I became a teenager in the 60’s and it was great purely because I was young. The 60’s and 70’s saw a revolution in popular music that will never be repeated.
Me too! Never had much money but witnessed some of the greatest music changes possible in any lifetime! The Beatles and the Stones, plus innumerable others ! What a blast!
Great Britain in the 1960’s was more ambitious, more forward looking in manufacturing inventive new products and less concerned with political correctness and stifling free speech than today. Oh, how I wish we could replicate those attitudes and ambitions today.
Yes, free speech, that's an interesting idea, jailing homosexuals, racism - no blacks, no Irish displayed in windows, Kray twins running amoc in East London - mega corruption in the Metropolitan Police, working class people lucky to see 70 after a life of arduous toil, while the wealthy and idle royalty followed debauched lives while telling the working classes to behave themselves. Yes the 60's was a great time, provided you were wealthy.
I lived through the 60’s but don’t remember it in those positive lights. We had the eras of politicians like Heath and Wilson. MacMillan had a high moral compass but was living a life 40 years out of date. We had industries which were critically inefficient; it was industries from coal and steel through motorcycles, cars and white goods which were so poor that they allowed countries like Germany and Japan to come into our market with goods so superior in quality that it was the start of the end for these industries. We had social inequality no different, and possibly worse, than today. Certainly the gap between the establishment and working people was so large that it seemed unbridgeable. There was still a degree of respect for the establishment which defied all logic. A Duke, an Earl, a barrister, a banker seems to be put upon pedestals just because of their perceived social status. Cars were a rarity for most people. TV’s only became common at the end of the decade. The same with fridges. So many women had to stay at home because the chores of housework and shopping occupied so much of their time. Indeed, it was almost frowned upon to be a working mother “why aren’t you at home looking after your children?” Healthcare was still rudimentary. My mother died on 1966 of a disease eminently treatable 30 years later. Everybody smoked and everywhere stank of smoke. The 60’s did see the start of some good things, particularly for the younger people but it also say the Vietnam war which did so much to harm the reputation of democracies throughout the world. In conclusion, the 60’s (or the 50’s or the 80’s or now) were not the epitome of good life. They had every aspect from better to worse. We can’t go back even if we wanted to; why not put our efforts into making the present better for all?
Nothing's 'stifling free speech'. You're free to _say_ whatever you want, but so is everyone else. Just, don't be surprised if you get a negative response if you express opinions that are mean or misled. There isn't any kind of law, except against the sort of dangerous hate speech that causes things like the Farage hate riots a few weeks back.
Whenever I watch videos like this, I am transported to a time and place I know nothing about. I was born on a Caribbean island that was British ruled until 1962. But the British influence didn’t stop overnight. As a child in primary school in the 70s, our books and poems and everything else were still British based. I still remember William Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils’ that I learned in the third grade. I still recall the English Reader A, B, C, D, E, series. I remember reading about the white cliffs of Dover, beautiful English gardens and cottages and always yearned to see the England described in my childhood books. In high school in the 80’s, I still hoped to see a little of that England. I’m not trying to be disrespectful in anyway, but that England doesn’t exist anymore. I am now in my 50’s and an immigrant in the USA for decades, and I am so grateful.
Sir, you wrote that as eloquently as any Englishman could have done. We feel for our loss and trust me this isn't about Windrush. It is about what has happened since 1997 and Blair. A common sentiment here is "We weren't asked". There is truth in that but many also lost sight of what was happening to us until it was too late.
It improved. Seriously. Look up the facts. We live longer, are wealthier, travel more, work shorter hours in less less shortening jobs. Higher education is not just for the few. Owning a phone, fridge, washing machine, TV or car common. Food is cheaper than ever and the variety is stunning. We don't have polio, TB, rickets, or dentures if that's what you miss.
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 I caught TB about 10 years ago and all my perfectly good Teeth fell out and due to NHS Dentist cut backs haven't been able to get a Dentist for Dentures 😢 So your correct about no Dentures. In 1 Street down south 15 people had TB so unfortunately that is definitely making a comeback 😢😢.
