I remember the high street looking like that, just seemed much nicer then. I also remember fishing on the pier that summer and it was hot. Southend just seems so gloomy now like all the hope has escaped, maybe it's just me or maybe it's just Britain in the 21st century.
What has SBC done to Southend since those glory days? banned airshows, banned seafront bike shows, ruined the High Street, taken away seafront parking, ruined pier hill and driven the day trippers away, oh they must be bloody proud.
Spotted My family too at 10:20 ( trotters van/ Darby and sons contractors) 😮😍 Pretty sure I was there somewhere too but was only about 8 yo at the time 😂
Grew up here for a few years back in the early 50’s,my Dad & Brother were born in Southend.Loads of my Family still live nearby..Thorpe Bay,Westcliff,Shoebury…we moved from there to Toronto,then to Victoria B.C. then on to Southern California…Seal Beach.
Hi there, we've been enjoying watching this. (especially as we make walks in soulful cities and have just filmed in in Leigh on sea and Southend), so it's lovely to see the contrast. It's also our home town. Thanks for taking the time to add it.
Does anyone have any footage or pictures of The Fantasy Dome that used to be there?, it was my favourite attraction as a kid but all memories of it seem to have been lost, and there isn't much footage of it anywhere sadly
Which year was this ? I think I see my windsurf board on my balcony on Eastern Esplanade at 9:40 minutes, during the raft race ! I live in Derbyshire now ... miss the coast though.
I remember the high street looking like that, just seemed much nicer then. I also remember fishing on the pier that summer and it was hot. Southend just seems so gloomy now like all the hope has escaped, maybe it's just me or maybe it's just Britain in the 21st century.
Even just 20 years back, everything seemed so ordered and 'proper', not like today's shambles.
shower of shit now like
What has SBC done to Southend since those glory days? banned airshows, banned seafront bike shows, ruined the High Street, taken away seafront parking, ruined pier hill and driven the day trippers away, oh they must be bloody proud.
howgoodwasthat we had the shake dwn this year
howgoodwasthat shame about the air shows though
yeah but you now have lots of diversity ,so stop moaning ...
Southend was a lovely place!
Was , don’t think I would want to walk around there now
This was the late 80’s. I used to work at the Currys store which was closed in 1990
unbelievable!!! Just watched this with my wife and she's in it!! At the raft race, her and her brother and cousin. Totally blew her mind lol.
Spotted My family too at 10:20 ( trotters van/ Darby and sons contractors) 😮😍
Pretty sure I was there somewhere too but was only about 8 yo at the time 😂
Oh to be back to normal and good ole times just like this, before the horrible Covid-19 I miss my old home town Southend-on-Sea
Grew up here for a few years back in the early 50’s,my Dad & Brother were born in Southend.Loads of my Family still live nearby..Thorpe Bay,Westcliff,Shoebury…we moved from there to Toronto,then to Victoria B.C. then on to Southern California…Seal Beach.
Oh how times have changed and not for the better!
Born here 1970. Now live opposite side of the world.
Hi there, we've been enjoying watching this. (especially as we make walks in soulful cities and have just filmed in in Leigh on sea and Southend), so it's lovely to see the contrast. It's also our home town. Thanks for taking the time to add it.
WAS...The place to be!!!
The propaganda dept out again. Southend is far from that now, had to go back last year, believe me, it is a s****hole now.
I lived just off the seafront 88 - 98... the best think I did was move.
You can't go down the seafront anymore without fear of being stabbed.
The air show was in 1989!? I was in Southend just finished A level ready to go to Hatfield Polytechnic!
Does anyone have any footage or pictures of The Fantasy Dome that used to be there?, it was my favourite attraction as a kid but all memories of it seem to have been lost, and there isn't much footage of it anywhere sadly
Leigh on Sea born and bred
My cousins started Hair hairdressers on the Broadway back in the 60s. Still there I think ? I live in Derbyshire now.
And the stalls who sold muscles and winkled
When Southend and England were proud to be English
The Dinosour in the High st would now be canceled and arrested for public offence!!
It's not been the place to be since Hammerson destroyed Talza. The beginning of the end.
Now it’s a no go area and we all know why
Why?
Which year was this ? I think I see my windsurf board on my balcony on Eastern Esplanade at 9:40 minutes, during the raft race ! I live in Derbyshire now ... miss the coast though.
In the clip when the Mayor opened the carnival he said 1989.
@@buttonmoon1978 great. Yes it WAS my windsurfer. I lived there 1985 till late 1989 👍
@@oldpopmike I moved from Southend in 1998 and now living in Lincolnshire so it's nice to watch old clips of Southend and just how I remembered it.
@@buttonmoon1978 I moved up here 1994 ! I pop back every year though, to see friends.
Did you have a relative called Bert Izod had a second hand shop in Southend.
I remember Izod second hand shop !!!!! 😁
Who is the big black guy?
Frank Bruno. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bruno
what a downgrade, Frank Bruno to Gemma Collins