Old Gravesend Cine film Part 1 (copyright)

[@OKauyon]

Grew up in Gravesend, used to be such a lovely place to live, now I'm glad to be out of it. Such a shame it really is. Beautiful video, beautiful music, very relaxing altogether.

[@tarquin14906]

My dad shot this film. Brings back memories and a few tears.

[@melcomepay6668]

Ray Whittaker Hello and THANKS for putting this on U-Tube. I believe you edited this film? If so , were there any more shots of St Patrick's Gardens? Think the family at the window there may be Williams or Mackledon ( at number 47) Do you know? I can see my old childhood home there , So PEACEFUL to live there then.Now they have a damn great wall there, and a security camera . It's like a prison camp! Hold appreciate any info you may have..thanks.

[@Mollineaux]

grew up in Gravesend. V rarely return; it is too painful to see what has happened to it. Anyone who thinks we've progressed over the last fifty years needs their head examined....

[@neilturner6865]

Born & Bred in Gravesend I went to the Peanut School in 78 been going to sea for 41 Years lived in Park Place no 50 with my Nan & Grand Dad. I live in Glasgow now but I still come down. It’s a shame the Town has changed and become what it is🙈🙈😢😢😢 always hold Gravesend in my Heart

[@melcomepay6668]

Me too, a time held in my heart, and memory... 😊.. All changed now..

[@Troub11]

Beautiful video for what once was a beautiful town, I'm sure most of those people would be distraught to see gravesend as it is today, that's not a racist or xenophobic remark that's a local man speaking the truth about he's home town.

[@melcomepay6668]

wakesey11 yes still true at June 2019.!

[@melcomepay6668]

Found this wonderfully nostalgic film a few years ago... and was totally " gobsmacked" to see it. Truly amazing Co incidences .. Including scenes showing St Patrick's Gardens AS I REMEMBER IT.. ( before the days when it had a bloody great wall round part of it.. - not needed then).. Our flat, with mh my mums curtains in the window, and people I knew and played with so many years ago.. The little girl, Jenny M,. getting out of the milk float/ lorry and a family friend riding by on his bicycle ( early part of film). Oh lord, for those old days to return..... anyone still watching and remembering at 12/ 4/ 20?

[@themanwithnoname2666]

@@melcomepay6668 watching right now at 2.25 pm used to live here in the 1970s

[@resnonverba137]

@Richard Carpenter If you find anything remotely nasty in my correction, I suggest it's you who's the 'snowflake'. Grow up little man.

[@themanwithnoname2666]

Nice video my friend 👍

[@Leningrad_Underground]

Thank you all who were involved a magic piece of work and respect to Mr, Whittaker. a memorial to times past a very valuable document of our social history, priceless. Nostalgia's not what it used to be. Surprised to see Park Place. If you had lived there you would have wondered why anyone would want to photograph it; well there you go glad you did. Who said it was a dump? If the Germans had had towns like Gravesend things would have been different mate. Thanks again all the best.

[@osiris9200]

Park Place has dissolved into a shit area with kids screeching outside about a fucking fidget spinner. I wish I could go back to the good old days.

[@melcomepay6668]

Leningrad Underground yes indeed, well remembered....

[@melcomepay6668]

Osiris me too ...born/ bred there.... Amazingly people I knew and places too , turn up in this lovely old video. Beauty about the quality but it was a 8mm film, an old technology.Cant believe I can see our old flat at St Patrick's Gardens .in the days when it wasn't full of drugs and violence. My mum's curtains at the window. She never use nets! Also, a young girl getting out of a lorry.. I knew her well! Oh for a time machine.Dr who , where are you now that we need you?

[@meldy-arts1461]

I'd love more than anything to go back in time and see what Gravesend and Northfleet were like back then. There's so much history I'd love to learn!

[@melcomepay6668]

Meldy-Arts PEACFUL and with full employment.Lovely old days....

[@wiswam6773]

Makes me sad to see the good days in summer and the nice families of Gravesend area which I knew so well.😢

[@BAMBI243]

this is how I remember Gravesend. Not the dump it is now, with many no-go areas

[@melcomepay6668]

BAMBI243 I agree, but nothing stays the same except in our memories.

[@jusb1066]

oh like when dickens or kings farm was a nogo, or the hive and now it has enough people to split up the pikeys so you can walk down them again? selective memories as always. where are the nogos now?

