Very nostalgic

Labour council, Labour govnt, Labour mess. Keep voting the same and expecting good change

Glad you liked the video. 👍

i live here it is vawery nice place! thanks for visinting

Another world

Great video, my mum was born there and I have only been once in my life ( lm 60) this gives me the want to visit again this summer

Still to this day cannot believe they just demolished the Esplanade?? Surly the facade was listed like the pavilion They have kept the facade of the recently demolished Porthcawl hotel and that looks awful.

Sadly the history of Porthcawl has been shaped by fraud for over 100 years, few if any suspected any wrongdoing had & was being done. A chap called sir TG Jones KBE started it, King George V intervened in 1930, issued a decree and maps that no one had seen for over 90 years, at this point many laugh and think “what rubbish “ and that’s what many beneficiaries shout on social media “ RUBBISH!!” But the information or evidence is irrefutable, sadly too complicated other than for those who love detective dramas , also too long to fit into posts or videos, but here’s just one of many on the subject found on my channel 🤝 Give this one a view 🙏🏻 you could generate a podcast from the information in it 🤔 it never got many views, yet contains much of what anyone needs to form a firm opinion, the on thing I had to redact was Pounders name, but am sure his signature will be recognised 😉. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6i0YoiepMhjbZYsi=plrupbNkKymmHCbQ

Now they're going to demolish the Pavilion I understand...😢

Disneyland of South Wales loved Porthcawl in the early sixties.

The Porthcawl hotel.

What is the first building site on the video?

That dung heap they replaced it with will be fallen down soon, with any luck

Thank you so much. I live in Porthcawl now and think it is the best place in the world. Moved here 10 years ago, after having a caravan on "Trecco" for 10 years before that, and would not want to go anywhere else. I have to say though that its a shame those lovely old buildings have gone and been replaced by eye-sores like the "bottle bank". I really wish I had been born here ad remembered it as it was.

I own still the flying saucer ride shown

Wow look at that I’d almost forgotten that place, I’ve been so distracted by the monstrosity that’s now stood in its place, today I notice the streets bar has been knocked down and I’m waiting for the Pier hotel next. Completely changing the character of Porthcawl.

I feel like I’ve been robbed when I walk around Porthcawl after seeing how it used to be.

We lost so much

Very wrong to demolish such Victorian splendour in a town so gentle.

Showing my age I remember playing a lot of snooker in the old Esplanade Hotel ground floor bar in the early '90s. Thank goodness they knocked down the horrible thing that replaced it!! Brought back a lot of memories thanx Steve.

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Great pics, porthcawl is being turned into a ghost town, as someone else said, so is bridgend. So so sad. Whats wrong with the world?

Me and my mate from Swansea drove up one night in the 80s to see the night life we ended up outside a night club called G Gs i walked in and the doorman stopped my mate because he did not have a shirt on with a collar. So rather than drive back to Swansea we drove around until we got to this council estate with clothes still hanging on the line my mate got out of the car legged it across 2 gardens and pulled a soaking wet shirt off the line he put it on we went back to the club and he got in . This is a true story we just couldnt keep away from the night clubs always on the pull with the girls we were a double act if i couldnt pull them he could to my mate Jeff who now lives in another country i love you to bits mate what a time to be alive

Brilliant 😊😊

Steven, do you (or anyone reading this) know the name of the gentleman who did the commentary for these videos? Purely a guess but probably a Porthcawlian and a memebr of Ye Pirates Club.

Does it make ame an alcoholic to have visited them all. One question i thought one of the pubs you called it the goldfish bowl i always called it the sandpiper.

Unfortunately some of Porthcawl's character has been stripped away

You mean the ubend 😅

So sad what’s happed to this country 😢

Lovely Steve. It,s nice to appreciate what we have on our doorstep xx

It hasn't changed much since then. Chip Shops a bit more expensive.

So,, does this mean that people ( and kids) have to now cross the busy main road to get into porthcawl. Town...who thinks up these plans...

God I wish I could go back in time. You can see how much time has changed things and it's not for the good.

Do you remember the nightclub that got burned down near the front ? Can't remember the name.

Hi we spent many years at porthcawl started 1958 ended in1969 tresco bay / newton piont / then lastly in the last big house at the end of the promenade in an apartment !no other building beyond only a large stone wall ,,which we climbed over to get to the secluded beach as no one else new it was there ,,I believe there is a golf course there now ,,,

Brilliant at 73 now I remember it well as a kid

Cracking video my friend.

Wow he caught 2 dead fish I went fishing and i caught my first tin of sardines lovely they were 😅😅😅 nice video

When I grew up in the 70s and 80s in North Cornelly, we had two lovely little towns nearby, Porthcawl and Bridgend. Porthcawl, far quieter than those days, remains a really pleasant place to be but it breaks my heart to see how run down Bridgend has become. Years ago I taught the daughter of the former owners of the Stoneleigh Club. By then they were living in Essex.

Lovely trip to see your pub vlog remembering all i once walked past+hope 2 again,and i got my dance workout whilst watching.Thank you. Lavina Morticia Kymille.

We stayed in the Rose and Crown in Nottage last week, while walking the Wales Coast Path. Nice pub, reasonable price and good food. Just missed the Elvis Festival.

Amazing pics and brought back so many wonderful memories. Thank you

what are the buildings for ?

As mentioned in the video Closed.

Good effort, but you missed quite a few!

Tastefully done. "The Germans are coming" an doing a better job than those supermarkets, who tend to rest on their laurels...

WOW, just mindblowing , the music you have used is what I listen to and is on my playlist especially at 5.12 my favourite from Once Upon A Time In America ,brought tears to my eyes just watching it. absolutely love the way you have put this video together , especially when the pictures change. incredible . thankyou so much 😊

great upload steve! was interesting to watch this vid

what the hell was that all about ????

why the hell they building it there, away from the town centre, currently the bus station is in the heart of porthcawl town, who are the idiots who are making this move, and why ??