This makes me feel so safe and comfortable, which is an odd thing to say about the shops, I know. Seeing those antique appliances shiny and on display, it's like I can steal back some hope and childlike wonder from beyond the mists of time. I'm going through a hard time financially. (Aren't we all.)
So many years since I visited Beamish, and I'll never get back now. It's a wonderful, groundbreaking place and I'm pleased to see more commemoration of real people and real life
It is a special place indeed. I'm really pleased they are bringing in history people can appreciate with living memory, it really brings it to life for me!
Thanks so much, that's so lovely particularly as you work there - every member of the team I met was so friendly and welcoming - it really stuck me! I've wanted to visit since about 1986 and it was well worth the wait!
I'm a child of the 50's and remember a feeling of social cohesion. There was a feeling of shared society. Things weren't all rosy but I think people were probably happier having a shared cultural back ground.
I think community is lacking these days, I actually work in community and its harder and harder to arrange and get people to take part in cohesive events, and communities that do exist can be quite insular, it's really frustrating and I do agree back then people were more open to taking part and helping their neighbours x
Hi Lucy, that was fantastic ! I was born in 1955, so was growing up in the 50s and 60s. So much of what you showed there brought back so many memories, of both my own home and that of my Grandparents. Lino round the edge of the room and a carpet square in the middle. We never had a fridge until I was 8, in 1963, and my Grandfather never had one, or a washing machine. He had a gas fired 'Copper' in the corner of his kitchen, and a huge green enamel mangle in a lean to. I remember the 1950s - 60s High Street too. So many different shops - no super markets back then - it was all very different and somehow more 'gentile'. We were happy and had all the basics for a nice life. Can't wait for your next video with the 50s houses. Thanks Lucy for this, and for showing what a fantastic time we all had back then, without realising it ! Take special care 🙂 X X
Very very welcome. It reminds me of my life too before it all became phones and internet; I've lived in both and I know what I preferred really (you tube aside!) we didn't have a freezer until the mid 80s so I found how they were on sale in the 50s to a mass audience - I guess it's always nice to browse! Thanks for sharing your memories, they are so special x
St Helen's Church in Beamish, used to be the church in the cemetary directly behind my home (Eston Cemetary). It was dismantled brick by brick in 1998 and rebuilt in Beamish. Proud our little church from an unknown part of the UK made it to one of the UK's best museums.
I am very sad to say I didn't have time to explore that area - I just rushed into the sweet shop for some Cherry Drops - gives me an excuse to go back though!
Thank you! I really fell in love with Beamish, I think it's amazing .. and I've always been an "old soul" at heart so I think that's why I resonate so much, I wish I did remember those times!
I love that you pan the camera slowly, giving us a chance to really absorb what you're seeing. I got to see details on some of the fixtures and furniture I may not have noticed if I was there in person. Another amazing video!
Thank you, it's interesting you say that because when I am editing I see things that I didn't see at the time either because I am concentrating so hard on making the footage smooth :)
I was born in 1949 in Sheffield; I was always underweight as a child and I do remember Haliborange. My mother kept huge jars of Malt & Cod-liver Oil in the pantry that I was made to swallow every day to try and fatten me up. The building itself is amazing.
I had malt every day - Off a big metal tablespoon and something called minidex - I think it was an iron supplement? You know it's so hard to get malt these days. I like to make my own malt loaf and it's hard to come by x
Another superb upload Lucy, I can remember right back to the early 50's and I must say Beamish have done a great job that brings back so many fond memories of the period. Yes back then houses were too cold in the winter, sparsely furnished, our diet was monotonous, money was short, holidays were often just a few days out, travel was often by bus, yes trains back then were expensive. Car ownership didn't take off until the 1960's. Good health was as much to do with looking after yourself and your genes as even with the NHS modem medicine of today was still twenty years in the future. Would I go back in time, YES, YES, YES! We lived back then in a more law abiding society in a democracy with politics that made sense in my view. We felt we had a future and hope. Keep up the good work and thank you.
Very welcome and very much enjoyed reading your comment - I always think these comments will remain as a digital imprint of contemporary historical evidence and opinion forever and that's so important. There's no better evidence than "being there" and thanks for taking the time to share with me x
Lucy, you have outdone yourself. This one was a beauty. I really enjoyed every minute. Not only was I reminded of 'living exhibit' Museums I visited in childhood, but what you showed us took me right back to my own childhood. Seeing the once commonplace in a museum is a sobering thing. Imagine a day, 70 years from now, when visitors will see 2024 homes, with; iPhones, Home Digital Assistance Units like Alexa along with all the old tech we currently consider essential. Will they laugh at how primitive we were, or will they be reminded of their great grandparents? As always, your enthusiasm shines through. Cheers me dears.
Thanks Tom, always great to hear from you .. funnily enough I went to the V&A museum not long ago and my old brick Nokia 3310 phone, blow up ruck sack and Dr Marten Boots were all there as part of the "90s" exhibit .. my niece didn't have a clue how to use a telephone either. She just thinks you can ask Alexa everything .. I spent a lot of time asking her to S-UP as she don't have go on (Alexa not my niece!!) x
@@throughlucyslens Fascinating tale. Thanks. The Nokia was an icon for its day. I couldn't afford DM's, but segs were all the rage and cheap. Think of Music Centres, Shellac records, and all the Ronco and K-Tel gadgets! Our first Answer machine was always empty; people were terrified of leaving a message. Bread Vans, Milk Floats, Bin bag free dustbins, Bus Conductors and Dog Catchers. All gone. Without your hard work, and the museums you promote, this world would become nothing but forgotten landfill. thank you Lucy. xx
Dang I miss bins without bin bags - that probably sounds nuts but it's so much easier to dispose and rinse instead of all that bin bag sludge and more landfill plastic!
I loved it, sadly I only had time to scratch the surface on this visit, I need to go back to see the Victorian Village, the Pit Village and also the 1950s farm, just wasn't enough hours in the day.
The 1950's house brought back many memories for me. I was born in 1946 a lived with Mum and Dad and my sister in a terrace property in Hackney, East London. We lived upstairs and my maternal grandparents downstairs. My Dad was a cabinet maker and, as a craftsman, we benefitted for his having a higher income than many. We had all the basics - but - no bathroom (the bath was galvanized metal and hung on the garden fence), and an outside loo (with an under and overdoor gap of six inches to let in the winter cold. In bad winters we had icicles inside the windows - no double glazing or central heating then! Rationing did not end until about 1953 but we were very happy and content. From1953 we even had a 'telly' which was rented from a company called 'Stones' in Mare Street, Hackney. My dad got it especially for the late Queen's Coronation in 1953. Better stop here - but so many memories.
Don't stop next time - write an essay - I lap it up like a cat that got the cream, absolutely love it. Thanks for sharing that with me, I always feel very privileged when people do.
Gosh I can remember the ice in the form of snowflakes inside the bedroom windows. Going to bed at night it was a quick turn the light out and then RUB across the room straight into bed with the hot water bottle already there to warm the bed up,
That was a trip down memory lane for me Lucy, I remember the 50’s very well. I also visited Beamish a few year ago, the smell I missed was in the chandler’s shop. We had a wonderful one in my village & you could smell soap, candles, paraffin, polish all sorts of smells mixed together,you knew which shop you were in by the smell ! A lot of houses didn’t have an inside toilet never mind a bathroom! In fact ,my Grannies only had cold water& the toilet up the yard. ❤
I didn't get to go into the chandler and I'm really gutted about that. I was looking forward to it and time ran away with me - I will return and experience that though! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. It means a lot ❤️
I’m just as enthusiastic about social history and it can be very emotional looking back. So many memories for me. My first step into teenage years was the Milk Bar with a counter top Jukebox. The old sterilising machine was in constant use in the dental surgery I worked at and was forever boiling dry. Loved the “pictures” never called it cinema and the thrill of the week for kiddies was Saturday mornings watching Flash Gordon, The Cisco Kid and Pancho, not to forget The Lone Ranger and Tonto. I can’t remember what I did yesterday but remember childhood vividly.. I was always cold (no central heating) and had every childhood disease going. Thanks for this video Lucy, I always wanted a trip to Beamish. A few tv films have been made there, especially Catherine Cookson stories. Tfs x
I was mad about milk bars when I was a kid - there were a few left in Wales and I loved to go to the one in Welshpool! We called the cinema "the flicks" but I wasn't sure how universal that was - maybe a Brummie thing! My Dad loved the pictures, he said it was just a world away from real life. Even on the hard benches. Even as a kid in the 80s I had every childhood illness going - I try and think it made me stronger 😅 I'm still covered in scars from Measles - Tiger stripes 🐾
@@throughlucyslens Yes, some people called them the 'flicks' - I think that stemmed back to early picture shows that locals called the 'flickers' - images flickering on the screen. I think I was born at the wrong time don't you? There isnt a great deal that I like about so called progress. I go through Welshpool a lot and have only stopped there once. Keep meaning to have a good mooch around. Havent been to Powys Castle since I was little either. Milk Bars ... they were just a lovely meeting safe meeting place for teenagers werent they? The atmosphere was lovely. My mom and dad spent hours and hours in cinemas when he was on leave in WWII as they had nowhere else to go. Sad to see the decline of cinemas. There was a man in the Midlands named Ned who did talks on the disappearance of Art Deco cinemas and was always pressuring the powers that be to not destroy them. They ignored him of course and many have disappeared. I used to go to the local library and listen to tapes that were archived of people's memories of the past. Very interesting. Time passes all too quickly x
I also love the smells that are so evocative of the time and place. I notice it in old houses, historic bakeries, antique stores, vintage military buildings and ships. Our smell memory must be highly evolved. I also appreciate your interesting narrative as you walk through the sites. Your voice is very pleasant and warm. Again, a wonderful video of my personal favorite time period.
Thank you, smell is so important - good and bad. Some smells can take you back to an exact place and time, if I smell a cigar my Dad is there with me in spirit - I love it! Thank you for your warm compliments x
Hallo Lucy. What a fabulous trip!! The 1950s,not a time without its problems,but so much less divisive,more innocent somehow.The pleasures taken,simpler but more satisfying. The care centre epitomised the sense of community. Thank you so much for your enthusiastic portrayal of these time capsules.Also for sharing this emotional journey with one that grew up in the 1950 s
Thanks very much Jo, really appreciate it, there were plenty of problems just like there are now but I think the lack of 24/7 media certainly made it a more innocent time. It's just a really nice place to look around and folks can take their own memories away from it, good or bad x
Very much enjoyed this one. My memory from that time would be going into Hull City centre on a Sunday to go window shopping with my mum. The hours we spent looking in windows, C&A, Hammonds, BHS, and Mark's and Sparks.
