Oh wow... when this was shot I would have been just eight -- living at 2, Wimborne Road at the top of Richmond Hill. There's hardly an image that isn't seared into my memory -- even the Punch and Judy show on the beach next to The Pier. It was such an exquisite place to grow up. There's not a venue in which I didn't either perform, and/or visit, yet I gather most have been destroyed. This documentary brings tears of joy to my eyes, as tragically it does in sadness when I hear today about the demise of England's once most beautiful town.
I was born in Boscombe in 1959. I grew up in Poole and obviously Bournemouth around this time. So I still remember it in its glory days. I learnt to ice skate at Ice Follies with my sister. Spent many happy hours on Bournemouth Beach and on Sandbanks in the summer. I remember my mum and auntie Val going to a Tea Dance at the Pavillion and seeing Tom Jones there in about 1967. With my mum, nanny and my sister. It was always exciting taking a trip on the trolley buses sitting upstairs in the open air. So many great memories growing up. ❤
Lived in McKinley road Westbourne went to the collegiate school in Poole road. Walked to school every day at 8 years old . In the choir st Ambrose church walked alone every day . couldn't do that these days. Anyone here remember Linden Hall hydro? Pier approach swimming pool.? The barber on the left hand side at the far end of the arcade in Westbourne? The abundance of adders ( snakes) in the sand next to the suspension bridge alum chine , gas lights everywhere on the west cliff. The wonderful bacon from Sainsbury's in Westbourne
What a fabulous place Bournemouth was in the 1960's. As a young lad growing up here it was the perfect spot for a teenage lad. When all those factories up North closed down for the holidays chatting up all those gorgeous girls with funny accents on the beach, with my mates the long hot Summer days by the sea.
Money was tight in the early 60's, my dad ran an old motorbike for work and could only dream of a car, but mum and dad always saved enough for a sunny week in Bournemouth in the BTH works summer shut down. The whining Bedford coach ride down from Rugby took most of the day. Our digs were usually out at 76 Portchester road by the cemetery or better still Wellington Road where after dinner I could go to the bottom of the garden, stand on a box and look over the wall and watch the steam locos on Bournemouth shed being serviced. Oh happy days, thankyou mum and dad.!
I was born there in 1959. So I spent all of my young life living there. It was wonderful. Never a dull moment. Iceskating and swimming all year round and of course, the beaches in the summer.
@@nigelmitchell351My dad had a motorcycle and side car. Later we had a little three wheeler Berkley. My older sister and I had to sit on a little fibreglass shelf behind the front seats. Always good fun going round the corner because we would slide on top of each other. absolutely no health and safety in those days it was absolutely fantastic. 😂
One of my early childhood memories is a holiday in Bournemouth in 1961 [I know the date from my parents photos, which are now digitised in my computer]. I remember the yellow trolleybuses, the aviary in the park and collecting pinecones and chestnuts.
"touchdown" in bournemouth, but "touchdown" in boscombe could be depressing! it's been a good town to live in for 60 yrs for me since 1963, other than it being a very commercial resort, so if your an alternative sort of person, it's not exactly a mecca for that sort of person. back in the 70's, there were some great shows though, at the winter gardens/pavilion theatre, and 2 awesome cinemas - ABC and the gaumont.
I arrived in Bournemouth in 1979 or 1980 as a 20 year old with all my worldly possessions in a backpack. Stayed 20 years, some the best of my life. Like many places now, it is full of drug addicts and homeless beggars with no self-respect. In no small part due to the rehab halfway houses that now infest Boscombe.
Yes, Sadly Bournemouth has deteriorated badly like a lot of other towns & cities in this Country over the last couple of Decades only faster it appears & has now become a s******e!🤨🧐😠🤬
I love this. Thank you so much for giving me 16 minutes of brilliant memories. Things are so different here now. But at least I've got the same memories as on the video.
That is very kind of you to say...I am thrilled that this has brought back these memories. I hope for this whenever I upload a video....even though most times this does not happen!
@@gerardmackay8909 Yes! Undocumented fighting age illegal migrants from highly incompatible cultures, staying in hotels at the cost of the tax payer is concerning. Well, at least to anyone who is rational.
Most of the town has been completely bastardised since then. It makes me sad looking back at how badly consecutive councils have trashed what was once a beautiful town. All those lovely hotels have mainly been demolished and made into unattractive flats or the buildings have remained but been turned into HMOs. I wasn’t born until the 80’s so never remember Bournemouth like this.
