Swan Corner

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6 жыл бұрын

This was the first "club" film made by the then Spring Park Cine Society based in West Wickham in Kent. The film is a documentary without commentary of a day in the life of the West Wickham High Street where the Swan public house stands (then and now). The film was shot between 1968 and the early 1970s by individual club members.

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@dannymurphy4199 2 ай бұрын

Empty roads , clean streets , no tons on the street . The GREAT BRITAIN that once was

@AnneEDobbs-ow6kf 4 ай бұрын

Clarks Coaches to Bullerswood/ Bromley Tech Girls. Looks like the year our summer uniforms changed and we ditched the boaters.Great film, so many memories. I was a pupil from 69 to 74. Doesn’t feel all those years ago, pension this June though.

@franksmith6637 Жыл бұрын

Would have been about 11 years old there remember Tesco opening it was a country at ease with itself made me feel sad

@roomullan3050 2 жыл бұрын

When I met my husband in 1981, our shopping at that sainsbury was 15 quid a week

@richardcummins5465 7 ай бұрын

Lovely piece of nostalgia, th so much!

@robertlatham8361 Жыл бұрын

Great to watch this so many memories Lived in Grovsvenor rd down by the Wheatsheath pub !!

@MrZodiac666 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful Film Great Music 🎶

@TomClarkSouthLondon 3 күн бұрын

Where has my England gone!?😢

@stevemason5348 Ай бұрын

Lovely old film, thank you for sharing

@christopherparker6232 2 жыл бұрын

Scary to think that this was around the time that I was born! My parents formally moved to WW in 1967, so I have been sitting in a forlorn hope that they might just appear! The junction by 'The Swan' hasn't really changed that much. The front door on the library stayed the same throughout my childhood and beyond. Many happy memories of childhood rekindled....

@mickeyshooter5298 6 ай бұрын

How remarkable would it be to see one’s relative, going about their business in a random old film such as this. Or even oneself

@christopherparker6232 5 ай бұрын

@@mickeyshooter5298 Indeed!

@Sighman 4 жыл бұрын

I lived in West Wickham from birth until 1975, (in The Drive), so this was a great bit of nostalgia. Anyone else go to Hawes Down?

@paulbiggs5523 3 жыл бұрын

I did Simon, from birth until 1979 - Hawes down had just become Spring Park Upper under the introduction of the comprehensive system. I lived in Sherwood Way

@Sighman 3 жыл бұрын

@@paulbiggs5523 I was at Hawes Down until 1975/6 or so, at which point my family emigrated to Spain. I would have been 7 or 8 then. My last teacher there was Mr Bender, I think his name was, in one of the outside demountables between the playground and the railway cutting. I remember a few of the names from that class - Nicholas & William who used to draw a lot of spitfires, Daryl, Stuart Burroughs (left the year earlier I think), Nicola, Gary, maybe an Elizabeth as well. And I'm still in contact with Neil Palmer on FB from time to time.

@roomullan3050 2 жыл бұрын

My husband lived in Coney Hall and went to hawks down. He left in 1975/6. We lived there until 1998

@roomullan3050 2 жыл бұрын

Hawes

@Sighman 2 жыл бұрын

@KXNGSLEY Wow I bet it's changed in the almost 50 years since I was there!

@chrisaris8756 7 ай бұрын

Just found this! What a treasure. My brother in law is a member of the Killick Family who had the estate agents on the corner opposite the Swan. Most of my youth was spent in and around West Wickham and walking miles through Spring Park Wiods and the surrounding commons. Before Stanton’s furniture shop (diametrically opposite the Swan) opened, it was John Surtees motorcycles. I used to spend hours staring dreaming at the beautiful bikes through their window as a small child. I remember my mother being ecstatic at Sainsbury’s opening in (I think 1963). What a time travel experience

@countfosco8535 2 ай бұрын

I love the Corgi Toys.

@marshlightening 3 жыл бұрын

My dad ended his career as an Executive Engineer in that "post office" (really an electronic telephone BT building at the end), He used to get the 138 bus up from Coney Hall to work there. (Something that has always baffled me as he had a car).

@SonicConstruction 2 жыл бұрын

Wow wonderful to see the nostalgia thanks for making and sharing. I remember when those beautiful old lamp posts were replaced with the modern metal poles. Such a shame 😭

@brucedanton3669 Жыл бұрын

I remember too when those lamp posts were replaced, presumably by Bromley Council at the time. I am not sure when it was, but I am guessing it was in the mid 1980s, although I could be wrong on that, and indeed it was such a shame too. Thank you for that anyway-well done too!!

