I worked as a nanny in benidorm in 1972 , this video brought back so many wonderful memories. Thank you , you have made a pensioner very happy 😂
@spaintimemachine Жыл бұрын
So glad you enjoyed the film 😊 If I find more classic Benidorm 8mm I will certainly share it here.
@chrisclarke7828 Жыл бұрын
I moved here in 1988, still here 35 years later and never been back to Blighty.Missed nothing, what a lovely country Spain is.
@tarotbyamber7233 Жыл бұрын
I have lived in Spain almost 4 years, re applying for residencia, no way would I live in the UK again
@gmc9451 Жыл бұрын
What's so good about it?.
@chrismullan7191 Жыл бұрын
did you not have any family in the UK, strange you never even went on a visit.
@chrisclarke782810 ай бұрын
@@gmc9451 The list is too long, but in the last 2 weeks milk went down 25 cents a litre, bread went down 5 cents and my electric bill was 25 euros for 53 days, kids don't walk the streets with foot long knives and there is a shortage of litter in the streets.
@chrisclarke782810 ай бұрын
@@chrismullan7191 No I do not have family, I left when my mother died in 88 and no reason to return.
@craigiedal Жыл бұрын
Fantastic old footage. I visited Benidorm in 1972 aged 11 with my mum. It was my first time abroad. We stayed at the Hotel Bristol Park (now called the Hotel Bristol) which was next to the old town & a short walk from the Levante beach. It was a much smaller (& quieter) place back then, there were large hotels along the front at the Levante beach but the area behind was still undeveloped. I remember the old town was a very safe place for kids as me & my friend who I met in the hotel, would regularly visit a cafe in the old town to have chocolate flavoured milk. This was quite late in the evening but we were completely unsupervised without our parents. But it was safe to do this. Two wee Scottish lads out on the town! I also recall a disco called “Tito’s” quite near the hotel which used an old American car as a publicity prop.
@clivethereddevil3178 Жыл бұрын
a fantastic piece of history.
@doofus4648 Жыл бұрын
What a brilliant bit of social history I was only back in 1972 but started going to calpe back in 2007, a lovely resort and to see the rock of ifach and the fishing Harbour from then was amazing. I’ve walked up that rock and have many great memories from there, thanks for this video.
@nigelwilliams9307 Жыл бұрын
So peaceful, and everyone well behaved.
@robbflynn4325 Жыл бұрын
Hi from the US. My first foreign holiday was here back in 1980 with my parents when we lived in the UK. Stayed at the Ariel Park hotel, which I believe is now the Hotel Nereo. Fantastic holiday.
@Weirdeiolu Жыл бұрын
What wonderful footage from Benidorm's old town. You can still see the fishing village it used to be in some of the side streets which had few businesses at the time...
@spaintimemachine Жыл бұрын
So glad you enjoyed it!
@novaestrella2571 Жыл бұрын
I worked from 1969 till 1972 in discotheque Pipers Club at the Plaza Tringular, Tito´s Club and Borsalino. Very good memories from that time! Especially the Swedish and German girls.
@darrenmeddings7484 Жыл бұрын
I went to Benidorm for the first time in 1973 at 7 years of age, great memories. I stayed in the hotel in the video right bye the Church in the small square up on the Rock only 2 weeks ago on a stag do, it certainly isn’t the same but still a good place to be.
@anythingbootneck10 ай бұрын
I was last in Benidorm in 1975. I’d still like to visit it again although it’s changed so much. Lovely piece of filming.
@spaintimemachine10 ай бұрын
So glad you enjoyed it. I've just posted another, shorter film taken mostly on the beach in 1974 - and there will be more Benidorm on the channel in a few weeks.
@anythingbootneck10 ай бұрын
@@spaintimemachine Excellent, I’ll look forward to watching. I’ve just subscribed!👍🏻
@paulspendiff71864 ай бұрын
I was there at that time. Still a top place to visit. I have lived permenanatly for over 20 year.Can anyone confirm. A question around this year i thought that in Elch / Dove park when i was around 6 i thought the palms had spider monkeys in. Was this my imagination or was it true.
@johnwalton20193 ай бұрын
3.27 service with a smile....lol, looks lovely
@edwardcooper3948 Жыл бұрын
Went to Salou in 1975 on school holiday when I was 14, have a handful of photos as a reminder but this is magical, like your very own time capsule that you can jump into and it takes you back to a moment in your life that's captured forever, thanks for sharing.
@spaintimemachine Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! 😊 I may actually have some footage of Salou, it's in my to-be-processed pile... I'll be spending more time on videos later in the Summer.
@edwardcooper3948 Жыл бұрын
@@spaintimemachine approx when would the footage of Salou have been shot ?
@spaintimemachine Жыл бұрын
@@edwardcooper3948 if it's on the reel I'm thinking of, about 1978. Must check. It's one of those w/ several venues spliced together.
