Canterbury Amateur Film Archive
Tim Jones
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A unique record of Mount Road in the 1950s before the Barton Road Estate was completed.
It was filmed by John Purchese, a well-known figure in Canterbury. He had been Mayor of the City and Chairman of KCC. He worked in the film industry as a sound recordist.
This is brilliant. Interesting to see half of Mount Road still unbuilt and Pilgrims Way.
I lived on Barton Estate from the late 1960s and remember playing on the old allotments before they built the ‘new’ houses on Pilgrims Way, near the bridge. We would also go up to Mounts Farm (Little Barton Farm) and play houses in the apple pallets! I remember that we found some interesting fly tipped sheets of Letraset and transfers!
There was a crèche for the fruit picker’s children too and so many orchards.
Now destined for housing I think.
Yes I remember all this. I grew up in Old Dover Road but our car drive went into New Dover Road, Barton Estate area was still quite open, uncompleted. Behind the homes and Pilgrims the fields were still farmed by Mounts,. One of my earliest memories was two steam tractions pulling a plough between Mounts and Barton Roads. Even back then (early 50s!!) parts of Pilgrims Way, where it went over the railway bridge, was unmade. Further away to North East you could see that Lewis Builders were underway constructing the new Spring Lane Estate
I remember the film club and John purchase
I had a Rolls John Bloom cine camera.
Still have the film