😮😮😮AAAGGGhhhh,,,, at @17:30 THAT WAS ME in my Green Citroen Dyane CPU 208T when I had first moved up here ! THANK you for posting that. INSTANT memories 😊😊😊
It was weird watching the footage of Castle Meadow after the storm - I walked down there that day and was amazed at all the trees laying on their sides (having slept thru the entire storm - I was told about it in the morning! ). Thanks for putting this film up - takes me back 30 years to my late teen years.
I remember getting a city line bus into work on the day of the big storm in '87, driving through mile x loads of trees down. I worked at baxters butchers on back of the inns, next to the royal arcade, we were quite sheltered in the shop but it was funny seeing all these pedestrians being blown passed us by the winds as they tried walking up back of the inns.
My mother used to take me to Baxters!!! You sold this short crust pastry tart with bright pink icing and I loved it! At least I think it's your old place of work.
Born here 1982, lived in central Norwich (big Victorian beige house in Thorpe Hamlet) until 1996; moved to shitty sheep-shagging Aylsham. Yes, that was 14 happy years, living in what is indeed best city in the world ! Luckily we haven't been commercialized or infiltrated with London overspill / yuppies.
I think these films are great to watch and to compare what things were like then and what it is now. Although I did not live in Norwich in the 1980s, the scenes of Britain at this time really take me back!! Thanks for posting!!
thats keith dempsey with the yellow scruffy hair, I spent the night of the storm crashing in his bedsit on unthank road, i slept through it, all i remember is keith standing at the window in the middle of the night remarking "its very windy" turned out to be as understated as michael fish was, checked out all the damage in the morning, a tree had fell into a roof up the road and trees were uprooted in chapelfield park
Lol the ole city link busses and i remember the great storm of 87 very well, it was my 17th birthday and finally got the commodore 64 but couldn't play it due to no electricity for many days. Good ole michael fish never will he live that down.. 😂
Thanks for sharing this - nice to hear The Norfolk Airline excerpt with David Clayton and Neil Walker in the 1986 section. What's also interesting is how virtually indistinguishable Norfolk and Broadland sound in terms of style and content in these brief clips.
I don't think you'd expect them to sound so similar, though. If you look at the Broadland documentaries available on here from 1984 and 1989, for example, the output in there sounds quite different to the Norfolk of the time - indeed, they specifically make the point in the 1984 Anglia documentary they don't want to be "Radio Norfolk with adverts".
David Clayton is a close family friend of ours. Him and my dad, Brian Russell, both started Norwich Artistes on Oak St. My god parents owned The Talk Of East Anglia back in the day as well - where David and my dad conducted their business in the offices up the top.
Norwich indeed had a big punk / alternative scene in the 80s and 90s (kinda went obsolete in the early 00's mind). Won't complain though, today Norwich is still the diverse, unpretentious, down-to-earth and very friendly city it always was !
I was in London during the storm of October 1987 and one thing that stands out is seeing a row of parked cars, all of which were damaged by falling trees.
@6:16 - an Austin Princess ! I don't drive, but if I did, I'd love a classic car like that. Statistically, there's less than 50 of them left in the UK now that are officially deemed roadworthy.
Seeing the group of goths sitting in chapafeild (chappy as we call it) really humbled me to think, 40 years in the future goth kids are doing the exact same thing in the same place
Back when most poeple had normal sized cars. Now allot of people feel the need to buy huge SUV's. We are getting more like America and slowly losing our culture. Its a shame.
Ah yes the time of the fountains on Hay Hill they succeeded the statue and were filled with washing up liquid on a regular basis. Then we had the brain and other odd bits now they are doing something else. We could always go back to the statue but the buildings on the Walk have been burnt or rebuilt to some rubbish architectural standard that can b3 erased at any time in the future to no loss. Norfolk Tours trying to eliminate the swans! It was a little after this time Anglia TV had a load of Hi 8 cameras going spare and issued them to schools to give them experience such as this. They had been purchased for evaluation but were discarded for any professional use on an engineering basis. Anglia were always very good on engineering. Some of us are still alive and can still give chapter and verse! Ah! All those manly bangles and a dislike of an insect! Life is so cruel! The snow people could not drive in because they could not lower their tyre pressures and go slower! I bet that has not changed! Not a problem for Anglia and BBC professionals who lived out of Norwich and were on the job as required. Not as bad as 1963. The big wind - well that was just time to get the chain saw out and cut the tree off your roof. Remember that well! Did some business first though as people were so busy wringing their hands that they passed up commercial opportunities! A time when the Castle Hill gardens were still open but I thought they had closed by then because of the penny slingers. All gone now!
