i love looking at what my favourite place on the island used to look like. im 14 so i didnt get to experience even the indian bit and i dont remember much of what's recently been blocked off due to the cliffs falling. i just watched a video on what blackgang used to look like in 1993 i think and i wish I could've experienced more. brilliant place.
went there in 1988 - remember seeing abandoned areas back then with views straight down to the sea - a shame what happened but its nature and we humans cannot stop its progress.
i remember the floodlit nighttimes at blackgang in the 1970`s also.we used to go in the daytime , then back again in the evening on the same day. god my parents must have been tolerant.i thought they would still be open in the evenings , but alas that is all now history.i have recently bought a few reels of 1960/70s cine film of the isle of wight so heres hoping there is some more old film of blackgang on them.check out my blackgang playlist for tonnes more videos about the chine.
I loved Blackgang Chine as a kid - including Adventure Land with the old army vehicles. By the time they put the spaceship in, my grandparents were still taking me there, but by then I had reached my teens and was finding it a bit childish. But that area has always been crumbling into the sea. It is not even a true "chine" anymore (in the geographical sense, like Shanklin Chine for example) and hasn't been for about 50 years. What remains of the park is still worth taking younger kids to. My daughter used to love the Cliffhanger roller coaster; I remember once sitting in the cafe all afternoon reading "Hornblower and the Hotspur" while she went on the ride over and over again. But even she has outgrown the attraction of it now. Sad - but time moves on!
This takes me right back! I'm 30 and used to go here from about the age of 5 up to 12. I fell madly in love with fairytales thanks to this park! Thank u so much for this video :)
The worst thing they did was getting rid of the old railway line. The steam buffs and weekend vintage fans would have flocked here for that alone. Then they closed down the tourist info shops. The cost of the ferry for cars is overpriced that puts people off but plugging into the Vintage scene is the answer. People are looking to escape the modern world and the Island has so much charm. We love the Island and visit whenever we can. As the man said in the movie "People will come Ray, people will most definately come" but the powers that be, the business owners, the Islanders must get together and fight for their Beautiful Island.
Oh we used to scramble about here as children and it was a magical place with little coloured lights in the 6o's and 70's. We love The Island still... Thank you for the film.
Brilliant! pity we cant put then and know pictures alongside?? Blackgang is a land of mystery!! has amagical feel! spent many a holiday as a kid and now adult with my kids here! Thanks to the Dabell Family for all the thought and hard work they have put into this place for many years and hope they keep it up! would love to see a evening floodlite walk around the park from the 1970's(the nearest we got to this recently was a Ghost walk around the park with Marc Tuckey by tourch/lantern light..
I remember this place so well, I must have gone with my school in the 70's and I remember the crooked house, the hall of mirrors, the maze with a viewing platform and the wild west.
It's changed so much since I was little it makes me sad when ever I watch videos like this it just makes u wonder if one day the Isle of Wight will never be here I mean I went there last year and they got rid of the mirrors witch was kind of upsetting I wish they could put that roundabout there because it would show kids that people in the 1950-1990s played on that 😭😭
Garry Abbott exactly......mine too. Every year throughout the 70’s we had our family holidays on the IOW. The highlight of which was an evening trip to Blackgang Chine. So many happy memories.
My god, I have fond memories of going to Blackgang chine in the early 1990's (91-93) & while yes some parts from my childhood are still there, others are sadly gone. I rember a large metal digger, which my mum has a photo of me on & 1 armoured car. I visted the theme park 2 years ago with a friend of mine & couldn't believe how small it now was. I'll have to visit again when I go down in September
Wow Thank you so much for sharing this - I used to take my children to Blackgang Chine in the early 1980s and in fact visited BGC in the late 70s. It is quite sad to see the remains of the crooked house and the mission control that area holds so many happy memories - I am sure somewhere I have pictures of that area I must seek them out and compare it then with this film. Thank you once again (excellent supporting music as well)
I really love your videos...I am such a fan of the IOW...I come over at every opportunity I can get. One day I'd love to live there. Havn't been able to find this part yet...think we walked the wrong way last time we were over!! Doh!! Your Brading vid with the old Waxworks brought a tear to my eye...was there back in the late 80s/early 90s with my kids and had such fun, but Blackgang always has a piece of my heart! Coming over again next weekend...maybe I'll find it this time!
