I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this video, it is so great seeing all of Southsea, looking at things that have changed and things that haven't, it showed so much of the road I travel everyday on school runs and going to work, but today I looked around that much more because of this video, Love it! Thank you so much for putting it on here.
I have tears in my eyes!!! Dad was in RN for 27yrs and we lived in Gibraltar Rd. You drove by where the maisonettes were on the left. This was the happiest time of my life and wished we could’ve stayed there. Wonderful trip down memory lane.
Thankyou immensely for an excellent nostalgic piece of rare footage. I'm Portsmouth born and bred and have always lived there. I know Southsea very well, infact too well and it's interesting to see how some things have remained virtually unchanged and how things have changed leaving no trace such as the service station at the bottom of Vic RD Sth. Love seeing the old cars and was 1982 a really hot summer? England was a far better place then.
This is fascinating to me as it covers 'my bank yard', including the road I now live in, and shows what it looked like before my block of flats went up.
I was born in Portsmouth and was 22 when this was filmed I was married in Portsmouth in 83 I had just came back from Ireland with my girl friend and we are now 36 years married have 2 kids and 3 grandchildren. I do worry about what the future holds for them, life was hard but good back then. I never did like the 80s music though LOL. Nice to see the old green southdown buses
its surprising to see actually how many foreign cars there actually was back then in 83, its a shame you have to watch this to really feel at home again , the wimpy the austins triumphs morris wolsely rovers marinas and minis and the talbots hillmans and other rootes grp cars oh when we had a lovely english country and industry , now ruined by bad management and foriegn goods everywhere and we all moan about our taxes going up , because we dont have a conglomerate of english industry paying in , cant seem to get out of relying on others products, a vicious vortex, i liked that video for my own reasons seeing the english cars and the character of our streets and the way we should be gives me a glazy eye and that little lump in my throat for what really is a testament to our once industrious country, not quite the same when you go outside today is it.
What a thoroughly enjoyable journey! I remember '83 in Southsea well, We lived in Oliver Road off Winter Road. It was a good year :-) ... set the foundation for our future it did. I have been back since and felt so crowded and claustrophobic .. seeing the roads as I recall is simply brilliant. This is a real Pompy treasure. Thank You :-)
Loads of people on bicycles, I noticed: ordinary every day-looking people too, not members of the lycra-cult like you see today. Also: it's super quiet and only marginally a bit more congested in the town centre. Was it a Sunday by any chance?
I reckon a Friday afternoon. The beer wagons delivering beer for the weekend is a clue and the tradesman cutting wood in the earlier part of the video. Times were so much better then and no SUVs to be seen.
I lived in Westfield Road (off winter road) Southsea '79-84 , and this really brings the time back to me. Probably the last decade when you could still drive and park in the area fairly easily. I'd hate to live in the city now though, sorry to say its a complete and utter dump. Thank you for posting , enjoyed it immensely.
I also lived in Westfield Road 1955-1979 (when I got married!) I also enjoyed this video, also brought back memories of a more simpler lifestyle and a lot less red tape - parking for one!
great video thank you - watched it with Google Streetview on the other screen to compare old with new. Loved all the Minis - even a Marcos. Brought back many memories.
Loved this video such good memories , in queen street portsea hoping to get a glimps of my dad derek he had a garage in lion street , thank you for this video
One of the best local videos on here so pleased to have seen it will watch again and again each time with a soundtrack of my choice while getting nostalgic for those days and all those old motors. Thanks.
I was 3 when this was filmed. So much is the same (the Tesco in Albert Road lol) and so much is different. Gunwharf of course, and the Admiralty Quarter in Queen St. Very interesting! Didn't think I'd watch all of it, but actually I did, and really enjoyed it!
Outstanding! Cosmic Karma must have caused this to appear in my suggested videos. Barely thought about it in years, but in 1983 I was working at The Kings Theatre (3:00) and living in a flat near The Festing (5:45). This video pretty much shows my entire world at the time.
hey ken how are you mate, worked with you on the fly floor for many shows, i remember when you used to live on biscuits or anything else that was on special offer while you saved for a mitsubishi shogun, i used to pick you up and run around the stage lol. all the best mate
That was a brilliant video, i didn't know Argos on Commercial Road used to be British Home Stores, was nice seeing a glimpse of the Tricorn again too :)
Fascinating! Thank you for uploading this. I'm a life-long Portsmothian and was born in '77 so this is definitely what my childhood looked like. I don't know how surprising it really is that so little has actually changed, but where things are very different (Winston Churchill Ave - at each end) it's quite shocking.