They've been converted for a valid reason for god's sake! For forty plus years, people have gone on holiday abroad and therefore the need for hotels in Bournemouth has diminished completely. It's turned from a tourist town only busy for the summer into a town where lots of people live and work all year round. Also, most of those "great" hotels you talk about were grotty shit holes by the 80s and 90s. By today's standards, why would anyone want to stay in such grot holes for big money? I could demolish your post with more reality but it'd take too long. I'll leave you with this Don't look at the past with rose tinted glasses. It was nothing like these videos and despite what oldies say, it was far from idyllic or glorious. No one likes to remember bad things of the past, only the good things, but it's bullshit. There are good things now, bad things and in between. No different than it was then. People still moaned back then about how glorious the past was
Yes....that is so intriguing! I wondered that myself. Where in the UK was it economically sound to catch a flight to Bournemouth at this time? Sorry, I have no idea...I guess the producers were setting a scene in which a domestic resort like Bournemouth was on par with the then glamourous mediterranean...a place you would normally get to using a plane?
I was born in 56 in bournemouth what a place it was in the 60s a real upmarket holiday place Think the rot set in when the university was built in wallisdown the students did thier studies and partied they came back for holidays and then came back for thier stag and hen parties and bournemouth got too popular Should never have let boscombe become a dumping ground for alcoholics and druggies as well
All our yesterdays…..it was wonderful…now it’s a dump…..fortunately the beach is still lovely and sandy…..it’s just been voted the worst place for a break in a survey done by Which……the council has a lot to be ashamed of to let this place deteriorate so badly…only one department store left in the town centre…so no one goes into Bournemouth to shop anymore….the council in it’s wisdom built a horrid shopping centre outside the town instead…so what were lovely department stores now stand empty…the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is now based in Poole Lighthouse theatre and concert hall…the Winter Gardens was pulled down decades ago….
Agree, so sad these days. Used to shop there once a week from the Forest. Always a better day out than Southampton. Both places now without a real soul, Bournemouth especially. Times have changed for the worst in my view. As a child in the late forties it had super ice cream!
6 years before I was born there... inevitably the comment section is riddled with people wearing rose-tinted spectacles and a failure to comprehend that everywhere changes, and often for reasons they've chosen to ignore. Yes it's a shame in many, many ways, but expressing wilfull ignorance doesn't achieve anything. Find any seaside resort that hasn't fundamentally changed in the last 60 years.
No it is not. I have been to much scruffier places than Bournemouth, my home town, and our local council staff work damned hard to keep it looking nice. If anything, it is the hordes of visitors littering the place every summer that is the major problem. Look what happened after the first covid lockdown when they were let loose - the filth was incredible, they were parking on pavements and anywhere they liked, sleeping in tents on the beaches with illegal barbecues going all night and defecating in the bushes by the cliffs, they did not give a damn as they drove off leaving all their debris and beer cans and bottles for someone else to clean up. I am afraid that is very typical of out of towners these days, the yob culture has become the prevailing visitor culture and most residents are actually glad when the summer is over and they can have their nice clean town back!
@@rodrollingstone2362 It was a lovely place growing up there in the late 50's, 60's and 70's, but sadly and gradually it went down hill. I have no regrets leaving Bournemouth in 2004.
Sorry but it did not have miles of golden sandy beaches, they were dirty shingle and it wasn't only filthy stormwater drains that dumped across them? There were also treated sewerage pipes that leaked across those supposed beaches!
Oh wow... when this was shot I would have been just eight -- living at 2, Wimborne Road at the top of Richmond Hill. There's hardly an image that isn't seared into my memory -- even the Punch and Judy show on the beach next to The Pier. It was such an exquisite place to grow up. There's not a venue in which I didn't either perform, and/or visit, yet I gather most have been destroyed. This documentary brings tears of joy to my eyes, as tragically it does in sadness when I hear today about the demise of England's once most beautiful town.
I was born in Boscombe in 1959. I grew up in Poole and obviously Bournemouth around this time. So I still remember it in its glory days. I learnt to ice skate at Ice Follies with my sister. Spent many happy hours on Bournemouth Beach and on Sandbanks in the summer. I remember my mum and auntie Val going to a Tea Dance at the Pavillion and seeing Tom Jones there in about 1967. With my mum, nanny and my sister. It was always exciting taking a trip on the trolley buses sitting upstairs in the open air. So many great memories growing up. ❤
Ahh, the golden days before the internet and mobile phones, so beautiful...🏖️💖
Moved here in 77 but had a couple of holidays before that. Nostalgia is a beautiful thing ❤ thank you so much 👏
Glad you enjoyed it!
