When the sun takes out our electricity grids and everything falls, the village suvivers will restore normality. This is not fantasy, it's statically about due.
I too was 5 months old Xmas 1958 and we still had our first spindly tree from then with the pifco lights and glass ornaments when I left home in 1978, amazing!
This is making me cry, I would go back to those times in a heartbeat if I could, the world was a much kinder and happier place, people communicated and looked out for each other and everything didn't revolve around money
Me too, best times 50's & 60's when christmas was magical & wonderful shared with our families, happy times absolutelly bliss♥🎄. Not anymore though, unfortunately. Even my eldest gr.son who is 21yrs old as said the magic of xmas is gone, sad but true😢
What a beautiful film. I was four years old in 1958 and have vague memories of a very hot summer. We did not have much money and my sister and I had one big present and a lot of tiny ones including nuts and tangerines. My mum always made her own Christmas Pudding. Christmas was a magical time back then.
@Frances Kronenwett I was a little older, being born in 1952 but my memories are similar. I lost my father at age three, so my mother had to care for both me and my grandmother (born 1905), on a meagre wage in Acton, West London. Our life was a frugal one, but Christmas always meant a warm home, good food and good friends. Thank you for evoking some precious memories of a very different, simpler and less complicated time, and all the better for it.
I was born in this great city the previous year 57 ! But looking at this wonderful Christmas period in that old fashioned way, I cannot help but feel very nostalgic ! It looks like another world .
I was 10 years old. I lived in a small town so things didn't look quite as pretty as the country shown looked. I guess it must have snowed heavily that year but I can't remember that. The rest of the film seems like how I remember things, though no chefs serving from platters of Christmas fare! My mum made a fabulous Christmas dinner though. The Father Christmas(as he was then and not Santa) shown in the film looked fantastic and pretty 'realistic'.
@@brianstockwell4069 Ireland’s shame. Thousands of babies stolen, young women criminalised and shamed while the fathers - the uncles, brothers, got off Scot free, along with the Church who covered it up.
This last Christmas 2020 my two grandkids had so man presents they opened some on Christmas day and the rest on Boxing day, my daughter asked me " Dad did you open your presents over two days during WW2 ?" I replied " I had one apple + one orange a brand new thruppeny bit and a book of about twenty pages , we opened everything on Christmas including half an orange - we ate the other half on Boxing day :-)
Hi Henry 🙋 your lovely story made me want to cry for how things must have been so tough for parents and families. But the strength to overcome adversity was admirable. Good values.
@@cherbrowne1637 Hi Cher, thank you for your kind words, when one has nothing they know no difference, so they don't realise they are deprived, when at school and we had to run to the air raid shelters as the sirens blared, we were each given a digestive biscuit, we were really grateful for that. This will make you smile, we kids had only seen bananas in films or comic mags, one day about 1945 this boy comes to school with a banana, there must have been 30 kids trying to see if it was real, the boys father owned a horse and cart greengrocery , as you know banana skins peel off like string, this boy ate the banana in front of a crowd, he then handed all the boys he liked including me a banana string, as I scraped the inside over my teeth I remember thinking " what was all the fuss about it was horrible". Those were the days :-(
As a young girl, my mum grew up during WW2. Bananas came in and she joined the queue. A man pushed in in front of her. He realised what he had done, he apologised and stepped back. My mum had the last of the bananas.
We were so poor we couldn't pay for anything. We couldn't even Pay attention. On Christmas Mother made a cake out of sawdust and clay; Father would would suck on a cough drop so we could all sit around his extended tongue for warmth.
I was born in 1960. I remember lots of snow, and hot summers. Our first Christmas tree was from a catalogue, and it's in my loft now. Use to get an outfit every Christmas and me and my brother and sister were always happy. We loved playing outside with the other kids building snowmen, and Carol singing for money to buy our parents and friends a present. I've always had a thing for glittery Christmas cards. So simple and fun then.🌞💜
The best of the year; after collecting money for, “penny for the guy”. We went straight into singing carols, door to door, all the monies we collected was put towards our Christmas Presents... Helping Father Christmas, with our presents on Christmas Day. Oh I am so glad that I lived in this period of History. :-)
I was born in the 90s and just love watching videos of old Britain from these times. I just love it. I so wish it was still like this. You can just feel the festiveness, the atmosphere. A gentler time. Obviously it was far from perfect (nothing is) things just seemed more civilized. People more polite. I get no feeling of festiveness today during Christmas.
Wonderful to watch this - i used to think as a child life would stay like that - sadly as you grow up you see changes happen fast.These glory days will never be seen again - thanks for the memories and uploading.
I was 17 years old and had had a great early life, we lived a mile outside a village south of Nottingham and I had had a great early life. I look back on those days with enormous pleasure. I married in 1967 and have had a good life. I do miss those gentler days though. No mobile phones!! Our phone in the '50 s did not have a dial, you lifted the receiver and waited for the operator to ask what number you wanted!
Nice story Peter I went to uni in South Nottingham, I know a few villages round there like Gotham, Bunny Ruddington, Thrumpton. Some of the best memories I will ever have are walking through the fields and woods with my now wife when we were at uni together. Beautiful part of the world.
