I was raised on the other side of the pond in the 60s, in suburban Washington D.C., and the same thing happened in the US as in the UK. Had you had a home movie camera back then you would have filmed the same kind of people doing the same kind of things as appear here. Sadly for both parties, now lost to history.
Britain lost its confidence and its identity. Criminal really - I blame all the woke liberals who crave globalism and mongrelism to water down what good there is left in favour of bland, average self absorption and celebrity worship bull shit. All I can do is pray that UK post Brexit grows a pair again.
@@pizzaboy4463 The same foreigners from Commonwealth lands that assisted the war effort. The same war that would've been lost were it not for 'Johnny Foreigner'.
@@delroy6231 I hardly think that foreigners who served in the second world war are those invading our country; they would have to be 95 at least. Even the ones claiming child refugee status are only about mid-thirties at most.
My late Mother, as a young teenage girl, was in the Kent hop fields, " on holiday". in the summer of 1940 watching the Battle of Britain raging in the skies above her. They had to endure a constant deluge of spent cartridge cases from the fighters above them and then watch as both British and German aircraft crashed in flames to the ground. When a parachute was spotted the men would pick up knives and scythes and rush to the where the downed pilot was falling but it seems that Mr. Mainwaring and his men always beat them to it ! This is a wonderful video of those days in the 1960's when I was a young boy and it brought back so many memories. Funny to see people, constantly smoking, formally dressed and not an I phone in sight. Very few fat young people either.....such an innocent time, looking back....
Have to agree with that Terry, All my family have them I phones, I wont entertain any smart phone, but I do like looking at the 60's, no matter what the subject, happy days for me I was 2 in 59, but still love the old Country, as it used to be, How times have changed, some for the better, but some not so good.
Terry Orchard hello. My family comes from Kent, and I was bought up there in the late 60’s and 70’s. I still have pictures of my mum picking hops along with the rest of the family. It was their annual holiday and people come from London mostly, proper East end families. I even have an old newspaper clip of her in the hop picking fields. I yearn for the old days, again as a kid, when TV was 3 channels and we spent most of our time playing in the woods until dark. It was a far more civilised time, with values and morals, and respect! It seems to have all gone, disappeared mainly thanks to the “elite liberals” who believe they know better. Regards. Our beautiful Country, this green and pleasant land.
My father was born in Sevenoaks in 1915, & had to go to work in London aged 14 as his Father (my Grandfather)was a WW1 invalid. (Gassed).Before that he would work in the hop fields, (possibly aged 10-14) & was paid in CHEESE! Not money. Probably because he was so young.
I was born In Higham Hill Walthamstow 1945. used to love going with mum to the Waltamstone market. Went back there in 2015...so so sad what has happened. litter everywhere aggression and rude people everywhere. ...no apparent community spirit whatsoever. just so sad,
@@ricarleite Labour globalists like Tony Blair, Cameron & others happened, who brought in waves of 3rd world peoples, esp from Muslims lands claiming "multicultural enrichment." The number mosques is approaching 2000 while churches have been closing for years. The original native population is gradually being replaced. _"Tony Blair’s government oversaw an opening of the borders on a scale unparalleled even in the post-war decades. They abolished the ‘primary purpose rule’, which had attempted to filter out bogus marriage applications. They opened the borders to anyone deemed essential to the British economy - a definition so broad that it included restaurant workers as ‘skilled labourers’...." Under Blair's minister Roche "everyone entering Britain, whether he or she had a job to go to or not, was turned into an ‘economic migrant’. Wherever there was any criticism of her policy, either internally or externally, Roche dismissed it as racist. Indeed Roche - who criticised colleagues for being too white - insisted that even the mention of immigration policy was racist."_ - Murray, Douglas, _The Strange Death of Europe._
Spot the Brit you mean ? ..good luck. Take over without conquest. ,most are decent people...it is just the ;large numbers that is quite concerning to anyone who does not want their own culture swamped.
I love these period films and I also enjoy reading the comments below. I don't want to be overly nostalgic/rose-tinted etc, but with recent events and developments, one feels the need to escape....even if it's only into a 60's filmed dreamland.
Wow I'm a British expat and boy is the uk ever different now , I grew up in the sixties and seventies life was way different then , better I think . I hardly recognize my old England when I visit now
Same here. It seems like. completely FOREIGN country with people that had hope, were innovative and had bsags of pride and confidence. All gone now. WHAT HAPPENED?
@@cromerbeach it's a cultural thing, but it has reduced drastically over the last 2 decades. If you were bombed into near oblivion in 1940s WWII you'd drink a lot too probably.
Thanks to Rank for this quality filmed historic record, of a world long gone. At least we can watch this and remember how it was. We may have gained in material things, but are we happier? Most stuff today has a deliberate limited life, and we are brainwashed into wanting more and more crap to replace it.
There was a whole different world back then and the simple life they had was really much better than we have made for ourselves today. Can you imagine pulling over to the side of the road now days and sleeping on top of your car. You would be killed and all possessions stolen for sure~!!!!!! I'd trade today for the 50's in a heartbeat.
And the people in the 50s would trade for the 20s. people in the 20s craved the turn of the century. People always think the past was better. It wasn't it's an illusion.
