Looked better before! Ffs I'm SO bloody sick of people ruining my city!!!!!
@dazzerj156
Ай бұрын
These has made me so depressed
@simonuden8450
Жыл бұрын
Don't knock it. It was, along with the Long Ashton By-pass and the Portway, the only decent bits of road that Bristol got in the 20th Century. I lived there for 40-odd years and the traffic has always been horrendous. At least the M32 provided a quick way to get out to the North and East suburbs during the rush hour. The section shown here was also built with relatively little impact on the environment or existing dwellings, which is more than could be said for the Newfoundland Road conversion when it eventually happened. The trouble is, you give traffic from the M4 and M5 easy routes into the city, but the infrastructure when they get there is woefully inadequate, and all they've done in recent years is to slow down the already slow moving traffic in town by crippling a huge area of the city with a 20 mph zone, to protect the idiots looking at their mobile phones rather than actually being aware of their surroundings before stepping off the pavement.
@strawberryfields1149
Жыл бұрын
So many beautiful Elms.
@DrN30N
Жыл бұрын
I went to a rave there in the early noughties.
@lucius4556
Жыл бұрын
I knew people in heyford Avenue and Stapleton rd, (the bit by Eastville park). They were told by the builders it would stay rural and said they used to watch the farmer walking the cows past..then they built more housing and the M32.
@ThePurleflower
2 жыл бұрын
As a child I used to walk to Snuff Mills from Filton and tromped across the duchess fields. While they were building the main roadway we were interested in the badger tunnel they put in but the people eg us, would never be able to walk across again. I remember going home and telling my mum ‘cus it really didn’t seem fair! There was a stone memorial to a woman within site of the mental hospital, she reportedly died from a horsey accident. Thanks for the memories.
@JPlive-v3k
Ай бұрын
Yes. I believe it was 18 year old Lady Elizabeth Somerset who died after her horse bolted in 1760. She was the daughter of Charles Duke of Beaufort and Duchess of Beaufort Elizabeth (nee Berkeley).
@ZeldaFitz
3 жыл бұрын
This road is twice as wide now.
@ZeldaFitz
3 жыл бұрын
You can’t beat a good old motorway to enhance an area
@tedfowler1142
3 жыл бұрын
Wow! Great footage. Mind you the music doesn't quite go with the advance of modern society ideology behind the motorway era!
@JonathanPolkest
3 жыл бұрын
As a relatively fresh faced ex Art Student I came to Bristol, St Werburgs and got a job nearby for Freeman Fox in the Pennywell Road and Mina Road end of M32 Parkway development, This footage is so very haunting even the rather genteel music floats around like the demolition dusty smoke and muddy trenches being cut by the diesel guzzling plant. The River Froome was diverted requiring a lot of concrete shuttering and a culvert was made to carry the river subterrainiously beneath the junctions, it was pretty grim down there , the Pike gasping in the empty river bed, all the amazing spoils that had been left hidden in the river, Victoriana and old bicycles. A very astute, articulate man, quite mature, Welsh, lived in a detached house near the Pennywell Road Junction, he avoided the compulsory purchase of his house on its own "island" by attending every planning meeting and defying the local council, I hope his house still stands but he of course will have moved on, although Ive been back to Bristol since leaving in 85 I haven't knowingly returned to that extraordinary place. Well done to you for finding and posting.
@dufushead
3 жыл бұрын
True testimony. In 200 years it will be the same.
@TheSuperHarrygeorge
4 жыл бұрын
I worked at Stoke Park as a student nurse whilst this work was going on.
@stephielulu9096
4 жыл бұрын
This is amazing to see, but also incredibly sad too
@dolmanf
3 жыл бұрын
Indeed
@kellyfrance1137
5 жыл бұрын
Hello. Great piece of footage. I work for a theatre company and we're currently putting together a short film about Bristol in the 1960s for online circulation, particularly around the bus boycott. If you know of any potential sources it would be worth us checking or people to contact, please do let me know! Thanks Kelly
@judyfarrow5342
6 жыл бұрын
More motorways,more roads, more tarmac....covering our countryside....going..going..gone!
@tomandrews4695
6 жыл бұрын
Yes, you can use the footage.
@chrisnicholls750
6 жыл бұрын
Hi Tom, Would it be possible for us to use this footage at the Bristol Post please?
@IWLTTFYBA
6 жыл бұрын
Moved to Lockleaze in 1968 (Morris Road) aged 9, but never saw this area until I was older and the M32 had been built. Although I remember seeing the 13 arches in Eastville before they were demolished. Thanks for posting this film, it's an excellent record, I assume it is Standard or Super 8mm film?
@colliecandle
6 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for this valuable video. i was a kid , i used to regularly walk around Duchesses pond etc, and the old gun emplacements (where the com tower is ) well before 'progress' ruined it all. i was born and grew up in the area, so this is very nostalgic for me.
@Oakleaf700
8 жыл бұрын
Absolutely heartbreaking. It is an ugly beast of a road, like so many that ruined comminities. Very sad.
@yapproger
8 жыл бұрын
Very interesting film to show how lovely the area was before the M32 was built. What would help would be a re.Edit with a few on screen messages telling us exactly where & what we are looking at. Thanks for letting us see this film.
@Oakleaf700
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for posting this....
@meandmymouth
8 жыл бұрын
Read about the viaduct but first time seeing it taken down. Thanks.
@Guapito1973
9 жыл бұрын
Nice film. My grandparents used to frequent Duchess Lake, seen here, in their courting days. My nan passed away this year but my grandad is still in good health and I'm sure he'd love to see this.
@TheSimonhammond
9 жыл бұрын
Loving this, but sad, progress is harsh! The music is quite poignant.
@TheSimonhammond
9 жыл бұрын
Fantastic footage! Moved to Whitehall in 2008 from Reading, but now starting to learn about the history of where we live. My nan grew up in Marmaduke street, Totterdown, the irony. I've joined that group 'Bristol then and now' brilliant!
Hi tom I used to dig old bottles at the eastville park roundabout. I can not believe you have footage showing part of the victorian tip being removed. In fact the film is excellent, but where did you source it. Thanks for posting it as it has made my day, being a local historian.
@tomandrews8331
10 жыл бұрын
Hi Steven. I obtained it a few years back from the Glenside Hospital Museum. Breathtaking, isn't it? Any pictures you may have of the area, are most welcome my friend.
@dandun30
4 жыл бұрын
any idea where those 2 houses and bridge were situated? its got us all baffled
@SuperChapple
10 жыл бұрын
Fantastic Tom, many thanks for putting these online
@tomandrews8331
10 жыл бұрын
All a bit upsetting really though, isn`t it? Especially when you see the old floodlights at the Rovers ground 1.05 seconds in. The old ground will be weeping with what happened yesterday.
@SuperChapple
10 жыл бұрын
Hey Tom ! it's walt from flickr, Steve Nice job
@tomandrews8331
10 жыл бұрын
No problem, Steve. Thought you would love to see this. If you wish, I`ll post you a DVD as I know your Dad is a resident of Eastville and I guess he would love to see it too. Not sure if you do facebook, but this is good, too. facebook.com/groups/bristolthenandnow/?fref=ts
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