Worthing in 1988 - Broadwater and Town Centre

Taken during Summer 1988.

[@nathong3229]

I was 11 in 1988 and lived in Broadwater. So great to see this! You never think of filming what appears to be the mundane with the forethought that in 20, 30 years it will become so interesting and nostalgic! Thank goodness you took the time to :)

[@Katerichings]

Glad to see they still live up to their name with roadworks on every corner! Some things don't change!

[@merkin51]

Great video! Grew up in the 80s/90s in Grove Road off BW Green and would do this walk through Broadwater to Downsbrook and then St. Andrews every school day :) Thanks for the memories, love it.

[@jontownsend8090]

Awesome. Brings me right back to my childhood, the cars, the Southdown busses, the street lighting, old skool Worthing town. Well bloody done. You had the foresight to record this era, thanks for sharing. ❤️

[@vntr2006]

Thanks Jon! We actually hired the camera for a few day trips. We then decided to just drive through worthing and use up the time we still had on rental.

[@JamaicanToast]

​@@vntr2006ahead of your time baby 🙌👍👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@niceone550]

What an excellent piece of footage. This is going to be a very valuable look back at the town of the late 20th century as time marches on

[@ScottMatthews20186]

Oh my god Im 14 and I drive down there every Saturday morning to get to martial arts thats so cool Also my friends parents own a shop called the piggery there and its so cool to see what it used to look like Like 20 years ago

[@Truthtime371]

Love seeing the old footage of the town

[@christianluff]

Memories of being able to drive all the way down Chapel Road to the Pavillion roundabout and back up through town. A familiar 'circuit' for any Worthing boy racer of a certain age. Shame the cameraman got abit zoom-happy :) Still, thanks for posting it up. Good to see.

[@Codheadish]

I remember seeing the hotel by Splash Point burn down. My Mum, Brother and me watched it from the top of the Guildbourne multi-storey, I was little and was scared the fire would get to us, so my mum said we should go and my older brother was really annoyed with me. 🤣🤣 thanks for the vid, great memories

[@elainechubb971]

Thank you! Very interesting. My mother moved down to Shoreham-by-Sea at around this time (or a few years earlier) and I used to pop along on the Southdown bus to shop in Worthing. I remember mostly the pedestrianized center, and some of the narrow streets around. I'd get off the bus and walk along a street with an excellent bookshop and some charity shops.I was last there at least 17 years ago. This video reminded me of the curse of driving in the southeast, especially along the coast--traffic jams, too much parking, and roadworks! Your video was very nostalgic for me.

[@Official-YouTuber]

Great video of Worthing, the video is very interesting and is now different to what it was before. This place has transformed and this video brings back lots of memories as life was different back then. Thank you for the video.

[@Doc_Filth]

Seeing Smiths with the old frontage is quite a nostalgia rush.

[@matthewstollar2678]

amazing! every second has something of interest! Lovely. Magic

[@paulmorphy6187]

A roundabout in the middle of the town centre...how interesting...what a fascinating video..."What do you think about the pedestrianization of Worthing town shopping centre?" may have been asked back then...

[@gen-zmultibaggers141]

Beautiful town of Worthing. Marine drive and the pier is the best.

[@stewartanderson-bx7yr]

I just met my wife at the time stayed in Bedford Row drank in the boat and anchor great days

[@skaptikl]

My dad grew up in this time in Worthing and my grandfather alike, it’s kind of weird to me how many of the old men in this video would have served in the Second World War and wars in that time period and saw active service / duty in the Great British Empire.

[@lanceslaughter6241]

Brilliant, was 19 at that time so remember it very well👌👍

[@3graces3]

Oh wow time warp! How i remember it. Just starting/started high school around that time. Thanx for posting.

[@illuminatedgalaxies7777.]

Fantastic film footage thank you😊

[@CyberCurtainTwitcher]

A very memorable year for me, as i built my first kit car & spent many hours cruising in it around Worthing. Ah, my youth!

[@joloasby3725]

What was it? Watched all of this looking out for my escort lol

[@JakePurches-Base2music]

WH smiths is about the only shop still there today. Bejam became Iceland.

[@nanarianne]

I lived along Broadwater Road in the mid 70’s in a converted into flats Edwardian mansion. Damp and dingy the basement flat was a haven for the likes of me. Blink and you will miss it. 😎

[@JohnnyORooke]

Amazing.......thank you!

[@simonpotter2105]

Yes the town of my birth was once nice !!!

[@volcano-catonyoutube8706]

It still is; though I'll grant it's gone downhill since circa '81 when Mum moved us here.

[@simonpotter2105]

@@volcano-catonyoutube8706 I can remember W-ing in the 60's and 70's, it was a truly great place then. It's been on the slide since maybe the late 80;s, for years I thought it was the whole country, but no it was worse here, I remember going to a talk in the 80's saying if the town didn't get a by pass it would end up in big trouble. And alas it's come to pass, more and more houses, more people housed from other Authority's, a council who seem to take the easy choice every time, no more schools or roads, the entire place becoming a car park. The Sea Front is ok.

[@still_guns]

Wow. So strange to see two lanes of traffic on the high street. Even my earliest memories have the bus station, Guildbourne centre and basically everything else that makes up Worthing today

[@danabrahams7892]

was just thinking that ;)

[@christill]

It just shows how pathetic the Tories are. I was born in 87 and practically nothing has changed in my lifetime.