😮😮😮AAAGGGhhhh,,,, at @17:30 THAT WAS ME in my Green Citroen Dyane CPU 208T when I had first moved up here ! THANK you for posting that. INSTANT memories 😊😊😊
Best video on UA-cam hands down. I come back and watch this atleast every year x
Hey I'm back again 9 months later
Same here, best decade ever
As an artist I love seeing how things were. These sort of vids are a treasure.
Cheers Derek 👍
It was weird watching the footage of Castle Meadow after the storm - I walked down there that day and was amazed at all the trees laying on their sides (having slept thru the entire storm - I was told about it in the morning! ). Thanks for putting this film up - takes me back 30 years to my late teen years.
If you ignore the fashion differences, the people haven't changed a bit since this video was shot. Great nostalgia. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for uploading. A real blast from the past. I keep thinking I recognize people!
It's so strange to see the city I have lived in all my life a few years before I was born, kinda strange but great video!
I remember getting a city line bus into work on the day of the big storm in '87, driving through mile x loads of trees down. I worked at baxters butchers on back of the inns, next to the royal arcade, we were quite sheltered in the shop but it was funny seeing all these pedestrians being blown passed us by the winds as they tried walking up back of the inns.
My mother used to take me to Baxters!!! You sold this short crust pastry tart with bright pink icing and I loved it! At least I think it's your old place of work.
My dad was driving for Eastern Counties at the time of the great storm of '87. He was the first out of the depot on that morning!
This is excellent, thank you so much for putting this on here. Its so important.
lived in Norwich worked here all my life never left had a family here I was 15 in 87 brings it all back good times best city in the world
Born here 1982, lived in central Norwich (big Victorian beige house in Thorpe Hamlet) until 1996; moved to shitty sheep-shagging Aylsham. Yes, that was 14 happy years, living in what is indeed best city in the world ! Luckily we haven't been commercialized or infiltrated with London overspill / yuppies.
Gosh remember waking up in the middle of the Great Storm of 87.
I remember walking through Costessey woods after the storm and seeing the huge roots of trees that came down in the storm.
I think these films are great to watch and to compare what things were like then and what it is now. Although I did not live in Norwich in the 1980s, the scenes of Britain at this time really take me back!! Thanks for posting!!
thats keith dempsey with the yellow scruffy hair, I spent the night of the storm crashing in his bedsit on unthank road, i slept through it, all i remember is keith standing at the window in the middle of the night remarking "its very windy" turned out to be as understated as michael fish was, checked out all the damage in the morning, a tree had fell into a roof up the road and trees were uprooted in chapelfield park
Yeah, a tree branch came through my bedroom window on Connaught Road !
Lol the ole city link busses and i remember the great storm of 87 very well, it was my 17th birthday and finally got the commodore 64 but couldn't play it due to no electricity for many days. Good ole michael fish never will he live that down.. 😂
Back when people could just mess about together and not be hypnotised by mobile phones .....
Exactly.
Love these videos!! Would love to see more!!
nice one derek love your films being an old crusty they take me right back even ive never lived in norwich
Thanks for sharing this - nice to hear The Norfolk Airline excerpt with David Clayton and Neil Walker in the 1986 section. What's also interesting is how virtually indistinguishable Norfolk and Broadland sound in terms of style and content in these brief clips.
Well yes, they were both local radio stations back then, now of course Broadland has gone and been replaced by a mediocre national station.
I don't think you'd expect them to sound so similar, though. If you look at the Broadland documentaries available on here from 1984 and 1989, for example, the output in there sounds quite different to the Norfolk of the time - indeed, they specifically make the point in the 1984 Anglia documentary they don't want to be "Radio Norfolk with adverts".
David Clayton is a close family friend of ours. Him and my dad, Brian Russell, both started Norwich Artistes on Oak St. My god parents owned The Talk Of East Anglia back in the day as well - where David and my dad conducted their business in the offices up the top.
A lot of hanging out and not doing very much. Ahh yes, I remember it well.
