0:11 Granada TV Studios exterior. 0:15 Tour departure area / American film set . 0:35 Make up behind the scenes. 0:46 Wallace Arnold trams including onboard footage and mascot. 1:05 Film set exteriors. 1:29 Coronation Street illuminated sign. 1:32 Spitting image Princess Diana puppet mask. 1:35 Rovers Return Coronation Street set. 1:56 Alfs mini mart Coronation Street set. 2:00 Rovers Return again.

its hard to think at 0.26, that road now leads to a dead-end. So much has changed

Short and sweet, but nice! Showing the Crab Inn when it was owned by Mew, Langton (later Whitbread and a Greene King pub); and also King Harry's Bar when it was the Glenbrook Hotel. The latter building dates from around 1840, showing on the 1842 tithe map. The Crab Inn dates back even further to the 16th century. Pencil Cottage opens the video and this dates from around 1820. All lovely buildings.

The 60s saw me there once a year , and I was young and starry eyed with it , monsters and lights after dark . I visited on and off through the 70-80s . Sorry to learn of your problems , we are gearing up to bring grandchildren this year to the island , hope you manage to open . Good luck to you all .

A bit of patience and coaxing Well done

How many times i went there in the 70s

Well done 😊

Nice one mate!!!!!🤩 I recall I had the same issue with a sheep in Derbyshire a few years back; and also a swan not too long back.

Beautiful memories 😍

So sad 😢

Love smugglers cave ❤

Smugglers cav was my favourite. Sad its gone forever..😢😢❤

I loved smugglers cave 😢❤

Beautiful 😍

This was all over FB last week. Well done 💕 Loads of people were concerned

Looking forward to this. I stayed in a wee flat in Regent Street in 1984, whilst working in Temperature Ltd 👍🙏

0:11 Shanklin old village. 0:31 Rylestone Gardens. 0:38 Shanklin Pier. 0:45 Rylestone Gardens. 0:47 Dunnose Point. 0:51 Shanklin Pier.

From the days when car drove on the ferry which had a turn table at the back, and lorries had to reverse on over the bailey bridge as the ferry only had a ramp at one end

Nice to see Brighstone appearing for a change. Looks like the tea rooms opposite the church was still there. We were cheated (rather than treated) with Blackgang!

0:18 Onboard the ferry. 0:34 Whippingham church and foundation stone. 1:07 Ryde. 1:30 Blackgang Chine. 1:37 Brighstone. 2:06 Alum Bay and The Needles.

Went there as a child. Loved it ❤

Wow !! Such memories. My family used to holiday on the Isle of Wight in the latter end of the 60's and I remember going here. I was just a little boy but I still remember the thrill of those wonderful holidays....Especially travelling there on that huge hovercraft. It seemed so exciting to me as a young lad. Thanks for posting.

This is certainly one of the best of Blackgang I've seen. Love the views at the beginning showing all the buildings and the old cars and buses in the car park, with one of the buses just pulling in. Great shots of the water gardens in their full glory too. Rees Jeffreys Road Fund was a charity formed in 1950 by a British cyclist William Rees Jeffreys. He died 4 years later aged 82. I guess the plague disappeared many years ago.

What spectacular gardens Blackgang once had 🤩 not sure if those are doves walking through the gardens at 2:10, if so did Blackgang used to have some?

WEST WIGHT SURELY ??

Scary wtf

0:11 Viewpoint car park and overview of the park. 1:00 Chine gardens. 1:17 Gnomes garden. 1:38 Smugglers cave VERSION 1 entrance. 1:51 Model village. 2:00 Water gardens. 2:38 Model village. 2:47 Lookout observatory ontop of the old entrance. 3:03 Sea view. 3:05 Entrance lawn.

Definitely 1961. The car ferry “Fishbourne” is brand new and one of the original three still in service as they cross each other mid Solent. Fabulous find!

The vessel at 3:40 is a Vlasov / Sitmar ship. Vlasov initially operated cargo services from 1937, gradually replacing these with passenger services from 1947 until 1988, when SITMAR was sold to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). During the 1950s, SITMAR became a major passenger shipping company. It offered regular services between Europe and Australia for migrants and full-fare paying passengers. Vlasov operated cargo ships registered under either Greek, Italian or United Kingdom flags before and during the Second World War. SITMAR ships carried a letter "V" on their funnels, for "Vlasov". It's quite possibly the second Fairsky, last in service November 1979.

