1960 Swindon

[leefer]

Enjoyed that....enjoyed that a lot.

[ronnie21]

The music played was by Gordon Talbot and his Orchestra, well known to the older generation - but was reputedly one of the best dance bands in the UK!

[Reg Smeeton]

The music played was by Gordon Talbot and his Orchestra, well known to the older generation - but was reputedly one of the best dance bands in the UK!

Don't know if you've seen this site Ronnie...

http://www.swindonmusicscene.co.uk/portal/

[Ginginho]

That's great, love it. Will watch it all the way through when I get time.

Is there a way any of you clever lot can download it/rip it so it can be saved it locally?

[ronnie21]

Don't know if you've seen this site Ronnie...

http://www.swindonmusicscene.co.uk/portal/

Thanks Reg, Gordon Talbot and Johnnie Stiles!!!  We'll never see the likes of them again, mind you, you wouldn't get them in the Vic or the Rolleston would you!!  A lot of the old musicians from my era . . the 70-80's on there!!!

[leefer]

That's great, love it. Will watch it all the way through when I get time.

Is there a way any of you clever lot can download it/rip it so it can be saved it locally?

Cant seem to copy that....would love to copy that if anyone has any ideas.

[Arriba]

I imagine the 60's was Thatchers fault as well Arriba

no.

Arriba won't be happy until we've gone 100% communist. Don't know who he'll blame for everything then though.

twat

[leefer]

Take no notice arriba....the weekend is on the horizon

[Batch]

no.
 twat

The repression has started already

[Peter Gibbons]

That's great, love it. Will watch it all the way through when I get time.

Is there a way any of you clever lot can download it/rip it so it can be saved it locally?

Here you go fella, just right click this link and hit "save link as" (it might be labelled something slightly different such as "save target as" if you are not using Chrome)

http://av.vimeo.com/88029/265/1811036.mp4?aksessionid=fe90e5ffa058b85dc13a645f1ec3bc99&token=1365716476_a0e7a48c5852125dae1456c0ef20d177

[Ginginho]

Great stuff, thanks very much

[bassett boy]

really good stuff how come they never showed Penhill??
As for Penhill
 Reg i am sure the photo of Stadium dogs had Andy Partridge in the photo (penhill Boy) but not mentioned in the photo

[bassett boy]

Really enjoyed that but it really highlights what a shithole Britain and Swindon has become.
First footage i've seen of a train going along the line of what is now the cycle path to old town. What a disgrace that was killing the railways in the 60's. Also the grass neatly cut and the roads nice and tidy compared the the knee high grass verges, pot holes and litter strewn streets now in the same places.
People dressed smartly and it just looks a decent place to be back then.

If the greedy society we have today 50 years later is progress then I just cannot see how. The standards look to have gone backwards to me from that footage.

Agreed

[Dozno9]

I'm glad that you liked it.

As Arriba says the saddest thing is the demise of the environment and although this probably comes with the territory in regards to being a large town it is quite shocking to see how buildings have been taken down and green verges and wide roads removed for apparantly no reason.

We have many buildings remaining that are on that video clip and the vast majority of those are in disrepair and dereliction and there is no sign of any improvement.

It's easy to point the finger and lay the the blame at central government for national failings but on a local level this town has been run down to an appauling level because of continous failing local councils which spread over the past 30-40 years.

[Samdy Gray]

Good watch, that. Where the train was running up the old Swindon Loop is where I cycle most weekends. Bit odd to actually see it from the same viewpoint when it was functioning.

And was that Reg hosting the opening of the new Queens Park?