Blackpool 1989 | Vintage Blackpool | Nostalgia
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In this video, you see what Blackpool was like in it's glory days in 1989. It was filmed around May/June time. You'll see the Blackpool Tower, Blackpool Beach, Blackpool Illuminations during the day, the promenade, Sand Castle, Blackpool Pleasure Beach and Blackpool Zoo.
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We have just unarchived some more of our Grandfather's footage and have found some World of Coronation Street footage : th-cam.com/video/ZnhqESGqjrs/w-d-xo.html
When life was good ❤
Got that right
Also when Blackpool was too.👍
I am 59 now. I was definitely in Blackpool 1989. Fabulous times and wonderfully memories.
Me too, I was 11 years old, we went every year when I was a kid, the place was magic.
That's the Blackpool that I remember a fun vibrant place, it's not like this anymore sadly.
That's so sad, we haven't visited there for many years now but do plan to go back soon
It's all about money now and endless queues
I was born in Victoria hospital and grew up on the Grange park estate. This brings back so many memories! I used to ride around north and south shore on my bmx. My dad was in a wheelchair and sold the gazette newspaper outside C&A till we moved to California in 1989. Blackpool used to be fantastic growing up. Such a shame it's deteriorated so bad but let's face it, the whole country has gone to the dogs.
Hi Bear I'm so glad this brings back lovely memories for you. I think everyone would agree with you how much things have changed
100% correct
Blackpool truly was a magical place back then. I used to go on holiday there every year and absolutely loved it.
Our Grandfather's favourite holiday ♥
Superb footage of happier times. Place was packed.
Thank you for watching. This was my grandfather's footage. He took his video camera everywhere he went. I'm so glad he did so we could share all these special memories. His favourite holiday was Blackpool.
@@JJTAdventures We’re very grateful for people like your grandad because obviously back then video footage wasn’t common back then and cameras were expensive. I suppose we take that all for granted nowadays.
@@underneonloneliness2 thank you so much. We think of our grandfather as the original TH-camr, he took his video camera everywhere with him and captured and documented as much as he could ❤
Looked so much cleaner then too!
Take me back any day of the year, this decade sux.
Loved the 80's ❤
Not a "influencer in sight" real people without a filter.
The good days
What a blessing, life was much simpler then & sooo much nicer …
Thank you for posting...
Brings back so many memories of my childhood.
Absolutely no problem, glad it brings back so many lovely memories for you
Place of warm memories in my childhood in the sixties.
Thanks for posting
Hi David, we're so happy that the video brought back lovely memories for you, thank you for watching
Before Mass Immigration.
Thanks for sharing... golden times there... cheers :)
Absolutely no problem at all, thanks for watching 😀
Thanks for posting i was 17 that year and my nana took me for a week it was wonderful how it’s changed such a shame
I'm so glad you enjoyed the video. It's my nana and grandad in the video 🥰
Great footage, thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed the footage 🙂
Great Video, Also, I notice the distinct lack of obese people which is very telling how times have changed.
Thanks for watching
I’ve said the same 😢
Wow that's all you took away from this video?Says alot about you....
@user-kl2zh6cf7c go argue with your shadow
@user-kl2zh6cf7c it's true though!
People interacting and not head stuck in their phone.
Times have changed so much
Thanks for the video. I would go stay for a week with my grandparents in Blackpool. They’ve both passed now, but gave me and my sister some wonderful memories. I often watch videos like this on TH-cam, perhaps one day I’ll see my grandparents in the crowds.
Thanks for watching, I hope the video brings back some lovely memories for you. This was my grandparents footage ❤
I took my first girlfriend here in 89 so I was just having a look for us..I drove us in my black 1300 ghia fiesta mk1 one which o thought was the dogs at the time lol…❤
This was my Grandfather's favourite place to go on holidays
Ours too ❤
Thank you to your Grandad and to you for posting this and allowing us to share your memories, TH-cam is closest thing we get to a time machine. Your Grandad was way ahead of his time to do this and very wise. Love it brings back great memories of years gone by and when I was taken to Blackpool as a child late 80’s/early 90’s and how it looked 🥰
Thank you so much for your lovely comment, we are so happy we can share footage that brings back happy memories for others. Blackpool was our Grandads favourite holiday 🥰
Good god look at the beach!!! Packed!!!