Times were better then. People were better as they had time for one another. Cars were better as they looked good and sounded good. Better pace of life. I was alive then so understand quite well.
I'm so pleased this appeared in my TH-cam picks. Although not intimately familiar with Portsmouth I recognised most of the roads travelled. Great to see all the cars, a large proportion of which were built in the UK, but not for much longer. To see the area of Gunwharf Quays prior to that development was most interesting. Petrol at £1.76 a gallon too. The videography was very steady, in those days a solid camera mount would have been difficult and the separate camera and recorder a bulky set of kit, probably worth as much as the car! I know it was posted a long time ago, but a belated thanks is in order.
Was thinking I'd watch the first couple of mins but loved all of it! The sedate driving, respect for cyclists, those nasty red/brown striped double-decker buses...the dinky junctions at Edinburgh Road and Victoria Road North...how old the cars look! Kings Theatre, pitch and putt, the piers, Still and West...no Gunwharf...1983 in Portsmouth, not a bad place and time to be growing up as I was. And we had an N-reg Avenger just like that one!
Those disabled cars!! Not seen any of those for years! I remember, they used to be everywhere and there was a road somewhere in North End/Fratton that had a workshop that maintained them.. a link road somewhere between Powerscourt Road and Queens road. It used to fascinate me as a kid. Anyone know what kind of Car they actually were?
i've got to say,that was absolutely magnificent southsea which i didn't visit until 1997-8.that was so bright,clear,colourful and beautiful that i could almost cry a glimpse into 1983.one of my most treasured memory years of all.that year was so fantastic,a few of the old crew have left me and passed away.my dad was a few years younger than i am now that footage of a beautiful time gone by,of the magical country that we once had,shows me just how small and insignificant that my whole existence was and is at the time,i believed that i was the centre of the whole universe if i had been made out of chocolate i would have eaten nyself.just think of all the millions and millions around the world,who have passed away to nought since that day.oh 1983!i'm going to miss you when i go!
This is amazing. Any more like it? Assume this was shot on video rather than film, from the occasional light streaking? Any idea which day of the year this was? The route goes one block away from my old house on Chelsea Rd where I would have been living in 1983. And amazing to see the old houses in the derelict roads in the area to the east of St Luke's school. My grandparents used to live there at one time. One thing that seems really striking now is the number of elderly people riding bikes around the town. That is very rare to see these days, but was very commonplace thirty years ago.
What really strikes me is that, aside from the vehicles and the odd shop front, how little has really changed! Some of the residential streets look nearly identical.
I lived there between 2005-2008 (on Pains Road in fact) and it looks no different... obviously a few changes here and there but the residential streets look the same.
Wow, this brought back some memories (especially as I am living in China at the mo) ... I was 19 at the time and I would have been riding around on my Honda CM 125 !! Awesome footage. And did you know the Exleys who also lived in Pains Road? That was my friend from Junior School We went to Somers Road Juniors..
Wow, that was fantastic. I've lived in Southsea for a few years now and it was really interesting seeing what I'm familiar and what has long gone. Thanks for uploading
Ahhh those were the days I was only 18 back then and livin in Copnor opposite Baffins Park tennis courts. I feel young again cheers, I wish I had my old MK5 Cortina it was beautifully restored and would have only been 2 years old in 1983. I bought it in 1995 bit of a sod to start in the cold in the winter though even with a manual choke kit fitted. thanks for posting this video I wish I had half the cars on the road back then they would be worth a lot of money now.
That actually works out at £5.62 in todays money (with inflation calculated) a gallon which is more expensive than today's fuel, Rose tinted glasses comes to mind. products were, in general, more (in retaliative terms) back then, I was a child of the 70's/80's and although life was a tiny "bit" more simpler it wasn't that different.
Just done an updated one and will upload later on tomorrow ... so it's an update almost 30 years on.... I was born in July 1983 so fantastic timing! :) Thanks for uploading your video :) It was hypnotic viewing and amazing to see how much has changed in 30 years!
Jeez, the guy in the white Cortina at 22:49 was in a bit of a rush! Reg NDD221P, I'd send the footage into the cops, that guy is going to kill someone.