I also was born during the war, 1941. Such an amazing time, with great pop music starting to appear. Was an apprentice at BOAC, but still did a paper round to supplement my £4 15s 6p
dave20thmay ! Does that indicate that your birthday is 20th may? Mine is the 18th! ; I was an apprentice on £3.5.0 ( £2.19.07 'after stoppages) started in October 1958 Christmas 1954 had my Philips record player and some 78's
@@peterhunt2723 Yes that's right. So your older than me. Think we had the best times, but I do like my modern kit. Just click on my name to see what I've been up to over the years. Best Dave
Memories flood back of the great snowball fight of 1966..4 of us grammar school boys one on each corner of a quiet junction manically throwing snowballs at each other for the whole hour of our lunch break..things petered out when we eventually ran out of snow
I wasn't born until 1983 but I still enjoyed watching this as my mother (who passed away in 2012) was just under 6 months old on Xmas 1958. It's lovely to see footage of how things was back then when she was a baby.
i was born in this year ,but according to the bible there are better times ahead and everything will be as it should be ,just minus evil people governments and armies all will be gone these are the last days of this system .
@@indianatone218 Last days of what system? I doubt we’re in the so called last days but, I don’t doubt there is far worse to come though, especially for our children and grandchildren sad to say.
@@joesmoke9624hi joe good question how far do you want to go down the rabbit hole ? for starters then get your bible out and read 2nd timothy chaper 3 verses 1 to 5 and analise eac ststement of how people are today ,but particuarly note the first verse .im not saying everything hangs on this but its an opener .
@@joesmoke9624 OK 2nd tim chapter 3 But know this that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves lovers of money self assuming, haughty blasphemers . disobedient to parents unthankful disloyal. Having no natural affection not open to any agreement ,slanderers with out self control, fierce without love of goodness. Betrayers ,headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of god, Having a form of godly devotion ,but proving false to its power. so here is a breakdown of the human race today if we take each statement and got a newspaper and read how we behave and whats going on in the world a person can identify these signs ,Take for instance children disobedient to parents ,i dont know how old you are but when i was a child there were no backchatting or tantrums we did what we were told and had respect .have a look yourself and see if you can see the situation and how it fits today ,this is only eh start of the signs of the times ar last days before god would step in and sort things out ,the evidence and proof is in the bible if people are shown ,
We'll never get these special Christmas's back again. They are gone for good. 'We' are made to feel guilty for celebrating Christmas now. Apparently it's not inclusive enough.
This doesn’t quite represent the uk as it was I’m afraid.... would be quite different if scenes from inner city London, Birmingham and Liverpool would have been shown. Huge levels of unreported poverty ,violence , domestic and drug abuse, and massive inequality.
@@bankaihadouken1180 What are you talking about? Are you saying that there were no black people in England pre 1950's??? Do your research and go back to the racist hole out of the ground that you came from.
I wasn’t born till 1964 but would love to go back to those days, there’s lots I can’t stand about the way life is today , lovely film, oh well back to reality.
I grew up in the early 70s, I had books, board games, we went out to play from dusk till dawn and mum didn't know where we were but assumed we were OK. No mobiles, no social media, no body image pressure on kids, innocent TV programmes. There was a fat kid called Tony Stamp who used to pick on us but that was small fry stuff compared to what kids go through today. I'm so glad I grew up without phones and social media 💕
I was 6 years old . I loved Christmas time , it was truly magical . The first one i can truly remember was in 1956 and an uncle wearing a white sheet singing The Sheikh of Araby . I kid you not .
My first Christmas I was 3 months old. I remember my parents saying in later years that Christmas was so cold it was 1962 and the snow and a new baby was magical for them at Christmas.
@@randomuser4201 actually my dad had a building firm and ran four lorries he built three bungalows in a village we lived in the middle one plus a lodge at the sea side and we wanted for nothing so fook you 🤫🥱🤩
I was 7 then and every Christmas remember my mom and dad taking me and my sister to see father Christmas ay Lewis,s in Birmingham town centre. Quing up the stairs for a couple of hours. Brilliant times.
I was born in 1983 but I love watching old footage like this, which I must say is fantastic. My mum was only 1 then, almost 2. I must show this to her. She’ll love it. Thanks for uploading.
I was born in 1985 but somehow yearn for the simplicity, warmth and elegance of the fifties. What a perfect world, where you don't have crime waves, dirty streets and where people are elegant and joyful.
The Italian people were always kind to us kids. Used to get an ice cream oyster for running errands at the 'Gelato' and the chip shop owner would always give us a bag of scraps on a cold night, sometimes free chips. They treated us with affection when a lot of adults had a free hand to hit us whenever the fancy took them.
@@Prairiestar193 Lived in Stanton in the early 1970`s, I worked at the pub, "The Mount Inn" while waiting to go into the Army. The village had many characters then, Jack Hunt the shepherd comes to mind.
I remember that Christmas very well. I and three other children performed a dance and recitation as part of a show for our parents at the primary school I attended.
I recall one unseasonably warm and sunny Christmas day in the 1960s. Us terraced street kids had the chance to play on our new bikes, roller skates, pedal cars, pogo sticks and whatnot. There was never much money about but my parents always made sure we had a great Christmas.
I was 3months old then , looking back at this makes me sad as to where we have got to now ....glad I have the memories I have of all the last 62 yrs ,what will our kids and grandchildren have to reminisce about ?