My 1st trip to Blackpool was when i was 14 years old, i am now 71. I went with my friend and his mum and dad in 1967. I thought i had went to paradise as it was very busy, Radio Caroline broadcasting offshore and stallholders all along the front tuning in. I still go to Blackpool and its nothing like it was then. I enjoyed the video thank you for sharing.
Went to Blackpool in 1969 with my sister and friends. We had a brilliant time at the illuminations . Blackpool was lovely and clean and absolutely packed. Went back again with my kids in 1984 and what a shithole it had turned into ,I could have cried. Never been back.
Aww I'm so sorry to hear you didn't have a good time on your return 😢
Crickey if you thought it was that in 1984 then I wouldn't even consider you coming here now as you'll be most horrified!
Just wish I could go back to 1989 in Blackpool when I was 31. I have fond memories of driving from London to enjoy my favourite amusement in town on the night of December 15/16 that year, 12 hours from 9pm to 9am at the Fun House in grey stockingfeet. Sadly like other buildings and attractions such as the Derby Baths, Wild Mouse, Log Flume, and the sound of the old trams on the promenade, they are no longer there. But there is always the Tower, three piers, Winter Gardens, the Pepsi Big one rollercoaster.
So glad you enjoyed the video and it brought back lovely memories for you ❤
I was 22 at the time. Where does the time go?
Many family trips to Blackpool growing up. Visits with different generations of the family, many now passed. Then as a parent you repeat the cycle, by taking your children here and I guess the tradition will long continue.
Fantastic footage of the better days!
Hi Clara, I'm so glad the footage brought back so many lovely memories for you 💗
My ex-wife's birthday too lol we where only 5 back then and I loved Blackpool as a kid. Still do off course alot of good memories with gran who sadly passed on 8th June 2022 but I have great memories off course, thsnks for the video here 👍
Our pleasure, we are happy it brings back lots of lovely memories for you. Sorry to hear you lost your gran this year ❤
Get me in the time machine ... I want to go back.😄😄
Good times there in the 70s and 80s not like it is now its gone downhill.
So many people have commented saying its gone downhill. That's such a shame 😞
Ahh:the bucking bronco. When these first arrived in the country in the early eighties they used to pull in one hell of a crowd.
Thank you for bringing back my best memories from the best place there was when I was a kid, it's sad how it is in Blackpool now but at least we had it at its best for a while.
Thanks for watching. I'm so happy the video brought back some lovely memories for you 🙂
Great footage, just an observation but these were the days before the obesity epidemic, how slim does everyone look 😊I’d love to see a comparison of Blackpool today
Hi Sharon, I'm glad you enjoyed the footage. Times certainly have changed. I'd love to do a comparison video with side by side footage to compare.
The missus and I took our son, then one, to Blackpool in 88 and really enjoyed it. Far too many undesirables there now to ever make me want to return.
Such a shame, we get so many comments saying the same thing.
The very year I was looking for! Just before they built Ocean Boulevard and the Pleasure Beach changed. My heyday! Thanks 👍
Glad you found the footage you was looking for 🙂. Thanks for watching
Absolutely amazing footage the only thing missing is a walk through those arcades
Thank you 🙂
What i love about these old vids is viewing all the cars that were going round then, so many ford and vauxhalls with no ugly SUVs and all the vehicles were much smaller back then.
Thanks for watching, we have many old videos over on our channel filmed in the UK as well as America. Its definitely interesting watching these old videos to see how much things have changed 🙂
@@JJTAdventures yes amazing how things have changed both in a good way but also not so good way
Back then...
People still had
buying/spending power.
This was when Blackpool was great....
These days it’s a sad depressing shell of its former glory....😂
Oh no! My Grandfather would be gutted to hear this, it was his fav holiday back in the day and he travelled the world 😁
I grew up in the 80s was lucky enough to go to Blackpool every summer.
Hi Siobhan, you are so lucky to have visited every Summer. I grew up in the 80's as well but have only been able to visit Blackpool 3 times. Can't wait to go back with my child
Same loved it ❤
That's the year I went first went go Blackpool I was 1 year old in 1989 lol my dad didn't have a video camera he was still using his super 8 lol. Brilliant video thank you 😊
I'm so glad the video has brought back so many lovely memories for you. This was my Grandfather's footage 🙂
Filmed on a Nokia 1
My grandfather wishes his video camera was as small as a Nokia 1 🤣🤣🤣
I was only a baby when I first went to Blackpool. Been going every year since 1983 or 1984
Hi Jen, I hope the video brought back lovely memories. I've been a couple of times and absolutely loved it there
Look at it now, the town has fell off a cliff and into a Volcano
When you could just walk through the pleasure beach , even if you didn't go on the rides
It was so much busier then
People need to stop pouring their money into the hands of foreigners and support British tourism again.