Amazing to see. I remember it all when you pointed out the beginning bit. I'd forgotten about the armoured cars. I scared the crap out a family friend in the crooked house :o) back in the 80s and early 90s that was. Sad seeing it all gone. Blackgang Chine was great.
@MrWilliestrokes Brilliant, thanks! Will be a brilliant oppurtunity for some images of these, I'm only 16 but I love the history of blackgang and hearing the storys of it from my parents, ahh if I only I was around them many years back.
I VISITED BLACKGANG CHINE IN THE LATE 60'S ON A FAMILY HOLIDAY TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT. WE WENT AT NIGHT AND WAS A MAGICAL SIGHT. THE ONLY PART OF IT I REMEMBER WAS THE HALL OF MIRRORS WHERE WE AL WERE IN HYSTERICS AT THE CRAZY IMAGES OF US ALL. VISITED IT AGAIN IN THE EARLY 80'S DURING THE DAY WHICH WAS QUITE ALOT DIFFERENT. CANT REALLY REMEMBER WHAT WAS THERE. PITY ITS NO LONGER AROUND (LIKE THE BRADING WAX MUSEUM)
I too loved mission control. For years I have been trying to find an internal photo of it as if I remember it had a control panel and a couple of shop dummies dressed up as NASA type guys. One photo surfaced online 2 years ago showing some of the interior. Here's a walkthrough of mission control this year explaining what I remember was there as a child. ruclips.net/video/keICTO3BWDk/видео.html
@@ISLEOFWIGHTARCHIVE yep. Widows on both sides of the walkway. I remember the knobs and buttons were actually all from old cookers and tvs etc. I managed to climb up inside the big space shuttle that was next to it through the hole around the landing gear. I have a photo of me looking out the window of that at about the age of 9. No pictures inside mission control though other than vivid memories 🙂
I'm 42 now, but used to go to the Isle of Wight every year and Blackgang Chine was always what we looked forward to the most. We played in those armoured cars many times. Very sad seeing how much of it has all gone.
That was really lovely, thanks so much. It took me right back! Er… Hate to admit it but I was there late 50s and this old brain ain't wot it used to be.
yes i remember that i grew up there was a great place in the summer local kids use to bunk into blackgang by going along the cliffs been over 30 years since i was there last but i still remember it like the back of my hand
Man I remember all that, still got pics of me as an infant on the old cars, it's funny when u visit now you can see paths leading off the edge of the cliffs
I had forgotten this until now! I Reiner sitting in the crane with my mum and pulling the levers, must have been about 1973 I was four or five. Loved the place when I was little. And I remember the space ship 'stardust' it was copied from one used in a film I think called 'the spaceman and king Arthur'
hi . this has all gone from blackgang , due to coastal erosion .i have some 1974 cine film of the diggers and steamrollers etc showing this area in its heyday ( go to my channel homepage , its the featured video , and appeares near the end of the film ) . check the comment from steve nolan below , he now owns the steam roller .
i live in suffolk and i had 2 lovely holidays in the new forest and we would spend the day on the island and at blackgang ,i thought it was brilliant and i would love to go back and take our son, i last went there 1996,we have such happy memories of ryde,robin hood park? ventnor,cowes and yarmouth,the whole area is so special inc beuliue and bucklers ,lemington as i say i would love to go back
the crooked house has been rebuilt. this was great, i'm 13 so i never knew about this. i knew there was a landslip but i presumed it was by the pirate ships were because it's blocked off. where do you enter this place because i would love to go there. i live on the island so no need to be too specific :) thanks
Just watched this video again and picked up things I hadn't seen before! You know loads!! ;) The "Unknown Post" could possibly be something to do with the old rockets you were telling about me infront of the mission control? Perhaps a stand for the rockets or something? Or if not could be a hand rail of some sort or a part of a swing/slide.
just revisited mission control this weekend & went back into blackgang chine . video just upped on youtube of mission control . the unknown post looks like it was part of a street light , will check out my cine vids and pictures of the area to see if i can find it .