@@neilgrundy ..can you honestly.. hand on heart.. look around england's major cities today and say they're better now than in the past..? ..you're kidding yourself..
Oh Brits what a mistake you made siding with wrong side in ww2.. I don't want to say you got now what you deserve from anger but he warned you what is going on and happening. The mustache man warned you about siding with those psychopaths and listening to them. Tricked into war fighting your own european brothers and then what now? Getting third world replacement in your own land..You should have stood by europeans and european side to defeat those who you gave a country after the war as well.. No words made big mistakes. Your children and your people are suffering but as fellow european I am not happy about it..even tho angry for your betrayal and could say now suffer as if because of revenge.
I love these films they give me an insight to how my grand parents lived. In this day and age i wish i lived back then. England isn't recognisable anymore.
Simpler times. I remember having huge fun at Battersea Park adventure playground in the early/mid 60's and then fruit picking with my mother, in Kent, from '67 onwards. I Wouldn't swap it for today's life.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s London. I had a great childhood and youth - it was innocent and wholesome. I had education, healthcare, leisure, food, security, a sense of community and great friendships. But it wasn't all rosy to be honest - the Cold War was on an the threat of nuclear fallout was always there. There was alot of violence in the streets because there wasn't cameras everywhere and rogues could get away with it. It was post-war Britain and while there were jobs, there was not alot of money in the system which is why everyone was pretty modest and humble - there wasn't the disparity of wealth there is today. Life is probably more comfortable for the middle-class today but there are so many in abject poverty now. I didn't see people living on the streets and in cardboard boxes like I regularly see these days, or the drug epidemic we seem to have....
The 50’s were the time of my childhood when the world was as it should be. This was before the lunatics took over and destroyed it. This film would be hated by the BBC as they would have you believe it was never this good. I for one would return in a heartbeat.
I know precisely what you mean. This was a bit before my time (born 1968) but it's more the type of England I remember. If they could have seen us now - 60 years later - they'd have been delighted as well as horrified.
@@davidau8455 They were happy times for perhaps a majority, certainly less rushed. But there were so many who were marginalised and abused for being gay, mentally ill and so many other issues. Many who look back on those times with fondness (I'm one of them) tend to be judgemental about people who were, one way or another, different and were NOT accepted. Now, we are returning to less acceptance but are retaining the pressure and stress. Humans.....
We weren’t all that comfortable. The spectre of nuclear conflict through the Cold War with the evil Soviet Union was always in the background of everyone’s life in the 60s. Billions of tax pounds were ultimately completely wasted on defence that could have been spent on increasing the standard of living for millions.
Kids werent cheeky little brats back then. Kids had respect for authority. If you filmed the same thing today, the yobs would invade your space and cause trouble. We have created a nation of unruly little bastards, who have no respect, seem angry at everything. What a country eh
It seems that the angry bastards on here are wingeing old racist cunts. Remember it was that generation that fucked things up ... if fucked-up it actually is.
In these days of seat belts and health and safety the driver would be in court nowadays it would be an offence to ride freely in the back of an open lorry on an open road
michael cook totally agree! Yet where people now routinely travel at 80 plus mph on motorways and there are many times more vehicles , far less people get killed or seriously injured. Go figure! Don’t forget to vote for brexit
I so miss this era of life in Britain and the people and culture. No time is ever perfect and without some problems. But honestly compared with what passes for Great Britain these days, drop the'great' and take me back in time at least 40 years. GB in 2017 is bloody awful!
Yep, they were. No "PC brigade", no all-controlling H&S, we were basically left to get on with our lives and to pick up the pieces if we made a mistake. Most people managed OK.
This shows the world of my childhood. I’m so glad I had this. I feel so sorry for society today. The nation has changed but not always for the better. Mind you, if I went back, I’d miss my iPad!
I love watching these type of videos. Can you imagine children playing today like they did back then. Parents would be in an uproar. Rope swings where a child could fall off and be hurt. Zip lines, what we used to call monkey bars, etc... How could we possibly allow our children to be placed into such dangerous circumstances. So sad, I miss the good old days.
So many of her comments resonate even today. I mind my mother working just as hard to stand still but it didn't stand out because everyone was in the same boat.
Today cars have twice the horsepower, drivers have half the brains, and, there are ten times more fools on the road, even at night. What would be safer? Buy a motorbike and learn how to survive.
I love watching these old documentaries about life in days gone by. Then I get depressed because life had class, charm and hope. These days, its like something Satan is happy with....well thats what you get when the place is run by devil worshipers
correction---or more like erection, I remember one flasher in my local park in the early 50's. We 6 boys playing football all laughed like hell, and he ran away.
I was being sarcastic I suppose you work for health and safety, and iam not stupid I have several degrees and college education, now put your baseball hat on the right way and take your skate board and ---fuck off.
Love the car with the tent on top, the comment just park for the night lol, if you did that now some cop would be telling you to move on, or somebody would rob you.
Need to hang that wallpaper - time for a Players Senior Service. Need to sunbathe - time for a Players Senior Service. "Im in the Bath" - with a Players Senior Service. Although I did see a pack of Rothman's, but only on the more expensive holiday.
Then they started adding all those deadly chemicals in them. Not as many people died from cancer back then, what a wonderful happy community we had sharing everything.
