Life In Brighton In The 1960s With Vintage Buses And Cars From An 8mm Cine Film

[@Storm545]

Children played in the streets.most people looked healthy. Taking care of their homes. I’m glad I was a child back then ❤

[@barbsussex3865]

I'm glad that I was a kid in those days. Happy times!

[@heatherbatty]

Tears in my eyes so sad😢

[@TrudyTrew]

Me too.

[@francisarmstrong3120]

Gone are the old days when kids where kids having fun with no technology destroying laughter miss those times 😢❤❤

[@ajs41]

Adults shouldn't give technology to their kids. It's as simple as that.

[@Htdobb458e]

That was Bexhill Road going down to become Cowley Drive. I lived at 230 Cowley Drive circa 1962. It was the best place to be a kid. We had the fields behind our house and the beach down at Rottingdean. Absolutely loved it, what id give to go back and live it again.

[@Victor-q9]

Fantastic !😊

[@geoffkennett7926]

Absolutely correct with location. Number 48 green bus and 45 going by. I lived at 274 Cowley Drive from 1955 - 74. Many happy memories of exploring the downs to the east and being snowed in during '62/63.

[@Htdobb458e]

@geoffkennett7926 I lived at 230 from 63 to 74. I remember being snowed in, it was great for us kids, not so good for the adults though.

[@Htdobb458e]

@geoffkennett7926 when I was born we lived in the prefabs on Kipling Avenue. Loved it there as well.

[@michaelmoore6183]

British life, British cars, British values, ..Sadly now all gone...Lucky to have enjoyed those days..

[@margin606]

Racial concepts are deprecated

[@Tony11806]

@@margin606 I was born in 1960 and I agree with michaelmoore and sadly those days are gone before multiculturalism was forced upon us British people.

[@ianharley1726]

Blame every politician since the 60s for their treachery. The UK is a shithole now.

[@williamarmstrong646]

@@Tony11806 I can't help but wonder whether all these complainants moaning about "multiculturalism" ever stop to consider what Britain imposed on so many other countries without their consent. Such countries were regarded as a source of cheap raw materials and a market for finished goods.

[@williamarmstrong646]

Sent in error before I'd finished! OK, Britain introduced what was mostly just a veneer of "civilisation" but that was usually just about it. Also, I can't believe that these moaners would want to return to living conditions of the 1950s, with none of so much that the now take for granted. By the way, I was born in 1943.

[@jackiea8394]

A wonderful piece of nostalgia. The best of times, sadly never to be repeated

[@edithburr8454]

Wonderful days

[@grahamtaylor5897]

Delightful.

[@bigbarty8648]

Back in the days when it was safe to walk around the Brighton estates, I remember it well. 😊

[@margin606]

It's still safe (But probably as well to take a blade)

[@11craftycats]

Back when people were nice, and the streets weren't crime ridden, why have things changed for the worst 😢

[@troywright359]

No crime in the streets in 1960? Lol. You weren't living in inner city liverpool

[@robertjsmith]

Those were the days,when we trusted the police, and believed what the government told us.

[@alcedo_kf]

Evil men and women in power influenced by other evil men and women with evil ideas.

[@mikethebloodthirsty]

There was loads of violence and crime, police corruption. Heard of the Krays?, gangland London?

[@11craftycats]

@mikethebloodthirsty I know all that, and of course I've heard of the krays. But we didn't have maniacs on every street lopping peoples 'eds off with machetes, or vile men forcing themselves on children, that's what I was getting at

[@bloggalot4718]

It was a great time, peace and prosperity.

[@margin606]

Cuban missile crisis

[@69spook]

Suez crisis....

[@bloggalot4718]

@@69spook the Suez event was almost an overnight debacle.

[@bloggalot4718]

@@margin606 We did not actually have a war, I know it came close for a time though.

[@juliepownall1063]

The good old days l was born in 1958 everything was nice back then

[@jeffmackie547]

Got me blubbing again, oh for those simple days. I love these films thankyou

[@supeachey5283]

Oh my. I grew up in woodingdean, not million miles from there. What amazing memories xx

[@LeckFamily]

Wow. Ive always wanted to see Bexhill Road in 1960s. Amazing! Thank you!!

[@John-h7l9e]

Oh look clean and tidy streets. A happy place, where people have pride in their homes and families.

[@amandaduggan9051]

My dad came from Brighton. We used to stay with my Auntie Annie when we were kids back in the 60s. Spent many happy hours collecting winkles in the rock pools on the beach.

[@logothaironsides2942]

Love it. We went there often in the late 60s and after.

[@NualaMurphy-m3v]

Looks lovely

[@samsparks7303]

fantastic.. thanks for posting..

[@barneyrubble4536]

When Brighton was clean

[@alfredroyal3473]

It is Skidrow On Sea now

[@steadyeddie7]

Ahh a time when you could go outdoors knowing you would meet other civalised human beings!

[@PeterFairhurst-v3e]

Almost wants to make you cry.

