Britain in the 1950s
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- Nostalgic look at Britain in the 1950s, including events such as the opening of the M1 motorway, the Munich air disaster, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, dance crazes, flamboyant fashion and much more
I was born in 1952 and I’d go back to the 50,s and 60,s in a heartbeat, it may have been hard in many ways but I always felt safe
Yep, in our memories, the past is always safer. We who were born in the 50s (I was born in '51) forget about rationing, polio, TB, diphtheria and many other ghastly things to die of. And, before the 1956 Clean Air Act, in the winter, we were all choking on smog.
I don’t know about you but I was vaccinated against all of the diseases you mention and was also lucky enough not to have known anyone who had contracted these illnesses. We also had antibiotics so I remember it as being a relatively healthy time. I also remember being able to play outside with my friends or visit the local park without adult supervision something I would not advocate for my granddaughter now.
@KeithC77-ux8vv you’d be very welcome, I remember it as a wonderful relatively peaceful place with not many cars and far far fewer people
I lived in Stevenage as a kid during the 60s and int the 70s. Always felt safe. No games machines, smart phones, internet. Community and mixing with people was much stronger than today, you knew your neighbours. As a kid, with friends on a Saturday, often went down to London on the train (yes no parents), never got into trouble, always felt safe, if anything took it for granted. We even on numerous occasions went to the proms in the Royal Albert Hall, and got back home in the late hours (a ticket for kids was dirt cheap). Parents never worried.
@@malcolmabram2957 I know what you mean. I lived in Oxfordshire in the 60,s and 70,s and travelled to London most weekends to visit my boyfriend who was at Art School at the time.I was only 16 and travelled by train and tube by myself. I never felt nervous or afraid just excited and happy.
I was born in 1948 and I’ve been saying these past few years that I’d go back to the 50’s and 60’s in a heartbeat. Life was so much simpler, kids played outside without a worry, proper food, no mobile phones or computers etc etc and we were happy! Kids grew up being taught manners and respect, not the entitled me, me, me brats of today.
Totally and utterly agree, I too was born in 1948, and life seemed a lot 'gentler' then. Satire on the TV changed a lot, ' That was the week that was' kept knocking the establishment that was our way of life that stood this country in good stead, they thought it was funny and made a lot of money but look what it has done over the years to the new woke society.
I could have written that, my experience is exactly like yours Astrogirl. 1947 model me....
I was born in 1962 so missed the 1950's. What I like about documentary films from this era was that that the commentator always seems to sound really positive in contrast to today where most news stories just make you want to feel more depressed. Maybe the reality was not quite so rosy but looking back on the 1960's and 70's life was definitely less complicated.
And only 2 genders , not like now with all that B.S with : agender, cisgender, genderfluid, genderqueer, intersex, gender nonconforming, and transgender ( or whatever ) , politics was sh*te to , so there is no difference , no 🐒🐒 in the streets , less traffic, etc... 🙄🙄🙄🙄
I was born in 1963, and often think that....
When Great Britain was GREAT !
But broke
What’s changed, we are still broke and not recovering from 2 world wars.
@@zombiebiker5581 People in the UK work shorter hours than ever, live longer, and have access to things like phones, TVs, computers, washing machines, fridges, cars, holidays abroad, and have protection from diseases that would have appeared miraculous just a few decades ago.
The term Great Britain refers to the area (that is, is includes more than the term "Britain") not how "great" it was. Most of the population are a hell of a lot better off than they were in the past. If you want to see what it was like during the golden age try working in a mine or sweat shop and returning home to a slum. There's always rickets, polio, TB and dentures to try out.
Bollocks.
Despite rationing people actually ate healthier in the 1950s than they do today!
I didn't know we were on rations! I saw the books much later after my grandparents had passed on. No one seemed to be big eaters, but remembering they'd gone through two world wars, a pandemic, the depression, I expect they'd become used to not having a lot of food. That would be my grandparents, my parents had seen less, but ww2 was devastating to all, especially considering what their parents had gone through. Admirable generations. Being born in the 50's, NHS had been created in 1948, gvmnt built houses for the people, well baby clinics everywhere to support family health, everyone vaccinated. Polio became history, along with many other diseases. ...most were not wealthy, but rich in every other way.
Eat to much rubbish nowadays. I love fresh veg and salads and fruit.
More likely because of rationing. The downside of our world of plenty is that people who have money eat too much, and those who don't eat poor quality cheap food high in starch and sugar.