All of the island

I had trouble trying to match this video wit my memories of visiting Blackgang Chine. I was born in December 1945 (thanks to Hitler starting WWII and parents joining the RAF/WAAF for the duration of WWII, Dad flew Wellington bombers, and Mum in Code and Cyphers) I lived at St. Lawrence (parents built the shop there in front garden) so around 1950 (when about 5/6 I started to explore the area down to Whitelocks farm and along the way was some woods with many Nissan Huts housing refugees from bomber out houses. There was also a RADAR station down on the cliffs there which of course reverted back to farm land at the end of WWII. I remember the Barrage Balloon flying there. Around 1953 or so we moved over to Bonchurch Shore to a middle flat next door to my Grandad's house, and moved in there in 1959 when he died...Gran died in 1953.. I liked to explore the area with the cliffs and Landslip. Along the cliff path on the old road to The Landslip and Lucombe, Shanklin there was a slip road down to the beach where there was a patch of 'Dragons Teeth, and at the bottom a large concrete block that used to have a search light mounted on it, I think a relic from WWI, to light up German vessels that passed along the Channel. From Bonchurch I used to use my push bike around 1955 to pedal off to Blackgang Chine using a simple foot path to get down to the Chine and the land there. Before WWII the Army used to have exercises of landing on a beach getting ready for WWII The cliffs and beach were littered with live Ammunition with .38, .45, .303 plus spent mortar cases which we used to collect, shove in my saddle bag to take the live ammo home to take apart (very carefully) using a bench vise, put a lit match down the empty cartridge to set off the detonator in Dad's , the put the bullet back together totally safe, and lived. I still have a clip of 5 .303 rounds even now. But Black Gang Chine was suffering from cliff falls even back then, I visited the place some years later but the cliffs had fallen and it was all over grown with brambles and gorse, but probably still some live ammo laying about under it. A lot of the beach we explored was the multi coloured sand at Alum bay as well, and helped ourselves to some of that, The cliffs there at Blackgang Chine was well known for cliff falls there at the Chine and the place was doomed for the future. So the last time I knew about the Chine was around 1960. Back then it was a simple road towards Niton to a car park at the cliff edge, and some steps and a path down to the beach.

I ❤ that ride

0:11 TSMV Shanklin arriving at Ryde pier head 0:39 Ryde pier head 1:03 Departing Ryde 1:40 Shipping unknown 2:15 Queen Mary at Southampton docks 3:12 Southampton docks 3:25 Various Shipping 3:40 ? 4:20 Fishbourne ferry at Wootton 4:57 Various Shipping

Gosh this brings back memories of our family holidays over there in the 1960's. Thank you.

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Sadly not Salcombe but Torquay area...

A nice mixed bag. Wishing you a Happy New Year! The sign at 6:54 is definitely needed today as Godshill is now one of those places heaving with traffic and inadequate pavements. 7:00 - The Old Bell Inn (built early 18th century). A Grade II listed building since 1967. I believe it closed sometime in the 1920s. How nice it must have been. If it reopened as a pub I'd be one of the first there! That tanker at 8:40 is a rare sight.

Thanks for posting this wonderful memory

The first beach must be Gurnard, the beach huts give it away, many happy summers spent in my Aunties beach hut, one of the brick ones at the end towards Cowes..thanks for posting this.

0:11 Shipping at Portsmouth harbour. 0:59 Onboard the ferry. 1:19 Beach fun and ice cream at Gurnard. 3:18 Calbourne and Winkle street. 4:16 Carisbrooke castle. 6:00 St Catherine's lighthouse. 6:34 St Lawrence old church (12th century). 6:56 Godshill. 8:15 Ferry at Fishbourne. 8:20 Disembarking vehicles. 9:03 Group on vessel leaving Wootton creek. 9:38 Onboard the ferry.

❤RIP Little Jane❤

😢😢😢😢😢😢

I just remember being taken to see the engine of a paddle steamer as a very young child. I still hate looking back at eastern Ryde as you leave the pier to return to the mainland, albeit nowadays on a catamaran

Lovely to see the Ocean Hotel back in the day

The wide road that was empty and made from concrete slabs was likely an upgraded road to War Time need... but then the South Ham poster told me exactly where this is... it too is the London Road but the other side of New Road, but right back at the start of it when at that time it was part of the A339 and we are looking toward what is the Crown Plaza Hotel on the right, but a good 500m away. The road was concrete slabbed in 1942/3 due to war traffic loads. Later returned to tarmac. They were heading to the grounds where the Council offices are now (just down from the White Hart pub) and where in the past various carnivals/festivals happened after the war to mark the end of the school year. Hence the dense foliage, they were movable in both date and location and stopped soon after this I guess.

The sign at 3:28 says that we are on a junction with the A339, we are at that point in Basingstoke, the sign is of the older type used first by the RAC, the checkered line below the Main Road showing turn-offs nearest to us the viewer. The B3046 is to the Alresford (now New Alresford) To cut to the chase, the junction is the London St. junction in Basingstoke itself, it is now pedestrianised and is accessed via New Road, right smack in the centre of Basingstoke.

Christmas theme trip room 😂 that be low key scary 😅

Nice one - BBC and IOWCP covered it (poorly) from the other side. You wouldn't find me in the sea this time of year. It's cold enough in July. That said, the sea temperature is warmer in December (average 11.8 degrees) - warmer than anything between January and May!! The warmest month is September when it gets to around 17 degrees.😁 Who / what is the guy in the racing driver's gear??

English mad traditions. Long may they be allowed to continue. Thank you, IOWA. 🤣

South Ham, Basingstoke?