Portsmouth retrospective, driving & walking through my retro past
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
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Hi everyone, many thanks for checking out this video as I take you through my gaming past growing up in the Portsmouth area. During this video, we drive and walk around the areas that I used to frequent during my school, and college days, and also jobs I had in the early 00's.
Hope you enjoy guys, videos mentioned in this video are linked below.
Retro & Modern day gaming stores in and around Portsmouth:
• Retro & Modern day gam...
90’s Sonic the Hedgehog Neon “coming soon” store sign pickup:
• 90’s Sonic the Hedgeho...
South Parade Pier & Portsmouth / Southsea Arcades, May 2019:
• South Parade Pier & Po...
Simon Paul TH-cam channel (Tricorn footage from 1999:
/ @simonpaul5824
Great tour and history there...so many great companies gone for ever..
Not been to Portsmouth for a long time..
In fact the last time was when I went on my honeymoon to France.
Cheers for the comment mate, had a few people say that about traveling to France. There is a good amount of stuff to do in and around the city and also lots of history with the naval history and historic dockyard. Did you see my comment on sending me an email on Facebook bud? (second name is Reading). I have a project to run by you but dont know how to contact you.
What a better way than to drive around Portsmouth and remember all the good ol' memories of what they used to have.
The rise of online ordering really has effected the retail industry, hence why our childhood favourites are no longer with us physically.
Thanks for the comment mate, its crazy how much the city has changed! Thanks for the comment buddy.
@@PompeyGamesRoom Yep. Indeed so. By the way, have you visited Super Games World in Havant?
@@IMEEntertainment no I Havant (see the joke there) visited that store yet, will do it soon though buddy. Thanks for that great suggestion and sorry for the poor joke!
@@PompeyGamesRoom Don't you worry about it (I make bad puns all the time!)
Super Games World is a great place and the owner is very knowledgable.
As I lived in Portsmouth (Southsea, North End, Cosham) from 2005 to 2020, I watched this with some nostalgia as well!
I saw the Cosham building where my final flat was; I stayed there for just over 6 months, and had the radio on all the time in order not to hear the level crossing alarm :)
Where the pick-up truck turns at 14:00, there's a Post Office shop where there used to be a small area where somebody was selling some old video games, about 5 years ago, that was before I started buying 8-16-bit games again, but the owner had some Mega Drive stuff.
Near Ross Records, there was a shop named Beaver Tool Hire, with an infamous slogan.
That story about the Tricorn Centre and the old Cascades was fascinating! Thanks for the pictures too.
It's crazy to see how much stuff changed even in those last three years, shops (including that Debenhams) closed down; they also removed the tanks, which I couldn't help climbing on the first time I saw them, and the Pyramids pool has eventually been replaced!
So without Victoria Pool & the Pyramids, the only one remaining is in Hilsea up north?
Thank you for that trip down memory lane, complete with the overcast sky!
Thanks for the comment mate, It was great to go around these old stomping grounds and take a trip down memory lane. Cosham from my point of view is a great place to have grown up with the great transport links, parks to play football, and cinema/top-named shops on your doorstep. I loved growing up there so was great to get back there and grab some video. I think I got some stuff from that guy on eBay at 14:00 lol, a small world! Ahh yes, Beaver Tool hire has come up a few times in the comments, they had some very funny adverts around the city, used to be one around the Fratton station area aswell. It's crazy mate in regards to how much things have changed it really is, a little depressing in all honesty. There is still a pool at the Mountbatten Centre and also at the local Roko club. Definitely some more around the place aswell as I'm not sure if the university also offers pool use to the public as that campus has expanded massively! Thanks for watching mate, where about in the UK are you now mate?
@@PompeyGamesRoom Thanks for your reply, yes the Mountbatten Centre, I had forgotten the name! I did use Roko's pool as well, it's smaller but quite classy with its purple (or blue?) light :)
I came from France and went back after nearly 15 years. I look back at that time quite fondly, as we often do with the past. I would definitely visit again someday.
