Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
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A friend of mine gave me this videotape about 10 years ago, he found it in a junk shop. It's a copy of a home movie. I suspect that the sound was played feom a tape recorder as it runs out of sync in places. It's also a bit quaint in that the background music, Allegri Miserere, is played at double speed!
It can be dated as Astor School was being built.
I know no more about it than that, suggestions would be welcome.
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Terry
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What a fab find!
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Brilliant!
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Brian Dixon
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brings back memeries.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Excellent - a couple of familiar faces too....
DT1- Location: Dover
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Amazing, haven't seen this one before. It features two of my old houses, tower Hamlets still has a lot of the charm abundant in this film.
There are loads more like this from the same period and going up to the early 80s. They feature much of the town, surrounding area and also school activities. They are in the possession of a teacher at the school, who is also a proud Dovorian and grew up in Tower Hamlets. I know he is keen for people to see them, it's just how you go about doing that...maybe YouTube is the answer.
A great bit of social history.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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Yes, the two builder chaps were from Hayward and Paramor, who once had their yard at 320 London Road. The quarry was featured in "Telford's Change"
All those Bedford lorries in the council yard!
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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DT1 - I'm told that the man walking round was in fact the caretaker from Astor.
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DT1- Location: Dover
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I have no idea Terry. This video was made a good few years before I was born.
I will let you know, if somebody else doesn't get in there first!
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I suspect that is right Terry. I certainly recognise him but cannot be certain that he was the caretaker.
Guest 665- Registered: 24 Mar 2008
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Amazing!
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Loved watching that Terry, everyone took such pride in their homes and surroundings back then
Keith Sansum1
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TERRY
Being a tower hamlets geezer born and bred(Edred road) was amazed at the footage, and changes in that short time.
part of the footage showed kings shop, a meeting point for many, and one of the busiest shops in the area, very sad when they decided to close shop
now replaced by a house.
there were a number of other changes to.
but a brill footage
ta
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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Yes Keith, Kings was a stopping off place on the way to school, both corners of South Road had shops. There was also a barber in South Road who had an unfortunate "condition". Best not go into that on here!
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An interesting find there Terry, it seems like another age and some interesting characters too!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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yes wasnt the hairdresser called parramore? used to go there
then there was casey's cakes(still there)
widred hill primary school
blimey list is endless
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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Possibly not the same barber Keith, I'm talking 1960ish on that one.
I'm just hoping whoever made the film will come forward.
Terry
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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yes probably another barber, but the paramore geezer was around a long time
used to be in the present hairdressers opposite the paper shop.
was for years
what was the name of the primary school on widred road?
then the butchers in south road(a barryw connection i think)
odo road always seeme so long to walk whwen i was a child
but look at it now no different to any other road(just shorter legs then lol)
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Blimey Keith, we might have been neighbours! We lived in Edred Rd from 73 to 84, great times when all the hillside opposite was allotments and High Meadow was covered in rusting cars.
I'm pretty sure Astor School had been completed when we moved there and the cars and clothes look a bit more late 60s. The school on Widred had closed when we moved in and was I think a printers.
Lovely to see the film of the maypole, both our girls went to Astor Junior and were May Queens. I think the tradition was stopped in the 80s after the old head retired and a moderniser took over.
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blimey ray
i live at number 33
now its 33 and 33a
used to be just one
close to allotments
used to spend many a day playing in them cars on the high meadow as many kids
and time on the hills opposite
now housing.
small world aint it lol
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