Stevenage new town in 1962

[RocketScientist79]

yes what a complete shitty ghetto the whole place has degenerated into!!!

[annabellalawrence12]

I WAS BORN IN 1965 AND I CAN REMENBER HOW IT WAS IN 1970S AND WE HAD NO LEURSIE PARK SUNDAYS WERE BORING SPENT WITH FAMILY NOTHING WAS OPEN.?

BUT IT WAS NICE A REAL COMMUNITY SPRIT ABOUT THE PLACE I HAD SOME GOT TIMES AT BOWES LION AND THE BOMB PIT. THOSE WHERE THE DAYS

[ArtistPyR0]

But We Love It We Like To Chit Chat Talk bout Rubbish Its Like Were Livin in a dirty old scrummigge Stevvoooooo T

[MyBiddie]

bus driver wouldnt stop for u now pretends he didnt see ya

[hitchinmarkets1]

great stuff

[TechnoTechnoBurger]

If it was Stevenage today that women would have been run over by that bus

and then hoodies would have no doubt looted her corpse

[maccagrabme]

Yes it was so much better back then, clean, excellent public transport, plenty of recreational facilities, plenty of free parking, plenty of work, excellent town centre, happier and less stressed population, lower crime, etc, etc. This is the price we pay for progress. By the way the full video is at ltmcollection. Great days, I miss them.

[acepuma80]

@maccagrabme mass immigration since then, the country has gone to the dogs!!, you do the maths.

[Quasime42]

@maccagrabme i hate to bring facts into it but if you are 43 as your profile says then you wernt actually born. you know as much about Stevenage in 1965 as you do about Middle earth and hobbits!

[maccagrabme]

@Quasime42 Ok, 10 yrs later isn't going to make a great deal of difference now is it? I know what I see and compared to today it looks a darn sight nicer back then, agree?

[lovefelt1]

I love seeing how different it is now compared to back then!

I'm just imagining the shops from today, in their places in the video :)

It looks so much better back then!

[tonyhgv]

all those people in film are at risk,,not a hiviz or steel toecap,gloves etc anywhere..this must be before the uk went MAD!!!!!! no win no fee.....

[okotokspaul]

Great clip - does anyone if there is more to this short film as my mum thinks my Grandad "Sid Hill" may be in the full version. Any help appreciated

[mattyturner2000]

This isn't too helpful,but I've definitely seen a longer version on the internet - probably YouTube but maybe an official transport or films site.

[JackRussell1964]

A lovely film and nice crip accents, which makes a refreashing change to the grunts and gruffs you hear now.

My mum also had one of those baskets

[ps3alex]

Whers mcdonalds ha ha Stevenage looks so nice back in the 60s

[EduarquiRJ]

For researchers of Urban Planning this is a very useful source of information: thank you very much for sharing this film wih us.

[MrFoxyone]

Pure nostalgia !

Thanks so much for uploading this gem.

Wing mirrors aside, it was a tonic to see the town centre looking so great.

[merlinbus]

If you look at 1:54, you can see the bus does indeed have a larger rectangular mirror. I think it must have been fitted specially for filming purposes. I drove RT`s for many years, and never saw any with anything other than the round nearside ones.

[gojuve123]

I live in the USA but grew up in Stevenage during the 1960's. This brought back so many memories. Thank you

[beatyfulbabe818]

its great here, but i live far away from it :'')

[intosly]

oh what went wrong this town, sigh

[heptarchia]

it seems that women back then looked so much more attractive than today.

and this almost makes me wanna cry

Stevenage looks so nice :)

[ElectricTraction]

A little curiosity on this video. When the driver looks back at the woman joing the bus he does so looking in a rectangular mirror but RT types like other double deck vehicles of the time had round mirrors on the near side and rectangular ones only on the offside. RF single deck vehicles had rectangular mirrors on both sides. Was this shot set up later or was this an odd RT with that type of mirror on the nearside?

[reynardbizzar]

You devil you.Great stuff though.