Ha ha, yes. I was only joking. Fascinating film though, it blows my mind to think of all the history that's happened and the technological advances we have made since this was shot. ...and yet, we're still fundamentally the same as all of the people, drivers and pedestrians you filmed just going about their lives.
This is a blast from the past, lived in Portsmouth in the early eighties, the Falklands Wars is still in the forefront of my mind and how it affected the city in regards to the navy and civilian workers.
I see at 38:50 Homesea House in Green Road isn't there, but the petrol station that is now Jet is, but can't make out what it is. Do you happen to know what time of day this footage is? I must admit this probably is the best video I've personally seen on YT. Everything seems so much easy going and less rushed compared to nowadays. Breaks my heart how England has changed in 30 years. I wish I had a time machine.
Indeed, I recognised Pains Road straightaway before it was captioned on the video, then turning into St Andrews Road and Bailey's Road. It felt like I was back at Uni ;)
The cars are ranging from new to ten year's old not many older than that very few 60s cars but if youd gone back 7 or 8 years maybe there loads I grew up in Portsmouth I'm 51 now and have always been car mad even in late 70s, 60s cars were rare site, but remember I was a kid I'm sure there was some about bit your limited to were your parents take you
Does anyone remember the bingo hall off Bradford junction? Any pics or vids of that area?Also a second hand shop across the road from Montgomery road?🙂
@Vivian - Can I have your permission to use this footage as a Windows screensaver? I think would be a fun idea to forward it to people in Southsea as a free screensaver. I would certainly acknowledge your channel as the originator of your footage. Thanks.
God I feel my age now, given that I was 29 at this time, not even half my age now. It was so cool to see the old Eastney pumping station… I’d forgotten about the smokestack. I’ll bet that’s no longer there!
Very Enjoyable!..my home town. Did my apprenticeship at Reading & Co. Coachbuilders as a signwriter in Hilsea. Worked as a freelance at that trade for most of the time, so went all over the city. Last place I worked was Victory Bodyworks on Burrfields Rd; then moved to Aberdeen, Scotland in 1985...still there to this day!
OMG. I was in Portsmouth/Southsea in Dec 1983 to see the Mary Rose. I walked from the train station out to the castle and back to the docks. It was absolutely blowing a gale that day and you could hardly stand up. I rocked up to where the Mary Rose was but it was not actually open to the public. I told them I had travelled all the way from Australia to see it. Half truth. They switched of the sprinklers and I was allowed to walk around the space.
That took me past about 2 office workplaces, 2 pubs I worked at, my last school, places I socialised at and nearly to 2 places I lived. Wicked, when this was made if it wasn't on a weekend I would have been 7 and at school in North End. , thanks for the memories
great stuff - there is a bit missing driving towards Lumsden Road and then suddenly reappearing at the Seafront.- shame as one of the areas to have changed substantially since the 80s was the area around the old Ferry Road which used to be two roads running along the coastline where the marina now stands. The other was past Jubilee Church on Carlisle Road- otherwise as others have suggested, plus ca change!
Japanese imports numbers were restricted, far fewer people bought BMW and Audi products (I don't know what happened there, somehow in the 90's those two managed to persuade people their overpriced unreliable products were a premium brand. :S) your choices were a Brit car, a VW or a French car mostly back then.
I loved watching this thank you, it brought back a lot of great memories. Considering this is the best part of 40 years ago and one of the very few post-war links to Portsmouth, it must be considered important hisotrical information.
I distinctly remember Southsea cinema still being on the corner of Festing road in 1982 but it's definitely not in this video. I went to see Return of the Jedi there in 1983 when the film came out. So if this was 1982 the cinema would be quite visible in this video.
This is superb!! Takes me back, life was so much simpler back then :-)
I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this video, it is so great seeing all of Southsea, looking at things that have changed and things that haven't, it showed so much of the road I travel everyday on school runs and going to work, but today I looked around that much more because of this video, Love it! Thank you so much for putting it on here.
I have tears in my eyes!!! Dad was in RN for 27yrs and we lived in Gibraltar Rd. You drove by where the maisonettes were on the left. This was the happiest time of my life and wished we could’ve stayed there. Wonderful trip down memory lane.
As a student who moved into the area in 2020, this video was seriously interesting to watch, thank you for sharing!