Lived in McKinley road Westbourne went to the collegiate school in Poole road. Walked to school every day at 8 years old . In the choir st Ambrose church walked alone every day . couldn't do that these days. Anyone here remember Linden Hall hydro? Pier approach swimming pool.?
The barber on the left hand side at the far end of the arcade in Westbourne? The abundance of adders ( snakes) in the sand next to the suspension bridge alum chine , gas lights
everywhere on the west cliff. The wonderful bacon from Sainsbury's in Westbourne
What a fabulous place Bournemouth was in the 1960's. As a young lad growing up here it was the perfect spot for a teenage lad. When all those factories up North closed down for the holidays chatting up all those gorgeous girls with funny accents on the beach, with my mates the long hot Summer days by the sea.
It sounds like you had great fun....a priceless set of memories.
Money was tight in the early 60's, my dad ran an old motorbike for work and could only dream of a car, but mum and dad always saved enough for a sunny week in Bournemouth in the BTH works summer shut down.
The whining Bedford coach ride down from Rugby took most of the day. Our digs were usually out at 76 Portchester road by the cemetery or better still Wellington Road where after dinner I could go to the bottom of the garden, stand on a box and look over the wall and watch the steam locos on Bournemouth shed being serviced.
Oh happy days, thankyou mum and dad.!
I was born there in 1959. So I spent all of my young life living there. It was wonderful. Never a dull moment. Iceskating and swimming all year round and of course, the beaches in the summer.
@@nigelmitchell351My dad had a motorcycle and side car. Later we had a little three wheeler Berkley. My older sister and I had to sit on a little fibreglass shelf behind the front seats. Always good fun going round the corner because we would slide on top of each other. absolutely no health and safety in those days it was absolutely fantastic. 😂
@@Steve-Cross Happy days Steve, you made me laugh, we'll not see their like again....
One of my early childhood memories is a holiday in Bournemouth in 1961 [I know the date from my parents photos, which are now digitised in my computer]. I remember the yellow trolleybuses, the aviary in the park and collecting pinecones and chestnuts.
"touchdown" in bournemouth, but "touchdown" in boscombe could be depressing! it's been a good town to live in for 60 yrs for me since 1963, other than it being a very commercial resort, so if your an alternative sort of person, it's not exactly a mecca for that sort of person. back in the 70's, there were some great shows though, at the winter gardens/pavilion theatre, and 2 awesome cinemas - ABC and the gaumont.
I USED TO CATCH THE TRAIN FROM BOURNEMOUTH TO WEYMOUTH THEN HIKE BACK IN TWO OR THREE DAYS , LOVELY!!!
Nostalgia is not the same as it used to be.
I arrived in Bournemouth in 1979 or 1980 as a 20 year old with all my worldly possessions in a backpack. Stayed 20 years, some the best of my life. Like many places now, it is full of drug addicts and homeless beggars with no self-respect. In no small part due to the rehab halfway houses that now infest Boscombe.
Totally agree. Those rehab places have plagued Bournemouth and Poole for far too long
Yes, Sadly Bournemouth has deteriorated badly like a lot of other towns & cities in this Country over the last couple of Decades only faster it appears & has now become a s******e!🤨🧐😠🤬
It's nothing like that these days!!
My Grandmother worked in the pier cafe in the early 60s, and gave me free ice-cream.
I love this. Thank you so much for giving me 16 minutes of brilliant memories. Things are so different here now. But at least I've got the same memories as on the video.
That is very kind of you to say...I am thrilled that this has brought back these memories. I hope for this whenever I upload a video....even though most times this does not happen!
@@maxustaxus i loved it too watched it right through kept hoping i would see someone i knew!! loved seeing the PA Cresta by the pier!!
@@maxustaxus keep trying to remember who it was that put on the aqua shows I am sure his son was called maxwell!!
My parents took us there most summers in the 1960s ,,,went back last year ,,, our old hotel now housing 100s of men from Arab countries 😢😢
Oh goodness not ARAB countries how terrifying and traumatic for all concerned just soooo shocking 😱
@@gerardmackay8909 Yes! Undocumented fighting age illegal migrants from highly incompatible cultures, staying in hotels at the cost of the tax payer is concerning. Well, at least to anyone who is rational.
Beautiful Hampshire 👍😎👍
Dorset now
It’s been in Dorset since 1974.
Nan lived in Southbourne fond memories
What I do remember is that it was so difficult to get to before the motorways were built.