Oh my gosh, I' m just watching this whilst being in Pisa, just a few yards from the leaning tower and the "miracles square" filmed at about 12:00 min! What an impression, so funny how certain things never get old !!!
LOVE THIS, i was born in69 and i wish ihad a time machine!!!!! loved to have been a teenager in the 60s or even the war , much better country then i bet !!!!
I am an avid technophile but from a relationship point of view, adults were infinitely more patient and respectful, which allowed me to play in certain ways which would be considered reckless today. As I was growing up, men were trustworthy and safe to be with and were always respectful of boundaries, especially old men, who enriched my early life beyond measure. A period I miss, terribly.
But it was also our post war generation that is presently ruining the Western World for all of us. Yes, we had that idyllic youth and those wonderful years seem a thing too long gone to remember. But it was ours, the West's worst generation, that embraced morbid Communist/Socialism and a deeply twisted mentality that is flooding our nations with the world's worst immigrants. That is ruining the Western World. We must remove them from power if we are to have any semblance of that idyllic past to offer to our grandchildren.
2:16 Cycle Speedway! I remember I always wanted the coveted "Straight Forks" but they were very expensive (some used to bend their normal forks straight - often with "cracking results"!) I loved it. That shot REALLY took me back. And the preceding Adventure Camps -Brilliant! Mind you - Hop Picking: A holiday often simply 'work in other clothing'. But that's the way it was. I am happy I am living In this age - but also experienced the that one. Actually looking for a new Bike at the moment. Some habits never die!
my mum and dad were in a band together called " THE SABRES" my mum, ANITA MARTIN, was a singer and my dad CHRIS MARTIN, played the base guitar. In Penzance Cornwall they opened up the new night club called "THE BARN CLUB" before It was called STARGAZER. sadly my dad died oct 2010. he had suffered for 25 years with multiplesclrosis (M.S) i was only 8 wen he was diagnosed. R.I.P DADDY.. CHRIS MARTIN. I MISS HIM SO MUCH : ( XXX GOD BLESS YOU ALL X :)
I'm sure the caravan park is Rockley Sands. I went there from the 70s onwards as a kid and absolutely loved it. We travelled from Derby to Rockley Sands by train and bus as we didn't have a car. Changed a lot now though of course but still really nice.
‘Hopping’ was an annual holiday for many Londoners. What a lovely area to have a paid working holiday. I’d have done it if I’d lived in that area. Alas, I’m originally from Yorkshire.
clearly an important archive of the period, I found it both strangely compelling and at the same time profoundly depressing - maybe because I lived through that period.
***** "...and as individuals." You hit it on the head there. You could live and think as an individual then, making up your own mind and asking only to be left in peace. Now individualism is seen as sinister and antisocial. Just obey and sit quietly, poking away at your smartphone like a good little cabbage.
And they, for the most part should NOT have been there. No country in the West should tolerate anything more than a 5-7% "minority" population. Any levels above that are not diversity, they are displacement. Now tell me that it would be just fine for enough White Europeans to flood into the Caribbean, and India so as the render those people minorities in their own countries. Go ahead hypocrite... Let's hear it. You F'ing Marxist.
im 50 this year and glad i remember what britain was like growing up in the 60s and 70s when britain was british and proud. better days gone forever ruined by multi culturism.
chanctonbury63 I'm speaking generally. Compare the percentage of violent incidents, threats and refusals to assimilate back then, and now. It's not rocket science.
Back in the day the factories closed for around 2 weeks in the main all at the same time in the summer. People in the North West went to places like Blackpool and in my case being from Birmingham my parents/relatives/grandparents went to places like Weston-Super-Mare for their 2 weeks holiday. People from the South East went to pick hops during the growing season. Back in the 50's you were lucky if you were taken on holiday but it was always in the UK. Very few went 'abroad' not like today.
Before Britain was 'diverse'. And before cell-phones and the internet. So many thinga back then are now gone forever. Can you imagine kids playing in playgrounds like that today?
Im a 1990s girl from Sydney Australia. I just love british way of country life and the history of any commonwealth country (not being racist just that english easier to understand)
This was proper playtime without some nit picking jobsworth getting up everyones nose. We used to climb 100 foot trees. My parents would end up in court for that now.
Anyone know who wrote the music or if the score is out there somewhere? It's jaunty and funny but clever. I love how it changes so dramatically back and forth.
2mins 58 seconds is Eynsford in Kent. Used to go for picnics there in the late 50s Look those days weren't perfect but you could walk the street, there was less violence then and if you didn't go looking for trouble you didn't find it unless you were unlucky. Looks funny now but happy says, we didn't have much as mum didn't work like many mums did so they could afford better things.. Out holidays were,always in Kent or Canvey Island. The silly stuff in fun fairs like the electric shock machine, what a silly idea that was. Now people are more protected due to health and safety. Now swimming pools don't have diving boards as some one might sue the council.