Ow can we when all it does is rain in this country causing most of us to cough badly all the time.
@@stephenduncan3605 There's more to a good holiday than getting a bit of sun.
I think people would like to do that but we dont'; have the weather and to travel from London to Blackpool by train is more than it is to fly to Spain .. and if you get an all inclusive package a holdiay abraod is half of what a week in Blackpool costs
4:36 when the majority of dance tunes went WO JE continuosly at this time lol
And the candy striped South Pier
Its like Beirut now.
Does anyone know Anthony Highland, worked in snooker security and on the doors?
I remember reading some article in the paper many many years ago saying Blackpool was facing a collapse in its tourism in so many decades. I never thought I'd get that bad yet here we are in 2023 😢
Such a shame 😞. It was my Grandfather's favourite holiday
Tell me about it. I moved to Blackpool two years ago and this is the worst I've seen the town in all the years I've been coming here!
Love Blackpool...but I don't like seeing animals caged up.
II left in 1989, just how i remember Blackpool Returned in 2012 for a day trip, sad day.
Thanks for watching, I hope the video brought back some lovely memories for you
Wow ❤ whoever uploaded this thanks so much. I have been looking for footage of the Rainbow ride at the entrance to the Pleasure beach since I was a kid. That was my favourite ride. I used to be mezmerised with it.
You're totally welcome ☺. This was our Grandfather's footage. Blackpool was his favourite holiday and he took his video camera everywhere with him. He would be so pleased to know he's bringing back so many happy memories for so many people 💖
Traditiolal horses &carts
is that Adelaide Street at the start?
I'm not sure, hopefully another viewer can help
I moved to Blackpool late 1988 and met and married a Blackpool Girl…married her and still married and live here 35 years later
That's lovely 🥰. I hope our video brought back some lovely memories for you
I was heavily pregnant at the time, my son is 34 this year, seems like yesterday 😢
this is brilliant. I worked at bedlam nightclub in the sandcastle in the summer of 89. Wild and hedonistic times for me. During my college years. This video takes me straight back thank you
Hi 👋 we are so happy our video brought back some lovely memories for you 😀. Thanks for commenting 😊
We also have some great vintage footage of Blackpool recorded in 1996. Here's the link: th-cam.com/video/BTV80fpbxO8/w-d-xo.html
I was there that year Holidaying at pontins. my daughter was just 1 year old old at the time. Queues wernt as long back then in the pleasure Beach. And you didn't have to pay to enter. Best of times back then.
Hi Rust, I'm so glad the video has brought back some lovely memories for you. This is my Grandfather's video footage. He travelled the world but Blackpool was his favourite holiday back then ❤
@@JJTAdventures Aw that's good to know. My dad was the same. He'd travelle the world but Blackpool was where his heart was. Later in life him and my mother would go for weekends. I'd hired a video camera back in 89 filmed the holiday camp and around Blackpool but unfortunately we lost the video tape. Never found it again?
@@Boilingfrogg oh no, I'm so sorry to hear you lost the video footage, I'm glad you still have the happy memories ❤
@@JJTAdventures Thanks. Yeah just one of those things.
The good old days when blackpool was fantastic packed and one of the best places to go in England, and now its one of the worst places its so sad, unmployment, drugs, businesses closing down, full of homeless it would take a miracle to turn blackpool back to the good old days, and its happening all over nlt just blackpool, ive just come back from blackpool it was terrible, after over 50 years of foung to blackpool i wont be going ever again its sad and very upsetting to see it like this 😭
That's such a pity to hear 😥
This was my childhood holiday every year for at least 10 years, starting in the 80s. So many lovely memories - I'd love to take my own children but I don't think it would be quite the same.
Thanks for watching, I hope the video brought back some lovely memories for you. We have another video of Blackpool on our channel under the same playlist that may be of interest to you 😀
I was born in Blackpool Vic in 1989!
1989, vintage? No, you need to go further back to call it vintage. 60’s or earlier.
Vintage for me .I was a Teenager back then smoking 🚬 and drinking diamond white with me mates down local park . lol Great days 😂
Such happy memories from lots of childhood holidays in Blackpool it was such a vibrant place and lots of fun ❤
I hope the video brought back some lovely memories for you 🥰
My only ever holday was there when was a kid in 89
Back then food banks did not extist.. no need to.