They'll remeniss about the great times before the nuclear war, yes even today will seem like a good time for whats about to unfold. Get your popcorn ready but dont bother microwaving it.
Nice how they show working class celebrating Christmas servants and all!. How they never knew that for generations after would see how fair life was for all at this festive season.
Such nostalgia! I am afraid my memories are not so good. Parents always rowed; dinner would never had arrived if my Dad hadn’t taken over. One year Mum decided it was all too much (there were only 3 of us!) and decided that we should go to a Chinese restaurant for Christmas dinner! They did do a good meal, but I couldn’t wait to escape and go round to the home of friends, where we had a lovely time. Things might have been simpler, but I much prefer the happy times we share now - myself, my wife, our two children and spouses, who each have two children - our four lovely grandchildren: a great time for the ten of us. Missed it last year, but we managed to have a six-some an Christmas Day and another six-some on Boxing Day. Looking forward to our Easter get-together and to next Christmas.
When we lived in South London we left my nan in charge of the turkey while we went to mass. When we sat down to eat we found the bird had been basted with three in one bike oil, even the veg stank of it.
This is the time when you could leave your doors wide open and your next door neighbours would always knock and walk in and say their problems Christmas was exactly this Christmas your dad would give you half a crown to get the things that you really want it good times everybody was alive then
Living in the country, I remember many a snow drift dawned our roads, one year they were 4-5 ft high. Some years no snow. Weather cycles around. Some times we had hot summers and other times mild winters. But one thing remained constant....You could rely on loving neighbours and friends. These days we are living in a culture of ‘self’. Tale telling on your neighbour for walking down the street, or doing some shopping for an elderly neighbour is frowned upon. This is a corrupt and sad world that is quickly turning into “controlling” ALL our freedoms”.ie they will no longer exist.😞
Very true. And 99% of it is caused by adopting the american way of life.Christoper Columbus should have kept his big mouth shut when he discovered the bloody place.
What are you talking about? Who is controlling all your freedoms? What utter nonsense. Do you realize how much all your freedoms were curtailed during the war or during the flu epidemic? People followed the rules and got on with it. They did not have social media to whine and moan and complain to. That is why it was better.
Hi Marshhen..... not sure what you are stating!... but well I guess if you cannot perceive what others can... (so far 27 👍) ...then perhaps you shouldn’t be so judgemental of other’s. Oh and yes “social media” is to blame for a lot of untruths and ‘moaning’ as you so delicately put it. But isn’t that “freedom of speech”! I think we still have that? Keep smiling 😊
@@chazzsavis6706 - that's the problem with living in the country......you don't see the bigger picture. I have always lived in London, and it's a damn sight better now than back in those dingy miserable years - something new everyday - BTW, here we all help older & disabled people, from all backgrounds - despite what the Daily Mail will tell you......
Hi Tony P, l have lived in and visited many cities around the world Tony, even London! But I was fortunate enough to spend my childhood in the country, my grandfather was a game keeper back in the day. And yes we try to help our older folk too but more often than not we are questioned, watched and in some cases told on for doing so. 🙁 ‘sad, mad world’. Many don’t see the ‘bigger picture’.🦠
6years old in 58 .an orange an apple some horrible figs bar of chocolate and a toy . And was I happy . Yes and grateful. Didn’t want much didn’t get much but we were grateful anyway
My dad was born in '52 also. I think you guys got the best years to be honest. War was over and the madness hadn't yet begun.. I was born in '81 & even I wish I could travel back.
I was 6years old... And my MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS THEN WERE THE BEST OF MY LIFE WE DID HAVE SNOW AND WE LIVED ON A SMALL HOLDING WITH LOTS OF ANIMALS TO CARE FOR. WE HAD GREAT CHRISTMAS PARTIES WHEN ALL THE FAMILY WOULD VISIT LOTS OF FOOD WHICH MY MOTHER WOULD PREPARE@ LOG FIRES A GREAT TREE... JUST MAGICAL FOR ME AS A CHILD ... BUT HEY THEY WERE MY GLORY DAYS SO EVERYTHING WAS WONDERFUL... I'M VERY GREATFUL THAT I HAD AMAZING PARENTS WHO MADE IT SO SPECIAL🌨️🎄❄️⛄🤶🎅..WE LOST DAD 7YEARS AGO AND MUM JUST LAST YEAR..... .RIP MA @PA ❤️🙏🏼❤️
To what? The 2nd world war? Or perhaps bankrupt Britain in the aftermath, Rationing, Massive inequality.? Threat of Nuclear Armageddon, The death penalty, Racism post colonial slavery hanging for being gay.... not all good back then was it...Rose tinted glasses.
@@paulohagan3309 Such an insipid argument. No-one denies that Britain has been a great beneficiary of immigration. Multicultural divergence and division has destroyed our society, not any given group of immigrants. A multicultural society can only ever be united by the lowest common denominator; consumerism. This is especially true amongst groups which are wildly divergent in their heritage.
when I was 6 Santa left a 4 x AA battery in my Christmas sock. I was so happy I could make my small AM radio work again. Simple and sweet life back then!
The good old days was the best we never got a lot at Christmas but what we did get we appreciated what we got not like nowadays im just glad im not a kid in this day and age cheers for the video 😁
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The good old days.,,it’s enough to make you cry ,as to what we are left with now.
