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Basildon Town Centre in 2003

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Uploaded by on Jul 16, 2006

This is me turning a circle in Basildon Town Centre in Essex, England. I took this video in 2003 so I know that it's all changed now. It looks a bit of a dump but I strangely miss the familiarity of it since moving to Canada and would be happy to go back and do some shopping there.Or would I? The music in the background was performed by one of those South American (I think) pipe music groups that seem to turn up at shopping centres.

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  • I live near in pitsea , so if you want next time i'm round my dad's i'll record it? :P

  • You should do that and post it here. I'd like to see the changes since i took that video!

  • It might look like a dive to outsiders, but it's home.

    Been a few years since it looked like that though. The metal man statue-thing is now in Wat Tyler park, the escalators to Basildon Bowl were removed after many an accident, and some shops have changed.

    Still as miserable and grey as ever though :P

  • Maybe someone needs to take another movie clip from the same position to compare the changes in the five years since I took the original.

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  • Is this the same Basildon where the council take backhanders for granting planning permission to dodgy property developers ?

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  • @Flamorgan Yes got it in one. "Acacia Park" is the latest in their long list of giveaway land. "Come and live in Acacia Park" goes the ad. "Once the pride of Basildon residents, now the honeypot of councillors incomes!" It wouldn't be anywhere near so bad if the guilty had to live here in this town!

  • my boy has just moved here with my ex,i thought south London was bad but this looks like some depressing shithole in Poland or something

  • So many memories, Basildon FTW :D

  • Completely unrelated to Basildon, but where in Canada did you move to? I'm emigrating to Ottawa in June (from London...I'm originally from Hackney) and I'm kind of nervous!

  • Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Nik Kershaw... New Wave 80er!

  • hasnt changed

  • Lol, 2003 ay, Long time ago... I'm there so often I've never though of how much it's changed lol =]

  • WOW this video is well old its actually changed so much now haha

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