The Forgotten Slough
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- As a participant in the "Streets of Slough" project I was asked to make a short film using some archive footage of the town from the early fifties.
Check out Finnbarr MacGinty's Contact details and demo reel: www.piehole.ie/...
He's reliable and very efficient, despite having several other projects on the go at the time he got back to me in less than two days with a complete V.O of proffessional standard.
*Edit: unfortunately Finn MacGinty passed away. He was a great talent and a good family friend. I'm glad I got to work with him, however briefly.
This video is a priceless gift from history.
Believe it or not, in the 1950s Slough was called 'Slough Safety Town'.
Tragic what's happened to Slough but same happening or already happened to most towns in UK. Certainly made worse by Mass immigration & illegals who cross many borders to get here from France who are welcomed by British Authorities.
I've recently started working for a Scottish milk company out of Basingstoke Hampshire working nights and one of my routes is slough. My Aunty VI and my dad and uncles and family all grew up in parts of slough after the war. One of my routes at night can be hard to navigate if you don't the Britwell estate etc. I don't mind it so far and I've had a few random people shouting Oi!! or Black ninja kids on illegal electric bikes shoot up and down the road. I was warned be careful. I love looking at the old houses and you can imagine what it would have been like when they were first built. I remember when my dad told me he had a few near miss moments and had a Boxer mate to look after him around 1960s.
does anyone remember ‘the golden mile’. you could stand at one end of the high street and see all the way down the high street. every shop had something new. you could be in the high street and within 10 minutes walk , be in countryside!
The Slough festival which everyone attended in the other end of the high street whilst waiting for your bus . The smell of hops & barley from the many and varied pubs was lovely. They brought life to the town. The cinema on Windsor road opposite those very beautiful 17th century buildings and observatories. The beautiful posh ancient Slough hotel in the hill opposite the train station . The Bailey’s park lido. salt hill park was amazing with the bowling green, paddling pool and steam roller. the characters such as the olde country farmer who always wore long white canvas type shirt, carried a staff and had big sheepdog. or the sister from the convent who would race around in her hand peddled wheelchair at breakneck speed. Slough was once a lovely warm community filled place . Nearly every road had hedgerows and lawns on the front garden and trees lined the road. Birds of every variety. Toads, frogs , hedgehogs all of which seem to gave disappeared. We had them in so much abundance we thought we had plagues of animals like toads and sparrows once.
I had no idea that the high street was once called The Golden Mile. Thanks for the info!
What made Slough change to so bad?
Wish Slough was the same as it was back in the 50's and 60's. Now it's a nightmare! I've not met one person who can say they actually like living here. Slough will one day explode as a segregated society does not work!
The only reason why it was good is because of the crossrail. Train was one of the few main ways to get around back then so it was a success, now it's used for business and stuff like that.
I like living here. No, seriously
Looked good back in the day🙂
Equidistant between London and Reading....ooohhh Slough....my kind of town, i dunno how....anyone could put you down 🎶🎶
I lived in Iver Heath from1972-1995. Rochford's Gardens, SL2 til 1997 when we move out of the area to Bicester, Oxon. Slough has changed substantially over my lifetime but I sill have a fondness for the place where I grew up.
I live in Iver Heath at the moment!