You're depressed Susan.
@Mark Holmes what secret knowledge do you have that we don't?
@Mark Holmes what's the true meaning of England?
I wasn't born till the 1970s but I know what you mean!!!! It's all gone to Hell !!!!
@Mark Holmes but what's the true meaning of England got to do with covid?
I wish Britain was still like this. I weep for the state of this country.
I totally agree with you sir
When the sun takes out our electricity grids and everything falls, the village suvivers will restore normality. This is not fantasy, it's statically about due.
Yes, it would have been great to have had all those chefs and servants.
In what ways do you think 1958 was better than now?
@@MSalt69 Community, limited screen time, own culture, optermism... these are the most important things for happiness.
50S /60S Probably the best 2 decades of the last century , very fortunate to have been around to enjoy them and will remain as the best memories ever.
I'm so glad that i grew up in the 50s ..teen in the 60s ..such happy decades to be young ..i feel Dad for the young ones if today ..
And you probably were very fortunate. Not all of us lived like this 'propoganda' nonsense.
@@RA76951 so tony what part of this is propaganda.
@Mark Holmes hear, hear
It's a generation thing to me the 80's and 90's were the best to others it'll be different..
When a little was a lot ......now people have lots - and its never enough .
Spot on!!👍
Contentment ..best gift of all
@@louisemackay4804 Well said Loiuse. Contentment is in short supply.
How true🤔
God bless🙏
Moira
From England.
Exactly! Simpler times
My first Christmas. I was six months old. My parents bought a table-top Christmas tree which we used for the next forty years.
And mine. I was 5 months old 😀
@@karen6603 so that's you, I and Mick. We should start a club.
AND ME. IWAS. 4. Months , ALL The. Sixties XMAS . GREAT. MEMORIES ,
I too was 5 months old Xmas 1958 and we still had our first spindly tree from then with the pifco lights and glass ornaments when I left home in 1978, amazing!
madcyclist58 . Put me In I’ll Join. All the Best jimmy
This is how Christmas should be ! No material things , just family and reflection ❤️xx
No material things? The very first two lines of the video are about shopping and buying. You've made yourself look an utter chump!
@@jessielegrande5211 You are correct, she looks quite foolish on TH-cam. She'll rue this day, that's for sure.
No material things? Did we just watch the same clip? With shopping and servants?
This is making me cry, I would go back to those times in a heartbeat if I could, the world was a much kinder and happier place, people communicated and looked out for each other and everything didn't revolve around money
Me too, best times 50's & 60's when christmas was magical & wonderful shared with our families, happy times absolutelly bliss♥🎄. Not anymore though, unfortunately. Even my eldest gr.son who is 21yrs old as said the magic of xmas is gone, sad but true😢
What a beautiful film. I was four years old in 1958 and have vague memories of a very hot summer. We did not have much money and my sister and I had one big present and a lot of tiny ones including nuts and tangerines. My mum always made her own Christmas Pudding. Christmas was a magical time back then.
Did you live in Australia? My German husband didn’t enjoy Christmas in Australia, felt very alien to him.
@@juliehock6059 No, I lived in England. We had snow back then.
@Frances Kronenwett I was a little older, being born in 1952 but my memories are similar. I lost my father at age three, so my mother had to care for both me and my grandmother (born 1905), on a meagre wage in Acton, West London. Our life was a frugal one, but Christmas always meant a warm home, good food and good friends. Thank you for evoking some precious memories of a very different, simpler and less complicated time, and all the better for it.
I was born in this great city the previous year 57 ! But looking at this wonderful Christmas period in that old fashioned way, I cannot help but feel very nostalgic ! It looks like another world .
Thats because it is another world
Sadly lost.
@@kevsmithard5586 Ah " so I was right !!
I was a month old then. When I look at this it makes me realise how much better days were then
I was 10 years old. I lived in a small town so things didn't look quite as pretty as the country shown looked. I guess it must have snowed heavily that year but I can't remember that. The rest of the film seems like how I remember things, though no chefs serving from platters of Christmas fare! My mum made a fabulous Christmas dinner though. The Father Christmas(as he was then and not Santa) shown in the film looked fantastic and pretty 'realistic'.
I was aa month old, too.
i was 6 month old ,wish id been a teenager then ,id gladly be gone by now
You only have to go back to the 90s for better days. 90s and before. Total rubbish now.
I was 3 months old. Good vintage eh?
Bring it back I loved the days even here in Ireland simplicity and people come together not a robot world
If only .
You're deluded. In fact what came together was a church and state bent on controlling and abusing the people at every opportunity. Sin a bfuil!
@@brianstockwell4069 Ireland’s shame. Thousands of babies stolen, young women criminalised and shamed while the fathers - the uncles, brothers, got off Scot free, along with the Church who covered it up.
@@giveusanepleasebob992 thanks very much and the same to you have a good one in 2021 the simple things in life are free.🤝😊
You obviously didn't live in Northern Ireland ...
Don't we all miss those Christmasses when a team of chefs and waiting staff eagerly served us our food and drink
Im still served by a chef and waiting staff. Theyre called my wife and children.
@Sian Dyas This isn't to be taken seriously - it's the English sense of humour. I presume you aren't English !!!!!
& what's up with that pig?
