The Day Trip (1974)
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- Jack Pizzey Reports from Margate for Man Alive
This documentary was broadcast as part of the Man Alive series which was a documentary series that took a look at all aspects of society in the UK and abroad. This episode was looking at the popularity of the seaside resort of Margate and remains a wonderful time capsule of what the British seaside once looked liked 50 years ago!?
It was first broadcast on the 3rd October, 1974
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I can't watch this. It brings tears to my eyes to see what we've lost.
If I had a time machine I would go back and stay.
Margate, it's beach and Dreamland still exist you know? And very nice it is too. Maybe it's something else that you've lost?
@@Pobotrol I have been reading every comment on this video, and I would say, 95% can see EXACTLY what WE have lost. I'll give you a clue... its not the sand or the rollercoaster.
I was 11 in 1974 we used to stay in Cliftonville in a place called Holland House Hotel and go down to the Lido. It's true that it was a different world back then
@@majordolbyscat I have been a Blackpool regular since 1974 and I am slowly working my way south, Done all the Yorkshire/Lincolnshire/Norfolk/south Devon and North wales ones I have even been to south-end once and I stand with you I also know EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE LOST!
you are weeping for your youth
I left school in 1974. This is the England that I remember and miss. Innocent times, long gone never to return.
You'll never see an England like this again! These are mostly people who survived the war and are showing they are glad to be alive.
You're right, you won't. Lost and gone forever.....☹️
Massive post-war joy to be alive that lasted well into the 70s
I was 12 in 1974. My Nan used to live in a lovely bungalow in Margate. Her garden was full of lavender. I love lavender as it evokes so many wonderful memories. I spent lots of years in Margate and I loved growing up in the 70’s. How times have changed.
Growing up in 60’s 70’s ( best time ever ) I was born in 1961 and I’m so grateful for that 👍🏻🙂
My Nan lived in Ramsgate.. and I was 9 in 1974.. we lived in Bham and spent the summer holidays on this beach… such fantastic memories..
I might be living there now. My Margate bungalow has a garden full of lavender... was it opposite a park?
I was 11 in '74, just starting Big School, lol. Times were certainly different.
|I was 15.
I also like walking down meadows full of lavender and surrounded by willow trees on a beautiful bliss full sunny day with blue skys . We all have the same wants for nature and beauty. I go to epping forest for that kind of experiance ,but , if you want lavender i seen alot of farms growing lavender in daventry ,so ask the farmer if you can walk through is lavender field farm and, bring back cherish child hood memorys.
I feel very blessed to have lived through those precious years.
They Should Never Have Been Allowed to Dissapear
Going through them halcyon years and ending up old in these terrible times.
15 minutes in, that's my dad Mick Webb, 2 years before I was born ❤ lovely seeing him with hair 😂
I always think it's nice when folk are recognised in these old films.
@mushroom_coloured_stepthro they'd always told me about it but I'd never seen it.
is he still alive?
@orionxtc1119 Yes! He's 82 😊
The guy digging the hole ?
Everywhere is the same now, it's not just England. It's all by design. God Bless England.
More and more British kids are watching these videos and they are seeing how life used to be and they want it back.
Instead of the bullshit lies the telly shows them.....
@@frankwood11 do they though?
@@stephnewman1357Nah 👎
Hard to believe that this is within living memory. Seems like a universe away.
As soon as I read this comment it hit me so hard because it's like a different world from now 😢
Strange feeling isnt it?
It is a universe away. Sadly well dead and buried, never to return.
I`m grateful I was born in 1969. Growing up in the 70`s and 80`s was the best time in England. It`s ruined now.
Nah it was shite 😂
@@stephnewman1357 go away troll
I was born.in 1970, feel the same. We're from the East End, now heartbroken to look at it. Third world dump.
you are right there
@@stephnewman1357No, it really wasn't, sunbeam.
Brilliant, just brilliant!! I console myself with the fact that at least we had those days 😢
There will probably never again be a country like England until recently was. The world is poorer.
I was 6 in 74. Spent many a Summer at my Nan's Caravan in Sandwich Kent. Made me cry watching this and then some more reading the comments. Happy Days.
I am an old Brit and I was well happy with the way we were.
I am 62 and I feel old. I cant say I was happy back then but seems to me the world was better.Now its going to hell.