The pole you asked about. Im not to sure but i remember there being a pole with different coloured lights that flashed you could stand underneath it. Was along time ago.
Did I read right? Blackgang not open in eves and no lights? That woz best time to go. We use to get on coach ( moss ) who were based in sandown couple of guest houses from where we stayed. Half 7 picked up and then picked up people in lake and last stop shanklin. We would arrive at blackgang and be till turned 10pm. As going round blackgang and getting dusk lights would come on and made it even more magical. We never went during the day. It wouldn't been the same. I also remember going and each year finding wooden stake fencing over paths and cliff fall. Running along paths with cracks. Health and safety not so strict back then so mayb that's why they might not be open in evenings
last year the illuminations returned after about 20 years. blackgang chine gave me a pair of free tickets to see them. it is for only one week a year and returns this year. go to my channel, then my blackgang chine playlist and I've uploaded it all on there
+ISLE OF WIGHT ARCHIVE Oh rite. I take a look. Thank u. Any knowledge on the pub that use 2 b there? I did c on you tube awhile back the pub gutted out . Just wondered wot happened 2 it.
How sad I can remember taking my kids there several times when they were young but they had already lost a big chunk due to erosion that was years ago !
I remember Blackgang Chine from the late 40s and early 50s. The Isle of Wight was a beautiful, uncluttered place back then!! People allowed the Island to spoil because they did not stand up for preservation! Too much forelock tugging and knee bending!!!!
What are the direction from the actualy chine to get here, I'm from Southampton but know the Island really well I would love the oppurtunity to visit here.
I used to love mission control, it was my fave part of the whole place. So sad to see it like this now but was inevatable due to its location and progress in genrall. That roundabout sais it all really. :' (
Will wait with bated breath then in hope of a floodlite tour around Blackgang(1970's)!Yes we revisited the same evening.......Am currently looking for information about The Ferry Boat Inn which was situated on the Duver St Helens and also the Casa Espanol(now closed as the Countryman Inn) at Brighstone have you any information on these?? here's hoping!!!
I only recently heard about an old digger that was in Adventureland. Obviously this was for the kids to climb on (unless H&S since had other ideas) but as someone who has an interest in earthmoving machinery, it'd be great to get some pictures of this - if indeed it still survives! Does anyone know what happened to it, or even the armoured cars?
of all the out of work comedians and i`m stuck with this half wit..with your half arsed comment good luck in your career...your gonna need it sunshine....!
the roundabout was removed by the park before it went over the cliff as I chatted to the park manager face to face about it. the slide was found on the beach or half of it in the spring this year and now is in someone's garden.
go into my channel , then blackgang chine section , there is lots of cine film from the 1970`s featuring the cranes and the slides , plus the dinosaurs , old cowboy town ( it will jog your memory ) . the space ship stardust was the one used in the disney film . i think it has recently been decommisioned as i didn`t see it in the park this year
do you by any chance have pictures of the blackgang sign that went along the cliff? my mum and dad told me about it. please can you watch the video on my channel called neglected places on the isle of wight? I'm only 11 so it might not be too good. but your videos are awesome
@@ISLEOFWIGHTARCHIVE What a shame. I am just looking at another video of the water garden having been filled in. It was lovely in the early 70s, especially at night. Thank you
@@StBlazeyModelWorld I have film of the water gardens at night here ruclips.net/video/mPmc0iHr6ps/видео.html and another premiers next friday. a blackgang chine films playlist is here, ruclips.net/p/PLEA6BF5939F225A13 and I upload regularly
not sure . some was re sited elsewhere in the chine , a bloke contacted me and said he owned the old steam roller that was there . some like the roundabout , mission control still survive there today . other bits are in the chine staff area gathering dust , the rest who knows what happened to it all .
