Film

[snowman]

One of my favorites is the Twickenham-Teddington first day of trolleybus

Starts with a U turn in Twickenham about here

Passes the entrance to what is now Abellio Twickenham garage at 5:05

Basically follows what is now 281 bus route (although it uses the narrow Stanley Road instead of South Street)

Link to You Tube film

[snowman]

Don't watch this if you like old buses in film

[ServerKing]

Aug 11, 2019 22:31:46 GMT vjaska said:

Aug 11, 2019 22:01:25 GMT rif153 said:

I'd like one on the 53. It would've been nice if the BBC had made a documentary along the 53 about forty years ago so you could've seen how Elephant and Woolwich have changed

The one continuing thing would be the rat infested Elephant & Castle shopping centre - the many owners of the building including the current occupiers who happen to be the same people redeveloping Elephant turning it into Yuppie & Castle should be ashamed of themselves for letting it become such a mess. If anyone wants to know what a 50's/60's shopping centre looked like, go inside because it's like time has stood still.

Is there still a market at Elephant & Castle? Back in the day I used to buy my VCD's (cheap version of DVD's) and watch Nollywood (Nigerian) movies I haven't been around there since the disastrous re-model of the roads, aside from driving down towards Old Kent Rd a few months ago.

Everything is getting Gentrified - even Brentford Are they keeping the Elephant shopping centre or will it go at some point?

[MrMaguire]

Aug 12, 2019 15:47:25 GMT ServerKing said:

Aug 11, 2019 22:31:46 GMT vjaska said:

The one continuing thing would be the rat infested Elephant & Castle shopping centre - the many owners of the building including the current occupiers who happen to be the same people redeveloping Elephant turning it into Yuppie & Castle should be ashamed of themselves for letting it become such a mess. If anyone wants to know what a 50's/60's shopping centre looked like, go inside because it's like time has stood still.

Is there still a market at Elephant & Castle? Back in the day I used to buy my VCD's (cheap version of DVD's) and watch Nollywood (Nigerian) movies I haven't been around there since the disastrous re-model of the roads, aside from driving down towards Old Kent Rd a few months ago.

Everything is getting Gentrified - even Brentford Are they keeping the Elephant shopping centre or will it go at some point?

Video CDs, lol. I used to make my own back before I had a half decent computer. I think they're even still popular in east Asia.

[rif153]

Aug 12, 2019 15:47:25 GMT ServerKing said:

Aug 11, 2019 22:31:46 GMT vjaska said:

The one continuing thing would be the rat infested Elephant & Castle shopping centre - the many owners of the building including the current occupiers who happen to be the same people redeveloping Elephant turning it into Yuppie & Castle should be ashamed of themselves for letting it become such a mess. If anyone wants to know what a 50's/60's shopping centre looked like, go inside because it's like time has stood still.

Is there still a market at Elephant & Castle? Back in the day I used to buy my VCD's (cheap version of DVD's) and watch Nollywood (Nigerian) movies I haven't been around there since the disastrous re-model of the roads, aside from driving down towards Old Kent Rd a few months ago.

Everything is getting Gentrified - even Brentford Are they keeping the Elephant shopping centre or will it go at some point?

I believe the plan to redevelop the shopping centre was so controversial it was scrapped but I could be wrong on that

[george]

some very interesting choices of what routes people would choose. I think I would still choose a central London route.