Basingstoke In 1974 - Looking Back In Time Video - Overlooking The Town

A video of Basingstoke in the 1974. Many estates looked at and the town centre.

[@paulmartin7241]

My family moved to Basingstoke from London in April 1974 , I was nearly 6 years old & I still live in Basingstoke today. It's amazing to see how the town looked back in the '70's , it brought back a lot of childhood memories. :)

[@sunglassesron9464]

Wow! Burnaby shops looking clean and fresh, full of hopes and dreams...

[@paulmartin7241]

I still go there for fish and chips !

[@sunglassesron9464]

@@paulmartin7241 Cool, Is it still Chinese run?

[@markrogerson5344]

The best video I’ve seen bar none brilliant made my day

[@paulmartin7241]

it brought back a lot of childhood memories for me

[@timrutter7095]

Around 90% of this is unrecognizable to me, anonymous housing estates that could be anywhere. So sad what happened to my home town.

[@user-of5lw4oy3c]

Excellent video, walk down memory lane.

[@thebagfather4633]

i lived in Alton in 1974 and remember Basingstoke very well used to go to the sports centre to swim and watch the wrestling.. the station looks a lot different now to back then .had a very big smile on my face while watching this .

[@denisesayer6179]

I live in Basingstoke I moved from London with my parents at the age of 8.This video brings back so many memory's this was the good old days which are sadly now gone. Denise. 😊

[@GSHants]

Sadly Basingstoke became a building site back in the 60’s and it’s never ceased since those days. It lost its heart.

[@Cragsidebaz]

Lived in the old town centre (Sarum Hill) and then new estate (Brighton Hill) for 7 years in the 80’s. The people had a heart, but the town had pretty much lost it by then. It says it all that it was considered ‘The Jewel in the Thatcher crown’. The final nail in the coffin for me was Courage taking over all the wonderful free houses in the countryside around Basingstoke. Hope this never happens to a town again.

[@grahambrown5013]

So nice to see the Warren, it's where my late dad bough his newspapers. We moved to Reading in 1965 but I always missed Basingstoke. I was born in Byfleet Avenue, Old Basing but the family moved to various addresses in Basingstoke, Sandys Rd, Worthing Rd, Penrith Rd and Shooters Way. What a lovely little town it was back then.

[@cybersheep]

Is that South View infant and junior school at 5:25 ? I had no idea there used to be a whole parade of shops where Walnut Way is now. I moved to Basingstoke just as the Oakridge Village redevelopment was being completed, so didn't realise the layout was so different around there before that.

[@Totalavulsion]

God, this is depressing. And I grew up there from the late 70s onwards!

[@Markey_A]

Brilliant nostalgic footage. Was 9 in 74. How clear the roads were and how much green space there was!

[@NeilGrevitt]

Brilliant video. I moved to Basingstoke sometime in 1974 as a baby. Are any of the estates shown Brighton Hill? Some remind me of it.

[@itsdan722]

3:23 Longfellow Parade in Popley 1, completely gone now

[@stevefoster2135]

brings back memary

[@bzbutcher]

Where about was that library and community centre at the end of the vid?

[@poodwaffle]

I think it's the library in south ham

[@sunglassesron9464]

Westside library in South Ham (Now permanently closed due to an unwillingness to allow access to knowledge!

[@NToombes]

@@sunglassesron9464 Knowledge is power remember and heaven forbid we allow that 😂😂

[@katewolfspirit6722]

@@sunglassesron9464 Oh crap...didn't realise it had been closed permanently. That is not good....wonder what they are planning to do with it? I live on the Berg estate.

[@katewolfspirit6722]

@@NToombes I have to say I haven't been in the 'Discovery Centre' i.e. the library in town for two years. I think it was closed for a time anyway. Always found the staff uninterested and unhelpful, maybe I've just been unlucky. It never feels like a very welcoming place, especially not at the moment. Oh well...onwards and upwards! ;-))

[@derekmarsden8934]

Its a sobering thought that most of the people in this film will now be dead. Any teenagers in there will now be in their mid to late sixties!!

[@user-on9rk5xr1p]

God bless Basingstoke people. Sadly the most unfriendly town for cyclists. I have to wait until the roads are empty to use the roundabouts. Have a car or go to hell.

[@Wessexshire]

This proves a lot of modern narratives wrong. Brutalist architecture was and always will be, horrid.