😂😂😂😂 remember it well
Yes, imagine that most women do all of that by themselves each Christmas Day!! Team of chefs - pah 😂
I was born 25/12/1958. Thank you for posting this.
From what was then, to what is now...must be heart breaking...
This last Christmas 2020 my two grandkids had so man presents they opened some on Christmas day and the rest on Boxing day, my daughter asked me " Dad did you open your presents over two days during WW2 ?" I replied " I had one apple + one orange a brand new thruppeny bit and a book of about twenty pages , we opened everything on Christmas including half an orange - we ate the other half on Boxing day :-)
Hi Henry 🙋 your lovely story made me want to cry for how things must have been so tough for parents and families. But the strength to overcome adversity was admirable. Good values.
@@cherbrowne1637 Hi Cher, thank you for your kind words, when one has nothing they know no difference, so they don't realise they are deprived, when at school and we had to run to the air raid shelters as the sirens blared, we were each given a digestive biscuit, we were really grateful for that. This will make you smile, we kids had only seen bananas in films or comic mags, one day about 1945 this boy comes to school with a banana, there must have been 30 kids trying to see if it was real, the boys father owned a horse and cart greengrocery , as you know banana skins peel off like string, this boy ate the banana in front of a crowd, he then handed all the boys he liked including me a banana string, as I scraped the inside over my teeth I remember thinking " what was all the fuss about it was horrible". Those were the days :-(
As a young girl, my mum grew up during WW2.
Bananas came in and she joined the queue. A man pushed in in front of her.
He realised what he had done, he apologised and stepped back.
My mum had the last of the bananas.
We were so poor we couldn't pay for anything. We couldn't even Pay attention. On Christmas Mother made a cake out of sawdust and clay; Father would would suck on a cough drop so we could all sit around his extended tongue for warmth.
@@mr.bnatural3700 fair play that's killed me to poor to pay attention
How wonderful, I can feel the atmosphere just watching the video .
I was born in 1960. I remember lots of snow, and hot summers. Our first Christmas tree was from a catalogue, and it's in my loft now. Use to get an outfit every Christmas and me and my brother and sister were always happy. We loved playing outside with the other kids building snowmen, and Carol singing for money to buy our parents and friends a present. I've always had a thing for glittery Christmas cards. So simple and fun then.🌞💜
The best of the year; after collecting money for, “penny for the guy”. We went straight into singing carols, door to door, all the monies we collected was put towards our Christmas Presents... Helping Father Christmas, with our presents on Christmas Day. Oh I am so glad that I lived in this period of History. :-)
I miss Christmas in the 90s… A much simpler time, as well as the 50s and 60s obvs. 💔💀 What a state the world has become over the last few years
I was born in the 90s and just love watching videos of old Britain from these times. I just love it. I so wish it was still like this. You can just feel the festiveness, the atmosphere. A gentler time. Obviously it was far from perfect (nothing is) things just seemed more civilized. People more polite. I get no feeling of festiveness today during Christmas.
Wonderful to watch this - i used to think as a child life would stay like that - sadly as you grow up you see changes happen fast.These glory days will never be seen again - thanks for the memories and uploading.
I was 13 then and although times were hard I would love to have those days back. Now is terrible.
I was 17 years old and had had a great early life, we lived a mile outside a village south of Nottingham and I had had a great early life. I look back on those days with enormous pleasure. I married in 1967 and have had a good life. I do miss those gentler days though. No mobile phones!! Our phone in the '50 s did not have a dial, you lifted the receiver and waited for the operator to ask what number you wanted!
Nice story Peter I went to uni in South Nottingham, I know a few villages round there like Gotham, Bunny Ruddington, Thrumpton. Some of the best memories I will ever have are walking through the fields and woods with my now wife when we were at uni together. Beautiful part of the world.
Maaan ah well we lived at Stanton on the Wolds near Keyworth! It is indeed a nice area. Happy memories for both of us!
I also was born during the war, 1941. Such an amazing time, with great pop music starting to appear. Was an apprentice at BOAC, but still did a paper round to supplement my £4 15s 6p
dave20thmay ! Does that indicate that your birthday is 20th may? Mine is the 18th! ; I was an apprentice on £3.5.0 ( £2.19.07 'after stoppages) started in October 1958 Christmas 1954 had my Philips record player and some 78's
@@peterhunt2723 Yes that's right. So your older than me. Think we had the best times, but I do like my modern kit. Just click on my name to see what I've been up to over the years. Best Dave
Memories flood back of the great snowball fight of 1966..4 of us grammar school boys one on each corner of a quiet junction manically throwing snowballs at each other for the whole hour of our lunch break..things petered out when we eventually ran out of snow
I wasn't born until 1983 but I still enjoyed watching this as my mother (who passed away in 2012) was just under 6 months old on Xmas 1958. It's lovely to see footage of how things was back then when she was a baby.
if only we could go back to those days it’s sad how the world is getting
i was born in this year ,but according to the bible there are better times ahead and everything will be as it should be ,just minus evil people governments and armies all will be gone these are the last days of this system .
@@indianatone218 Last days of what system?
I doubt we’re in the so called last days but, I don’t doubt there is far worse to come though, especially for our children and grandchildren sad to say.
@@joesmoke9624hi joe good question how far do you want to go down the rabbit hole ? for starters then get your bible out and read 2nd timothy chaper 3 verses 1 to 5 and analise eac ststement of how people are today ,but particuarly note the first verse .im not saying everything hangs on this but its an opener .