Still is. Nothing has changed in that respect
Most of the town has been completely bastardised since then. It makes me sad looking back at how badly consecutive councils have trashed what was once a beautiful town.
All those lovely hotels have mainly been demolished and made into unattractive flats or the buildings have remained but been turned into HMOs. I wasn’t born until the 80’s so never remember Bournemouth like this.
They've been converted for a valid reason for god's sake!
For forty plus years, people have gone on holiday abroad and therefore the need for hotels in Bournemouth has diminished completely.
It's turned from a tourist town only busy for the summer into a town where lots of people live and work all year round.
Also, most of those "great" hotels you talk about were grotty shit holes by the 80s and 90s.
By today's standards, why would anyone want to stay in such grot holes for big money?
I could demolish your post with more reality but it'd take too long. I'll leave you with this
Don't look at the past with rose tinted glasses. It was nothing like these videos and despite what oldies say, it was far from idyllic or glorious.
No one likes to remember bad things of the past, only the good things, but it's bullshit.
There are good things now, bad things and in between. No different than it was then. People still moaned back then about how glorious the past was
Love the video but really interested where the flight came from and went to. Gatwick perhaps?
Yes....that is so intriguing! I wondered that myself. Where in the UK was it economically sound to catch a flight to Bournemouth at this time? Sorry, I have no idea...I guess the producers were setting a scene in which a domestic resort like Bournemouth was on par with the then glamourous mediterranean...a place you would normally get to using a plane?
I was born in 56 in bournemouth what a place it was in the 60s a real upmarket holiday place Think the rot set in when the university was built in wallisdown the students did thier studies and partied they came back for holidays and then came back for thier stag and hen parties and bournemouth got too popular Should never have let boscombe become a dumping ground for alcoholics and druggies as well
All our yesterdays…..it was wonderful…now it’s a dump…..fortunately the beach is still lovely and sandy…..it’s just been voted the worst place for a break in a survey done by Which……the council has a lot to be ashamed of to let this place deteriorate so badly…only one department store left in the town centre…so no one goes into Bournemouth to shop anymore….the council in it’s wisdom built a horrid shopping centre outside the town instead…so what were lovely department stores now stand empty…the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is now based in Poole Lighthouse theatre and concert hall…the Winter Gardens was pulled down decades ago….
Agree, so sad these days. Used to shop there once a week from the Forest. Always a better day out than Southampton. Both places now without a real soul, Bournemouth especially. Times have changed for the worst in my view. As a child in the late forties it had super ice cream!
We never imagined that the hotels would be taken over by illegal immigrants and Westover Road will become the new Boscombe.
As we used to say: Dover for the continent, Bournemouth for the incontinent.
6 years before I was born there... inevitably the comment section is riddled with people wearing rose-tinted spectacles and a failure to comprehend that everywhere changes, and often for reasons they've chosen to ignore. Yes it's a shame in many, many ways, but expressing wilfull ignorance doesn't achieve anything. Find any seaside resort that hasn't fundamentally changed in the last 60 years.
@@deankirby7237 Good work Captain Obvious.
It's such a shame what Bournemouth has become. It's such a scruffy, filthy place now
No it is not. I have been to much scruffier places than Bournemouth, my home town, and our local council staff work damned hard to keep it looking nice. If anything, it is the hordes of visitors littering the place every summer that is the major problem. Look what happened after the first covid lockdown when they were let loose - the filth was incredible, they were parking on pavements and anywhere they liked, sleeping in tents on the beaches with illegal barbecues going all night and defecating in the bushes by the cliffs, they did not give a damn as they drove off leaving all their debris and beer cans and bottles for someone else to clean up. I am afraid that is very typical of out of towners these days, the yob culture has become the prevailing visitor culture and most residents are actually glad when the summer is over and they can have their nice clean town back!
@@rodrollingstone2362 nope.
@@rodrollingstone2362 It was a lovely place growing up there in the late 50's, 60's and 70's, but sadly and gradually it went down hill. I have no regrets leaving Bournemouth in 2004.
It was a lot better then. Now its a sh*t hole
Can you please state the sh*t hole you live in and I will leave a comment on that YT page.....but I doubt it has one!
Where isn't?
Perhaps it's people and their low standards that make places shit holes rather than buildings??
Sorry but it did not have miles of golden sandy beaches, they were dirty shingle and it wasn't only filthy stormwater drains that dumped across them? There were also treated sewerage pipes that leaked across those supposed beaches!