[@melcomepay6668]

Jusb1066 The Whole town...yes, these places Dickens ,K. Farm etc were a bit " rough" I remember well....A real " no-go ' now is ST PATRICKS GARDENS.....BUT.....let me tell you ,in the days when I lived there ..it was a Safe, easy , and happy place....1959- 1962...and that is NOT a "selective" memory. This 21st century is pure evil, by comparison to the 20th. Just seen people, and places I knew way back then.. including our old flat at St Patrick's Gardens. Sounds like you remember those days too? St Patrick's Gardens, has bloody great wall around it these days.... And even a security camera... It's more like a prison camp.. only thing missing the guard Towers and machine guns. ( That's next on councils list)

[@jodyfrano]

My Dad also drove the Milk Lorries at the dairy with Mr Whittaker, good to see this film, many thanks for posting.

[@melcomepay6668]

jodyfrano Ahh yes ..the old days! Shows my old childhood home, at st. Patrick's Gardens, peaceful place to live then.. also shows a young girl getting out of the milk float I knew her very well.. Jennifer!

[@christinegitsham5012]

Must have been lovely then, lovely memories lovely video

[@melcomepay6668]

Hello, yes it was lovely! I wS born there in 1948..so.i remember well, those old days and ways. Notice how happy and smiling everyone is? People THEN were mostly quite poor, but yet had full employment, and were content.. This is an older Britain, not yet spoilt as it is now. I spotted some people, and places I actually knew in those days.. including my mother's curtains at the front room window of our flat in St Patrick's Gardens, Valley Drive. These old films date from around the mid 1950"s to early 1960"s ( Film disc one).

[@mikenelson1009]

Thanks for posting this, Ray. Very interesting - with lovely and appropriate music. Respect to your dad for this. Just wishes I could recognise more of the locations - but I got quite a few.

[@melcomepay6668]

Mike Nelson Some shots are of Dickens Estate ( Northcliffe Estate , Lion Garage area)...others are top end of Valley Drive , by shops....and up towards Wilburforce Way. The WARREN can be seen in the background much bigger than today.Not much left of it now.

[@melcomepay6668]

Also St Patrick's Gardens .

[@motherlover449]

Love, love, love this!

[@peterrussell2477]

OMFG!!!!! My nan and grandad are in this standing with my great nan and my auntie holding a cat

[@melcomepay6668]

Peter Russell oh those old days. ! I've got people I knew also.... amazing co- incidences.

[@themanwithnoname2666]

How old were all of them if you mind me asking

[@user-ip9ev1ct5c]

@@themanwithnoname2666 Sadly, is probably that they passed away.

[@davidwratten7728]

was at the old sea school in '66 and moved to the new one at Denton, what a difference first ship derby tanker out of the isle of grain. Visited the Himalaya at Tilbury landing stage, Pady Mc goran Webster smith my intake instructor, will never forget the living conditions in the old place rough as but fun still got my troup picture in my study.

[@agatha1050]

not sure how I stumbled on this but glad I did! Hampton Crescent with just one car! I now live in Chalk so was good to see the church and Rochester Road, thanks. And the no.46 bus! boarded so many times ...I lived in St Columba's Close, knew the Venthams

[@melcomepay6668]

Heidi T Hi four years later ..I lived at St Patrick's Gardens 59 - 62. Buy an incredible coincidence, this film has a shot of our old flat with my mum's curtains at the window! Plus a little girl who lived opposite My Block.Jenny Mackledon , climbing steps .we were play mates ...I knew the Boston's, and Jimmy Topping ..plus Pauline Burgess . If you see this can you tell me who some of the other people are in part one? Obviously Whittaker's.... I found two other truly amazing coincidences on this film.. I mean in part 1...please reply if you wish....I am busy researching into old Gravesend history...! Born there 1948.Yes ,the 46.bus ..! Well remembered! Fare 3d then .

[@annonymous3948]

I lived on Hampton Crescent, now live in Chalk too 👍

[@FrankMarker-pk1lw]

My cousin lived in St Aidan's Close and she is still best friends with a Ventham. They still meet up each year. I lived in Freeman Road. Love these type of videos. My parents had a maisonette in Park Place and my dad would have known the skipper in the uniform. All my family were on the Thames either the PLA, Sun Tugs or oil tankers.

[@TheSemtew]

Great vid. I spent half my living in Gravesham and amazing to see how life was like before I was born. Thanks for the upload. Another cine video can be found. Do a You Tube search titled - LetsGoTo...Gravesend

[@1968leg]

The grass was greener. We had absolutely nothing but, naively pleasant times.

[@theenglishkid8794]

The Hawk The Goose is better.

[@melcomepay6668]

The Hawk yes .I was there in those days.....I remember so well ....WTF has happened to us .Found my old ABC Minors Cinema club badge recently...6d to get in on Saturday mornings ( at the REGAL) .Film also shows, very briefly,my old home at St Patrick's Gardens.....a PEACFUL place to live then.

[@bobventham8925]

Hello Ray. I recognized your Mum before I read the comments. We went to school together at Westcourt and you lived in Winchester Crescent. I lived in St Aidan's Way. Great films.

