Sadly 😭 Crawley is full of homeless people now ☹️ laying on the floor we got homeless shelters in Crawley the social housing wait for a house 🏡 is up to 3 years .
1:33 I *do wish* the cameraman of this would have gone into the foyer and showed the inside of that Cannon/ABC cinema. 😒 Can anyone growing up in Crawley at the time tell me what it was like to go a see a film there?
I watched Superman there when it came out. The cinema had one massive screen and an upstairs seating area. Later it was divided up into 3 smaller cinemas. The entrance foyer was mostly original 1930's decor until it was eventually demolished to make way for new developments.
The old library!! I remember, when I was 5 or 6, some woman getting out of the car and calling my dad a pig because she thought he had stolen her parking space. One of those random memories that I wish I could return to and see what actually happened!! Happy times in Crawley. Miss my town.
Crawley Town look totally different back in 1987😱 l was a 10 years old back then the biggest mistake that was made was shutting the original post office in Crawley and putting in WHSmith store .
Maidenbower; never in the original Crawley New Town development plan. Like the Broadfields and Ifield West developments it should have remained part of the Green Belt.
The Fox pub. A great old pub, used to drink there regularly 1967-1971, when I worked at Target Motor Company. In recent years I've been in it's replacement, 'The Snooty Fox', once on a visit to Crawley and I thought it was appalling - typical of all the so-called 'improvements' to Crawley.
They demolished The Fox pub, as it stood right where the road under the 2nd bridge runs now. It was always the intention to reinstate a pub once the road widening was complete, and The Snooty Fox sits on the land behind it.
I was born and bred in Crawley and turned 3 in 1985. Lots I remember from this video. The old AMF bowling where the Travelodge is now brought back great memories. The old cinema (now Turtle Bay?) where my dad took me to see the Jungle Book (1987 I believe - must have been a 20 year anniversary). This was a bittersweet vid for me. I've moved away now but come back when I can. Crawley will always be home. :-)
You look at it now and the culture, town and many other things have changed ! I went there a few months back and didn't recognise it whatsoever ! The road layout is kinda the same but so many new buildings and streets it's unrecognisable
Crawley was amazing for jobs in 87, people would stand outside the job centre, offering jobs and handing out leaflets, saying don't bother going in there, we've got jobs on offer.
Looked so much nicer back then. I was 17 at this time and have good memories of Crawley town centre from this era. It’s gradually gone way downhill from this sadly.
I remember Coming up the town centre in the afternoon with my mum after Diana funeral service had ended at Westminster Abbey it didn't feel like a normal Saturday.
That's how I remember the northern end of the High Street/London Road best, the Halifax now the Jubille Oak, the old market site, the cinema,/ ballroom /bowling alley now all gone/relocated. My late mother used to work at the Telephone Exchange until 1985, that and the Tower Block at the college are two of the few things that remain largely unaltered today !!
No mobile phones ❤ I remember it well
gresham house and the galleria wernt there in 1987 ,i worked on both of them
It was lovely back then shit hole now
Crawley looks totally different in 1997.🤣
And 25 years and 13 days later was the Queens funeral
When did snooty fox appear
It opened in 1992.
in 1987 Crawley town didn't have homeless people laying in shop doorway.😰
The High street is sadly 😰 dying yesterday Argos store in Crawley town closed after 27 years in the location it opened in January 1997.
Why does the College look so tall? haha
Lived there is the mid 70’s had the most amazing childhood and memories. Unique place.
Sadly 😭 Crawley is full of homeless people now ☹️ laying on the floor we got homeless shelters in Crawley the social housing wait for a house 🏡 is up to 3 years .
1:33 I *do wish* the cameraman of this would have gone into the foyer and showed the inside of that Cannon/ABC cinema. 😒 Can anyone growing up in Crawley at the time tell me what it was like to go a see a film there?
I watched Superman there when it came out. The cinema had one massive screen and an upstairs seating area. Later it was divided up into 3 smaller cinemas. The entrance foyer was mostly original 1930's decor until it was eventually demolished to make way for new developments.
The old library!! I remember, when I was 5 or 6, some woman getting out of the car and calling my dad a pig because she thought he had stolen her parking space. One of those random memories that I wish I could return to and see what actually happened!! Happy times in Crawley. Miss my town.
