I've been in Yeovil for my entire life and this brings back so many memories.

This means so much to me,I moved away in 1963 and some how my heart is still in Yeovil.My Gramps used to be manager of Yeovil Baths.

Oh my goodness, this brings back so many memories! Thank you!!!

great film brought back many happy memories of the old Yeovil I knew as a kid in the 60s

@chaddamp2894

3 жыл бұрын

Me too,did you go swimming at the baths? my grandad used to be manager from war years to 1966.Did you go to Westfield school?

What have the council done the this town I am 70 now I live in Yeovil all my life after seeing this brilliant video of Yeovil the town is a mess if I could go back in time and say there I would so sad 😢

Yeovil before they ruined it. - what a pleasant place it was.

What fantastic footage. I was born in Yeovil in the 40s.This brought back so many memories: the "Yeovil Junk" train between Town station & Yeovil Junction; Ninesprings, when the Three Bears Cottage was still there & lived in; the Odeon ( from the roof of which I think many of the panoramic views were taken. Yeovil was a lovely,elegant town. It is such a shame the Council bulldozed away so much of its historic past in the cause of traffic flow & parking. Particulalry scandalous was the way the 15th Century "George Inn" was pulled down because it was siad to be dangerous for pedestrians to walk in front of it (there had been one fatality over the many years), then in less than the space of a year they pedestrianised Middle Street!. They also pulled down lovely Georgian Cottages in Peter Street to provide a car park, not to mention Summerhouse Terrace, Talbot Street and other buildings to make another one at the foot of the town. I came upon this lovely video by way of a clip showing skaters being mugged by 8 year olds.What a contrast! Didn't recognise the place, so much has gone.

@chaddamp2894

10 ай бұрын

hi..did you swim in yeovil baths? my pop was the manager ...

Really amazing to see Yeovil as it was when I was a lot younger. I can remember Bides Gardens as if it was yesterday, then they built a road through it. Also I can remember the George Hotel in Middle Street, demolished to make way for a supermarket at the time called Elmo. Would not have been allowed to happen today. The video is wonderful trip back in time, Trouble is it makes me fill old now

Loved the film so many memories especially the Albion which I used as my local. Looked hard at the shoots of the Convent girls walking past the Black Horse as I went there . What a lovely place Yeovil use to be,glad I left before it was completely ruined but it`s still my hometown Poor old Bides Gardens picking up the Horse Chestnuts in the Autumn on my way to St Gildas and the Odeon Saturday mornings those were the days!

Wonderful to see, so many memories of my home town. It really was a beautiful town years ago. Not lived there for years now but still refer to it as home.

@SG3xHERO

8 жыл бұрын

good it was but um now well looks nothink like this all new houses in the forests and food on the floor and drug dealers if want somewhere to live in the nice side of town

@hetbet3879

7 ай бұрын

I am glad you no longer live here. This place has fallen into ruin.

You can tell it's Yeovil because of all the roadworks.

Thank you for reminding me of Yeovil when I was growing up.Excellent upload.

What an amazing Video ! Was like stepping back in to the past :) So cool seeing what Yeovil once was.

Thanks for posting. Not from Yeovil but lived in Yeovil for a few years from about the time the Quedam was finished. From the film, the old Yeovil looked a very nice leafy town. Will come back and visit one day.

Brilliant video. Remember the Hospital being built and Queensway. Wish the town kept Bides gardens. Lovely to see the buildings in lower Middle St, including the Coronation Hotel and the building down Vicarage St, including the Albion where my mate Jamie lived, his parents use to run the pub in the early 1980's.

The Luftwaffe were nothing compared to the town council. I was born in '78 so only got to know Yeovil after the planners had wrecked it - what a shame.

This has so many good memories of when I was a boy. I can remember everything as if it was yesterday. I wish to god Yeovil was still like this, then I might be tempted to go back, even though I live 300 miles away. As it stands, never returning. Thank you for the beautiful film.

