SOUTHEND-ON-SEA - Late 1960s Home Movie

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SOUTHEND-ON-SEA - Late 1960s Home Movie

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AWOL 11

Күн бұрын

A day in Southend, Essex. The seafront, traffic, pier, funfair & illuminations.
Silent 8mm home movie.

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@AntonyoKnight 2 ай бұрын

The old world faded away silently.

@anneboorder240 3 күн бұрын

So sad.

@wordup1944 6 ай бұрын

I miss the old days , the civilisation.

@crawford1083 5 ай бұрын

And the lack of "diversity".

@jameskrell4392 Ай бұрын

@@crawford1083 Yes, that was a great plus

@Norfolkbiker50 Ай бұрын

@@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.

@crawford1083 Ай бұрын

@@jameskrell4392 👌

@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 21 күн бұрын

@@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.

@Knockabollokoff Ай бұрын

It makes me so sad to see how lovely things use to be compared to now.

@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 21 күн бұрын

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.

@eventhori3on 20 күн бұрын

So 3 stupid things and yet a 1000 things are worse now! @@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx

@johnhankinson1929 20 күн бұрын

yes , today's world is sterile and frightening

@johnhankinson1929 20 күн бұрын

@@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 ?

@laurencegoulty3196 2 ай бұрын

You wouldn’t want to go there after dark nowadays 😢

@tonyscharityshoppicks9270 Ай бұрын

That’s because of the rubbish that’s been dumped there from London and elsewhere

@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 21 күн бұрын

@@tonyscharityshoppicks9270 Hardly. London's waste goes to landfill.

@merlin5476 19 күн бұрын

@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx it should go to landfill but unfortunately IT goes to southend by trains armed with machete nowadays.

@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 19 күн бұрын

@@merlin5476 You mean fascists determined to cause riots?

@taztoon3387 18 күн бұрын

Day time is bad enough everything is a rip off and the restaurants are awful they use frozen cheap fish.

@GarethSavin 2 ай бұрын

I love how it’s obviously raining yet the people just don’t care,it’s their holiday and they will enjoy it!

@leepowis5215 2 ай бұрын

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 ❤

@anneboorder240 3 күн бұрын

Great memories indeed.

@PaulB-justme 4 ай бұрын

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!

@anneboorder240 3 күн бұрын

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. ,.

@oldguy2976 3 күн бұрын

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

@anneboorder240 3 күн бұрын

@@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

@stevepoulton8826 16 сағат бұрын

@@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.

@nickrobinson8339 2 ай бұрын

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.

@incognito9292 27 күн бұрын

When Britain was still British

@Isleofskye 18 күн бұрын

Fasy forward to Southend's Machete fight last week NOT featuring any English natives. What a surprise.

@kderules 16 күн бұрын

Yeah. Imported problems.

@angieetheridge6386 21 күн бұрын

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

@maurice8607 3 ай бұрын

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.

@johnsargent3435 2 ай бұрын

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

@Trebor74 Ай бұрын

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.

@darrenrawlinson6344 Ай бұрын

You mean the swinging axe with the guy looking up as it came nearer and nearer, but never did! Remember Kursaal radio?

@SaxonSuccess 11 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed that, thank you for a reminder of 1968...

@Mazalinda 2 ай бұрын

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.

@MustangBoss1973 Ай бұрын

When this country still had its identity and culture.

@bobbiescrisps9208 5 ай бұрын

What the hell have we done to ourselves!!

@SpamMouse 3 ай бұрын

Immigration Immigration immigration. To para-phrase a certain labour MP.

@timothyjennings4311 2 ай бұрын

Opportunistic racist. Nice try, Sergei!

@bobbiescrisps9208 2 ай бұрын

@@timothyjennings4311 who?

@bushwhackeddos.2703 Ай бұрын

@@SpamMouse Nothing racist about wanting to live in your own homeland amongst your own people. Comrade

@gorse9030 Ай бұрын

Self inflicted for sure, and I don't think the simplicity and joy of these times will return.

@dartskipper3170 3 ай бұрын

Fabulous little film full of so many memories. Thank you for posting it.

@TheJuzi 2 ай бұрын

look what they took from us...

@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 21 күн бұрын

Who took what from you?

@eventhori3on 20 күн бұрын

@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xxgo away troll!

