I work as a Security Guard for a private company. As such I guard a ware house/ old manufacturing property . We have a train track that comes through a large silo area surrounded by rusted buckling metal that had danger signs posted and was being dismantled from top down. I had to chase off 2 separate videograghers for purely safety reasons. one was a train chaser as I call them the other was a architectural buff. The structure did crash down a few weeks later. A train was passing on a second track. no trains or people was hurt.
Memories of Saturday shopping with my aunt and uncle. I was farmed out to them quite often which was fine because they were nice. Sorry that security person was touchy about filming 😞 Daft! Yes you’re absolutely right about the big coat 😏 I went into town here in Bedford yesterday and everywhere looked sad and awful too. Shuttered up retail outlets and mess all around. I don’t think I’ll go in for a while now 😢 Sad times but seemingly inevitable 👋🏻 Thanks for the outing 🤝
The security guy was 'just following orders', that doesn't always end well, but hey, it is a private space, owned by a company, and they can set whatever rules they like. There was a time that I would have (and may have) done exactly what he did. I will have to take you all shopping in Le Blanc or Yzeure sur Creuse, much more fun.
harryfaber Yes, you are right but sometimes their rules are a little on the petty side! Yes, that shopping trip in your new adopted land would be splendid 👍
The Desolate Architecture of the Asphalt Jungle that is Basildon carries a fug of depression which permeates the concrete. It reminds me of 70's Eastern Bloc Berlin. I'm Half expecting to see David Bowie flicking through Tangerine Dream & Neu records in Basildons HMV while Jeremy Corbyn & Diane Abbott on their George & Mildred Motorcycle & Sidecar, circumnavigate Greggs bakers & Dorothy Perkins looking for tinned bratwurst & decadent western denim jeans from Gloria Vanderbilt.
Maybe I should tour (and video) Craylands, 'Alcatraz' has largely been rebuilt, and isn't what it was, no doubt folk will forget it's unfortunate nick-name.
Sounds a good Idea Harry. Unlike your trip to Basildon, Let's just hope you aren't prevented from recording this New educational tour by a Council employed Sawdust Caesar dressed like a 1950's Butlins Redcoat blaming a homicidal sect of terrorist Quakers for the filming ban. Anyway, i'm off to the crooked billet for a friday afternoon pint at high tide. Gawd bless ya Harry!.
Ahh memories, do you remember a blind man that used to play the accordion in that square in the mid seventies probably before your time, anyway he was seen running for a bus on one occasion so perhaps not so blind. There also used to be a ball shaped steel clock on the end of a long pole, not sure if that’s still there. I agree Basildon is a bit of an eyesore, I believe local residents put up a sign on the A127 on the approach saying Basvagas to try to improve its image.
I remember the clock, but not the blind accordionist! The sign actually says 'Basildon', I have seen it. Somewhere, I have my father's pictures, he was taken to the town much earlier, I suspect just after Brooke House won it's award, he was a member of various groups, I think it was a trip organised by the 'craft teacher's association'. I suppose that if you had been brought up in wartime east London, Basildon was a delight. Then.
This (stopping people from filming, stopping people from enjoying themselves) is exactly the aim of terrorists. Since they cannot blow up people everywhere they blow them up once and then let the local authorities do the rest for them. This is causing the general decay of civilization and civilized behaviour everywhere (well, maybe not here in Ruhlkirchen, where alcohol pretty much does the job, too, but never mind). You will likely find things much less depressing in Azay, I'm pretty sure. Thanks for the tour of Basildon. It is a place, like the town from which I come; a good place to be from.
@@harryfaber I did go back three times in more than 50 years, without dreams, but rather with a certain feeling of despair. My only consolation; it didn't appear to have gotten any worse. They fixed the street light on Burnham avenue, so that is good.
You should have carried on filming Harry, that is a public thoroughfare, he has no power whatsoever to tell you to stop filming. Check out "Ken Livingstone" filming at Westfield, on here.
Oh, I might have felt sorry for him, and it isn't good form to put him in an impossible position. Eastgate is a 'private place', and they can make whatever rules they want about behaviour, he would have had to call for assistance, I would have been thrown out one way or another, I wanted to go to a particular shop, without making his day any worse than his employers already had. I don't think we missed much.
The nature of that shopping mall, if he had ignored me, there was probably someone else watching him on CCTV, and I was pretty obvious. He did what he had to do.
Basildon = Depeche Mode❤
And Bucks Fizz appeared in the square to promote their Eurovision song, back in the 80s.
Great video Harry, hope you're well
Thank you, yes,all well here. I hope that we all see the end of the current 'situation'.
I work as a Security Guard for a private company. As such I guard a ware house/ old manufacturing property . We have a train track that comes through a large silo area surrounded by rusted buckling metal that had danger signs posted and was being dismantled from top down. I had to chase off 2 separate videograghers for purely safety reasons. one was a train chaser as I call them the other was a architectural buff. The structure did crash down a few weeks later. A train was passing on a second track. no trains or people was hurt.
