From 1982 to 1987, every Saturday, my mother would drive to Canterbury for shopping, we lived near Dover and, in the 80s, Canterbury was the place to go. Parking was difficult back then but we would usually find a place behind the cinema or Orange Street. Forget Ashford or Ramsgate. Amazing what the town centre has become. Debenhams gone? Wow. After lunch at McDonald's we would go to the cinema, every now and then. No cinema in Dover and only a small theatre in Deal. "Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom", "Ghostbusters", "Police Academy 2", "Back to the Future", "The Goonies", "Rocky 4", " Crocodile Dundee 1 & 2", "Good Morning Vietnam" many classics seen there. In Mercery Lane, Albion Bookshop for school textbooks. Anyone remember an old man with his dog repairing glasses corner of Lloyds Bank? Quite sure there was an Our Price Records store when the Marlowe Arcade opened in 1985. I purchased a Go West vinyl there. And a BHS store with a cafeteria upstairs. Many memories....
I remembered the BHS which is now Primark. It has a cafe on the top floor where staff wore PVC aprons with the shop's logo on it during the 1980s and 1990s.
Thanks for posting this. I remember the old McDonald's at the top of the high street and what was about to become C & A. That also before that road was partially cobbled then bricked(it's tarmac in this film). Yeah, remember the old Cannon cinema(then ABC - and now Odeon).
Thank you for posting this! Although I was only 9, I remember this summer very well. It's great to see the businesses that have come and gone and I remember when the cinema was ABC (before Cannon).
I have been in Canterbury many times, in the "80/90 when I was a child to visit my nanny and grandad ; I live in Italy but my mother is english and I love Canterbury so much!!
Absolutely brilliant. My home town. I've lived here all my life. Brings back some fantastic old memories. Have you got a version in normal speed please. And thank you for sharing your video. 📹👍
Love this great memories what a shame it's changed so much ! I recall it from early 70s maybe earlier still know it today..st.augustine's road now too many cars and awful sleeping policemen like a chicane!.....thanx for showing this it's brought back great memories. X gosh it even goes passed where I was living off old dover road..Randolph close how bizarre....
Fantastic! From the old Geoffrey Chaucer School all the way to the Westgate was basically my walk home from school - I even remember that red 2cv at 1.16 - thanks for posting this
In some ways it's the same city the buildings are much the same but the companies have changed but the people are not the same. This was a kinder more considerate time when people cared and a more innocent society. What a big shame those days cannot come back.
Thirty three years ago,some things have changesd quite a bit,many roads now closed to traffic,plus that hideous Ricemans building gone.What video camera was used?Great short film.
Absolutely love this, do you have a version with a smoother frame rate, or is this how it was shot originally? Would love to see it. Thanks for the upload 😎
@@nakane3 It was a department store on Rose Lane at the corner with St Georges Street. Today it is a Metro Bank. As a kid I loved their toy department. They used to have a huge model railway in the window.
Very interesting video, but what is the point of showing it at such a stupidly sped-up rate? It would have been so much more enjoyable in real time. Anybody interested enough to watch this would have appreciated it so much more at the proper speed.
My Main Base in the 1980’s & 90’s!! #94 Wincheap!! The Pub The butcher shop before the rail overpass the roundabout & underpass the M O K off to the right and late Nights SPIDERS BURGER COACH, The Old Norman Castle up the road still on the left the Tiny Convenient Shop just up the road at the intersection “ The 3 TON’S” I believe going up the road the Canterbury Information Center, The OLD PILGRIMS, going towards the HIGH Street the little narrow Street parallel to the CATHEDRAL walking down further left on Sun to Palace Road The Old 🔔 👑 the Governor Charlie Passy, The Wall of KINGS School opposite the Tilted House quick right Then Left the CHIPPY SHOP (if you carried on further a bit to the Right the ( “JOLLY SAILOR” ) but I would make my move going left on a NARROW Lane Saint Radigunds I believe going into CHURCH Street but on the right!! The most INFAMOUS BEST PUB OF MY YOUNG DAYS!! Filled with FUN, LAUGHTER, GOOD CONVERSATION, GOOD STAFF, SEXY BEAUTIFUL WOMEN AND PINTS 🍻 AND PINTS 🍻!! The place of My first SNAKE BITE and I drank 7 of them from 1500 - 2345!! THE PLACE “🇬🇧🧨⭐️🍻🥃🇬🇧SIMPLE SIMONS”🇬🇧🥃🍻⭐️🧨🇬🇧 it was here I was Christened into my first 🇬🇧🏴BRITISH/ENGLISH🏴🇬🇧 PUB and DRINK 🍺 the Governor MIKE was Classic and out of Central Casting!! For next 25 years every time I visited the 🇬🇧UK🇬🇧 🏴CANTERBURY🏴 was a MUST and of course “SIMPLE SIMONS” so many GOOD PEOPLE, FRIENDS, and ATMOSPHERE!! If I could only go back in TIME to 1988 to 2000 I would do it all over again!! It seems like yesterday but it is almost 40 years ago now!! How much has changed how 🇬🇧🏴ENGLAND🏴🇬🇧 has changed and what now seems to be falling apart by outside influences and invaders by a Political System that No Longer cares for its GREAT CULTURE AND HISTORY!! I appeal to the POLITICIANS who have a Different Anti-BRITISH STANCE; don’t Destroy this BEAUTIFUL HISTORIC BASTION OF CULTURE!! So unique to the WORLD and hand it over to foreign forces of EVIL AND HATE!! Re-Conquer what has been such a WONDERFUL GIFT TO HUMANITY and those of us who remembered its UNIQUE GREATNESS!!!
