Bristol in the 1960s

 

Driving Around Bristol In The 1960s

A 1960s drive around the city. Includes the docks, St Mary Redcliffe, Bridewell, Temple Way to Lawrence Hill.

“A drive around Bristol in the 1960s” by Bristol Guy.

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Bristol In The 1960’s

“Bristol in the 1960’s” by YouTube channel SwanEntertainment1.

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Rolls Royce Newspaper Boy: 1967

An amusing short film about Edwin Hopper, a sixth form student at Ashton Park Secondary School who lived with his family at 16 Caledonia Place. His sister also attened the same sixth form.

He delivers newspapers around the city - in his 1929 Rolls Royce car.

“Rolls Royce Newspaper Boy In Bristol (1967)” by British Pathé.

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Vintage Film of Bristol: 1967

Footage of the city in 1967.

“Bristol (1967)” by British Pathé. Bristol, Avon

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M32 Construction In Bristol, 1968-1971

The video captures the construction of the M32/Parkway motorway, filmed in color between 1968 and 1971 by the Stoke Park Institute.

We see The Dower House set in its grounds before the motorway was built. It includes the process of emptying the original Duchess's lake, the demolition of the thirteen arches in Eastville, and finally, the opening of this stretch of the motorway in 1971.

“M32/The Parkway, Bristol. Under construction. Part 2” by Tom Andrews.

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Bristol’s Anti Litter Week: 1967

Recorded on 17 July 1967, this footage reminds us that litter has caused problems for decades.

Here students descend on the city in their ‘I Am Not An Untidy So And So’ campaign T-shirts, brooms at the ready, accompanied by the Lord Mayor of Bristol, Alderman F. C. Vyvyan-Jones.

Bristol Holds Anti Litter Week (1967) by British Pathé.