My family moved to Basingstoke from London in April 1974 , I was nearly 6 years old & I still live in Basingstoke today. It's amazing to see how the town looked back in the '70's , it brought back a lot of childhood memories. :)
i lived in Alton in 1974 and remember Basingstoke very well used to go to the sports centre to swim and watch the wrestling.. the station looks a lot different now to back then .had a very big smile on my face while watching this .
I live in Basingstoke I moved from London with my parents at the age of 8.This video brings back so many memory's this was the good old days which are sadly now gone. Denise. 😊
Lived in the old town centre (Sarum Hill) and then new estate (Brighton Hill) for 7 years in the 80’s. The people had a heart, but the town had pretty much lost it by then. It says it all that it was considered ‘The Jewel in the Thatcher crown’. The final nail in the coffin for me was Courage taking over all the wonderful free houses in the countryside around Basingstoke. Hope this never happens to a town again.
So nice to see the Warren, it's where my late dad bough his newspapers. We moved to Reading in 1965 but I always missed Basingstoke. I was born in Byfleet Avenue, Old Basing but the family moved to various addresses in Basingstoke, Sandys Rd, Worthing Rd, Penrith Rd and Shooters Way. What a lovely little town it was back then.
Interesting video, but to me there is no context to it, I needed it to some captioning so I know what I was looking at. I only moved to Basingstoke in 2005
Is that South View infant and junior school at 5:25 ? I had no idea there used to be a whole parade of shops where Walnut Way is now. I moved to Basingstoke just as the Oakridge Village redevelopment was being completed, so didn't realise the layout was so different around there before that.
@@sunglassesron9464 Oh crap...didn't realise it had been closed permanently. That is not good....wonder what they are planning to do with it? I live on the Berg estate.
@@NToombes I have to say I haven't been in the 'Discovery Centre' i.e. the library in town for two years. I think it was closed for a time anyway. Always found the staff uninterested and unhelpful, maybe I've just been unlucky. It never feels like a very welcoming place, especially not at the moment. Oh well...onwards and upwards! ;-))
God bless Basingstoke people. Sadly the most unfriendly town for cyclists. I have to wait until the roads are empty to use the roundabouts. Have a car or go to hell.