Ohhh Hammonds! I lived in Hull for several years and remember it well .. we had the same shop in Birmingham (House of Fraser) But it was called Rackhams!
Absolutely wonderful! I didn't even know they'd added this 1950's village to Beamish, I'm definitely going to book a coach trip up to there sometime very soon, I live in Yorkshire. My Granny was born in Bishop Auckland in 1918 but moved to Wales for work in the pits soon after, then they moved to Barnsley for work yet again, she married my Grandad in 1938 and my Dad was born in 1939. I remember them telling me they were the first people on their street to get a television and all the neighbours came round to theirs to watch the Queens coronation.
That's amazing - I love that about the television!!! I bet there were people looking through the window and everything 😂 you must go back it's amazing, with your local connections you will absolutely love it!
Thank you Lucy, for such a warm and informative film about a place I'd love to visit. I love the pace of your video, allowing the eyes time to linger upon those evocative spaces and reflecting upon the origins of what were once busy High Street institutions. I appreciate how you include the social-histotric economic qualifiers: that the new 'mod cons' such as refridgerators remained prohibitively expensive for many and that the cinema was a warm, safe place, whilst some still lived in cold, damp conditions. Enlightening context, personal connections and boundless love and enthusiasm for the Beamish Living Museum experience, make for another beautiful and charming video within your wonderful playlist.
Thank you so much, I worry sometimes I film little details for too long so that feedback really helps, often I am seeing things for the first time in the same manner through the lens of my camera so I am lingering to see things myself :) Actually all your feedback is lovely - really appreciate it, I try and think of everybody - and remember vividly my Dad saying he loved the Saturday morning session at the cinema because for once he was actually warm x
Born 1962 so most of my early years came rushing back Lucy. Beautifully videoed and articulated so well, I always feel you take me on such an adventure wherever you head off too. Thank you for that. You made this older gal smile from ear to ear 😊❤
Less of the old please, age is a number .. that's what I remind myself anyway ;) Thanks for your lovely words, I was really really excited by this village, it blew me away and I am so pleased others are enjoying the experience too x
Absolutely magical! So many memories… but three really came home. The Janet and John book, can still remember trying to read it!!.Champion the Wonder horse album/comic❤️in Norman’s house… and you saying you were going to the ‘pictures’❤. Thank you so much. Cannot wait to see your next video. Take care. 🥰
It's a really special place, I always knew I would love it there but I don't think I was expecting how much I would - absolutely make the trip there someday if you can!
i wish i still lived in the uk, id soooo visit this. in new zealand 40yrs now. wen i was at home, you didnt travel like people do now, or since the mid 90's. so i never knew about this. did you say it started in the 70's? beautiful video, ace done. i reall enjoyed it and got thinking my past . thanks lucy, you are an absolute friggin ace woman n a gem.
Thanks Colin, yes it opened in 1970, it was the first example of a "living museum" over here, the first director was inspired by visiting folk museums in Europe. It's a wonderful place and I am glad I can bring it to you through the screen. Also - your kind words - thank you. Really mean a lot!
Thank you for a lovely day out again, Lucy! I especially enjoyed the artist’s work. The toy shop was a bit bittersweet, as some of them reminded me of mine that had to be left behind when we emigrated. That sounds mean, but we crossed by boat and my brother had a birthday partway across, so my parents used most of the spare luggage space for gifts for him. ❤
I don't think that's a bad thing to say - I think as a child I would have thought the same too! Weirdly when we moved house my parents decided to leave the majority of our toys in the loft space as we had "grown out of them" and I always find that so upsetting as I would LOVE to still own them, but then again I am a bit of a sentimental fool!
Thank you Lucy for another great video. It made my day to see you'd finally managed to get to our neck of the woods and experience Beamish. Now you know why myself and many others recommended it to you! What a beautiful description of that feeling a memory stirs "a warm hug" ❤ I'm glad you enjoyed the North East and some of our history. If you're able to pop this way in July next year, The Durham Miners Gala is another tradition that's amazing to see. I can't wait for part 2. I remember in the news when they moved those 50's houses you're going to see 😊
I loved it so so much, a week was no where near enough, I drove away wishing I could stay - the coast is so sensational and everyone is so friendly and welcoming. Beamish blew my mind, I need to go back because I didn't even scratch the surface .. but yes the 50s houses were spectacular! Looking forward to looking back on the footage!
I can't get out much now so I really enjoy coming along on your adventures, The old TV's reminded me of when we had our first TV in the early sixties there was not much on for kids but Sunday tea time it was Captain Pugwash or Noggin the Nog and the ice dragon ,my youngest brother was terrified of Cut throat Jake and hid behind the sofa we all thought he was a wimp. Thanks Lucy looking forward to the next video,
Hahahah, I used to hide behind the sofa at Doctor Who! I have no idea what I found so frightening because when you look back at that old footage those Darleks can't even get up a flight of stairs! Our first telly had a "remote control" that was actually on a really short wire and I broke it pulling at it .. will never be allowed to forget that!
It was the introductory music of Dr. Who that used to freak me out, along with the weird patterns on the screen. I thought they were like ribs and used to hide behind the couch! @@throughlucyslens
Thank you Lucy! Been down with a virus for a week and it rather spoiled my birthday last Sunday, but you have given me the best medicine with this exciting and charming video. Broken off watching it to go to my PC so that I can leave a message! Returning to my sofa now to enjoy the other half of this video. Thank you for going so far up North to visit the wonderful Beamish Museum. Stay well! xxx
You stay well too Sky - just left you my little trick on your other AMAZING contribution. I've got a broken rib right now and it's making me so miserable but remember everything is temporary .. but why does it always have to spoil your birthday / Christmas etc .. drives me mad!! Be better lovely x
Hi again. A wonderful video and narration thank you. Albeit I was born in 1967 I love everything about the 1950/60’s. All those televisions and radios were all made so they could be repaired so they lasted for years. I still have a bush radio today and it works great. Most of the things we see here were in my grandparents home right through the 70’s , it just goes to show the quality of things back then. X
Absolutely! I remember going to the radio repair shop with my Dad a lot - we also had a hoover for YEARS that always seemed to be going in for repairs! When Nan passed away her little bush radio that had blared out Radio WM for decades was still going - always think listening to sound through an old sound system is like listening to the past - I'm a nostalgic old so and so 😂
We had lino on the floor in the bedroom when we moved into the house I was brought up in. Later on we had carpet and Mum made curtains around the dresser in our room. Life was more community based then. We were very lucky to grow up in that era (in New Zealand) Take care as always and thank you =-)
Thanks so much for sharing, I have never had the joy of a visit to NZ but my Mom visited and she said it was very familiar to her and more community based than here even today. I am not sure I am too adverse to the thought of lino, especially now I have the dog who likes to mess up the carpet at every given opportunity - mop and bucket seems a better idea!
I miss the 50's, 60's . I used to go with my friend on a Saturday to the Alpine Milk Bar for a milkshake. We used to have coffee bar's too, frothy coffee was the in thing 😊. I used to go to the doll's hospital to get my baby doll's repaired. A lovely walk down memory lane. Chips wrapped in newspaper, lovely. The national anthem at the end of the pictures, and everyone stood up.
It was so lovely to see it. I always loved to hear Mom talking about her childhood and dolls hospitals and I felt in some way I could see it. It even smell right .. I can't explain it! A wonderful place and im so pleased museums are appreciating history in living memory is valuable and important for museums x
@@throughlucyslens l noticed a Tiffin bar in one of the shop's, those were one of my favourites, and I'd forgotten all about them until I saw them again. These video's jog the memory, l love them 😊
@@throughlucyslens Ah, that's the phrase I was looking for, "It even smelled right...". For me, the 50s smelled of freshly ironed cotton dresses, Murphy's oil soap, and coffee brewing in a percolator. The interior of the 'fridge (Gran still called it an 'icebox'.) smelled metallic; the oven, of scorched biscuits (made by me, age 8).
New subscriber!! So glad I found your channel, I love the fifties. I was born in 74 but I just love nostalgia and always thought I should've been born much earlier 🫶🫶🫶
Hi Linzi! I'm the same generation as you and feel the same! I do wonder sometimes if I spend too much time looking back instead of forward .. but whatever makes you happy hey? ❤️
This was so good I was a child in the 50s with I remember playing with a Hoopla game which they had in the toyshop and having a doll which each year disappeared to the doll hospital and appeared on Christmas with a new wig and new clothes made by my Mum ! The cinema was lovely and I remember when you had to queue and went in halfway through a film then watched the beginning up to where you came in - great memories thank you as always 😊❤
Very welcome! I used to find queueing for the cinema so nerve wracking because you never knew if you would get into the film or not - we got turned away more than once leading to a meltdown from one of the children in the group. Love love love that about your dolly - what a wonderful memory and I bet you loved her more each year!
Another fantastic tour, i loved it, felt i was there walking round with you. I love how you take your time panning round, taking in everything. So many things just bought back memories. I wish i could just return to that era, i really do. Thanks again Lucy.
I would like to see it - I have spent all my life hearing about it and being so invested - even to see what it smelt like! I always imagine there would be more smoke / coal smells in the air. Thanks for your lovely compliment - it's appreciated!
@@throughlucyslens So absorbed that I forgot to say we had a Pye tv too! It was wonderful Lucy, truly thanks! And the hair do was beautiful! See I'm still thinking of things!
Hi again, I love this one too! Especially the Community Center clinic at the end because I am a nurse and I am a fan of ‘Call the Midwife’ so I was thinking about that show just as you were mentioning it! That museum is really a special place! Kudos to the creators and volunteers! Thanks to you for taking us there.
Absolutely. They did a brilliant job! There's another maternity home I want to show you but I need to get back there to do it! I am too an absolutely huge fan of call the midwife! X
I have been to Beamish a couple of times. It’s absolutely amazing and probably the best place I’ve ever been to. I’m 55 and well travelled so it proves it certainly is a special place and experience xx
It blew my mind. I knew it was going to be good ... but it somehow just felt very real, not like a museum. I can't wait to go back as I barely saw a third of it!
Beautiful upload. You did a brilliant job! Beamish is constant evolving. It is worth visiting multiple times a year, which isalso reflected in the entrance ticket.thanks!
