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  • Bracknell hold many 'firsts' for me in terms of life experience, my first poo wank arrest and my inevitable decline into spewing my man-porridge into a train toilet sink on my way to 'Staines' in the mid 1980s, trips to Waterloo via train, fun summers...drugs as we danced, cassette tapes and computers, girls you loved, learning how to cope...It's what we made it, then i woke up and moved on, but it's enchantment will always reside in the minds of those who started their lives there, thanks.

  • nice old pics,cool vid

  • 30 years later that building is gonna fall!

  • @TheGamer464

    Which one?

  • I live in ascot but i have to go to school in bracknell :( its full of chavey fat kids with mums sitting a home and claiming benefits for nothin at all. All the kids pick fights at school thinkin theyre hard then get the crap kicked out if them no jokes there were 3 fights at lunch time at my school.

  • i live in bracknell and its realy not that bad, the crime rate is one of lowest in the country. The schools are good well most of them, also theres the look out which is realy good, coral reef, bracknell leisure center, and its beautiful in summer.

  • @Gearx72 Is this the same Bracknell?

  • Bracknell is a rough town that's been left to rot for years. Council estates, a shit town centre (possibly the worst in the UK, I know I've travelled a lot for work!), some scummy people (not everyone that lives on a council estate is scummy like the rich toffs from Wokingham/Windsor like to think) and I hope to move out before I'm 30 but Bracknell will always be my true home!

  • Bracknell is actually alright yes there are chavs but we're not all illiterate di**heads

  • @MrMrjesus42 Bracknell WAS alright. First chance you get...move or be stuck there forever!

  • I lived here 66-89. Bracknell is the biggest asshole and chav magnet in the entire universe now! Glad I got out!!!

  • that pic of priestwood that isent priestwood thats the end of my road were i live thts in bullbrook ''/

  • I was also working in Bracknell!

  • Very entertaining, Bracknell hasn't changed/

  • I have lived in Bracknell since 1989 and I fooking hate the place - if I could find a job elsewhere I'd leave right now.

  • Once your frontal lobe kicks in at 25 you really have to leave, if your still stuck in the soulless under-passed clone-store future city of yesteryear then i feel for you, the rise of the poorly-educated underclass (chav) coupled with the banal feel and mediocrity of the town would probably just create more mewling cabbages in baseball caps pissing & wanking into the towns lifts and generally keeping the crime statistics up every year, follow the leader for your next fix, you can't fix stupid.

  • yeah bracknell is so shit,,the chaves r everywere, cheep foul mouthed, jobless,on drugs, and little chave girls...hair pulled back in ponytails big round ear rings, pushing a few prams around SOON THE CHAVES WILL TAKE OVER, unless we run them down like lemmings a squash them one buy one.

  • Ha very funny, oh how its changed !!

  • To live in Bracknell you need to wear a hoodie & trackie bottoms, push a push chair and have a dog , oh yes and a can of lager and the IQ of a slug.

  • .... Not all families are inbred pikeys like you.

  • LOL - I work in Bracknell - this made me laugh big time. Oh dear.. Point Royal... Bracknell featured in the movie The Offence with Sean Connery. I think Point Royal was where he lived in the film.

  • Yeah point royal was used but the film was set in Toronto. I like Toronto, and I Sort of like Bracknell (when Im leaving it) FIGHT!!!

  • @barspeed The Offence was not set in Toronto.

  • @barspeed The Offence was filmed around Bracknell, not Toronto! Where did Toronto come from? Like saying Eastenders is set in Melbourne.

  • @peaceintheworld2007 During the 10 delightful years I spent living in the cesspit pit that is Bracknell, two people jumped off of Point Royal - my guess its gone down hill since Sean Connerys visit

  • @peaceintheworld2007 - Some things never change, I went to school in Crowthorne, the kids that either couldnt fit in Bracknell Schools or were expelled from them went to Edgbarrow and much the same happened there...