What a terrible shame (5:40) We used to love our 'Hop' Holidays, working from dawn till dusk for ½d a week, and after 6 weeks we had enough to celebrate, and treat ourselves to ½ pint of real ale. Foreign Holidays I tell you mate "Their blothed backs and their bardigans and their transistor radios, complaining about the tea or they don't make it properly, do they? And stopping at endless Majorcan bodegas selling fish and chips and Watney's Red Barrel and calamaris and two veg. And sitting in their cotton sunfrocks, squirting Timothy White Suncream all over their puffy, raw, swollen, purulent flesh, 'cos they overdid it on the first day etc"
However, in this instance, my 66 years of living in and around London tells me things are most definitely not the same... Only last week in Selsdon,S E London I asked a 20 year Guy for directions to the A22 at Whyteleafe and he looked at me as if I had landed from Mars and carried on walking with his headphones, naturally, on..
Great film. £425,000 for a 2 bedroom flat in Santley house these days (the place the hop pickers lived). SE1 Waterloo and perfect for anyone with a city job. Maggie T was selling these places off for a pittance in the early 80's. Anyone with any sense bought their council flat and set themselves up for life.
Is anyone else watching this and wishing they could go back in time?
Eamonn Evans Unfortunately, for all of us, time is a one-way street.
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God, YES!
In a heartbeat
Not many fatties back then. Just good home cooked food. Love and life was waye better
wonderfull times. I'm 82 years and remember it well
Watching this I was filled with a deep sadness for what has been lost.
The England depicted here seems like a dream......gone with the wind.
I was raised on the other side of the pond in the 60s, in suburban Washington D.C., and the same thing happened in the US as in the UK. Had you had a home movie camera back then you would have filmed the same kind of people doing the same kind of things as appear here. Sadly for both parties, now lost to history.
Britain lost its confidence and its identity. Criminal really - I blame all the woke liberals who crave globalism and mongrelism to water down what good there is left in favour of bland, average self absorption and celebrity worship bull shit. All I can do is pray that UK post Brexit grows a pair again.
In the 1940s, we sent the RAF to stop foreigners from invading our country. Now we send boats to bring them in. Madness.
@@pizzaboy4463 The same foreigners from Commonwealth lands that assisted the war effort. The same war that would've been lost were it not for 'Johnny Foreigner'.
@@delroy6231 I hardly think that foreigners who served in the second world war are those invading our country; they would have to be 95 at least. Even the ones claiming child refugee status are only about mid-thirties at most.
My late Mother, as a young teenage girl, was in the Kent hop fields, " on holiday". in the summer of 1940 watching the Battle of Britain raging in the skies above her. They had to endure a constant deluge of spent cartridge cases from the fighters above them and then watch as both British and German aircraft crashed in flames to the ground. When a parachute was spotted the men would pick up knives and scythes and rush to the where the downed pilot was falling but it seems that Mr. Mainwaring and his men always beat them to it ! This is a wonderful video of those days in the 1960's when I was a young boy and it brought back so many memories. Funny to see people, constantly smoking, formally dressed and not an I phone in sight. Very few fat young people either.....such an innocent time, looking back....
If you are into family values, and just a little work ethic.. I like the idea of the hops harvests.
Have to agree with that Terry, All my family have them I phones, I wont entertain any smart phone, but I do like looking at the 60's, no matter what the subject, happy days for me I was 2 in 59, but still love the old Country, as it used to be, How times have changed, some for the better, but some not so good.
+Larkinchance
...and call it "on holiday"?
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Terry Orchard hello. My family comes from Kent, and I was bought up there in the late 60’s and 70’s. I still have pictures of my mum picking hops along with the rest of the family. It was their annual holiday and people come from London mostly, proper East end families. I even have an old newspaper clip of her in the hop picking fields. I yearn for the old days, again as a kid, when TV was 3 channels and we spent most of our time playing in the woods until dark. It was a far more civilised time, with values and morals, and respect! It seems to have all gone, disappeared mainly thanks to the “elite liberals” who believe they know better. Regards. Our beautiful Country, this green and pleasant land.
My father was born in Sevenoaks in 1915, & had to go to work in London aged 14 as his Father (my Grandfather)was a WW1 invalid. (Gassed).Before that he would work in the hop fields, (possibly aged 10-14) & was paid in CHEESE! Not money. Probably because he was so young.
Heart breaking to see what our Britain has become now...Some politicians have a lot to answer for
I was born In Higham Hill Walthamstow 1945. used to love going with mum to the Waltamstone market. Went back there in 2015...so so sad what has happened. litter everywhere aggression and rude people everywhere. ...no apparent community spirit whatsoever. just so sad,
@@fishdish5 Why did that happen
@@ricarleite Labour globalists like Tony Blair, Cameron & others happened, who brought in waves of 3rd world peoples, esp from Muslims lands claiming "multicultural enrichment." The number mosques is approaching 2000 while churches have been closing for years. The original native population is gradually being replaced.
_"Tony Blair’s government oversaw an opening of the borders on a scale unparalleled even in the post-war decades. They abolished the ‘primary purpose rule’, which had attempted to filter out bogus marriage applications. They opened the borders to anyone deemed essential to the British economy - a definition so broad that it included restaurant workers as ‘skilled labourers’...." Under Blair's minister Roche "everyone entering Britain, whether he or she had a job to go to or not, was turned into an ‘economic migrant’. Wherever there was any criticism of her policy, either internally or externally, Roche dismissed it as racist. Indeed Roche - who criticised colleagues for being too white - insisted that even the mention of immigration policy was racist."_ -
Murray, Douglas, _The Strange Death of Europe._
Spot the Brit you mean ? ..good luck. Take over without conquest. ,most are decent people...it is just the ;large numbers that is quite concerning to anyone who does not want their own culture swamped.