It's brilliant you can keep going back isn't it? If I was local I would be in and out alllll of the time, my local living museum in the black country has the same deal and I go all the time, wonderful :)
What a beautiful video Lucy i got very emotional in the cinema part . the entire Living Museum is such a great achievement i am blown away you captured it so well Lucy
Thank you! It means a lot! It's nice for me to have the footage too as I can watch it again and see what I missed because when you are filming you always miss things until you edit!
I was born in 1970, i remember going to the hairdressers with my grandma, it looked just like that. Also that chippy brought back memories, it's exactly the same. This brought a smile to my face and made me feel warm and happy. Thank you ❤
My Nan had a chip shop and it was like stepping back in to her shop, really special as there aren't any photographs of it - it didn't even have a name, it was just the chippy for the local community. First place I went when I was allowed to ride my bike on my own was to Nans chippy for a saveloy and a can of pop :) Warm hugs all round x
I grew up in Middlesbrough and remember Romer Parrish’s shop very well - it was definitely the best-known toy shop in town, every kid was familiar with it, and it became part and parcel of all our childhoods. And does anyone else remember “Nurse Nancy” from the “Twinkle” comic, whose grandad ran a doll’s hospital with her as his assistant? Seeing the doll’s hospital area just reminded me of her…
I actually remember Nurse Nancy as I inherited a bunch of Twinkle Annuals off my Auntie Kaz as a kid - there was a Rupert annual with a Doll's Hospital in it too, I think that's where my fascination started. How I would have loved to have seen the original toy shop :)
It's lovely isn't it? They just got it right - and the fact you can walk up to everything, sit on the sofa and just imagine you were "there" so so special too, I hate having to stand behind a rope.
The interior of my grandmother’s pub is here in Beamish. It was from the Rising Sun pub in Sunniside. Thanks for video. I used to volunteer here with my father. Enjoy.👍🏆
A beautifull old town l wish l could live there in the 1955 the good old days when everything was cheap and freash and everyone was happy 😊 the food was cheap and everyone help each other out a beautifull place to live in 1955 dont you wish we had a time machine 😊 and changr the world and we all live in 1955 the world it so brillant to see the world back in the old days the better days thanks for showing us the good olds on utube channel thanks so much a beautifull angel history teacher who entertains us all 😊 ❤🎉😊
You are so lovely Stephen, glad you enjoyed the video, not sure everyone was happy (there's always people that aren't) but in my mind it is certainly a simpler time. Glad you enjoyed the video and your comments always make me smile :)
Even today I see so many buildings like that hall in villages throughout Yorkshire. They are used for everything from wedding receptions to boy scouts, dances and lectures. A wonderful concept that is worthy of preservation. One thing that gave me a jolt was hearing the national anthem in the cinema. I remember that being played at the beginning of every performance, and everyone groaning as they had to juggle coats and sweets, in order to stand up, having just got settled.
It gave me goosebumps as I walked up the stairs to hear it, I was shocked everyone was sitting down though - but then again I guess standing for the national anthem has been lost in time with the film reels and advertisements of the day.
what an amazing channel, love the history we dig victorian dumps collecting what they threw away like clay pipes poison bottles and compacts. love your channel and have subscribed thank you
Ohhhh I love mudlarking! I recently found an old corporation bottle dump and need to go back without the dog! Found a gorgeous medieval tile on a beach in wales recently! I'll check out your channel, hours of viewing coming up I think :)
Well what can I say about this video. It was my life. Everything was so real to me. Absolutely loved the toy shop and dolls hospital. Used to take my dolls there. The chip shop, just fantastic. Could taste those chips . The cafe was so real as was the hairdresser. My mum used to go for her perm. Adored the cinema, memories of the back seats lol. The house was furnished just as our house with painted floorboards and carpet. I remember going to the clinic in the hall. I loved the orange juice and cod liver oil. Bit strange me lol. Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful place.
You aren't strange AT ALL - you have a heart and a brain full of memories and places like this allow us to indulge in them which is a real luxury in our lives full of other "stuff" that has to be done. thanks for sharing it was so similar, I think they have done a brilliant job, I did miss the eye watering waft of perming solution in the hairdressers though, I used to sit and hold my nose!! haha
It’s a great museum, I was born just after the War, when rationing was still in place up to 1954, and at Beamish they manage to re-create those early periods of British life brilliantly, particularly the 1950s, a period I can relate to. If you have not visited this museum before I can certainly recommend it, together with a stay at the nearby Beamish Hotel.
I really want to go here myself. Born in 1953 this is like being back in the 50s in my town of Bulwell in Nottinghamshire. Can't wait to go and see soon with my own eyes. Brilliant video.
You will love it - it's absolutely huge! I should have had more days there, you get a pass though which means you can go back go for free as many times as you want over a year so hopefully I can go again!
I loved this video. The hair salon is beautiful and the chippy and cinema. If im ever up nearby will definitely check this out. Interested to see the other eras they have there too x
Oh wow Lucy...I was hoping you'd do one of this place.I'd really love to go...I've seen a few other videos of this wonderful place but yours is so good...as always and I love your narration. Thanks for this film.
When you see things in a museum that i had when I was young makes me feel old the village hall is like lots in the Yorkshire dales that are still in use today
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My parents grew up in East Anglia after the war. When we would visit 'ome they would take me to a toy shop called Cullis' (sp?) in Brentwood. This was in the '70s but it was a very old fashioned toy shop just off the corner of the high Street. We didn't have toy shops like that in Canada. My dad would would tell me stories of him going into the same store as a kid look at the dinky cars. When I was a kid I was interested in the Britain's farm toys as they weren't available in Canada.Thanks for a great video!
Thanks for sharing your memories. That's so lovely! Isn't it amazing those things weren't available in Canada .. as a kid over here around the same time I thought Canada and the USA had it ALL!
@throughlucyslens funny, I thought the same about the UK and USA. Canada didn't get nearly as much as either. I love the way the UK treasures its history. Unfortunately we don't value the past nearly as much here. Things tend to get bulldozed and built over in most of the country. There are some exceptions though. Thank you for such a great Channel!
Thank you for the warm hugs! ❤️ The first I got when I saw the sign Dolls' Hospital. My Mum lived in post war Germany until she was 16 and there it was a common thing. The second I got when you went into the projection room. My Dad was a projectionist as a young man in his hometown until he got married. And the third I got when you mentioned the cod liver oil. Both my parents told horror stories of the time they got a spoon of this every day in kindergarten and early primary school.
My Mom insisted on giving us a spoon of cod liver oil and Malt extract EVERY MORNING and I used to cry and make such a fuss, I really really hated it .. I am so pleased to hear this video gave you a hug, it's always a tough one as of course I wasn't "there" so it's easy to look back with rose tinted specs but I thought it was just so wonderful!
My goodness, there was a janet & John book. I loved those. They were how i learnt to read. Also, the square quilts on the beds filled with feathers. Brought a lovely memory of my bed at home in the early 1960s in pudsey on a council estate that i loved back then.
I love your videos, you really bring everything to life! My brother lives in Tyne and Wear, and our favourite place to visit is Beamish ! They were in the process of building the 50,s village last time we went, so this is my 1st experience of it, makes me want to go soon! Thanks Again Lucy's Lens 😊❤
Omg the hairdressers reminds me of the one my mum took me to as a child! (Probably originally found by my nan for her perm and set and brush). Susan used to let me sweep the hair and gave me her pen and a special knitted Christmas mouse I was fond of from her carrolling mice display. 💜 It was up some killer stairs but otherwise very similar! What a lovely place and what a lovely video. Hope your ribs are healing!
OMG - MEMORY UNLOCKED .. sweeping the hair in the hairdressers! I did that too!!! and she used to let me put the elastics back on the perming rods in the little trolley. Ribs are horrible, BUT I found an amazing wrap around hot water bottle and it arrived today - so far life changing!
Aww Sky, thank you so much - feel better! There's a lot of nasty virus' around at the moment - I swear by manuka honey dissolved into hot water with fresh lemon and a piece of bruised ginger - no idea if it's a placebo but it always seems to help me get better quicker xx
@@throughlucyslens Thank you, Lucy. I have a litle jar on Manuka in my fridgem I usually pop a teaspoonful on topof my porridge and cherries but since yesterday am just taking a spoonful direct. I'll get some ginger too - thanks! xxx
That was a lovely video Lucy, thank you so much ❤ 😊 So many wonderful things to see there, and I'd never even heard about that place before. The mirror above the fireplace in the house was exactly the same as one that my grandmother had! And those paintings and drawings in the house were so good, how lovely that they have been preserved. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you have to show us in the next video 🥰 I'm sorry to hear that you don't have the community café any more, that's such a shame 😕 and I hope you are feeling a bit better now after your fall. Take care Lucy x
Thanks Margaret, I am doing much better since I found a long hot water bottle that goes around my ribs - it's heavenly!! After 10 years I had to realise it had come to the end which was very sad but I will always have the memories and will continue to do what I can where I can. Glad you enjoyed the video, I thought it was amazing x
@@throughlucyslens I'm glad to hear that you are doing better, that long hot water bottle sounds amazing 👏🥰 Sadly nothing can last forever but as long as your memories are happy ones then that is something. You never know, you may get a chance to do something like that again x 👍🙏🏽
Bravo Bravo Bravo Lucy, what wonderful video ! I personally would have to spend at least 3 days wandering around reading and seeing just about everything displayed that was offered to me. I especially enjoyed the record and electronics shop. I grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles, in a city called Glendale. obviously there was more landscape to investigate. The film industry dominated the employment for many of our parents. There was a wonderful music store called Bartholomew’s where you could riding your bicycle go into the store pick out records go into into listening booths with your friends and hear the latest Rock and Roll albums, Beatles, Rolling Stones. Black Sabbath, Beach Boys, Patti Smith we would hang out there for hours. The cinema you showed us??? I wanted to cry……reminded me of a cinema house me and my friends would gather for a marathon Saturday Matinee. . Can’t wait to see the rest of your videos Lucy, I do hope you are feeling better! 💕🇺🇸Linda C.
Aww thank you!!! and thank you for sharing your memories from across the pond - how exciting that so many people you knew worked in the film industry - that is very very glamourous to me! I would have loved to hang out in Bartholomew's .. that's the music I still listen to today .. and of course everyone in Birmingham is always one story away from someone in Black Sabbath! x
That's a shame there aren't any locally to you anymore. So many have closed or don't get used - I work in community and it's so hard to get people to come and use them. I think they are marvellous too!
