A car journey in 1963's great western country

Btline

Hero Member

Posts: 4782

A car journey in 1963's great western country

« on: December 19, 2011, 22:58:41 »

Found this footage of a road trip from London to Bath via Reading, Theale, Newbury etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE82FZpq0qM&feature=related

Best bit is a 1 minute in!!! Grin


	Logged

devon_metro

Hero Member

Posts: 5175

Re: A car journey in 1963's great western country

« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2011, 23:53:12 »

Quote from: Btline on December 19, 2011, 22:58:41

Found this footage of a road trip from London to Bath via Reading, Theale, Newbury etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE82FZpq0qM&feature=related

Best bit is a 1 minute in!!! Grin

Outside lane BMW/Audi drivers existed in the 60s then Grin


	Logged

inspector_blakey

Hero Member

Posts: 3574

Re: A car journey in 1963's great western country

« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2011, 15:16:56 »

As did pompous old farts who thought they were the only people capable of driving, going by the narration... Wink


	Logged

Chafford1

Full Member

Posts: 86

Re: A car journey in 1963's great western country

« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2011, 19:29:45 »

For me, the interesting aspect of this video is not the commentary but the going back in time aspect - 48 years ago: different cars, road signs, fewer motorways, three lane 'suicide' main roads, unspoilt provincial towns, quaint shop fronts without garish signs - another world altogether!

Going back even further this video from 1939 is also interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm_Q7X_-2Ck


	Logged

Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

Pages: [1]

« previous next »