Fred Palmer - History Tour of Herne Bay, Kent [1997 / 1988 / 1986]

Recently there have been those who chose to simply 'steal' these materials I have made publicly available on KZbin for their own greed without accrediting Fred Palmer, his family or providing any background information at all, in the re-uploads on their own accounts, I am sorry to have to now watermark future videos and leave my own burnt-in timecode ticker to discourage this from happening again. If you want to use the raw footage, contact the Palmer family for their written approval. The end.
And now here is the back-story to this video which the lazy video thieving monkeys have ignorantly left out:
The late Fred Palmer (1928 - 2015) takes us on a history tour of Herne Bay, Kent. Starting in 1997, footage cuts to 1988 and finally 1986. He has an impressive recollection of former businesses in the town, and you may learn something new!
Sourced from a VHS archive by Fred Palmer of Herne Bay, Kent. Fred made this VHS tape available to the public via an art gallery in the high street at quite a considerable cost for a highly amateur production. I purchased this tape from the gallery in 1997 and first recovered the footage from it for digital archive in 2009 and again in 2014. I have previously made contact with Fred's family prior to his passing but did not receive a response. If you are reading this please contact me if you would like the clips removed and/or a digital copy of the tape.
Copyright remains property of the Palmer family and is provided here as archival, low quality, new media for educational and historical research.

[@baypromoteam]

A great video, I love that people take the time and trouble to do things like this.

[@christophermillbank5460]

Fascinating history. Thank you Fred :-)

[@valjohnson661]

Wonderful! Thank you, you made my day xx

[@folderman71]

Great to relive all my yesterdays...cheers Fred

[@peterray9854]

brings back memories from when I lived there in the 50 -60's loved fishing with my dad and brother off the pier

[@MartianTom]

Great to see this. Can't believe how much Herne Bay has changed in just 22 years. I couldn't help chuckling when he said 'You could come out here for a sixpenny bag of coke. Get as much coke as you could carry.' ;)

[@joannanoel4757]

I think Fred Palmer used to know my father Dereck...we used to live at 121 The Broadway and I believe his wife was a ballet teacher..may be wrong ..but anyway great nostaglic film...thanks and thanks Fred.

[@gowersponger1]

nice one mate just showed my mum great to see how it used to be I was 2 in 1986 thanks for shareing

[@Retropassionuk]

Love this, and if it was done today, so much has gone again...

[@adminsroserobertson]

brings back great memories ☺

[@mynx_uk]

thankyou Fred

[@mikekaraoke]

Fred do you have any other recordings from the 80's+90's in Kent like Bexleyheath/Bromley, Ramsgate?

[@slapavisionarchival]

mikey p I imagine Fred only made recordings in Herne Bay given it is his home. I have previously been put in touch with his family however with no reply but the videos clips later shared publicly by his family, out of respect I am not going to attempt to contact again unless directed to remove the videos.

[@mikekaraoke]

slapavisionarchival oh I see fair enough, didn't know they were publicly shared by his family later on.....do you have any clips from Kent?? where you from

[@jimmyt5921]

Hi do you have any more pics of the seafront where the arcades are from the 1980s I used to vist as a lil boy...

[@ThePriestden52]

My uncle was born on them rocks when it was a muscle farm, that was befor it was washed away, he used to live there.

[@alancornelius1ghf]

I'm the famous Alan Cornelius that everyone is talking about.

[@newmanboy2001]

i live here now but it ain't changed since so to me its a bit boring

[@mikekaraoke]

Owen Newman just because it hasn't changed doesn't mean you can't appreciate the past