I hope you are recovered from you injury now Lucy? The Fifties Street is just great! I can see why you enjoyed it so much ! When I was born in 1941 I was taken to a clinic held in a Welfare Hall just like the one shown, it was through my Mum taking me there and watching the mothers and babies being cared for by the Health Visitor…in my case a ‘ Miss Steele’ that I decided when I was about three that ,that was what I wanted to do! And did! Miss Steele came to my graduation ceremony at Birmingham University Great Hall health visitor I was in Brum for 17 years ,and I loved it! So many funny stories and happy times! As the song says…” Thanks for the Memory “ !
Actually had a little tear at your comment! A Mr Lovett was my history teacher at Hall Green Secondary School, he wasn't a popular chap but I loved him - behind all the strictness he just LOVED the subject and was such a good teacher, it was him that inspired me to study history at University. He too sent me a note on my graduation and sadly passed away not long after. I am so glad you had a similar experience and I wonder if you were my health visitor .. could have been!! How wild would that be?
Thank you so much for sharing this Lucy. I have to laugh, before you said anything at the village hall with the maternity clinic I thought, Oh, like on Call the Midwife, then you mentioned the show, OMG you watch Call the Midwife. That's one of my favorite current British TV dramas, along with Father Brown, Sister Boniface, and the current All Creatures Great and Small.
I LOVE Call The Midwife, I would say it's probably one of my favourite tv series of all times, whenever I feel glum I like to watch it. I love the old 1980s All Creatures Great and Small, I haven't seen the new ones - maybe I should try - I am sure I would like it :)
Wow Lucy what a video this is certainly worth waiting for. I’m afraid there is so much to mention I am gonna miss loads. However, I came across a video on u tube last week and a couple visited here. It was fascinating to watch but a world of difference from your videos. Your background comments of the history and people involved is what brings it to life. This couple were also younger and seemed to have more questions than answers. I’m not being horrible to them they were lovely but I’m just saying how much better you made this video. They went in the shop with the tellys and fridges etc for Hire purchase and the man in there explained in detail the reality of the cost of debt in those days which was astronomical. I loved the toy shop also and seeing the battered cars only made it more special. I loved everything you showed us. I’m so sorry you haven’t got your wonderful cafe anymore but thank you for what you have done. I hope you are recovering from your fall and taking things easy. Thank you so much for taking us in your journey 🥰.
Thank you for coming with me! And for your lovely comments about my video, I come home and spent a week or so researching because people make the place to me. I think because I am that bit older too I remember the trouble people got into with HP from my own personal experience - my Nan was a staunch believer of "if you can't buy it out right you can't have it" - I would love to say I had stuck to those rules but alas ...
@@throughlucyslens Well said and yes I’ve had troubles myself…. However, times change and we live differently now. Imagine if people didn’t have credit cards and the like today they would be mortified. Living with what you have coming in is fine for the most part but we all have hiccups even the rich .. just look at the government and their debt. Although things were so tough in the past the morals were very different too. As I say your research and personal touch is what makes your videos great 👍
Hi Lucy, this has been such an interesting video. I am a 50s child so am always interested in this time. Also, living in London, it isn't always easy to get to some of these places. The dolls hospital reminded me of the one in our local high street. 😊
Hey Sally, yes Beamish is a lonnnng way from London! It felt like a mission from Birmingham,I think next time I would go up on the train and get some advanced train tickets because the drive was EXHAUSTING. I love the fact you remember a dolls hospital, they are such a wonderful idea and saved precious things being thrown away!
I’m so glad you decided to visit Beamish, and that you loved it! Did you know, they are in the process of creating a 1980s village there! I live nearby, so I’ll be visiting it again soon. Thanks for your excellent video ☺️♥️
That was very interesting Lucy. Horley in Surrey where we lived was a small town. The shops in the high street stretched from the bridge over the railway southwards towards road with big houses. The shops ended on one next to the surgery. The other side of the road, they stopped next to the Police Station. Then east to west more shops. Then a slope up to the railway station east end. Wastwards they petered out just before the cinema west end, which was a lovely Art Deco building in white. It had a restaurant upstairs, as well as the balcony seats. À good few years ago while staying with Mum, I went on a camera walk. Also spent an hour or so in the Library photocopying photos from the History Society booklets. I made my own booklet of memories added to a memory scrap album number 2. An idea for anyone else watching your interesting videos Lucy.
What a brilliant idea!! My favourite place in the library when I was a child was the rows and rows of wooden boxes filled with old photos and postcards in alphabetical order of places from the past - I really hope they survive as that would be a marvellous gift to make for somebody!
Thank you Lucy. Really enjoyed this. We've been to The Black Country Museum and would love to visit here too. Wonderful video and your narration is excellent. Best wishes Dave and Dawn ❤️
It really is excellent, it's difficult to separate the two but they are similar but very different in "atmosphere" beamish was very relaxed and I loved how all their food and drink is made on site (the bakery was amazing !) thanks for your lovely compliment, it means a lotx
How lovely! There are many things there that bring back memories for me (also many differences, of course, since I lived in a different part of the country), so it was a delight to see them as you showed us round. Oddly, I'd always thought Beamish was in Devon or Cornwall, so it was a bit of a surprise to find it's in Durham - then again, one of my geography teachers once said I lacked the general knowledge that most children bring to their geography (though this was mainly because I couldn't spell Edinburgh when he set a quiz), so perhaps he was right!
Edinburgh is like Worcester ... trick spellings!! I remember being heart broken as a kid when I found how far Beamish was and that chances of being taken were zero (I was right!) made it finally though and was utterly worth the wait!
@@throughlucyslens I never had a problem with Worcester, but probably that's because I grew up in Worcestershire, so it was just something I assimiliated growing up!
Oh Lucy, that was just fabulous. I lived just down the road from Beamish Museum in the 80’ when it was just starting properly, and visited lots before moving to Canada in 2003 so it was a lovely surprise to see how much it has changed. 😊
I am sure when I first saw about it - in probably 1986 when it was on Blue Peter it was just one high street and some vehicles - even then I decided I HAD to go though - it took me a long time and it's absolutely VAST now, you would need many days there to get around completely.
I lived in a cul-de-sac of victoriana. Granddad lived next door, Uncle Albert across the road and Great Granddad next door to Albert. Outside loo and tin bath. Poor sure but so much love and laughter. Would I go back there. In a heart beat. I have nothing but happy memories of my childhood. The radio in the corner and the coal fire for making toast on. Happy people with hope for a better future.
Absolutely: I think we can jump to the conclusion that poor means unhappy, but it's the people around you that count, not stuff I think. Thanks for sharing that, lo dc it!
This makes me feel so safe and comfortable, which is an odd thing to say about the shops, I know. Seeing those antique appliances shiny and on display, it's like I can steal back some hope and childlike wonder from beyond the mists of time.
I'm going through a hard time financially. (Aren't we all.)
Susan, my inbox is always open if you need someone to listen. I am glad the video made you feel safe and comfortable x
I believe that St Fagan’s museum near Cardiff was UK’s earliest open air museum…opened in 1948!
So many years since I visited Beamish, and I'll never get back now. It's a wonderful, groundbreaking place and I'm pleased to see more commemoration of real people and real life
It is a special place indeed. I'm really pleased they are bringing in history people can appreciate with living memory, it really brings it to life for me!
What a well produced, informative video. I work at Beamish and am thrilled that you enjoyed the 1950s village so much.
Thanks so much, that's so lovely particularly as you work there - every member of the team I met was so friendly and welcoming - it really stuck me! I've wanted to visit since about 1986 and it was well worth the wait!
High praise indeed but well deserved.
I'm a child of the 50's and remember a feeling of social cohesion. There was a feeling of shared society. Things weren't all rosy but I think people were probably happier having a shared cultural back ground.
I think community is lacking these days, I actually work in community and its harder and harder to arrange and get people to take part in cohesive events, and communities that do exist can be quite insular, it's really frustrating and I do agree back then people were more open to taking part and helping their neighbours x
So right about the doll hospital and just chucking out.😊
Hi Lucy, that was fantastic ! I was born in 1955, so was growing up in the 50s and 60s. So much of what you showed there brought back so many memories, of both my own home and that of my Grandparents. Lino round the edge of the room and a carpet square in the middle. We never had a fridge until I was 8, in 1963, and my Grandfather never had one, or a washing machine. He had a gas fired 'Copper' in the corner of his kitchen, and a huge green enamel mangle in a lean to. I remember the 1950s - 60s High Street too. So many different shops - no super markets back then - it was all very different and somehow more 'gentile'. We were happy and had all the basics for a nice life. Can't wait for your next video with the 50s houses. Thanks Lucy for this, and for showing what a fantastic time we all had back then, without realising it ! Take special care 🙂 X X
Very very welcome. It reminds me of my life too before it all became phones and internet; I've lived in both and I know what I preferred really (you tube aside!) we didn't have a freezer until the mid 80s so I found how they were on sale in the 50s to a mass audience - I guess it's always nice to browse! Thanks for sharing your memories, they are so special x
Respect for the Greatest Generation!!! I am humbled to think what they survived. God bless and cheers!
Great message 👍 you sent 👍 be happy and safe always 😊
Absolutely - agree with you :)
St Helen's Church in Beamish, used to be the church in the cemetary directly behind my home (Eston Cemetary). It was dismantled brick by brick in 1998 and rebuilt in Beamish. Proud our little church from an unknown part of the UK made it to one of the UK's best museums.
I love Beamish I feel at home when I visit Beamish I will be back again
It was a magical magical place, I can't wait to return and explore more x
I adore this place wish I could live there
I think it's lovely too.
@@throughlucyslens I also loved the 1900s town fascinating
I am very sad to say I didn't have time to explore that area - I just rushed into the sweet shop for some Cherry Drops - gives me an excuse to go back though!
Love Beamish -- and for us old uns we remember much of the display was everyday items for us 50s children --great video
Thank you! I really fell in love with Beamish, I think it's amazing .. and I've always been an "old soul" at heart so I think that's why I resonate so much, I wish I did remember those times!
I love that you pan the camera slowly, giving us a chance to really absorb what you're seeing. I got to see details on some of the fixtures and furniture I may not have noticed if I was there in person. Another amazing video!
Thank you, it's interesting you say that because when I am editing I see things that I didn't see at the time either because I am concentrating so hard on making the footage smooth :)
‘A warm hug in that moment.’ Spot on. How lovely to feel your joy and enthusiasm for things that I also like.