You were happy when you were young and not old like you are now and in a state of physical and cognitive decline that old age inevitably brings
old people don't count in England, they're best kept hidden and out of sight
YEAH. The IMF bailout in 1976. Inflation at 20% in 1975. Interes Rates at 15%. The 3 day working week. The energy crisis. The winter of discontent... The UK was in order then, right proper :)
Compromised governments have ruined Britain, British culture and beautiful British town and now all taken over by the third world, and done so, so easily…
"Janice is the one with 6 cans of light ale in her handbag" ..they don't make them like that any more..
She dead now 😢😢
@@angiedougan
How do you know?
2024:
Janice is the one with a gram of Charlie, an eighth of weed and a bottle of vodka in her bag.
@@NoLefTurnUnStoned. Easy my sister is Marion and the three of them were best friends. Don't be so disrespectful
@NoLefTurnUnStoned. because one of then girls are my sister and Janice was her best friend
Beautiful but devastating to see what we've lost
Breaks my heart every day.
Well stop going abroad
It's the way of the world, each generation doesn't want to do the things the previous generations did. Even those who were around in 1974, expect more now from life & holidays than these folk did.
Older people in the 1970s were saying that and remembering the 1920s with fondness.
@@stephnewman1357
if we stop going abroad, the prices here need to be reasonable. Its way too expensive. You get way better for your money abroad init.
Excellent. . Thanks for showing this . This is when England was England
Flipping Londoners coming down to Kent wrecking the place..😂
@@stephnewman1357 Yeaaahhh. I don’t think they mean that tbch, or I have missed the point. 😇
England is still England!
this was when you were young, relevant and powerful. But every dog has his day. Thankfully the working, lower classes have no say
@@SHEARMINATOR Nope, it's Englandistan now!
The woman nursing the sleeping baby, the baby who would be 50 now…life goes by so quickly.
That’s funny. I was thinking the same thing that baby would be the same age as me.😂
Tell me about it. One minute I am the cheeky, mischievous Boy and next Saturday,I enter my 8th decade..lol
🎂 Happy birthday mate!..I’ve just turned 75..all the best ..🍻cheers from Liverpool..👍🏻
@@frankhornby6873 Thanks Frank from Millwall,South East London/Kent:)
Good Luck..
All those older people never had to deal with computers laptops mobiles A.I and living as a foreigner in your own land. I am so glad I grew up when England was England uncomplicated so much fun.
Well said!
They also lived through 2 world wars,and had a lot of hardship. Yet i would swap places with them given the chance. I really dont like what the world has become. Narcissism is the flavour of our day. It is all about "me" when it really needs to be all about we. The old lady was wonderfuul wasnt she. The hall of mirrors was such a lovely thing to watch her. Not a bitter bone in her body❤
@@atmywitsend1984 You hit the nail on the head with the "all about me" comment - hyper-individualism is wrecking any sense of collective unity. That's what missing from today. Any sense of social cohesion. It's been obliterated and there's no hope of that returning, because *internet* ... and now AI... detachment from the physical, detachment from nature, detachment from community , me, me, me...
@@stephenryan7698 foreigner in their own land? My grandparents fought for our freedoms and you lot use it as an excuse to bash!
@@stephnewman1357 Our grandparents fought without realising it for the perennial enemy. So we ended up fighting the wrong people and allowing traitors like Churchill, to push our European nations into a ready waiting trap that we are still in. I can not explain it clearer than that, because TH-cam has already threatened me with a channel strike.
Makes me sad that those long ago innocent days of simple pleasures are gone forever. Lovely film.❤
Imagine the dingy brigade coming up on the Margate beach then 🤣
@@mmm091000 yeah what would they do? Exactly the same as now moan..
@@stephnewman1357 Food for thought indeed ? Im old enough to remember those times, yep your probably right ? we lost our back bone many years ago.
And those old couples (Pensioners) would remember the 1920s (50 years from 74) as peaceful time
@@mmm091000
This was not even thought about as it was easy for anyone to come over via Heathrow back in them days. Times have changed with foreign policy dictating the intervention of other countries. What goes round comes round. The foreign policy needs looking at. Interfering in other peoples business is the reason the UK is in the mess and dinghies coming in
Simple Symantec
50 years ago where did the time go. Life looks more peaceful and less chaotic than it is today.
It was, there was less to do & more time to do it in & the only screens were TV sets.
Sadly, 3 of my 4 grandparents died in their early and mid 60s in that decade.
@@lyndoncmp5751 There was a lot of it about. My maternal grandfather died of a heart attack in 76, just 6 months after retiring, he was 65.
