Blackpool over 30 years ago, I don't come very often now and I only live in nearby Preston. Not been in the tower for nearly 20 years and never been to the zoo. I have fond memories of going to the Pleasure Beach on a wet day for stockingfeet fun in the Fun House and swimming in the Derby Baths. These were my favourite buildings in Blackpool that no longer exist and were sadly not rebuilt.
When Blackpool was a great seaside town.... It’s a shambles now and looks utterly depressing , I was there in the summer visiting family and was saddened to see how run down it’s become...
Totally agree been down there myself this year the seafront not to bad but some of the back streets a eyesore and that's the ones just off the seafront
So sad ,it was magical as kid ,I was here in 89 ,9 years old. The arcades were brilliant, 2ps won you great prizes. I loved the worry dolls you could buy on the markets for a pound and the mini pianos you could actually play songs on for penny's. I went to Blackpool again around 10 years ago and took my son who was 5 at the time,so so sad,the hole magic had gone ,it was full of homeless, unkept. Anything and everything cost stupid prices and the arcades hit me the worse 😢 it didn't matter how much money you put in ,you won nothing or crap. Watching this made me remember the great times I had with my gran here ,gone forever 💔miss them times, the old Blackpool, and my gran ,treasured memories ❤
Best memories of my life... I was 14 when that video was made... Went every year since I was 2.... 20 years since I've been. Before we could afford the plane we used to travel by Sealink from Dublin..train from Holyhead to crewe to Preston... The excitement of who could be the first to see the Tower in between kirkam and Poulton... Blackie was a pure dream the first 15 days of August...
Yes great memories I was the same every summer school holiday we went for 2 weeks I was 20 when I shot that video on my old video camera. I still visit Blackpool now and again just for a weekend now thou
Thank you for uploading this, wonderful relaxing nostalgia! I was only 4 here but my grandparents took me to Blackpool so many times through the 90's, amazing times. Me and my wife still visit all the time, something about the place, brings out the inner child.
Brings back memories of growing up in the town. I would have been 19 when this was shot. Loved it during the season but during the winter was a lot different as most stuff was shut up for the closed seaon. Live on the South Coast now and have done for the last 20 years but family are still there and I go up fairly regularly to visit. To me it's a bit of an embarrassment at how run down it looks in places compared to when I was younger as I still see it as home. But at least they are trying to rejuvenate the place albeit very slowly. Would love to see more.
You never so it in the early hours then, a foot deep in chip papers. There was a permanent tide mark of used condoms and bog roll at the edge of the sand also full of dog shit. I lived there for 3 years upto 89 and it was a dump. The water was very polluted and on ... had a brilliant time though aged 16 to 19.
1989 elvis exhibition Blackpool was on aswell, I remember going with my mum when I was younger. Couldn't see it on here, however great nostalgia. I love Blackpool
Born in 82 I was probably there when this was filmed. Stayed in Marton Mere for a week. Took my daughter 2 weeks ago on a Saturday night to see the lights, spent about 60 quid in 3 hours. Still a special place.
Great video, I’ve been going to Blackpool every year for my hols since the early 70’s. Just got back from a fortnight there. But this was the best times in Blackpool
Same here been going since the 70s have had lots of great holidays in Blackpool still go at least once a year usally just for a week now a days but was always factory fortnight when i was a kid
Wow I was 10 when you shot this video. Thanks for the memories. Me and my partner are staying in fleetwood next week so this is getting me excited for it.
Must be from the same era I was the same my mam and dad used to go every summer in 70s and 80s into early 90s always the last week in July and first week in August as my dad was a factory worker and they used to have the traditional factory fortnight.