Thank you!! So many of these places I go give me a huge rush of WOW and I LOVE THIS I find it hard to contain it!
I was born in 1949 in Sheffield; I was always underweight as a child and I do remember Haliborange. My mother kept huge jars of Malt & Cod-liver Oil in the pantry that I was made to swallow every day to try and fatten me up. The building itself is amazing.
I had malt every day -
Off a big metal tablespoon and something called minidex - I think it was an iron supplement? You know it's so hard to get malt these days. I like to make my own malt loaf and it's hard to come by x
The malt, was just sugar but, partly it was used to disguise the taste of cod liver oil, the purpose of which was to combat rickets
Another superb upload Lucy, I can remember right back to the early 50's and I must say Beamish have done a great job that brings back so many fond memories of the period. Yes back then houses were too cold in the winter, sparsely furnished, our diet was monotonous, money was short, holidays were often just a few days out, travel was often by bus, yes trains back then were expensive. Car ownership didn't take off until the 1960's. Good health was as much to do with looking after yourself and your genes as even with the NHS modem medicine of today was still twenty years in the future. Would I go back in time, YES, YES, YES! We lived back then in a more law abiding society in a democracy with politics that made sense in my view. We felt we had a future and hope. Keep up the good work and thank you.
Very welcome and very much enjoyed reading your comment - I always think these comments will remain as a digital imprint of contemporary historical evidence and opinion forever and that's so important. There's no better evidence than "being there" and thanks for taking the time to share with me x
Lucy, you have outdone yourself. This one was a beauty. I really enjoyed every minute.
Not only was I reminded of 'living exhibit' Museums I visited in childhood, but what you showed us took me right back to my own childhood. Seeing the once commonplace in a museum is a sobering thing.
Imagine a day, 70 years from now, when visitors will see 2024 homes, with; iPhones, Home Digital Assistance Units like Alexa along with all the old tech we currently consider essential. Will they laugh at how primitive we were, or will they be reminded of their great grandparents?
As always, your enthusiasm shines through. Cheers me dears.
Thanks Tom, always great to hear from you .. funnily enough I went to the V&A museum not long ago and my old brick Nokia 3310 phone, blow up ruck sack and Dr Marten Boots were all there as part of the "90s" exhibit .. my niece didn't have a clue how to use a telephone either. She just thinks you can ask Alexa everything .. I spent a lot of time asking her to S-UP as she don't have go on (Alexa not my niece!!) x
@@throughlucyslens Fascinating tale. Thanks. The Nokia was an icon for its day. I couldn't afford DM's, but segs were all the rage and cheap. Think of Music Centres, Shellac records, and all the Ronco and K-Tel gadgets! Our first Answer machine was always empty; people were terrified of leaving a message. Bread Vans, Milk Floats, Bin bag free dustbins, Bus Conductors and Dog Catchers. All gone. Without your hard work, and the museums you promote, this world would become nothing but forgotten landfill. thank you Lucy. xx
Dang I miss bins without bin bags - that probably sounds nuts but it's so much easier to dispose and rinse instead of all that bin bag sludge and more landfill plastic!
Beamish covers many decades/centuries fantastic!
I loved it, sadly I only had time to scratch the surface on this visit, I need to go back to see the Victorian Village, the Pit Village and also the 1950s farm, just wasn't enough hours in the day.
I loved this! I was born in 1955, and I love 'Call The Midwife'. Thank you!
I love it too! So so much! It's my comfort watch the first 3 series I think I've watched over and over again, I just love it b
The 1950's house brought back many memories for me. I was born in 1946 a lived with Mum and Dad and my sister in a terrace property in Hackney, East London. We lived upstairs and my maternal grandparents downstairs. My Dad was a cabinet maker and, as a craftsman, we benefitted for his having a higher income than many. We had all the basics - but - no bathroom (the bath was galvanized metal and hung on the garden fence), and an outside loo (with an under and overdoor gap of six inches to let in the winter cold. In bad winters we had icicles inside the windows - no double glazing or central heating then! Rationing did not end until about 1953 but we were very happy and content. From1953 we even had a 'telly' which was rented from a company called 'Stones' in Mare Street, Hackney. My dad got it especially for the late Queen's Coronation in 1953. Better stop here - but so many memories.
Don't stop next time - write an essay - I lap it up like a cat that got the cream, absolutely love it. Thanks for sharing that with me, I always feel very privileged when people do.
Gosh I can remember the ice in the form of snowflakes inside the bedroom windows. Going to bed at night it was a quick turn the light out and then RUB across the room straight into bed with the hot water bottle already there to warm the bed up,
That was a trip down memory lane for me Lucy, I remember the 50’s very well. I also visited Beamish a few year ago, the smell I missed was in the chandler’s shop. We had a wonderful one in my village & you could smell soap, candles, paraffin, polish all sorts of smells mixed together,you knew which shop you were in by the smell ! A lot of houses didn’t have an inside toilet never mind a bathroom! In fact ,my Grannies only had cold water& the toilet up the yard. ❤
I didn't get to go into the chandler and I'm really gutted about that. I was looking forward to it and time ran away with me - I will return and experience that though! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. It means a lot ❤️
I’m just as enthusiastic about social history and it can be very emotional looking back. So many memories for me. My first step into teenage years was the Milk Bar with a counter top Jukebox. The old sterilising machine was in constant use in the dental surgery I worked at and was forever boiling dry. Loved the “pictures” never called it cinema and the thrill of the week for kiddies was Saturday mornings watching Flash Gordon, The Cisco Kid and Pancho, not to forget The Lone Ranger and Tonto. I can’t remember what I did yesterday but remember childhood vividly.. I was always cold (no central heating) and had every childhood disease going. Thanks for this video Lucy, I always wanted a trip to Beamish. A few tv films have been made there, especially Catherine Cookson stories. Tfs x
I was mad about milk bars when I was a kid - there were a few left in Wales and I loved to go to the one in Welshpool! We called the cinema "the flicks" but I wasn't sure how universal that was - maybe a Brummie thing! My Dad loved the pictures, he said it was just a world away from real life. Even on the hard benches. Even as a kid in the 80s I had every childhood illness going - I try and think it made me stronger 😅 I'm still covered in scars from Measles -
Tiger stripes 🐾
@@throughlucyslens Yes, some people called them the 'flicks' - I think that stemmed back to early picture shows that locals called the 'flickers' - images flickering on the screen. I think I was born at the wrong time don't you? There isnt a great deal that I like about so called progress. I go through Welshpool a lot and have only stopped there once. Keep meaning to have a good mooch around. Havent been to Powys Castle since I was little either. Milk Bars ... they were just a lovely meeting safe meeting place for teenagers werent they? The atmosphere was lovely. My mom and dad spent hours and hours in cinemas when he was on leave in WWII as they had nowhere else to go. Sad to see the decline of cinemas. There was a man in the Midlands named Ned who did talks on the disappearance of Art Deco cinemas and was always pressuring the powers that be to not destroy them. They ignored him of course and many have disappeared. I used to go to the local library and listen to tapes that were archived of people's memories of the past. Very interesting. Time passes all too quickly x
I also love the smells that are so evocative of the time and place. I notice it in old houses, historic bakeries, antique stores, vintage military buildings and ships. Our smell memory must be highly evolved. I also appreciate your interesting narrative as you walk through the sites. Your voice is very pleasant and warm. Again, a wonderful video of my personal favorite time period.
Thank you, smell is so important - good and bad. Some smells can take you back to an exact place and time, if I smell a cigar my Dad is there with me in spirit - I love it! Thank you for your warm compliments x
Hallo Lucy. What a fabulous trip!!
The 1950s,not a time without its problems,but so much less divisive,more innocent somehow.The pleasures taken,simpler but more satisfying. The care centre epitomised the sense of community.
Thank you so much for your enthusiastic portrayal of these time capsules.Also for sharing this emotional journey with one that grew up in the 1950 s
Thanks very much Jo, really appreciate it, there were plenty of problems just like there are now but I think the lack of 24/7 media certainly made it a more innocent time. It's just a really nice place to look around and folks can take their own memories away from it, good or bad x
Very much enjoyed this one. My memory from that time would be going into Hull City centre on a Sunday to go window shopping with my mum. The hours we spent looking in windows, C&A, Hammonds, BHS, and Mark's and Sparks.
Ohhh Hammonds! I lived in Hull for several years and remember it well .. we had the same shop in Birmingham (House of Fraser) But it was called Rackhams!
This is wonderful! Thank you for the journey back into the past when things were repairable and made to last.
Thanks for your lovely words, I had a lovely day and it was a pleasure to bring everyone with me x
Absolutely wonderful! I didn't even know they'd added this 1950's village to Beamish, I'm definitely going to book a coach trip up to there sometime very soon, I live in Yorkshire. My Granny was born in Bishop Auckland in 1918 but moved to Wales for work in the pits soon after, then they moved to Barnsley for work yet again, she married my Grandad in 1938 and my Dad was born in 1939. I remember them telling me they were the first people on their street to get a television and all the neighbours came round to theirs to watch the Queens coronation.
That's amazing - I love that about the television!!! I bet there were people looking through the window and everything 😂 you must go back it's amazing, with your local connections you will absolutely love it!
Having a television set in June 1953 would have made you very popular!
Beamish is on my short list of must-see-if-in-the-area sites. Thank you for sharing your images and impressions regarding your visit.
Thank you, I really did enjoy it, I am hoping to go back as one day was no where near enough!
Thank you Lucy, for such a warm and informative film about a place I'd love to visit. I love the pace of your video, allowing the eyes time to linger upon those evocative spaces and reflecting upon the origins of what were once busy High Street institutions. I appreciate how you include the social-histotric economic qualifiers: that the new 'mod cons' such as refridgerators remained prohibitively expensive for many and that the cinema was a warm, safe place, whilst some still lived in cold, damp conditions. Enlightening context, personal connections and boundless love and enthusiasm for the Beamish Living Museum experience, make for another beautiful and charming video within your wonderful playlist.
Thank you so much, I worry sometimes I film little details for too long so that feedback really helps, often I am seeing things for the first time in the same manner through the lens of my camera so I am lingering to see things myself :) Actually all your feedback is lovely - really appreciate it, I try and think of everybody - and remember vividly my Dad saying he loved the Saturday morning session at the cinema because for once he was actually warm x
Born 1962 so most of my early years came rushing back Lucy. Beautifully videoed and articulated so well, I always feel you take me on such an adventure wherever you head off too.
