I was born in 61 and we lived in Chelmsford but we often went to Southend and this brings back so many memories. I had to repeat one part again and again as the little boy by the boating lake at 2:56 looks like I did then and I was sure it was me for a while. Particularly fond of watching this footage as I lost my 94 year old dad 8 weeks ago and this takes me back to a happier time with no cares. Thank You.
Just how I remember Southend-on-Sea - plenty of colourful lights, great rides and lots for kids to do! I lived in East Ham in the 1960's, so a day trip to Southend was a real treat!
I'm from Southend and I remember the day trippers from London coming in on many buses on the weekends. We young, giggling girls used to wave to the lads on the buses, as the buses veered around where the Ekco was, on their way to pubs, rides, swimming and just a fun time. ,.
I was from East Ham … born 1960 . Loved our annual trip to Southend … train from East Ham to Barking then train to Southend … long day on pier , amusements and boat lake .. saw the illuminations eating fish and chips then a mad run for the last train 😂😂then big treat was black cab from East Ham station home . My mum and dad saved all,year for it … dad working in the docks and mum at home until my dad got in then she was off to work …. Best job she had was in the chippy in High street north … always brought chips home Other summer event was town show in Central Park … loved that day with the fireworks when it got dark Alas East Ham is unrecognisable today , totally destroyed by mass immigration… my youngest brother is just moving out now it’s so,sad
@@oldguy2976 It is indeed very sad when your country doesn'..t feel like your country any more. I live in Canada, have done for quite a while, ..but similar kind of concerns here as well
@@oldguy2976 I'm from Manorpark and went to Southend a couple of times a year with my mate Brian Berry, we got the train from Ilford. Your not wrong about the state of our old home town mate.
@@crawford1083 about 15 years ago I started working for the dwp, everything was about "equality and diversity", it only took me about a week to realise that the phrase actually meant "extreme hatred and removal of all rights for working class white English people". I left when I was told to help a 40 year old Bangladeshi apply for child benefit for his 13 year old wife.
Some things were better - there was less panic about children's freedom - but a lot was worse, such as heavily polluted air from lead in petrol, or the police being able to frame up working class men for crimes they hadn't committed. Disabled people had fewer rights in those days, too.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx You don't even get what this woman is saying do you ? , you're part of why today is so bad , just look at the Palestinian flag on your moniker . this counrty is f****d because of people like you , now carry on reading the spew that comes out of the Guardian , you're a real doom merchant aren't you ?
I was born in vallance rd eastlondon 1961 my nan lived behind the kursal and as kids in the 60s my dad would would take us on train from fenchurch street sometimes we would get out at leigh and walk along the front the smell the seagulls the amusements are things i have never forgotton and collecting pebbles ❤
Great memories. Used to love the pier,the Kursaal and Peter Pan's playground as a kid in the early 70s. Who remembers that waxwork outside of the Golden Hind? But the Kursaal was my favourite by far.
The man getting his head chopped off with the pendulum. As a kid if we were going to southend I'd ask me mum can we see the man getting his head chopped off ........years later I'm 30 & I used to fish all night on southend pier. I was on the one night at half 9 pm . The security guard finished at 10 pm . So I'd be all alone all night on the pier . He told me the pier was haunted by a bloke from the late Victorian time . I was like this all night 👀 until morning
The golden hind is now a tourist attraction on the south bank in london. Its really popular. Seems strange when you remember the waxworks and the man strapped to a table and a swinging half-moon blade.
This video brought back so many memories from my childhood (I'm 75 now). We stayed in digs in Seaview Road (a misnomer if ever there was one) the landlady was Mrs Wakeling assisted by her daughter Sadie. We used the beach at Thorpe Bay (by the gas works). We used to get beach trays from the Bulldog Cafe opposite the beach and in the evening we used to walk into Southend proper and get fish and chips from Clark's on the seafront. I also loved the Rossi's ice cream (dad called them 'topper-uppers') and I can almost taste them now. Ah! Memories!!
My family would visit Southend once a year to see the lights. We would walk the length of the pier, play on the amusements and then take the train back. There was a park that had a fairy railway running through it and tableaus of Bill and Ben and other children’s tv favourites. We would have a little saucer of seafood followed by an ice cream and then the lights would come on and it was magical.
