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I don't have a lot of choice with the music I'm afraid. When I started I used stuff from my CD collection that I thought was appropriate, but after countless copyright violations, and threats to close my channel, I had to resort to the copyright free UA-cam music library. Luckily you can always turn the sound off :)

Thanks for watching. I often have the crazy idea that some VR techies could create something so that you could walk round with a headset on and see Lincoln of the past all around you. I've seen this done on a small scale, but it must be possible to translate old photos into a more complex VR environment...

I can hear people now, "I remember when this was all fields" :)

Thanks for the support, I'll keep going as long as the old photos are there :)

Ditto that! Awesome stuff!

There are generally a lot more trees now than in the past. Many new ones planted and of course the old ones have grown...

Thanks, yes there aren't many old photos of this part of town. I can't find any photos of the Roaring Meg at all!

Wigford Way would have been part of an inner ring road, but the rest wasn't given planning permission because it wasn't really practical

My Dad worked in the garage at Whittons, probably from the late 60s until the early 90s?

The Rest was never a pub, but one of the buildings towards Priorygate was The Elephant pub

Did you read the info under the video?

@@lightanddreamsphotography7140 No - saw the start and passed it on to the missus.

@@lightanddreamsphotography7140 Well, well. No, only saw the title and passed it to the missus via FB. Since she rarely watches things I send her, she was as unlikely as me to read all the effort you put into writing the blurb. She has told me that when it came to jogging around the area, she didn't take notice of names of roads (more likely noticed flowers!). And that was 30 years ago, so memories fade. Anyway, here I am with 'egg on my face' - but at least I've the chance to tell you I enjoyed the clip, and the fun of searching. And, search again I did - a second time. So, only having 'Earth' as a reference, it looks as though it shows buildings there that have been replaced and I couldn't pin-point. After finally finding the view with the mailbox, I could just about make out where you were standing. Things change - the pub opposite Broadway we used to drink in has gone, and I myself haven't been to Lincoln for 27 years. Looks to be a very good city....

To be honest it's pretty difficult for those of us that were born here too! I remember the Brayford before Wigford Way, but can't remember this part of Newland at all.

I think I should be proud of that then :)

Yes I think the extended family had various horse related businesses?

A lot of people have mentioned the riding school

There are a lot of new developments around this junction to be honest, not least on the "Bishop Grot" campus, it has changed a lot over the last 40 years :) .

Thats the new student accommodation blocks for BGU its still under construction. Not far from finished though.

@@technocrat7971 Thanks for that :)

Yes there is a big cemetery on Newport.

@lightanddreamsphotography7140 thank you. I was just making sure my memory wasn't failing me, D

Thanks, I'd not noticed the wooden structure in the first old photo, and the railings must be more complicated than I had assumed :)

Thanks for that memory :)

Cheers. The old photo is undated, but the consensus is 1920s...

@@lightanddreamsphotography7140 I wondered if it might be a works outing, but no. That photo appears in the book 'Lincoln Corporation Transport' by Cyril Cooke and the caption is: 'All the fleet of eleven new Dennis motorbuses lined up for a photograph taken in 1921.' The people must all have been Corporation Transport staff and officials. They were the first motorbuses acquired by the Corporation and had bodywork by LL Motor Bodies of Louth. Each seated 26 passengers on slatted wooden seats. They lasted in service until 1928.

I wonder if that is the same shop as in the old photo, I imagine it would have gone when the roundabout was created and the roads widened?

I think that's so.

There was still a little corner shop there in the 70's. Used to be able to buy single cigs from there if you wanted to

Yes I think sales of buckets were good in 1905, shame so many had to die before the city finally got a clean water supply :(

That's what I thought :)

You prefer the old multi-storey to the museum?

@@lightanddreamsphotography7140 No, the church!

That will only happen if loses it's customers again, but it seems to have re-established itself nicely. Pubs will always struggle against supermarkets, but if they continue to serve great beers and put events on hopefully they'll be OK.

@@lightanddreamsphotography7140 nicely? nah it's only surviving because of the regular half dozen old soaks that frequent it, it's pretty crap in there these days

​@@CarlDraper why did you put 2 spaces between all the words

To be honest I don't recognise those names, but I do remember some Lincoln old photo books that I think were produced by the Lincolnshire Echo? The Echo has a reputation for aggressively chasing anyone who uses their images, so I do avoid them

@@lightanddreamsphotography7140 Maurice Hobson 3 books1 self published 2Thorndyke Press all called Lincoln Then and Now Launce Elvin 3 books for Lincolnshire Recreation Services Library dept Lincoln as it was volumes 1 2 and3

@@davidwright6444 Thanks for that :)

Yes it must have been taking your life in your hands just walking down the streets round there! I like the last one too, worth trespassing and getting nettled for :)

Maybe its because of the ghostly hint on the wall of what was there before

@@michaelaaylott1686 P'raps! And it was a fairly substantial structure, just visible behind the loved-up shunters.

I can't remember that particular smell, but do remember thinking the whole area was very dark and dirty back in the day.

My pleasure, thanks for watching, I love putting these together. I can remember many of these factories, but they were mainly empty and awaiting demolition. I suppose our heavy industrial past was a double edged sword, as most things are. They provided employment and prosperity for the city, but they were also dirty and very grimy, resulting in the Cathedral being almost black in my younger days :(

Thanks. The White horse is still there, I've done time shifts of it and Spring Hill, and I recently did some of the multi-story on Danesgate

I've spent many hours exploring it, it is a beautiful green space :)

Thanks, yes the chances of finding two old photos taken from the same place are very rare.

I think on balance they are preferable to dodging horse poo though, and definitely better than having to look out for double decker buses like I did as a small child in the 60s :)

My Dad got his whisky flavoured tobacco from there :)

@@lightanddreamsphotography7140 to be honest with you l don’t know why as 12 years old kids what the heck we were even doing in there…

@@paulkenneally789 Both my parents were chain smokers, and both died from the effects of it, so I have always been a passionate non-smoker. But I do remember liking the smell walking by Higgs as a kid :)

Yes I mentioned it in a previous video :)

@@lightanddreamsphotography7140I knew anyway.

Thanks, it is all from the copyright free UA-cam library

Yes I meant to mention that, but I'm trying to write less info under the videos :)

Yep. that's what they say :(

Wonderful memories, thanks for sharing them :)

Check todays video for the cinema where Waterside is :)

Thanks for watching, if yo use the search facility you'll see a lot of old industrial time shifts :)

I was born here in 1957, been here ever since, apart from going away to university in the mid-70s

Cheers, thanks for your ongoing support :)

I remember the sweets the most for some reason :)

Thanks for watching. I miss some old pubs, but other nice ones have opened :)

Unfortunately the internet now trumps most shops :(

Yes a free for all that could be very chaotic as traffic levels grew. I have some terrifying memories as a small child on the High Street pre-pedestrianisation

Thanks for watching and sharing those memories :)