Basingstoke Town Centre

[dougfather]

Valuable piece of film. Amazing.

[fenlandfolly]

friggin hell, where did this come from? I used to live in one of the flats above this shopping centre in mid 1970's Pubs were mostly crap apart from one near the old theatre -Kings Arms or something?? Bass House was for chavs and grunts - sorry guys. Used to go to the Fox at Newfound or the Barley Mow in East Oakley - How sad was that?? A blast from the past, Thanks for posting man.

[zeonbub]

Brook House sadly been demolished and just a space with a few trees planted round the edges

[SebastianSevenInMay]

What a great piece of history. Our family moved to Basingstoke in 1970, when I was 6 yrs old. I have fond memories of the 'old town centre' from both childhood & teen years (the ABC cinema) and as a young woman who used to go out to such places as Martine's and The Bass House! Festival Place is great, there's no denying that, but I have a place in my heart for the cold, grey concrete of the very retro 60's architecture.

[tom19560000000000000]

@SebastianSevenInMay Oh my happiest memories were in the Bass house and Martines first started drinking in there in 1977.

[mesembe]

where an earth do you get all this vidoes from and why would some1 film it lol

[Dumbdrivercam]

This was the 1960's? It hasn't changed a bit! Except there are more tracksuits, big gold hoop earings, knackered Reebok classics and poorly customised 1991 Fiestas there now! (sorry Basingstoke, but you really don't help yourself do you....)

[chelseamrb65]

Basingstoke looks much better now but the people are worse it is now full of chavs,pikeys,mockneys and single mothers.

[squid030964]

This looks more like an early 70's cine film of the then "New" town centre. One view is of the New Market Square - the film-maker stood opposite to what was Knights the record shop. Wote Street used to run along the front edge of the New Market Square up until around 1967. The part that may be from the late sixties is the footage of a derelict Lower Brook Street. The Roundabout in front of Brook House is named after the Victory public house which stood there before the redevelopment.

[lostindiekid]

oh dear lol i know it was in the 60's but still it looked pretty bad and in my opinion could still do with some improvement now in some parts but it is definitely better than it was.

[Kurolli]

Lmao, brook house still had its letters attatched!!

[mesembe]

basingstoke used 2 look soo drab, but its better now

[GeorgiinaaaaakayY]

Yeaah much better now

[lelvish1]

God, it looks soooo depressing. Its so much better now.

[dannyhutchins003run]

brings back childhood memories

[Dansponner]

was that the ol;d ibm building witch now is currently being coneverted to sklyline plaza it looks more like a city there

[Knightvitesse]

No it's the old government building which they knocked down to build new apartments in the early 2000's. IBM building is behind that and was built much later.

[Dansponner]

are you kidding me that building must be taller than fareham house is no

beacuse the ibm was 17 floors now 19 now taller tham fareham house Basingstoke has changed i remember the car park being where crown heights is though i dont know why but it was buldozed when i was 6 or 7

[rethink621]

The AA - Fanum House you mean. No, I think that's still the tallest building in B/Stoke.

[Dansponner]

its not anymore

skyplaza is 19 1/2 stories its taller now

[rethink621]

Fanum House is 18 stories - I'm going to stick my neck out and say that at 274ft, it's still taller than the renovated Alencon House...

[Dansponner]

thats weird i should remember it then buy i keep thinking about part of the old car park i sont know why