But they had shorter lifespans, worked harder and shorter educations (meaning working more years and a bigger part of their life).
Don't tell the miners, asbestos makers and machinest
Born in 1950, and lived through some tough but happy times in a terraced house, with outside toilet, no bathroom, in an industrial small Town in Northern England, my parents were fantastic and did everything they could for myself and my brother despite a shortage of money, however we weren’t short of love, we were happy and free. I know it wasn’t the same for many kids who were never blessed with loving parents and my heart goes out to those kids, when I read their horror stories I am grateful for what we had. I wouldn’t change the time, the people or the place where I grew up. Happy days, happy memories.
Interesting...
ABSOLUTEMENT...
Same here born 1953 Openshaw industrial area 2 up 2 down outside toilet tin bath opposite Beyer Peacock locomotive builders and would I love to go back!!
@@B50Stevie god bless you and your parents ..from a 78yrs old from Leeds and the same circumstances
All that voice takes you back to some wonderful programs in between the films went at the pictures
Unseen, in the background Politicians were planning a quite different future.
One in which the interests of profit would come before those of people. When lies by the far right about migrants would permeate the airwaves and ordinary people would believe them. That future? It's here.
Longer lives, more education, technical progress. Independence for colonies. So sad?
Born 1959 and would got back if I could ..we didn’t realise how good it was !
@@alipeacock3685 you would know nothing about the 1950s
@@anthonyeaton5153 I would as I was born in 1943
@@paulineyoung4260 So do I was born in 1937.
You would have had a very limited knowledge of that decade.
I was born in 1960, and I savoured every moment of every day. I really did know I was living in a great era. Yes, there were murderers and thieves, but they were few and far between, and I was kept safe from them by my lovely parents and teachers too.
@@anthonyeaton5153 Anthony, what's with all the aggression to quite innocent comments? Correspondingly, you'd have limited recollection of the 1930's - so what?
I’m 70 now I would go back in a heartbeat they where hard times but good times the 50s/60s/70s any time Britain a shit hole now I’m so glad I seen the best of the country you will ever see it again 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I'm not surprised people like these old films. It's the only thing left of Britain to be happy about. I hate the way they concrete over the countryside just to make a new estate.
My mum is 91, she spent years in Africa and Cyprus bringing up my sister and brothers while my dad was in the military, as well as later years in Guyana with myself and other sister while dad was working his nuts off there and Saudi Arabia. They always spoke fondly of the 50s.
She hates this shitshow this country has become. What a letdown for her.
@@martinhoy1 It's a real nightmare isn't it, but with the population at around 70 million and growing by the second I imagine there will be much more of this.
@@knowitall3503just reaching 91 in itself is quite wonderful and I’m sure not many people in the world can even hope to live as long and benefit from the sort of medical support that our elderly have enjoyed in our little “shitshow” since the war.
@@LostwaveObsession Yes 👍.
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We didn’t have much financially, but we had each other , everyone knew everyone and we helped each other out when necessary.Most mums stayed home , plenty to do not many gadgets , and always there for the children
I notice the significant absence of multi-cultural faces in those 'happier days'! What did our Politicians do to us??
A time when our country really was OURS. Gone forever.
People thought it was,but the Globalists set their plans into action after WW2,and after they side lined Enoch, their plans went into overdrive,and here we see the results in 2024.
Who owns it now then?
@@iangeorge6409
L🤫L Royal family of Martian's 👽
Like lard sandwiches : Gone Forever.
@@iangeorge6409 The banks 😢
I was born in 1952 in Birmingham in a prefab. I had a happy childhood even if we didn’t have much money. In the 60s my teenage years were amazing and I wouldn’t change anything
You'd go back to the days when rape in marriage was legal, women were treated as second class people, when the air was filthy with pollution?
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx I understand the horrors, but not because I experienced them, or knew of anyone who did.
The same exists today, despite better laws. Women are still in shelters with children, escaping from abuse.
Fortunately, I was raised as an equal to my brothers, not that it was planned, but because my parents, grandparents and all family, treated us all with equal respect, and expected us to do well, regardless of gender.
I didn't know I was fortunate, until many years later.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx All these things are still go on in some religions.
100% take me home.
@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo you mean in most if not all societies ?
Many will remember their childhood of the late 40's and early 50's as I do.The one thing that I remember above all was childhood freedom...the freedom to roam wherever.....the freedom to think for yourself....the freedom to invent games of your own...the freedom to live as children should, inventing their own enjoyment..the freedom to find my own limitations. A time of exploration and self learning....and yes; wonderment.....at least, in St.Ives.
