1969 CLACTON ON THE SEA

a warm summer day on the beach, at Clacton by the sea,

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[StaticPulseSB]

id love to go bk to thm days

[gamwam]

ahh the town of my birth!... looking back i was so lucky to have been born and raised there,..5 years ago i move inland to nottingham,... and now when i go back,... clacton has changed so much that i dont think i could ever live there again,...its funnyhow time changes things,..:(

[martyw34]

I know what you lot mean.We use to go there a fair bit from Croydon.We have relatives there still.I remember the things on the vid.I wish I could go back to those times.They were nicer.

[vikingraider1]

I used to go here as a kid every year from London. I love the place. Haven't been back in years but would love to go one day.

[jblackstonecat]

@wombat1948 My first job was working for C.H. Chaston in Holland-on-Sea as a builders clerk in 1961. Ron Covell was my boss. I worked there for 2 years before returning to Canada in 1963.

[SuperAncientmariner]

@breezybbe My dad did the scaffolding.

[kevphillips02]

@wissyman1 dont boast about it, its nothing to be proud of

[kevphillips02]

@breezybbe That unfortunately burnt down in 1973.

[paulj2001]

Great video! Does anyone know the name of the music track or the artist? Thanks for the memories :)

[merryhobgoblin]

I was born and went to school in Clacton and would have been 7 when this video was made. It does bring back some very fond memories. Anyone remember the Butlins camp which we all used to sneak in to?...lol

[wombat1948]

This video brings back wonderful memories of Clacton as it was when I first came down here to do a `summer season` ,in May 1969,as solo organist at Valley Farm Camping Ground(as it was called then-owned by local families-Pawsey and Chaston) and the entertainments manager was famous bandleader, Ronnie Mills,with Ron Covell the general manager.

Things were totally different then-Clacton was a resort,buzzing with entertainment.

Thanks for the memories,

wombat 1948