i love looking at what my favourite place on the island used to look like. im 14 so i didnt get to experience even the indian bit and i dont remember much of what's recently been blocked off due to the cliffs falling. i just watched a video on what blackgang used to look like in 1993 i think and i wish I could've experienced more. brilliant place.
Has it all collapsed?
went there in 1988 - remember seeing abandoned areas back then with views straight down to the sea - a shame what happened but its nature and we humans cannot stop its progress.
i remember the floodlit nighttimes at blackgang in the 1970`s also.we used to go in the daytime , then back again in the evening on the same day. god my parents must have been tolerant.i thought they would still be open in the evenings , but alas that is all now history.i have recently bought a few reels of 1960/70s cine film of the isle of wight so heres hoping there is some more old film of blackgang on them.check out my blackgang playlist for tonnes more videos about the chine.
I remember the speed boats you pedalled at Ventnor my sister as the photos somewhere
I loved Blackgang Chine as a kid - including Adventure Land with the old army vehicles. By the time they put the spaceship in, my grandparents were still taking me there, but by then I had reached my teens and was finding it a bit childish. But that area has always been crumbling into the sea. It is not even a true "chine" anymore (in the geographical sense, like Shanklin Chine for example) and hasn't been for about 50 years. What remains of the park is still worth taking younger kids to. My daughter used to love the Cliffhanger roller coaster; I remember once sitting in the cafe all afternoon reading "Hornblower and the Hotspur" while she went on the ride over and over again. But even she has outgrown the attraction of it now. Sad - but time moves on!
This takes me right back! I'm 30 and used to go here from about the age of 5 up to 12.
I fell madly in love with fairytales thanks to this park!
Thank u so much for this video :)
The worst thing they did was getting rid of the old railway line. The steam buffs and weekend vintage fans would have flocked here for that alone. Then they closed down the tourist info shops. The cost of the ferry for cars is overpriced that puts people off but plugging into the Vintage scene is the answer. People are looking to escape the modern world and the Island has so much charm. We love the Island and visit whenever we can. As the man said in the movie "People will come Ray, people will most definately come" but the powers that be, the business owners, the Islanders must get together and fight for their Beautiful Island.
Oh we used to scramble about here as children and it was a magical place with little coloured lights in the 6o's and 70's. We love The Island still... Thank you for the film.
If you go on my channel i have 1972 cine film of this area as we all remember it. Its in the blackgang chine playlist under 1972
Brilliant! pity we cant put then and know pictures alongside?? Blackgang is a land of mystery!! has amagical feel! spent many a holiday as a kid and now adult with my kids here! Thanks to the Dabell Family for all the thought and hard work they have put into this place for many years and hope they keep it up! would love to see a evening floodlite walk around the park from the 1970's(the nearest we got to this recently was a Ghost walk around the park with Marc Tuckey by tourch/lantern light..
I remember this place so well, I must have gone with my school in the 70's and I remember the crooked house, the hall of mirrors, the maze with a viewing platform and the wild west.
I used to come here with mum and dad in the early 70's,great memories.
It's changed so much since I was little it makes me sad when ever I watch videos like this it just makes u wonder if one day the Isle of Wight will never be here I mean I went there last year and they got rid of the mirrors witch was kind of upsetting I wish they could put that roundabout there because it would show kids that people in the 1950-1990s played on that 😭😭
Jess Morey The mirrors are back, went yesterday.
The Ghosts of my childhood still play there.
Garry Abbott mine too!
Garry Abbott exactly......mine too. Every year throughout the 70’s we had our family holidays on the IOW. The highlight of which was an evening trip to Blackgang Chine.