As an 80yr old, those are exactly my experiences of those times.
At boarding school it was no fun. They were very strict.
Yes, my thoughts exactly, I am 84 now and horrified at what I see around me.
@@fredfarnackle5455me too, and I'm 68!
Born 1950. Happy, healthy and so grateful for living in those fabulous times! To all you similar born people, God Bless you all! Thank God that we can still look back, still remember.... Please Lord take me back!
Born 1947. Times were hard but we roamed free and felt safe.
Despite millions recently killed..
I agree - I'm the same vintage.
Don't know which Alice in Wonderland you inhabited. Did you ever hear of Myra Hindley? Mary Bell perhaps? Mods and Rocker pitched battles, Skinhead gangs. In 1963 in London, my 8 year old friend was grabbed by a gang that demanded money for his release. He was no pushover either. We carried knives from that time on at the age of 8! Then there were the paedophiles and violent teachers. Wonderful days.
@@philgray3443where did you live then - i was raised in Hammersmith in the 50s and it definitely was safe
Indeed old boy, and us Scots (immigrant free) enjoyed that safety until about 1985. That was the beauty of Scotland, and why we saw massive English (White flight) in the 1990's
Born in 1945 , all the things shown are what you could have but we did not, but you never miss that which you never had. The freedom to roam without a care was taken for granted, be back for tea was mothers instruction.
I was born early 60s so missed the 50s but would go back there in a heartbeat.
Everyone ask yourself this,would they have fought for this,Britain of 2024.
We lived on a farm, and my mum and the neighbours put all the food together to make meals for both families. Happy days , but hard work for both families ❤❤❤❤❤
And just look at our once great nation now.
I know, I know and it is damn depressing. I had a good childhood (60s), but the world is now so intolerant and aggressive, and people just want your money.
Sorry about your country...
At least there's no empire which caused such immense suffering around the world. And women have far more rights. And there's much less air pollution. And we have a minimum wage. And... a lot of other improvements.
There was a video taken last month at Southend beach where hundreds of wonderful young black folks gathered. It ended in a machete fight. A peaceful machete fight as the media would tell us.
I hate the way they are concreting over the countryside
Discipline in schools, at home, the world was not overpopulated as it is today. Very few people had cars so if you were fortunate enough for a holiday it was by bus or train. Police would clip one around the ear and would let one’s parents know who would then give the slipper or worse. Discipline yes but we survived and most got over it.
Discipline is a good word which leads to personal growth
When Britain was safe, virtually crime free on the streets and free.
When it got to the 60's we had never had it so good and Harold was right.
I WAS BORN IN 1953 AND THINGS WERW ALOT SIMPLIER AND SAFER I THINK AND LESS I WANT EVERYTHING NOW ❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊
Because times were white n bright love 😏
2024 no one can afford a roasting joint that big.
Even fewer could afford it back then. The percentage of income that people have to spend on food nowadays is miniscule compared to 'the good old days'. The same with clothes.
Most will have washing machines, TV's, cars, smart phones, holidays abroad. All things people could only dream of back then. Many of the diseases that were once common are now rare. We all live much longer and are healthier. The biggest health threats we have now is abundance.
Not of the meat variety anyway.
I'm roasting a joint right now, and it's really vey good!
I find it upsetting to see this sort of thing ….what the heck has happened to this country and the rest of Europe…such a shame
God be with the days.I often watch old clips of Dublin in the '60s.Heartbreaking to contemplate the city today.
Pre diversity days! Long gone!
WW3 is coming and we’ll find out.
Would love a time machine, would probably pop straight to the record shops and buy two of everything! I love this footage, everyone looks like they care how they look! We were very proud.
If you think people lived liked this in the 50s your very wrong that furniture at the beginning was only for the rich.
@@AndrewDaley-lr9qg I'd like to have been one of the rich in the '50s then!
@@LostwaveObsession so would I. 2.5k for a bed is amount of money back then you could of bought a decent house.
Born fortunately in 'late 47, I see now how fortunate myself, brother and sister were.. Unless born to inherited wealth and/or the aristocracy, this was probably the optimum time to be born in the UK in all history. By the late 50s Britain was at the peak of its achievement following the hardships of post WW2, ration books were being discarded, employment full and the young commanding higher salaries were exercising their influence in fashion and the arts. By the early 70s the decline was setting in, the unions allowed to dominate and the economy suffering as a result.. mass immigration was beginning to take effect on social services, people were learning to take advantage of the benefit system, a slow rot was beginning to sap the energy from production, crime was evolving from the traditional gangs to street crime and the police were focusing more on recruiting policies than employing people better suited to their task.