My series 1 E Type is from 1966…. fabulous memories and Britain as we loved it …. Now it’s increasingly becoming the Third World country this video highlights commonwealth and protectorate countries wanting independence and none of them thrived after we left. Only rulers of those countries got wealthy and the indigenous people suffer daily and blame UK, crazy!
Great video, thanks for the upload, I'm surprised it didn't mention the axing of so many local railway lines and stations around the country - a massive contribution to today's congested roads, and Britain's involvement in the Nigerian Civil War 1967-70
@@pambromley7481 Well, it is a compilation of news reels, i.e. a compilation of British propaganda, can''t expect them to include the parts which put Great Britain in a bad light!
@@andyw2150 Give Over Please. Before somone starts,I was born in Scotland in 1953 and have lived there mostly ever since. I had two English grandfathers and a Scottish and Cornish grandmother,thanks to the late Kaiser and Adolf !
i was born in the early 1950s and perhaps the most vivid memory of that era ,was the the fact that car ownership was very much less that it is today most people relied on public transport , and the corner shop was the norm not supermarkets
Who came up with the idea of blow-up plastic furniture when everyone smoked? A lot of ugly pointless things were designed in the 60s, especially the architecture in all the "new towns," and high rise flats
Cuba Missile crisis I remember it well. Since the end of WWII most American cities had air raid sirens that were tested each week (ours was Monday at noon) and we had received instructions on what to do if a bomb went off (no not bend over and kiss you butt good bye) but "duck and cover". Find protection and get down low and cover your face and head. Would it work? Don't know, glad we never had to find out.
Keith Waterhouse (wrote Billy Liar and regular newspaper columnist from the 60s onwards - or is it 60's onward's) founded the AAAA.( Association for the Annihilation of the Aberrant Apostrophe).
I was born in Dec. 1945 thanks to Hitler starting WWII, and my parents joining the RAF, and started to explore where I lived aged about 5 years old. I really enjoyed my childhood growing up living on the S coast of the Isle of Wight, and exploring the leftovers of WWII with bunkers, radar stations, and many German things like belt buckles, and other items at swapped at school, and still have a about 6 Pfennigs stashed away somewhere in the attic from those days. So come 1950 then 5 years old is when most of my memories are, and had a great childhood back in those happy and just about carefree days. Then the 1960's appeared, and joined the RAF at 15 after leaving school as a Boy Entrant (now scrapped), in Sept 1961 (1961-1975) for 18 months training at RAF Cosford Wolverhampton , then my first posting at Leighton Buzzard, and they were mostly good years, but life went a bit down hill then with strikes and cars named Dagenham Dustbins because of their quality and things have got worse since then, and now we have life today with that twonk Starmer in charge demanding changes to this country to turn it into some 5th world county with his nonsensical plans....
I have always laughed at British cuisine and the lack of culinary palate but I do believe the British Sunday Roast dinner, is one of the best and can clearly be claimed as theres.❤ It’s a shame modern lack of family values today has eroded this important tradition ❤ and cost I know bangers and mash and bubble and squeak needs to make a come back.. but not as a M&S processed food .. 😂
Not sure where you're from but I think your perception of British cuisine dates from half a century ago. If "bangers and mash and bubble and squeak" is your thing then it's easy enough to make. I'm guessing more people eat "British Sunday Roast" at a pub rather than at home nowadays. Not sure what you count as 'family values' and how they've eroded. Always seems like a pretty vague term to me.
I just came from watching the 1950's version. Very similar nostalgic comments. Fact is, it isn't that earlier decades were better, it's that you were younger. On any level you care to measure things are better now than ever before. I appreciate that won't be the common perception. But it's true. The world we live in now would appear amazing back in the 1960's (or 50's or 70's). Sometimes we fail to appreciate what we've got. I'm a child of the sixties and enjoyed my life back then. I could reproduce most of the experience by giving away most of my possessions, unplugging my fridge, dumping my phone etc but it wouldn't make me younger. I'll stay in the 2020's thanks. Because of the technology I can look back when I want to and even send a link to a friend 3,000 miles away. Back in the sixties this would be the amazing future we'd dream of, and now we're here. We are living on the Starship Enterprise and don't even see it.