Nostalgic magic for me .
I'm glad it's brought back nostalgic memories for you 🥰
can anybody tell me who this beautiful lady is at 14:00 seconds into this video, I hope she's still alive, man she is a beauty.........marius(punk rules).
The lady is my Nan ❤. She's not from Blackpool, she was visiting for a holiday. She's still alive ❤
@@JJTAdventures wish i could see her as she is now, I'm an old lad too, mid-50s,....if it's ok with her I like you to make a short video of her, thank you lad,..oh don't worry I'm divorced,......cheers,...... Marius (punk rules).
I live in Blackpool and before the internet it was pretty awful.
Oh no, sorry to hear that
I've been to Blackpool once, my family and I were there in October 2002.
Blackpool was our Grandfather's favourite holiday
@@JJTAdventures I saw your ghost investigation video, very interesting indeed, did you get my message about my own personal expenses at Gladstone villa in Bargoed.? My family, our friends and I had phenomena that convinced a skeptic and a non believer.
The Zoo is still there
Thanks for the info, haven't been to Blackpool in a while 👍
Last went to Blackpool back in May 2009 felt more like February!My Goodness! Totally run down . Chavs everywhere . Nowhere took debit cards 💳 “ cash only” posters of acts I hadn’t heard about for 25 plus years everywhere still playing in local venues! Cannon and Ball , The Krankies , The Grumbleweeds ! . I heard since then the local council have spent a lot of Money improving Blackpool though. And they have closed that bloody awful Pontins down( only 4 months after we went). Sorry if I want a rough rundown seaside resort I will go to Southend on Sea it’s only 55 miles away lol.
Oh no! We haven't visited in quite some years now but would like to go back one day
It was a classier dump back then 😂😂
Amazing..........I was 4 years old then
I was 5, so nostalgic isn't it
@@JJTAdventures it is indeed..........great video just luv Blackpool
I was born in Glenroyd hospital in Blackpool in 73 and have fond memories,we unfortunately left in 88 but am still a regular visitor and plan to move back soon. Thanks for posting.😊
Hi Kathryn, we are so glad you enjoyed the video. We have found some more footage of Blackpool recorded in 1996 by my Grandfather which we will post in the next couple of days 😀
Blackpool was much more cheerful and prosperous in those days when Covid and Vladimir Putin were unheard of. This is how I prefer to remember it from visits in the 1990s.
We have had so many comments saying how amazing Blackpool was in the 80's and 90's. It's so sad to hear it's not the same anymore.
Putin ain't the enemy. The enemy lies within. Trump 2024
Well said 👍
1989 i got married and sadly my lovely grandma passed away may 4th mixed emotions but loved the video i stepped back in time
Thanks for watching Debbie, I'm glad it brought back some lovely memories for you
OMG looks so much older than 1989!!!
The best of times.
Peggys pantry cafe was the best 👌
when blackpool was still nice and worth visiting,said from a local still living here.Yet bbc still says its improving for the better,from my eyes and many others we all say different.Blackpool looks great from the front,two streets or roads back and its a shithole,negletced from the councils view as its ignored
Such a shame
At about 1:30 there is a big white building. Does anyone know what it is?
It's the round Casino building at the entrance to the Pleasure Beach.
wow the old windmill haha
Thankyou for uploading this timeless memories for many many people and families. Good quality time we’ll never get back
Thanks for watching and commenting. We are so pleased the footage brings back some lovely memories for so many people ❤
@@JJTAdventuresit really is brilliant footage. I can almost smell everything and hear mum and dad
@@blank-dr2kx it's my Grandfather's footage, he took his camera everywhere with him. He was from Wales, he travelled the world, but Blackpool was his favourite place ❤
Its lost its mojo now as ..a lot of places in the uk 😢
That's such a shame 😞
Just wondering if anyone knew where the white windmill is at 21 seconds? Used to visit blackpool as a kid and mom mentioned that we went to Frank's fish and chip shop, possibly near a windmill and a woolworths 😊
Woolworth was more or less opposite the South Pier, a little more in the direction towards Central Pier, but nearer to the South Pier than Central. The windmill was on the same side of the promenade as the piers, again between South and Central, nearer to South as I remember
Yes I remember it well , I’m pretty sure it was right down the south prom area just before the pleasure beach.. 👍
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