  • lol yes bracknell shit if u dont have any money and a doll light and live in a council place but if u have a job and a life it not such a shit hole ;)

  • 1:27 - Bullbrook, I think it's Shelley Avenue - 10 mins away from Garth Hill, 5 mins from my flat!!! I feel so honoured. XD

  • bracknell is the worst place to live in the motherfuking world.ohh and apsolutly sweet F.A HAPPENS THERE LOL

  • that bit at 2:04 is at Stokenchurch,Buckinghamshire surely not near Bracknell at all

  • at 2;04 is the Wokingham bound side of the platform, most local platforms look the same....

  • @barspeed Its Bracknell all right, Army Cadet hut behind it.

  • bracknell sucks ass sheffield owns

  • ha ha i livee in bracknell nd i have 2 say its fucking shit :)

    cnt wait 2 move 2 london

  • hahahaha bracknell is a shit hole

  • fuck you dick head ur probably one of those posh shits

  • not at all i live in council flat in bracknell cant wait to move out of dump

  • Lived there from '62 -'79. This brilliant little film, with Pearl&Dean intro, brings it all back - also reminds me of the Peter Sellars sketch, 'Balham - Gateway To The South'. We spent most of our time playing in the Crown Estate which is now all houses. Also remember Kevin Keagan falling off his bike at the sports centre during Superstars - Brakenhale's just up the top from there. Great stuff. Glad I ain't there now, though.

  • Roundabouts are no problem for me as I drive a classic Mini Cooper. Anyway sorry for not mentioning Wildridings, but I'm not local and so I really don't know anything about it?

  • Great Hollands lovely area! =)

  • You didn't mention wildridings! You should be ashamed Sir!

    Other than that. . .don't ever come here, the roundabouts are designed to get you lost and never leave.

    The best way to view Bracknell is with your back facing it.

  • The 2nd was the 1972 harrowing and violent film called 'The Offence' starring Sean Connery who played a tough cop who ended up killing a bloke in custody who he believed was a paedophile. This film is available on DVD and again 'Connery' lived in 'Point Royal' with his wife. Although in the 1972 film, Bracknell looks very bleak and rain washed.

  • Not forgetting a 1971 flm called "The Villan" starring Richard Burton, parts of this film were filmed around the Southern Industrial area with Point Royal clearly visable in the background. A clip of this fllm in Bracknell can be found on Youtube.,

  • I haven't seen that film (Villain) for some time, so I'll have to try and get a copy now. Thank god 'Point Royal' is a grade II listed building as it would be a real shame to loose it since it's appeared in so many classic British films over the years. Shame the listing couldn't have been applied to and therefore saved that massive concrete car-park in 'Get Carter' (1971).

  • What films were shot in Bracknell then? I know of "The Offence" in 1971 that feaures a very early "new" Bracknell Town Centre. "The Villian" from 1970 that features the Southern Industrial area and Peacock farm. I haven't seen "I start counting" but what others are there? I do know that the comedy "The Kit Curran Radio Show" from 1984 was set in Bracknell as the opening titles featured Bracknell locations.

  • 'The Offence" (co-starring Ian Bannan) is one of Connery's best performances. I'd forgotten about 'The Villain', my Grandad watched them shooting some of that on the Southern Industrial Estate when I used to live there.

  • I believe this Town and the 'Point Royal' high-rise block of flats in particular was used in a few classic British films over the years. The 1st wast the 1969 chilling movie 'I Start Counting' which starred a very young Jenny Agutter who played a schoolgirl that lived in 'Point Royal'. Not an easy film to find at the moment though because it's never been commercially released. But it can be tracked down via movie collectors on the 'Internet Movie Database'.

  • The opening title sequence from 'I Start Counting' is here on Youtube.

  • bracknell is as beautiful as my boyfriend mr faizer. hes talented and my baby. we're gay togetha in bracknell

  • Where did it all go wrong?!

  • lolage, bracknell is no-where NEAR this nice anymore.