[@thetruthk5138]

Makes you wonder where it all went so wrong

[@neuberg7315]

Aahaa Whitehawk , i remember it - although i was a kid in Kemp Town at that time

[@jeangenie5807]

Is it Whitehawk or Coldean. I don't recall any green and white bus services in Whitehawk in the 60s, but definitely in Coldean?

[@Graham-70]

@@jeangenie5807 This is Woodingdean. Where Cowley Drive meets Bexhill Road.

[@jeangenie5807]

@@Graham-70 So what green and cream bus services were there in Woodingdean? I remember the red and cream for the number 2/2A services to Woodingdean and Rottingdean, and the no. 6 which I recall used to go to Brighton Station from Woodingdean. I cannot recall any Southtown services going through Woodingdean. 🤔

[@Graham-70]

Unfortunately I grew up there in the 70s so I only remember green Southdown buses and blue Brighton Corporation buses.

[@jeangenie5807]

@@Graham-70 Oh dear, I feel your pain. However, I am still at a loss to recall any Southdown services running in or through Woodingdean.

[@ianrobert6239]

How this country has gone downhill.😢

[@margin606]

How so? I don't see a single mobile phone

[@alcedo_kf]

And all by design

[@Tony11806]

@@alcedo_kf Yes its all by design.

[@ethancook5705]

So has the United States and Canada. Ready to relocate to Panama or Costa Rica.

[@ivormacadam]

Cowley Drive junction with Bexhill Road, Woodingdean. A place I knew very well! Thanks for posting it up. More, please!

[@crustybobcobb2431]

Not from Brighton but a representation of a time when it was beautiful to be a child. We were so lucky.

[@Ruffbiker68]

Making me cry for our once great Britain RiP

[@connect4glyn]

I grew up in the 60s . What a wonderful country we had back then . Little did we know how terrible it would become .

[@malcolmwaddilove1822]

Great video! I wouldn't live in Brighton for free though!!!

[@marcintime]

Lovely video; was lucky enough to grow up in Goring-by-Sea in the sixties, and remember being driven to Brighton to see the Christmas lights!

[@nnr2dm243]

Street wise back then too 0:16

[@philipadams5386]

Wow. This is like a scene from my childhood. I was 5 in 1960. I was brought up on a council estate exactly like this (Paulsgrove) also on the south coast.

[@clivechadburn6342]

yes !!

[@shelleymoore5740]

My Grandparents lived in South Wick, it was lovely.

[@robertanderson3506]

This looks wonderful,

[@supergran1000]

No cars! I grew up in Hollingbury in the 50s and 60s, and it was the same. Lovely childhood.

[@kevindoyle6135]

Back then children had two parents respected authority.

[@MarionGolbourn]

And mums were not working but raising their families. Mortgages could be obtained on one man’s wages. Rock and Roll was just emerging on the scene. No fatties to be seen. No discarded cans on the streets.

[@fido652]

Maybe the mums didn't get a choice about that. We lost a lot of talent.

[@Paul-010]

@@MarionGolbournWell said 👍🏻

[@davidhunt6463]

They still have two parents today, but being Brighton they're likely to be the same sex.

[@oldcrow-iw3kc]

ln 1960 l was 6years old . Magical , happy days the '60's and a great time to be a youngster and a teenager . Happy days . This was filmed at White hawk ? correct me if l'm wrong .

[@Htdobb458e]

Woodingdean

[@IanGillespie-ze6ek]

Born in 1957 glad i was hate what's happened to Britain. Iain in Glasgow

[@IBWHUTID]

kids look like kids, women look like women, men look like men.

[@margin606]

Looks can be deceptive

[@xxjonboy]

@@margin606 You've got an agenda.

[@g7mzh]

Pity it was transferred at 24fps instead of 16. Set the playback speed to 0·75 to make it look good.

[@ALICE-m8f]

Back when you knew the names of all your neighbours,and people cared about each other. Nowdays no one cares. Society has completely broken down.

[@bromion5123]

Changed days.

[@jungletiger1900]

Normal then, but not now.

[@missj.d9187]

Pure perfection! What the hell happened?

[@cliveexton8993]

A better time - children safely playing outdoors and people in the fresh air and sun. What happened to our society?

[@alcedo_kf]

Betrayal

[@Alan-r2v9s]

A much better time 😊

[@maryabela726]

We lived for a short time on Brunswick Sq, my sister & I often walked along the front & our parents knew we were safe. We also went to a school there but sadly I can't remember the name of it or the road it was on

[@roymarsh8077]

I swear the woman on the right is the spitting image of my mother

[@FreyjaKat]

The good ole days

[@Not_sheeple]

Geez Poms, you really did a number on your very own country.......

[@grumpygramps1451]

Maybe it’s just over exposure of the camera but everything looks so much more brighter, cleaner, newer.

[@user-lx8vz6oc2b]

i think its top of cowley drive woodingdean

[@user-lx8vz6oc2b]

i am a woodingdean lad and i will be forever grateful for being brought up there

[@SamLukie]

A more civilized era.

[@simonlane1277]

What planet is this please?

[@davefish8107]

I don’t know about planet but it was certainly a different world

[@Tony11806]

Planet Britain before multiculturalism was forced upon us British people.

