📽 Blackgang chine and gardens - mid 1960s - Isle of Wight

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0:11 Viewpoint car park and overview of the park. 1:00 Chine gardens. 1:17 Gnomes garden. 1:38 Smugglers cave VERSION 1 entrance. 1:51 Model village. 2:00 Water gardens. 2:38 Model village. 2:47 Lookout observatory ontop of the old entrance. 3:03 Sea view. 3:05 Entrance lawn.

[@seanmacleod1724]

Wow !! Such memories. My family used to holiday on the Isle of Wight in the latter end of the 60's and I remember going here. I was just a little boy but I still remember the thrill of those wonderful holidays....Especially travelling there on that huge hovercraft. It seemed so exciting to me as a young lad. Thanks for posting.

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Thanks for your memories. Check out my other vintage Blackgang chine and Island cine films within the channels playlists.

[@garethbramley1]

This is certainly one of the best of Blackgang I've seen. Love the views at the beginning showing all the buildings and the old cars and buses in the car park, with one of the buses just pulling in. Great shots of the water gardens in their full glory too. Rees Jeffreys Road Fund was a charity formed in 1950 by a British cyclist William Rees Jeffreys. He died 4 years later aged 82. I guess the plague disappeared many years ago.

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The Rees Jefferys plaque is very much still there .

[@oscarmeredith1128]

What spectacular gardens Blackgang once had 🤩 not sure if those are doves walking through the gardens at 2:10, if so did Blackgang used to have some?

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Blackgang had birds and aviaries until around the 1980s.