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Hi Colin Thank you I have Just rescued another one from 1991 also Blackpool have found a load of tapes so busy going through them ua-cam.com/video/EJx2sJD03go/v-deo.html
Lovely to see Blackpool from 34 years ago. Am amazed to see all the people on lower walk near the go cart place at the Cliffs, if you go there now on a hot summer's day, you would be lucky to see one or two people. Lovely to see the old trams, running up and down the Promenade, some are now part of the Heritage Trams but most are not. Great to see the Pleasure Beach before the Big One. I first came to Blackpool on a day trip from London on 5 November weekend sometime in the 90s, I think the year the Big One was built. Came again the following year. Started coming on holidays in the 00s because my partner's family live here. Moved here August 23. I love looking at old fotos and videos of Blackpool, thank you. Xxx
I used to love shopping in Pricebusters buying tapes & novelties, and we always had lunch in Hartleys cafe on Talbot Rd always had pie chips and gravy or the meal of the day, i also remember the old bus station too
I remember price busters been Woolworths before that also we used to get dropped off at Talbot Road bus station when we used to arrive on Holiday by coach
The woman singing had a voice similar to my mothers who was very poorly in 1989 and we all loved Blackpool my mother passed away in 1991 😤 a great video with a lovely song xxx
It was great when you could just walk into the pleasure beach before they started the stupid system of buying tickets online. I simpler more fun Blackpool then
Yeh but it keeps out the junkies, pickpockets and neds. I'm all for it, much safer. The country is a shithole now and you can't put a price on safety. Sorry to say the world we live in now is not the world of 30 years ago.
I was a week away from my 13th birthday when this video was shot. Might be a case of looking through rose tinyed specs, but the world just seemed a much better place back then. Had some great times at blackpool, on what we ised to call 'Sunday School trips'. We must of gone on one, roughly the same time as this was shot, as i can remember the trams with Jimmy Cricket on the side.
So much character back in those days. It felt like being in another world a million miles away from home. A proper seaside town with unique shops and attractions. These days its lost its soul and apart from the sea, tower and pleasure beach its got very little to offer. Even the trams these days are modern junk with no character.
Great video. Do not suppose you walked down Dickson Road and edited it out did you? Dickson Road is the road from the roundabout which takes you to town. I have a shop on there and would love to see it!
When Blackpool's trams looked like Blackpool's trams the ones we where familiar with. Now the trams look like they could be from any other town and city in the country and even the world, all soulless like something straight out of a dystopian futuristic film set in the year 2030 or something. All deliberate IMO to destroy the town's identity, nothing to do with modernising and making things more practical. Alot of those motors would be worth a few bob today, particular those Ford Escorts. The money some of those fetch today is ridiculous. Mighty White, when did that go out of fashion?. Haven't seen that for years. I bet that would be too PC today with all this diversity crap going on. When you visit the Pleasure Beach and not have to go for all this security nonsense being treated like a slave and having your belongings checked. We are having our freedoms taken away more and more these days, and just look at the world now with all this Covid nonsense. Love that Pet Shops Boys song in the background playing, proper days of good music (I think Domino Dancing was a few years old at that time). Walk around Pleasure Beach today and it'll be Nikki Minaj or some other crap.
Totally agree about the trams used to love the old ones when I was a kid when you look back now the 80s was a hell of a decade you could just walk into the pleasure beach. I also agree when you look at the cars and think what some would be worth now
@@55DEGREESNORTH68 Some of the cars from that era shouldn't be worth the money they seem to fetch, I think the nostalgia factor is to reason for that. Even the other attractions you can't just walk into these days because of all the fear mongering of "terrorism".
Domino Dancing was from the previous year. I remember listening to it in the cafe at Barry Nobles Funland (the cafe is now mothballed) on the very last evening of the 1988 season.
The hotel at the end was The Moorings Hotel at Gynn Square. Was 20 when this was filmed. Thats how i remember the Pleasure Beach when it was at its best
That's one of the hotel i stayed in when i was little my mother had us staying all over Blackpool always remember playing on the putting greens in the park just in front of the hotel
probably better back in 80s went on day trip there with my mother when i was 14 yrs old in 1987 dumb struck by all arcade machines their first time and only time i saw sitdown version of space harrier. think i fell asleep for illumations at night.
loved it back then took the kids every year for a long time never missed the tower it used to be brilliant one reasonable payment and a little bit extra for the circus we would spend all day in there going anywhere you liked kids running riot in jungle jims the ballroom the basement ride sadly havent been in for years and never will since the greedy racketeering bosses split it all into different sections to make as much as they can out of everyone bit like fairground and other places bag searching for food and drinks just makes me f***ing sick the way things are now .all the young parents now will never know how good it was back then in all different ways
Totally agree everything changed since then you have think Merlin entertainments run the tower for the council now so there’s your problem straight away thanks for viewing and the comment
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Blackpool over 30 years ago, I don't come very often now and I only live in nearby Preston. Not been in the tower for nearly 20 years and never been to the zoo. I have fond memories of going to the Pleasure Beach on a wet day for stockingfeet fun in the Fun House and swimming in the Derby Baths. These were my favourite buildings in Blackpool that no longer exist and were sadly not rebuilt.