Exactly what people were saying at the time - and since forever.
I love these period films and I also enjoy reading the comments below.
I don't want to be overly nostalgic/rose-tinted etc, but with recent events and developments, one feels the need to escape....even if it's only into a 60's filmed dreamland.
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Wow I'm a British expat and boy is the uk ever different now , I grew up in the sixties and seventies life was way different then , better I think . I hardly recognize my old England when I visit now
it's because good people like you fled and moved away, my friend !
Same here. It seems like. completely FOREIGN country with people that had hope, were innovative and had bsags of pride and confidence. All gone now. WHAT HAPPENED?
M P we couldn't help notice the excessive drinking I mean why does a pub need to be open 24 hours , it's ridiculous
@@cromerbeach it's a cultural thing, but it has reduced drastically over the last 2 decades. If you were bombed into near oblivion in 1940s WWII you'd drink a lot too probably.
R Pay well that be said the 17 and 18 year olds getting pass out drunk all weekend sure weren't in WW11 we're they now 🤣
Seeing the film makes one feel old, it looks like something from another planet.
I agree, I think the world we now inhabit has become the other planet. Not a better one...
Thanks to Rank for this quality filmed historic record, of a world long gone. At least we can watch this and remember how it was. We may have gained in material things, but are we happier? Most stuff today has a deliberate limited life, and we are brainwashed into wanting more and more crap to replace it.
@Raw Engineer the population has, 60 million now. net
There was a whole different world back then and the simple life they had was really much better than we have made for ourselves today. Can you imagine pulling over to the side of the road now days and sleeping on top of your car. You would be killed and all possessions stolen for sure~!!!!!! I'd trade today for the 50's in a heartbeat.
And the people in the 50s would trade for the 20s. people in the 20s craved the turn of the century. People always think the past was better. It wasn't it's an illusion.
@@neilgrundy
..can you honestly.. hand on heart.. look around england's major cities today and say they're better now than in the past..?
..you're kidding yourself..
Oh Brits what a mistake you made siding with wrong side in ww2.. I don't want to say you got now what you deserve from anger but he warned you what is going on and happening. The mustache man warned you about siding with those psychopaths and listening to them. Tricked into war fighting your own european brothers and then what now? Getting third world replacement in your own land..You should have stood by europeans and european side to defeat those who you gave a country after the war as well.. No words made big mistakes. Your children and your people are suffering but as fellow european I am not happy about it..even tho angry for your betrayal and could say now suffer as if because of revenge.
No stabbing, no bombing! Surely Britain has improved so much.
My first holiday abroad was to the USA in 1973. Ended up moving there in 1976, have been here ever since.
I can still remember all the jumpers my mother knitted for us
I love these films they give me an insight to how my grand parents lived. In this day and age i wish i lived back then. England isn't recognisable anymore.
The 50's & 60's were not perfect but I would swap them for today's world anytime.
No bl00dy snowflakes back then!
Colin Smith......I was only a child in the 60's - but what I would give to go back there again. A simpler, less hurried and pleasant time.
Yes, except for the poor health care.
@@hughjohns9110 at least you could get it then. Now they only treat covid apparently its all that now exists.
Totally agree...
Even an old Dane like me recognize this way of life. Brings back the sunny memories from my childhood here in Denmark.
Simpler times. I remember having huge fun at Battersea Park adventure playground in the early/mid 60's and then fruit picking with my mother, in Kent, from '67 onwards. I Wouldn't swap it for today's life.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s London. I had a great childhood and youth - it was innocent and wholesome. I had education, healthcare, leisure, food, security, a sense of community and great friendships. But it wasn't all rosy to be honest - the Cold War was on an the threat of nuclear fallout was always there. There was alot of violence in the streets because there wasn't cameras everywhere and rogues could get away with it. It was post-war Britain and while there were jobs, there was not alot of money in the system which is why everyone was pretty modest and humble - there wasn't the disparity of wealth there is today. Life is probably more comfortable for the middle-class today but there are so many in abject poverty now. I didn't see people living on the streets and in cardboard boxes like I regularly see these days, or the drug epidemic we seem to have....
The 50’s were the time of my childhood when the world was as it should be. This was before the lunatics took over and destroyed it. This film would be hated by the BBC as they would have you believe it was never this good. I for one would return in a heartbeat.
Love these films. We were a much happier, exciting nation then; it’s joyless narcissism now.
They had the best years back then compared to what its like now.
This is pure gold.
Captures the era very well, the "just get on with it" attitude and the health & safety aspect from transport and work to play parks is my favourite.
everyone seems so comfortable in their own skin. The women are women, the men are men and the kids are just kids. Am I making any sense?
@Mikey moo; You certainly are making sense. Very simple times, yet we remember them as very happy times, particular if we were kids in that era.
I know precisely what you mean. This was a bit before my time (born 1968) but it's more the type of England I remember. If they could have seen us now - 60 years later - they'd have been delighted as well as horrified.