Thank you for that. You made this older gal smile from ear to ear 😊❤
Less of the old please, age is a number .. that's what I remind myself anyway ;) Thanks for your lovely words, I was really really excited by this village, it blew me away and I am so pleased others are enjoying the experience too x
@@throughlucyslens heard and understood 🤭🤭🤭 no more “Old” gal ☺️☺️❤️
Absolutely magical! So many memories… but three really came home. The Janet and John book, can still remember trying to read it!!.Champion the Wonder horse album/comic❤️in Norman’s house… and you saying you were going to the ‘pictures’❤. Thank you so much. Cannot wait to see your next video. Take care. 🥰
I love the Champion the wonder horse book too - we used to sing the theme tune to our dog 😂
I’m really enjoying this. I’m a child of 60s. Would love to visit one day. Thank you!
It's a really special place, I always knew I would love it there but I don't think I was expecting how much I would - absolutely make the trip there someday if you can!
i wish i still lived in the uk, id soooo visit this. in new zealand 40yrs now. wen i was at home, you didnt travel like people do now, or since the mid 90's. so i never knew about this. did you say it started in the 70's? beautiful video, ace done. i reall enjoyed it and got thinking my past . thanks lucy, you are an absolute friggin ace woman n a gem.
Thanks Colin, yes it opened in 1970, it was the first example of a "living museum" over here, the first director was inspired by visiting folk museums in Europe. It's a wonderful place and I am glad I can bring it to you through the screen. Also - your kind words - thank you. Really mean a lot!
Thank you for a lovely day out again, Lucy! I especially enjoyed the artist’s work. The toy shop was a bit bittersweet, as some of them reminded me of mine that had to be left behind when we emigrated. That sounds mean, but we crossed by boat and my brother had a birthday partway across, so my parents used most of the spare luggage space for gifts for him. ❤
I don't think that's a bad thing to say - I think as a child I would have thought the same too! Weirdly when we moved house my parents decided to leave the majority of our toys in the loft space as we had "grown out of them" and I always find that so upsetting as I would LOVE to still own them, but then again I am a bit of a sentimental fool!
Thank you Lucy for another great video. It made my day to see you'd finally managed to get to our neck of the woods and experience Beamish. Now you know why myself and many others recommended it to you! What a beautiful description of that feeling a memory stirs "a warm hug" ❤ I'm glad you enjoyed the North East and some of our history. If you're able to pop this way in July next year, The Durham Miners Gala is another tradition that's amazing to see. I can't wait for part 2. I remember in the news when they moved those 50's houses you're going to see 😊
I loved it so so much, a week was no where near enough, I drove away wishing I could stay - the coast is so sensational and everyone is so friendly and welcoming. Beamish blew my mind, I need to go back because I didn't even scratch the surface .. but yes the 50s houses were spectacular! Looking forward to looking back on the footage!
@@throughlucyslens I’m so glad you got to see the coast too x
I can't get out much now so I really enjoy coming along on your adventures, The old TV's reminded me of when we had our first TV in the early sixties there was not much on for kids but Sunday tea time it was Captain Pugwash or Noggin the Nog and the ice dragon ,my youngest brother was terrified of Cut throat Jake and hid behind the sofa we all thought he was a wimp. Thanks Lucy looking forward to the next video,
Hahahah, I used to hide behind the sofa at Doctor Who! I have no idea what I found so frightening because when you look back at that old footage those Darleks can't even get up a flight of stairs! Our first telly had a "remote control" that was actually on a really short wire and I broke it pulling at it .. will never be allowed to forget that!
It was the introductory music of Dr. Who that used to freak me out, along with the weird patterns on the screen. I thought they were like ribs and used to hide behind the couch! @@throughlucyslens
Thank you Lucy! Been down with a virus for a week and it rather spoiled my birthday last Sunday, but you have given me the best medicine with this exciting and charming video. Broken off watching it to go to my PC so that I can leave a message! Returning to my sofa now to enjoy the other half of this video. Thank you for going so far up North to visit the wonderful Beamish Museum. Stay well! xxx
You stay well too Sky - just left you my little trick on your other AMAZING contribution. I've got a broken rib right now and it's making me so miserable but remember everything is temporary .. but why does it always have to spoil your birthday / Christmas etc .. drives me mad!! Be better lovely x
Happy belated birthday 🎂🎂
@@joanmatchett8100 Thank you so much! What lovely people Lucy has in her YT family. xxx
@@throughlucyslens Ouch! I bet the rib is very sore, I hope it's not causing you breathing difficulties. Get better very soon. xxx
Hi again. A wonderful video and narration thank you. Albeit I was born in 1967 I love everything about the 1950/60’s. All those televisions and radios were all made so they could be repaired so they lasted for years. I still have a bush radio today and it works great. Most of the things we see here were in my grandparents home right through the 70’s , it just goes to show the quality of things back then. X
Absolutely! I remember going to the radio repair shop with my Dad a lot - we also had a hoover for YEARS that always seemed to be going in for repairs! When Nan passed away her little bush radio that had blared out Radio WM for decades was still going - always think listening to sound through an old sound system is like listening to the past - I'm a nostalgic old so and so 😂
@@throughlucyslens glad to share theses memories with you x
We had lino on the floor in the bedroom when we moved into the house I was brought up in. Later on we had carpet and Mum made curtains around the dresser in our room. Life was more community based then. We were very lucky to grow up in that era (in New Zealand) Take care as always and thank you =-)
Thanks so much for sharing, I have never had the joy of a visit to NZ but my Mom visited and she said it was very familiar to her and more community based than here even today. I am not sure I am too adverse to the thought of lino, especially now I have the dog who likes to mess up the carpet at every given opportunity - mop and bucket seems a better idea!
It's a beautiful house it's nice to know how people lived.
Gorgeous isn't it? I really loved this house!
I miss the 50's, 60's . I used to go with my friend on a Saturday to the Alpine Milk Bar for a milkshake. We used to have coffee bar's too, frothy coffee was the in thing 😊. I used to go to the doll's hospital to get my baby doll's repaired. A lovely walk down memory lane. Chips wrapped in newspaper, lovely. The national anthem at the end of the pictures, and everyone stood up.
It was so lovely to see it. I always loved to hear Mom talking about her childhood and dolls hospitals and I felt in some way I could see it. It even smell right .. I can't explain it! A wonderful place and im so pleased museums are appreciating history in living memory is valuable and important for museums x
@@throughlucyslens l noticed a Tiffin bar in one of the shop's, those were one of my favourites, and I'd forgotten all about them until I saw them again. These video's jog the memory, l love them 😊
@@throughlucyslens Ah, that's the phrase I was looking for, "It even smelled right...". For me, the 50s smelled of freshly ironed cotton dresses, Murphy's oil soap, and coffee brewing in a percolator. The interior of the 'fridge (Gran still called it an 'icebox'.) smelled metallic; the oven, of scorched biscuits (made by me, age 8).
Lucy, how amazing and your narrative is perfect, thank you for sharing, so enjoyable 😂
Oh you are so kind! I love doing my narratives, it's like chatting with pals x
New subscriber!! So glad I found your channel, I love the fifties. I was born in 74 but I just love nostalgia and always thought I should've been born much earlier 🫶🫶🫶
Hi Linzi! I'm the same generation as you and feel the same! I do wonder sometimes if I spend too much time looking back instead of forward .. but whatever makes you happy hey? ❤️
This was so good I was a child in the 50s with I remember playing with a Hoopla game which they had in the toyshop and having a doll which each year disappeared to the doll hospital and appeared on Christmas with a new wig and new clothes made by my Mum ! The cinema was lovely and I remember when you had to queue and went in halfway through a film then watched the beginning up to where you came in - great memories thank you as always 😊❤
Very welcome! I used to find queueing for the cinema so nerve wracking because you never knew if you would get into the film or not - we got turned away more than once leading to a meltdown from one of the children in the group. Love love love that about your dolly - what a wonderful memory and I bet you loved her more each year!
Another fantastic tour, i loved it, felt i was there walking round with you. I love how you take your time panning round, taking in everything.
So many things just bought back memories.
I wish i could just return to that era, i really do.
Thanks again Lucy.
I would like to see it - I have spent all my life hearing about it and being so invested - even to see what it smelt like! I always imagine there would be more smoke / coal smells in the air. Thanks for your lovely compliment - it's appreciated!
@@throughlucyslensso grateful you paid that visit Lucy,really enjoyed the amazing tour. 😊
Thanks June x
Amazing . Certainly got to visit this museum ❤❤ Thank you for your wonderful vloggs xxx
You will love it - it's absolutely brilliant! Very very big though! I wish I had longer there.
Amazing,would love to see a 60s home.😊
Ohhh me too!!
Lucy, this was most wonderous and evocative, I'm left speechless. Beautiful, thank you!
I was like that the whole day, I was walking around catching flies! I couldn't believe how good it was, I am glad you enjoyed it x
@@throughlucyslens So absorbed that I forgot to say we had a Pye tv too! It was wonderful Lucy, truly thanks! And the hair do was beautiful! See I'm still thinking of things!
Hi again, I love this one too! Especially the Community Center clinic at the end because I am a nurse and I am a fan of ‘Call the Midwife’ so I was thinking about that show just as you were mentioning it! That museum is really a special place! Kudos to the creators and volunteers! Thanks to you for taking us there.
Absolutely. They did a brilliant job! There's another maternity home I want to show you but I need to get back there to do it! I am too an absolutely huge fan of call the midwife! X
I have been to Beamish a couple of times. It’s absolutely amazing and probably the best place I’ve ever been to. I’m 55 and well travelled so it proves it certainly is a special place and experience xx
It blew my mind. I knew it was going to be good ... but it somehow just felt very real, not like a museum. I can't wait to go back as I barely saw a third of it!
@@throughlucyslens after seeing this I am definitely going on a 3rd visit. xx
Beautiful upload. You did a brilliant job! Beamish is constant evolving. It is worth visiting multiple times a year, which isalso reflected in the entrance ticket.thanks!
It's brilliant you can keep going back isn't it? If I was local I would be in and out alllll of the time, my local living museum in the black country has the same deal and I go all the time, wonderful :)
Living in the Borders, in a Beamish 1840 untouched house, living the dream and regularly at shows at Beamish.