[@tarquin14906]

It was the Tech where we were in school together. I left there at 13 years old.

[@peterrussell3378]

Ray Whittaker do you know the Russell family or my over half of the family the Thomas we have lived in higham for a long time

[@melcomepay6668]

Anyone remember St Patrick's Gardens in those days?

[@FrankMarker-pk1lw]

@@melcomepay6668 My nan lived in the flats at St Patrick's. Remember her washing the stairs down. She lived on the second floor in the block at the top in the far right hand corner near the alley.

[@FrankMarker-pk1lw]

Hi Bob Ventham. I believe my cousin still meets up with a relative of yours each year. She lived in St Aidan's way.

[@orlandomorales8177]

The sin and sin of evil was a lot less out there. Kind of sad our children will not View through innocent X

[@michaelhaywood8262]

I lived in Northfleet, near Gravesend for two years as a child [1966-68, age 8 -10y]. I attended Dover Road Primary School, which is on the junction of Dover Road and Park Avenue. My guess is that this film is earlier than my time in the area.

[@bstix78yfg]

Ahh the good old days, now its like being abroad every time I step outta the house

[@melcomepay6668]

bstix78yfg yes another country!

[@melcomepay6668]

This old film has some TRULY amazing " coincidences" ..shows my old childhood home at St Patrick's Gardens ...even my mum's curtains ! Plus a little girl who lived opposite my block ( Jennifer) ..going up some steps ....and a family friend on his bicycle. In those far-off days, Way Way Back in the 20th century, St Patrick's Gardens was a safe and happy place to live.. no wall around it, no security cameras or security doors, and no need for them either. Oh , for a real life Doctor Who. .. take me back please! Moved away from Gravesend many years ago.. but still have a fondness for the Old Place, full of memories. What the heck happened to our cinemas? We used to have four.

[@melcomepay6668]

Anyone still watching, and REMEMBERING at 12/4/ 20? Please reply and share memories of the days and times shown here.

[@themanwithnoname2666]

Used to live at Patrick's garden's in the early 70s nice place

[@themanwithnoname2666]

@Richard Carpenter nice one

[@jusb1066]

Yes I've watched this movie several times I live in Gravesend and have done all my life, seeing what places look like just before I was born, is amazing and also sad

[@ianrobert6239]

So lovely to see. What has happened to this great town.

[@winniedog2510]

I recognize Jubilee Crescent St Gregorys Crescent Valley Drive Rochester Road and the views across the Thames Higham Village School Lane Gravesend Town Centre.

[@sugarpuff2978]

I find it a bit depressing to watch this film. I was born and bred in gravesend and lived there til I was forty. just moved away this year as we couldn't afford to live there anymore. it was a great place once but it's gone completely down hill. we all know why but lack of freedom of speech nowadays stops me saying it.

[@VictoryRRR]

Sherbet Pip You had a lucky escape then. The place is a complete dump and I hate the grove.

[@melcomepay6668]

Sherbet Pip Let's just remember....sadly, nothing stays the same EXCEPT IN OUR MEMORIES ....Been researching this film....

[@melcomepay6668]

Jakey Jake. It was a lovely , peaceful town then.

[@theenglishkid8794]

Sherbet Pip Couldn't afford to live there? The place is a shithole.

[@melcomepay6668]

SPEAK OUT... think its OK, as lo g as you don't any remarks deemed to be " offensive".. The days shown here, are ones I recall vividly.. a free child hood.... with shots of places, and people I knew then.

[@qikfire]

Hampton Cresent?

[@annonymous3948]

I lived on Hampton Crescent.

[@kierenboimufc5940]

Bring back the pubs how many have burnt down or been knocked down.never seen so many barbers in one road now it’s becoming a dumping ground for london

[@themanwithnoname2666]

So true

[@gillsjohn1]

So many smiling people eager to wave at the camera 📷.

[@micktaylor6021]

Great Grasstrack shots @ 11/30 mins

[@cherryallamanda9463]

Hi. I am in the process of editing a video set to a reimagining of Emmylou Harris' Red Dirt Girl (a country song which is about a working class girl born in the Southern town of Meridian on the border of Alabama and Mississippi). I have changed the lyrics to make it the story of a girl born in Medway. I would like to use some clips of the above footage in the accompanying video if I am able to obtain permission to do so. Would that be OK, please? Many thanks, Heather

[@agw19666]

Cherry yes please use what you like regards Andy

[@cherryallamanda9463]

Andy1966 Thanks so much!

[@cherryallamanda9463]

Here is the finished product. Thanks again kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqTCcphqpcxlb7s 😊

[@kfeshefh]

Why can't I 'share' this video (s) to Face Book?. I live around here.......