Brentford Film

[mark99]

Towards the end is a feature about the canal. Including the boats I posted previously.

 

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-what-and-where-is-paradise-1960s-1960-online?fbclid=IwAR2BYXGseAN4aNF1zndaNXj0un42pupk3pUnmoObSWbpBcoUeElD4qiUJN8

 

 

"This is a marvellous film, directed by Chris Owen, a student at Kingston Art School keen to explore Brentford’s industrial architecture. Numerous wonderful shots are taken of the area, many focussing on the gasworks – which he also films from inside – but also of wharves, shops, a funeral, factories, housing, advertisements, churches and drinkers outside the Beehive pub. Much of the vocal track comes from conversations with curious schoolchildren"

 

 

[Thames Bhaji]

That is brilliant in so many ways - thanks for sharing. 

[mark99]

1 hour ago, Thames Bhaji said:

That is brilliant in so many ways - thanks for sharing. 

 

It's fantastic is it not!

 

Brentford has been changed beyond all recognition.

[jake_crew]

Mmm Doesn't work for me.

 

Do I have to join or sign in ?

[ditchcrawler]

32 minutes ago, jake_crew said:

Mmm Doesn't work for me.

 

Do I have to join or sign in ?

I see it but the format is wrong and on my machine the sound very poor

[Derek R.]

The format is 'wrong', and the sound is poor. But what comes across to me is the dereliction and scruffyness of everything, which was quite common to many areas of London and I'm sure the whole country, especially in towns. The end of an era.

Fascinating images from within and from the top of the gasworks. Brentford Market Hall still existed into the mid seventies, but derelict. You would have to go back another 30 or 40yrs to see the whole area a hive of activity.

[ditchcrawler]

2 hours ago, Derek R. said:

The format is 'wrong', and the sound is poor.  

Thanks,I thought it was my end causing the problem

[Tam & Di]

4 hours ago, Derek R. said:

Brentford Market Hall still existed into the mid seventies, but derelict. You would have to go back another 30 or 40yrs to see the whole area a hive of activity.

Not quite that far. My father went there just after the war to buy among other things sacks of plums that my mother then bottled in Kilner jars to last through the winter, along with the tomatos from the 100 plants in our garden.

 

Tam

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

5 hours ago, Derek R. said:

scruffyness of everything, which was quite common

My early memory  of the 70’s in the Midlands (particularly Nuneaton, Bedworth and Coventry) is the  scruffiness. 
 

 

Edited January 30, 2022 by Goliath
Has owt changed

[mark99]

Scruffy is good. 😀

 

In the 80's I considered living in Brentford as it was offering cheap<ish> flats. I had lots of Estate Agents sending me their details. Alan Freeman and Brentford Nylons. Now there is a memory.