What a beautiful video Lucy i got very emotional in the cinema part . the entire Living Museum is such a great achievement i am blown away you captured it so well Lucy
Thank you! It means a lot! It's nice for me to have the footage too as I can watch it again and see what I missed because when you are filming you always miss things until you edit!
I was born in 1970, i remember going to the hairdressers with my grandma, it looked just like that. Also that chippy brought back memories, it's exactly the same. This brought a smile to my face and made me feel warm and happy. Thank you ❤
@@mikalasimpson7789 1977-1978 very early memories for me born 1973.
My Nan had a chip shop and it was like stepping back in to her shop, really special as there aren't any photographs of it - it didn't even have a name, it was just the chippy for the local community. First place I went when I was allowed to ride my bike on my own was to Nans chippy for a saveloy and a can of pop :) Warm hugs all round x
@@throughlucyslens ok thanks.
I grew up in Middlesbrough and remember Romer Parrish’s shop very well - it was definitely the best-known toy shop in town, every kid was familiar with it, and it became part and parcel of all our childhoods. And does anyone else remember “Nurse Nancy” from the “Twinkle” comic, whose grandad ran a doll’s hospital with her as his assistant? Seeing the doll’s hospital area just reminded me of her…
I actually remember Nurse Nancy as I inherited a bunch of Twinkle Annuals off my Auntie Kaz as a kid - there was a Rupert annual with a Doll's Hospital in it too, I think that's where my fascination started. How I would have loved to have seen the original toy shop :)
I remember Nurse Nancy from Twinkle. I looked forward to Twinkle every week and the annual too. Such happy memories ❤
Just stunning!
Thank you :)
Hello Lucy
Yet again another absolutely wonderful video.
I can hardly contain myself I am really looking forward to visiting Beamish.
Oh you will love it, it's wonderful! Plan plenty of time, a couple of days if you can as there's so much to see!
I went into the house earlier on this year and so much they had my nana had and my mam I loved and definitely felt that hug sensation ❤❤
It's lovely isn't it? They just got it right - and the fact you can walk up to everything, sit on the sofa and just imagine you were "there" so so special too, I hate having to stand behind a rope.
The interior of my grandmother’s pub is here in Beamish. It was from the Rising Sun pub in Sunniside. Thanks for video. I used to volunteer here with my father. Enjoy.👍🏆
Aww that's brilliant! I did go in the pub! Next time I go I will think of your Grandmother - what was her name?
@@throughlucyslens Hi, Her name was Dorothy scorer. Thank you Lucy.
Such a wonderful trip in time 😍
Thank you, I loved every minute of my day there. I think I was the last to leave 😂
A beautifull old town l wish l could live there in the 1955 the good old days when everything was cheap and freash and everyone was happy 😊 the food was cheap and everyone help each other out a beautifull place to live in 1955 dont you wish we had a time machine 😊 and changr the world and we all live in 1955 the world it so brillant to see the world back in the old days the better days thanks for showing us the good olds on utube channel thanks so much a beautifull angel history teacher who entertains us all 😊 ❤🎉😊
You are so lovely Stephen, glad you enjoyed the video, not sure everyone was happy (there's always people that aren't) but in my mind it is certainly a simpler time. Glad you enjoyed the video and your comments always make me smile :)
I would go and live there as well, but as for things being cheaper, everything then including food was expensive compared to today
Thank you Lucy you certainly find these gems take care. 🎥👍
Try my best! Always keep the suggestions coming if you find anywhere, it's a team effort x
Even today I see so many buildings like that hall in villages throughout Yorkshire. They are used for everything from wedding receptions to boy scouts, dances and lectures. A wonderful concept that is worthy of preservation. One thing that gave me a jolt was hearing the national anthem in the cinema. I remember that being played at the beginning of every performance, and everyone groaning as they had to juggle coats and sweets, in order to stand up, having just got settled.
It gave me goosebumps as I walked up the stairs to hear it, I was shocked everyone was sitting down though - but then again I guess standing for the national anthem has been lost in time with the film reels and advertisements of the day.
what an amazing channel, love the history we dig victorian dumps collecting what they threw away like clay pipes poison bottles and compacts. love your channel and have subscribed thank you
Ohhhh I love mudlarking! I recently found an old corporation bottle dump and need to go back without the dog! Found a gorgeous medieval tile on a beach in wales recently! I'll check out your channel, hours of viewing coming up I think :)
@@throughlucyslens oh how lovely a medieval tile wow i was lucky enough to find a solid silver cigarette case with initials 1914 so chuffed
@@throughlucyslens oh i forgot to say police station was my favourite for sure
Well what can I say about this video. It was my life. Everything was so real to me. Absolutely loved the toy shop and dolls hospital. Used to take my dolls there. The chip shop, just fantastic. Could taste those chips . The cafe was so real as was the hairdresser. My mum used to go for her perm. Adored the cinema, memories of the back seats lol. The house was furnished just as our house with painted floorboards and carpet. I remember going to the clinic in the hall. I loved the orange juice and cod liver oil. Bit strange me lol. Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful place.
You aren't strange AT ALL - you have a heart and a brain full of memories and places like this allow us to indulge in them which is a real luxury in our lives full of other "stuff" that has to be done. thanks for sharing it was so similar, I think they have done a brilliant job, I did miss the eye watering waft of perming solution in the hairdressers though, I used to sit and hold my nose!! haha
It’s a great museum, I was born just after the War, when rationing was still in place up to 1954, and at Beamish they manage to re-create those early periods of British life brilliantly, particularly the 1950s, a period I can relate to. If you have not visited this museum before I can certainly recommend it, together with a stay at the nearby Beamish Hotel.
Thank you! I really wanted to stay at the Beamish hotel it looked lovely - maybe next time as I will be going back ❤️
I really want to go here myself. Born in 1953 this is like being back in the 50s in my town of Bulwell in Nottinghamshire. Can't wait to go and see soon with my own eyes. Brilliant video.
You will love it - it's absolutely huge! I should have had more days there, you get a pass though which means you can go back go for free as many times as you want over a year so hopefully I can go again!
Let's Go Lucy! I Love it all and you too. Thank you! ❤
You are so wonderful, that really made me smile. Thank you x
Hi Lucy thank you for such an informative video, I loved every minute ☺️
Oh thank you, that's so kind of you, I love making them so much ❤️
I loved this video. The hair salon is beautiful and the chippy and cinema. If im ever up nearby will definitely check this out. Interested to see the other eras they have there too x
I need to go back, I barely scratched the surface it's incredible! Really did exceed my expectations!
Oh wow Lucy...I was hoping you'd do one of this place.I'd really love to go...I've seen a few other videos of this wonderful place but yours is so good...as always and I love your narration. Thanks for this film.
Very welcome! I've always wanted to go and it all went so fast and I wish I had a whole week there. It was worth the 5 hour drive!
When you see things in a museum that i had when I was young makes me feel old the village hall is like lots in the Yorkshire dales that are still in use today
Age is a number, you are doing great Geoff! That's lovely to hear about the halls still being in use :)
Happy sunday enjoy your day off 😊 amazing brillant great history teacher and utube channel who bakes cakes and pies for everyone in Birmingham being humble kind lady always 😊😊😊🎉😊😊 a big fan from day one always 😊😊 have a great time on yiur history vloggs educating us utube fans about history always 😊😊😊
Thanks Stephen, I try my best and am so appreciative you notice and comment. It's lovely. x
My parents grew up in East Anglia after the war. When we would visit 'ome they would take me to a toy shop called Cullis' (sp?) in Brentwood. This was in the '70s but it was a very old fashioned toy shop just off the corner of the high Street. We didn't have toy shops like that in Canada. My dad would would tell me stories of him going into the same store as a kid look at the dinky cars. When I was a kid I was interested in the Britain's farm toys as they weren't available in Canada.Thanks for a great video!
Thanks for sharing your memories. That's so lovely! Isn't it amazing those things weren't available in Canada .. as a kid over here around the same time I thought Canada and the USA had it ALL!
@throughlucyslens funny, I thought the same about the UK and USA. Canada didn't get nearly as much as either.
I love the way the UK treasures its history. Unfortunately we don't value the past nearly as much here. Things tend to get bulldozed and built over in most of the country. There are some exceptions though. Thank you for such a great Channel!
I went round that recently - really exciting, took me straight back to my childhood.
It's great isn't it .. and yes! Exciting .. I was excited too!
This was so much fun. Norman's house seemed so inviting. Thank you! 😊
Oh it was gorgeous and such a surprise, had it all to myself and it was glorious!
Thank you Lucy that fantastic
Very very welcome, thank you for coming with me ❤️
Haha luv it! Lucy you keep adding to my UK bucket list!!
Oh no, it's going to be getting really long!! Maybe nearer the time you can drop me a line and we can whittle it down!
Thank you for the warm hugs! ❤️ The first I got when I saw the sign Dolls' Hospital. My Mum lived in post war Germany until she was 16 and there it was a common thing. The second I got when you went into the projection room. My Dad was a projectionist as a young man in his hometown until he got married. And the third I got when you mentioned the cod liver oil. Both my parents told horror stories of the time they got a spoon of this every day in kindergarten and early primary school.
My Mom insisted on giving us a spoon of cod liver oil and Malt extract EVERY MORNING and I used to cry and make such a fuss, I really really hated it .. I am so pleased to hear this video gave you a hug, it's always a tough one as of course I wasn't "there" so it's easy to look back with rose tinted specs but I thought it was just so wonderful!
My goodness, there was a janet & John book. I loved those. They were how i learnt to read. Also, the square quilts on the beds filled with feathers. Brought a lovely memory of my bed at home in the early 1960s in pudsey on a council estate that i loved back then.
I love seeing the satin eiderdowns too, reminds me of staying over at my Nans with the softest candy striped pillows too!
Me too. I remember having reading cards, and feeling proud when I was given a new one!
I love your videos, you really bring everything to life! My brother lives in Tyne and Wear, and our favourite place to visit is Beamish ! They were in the process of building the 50,s village last time we went, so this is my 1st experience of it, makes me want to go soon! Thanks Again Lucy's Lens 😊❤
Omg the hairdressers reminds me of the one my mum took me to as a child! (Probably originally found by my nan for her perm and set and brush). Susan used to let me sweep the hair and gave me her pen and a special knitted Christmas mouse I was fond of from her carrolling mice display. 💜 It was up some killer stairs but otherwise very similar!
What a lovely place and what a lovely video.
Hope your ribs are healing!
