I remember when they built a bowling alley down Masbrough in Rotherham, it was as if it had landed from outer space and been plonked there, for the bowling alley was a piece of Americana that was surrounded by two up two down terraced houses, complete with outside loos, tin baths and cobbled streets. The bowling alley arrived in 1964, I was aged abut eight years old and I was in awe of the place, Pepsi machines, fast food and it looked so modern in our smoky, monochrome town. Sadly the bowling alley shut in the 70s and it was turned into Tiffany’s nightclub.
The Airport Bowl is still there on the Bath Road, Harlington. Frequented it in the 80s and everyone was trying to steal the shoes after Paul Weller wore a pair in a Jam video.
Lol I'd forgotten about sugar and water for hair spray. Remember it would turn the hair white and had to use a bath cube to get it out. Lol. No blow dryers other than in front of the fire. Had to stay in for the night if you were washing your hair lol.
@@usuk9316 It was a different life then, less complicated and less sophisticated! My favourite was spit on mascara and Pan-stick, grief must have looked a mess😂 but we thought we were the bees-knees!
@@molossergirl2 lol mascara. Yes we used to spit in it. We were lucky though our mum's time they used shoe polish for mascara lol. Gawd, I'd forgotten about pan stick. Do you remember when we wore stockings with suspended belts. I'd buy a new pair each week on pay day. I used to get all the ones without ladders in them and boil them up so they were the same color. When the button snapped on the suspended belt we used to use a threepenny bit lol. I'm loving this. Great memories. I always say that if we lost everything now we would survive.
I bought all 8 volumes of the Look at Life DVD series, contains all but a handful of the 500-odd films. If you enjoy this, you'll get so much out of it.
That many WOW I have some way to go then I have watched some on TH-cam Some aired on Talking Pictures These ‘Look at Life’ films are so wonderful I was born in 1965 and still ❤️ the decade today for many reasons but life then seemed simpler 🤩🤩🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴🏴👍 👍
We didn't have health and safety to restrict what we did or how we grew up. we didn't have cameras following our every move. We listened to our own private music. Paid for by cash. So no one knew what we listened to or bought. We bought tickets on the door. Not having to register our details. Yes, there was a lot more freedom and less oppression in the past.
Parts of this film are not true ,if you lived through the sixties you'd know what I mean.People lived very simple uncomplicated lives in general.They worked very hard for very litttle but I think they were happier . We had nothing remotely like the comfort people have now.Poor people now would have been classed as well off in the sixties and most of them don't even have jobs.
Go home after working at the office all day and dress up like Geronimo and smoke the peace pipe? Wait a minute, no so wacky after all if you're smokin wacky tobaccy. It was the sixties...
We never smoked wacky in the 60s. I suppose some people did but it wasn't the norm. Fashion and music was our thing. 60s in the US was completely different to the 60s in UK.
HANG ON. EVERYONE STOP! JUST STOP FOR ONE MINUTE....... they went home and dressed up as Indians after work and smoked a bong? .... nobody's got time for that shit these days !
I was born in 1948 so I remember the 60s the airport bowl was nothing to do with London airport I know this because I bowl there, and as for us copying the americans music I think they copied us, we took rhyme and blues to them with the beatles/the who and many more groups that were hits over there so n my opinion this film is a load of crap
Cliff Richard was the one who brought Rock n roll to UK. He loved Elvis. I know some people think it's not cool to like Cliff but how it was with all the hysteria from the girls etc was for Cliff before the Beatles made it. Most of the group's respected Cliff and loved his music.
Cliff Richard is a nonce. End of. Liked little boy's and would often be in attendance at nonce "club's" with various "nonce" mp's and the notorious NONCE, Reggie Kray. All wrong 'uns up to,sick,vile depraved filth. Nonce scum.
I was brought up in the 60s I must admit it was less stressful and focused on family x
Bring back the old days! There is something to be said for good old fashioned simplicity.
Mario Giresi I know you're not referring to:
8:18 "and returns the ball to your hand with the care & smoothness of a well trained slave." 🙄
@@6ixConfessions good old imperial Britain eh?!
@@6ixConfessions More wokery at play, different times.
@@DJ_Dopamine Yes, & nobody does snobbery quite as well.
@@goldieandblackie Perhpas so but it doesn't make it any less tasteless & wrong.
I remember when they built a bowling alley down Masbrough in Rotherham, it was as if it had landed from outer space and been plonked there, for the bowling alley was a piece of Americana that was surrounded by two up two down terraced houses, complete with outside loos, tin baths and cobbled streets. The bowling alley arrived in 1964, I was aged abut eight years old and I was in awe of the place, Pepsi machines, fast food and it looked so modern in our smoky, monochrome town. Sadly the bowling alley shut in the 70s and it was turned into Tiffany’s nightclub.
The picture of countries abroad looks more like modern day Britain.
The Airport Bowl is still there on the Bath Road, Harlington. Frequented it in the 80s and everyone was trying to steal the shoes after Paul Weller wore a pair in a Jam video.
The days when Fray Bentos pies actually had meat in them, I bet they were lovely
I adore all the old footage in the look at life series
I agree its brilliant damn sight better than today
@@keithweatherman8690 definitely! I was born a lot later in time than I'd have liked, given the choice!
Frey Bentos steak and kidneys!! Can't remember the last time I saw these. The tins came in handy as doggie dishes
Still sold in uk supermarkets, from as little as £1 each!
My dad loves them.
They're still pretty good
if you can open the tin
No mobile phones, PlayStation or 24 hour TV. How did we manage? Well we did.
Read my brief statement. 😃
Lol, back-combed hair spritzed with sugar water, I remember it well!! Great times long gone, oh boy I feel old!