Looking around today in disbelief at what this country has become, I'm not at all sad that I'm nearing my time to depart this mortal coil. Children adjust to what they discover as they grow, hopefully, for their sake they'll deal with the insanity we see and read about daily. Nevertheless.. it's sad to see what was a once great country moving inexorably to becoming a third-world failed state..
I was born I’m 1941 ….In Manchester …In the late 1950 s I worked at the Manchester Hippodrome Ardwick Green ..Then in the 1960s worked at the Gaumont Theatre .Oxford Road .Manchester…. In 1966 went to live in Vancouver Canada….I loved Canada.In 1969 came back to England for a holiday and unfortunately never got back to Canada to live, Although I have been back to see friends I never got back there to live ….I miss it to this day…Now I look what has become of my country and I could cry…
Don't be too sad Canada isn't much better 😢
Anyone got a time machine!
Ikr, the glory days when women shut up and the mortality rate was astronomical.
Astronomical Telescope
I wish…Because back I would go….
If only
If only, I'd go back there and stay there.
When England was lovely and pleasant.
If you were rich. The air in cities and towns was filthy from burning coal. Our rivers were in worse condition even than today.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Some of those issues depended on where you lived.
And also often very poor and grubby...unless you were wealthy. I grew up in an old Victorian (rented ) house, 7 of us, no bathroom and an outside toilet, we were surrounded by bombsites and crumbling old buildings, untouched since WW2's end 9 years earlier....
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx When were you born?
@@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo 1965. I know the good and the bad of the past. We have gained a great deal such as far more rights for women, LGBTQ+ and disabled people, the minimum wage, reductions in smoking, while other things are not so good.
I was born 1957 I enjoy that thanks
Geat year!
I was born in 1991 and I’d go back to the 50s in a heartbeat
Born in 1946 - can't beat the 50s, 60s and 70s. As free as we were.
Please take me back to that time
The one thing we had as we grew up was hope……..the youth of today have no hope of buying or renting property, or getting a job for life.
Lack of trying doesn´t help matters.
I have watched this video many times and it saddens me to think in those days the way our nation was one compared to it now being fragmented. There seems to be no pride in many people. I feel sorry for the younger generation who have never experience those glory days... R.I.P. the the country that I loved
This was when there was a country called England, where did that country go?
Last time I looked it was just where it's always been.
It was misposted in 1963
and is now living a quiet life in Llandudno.
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256Yeah you must have been asleep then.
@@OliverACoventry You seem to want to live in the past. I think that's not only impossible, but kind of sad. Unhappiness is the gap between how we wish the world was and how it actually is. If that's where you want to be, then good luck. Enjoy your misery.
I was born in ,1946 and the only electric devices we had were electric lighting a fire and a radio.
I was born in 1955 in a house with my parents, grandparents, 2 aunts, 2 uncles a great aunt, no bathroom or hot water and now people expect a bedroom per child. Houses are now being extended beyond belief.
Perhaps your spelling could be better though as they were very hot on that at my schools
@@TheClockwise770 twatt :) XX
I was born in the same conditions in 1958 in West Virginia.
Tell that to kids today won’t believe you
you were lucky!..there were a hundred and fifty of us living in a shoe box in the middle of the road!
Very well put together. Thank you
I was born in the last week of 1949. How things have changed since then and not necessarily for the better.
I was born here in Finland in 1952 and remember these times. This movie was really nice and because of good picture quality it was a delight to watch. Thank you.
I’m wondering Why the Algorithm chose to share this 1yr old video suddenly, to all of us…& happy that it Did! I’ve Learned so much! As a genXer from the states, this is an eye opening lovely look back, that Truly shows the sadness of our youth & future, as well as giving us a fresh reminder of how Wonderful the world across the pond, once was…may she return😢. This channel is quite wonderful, Thank You
I watched the coronation on TV in 1953 - there were only about six TV's in our little Kent Village. There were 27 people in this woman's lounge watching an 8" TV screen!
I miss our Queen😢
Me too ❤🇬🇧
I miss your Queen, too.
I’ve never been a royalist but I cried when she passed away. She had so much sadness in her last months & no Prince Philip to share it with. 😢
Charlie’s doing a good job…….it’s time for a king 🇬🇧
How is he "doing a good job"? What's he doing, exactly?