OMG - MEMORY UNLOCKED .. sweeping the hair in the hairdressers! I did that too!!! and she used to let me put the elastics back on the perming rods in the little trolley. Ribs are horrible, BUT I found an amazing wrap around hot water bottle and it arrived today - so far life changing!
I visited the Beamish Living Museum early this year and loved it. Unfortunately the cinema wasn't open. Would love to go back one day.
That's a shame, it really was special - but glad I could show you it if just through the screen :)
I loved the tour ! Thank you from the USA🤗
Very welcome, thank you for coming with me!
Thanks!
Aww Sky, thank you so much - feel better! There's a lot of nasty virus' around at the moment - I swear by manuka honey dissolved into hot water with fresh lemon and a piece of bruised ginger - no idea if it's a placebo but it always seems to help me get better quicker xx
@@throughlucyslens Thank you, Lucy. I have a litle jar on Manuka in my fridgem I usually pop a teaspoonful on topof my porridge and cherries but since yesterday am just taking a spoonful direct. I'll get some ginger too - thanks! xxx
That was a lovely video Lucy, thank you so much ❤ 😊 So many wonderful things to see there, and I'd never even heard about that place before. The mirror above the fireplace in the house was exactly the same as one that my grandmother had! And those paintings and drawings in the house were so good, how lovely that they have been preserved. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you have to show us in the next video 🥰
I'm sorry to hear that you don't have the community café any more, that's such a shame 😕 and I hope you are feeling a bit better now after your fall. Take care Lucy x
Thanks Margaret, I am doing much better since I found a long hot water bottle that goes around my ribs - it's heavenly!! After 10 years I had to realise it had come to the end which was very sad but I will always have the memories and will continue to do what I can where I can. Glad you enjoyed the video, I thought it was amazing x
@@throughlucyslens I'm glad to hear that you are doing better, that long hot water bottle sounds amazing 👏🥰 Sadly nothing can last forever but as long as your memories are happy ones then that is something. You never know, you may get a chance to do something like that again x 👍🙏🏽
Bravo Bravo Bravo Lucy, what wonderful video ! I personally would have to spend at least 3 days wandering around reading and seeing just about everything displayed that was offered to me. I especially enjoyed the record and electronics shop. I grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles, in a city called Glendale. obviously there was more landscape to investigate. The film industry dominated the employment for many of our parents. There was a wonderful music store called Bartholomew’s where you could riding your bicycle go into the store pick out records go into into listening booths with your friends and hear the latest Rock and Roll albums, Beatles, Rolling Stones. Black Sabbath, Beach Boys, Patti Smith we would hang out there for hours. The cinema you showed us??? I wanted to cry……reminded me of a cinema house me and my friends would gather for a marathon Saturday Matinee. . Can’t wait to see the rest of your videos Lucy, I do hope you are feeling better! 💕🇺🇸Linda C.
Aww thank you!!! and thank you for sharing your memories from across the pond - how exciting that so many people you knew worked in the film industry - that is very very glamourous to me! I would have loved to hang out in Bartholomew's .. that's the music I still listen to today .. and of course everyone in Birmingham is always one story away from someone in Black Sabbath! x
Community Centers, how marvelous. Wish we had one now.
That's a shame there aren't any locally to you anymore. So many have closed or don't get used - I work in community and it's so hard to get people to come and use them. I think they are marvellous too!
I hope you are recovered from you injury now Lucy? The Fifties Street is just great! I can see why you enjoyed it so much ! When I was born in 1941 I was taken to a clinic held in a Welfare Hall just like the one shown, it was through my Mum taking me there and watching the mothers and babies being cared for by the Health Visitor…in my case a ‘ Miss Steele’ that I decided when I was about three that ,that was what I wanted to do! And did! Miss Steele came to my graduation ceremony at Birmingham University Great Hall health visitor I was in Brum for 17 years ,and I loved it! So many funny stories and happy times! As the song says…” Thanks for the Memory “ !
Actually had a little tear at your comment! A Mr Lovett was my history teacher at Hall Green Secondary School, he wasn't a popular chap but I loved him - behind all the strictness he just LOVED the subject and was such a good teacher, it was him that inspired me to study history at University. He too sent me a note on my graduation and sadly passed away not long after. I am so glad you had a similar experience and I wonder if you were my health visitor .. could have been!! How wild would that be?
Thank you so much for sharing this Lucy. I have to laugh, before you said anything at the village hall with the maternity clinic I thought, Oh, like on Call the Midwife, then you mentioned the show, OMG you watch Call the Midwife. That's one of my favorite current British TV dramas, along with Father Brown, Sister Boniface, and the current All Creatures Great and Small.
I LOVE Call The Midwife, I would say it's probably one of my favourite tv series of all times, whenever I feel glum I like to watch it. I love the old 1980s All Creatures Great and Small, I haven't seen the new ones - maybe I should try - I am sure I would like it :)
Wow Lucy what a video this is certainly worth waiting for. I’m afraid there is so much to mention I am gonna miss loads. However, I came across a video on u tube last week and a couple visited here. It was fascinating to watch but a world of difference from your videos. Your background comments of the history and people involved is what brings it to life. This couple were also younger and seemed to have more questions than answers. I’m not being horrible to them they were lovely but I’m just saying how much better you made this video. They went in the shop with the tellys and fridges etc for Hire purchase and the man in there explained in detail the reality of the cost of debt in those days which was astronomical.
I loved the toy shop also and seeing the battered cars only made it more special. I loved everything you showed us. I’m so sorry you haven’t got your wonderful cafe anymore but thank you for what you have done. I hope you are recovering from your fall and taking things easy. Thank you so much for taking us in your journey 🥰.
Thank you for coming with me! And for your lovely comments about my video, I come home and spent a week or so researching because people make the place to me. I think because I am that bit older too I remember the trouble people got into with HP from my own personal experience - my Nan was a staunch believer of "if you can't buy it out right you can't have it" - I would love to say I had stuck to those rules but alas ...
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Well said and yes I’ve had troubles myself…. However, times change and we live differently now. Imagine if people didn’t have credit cards and the like today they would be mortified. Living with what you have coming in is fine for the most part but we all have hiccups even the rich .. just look at the government and their debt. Although things were so tough in the past the morals were very different too. As I say your research and personal touch is what makes your videos great 👍
There's times that without a credit card I would have been well and truely screwed! 😂 I'm sure we have all been there.
Hi Lucy, this has been such an interesting video. I am a 50s child so am always interested in this time. Also, living in London, it isn't always easy to get to some of these places. The dolls hospital reminded me of the one in our local high street. 😊
Hey Sally, yes Beamish is a lonnnng way from London! It felt like a mission from Birmingham,I think next time I would go up on the train and get some advanced train tickets because the drive was EXHAUSTING. I love the fact you remember a dolls hospital, they are such a wonderful idea and saved precious things being thrown away!
I’m so glad you decided to visit Beamish, and that you loved it! Did you know, they are in the process of creating a 1980s village there! I live nearby, so I’ll be visiting it again soon. Thanks for your excellent video ☺️♥️
WHATTTTT 1980s??? I actually got goosebumps!!! I think I'm just going to have to move to County Durham 😂😂😂
@@throughlucyslensyes!! You’ll have to visit again 😁💃🏼x
What fun😊 That was a terrific find❤
It was a really enjoyable day out!
That was very interesting Lucy. Horley in Surrey where we lived was a small town. The shops in the high street stretched from the bridge over the railway southwards towards road with big houses. The shops ended on one next to the surgery. The other side of the road, they stopped next to the Police Station. Then east to west more shops. Then a slope up to the railway station east end. Wastwards they petered out just before the cinema west end, which was a lovely Art Deco building in white. It had a restaurant upstairs, as well as the balcony seats. À good few years ago while staying with Mum, I went on a camera walk. Also spent an hour or so in the Library photocopying photos from the History Society booklets. I made my own booklet of memories added to a memory scrap album number 2. An idea for anyone else watching your interesting videos Lucy.
What a brilliant idea!! My favourite place in the library when I was a child was the rows and rows of wooden boxes filled with old photos and postcards in alphabetical order of places from the past - I really hope they survive as that would be a marvellous gift to make for somebody!
Thank you Lucy. Really enjoyed this. We've been to The Black Country Museum and would love to visit here too. Wonderful video and your narration is excellent. Best wishes Dave and Dawn ❤️
It really is excellent, it's difficult to separate the two but they are similar but very different in "atmosphere" beamish was very relaxed and I loved how all their food and drink is made on site (the bakery was amazing !) thanks for your lovely compliment, it means a lotx
How lovely! There are many things there that bring back memories for me (also many differences, of course, since I lived in a different part of the country), so it was a delight to see them as you showed us round. Oddly, I'd always thought Beamish was in Devon or Cornwall, so it was a bit of a surprise to find it's in Durham - then again, one of my geography teachers once said I lacked the general knowledge that most children bring to their geography (though this was mainly because I couldn't spell Edinburgh when he set a quiz), so perhaps he was right!
Edinburgh is like Worcester ... trick spellings!! I remember being heart broken as a kid when I found how far Beamish was and that chances of being taken were zero (I was right!) made it finally though and was utterly worth the wait!
@@throughlucyslens I never had a problem with Worcester, but probably that's because I grew up in Worcestershire, so it was just something I assimiliated growing up!
Oh Lucy, that was just fabulous. I lived just down the road from Beamish Museum in the 80’ when it was just starting properly, and visited lots before moving to Canada in 2003 so it was a lovely surprise to see how much it has changed. 😊
I am sure when I first saw about it - in probably 1986 when it was on Blue Peter it was just one high street and some vehicles - even then I decided I HAD to go though - it took me a long time and it's absolutely VAST now, you would need many days there to get around completely.
Another excellent video !
Thank you, very kind of you!
I lived in a cul-de-sac of victoriana. Granddad lived next door, Uncle Albert across the road and Great Granddad next door to Albert. Outside loo and tin bath. Poor sure but so much love and laughter. Would I go back there. In a heart beat. I have nothing but happy memories of my childhood. The radio in the corner and the coal fire for making toast on. Happy people with hope for a better future.
Absolutely: I think we can jump to the conclusion that poor means unhappy, but it's the people around you that count, not stuff I think. Thanks for sharing that, lo dc it!
Wow, I loved this! Thank you and that was exactly what I thought of (Call the midwife ) when I saw the community hall. Lol!
Yes! It was just like walking into the film set! I just wish Nurse Crane had been there to greet me (she's my fave!!)