Thankyou immensely for an excellent nostalgic piece of rare footage. I'm Portsmouth born and bred and have always lived there. I know Southsea very well, infact too well and it's interesting to see how some things have remained virtually unchanged and how things have changed leaving no trace such as the service station at the bottom of Vic RD Sth. Love seeing the old cars and was 1982 a really hot summer? England was a far better place then.
Didn't expect a tractor in Old Portsmouth! Thank you, absolutely brilliant!
This is fascinating to me as it covers 'my bank yard', including the road I now live in, and shows what it looked like before my block of flats went up.
Fantastic , i lived at no7 it was nice to see my dads car out side the house shame he wasnt out working on it
I was born in Portsmouth and was 22 when this was filmed I was married in Portsmouth in 83 I had just came back from Ireland with my girl friend and we are now 36 years married have 2 kids and 3 grandchildren. I do worry about what the future holds for them, life was hard but good back then. I never did like the 80s music though LOL. Nice to see the old green southdown buses
its surprising to see actually how many foreign cars there actually was back then in 83, its a shame you have to watch this to really feel at home again , the wimpy the austins triumphs morris wolsely rovers marinas and minis and the talbots hillmans and other rootes grp cars oh when we had a lovely english country and industry , now ruined by bad management and foriegn goods everywhere and we all moan about our taxes going up , because we dont have a conglomerate of english industry paying in , cant seem to get out of relying on others products, a vicious vortex, i liked that video for my own reasons seeing the english cars and the character of our streets and the way we should be gives me a glazy eye and that little lump in my throat for what really is a testament to our once industrious country, not quite the same when you go outside today is it.
I lived there up until 1974 when I moved over seas.
What a thoroughly enjoyable journey! I remember '83 in Southsea well, We lived in Oliver Road off Winter Road. It was a good year :-) ... set the foundation for our future it did. I have been back since and felt so crowded and claustrophobic .. seeing the roads as I recall is simply brilliant. This is a real Pompy treasure. Thank You :-)
Loads of people on bicycles, I noticed: ordinary every day-looking people too, not members of the lycra-cult like you see today.
Also: it's super quiet and only marginally a bit more congested in the town centre. Was it a Sunday by any chance?
Very flat land, easy on the legs when cycling.
And not one of the cyclists wearing a helmet.
I reckon a Friday afternoon. The beer wagons delivering beer for the weekend is a clue and the tradesman cutting wood in the earlier part of the video. Times were so much better then and no SUVs to be seen.
I lived in Westfield Road (off winter road) Southsea '79-84 , and this really brings the time back to me. Probably the last decade when you could still drive and park in the area fairly easily. I'd hate to live in the city now though, sorry to say its a complete and utter dump. Thank you for posting , enjoyed it immensely.
I also lived in Westfield Road 1955-1979 (when I got married!) I also enjoyed this video, also brought back memories of a more simpler lifestyle and a lot less red tape - parking for one!
The world's very first dashcam. 😀
loving the scimitar at the start!!!! thanks for uploading this film :)
+ladyhawkBK I love the Scimitar too. My aunt had one and lived on Southsea Terrace at the time. I was about 7 or 8 when this was filmed.
Awesome video, I feel like a time traveler. Cigarette adverts, British cars, chunky jumpers and so many places I hung out at as a kid.
Really cool, im sure I was in it somewhere...I Used to live in Taswell Road - you never drove down there :(
great video thank you - watched it with Google Streetview on the other screen to compare old with new. Loved all the Minis - even a Marcos. Brought back many
memories.
Loved this video such good memories , in queen street portsea hoping to get a glimps of my dad derek he had a garage in lion street , thank you for this video
Our little island was so much quieter (and nicer) back in the 1980s. Now it has been absolutely ruined by mass immigration and the EU.
I lived at 14 Pains Road.
I recognised the street straight away.
Fantastic post
My nan and grandad lived at 40 pains rd , happiest days ever
Look how lovely it’s was back then, compared to now
One of the best local videos on here so pleased to have seen it will watch again and again each time with a soundtrack of my choice while getting nostalgic for those days and all those old motors. Thanks.
I was 3 when this was filmed. So much is the same (the Tesco in Albert Road lol) and so much is different. Gunwharf of course, and the Admiralty Quarter in Queen St.
Very interesting! Didn't think I'd watch all of it, but actually I did, and really enjoyed it!
And Fine Fare beyond Tesco in Albert Road - to become Gateway in a few years. Good store.
