Brighton Churchill Square - Western Road North Street - 1970 & 1973
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- Old video footage of Brighton Churchill Square and Western Road showing old buses and shops - Credit to Pathe News for some video clips.
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feel the light heartedness, the warmth, generosity and friendliness of the locals and the sense of holiday in the air
What a pleasure to watch this. Good times then.
How cleaner the streets are than today and less folk around as well.
Do you think they might be connected?
I loved Brighton for my childhood holidays with my uncle and aunty.these films are marvellous for the memories
Lived in Brighton and hove all my life.
Grew up in Brighton and now live in hell hole London, missing the old Brighton so much!
I'm sorry about how the greens, remainers and general lefty unwashed have turned it into such a mess... :(
I definitely used to love Brighton with all my heart, but now its full of angry hippys who leave rubbish everywhere, have zero respect for the place. Brighton has so many new people there lately who dont appreciate what a nice place it used to be.
My condolences.
Lucky you to have lived all your life in Brighton &Hove .
I have lived in Brighton only for 5 years while I was studying in Sussex between 1975 and 1979 . I love Brighton, when ever I visit England I make sure to visit Brighton. It is like my second home, beautiful town , very loving people and a lively town. .
@@24yrukdesigner i think you’ll find the people who have the least respect for brighton are the young conservative boys breaking and trashing everything rather than the gay people who are probably too scared to litter
Loved this thanks for putting this up... the old wishing well eh outside Bhs... omg that brings back memories!
Brilliant ...the cream bus at the start is a convertible open topper ..
It's in the old Brighton Hove And District livery.
In summer the roof was taken off.
@Jack Warner The roofs were kept in Conway St or Whitehawk depots can't remember which and put on during winter.
They were Bristol Lodekas, the previous open toppers were conversions ,Bristol K.
This film was shot when the summer
timetable was in operation as it is on a normal town route.
So more civilized than now.
Thanks for the lovely video:)👍
Blue buses and so clean!
Interesting to see the Essoldo Bingo hall in North Street where there used to be a cinema. And opposite we can see the Brighton Film Theatre but not what film was currently showing. Loved it when it was the Jacey showing all day cartoons & The Three Stooges. Fascinating footage anyway, many thanks! (Brighton-dweller 1957-80)
The wishing well next to The Solarium Cafe. Used to meet my girlfriend there back in 77
I was born in Brighton in 1971.
I do remember the span wires supporting the street lights for very many years after the trolleybuses were stopped. All gone now though. As have the later Brighton Blue Buses with the driver having to turn and take fares through a side opening. And in 1970 you still had green BIL and HAL electric trains and the Brighton Belle.
The old Churchill sq looked way better back then
Great video. I drove buses for BH&D a few years later
Wow, so much and so little has changed. How bizarre.
Great memories.
My favorite city in the world !! No Cathedral and yet a City !!
You don't need to have a cathedral to be a city. Guildford has a cathedral but isn't a city.
Wonderful!
Everytime I watch this I’m looking for myself….
How wide the road down North Street was back then. Before some clown(s) decided to narrow it. Looked so much cleaner back then too.
I remember the houses that were there before Churchill Square was built.
Yes, as well. I remember shops all along Western Road to the corner. A narrow pavement, and all the houses that people lived in.
Yep. My mother lived in Upper Russell St in the 1930's. We're descended from Brighthelmstone fisherman. That was the fisherman's quarter. The tore down so much for that awful 60's eyesore.
@@deborahrobertson8606 Wow! I didn't know they were fisherman's houses. And I agree, it was an eyesore!
@@deborahrobertson8606 Yes I understood they were fishermens cottages when I was younger. I lived on Regent Hill number 11, which is now the tax office. It was a beautiful Victorian house. Behind Marks and Spencers was also fishermens cottages, where I used to visit my friend who lived there. They pulled them down for the eyesore of warehouses. The Churchill area cottages and ones off Regent Hill would go for a bomb now and would be sort after . Can imagine them re decorated. A lot of beautiful history destroyed for ugliness.
@@Rustymouse Spot on. I can't bear what they've done to Brighton. In the mid 1980's they pulled down King's St(just off North St) and built the car park just behind the pound shop. The king was George Third. So an 18th century row of cottages and the Running Horse pub. Our planning officers are vandals.
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This was made in 1955, when my brother and sister were born, (Davigdor Rd Maternity hospital by the station) All the best!
I Love Brighton
not a cycle lane in sight
It is strange that the 1970s has such a bad reputation as I remember it being an amazing, optimistic time. Look at footage of the 1960s it looks far grimmer.
This is so weird for me brighton looked so different
Good old buses
As a kid I upset some bus conductor by only having a ten shilling note for 1d fare, he gave me all the change in pennies and halfpenny’s. It was before D day in 71, probably 70.
morris minor at 1.00 they stopped production in 1971.
All of north street has change there no boots on the corner by the clock tower
Virgin records first store in them days then it moved round the corner on queens road!
Brighton in it,s prime and at it,s best . Nothing like the rundown , dirty neglected place it is now . Homeless people , decaying run down buildings , graffiti and a general air of neglect . Why anybody would want to holiday here is beyond me ?
Great video but unfortunately ruined by the large text.
when did they change churchill square to what it is today? i was born in 93 so i dont think i remember it
Early 2000s, I think. I remember it being this way until about then.
My great fondness for Brighton relies heavily on the memories I have of it when I was growing up. It's a rubbish strewn tip nowadays with homeless people blocking shop doorways and so few shops worth visiting. And where English has become a second language.
ah fuck off mate adapt or die out
@@comically_large_cowboy_hat3385 He's right though. The Green party is mostly to blame.
100%. Old Brightonian. It breaks my heart going in. They've destroyed so much.
And no graffiti anywhere !
Where's bons Burgers?
The Greens have wrecked Brighton, so sad
This was before Brighton became a self righteous left wing political echo chamber full of Gaurdian reading virtuous egos
Precisely. I feel like my old home town has been kidnapped by them
😂