@@LowPlainsDrifter60
Sad. Yes that age seemed fairly common to die at.
Life was much more chilled. Enjoy your weekend, and Sunday was when shops were closed.
We are now in the fast age/Tech age where everything needs to be done fast in real time.
Really enjoyed watching this snapshot of life in the UK.
Has left me with a heavy sadness, of a time long gone unfortunately.
Thank You.
Don't know when you last went to Blackpool? It hasn't really gone 😂 my husband and I having both had happy memories of childhood holidays in the 70's thought we'd have a weekend on our own there a few years ago...my goodness! Most of those hotels haven't changed the sheets since 1979!!! It's all still there, untouched never mind decorated,or modernised. It was quite disgusting. Couldn't find anywhere to eat after nine. We saw hotels advertising in their windows "free soap" in the bathroom 😂😂😂 which was on the landing to share with several other rooms 😂 it was beyond run down,yet still charging top rate prices to the few diehards who were old enough to look like they'd been going every year for ever. It was so grim. We told horror stories for years about the things we encountered 😂 Should have left it as happy memories.
A heavy heart, England no longer like this, so many wonderful memories, now it's a shithole.
The country we live in now is unrecognisable from the old days. 😭😭
So is ours..concrete USA all the developers are ruining nature...we should have taken care of it..
Surely we should be thankful for that, it's called moving with the times,,,
apart from the legions of poor, powerless working class tripe that will sadly be omnipresent
@@BenJames-pm7kk Trying so hard to be edgy but failing spectacularly, Bennyboy.🤣
And the country-side is fast dissappearing😢
I’m glad I was a kid in the 70s thanks for the vidio
Summer of ‘74, when I had just turned 20. Oh how I would love to go back to that time!
I was 6, but yes agree would love to wind back time from the total BS these days..
Yes, I was 20 in 1974, just like you John. Peace and goodwill.
I was 12 and hated my life and family but those days seemed better that the hell this world is now!
I was 22 and back in Scotland. I had been working in John Lewis, Oxford Street, and staying in West Hampstead. In April 1971, I took a day trip to Margate and met a Swiss aupair who was also on a day trip. She was working for a family in Edgware, North London. She was my girlfriend for 5 months before she returned to Switzerland. London was wonderful back then.
Me too !! 😊😊😊
This film is utterly brilliant ❤️ .. also bittersweet
Yes that's what I thought. A kind of elegy for the British Seaside resort. Of course it was around this time the package holiday to Spain was beginning to take off. Those three birds on the look out for fellas, would be replacing Derek and Lee with Carlos and Ferdinand.
Margate is just as lively in the summer today as it was then. We could take a leaf out of that older lady's book from the film "today's generation is no better or worse than yesterday's generation". It was true then, and it is true now. Don't be scared of change. At our core we are still the same. On the surface that may look different, but us Brits still love a day at the seaside. I know I do, and I'm 23. My friends and partner do. We live near Margate. So many happy days spent there. Much love ❤️
She was talking a load of rubbish. It is not as true then as it is now. She was in no position to judge being too old to understand the nature of the changes. Things have declined appallingly. 'Don't be scared of change'. is fatuous. 'Change' does not automatically imply improvement. The word 'change' is merely a descriptor.
You've made the mistake of contradicting the "everything is going to shit" crew. I'm so bored of this myself. Dont let this inexplicably popular wave of miserable pessimism stop you from enjoying the life thats your's. At 23 the world is at your feet, dont let anyone tell you you're "what's wrong with the world". Times are hard, but they've also been much harder. I live in Margate and half the people in this comment section are just using this video as and excuse to rag on young people. The fact is, its still a great town with a great vibe. Incredibly popular in the summer and buzzing at night.
TBF not everything was great in those days. Sexism was rife for a start 😁.
@@janicetaylor3721 Not to mention poorer health outcomes. Life expectancy was 10 years lower then when compared to today, for example.
As a local, I used to love the influx of Londoners every summer ; it kept Margate, well the whole of Thanet, lively. It was great place to grow up. It breaks my heart to see its decline since the 70s. No different to other seaside towns, I suppose. The English culture depicted here has vanished, sadly and I'm not sure that diversity has improved it.
The “pier” was always known as the Jetty, btw, a remnant from history when trippers arrived by boat.