I was 5 when this video was taken, now in my 40s. Missing my home town tonight.
This looks so much nicer than it is now, so much green around the town, now it’s all been built on. Some call it progress, i call it greed.
Are you a time traveler ?
Lovely video
The window display in the Surplus shop was the same as it was 20 or more years later when it eventually closed at that site.
My parents and grandparents years in Crawley.
I worked as a tyre fitter for Anchor tyres in 1987 , Moved to Scotland years later and very glad I did , Great memories
It doesn't say welcome to County Mall any more 🤣 County Mall shopping Centre was only 5 years old in September 1997.
Crawley Town look totally different back in 1987😱 l was a 10 years old back then the biggest mistake that was made was shutting the original post office in Crawley and putting in WHSmith store .
wonderful film good lod days xxx
The Cure from crawley ???
How nice (but sad) to see the old Sun inn. I remember when they demolished it and then discovered it was much older than they thought it was.
town mead crawley towns home just behind through the allotments remember about 10 fans watching on our way to the rugby club
Maidenbower; never in the original Crawley New Town development plan. Like the Broadfields and Ifield West developments it should have remained part of the Green Belt.
The Fox pub. A great old pub, used to drink there regularly 1967-1971, when I worked at Target Motor Company. In recent years I've been in it's replacement, 'The Snooty Fox', once on a visit to Crawley and I thought it was appalling - typical of all the so-called 'improvements' to Crawley.
They demolished The Fox pub, as it stood right where the road under the 2nd bridge runs now. It was always the intention to reinstate a pub once the road widening was complete, and The Snooty Fox sits on the land behind it.
Crawley New Town, a town ruined since it's 1950's /60's/70's heyday by a dodgy town council and shithouse developers.
I came here in 1981. Crawley was like a dream come true. A quaint little village back then. 💕
used to work in Three Bridges in 1987 and used to drink in that pub opposite
My dad worked in the control room for the trains at three bridges.
I was born and bred in Crawley and turned 3 in 1985. Lots I remember from this video. The old AMF bowling where the Travelodge is now brought back great memories. The old cinema (now Turtle Bay?) where my dad took me to see the Jungle Book (1987 I believe - must have been a 20 year anniversary). This was a bittersweet vid for me. I've moved away now but come back when I can. Crawley will always be home. :-)
Lived there then, live there now, god help me :)
You look at it now and the culture, town and many other things have changed ! I went there a few months back and didn't recognise it whatsoever ! The road layout is kinda the same but so many new buildings and streets it's unrecognisable
Have to laugh at the giant McDonald's sign near the burger king.
I laughed st that too!
Crawley was amazing for jobs in 87, people would stand outside the job centre, offering jobs and handing out leaflets, saying don't bother going in there, we've got jobs on offer.
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I love Crawley
Looked so much nicer back then. I was 17 at this time and have good memories of Crawley town centre from this era. It’s gradually gone way downhill from this sadly.
My home town born in 1978, Crawley hospitol, I remember everything, this refreshed my memories, oh wow amazing to see the good old days
Cinema was playing Jaws the revenge and 007. It looks so odd that there is no leisure park behind the fire station
I moved here in 1981.seen alot of changes but not for the better. Fantastic memories. Thankyou for sharing. 😊
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What year was that shopping centre built? that use to be a big car park?
I remember Coming up the town centre in the afternoon with my mum after Diana funeral service had ended at Westminster Abbey it didn't feel like a normal Saturday.
This is how I remember Crawley as a kid and teenager in the 70s & 80s. I only ever see it now when passing through on the train.
Nearly nothing of this crawley left now, Herbert's is a betting shop no cinema no post office no fountain so sad 😢
The fountain was saved its in the town hall
@@stephenkissane4268 the town hall is going and not sure what they have done with the fountain now
Who's the old guy at 6:30?
That's how I remember the northern end of the High Street/London Road best, the Halifax now the Jubille Oak, the old market site, the cinema,/ ballroom /bowling alley now all gone/relocated. My late mother used to work at the Telephone Exchange until 1985, that and the Tower Block at the college are two of the few things that remain largely unaltered today !!
Seeing block buster video and tempo in three bridges takes me back, now two supermarkets Lidl & Iceland.
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