I met my husband in Shanklin 60 years ago and we have been married for 55 years, I love the island it is paradise.

Wish I was a time traveller. Bygone years

Wish it. Was like. That. Now. No. Burnt. Down. Hotels. Empty. Shops. So. Different.

I was on the island 6 times last year for one reason or another. Already been this year January 2024. wonderful place

Wonderful. Takes me back to my childhood when my family would visit and stay with a relative. He was a jeweler on Main St. ( or High St..just up from the ferry) in Cowes. Must have been early in the 50s. Blissful and carefree for my sister and I. Thanks for posting.

I LL be on the island that I've visited Every year since the age of 3 ,I'm 61 this year loo❤

Thanks for sharing this vintage video. The sound track is nice.

This is so beautiful I cried because it was apart of my life when we were still on the island. Life so much better, everybody had a good life because there were jobs and it gave a contentment for living. Not like today’s lifestyle it one big shambles of uncertainty.

Just found this footage - absolutely beautiful- such a great snapshot in time - just wish there was more. Thank you for making it.

You might find this hard to believe, but I drove my car through the Ventnor tunnel with my then-girlfriend, just after they had taken the rails & sleepers up. Late 70's early 80's

I lived near Ventnor station. Just a tunnel now but maybe one day, who know's. Train's will return. Great video. thanks 👍👍 and love the music too.🎶🎵🎶

Fabulous video. Wish I still lived there. Thank you. Love the Aker Bilck music 🎵🎶🎵🎶

Thank you for bringing back my childhood a little. Poignant to see Shanklin Pier before the hurricane.

Fantastic.

Fantastic! Are we allowed to re-post this sort film please?

Lovely nostalgic memories of a lovely island they way it used to be, it's nice to know that my memories of those days weren't just in my imagination.

We had our honeymoon in the tower room of the Ryde Castle Hotel in 1984. I was later told that Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull stayed in the same room when the Stones played Ryde in the mid sixties.

Still remember the excitement when the queens or one of the other liners sailed past Ryde enroute to New York

In 1961 we stayed in Ryde I used to fish off the pier and watch the trains with my late dad what wonderful memories cheers!

A golden period

Love it. Great to see the island even before my first visit in 1967..... and still go every year. Not in 2020 though 😕

Magical place.

Great film. Holidays as kids at chilton chine holiday camp now I O W pearl

Irritates the hell out of me knowing so much of the Island’s railways were lost!

Wow fantastic, thanks for posting 😁.. I can still feel the sun on my face making sand castles on Ryde beach as a 10yr old, we stayed in Warners Puckpool holiday park a few times, I was a warners wagtail lol! We went out on many trips, Robin Hill Blackgang chine.. Wonderful!

there had been steam trains all over the island

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Very sad but superb edit. Thanks.

Stucrabb it looks like Part 1 has been taken down, do you still have it at all? Would love to see it.

Being going to the island since I was a kid , I've taken my kids and my grandkids , we all love the place , it looked even better back then , top film , thanks for the effort .

Ahhhh when England was ours

Thank you for taking me back to my childhood memories. Times when life was so easy.

Its been almost 45 years since I holidayed on the IOW. It was in the 1960`s. We always stayed at a caravan site in Shanklin. We got a coach from the Midlands and then the ferry across to the island, hovercraft if dad was feeling flush! The best two weeks of the school holiday. We would jump on the old green busses or the railway and see the sights. Dad was a club man and had his CIU affiliation card so we got into the local working men`s club for cheap beer and bingo. Then home to the caravan to watch him struggle to light those little gas lamps after a few beers. Great times, lovely island, I hope to return one day before I shuffle off this mortal coil. Thanks for the memories.

Most of this was when? About 1963 or 64? I was there those summers. Did it ever rain in the 60s?! Just as I recall from Waterloo down to Portsmouth and the paddle steamer across the water. My dad used to wear a hat on holiday just like the guy at 6.22! Brilliant compilation sir.

Nostalgia can become a hate crime !!!

Great memories. Acker Bilk was always my favourite. I remember in the 50s getting the electric train from London to Portsmouth and Summer Place was playing constantly on someones tape recorder. Stuck with me ever since. We used to holiday in Gurnard at my Auntie`s.

Beautiful, brings back lovely childhood memories.

dont you just love THE ISLAND

love the island so much

God Save Donald Duck? hahaaha

beautiful countryside...not difficult to see what inspiration behind daffodils

Superb video and a nice choice of music as well.

MrRabson55, shouldn't you really call yourself 'cheekybastard55' ? (You do have a cracking sense of humour, though.) By the way, the music is bloody awful!

I worked there in the 80s

It's amazing how, despite things changing at the isle of wight; a lot of places stayed the same. Most if not, all these places are still here, either repurposed or still used as it was back then! The only thing that changed is how people looked. To think, you can still walk that same path a 1900-1930 farmer walked all those years ago...

I bet those girls towards the end would've done anything for a pair of Nylons!

Lovely old cars

An England gone forever shame things are so much more f.u.j.i.a.r now

There used to be many more piers than today

I've lived on the Isle of Wight my whole life (14 years) but my nan always used to tell me about how it used to be