I live in Swarland just south of Alnwick and often drive to Edinburgh.
I would love to compare the route now but the speed of the video !!! It could be anywhere, Any chance you could do it in 'real time' so we could enjoy it even more.
What a fantastic piece of film. Im a truck driver using the A1 every other day and i wish it was as quiet now as it was back then. Would have to agree with billybop65 about watching this in real time.
The A1 northbound at Alnwick goes to single carriageway, it's actually quicker 2 go along the 'old' A1 than it is to take the new 1! The government is making the A1 into a motorway in Yorkshire; work will finish in 7 years time or thereabouts. I heard on the news that it will save 13 lives in the next 60 years!! There are signs right the way up the A1 from Morpeth to Berwick telling you about the many many casulaties in the last 3 years and urging you not to speed! Absolute madness!!
The road hasn't changed much - certainly not on the English side of the border where it's still predominantly single carriageway. I do this run regularly. If only I could do it at this speed.
They weren't really going that fast! My father was driving an Austin atlantic - identical to the red one they get behind towards the end. they had an 8mm cine camera somehoe mounted to the car, and my mum too one frame every couple of seconds. And half way the fil broke as you may notice!
Fascinating to see those tantalising glimpses of the roads near Alnwick as they were just a few years before I was born! Shame about the compression...
It does - a lot of the bends have been straightened and the towns have been bypassed but it's almost all single carriageway up to Haddington, south of Edinburgh, but I recognise a lot of that even now.
i regularly do the trip, nowadays it takes around 2 hours. 1 and a half if you really tool it. Unfortunately, it's littered with speed camera's nowadays though.
The cinefilm was recorded by capturing a frame every few seconds - this is why it's in such high speed.
metadeorg 10 months ago
Grrrrrr !!
I live in Swarland just south of Alnwick and often drive to Edinburgh.
I would love to compare the route now but the speed of the video !!! It could be anywhere, Any chance you could do it in 'real time' so we could enjoy it even more.
Thanks, from cross eyed.
wanlockhead 11 months ago
How much would did this cost in film?
mnic1234 1 year ago
There's far too much to take in at this speed. PLEASE put this on at normal speed.
Thanks.
oscarmacca 1 year ago
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Sammut81 3 years ago
yeah great vid but any chance you could post it in real time , its way to interesting to just blur through it like that . please ! ? :>)
wrightylaaad 3 years ago
What a fantastic piece of film. Im a truck driver using the A1 every other day and i wish it was as quiet now as it was back then. Would have to agree with billybop65 about watching this in real time.
fleetlinefelly 3 years ago
i saw ma granny :D
heartsineurope 3 years ago
This is pure gold.
I would really like to see the real time version though.
billybop65 3 years ago
The A1 northbound at Alnwick goes to single carriageway, it's actually quicker 2 go along the 'old' A1 than it is to take the new 1! The government is making the A1 into a motorway in Yorkshire; work will finish in 7 years time or thereabouts. I heard on the news that it will save 13 lives in the next 60 years!! There are signs right the way up the A1 from Morpeth to Berwick telling you about the many many casulaties in the last 3 years and urging you not to speed! Absolute madness!!
theyoungstar 3 years ago
The road hasn't changed much - certainly not on the English side of the border where it's still predominantly single carriageway. I do this run regularly. If only I could do it at this speed.
pratt68 4 years ago
What was he driving? A McClaren F1!
cliffgateshead 4 years ago
They weren't really going that fast! My father was driving an Austin atlantic - identical to the red one they get behind towards the end. they had an 8mm cine camera somehoe mounted to the car, and my mum too one frame every couple of seconds. And half way the fil broke as you may notice!
MalcmSinclair 4 years ago
Or Tron with curves.
dellarwoowoo 4 years ago
Crikey you put your foot down, didn't you?? It's like watching Speedhawk.
dellarwoowoo 4 years ago
Fascinating to see those tantalising glimpses of the roads near Alnwick as they were just a few years before I was born! Shame about the compression...
DSisterson 4 years ago
What a wonderful video!
For what it's worth, most of the A1, give or take a few bypasses, is still virtually the same.
Bryn2k 4 years ago
It does - a lot of the bends have been straightened and the towns have been bypassed but it's almost all single carriageway up to Haddington, south of Edinburgh, but I recognise a lot of that even now.
reverendbuck 4 years ago
Wow! I wonder what the footage (and how long it takes!) would look like now?
jcb74 4 years ago
i regularly do the trip, nowadays it takes around 2 hours. 1 and a half if you really tool it. Unfortunately, it's littered with speed camera's nowadays though.
jamemarsh 4 years ago