Wonderful visual record of families enjoy a day at the seaside..l lived there from 1946 to 2000...Was it better then? l believe it was. l remember going to the Ritz children's morning matinee, running along a high street full of shops, long before pedestrianisation.
Might have looked nicer but it certainly wasn't beneath the surface. We know now that a massive paedophile ring was operating in Southend back then - which includes child killers Sidney Cooke and Lennie Smith. Smith lived in Southend for a while and Cooke was a regular visitor. Much of it centred around the amusement arcades where Smith and an elderly paedophile, Jack Parsons, were grooming kids. The local investigative journalist Charles Thomson put together a podcast about it all. He found that the ring also included corrupt police, drugs, local business men, teachers, bus drivers and pub owners. Kids from Southend were being taken across the south east, and many were used for child pornography. His podcast is called "Untold - Shoebury's lost boys"
I was born in 1962 and lived in Forest Gate, my Dad left in 68 and moved to Southend and remarried..I used to come down for the 6 week holidays in the early 70s and this is very much how I remember it, I live here myself now and although most of the front is still vibrant and busy other parts, especially the town centre are a shadow of what they were then...very sad 😔
I was born in the east end of London but when i was 3 mum & dad moved to Rayleigh about 8 miles from Southend so a lot of my childhood & youth was spent in Southend haven't been there of over 30 years until now this has taken me back in time. Thank you.
We can reminisce of the great British way of life the great British culture the great British humour those days are long gone. The country is in a state and it will never ever be the same again I remember the sound of the train on the pair distinctive sound I remember everything that was shown in this video great days in Southend in years gone by thanks for the film
It breaks your heart watching this lovely video of how Southend used to be people enjoying themselves, what a contrast to last night with them arse holes running about with machetes, there were families walking about it's discussting, starmer cut the crap and show some balls
Fond memories of Southend as a child especially the night time illuminations….better times. I loved it so much I moved here in the early 90s but now it’s dreadful, I rarely venture into Southend these days!
I live near Southend . I remember it during the 1970s and had some great times. the High Street now is just a collection mobile phone shops and fast food outlets. Many locals now look like homeless people .
Yes, it's now "rent-a-town", and no, it's not a city, no matter how many times the council push it. All they have managed is to sweep away all the charm, fun, friendliness and history. Well done....👏
I'm 15 so I've never acutely seen Southend when old. Lived here my entire life - Born in Southend hospital as well! - So it's nice to see what others got to experience. The city has become a real dump as time goes by.
Wow - that was great. As a boy I used to live 3 short train stops away from Southend (Hockley) and my family visited regularly in the Summer. 1968 was my last Summer (I'd have been seven years old) and there are a couple of things here which I remember specifically - especially the two birds fighting over the worm in the illuminations - funny the things that grab your imagination when you are young.
Hi, Im Polish, I have lilived there for 10 years(2005-2015) . loved that plae,, but could see it was much better place before. I am not in UK anymore but I still wish you all the best english people. Fight to get yours and your grandperents memories back. You can do it. Just belive it and fight. Poland had so many difficulties in its history but raised up. You have to belive and fight. We all have. Good luck.
I was born in 1956 and my mum would take me to Southend on day trips when I was about 10 , we lived in Manor Park and it was like a different world. Sadly both places are unrecognisable now , luckily I live in a small town in Essex and we haven’t been taken over yet, but the cancer of London is spreading everywhere in East England so it won’t be long
grew up in a flat in Undercliff Gardens ( born 1960). I remember these sights very well, especially the mineral shop - I got a bucket and spade from there for my 5th birthday.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx It was a happier place for me. I deliberately joined a Socialist Nationalised Industry in 1973 and had 16 wonderful, carefree days. I think,in my last year,I wrote 2 letters(it may have been 3) lol Then I, deliberately, worked in 3 socialist Inner London Labour Councils: Lambeth, Lewisham, and Southwark. Halcyon days. Nearly everyone doing the minimum amount possible:) a very relaxed atmosphere. Committee Meetings about whether there should be a Committee Meeting. Sadly,in October 1995,I started,the first of my 2 Medium Sized Businesses and have worked 5 times as hard but I did enjoy those years until I was 41. UP THE WORKERS. 😀
I lived in Southend for a couple of years in the mid-80s when I first came to Britain, Loved it! Great seeing the Palace Hotel in its pomp than the dive it had become in the 80s.