@ionkor7663 4 жыл бұрын

Saw my Grandfather at 8.16

@madamefontaine 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting x

@peterstudley1804 Ай бұрын

At the 5.51 mark we see a dark aubergine colour mini clubman sporting a full lenght webasto sun roof ,SUU 950N so this section dates this portion of the film between August 1st 1974 to july 75 , but I'd go with 1974.

@michaelkenny8540 8 ай бұрын

All the buses (the sunny day film?) have 1968 adverts on them and the bus at 7:36 has a poster for 'My Giddy Aunt' (RH side) that ran at The Strand June 20-Sept 21st 1968. With the newspaper headline about the Czech Crisis at 19:04 (Aug 1968) we can say for certain the bulk of this film is from Summer 1968.

@robharding4028 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful old archive cine film, It warms the cockles of my heart !

@mickeyshooter5298 6 ай бұрын

1968 was the year Jim Morrison and the Doors toured England. To think that my favorite band was at the height of their popularity during this filming is quite interesting to me. Was hoping to see an advert of their shows. Or…something!

@garypoulton7311 2 жыл бұрын

Some of the clips show mk3 Cortinas, launched 1970, and a Marina, launched 1971. I remember the Esso station, Ithink it went about 1971, or 72. Things were simpler, tidier back then. Suspect thats myFather i. his Humber estate at about 5.50.

@michaelkenny8540 8 ай бұрын

The Cortina has a 'K' plate 5:31

@2000mk1 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant film !! It hasn't really changed that much. I remember the Evening Standard kiosk outside the Post Office, it was still there until relatively recently.

@keithrose6931 3 жыл бұрын

Women in skirts and dresses my memories of being a kid .

@peterward3965 Жыл бұрын

Love the motors, all now classed as classic cars and at 14:02 a very rare Singer Hunter saloon, which would sport a horses bonnet mascot. Youngest age for it at that time would be 16 yrs old. As built from 1954 to 1956 , sorry about my useless information unless you are a classic car enthusiast. Cheers all.

@highpath4776 Жыл бұрын

Renault 14 ? with the rear engine ( the bigger Renault 14_

@peterward3965 Жыл бұрын

@@highpath4776 Sorry you lost me if you were replying to my posting cheers 🥂

@highpath4776 Жыл бұрын

@@peterward3965 u were the only one talking about classic cars so I added a note to your comment. Wondered if you had any idea what it was. Friends had Singers but I cannot remember the bonnet mascot on them

@peterward3965 Жыл бұрын

@@highpath4776 Hello, I love all classics, including the Renault 14 . The Singer Hunter Saloon was the last Singer produced by the original Singer Motor Company, before Rootes took them over in 1956 and produced the Singer Gazelle. Because the Singer Hunter had a horses head mascot, hence the name Hunter, referring to a horse. I owned three of them. Google it to view a pic. Cheers 🥂

@peterward3965 Жыл бұрын

@@highpath4776 Hi again, go on you tube and look up old classic car ....videos. if you enjoy classic cars, and it's free to subscribe so you'll always get the latest videos. Cheers 🥂

@Jim-kt6is 3 жыл бұрын

Watched it on my TV, so didn't see the dates in the description. Trying to work out the date, guessed 1970. But saw the newspaper headline about the Czech crisis, so confirms 1968 as per the description. Strange to think West Wickham was ticking along calmly whilst in a "far away country" things were very different. I've shopped at that Sainsbury's in Station Road since 1973. I don't remember the Esso, though. Was it a petrol station with access down the side of Sainsbury's and occupying what is now the car park to the rear? Great material!

@marcbannister9872 2 жыл бұрын

The site of the current Sainsbury’s in Station Road was previously a school. When it got demolished, Sainsbury’s opened on the right side of the site in 1964, and the Esso petrol station opened on the left side of the site. Sainsbury’s subsequently extended its store over the Esso site, trebling its size in the process. I’m surprised the Sainsbury’s in Station Road has not closed down, given that they took over the much larger former Safeway store on the High Street in 2006, which is only a few minutes walk away.

@cliveevans9795 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful

@willbuckley54 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting as I lived in Stambourne Way at the time. Pity it's so blurred though.

@constancelee5675 Жыл бұрын

Happy memories

@user-xb4le4og8e Ай бұрын

Yesteryear where did it go

@robharding4028 3 жыл бұрын

How this Country has changed, from a majority English speaking people, to a world of different languages, Now that is a wonderful compliment to this Country's open door policy, to everyone who wants to come here, and you are welcome, But if only they were all appreciative of our freedoms and opportunities.Some have only come here to see what they can get for free, not to mention the criminals , who may be a minority, But they are a tax on our Country, We have even lost some of our dear children to foreign murderers, who I must stress, are very much the minority, But those poor families who lost their precious children to predators from another country, and who had murder convictions in their own country, Its clear, Our Politicians have failed these families, by not checking those fugitives from abroad, more thoroughly before letting them in to carry out their evil deeds.Looking at the quaint film of old London, Its hard to imagine such horrors.But those poor victims and their families know only too well.

