A drive around Beverley, East Yorkshire, Circa 1967...

[Vin]

 

 

 

I know there is a 'Youtube' thread, but we had a period on AS of drives round various towns 8)

 

This is a drive round the town of my birth circa 1967 (I was a Beverley Westwood Hospital baby)...

 

It says 1964, but the first Anglia estate on the left has an E suffix reg. There is also a Volvo 144, Fiat 124 & MK4 Zodiac to be seen...

 

I love the fact there are a multitude of Morris Minors and ADO16s, but a perverse (devil on my shoulder...) part of me spotted Renault 8/10, Fiat 500 & 124, Volvo 144 & Amazon, VW Beetle & Variant Fastback and Ford Taunus outside 'Redhead Taxis'...

 

AT, RH & KH, Hull Registrations aplenty, bar the PB Cresta estate from Essex (WC)...

 

Cars, 2, 3 and 4, are all rear engined...

 

Also, none of the cyclists appear to be wearing lycra.............

[mercrocker]

Just great....Thanks for the post, Love stuff like this!

That Vauxhall estate is actually an FB Victor ( a PB estate would have been a rare spot anywhere...)

Think I also saw a Kent reg earlier, too...

Like you say, that Fiat 124 would have been quite a rarity then, and indeed does look a bit out of place.

There was such a variety back then,though. 

Great footage....

[Vin]

Of course you are right on the FB Victor MC...I feel fool

 

Review, made me highlight adoration of donkey jacket clad workmen traveling in the back of J.R East's 1965 Ford D-Series tipper... 8)

[Tetleysmooth]

It's an England we'll never see again. Shame.

 

Was that artic coming out of the docks a Mandator?

I used to drive one of those back in the day.

[Andrew353w]

Automotive heaven! Thanks for posting this! I've watched it twice this morning and love it! The cars are great (I also clocked the Fiat 124, thinking "that Lada looks out of place.....") and the whole ambiance of the shops, the fashions and general "old school" feel of it is great!

[Mr A Lawrence]

My sister is named after the town as my dad used to go there in the late 50's and early 60's taking sheep and cattle to the cattle market.

 

Nice film

[carlo]

Love the respectful copper helping out with what looks like a recently crunched Austin.

[sloth]

ahhh bev. born and raised in hull so lots of that  is familiar. ill have any of the 1800s or the double decker in market place.

[Zantimisfit]

Apart from the from cars the other thing I notice in these old videos is how tidy the towns look. I dont mean litter but, what I think is termed, "street furniture".

 

I dont know Beverley at all, but I bet it is now, like everywhere else, full of so many signs you can hardly see the buildings - No Parking, Parking, Disabled Parking, Look Left, No Right turn, Roadworks, Traffic Lights, Bike Lane, Bus Lane, Low Bridge, High Bridge, No Bridge, No Spitting, Have you locked your Front Door, Cut your toenails...... Bollards and ramps and "calming measures" everywhere..

 

Just p***ing leave us alone. There's so much crap by the road - its ugly, valueless and symptomatic of a deep sickness in our society!!!. So there.....

[Lord Sterling]

That was brilliant. Seriously. As was previously said, it's an England we'll never see again. It's also a time where I'm guessing common sense prevailed over silly rules made by people who know nothing about the real world.

[Eddie Honda]

Amazing the difference between that re-mastered version and the old transfer of the same footage.

[danthecapriman]

Brilliant.

Would someone please invent a time machine!!

[chaseracer]

How did we manage before excessive road markings?  Consideration?  Common sense?  I sound like my dad...

[chaseracer]

Have a similar one from Worksop in 1981, filmed from what looks like an early Range Rover, with "Notts lad" commentary!

 

[AlabamaShrimp]

Know the place quite well and as someone said above the place looks clean* none of the pedestrianisation near the market and the much better "Park where you like" type thing.

 

This road looks nearly the same as now

 

[Zantimisfit]

Thanks for that...

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

went through a couple of those places few weeks ago.

[Cheggers]

My sister is named after the town as my dad used to go there in the late 50's and early 60's taking sheep and cattle to the cattle market.

 

Nice film

It's as well he didn't deliver his sheep & cattle to Peniston

 

Great film, it's hard to believe that it was shot in my lifetime (just)...the UK has definitely become too crowded

[Sudsprint]

Love the metallic red Mk10 parked up in the shopping street.

[pompei]

Brilliant piece of film, thanks for posting  

 

I am quite surprised that the town seems relatively unchanged except for the one way and pedestrian streets.

[Aston Martin]

Being able to drive down Toll Gavel and driving in the wrong way for the market was cool. The Burtons only went last year.

 

Heres where some of the video takes place 

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.8422302,-0.4315636,3a,75y,122.3h,88.52t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8ms5KdtG54nQ6MFwIFGMUg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

[Pillock]

Just been following the path of the Worksop one in Google Streetview - a large chunk of the first part is impossible as they've pedestrianised it, but I managed to work out where the market square was and work forwards and backwards from there.

 

Kennings the BL Dealer (2:59) has half been replaced by a Halfords (the petrol station side), the showroom still stands but appears modified and empty. However as a rule that street remains largely unchanged until after the level crossing, where the town centre is completely different and I had to look for things like banks to find where they were.

[bigstraight6]

Brilliant stuff, in the Worksop one I spotted an ex BT Vauxhall HA van a few times, was it Trevor And Jill trying to solve another mystery?.....

[chaseracer]

...was it Trevor And Jill trying to solve another mystery?

 

No - they were too busy patrolling the moonstruck outer limits of Leeds!

 

 

[martc]

 

AT, RH & KH, Hull Registrations aplenty, bar the PB Cresta estate from Essex (WC)...

 

 

Don't forget WF and BT - these are specifically for the East Riding and IIRC were actually issued from an office in Beverley.

 

I was 3 and lived 5 miles away in Cottingham - it's hard to imagine that I was alive at the time that was filmed. Although those familiar with Beverley today would be able to recognise almost everything in that film.

[DSdriver]

Did anyone else clock the sign for Redhead taxis - you'd be most disappointed if you booked a cab and the driver was blonde.

 

Thanks for posting, I had matchbox or Dinky/Corgi cars of nearly everything in the film when I was a lad.

[sheffcortinacentre]

just finished reading the biderbecke trilogy as hilarious as the programme.

[vulgalour]

Highlights:

 

 

 

 

 

Tricky to figure out just what happened to the British Gas van, looked like it hurled a wheel off or something.  I know that road quite well, it has changed at all really since that video was taken with the exception of the type of cars on it.  Seems that Worksop in '81 was almost exclusively populated by Marinas, Itals and Cortinas which ties in with my childhood memories of a few years later.

[vulgalour]

Wait, he has an even better video.

 

 

 

 

And there's still loads of Itals lurching about the place.

[michael1703]

1min30 on the Beverley video

 

Van pulls over in front of cyclist and cyclist doesn't get all militant on the driver and give wanker gestures and then posting the ensuing chase and scuffle