we had our honeymoon in Torquay 30 years ago and our song is "wishing on a star" by Rose Royce 29th July 1989 at St Lawance's Church Abbots Langley Watford
@stevemaclaine4547
3 жыл бұрын
been there about 13 times,love it there ,home from.home 😃
@Goady1000
5 жыл бұрын
It is still a lovely place to visit.
@callummichael7119
5 жыл бұрын
Goady1000 wouldn’t recommend
@katysteele6069
2 жыл бұрын
lots of nice memories, i live 10 mins away from torquay. what a shame its so run down now, just full of empty shops, drugs, and unfortunatly alot of homeless
@stevenwall2317
6 жыл бұрын
We had a couple of holidays around this time when I was a kid. I used to like Torquay. I remember when the Riviera centre opened, it was the first time I’d been on a water slide in the UK! It’s not the same since they got rid of all the arcades! Love the use of “Ride Like The Wind” at the start. Awesome.
@mnmless
4 жыл бұрын
This is how I remember my home. Cockington, Babbacombe and St Marychurch still retain their beauty. But the Towncentre and surrounding areas are slipping. Still a busy place, but not as it was. The transport needs to be improved, trains are too slow and old.
@deeceecorfield8103
3 жыл бұрын
I was there in that year! Beautiful Babbacome!!!
@bleeuk
10 жыл бұрын
Torbay is a lovely place, Paignton Zoo Sign and the look Entrance has changed (06:44 ) than NOW
@joanne26
3 жыл бұрын
I love watching these videos of places like Torquay back in the day. This is only 32 years ago! I have never been to Torquay but my late father stayed at the Imperial Hotel a number of times as the company he worked for had their sales conferences there towards the end of the 70's and also towards the end of the 80's He always told me that the the hotel was 'top draw' and at that time was a 5* hotel if i remember correctly. Also Torquay was a great place for a week's holiday or just a short break. I suppose 30 + years on things have changed and reading some of these comments perhaps not for the better. As i child in the 60's i was taken to Rhyl several times and when i went back in the 90's it was so depressing. All i saw were young girls with pushchairs with young babies and the front needed quite a bit of money spent to 'clean the place up'
@LeppardPrintAnimal
12 жыл бұрын
I wish Torquay was still like that - it's a total shyt hole now.
@truthseeker508
5 жыл бұрын
Yes. Like most places in uk and lots of europe, it all went downhill.
@andyachilleos5013silvereagle
4 жыл бұрын
LeppardPrintAnimal you couldn’t be more wrong,you have to find the places of the beatan track
@nigelheath7048
3 жыл бұрын
@@phoenix6861 There was indeed. Indoor childrens play area,used to take our kids there.
@nigelheath7048
3 жыл бұрын
@@phoenix6861 Don't know if you know Torquay but it was half way up market Street,over a huge discount furniture shop. It allegedly had the first on the floor keypad that was activated by standing on the keys,although I'm not sure if that's true. It closed i would imagine about 20 years ago.
@nigelheath7048
3 жыл бұрын
@@phoenix6861 Not really sure where you mean. As you go up market Street there is a road to the left that is just before the park and bowling green,it was on the left just before the junction. I just googled fun factory torquay and there are a few old Facebook posts about it.
@richwalker9261
9 жыл бұрын
thanks, this is pure quality!
@Mark-ms5pn
4 жыл бұрын
Babbacome is lovely
@tq25tn
13 жыл бұрын
I agree, it is a shame how Torquay has slipped down. It wealth was created by being the best winter climate available to the Victorians and then later by Tourism. All now look to overseas destinations. It could grow as a dormitory town or high tech business location, but it desperately needs a decent connecting road to the rest of the country. The only seaside resorts to survive the change are Brighton/Bournemouth. Both with good dual carrage ways. That tells you the solution!
@vikingsmb
Жыл бұрын
same with weymouth, it needs a dual carriageway from the m5 to it
@barongreenbackthe2nd418
4 жыл бұрын
Such a shame,it’s all gone now.
@chriswilliams5622
6 жыл бұрын
Goes on about attractions yet leaves out one of the biggest attractions in the steam railway.
@davidjones637
5 жыл бұрын
05:00
@garybeddard3735
10 жыл бұрын
Yes Torquay is a great place to live and is improving by the week with all new investment coming in. The new bypass will make travelling to Torbay a lot easier. The video is an old one and could do with updating. Its great to see holiday makers enjoying themselves. The pavilion is to be knocked down this coming year to make way for a new hotel/restaurant, and the new apartments on the sea front will be complete this next year. A lot of new investment will change the face of the bay. if you know where to look and visit there are some outstanding places. No we cant guarantee the sun, but some great places to eat and visit. We are so lucky to live hear, and as I have said, once the new bypass is complete even better.
