Auckland harbour bridge opening 1959

Auckland gets it's harbour bridge to unite the North Shore with the rest of the city.

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[piersdad]

thanks for the post i had an old Morris Cowley 1924 and when they asked for some of the oldest cars in Auckland that were mobile i was one of the 3 or 4 oldest there and it was just my every day bomb, so in the video i think i was about 4 cars behind the vintage car there shown before they switched to the horse and cart.

thanks for the nostalgia

[Puffstababe]

@dabin88 and @Mollarooza Get over it they are just ACCENTS. No need to cry over it.

[dabin88]

The accent sounds like a Southern English accent to me.

[Mollarooza]

and you are 100% wrong when you say there is no such thing as a britsih accent because there is

It would be like saying there is no such thing as a cake,

There maybe chocolate cake, cheese cake, marble cake,

At the end of the day its still a cake, get the point???

[Mollarooza]

@dauntless111

I am sorry but if you put 2 people standing next to each other, 1 is from adelaide, 1 from sydney, I could tell straight away where which one is from

[dauntless111]

@Mollarooza

I know because I have lived in Australia. Most Australians sound like they have an 'Australian' accent. Also I have asked heaps of people in Aus if they can detect different accents from around Aus, most say 'no'. I would agree that there will be a diff, but not very big.

When somone meets and Aussie overseas, they do not ask, 'oh, is your accent from Adelaide or Sydney?' they ask, 'Are you Australian?'. No-one asks me if I have abritish accent, because there is no such thing.

[Mollarooza]

Even my cousins who live in Newcastle sound heaps different to me

[Mollarooza]

someone in adelaide puts an R into the way they talk so chance is charnce, dance is darnce, france is frarhnce etc, we dont talk like that here.

I cant tell the difference in britian (maybe scotland but thats it) cause I am not from there so it all sort of sounds the same to be, I am sure it is the same for you the other way around

[Mollarooza]

Umm how would you know?

even in Sydney, you can go to different places with different accents in 1 city,

Compare someone from Penrith to Mossman to Punchbowl.

[dauntless111]

@Mollarooza I respect what you are saying, however the difference in accents between someone from Adelaide and NQ is marginal. Surely you agree that anyone from Britian (UK) have vast differences in accents, way more than Aus. Also, the US has quite different accents from say, Texas and New York, but they still have that American 'Twang'

I dont think Australia has even reached that level of Regional variability, at least not yet.

'British' however, has centuries of regional accents.