@@jbmaru Ha, I got a membership to ROKO once they opened as they had an offer, the fluorescent blue pool and gym area have pretty much burned themselves into the soul lol. They bloody loved an up lighter in that building. Thanks for the comment mate.
Lots of memories there mate. Ross records, a land of dreams. Shows how long it has been since I drove through Pompey, didn't remember Cosham cinema and North End Macdonald's had gone. My highlight: "I don't know if Glen brought the leads or whatever..." 😂.
Ha ha on the Glenn comment, I would air on the "or whatever" part of that comment lol. Its changed so much mate, crazy to see the local area like this nowadays. Thanks for the comment as always mate.
Nice video buddy nostalgic adventure all around your neck of the woods.🌳🎮🌊🍀
Thanks for the comment matey, was proper nostalgia this when recording it. Crazy that these memories are like over 20 years ago for me now, time flies. Hope your keeping well and thanks for watching 👍👍
some memories there pal Chester is very similar now its got loads of places closed the famous Browns of Chester is no more, there is a lot more like £1 shops pop up online killed the high street
When my mother passed on I did a little drive myself to all the places she use to take me even the old train station cafe, so much changed and in fact it's all gone now 😢
Nice vlog pal
Thanks, buddy, you should do one of these videos for your area, love to watch memory videos of different areas and listen to people reminisce about the old days. It's a little depressing seeing some of the buildings empty and in disrepair. Thanks for the comment as always mate, really appreciate you taking the time to watch.
Really interesting video. As a kid I lived in Portchester and my first job after leaving school was working in a furniture shop at the top of Charlotte Street where the Galaxy phone shop now stands. That was in 1959 and well before the Tricorn Centre was built. In those days there was a street market all the way down Charlotte Street on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and it was a bustling thriving area. I moved away from the Portsmouth area many years ago so I don't know if the market still operates in the same manner.
Thanks for this comment mate, great reading this as its taken me back again aswell lol. If you are not in the area mate I post my travel dashcam footage now days to my other channel "Soogle Street View" on here. You might get a kick out of that as there are journeys in and out of Portsmouth seeing the surrounding areas. I do believe that a market is still held down commercial road, not sure of the day though. Thanks again for the comment mate.
Also sad to see Allders in such a poor state ☹️. It looks like the whole high street is going the same way, as people shop online. Seafront looking more healthy. We should take the kids down and make a day of it, before it is too cold.
Definitely looking run down isn't it mate ☹, sad times! Definitely head down there soon, the arcades are always a winner whatever the weather :-)
Shame all the old cinemas have gone, my local has been empty since back to the future part 2.
Its grim how all the high streets are slowly dying, just vape and phone shops these days.
40's nothing mate, I'm rapidly approaching 50 ☹️.
Great video mate.
I know what you mean mate, it's a little depressing in all honesty lol! You dont look 50 buddy!!! Thanks for the comment as always bud, hope you are keeping well.
Hiya matey, another Portsmouth guy here!
Brilliant video & drive around, You drove by the end of my road in Cosham, lived there since 1984 but grew up in Milton.
The city centre is really a bit dead now, so many empty shops, not really much in the Cascades any more, they should never have got rid of the food court, it was never the same once that went & i doubt the car park ever gets full enough anymore to warrant having made those extra spaces!
All those closed down shops along by Debenhams are due to be redeveloped for student flats, including the former store building too.
I remember when it was Allders & the brilliant Christmas window displays they used to have every year.
I used to go to Ross Records back in the late 1980s to sell some of my CDs & vinyl records!
Great to hear from you bud, I actually watched your "News Centre" video around 5 months back I seem to recall lol Any plans to upload any new videos?? Already subbed to you aswell so I can keep an eye on your content. You are right mate, the city center is dead nowadays, such a shame as there were so many great stores down there, was such a great town center with something for everyone. I see the plans for Debenhams with the skyscraper plans, ridiculous plans they really are lol! I built the Lego Harry Potter sets in the Allders window in 2001, was the best few days I had working there as I letrelly built Lego for most of the week lol. Thanks for the comment mate, hope to see some uploads from you soon.
