

Even having a disagreement 6:50 was so awfully polite around Norwich in spring 1986 :-) I can definitely say people are far less agreeable these days!!

No Wayne or Waynetta Slobs back then. A different story today!!

Priceless.

Norwich when it was the neat and tidy "fine city"

Has anybody got any footage of the old cattle market? Apart from the library which burned down, it’s the biggest change to the city, what with Castle Mall being built.

Was Eagle-Eyed to spot my Gran or family & friends... Then Saw Mr Grumpy Of Windsor Bishops .where my Christening present was bought.

This is very interesting to me as a 16 year old who grew up near the city..... I recognise almost everywhere but there’s a few changes I wasn’t aware of. No clue about the car park just in front of where the forum now stand and the water fountain

I was 8 yrs old with a mullet

@HalfdeadRider

3 жыл бұрын

I was 9, no mullet 👍

I was 20 in 1986, I don't remember it feeling this dated at the time. We've come a long way in the last 30 years, the mid 80s was still not unlike the 60s and 70s in many ways.

@NR23derek

3 жыл бұрын

It seemed exciting and new to me at the time! But yes, things have changed a lot since then for sure

@martinjohnston6685

3 жыл бұрын

@@NR23derek at least we had gigs and festys then ,hope all well derek?

@NR23derek

3 жыл бұрын

@@martinjohnston6685 Best as can be expected :)

"I think you're being rather silly"😂😂😂😂

not a mobile in sight

@mazdarx-8rotary.97

3 жыл бұрын

How is that a good thing?

@NR23derek

3 жыл бұрын

No phone zombies

3:50 I walked up here just today !! The yellow MGB "5275 MG" is still taxed and MOTed today !!

6:12 I remember seeing ads for That Petrol Emotion all over town back in the day.

1:23, that little kid is now about 40 years old!! 🥺

@kirstycatchpole7400

2 жыл бұрын

Im the little kid im now nearly 41. I feel old lol

Wow. £1000 of camera in 1986 was really quite a lot of money ! It's still quite a lot of money today !

You wouldn't get away with filming people and kids like that today. How much the world has changed in all these years. I was only 3-years-old in '86 so didn't consciously get to experience the 1980s, therefore I appreciate this rare glimpse into what life was like in the city that I was born in.

@NR23derek

4 жыл бұрын

Oh you record people in a public place without too much problem, but kids would likely cause problems for sure

it takes you ages to actually realise nobody is using a smartphone

@jollygoodyoutube

4 ай бұрын

That’s because they hadn’t t been invented

Look what we had.😒

6:57 a very early example of auditing

Lovely video, I worked in the city centre at that time. Will it ever be the same post covid.

@leebishop4485

3 жыл бұрын

No nothing will ever be the same again sadly!!! All planned by the globalist elite 😡😡😡😡

@astroterf.

3 жыл бұрын

@@leebishop4485 yep, planned...but easily defeated if we all said 'no' and didn't go along with it Sadly, 9/10 just won't do that 😔

Wow. Sounds like everyone wore stilettos back then, bet most of them were white stilettos too. Oh the fashion.

5:25 - is that St. Benedict's indoor market, with all the R'n'R stuff in window ?

@NR23derek

4 жыл бұрын

Yes it is! With it's cafe upstairs...

@serenechaosuk4682

4 жыл бұрын

@@NR23derek As a teenager in the late 90s, that alternative indoor market WAS Norwich ! Shame it disappeared in 2002 !

Can anyone tell me where the opening shot is - the gate, & the sq top building with a ball & crown on top ... ?

@NR23derek

Жыл бұрын

That's the old hospital on Ipswich Road, it was still the hospital when this was taken but is now a housing estate. That building is still there but is now flats. www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.6215565,1.2872461,3a,75y,300.94h,83.37t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNSg_XQZnzHNgjqbj8SZH2g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

@gordonbennet1094

Жыл бұрын

@@NR23derek Now listen to this. The Google Earth foto link u gave me shows the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. In 1955, aged 11 yrs old, I was admitted to that hospital with Rheumatic Fever. The windows of my ward looked out onto that junction. I watched the building on the grassy mound opposite the hospital being built. The images in your vid told me I knew where it was ... but I couldn't remember where. Since I couldn't have seen the outside view of the hospital from my ward, my fascination with the image in your video is peculiar. I realize now that the outside view of the hospital must have got into my brain many years later when I attended Norwich City College. The human capacity of memory is surely amazing to the point of being unbelievable ...

Seeing John brand on the market selling fruit. He used to live down the road from me on fiddlewood. Believe his son Robert is still selling fruit and veg. Me my dad and brother all worked for fyffes

Hahahah the man objecting

Sure I saw Peter sutcliffe strolling through the market

@NR23derek

Жыл бұрын

Gerry Adams crops up in another of my videos. Maybe...

@johnmortimer1308

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

Nobody was fat in 1986.

