Old home movies like this fascinate me because when they filmed this it was in the expectation that only a couple of people would ever see it and they could never of predicted that years later thousands of strangers would watch it!
I was 7 in 1976, we used to visit Brighton as we did and still do live in Sussex. I remember seeing a skateboard for the first time in Brighton and getting one for Christmas that year. I also remember going on the west pier before it was closed, so great to see that in the film looking much better than today
Really good to see Brighton streets from 1976 (when I was 18). This was the year of the really hot, long summer. Brighton had already lost its ice rink to the Kingswest Centre, the Regent cinema (where The Sound Of Music ran for 2 years) and the Virgin record shop on the corner of Queens Road. But it was still fairly clean and spacious compared to the overrun mess it is today, 2021.
Indeed Brighton is a great town .in use to live in England in 70s .while I was studying in Sussex. Summer of 1976vwas indeed very hot . Virgin record was at the corner at clock tower it use to be our record shop. And opposit to it was 52 flavour ice cream shop .I use to live in east street across the lanes . Brighton is my second home .when ever I visit England I make sure to spend a day in Brighton. Though all the friends are gone but I cherish my best days of life .
I think I vaguely remember going there around this time-although I was only 8 then so am not too sure! I vaguely remember going around The Lanes, and eating at the different restaurants like the Berni, Henekey, Rabb and Schooner at the time. Thank you too!
It looks like such a clean place back then. Sadly the last time I went to Brighton the rubbish was piled high and we were tripping over homeless people lying all over the pavements. It was a sad Sight to see. The beautiful prom was shut off due to total disrepair and the poor arches.
Painfully nostalgic to watch that, and I wasn't even alivemy in 1976 (I was in 1977 though, just!) Aspects of this time were still present in cultural life though - and in the stuff we found in the attick, in the family photo album, in some of the people we knew and some of the cloths people still wore - so it feels like a distant memory and we've lost allot since the late 70s (Thatcher's fault!)
No mobile phones no social meda so nobody could find you if wanted soms quite time. Beer cost a lot less than five quid a pint you could still get proper fish and chips . Great days..
Old home movies like this fascinate me because when they filmed this it was in the expectation that only a couple of people would ever see it and they could never of predicted that years later thousands of strangers would watch it!
I was 7 in 1976, we used to visit Brighton as we did and still do live in Sussex. I remember seeing a skateboard for the first time in Brighton and getting one for Christmas that year. I also remember going on the west pier before it was closed, so great to see that in the film looking much better than today
Thank you for sharing your memories, Much Appreciated 👍
Really good to see Brighton streets from 1976 (when I was 18). This was the year of the really hot, long summer. Brighton had already lost its ice rink to the Kingswest Centre, the Regent cinema (where The Sound Of Music ran for 2 years) and the Virgin record shop on the corner of Queens Road. But it was still fairly clean and spacious compared to the overrun mess it is today, 2021.
Cheers Shanti, interesting to hear how Brighton was back in the 70's
Indeed Brighton is a great town .in use to live in England in 70s .while I was studying in Sussex. Summer of 1976vwas indeed very hot .
Virgin record was at the corner at clock tower it use to be our record shop. And opposit to it was 52 flavour ice cream shop .I use to live in east street across the lanes .
Brighton is my second home .when ever I visit England I make sure to spend a day in Brighton. Though all the friends are gone but I cherish my best days of life .
I was 19.. and from Kent, but definitely a fantastic era ❤
Love it! A confirmed bachelors day out if there ever was. Quite daring in 1976 bless you. Safety in numbers!
Love the way they end up at the Greyhound :))
Brighton ..... the old tart!
I think I vaguely remember going there around this time-although I was only 8 then so am not too sure! I vaguely remember going around The Lanes, and eating at the different restaurants like the Berni, Henekey, Rabb and Schooner at the time. Thank you too!
Thank you for that then too of course!
They certainly revelled in their freedom - such memories. Much sexier clothes than those of today. Fosters was full of great outfits
It looks like such a clean place back then. Sadly the last time I went to Brighton the rubbish was piled high and we were tripping over homeless people lying all over the pavements. It was a sad Sight to see. The beautiful prom was shut off due to total disrepair and the poor arches.
I was living in the area and had just left school at 15.
Painfully nostalgic to watch that, and I wasn't even alivemy in 1976 (I was in 1977 though, just!) Aspects of this time were still present in cultural life though - and in the stuff we found in the attick, in the family photo album, in some of the people we knew and some of the cloths people still wore - so it feels like a distant memory and we've lost allot since the late 70s (Thatcher's fault!)
Anyone told you she died in 2013? Time to move yourself on maybe 😂
@@HHM706 You should move on from moving on and move onto my hard on.
Didn't realise how gay Brighton was back in the 70's.
I was looking for that comment 😂
I think that the men with moustaches used to be called “clones”
Eva Petulengro...didn't she appear with Jimmy Melia before the Albion made it to the FA Cup final in 83?
Eva Petulengro wrote the astrology column in the Hackney Gazette in those days
No mobile phones no social meda so nobody could find you if wanted soms quite time. Beer cost a lot less than five quid a pint you could still get proper fish and chips . Great days..
What a gay day 🤣
How to different to the Brighton of today, which is basically a sad woke dump 😢
Got to be grockles from the smoke. Proper Brightoniand wouldn't act like that
Well that wasn't gay at all 😂😂😂
The skateboard craze started in 76. I can remember kids made home made one's as nobody could afford a real one.