So many happy memories.
im sooo glad my children saw the best of blackgang chine before this happened , many happy holidays there ;o(
Literally all of this has gone now too. It's sad loss. 😔 xx
My god, I have fond memories of going to Blackgang chine in the early 1990's (91-93) & while yes some parts from my childhood are still there, others are sadly gone.
I rember a large metal digger, which my mum has a photo of me on & 1 armoured car.
I visted the theme park 2 years ago with a friend of mine & couldn't believe how small it now was.
I'll have to visit again when I go down in September
Wow Thank you so much for sharing this - I used to take my children to Blackgang Chine in the early 1980s and in fact visited BGC in the late 70s. It is quite sad to see the remains of the crooked house and the mission control that area holds so many happy memories - I am sure somewhere I have pictures of that area I must seek them out and compare it then with this film. Thank you once again (excellent supporting music as well)
I really love your videos...I am such a fan of the IOW...I come over at every opportunity I can get. One day I'd love to live there. Havn't been able to find this part yet...think we walked the wrong way last time we were over!! Doh!! Your Brading vid with the old Waxworks brought a tear to my eye...was there back in the late 80s/early 90s with my kids and had such fun, but Blackgang always has a piece of my heart! Coming over again next weekend...maybe I'll find it this time!
Amazing to see. I remember it all when you pointed out the beginning bit. I'd forgotten about the armoured cars. I scared the crap out a family friend in the crooked house :o) back in the 80s and early 90s that was. Sad seeing it all gone. Blackgang Chine was great.
@MrWilliestrokes Brilliant, thanks! Will be a brilliant oppurtunity for some images of these, I'm only 16 but I love the history of blackgang and hearing the storys of it from my parents, ahh if I only I was around them many years back.
went there with my primary school in 94 or 95 cant remember exactly, shame the place is gone now..
It is still there but parts of it have gone with the falling cliffs.
I VISITED BLACKGANG CHINE IN THE LATE 60'S ON A FAMILY HOLIDAY TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT. WE WENT AT NIGHT AND WAS A MAGICAL SIGHT. THE ONLY PART OF IT I REMEMBER WAS THE HALL OF MIRRORS WHERE WE AL WERE IN HYSTERICS AT THE CRAZY IMAGES OF US ALL. VISITED IT AGAIN IN THE EARLY 80'S DURING THE DAY WHICH WAS QUITE ALOT DIFFERENT. CANT REALLY REMEMBER WHAT WAS THERE. PITY ITS NO LONGER AROUND (LIKE THE BRADING WAX MUSEUM)
That moment when I realised that old building was mission control. Heartbroken.
I too loved mission control. For years I have been trying to find an internal photo of it as if I remember it had a control panel and a couple of shop dummies dressed up as NASA type guys. One photo surfaced online 2 years ago showing some of the interior.
Here's a walkthrough of mission control this year explaining what I remember was there as a child. ruclips.net/video/keICTO3BWDk/видео.html
@@ISLEOFWIGHTARCHIVE yep. Widows on both sides of the walkway. I remember the knobs and buttons were actually all from old cookers and tvs etc. I managed to climb up inside the big space shuttle that was next to it through the hole around the landing gear. I have a photo of me looking out the window of that at about the age of 9. No pictures inside mission control though other than vivid memories 🙂
I'm 42 now, but used to go to the Isle of Wight every year and Blackgang Chine was always what we looked forward to the most. We played in those armoured cars many times.
Very sad seeing how much of it has all gone.
I remember going in the 60 as a child when we lived at Totland, and then I couldn’t work out where it had all gone when I visited in 2000.