@abeomar1859

4 жыл бұрын

Britain was going through economic depression and strikes during Tacher Era. Hard times

@connoroleary591

3 жыл бұрын

@@abeomar1859 yes, great times today.

@jameshazell6948

3 жыл бұрын

@@abeomar1859 Are you joking? The country and especially East Anglia was booming in 86.

@lewis72

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, strikes were mostly late '70s. mid-late '80s were very prosperous for many in the UK. That era spawned the Harry Enfield Loadsa Money.

@AdamHiley-pj2zn

3 жыл бұрын

The 80's weren't bad the shops weren't charity shops nailbars tanning salons fast food crap either

Hi Derek, is it possible to date the clip shown 4.13 - 4.24? The shot of the path between St Gregorys Alley and Pottergate? I think I recognise my Grandma in this clip but I would love to be sure!

@NR23derek

3 жыл бұрын

All I have is what I wrote on the tape at the time, "ping 1986" But looking at the trees and the fact the weather is quite good I would say early April

@katiew9857

3 жыл бұрын

@@NR23derek Thanks anyway!

@NR23derek

3 жыл бұрын

@@katiew9857 Well, I would say early April as I think the cherry trees are in the early stage of blossom so around 14th would be a good guess.

Cookes has hardly changed at all!

5.00 Could that possibly be Norwich champion busker Jon Sayer in the white trousers?

The video is great, by the way :)

No I was thinking that too

@NR23derek

Жыл бұрын

What were you thinking John?

How old where you when you filmed this? Looks very similar everywhere to how it looks today other than the cars look a lot older and the Next/McDonald’s area having the fountains etc. Looked a lot better then than that does now there.

@NR23derek

3 жыл бұрын

I was 33 when I took this, way back in my youth! The Next/ McDonalds are is Haymarket.

@mazdarx-8rotary.97

3 жыл бұрын

Oh god yeah. It looks great. Stupid brains all over the place there now.

@mazdarx-8rotary.97

3 жыл бұрын

@@NR23derek is it true that people poured fairy liquid into the water fountain and everything around it used to be covered in foam? Is that why the got rid of it?

@NR23derek

3 жыл бұрын

@@mazdarx-8rotary.97 It#s certainly true that happened on more than one occasion. I don't know if that's why it was got rid of though.

@1969ashley1969

2 жыл бұрын

@@NR23derek I heard it was cost of repairs to the fountain, how true I don't know.

The Norwich Spring is less well known by the general public than the Prague Spring.

@NR23derek

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I know, there's no justice in this world is there...

Reggie sent me here.

Born in 2005 so obviously don’t know what it used to be like but i can still recognize most places here.

Shoes used to be so noisy!!!!

@letsdiscussitoversometea8479

3 жыл бұрын

We used to have some close by neighbours who would walk past our kitchen window we nicknamed "Cheap, noisy shoes". You can probably guess why.

Wish I could go back to this time and have a tooth filled by a dentist !

19 years old back then, not alot has changed apart from the cars and the front of C&A.

@NR23derek

2 жыл бұрын

The buildings haven't changed, but what's in them has. C&A has gone for example and is now Next. The market has been rebuilt. But yeah, it's still Norwich!

@traceyculyer5811

2 жыл бұрын

The blossom trees have gone from the bottom of the castle. Also woolworths , The multistory next door, and The chocolate factory has gone.

@janusz0

Жыл бұрын

@@traceyculyer5811 Ahh! The smell from the chocolate factory! (and the smell from the King Street Brewery). Lost Norwich: you can't smell a hint of Stranger's coffee roasting!

The building with the white cladding at 0:24 was my dentist, Mr. Pin Fat,…no lie. He stank of cigarette smoke but had a lovely manner

@NR23derek

3 жыл бұрын

I used to know his son, Ollie.

@namakudamono

Жыл бұрын

I think my GP [Dr Fairclough) was next door.

Was the fountain where the market is or where the next/mcdonalds square is? Couldn't figure it out

@n.icolew

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it is!

@NR23derek

3 жыл бұрын

It's the Haymarket, where C&A used to be (now Next)

@Polysixchick

2 жыл бұрын

yeah it is, people use to put bubble bath in it, think thats why they got rid of it

No wonder I moved on in 78 to travel Europe and work in the music industry. I was born in London and grew up playing on bomb sites. Everything is relative.

1:30, that adorable little kid might now have little children of her own 😁

@kirstycatchpole7400

2 жыл бұрын

I was cute I was the girl on the bike im 41 now and have a 19 18 16 and a 14 year old I feel old hahaha

I,d say 86 was the year of the mullet not 92 IMO.

@abeomar1859

4 жыл бұрын

it is the year America and Britain air attacked my country Libya , Tacher and Reagan

@letsdiscussitoversometea8479

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, don't think we *all* agreed with that ☹ Mrs. Thatcher was NO friend of mine, believe me!

old mate of mine at 4.40

@NR23derek

3 жыл бұрын

Eric?