the "first ones" didn't even have pick-up brushes; just stripped wires

Just discovered this, and blimey hasn't it changed. I Worked in Bentalls then Manfields back in the mid - to late 60s. I loved Kingston back in the day!

brings tears to my eyes ....all gone now

Kaka, Zidane, Xavi, Bellingham, Del Piero, Pogba, Pedri, Trent A Arnold, Raul, Beckham, Gerrard... none probably ever heard of Craig Johnson, inventor of their boot, let alone that he played in the 1980's Liverpool FC team with Dalglish, Hansen, Barnes, and Rush.

Is the narrator the same voice as the computer in war games movie🥴

damn, M&S and Boots have been there fore ages!

The seven Saxons skinhead pub

THE PEOPLE ARE ALL WHITE 🇬🇧 WHAT FCKN HAPPENED 😥😥

Distantpod brought me here

The best years!

No one with a mobile phone, wonder how many idiots those mobile phones have created.

Look at all those people out shopping. Actual people in shops. At the end of the 90's and into the new century that would become a thing of the past.

He needed to cut his hair.

The presenter should just interview himself 😂

I grew up in Leatherhead, and a bus trip to Kingston was a treat! I remember Bentall's department store, and the amazing Christmas displays they used to have up the escalators. A great look around the town, thanks for sharing :)

Rev and go from scalextric the first ecig

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Ah, the Druids Head.... 8 rum & blacks for £1......Those were the daze.....

Lovely , so impressed , just fantastic , glad am in the hobby it changed my life , I love it, Congratulations to all who made it , just great certainly great fun 😊

Oh look English people.

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Much more in depth history of Scalextric on Ytube Part 1 and 2 from a 1992 dvd.

Thanks for Sharing, also been looking for this for a while !

I went between 1978 to 1980

0:04 Henri Pescarolo in a Ferrari. 14:00 sporting Brumos colors. The most exotic slottrack idea I have ever encountered though is 'Horse Racing'. I enjoyed it very much, Cheers:)

41:31 looks like a Gulf 917 and even Indytype racers were made (C79 C80) ... fantastic documentary and story .. I live in Germany and my slotcar set was branded 'Stabocar' running a Porsche 904 and an E-type . to me the artwork shown here is most appealing just like the original Grand Prix posters from the era :)🌹

Big Mouth Berry!! Not on TV anymore. :-0

A few years after all the building work and 'rejuvenation. 'Kingston had character back in the 80s. The pedestrianisation of towns all over the Uk make them into little havens for crime.

Lovely hobby , enjoy it , so , I ll keep my slot car racing , till am old so at my passing , given away , so or sold cheap , so , really till then , I ll enjoy it , so , I love it , it changed my life , and brings me lots of fun and joy , so, I continue on , so love it , Im happy , like am 12 or 13 , my parents bought , me a single Bathurst set , so it was lot of fun , so years later , in my mid to late , 40s after a set , picked Scalextric sets so am glad enjoy it again , Im so happy and enjoy it so so nice , so just fantastic so good , 😊😊😊

Lovely , so impressed, very informative, so , amazing , , Im in Australia love my hobby , Scalextric slot car racing , Im old now 54 in next month so have help from Jeff a friend so , he helps me a lot , so he into it too , I enjoy the all aspects of it , so glad , makes me young few ways , good for me so so happy and glad 😊

Still looks like England!!

I was actually surprised that this is not that different to the town I moved away from (two years ago). I moved there in 2005 i.e. closer to the date of filming than to the present. But the areas we see here - Eden Street, Clarence Street, Market Place - haven't changed that much. It's more the bits just outside that which have changed more radically.

Predator headbands for curing headers were great

A winner from the off really in my opinion Still enjoyed regularly in my life Now collecting 70's rally cars keeps the interest. It's important to revisit your youth,and keep alive great memories Scale is good,shape and form of cars very close to the originals 😆😆

Still a big part of my life Great physical toy that can be enjoyed by the young and the old Because it requires the brain to keep rethinking tracks and endless set ups,its a real broad spectrum that keeps you interested.

As a boy I loved Kingston, but by 1991 it was only marginally more attractive than the council rubbish dump. And it's got worse!

The presenter is off magpie TV Mick Roberto...

I think the huge retail park at Colliers Wood a few miles away took a lot of trade away from Kingston town centre. It looks really rammed with shoppers here.

David Smith 44 seconds ago We at Middlesbrough will be eternally grateful for the Australian sunshine that this raw talent brought to our town including the kids around Ayersome Park who taught him most of what he knows. Thanks Craig, you will always be welcome. Unfortunately, like you, the Kirk has gone on to different things. I'm pleased I watched you play and God bless the Landlady who fed you. Genius to use John Peel.

I remember when I was 12 and 13 (1971/2) there was one boy in my class at school who everyone wanted to play with. The reason - he had a Scalextric!

I remember when I was 12 or 13 (1971/2) there was one boy in my class at school who everyone wanted to play with. The reason - he had a Scalextric!

Couldn't they find a presenter who can say Scalextric properly?

I’m a child of this era and never heard of scalextric until recently when I decided to get back into slot cars. I remember Tyco ( TCR.. total control racing), AFX and Aurora. I’m starting up with Carrera because I like the more rigid track construction but I really like the Scalextric cars

Took me back 50yrs. . . thank you sooooooooooooooooooooooo much for this upload

Wonderfull old school commentary from a gentleman and so educated.There were many critics of British imanagment of the time,but if you worked for these guys you found them fair,paternal and engaging.Yes there was a class system in place but people did their jobs and folk could could through education and skill management move on or up.T he unions were pretty active them selves at this time educating there own with places at Ruskin and the rise of all the new red brick places of futher education,but Britain at this time was country of worn out industry/ machines but not people! Mrs Thatcher's approach was blunt,proably nessesary but had the main affect of sweeping away the likes of our commentator ali to our loss and many an old union man I have not been surprised to find

Sibilance 🤭

He doesn't let them talk. It's unwatchable because of Berry.

I can see why I've never seen this presenter on tv or anything else, he's useless

Great story, pretty amazing how he just kept applying common sense to basically invent something.

I cant afford digitial, so go earlier system , so great fun so I get so alone here , so , am not far from 60yrs age , 6 and half years away , so just by myself here , so its great , fun , enjoyable, and awesome, I live in Australia, so I get so excited when able buy few cars etc , other slot cars , etc , I made some things too , do my own repairs, so I wish there a spare parts place for my slot cars , so , I , do my best so glad am back in hobby , so its fun , so I got a girlfriend up the road but sad for me doesnt want live with me so just me here , so I built few slot cars from scratch bare shells parts I had and so it good so , the hobby found me , loneliness terrible thing , so I visit Liz , 2 , to 3 times a week , so my life good in parts so am thankful to God above , so for hobbies find me , so Ladies and gentlemen start your engines , and hope we all have fun ,