@@davidau8455 They were happy times for perhaps a majority, certainly less rushed. But there were so many who were marginalised and abused for being gay, mentally ill and so many other issues. Many who look back on those times with fondness (I'm one of them) tend to be judgemental about people who were, one way or another, different and were NOT accepted. Now, we are returning to less acceptance but are retaining the pressure and stress. Humans.....
We weren’t all that comfortable. The spectre of nuclear conflict through the Cold War with the evil Soviet Union was always in the background of everyone’s life in the 60s. Billions of tax pounds were ultimately completely wasted on defence that could have been spent on increasing the standard of living for millions.
No.
Kids werent cheeky little brats back then. Kids had respect for authority. If you filmed the same thing today, the yobs would invade your space and cause trouble. We have created a nation of unruly little bastards, who have no respect, seem angry at everything. What a country eh
The yobs are right here talking about immigration.
except for teddy boy riots? what about mods and rockers brawling?
It seems that the angry bastards on here are wingeing old racist cunts. Remember it was that generation that fucked things up ... if fucked-up it actually is.
Well, these respectfull little children in the film are the ones who raised the unruly little brats that you speak of.
What a load of rose-tinted bollocks.
2-38. Can you imagine a huge crowd of happy children and adults waving a lorry full of people away now? Britain's turned to sh-i-te.
+Andy D Depends if they were immigrants or not,,,
In these days of seat belts and health and safety the driver would be in court nowadays it would be an offence to ride freely in the back of an open lorry on an open road
depends who is on the lorry.
michael cook totally agree! Yet where people now routinely travel at 80 plus mph on motorways and there are many times more vehicles , far less people get killed or seriously injured. Go figure! Don’t forget to vote for brexit
I so miss this era of life in Britain and the people and culture. No time is ever perfect and without some problems. But honestly compared with what passes for Great Britain these days, drop the'great' and take me back in time at least 40 years. GB in 2017 is bloody awful!
Just wait till 2020.
I know things were far from perfect then, but they were much much better than now.................
Yep, they were.
No "PC brigade", no all-controlling H&S, we were basically left to get on with our lives and to pick up the pieces if we made a mistake. Most people managed OK.
So much for 'progress'!
Good grief! Did dad actually take me to the beach in that era in a suit and tie? Very simple yet happy times as I remember them.
My dad's 'casual' was a jacket - and yes, with one of his hobbies, he'd wear a tie !
Those playgrounds. I remembering playing in those death traps in the 80’s. They were the best. Part of the fun was not cracking your skull.
What jumps out for me is how thin most people are compared with now.
You mean fit ! 😉
@@martiniv8924 both probably.
No fast food joints in them days and you had proper food.. a toffee apple was a luxury.
Less food, less choice, no convenience food, less couch potatoes, more manual work etc
You wouldn't find playgrounds like that anymore! I was expecting a kid to fly out of those swings! LOL
This shows the world of my childhood. I’m so glad I had this. I feel so sorry for society today. The nation has changed but not always for the better. Mind you, if I went back, I’d miss my iPad!
Skiing in Aviemore!! Did a weeks skiing there in 1974 with my school and almost every Sunday up Glenshee, great days!
Brilliant, thanks for uploading!
I love watching these type of videos. Can you imagine children playing today like they did back then. Parents would be in an uproar. Rope swings where a child could fall off and be hurt. Zip lines, what we used to call monkey bars, etc... How could we possibly allow our children to be placed into such dangerous circumstances. So sad, I miss the good old days.
So many of her comments resonate even today. I mind my mother working just as hard to stand still but it didn't stand out because everyone was in the same boat.
Lets pile the children into the back of a lorry with no seatbelts and decorate our own iron shed for a holiday. Can you imagine that happening today?
Yes. Imagination has no bounds.
Today cars have twice the horsepower, drivers have half the brains, and, there are ten times more fools on the road, even at night. What would be safer? Buy a motorbike and learn how to survive.
Nope, too many snowflakes need the Internet. I’d give it a go though.
I love watching these old documentaries about life in days gone by. Then I get depressed because life had class, charm and hope. These days, its like something Satan is happy with....well thats what you get when the place is run by devil worshipers
WeAreAllNeo......'God gave the world to the wicked.....and made all the judges blind'. [Book of Job]
@@thesoultwins72 And God will take it back again. It's time to chose our side...I know whose side I am on.
thats when playgrounds were fun too much health and safety crap these days
no, they were all hiding in westminster.
correction---or more like erection, I remember one flasher in my local park in the early 50's. We 6 boys playing football all laughed like hell, and he ran away.
@@MrDaiseymay we used to have to run quick when the glue sniffers started to surround the playground. Ah, the good old days!
@@annother3350 You don´t get that so much these days!
Health and safety would have those parks closed down right away, cant have people enjoying them selves can we
I was being sarcastic I suppose you work for health and safety, and iam not stupid I have several degrees and college education, now put your baseball hat on the right way and take your skate board and ---fuck off.
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kevin edwards you make me laugh, lol love your humour X
I wonder how many broken bones and lost teeth happened on those parks. They look incredibly dangerous.
@@ricarleite They weren't!