That was really lovely, thanks so much. It took me right back! Er… Hate to admit it but I was there late 50s and this old brain ain't wot it used to be.
yes i remember that i grew up there was a great place in the summer local kids use to bunk into blackgang by going along the cliffs been over 30 years since i was there last but i still remember it like the back of my hand
Man I remember all that, still got pics of me as an infant on the old cars, it's funny when u visit now you can see paths leading off the edge of the cliffs
I had forgotten this until now! I Reiner sitting in the crane with my mum and pulling the levers, must have been about 1973 I was four or five. Loved the place when I was little. And I remember the space ship 'stardust' it was copied from one used in a film I think called 'the spaceman and king Arthur'
hi . this has all gone from blackgang , due to coastal erosion .i have some 1974 cine film of the diggers and steamrollers etc showing this area in its heyday ( go to my channel homepage , its the featured video , and appeares near the end of the film ) . check the comment from steve nolan below , he now owns the steam roller .
Very interesting, embarrassingly even though I have lived on the Island for a number of years I have never been to Blackgang Chine.
i live in suffolk and i had 2 lovely holidays in the new forest and we would spend the day on the island and at blackgang ,i thought it was brilliant and i would love to go back and take our son, i last went there 1996,we have such happy memories of ryde,robin hood park? ventnor,cowes and yarmouth,the whole area is so special inc beuliue and bucklers ,lemington as i say i would love to go back
This hits hard
the crooked house has been rebuilt. this was great, i'm 13 so i never knew about this. i knew there was a landslip but i presumed it was by the pirate ships were because it's blocked off. where do you enter this place because i would love to go there. i live on the island so no need to be too specific :) thanks
I remember have to check your channel see if you have any clips of the old salt pot
Just watched this video again and picked up things I hadn't seen before! You know loads!! ;) The "Unknown Post" could possibly be something to do with the old rockets you were telling about me infront of the mission control? Perhaps a stand for the rockets or something? Or if not could be a hand rail of some sort or a part of a swing/slide.
just revisited mission control this weekend & went back into blackgang chine . video just upped on youtube of mission control . the unknown post looks like it was part of a street light , will check out my cine vids and pictures of the area to see if i can find it .
I went to black gang but I did not see this! It makes me wonder what has changed about it!
The pole you asked about. Im not to sure but i remember there being a pole with different coloured lights that flashed you could stand underneath it. Was along time ago.
Did I read right? Blackgang not open in eves and no lights? That woz best time to go. We use to get on coach ( moss ) who were based in sandown couple of guest houses from where we stayed. Half 7 picked up and then picked up people in lake and last stop shanklin. We would arrive at blackgang and be till turned 10pm. As going round blackgang and getting dusk lights would come on and made it even more magical. We never went during the day. It wouldn't been the same. I also remember going and each year finding wooden stake fencing over paths and cliff fall. Running along paths with cracks. Health and safety not so strict back then so mayb that's why they might not be open in evenings
last year the illuminations returned after about 20 years. blackgang chine gave me a pair of free tickets to see them. it is for only one week a year and returns this year. go to my channel, then my blackgang chine playlist and I've uploaded it all on there
+ISLE OF WIGHT ARCHIVE Oh rite. I take a look. Thank u. Any knowledge on the pub that use 2 b there? I did c on you tube awhile back the pub gutted out . Just wondered wot happened 2 it.
+ISLE OF WIGHT ARCHIVE sorry 2 keep asking questions but u seem 2 ave the knowledge that I'm after. If u don't ask u don't find out ay
My mum said she could walk down to the beach as a child. 😀
So much has now gone from the Island coastline.
what was the original soundtrack you used with the dolphin noises in
Hello 😊 does anyone know what is left exactly ..I'm planning a visit . thanks
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How sad I can remember taking my kids there several times when they were young but they had already lost a big chunk due to erosion that was years ago !
I remember Blackgang Chine from the late 40s and early 50s. The Isle of Wight was a beautiful, uncluttered place back then!! People allowed the Island to spoil because they did not stand up for preservation! Too much forelock tugging and knee bending!!!!
What are the direction from the actualy chine to get here, I'm from Southampton but know the Island really well I would love the oppurtunity to visit here.