I was born in the early 1950s, spent over 30 years in the British Army ( as did my father, N Africa, Italy, D Day). I was deployed world wide, combat Battalion. I am ashamed of our politicians, the world laughs at us !!
I went to University in London in 1953. This brought back so many memories. Thanks.
I was born in 1943. I think whatever decade you were born in you always look back on it as the good old times.
The kids nowadays will look back when they’re old and think the 2010’s were the greatest. Those young years are hopefully the best of your life.
Probably, but the fact remains that the Brits as every other European doesn't so much want the past back, but their country on the influx of strangers trying to turn every European country in their own third world idiocracy. And idiotic politicians who are the shareholders of companies who want them in to keep wages down and thinking they will get their votes that will keep 'm in office. But in the meantime all those golddiggers drain the country dry. So are we in unique times. Yes. Are they good times. No. Time for change. And maybe THAT will be remembered on old age.
No Free Palestine protests in the 50's to 90's
Born in 1959 into a world full of high expectations, and great dreams… Man on the Moon just 10 years later… We had a sense that the sky had no limits… That 2001 a space Odyssey was a likely possibility… Space stations and rocket ships… Moon bases and teleporters… We now have this phone in my hands… But as for the rest… But more than that, the dreams have diminished… Have become practical and earth bound.
I was born in 1944.
Fortunately, I am still active and FULLY COMPOSER MENTIS.
These are the days.
WISDOM DOES COME WITH AGE.
David Baxter.
Then, Llandudno.
* Compos mentis
No, he still writes music
Wisdom does not come with age.
@davidbaxter ‘composer mentis’ 😂😂😂 awww David I bloody love you, you are priceless 😂😂😂 ‘composer mentis’ hahaha classic 👍
(David obviously likes to blow his own trumpet)..
so much better back then
Harold MacMillan was responsible for hiring Richard Beeching, the ICI executive who had no experience in the railways to become the chairman of British Rail and destroy Britain's great rail network, and paid him handsomely for the task - the controversial sum of £24,000 (£675,000 in 2023 terms), £10,000 more than Sir Brian Robertson, the previous chairman of the BTC, £14,000 more than Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, and two-and-a-half times higher than the salary of any head of a nationalised industry at the time
oh my goodness. so that's who was responsible.. lot of money back then. could buy a house. houses are $2 million now days.
We used to have a train service to Sidmouth in Devon. He destroyed it and replaced it with a bus service.
Wonderful Britain gone for ever 🇬🇧
Absolutely brilliant video! I was born in 1955 and first went to school in 1959 so my memory of the fifties, whilst still very real to me, were not as wide as the things in this video. Thank you for filling in some of the gaps. My dad worked on the railways and I will never forget, at the age of three and four, walking to my local station (Market Rasen) to watch the steam trains go by. As Astrogirl said below, I would also go back to those times, but as an adult. Thank you.
Thanks for the memories, yes we were poor but happy
I was born in 1934, and went to the Festival of Britain in my late teens.
It was a happy time, not like now.
Kids born today will look back on the 2020s as the happy time. Everyone falls for nostalgia, it's not reality.
I can't believe the tragedy. It's a lot.
I was born in 53.we lived in a courrogated hut, ex army due to the housing shortage.. Happy memories. Am ashamed of our country now
Don't be ashamed of our country, be disgusted with the morons in government who have brought us down to where we are now!
Great documentary, loved the content and the tight editing.
Hi Marilyn, I too was born in April 1952. I dearly wish we could be back in that era. After living in the 50s and the swinging sixties, I have been dissappointed the way life is now. And yes, I felt safe as well back then. Wishing you well, Penny x
The London I grew up in before the Invasion.
I don't recognise the city where I was born 😢
I remembered the 1950’s.They were the days.❤️.
@@colinmccarthy7921 were you an adult or late teenager in the 50s.
Born in 48 we had rationing until 56 but the government gave us kids malt extract, haliborange tablets and cod liver oil to ward off rickets
Please, Lord, allow me this as heaven!
Feel the same
The only thing great about the 50s decade is that it wasn’t the 40s decade, ie we were not in WW2. It was a grim decade. Rationing, shortages, millions of homes did not have a bathroom or an inside toilet. There was a brutal war in Korea in which hundreds of British soldiers died. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of grieving widows and mothers with equal numbers of orphans. However it was a decade of hope and relief.