I used to visit my auntie and uncle in the summer, early 80s. They had a chip shop on Ramsgate sea front. I last went 2021 and she died a few months later. She still owned the chippy but rented it out. Lovely memories of the Bembom brothers fair. She used to live on Westbrook avenue. I thought it was so posh lol.
Funny how you manage to pin the decline down to the lack of English culture and diversity. You mention the Londoners that used to come to Margate. Well, since the 70s, those Londoners you talk about and many others from other cities decided holidaying abroad was better and thanks to the likes of Easyjet and Ryanair, pretty cheap too. That's what killed off Margate, not diversity!
@@_B.M_ Yes, that is what I was getting at. With the advent of package holidays, the English culture of going to the seaside for holidays ended. Followed up with other later changes to English culture.
Breaks my heart to see what England has become. These were indeed the days.
Watching this and how wonderful it was you would not believe what it has now become. 😢
blame the poor and therefore powerless, working classes for letting this happen
@@BenJames-pm7kk
An individual is powerless like a single drop of water but if united with the vast majority it becomes an unstoppable tsunami.
I was 18 in 1974, but rather than going to Margate that year, I was busy packing and saying goodbye to my friends as I emigrated to Canada on June 12th, 1974. It was a very different world, but a move I never regretted. I still find it hard to believe it was 50 years ago. Have many fond memories of Margate.
No Internet and no mobile phones it looked so much better back then
Come back please.
@hudson7354 To be honest, there's not much for me to come back to. All of the family that I had here, have since all passed on. Sadly also many of my friends have passed on, and the few that remain have all moved away. It's a nice thought, but at my age (68) something that won't happen.
I am from Wolverhampton birn and raised. Never been to margate, however I have such a nice impression of margate from watching the only fools and horses episode "The Jolly Boys Outing."
@@pauldg837 nah don't come back, not being nasty, it's absolutely shit now , remember it as it was , I do
My Dads the D.j in the Bali Hai , about 28 mins in , great footage , thanks for posting it.
Oh how lovely!
Fantastic!!
Dude he looks the spit of Noel Edmunds !
@crumplezone1 lol , used to think that , when I was a kid . 😂
@@majordolbyscatI have a postcard somewhere of a band which played there in the 50s. Such fun in those days.
I want this back.
it will never come back
don't let the door hit you on the way out 🤣
What about it exactly is gone now? You can still go to Margate and the beach?
It’s the youth you want back. That’s all.
you can't have it back because your poor, old and powerless or rather, impotent
Left Margate in Autumn '74 away for 47 years now been back 3 years .......Its changed and not for the better!
So why go back then.
@@goldieandblackie because I still love the place
@@goldieandblackieSmart arse.
Britain, where you need a coat to sit on the beach like that lady at the start....that hasn't changed 😂
Everything in the world has changed for the worse.
I was born in Margate in 1967 and I moved to Thailand seven years ago. But for 50 years, Margate was my hometown and this is exactly how I remember my childhood days with my family on the beach. Thank you so much for the upload, this was great to watch.
How much brighter and happier these people were in 1974 ... no looking down into there mobile phones and not having a conversation with others around them because there were no mobile phones ... people engaged with each other even strangers as the man said while digging that deep whole in the sand ... three young girls and no tattoos or rings through there various parts ... I bet now those beaches will be mostly empty.
I used to go to Margate with my parents in the 1960's for a week away and Margate was packed ... always fun at the guest houses as you would meet people from all over the country on there holidays there ... happy memories.
It has been five decades since this event occurred. If mobile phones had been available at that time, individuals would likely have been engrossed in their devices just like now. The comments regarding tattoos and piercings are purely subjective and do not contribute to a productive discussion.
@@BlackRose-vi2yg That they were not hypnotically obsessed by yet to be invented mobile phones is just one of the many reasons why it undoubtedly was so much better then. As for 'body art', everyone's opinion is 'subjective', and all opinions contribute to 'productive' discussion if you are not tethered to a set of pre-defined conclusions. All of these things are indicators. You would rather we ignore them. That tells me you know that the implied point was valid and are trying to concoct a reason why the 'evidence' should be ignored.
I don't know if you were actually here in England at that time, but I was, and it was a much more beautiful and pleasant country. I would assert that most alive now who lived through those times would agree with me.
If you want to discount the opinion of people who were there then go ahead and pontificate all you like, it makes no difference to what almost everyone knows to be the truth.