I used to love mission control, it was my fave part of the whole place. So sad to see it like this now but was inevatable due to its location and progress in genrall. That roundabout sais it all really. :' (
Will wait with bated breath then in hope of a floodlite tour around Blackgang(1970's)!Yes we revisited the same evening.......Am currently looking for information about The Ferry Boat Inn which was situated on the Duver St Helens and also the Casa Espanol(now closed as the Countryman Inn) at Brighstone have you any information on these?? here's hoping!!!
Do you remember what audio track you used a long time ago? It was a long sad piece that sounded like dolphin noises?
merlins bistro . its all been completely re fenced since filming this years ago
I only recently heard about an old digger that was in Adventureland. Obviously this was for the kids to climb on (unless H&S since had other ideas) but as someone who has an interest in earthmoving machinery, it'd be great to get some pictures of this - if indeed it still survives! Does anyone know what happened to it, or even the armoured cars?
of all the out of work comedians and i`m stuck with this half wit..with your half arsed comment good luck in your career...your gonna need it sunshine....!
i dont remeber this place i am too young but this video is too sad :(
Literally "Gone South".
There's no gaps in the fence now and it won't be long before the fence falls onto the beach. A real shame.
Does anyone else wonder where has the parts that fell of are now in like I mean where about in the sea
the roundabout was removed by the park before it went over the cliff as I chatted to the park manager face to face about it. the slide was found on the beach or half of it in the spring this year and now is in someone's garden.
ISLE OF WIGHT ARCHIVE hi thank you for telling me I’m just very interested in blackgang chine
hi what was the old relaxing music called the one with dolphin noises
smartmac6 Yeah, the slow one with the very sad melody xD
I too want to know the name of that song.
Yes. I loved that Dolphin piece. It really suited. What was the piece?
go into my channel , then blackgang chine section , there is lots of cine film from the 1970`s featuring the cranes and the slides , plus the dinosaurs , old cowboy town ( it will jog your memory ) . the space ship stardust was the one used in the disney film . i think it has recently been decommisioned as i didn`t see it in the park this year
THEY ARE TRYING TO MOVE IT BACK WHEN IT FALLS AWAY BUT 1 DAY
It will go... # bye childhood
the roundabout is in even worse condition as of my last visit this weekend . just the base of it remains all the rest has rusted out . :-/
do you by any chance have pictures of the blackgang sign that went along the cliff? my mum and dad told me about it. please can you watch the video on my channel called neglected places on the isle of wight? I'm only 11 so it might not be too good. but your videos are awesome
I remember a tall brown Bear and a western town
Was that old cowboy town? I’m sure that was eroded away ages ago, but they have another cowboy town near the top of the place.
@@phoebexsp122 yes I’m going back 1980 and 71-72
Did the model village survive?
it was apparently put in storage 25 years ago, but has not been seen since. 2 pieces from the model village are still at the park in chimney pot walk.
@@ISLEOFWIGHTARCHIVE What a shame. I am just looking at another video of the water garden having been filled in. It was lovely in the early 70s, especially at night. Thank you
@@StBlazeyModelWorld I have film of the water gardens at night here
ruclips.net/video/mPmc0iHr6ps/видео.html
and another premiers next friday.
a blackgang chine films playlist is here,
ruclips.net/p/PLEA6BF5939F225A13
and I upload regularly
6:15 - 'Roof is missing' - No shit Sherlock!
Is the crooked house still there?!
crooked house is not in this area anymore but has been moved to another part of the park
This is so strange to see now.
How sad. What happened to all the stuff from there that wasn't distroyed? sold? museum ?
not sure . some was re sited elsewhere in the chine , a bloke contacted me and said he owned the old steam roller that was there . some like the roundabout , mission control still survive there today . other bits are in the chine staff area gathering dust , the rest who knows what happened to it all .
_Land Of Imagination?_
so sad