Margate - Dreamland - 1975
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- The Holiday town of Margate in Kent. With the iconic Dreamland fun park in its centre, along with its beach and hotel talent competitions made Margate a popular UK holiday spot.
First transmitted on13/02/1975
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It's heartbreaking to see how our country become 💔
Simple beautiful times. But at the time I didn’t realise it... love this.. thanks
This is the Margate i remember, I was 12 years old in 75, used to go to Dreamland with my cousin's and we had some great times, thank you so much for uploading this
Have a look at this version. ruclips.net/video/XNq1yTjPtJw/видео.html
For me it was a little later, mid 80s through to very early 90s and so was Bembom brothers for me right up until the change again much later on. But as Bembom brothers it was still an amazing place, great people, familys from London and all over. I lived in Broadstairs my entire life, it is funny how you said you and your cousins had some great times as those are my fondest memories, me and my cousins, back when family visited and meant something. Is it me, or was everything just so much better back then
Thank you for posting this, it brings back wonderful memories of Margate in the 1970s.
Thanks for showing how nice Margate used to be.
Margate was a magical place back in the sixties and seventies it certainly isn’t now .
It still was in the 80s and earily 90s.
As a child our only annual summer treat was catching the coach outside the pub & all the locals went along for a day out , stopping off at a local pub on the way to use the loo 😂😂😂😂 but all the Mums & Dad's had a drink 😊😊 wouldn't do that now with the PC brigade dictatorship 😂😂😂
When England was England and before technology when people lived in the moment.
Take me back please.
Why do people like you moan about technology,when you're using that technology to watch this video. Such hypocrites. In any way, what you're basically saying is that you don't want to be old. Well, suck it up. Everyone gets old. Time perhaps to grow up?
@@zeddeka hey go easy, you'll probably find yourself saying the same thing in twenty years
As a young boy in the 70s my mum and dad would take us on holiday to a caravan park in Beltinge, just down the coast from Margate. We didn't have a car in those days so we relied on good old Greenline coaches to get us there and a day trip to Margate from the caravan park meant jumping on a bus. I used to love Dreamland as a kid, just found the whole place exciting. I went a few times as a teenager with mates in the late 80s and enjoyed the theme park then as well. I took my own family on a caravan holiday to Reculver in 2011, I suppose for more of a trip down memory lane for me. We had a day out in Margate and it was quite a sad experience, it was rundown and felt like it had lost its soul almost. This video though has brought back happy memories of a much simpler time, thank you.
Simpler times indeed but a lot happier without the stresses of these times.
Margate was my first holiday when I was just 18 months old. Born in 1969. x
Didn't we just have the best times back then.. things worked, we kids actually had fun, we had games that we played outside, everything now seems so f..ked up. I miss them days 😪
its life not as we knew it
Back when Margate was a really nice place to go
So lovely to see yesteryear. Young people today will never know how wonderful this country used to be ❤
We used to go down to Margate, Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Hastings etc in the mid 70’s as our pal Terry had a small camper van , so we used to drive down park up in a quiet street and stay the weekends, great times, couldn’t do it now as all the fun places closed down plus you can’t park anywhere now on the streets….😮😂😂❤
me and my sister went to nana rose grandad tom every summer 1979 to 1985 oh i miss them days dreamland was so magical people seemed so happy id spend hours in the half penny slots on the pier oh margate how i miss you like my nan an grandad i will NEVER forget them memorys if i could go bac right now i really would i find it so painfully sad to see this coz im there but im not feels like a real heart ache ......
Same with me too. My mum was from Margate and every summer holidays we would spend 2 weeks with my nan and granddad and auntie and uncle, cousins. Those were the best days of my life. Everything changed when my nan and grandad died within a week of each other in 74. I felt my life had ended with their deaths. I stopped going after that. My mum and dad still went, to see her brother but I just didn't want to go anymore. Never been back since. I would like to see it one last time though..
great times at Margate in the sixties and early seventies remember going in the Bali Hi and dance hall in dreamland What great times they were
Wow we went to the ball hi, I forgot about that place, great era. I even met a girl there holiday romance lol & by pure coincidence a year later leaving the arndale centre from working at woolworths she was standing outside after travelling from hemel to Luton for a night club. No, I married another woman & just turned 66 retirement looming. Oh margate you were great in the day.
I was in Margate last week for the first time since 1987. Things have definitely changed
Check this one out, it's different. ruclips.net/video/XNq1yTjPtJw/видео.html
I used to DJ in a club just under the entrance to dreamland in the 70's, and used to love going into the park, I even bought the old mirror maze from there in 2005 when it was all closed down
Wow, you bought the old Mirror maze under the scenic, now was this the Hall of Mirrors or the Glass Jungle? I used to help on that attraction back in the 70s. Here's something you might like, it's a virtual Margate and Illuminations with a night time Dreamland. ruclips.net/video/XNq1yTjPtJw/видео.html
Everything this lifetime has been ruined! Oh to had the joy of these times x
We didn't know how good we had it ; )
@@guidelineuk exactly, just thinking about my time in Margate in the mid to late 70s,worked in Dreamland to
@@rowdyhill9555 lucky man.. you must have been a flavour of the month getting people in for free
People have been saying that for centuries.
