WORKSOP How it Looked Between 1957 & 1970
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- Опубліковано 1 бер 2014
- A look at Worksop in the late 1950's and 60's, Some of the old Buildings, old cars, Buses, people etc, hardly any houses in Thievesdale Lane, the clip of the shop at the start was my parents, and the motor accessory shop I started in 1962 in Newcastle Ave, the house in Hemmingfield Road cost us £3700 in 1966 including the double garage, the Aston DB5 I sold it for £2000, I've just seen one advertised for over £400,000, if I'd only known, sorry about the picture quality
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So much more classy back then. I can remember Worksop in 1966 and even up to the early 90s it was fantastic.
Great trip down memory lane, lived in Worksop from the sixties to 1980 then immigrated to Canada, remember buying many accessories from your well stock retail shop. Thank you Rod
thanks for the film. i used to go into your shop and get stuff a lot . .sad its closed now.
All though I’ve enjoyed watching the video quite a few times over the years I still find myself having another look just to remind myself of what a pleasant town we had back then, I think a lot of local folk like myself didn’t appreciate the town then but would would love to wind the clock back now. 🤷🏻♂️👍
My cousin lived in Worksop from the late 50s until the late 70s. He then moved to South Africa. During his time in Worksop he ran a car hire business and later caravan/mobile home business. Happy days.
The red jaguar e type is still on the roads. Great films
Brilliantly put together. Enjoyed it all. Thanks for posting. ❤️
Lovely stuff Rod! Great to see all those wonderful, charcterful cars in their 'natural' habitat. Today most are collector's pieces, hardly ever used! I have owned most of the same cars through the years. That looks like a Sunbeam Tiger at about 09.50. I had the 260 cid engined model in 1967 or so, plenty power there.
I was at Worksop College 1960 Sept - 1963 Sept. Whenever they let us out I used to walk down the hill (Spark Hill?) for a wander around the town, mainly the main street.
What an affluent buzzing town we used to have depressing as hell looking at it nowadays 😩😩
Thanks Rod for a wonderful walk down memory lane - good times at the garage and sadly so many friends no longer with us.
Great trip down memory lane, Rod!
I remember your fantastic shop on Newcastle Avenue, I went in there with my older brother on many occasions, I was about 4 or 5 and he was about 14 or 15. We both loved the red model E-Type shown in your film!!
E type is still on the roads originally white, as is the Aston Martin now silver
Excellent.
Thank you.
It used to look so friendly..
Brilliant Rod! I remember comming into your shop when I was a young teenager and drooling at all the accessories you had and adding to my wish list when I got a car,I believe it was Reliance driving school after that but I may be wrong.Nice to see Hemingfield being built I live just over the back on the"Dale" est nr to Blyth road.
Anyway thanks for posting the video if you have anymore of Worksop appart fron ones that are on I love to see them.
You had a lot of fantastic car the E type and alpine where gorgeous thank you for uploading this
E type is still on the roads
Originally white
Lovely video great }
It was a Sunbeam Tiger, I think it was a 1966 Model, I got about £800 when I sold it.
The TR3a belonged to a friend of mine, he and another friend who also had TR3a were having a race on the road and he lost it on a bend, hit a telegraph pole and demolished a wall, the car ended up, up side down, the 2 occupants were thrown out, as nobody wore seat belts back then, my friend spent quite a long time in hospital with broken leg and pelvis, note the steering wheel if you can see it in the video.
Wow, the perils of the 1960s! Still my favourite era though and thanks for the reply!
Fascinating footage of what I consider a great era! You certainly owned some dream cars over the years. What was the story behind the rather badly bent TR3A?
wow i was born in 72 this is stunning to see this and unbelievable in colour too lol thanks for sharing do you have any more of anything in worksop Rod?
Great to see Worksop through my parents eyes, Rod. You had some wonderful cars. Can I ask what line of business were you in? Thanks
Hi Andrew, I started the motor accessory business in the 1960's, in those days cars had very few accessorys fitted as standard, so the business was quite good, most cars didn't have a radio, screen washers were an extra, no seat belts, no heated rear windows etc, I also bought and sold quite a lot of cars in the 60's and 70's, wish I'd still got some of them now. Thanks for asking Rod
Do you still love in Worksop Rod?
amazing thans so much i was not alive then but it looked just so much more well better vlol
It was Ossington Aerodrome, we used to go there and to Gamston to test the cars, and I taught my then
girlfriend to drive she was 16.
ah OK, not heard of Ossington, thanks for your reply, was just curious. Nice girlfriend too!
Is that by any chance RAF Worksop airfield runway at 5:30? Great film regardless!
If The guy with the Aston would have known!
I started my first job at a garage a few yards along the road from your shop on Newcastle Avenue. . Worksop has lost its' character now...
10:17 what type of car is that please?
Volvo p1800
The Aston is still on the road by the looks of it vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/ConfirmVehicle?locale=en
So is the E Type, it is white now though 🙄
That DB5 be worth 500.000 pound now
Ernst stavros blofeld was born here..those that know will know.
I live where the quorry use to be
surely the tr3a crash was after my 21st at wilsic hall gretings from the frozen north COOPEROSS NO83
Hi John, just seen your message, the crash happened on the way home from your 21st party, long time since I heard from you,
hope you’re ok, Cheers Rod
WENT TO SEE JD FROM THE GROUP HE HAS A FENDER STRAT1963 WORTH NEARLY AS MUTCH AS THAT BOOTIFULSUNBEAM TIGER OF YOURS
These seem like good days when you could have fun without being watched by BIG BROTHER, smother cated by red tape, ridiculous health and safety rules and regs and ripped off for every penny you have by energy companies, tax man, etc. etc.
LMAO . Perhaps you're not old enough . It's 'slanguage' derived from the words smothered , & suffocated .
dewhursts butchers lol
so weird lol