I took the kids down here today. We swam, had ice cream and sat on the grass watching the sun go down. Then we scooted home. Monday 22nd July 2024. No need to dream of yesteryear or times gone by - you can have a good time right now!
I did this recently too but our time was VERY different. My son had his hat stolen right off his head, two muggers ran off and then later my daughter was kicked down some steps and fill into a bin.
I know it's a commonplace to say how well everybody dressed in those days but some things really do jump out at you. At 4:48 for instance, there's a boy of about 12 running along the beach wearing long trousers and with his shirt neatly tucked in. Also, I love to see a traditional carousel, like at 3:08, with painted wooden horses.
The flower garden in the film dates it to 1968. I cannot get my head around that is one year after Sgt Pepper was released. What I see does not equate with what I remember - everything looks so old in these films. 😅
Might have looked nicer but it certainly wasn't beneath the surface. We know now that a massive paedophile ring was operating in Southend back then - which includes child killers Sidney Cooke and Lennie Smith. Smith lived in Southend for a while and Cooke was a regular visitor. Much of it centred around the amusement arcades where Smith and an elderly paedophile, Jack Parsons, were grooming kids. The local investigative journalist Charles Thomson put together a podcast about it all. He found that the ring also included corrupt police, drugs, local business men, teachers, bus drivers and pub owners. Kids from Southend were being taken across the south east, and many were used for child pornography. His podcast is called "Untold - Shoebury's lost boys"
Nice old days . Good . We always had one or two out at Southend every year go on coach from london , with me aunt ans mum. Brothers. . Never had holiday mind. Dad was a but. Mean. Tho money was tight in the 50/60s, and he had four of us.😱
I have a lovely photo of gran and I on holiday in Southend. We are in the ladies room, she's cleaned me up and put a clean white dress on me and I am sitting on the counter. I was about three years old, so it would have been 1957-8 time line
Look ! English people enjoying England and doing English things in an English seaside town ! Look carefully all you immigration apologists and try to absorb the images of all that has been lost. A time when we weren’t afraid to go out at night in our own towns. Don’t tell me things are better now…..because they’re not.
I absolutely love these old movies, but I’ve noticed in everyone on UA-cam. It’s the same appalling racist comments in almost the same wording. Is it the same person doing it? It’s really depressing. Life was not a bowl of cherries back then I remember. It! I’m not on any social media and don’t debate things online so this is a hit-and-run comments. But sometimes you just have to saysomething pointless as that is
It does seem to be the same person, or persons. When I binge on these "olden days" videos I often notice the usual suspects cropping up, making the same comments over and over. It gets very wearisome.
I worked on pier hill it was a grest lively place lots of beanos n hen parties into the 70.s it got more llively with the invasion if skinheads..then when Millwall played Southend south londons finest decided to demolish the Kursaal n riot all day....😂😂
I really enjoyed that, thank you for a reminder of 1968...
I was born in 61 and we lived in Chelmsford but we often went to Southend and this brings back so many memories. I had to repeat one part again and again as the little boy by the boating lake at 2:56 looks like I did then and I was sure it was me for a while. Particularly fond of watching this footage as I lost my 94 year old dad 8 weeks ago and this takes me back to a happier time with no cares. Thank You.
Just how I remember Southend-on-Sea - plenty of colourful lights, great rides and lots for kids to do! I lived in East Ham in the 1960's, so a day trip to Southend was a real treat!
I'm from Southend and I remember the day trippers from London coming in on many buses on the weekends. We young, giggling girls used to wave to the lads on the buses, as the buses veered around where the Ekco was, on their way to pubs, rides, swimming and just a fun time. ,.
I was from East Ham … born 1960 . Loved our annual trip to Southend … train from East Ham to Barking then train to Southend … long day on pier , amusements and boat lake .. saw the illuminations eating fish and chips then a mad run for the last train 😂😂then big treat was black cab from East Ham station home .