@mrorwell8890 20 күн бұрын

@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx😂

@richardthomas8415 2 ай бұрын

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 😔

@johnrawlins6147 3 ай бұрын

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

@randybackgammon890 Ай бұрын

50's and 60s yea.....'70s?....The rot had already set in.At least that been my British experience

@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 21 күн бұрын

Well, in some ways: the unions had far more power in those days, so workers had more protection against employers.

@tonylittlelegs2110 Ай бұрын

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

@jamielee9350 29 күн бұрын

What do you notice most ...Everyone looking healthy and no overweight people..

@dannyharris1322 4 ай бұрын

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.

@davefish8107 26 күн бұрын

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

@Isleofskye 18 күн бұрын

Fast forward to Southend's Machete fight last week NOT featuring any English natives. What a surprise.

@MattF340 19 күн бұрын

A shadow of itself now, removing the Illuminations was one of the greatest acts of civic madness.

@bobsavage4748 7 күн бұрын

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!!

@SpamMouse 3 ай бұрын

Certainly one thing missing. Vote accordingly. X

@Brokenmono Ай бұрын

The one thing missing is your single brain cell. Go away.

@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 21 күн бұрын

Vote socialist for a better, happier world for all.

@SpamMouse 21 күн бұрын

@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Remind me exactly how democratic elections across the Middle East are?

@mrorwell8890 20 күн бұрын

@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx😂

@Isleofskye 18 күн бұрын

@@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. 😀

@tomtomlin7127 2 ай бұрын

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.

@CauliflowerMcPugg 3 ай бұрын

I was a teenager in the Southend of the 80s and loved it. Many a happy Saturday spent down the front with my mates.

@brianperry 9 ай бұрын

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.

@zeddeka 6 ай бұрын

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"

@Chris-nn3vu 23 күн бұрын

Vote Reform and England could look like this again one day. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@ctwfan 17 күн бұрын

Everyone looked so healthy and slim.

@KevinSmith-ki7yl 2 ай бұрын

Back in the days when life was much more carefree.

@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 21 күн бұрын

Not if you were disabled. In those days, you were stuck at home; disabled people had virtually no rights at all.

@eventhori3on 20 күн бұрын

@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx😒

@MarckKnitwear 26 күн бұрын

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!

@janiceturton7756 Ай бұрын

Those were the days

@AW-kr9fl Ай бұрын

Ah I grew up here in the 90s. Fascinating to see it in the 60s my grandparents generation.

@garypautard1069 Ай бұрын

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 .

@darrenrawlinson6344 Ай бұрын

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....👏

@parallaxview2143 Ай бұрын

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!

@ah7910 Ай бұрын

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.

@simondjangothe4349 19 күн бұрын

sounds like a grand day out! how long did it take you to scoot home?

@parallaxview2143 18 күн бұрын

@@simondjangothe4349 25 minutes.

@simondjangothe4349 18 күн бұрын

@@parallaxview2143 unbelievable! you all deserve medals

@simondjangothe4349 18 күн бұрын

@@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?

@JapaDollar 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this video

@crawford1083 5 ай бұрын

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.

@leebritnell2405 Ай бұрын

Lovely stuff,thanks for sharing!

@richardcummins5465 25 күн бұрын

I programmed Southend into my Satnav, and a voice said" you don't wanna go THERE" 😂

@mollboy 2 ай бұрын

Nice movie great memories...............and of course its raining !

@shaunwest3612 11 ай бұрын

Great video AWOL 11, amazing film, thanks 👌👍😀

@KimThomas-vp4vm 15 күн бұрын

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

@vat6989 Ай бұрын

............when England was England....

@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 21 күн бұрын

... and the police could assault and frame up working class men at will. Oh, the good old days, right?

@Isleofskye 18 күн бұрын

Fast forward to Southend's Machete fight last week NOT featuring any English natives. What a surprise.

@daisydaisy7532 Ай бұрын

Visited Southend alot on a Sunday over the summer in the 1970s, travelled from Hackney. Loved it ❤

@thebear3178 11 ай бұрын

Southend-on-Sea was much nicer in the 60s.

