1966 ILFRACOMBE

[@ronflynn5043]

I frequented ilfracombe in my younger teens, I lived in swansea as I do today, and used to sail across to ilfracombe on the bristol queen paddle steamer, or the cardiff queen, confess that I have not been to ilfracombe since. I had a love of ilfracombe, thanks for the video.......

[@onchnc3546]

Great video, happy days back back then. My best mate took me away on hols with his parents to Combe Martin about 1970 in the the caravan site just up the hill. We had 'chicken in the basket'. First time ever I had that and thought it was so fab. How simple things then seemed so good.

[@zagacious]

it was all the rage back in the day, chicken in the basket haha

[@jacquiwilliams4291]

This was the year before I was born ,I was born in ilfracombe ,and finally came "came back home 9 yrs ago ,always have been a coastal girl ,and in the 1970 s ilfracombe was North devons answer to Blackpool, thankyou for this ,it was very interesting ,

[@zagacious]

Thank you so much for your lovely comment, most appreciated :)

[@robertwaite2073]

My home town, brings back so many memories, still visit often,. changed so much now. Thank you.

[@ItsNotXY]

BRO SAME I WAS BORN HERE😊

[@coasttocoastcaravanning6138]

Very very nice video mate remember it looking like that really nice place then love it mate Don 🤠🇬🇧👍👍👍👍👌💜

[@SpoonyMcSpoonface]

The town died a bit after the railway closed in 1970.

[@clamioatbar3088]

Thanks, has a regular visitor to Ilfracombe since 1993 - I had never seen the pavilion building. Always wondered what it looked like - also first time seeing the large hotel that was replaced with the theatre. I do wish there was more investment in Ilfracombe. There is so much that could be done here to improve the local economy. That last time I remember any investment was the Wetherspoons pub that replaced the other large hotel on the front. A shame the ferry port never materialised as I think that might have done the trick.

[@liztaylor4882]

I agree more should be invested in Ilfracombe. I love the place. It doesn't "die" in the winter, as do many seaside towns.

[@peterstaples1]

Hey, we used to take our holidays there (or thereabouts). In 1966 l would've been 13. That brought back happy memories, thank you

[@jammyjay917]

Its so lovely seeing the pavilion... i have never seen it and i live near there now... i have always lived in North Devon...thank you for posting

[@zagacious]

Thank you for your message :)

[@roseb.1537]

Enjoyed watching this!

[@eimdeima]

Ahh, a time without Verity... A simpler time...🤣🤣

[@davegriffin288]

Thdfe were petitions against Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square.

[@davegriffin288]

But the simpler times were awful. The best time of all is the present. There was no golden age.

[@carolcamp4828]

Love the little train.

[@ItsNotXY]

The little train isnt going to be used anymore since a incident happened

[@robertbate5790]

I visited Ilfracombe in 1965, aged nine. I was on a Sunday School holiday for a week in Woolacombe, and it was for a Sunday's evensong service. I remember very little about the trip to be honest, except the church was grey stone, and I believe there was an airfield near the raiway station. I noticed a church in the clip, and I wondered if that was indeed the church I went to all those years ago.

[@zagacious]

Thank you for your message, the medieval Church near Chivenor airfield is in Braunton, close to Woolacombe and is called St Brannock's Church, the Church in the 1970s Ilfracombe film clip is St James Church, hope this helps. There used to be a railway station in Ilfracombe and the Church near that is called the Holy Trinity Parish Church.

[@zagacious]

Sorry there is another Church in Ilfracombe down the seafront called Emmanuel Church, this was captured in the film footage you watched.

[@robertbate5790]

@@zagacious ok, thanks for that. From your reply I would think it was the parish church I went too, as it was walking distance from the train. It's strange how I remember so little of that week as I did enjoy it. We 'camped' in a school closed for the holidays. We looked across the open play ground straight at Lundy Island. Several trips to the beach etc. Just as a matter of interest we travelled by train from Solihull near Birmingham. Diesel hauled to Exeter St Davids, then steam to Woolacombe.

[@arron8627]

Fabulous. The year I was born

[@Colin-From-Corby-yy4vb]

Enjoyed this video, though I had just watched another video with the headline 'Ilfracombe in 1970' as seen by the BBC, but with the very same film being used lol.

[@tango6nf477]

For a theatre it makes two really good cooling towers

[@TheWallerRub]

If one of them got hit it would be our 9/11

[@alexishamer6427]

The year 1966 is nearly 60 previous years ago. Now it’s 2023 is 57 previous years ago. Ilfracombe has changed a bit. The town centre is crap 💩. Worse than Barnstaple. Perhaps 🤔 Ilfracombe May be better in 2023. Trains 🚆 don’t run to Ilfracombe anymore. It happened in 1966. Time flies 🕜 quickly. 😊

[@chiggs5904]

That first shot with you rowing the boat looks an awful lot like Poole Park Lake.

[@caracortage3270]

Of Interest?! 👍!

[@elliottg.1954]

It was great back in 1966. The 'Combe has a fascinating history and was once only second to Brighton for seaside holidays. Peter Sellers started off at that pavilion. Barnstaple - once a lovely market town now unrecognisable and ruined by meddlers - grabbed all the investment. Ilfracombe's most popular attraction is now Wetherspoons, and the powers-that-be seem totally clueless and disinterested in the town. The ideal holiday in North Devon is spent travelling around the coast, not Ilfracombe.

[@tedsmith6137]

Doesn't look much like Ilfracombe in Outback Queensland!

[@steadyeddie639]

Before the diversity

[@Tommy-he7dx]

Before the Scouse invasion as well

[@TheKingOfBeans]

You need diversity in a town where everyone is related