📽 blackgang chine -1978 - VERY GOOD REEL - isle of wight 

Genuinely brought a tear to my eye watching this. Visiting BGC every summer for 12/13 years was the highlight of the holidays during the 80s. It was a secret world (including the whole of iow) I could never explain to my friends back in Manchester. Some amazing memories of being with my siblings and parents for hours and hours into the evening. The Wild West area I could stay in all night. Me and my siblings are taking a nostalgia trip in two weeks and we’ll be staying in caravans and visiting BGC, it’s partly why I found your video. I know it won’t be the same but I’m genuinely welling up now thinking of it and my daughter experiencing the magic herself and wishing my own father was still here to enjoy it with us. Thanks for the special video.

hey..... good old humpty back in the day in ...1978......giving it large...... he is a national treasure..... we love the blackgang-chine humpty. xxx

fantastic, it was so magical at night with all the lights on, my uncle was a coach driver and often took me along with the holiday makers. I miss it how it used to be, I spent a year working in buffalo creek which was hard work but fun. i wish i had a time machine but this is the closest thing. thanks

wow, exactly how I remember it. This place will always be very close to my heart :)

Oh wow, what a fantastic find! Blackgang exactly like my childhood memories of the place. I was 12 when this was filmed, and boy i used to have fun there. Thanks so much for putting this up, fantastic to see. I can now show my grandchildren what Blackgang used to be like.

Wow! I was 5 then Great holidays!

Great film

This is how I will always fondly remember Blackgang Chine from various school visits and family holidays. More and more of the old attractions have been stripped away - the weather wizard, liquorice factory, wishing chair, knome garden to name just a few. My favourite the Crooked House is still there, but look what they have done to it !

This is the blackgang I remember 😃

I'd completely forgotten about the coloured water lights shown at 0:52. Instantly remembered how much I Ioved them when I saw them though.

Wow, the memories came flooding back of great days gone by, thanks for that, another fab upload, i was 10 then.

Wonderful! My Grandparents lived on the Isle of Wight and this brings back so many memories. I was 8 that year and remember it all. The cowboy town was our favourite and we'd spend hours just in that part. It is not the same as it was and so sad that all the old pathways have gone, but we still go back every few years with our kids, and I still love it. Thanks for loading this up.

Look at the bubble tubes!

Fantastic film and in great condition for its age, i almost forgot about the twisted mirrors it made me laugh seeing them again after all this time , , hahaha, shame it's not like that today, , , all the shrubs neatly trimmed towards the cove, , great film again there sir . thanx 4 the upload.

1978...Dig those flares! Great film. Brought back some nice memories. Gotta love Blackgang. Illuminations here we come! x J x

My memories came flooding back too ,I was in 75 and 86 .Shame to see most has fell in the sea .

Wow! I went on holiday with my parents to IOW in Summer '78 (I turned eleven in the August). I recently watched a BBC holiday show in RU-vid from same period, but this is better. Thank you.

Chances are , I was probably there that day mingling somewhere. I was 11 then.

This makes me feel so sad. The Blackgang Chine of my childhood has gone forever. I was having a conversation with my Mum the other day and she told me all the pathways down into the trees were magical. The views are still there but it has lost it's quirky originality!

Did Buffalo Creak disappear due to a landslide? Remember climbing on the big horse with my two children... my husband took photographs of us... 1988 I think. Gonna try and find those pics feeling nostalgic now!

Great views 4:46 - 4:53 and sunset over Freshwater at the end. Love those Western gravestones. Could that be The Ship Ashore peeking in the background at 5:36?

Great stuff Skip!

2:23 i wish they'd kept these when doing the new dinosaur exhibit! i miss all the old creatures and cavemen who used to be there

What ever happened to the excavator?