The battle of the river plate

My birth town circa 1985

Great memories here !!! 0f a life gone bye - Is it now any better ????

A few years ago I was outside finshing up some yard work. It had just gotten dark and i looked up at the stars. I didnt know space x had launched a bunch of satellites that day. It was crazy watching them line up. Some were even coming from the sides and joined the original line of satellites.

I'm afraid the video isn't as clear as in my original footage - I blame KZbin's compression algorithm.

I need to do the same, fix my attic out to clear some clutter from the rest of the house and give me some space for fixing some watches.

Scarborough. I remember it well and Peasholm park on the lake in a canoe with Dad. Those were the days.

The clip starting at 2:31 is a bit shoogly - people walking on the footbridge were making it vibrate 😊

I remember these wonderful days. We often went to Slimbridge and the New Forest when we were kids. Trips to the seaside were so special. How different our soicety was back then. I miss it so much.

Still remember Kdy station having its bay platform, engine shed with the Union of South Africa in it before it moved to Markinch and quite an extensive freight yard with coal deliveries. Also had a resident class 08 shunter that was kept parked up at the signal box! Long time ago lol.

A scotrail hst stopping at kirkcaldy thats rare.

Lady Diana Spencer should be gold in colour I reckon... She was a Goldsmith after all. Thanks for uploading... It let's us see what we miss firsthand. Have a nice day.

Anything like this about Dunfermline? A house up on the Braes looking down to the Forth must be nice.

I was born in 1953 and used to go on holiday to Scarborough with my parents. I have to stop watching these retrospectives; they make me sad and angry at what we've lost due to the stupidity and selfishness of politicians. Multiculturalism has destroyed our culture and is destroying our country.

I used to commute from Kirkcaldy to Edinburgh Haymarket. Loved living in Kirkcaldy for 3 years.

when roads were roads

I spent every childhood summer holiday in Kirkcaldy staying with relatives, mid-70s. I used to love staring through the fence into Muir's scrapyard, there were often Alexander Fife Bristol Lodekka buses being taken apart in there. If I walked the other way down Sauchenbush Road I'd check out the hoard of artics in Wishart's yard on the way to watch the Barclay 0-4-0 shunt the station goods yard, grain and house coal, and BR Express Parcels vans (Noddy vans?) waiting to undertake local deliveries. Fabulous innocent times.

what is the music. Its lovely. Ive heard it before

Thank you for the footage. My parents met at Ravenscraig General Hospital ( they both worked there) back in the late 50’s.

Fife was well named as the " Kingdom " .

In '76, I piloted a blue-yellow Rogallo wing from a 130-foot hill known as Centennial Hill, located just west of Toronto near the airport. - Thanks for that!

Are there blueprints for the Cirrus III or Falcon IV ? I want to make one.

Love it. Great choice of music too. Was that the STV start-up music back in the day?

No gangs of Muslims having barbecues on the beach. No county lines gangs, big issue sellers or delivery riders either.

Nairns empire being demolished….

When the rot set in. Only to be expected,I suppose: when certain individuals express ideals it brings the majority out in a panic , they have to be seen to compromise and refute and the old corrupt ways continue only worse than before. And so It has been ever since. And has been since time immemorial . History is a series of events in which evil conquers good time and time again. And no-one learns the lesson that compromise is failure

The cottage where I had my honeymoon is now under the M25.Where I played as a child is a housing estate , the place where I worked an industrial estate and my school a car park soon to be houses.

I miss the days when you could tell each car coming towards you by its distinctive shape. Today they are all computer designed shapeless blobs which you have to check the badge to see what it is.

Shock horror! An imported car spotted in Scarborough!! ... An unusually unpatriotic Brit perhaps, or did it belong to an overseas tourist?

How did you get such good quality footage?

This is the country the boomers inherited, and what did they leave Gen Z with? Infinite migration and bankruptcy

I remember Viscounts, Vanguards, etc. flying over the house which would vibrate.

So a great time, thank you for sharing this Video.

Fascinating video. We’re not natives, we moved from Edinburgh in the late nineties to the new houses at Seafield, on the Kinghorn road. Hard to believe it was over twenty years ago. We love Kirkcaldy. It was quite a big move for us, but we’ve never regretted it.

Thanks for this, shame it just missed the gable end of my house. Could you upload the whole of the earlier cine footage please?

I'm watching this 30 minutes after Sadiq Khan won a 3rd term as London Mayor. Thank God I don't have kids.

Excellent video. Was great seeing it how my parents/grandparents would've seen it

Thanks for this video. My stepfather was from Kirkaldy and I lived there for a few years in the late 60's when i was a child.🥰

Before being forcibly "culturally enriched". There's no going back to those halcyon days.

I did a post 1945 project about 12 years ago, the younger ones have missed the best times this country saw, they may have had austerity, but Britain still had pride,identity,community and politicians that resigned when they did something wrong. Unlike the amoral reptiles of today.

When England was England, don’t know the country now with these infiltrators in charge.

Then and now, the difference in society might as well be different planets.

I was born in 1954, so can relate to these images very well, and indeed they do speak of a time that seemed more comfortable. Have to remember though that those of us who remember them were young at the time, and that can skew perception. Mass car ownership was just beginning, and cheap holidays on the med also. All of which would impact these scenes in a few years. There was full employment and the post war social contract still in place, later dismantled by Thatcher, and still ongoing. Although life was more straightforward the, god it was often bloody boring too. Take the rose tinted glasses off. Life can be more challenging now, but more interesting in many ways. Look forward, not back.

My Grandma Dorothy Gardiner, emigrated from Kirkcaldy in the early sixties. She moved to New Zealand with her husband Alec McEwan. He was from nearby Auchterderran/Cardenden. I've never visited Fife but I will one day

Lovely show, yes it's the past happy days when we were growing up, shame it's not the same! Happy faces let's hope it comes back x

😢😢😢😢 what have they done to our country 😢😢😢😢

My heart weeps for our once great country, and the frequent of our grandchildren.They will never experience the peace and freedoms that we had back then. It is very scary what they will have to go through to survive in this now crazy country!

Come to where i used to live in armley leeds , every shop now is eastern european . Thank goodness i moved out 25 years ago to live in the countryside near Ilkley. Its how the United Kingdom used to be years ago. Multiculturalism, thanks Tony Blair, it's not working and it will never work.

I imagine that's how my grandmother would have seen her home town, the older buildings and shoreline. She was born in Dysart in 1901, before moving here to Toronto, Canada. And actually her maiden name was Keddie.