My mum and dad saved all,year for it … dad working in the docks and mum at home until my dad got in then she was off to work …. Best job she had was in the chippy in High street north … always brought chips home
Other summer event was town show in Central Park … loved that day with the fireworks when it got dark
Alas East Ham is unrecognisable today , totally destroyed by mass immigration… my youngest brother is just moving out now it’s so,sad
@@oldguy2976 It is indeed very sad when your country doesn'..t feel like your country any more. I live in Canada, have done for quite a while, ..but similar kind of concerns here as well
@@oldguy2976 I'm from Manorpark and went to Southend a couple of times a year with my mate Brian Berry, we got the train from Ilford. Your not wrong about the state of our old home town mate.
I miss the old days , the civilisation.
And the lack of "diversity".
@@crawford1083 Yes, that was a great plus
@@crawford1083 about 15 years ago I started working for the dwp, everything was about "equality and diversity", it only took me about a week to realise that the phrase actually meant "extreme hatred and removal of all rights for working class white English people". I left when I was told to help a 40 year old Bangladeshi apply for child benefit for his 13 year old wife.
@@jameskrell4392 👌
@@Norfolkbiker50 Of course, we have only your word for this crime being committed, don't we? That was _against the law_ and I say: you are lying.
The old world faded away silently.
So sad.
I love how it’s obviously raining yet the people just don’t care,it’s their holiday and they will enjoy it!
It makes me so sad to see how lovely things use to be compared to now.
Some things were better - there was less panic about children's freedom - but a lot was worse, such as heavily polluted air from lead in petrol, or the police being able to frame up working class men for crimes they hadn't committed. Disabled people had fewer rights in those days, too.
So 3 stupid things and yet a 1000 things are worse now! @@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
yes , today's world is sterile and frightening
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx You don't even get what this woman is saying do you ? , you're part of why today is so bad , just look at the Palestinian flag on your moniker . this counrty is f****d because of people like you , now carry on reading the spew that comes out of the Guardian , you're a real doom merchant aren't you ?
Fabulous little film full of so many memories. Thank you for posting it.
I was born in vallance rd eastlondon 1961 my nan lived behind the kursal and as kids in the 60s my dad would would take us on train from fenchurch street sometimes we would get out at leigh and walk along the front the smell the seagulls the amusements are things i have never forgotton and collecting pebbles ❤
Great memories indeed.
Great memories. Used to love the pier,the Kursaal and Peter Pan's playground as a kid in the early 70s. Who remembers that waxwork outside of the Golden Hind? But the Kursaal was my favourite by far.
The man getting his head chopped off with the pendulum. As a kid if we were going to southend I'd ask me mum can we see the man getting his head chopped off ........years later I'm 30 & I used to fish all night on southend pier. I was on the one night at half 9 pm . The security guard finished at 10 pm . So I'd be all alone all night on the pier . He told me the pier was haunted by a bloke from the late Victorian time . I was like this all night 👀 until morning
The golden hind is now a tourist attraction on the south bank in london. Its really popular. Seems strange when you remember the waxworks and the man strapped to a table and a swinging half-moon blade.
You mean the swinging axe with the guy looking up as it came nearer and nearer, but never did! Remember Kursaal radio?
This video brought back so many memories from my childhood (I'm 75 now). We stayed in digs in Seaview Road (a misnomer if ever there was one) the landlady was Mrs Wakeling assisted by her daughter Sadie. We used the beach at Thorpe Bay (by the gas works). We used to get beach trays from the Bulldog Cafe opposite the beach and in the evening we used to walk into Southend proper and get fish and chips from Clark's on the seafront. I also loved the Rossi's ice cream (dad called them 'topper-uppers') and I can almost taste them now. Ah! Memories!!
My family would visit Southend once a year to see the lights. We would walk the length of the pier, play on the amusements and then take the train back. There was a park that had a fairy railway running through it and tableaus of Bill and Ben and other children’s tv favourites. We would have a little saucer of seafood followed by an ice cream and then the lights would come on and it was magical.
