It’s ffff England init, the local councils have just ripped the history out of the places ..

And then came out of town shopping, which slowly killed off town centres. My hometown, but I rarely go back.

Terry .......Do you know a Gary Hutchinson ? He had a sister called Maureen,

I must get around to changing those blinds.

Great happy memories ...me and my friends used to go in town with our hair rollers in on a Saturday, to buy something new, to go out on Saturday night.

Thank you nan and grandad, we had the best times at Clacton

Awesome Terry, i came to NZ in 72 but i was at Butlins for a week in 70 and 71. Was trying to spot my family in your vid ,lol.

Happy times then it's all gone safer as well... 😢

Been in nearly all them bubs and more have now shut, Sadly!!!!

Gorgeous beach

Nice to see it in black and white instead of just black.

Happy Memories of Butlins Holidays if I had a time machine would love to go back to Clacton 🤗🍨

Also, this town hall has 24 bells altogether

Yea, that was all before they ripped the heart out of Bolton by pedestrianizing it and charging for parking where ever you stop! 😕😕

So sad to see. They have ruined Farnworth. Pulled lots of beautiful buildings the coop and grammar school etc and put crap in its place

Fantastic

Brilliant 😊

Welcome inn.......Freemasons aka Munro's

Rawson Arms aka The Stump

Went here so many times with my parents

Very clever lyrics

Lovely mix of pictures and music. Hard times but managed to have clean streets in those days!

Farnworth park looks tropical.. Beautiful. Now it's just a few tarmac paths and grass with dog muck landmines. Many of the big, grand buildings that say they were in Farnworth, are long since been knocked down. Now, I don't feel I'm living in England anymore. No one speaks English and those that do are drunk and violent.

They even moved Bolton , it's in Greater Manchester now .

Nice collection of pictures. I really must get along there this year.

Ahh the flying bottle

I used to go to English Martyrs RC secondary mod in Farnworth not far from the Royal Bolton Hospital, formally called Royal Infirmary at the end of Minerva Road. They rebuilt the school sometime in the 1990s and renamed it Mount St Joseph for some reason. I hope they got the central heating right because the one we had in the old building was totally useless.

No photo of the big fibreglass giant you could see tower over you as you arived at the front gate?😊 I've lived in Clacton all my life, and it has sadly gone down hill. All the life long locals say, "when Butlins went, Clacton went down hill and has got gradually worse ever since" Great memories of better times.

I won 1st place in the fancy dress competition in 1974..i was 6 years old .. i won a £2:00 Butlins Cheque .. which i could spend in the Butlins shops... i bought a Dartboard and some other bits for my £2:00..... was there a Beaver Club as well? I also remember my Mum dropping me off to see a kids show with Clarence the Rabbit.. if i'm not mistaken. Mum and my Aunt were off partying while i was at the show...except i didn't follow all the other kids off to where they were supposed to go afterwards..... got myself lost. Ended up in lost property until Mum came to collect me .....remember my first go on a trampoline ....as well as the Giant slot car track/ Scalextric . Remembered the what felt like forever Journey to clacton in Grandads Car from Croydon. Great times ..now sadly lost to time

I worked at John Read bookshop on Newport Street between 1965 and 1970, wonderful memories. Happy days.

i forgot how grey farnworth looked. I remember working at Queens when i was 18, glad i moved out of bolton and moved to West London. But i bet the guy who owned the R34 Skyline at the 3:00 Min mark wishes he never got rid of it, they are worth more than the houses in farnworth now.

Now an absolute dump brought on by Cliff Morris & the traffic wardens & no that’s not a music band or pop group!

Has two childhood holidays there [8yo and 14 yo].

Terry have you got any pictures of the New Inn in Coe Street.😊 My Nanna and Granddad ran that pub in the late 40s early 50s.

Cliff Morris destroyed Bolton end of supported by current liebour councillors who shall remain nameless!!!!!

who are the singers on here I used to go to folk night years ago bit i dont remember some of the singers but i dont think ivr hrard these before Love the music and the video thank you very much

What have we done.

Happy memories of a great childhood coming to butlins clacton for holidays from London, retired now and guess what live in clacton love it lol.

Remember going to jaywick in the late 60s early 70s with my parents ...was a wonderful place ❤

Any ideas what the big pipes are for???? Storm drainage would be my guess…….

I went to clacton in 63 I been to butlins ever since

Agree totally

is that a joke, people will drown before they get there. what a waste of money

Everywhere is shut these days because these younger ones are too lazy to work

Went there in '82 and '83 great memories, and some of the tunes in the charts evoke memories too. I remember the arcade which was just outside the main gate and this motorised ol' hillbilly grannie in a rocking chair advertising a shooting gallery by saying "come on down to the shootin' gallery... happy shootin' ".

Clacton has deteriorated beyond recognition i remember working at Butlins 1982 it had the wow factor back then so alive and happening now full of charity shops and teenie bopper mums on drugs. Sad 😢

What is the minimums to see eastern, Kent? Can you see into northern France & Belgium, especially at twilight?

I always think of the Giant Roster when I think of Butlins Clacton .

Wow this is where my dads dna starts I kept my maiden name whitworth

Towards the end it got as rough as hell.... Lot of those holiday parks along there were notorious!