  • OI! Where's Warfield in here? Other than that, BRACKNELL ROCKS!

  • i like bracknell its wicked

  • I have fond memories of Ladybank and would go back there if I could.

  • go birch hill!

  • as per anchOrman13 "the running horse jump over the rounderbout" lol

  • woohoo go bracknell!

  • Bracknell rocks I live in Wildridngs

  • whats more every thing in bracknell is disposable im 42 and i have lived here all my life in that time ive seen a cemetery turned in to a block of flats (mt plesant) the running horse jump over the rounderbout when a office block becomes unoccupied just knock it down and rebuild it the council cut down 300 year old oak trees because a councillors friends garden needs more light and they dont like the leaves in fall

  • I Like Bracknell. Its just the idiots on the trains with their mobile frigging phones that put me off

  • GarfUKG

    Completely agree with you mate. I live in Bracknell now, and all though im not a cumdrinker (!), I do agree. I hate this place more than anything. Im going to Oz soon, so hopefully that natural disaster will occur then?

  • LOL nuttin like bracknell LOL

  • ...bracknell has just been left to rot... it has no culture no soul, a 10 screen cinema and a bowling ally...nor freaking ski-slope (great idea counselors) isn't gonna save it from one of the all time wanky places to live in England, no wonder people there develop weird psychological disorders and sexual kinks... Mill Pond summer 84 spliff a cup full of tit and I'm a man! - huzzah!, long live Bracknell

  • Yeah i agree but they are due to put a few hundred million into it, hey listen if you think Bracknells bad try and live in Slough thats where i was born and raised hey Fuck that. id much rather live here

  • i live on bracknell cres in missisaauga ontario canada. It was built maybe 20 years ago. Named after this town I guess. It's a shitty street.

  • Haha Got To Love Good Old Bracknell:P

  • Ha Ha i think this is simply brilliant!!!! As if you dont live here you will not understand how crap this place is now!!! Its like walking through an advert for phones for you but real life!! chavs?? Oh but JJB sport is closed so they go and buy there stuff at Chav world at the peel centre! ha ha i want to make a movie with the person!!!!!!!!!

  • How things have moved on !!! shame the town centre is the only thing that remains 20 years behind the rest of the town. Can I make a suggestion that some-one updates this movie and the town centre.Bracknell might be where things happen and where you would want to live.

  • Well at least Bracknell is famous ...even though it is for being the shitist Town in the western world

  • i doubt that very much

    plus if u think

    then u havet been up north (Y) or east london take you pick

    but come shitist town in the western world

    just a tad bit EXTREME

    its crap but not that crap

    its 150th something "greatist" town in britain so u no

  • ok no offence its just my opinion

    east londons nice i mean ilfords really nice ,hackneys bad because of the gun crime

    but east london in general is nice

  • well i didt mean eat london in general i might some places

  • i live in bracknell, and go to school in bracknell, and john nike lesiure center is not crap. i bet you can't skate or ski or anything kissassemo

  • Hey, I used to work there, your leucky if you get a pair of skates coz the male assistants ogle the female assistants, its dirty, crummy and old, my mate broke his leg on the luge run because staff werent doing thier job, still John Nike had to give him several grand in comp.

  • i have my own sk8s the sk8z there r crap, i don't go on2 public sessions

  • dude im really good at skating (Y) appantly

    its just the ice there is shite and so is the music ..

    maybe you should get alife :D

  • yeah, the music is pretty crap,

    wot level are you?

  • erm im a level 59 priest shadow spec

    WTF i dont care about level

    your next comback will be

    " you iz a crap lvl dats why you dont like sk8ing"

    if it is just fuck off

  • I hope this is tounge in cheek....What a bloody terrible town...should have been levelled years ago...Great Hollands!!! LMAO!!!

    Chav town, crap shops, souless, grey...just plain SHITE!!!

  • and ignorent people live there who really need to get jobs and see the wider world .