@@indianatone218 I don’t have a bible.
@@joesmoke9624 OK 2nd tim chapter 3
But know this that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here.
For men will be lovers of themselves lovers of money self assuming, haughty blasphemers . disobedient to parents unthankful disloyal.
Having no natural affection not open to any agreement ,slanderers with out self control, fierce without love of goodness.
Betrayers ,headstrong, puffed up with pride,
lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of god, Having a form of godly devotion ,but proving false to its power.
so here is a breakdown of the human race today if we take each statement and got a newspaper and read how we behave and whats going on in the world a person can identify these signs ,Take for instance children disobedient to parents ,i dont know how old you are but when i was a child there were no backchatting or tantrums we did what we were told and had respect .have a look yourself and see if you can see the situation and how it fits today ,this is only eh start of the signs of the times ar last days before god would step in and sort things out ,the evidence and proof is in the bible if people are shown ,
This is so perfect looking, like a norman rockwell painting
We'll never get these special Christmas's back again. They are gone for good. 'We' are made to feel guilty for celebrating Christmas now. Apparently it's not inclusive enough.
@Christina Lawrence Until the 'boys in blue' come knocking!
@Julius Ramone And now it appears you are whinging about people voicing their opinion. Idiot.
@Julius Ramone go fu..ck yourself
@@Corkedwolf43771 I second that.. go fxxk himself and stay there.
Can you give me one actual example of the police coming round to warn people against celebrating christmas?
Everyone is so well dressed, regardless of class.
People actually made an effort.. imagine going to the shops in your pjs then.. they'd lock you up,
Yea ,I've seen people in their pyjamas.. in supermarket, students mainly
No class these days
Maybe the fimaker didn't film around deprived areas?
@@paulohagan3309 people still made an effort.
Saddens me what this country used to be like , it will never get back to how it was
It must. We must bring it back. Re-establish values and freedom. 🤨
This doesn’t quite represent the uk as it was I’m afraid.... would be quite different if scenes from inner city London, Birmingham and Liverpool would have been shown. Huge levels of unreported poverty ,violence , domestic and drug abuse, and massive inequality.
@@bankaihadouken1180 What are you talking about? Are you saying that there were no black people in England pre 1950's??? Do your research and go back to the racist hole out of the ground that you came from.
@@robjackson1319 Agreed, this was more like a tv advertisement than any kind of reality.
We were so efn' poor we would go to the butcher's shop to watch the bacon slicing machine; nowt a proper toy in sight.
I wasn’t born till 1964 but would love to go back to those days, there’s lots I can’t stand about the way life is today , lovely film, oh well back to reality.
I grew up in the early 70s, I had books, board games, we went out to play from dusk till dawn and mum didn't know where we were but assumed we were OK. No mobiles, no social media, no body image pressure on kids, innocent TV programmes. There was a fat kid called Tony Stamp who used to pick on us but that was small fry stuff compared to what kids go through today. I'm so glad I grew up without phones and social media 💕
I was 6 years old . I loved Christmas time , it was truly magical . The first one i can truly remember was in 1956 and an uncle wearing a white sheet singing The Sheikh of Araby . I kid you not .
This is amazing, thank you.
My first Christmas I was 3 months old. I remember my parents saying in later years that Christmas was so cold it was 1962 and the snow and a new baby was magical for them at Christmas.
I’d have been two years old and I know the world then wasn’t perfect but looking back it was a damsite better than it is today
I guess you liked being poor, or you were that used to it that it never bothered you, either way its pretty sad.
@@randomuser4201 actually my dad had a building firm and ran four lorries he built three bungalows in a village we lived in the middle one plus a lodge at the sea side and we wanted for nothing so fook you 🤫🥱🤩
I was 7 then and every Christmas remember my mom and dad taking me and my sister to see father Christmas ay Lewis,s in Birmingham town centre. Quing up the stairs for a couple of hours. Brilliant times.
I was born in 1983 but I love watching old footage like this, which I must say is fantastic. My mum was only 1 then, almost 2. I must show this to her. She’ll love it. Thanks for uploading.
Look and weep people...look and weep..
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Wonderful so pleased I lived through these times , poor kids have no idea how lovely it coukd be and used to be
I was born in 1985 but somehow yearn for the simplicity, warmth and elegance of the fifties. What a perfect world, where you don't have crime waves, dirty streets and where people are elegant and joyful.
UNCLE HOLLY.....now that really brings back fond memories of my childhood.
Yes uncle Holly he'd give you a badge with his face on if I remember correctly
@@janfell8228 I've still got one
Today, Christmas ain't the same these yesrs.
When my grandparents and dad came over from Italy .....as well as friends and relatives.
The Italian people were always kind to us kids. Used to get an ice cream oyster for running errands at the 'Gelato' and the chip shop owner would always give us a bag of scraps on a cold night, sometimes free chips. They treated us with affection when a lot of adults had a free hand to hit us whenever the fancy took them.
My how far we’ve slid
We slid from a tv advert? What video were you watching because it was not reality.
We Won’t know this Country from them days pretty soon.You have only got to look who is taking over Parliament.A Nightmare
You boy, go down to the butchers and find the largest Turkey you can find.
