Bright Lights... Big City... (Drone Footage)
8This Drone Footage Video captures shows Old Town in Swindon at Midnight looking over the expansive New Town areas in the distance. This video wasnt filmed by me, just edited. Trying some new effects, hope you enjoy!!
p.s.the music might be a little loud so headphone users turn down the volume and please don't sue ;)
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You Can see in this video, Newport Street home of a beautiful well received on Trip Advisor Caribbean Restaurant called Moshan Island Grill as well as a Restaurant turned Nightclub called The Tree. Wood Street is home of many of Swindons Finest Bars and shops.
Moshan Island Grill Trip Advisor: https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g187049-d2255435-Reviews-Moshan_Island_Grill-Swindon_Wiltshire_England.html
Moshan Island Grill Website: http://www.moshanislandgrill.co.uk
The Tree Nightclub Website: https://www.treeswindon.com
Some Swindon History:
Old Swindon on a large hill retains much of the character of the little market town it was until comparatively recently. New Town is a product of the Industrial Revolution - a canal junction in the eighteenth century and in the nineteenth the Victorian equivalent of the Kennedy Space Centre: the largest dedicated industrial complex in the world servicing the Great Western Railway. Swindon's history revolves around its geography and geology. Midway between London and Bristol and also between the south coast and the midlands the town lies in a broad belt of historic trade routes and highways, from the prehistoric Ridgeway and Roman Ermine Street to the Wilts and Berks Canal, G.W.R. and modern M4.
Historically the Romans were the first to settle in, on what was known as Swindon Hill. Swindon Hill, 500 feet above sea level, attracted settlement from earliest times for its strategic position and excellent water supply. It is a great rock of Portland limestone that lies on top of the chalk hills and clay valleys of North Wiltshire. The Romans discovered it, quarried the stone and shipped it down to their settlement below the hill at Durocornovium on the main road between Silchester and Cirencester.
After the Romans left, Saxons lived on the hill, and named it.
A chieftain's long house and a cluster of huts once stood where Saxon Court is today, behind Market Square.
The market was established by the Earl of Pembroke, Henry III's half-brother, who inherited the valuable Lordship of "Chipping Swindon" in 1254. With "Right of gallows and assize of bread and ale", the Earl or his Steward dispensed justice as well as regulating trade. Stocks and pillory stood in the square, and a ducking stool at the mill pond, while the gallows loomed grimly on the crest at the top of Kings Hill.
The house, "The Lawns" was a fine eighteenth century house built on the site of a Tudor mansion and the home of the Goddard family, Lords of the Manor from 1563 until 1927. The tree-lined drive leads to massive arched gate piers on the High Street facing a range of buildings whose architecture varies from sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.
Prosperity really came to Swindon - and the Goddards - with the plague and fire in the 17th Century. Plague closed down Highworth market and brought the trade of North Wiltshire to Swindon market. The rebuilding of London after the great fire led to a new demand for Swindon stone - not, alas, for elegant churches but for paving stone.
The streets of London in the 18th Century were paved, not with gold, but with Swindon Stone!
Swindon's wealth came from the quarry, the market and the agricultural trades - corn merchants, leatherworkers, millers and brewers as well as the widespread but less legitimate trading of smuggling. Swindon was also a distribution centre for the brandies, tobacco and lace run ashore in the secret coves of the south coast, but destined for the midland counties. A honeycomb of tunnels and cellars lay beneath the elegant houses, humble cottages and busy coaching inns of the eighteenth century Swindon.
Read more about the history here: http://www.swindonweb.com/?m=8&s=116&ss=320&c=1182&t=The+History+of+Old+Town
Equipment Used: DJI Phantom 3 Advanced
Editing Software: Final Cut Pro X
Music: 'Bright Lights Big City' by Julien Gobinet
Assess Link: https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/140128
Location: Marlborough Road/ Newport Street/ Wood Street, Swindon SN1.
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