Yes, in the purely material sense things have improved. But the material component is only one aspect of the standards by which we live, and by no means the most important. Anyone brought up in the wartime era, or just after, can appreciate that it is actually relatively unimportant.
We had good manners and told all the time to be aware we respect others around us.I don't think all the material things make up for the me me attitudes today.
Reality our families fought for a free nice life then let the enemy in anyway then we are to blame as being offensive ???? We are imprisoned by the offended non contributers. Thankgod i left the UK 24 years ago, I'd never live there.
Corporate communism that corporate fascist conservatives adopted, for their corporations and their rich politicians / rich friends; its just capitalism with their feudal owners in control; while mass importing "cheap" labor to maximize profits, its why all these capitalistic countries are doing the same strategy. Regular single dictator communism.. this idea wouldnt work, by importing, they would still be stuck in the same time frame as of now, same people, same poor people.
It's based on newsreels of the time. It's all the things that affected life in Britain. What people saw on the news, what they would have celebrated, worried about, or talked about. The breakup of the Empire and the threat of nuclear war is certainly relevant to life in Britain at that time.
I became a teenager in the 60’s and it was great purely because I was young. The 60’s and 70’s saw a revolution in popular music that will never be repeated.
Me too! Never had much money but witnessed some of the greatest music changes possible in any lifetime! The Beatles and the Stones, plus innumerable others ! What a blast!
Great Britain in the 1960’s was more ambitious, more forward looking in manufacturing inventive new products and less concerned with political correctness and stifling free speech than today. Oh, how I wish we could replicate those attitudes and ambitions today.
Yes, free speech, that's an interesting idea, jailing homosexuals, racism - no blacks, no Irish displayed in windows, Kray twins running amoc in East London - mega corruption in the Metropolitan Police, working class people lucky to see 70 after a life of arduous toil, while the wealthy and idle royalty followed debauched lives while telling the working classes to behave themselves. Yes the 60's was a great time, provided you were wealthy.
capitalist boom - never lasts.
I lived through the 60’s but don’t remember it in those positive lights. We had the eras of politicians like Heath and Wilson. MacMillan had a high moral compass but was living a life 40 years out of date. We had industries which were critically inefficient; it was industries from coal and steel through motorcycles, cars and white goods which were so poor that they allowed countries like Germany and Japan to come into our market with goods so superior in quality that it was the start of the end for these industries.
We had social inequality no different, and possibly worse, than today. Certainly the gap between the establishment and working people was so large that it seemed unbridgeable. There was still a degree of respect for the establishment which defied all logic. A Duke, an Earl, a barrister, a banker seems to be put upon pedestals just because of their perceived social status.
Cars were a rarity for most people. TV’s only became common at the end of the decade. The same with fridges. So many women had to stay at home because the chores of housework and shopping occupied so much of their time. Indeed, it was almost frowned upon to be a working mother “why aren’t you at home looking after your children?”
Healthcare was still rudimentary. My mother died on 1966 of a disease eminently treatable 30 years later. Everybody smoked and everywhere stank of smoke.
The 60’s did see the start of some good things, particularly for the younger people but it also say the Vietnam war which did so much to harm the reputation of democracies throughout the world.
In conclusion, the 60’s (or the 50’s or the 80’s or now) were not the epitome of good life. They had every aspect from better to worse. We can’t go back even if we wanted to; why not put our efforts into making the present better for all?
Well said I left uk for Canada and we have never looked back.
Nothing's 'stifling free speech'. You're free to _say_ whatever you want, but so is everyone else. Just, don't be surprised if you get a negative response if you express opinions that are mean or misled. There isn't any kind of law, except against the sort of dangerous hate speech that causes things like the Farage hate riots a few weeks back.
A once wonderful 👍👍👍 place...... really was!