Not one Asian to be seen anywhere, an those were the days.
Gary Zod and others don't be discriminating
Awwwwwwww I can almost smell the Christmas turkey cooking, 🦃🤶🎅 x
The high street is Broadway in the Cotswolds
Also where the boys are having a snowfight is Snowshill Village, and the very end shot is at Stanton war memorial.
@@Prairiestar193 Lived in Stanton in the early 1970`s, I worked at the pub, "The Mount Inn" while waiting to go into the Army. The village had many characters then, Jack Hunt the shepherd comes to mind.
Hu Ziggy 🙋 Thanks...It looks a beautiful place.
I thought it was in the Cotswolds. I lived in Cheltenham. I think we had tea at the Lamb Inn?
Really enjoyed watching this, i was aged 2 then ❤
I remember that Christmas very well. I and three other children performed a dance and recitation as part of a show for our parents at the primary school I attended.
I recall one unseasonably warm and sunny Christmas day in the 1960s. Us terraced street kids had the chance to play on our new bikes, roller skates, pedal cars, pogo sticks and whatnot. There was never much money about but my parents always made sure we had a great Christmas.
awesome footage. i can almost imagine charles dickens down the street, writing a christmas carol
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I was 3months old then , looking back at this makes me sad as to where we have got to now ....glad I have the memories I have of all the last 62 yrs ,what will our kids and grandchildren have to reminisce about ?
@Marshall Carwood BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA
They'll remeniss about the great times before the nuclear war, yes even today will seem like a good time for whats about to unfold. Get your popcorn ready but dont bother microwaving it.
I was two weeks old ,still better times ,I miss them years
Nice how they show working class celebrating Christmas servants and all!.
How they never knew that for generations after would see how fair life was for all at this festive season.
Such nostalgia! I am afraid my memories are not so good. Parents always rowed; dinner would never had arrived if my Dad hadn’t taken over. One year Mum decided it was all too much (there were only 3 of us!) and decided that we should go to a Chinese restaurant for Christmas dinner! They did do a good meal, but I couldn’t wait to escape and go round to the home of friends, where we had a lovely time. Things might have been simpler, but I much prefer the happy times we share now - myself, my wife, our two children and spouses, who each have two children - our four lovely grandchildren: a great time for the ten of us. Missed it last year, but we managed to have a six-some an Christmas Day and another six-some on Boxing Day. Looking forward to our Easter get-together and to next Christmas.
Keep it up...time flies...
When we lived in South London we left my nan in charge of the turkey while we went to mass. When we sat down to eat we found the bird had been basted with three in one bike oil, even the veg stank of it.
@@kevinmoffatt Oh my! At least that will always be a very memorable Christmas!
This is the time when you could leave your doors wide open and your next door neighbours would always knock and walk in and say their problems Christmas was exactly this Christmas your dad would give you half a crown to get the things that you really want it good times everybody was alive then
I remember that well.
Living in the country, I remember many a snow drift dawned our roads, one year they were 4-5 ft high. Some years no snow. Weather cycles around. Some times we had hot summers and other times mild winters. But one thing remained constant....You could rely on loving neighbours and friends. These days we are living in a culture of ‘self’. Tale telling on your neighbour for walking down the street, or doing some shopping for an elderly neighbour is frowned upon. This is a corrupt and sad world that is quickly turning into “controlling” ALL our freedoms”.ie they will no longer exist.😞
Very true. And 99% of it is caused by adopting the american way of life.Christoper Columbus should have kept his big mouth shut when he discovered the bloody place.
What are you talking about? Who is controlling all your freedoms? What utter nonsense. Do you realize how much all your freedoms were curtailed during the war or during the flu epidemic? People followed the rules and got on with it. They did not have social media to whine and moan and complain to. That is why it was better.
Hi Marshhen..... not sure what you are stating!... but well I guess if you cannot perceive what others can... (so far 27 👍) ...then perhaps you shouldn’t be so judgemental of other’s. Oh and yes “social media” is to blame for a lot of untruths and ‘moaning’ as you so delicately put it. But isn’t that “freedom of speech”! I think we still have that? Keep smiling 😊
@@chazzsavis6706 - that's the problem with living in the country......you don't see the bigger picture. I have always lived in London, and it's a damn sight better now than back in those dingy miserable years - something new everyday - BTW, here we all help older & disabled people, from all backgrounds - despite what the Daily Mail will tell you......
Hi Tony P, l have lived in and visited many cities around the world Tony, even London! But I was fortunate enough to spend my childhood in the country, my grandfather was a game keeper back in the day. And yes we try to help our older folk too but more often than not we are questioned, watched and in some cases told on for doing so. 🙁 ‘sad, mad world’.
Many don’t see the ‘bigger picture’.🦠
My God this country has gone rotten, look at it back then, I know things weren't perfect but it's a million times better than present day GB.
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I was 10 that year ,and remember the atmosphere of those great days, simple times gone forever......Ireland
I’m a 70s lad, but this is very nice, looking back on Christmas over the years, thanks for putting this on here
6years old in 58 .an orange an apple some horrible figs bar of chocolate and a toy . And was I happy . Yes and grateful. Didn’t want much didn’t get much but we were grateful anyway
My dad was born in '52 also. I think you guys got the best years to be honest. War was over and the madness hadn't yet begun.. I was born in '81 & even I wish I could travel back.