@@BlackRose-vi2yg Stating the FACTS as shown in the video compared to todays society ... unfortunately your post did not contribute to a productive discussion.
@@gingercat555I last went to Margate in 2003. It was still very pleasant then, but I read it’s getting somewhat gentrified..
Well said.
When we were Great Britain
Which year was that?
@@stephnewman1357Before the traitors like you took over you cretin.
Alright Dad's army
@@stephnewman1357 go
YEAH. The IMF bailout in 1976. Inflation at 20% in 1975. Interes Rates at 15%. The 3 day working week. The energy crisis. The winter of discontent... The UK was in order then, right proper :) It was GREAT.. Unemployment over 10% by 1979. Great Britain.
Great to see, and definitely the pre McDonalds era ,
Yeah, nice relaxing pot of tea and some scones....
A snapshot of better times.
The 3 girls will be drawing their pension now.
and the govt snatching it back underhandedly
They would be my age now 67 . Lovely times that we can never go back to .
@@maggiefisker99468
The girls like any 18 year old, wanting to go out on a day trip. We all done it at that age all be it slightly older.
They won't be smiling now then.
Just think those young girls out for a giggle in Margate are now in their late 60s/early 70s, if they are still with us.
Wasn't expecting this. I smiled and chuckled all the way through! I could almost smell the sea air mingling with the alluring scent of carbolic soap and Old Spice!
One thing which surprised me, though - having grown up mostly in Wales during this period, I've never seen so many 1970s Cockneys in one place.
And not a single one of them was Micky Flanagan!
This was made at a time when the BBC was worth watching.
he says watching on TH-cam
BBC was blinding in the 70s, wasn't it? I was glued to it! So many great shows, films etc.
I was there in 1975 Steve Harley and cockney rebel was no 1 at the time with come up and see me, i played it non- stop on the juke box, i was 19 at the time i just loved the solo in that record, so i learnt it on my guitar, it was a nice sunny saturday the beach was packed so was dreamland....please lord take me back if only for one day.
Wouldn't it be lovely if we go back to those happier times after we're dead. Not holding out much hope for that though :(
Watching this was amazing. When England was England. I remember Tony Savage and many of the sights. A real blast from the past.
My namesake!
@@tonysavage8933 Are you Tony Junior?
I used to go to margate and other seaside places in the early 70s but otherwise no connection.
@@tonysavage8933 spooky though, the same name. You should’ve taken up playing the organ. They wouldn’t have needed to change the signs lol. Seriously though, I loved Margate. My parents used to stay at 26 Ethelbert Cresent. I went back in 92 and it was changing then. A nightclub was set up just a few yards away and a Saturday night was brutal.
England so name by a Germanic tribe the Angles (anglo -saxon) They named it Englaland meaning Land of the Angles.
Not a Spicehead, Smackhead, Or Beggar in Sight.
Innit, the UK is a scummy place these days and back then the beaches were for the British people but these days they are for foreigners in their boats!!.
You forgot too mention no hijabs neither!
Nor immigrants
@@adamweston4152 In those days nobody used the kind of black slang you use either...........""innit""
@@zariisofficial there were maybe 1 or 2 in the video if you carefully observed. Mind you this was back in the 70's so would not be surprised.
Wow - how polite people were then and spoke so well.
People have greatly deteriorated.
@@Tempe1962I was born in the 40s and have witnessed change, both good and bad. It's our way of life which has deteriorated, and no particular generation is to blame. I like to think there are still plenty of us who seek better times, an opportunity to turn things around, young and old stand together for good.
Innit bruv….🤦♂️
I think that if this were done today the editor would have a job on. The profanities I hear every time I pass people talking is far more frequent. I have to admit that I am guilty of it myself. Though I never swear around children. It really grinds me to hear a parent swearing at their children.
@@nickgodfrey1148 nah the working class are always the poor and powerless, things are still the same thankfully in that regard
I remember these days at Margate full of English people good people how sad what our politicians have done to this country 😢
And Burt thought ‘today I’ll be an antagonistic arse hole.’ For Burt today was going to be just like every other day.
Bleedin beaker folk! Comin’ over ‘ere
i hope you dont mean me crikey ive not said a word crikey@@user-xw3zu1gm4q
@@andrewt836 I see we have a Stuart Lee fan?