@Jimjam-lk4ud 10 ай бұрын

Looked much more lively

@graemeyetts3465 9 ай бұрын

It was a great area to frow up in back then

@zeddeka 6 ай бұрын

@robinburn4974 3 ай бұрын

Everywhere was much nicer in the sixties

@anythingbootneck 2 ай бұрын

@@robinburn4974That’s a fact!👍🏻

@danmayberry1185 7 ай бұрын

"And we need a tune to open Our season at Southend, can you help us?" - Bernie Taupin, Bitter Fingers

@Darkstar3022 Ай бұрын

Las Vagas how lucky to have this time memory Thanks for sharing

@ritawatts3756 5 күн бұрын

Happy days

@JaniceCole1950 2 ай бұрын

The amusements were so tame back then. How it’s changed. We used to go every year in the fifties to see the lights. Peter Pan playground. Puppet shows in the evening. Loved it

@starsailor49 2 ай бұрын

Happy times, before the Population doubled.

@mrsmokeybear 5 ай бұрын

Would like to see the Kursal bowl slide and wall of death

@joeletaxi821 22 күн бұрын

I have a photo from that time in Southend with a monkey on my shoulder.

@Ipdex Ай бұрын

I lived in Rochford until 1969 when my family moved us away. I was 11..

@mus139 Ай бұрын

When Britain was Britain.

@securityrobot 28 күн бұрын

So many excellently exposed shots.

@davidbullock9929 10 ай бұрын

Wonderful ... thanks

@themagicrat8803 20 күн бұрын

0:39 I bet that bike was not locked up and still there when the owner returned.

@mikeriley6073 Ай бұрын

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. 😅

@michellerowell158 10 ай бұрын

Lovely thank you

@tonesharp3728 3 ай бұрын

Not a berker in sight

@timothyjennings4311 2 ай бұрын

Are all racists illiterate or are all illiterates racists?

@laurencelevene4333 Ай бұрын

How things have changed. Now hardly a white face in sight

@johnrawlins6147 3 ай бұрын

Fantastic

@user-qs4kj4ck4p 27 күн бұрын

Before the invasion

@mabbrey Ай бұрын

100 times better back then

@spleeeen4it 2 ай бұрын

Not like this now!! Sadly!!

@Isleofskye 18 күн бұрын

Fast forward to Southend's Machete fight last week NOT featuring any English natives. What a surprise.

@alexanderscott1466 6 күн бұрын

When Britain was Great…….

@richjones4956 16 күн бұрын

Before the filth appeared.

@EvidentlyFire 17 күн бұрын

So was that adventure island

@devlinhartman1223 Ай бұрын

Great times , unfortunately all gone to shit now deliberately , but of course they will tell you how great it is 🙄

@suecondon1685 2 ай бұрын

The child that I was is probably in it somewhere.

@malcolmbutler3555 Ай бұрын

Joozel and Dud were there !

@user-fc1ik8ms2m Ай бұрын

Great film, once got my boat stuck out at 2 Tree Island behind Leigh Train Station, has it still got that name???

@davemcnally3627 Ай бұрын

Yes it ain't changed

@craighones1793 Ай бұрын

Go there now it’s like a 3rd world country

@danabrahams7892 2 ай бұрын

nice

@johnferrari3821 Ай бұрын

Thank god for multiculturalism 👌it saved us from all this…………wait a minute?

@allenwaters3945 3 ай бұрын

Amazing quality! How did you get it off of analogue tape to digital?

@tooleyheadbang4239 2 ай бұрын

It's from film, not video tape.

@Isleofskye 18 күн бұрын

I don't understand. Where are the Inner London invaders with their machetes like the other day?

@user-ry9uj4xl5i Ай бұрын

Not as white anymore 😢

@paulcowell7588 8 ай бұрын

The only difference is now the illuminations are nowhere near as good and theres bout a hundred thousand more people living here...

@seanmacleod1724 19 күн бұрын

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.

@stewartdouglass2774 18 күн бұрын

What, no idiots running amok wielding machetes

@davemcnally3627 Ай бұрын

Yeah britain has gone downhill cos the politicians have made it that way.

@vickyshah3787 6 ай бұрын

I don't see the skinheads as except the seaside rest Southend was a cesspit and still is to this day..

@a.c.4732 2 ай бұрын

sadly much more cess in the pit ....

@johnmorrissey46 Ай бұрын

I absolutely love these old movies, but I’ve noticed in everyone on KZfaq. 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

@Chris-nn3vu 23 күн бұрын

if you hate White people, just admit you're a racist and move on.

@mrorwell8890 20 күн бұрын

Careful, this video will get banned...

@stever7097 Ай бұрын

Very un ethnic.

@Isleofskye 18 күн бұрын

Unlike the machete gang warfare in Southend last week !

@SE16Proud 28 күн бұрын

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....😂😂