@gregtaylor6146 2 жыл бұрын

It's been happening for the last 40 years my friend, unfortunately, come election time, people STILL blindly voted for the same old crappy political parties ....... when they should have voted for a new radical truly BRITISH government .

@robharding4028 2 жыл бұрын

@@gregtaylor6146 Of course, you are right Greg, I have never voted for the Tory, or labour parties, I have always voted for the parties who stood up for us , but were ignored by the masses, and look were it has got us, They may have been nationalists , so what , they wanted our Country to stay like this beautiful old film portrays,

@johnathandaviddunster38 5 ай бұрын

😅😅😅😅😅😅

@johnathandaviddunster38 5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@MrMicky2111 3 ай бұрын

Wonderfully myopic. We have a multicultural society now whether we wanted it or not due to our colonial past. That's where we went to foreign countries, whether they wanted us or not and made them and their resources part of the British Empire. Now you may think that we gave them more than we took, that suits your narrative but actually we didn't. The HEIC for example, destroyed India's established system of feudal style government and replaced it with a rapacious British centric for profit regime. Come 1947 when the empire is a pastiche of it's former self we give them 'Independance' and wash our hands. However like the Chinese in HK we issue UK and Commonwealth passports to them. Then we are surprised that we now have the imagined inconveniences of having 'them' over here spoiling our Britishness. Now if you want to say 'Well I don't mean them (which you do) it's all the East Europeans then look at your facts and we are about 13th in europe in taking in refugees per 100,000 of the population. Anyway please don't conflate your jingoism with patriotism. My family has served 60 years in the frontline Forces across 3 generations. Very very proud and privileged to be British. :18 😊.

@plentyofnothing 13 күн бұрын

Everyone is slim! The cars are British made. The streets look clean and safe. Wonderful! Why did we allow politicians to destroy this?

@jilleljadi5496 2 жыл бұрын

1968.. it was shown once more on this evening’s London Live channel .

@michaelkenny8540 8 ай бұрын

Cortina at 5:312 has a 'K' plate which means that bit is Aug 1971 +

@cloudusterable 3 жыл бұрын

The obesity epidemic hadn't started then, all those schoolgirls getting the bus their probably about to get their state pension now.....wonderful footage !

@cliveevans9795 2 жыл бұрын

Why did they have blinds half way across the windows

@cloudusterable 3 жыл бұрын

Shame we didn't have a shot of the cinema,

@leach1527 Жыл бұрын

No longer there when this film was made

@highpath4776 Жыл бұрын

could not quite get the coach - Clarkes (of Anerley ?) Bedford VAL "C" reg but not see all clearly

@michaelgilbert3213 Жыл бұрын

It was Clarks of Penge, it became Clarks of London later.

@constancelee5675 Жыл бұрын

Interested local history of West wickem

@constancelee5675 Жыл бұрын

Remember it well

@ViN-kr3ri 3 жыл бұрын

Very enjoyable and hasn't changed as much as Bromley, where racial composition has also changed out of all recognition compared with the 1960s (if English is your first language you're very much in the minority).

@keithrose6931 3 жыл бұрын

I don't believe the numbers they say are in this country. They seem to be everywhere !

@ViN-kr3ri 3 жыл бұрын

@@keithrose6931 I think that's correct. Bromley is like a cross between downtown Bucharest and Tehran. And that's without the thousands of illegals being housed in luxury hotels which the government refuses to admit.

@bakingnut1 2 жыл бұрын

Complete and utter racist rubbish.

@proudman6598 7 ай бұрын

Blair

@cliveevans9795 2 жыл бұрын

Look at the dust men . long before recycling was thought of .. they took everything

@soulmanstoney 2 жыл бұрын

HOW IS THERE A MARK 3 CORTINA IN THE FILM ???

@peterstudley1804 Ай бұрын

The film comprises of compersites from August 1968 and what I've deduced to be 1973.

@michaelkenny8540 8 ай бұрын

The Cortina at 5:31 has a 'K' plate = Aug 1971+

@mickeyshooter5298 6 ай бұрын

Newspaper and bus adverts dated 1968

@michaelkenny8540 6 ай бұрын

@@mickeyshooter5298 I know , I dated them in my second reply on that date. Its not all 1968 though.

@brianbanks703 Ай бұрын

Just before these days Kent, like Surrey, were not in London, then of course English politicians started manipulating the electoral boundaries (without complain?) due to expansion, mostly by immigration, hence London buses etc