I love The original McDonald’s at the very top of Canterbury. Good times.
Great video, I was turning 13 in 1986 and this was the year I first went to Canterbury, it’s exactly as I remember it
From 1982 to 1987, every Saturday, my mother would drive to Canterbury for shopping, we lived near Dover and, in the 80s, Canterbury was the place to go. Parking was difficult back then but we would usually find a place behind the cinema or Orange Street. Forget Ashford or Ramsgate. Amazing what the town centre has become. Debenhams gone? Wow. After lunch at McDonald's we would go to the cinema, every now and then. No cinema in Dover and only a small theatre in Deal. "Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom", "Ghostbusters", "Police Academy 2", "Back to the Future", "The Goonies", "Rocky 4", " Crocodile Dundee 1 & 2", "Good Morning Vietnam" many classics seen there. In Mercery Lane, Albion Bookshop for school textbooks. Anyone remember an old man with his dog repairing glasses corner of Lloyds Bank? Quite sure there was an Our Price Records store when the Marlowe Arcade opened in 1985. I purchased a Go West vinyl there. And a BHS store with a cafeteria upstairs. Many memories....
I remembered the BHS which is now Primark. It has a cafe on the top floor where staff wore PVC aprons with the shop's logo on it during the 1980s and 1990s.
Wow I remember Canterbury back then. The video actually starts in Suffolk road where my nan still lives. Amazing
Fantastic! I turned 12 in 1986 and remember Canterbury like this really well. Thank you.
That was my walk home from school at the Chaucer. What a very special film. Thank you so much!!
Great video. Wish the traffic was like that now. Lots of telephone boxes.
Wonderful, the streets of my youth plus a brief tour through my old school. Great video.
I fell in love with Canterbury in February 1987. Thank you for sharing this wonderful video!
Thanks for posting this. I remember the old McDonald's at the top of the high street and what was about to become C & A. That also before that road was partially cobbled then bricked(it's tarmac in this film). Yeah, remember the old Cannon cinema(then ABC - and now Odeon).
Thank you for posting this! Although I was only 9, I remember this summer very well. It's great to see the businesses that have come and gone and I remember when the cinema was ABC (before Cannon).
I have been in Canterbury many times, in the "80/90 when I was a child to visit my nanny and grandad ; I live in Italy but my mother is english and I love Canterbury so much!!
That was so nice to see really brought back memories .. thank you
That's some film and thanks for sharing. the memories! fantastic - Steve Ware
Absolutely brilliant. My home town. I've lived here all my life. Brings back some fantastic old memories. Have you got a version in normal speed please. And thank you for sharing your video. 📹👍
Spring Lane to cross Keys... I used to make that same route of an evening...
Love this great memories what a shame it's changed so much ! I recall it from early 70s maybe earlier still know it today..st.augustine's road now too many cars and awful sleeping policemen like a chicane!.....thanx for showing this it's brought back great memories. X gosh it even goes passed where I was living off old dover road..Randolph close how bizarre....
Thank you for posting this. So interesting to see what Canterbury was like in '86. Any chance we could have it in real time as well? Would be great.
Fantastic! From the old Geoffrey Chaucer School all the way to the Westgate was basically my walk home from school - I even remember that red 2cv at 1.16 - thanks for posting this
In some ways it's the same city the buildings are much the same but the companies have changed but the people are not the same. This was a kinder more considerate time when people cared and a more innocent society. What a big shame those days cannot come back.
And cars
That brought back some memories! Thank you for posting
Fantastic! I was so quiet on the streets!!
Before the Sunday trading laws changed. It was a different world, wasn't it?
Omg I was in my second year at Steven and James ‘this is when Canterbury was good
1986 hyperlapse, nice work, takes me back :)
I have motion sickness
Thanks for sharing this
Someone should do a split screen recreation of this same route now.
Forgot to mention as well I lived at Tennyson avenue in the 1980’s any videos of this ? 😊
Thank you for watching. I have only this video of Canterbury.
Brilliant! Would love to see it slowed down too 🍋
Alter the playback speed in Settings!
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I made SLOW version.
Yup - memories !!