[@troywright359]

We have become a nation blinded by nostalgia. A few carefully chosen media clips, some smiles and peaceful music convince us the 'old days weren't perfect, but they were close to it!'

[@arriesone1]

Maybe you’re right, but they were more perfect than they are today that’s for sure.

[@wendiewoo6363]

I still prefer the old days xx🦋

[@garyowens1517]

​@@arriesone1totally agree. I'm 64 and see what society has become. People say there was crime then, there was, but not the amount that's around now. The respect has gone for eachother. I work in retail, on a daily basis we have to deal with kids who think it's OK to verbally abuse and steal. I'm so glad I was brought up to have respect for your elders. Some adults are just as bad too. Sad the way things have gone.

[@truthnotopinion3659]

Good times. How did we fail so badly?

[@tooyoungtobeold8756]

Is that Whitehawk?

[@djrichylaurence8991]

Makes me sad. I grew up on a nice council estate but something in the early seventies completely changed the face of it forever.

[@bigearedmouse17]

My God, What happened to us ? 😪

[@s.tranger1074]

Back in the days when the world hadn't gone mad and the British Media knew we were not the 51st state of the USA!

[@sofiad9775]

Native British are beautiful and smart

[@jeffreycordrey1868]

What a beautiful sight know one running about with machetes the good old days look at the shit we put up with now.😢

[@reynardbizzar5461]

Play it back at three quarters speed.

[@yorkshirelad3524]

I keep looking for the large population of sub Saharan African peoples who according to the BBC an C4 built Britain for us

[@bernardbaker6803]

I don't think Woodingdean - possibly Whitehawk?

[@Htdobb458e]

Bexhill road, woodingdean

[@Prfdt3]

Liberalism took this away.

[@stylembonkers1094]

Not liberalism. Leftism. Socialism. Not the ideology of liberty.

[@stylembonkers1094]

@@pamelacole2756 You are under the false impression that socialism confers free anything. This shows a failure to understand on your part.

[@clivechadburn6342]

Not a dinghy full of imagrints in sight !!

[@JesusLovesYou-w4s]

Nor none of your shirtlifters

[@taffyjones281]

Imagrints?

[@markstrickland8736]

Western culture is being destroyed.

[@margin606]

Seldom see dinghies that distance from the sea

[@margin606]

​@@markstrickland8736The culture of bad spelling 🙁

[@MichaelBarry-wj3ee]

No street BEGGARS or junkies from out of the city clogging up our city

[@barefootpaul2007]

In 1964, the population was about 54 million and 98% were white British. They owned about 7 million cars. In 2024, the population is 68 million, 74.4% are white British and they own 33.9 million cars. These are facts and you can draw your own conclusions about the effects of multiculturalism and wokeness.

[@nigeats65]

Decent (council) housing estates.

[@Allegro-wp8xf]

Tell me, what's changed? As if I didn't know.......

[@johnbatch9276]

When Britain was for the British and it worked it is not working now

[@djrichylaurence8991]

😥😥😥

[@HopeIanHope]

Unbelievable, civilised people.

[@alcedo_kf]

Then the seed for demonic disturbance began to grow, sown by the hands of a few; betrayal and treachery followed.

[@54egor]

Good days, obvious reasons.

[@Cinnamorollstan]

This country has met with a terrible fate.

[@Fre667Roger-Ring]

Happy days,the summers seemed to last forever,so called progress has got us nowhere.

[@John-c1n9t]

Featuring indigenous white folk!

[@bertiewooster3326]

The opposite of today

[@hujjesb]

Starmer put an end to our beloved democracy heritage who we where

[@oliverbrooks8987]

Before the traitors took over and we were invaded.

[@johnbutterworth-h2x]

Brighton aka TurdTown.

[@shanegoodyear]

What surprises me is the baby boomers lamenting times gone by. It was this generation after the war that threw off the Christians traditions that had kept this country stable. BEHOLD THE COUNTRY YOU MADE

[@johnpatrick9552]

Ok Zoomer 👍🏼

[@drummerboy1390]

The dealers in religion were more interested in abusing kids than upholding Christian values and the horrors of the war woke people up to the fact that religion was just fantasy for people who couldn’t face the fact that they were going to die.

[@amandasmith3716]

It was the infiltration of the Marxists into every institution that has destroyed the Christian values our Country is built upon. Agenda 20/30 is in full swing.

[@robertjarman4261]

Any poofs in Brighton then?

[@bigbarty8648]

The Spotted Dog, Middle Street.

[@Mil_Burray]

Still illegal in those days

[@christophermaley6822]

@@Mil_Burray Should never have been legalised ??

[@Mil_Burray]

@@christophermaley6822 From the perspective of 2024 the thin end of the wedge was real. I don't even want to think about the number of videos of pure degeneracy and other horrors we've been exposed to in the last few years. Thank goodness many gay people are sounding off how embarrassed they are. One early gay rights activist said she never would have pushed for it if she knew how deeply immoral it would become

[@UniqueSundials]

They worked in shoe shops and as hairdressers; no one talked about their activities. Not like now.

[@simonhoole771]

No illegal immigration