1975: A SKIING Safari to the ENGLISH ALPS | Nationwide | Niche Sports | BBC Archive
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- "I've been put on to a home-grown alternative which I'm told is almost as good as the real thing."
Nationwide's James Hogg treats himself to a skiing holiday, touring the finest fake plastic pistes that the North of England has to offer. His first stop is Kidsgrove, near Stoke-on-Trent, which is rumoured to have the third longest plastic ski-slope in Britain. Next, he visits Kirkby, near Liverpool - home to "the plastic ski slope of your dreams", before finally travelling to use the pioneering municipal plastic ski slope in the "English Alps," Oldham.
Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, 13 January, 1975.
You can find out what happened to the Kirkby Ski Slope here: • 1975: Infamous KIRKBY ...
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“By Job I needed that!” Killed me
Its lovely to see the kids in kirkby keeping the traditional local winter sports alive and well today.
Watching this while sipping my tea and having a jolly good time.
Loved the old footage, and the cars! ☀️
It's a glamorous little corner of the world we live in.
Dig the 1970s skiing fashions, very Roger Moore.
Glang. Glang-a-langa langa langa langa lang.
Very dashing, in a lemon ski-suit with maroon piping!
And yes he’s necking with a lady 😊
4:20 And he just shrugs and goes on 🤣
I'm feeling like this is "Deja vu,all over again," after another recently unearthed video of the ski slope built next to a motorway.
They look like monuments, from afar.
Monumental disasters, I suppose.
Deja vu, all over again 😂
This is so heartwarming piece and so funny...
Can we please see the Nationwide video of the presenter above, James Hogg, trying to survive stranded on a Scottish isle with little more than a machete? It sounds hilarious!
I remember that one !
Wearing a seatbelt in 1975? Wow, impressed.
Well, it is a Volvo
😂
This is great
I remember when everything was these colours
I'm always fascinated to see stuff from this year, as it was the year I was born, but of course, I don't remember it.
Apparently the UK was going through a weird ski slope phase in the 70's. And all with the same build quality of everything else British in the 70's.
It was all a bit dodgy, many of them were back handers and general Arthur Daley goings on. There was one where they made it and put in a paper *free rubbish dump* and they built it on top of that.
Kidsgrove Ski Centre still exists.
We dont need a ski slope in kirby, well not at the moment, maybe in the future! Hehe . I seem to remeber one on my way to Aylesbury to visit my nan in the 80s... always a strange sight
Kidsgrove got its ski center in the same place pretty much and quite a nice one compared to some
Ski Centre*
Respect to this man for the correct pronunciation of the word plastic!
Today the BBC think there is an 'R' in the word?
The one in Kendal in Cumbria managed a little more success, thankfully!
Nice car!
The banana ski suit. Almost as terrible as the Kirby ski slope.
what car is he driving? its beautiful
Volvo 1800ES
@@jerseyjackstudios I knew a guy with a plane as a picture would have the answer I needed ;) thanks man
Volvo P1800 shooting-brake.
Roger Moore drove the original P1800 coupé when he starred in 'the saint'
Production of the coupé ended in 1972, the shooting brake was in production 1972-3.
On checking I found that the car that James Hogg was driving is still on the road today!
I wonder who the lucky owner is?
Volvo P1800ES
Basically the estate version of the P1800S, which Irv Gordon bought in 1966, and drove for 3.2 million miles before dying in 2018, which looks set to remain the mileage record for a non commercial road vehicle.
Second place is a Mercedes, currently in a museum on 2.85 million miles, for reference.
Does anyone know what car that is? Is it a Volvo p1800 or similar?
The model was called Volvo P1800 ES.
He missed out Rossendale and Sabden dry slopes 😂
I have to admit it makes me sooo happy, to know that its not just modern-day councils throwing money away as it grows on trees
Was certainly grim up north in the 1970's
5:40 ah yes, the 1970s!...i remember it well. 😒
We'll have none of that foreign sport around here. We need football 😂
was there a dry ski slope boom/bust in the 70s?
Two words: fun bins
What’s the car the dude is driving?
Is that a volvo he is driving?
Empty motorways - just goes to show the craziness of England’s main roads now.
Nope
This is so depressing lol
'lol' is a modern-day mark of a simpleton.
@@heraldeventsandfilms5970ur so smart lol
What a waste of public funds. 40k in 1974 could buy you 25x 2 bed terraced properties back then. Imagine the rent and the uplift in value they could have accumulated in 50 years!
Popcorn
I spotted that too. :)
Love the snobbery. Notice it's all slagging off midlands/nw slopes not in the south! Luckily some have survived and produced Olympians!
I guess as a gateway into the 9/11 “conspiracy” this film might hook a few but there was nothing presented here that changes my mind.
You imagine if the old fella could see what Woking Council has done and the billions in debt for council tax payers with their scheme. He’d keel over 😂
Councils don’t change, just get worse.
And councils are still wasting money.
That’s a thing of the past - councils building white elephants……
Great stuff - nobody speaks like that anymore and it is a huge pity to whatever little remains of Britain and her natives...
The way English used to speak was exactly the style I want to aim for studying English.
language changes and that should be celebrated, we have lost much of our working class accents as well. the modern southern english child is actually quite posh, although a different type of posh to this chap.
Nah it’s contrived and insincere.
This is so heartwarming piece and so funny...
This is so heartwarming piece and so funny...