Outstanding! Cosmic Karma must have caused this to appear in my suggested videos. Barely thought about it in years, but in 1983 I was working at The Kings Theatre (3:00) and living in a flat near The Festing (5:45). This video pretty much shows my entire world at the time.
hey ken how are you mate, worked with you on the fly floor for many shows, i remember when you used to live on biscuits or anything else that was on special offer while you saved for a mitsubishi shogun, i used to pick you up and run around the stage lol. all the best mate
That was a brilliant video, i didn't know Argos on Commercial Road used to be British Home Stores, was nice seeing a glimpse of the Tricorn again too :)
Really loved this video, it shows how much and at times how little of Portsmouth has changed
Portsmouth is a shithole now.
Portsmouth used to be a lovely seaside Town, it has become a very strange City over time.
+Debbie Davies I agree. I am Portsmouth born and bred. I am 36 and lived here all my life. I use to love Portsmouth.
I worked in Southsea in 1983. I liked the place. It is now a Third World city and quite depressing to see.
Absolutely brilliant :D
Result! I've spotted my old red Transit (Disco) Van at 34:20...
Those were the days!
ok
It's nice to see cars with straight lines.
Fascinating! Thank you for uploading this. I'm a life-long Portsmothian and was born in '77 so this is definitely what my childhood looked like.
I don't know how surprising it really is that so little has actually changed, but where things are very different (Winston Churchill Ave - at each end) it's quite shocking.
amazing ,having only lived in the area for 4 years or so was surprised to see how much had changed..........but how much was still the same .
Times were better then. People were better as they had time for one another. Cars were better as they looked good and sounded good. Better pace of life. I was alive then so understand quite well.
I'm so pleased this appeared in my TH-cam picks. Although not intimately familiar with Portsmouth I recognised most of the roads travelled. Great to see all the cars, a large proportion of which were built in the UK, but not for much longer. To see the area of Gunwharf Quays prior to that development was most interesting. Petrol at £1.76 a gallon too. The videography was very steady, in those days a solid camera mount would have been difficult and the separate camera and recorder a bulky set of kit, probably worth as much as the car! I know it was posted a long time ago, but a belated thanks is in order.
Was thinking I'd watch the first couple of mins but loved all of it! The sedate driving, respect for cyclists, those nasty red/brown striped double-decker buses...the dinky junctions at Edinburgh Road and Victoria Road North...how old the cars look! Kings Theatre, pitch and putt, the piers, Still and West...no Gunwharf...1983 in Portsmouth, not a bad place and time to be growing up as I was. And we had an N-reg Avenger just like that one!
absolutely awesome, saw some of my old haunts there
When life was so simple people looking very relaxed.
Those disabled cars!! Not seen any of those for years! I remember, they used to be everywhere and there was a road somewhere in North End/Fratton that had a workshop that maintained them.. a link road somewhere between Powerscourt Road and Queens road. It used to fascinate me as a kid. Anyone know what kind of Car they actually were?
Thundersley or AC Invacar. Sorry I'm nine years late with this information, but I have only just watched this video.
Wonderful vid. Thanks for uploading.
Fantastic contextual history - I hope this gets archived in the museum aswell
i've got to say,that was absolutely magnificent southsea which i didn't visit until 1997-8.that was so bright,clear,colourful and beautiful that i could almost cry a glimpse into 1983.one of my most treasured memory years of all.that year was so fantastic,a few of the old crew have left me and passed away.my dad was a few years younger than i am now that footage of a beautiful time gone by,of the magical country that we once had,shows me just how small and insignificant that my whole existence was and is at the time,i believed that i was the centre of the whole universe if i had been made out of chocolate i would have eaten nyself.just think of all the millions and millions around the world,who have passed away to nought since that day.oh 1983!i'm going to miss you when i go!
This is amazing. Any more like it?
Assume this was shot on video rather than film, from the occasional light streaking? Any idea which day of the year this was?
The route goes one block away from my old house on Chelsea Rd where I would have been living in 1983. And amazing to see the old houses in the derelict roads in the area to the east of St Luke's school. My grandparents used to live there at one time.
One thing that seems really striking now is the number of elderly people riding bikes around the town. That is very rare to see these days, but was very commonplace thirty years ago.
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What really strikes me is that, aside from the vehicles and the odd shop front, how little has really changed! Some of the residential streets look nearly identical.
