Crawley 1987 Part 1

[@samuelbiergon657]

My home town born in 1978, Crawley hospitol, I remember everything, this refreshed my memories, oh wow amazing to see the good old days

[@btjonny5]

I'm so glad you filmed this, kept it and then uploaded it. This is a time I thought I'd never get back but thanks to you I can visit whenever I want.

[@martingoyder190]

happy days and great memories of long forgotten places

[@ghassenhamila8706]

Thank you for uploading this video, it brought back great memories of Crawley, I lived there from 1979-1988. I really miss it, Great people, even the skinhead I met at the Town center were nice guys after few insults.

[@johnmccloskey9759]

some lovely memories,i lived in gossops green back in 1980-1983 and remember drinking in the rocket & the white hart happy days

[@elvikingo.3966]

I was living in Kingscote hill in 1989....very near Cheals garden center!!! Is it still there??

[@busstopgirl]

What a fantastic little time capsule! Really interesting to look back and note the changes since.

[@Freethinkingtheist77]

I was 5 when this video was taken, now in my 40s. Missing my home town tonight.

[@ourcaj]

Cant believe how much has changed. The town centre is barely recognisable but lots of memories there of shops etc and how quiet it was in comparison to now !!

[@lloydisaacs415]

It look like a real nice place to live back then I can't only remember it 1978/9 it changed so much

[@davidchantler9241]

that film was very good i'm from crawley left 95 ,by the way next to the railway crossing there was a subway many years ago my mother took me down the steps i remember i was little then about before my teens .

[@garyalan6975]

I left Crawley a couple or so years later so this is how i remember it. Back later this September I think I will have a shock reading some of these comments.

[@chrisbell5066]

Great to take a look back at how things were. Happy days!

[@markbrown4127]

Lived there then, live there now, god help me :)

[@mattvjmeasures]

Thanks for posting. So many memories!

[@steveboydsmith8642]

wow happy memories..the taj and the rocket...

[@samjones4261]

You look at it now and the culture, town and many other things have changed ! I went there a few months back and didn't recognise it whatsoever ! The road layout is kinda the same but so many new buildings and streets it's unrecognisable

[@jimbo6059]

Some roads were obliterated as well, like Robinson road where the dvla test centre used to be. I passed my driving test there in 1989

[@christinenicholson5109]

wonderful film good lod days xxx

[@chrisplunkett2814]

The window display in the Surplus shop was the same as it was 20 or more years later when it eventually closed at that site.

[@vortexlisa]

I was probably only a few months old when this was filmed.. so many things have changed in my lifetime.

[@unknownbritishguy.5538]

vortexlisa how old are you

[@vortexlisa]

@@unknownbritishguy.5538 And here I am 3 years later with a reply! I'm 35 now.

[@martysmith9184]

can't believe how double decker buses used to turn into Ifield Road from HIgh street.There were a few scrapes on the building.

[@carlesq2341]

Haha oh yeah,i remember that now you say,it used to be an event haha if you walking past as bus coming you stop and watch see how it gets on haha

[@BackwardFinesse]

As other commentators have said, the number of changes in a mere 26 years is astonishing. One change for the worse: the train of slam-door stock that rattles past has 12 coaches, never seen today with far more passengers.

[@ericbloch3035]

So many memories. Loved the sign for the Rocket at 7:43 .

[@Realpoweronearth]

Looks a nice place to live then !!!!! Now a ghetto!!!

[@wayneWhittaker-l3i]

this is before the town centre had a shopping centre

[@leytonjay]

What I remember most about the 1980s was how dirty and broken everything was, this video shows a lot of things looking worse 37yrs ago than they do today. I have no nostalgia for any of this, everything shown here is dirty, broken and/or badly designed. Everything is better today except perhaps The Rocket pub which was the only place for alternative music fans in the entire town which is now just a generic chain pub.

[@sandramurray4812]

Oh what a fantastic vid, me and my then husband lived in the house above audio systems shop in Hammer Yard with his family Remember one night watching out the window and some thief dived head first into what was then the chemist (now a sex shop) and 2 mins later running off with a sackful of medication lol

[@vanessalouise8988]

Crawley Town look totally different back in 1987😱 l was a 10 years old back then the biggest mistake that was made was shutting the original post office in Crawley and putting in WHSmith store .

[@vanessalouise8988]

The High street is sadly 😰 dying yesterday Argos store in Crawley town closed after 27 years in the location it opened in January 1997.

[@flight879]

I was born in crawley in 2002 and it was so different from now

[@samjones4261]

I was born in Crawley hospital in 94 ... I agree 100%

[@vortexlisa]

I see some 12 coach trains... occasionally in my commute, it's mostly 8 or 4 coaches though...

[@markwiles5397]

Don't see too many Police on the beat now.

[@willdatsun]

thanks for upload, dont spose you have any more footage of the Nissan /Datsun dealer (Gadstons?)

[@claudioguglielmi468]

The Cure from crawley ???

[@WhiskeyGulf71]

Are you a time traveler ?

[@davidmcque627]

Used to be a nice town. Spencers road is gone now, and southern counties Garage. All knocked down for Asda so that the chavs and unmarried Mothers can get some cheap shopping.

[@unknownbritishguy.5538]

David Mcque stop complaining

[@tinamichellefan]

David Mcque I call chavsda. Crawley was a nice town back then.., less people and friendlier back then.

[@leytonjay]

Christ, what a shit road layout on the high street, it's so much better now. The weird bit of wall between ASK and the dry cleaners that looks like a design mistake is still there 37 years later.

[@clivechadburn6342]

CRAWLY B4 the polish invasion

[@TrueBrit1]

Actually, very little has really changed. Crawley was a great place to grow up in, but it looked old and tired back then, never mind now! It used to be great, but has got progressively worse and has been dealt a fatal blow by mass immigration. Seems like a foreign land to me now.

[@paullondon6625]

What do you expect being a town next to one of the world's major airports? Believe it or not we had immigration in Crawley in the 80s. And with all its mod cons & keeping up with the times, Crawley may seem dated to a stuck in the mud, out of touch racist. To anyone else, it's still a great town!

[@unknownbritishguy.5538]

True Brit Is that what Gandi said to the Indians when the Brits Invaded

[@koont666]

@@paullondon6625 exactly just like Heathrow's surrounding areas 👍

[@WatchthisandChill]

@@paullondon6625 what does the airport have to do with it?

[@13vanvincent]

I love the video, but I hate racists, Go and find some stone to crawl under. You've spoilt a lovely film.

[@richardsimmonds2382]

What? Where?