@chrisw4329
5 жыл бұрын
The Pavillion is still standing today as it's a listed building.
@sindylu4209
6 жыл бұрын
I love going to go Torquay for shopping
@ImMamba
6 жыл бұрын
Chris said no-one ever
@stevewalsh133
4 жыл бұрын
Totally different. Now
@missblakeyy123
11 жыл бұрын
its being sorted out now, the council are improving the road in
@KONAMAN100
6 жыл бұрын
I'm looking out for old school mullet Lane hanging out somewhere here
@TheMintySpaghetti
12 жыл бұрын
It's weird that most of these things are still here. Of course it's gone downhill, but it's not terrible.
@rich_edwards79
6 жыл бұрын
Venn. Productions - Rock Walk, Palm Court (always buzzing when I was a kid) and many of the old villas have gone, but the bones of a classy resort are still there even now. Just needs sprucing up and bringing back... somehow.
@tq25tn
12 жыл бұрын
Perhaps, this is a reflection on why the reason Torquay has slid down as people now use such poor language to express an opinion. Those with an education/money/standards go elsewhere!
@zerolubin
5 жыл бұрын
You Sir are a cock.
@Cardifftoyboy1
3 жыл бұрын
@@zerolubin Torquay has been flushed down the pan. Hoards of toothless bimbo,s in shell suits pushing their fatherless children around in push chairs. Druggies everywhere. I used to come her 35 years ago every quarter until I moved away. I was horrified by what I saw coming back 5 years ago. No nice restaurants the town centre has become idiocracy by sea. Graham Chilvers is right. Something has gone horribly wrong.
@martythemk3fiesta59
2 жыл бұрын
Splash down looks unchanged
@Bruce-vq7ni
4 жыл бұрын
As in the video it all still here - But with the addition of 30 years worth of dirt & graffiti.
@hendrestin
8 жыл бұрын
Torquay is a depressing dump now. Lots of fights and people vomiting in the streets of the town at night. The hotels are mostly clapped out flea pits. About as much style as Benidorm but with rain.
@alberttatlock5237
3 жыл бұрын
More and more people go abroad nowadays, even running a car is cheaper now than it was 30 years ago, standard of living has gone up, people have more money. Can't live in the past, it's like me saying 60 years ago was better as everyone smoked and you'd be lucky if you lived till 60 and health and safety meant deaths on building sites were common back then, we earned less money but at least we hung people for murder and didn't have to use seat belts in cars.. Yea great times in the old days, no computer or mobiles, no double glazing or central heating, work was 55 hours a week with 2 weeks paid holiday a year. And half the homes still had outside toilets.. Great fun, less beggars because nobody had any money to give them lol
@truthseeker508
9 жыл бұрын
I forgot the name of the song that plays during the intro credits, when they are starting? btw Torquay is another random shithole today, not much of the ambience and style in this video are left---
@rich_edwards79
6 жыл бұрын
Truth Seeker - there were still glimpses of that glamour when our family used to holiday there in the mid-late 80s. It really did feel as though you were abroad. Then the big recessions of the early 90s hit and, whilst we carried on going, the place was noticeably quieter. (A run of bad summers between 1991-1994 didn't help). And a lot of businesses just didn't make it. They've been trying to revive it ever since, but in my view going about it all wrong. Cutting down magnificent old trees, flattening old buildings. Destroying the very things that made it special. One the more successful resorts in this country is Llandudno and that's because it's restored its Victorian architecture and turned the idea of a traditional seaside holiday into a selling point. Whereas Torquay almost seems ashamed of its glory days. Yes, the whole country has undergone a lot of social decline since the 70s and 80s, but in Torquay a lot of it wasn't necessary. It needs a better council (not a Tory one, for a start) and an aggressive policy of saving and preserving the surviving beautiful mid-C19th buildings, coupled with new and innovative ways to somehow draw the tourists back.
@deniseharrod5339
5 жыл бұрын
Ride like the wind by Christopher Cross
@zerolubin
10 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely dreadful even then.
@mikekaraoke
7 жыл бұрын
Nothing wrong with this this part of Devon, WTF you talking bout
@zerolubin
7 жыл бұрын
That is your puerile opinion sweary man!
@mikekaraoke
7 жыл бұрын
Gerry King Well I think a'lot of people agree with me, In what way makes what you have seen in the video a shit hole exactly just curious
@zerolubin
7 жыл бұрын
The video you numpty - the flipping video!! I never said anything about Torquay you plum.
@farpisahelicopter
11 жыл бұрын
why most you guys hate Torquay its atleast not flooded!
@brianroper9766
6 жыл бұрын
Iv'e just returned from Torquay from a short break and i think its in a time warp..Its in the 80's but the tramps are still in the doorways!!.. why do the council let this happen?
@farnish
13 жыл бұрын
Fantastically bad. "No all over tan now!" See, that's told you.
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