Yes great memories of the fun House myself spent many a happy day in there
When Blackpool was a great seaside town....
It’s a shambles now and looks utterly depressing , I was there in the summer visiting family and was saddened to see how run down it’s become...
Totally agree been down there myself this year the seafront not to bad but some of the back streets a eyesore and that's the ones just off the seafront
@@55DEGREESNORTH68The town centre has gone to rack and ruin in recent years.
Full of bananas in pajamas.
So sad ,it was magical as kid ,I was here in 89 ,9 years old. The arcades were brilliant, 2ps won you great prizes. I loved the worry dolls you could buy on the markets for a pound and the mini pianos you could actually play songs on for penny's. I went to Blackpool again around 10 years ago and took my son who was 5 at the time,so so sad,the hole magic had gone ,it was full of homeless, unkept. Anything and everything cost stupid prices and the arcades hit me the worse 😢 it didn't matter how much money you put in ,you won nothing or crap. Watching this made me remember the great times I had with my gran here ,gone forever 💔miss them times, the old Blackpool, and my gran ,treasured memories ❤
Priceless footage to us Blackpool folk. Thank you so much. 😥
Glad you enjoyed it brings back lots of great memories for me spent many happy holidays in Blackpool when I was a kid still visit now and again now
Best memories of my life... I was 14 when that video was made... Went every year since I was 2.... 20 years since I've been. Before we could afford the plane we used to travel by Sealink from Dublin..train from Holyhead to crewe to Preston... The excitement of who could be the first to see the Tower in between kirkam and Poulton... Blackie was a pure dream the first 15 days of August...
Yes great memories I was the same every summer school holiday we went for 2 weeks I was 20 when I shot that video on my old video camera. I still visit Blackpool now and again just for a weekend now thou
Thank you for uploading this, wonderful relaxing nostalgia! I was only 4 here but my grandparents took me to Blackpool so many times through the 90's, amazing times. Me and my wife still visit all the time, something about the place, brings out the inner child.
Brings back a lot of memories for me aswell
Loved Blackpool back in the 80s I was 18 back then great to see it how I was still go to Blackpool but its not the same as back the great video chris
It's strange to watch a video and not see peoples heads buried in their phones.
Very true
Brings back memories of growing up in the town. I would have been 19 when this was shot. Loved it during the season but during the winter was a lot different as most stuff was shut up for the closed seaon. Live on the South Coast now and have done for the last 20 years but family are still there and I go up fairly regularly to visit. To me it's a bit of an embarrassment at how run down it looks in places compared to when I was younger as I still see it as home. But at least they are trying to rejuvenate the place albeit very slowly. Would love to see more.
Brilliant video it was so clean and tidy back then.
You never so it in the early hours then, a foot deep in chip papers. There was a permanent tide mark of used condoms and bog roll at the edge of the sand also full of dog shit. I lived there for 3 years upto 89 and it was a dump. The water was very polluted and on ... had a brilliant time though aged 16 to 19.
@@martinmcfred6758 I suppose us visitors view it with rose tinted spectacles. Thanks for commenting. 😊
1989 elvis exhibition Blackpool was on aswell, I remember going with my mum when I was younger. Couldn't see it on here, however great nostalgia. I love Blackpool
brings back a lot of memories thanks for watching
I've met Jimmy Cricket, lovely fella - Believe it or not, his son, Frankie is the priest at our parish church.
What a lovely video , thanks for sharing
These were Blackpools better days , everywhere busy, hustle and bustle
Yea not so busy nowadays
Born in 82 I was probably there when this was filmed. Stayed in Marton Mere for a week. Took my daughter 2 weeks ago on a Saturday night to see the lights, spent about 60 quid in 3 hours. Still a special place.
Does not take long to spend 60 quid there these days
Great video, I’ve been going to Blackpool every year for my hols since the early 70’s. Just got back from a fortnight there. But this was the best times in Blackpool
Same here been going since the 70s have had lots of great holidays in Blackpool still go at least once a year usally just for a week now a days but was always factory fortnight when i was a kid
Wow I was 10 when you shot this video. Thanks for the memories. Me and my partner are staying in fleetwood next week so this is getting me excited for it.
