I remember many holidays and great family memories of my childhood in 70s/80s here. I remember the boat you could play on outside the clubhouse and some great nights there. So sad to see it in this state now
@AdventureJGough
6 ай бұрын
My family holiday there in the mid 90’s, it was a great place to go and club house was great for the kids, I even won a free holiday back there for my family with a dance routine in a competition, what a shame it’s all gone
@PrinceFluffy
3 жыл бұрын
60's and early 70's.....❤️❤️❤️
@darrenarnold8846
7 жыл бұрын
A regular holiday spot for me back in the 80`s. Have so many great memories of this place. Shame to see it has fallen apart and going to decay :-(
@garyeaton6172
6 жыл бұрын
Stayed here a few times 1979 and 81 82 sure first time I stayed as a kid it was called Redcliff Holiday chalet park I’ve still got my card I’ll have to check. I loved this place remember it very well out at sea near Culver cliff there was a part submerged boat you could see the funnel and part of front. I made friends with a lad Barry Edwards from Coventry. Oh what I’d do to go back in time, I remember the little park swinging away to the sound of the music coming from the club at night eating a midnight mint choc ice. Loved it thanks a million for sharing video I can even remember my chalet number (78)
@carolinewaite7185
8 жыл бұрын
Being an Islander I never went to this Holiday Park but it is so sad to see these places in a boarded up state. You would think with the world in the way it is at the moment people wold come to the Island and once again these places would buzz like they did in the 50s and 60s but then there is the ferry prices!!!!!! You never know Ted Bovis or Spike may turn up and say it's there Birthday - every week lol!!! Good video.
@ISLEOFWIGHTARCHIVE
8 жыл бұрын
It's even more of an eyesore now. it's not just the ferry prices it's wider than that
@carolinewaite7185
8 жыл бұрын
What do you think adds to it - I know I feel safer in this country and in Devon the camps are full.
@mrsmiggins6435
3 жыл бұрын
Never stayed here. We had our family holidays at Puckpool, Ryde. 1975-1982ish. Great memories at that camp. Went back with my own family in early 2000's, it had lost atmosphere. You should never go back so they say
@TheStevenWhiting
7 жыл бұрын
Used to go there every summer in the 80s and 90s. Even think I remember that woman and man entertaining at beginning. Just visited today. At 41 it's probably been about 27 years since was last there. Anyone know anything about the holiday park opposite? Never seen it as a kid and the driveway now makes it look like it's shut. I think that place had a pool but was more expensive. We got to know the maintenance men from the 80s at the place in your video. Always remember family friends and my mum and dad talking to them every year. At the end of the bar was a restaurant that we'd have a meal at on our last night. We'd all dress up. I got locked in the loos in the club house one year. Looks a sorry state now. UPDATE- Also remember just outside the main entrance, that little shelter was where the pay phone used to be. I remember our other family friend (was 3 families that used to go every year) Trevor using that. I also remember going out and hanging out with him and my sister one evening and he was smoking and I was told not to tell his mum and dad :) Also just in the lobby area, where reception was, if you kept walking there was the campsite store. Was quite large with frozen stuff and all sorts. On the green was a small golf putting setup and all the kids climbing frames. There was the famous (for us it was famous) climbing frame ship. The swings and the roundabout. Go through the gate to the cliff and you'd go down the steps to the beach. Over the years they were destroyed with the erosion. When going today (now typing on a laptop, was on the Nexus earlier) the stairs are long gone and even the new paths that had been created by just people making their way to the beach had gone. I thought there was no way down anymore bu a couple appeared and knew a way down. I didn't follow just watched them :) If you look up to the left on the cliff there is a niddle style monument. Don't know what it is of but we walked up there as kids to see it. Also, sometimes we'd do a cliff walk into Sandown.
@TheStevenWhiting
5 жыл бұрын
I think the couple entertaining in the club house in the photo were known as Maureen and Tony. But I could be remembering wrong. Pretty sure they are the same couple we saw every year.
@TheStevenWhiting
5 жыл бұрын
More memories. The photo of the club from what looks like 80s. The location of where the person taking the camera was, was where the "tuck shop" was. Where we get our cokes etc. Remember sitting at the tables and sticking straws together. Remember standing at the entrance to the bar and looking in at our dad and family friend. They were strict about not letting kids into the bar area. I believe at the back near the corner of the main club house were the loos and I got stuck in one. When we'd go back to the chalets at night, the fight trying to keep moths out was a real fight. My dad would also come out later and throw bread onto the roof of our friends chalet. So all the seagulls would wake them up in the mornings.
@TheStevenWhiting
4 жыл бұрын
More memories. Back visiting but not bothered to visit the site. One thing I don't like is trying to get out of the park. Has always been dangerous. Anyway. The rubbish men, for some reason we found it funny as kids, to shout "What a load of rubbish" when they'd big up the rubbish. They'd chase us and if caught you got put in the rubbish hut or in the back of their van and then they'd drive it round to their office. I think all the ones we knew are long gone as most where middle aged or older in the 80s.
@hubertegg
10 жыл бұрын
I remember staying here in the 70s when i was a lad. Also i went there in 2008, which was the last year the clubhouse was in operation. It was if i recall going to be demolished and luxury holiday homes with a pool were going to be built. i guess the rescession hit that.
@TheStevenWhiting
7 жыл бұрын
Doing a search it appears the owners who took over in 2009 had grand plans but went bankrupt. Apparently they weren't nice people either and the people who owned some of the chalets were pleased they'd gone and someone else took over.
@TheStevenWhiting
6 жыл бұрын
2018 and went back the other day. Still appears to be no shift in doing anything with the club house. They have fenced it all off now. They've also put cardboard or something at the base of every window in a bid to stop you filming in. Would be curious to know what it's like inside. If much has been left untouch or is it a wreck. Because kids weren't allowed in the bar, there was a shop/kiosk/tuck shop, for the kids to by crisps and drinks from during the evenings. 0:36 I believe the entertainers in that shot were called Maureen and Tony but I could be remembering wrong. I have a memory of us chatting to them one year and for some odd reason being backstage with them. Again, I was young so could be remembering wrong. Where that photo was taken, if you'd turn around, that's where the kids shop was. When I get home I should have a root around our old photos from that site. Unfortunately I don't think we have any of the club house. I notice there is a sign on the road into the part mentioning in the off season the part is shut and only open for access only. I assume if you own the chalets you can go in?
@ISLEOFWIGHTARCHIVE
6 жыл бұрын
A lot of the chalets are privately owned now. I stayed their years ago when it was a pontins ? Any holiday camp hat has both a lord palmerston fort and a cold war R.O.C bunker on site is quite unique .
@MrRobbobrown
11 жыл бұрын
its a huge shame what has happened 2 the holiday park so many memorys from when i was a baby
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