Notice no litter and no homeless people, no stabbings neither and St George's Street looked smart. It's due a revamp soon and badly needs it.
Fascinating
EKV all the way down to the Cinema!
Very good!
Rip all cars scrapped
Canterbury much better back then. Canterbury not the same now. I hate the way it is now
Brilliant! :)
Thirty three years ago,some things have changesd quite a bit,many roads now closed to traffic,plus that hideous Ricemans building gone.What video camera was used?Great short film.
Thank you. This film taken by CHINON 8mm Film Camera.
Have You Got Any Pictures Of The Canterbury Fire Station Back in The Day
Thank you for watching. I don't remember The Canterbury Fire Station.
does anyone remember the name of the really cool record shop that was on Lower Bridge St in the 90’s? i think it’s Hobgoblin music now
Parrot Records
Absolutely love this, do you have a version with a smoother frame rate, or is this how it was shot originally? Would love to see it. Thanks for the upload 😎
Thank you for watching. This is original one. I am very happy to read your comment.😊
@@nakane3 Hi! I have managed to slow it down. Would it be okay to send you the link so you have a slower version too? :)
@@lemonbade Please try 0.25 playback speed in Settings.
Toshihiro Nakane Also do you know when this was filmed - the day of the week/time? Trying to work out whether it is a Sunday etc
@@ThonColinFilms 8th of June 1986 Sunday. (You can watch the clock tell AM10:20 on this video at 2:52.)
Hi Toshihiro! Do you remember me? I was one of your teachers at Stafford House.
Hello Martin! Thank you. I remember you :)
where can you get street view
I took this film in 1986 with my 8mm camera. Thank you for watching.
Was Barretts closed at that time?
I don't know where the Barretts was.
@@nakane3 It was a department store on Rose Lane at the corner with St Georges Street. Today it is a Metro Bank. As a kid I loved their toy department. They used to have a huge model railway in the window.
The doctor who music
Thank you for watching. I made this music with my iPad app.
6.09 where we used to go and smoke!
The town centre looks pretty much unchanged!
Got a headache from watching this
Very interesting video, but what is the point of showing it at such a stupidly sped-up rate? It would have been so much more enjoyable in real time. Anybody interested enough to watch this would have appreciated it so much more at the proper speed.
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Ah yes, I remember those days when England still had it's own identity and tourists used to like coming here.
My Main Base in the 1980’s & 90’s!! #94 Wincheap!! The Pub The butcher shop before the rail overpass the roundabout & underpass the M O K off to the right and late Nights SPIDERS BURGER COACH, The Old Norman Castle up the road still on the left the Tiny Convenient Shop just up the road at the intersection “ The 3 TON’S” I believe going up the road the Canterbury Information Center, The OLD PILGRIMS, going towards the HIGH Street the little narrow Street parallel to the CATHEDRAL walking down further left on Sun to Palace Road The Old 🔔 👑 the Governor Charlie Passy, The Wall of KINGS School opposite the Tilted House quick right Then Left the CHIPPY SHOP (if you carried on further a bit to the Right the ( “JOLLY SAILOR” ) but I would make my move going left on a NARROW Lane Saint Radigunds I believe going into CHURCH Street but on the right!! The most INFAMOUS BEST PUB OF MY YOUNG DAYS!! Filled with FUN, LAUGHTER, GOOD CONVERSATION, GOOD STAFF, SEXY BEAUTIFUL WOMEN AND PINTS 🍻 AND PINTS 🍻!! The place of My first SNAKE BITE and I drank 7 of them from 1500 - 2345!! THE PLACE “🇬🇧🧨⭐️🍻🥃🇬🇧SIMPLE SIMONS”🇬🇧🥃🍻⭐️🧨🇬🇧 it was here I was Christened into my first 🇬🇧🏴BRITISH/ENGLISH🏴🇬🇧 PUB and DRINK 🍺 the Governor MIKE was Classic and out of Central Casting!! For next 25 years every time I visited the
🇬🇧UK🇬🇧
🏴CANTERBURY🏴 was a MUST and of course “SIMPLE SIMONS” so many GOOD PEOPLE, FRIENDS, and ATMOSPHERE!! If I could only go back in TIME to 1988 to 2000 I would do it all over again!! It seems like yesterday but it is almost 40 years ago now!! How much has changed how
🇬🇧🏴ENGLAND🏴🇬🇧 has changed and what now seems to be falling apart by outside influences and invaders by a Political System that No Longer cares for its GREAT CULTURE AND HISTORY!! I appeal to the POLITICIANS who have a Different Anti-BRITISH STANCE; don’t Destroy this BEAUTIFUL HISTORIC BASTION OF CULTURE!! So unique to the WORLD and hand it over to foreign forces of EVIL AND HATE!! Re-Conquer what has been such a WONDERFUL GIFT TO HUMANITY and those of us who remembered its UNIQUE GREATNESS!!!