  • i live here :(

    its so crap :(

  • poor you

    you should go to the point or the world famous "John nikey lesisure centre" as mentioned in the ALI G Movie

  • the john pikey lesisure centre is so crap

    point is allright

    but tbf i would rather stay in my house

  • yea

    you cant beat london and reading

  • true i go reading every weekend

  • hay i respect how mumble you are .most people are like bracknell is the best and Reading is shit .Reading deffo not the best town out there but its still good

  • yae reading beats bracknell anyday

    anyway do u live in bracknell then ?

  • i live in Reading but i went to college in Bracknell and Worked there

  • lol Noice (Y)

  • huh

  • its Nice :D in cool way

  • all our sympathy

  • London Council repatriation programme, says it all really...

  • It is tounge in cheek in so much that it is a terrible town and should leveled, Great Hollands, a sign used to read as you entered it years ago, under Great Hollands read in marker pen - Beruit (or similiar)

  • what does Beruit mean, and Great Hollands is where a killer lives, he was amurderer, i live in binfield. No where near Great Hollands i think but still in bracknell

  • and it hasn't changed much since.

  • Im only ** years old and i lived ther for half of my life and i have got to say maybe the best part of my life but i suppose grimsby where i am livng now is good just maybe grimsby will be better then bracknell to me who knows but really good film better if updated :P

  • Lived in Bracknell for over 20 years, Loved the old pics and stuff, someone please do an updated version (M3 link, town upgrade, ice rink etc) Great place to live when all things considered.

  • Update soon I hope, maybe an 80's version in true Life on Mars - Ashes to ashes stlye....

  • Trevor Sperry? I wonder if I'm related to him...

  • Thanks for that! Reminds me why i moved to Skegness! I was thin king Skeggy was a shootube, but thanks to you i am happy with my lot again! Thanks Barspeed.

    If only there was a Silver Birch here!!! lol

  • Absolutely brilliant video, made me laugh. Living in Crown Wood, can see the funny side...

  • lol A brilliant movie. Well i quite like Bracknell, its way better than some towns. Cause everything here is right on your doorstep you have london just under an hour away, you can get to Reading in 20 minutes,theres a big cinema, bowling ally, the school are doing okay around here, decent sized supermarkets and the shopping centre isnt to bad and if you really hate Bracknell that much, its ok the whole Town Centre is going to be knocked down and rebuilt soon - so you dont need to worry!!!

  • Watch this Space - Reading Movie soon!

  • @playgirlkaty what's funny about this comment is that you posted that 3 years ago, and there is not yet any work being done on that shopping centre they've been going on about for the past hundred years XD Too bad the recession hit when it did, they were so close to getting started

  • @playgirlkaty 3 years on and we still have the same town centre

  • Makes me want to move there... hang on, I live in Crown Wood.

  • My sincerist apologies lol

  • Very well done, I have lived in Bracknell all my 41 years (Priestwood near the Western Industrial Estate) and enjoyed every momment of your spoof.

  • I used to live there till i realized it was and always will be a soulless underpassed 10-screen/mall/complexed/bowli­ng violent sterile fcuked up town which takes the B out of banal and makes basingstoke look like las vegas!

  • I have lived in Bracknell all my life (over 45+ yrs) and it still a dump of a town (lol)

  • I love these things and this is a great spoof. I love the pulling out with the camera over photos. I love the music and I love the footage of the motorway with all those late 70s motors. But please, please, please check your spelling. Sorry to be a pedant but 'Heavey Engineering'? All it takes is a quick check. You've gone to the trouble to make the film.

  • Everything in the film was deliberate, including the poor editing of the bus station music and mis-spelling, thanks

  • Show my street on this film!!

  • which street!?

  • wow what a place Bracknell is 1

  • It never was, still isnt...

  • I dunno if they ever did do an original for Bracknell?

  • They didnt, but i think it might have been sumit like mine?

  • shame no one has posted the telly originals .. having said that, top class spoof!

  • i have!

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