@edwardcooper3948 Жыл бұрын
@@spaintimemachine 👍
@StephenButlerOne Жыл бұрын
I went salou in the mid 80s, it was more a village up the hill then. I recall all the white paved sea front was there, and a fair at the end. But the main resort, as it is now, was only just being built. Went again in the mid 90s and in that decade the whole resort pop up. Basically looking just like it still does.
@sandrabruce9754 Жыл бұрын
That was brilliant I absolutely love benidorm spotted a few places that are still there and in business .
@spaintimemachine Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Must go back myself, not been for a couple of years.
@fernandoleitao59039 ай бұрын
Amazing vídeo. Thanks/ Gracias por estes recuerdos de baú. Obrigado. Eu ❤ Benid❤rm.
@alangibb9785 Жыл бұрын
Sooooperb.😎😎😎. Thank you for sharing this. Seriously wonderful.
@spaintimemachine Жыл бұрын
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it. 😊
@DeanSinger Жыл бұрын
Remembered playing on the barren landscapes behind the hotels in 1971, stayed in Mont Park Hotel. The builders were rock blasting not far above where we stayed, and remembered a rock flew in the direction of the pool; ran a bit quick into the foyer!
@newlifeinspain4 ай бұрын
We were at The Don Pacho hotel; I was 18 years old, they put us up at the very top in the far corner 8 of us in two rooms. Loved chasing the room maids around the hotel or they would run out of the room in the mornings because we were naked. LOL Best night remembered was The Western Saloon bar my brother swinging off the wooden chandeliers 38 of us buying rounds and dancing on the wooden benches until the wonderful National Police turned up in white gloves and machine guns......no charges. Last night there I was caught in the lift with the hotels managers wife? Although we had stopped the lift, the staff had managed to over ride the system.. Still go to Benny and rave it up in the Benidorm Cafe until throwing out time or; I'm taking someone back to look at my ceiling?
@tracy6998 Жыл бұрын
Love this. Not many tattoos or beer bellies then and I’m only talking about the women 😂😂
@spaintimemachine Жыл бұрын
Much the same can be said of Torremolinos! 😂 Subject of some upcoming footage
@michelles2299 Жыл бұрын
Nasty sexist comment
@seantavendale56214 ай бұрын
Went there on holiday about the same time and didn't want to go home but mum said at 9 I was too young to make that descision.
@RazSux Жыл бұрын
Great footage!
@spaintimemachine Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@paulmason6474 Жыл бұрын
Hardly any obese people and plenty of smokers. Greatvideo. Was this the start of The British Lager louts that used to give us a bad name.
@spaintimemachine Жыл бұрын
😁😂
@CarlosAlberto-ii1li Жыл бұрын
They still do, most foreigners hate the British because of their insular attitudes.
@StephenButlerOne Жыл бұрын
Id like these historic videos. Id live to see one of Salou in thr 80s. We went in the mid 80s and it was basically a village up the hill, went back mid 90s was a huge resort, visted it on the way through about 5 years ago and it looked very similar to the mid 90s, i could actully recall some of the roads 20years later. So a pre mid 80s video would be excellent if one could be dug up
@ruthsykes3233 Жыл бұрын
Oh. If only we cou l d turn back th clock,
@spaintimemachine Жыл бұрын
Yes indeed!
@barbarahalkyard1901 Жыл бұрын
That would be heaven.
@jameswalker3484 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this lovely video. I was there in 1972 - do you have any pics/info about the Hotel Didak? Great memories 👏🎬
@spaintimemachine Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed 😊 Don't know about that hotel specifically but it may turn up in a future video, I've loads more from different places, some not yet identified.
@davidwoodcock139 Жыл бұрын
Wow I was 16 then
@kennethdrewary1094 Жыл бұрын
The era of the German tourists, if you believed what comedians said, lol.
@jasondyer811 Жыл бұрын
Great video 😁😁👍👍
@spaintimemachine Жыл бұрын
Thank you! 😊
@christophercoverdale6683 Жыл бұрын
And not a mobile phone in sight
@michelles2299 Жыл бұрын
Surprisingly they didn't have them in 1975
@christophercoverdale6683 Жыл бұрын
@@michelles2299 no shit
@michelles2299 Жыл бұрын
People seemed to be much better dressed in 1975
@spaintimemachine Жыл бұрын
That is a constant in nearly all the old films I have. Wait till you see some of the other footage I have lined up.
@ahaunslattery4600 Жыл бұрын
I’d love to leave as well.
@shirleyhowley4721 Жыл бұрын
We were there that year ,with a party of policemen from harrow road police station great times drank loads of cheap wine ended up in bed for so days. !! 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🏴🏴
@johnathandaviddunster38 Жыл бұрын
Ve vill got the best sunbeds ja ja .........
@CarlosAlberto-ii1li Жыл бұрын
Yeah those were the days 49 quid a week, coming home with your souvenir donkey stuffed with old jam rags.......................nothings changed 51 years later.