I clicked my way around Penzance the other day with Google Street View, which was pretty exciting, but this morning I stumbled across some even more compulsive footage: a video of Penzance on a sunny day in 1964.
Probably only long-standing locals will make it to the end of the six minutes, lovely though they are, but it’s worth a look if only for the chirpy Beatles soundtrack, the cool old cars, bobbies on bikes, and to marvel at how little, essentially, PZ has changed.
I did, however, note one key difference: no one in Penzance dresses that smartly anymore. Men in suits and braces? Women in dresses and heels (all sporting a fetching pastel-cardie-over-the-shoulder look)? I feel so underdressed in my Hager vor hoodie.
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April 4, 2013 at 10:37 pm
Anonymous
Do you have the footage on a DVD ,I think I am the one on the pony trotting down Causewayhead.
April 6, 2013 at 2:30 pm
ismay atkins
i don’t i’m afraid, it isn’t my video.. i just posted the link. Sorry!
January 6, 2011 at 9:49 am
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January 3, 2011 at 7:53 am
Lenny
What a wonderful video, takes me back to my youth, i remember very well what penzance was like all them years ago. even though i now live in somerset, i still visit penzance and area. still have relations there. i was born redruth hospital 1951. thanks for sharing this video, would love to see lots more like this. Lenny.
May 8, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Mariellen Romer
Funny! As you say, some things are still the very much same. Thanks for posting.