1970s Bournemouth | Dorset Coast | 1970s England | Wish you were here? | 1974

The Busy Dorset town of Bournemouth, popular with generations of holiday makers and day trippers.
First shown on: 21/01/1974
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Pluto: Topher Mohr and Alex Elena

[@margaretwebb9240]

I'm now 80 and that is me eating the icecream in the winter Gardens all those years ago

[@karenwells3329]

Tearful, how lovely things were then.

[@aliscat]

Watching these old videos renews my love for where i live & the reason i moved here.

[@sliperysid]

If I could go back in time and talk to my earlier self.... "I'd say buy in Sandbanks".

[@raymondbeasley9615]

I was living in Bournemouth in 74 that takes me back, the cliffs were still in its natural state before they levelled them off to stop landslides

[@TerenceMurphy-uf7wk]

I left school in 1974. Was my hometown until 1991 when l moved to Australia. Hope to return for a visit soon. We used call the holiday makers 'Grockles'.

[@wilberforceenterprises7259]

that could have been me playing crazy golf in the pleasure gardens!

[@LocutorBritanico]

Ah, yes, Bournemouth, where I was brought up in the 70s and 80s. The crazy golf, rowing boats on the beach, the skating rink...

[@traceyculyer5811]

Lovely. thank you

[@welshlass67bowden15]

Yearly family holidays back in the 70s, my Uncle had holiday flatlets there, I think they were on Suffolk Road, but my memory fails me. Sadly he was killed young in a car accident and we hardly visited after that. Lovely memories, I was looking out for little me in that clip! 😊

[@Michael020]

Different country now.... unrecognizable

[@mistofoles]

@1:49....Wow, how many people could say they met Marc Bolan on holiday??

[@peterg463]

Litter wise - no change I am sorry to say.

[@Darwinion]

Before Leeds United visited :P

[@unathleticutd]

I think Bournemouth was in Hampshire when this video was shot !

[@mistofoles]

Eh?

[@stevo728822]

Bournemouth was originally in Hampshire, then became part of Dorset. Which is why the big roundabout in Westbourne is called County Gates.

[@Jade-jg8hc]

Bournemouth became part of the county of Dorset on 1st April 1974 it was previously part of the county of Hampshire until then, along with the lovely town of Christchurch where I grew up. Then in April 1997 it became a unitary authority independent of Dorset but remains part of Dorset for ceremonial purposes a part of the Lieutenancy. I don't really know thew details of this though.Bournemouth and christchurch populations have swelled since then and Christchurch is no longer the sleepy backwater it once was.

[@unathleticutd]

@@stevo728822 This was filmed in summer of 73 so title should definitely say Hampshire!

[@aristi8801]

i was there from 1971 to 1974 training pilot hurn airport

[@Jason-io5bu]

Now happy retirement and a bit of fly at the weekend for fun

[@onionhead9414]

1:50 Brian May !!

[@benholmes1608]

Magnifico!!

[@budte]

No overspill of beggars and addicts from the halfway houses that were to come in Boscombe.

[@aristi8801]

Bournemouth was in Hampshire

[@bryjan51]

And not a mobile phone it sight

[@misplacedkiwi9498]

That’s because they weren’t invented

[@bringolaselvapoto7418]

People still leaving their shit all over the beach bow. Something don't change.