Wonderful visual record of families enjoy a day at the seaside..l lived there from 1946 to 2000...Was it better then? l believe it was. l remember going to the Ritz children's morning matinee, running along a high street full of shops, long before pedestrianisation.
Might have looked nicer but it certainly wasn't beneath the surface. We know now that a massive paedophile ring was operating in Southend back then - which includes child killers Sidney Cooke and Lennie Smith. Smith lived in Southend for a while and Cooke was a regular visitor. Much of it centred around the amusement arcades where Smith and an elderly paedophile, Jack Parsons, were grooming kids. The local investigative journalist Charles Thomson put together a podcast about it all. He found that the ring also included corrupt police, drugs, local business men, teachers, bus drivers and pub owners. Kids from Southend were being taken across the south east, and many were used for child pornography. His podcast is called "Untold - Shoebury's lost boys"
I was born in 1962 and lived in Forest Gate, my Dad left in 68 and moved to Southend and remarried..I used to come down for the 6 week holidays in the early 70s and this is very much how I remember it, I live here myself now and although most of the front is still vibrant and busy other parts, especially the town centre are a shadow of what they were then...very sad 😔
I was born in the east end of London but when i was 3 mum & dad moved to Rayleigh about 8 miles from Southend so a lot of my childhood & youth was spent in Southend haven't been there of over 30 years until now this has taken me back in time. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this video
I was a teenager in the Southend of the 80s and loved it. Many a happy Saturday spent down the front with my mates.
We can reminisce of the great British way of life the great British culture the great British humour those days are long gone. The country is in a state and it will never ever be the same again
I remember the sound of the train on the pair distinctive sound I remember everything that was shown in this video great days in Southend in years gone by thanks for the film
It breaks your heart watching this lovely video of how Southend used to be people enjoying themselves, what a contrast to last night with them arse holes running about with machetes, there were families walking about it's discussting, starmer cut the crap and show some balls
Great video AWOL 11, amazing film, thanks 👌👍😀
That brought back so many memories, thank you
You wouldn’t want to go there after dark nowadays 😢
That’s because of the rubbish that’s been dumped there from London and elsewhere
@@tonyscharityshoppicks9270 Hardly. London's waste goes to landfill.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx it should go to landfill but unfortunately IT goes to southend by trains armed with machete nowadays.
@@merlin5476 You mean fascists determined to cause riots?
Day time is bad enough everything is a rip off and the restaurants are awful they use frozen cheap fish.
Fond memories of Southend as a child especially the night time illuminations….better times. I loved it so much I moved here in the early 90s but now it’s dreadful, I rarely venture into Southend these days!
I live near Southend . I remember it during the 1970s and had some great times. the High Street now is just a collection mobile phone shops and fast food outlets. Many locals now look like homeless people .
Yes, it's now "rent-a-town", and no, it's not a city, no matter how many times the council push it. All they have managed is to sweep away all the charm, fun, friendliness and history. Well done....👏
I'm 15 so I've never acutely seen Southend when old. Lived here my entire life - Born in Southend hospital as well! - So it's nice to see what others got to experience. The city has become a real dump as time goes by.
What do you notice most ...Everyone looking healthy and no overweight people..
What the hell have we done to ourselves!!
Immigration Immigration immigration. To para-phrase a certain labour MP.
Opportunistic racist. Nice try, Sergei!
@@timothyjennings4311 who?
@@SpamMouse
Nothing racist about wanting to live in your own homeland amongst your own people. Comrade
Self inflicted for sure, and I don't think the simplicity and joy of these times will return.
look what they took from us...
Who took what from you?
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xxgo away troll!
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx😂
Wow - that was great. As a boy I used to live 3 short train stops away from Southend (Hockley) and my family visited regularly in the Summer. 1968 was my last Summer (I'd have been seven years old) and there are a couple of things here which I remember specifically - especially the two birds fighting over the worm in the illuminations - funny the things that grab your imagination when you are young.
Hi, Im Polish, I have lilived there for 10 years(2005-2015) . loved that plae,, but could see it was much better place before. I am not in UK anymore but I still wish you all the best english people. Fight to get yours and your grandperents memories back. You can do it. Just belive it and fight. Poland had so many difficulties in its history but raised up. You have to belive and fight. We all have. Good luck.