When it wqs a lovely seaside resort i remember it well stayed there every others year as a boy in the seventies and as a teenager in the 80s.😊
Must be from the same era I was the same my mam and dad used to go every summer in 70s and 80s into early 90s always the last week in July and first week in August as my dad was a factory worker and they used to have the traditional factory fortnight.
@@55DEGREESNORTH68 that's right my father worked in engineering at david brown who made gearboxes for the military and industrial sector.
Brilliant a was there at that exact same time from Scotland with my family a was 15 then was looking to see if a could see us in your video lol
Great video mate. Can remember that Blackpool like it was yesterday.
Brought back a lot memories when i found the tape and when i go now and see how it has changed
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Hi Colin Thank you I have Just rescued another one from 1991 also Blackpool have found a load of tapes so busy going through them ua-cam.com/video/EJx2sJD03go/v-deo.html
Thank you for rescuing and uploading.. I was there that summer, brought it all back.
@@55DEGREESNORTH68 great video :)
Lovely to see Blackpool from 34 years ago. Am amazed to see all the people on lower walk near the go cart place at the Cliffs, if you go there now on a hot summer's day, you would be lucky to see one or two people. Lovely to see the old trams, running up and down the Promenade, some are now part of the Heritage Trams but most are not. Great to see the Pleasure Beach before the Big One. I first came to Blackpool on a day trip from London on 5 November weekend sometime in the 90s, I think the year the Big One was built. Came again the following year. Started coming on holidays in the 00s because my partner's family live here. Moved here August 23. I love looking at old fotos and videos of Blackpool, thank you. Xxx
I used to love shopping in Pricebusters buying tapes & novelties, and we always had lunch in Hartleys cafe on Talbot Rd always had pie chips and gravy or the meal of the day, i also remember the old bus station too
I remember price busters been Woolworths before that also we used to get dropped off at Talbot Road bus station when we used to arrive on Holiday by coach
The woman singing had a voice similar to my mothers who was very poorly in 1989 and we all loved Blackpool my mother passed away in 1991 😤 a great video with a lovely song xxx
Thank you I was only young when I shot this footage off the first video camera I ever owned and spent every summer in Blackpool when I was a kid
This Video is great - Its like a record of history - thanks for the upload really enjoyed watching it Thankyou
It was great when you could just walk into the pleasure beach before they started the stupid system of buying tickets online. I simpler more fun Blackpool then
totally agree we have non riders in the family and they have to pay full price even before Covid you could get a non riders pass but not now
Yeh but it keeps out the junkies, pickpockets and neds. I'm all for it, much safer. The country is a shithole now and you can't put a price on safety. Sorry to say the world we live in now is not the world of 30 years ago.
Pay with your feet
Nice Domino Dancing remix too !!!
I was a week away from my 13th birthday when this video was shot. Might be a case of looking through rose tinyed specs, but the world just seemed a much better place back then.
Had some great times at blackpool, on what we ised to call 'Sunday School trips'. We must of gone on one, roughly the same time as this was shot, as i can remember the trams with Jimmy Cricket on the side.
I think your right a lot better in those days a lot has changed since then
Many years ago we had a Sunday school trip to Cleethorpes!
@chrislarter5575 that's it life in those days was very different and more cheerful.
My son turns 12 tomorrow. I was 12 and living in Blackpool in 1989 when i was 12!
Hope it brought back good memories
Just happier times
Thank you for preserving the memories! I was 13 then :)
Nice to look back
This video is great when that god awful music at the start ends.
It is like jumping into the TARDIS and arriving in historyi always recall that dome on the Central Pier witch was replaced by the big wheel in 1990/91
Brings back a lot of childhood memories
The Pleasure Beach skyline looks so strange without The Big One being there.
The Blackpool skyline would look even stranger, and you'd need a TARDIS, for the Tower not to be there! 🤣
Nice footage I'm attempting to upload stuff in that technology but used today. Nice steady filming
Thank you was 14 when I took that video
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I really enjoyed going to the Blackpool zoo many years ago!
Loved Blackpool back then! So much to enjoy🙂Now its full of immigrant dregs & the pleasure beach is a total rip off😅
Some great footage there, ah the memories.......
This is wonderful, thanks for sharing it.
Glad you enjoyed it
So much character back in those days. It felt like being in another world a million miles away from home. A proper seaside town with unique shops and attractions. These days its lost its soul and apart from the sea, tower and pleasure beach its got very little to offer. Even the trams these days are modern junk with no character.