Whenever I watch videos like this, I am transported to a time and place I know nothing about. I was born on a Caribbean island that was British ruled until 1962. But the British influence didn’t stop overnight. As a child in primary school in the 70s, our books and poems and everything else were still British based. I still remember William Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils’ that I learned in the third grade. I still recall the English Reader A, B, C, D, E, series. I remember reading about the white cliffs of Dover, beautiful English gardens and cottages and always yearned to see the England described in my childhood books. In high school in the 80’s, I still hoped to see a little of that England.
I’m not trying to be disrespectful in anyway, but that England doesn’t exist anymore. I am now in my 50’s and an immigrant in the USA for decades, and I am so grateful.
You should see my garden 😎
Sir, you wrote that as eloquently as any Englishman could have done. We feel for our loss and trust me this isn't about Windrush. It is about what has happened since 1997 and Blair. A common sentiment here is "We weren't asked". There is truth in that but many also lost sight of what was happening to us until it was too late.
What the hell went wrong with our beautiful Country.😍
One word!
It improved. Seriously. Look up the facts. We live longer, are wealthier, travel more, work shorter hours in less less shortening jobs. Higher education is not just for the few.
Owning a phone, fridge, washing machine, TV or car common. Food is cheaper than ever and the variety is stunning. We don't have polio, TB, rickets, or dentures if that's what you miss.
Blair & new Labour @@snowysnowyriver
@@snowysnowyriver
I was thinking the same
And then I saw you comment
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 I caught TB about 10 years ago and all my perfectly good Teeth fell out and due to NHS Dentist cut backs haven't been able to get a Dentist for Dentures 😢 So your correct about no Dentures.
In 1 Street down south 15 people had TB so unfortunately that is definitely making a comeback 😢😢.
My series 1 E Type is from 1966…. fabulous memories and Britain as we loved it …. Now it’s increasingly becoming the Third World country this video highlights commonwealth and protectorate countries wanting independence and none of them thrived after we left. Only rulers of those countries got wealthy and the indigenous people suffer daily and blame UK, crazy!
I met Commander Wallis in the early 90's, a fascinating engineer, a true gentleman and both a great and humble man.
I loved the 60’s.
We thought we had a future then.
The days before the introduction of mass multiculturalism! The Politicians came along to sell us out!
.....And look at our country today..... 😞
Great video, thanks for the upload, I'm surprised it didn't mention the axing of so many local railway lines and stations around the country - a massive contribution to today's congested roads, and Britain's involvement in the Nigerian Civil War 1967-70
@@kingofdubb2133 Don't know if it happened in other cities, but my Dad is always on about the mistake of getting rid of the trams in Glasgow
Not mentioned quite deliberately - neither was slum clearance.
@@pambromley7481 Well, it is a compilation of news reels, i.e. a compilation of British propaganda, can''t expect them to include the parts which put Great Britain in a bad light!
August 1968, the end of regular steam hauled trains in the UK,
Beeching killed off our local rail service because he had a kickback from motorway construction. Not forgiven him yet, such short-sightedness. 😡
No female genital mutilation on young girls, no grooming gangs and certainly no suicide bombers, well done politicians of all parties !!
Superb travelled 5 times in. Queen Elizabeth second 1 on the Concord.lived in London student 1960 wonderful time.
very sad....our english cousins deserve better then the today mess.........good old England.....🇩🇪👌👍
Think you’ll find that “britain “ isn’t just little england
@@andyw2150 indeed...but the english are our closest in europe....
@@andyw2150 Give Over Please. Before somone starts,I was born in Scotland in 1953 and have lived there mostly ever since. I had two English grandfathers and a Scottish and Cornish grandmother,thanks to the late Kaiser and Adolf !
i was born in the early 1950s and perhaps the most vivid memory of that era ,was the the fact that car ownership was very much less that it is today most people relied on public transport , and the corner shop was the norm not supermarkets
17:20 M and B, Mitchell and Butlers beer, i remember that and Ansells.
I knew someone who married Twinnings tea heiress, didn't end well.