When this country still had its identity and culture.
I was born in 1956 and my mum would take me to Southend on day trips when I was about 10 ,
we lived in Manor Park and it was like a different world.
Sadly both places are unrecognisable now , luckily I live in a small town in Essex and we haven’t
been taken over yet, but the cancer of London is spreading everywhere in East England so it won’t
be long
Fast forward to Southend's Machete fight last week NOT featuring any English natives. What a surprise.
Would like to see the Kursal bowl slide and wall of death
grew up in a flat in Undercliff Gardens ( born 1960). I remember these sights very well, especially the mineral shop - I got a bucket and spade from there for my 5th birthday.
I was 19 then , no doubt the 50s 60s 70s was as good as it got out of the thousand year history, now we're heading for doom
50's and 60s yea.....'70s?....The rot had already set in.At least that been my British experience
Well, in some ways: the unions had far more power in those days, so workers had more protection against employers.
Certainly one thing missing. Vote accordingly. X
The one thing missing is your single brain cell. Go away.
Vote socialist for a better, happier world for all.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Remind me exactly how democratic elections across the Middle East are?
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx😂
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx It was a happier place for me. I deliberately joined a Socialist Nationalised Industry in 1973 and had 16 wonderful, carefree days. I think,in my last year,I wrote 2 letters(it may have been 3) lol Then I, deliberately, worked in 3 socialist Inner London Labour Councils: Lambeth, Lewisham, and Southwark. Halcyon days. Nearly everyone doing the minimum amount possible:) a very relaxed atmosphere. Committee Meetings about whether there should be a Committee Meeting. Sadly,in October 1995,I started,the first of my 2 Medium Sized Businesses and have worked 5 times as hard but I did enjoy those years until I was 41. UP THE WORKERS. 😀
A shadow of itself now, removing the Illuminations was one of the greatest acts of civic madness.
Lovely stuff,thanks for sharing!
Ah I grew up here in the 90s. Fascinating to see it in the 60s my grandparents generation.
I lived in Southend for a couple of years in the mid-80s when I first came to Britain, Loved it! Great seeing the Palace Hotel in its pomp than the dive it had become in the 80s.
Back in the days when life was much more carefree.
Not if you were disabled. In those days, you were stuck at home; disabled people had virtually no rights at all.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx😒
Those were the days
I programmed Southend into my Satnav, and a voice said" you don't wanna go THERE" 😂
Visited Southend alot on a Sunday over the summer in the 1970s, travelled from Hackney. Loved it ❤
Everyone looked so healthy and slim.
"And we need a tune to open
Our season at Southend, can you help us?"
- Bernie Taupin, Bitter Fingers
I took the kids down here today. We swam, had ice cream and sat on the grass watching the sun go down. Then we scooted home. Monday 22nd July 2024. No need to dream of yesteryear or times gone by - you can have a good time right now!
I did this recently too but our time was VERY different. My son had his hat stolen right off his head, two muggers ran off and then later my daughter was kicked down some steps and fill into a bin.
sounds like a grand day out!
how long did it take you to scoot home?
@@simondjangothe4349 25 minutes.
@@parallaxview2143 unbelievable!
you all deserve medals
@@parallaxview2143 wow! you must live a long way from Southend.
Is is safe to scoot with your kids for 25 minutes after the sun goes down?
Nice movie great memories...............and of course its raining !
Wonderful ... thanks
I know it's a commonplace to say how well everybody dressed in those days but some things really do jump out at you. At 4:48 for instance, there's a boy of about 12 running along the beach wearing long trousers and with his shirt neatly tucked in.
Also, I love to see a traditional carousel, like at 3:08, with painted wooden horses.
Las Vagas how lucky to have this time memory
Thanks for sharing
Lovely thank you
0:39 I bet that bike was not locked up and still there when the owner returned.
The flower garden in the film dates it to 1968. I cannot get my head around that is one year after Sgt Pepper was released. What I see does not equate with what I remember - everything looks so old in these films. 😅
Great film, once got my boat stuck out at 2 Tree Island behind Leigh Train Station, has it still got that name???