@@user-xw3zu1gm4q I am 70 this week and it was a little too close to the absolute truth. You, obviously, were not there. Giving lifts at Bus Stops to 3 complete strangers.Open Plan Design for a Bank or Building Society. I stopped complete strangers at Crayford, Lewisham, and on the way to Brighton and got them to change my flat tyre (The A A never did it then). Got other strangers to help push my car 1/2 mile down the road as The A A rules said "1/2 mile away from home".
London "Evening News " vendor left his papers AND moneybag out on the pavement overnight for a decade and collected the same,the next morning. Rent Man walking around (with the equivalent of( £1,000 on him with few problems.
My first encounter in Kennington Park,S E London, with nonindigenous people, circa 1968, was to be mugged for 2 old pence (1p)by a Black kid and "Clint" of Mixed Heritage. This was one mile from our school near Brixton.
The school enjoyed 350 years of "academic excellence" until the local "yoof" came, in numbers, and within 5 years it was a Government "Sink School" with special measures, and last summer, Archbishop Tenisons School opposite THe Oval Cricket Ground closed permanently as few parents wanted to send their kids there.
Burt..
No Phones No Millenials just Wonderful People
Fast forward to the shit hole we find ourselves in now.
That's neo libralism for you !!
The present was created by that past.
@@strategicintelligenceanaly9778 Only in so far as Margaret Thatcher is concerned
@@barnabyhughes5643can’t blame Thatcher for mass immigration.
@@strategicintelligenceanaly9778 Social-engineering - who exactly?
how nice ENGLAND was back then , lets have it back
🏴🏴 It’s not mutch to ask for, is it? 🏴🏴......(hope I’ve not offended anyone will my comment)...🏴🏴
We'll go to the coast rather than fly off abroad!
@@frankhornby6873..mate the only ones who would be offended are the low life who shouldn't be here...we need to get our country back!🇬🇧
you can't have it back because your poor, old and working class which therefore makes you powerless.
Package holidays put an end to seaside town's.
The seaside towns nowadays bear no resemblance to the old,popular family locations R.I.P.
They really don’t, Southend is a shit hole,, Margate has tried to come back but lost itself in the 90’s, u need a knife to go out in Blackpool… I reckon cleethorps was alway rubbish but my mum reckoned it used to be good back in the 70s
I lived in Worthing for five years I would go back on heartbeat still lovely with lovely people
3-foot tall kids in a 5-foot deep hole in the sand, and not a care in the world
I loved the 70's
😬😱
Does anyone else remember a story, from a summer in the early 80s I believe, of a bloke that dug such a hole, but he really went to town and it collapsed on him. couldn't get him out. died. 😥
People used To laugh 😂😁🙂and enjoy themselves..⛱🤽♀️🏖👍🏻
Without smartphones! How is this possible? 😂
We still do, two oldies born in the 40s making the most of life as best we can.😊
What a treat. A lost world!
What a fantastic documentary. I live close to margate down in Sandwich. Margate is now considered a bit of a joke but I do pop up there once in a while for a few hrs. Alas outside of old town you'll find a lot of boarded up shops and buildings. Drugs are rife as well poverty and dangerous folks pottering about. It is better in the summertime as the crowds do mask the issues the area currently has. What is amazing watching this is how backwards we have gone. It's rather alarming. Living so close to margate and seeing what I see now compared to what I've just seen from this wonderful short film it is rather sad indeed.
Drugs ruin's every life it touches, its taking the world down to a new low and for what, People expect too much out of life so they finish up depressed, smart people never touch any of it.
I really enjoyed this look back in time, great days.
I once ate a sandwich in margate
Thanks Major, really nostalgic stuff. A simpler time, society has lost so much!
Damn!!! I remember that music at the start of the show, I must have been 4 years old when this show was aired and I was always in to music and hearing it now i automatically remembered it.
Aren't Cyril and Em just the loveliest couple ❤️ What a decent, honest, sensible woman she is 🥰 of course sex wasn't invented in the 70's😂
I went countless times in the 80's with my family & school trips. When I could drive we would go down in a convoy of cars in the early 90's. Me & my mates had so many weekends meeting girls, drinking & having a great time. I hadnt been to Margate for 20 years, in May 2012 I was working nearby so I went walking around one afternoon. Had tears in my eyes as the memories came flooding back as a couple of my mates are no longer with us. Sad to see what had become of Margate. I live on the other side of the world now but still some of the best memories.
Born 1956 many many happy times spent in Margate so innocent so safe so British 🇬🇧wish I could rewind the clock ! 🥲
When Britain was Great 😢
never was great
@@burthectorcummings6732clueless
That is debatable,but it was better back then in many ways ,and not so good in others .
