Sunday afternoon drive through Old Lower Hutt, 13th Nov 1988

Starts on Waterloo Rd at the corner with Bloomfield Terrace. Foodtown supermarket is on the left. Queensgate carpark and Event Cinema are there now. Crosses Queens Drive at the stop sign. Turns left into High Street by Music Manor. Proceeds south across Margaret Street, past the old Post Office on the right, blur of shops on the left with a brief glimpse down Laings Road. The very old block of shops on the right at the south end of High Street has since been demolished. DIC used to be there somewhere, also Smiths Cycles and a computer shop. I remember Woolworths and McKenzies used to be about there too, on opposite sides of the road. Continues past St James Church, around the old roundabout, past Homestead Chicken and the ambulance station (about where KFC used to be), over the old Ewen Bridge and over the new flyover to Railway Ave. Turns right into Aglionby Street and zigzags onto the Normandale bridge.

Shops were closed on Sundays in 1988, so there was very little traffic.

My brother was trying out his brand new Sony CCD-AU200 Video 8 Handycam. I applied a software filter to smooth out the bumps.