To dave beech
The times were of course more mugger-free,when there were proper punishments!
BUT, before global warming has ensured there no more 3 feet snow drifts (at least in the south of the islands), there was NO central heating or double glazing.
And no automatic washing machines, so you had to spend time by the machine. And no quick to use microwaves!
And look what politicians have done to our country now.😢
I am a Glasgow chap who used to live in London (60's) and and I revel in these periods of time. I know there's always a danger of looking at how things used to be through rose tinted specs, but don't for one second tell me that the standards weren't desirable to the chaos of today. We're too apologetic towards the neo-woke-ists who now mock a style of life that holds the values of those who wish to be BRITISH (keep calm, keep calm) as Empire enthusiast's. I know the detail of the film is orchestrated, as you'd expect, but I'd press a button to return to it, warts and all.
Me too mate,,I'd go back in a heart beat!👌
I lived in London in the 50’s as a child. I don’t think it ever rained and nobody was ever mugged or stabbed. I’m sure it didn’t snow properly until 62/63. Seriously, that inevitable and natural rose tinted glasses phenomenon does hide some truths. To my memory, everywhere and everyone stank of cigarette smoke; perhaps I am dreaming but can I remember steam trains leaving ghastly clouds of black ash all along the tracks? Health care was very unsophisticated compared to today with so many people dying young of illnesses now treatable or less likely through better living regimes.
We had no TV (hardly a great loss) and, obviously no internet (a true piece of progress) and relied upon the radio and Saturday morning pictures for entertainment. We also had no fridge but a cool cupboard in the larder. This meant the milkman came every morning and we had to go to the local shops almost every day (one shop for meat; another for dairy; another for vegetables) and lug heavy bags home. Cars were a luxury for others, although we borrowed one for a couple of weeks each year to visit grandparents.
I don’t bear any tolerance towards those who have come to our country and then seek to change it to suit them (after all, we did exactly that during the Empire). It makes me mad but feel impotent when I read of so many crimes committed by those we have allowed in - a pan-European issue.
The past is gone. The option of going back is not there. But we should be proud of some aspects and happy that others have gone. The chances of politicians making our lives better is one that hasn’t changed - it still remains zero.
@@theofarmmanager267your types the problem !
@@mrjagriff why his type?
@@mrjagriff Troll Harder.🤡☝🏼
Born 1946. Many things shown brought back good memories. Although some problems and troubles in thoes times, it was much simpler, straight forward, with good expectations for the future.....
Now all feels messed up and bad, all sense gone. Maybe just getting old.
Born 56 in the new town of Stevenage happy safe days ! Loved it !😁
I was also born in Stevenage in 61 and still live here
My mum n dad moved here in 56 from Harrow, dad worked at Kodak in gunnels wood rd
@@compostcorner5934 Hi great to hear you are still there , I was born in Burydale Marymead at home great times what it like now ?
@@Michael-gw6nj It's ok , some people say it's gone down hill , especially the town centre with a lot of closed shops etc ,but tbf I haven't been down there for about 10 years.
I was born in collenswood rd ,and now live near Bragbury end.
Where are you living now and when did you move out?
I used to drink in the man in the moon pub back in the late 70's.
Marymead shops are still the same I lived in Brook drive for a few years too
@@compostcorner5934 Hi I live in Essex now a little village called Purleigh . We moved to Essex in 1965 so my mum could be closer to her sister as she had MS . I haven’t been back to Stevenage since 1979 with then my future wife just to show her where I was born I certainly have happy memories of those times 😀 my nan and grandad lived pretty much opposite the town in Buckthorne Ave . I use to love going down the town my favourite shop was the model and toy shop that was past the clock tower and turn right and was down on the right . Started school at sheplegreen infants and then Burydale juniors are they still there ?
@@Michael-gw6nj I remember the toy shop your talking about down the town .I seem to remember getting a few models from there and a Meccano set lol .
As far as I'm aware both the schools are still up and running,but can't be 100 percent sure .
Stevenage is still ok a lot has changed since 79 though ,with retail parks etc .
My mum n dad moved from Stevenage in 1998 to Clacton on sea when they retired . They absolutely loved Stevenage but they have enjoyed Clacton too for the last 20 odd years.
You'll have to re visit Stevenage again sometime
We want our country back
I could understand you saying that if you were Native American
Right means correct and far right means very correct.
@@Ramps100 No just a native Britain.