Who came up with the idea of blow-up plastic furniture when everyone smoked? A lot of ugly pointless things were designed in the 60s, especially the architecture in all the "new towns," and high rise flats
That Amami ad looks more like the 50s.
Left 13 years ago . Should have been sooner. It’s a discrace of a dump now no respect for anything Enoch Powell was right.
please do 1970s 🫶
My drawing board was green being a draughtsman in 1979. Past is like yesterday.
@flybobbie1449 . My drawing board was green too .
@@bobwilliamson5574 Soft Lino Green with a 60W adjustable light attached.
Hello from New Zealand's north island. I don't remember seeing an enormous iron trying to automatically flatten things.......😊
Feels like such an innocent time and in many respects naive.
Please do the 1980's next
Just as we expect from TH-cam a post called “Britain In The Sixties” consists largely of clips of American scenes
How is the Berlin Wall 'Britain in the 1960's'? Plus all the rest.
Cuba Missile crisis I remember it well. Since the end of WWII most American cities had air raid sirens that were tested each week (ours was Monday at noon) and we had received instructions on what to do if a bomb went off (no not bend over and kiss you butt good bye) but "duck and cover". Find protection and get down low and cover your face and head. Would it work? Don't know, glad we never had to find out.
School's in the 60's can't have been that good if they taught kid's greengrocer's apostrophe's.
😂
Keith Waterhouse (wrote Billy Liar and regular newspaper columnist from the 60s onwards - or is it 60's onward's) founded the AAAA.( Association for the Annihilation of the Aberrant Apostrophe).
I was born in Dec. 1945 thanks to Hitler starting WWII, and my parents joining the RAF, and started to explore where I lived aged about 5 years old. I really enjoyed my childhood growing up living on the S coast of the Isle of Wight, and exploring the leftovers of WWII with bunkers, radar stations, and many German things like belt buckles, and other items at swapped at school, and still have a about 6 Pfennigs stashed away somewhere in the attic from those days. So come 1950 then 5 years old is when most of my memories are, and had a great childhood back in those happy and just about carefree days. Then the 1960's appeared, and joined the RAF at 15 after leaving school as a Boy Entrant (now scrapped), in Sept 1961 (1961-1975) for 18 months training at RAF Cosford Wolverhampton , then my first posting at Leighton Buzzard, and they were mostly good years, but life went a bit down hill then with strikes and cars named Dagenham Dustbins because of their quality and things have got worse since then, and now we have life today with that twonk Starmer in charge demanding changes to this country to turn it into some 5th world county with his nonsensical plans....
So it’s all gone horribly wrong in two months and the previous 54 were just like the 60s eh? Were you in coma by any chance?
@@gingervirus2988
You sound like you are suffering from one. Too many drugs and booze eh??
Not like this anymore
Thankfully.
I have always laughed at British cuisine and the lack of culinary palate but I do believe the British Sunday Roast dinner, is one of the best and can clearly be claimed as theres.❤ It’s a shame modern lack of family values today has eroded this important tradition ❤ and cost I know bangers and mash and bubble and squeak needs to make a come back.. but not as a M&S processed food .. 😂
Not sure where you're from but I think your perception of British cuisine dates from half a century ago. If "bangers and mash and bubble and squeak" is your thing then it's easy enough to make. I'm guessing more people eat "British Sunday Roast" at a pub rather than at home nowadays. Not sure what you count as 'family values' and how they've eroded. Always seems like a pretty vague term to me.
Amazing how much of this is actually American history.
Narrator needs to speak up when there is background noise.
HaHa, I had to laugh when Royal Yacht Brittania was mentioned along with the word Gay!! Ex RN and RM will know what I mean😉😉
Don't leave us hanging you tease. 😂
😅
26:25 to 26:40 does anybody know what this instrumental is, played as one of the theme tunes on Radio Caroline perhaps?