@@PompeyGamesRoom They have started demolition on the old News Centre, a few weeks ago.
There was talk of the iconic frontage being retained, I do hope that is the case, I think it was quite a unique structure. although some people loved it, others hated it, (a bit like the Tricorn!)
Back when the News Centre was in full operation, it was all floodlit at night & looked quite impressive as you drove by.
As for the City centre, I know times have changed, but some of the tower blocks are completely out of proportion to the existing buildings, I think the council are trying to make it look like New York!!
Great vid mate very nostalgic! I always remember just before Ross records in North End was beaver tool hire, and they had a sign on the side of the shop (up high) that was 'hire a stripper' with a picture of a beaver using a wallpaper stripper to reveal a half naked woman 😂😂😂
Thanks for the comment as always mate, lots of memories with you, Mike, Rob, Ed, and Glenn with these places. I remember that signage, they still have a sign down there now but it's not a racy I seem to recall. I'm sure that the peeper will be able to put me right on this matter? lol
Thank you for the tour and history. I’ve spent a lot of time in pompey so it’s nice to be reminded of all the old shops or ones I didn’t know about!
Thanks for the comment mate, great to know you were abound the local area. When were you here?
@@PompeyGamesRoom I grew up on the Isle of Wight so came over for day trips, moved to Chichester to go to uni and stayed there until I met my now wife. She was living in Southsea so I moved in with her which was….2016 I think and then we moved to Winchester in late 2017 which is where we are now. So didn’t live in the area that long but have been close by and visit a lot. Still come over several times a month!
Brutalism architecture at its finest!!!
Ha ha, a great term to use mate. How are you keeping?
I was just waiting for the Ross records bit.
Ha ha, you can't do a Portsmouth video without the Ross Records reference lol! Thanks for the comment mate, really appreciate you taking the time to watch.
Good to see some follow retrogaming content from Pompey, I used to buy my PC Engine games from South Coast Consoles at the front of the Tricorn, would've been just on the corner where that road to the back of Argos is. Later on in the early 2000's there was an import games shop on that roundabout that goes up to the old Sainsburys, did NTSC PS1, Dreamcast, Neo Geo Pocket gear. In the early 90's ( going way back :D ) there one called genesis games in charlotte street superstore, mainly computer games but some import Megadrive bits, and a jamma arcade game running fantastic night dreams cotton!
Love this comment mate, we share the same retro past with the Tricorn gaming stores. Love the stories of your purchases around the Portsmouth area, there used to be so many great stores back in the day which I have fond memories of. Love a bit of a laser disc collection mate so subbed to your channel, never got into that side of collecting but it intrigues me, any plans to upload any new videos? Thanks for the comment mate.
@@PompeyGamesRoom thanks pal, yeah deffo will get back to it had a new addition to the family few months back so just havnt had the time!
@@Laserdreamz congratulations mate, are you still in Portsmouth aswell now days?
Really enjoyed that mate. Fantastic to hear your memories and get to see the locations. Many happy times there dude! Now you can make many more happy memories with your family, for your kids to remember when they're older too. 😊
Thanks for the comment mate, any plans to upload any more videos? It was great to go around these old stomping grounds and take a trip down memory lane. I hope your keeping well buddy.
@@PompeyGamesRoom I do want to make some more videos mate, hopefully I can get some inspiration and do an upload soon. Hope you and your family are well.
Great stuff mate, man that tricor thing was a beast, why keep that tiny bit of bridge though?
Cheers mate, thanks for the comment as always. It was a beast mate, such a huge site that it filled aswell.
Thought u were gonna pass my house near fareham
There for a second - great video and nice memories
Cheers for the comment mate, maybe this is a video we could do mate aswell, and chat about our memories??
@@PompeyGamesRoom sounds good although I have not lived here that long so have no memories really 😁😁😁
It’s funny how odd the driving seems to us Yanks.
“Oh, GOD, he’s going to CRASH HEAD-ON INTO THAT CAR!” 😅
Ha ha, does that mean you enjoyed it lol?? Thanks for the comment mate, any connections to Portsmouth?