4:04: That big 1966 Pontiac on the right must've been an odd sight in the UK at the time.
I lived there between 2005-2008 (on Pains Road in fact) and it looks no different... obviously a few changes here and there but the residential streets look the same.
Wow, this brought back some memories (especially as I am living in China at the mo) ... I was 19 at the time and I would have been riding around on my Honda CM 125 !! Awesome footage. And did you know the Exleys who also lived in Pains Road? That was my friend from Junior School We went to Somers Road Juniors..
The REAL England :) Great video, looking forward to seeing your others :)
Wow, that was fantastic. I've lived in Southsea for a few years now and it was really interesting seeing what I'm familiar and what has long gone. Thanks for uploading
All those bicycles and not a helmet to be seen
Ahhh those were the days I was only 18 back then and livin in Copnor opposite Baffins Park tennis courts. I feel young again cheers, I wish I had my old MK5 Cortina it was beautifully restored and would have only been 2 years old in 1983.
I bought it in 1995 bit of a sod to start in the cold in the winter though even with a manual choke kit fitted. thanks for posting this video I wish I had half the cars on the road back then they would be worth a lot of money now.
oojimmyflip hi i was 20 i also lived in westover road by the baffins pub my name is wayne i have brothers brent and gary elson ,, i may know you
Lots of Austin Allegros around great !, top video my man nearly bought a tear to me eye :)
Count the Cortina's!
Thanks so much for the trip down memory lane!!!
£1.78 a gallon? The good old days...
That actually works out at £5.62 in todays money (with inflation calculated) a gallon which is more expensive than today's fuel, Rose tinted glasses comes to mind. products were, in general, more (in retaliative terms) back then, I was a child of the 70's/80's and although life was a tiny "bit" more simpler it wasn't that different.
@@blazer666del Theres nothing rose tinted about not being surgically attached to a crappy smart phone.
@@p.istaker8862 Your point being?
Just done an updated one and will upload later on tomorrow ... so it's an update almost 30 years on.... I was born in July 1983 so fantastic timing! :) Thanks for uploading your video :) It was hypnotic viewing and amazing to see how much has changed in 30 years!
Who owned the '65 Pontiac on the right at 4.03? Nice to see so many British cars!
It's amazing how much history was captured in a video camera test. Things change gradually, you don't realise it until you look back.
Ah, Southsea seafront, back to childhood and adolescence on the beach. Thanks for the memories😚
Jeez, the guy in the white Cortina at 22:49 was in a bit of a rush! Reg NDD221P, I'd send the footage into the cops, that guy is going to kill someone.
That was too long ago, 1983.
Ha ha, yes. I was only joking. Fascinating film though, it blows my mind to think of all the history that's happened and the technological advances we have made since this was shot. ...and yet, we're still fundamentally the same as all of the people, drivers and pedestrians you filmed just going about their lives.
Ha ha, yes, you're right there Lee.
Car went untaxed in 1987...I wonder if he finally stacked it up driving like that.
This is a blast from the past, lived in Portsmouth in the early eighties, the Falklands Wars is still in the forefront of my mind and how it affected the city in regards to the navy and civilian workers.
Thanks so much for sharing this!!!!!!!
THOSE BUSES!! I remember those buses! Wow!
It's funny how much has changed and yet stayed the same. I was about 8 when this was filmed.
I see at 38:50 Homesea House in Green Road isn't there, but the petrol station that is now Jet is, but can't make out what it is. Do you happen to know what time of day this footage is? I must admit this probably is the best video I've personally seen on YT. Everything seems so much easy going and less rushed compared to nowadays. Breaks my heart how England has changed in 30 years. I wish I had a time machine.
I was 10 in 1983 , (spenlow close ) buckland, it was the best time of my life , I’d give anything to go back
Indeed, I recognised Pains Road straightaway before it was captioned on the video, then turning into St Andrews Road and Bailey's Road. It felt like I was back at Uni ;)
The cars are ranging from new to ten year's old not many older than that very few 60s cars but if youd gone back 7 or 8 years maybe there loads
I grew up in Portsmouth I'm 51 now and have always been car mad even in late 70s, 60s cars were rare site, but remember I was a kid I'm sure there was some about bit your limited to were your parents take you
Go out for a drive around Pompey and when you get back home you could park outside your own front door those were the days.