Nostalgia does tend to blinker us ,and the good times shine over the bad.
@@burthectorcummings6732 alot fucking better then the shit state it's in now
@@compostcorner5934 I know I'd go back to them days in a heartbeat then the shit show were in now ,we will be the minority in our own country in I'd say the next 50 years ,we can just about fly an England flag in your garden without it getting asked to be taken down
the good old days long gone 😩
I was born in 1983 so well before my time but this breaks my heart to see. Nothing like this any more 😞
I LOVED this England but I have had 70 wonderful years. My first great 29 years were living in the heart of S E London just 2 miles from Central London and exactly 41 years ago, in 1983,I moved to this ordinary home. We have 76 Open spaces within 6 miles. 4 busy Towns within 2 miles.Out into The Countryside in 20 minutes and have been out 7,770 times, with only minor incidents. It has been stimulating and truly wonderful.
"7,770" lol Absolute nonsense. I forgot 8,500 dog walks, with between 1 and 8 dogs(usually 3/4) over the last 33 years and other Sports and Girlfiends, as a single guy. It is around 16,500 times with only a few minor incidents.:)
the isle of skye i love that place so much i used to work hotel elien airmen isle of sleet not far from broadford i love that place so much great place
@@godschildse That is good to hear:)
Idiotic and traitorous politicians ruined this green and pleasant land.
...and all voted for with enthusiasm by the moronic population....cough cough Brexit....cough cough....
Wonderful piece of history, thanks for uploading
These films are great pieces of social history - like the Harold Baim shorts Talking Pictures TV are showing at the moment.
I loved Man Alive One of the best TV programmes on the TV.
Yes, it was great. A lot of beauty in the mundane here.Excellent reporting. Good to see it's available again. The theme tune takes me back.
@@traceya9615 'Beauty in the mundane' - wonderfully put!
@@JC-ee6pc Thank you. I've only just got notification of your reply 😊
@@traceya9615 My pleasure:)
Beautiful video, 5 years before I was born, but it looked great times, sad things have changed so much
All the commentators those days were all really well spoken and professional as well. Good old days now lost. Our seaside towns and beaches are now a total disgrace.
The hotels full of asylum seekers.
Proper working class people. Not a chav in sight. Proper people proper times.
Definitely right. Proud of who they were with decency and respect for eachother.
I agree.
Tribute to a bygone age, and a bygone nation. So sad.
Feels like modern day has lost its way when you watch this. Convenience, instant gratification and the need for comfort have not given us the life we thought they would.
I wonder where those three lovely young ladies are now, love their natural smiles and that London accent.
All aged 68 now and probably with a good story to tell.
One of the girls sisters gave an update in another comment..Marion the dark haired girl is in the USA (her sister gave the update..Joyce..The shy brown haired girl,who was engaged lived in Spain for a while,but had alot of health problems,and Janice,the light haired bubbly funny one died a few years ago..
Bloody slappers. Go back to London you cheap tarts.
The best days with the right people
Load of ole uneducated commoners coming down to kent with their ragamuffins spoiling the place 🤣
What a charming film that made me smile all the way through! It's a wonderful look back into better times long gone. I wasn't even born until '76, but I can relate to family hols as a kid, much like this film shows.
I remember being buried up to my neck in the sand on a beach, by my Dad and my brother (which still makes me laugh on the photographs from then) probably in Scarborough where we had a lot of family holidays, or maybe Ireland where we also holidayed a lot, and they were truly wonderful times with family, absolutely treasured memories.
Sadly the world has changed a lot since the internet, smart phones, and all that goes with it came along, and I feel like the last of a generation, that enjoyed my childhood before all that came along, and i'm glad I was born when I was to have experienced those good times.
It's kind of a bitter sweet feeling really, and I know where others are coming from with some of the comments already posted.....
Cherish those good times you had folks :)
Very happy memories of Holidays in Margate. Emigrated to Australia in 1973. Now aged 66.
Really enjoyed looking back at this when I would have been about one year old. Superb documentary, and just illustrates how the BBC and the quality of its output has declined amongst other things.
I was lucky to be born in 1954 and experience the late 60's and the 1970's, unique years, yes, so lucky....
Very enjoyable, thank you for posting
Old folks who’d been through the rigours of 2 World wars just chilling out…. And indeed, why not 😊
Brilliant reminder of past days!