That's very true. I remember that.
I miss the sound of Church bells where we lived in London.
I am not really religious but love the sound of church bells.
Something about Church Bells ...so Wonderful & Peaceful.
Wow! It's amazing to see this.
Absolutely wonderful
Beautiful. Carols, Snow Village, Holly hung from the paintings, and hearth!
My left ear loved this.
I was 6years old... And my MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS THEN WERE THE BEST OF MY LIFE WE DID HAVE SNOW AND WE LIVED ON A SMALL HOLDING WITH LOTS OF ANIMALS TO CARE FOR. WE HAD GREAT CHRISTMAS PARTIES WHEN ALL THE FAMILY WOULD VISIT LOTS OF FOOD WHICH MY MOTHER WOULD PREPARE@ LOG FIRES A GREAT TREE... JUST MAGICAL FOR ME AS A CHILD ... BUT HEY THEY WERE MY GLORY DAYS SO EVERYTHING WAS WONDERFUL... I'M VERY GREATFUL THAT I HAD AMAZING PARENTS WHO MADE IT SO SPECIAL🌨️🎄❄️⛄🤶🎅..WE LOST DAD 7YEARS AGO AND MUM JUST LAST YEAR..... .RIP MA @PA ❤️🙏🏼❤️
Sorry for your loss. Best wishes for the future ❤️
Thankyou 💋🤗😍
How wonderful - more please
This was lovely to watch the country and the world saddens me so much with the way it is now I could cry and cry wish we could turn back time 😢
I'm so glad my village still does stuff like this
How lovely♥😊
Thank you for sharing!
Moira
From England.
We use to go to our uncles xmas morning and he and his wife allways had mistletoe in the house happy days
Beautiful wen you felt the christmas spirit
This is so heartwarming! Thank you for posting/sharing.
You don’t hear many carols out in the street nowadays
Because it's not Xmas !
@@Paul-md8de ha ha
We get a van with loud music blaring out, and a couple of guys in Santa suits knocking on your door. Not the same as Carol singers.
You don't see many people singing them in churches either nowadays - no one teaches them in schools, not PC) Few people know them.
@@Aeronwen813 Oh yes they do , go along next Xmas it'll enlighten you ( hopefully )
If only we could go back in time
To what? The 2nd world war? Or perhaps bankrupt Britain in the aftermath, Rationing, Massive inequality.? Threat of Nuclear Armageddon, The death penalty, Racism post colonial slavery hanging for being gay.... not all good back then was it...Rose tinted glasses.
Was born in London 1958 can't remember it ever like this..lucky them..
I was 2 weeks old, remember it well!
So nice and homely. Such a lovely atmosphere ❤️
A time when people never lived in fear of expressing their pride and love for their own culture less they were Punished for it.
Brilliant 👍🇬🇧
I wish I could time travel
Me too so I can travel forward one week find out the winning lotto numbers .Win a shit load of money and live in Brazil!😁👍🏻
🤩waooo. Love christmas 🎄
What the hell has happened to England?
Tony Blair and then the tories I'm sorry to say
@rubber triangle Lol ok blame everything on immigrants...
The Empire came home?
Bojo sold his soul
@@paulohagan3309 Such an insipid argument. No-one denies that Britain has been a great beneficiary of immigration. Multicultural divergence and division has destroyed our society, not any given group of immigrants. A multicultural society can only ever be united by the lowest common denominator; consumerism. This is especially true amongst groups which are wildly divergent in their heritage.
I have a time machine....anybody interested, no pushing ,room for all...
Can I book two places please? One for me and one for the missus. Then we can both go back to the days when we were young, virile, and bloody careless.
@@paullee5573 all aboard
@@alanwilkinson9487 What time is take off please? Lol
@@paullee5573 dr who.is doing the piloting ,I've got to ask.
@@alanwilkinson9487 i'll give it a whirl if you will let me
Beautiful 💓💓💓💓
How lovely.
when I was 6 Santa left a 4 x AA battery in my Christmas sock. I was so happy I could make my small AM radio work again. Simple and sweet life back then!
The year I left school happy days
...Yes, sadly we'll never know the like again???
Damn england looked so cold and old and happy then nowadays theres literally a “red warning” for -5c and 3cm snow i dont get it!
Beautiful footage ❤💕 Beautiful England ❤
And now 2020 and possibly 2021 all this is illegal in most countries🙄😕
Not in my house its not 👍.
@@kevsmithard5586 👍
@Jenny Prestwood snow ball fights and playing outdoors together, xmas shopping even! due to crap covid rules.
@@iamthatiam44444 2020s decade for ya
At 2.05 is Broadway, Worcestershire, and the following interior shot is the Lygon Arms. I recognise the staff uniform.
The good old days was the best we never got a lot at Christmas but what we did get we appreciated what we got not like nowadays im just glad im not a kid in this day and age cheers for the video 😁
The Britain sadly long gone!
The early bits are in central London and include Fortnum and Mason. The later bits appear to be of (and around) Broadway in the Cotswolds.
The bit that mentioned Uncle Holly was Selfridges.
@@paullee5573 Yep, looking at it again you are right.
Beautiful ❤
Wonderfull!
This is amazing
I wish i had a time machine I'll go back there and stay there
wonderful