Yes it ain't changed
Southend-on-Sea was much nicer in the 60s.
Looked much more lively
It was a great area to frow up in back then
Might have looked nicer but it certainly wasn't beneath the surface. We know now that a massive paedophile ring was operating in Southend back then - which includes child killers Sidney Cooke and Lennie Smith. Smith lived in Southend for a while and Cooke was a regular visitor. Much of it centred around the amusement arcades where Smith and an elderly paedophile, Jack Parsons, were grooming kids. The local investigative journalist Charles Thomson put together a podcast about it all. He found that the ring also included corrupt police, drugs, local business men, teachers, bus drivers and pub owners. Kids from Southend were being taken across the south east, and many were used for child pornography. His podcast is called "Untold - Shoebury's lost boys"
Everywhere was much nicer in the sixties
@@robinburn4974That’s a fact!👍🏻
Vote Reform and England could look like this again one day. 🏴
Be careful what you wish for.
Happy days
I have a photo from that time in Southend with a monkey on my shoulder.
So have I. I wonder if it was the same monkey! 🤣
............when England was England....
... and the police could assault and frame up working class men at will. Oh, the good old days, right?
Fast forward to Southend's Machete fight last week NOT featuring any English natives. What a surprise.
Nice old days . Good . We always had one or two out at Southend every year go on coach from london , with me aunt ans mum. Brothers. . Never had holiday mind. Dad was a but. Mean. Tho money was tight in the 50/60s, and he had four of us.😱
I lived in Rochford until 1969 when my family moved us away. I was 11..
How times have changed
Not a berker in sight
Are all racists illiterate or are all illiterates racists?
How things have changed. Now hardly a white face in sight
So many excellently exposed shots.
Fantastic
I have a lovely photo of gran and I on holiday in Southend. We are in the ladies room, she's cleaned me up and put a clean white dress on me and I am sitting on the counter. I was about three years old, so it would have been 1957-8 time line
So was that adventure island
Peter Pans in them days.
Happy times, before the Population doubled.
Amazing quality! How did you get it off of analogue tape to digital?
It's from film, not video tape.
When Britain was Britain.
Before the filth appeared.
100 times better back then
Not like this now!! Sadly!!
Fast forward to Southend's Machete fight last week NOT featuring any English natives. What a surprise.
Joozel and Dud were there !
The child that I was is probably in it somewhere.
nice
Before the invasion
Great times , unfortunately all gone to shit now deliberately , but of course they will tell you how great it is 🙄
I don't understand. Where are the Inner London invaders with their machetes like the other day?
Thank god for multiculturalism 👌it saved us from all this…………wait a minute?
The only difference is now the illuminations are nowhere near as good and theres bout a hundred thousand more people living here...
When Britain was Great…….
Go there now it’s like a 3rd world country
What, no idiots running amok wielding machetes
Look ! English people enjoying England and doing English things in an English seaside town !
Look carefully all you immigration apologists and try to absorb the images of all that has been lost. A time when we weren’t afraid to go out at night in our own towns.
Don’t tell me things are better now…..because they’re not.
Yeah britain has gone downhill cos the politicians have made it that way.
Not as white anymore 😢
I don't see the skinheads as except the seaside rest Southend was a cesspit and still is to this day..
sadly much more cess in the pit ....
I absolutely love these old movies, but I’ve noticed in everyone on UA-cam. It’s the same appalling racist comments in almost the same wording. Is it the same person doing it? It’s really depressing. Life was not a bowl of cherries back then I remember. It! I’m not on any social media and don’t debate things online so this is a hit-and-run comments. But sometimes you just have to saysomething pointless as that is
if you hate White people, just admit you're a racist and move on.
It does seem to be the same person, or persons. When I binge on these "olden days" videos I often notice the usual suspects cropping up, making the same comments over and over. It gets very wearisome.
Very un ethnic.
Unlike the machete gang warfare in Southend last week !
Careful, this video will get banned...
I worked on pier hill it was a grest lively place lots of beanos n hen parties into the 70.s it got more llively with the invasion if skinheads..then when Millwall played Southend south londons finest decided to demolish the Kursaal n riot all day....😂😂
The Guiness clock
I remember that!!!
Class