Wonderful to see my home town before it was ruined. My late father was gardener at the old Hospital when I was born, which was 1953. I was actually born in Balidon on West Coker road. the shot at 33.40 I believe is at the rear of Ninesprings. By an incredible coincidence yesterday (9-10-2015) I was looking at old photos from my mother who has just died, and there we are at that very spot. Thanks for sharing this memory-stirring video.

@chaddamp2894

10 ай бұрын

hello ..i was born 1956,did you swim in the yeovil baths? my pop was manager from war years til new baths was built

This is great, thanks for sharing.

The music fits - very rate footage!

Hello Nick,would you consider a private chat so I can let you know my memories please? I'm 66 now and live North Derbyshire but still my mind reverts to Yeovil in the 1960's and my family of those days

It all went downhill for Yeovil after they widened Recklesford to form a town center by-pass. To do this they destroyed the attractive Bides Garden, and demolished the fore-court of FW. Saunders then Rootes Group Dealers destroying the business of a good local employer firm of whom I was one. Return to Yeovil? Never, never, never.

@keithdukes5990

Жыл бұрын

If ever a town was destroyed by reckless planning & corporate vandalism it's Yeovil! it's Tragic the way it is now!!!

Nick, the cine film on which this is based was made by Mr. Brown , the manager of the cinema in Yeovil. He appears on the film, as does his wife. Although I guess that he is now deceased you should make reference to this in your introductory notes.

@nickyoung7892

4 жыл бұрын

John This film was taken by my father not anyone else.

@johnmwarr

4 жыл бұрын

That's news Nick as I have known of the film for a number of years and assumed that Mr. Brown was the original cine-photographer. Is the gentleman in the film your Dad? Maybe the significant part that the cinema roof plays in the film lead me, and others, to the wrong conclusion. Either way it is a splendid record of times past which will never return.

@nickyoung7892

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnmwarr The old man blagged his way onto the roof so he could get the cine. I remember him saying.

@johnmwarr

4 жыл бұрын

Well there we go! I have recently done exactly the same with the intention of doing an updated version of the film. Did you digitise the film or did your Dad also live in the digital age and was therefore able to get the cine transferred? Either way, the record is irreplaceable. ~ Thank you.

Hi Nick. I am helping my partner with a university project about Yeovil. Please could we use your footage to enhance it. Happy to chat about it further if you wish. Thank you. Phil

@nickyoung7892

2 жыл бұрын

Yes no problem Phillip.

Hello Nick,the car at 11.55 is PYC 467...it used to be my Dads...have you any info as to that part of the post..please can you let me know? Kindest regards Paul

@nickyoung7892

Жыл бұрын

That part of the film was filmed around Goldcroft / Crofton Park as my dad was living in that area at the time

@chaddamp2894

Жыл бұрын

@@nickyoung7892 Nick...that fits because we lived at 60 The Avenue,just around the corner !!

@PSMITHDA2RD

Жыл бұрын

Would it be okay if I take a picture of that house you're talking about? I just arrived here in Yeovil and I'm from the Philippines

Would it be possible to use the bit on tobogganing on Wyndham Hill for a digital exhibition?

@nickyoung7892

8 жыл бұрын

Yes not aproblem.

Hi nick, I run a small clothing line called Yeovil convention, I was wondering if I could use some of your footage as advertisement for the company ? Thanks,

@nickyoung7892

5 жыл бұрын

Yes no problemo Kames

@nickyoung7892

5 жыл бұрын

..james

Very odd seeing the site of the hospital without the building itself. Reminds you of what an ugly building it actually is (Personal view)

How splendid Yeovil looked. Proud residents and happy. What a tragic change since then thanks to thoughtless planners and changing values driven by the socialist politics of envy.

@lustforrust9765

4 ай бұрын

"Socialist politics of envy"? more like Corporate Greed.

What's the point of Yeovil? Answer me that!

@johnd6487

Ай бұрын

It exists to keep the people from Martock from going shopping in Sherbourne and lowering the tone

I wasn't around then, but good to see what it was back then compared to now.