More to the point it was fun
Credit to the staff and students who made it in to City College on that blustery day!
wish i was a teen during the 80s, i hate being a teen in 2022
Lovely to see Sean Wallace at 8.36.
Some very familiar faces (including you:-)) and places. The "You gotta light" around 8 minutes in can only be one place in the world.
" 'Ave you got a light boy ?" Remember that song ?
Norwich indeed had a big punk / alternative scene in the 80s and 90s (kinda went obsolete in the early 00's mind). Won't complain though, today Norwich is still the diverse, unpretentious, down-to-earth and very friendly city it always was !
Well, it morphed into ravers and hippy type travellers
@@NR23derek aarrgghh ! Yeah I remember that; all those pierced mohawked smackheads outside the Guildhall !
@@serenechaosuk4682 I think they were a bit different to the ravers, but yeah, I remember them.
Shame because I’m 26 and I’m into punk and alternative. Guess I was born too late.
The Rank on Saturday mornings, and Millie's on St Benedict's
Hello Derek; Great film; Only disapointed not to spot myself in it; All the Best from Pete.
I was in London during the storm of October 1987 and one thing that stands out is seeing a row of parked cars, all of which were damaged by falling trees.
@6:16 - an Austin Princess ! I don't drive, but if I did, I'd love a classic car like that. Statistically, there's less than 50 of them left in the UK now that are officially deemed roadworthy.
That was no classic car known as the cheese wedge I had the misfortune to own one ... Reading your comment bought the nightmare back
@@thetruthk5138 and the Ambassador.
@@eugenemclemmont4045 The name Ambassador sounds but it was truly a living nightmare
I found myself looking at all the faces in the crowds to see if there was anyone I knew!
Excellent video of Norwich and alternative folk. Cruel bastards at 14:20 lol
Seeing the group of goths sitting in chapafeild (chappy as we call it) really humbled me to think, 40 years in the future goth kids are doing the exact same thing in the same place
Yeah, it's quite something isn't it!
What year was the snow?
That was January 1986
No mobile phones!!! 👍🏻
RIP to the ducks in this video.
In 2017 people in skinny jeans with skateboards still hang in chapelfield Park lol
The hurricane was in 1986 Or 1987 remember it well
oct 87 - you don't remember it that well ;))
Pizza one pancakes too!
Anyone remember the Hillside Club ??
Oh yes indeed. It was my hangout for about a year around 88-89 or so I think
@@NR23derek yeah, was a great place. I remember lunchtimes in there playing Talisman with lads from those flats next door !
Was it on mill mill road?
@@jackblue4078 Yes, it was on Mill Hill road.
@@peterbustin2683 Mill Hill✔️
Back when most poeple had normal sized cars. Now allot of people feel the need to buy huge SUV's. We are getting more like America and slowly losing our culture. Its a shame.
i have one year then :)
Ah yes the time of the fountains on Hay Hill they succeeded the statue and were filled with washing up liquid on a regular basis. Then we had the brain and other odd bits now they are doing something else. We could always go back to the statue but the buildings on the Walk have been burnt or rebuilt to some rubbish architectural standard that can b3 erased at any time in the future to no loss. Norfolk Tours trying to eliminate the swans!
It was a little after this time Anglia TV had a load of Hi 8 cameras going spare and issued them to schools to give them experience such as this. They had been purchased for evaluation but were discarded for any professional use on an engineering basis. Anglia were always very good on engineering. Some of us are still alive and can still give chapter and verse!
Ah! All those manly bangles and a dislike of an insect! Life is so cruel! The snow people could not drive in because they could not lower their tyre pressures and go slower! I bet that has not changed! Not a problem for Anglia and BBC professionals who lived out of Norwich and were on the job as required. Not as bad as 1963.
The big wind - well that was just time to get the chain saw out and cut the tree off your roof. Remember that well! Did some business first though as people were so busy wringing their hands that they passed up commercial opportunities! A time when the Castle Hill gardens were still open but I thought they had closed by then because of the penny slingers. All gone now!
The Difference?? Today there are soooo many faaat people about!
More lazy people now. Dog eat dog now and people with no paciance
You seen me about then lol
3:44 - Pizza One and Pancakes Too!! Wonderful place, much missed!
+Secretmermaid Girl
Remember them well... always ended up at Cinema City for the 11:00p.m. showing on Friday night.