It's remarkable how little has changed in Margate.
My Aunt Ruby Banks and her husband Charles ran the Kent Hotel for many years.....sometimes my parents would be 'stand-in' landlords for them...great times.
I have so many memories of this time and place. Happy days
Here's something else for you, and it's different. ruclips.net/video/XNq1yTjPtJw/видео.html
Great memories of going to Margate in the early 70s on a Friday night from Faversham to spend the night in the Bali Hai and Dreamland Ballroom only to miss the last train home because I'd met a girl and would spend the night sleeping in a train carrage in the sidings untill the milk train in the morning...happy days !
Day trips in the seventies when I was 7-8-9 years old,loved it,must visit there before I'm 60! Reminds me of my parents,why do places have to change? Good times then,this got me emotional 💓
I’ve not been there, but it looks lovely and 1975 wonderful times 😊the best. Everything is a complete mess now. So sad.
This is 1974. I know this because at 33:31 there is a show advertised as RAGTIME with FINN AND JONES at the Wnter Gardens. I am the Jones part and this show was 1974. Had a great season.
I just spent 20 minutes searching Finn and Jones, Owen Jones ragtime music England, I have that kind if time, but I cannot find anything.
Not saying you're lying I just haven't been able to find anything about you guys, I'm recently retired (earlier than expected, in part, thanks to covid) and bored out of my F'ing mind so I do odd things like this to kill time plus I find it interesting.
Edit: There is no 33:31 this video is only about 3 and a half minutes long, unless you mean the timer in the video.
@@aberamagold7509 You have to pause the video to see it, but the names FINN and JONES appear next to RAGTIME MUSIC at ca. 1:11.
Wish I had popped in then in 74, but I met a fit lovely girl & the 8 guys from Luton I was with reckoned I couldn't pull the girl in margate, of course I proved them wrong, alas just a holiday & a few months romance when back home in Luton, but hey I have lovely wife now aged 66 years, oh to be 17 again.
Do you still perform ?
Great footage. We used to live in Arlington House nearby and visit Dreamland regularly. From our flat on the 12th floor we could hear the Tiger roar in the mornings, as they also had a small zoo. Pleased to say we had a lovely weekend here only last week. Went on some great rides in Dreamland Which the kids loved, like the ghost train and scenic railway, and a lovely lunch sitting outside in the old town. The beach was packed with people enjoying themselves just like they did in the 1970s. It’s not all negative folks, there’s still life there! Margate did go through a decline for sure, but it’s on the up. Go and support it, especially Dreamland which will be a housing estate in 10 years if you don’t!
Hi shaun Interesting you say you lived on the 12th floor of Arlington So did my nan from the early 70s until the late 80s I spent most of my summer holidays there looking out the window and the beach She was at 12f!
Agree 😊
Thank you a fantastic find. Me and 12 of my mates spent a week down there the same year, 1975, (still have the photos)it was a great era the long haired young lad looked just like we did as we entered our hotel, we was 17 at the time.
Thanks to the Turner center, the old town is a lovely place once again. The main reason for the town and high street getting run down is Thanet distric council.
Check this upload out, I don't think anyone else has done anything like this one before. ruclips.net/video/XNq1yTjPtJw/видео.html
@@geoffdeanthemeparks
Yes, and you’re really fucking annoying Geoff. Every comment on here, you try and link to some crap video that gives you a sense of self worth. Please give people a break
What went wrong with Margate?The Disney Land of the South East Kent my Ole Gran would quote me back then ,while eating Rock EEL and Chips.Oh how I miss these times when everything was just so English and not so Snowflake or Leftie correct.Godbless everyone who remembers those times.♥️😪🙏
I think we know exactly what went wrong, not just with Margate but the whole country, but Heaven help us if we dare to say what it is!
Yes ... its all gone so terribly wrong since these days ... successive weak governments over the decades with no back bone to scared to offend the minority's have sold us down the river well and truly ... these days can only be a happy memory.
Ahh Dreamland and Margate in 1975 i wasn't around then but i wish i was because that is when Dreamland and the hole area of Margate was at it's most best ever with everything to see and do for everyone and i would've gone there every single summer not to stay but as a day out every time.
wow..how wonderful....thank you for posting
thanks for putting this footage up loved it
My mum was from Margate. As a child I spent 2 weeks every year in Margate either with my Nan and Grandad or my Auntie and Uncle. Those times were the best. Haven't been back since about 75 so around this time.
Looks so, much cleaner back then.