Best time to be a teenager’ hard to believe how this country has changed 😖
Greetings from New Zealand 🇳🇿🙃. I was born in 67, Elephant and Castle, South London.
Many happy memories of family holidays in Margate. This presenter going on about previous generations holidays there 🤨, our grandparents 'holidays' used to be working, hop picking in Kent.
Anyway,
🎵You can keep your Costa Brava, I tell you mate I'd rather, 'ave a day down Margate with all the family 🎵 (Chas n Dave) 😉
Ps, I've got vague memories 73/74 of being in that lost kids room and having my name called out on the tanoy 😅, I was a nightmare for wandering off all the time, I'm still at it 👍.
Thank
S for puting this on enjoyed watching it so much just as i remembered margate in the 70s sad to watch in someways as we have lost so much sinse that time
Like my old man used to say: what’s gone , has gone .
That's the England I remember. The England I'd die for.
@davidblake1663 so would I, I wouldn't now nothing to fight for, I have always said if there was another war no one would bother we would just capitulate
Emily, the lady in beginning was just like my dear old nan, same accent. Lovely documentary. Thankyou Major! 😅
I came from Margate born in 1949 and spent many times in Dreamland, my mum used to work there taking money for one of the rides in the 1950s. Nice to know it has been reborn but not as good as it was when i was young. Plus of course the pier has gone after one storm too many but we had a good life there.
England and English people were so lovely then. Everything is spoilt nowadays
Before the meddling traitors foisted millions of foreigners upon our tiny overcrowded Island to destroy our culture and way of life.
I couldn’t agree more I remember margate been there many times as a child in the late 70s how this country has changed and they say it’s progress we have gone backwards not forwards and I’m not looking at past times with Rose tinted glasses. It’s just the truth. The politicians of this country are treacherous individuals
Diversified to oblivion.
@@inglepropnoosegarm7801 yeah, that seems the way it’s gonna be unless something drastically can change
Blame it on Lydon..
Insane how the UK has changed 😮
Before Blair. How life was sweet.
If only we knew it at the time
Before Thatcher. Fixed it for you.
@@numinousbookofreview after Jimmy Savile fixed it for your mum
what misfortune did Blair inflict on England.
@@daydays12 he's a war criminal for starters for the pointless Iraq war. Also the never ending war togetjer with the USA at the behest of arms companies against the middle East. Its still going on and it will never end now.
Love Cyril and Em - enjoyed all of it. Thank you.
Omg absolutely loved Margate in the 70's life was alot simpler back then People laughed & smiled
I was 17 when this was recorded, and it was my second summer holiday there. I stayed in Cliftonville with my friends' family at their guest house - I ended up visiting for five years and boy, did we have some fun. Sorry that young people don't have this tech-free uncomplicated freedom anymore.
The Lost World. Makes me melancholy beyond belief.
At that time, there were even English people in England...
I just love this. Thank you for posting.
We had lots of barmy old Poms in Canada in the 80s, God bless them & the crown
Come to Perth, Western Australia. We're still getting them!
The piano player was Jimmy Harvey and we worked together as porters at Margate hospital in the 70 ts. He was a great musician and character. Great cumin across this . I miss him.
Bought tears to my eyes,I was 13 in 1974 , I’ve always wanted to go back to the 70s , life seemed calmer and fun , now we live in a country that isn’t great anymore , government letting migrants in , and charity has never began at home for British people , this isn’t England any more 😢😢😢
Oh bless.
Same here,I was 13 then.
@@stephnewman1357away with you, troll!
🤣 those bloody other members of our species, migrants....all or them or just some?
@@missrachael1709No Rachael not all of them, my dad is am immigrant , I’m talking about the all the immigrants that come over especially illegally, sometimes paying thousands to get here, then claiming hard earned tax payers dosh, I’m talking about the immigrants that ask my daughters to get their t*ts out and can they have sex with them whilst rubbing their trousers …I’m talking about the men that attack and kill our citizens because no checks . I’m talking about the lack of our services , nhs etc .. Im not talking about the hard working migrants that contribute to our society,most of them are wonderful and we need them. What we don’t need is immigrants coming in and making this a shittier country than it already is …..
You cannot put a price on living amongst your own people.
What a delightful documentary, enjoyed every minute of it. I used to spend every summer as a child with my family in Margate during the 1970's (that's when you could call it the Blackpool of the South). Thanks for posting.