@@Ramps100 l am Anglo Australisn. Britain is a demographic disaster and Australia gas a Chinese lesbian foreign Ministeress. Feminism is also destroying countries by underbreeeding.
And we want our 6 counties back
Brilliant, No sign what so ever of any drama, base line ignorance or Primark Princesses
I remember the Princess, it was by Austin not Primark though.
I was born in 1952 and it was far better being 20 in the 70's than now being 70 in the 20's!!
How far we have fallen
Good days when we had a country.
I miss these times, I miss my mum and dad and sisters. 🥲
They were safe moral days in comparison to today. We still had God in the classroom and schools. Prayers assemblies Hymmns. They WERE happier times although we didn’t have much. All the kids played outside and wandered off in the woods till tea time. A bath twice a week but we were all dressed nicely
@@denisescutt1865 you are looking at it from a child's point if view.
@@anthonyeaton5153 Hey! Don't spoil it for us.
While this 1950s film presents an idealized vision of post-war Britain, it significantly glosses over some of the darker aspects of the era, such as racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination. The film portrays a seemingly perfect society, but it omits the struggles many faced, particularly those who were marginalized or seen as outsiders. In reality, the 1950s were far from a golden age for everyone. Many people today look back at this period with rose-tinted glasses, forgetting the inequalities and social injustices that were prevalent at the time.
Personally, I much prefer the UK as it is today, despite its flaws and challenges. I am proud of the progress we've made as a society, especially our world-leading attitude towards inclusivity and diversity. We have made significant strides in welcoming people from different backgrounds who have chosen to make the UK their home, and this has enriched our culture, economy, and communities. It's important to acknowledge our history, but also to recognize how far we've come and the work that still needs to be done to ensure a fair and equal society for all.
Films like this one can serve as valuable reminders of our past, helping us to understand where we’ve improved and where we still need to focus our efforts. Rather than viewing them as propaganda or nostalgic fantasies, we should use them to highlight the importance of continuing to fight against racism, sexism, and all forms of bigotry and xenophobia. Unfortunately, some people use these idealized portrayals to yearn for the so-called "good old days," but such a mindset is not only naive but potentially dangerous. Wishing to return to an era that was far less inclusive and equitable would be a step backward, undermining the progress we've made as a society. Instead, we should focus on moving forward, learning from our past, and building a better future for everyone.
@@jrichardson6 Please explain just how society has improved. As I watch I see people being arrested and jailed for saying something the Government dislikes. There are protests and riots country wide. Prisoners are being released early to make room for more convicted anti-socialists. There are beggars on the street. Although we have massive immigration of unskilled workers there are 5 million unemployed. They, I would venture to say, are from your generation, they are content to take benefits, they don't want to work. I can guarantee that you don't live in Rochdale or Barnsley, or London, where your Brave New World lives.
@@jrichardson6 Excellent comment. The media misleads us - then and now.
Like many comments here, I was born in 55 and we had nothing. 7 of us surviving on subsistence because my dad was too Ill to work. We were poor but happy, these days kids have everything and still not happy. Take me back to those days anytime. 🇬🇧👍👍👍
We were poor but so was everyone else. We were not bombarded with adverts showing us what we were missing. There was an atmosphere of freedom, adventure, camaraderie, friendship and optimism. It was a great time to be young.
I was born in 1951 and i don't remember times being hard at all. Far from it. My father wasn't rich at all. He was a travelling salesman. He didn't drink, smoke, gamble or waste money on anything else. Because of that, we went on two holidays per year, him and mum each had a car and they paid off the house by 1965. We ate well and didn't waste money on silly things. Consequently, my memories are of perpetual good times, been fields, friendly fingers round the table, drives into the country, as a child. My sister and i both had music lessons, we dressed well and ate well. We hardly ever went out for dinner - that was considered profligate. I had scholarships and went to grammar schools and my sister went to less expensive private schools.
That was the thing in those days, if you worked hard and didn't waste money on stupid things, you could live well - but not in luxury. That's why I and my sister now own our homes and so do both of our sons. The "no waste gene, hard workgene" has been passed on.
The 50s/60s were the best time in England's history. Safe, genteel, polite, friendly, fair and ANYONE could make it, if he worked, saved and behaved like a decent human being.
People are behaving like wild animals nowadays (2024) - but then again, current politicians completely promote waste, profligacy, hedonism and unrestrained stupidity.
Born in 1946, in Middlesbrough, this breaks my heart. How can things have gone downhill so quickly in Britain? Crime, drugs, rampant immigration, union militancy, greedy politicians??? or maybe a mixture of all these things, who knows.