I live 10 seconds away from rochford gardens & was the rochford gardens park way different back then like was the farm area also a play area
I love Slough the high street in the 90s was a great place to be really nice people
Did you know Slough got voted the most productive place in the uk for 2017
Who by? Slough must be one of the most environmentally unfriendly places on earth. There is absolutely no concern for or knowledge of environmental matters. The only thing Slough is producing is a run down, filthy rubbish strewn dump with no wildlife. This is NOT progress
Timjan Day we are all going to die one day we don’t need to worry about environment. Government and people like you are thick they make low emission zones when the main problem to pollution is coal and gas power plants cars are not the problem. Also what’s the point in reducing pollution look at Dubai such a. Clean country and they have tons of super cars there. Maybe it is clean because it is a Muslim country and there are no drunk chavs there smoking and selling drugs
It was a great place to live in the 1980s and 90s when i was there , but so many migrants came to Slough and wrecked it Asians and EU migrants everywhere now no English left , not racist to say that as its the truth , I grew up on Britwell estate and although it was a tough estate , we all knew who the bad reputation people were and avoided them , I went to St Anthony's and St Josephs and everyone knew each other , it was a lot better than the quagmire it is today where no one talks to each other why ? because most people cant speak same language , its become the United Nations of UK lol
@@Citizenoftheworld999 Yeah it’s so good I gave the migrants everything I own including my home and decided to live in a tent in the woods lol 😂
I was asking my team leader at work all about the slough change. my dad grew up in Britwell with brothers and sisters and my dear Aunty VI who is no longer with us.They ended up in slough after world war 2. I do feel a bit worried as it's natural with all the knife crime news stories you hear. So far with working out of Basingstoke Hampshire I take milk to the people of slough two nights a week. I have had few OI come here moments and One guy stopped me and said where you from what are doing here??? I said chill bro! I'm just bringing milk round to people who order online. I love the look of all the old houses and garden gates etc. Some houses look untouched. I was told the mars factory had gone years ago? and the people of slough work shift work so slough never sleeps
@@SHEARMINATOR Mars is still there just got a rebranding , Fullers is closed down and the old Horlicks factory , 🏭 you wouldn't want to go near Slough nowadays as a lot of dodgy immigrants there now , EU migrants are ok as they are civilised but the new migrants are dodgy , Safest place in the UK I've been to was Cumbria as people there still live like they did 40 years back and are chilled out 👍
@@christineayres7199 wow thankyou for the reply. I started a milkround last week and my route is slough two nights a week from Basingstoke. Last night someone shouted OI! I see ninja electric bikes and it seems quiet. I was told it's a never sleeping slough so people are always awake. I guess the original Asians prob get annoyed with it all...like any race that changes over time with new arrivals if that makes sense? Cumbria wow I will go one day hopefully nice one!
@@christineayres7199 I met a crazy ice cream van man once in dartmoor devon. He told me to run for hills and get out of the towns and city lol
I grew up as a child in Slough it was very racist towards Asians and 0 support from the police or community . It’s changed now it has a community feel as more Asians here
I actually like Slough as it is today. I grew up there in the 70's and 80's. The community is diverse but I consider that to be a totally positive thing.
rob you're absolutely fucking correct
I live in slough it can be rough sometimes I think its no.1 worst town in the UK
Worst than Bradford?
We moved to Stoke Poges in 1968. Slough was still untouched, buses and cars travelled the length of the highstreet and the A4 through the trading estate was the most traffic lighted in England. So much has changed now and it is all down to immigration, no ifs, no buts. Unpopular though true.
Fascinating video, if a little negative towards modern Slough. It's not all bad you know, just a different these days :) Anyway, very nice footage.
Still not as bad as Dagenham
Often.
well i didnt know that
I live in england i nealy cried so yeah
slough 1
(slo͞o, slou) also slew (slo͞o)
n.
1. A depression or hollow, usually filled with deep mud or mire.
2. also slue A stagnant swamp, marsh, bog, or pond, especially as part of a bayou, inlet, or backwater.
3. A state of deep despair or moral degradation.
[Middle English, from Old English slōh.]
slough′y adj.
slough 2
(slŭf)
n.
1. The dead outer skin shed by a reptile or amphibian.
2. Medicine A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, sore, or inflammation.
Dusty reels of fillem
Slough is a shithole lived in manor park for 35 years left 5 years ago best thing ive ever done, no one speaks english its filthy and full of smack heads, come bombs drop on slough not fit for humans now !!
+Duncan Pearce, Nonsense! Parts of London are much worse.
I’m from manor Park it’s a dump slough now
it fucking is
I grew up there but was fed up being intimidated by foreigners moving in.
I moved out long ago !! Lovely old footage around of how it used to be, but so horrible now..
Ian Williams ikr I literally said hi to this guy because he looked a bit familiar and him and his friends were like. Mate u wanna fight, come to the ally way we will fight there. And I'm like -_- I just said hi
You get out of out countries. Without foreigners England wouldn't. Be good
But it can be alright at points
There's only going to be seven planets left on Monday morning. I going to destroy URANUS this weekend.
Uranus That says it all ha ha
Looooooool
Funniest comment on this video XD
ha ha
London is worse than slough
They pretty much bleed into each other now.
Z Man no one said it wasn’t. Why does every Londoner think they have to bring themselves up in neighbouring counties?
At least London has more to do than sit on a bench and stare at people with a gang of hooded roadmen
This is not true