[@jim7862]

Can't believe it 22 years ago, remember it well.....

[@vntr2006]

A huge video camera that recorded direct onto vhs tape! Rented it for the weekend.

[@asjalane2289]

Love then 'under cover' camera work - were you trailing a spy? Very avante-garde...in years to come this footage will be of significant historical interest to our town

[@volcano-catonyoutube8706]

I was walking past one of those lamp-posts by the burned-out Hotel at 5:41 when the glass suddenly dropped and smashed with a BANG. I nearly shat myself...

[@SuperTed19021]

Chas n Dave! still perform there.

[@baggypipestv]

SuperTed19021 Chas is dead. How does that work?

[@volcano-catonyoutube8706]

@@baggypipestv They bill themselves as 'n Dave' now?

[@matthewcoombs3282]

03:49 - Chas and Dave on at the Pavillion- right cockney knees up on the South Coast!

[@CarrieSmith1991]

Wow there was a massive roundabout in the middle of the town by Warwick street and end of Chapel road! How weird, it's all pedestrianized now...

[@herbert9241]

The genteel Vivaldi soundtrack is deceptive. I lived in Worthing at the time this video was shot and in my experience it was fucking mental. I used to go to London at weekends to get some peace and quiet.

[@herbert9241]

Outside - I lived in Worthing for two years and had maybe four or five nights out in Brighton. The first of which was a beautiful gesture by my landlady's daughter and her friends in taking me to the cinema the first night I was there. Don't remember the film; do remember having a couple of pints in the Zap Club beforehand. Didn't visit that place again as the one night I was aware of that they hosted a band I was interested in, I opted for another band of interest at another Brighton venue. My regular jaunts to London weren't actually for peace and quiet (clearly) but for the nightlife - specifically live bands. For the sake of an hour or so on the train, I would have a better night than Brighton had to offer. Worthing punched above its weight for nightlife, I must say. Figuratively and indeed literally. There was always a plentiful supply of lairyness on offer in Worthing of a night (for which I bear no grudge; I was able to take it in my stride) and it hosted such bands as Showaddywaddy and Motorhead and such wrestlers as Giant Haystacks and Mighty John Quinn. Mighty John Quinn, incidentally, in fitting with Worthing's aura of lairyness, provided me with one of my fondest memories from nights out in Worthing. A bloke sat right next to me in the front row stood up and berated Mr. Quinn quite vociferously as he walked past and incurred not only a poke in the eye but a falling and damaging of the spectacles. OK, call me insensitive, but that genuinely augmented the experience for me. Alopogies for meandering on a bit with this reply. I felt I had to offer some explanation for my original tongue-in-cheek admonishment of Worthing and I couldn't help being a smartarse while I was about it. I actually rather liked Worthing and respected it for its lairyness. And if its latter day al fresco dining culture is more to your liking, that is also fine by me. Thanks for taking the time to respond to my comment.

[@dcarbs2979]

As much as I love Vivaldi, I think I'd prefer to hear that Capri engine.

[@chrisleggatt3240]

Anyone else looking for an old number plate or late relative? 😢

[@DMWBN3]

Ford pretty much has the car market sewn up! I'd just passed my driving test in 1988 & lived in Brighton but drive to Worthing for the odd party or work. People looked so much smarter, less obesity & less litter.

[@grandnotbrand]

I lived in Worthing and owned a yellow Ford Fiesta 1.3 Ghia 😬 in 1988. I don't remember there being many around Worthing at that time. I was hoping the footage was clear enough to read the number plate at 3:06

[@pertuk]

2:55 I remember when it was The Fountain, rough pub

[@colinlinfield4068]

Yes it could be but a much better pub than it’s been turned into.

[@samheeley]

1.53 no poxy speed camera!

[@keenancomedyfamily]

wht cam where u using then?

[@Master_Exploder5000]

It's the same but it's different?

[@jaryd12345]

Casual zooming in on the cyclist's bum at 3:12

[@richardsimms4019]

I noticed that too lol

[@theart8039]

God it's not that long ago but seems like WW2 footage...at 3.06 you are approaching the roundabout (Chapel Road?) that I was nearly killed on when riding my motorbike in 1978

[@ashleybird1700]

Great time capsule,how to destroy a town in one easy lesson, worse thing the council ever did was put in that one way system and pedestrianizes everywhere , Do you notice how busy the town is on this film..I.left Worthing many years ago as soon as I could but still have family there.. thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@james3727]

Ashley Bird I'd think part of the business at the time was due to the seafront fair

[@michaelinnes971]

Needs a few cycle lanes !

[@Gamertag5714]

Lmao i think half of worthing are sick of them now i mean its stupid how they put cycle lanes on the broadwater bridge

[@rickfruitygrimes]

Now this is weird

[@jamestaylor9252]

Most of those cars are dead now. Recycled so we can enjoy them again in some other form. The old Worthing is lost.

[@djcarbines]

James Taylor I still own 2 of the models in the video. Including the camera car!

[@renaultlover1]

Wow at 02:29 a Hyundai Pony! Extinct now.

[@blockandtackle9279]

I've got one

[@keenancomedyfamily]

kk i was wonderin

[@pertuk]

3:58 Chas N'Dave used to stay at The Chatsworth hotel, they drank like fucking fish apparently

[@greenfieldsvideos5017]

And people used to moan about how much traffic was on the road back then

[@DeCe1989]

It looks exactly the same 33 years later. Boring England