Yes I agree about the trams but unfortunately they had no option to upgrade them for modern times it’s still good they run the heritage trams though
Great video. Do not suppose you walked down Dickson Road and edited it out did you? Dickson Road is the road from the roundabout which takes you to town. I have a shop on there and would love to see it!
Yea I know where you mean unfortunately what was on the original tape is on the video you watched sorry
@@55DEGREESNORTH68 Well still an amazing video. Thank you so much for taking the time to upload.
The same year that Alan Bradley got knocked down and killed here in Corrie 😂
The Revolution was the newest ride.
When Blackpool's trams looked like Blackpool's trams the ones we where familiar with. Now the trams look like they could be from any other town and city in the country and even the world, all soulless like something straight out of a dystopian futuristic film set in the year 2030 or something. All deliberate IMO to destroy the town's identity, nothing to do with modernising and making things more practical. Alot of those motors would be worth a few bob today, particular those Ford Escorts. The money some of those fetch today is ridiculous.
Mighty White, when did that go out of fashion?. Haven't seen that for years. I bet that would be too PC today with all this diversity crap going on. When you visit the Pleasure Beach and not have to go for all this security nonsense being treated like a slave and having your belongings checked. We are having our freedoms taken away more and more these days, and just look at the world now with all this Covid nonsense. Love that Pet Shops Boys song in the background playing, proper days of good music (I think Domino Dancing was a few years old at that time). Walk around Pleasure Beach today and it'll be Nikki Minaj or some other crap.
Totally agree about the trams used to love the old ones when I was a kid when you look back now the 80s was a hell of a decade you could just walk into the pleasure beach. I also agree when you look at the cars and think what some would be worth now
@@55DEGREESNORTH68 Some of the cars from that era shouldn't be worth the money they seem to fetch, I think the nostalgia factor is to reason for that. Even the other attractions you can't just walk into these days because of all the fear mongering of "terrorism".
Domino Dancing was from the previous year. I remember listening to it in the cafe at Barry Nobles Funland (the cafe is now mothballed) on the very last evening of the 1988 season.
So true about the PC Bread lol
@@stephenduncan3605 Used to be able to get an awesome chilli in Barry Noble's.
The hotel at the end was The Moorings Hotel at Gynn Square. Was 20 when this was filmed. Thats how i remember the Pleasure Beach when it was at its best
That's one of the hotel i stayed in when i was little my mother had us staying all over Blackpool always remember playing on the putting greens in the park just in front of the hotel
@@55DEGREESNORTH68 Thats right. Putting green long gone now but tha gardens are still there. Dont think the hotel is trading anymore
Nothing like it now unfortunately.
Even Blackpool has been enriched.
Unrecognisable.
Happy memories best of times
Days before I was born
probably better back in 80s went on day trip there with my mother when i was 14 yrs old in 1987 dumb struck by all arcade machines their first time and only time i saw sitdown version of
space harrier. think i fell asleep for illumations at night.
Space Harrier brings back memories thanks for watching
I love the South Pier!
This was the first year i went up i was 4 and been a regular since
i was 17 three days after this was filmed
Wish I could go back to been 17 and start again and know what I know now😂
@@55DEGREESNORTH68 innit just!
@8:07 - Reminds me of Anne Heggertey..
34 years later and the 💩💩 still floating... tell the immigrants to come this way..🤣🤣🤣
@11:23 - That tram has to be a new model for 1989,,,
It’s a centenary car , built it 1985.
I was 4 in 1989
Thanks
loved it back then took the kids every year for a long time never missed the tower it used to be brilliant one reasonable payment and a little bit extra for the circus we would spend all day in there going anywhere you liked kids running riot in jungle jims the ballroom the basement ride sadly havent been in for years and never will since the greedy racketeering bosses split it all into different sections to make as much as they can out of everyone bit like fairground and other places bag searching for food and drinks just makes me f***ing sick the way things are now .all the young parents now will never know how good it was back then in all different ways
Totally agree everything changed since then you have think Merlin entertainments run the tower for the council now so there’s your problem straight away thanks for viewing and the comment
They used to have a log flume at the Barry Island pleasure park many years ago as well.
Pricebusters 😟
That brings back memories
@@55DEGREESNORTH68 know of any footage? I can't find any anywhere!!!
It was better in 69.
Year after I was born
That was the blackpool before they moved the liverpool and manchester smack heads into it.