How to Make Cricket Bats: Old Traditions & Modern Methods (1962) | British Pathé
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- This segment of Pathé Pictorial gives a snapshot in the process of the Cricket bat industry in Suffolk. The manufacturing of the cricket bat is a curious blend of old tradition and modern methods, from splitting the wood by hand to grating the block into the familiar bat.
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Bungay, Suffolk.
Various shots of two men tending to saplings and seedlings. Man looks at the trunk of a willow tree to see if it is ready to be felled in order to provide wood for cricket bats. A "W" is cut into the trunk of a tree selected for felling. A chain-saw is used to fell the tree. The trunk is measured and cut.
C/Us of man cutting a piece of trunk into three. The splitting of the wood is always done by hand - never by machine.
Interior of a workshop. Craftsmen are seen working on cricket bats. All the processes involved in making the bats are shown.
Film ends with short shot of a game of cricket in progress on a village green.
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Just think people had these jobs and they still had a decent life.
No „decent life“ by today‘s standards. One could still live the equivalent of 50s living standard with a simple woodworking job today. However few would nowadays find that „decent“
@@jokomane1433 Yes, I agree. People just didn't buy so much crap back then as we do now. We buy so many trinkets these days.
This was 70 years ago. After the war, it took over ten years before most homes got a toilet plumbed within their house. Gas heating, fitted kitchens, cars.
Imagine the difference 70 years before then. Folks who could remember 1880 would've said "People of today have it too easy, all these workers rights and NHS. Don't know their born!"
So please, shut the f up with all your rose tinted glasses. Read a fking history book instead of Facebook memes complaining about the EU and "in our day".
Shove it up your arse.
@@duggiebader1798 There's absolutely nothing good about the EU.
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!
Well why not? They didn't have the 'excessive' material expectations of many people today.
The best cricket bats were made by Trimmings at Lt Paxton, St Neots. All the test cricketers in the 1950s ordered them. Sadly the factory closed in around 1977
Honestly, I love your channel and videos! It gives me every nostalgic and retro feelings but at the same time i'm learning honestly all your videos need to be shown in schools.
I like changing it to 240p for the real, authentic look.
It is so good watching this that I have to watch it again...simply wonderful!
These films are delightful. I just really wish they were much longer
I had no idea they were made out of willow - learn something every day.
You know the modern manufacturing we enjoy today is great in many ways but I am sorry the skills these guys have was amazing and is sorely missed. Today the cost of anything handmade is so much more than mass produced. That is both a good thing and a bad thing
they are still using machines, these machines were modern in those days, are you stupid?
This is the most British video I've ever seen
True
English
As a kid half my dad’s pals had cigarettes behind one ear 😂 never see that nowadays
Veri nice
GROWING TREES
CUTTING
AND MAKING CRICKET BATS
THIS IS SHORT BUT V NICE VIDEO
Pom walks out with his new hand crafted bat, gets nought.
Certainly, in the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, having a good solid piece of wood in your hand is often useful. - Ian Faith in reference to why he carries a cricket bat around.
You beat me to it … I intended to post the same thing. Terrific bit of dialogue.
@@chasbodaniels1744 You are a gentleman of impeccable taste. 👍😀
2:10 - Back in the day when you can run a lathe WITHOUT ANY EYE PRO!! Bet hes had more then one trip to the mirror to pull out a eye-splinter!
interesting!
I didn't know Suffolk is/was a centre of the cricket bat industry! 😃
There are a lot of cricket bat willow plantations in Suffolk. The town I grew up in has a plantation but I took them for granted as just part of the landscape.
I find the whole process of cultivation and the finished product as shown here fascinating.
I'm native English and I never knew anyone that spoke with an accent like this.
Seriously, I thought for a moment that this was going to be about a flying mammal sub-species
No safety glasses - Madness!
first thing i thought of when i saw that lathe
Just blinking the shavings away like a boss
Next video will be about the thriving glass eye industry of this era.
Nor safety when felling the willow. The wedge was put in by hand, right alongside the whirring chainsaw blade!
no health and safety in those days.
of course all good cricket bats come from Gray-Nicolls in EAST SUSSEX (Robertsbridge)
Even the people who play the game don’t know how it’s played.
Voice of David de Keyser
This is probably Gray Nicols or Stebbing, the giant tree that produced a 1000 bats was cut down by Warsops around about 1914. www.batmaker.co.uk
That was very interesting. I confess I cringe when I see any of these trades and NO SAFETY GOGGLES. You just know many eyes were damaged.
What is the bat?
Good old days Today people know fuck all about anything except Boozing and taking drugs a oh yeas and fighting each other
Is that a record plane at 2.31
it is a Stanley
not sure which model
Раньше было много деревьев что бы сделать одну спичку целое дерево уходило 😅😅😅
McCulloch
Is that Mel Smith, from "Alas, Smith and Jones" T.V. Show?
Given that he was about ten years old when this film was made (1962), I'm gonna say "no".
Wonderbats are made from lightning striking the tree first.
Please how to make spitfire fighter...
THATS A BIT OF A JUMP ISNT IT
@@tubeymcdee 😂
@@tubeymcdee i wouldn't put it past British Pathé, having a Spitfire Factory film
These videos in the archive are much longer as far as I know. Why are we restricted to short versions of them? I don’t just mean on TH-cam, but on the website as well.
Were these filmed by a private company originally? If so that explains it. The filming just makes me think that it was a publicly funded thing.
It always seems the beginning was cut off.
I thought these were selected shorts in movie theaters before the main film hence the shortness of the video.
I'm pretty sure you can still buy plans with all the details you need on Woodprix.
On the Stodoys site you can find many interesting plans
😀😀😀🥰🤟🤟👍🌲🌳
what is the bat
+Phago Damber
It's the thing with which you hit your opponent over the head.
It's the thing that you hit the ball with. It could also be a flying rodent but I think it's the former of the two!
Back when jobs existed, before the Tories massacred the economy.
Keep your politics out of this!
@@danc101 if only people like you kept your politics out of society we'd still have industry like in this video!
@@upturnedkangaroo IF ONLY PEOPLE BOUGHT THESE BATS WE WOULD STILL HAVE THESE JOBS BUT MR ENGLISH WANTS THE BAT APU MADE IN INDIA THAT COSTS 100 LESS
@@tubeymcdee well said!
Globalism means a guy who can shape a cricket bat either works for peanuts with no union or that bat gets made somewhere else.