The year I was born in the United States...my dad was from England...we lived the same here...
Enough to make you weep for what our betters have squandered away.
The 80s and 90s were magical times of my childhood.........today's world is horrific with horrible people controlling the word
Love the car with the tent on top, the comment just park for the night lol, if you did that now some cop would be telling you to move on, or somebody would rob you.
AT 3 IN THE MORNING, AND PISSING DOWN WITH RAIN
Throw out the f'ing robbers, and the stinking politicians who allowed them to immigrate here along with them.
Agree totally, what a shit society we have become👎
Need to hang that wallpaper - time for a Players Senior Service.
Need to sunbathe - time for a Players Senior Service.
"Im in the Bath" - with a Players Senior Service.
Although I did see a pack of Rothman's, but only on the more expensive holiday.
Then they started adding all those deadly chemicals in them. Not as many people died from cancer back then, what a wonderful happy community we had sharing everything.
Senior Service were not made by Players, they were made by the Gallaher Group.
Was that you? aged ten?
@@marycull3607 No they, the doctors, called it consumption then but just as many died,
Oh my gosh, I' m just watching this whilst being in Pisa, just a few yards from the leaning tower and the "miracles square" filmed at about 12:00 min! What an impression, so funny how certain things never get old !!!
LOVE THIS, i was born in69 and i wish ihad a time machine!!!!! loved to have been a teenager in the 60s or even the war , much better country then i bet !!!!
DON:T FORGET TO VOTE UKIP..............
If you lived in Margate you would too
ap72sentinal Nice one "
I am an avid technophile but from a relationship point of view, adults were infinitely more patient and respectful, which allowed me to play in certain ways which would be considered reckless today. As I was growing up, men were trustworthy and safe to be with and were always respectful of boundaries, especially old men, who enriched my early life beyond measure. A period I miss, terribly.
But it was also our post war generation that is presently ruining the Western World for all of us. Yes, we had that idyllic youth and those wonderful years seem a thing too long gone to remember. But it was ours, the West's worst generation, that embraced morbid Communist/Socialism and a deeply twisted mentality that is flooding our nations with the world's worst immigrants. That is ruining the Western World. We must remove them from power if we are to have any semblance of that idyllic past to offer to our grandchildren.
2:16 Cycle Speedway!
I remember I always wanted the coveted "Straight Forks" but they were very expensive (some used to bend their normal forks straight - often with "cracking results"!) I loved it. That shot REALLY took me back. And the preceding Adventure Camps -Brilliant!
Mind you - Hop Picking: A holiday often simply 'work in other clothing'. But that's the way it was. I am happy I am living In this age - but also experienced the that one. Actually looking for a new Bike at the moment. Some habits never die!
Grew up in the 70s England. Was a good place back then.
Wonderful ! Thank you, Rank.
These were the days. It's all gone now. Progress is not better in any way!
my mum and dad were in a band together called " THE SABRES" my mum, ANITA MARTIN, was a singer and my dad CHRIS MARTIN, played the base guitar. In Penzance Cornwall they opened up the new night club called "THE BARN CLUB" before It was called STARGAZER. sadly my dad died oct 2010. he had suffered for 25 years with multiplesclrosis (M.S) i was only 8 wen he was diagnosed. R.I.P DADDY.. CHRIS MARTIN. I MISS HIM SO MUCH : ( XXX GOD BLESS YOU ALL X :)
That sure looks like Eynsford at 2:56... wow never seen it empty, it's usually heaving with life in the summer.
This film is fantastically nostalgic... my school musical movement class boys and girls in their vests and pants 👋👍😀Thanks for the memories
I'm sure the caravan park is Rockley Sands. I went there from the 70s onwards as a kid and absolutely loved it. We travelled from Derby to Rockley Sands by train and bus as we didn't have a car. Changed a lot now though of course but still really nice.
The pub at 5.32 is the Bush Blackbird And Thrush and is still going strong at East Peckham, Kent.
Probably closed down now!
Fantastic, just simply fantastic.Thank you.
Those adventure play parks looked lethal. ..a smidgen before my time but I have to say that generation had more appreciation for the simpler things
‘Hopping’ was an annual holiday for many Londoners. What a lovely area to have a paid working holiday. I’d have done it if I’d lived in that area. Alas, I’m originally from Yorkshire.
clearly an important archive of the period, I found it both strangely compelling and at the same time profoundly depressing - maybe because I lived through that period.
Love these films thanks
This is a brilliant little series, love the intro music, especially the ' cheesy organ ' breaks, love it, anyone know who did the intro music ?
How it used to be eh!
Then along came Freddie Laker (Sir) with Laker Airways and people were holidaying in Spain instead of Blackpool!
YOU CAN SEE SIGNS OF IT HERE--BLOODY MOTORCARS---A DECADE BEFORE, THEY'D HAVE COME ON HORSE DRAWN CARTS
@@MrDaiseymay I think you mean the railways.
My idea of an "ideal" Holliday... As far away from people as possible 🇨🇦
I was a kid in the early 70's and oh boy! How lucky I was.
Yup, me too.
Even better in The 1960's which I started aged 6, Ange :)
Just watching the credits and I’m laughing. Not a crash hat or soft mat in sight. Hilarious. Happy days.