I just came from watching the 1950's version. Very similar nostalgic comments. Fact is, it isn't that earlier decades were better, it's that you were younger. On any level you care to measure things are better now than ever before. I appreciate that won't be the common perception. But it's true. The world we live in now would appear amazing back in the 1960's (or 50's or 70's). Sometimes we fail to appreciate what we've got. I'm a child of the sixties and enjoyed my life back then. I could reproduce most of the experience by giving away most of my possessions, unplugging my fridge, dumping my phone etc but it wouldn't make me younger. I'll stay in the 2020's thanks. Because of the technology I can look back when I want to and even send a link to a friend 3,000 miles away.
Back in the sixties this would be the amazing future we'd dream of, and now we're here. We are living on the Starship Enterprise and don't even see it.
Yes, in the purely material sense things have improved. But the material component is only one aspect of the standards by which we live, and by no means the most important. Anyone brought up in the wartime era, or just after, can appreciate that it is actually relatively unimportant.
So your happy to be JAILED for a word or a thought?!!!!
We had good manners and told all the time to be aware we respect others around us.I don't think all the material things make up for the me me attitudes today.
@@vincekerrigan8300Quite right. You tell him/her/they.
...bit of a different attitude from the police at the Vietnam protest to that at the Palestinian protests in 2024!
"Friday Night is Amami Wave Set Night".
"It makes you lovelier." Brylcream for ladies. Toxic waste goop left over from other industrial processes. 🤣
Last Englishman please turn out the lights…. Oops. They did… 2 years ago
Define *English" without resorting to mythology and artificially create ethnicity.
@@DrakeN-ow1im Henry Higgins knows what English is
@@sichere By George you've got it
Interesting review of a decade I lived through, but the biased reporting of political events hasn't changed.
arrrrr....growing up in London in the 60s......from someone who was a 15/16 yr. old at this time one word CAMELOT
Half of this has nothing to do with BRITAIN
Reality our families fought for a free nice life then let the enemy in anyway then we are to blame as being offensive ???? We are imprisoned by the offended non contributers. Thankgod i left the UK 24 years ago, I'd never live there.
These days Everything is Illegal
That's obviously nonsense.
At work in loos we still have working electric heaters made in Britain from 1970's, still working. Be lucky if same made in China lasted 2 years.
What's hard to realise, every decade feels different, weather culture, music, tv.
But the Chinese one is probably cheaper than a packet of crisps. Swings and roundabout. We get what we ask for. And we ask for cheap. 😀
I have an electric heater made in China and I bought it 7 years ago. Still working.
44:39 QE 2 not 4?
QE 2, Concorde, SRN4 and Harrier should all be together in one museum.
I bet modelers don't notice QE2's below boot line is gloss and matt.
Communism???
Hmmm sounds and feels familiar now
Corporate communism that corporate fascist conservatives adopted, for their corporations and their rich politicians / rich friends; its just capitalism with their feudal owners in control; while mass importing "cheap" labor to maximize profits, its why all these capitalistic countries are doing the same strategy.
Regular single dictator communism.. this idea wouldnt work, by importing, they would still be stuck in the same time frame as of now, same people, same poor people.
When britain was britain not calcutta
So how much where an avocado in the 1960s. I
If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.
Many parallels with today
I thought this was supposed to be about Britain, not Russia, Sierra Leone,
East Germany and the USA.
Disappointing.
It's based on newsreels of the time. It's all the things that affected life in Britain. What people saw on the news, what they would have celebrated, worried about, or talked about. The breakup of the Empire and the threat of nuclear war is certainly relevant to life in Britain at that time.
So Britain wasn't affected by world events and the demise of imperialism?
Liar
Wank
To anyone who believes that Gagarin rocket footage was real or anyone has been to space, please send me some of the drugs your on👍
I doubt many will respond to someone who thinks you’re is spelt your. Don’t you wish you’d bothered at school?
You@@annoyingbstard9407
@@annoyingbstard9407 I think it was a troll with apostrophe issues. 😁
I don’t believe he went there too. I think that Ming the merciless was the first
@@Deed938 i think that's as close to the truth as we will ever find out 👍😂
The Sixties weren't that great, the only real advances were in culture
Really? That's when culture took a dive, and it has been downhill into mediocraty ever since.
''Not like this anymore' 'You guys mean We've got black faces in my town now