Swan Walk, Horsham. Summer 1989

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@arkazeus 4 жыл бұрын

I found this mesmerizing. I grew up in Horsham and this footage is amazing. I do vaguely remember Swan Walk being built (I was 10 at the time). I appreciate that whoever took the video stopped to look carefully at Dixons and the phone booth etc. Almost as if they knew those things wouldn't be around so much in the future.

@cweissy90 Жыл бұрын

I loved seeing this, Horsham being my hometown. I grew up as a child there and recall the red brick shopping centre prior to this. I was 22 when the new centre was built and worked in the Tie Rack in 1990. I remembered clearly as if it was yesterday from that footage

@markpoundall 5 ай бұрын

I was 19 and working there that summer doing the shop pannaling a refurb work

@cweissy90 5 ай бұрын

@@markpoundall the Tie-Rack?

@markpoundall 5 ай бұрын

@@cweissy90 well possibly outside tie rack we did all the panels outside the shops and the entrances

@ethicalcompanies 2 жыл бұрын

My main memory of Dixons back in the 1980s was the plethora of CB radios being sold as legal versions came out and then home computers. I also bought a stereo music centre from that very store, I wondered what happened to it? Could still be in my storage unit from when I cleared my mum's house out, boxed up and unused.

@locouk 5 жыл бұрын

This is how I remember Horsham, the pubs were many in the 80’s an 90’s. I used to work at Caffyns Springfield Rd, we used to have a Christmas knees up in the Mitchel Arms.

@ethicalcompanies 2 жыл бұрын

Pubs much busier in those days as well, the Horse And Groom and the Crown would be rammed on a Saturday night.

@TheCormTube 2 ай бұрын

4:45 - Buildings on both side of the road just a memory now.

@markpoundall 6 ай бұрын

Im from yorkshire mate summer 89 i was working in swan walk doing panels a gable ends i was 19

@benbelcher2056 5 жыл бұрын

Such an interesting and evocative 5 minutes of viewing for anyone that lived in Horsham in the 80s. Although, I wonder what inspired the camera man to take such mundane footage at the time, especially at what looks like about 7am on a Sunday morning!

@MrWax 5 ай бұрын

I was unable to locate the swan during my visit

@ZeldaFitz Жыл бұрын

I remember the Lotto/scratch card booth in the middle of swan walk, in the days before the national lottery started.

@PopUnlimited 7 жыл бұрын

Nice video! So were the shops already there and they just turned into a mall by putting a roof on it? And where was the Sainsburys before they built the big one?

@MrRhubarb65 7 жыл бұрын

the shops were already there, yes. I don't recall where Sainsbury's were located before. I only remember Tesco in the town centre, before they relocated to Broadbridge Heath.

@andystrang8831 6 жыл бұрын

Sainsburys was where BHS was. Tesco wasn't in town - Broadbridge Heath was the first one of those

@collyers1 5 жыл бұрын

@@andystrang8831 Tesco was where McDonals was.

@andystrang8831 5 жыл бұрын

collyers1 oh cool. No memory of that but I suppose we never went to that end of town.

@colinfaragher5373 5 жыл бұрын

@@collyers1 In the 1960s Tesco was where Poundland is now. When Tesco moved to where McDonalds was in the 1970s Mothercare took over before Poundland arrived.

@ZeldaFitz 4 жыл бұрын

Shame you didn’t film along north street heading towards the station. 1989 would have been the year when the building works were in full swing for the new Sun Alliance building. I remember Horsham very well as a kid and teenager in the 70s & 80s. It’s a real shame how they destroyed park street and north street between 1988 & 1990.

@unculturedmister9454 4 жыл бұрын

just wondering out of curiosity, do you remember what year sainsburys moved out of what is now boots?

@ZeldaFitz 4 жыл бұрын

Uncultured Mister Do you mean the Sainsbury’s that was in Swan walk? There was also a Large Boots store just on the right as you entered swan walk from the Carfax.

@unculturedmister9454 4 жыл бұрын

Zelda Fitzgerald yes, the sainsburys that was in swan walk. im just wondering when they moved out to the one by worthing road

@ZeldaFitz 4 жыл бұрын

Uncultured Mister I can’t say for sure, but I would guess around 1994. I can’t be exact, as I didn’t visit Horsham as much around this time. My memories of Horsham are 1976-88 gap 1997-2020. There was an awful lot of change around the late 80s early 90s.

@benbelcher2056 4 жыл бұрын

@@ZeldaFitz @Uncultured Mister Tanbridge lower school was still there until July 1994 and moved to its current location at the start of the following academic year. So based on that I reckon that the construction of the new Sainsbury's must've been completed in early 1995.