Memories of Saturday shopping with my aunt and uncle. I was farmed out to them quite often which was fine because they were nice.
Sorry that security person was touchy about filming 😞
Daft!
Yes you’re absolutely right about the big coat 😏
I went into town here in Bedford yesterday and everywhere looked sad and awful too.
Shuttered up retail outlets and mess all around.
I don’t think I’ll go in for a while now 😢
Sad times but seemingly inevitable 👋🏻
Thanks for the outing 🤝
The security guy was 'just following orders', that doesn't always end well, but hey, it is a private space, owned by a company, and they can set whatever rules they like. There was a time that I would have (and may have) done exactly what he did. I will have to take you all shopping in Le Blanc or Yzeure sur Creuse, much more fun.
harryfaber
Yes, you are right but sometimes their rules are a little on the petty side!
Yes, that shopping trip in your new adopted land would be splendid 👍
The Desolate Architecture of the Asphalt Jungle that is Basildon carries a fug of depression which permeates the concrete. It reminds me of 70's Eastern Bloc Berlin. I'm Half expecting to see David Bowie flicking through Tangerine Dream & Neu records in Basildons HMV while Jeremy Corbyn & Diane Abbott on their George & Mildred Motorcycle & Sidecar, circumnavigate Greggs bakers & Dorothy Perkins looking for tinned bratwurst & decadent western denim jeans from Gloria Vanderbilt.
Maybe I should tour (and video) Craylands, 'Alcatraz' has largely been rebuilt, and isn't what it was, no doubt folk will forget it's unfortunate nick-name.
Sounds a good Idea Harry. Unlike your trip to Basildon, Let's just hope you aren't prevented from recording this New educational tour by a Council employed Sawdust Caesar dressed like a 1950's Butlins Redcoat blaming a homicidal sect of terrorist Quakers for the filming ban. Anyway, i'm off to the crooked billet for a friday afternoon pint at high tide. Gawd bless ya Harry!.
Ah yes, when the Quakers get aroused...
I guess that the Crooked Billet is as good a place to avoid militarised Quakers as any.
I'm missing basildon
I have to go there this week, I will make another film!
Ahh memories, do you remember a blind man that used to play the accordion in that square in the mid seventies probably before your time, anyway he was seen running for a bus on one occasion so perhaps not so blind. There also used to be a ball shaped steel clock on the end of a long pole, not sure if that’s still there. I agree Basildon is a bit of an eyesore, I believe local residents put up a sign on the A127 on the approach saying Basvagas to try to improve its image.
I remember the clock, but not the blind accordionist! The sign actually says 'Basildon', I have seen it. Somewhere, I have my father's pictures, he was taken to the town much earlier, I suspect just after Brooke House won it's award, he was a member of various groups, I think it was a trip organised by the 'craft teacher's association'. I suppose that if you had been brought up in wartime east London, Basildon was a delight. Then.
This (stopping people from filming, stopping people from enjoying themselves) is exactly the aim of terrorists. Since they cannot blow up people everywhere they blow them up once and then let the local authorities do the rest for them. This is causing the general decay of civilization and civilized behaviour everywhere (well, maybe not here in Ruhlkirchen, where alcohol pretty much does the job, too, but never mind). You will likely find things much less depressing in Azay, I'm pretty sure. Thanks for the tour of Basildon. It is a place, like the town from which I come; a good place to be from.
To quote Ben Rumson 'home is made for coming from with dreams of going to, which with any luck will never come true'.
@@harryfaber I did go back three times in more than 50 years, without dreams, but rather with a certain feeling of despair. My only consolation; it didn't appear to have gotten any worse. They fixed the street light on Burnham avenue, so that is good.
But did Burnham Woods come to Dunsinane? There is a street light in Azay, but it goes out at midnight.
Luckily your retired now, you’re just to busy for full time employment
Yep, there are only 25 hours in the day.
You should have carried on filming Harry, that is a public thoroughfare, he has no power whatsoever to tell you to stop filming. Check out "Ken Livingstone" filming at Westfield, on here.
Oh, I might have felt sorry for him, and it isn't good form to put him in an impossible position. Eastgate is a 'private place', and they can make whatever rules they want about behaviour, he would have had to call for assistance, I would have been thrown out one way or another, I wanted to go to a particular shop, without making his day any worse than his employers already had. I don't think we missed much.
The architecture is quite different here. More on the modern side. Very industrial.
All driven by cost and functionality, I guess.
I would have ignored your videoing that as if I was Sgt. Schultz in Hogans Heroes. I see Nothing .
The nature of that shopping mall, if he had ignored me, there was probably someone else watching him on CCTV, and I was pretty obvious. He did what he had to do.