Lol I'd forgotten about sugar and water for hair spray. Remember it would turn the hair white and had to use a bath cube to get it out. Lol.
No blow dryers other than in front
of the fire. Had to stay in for the night if you were washing your hair lol.
@@usuk9316 It was a different life then, less complicated and less sophisticated! My favourite was spit on mascara and Pan-stick, grief must have looked a mess😂 but we thought we were the bees-knees!
@@molossergirl2 lol mascara. Yes we used to spit in it. We were lucky though our mum's time they used shoe polish for mascara lol.
Gawd, I'd forgotten about pan stick.
Do you remember when we wore stockings with suspended belts. I'd buy a new pair each week on pay day. I used to get all the ones without ladders in them and boil them up so they were the same color. When the button snapped on the suspended belt we used to use a threepenny bit lol. I'm loving this. Great memories. I always say that if we lost everything now we would survive.
What a time of revolution! I wish I could've seen this.
It was great Frankie.
I bought all 8 volumes of the Look at Life DVD series, contains all but a handful of the 500-odd films. If you enjoy this, you'll get so much out of it.
That many WOW
I have some way to go then
I have watched some on TH-cam
Some aired on Talking Pictures
These ‘Look at Life’ films are so wonderful
I was born in 1965 and still ❤️ the decade today for many reasons but life then seemed simpler
🤩🤩🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴🏴👍 👍
I was in one but have never been able to find it, it was the breaks motorbike display team, about 1962-3
even the barbers worse suits in the 60s lol pure class
The good old days
Bowling in the airport, what a novel idea.
Thats is the most entertaining video I have found on youtube. I'm trying figure out if this is real.
Been Bowling at Southend on many occasions
is it still there?!
The Blue Streak never reached the moon, but served as a basis of the Europa and later Ariane Rocket.
I guess the Wilson Labor Party were more interested in Socialism that science.
I never knew that Britain had Moon aspirations until I saw this video! Hey, don't Bogart that Peace pipe !!
Aspirations killed by Wilson's Labor party being more interested in Socialism than science.
We didn't have health and safety to restrict what we did or how we grew up. we didn't have cameras following our every move. We listened to our own private music. Paid for by cash. So no one knew what we listened to or bought. We bought tickets on the door. Not having to register our details. Yes, there was a lot more freedom and less oppression in the past.
Parts of this film are not true ,if you lived through the sixties you'd know what I mean.People lived very simple
uncomplicated lives in general.They worked very hard for very litttle but I think they were happier .
We had nothing remotely like the comfort people have now.Poor people now would have been classed
as well off in the sixties and most of them don't even have jobs.
I had to put this back a bit to check if he really said "well trained slave "
it doesnt mean he keeps slaves!
Very interesting video .
Haha awesome I love you Britts
It is surprising as early as the 1960s, we Brits were consuming American media in unhealthy quantities.
And today it's Woke and vulgar Rap!
7:19 working girls had a different meaning back then i guess
Yep lol
+modifiedmethod do you still have ep 3 as it's missing/removed from youtube for some reason? Thanks
Wow Fray bentos pie Factory..0:41
An appearance from Mr. L there in his younger days😊
The women seem more independent back then and men were more skilled at engineers
I think people on the whole were more mature -- people are encouraged to stay forever young now
@@annother3350 Young and FAT
It certainly is!
"Swinging Blue Jeans"???
Tim Turner narrating.
well trained slaves...what a quote
Bring back the Good ole days of the wagon trains and the sweet gold rush of 1848 on those dusty Californian roads...
Go home after working at the office all day and dress up like Geronimo and smoke the peace pipe? Wait a minute, no so wacky after all if you're smokin wacky tobaccy. It was the sixties...
We never smoked wacky in the 60s. I suppose some people did but it wasn't the norm. Fashion and music was our thing. 60s in the US was completely different to the 60s in UK.
@@usuk9316 Righhht. the US -- the home of Haight Ashbury!
6:07 Ahh, Cherokee tartan...
That pipe and what's in it looks a bit suspect.
Only one thing wrong with these videos...
No long enough.
Blue streak made from stainless steel? Wake up Elon musk!
8:18 "and returns the ball to your hand with the care & smoothness of a well trained slave." ???
Who wrote that obnoxious s**t???
A slave was a "must have" back in the good ole day's, most husband's had one, it was called the wife 😉
Alert: a Woke Troll
@@robflood8003 Apparently.
UK, Americas 52nd state.
Americans, children of the British. ;-)
America -- the other chunk of Great Britain
did i just watch a couple of brits dress up like native americans and get high?
HANG ON. EVERYONE STOP! JUST STOP FOR ONE MINUTE....... they went home and dressed up as Indians after work and smoked a bong? .... nobody's got time for that shit these days !
I was born in 1948 so I remember the 60s the airport bowl was nothing to do with London airport I know this because I bowl there, and as for us copying the americans music I think they copied us, we took rhyme and blues to them with the beatles/the who and many more groups that were hits over there so n my opinion this film is a load of crap
Where do you think rhythm and blues music came from, idiot
Oh your joking aren't you. Rhymn and Blues was American. In the 60s all our popular music was from America.
Cliff Richard was the one who brought Rock n roll to UK. He loved Elvis. I know some people think it's not cool to like Cliff but how it was with all the hysteria from the girls etc was for Cliff before the Beatles made it. Most of the group's respected Cliff and loved his music.
R and b came from America....
Cliff Richard is a nonce. End of. Liked little boy's and would often be in attendance at nonce "club's" with various "nonce" mp's and the notorious NONCE, Reggie Kray.
All wrong 'uns up to,sick,vile depraved filth. Nonce scum.
Do you know why it is called Jazz? Cos shit was already in use.
greetings from india,dont see britian anywhere near US or USSR or china in space