Does anyone remember the bingo hall off Bradford junction? Any pics or vids of that area?Also a second hand shop across the road from Montgomery road?🙂
I guess the month was July, as July 1983 was very hot. I love this video as my girlfriend (now wife to be) was born on 8th July 1983.
Thank you!
@Vivian - Can I have your permission to use this footage as a Windows screensaver? I think would be a fun idea to forward it to people in Southsea as a free screensaver. I would certainly acknowledge your channel as the originator of your footage. Thanks.
Be my guest.
@@ScreenplayVideo82 Thank you :-)
Wow great video! I was ten at that time. Today would be a car restorers dream :)
Can't help thinking this was slightly earlier than 1983, more likely 80/81, judging by the cars and the billboard adverts.
I didn't get a video camera until 1983, it was definitely 1983.
Great video, love seeing the old SEB vans here and there. :) And the Landrover camper parked up by the sea.
Well well fancy that Dan 👍
@@adamwort7160 😋
Google street mapper copied you!! Hahaha
What car are you filming this from
Austin 1100 ?
Allegro?
The ride looks smooth
And it does seem to have that ride like the 1100 and Allegro had?
Datsun Bluebird Estate.
40 years ago
I live on pains road in 2023, not much has changed lol
Drive by? I didn't see you shoot anyone?! Ha ha
Have you thought about dong this again (as closely as possible) to show all the changes?
Absolutely fab
God I feel my age now, given that I was 29 at this time, not even half my age now. It was so cool to see the old Eastney pumping station… I’d forgotten about the smokestack. I’ll bet that’s no longer there!
Great Video, I have many happy memories of Southsea and the Royal Naval School of Dancing in the 80's.
Very Enjoyable!..my home town. Did my apprenticeship at Reading & Co. Coachbuilders as a signwriter in Hilsea. Worked as a freelance at that trade for most of the time, so went all over the city. Last place I worked was Victory Bodyworks on Burrfields Rd; then moved to Aberdeen, Scotland in 1985...still there to this day!
Anyone have memories/photos of something called the Somerstown Deck [ 1970s - 1990s ]?
OMG. I was in Portsmouth/Southsea in Dec 1983 to see the Mary Rose. I walked from the train station out to the castle and back to the docks. It was absolutely blowing a gale that day and you could hardly stand up. I rocked up to where the Mary Rose was but it was not actually open to the public. I told them I had travelled all the way from Australia to see it. Half truth. They switched of the sprinklers and I was allowed to walk around the space.
That took me past about 2 office workplaces, 2 pubs I worked at, my last school, places I socialised at and nearly to 2 places I lived. Wicked, when this was made if it wasn't on a weekend I would have been 7 and at school in North End. , thanks for the memories
I would go back in a heartbeat.
At 6 mins, Highland Road Cemetery, more VC`s buried there than anywhere else in the country.
Nice to see lots of Italian cars in those days. You know, the ones that end in 'o'. MetrO, MaestrO, AllegrO.... ;-)
great stuff - there is a bit missing driving towards Lumsden Road and then suddenly reappearing at the Seafront.- shame as one of the areas to have changed substantially since the 80s was the area around the old Ferry Road which used to be two roads running along the coastline where the marina now stands. The other was past Jubilee Church on Carlisle Road- otherwise as others have suggested, plus ca change!
Has this been submitted to PCC for use in the City of Portsmouth Museum?
+ap wab No it hasn't.
Just curious on how this was filmed 😊
Japanese imports numbers were restricted, far fewer people bought BMW and Audi products (I don't know what happened there, somehow in the 90's those two managed to persuade people their overpriced unreliable products were a premium brand. :S) your choices were a Brit car, a VW or a French car mostly back then.
I loved watching this thank you, it brought back a lot of great memories. Considering this is the best part of 40 years ago and one of the very few post-war links to Portsmouth, it must be considered important hisotrical information.
Those Were The Days my friend.
It was 1982 probably about June. Thats about as near as I can date it.
I distinctly remember Southsea cinema still being on the corner of Festing road in 1982 but it's definitely not in this video. I went to see Return of the Jedi there in 1983 when the film came out. So if this was 1982 the cinema would be quite visible in this video.
wow my nan lived in Hellyer road i went to what was then cumberland 1st school. i would of been 5 n half when this was made... where did the time go!
At 3:38 is that a Y-reg Volvo 360 GLS? I see many Y-reg cars in this video so they would have been brand new at the time.