Take ne back please for the day l would hop on s train snd go see my Grandma in Herne Bay okh how l wish
wow love the vid thank you
Do you have any more footage of Margate or Westgate-on-Sea? I lived there between 1980-83! Best Time of My life!x
This is different and worth a look. ruclips.net/video/XNq1yTjPtJw/видео.html
A few of Only Fools and Horses Jolly Boys Outing backdrops from 89 on here .
Nice memories thanks, lived there in the 1980's.
Cliftonville just up the road from Margate harbour was a desirable area to live and a really good high street with some quality shops.
Go there now (actually don’t go there), its immigrant central and makes Gaza look like Monaco.
The park and especially the slides featured in the 1981 childrens' drama series BREAK IN THE SUN - in the final episode ,the young girl played by Nicola Cowper threatened to kill herself by jumping from the top of the slides.
0:22 Good to see Susan Boyle enjoy her day in Margate 👍
I remember Dreamland. I also remember when it changed its name to Ben Bon Brothers. I also remmebr the terrible accident that happend there when one of the rides failed causing a couple of fatalities. I also remember Margate when all the B&Bs were full of holiday makers. These days Margates B&Bs are all but let out to illegal migrants and it has not been the same since. No longer do the English go for holiday here in the numbers they used to back in the 70s and 80s. Whether Dreamland alone will be able to bring back the glory days of when Margate had a name for Kent seaside fun only time will tell....but I doubt it. Margate has now been lost to a multicultural nightmare and at the same time has lost its once chramrful Great british spirit.
I enjoyed seeing dreamland in the 70's. We've just done a gopro walk of the whole town for our youtube page, hope you enjoy ours in exchange showing the contrast between then and now. Thank you we've subscribed.
Loved watching the video i lived at nearby Herne bay when i was a child, and moved to Australia when I was eight years old and i am now forty seven, I remember those seaside towns like it was yesterday life was so simple back in the seventies wish i could relive those times again.
Check this one, it's very different than anything else. ruclips.net/video/XNq1yTjPtJw/видео.html
Margate is alive and well. I'll give you info from only last two weeks. Dreamland gigs: Bryan Adams, Madness, Limp Bizkit, Simply Red, Craig David and numerous bands at reggae festival. Greets from Margate.
It looks so nice I with I lived back then
Back in the day when people knew how to have fun in Margate....not like today where you get drugged up and boozed up idiots...and half the place is borded up and deralict.... bring back the 80s.
Unfortunately cheap flights to other countries has killed off margate and other towns
This is what it could look like now. It's an ideal Magate and no one as far as I know has done anything to this scale before. ruclips.net/video/XNq1yTjPtJw/видео.html
Also remember going to south end and in the Kersal not spelt right I know, all good things come to an end.
I went to Dreamland this year 2024 😊 It was very nice & saw & enjoyed a live band 😊 worth a visit beach & coffee eating places are great 😊 but sadly the main shopping area is absolutely dismal & depressing, come on Margate Council get your act together as the High Street is letting the place down 😊
Where has Margate gone now????xx
It could look something like this. I've not seen anything like this but here's a virtual Margate and Dreamland. ruclips.net/video/XNq1yTjPtJw/видео.html
The double big wheel must have been replaced after summer 1974 as it features in a BBC film made then.
Nice one sis lets grow together
Might need to revisit as most of this footage is not there any more 😢😢 but xx
Back then people worked hard but play hard too
Went to Margate last month. Stayed 5 minutes and drove on to Broadstairs. Truly horrible and sad to see. The beach in Margate resembled Karachi and a woman was washing her hair in one of the sinks in the public toilet. I don’t know about anybody else, but not want I want to see in an English seaside town.
1975 was a good year
Went there a few weeks ago, we were the only white family on the beach!!
That's how it is now. I lived and worked in Margate for a while fairly recently and saw it with my own eyes.
@@neilsaunders6009 sad, the country has fallen, no longer England:(
@@teddyboy9116 Sad but true.
Yeah,,,, i know.
Not a very nice place now.
@RoadKillzine I must admit to being shocked at how down-at-heel Cliftonville has become. It's current state is in stark contrast to what it once was in the 80s, when as a kid it seemed the posh end of Margate, if memory serves me right.
It's lovely now.
@@ryangarritty9761 too right, Im from Yorkshire and used to visit Margate in the 70s as a kid. We would stay with my auntie and cousins in Cliftonville, it was lovely then.
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God, I just about remember when people just enjoyed life, had time to do so, could have healthy relationships that didn't cost the earth to fulfill, rent was affordable, people made do with the gender they were born with, kids were kids and laughed and enjoyed simple things in life. Whether practicing or not, basic Christian values allowed people to respect one another. Now we're getting Sharia law.
I wonder if any of the old people recognise themselves ( young people i mean )
Sadly, Margate hasn’t changed much since then, apart from all the hotels closing. It hasn’t had much investment.
My tribute to Dreamland: ruclips.net/video/FCWuRlfTOqM/видео.html
why would anybody need the Amalfi coast of italy when we had Margate!
Where’s Judith charmers I dunno she’s a snob
Margate was much nicer back then
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