1964 WOOLWICH - The significance, history, character, decline, markets, ferry, theatres, landmarks..
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1964 Woolwich - Video footage of Beresford square market, the indoor covered market, the Woolwich ferry, and the former Royal Artillery theatre. Various landmarks can be seen while learning about the area's declining significance and the impact of the possible closure of the Arsenal. history and the importance of the Royal Artillery and the Royal Military Academy, the expansion of armaments and the workforce, Woolwich in the swinging 60s...
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In 1964, during the Charlton Athletic versus Norwich City Division 2 League match, a sequence was captured from different areas of the Charlton stands, including the back, mid-stands, and closer views. The footage showed Norwich City's Bill Punton dribbling the ball forwards, while the largely male crowd, with a few women and girls, clapped in appreciation. The narrator commented that 60 years prior, on a Saturday afternoon, Woolwich Arsenal workers would have played for the Arsenal team. However, the narrator lamented that the modern-day Arsenal players do not care much about their origins. A still photograph of the 1905-6 Woolwich Arsenal League Team was also shown.
As the narrator discussed the declining significance of Woolwich, workers were shown leaving through Woolwich Arsenal's Middle Gate on Plumstead Road. They departed on foot, bikes, and in cars, with a VW Beetle leading the way. Policemen were seen directing traffic on either side of the Royal Arsenal Gatehouse on Beresford Square. The narrator warned that the arsenal might shut down unless people like Frank Glasson fought to keep it open. Frank Glasson, dressed in a suit, was filmed sitting on a wooden bench at Shrewsbury Park. The camera captured him from the front, in close-up, and from behind, looking downhill over Woolwich. The panoramic view included Plumcroft Primary School. A closer view over the rooftops from the park showed the Rockmount Estate and panned to Woolwich Power Station. Mr Glasson spoke about his long service at the Arsenal, the impact of a possible closure, and a petition to Parliament against the decision. The scene then shifted to views of the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, with the beginning of the petition being read out.
According to the narrator, Woolwich had to fight for its survival in the past. In 1906, Arsenal workers, led by Will Crooks, who was the Labour M.P for Woolwich East, organized a rally in Trafalgar Square and presented a petition to the Prime Minister. A still photo was shown of the crowded rally, which included a brass band, policemen, and a large banner demanding "A Fair Share of the Nation's Work." Another photo depicted the crowd at Trafalgar Square, with policemen and rally leaders, including Ramsay MacDonald and Will Crooks (holding the petition) in a group to the side of a lion statue. Former Labour Party leader Arthur Henderson was seen standing in front of the lion.
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Could cry now ,remembering how amazing both
market and shops were .Nothing to go there for
now😢
I have some very happy memories growing up in Woolwich.
A.C ♡
A wonderful window into the past!
I moved to Abbey Estate in 1970, age 5 and went to Woolwich regularly on the 180 bus. Routemaster and RT operation. I used to cheer 'Hooray we're going to Woolwich'. Visited The Covered Market, Cuffs, M&S, Woolworths, Branston's, the market etc. and it was a real nice cheerful place. Woolwich has changed a lot since then, now I say 'Hooray' when leaving Woolwich!
I Remember the old lifts in Cuffs with the lift man in uniform to open & shut the gates.
Whenever I see clips of "Are you being served" it reminds me of Cuffs.
@@Sthmohtwenty I take it that M&S have gone? They were in Powis Street with entrances in Thomas Street too. Calderwood St was at the side.
@@ROCKINGMAN OK thanks its now one pds store ...cheap and cheerful lol
@@Sthmohtwenty M&S, Cuffs, RACS, Woolworths, Littlewoods, Brentford Nylons, Timothy Whites, to name some, were quality shops that were in Woolwich.
@@ROCKINGMAN those were the real days in uk ...
Woolich was a very beautifully English town now its a complete sesspit
WOW what a fantastic look at Woolwich before my time. Always something very romantic and idyllic to me about that part of London.
@ 15.19......Could have been me cleaning the windows of Colenso Block, in the Barracks, where the Junior Musicians Troop R.A. were, when I was there from 1963 to 67. Happy Days
They closed the Arsenal then they closed the docks. Then they stacked the people in new housing estates like Thamesmead. Yeh, that's going to work out just fine :-(
Gosh! That brought back memories of when I worked in Churchill house for the architects dept Greenwich council late sixties to mid 70s!;
A great chronicle of the Woolwich of my youth. I was particularly interested to see the shots inside the Royal Mortar pub - a pub I never went in , I think demolished sometime in the 70s. Also I noticed the Elephant and Castle still had a Beasley sign though Courage had taken over the Plumstead brewery the year before.
Ironic to hear it being argued that the town was dead at night- except for the pubs. Sadly very few of those left now and Woolwich also still had two cinemas then.
The dismissive attitude towards the older houses was all too typical of the time too. That didn't work out quite as expected, and neither did the "town on stilts" that would start being built on Erith and Plumstead marshes three years later.
Gave us the job we have the tools
It was beautiful, it was rich, all people worked, even children and women. It was full of places to shop, play and entertain, so what happened?
So interesting thank you.
Wish there was more on the RACS..
There's plenty of races there now 😂
I know that place very well I grow up not far from belvedere I was born in 1939 I see woolwich has change a lot
Great insight into the past must be sad seeing uk now
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Woolwich when it was Woolwich, sad to say its a $h1t hole now
sad but true
No toilets there it's a sesspittttt
, time waits for no man as the saying goes ,us oldies remember vestiges of a world where we could see and hear parts of the old world ,now its gone completely with attitudes morals and bad manners eh?
25:06 🙊
When we were a white Christian country and British. Breaks my heart today to think what 50 odd years of mass immigration has done!!!!