BRING BACK NATIONAL SERVICE!👍🇬🇧
The bed cost more than a house at that time.
In those days we didnt have "female genital mutilation" of young girls, or Grooming gangs and come to think of it no suicide bombers, the English Channel was full of legal tourists, well done politicians of all parties !!
Britain full of British people.
Great memories from a period when I was a boy of an age of 3 through 13years.
And now look at it
To Ross Spencer
Although I agree with you about the country being run down, of course, people are shown struggling to feed themselves. Just like now - if they're on unemployment benefit - which is only HALF of what the PENSION is! Also, the government have a further way to persecute the unemployed - by only giving HOMELESS people a REDUCED amount of unemployment benefit, claiming that if they're homeless, they wouldn't have much chance if getting a job, anyway! AND, PENSIONERS get punished for being MARRIED. They only get one and a half pensions between them "because 2 can live as cheaply as 1".
DISGRACEFUL!
Some things are much better, some are worse.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Tell me, what is better for the indigenous population? Seriously, what is?
Let’s see, freedom to roam (especially as a kid) serious knife crime, drugs epidemic (and the gangs associated with it) grooming gangs, law and order, human trafficking,Jobs, yes it had problems but here is free things.
The days when a stab vest wasn’t at the top your Christmas wish list.
I grew up in 50s didn't have it so good we were poor had little food hungry days, but we had love.
My hero of the 50's is James Dean. I've loved him since I was 15 in 1975. I've been so lucky over the years, to go to where he was born and lived throughout his life including, Hollywood in 1981, New York in 2014, and Indiana in 2016. He was born in Indiana and I went to Marion where he was born, and the farm in Fairmount, where he was raised from the age of 9. Fabulous memories.
Not a dinghy in sight!
...other than the one on top of the collapsible caravan.
No tanned people either.
Because there were fewer reasons for people to migrate. You'd believe anything the government and media tell you, it seems.
@@grahamthacker6498 Because going on holiday to Spain was only for the rich in those days.
@@grahamthacker6498... and not a machete in sight.
Fascinating, especially adverts😊
Considering this supposed to be about the 50's, there's a slip up, in showing a picture at the start, of the Beatles - who were from the SIXTIES
they weren'tcalled the beatle then, but were in various other groups. ot titles.
£2500 probably a couple of year’s wages for most people in 1950s
Could buy a house for that in the 50s.
Two thousand five hundred pounds for a bed back then in most areas of the country, other than the home counties, you could buy a semi detached house for that much.
Yes, a bit ridiculous showing what was available for the rich only!
Probably showcasing inventions, none of which most of us saw.
I was born in 1956, I was 4 by 1960, and able to see late parents having all those mid-cons, lived in a council hose at Ingrave in Brentwood in Essex, the 1960’s was a house with just the basic features, my late eventually bought a spin dryer, and things were no better in the 1970’s.
Oh to have those days back again, I was born just before the war and the 50's and 60's were great, yes there was trouble at time but no where as bad as these days, you had fights in the streets but after a few punches between each other they would then shake hands and go back into the Pub or club and buy each other another pint and be the best of friends. Those were the days.
Those were Gay Bars and Clubs. 😂
What a generation, great guys and gals who rolled up their sleeves and got on with the work of rebuilding the country after a horrible war, my mom and dad lived though it and bought up us three kids and they are still with us at ages 88 and 93,shame that we do not have the same spirit today
I was born in 1951 in a small village in West Yorkshire. We walked or cycled everywhere, and were healthy and happy. Our generation knew a much more innocent, happier time where children were taught to be polite and respectful, a time that is now sadly lost forever.
Difficult to get a curry then.
Difficult to get fish and chips now.
Why make stuff up?
Both statements untrue
@@TheSeafordianWell it wasn't easy to get a curry in the 50s but yes he's definitely making it up when he says it's difficult to get fish and chips now.
@@davidmellish3295 perhaps he means it's not affordable to have fish and chips now, it used to be a cheap meal.
@@bobclark6703 surely if he meant that he have written that, no? Maybe you're right, but pretty stupid to write one thing and mean something else
So sad that Indigenous British comments are being taken down on even this post.
No stabbings?? I wonder what has changed 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫
There was plenty of violent crime across the UK. Gangs were prevalent.
Yes but the gangs only fought against them selves and the innocent public were never involved or hurt unlike today were the public are the victims