Chelmsford segment of an 8mm home movie called "Chelmsford and London in 1963". Intended for my friends around the world who were working for the Marconi Company in Chelmsford at that time, this clip shows how the centre of Chelmsford looked on a typical weekday in 1963. Today the area is more modern and mostly pedestrianized.
Superb! Fabulous picture quality too!
andysmith747 1 day ago
Really enjoyed your video Bob. I was born in the Chelmsford area in the late '40s but left in the 1980s to live in the West Midlands. The film brought back memories of Chelmsford as it was in the year I left school. How well I remember the Regent and Pavilion cinemas, the Eastern National buses, Boots corner and the Shire Hall. When the day shift ended at Hoffman's and Marconi's New Street would be filled with cyclists - mostly dressed in dirty gaberdine macs and cloth caps. Happy days!
ricjonhow 1 week ago
Amazing I've live in Chelmsford my whole live (1990)
& I find amazing how much the town has changed over the years.
SeanCasey90 1 month ago
Simply wonderful. Can't tell you how much It brought back fond memories. I'm a born and bred Chelmsfordian (1950). I was a Saturday boy in Bonds. I notice the church on the town side of the bridge is gone which made way for Caters.
Great stuff.
More, more, more
mesquite371 3 months ago
Thanks for sharing. More please!
I have lived in Chelmsford for the last 40 years and really enjoy watching how it has changed through these priceless films.
pjs8199 3 months ago
Absolute Gold. Many thanks.
snipercheata 4 months ago
This is brilliant brought back so many memories, 1963 was the year I married in Great Baddow More please!
corblimey41 4 months ago
Fabulous, thank-you! I lived there from 1959 to 1971 and went through all three Westlands schools before moving to the Midlands with my parents. I did some schoolboy work for the newsagents in the railway station (WH Smith?) and Howards Daries. Later I worked Saturdays at Caters, but that wasn't built when this film was made.
ratmanbug 5 months ago
I cant belive that i am now so old i was alive when this was filmed i will have to hide it from the kids as they will think i even older than i am as it looks so old.
UKRelic 5 months ago
@theclaret I remember Les well when i used to go in as a underage drinker at 15 or 16 he used to say hi lads what can i get you and twenty years later as an occassional visitor we were still refered to as lads" great shame he is no longer with us and that pub is now a shaddow of its former self i used to love the old juke box.
UKRelic 5 months ago