The Isle of Sheppey Past & Present - Sheerness & Queenborough - Kent Local History 2008

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  • Опубліковано 23 вер 2024
  • Travel though time and compare to the present, which in this video is actually 2008. So quite a few 'present' photos can now be put into the past category. Hope for an update in the near future.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 27

  • @JanetPoole-b2p
    @JanetPoole-b2p 20 днів тому +1

    What a beautiful film good old sheppey England the good times safe and peaceful lovely thankyou

  • @marilyneckel5714
    @marilyneckel5714 Рік тому +6

    What a great presentation of the pictorial history of Sheerness. Thanks for all your hard work in keeping the island's history alive!

    • @awol116
      @awol116  Рік тому +2

      Love doing it, Marilyn. Cheers.

  • @xxxxxx-kr4ss
    @xxxxxx-kr4ss Рік тому +3

    Sehr schöne Geschichte, Dankeschön fürs Teilen ❤❤❤❤

  • @SaxonSuccess
    @SaxonSuccess Рік тому +1

    What a superb sequence of images. Thank you for the nostalgia for a time past. I'm not really in tune with the present time. I feel it more and more with each passing day.

    • @awol116
      @awol116  Рік тому

      Thank you. Great memories.

  • @geoffaustin9385
    @geoffaustin9385 11 місяців тому +3

    Absolutely fascinating. A large consensus of people would say the changes are down to progress. I'm sorry but i struggle with that.

  • @antonydennant3584
    @antonydennant3584 Рік тому +1

    Absolutely fascinating & so many shots I've not seen before! So sad at all the losses........ How much lovelier Sheerness would be with most of them still there!

    • @awol116
      @awol116  Рік тому +2

      Yes, Anthony, and still more losses!

  • @no_soy_rubio
    @no_soy_rubio Рік тому +1

    Greay presentation, looked so much nicer back in the day! Can't believe a tram used to run along the Broadway! The first electric trams in Britain apparently, and they only lasted 14 years

  • @spudspuddy
    @spudspuddy Рік тому

    lived and worked on sheppey for 52 years, retired in essex but miss the island something terrible...thanks for these lovely videos

    • @awol116
      @awol116  Рік тому +1

      Thanks for comments. It is Victory Street (just of High St) looking to what is now Millennium Way. Pub was The True Briton now Domino's Pizza as you can see in now photo (2008) & is still there. Police Station background on the left. Pepys Av is the next road dow. Understand missing the Island.

    • @spudspuddy
      @spudspuddy Рік тому

      @@awol116 thanks, enjoyed your videos enormously

  • @tinkeringinthailand8147
    @tinkeringinthailand8147 Рік тому

    Wonderful, thanks for posting. I lived in Queenborough from 1972 to 1978

  • @woden20
    @woden20 11 місяців тому +2

    Going backwards. They looked after and made their living areas beautiful to the eye.

  • @michaeldillon3113
    @michaeldillon3113 Рік тому +3

    When you see it in the round the decline has been tragic . I was born in 1955 and u think at that time the consensus was that Sheerness was anice little place .
    Thing is we were a one trick pony - the whole raison d' etre of Sheerness was the Royal Navy dockyard . Without that it's just been decline .

    • @awol116
      @awol116  Рік тому +3

      Spot-on, Michael.

  • @toddhunter3137
    @toddhunter3137 8 місяців тому +1

    It was such a shame they demolished the RIO cinema building on the Broadway, especially for those hideously awful flats they built in it's place, those flats could have been built anywhere around the town and have kept the Rio.

  • @michaeldillon3113
    @michaeldillon3113 Рік тому +2

    Shameful that they destroyed a community at Westminster about 50 years ago and that site is a tip and an eyesore !!!

    • @awol116
      @awol116  Рік тому +1

      Smashing village & people.

  • @museonfilm8919
    @museonfilm8919 8 місяців тому

    So essentially, most of the good architecture and character is now gone!

  • @royfr8136
    @royfr8136 Рік тому +3

    Those people in the 1800s and early 20th centruy would have never thought that the town would turn into such a hell hole of dispear and ugliness.

    • @SaxonSuccess
      @SaxonSuccess Рік тому +2

      It's pretty much the same all over England. The last one hundred years have seen some dreadful changes in the fabric of the country, and our way of life.

    • @royfr8136
      @royfr8136 Місяць тому

      @@SaxonSuccess 😴

  • @michaelmiller641
    @michaelmiller641 17 днів тому

    And they demolished West Minster for no reason in the end

  • @christinekelly5916
    @christinekelly5916 8 місяців тому +2

    Wasn't it beautiful