Far better times. Just a shame we cant go back.
***** "...and as individuals." You hit it on the head there. You could live and think as an individual then, making up your own mind and asking only to be left in peace. Now individualism is seen as sinister and antisocial. Just obey and sit quietly, poking away at your smartphone like a good little cabbage.
squire haggard omg so true it's horrible now.
EXTREME4YEARSTOCOME I do it's called daydreaming lol
You can go back, it's easy - Vote Tory !!!
Labour/Liberalism ruins everything.
9:29 Woman in the Yellow pants dancing 😂😂😂
When Britain was Britain.
CORRECTION--'WHEN BRITAIN WAS GREAT BRITAIN
There were immigrants in Britain from the Caribbean and India you skinhead freak
\Well you're definitely dumb
If you want an argument, You came to the right place.
And they, for the most part should NOT have been there. No country in the West should tolerate anything more than a 5-7% "minority" population. Any levels above that are not diversity, they are displacement. Now tell me that it would be just fine for enough White Europeans to flood into the Caribbean, and India so as the render those people minorities in their own countries. Go ahead hypocrite... Let's hear it. You F'ing Marxist.
im 50 this year and glad i remember what britain was like growing up in the 60s and 70s when britain was british and proud. better days gone forever ruined by multi culturism.
chanctonbury63 I'm speaking generally. Compare the percentage of violent incidents, threats and refusals to assimilate back then, and now. It's not rocket science.
chanctonbury63 You are a victim of taqiyyah. Read the qur'an and see what is in store for you and your family, unless you are prepared to pay jizya.
chanctonbury63 Aw, I'm sorry, I didn't realise you were learning impaired.
Shame you never learnt to write English
Martames 74 Says he who can't even find his full-stop.
Back in the day the factories closed for around 2 weeks in the main all at the same time in the summer. People in the North West went to places like Blackpool and in my case being from Birmingham my parents/relatives/grandparents went to places like Weston-Super-Mare for their 2 weeks holiday.
People from the South East went to pick hops during the growing season. Back in the 50's you were lucky if you were taken on holiday but it was always in the UK. Very few went 'abroad' not like today.
what went so bloody wrong?
Classic.what can you say, brilliant of it’s time!,
I had to chuckle when I saw an early model Skoda (blue) being loaded onto a Silver City freighter.
at 26:03 that is my actual flat!
That was a rose-tinted view of Britain back then nevertheless, but delightful to watch.
I agree, wanting to go back to that time is probably wanting to go back into this film.
You´re probably right!
Before Britain was 'diverse'. And before cell-phones and the internet. So many thinga back then are now gone forever. Can you imagine kids playing in playgrounds like that today?
No wonder its all just gangs now
It was the time when Christianity was the backbone of the society in England.
Im a 1990s girl from Sydney Australia. I just love british way of country life and the history of any commonwealth country (not being racist just that english easier to understand)
This was proper playtime without some nit picking jobsworth getting up everyones nose. We used to climb 100 foot trees. My parents would end up in court for that now.
***** Not yet
I never thought that Kids would stop climbing or do what their parents said.
Lydd airport use to have loads of pictures on the walls of celebs leaving on the Bristol freighters. I assume all gone as the place burnt down.
Anyone know who wrote the music or if the score is out there somewhere? It's jaunty and funny but clever. I love how it changes so dramatically back and forth.
Neil Richardson - Another Happening 😎
2mins 58 seconds is Eynsford in Kent.
Used to go for picnics there in the late 50s
Look those days weren't perfect but you could walk the street, there was less violence then and if you didn't go looking for trouble you didn't find it unless you were unlucky.
Looks funny now but happy says, we didn't have much as mum didn't work like many mums did so they could afford better things..
Out holidays were,always in Kent or Canvey Island.
The silly stuff in fun fairs like the electric shock machine, what a silly idea that was.
Now people are more protected due to health and safety.
Now swimming pools don't have diving boards as some one might sue the council.
And not a single Ahmed in sight...Had anyone heard of terrorism then?
The good old days. Sadly missed.
luv the ole rank stuff
Santley House, the flats where the hop pickers lived is in Waterloo in SE 1.
9.14 Super Shot! Super video!
Nostalgia of the sixties as usual
What a terrible shame (5:40) We used to love our 'Hop' Holidays, working from dawn till dusk for ½d a week, and after 6 weeks we had enough to celebrate, and treat ourselves to ½ pint of real ale. Foreign Holidays I tell you mate "Their blothed backs and their bardigans and their transistor radios, complaining about the tea or they don't make it properly, do they? And stopping at endless Majorcan bodegas selling fish and chips and Watney's Red Barrel and calamaris and two veg. And sitting in their cotton sunfrocks, squirting Timothy White Suncream all over their puffy, raw, swollen, purulent flesh, 'cos they overdid it on the first day etc"
The more things change the more they stay the same.
However, in this instance, my 66 years of living in and around London tells me things are most definitely not the same...
Only last week in Selsdon,S E London I asked a 20 year Guy for directions to the A22 at Whyteleafe and he looked at me as if I had landed from Mars and carried on walking with his headphones, naturally, on..
3.47 Scrumptious! ha! ha! Love it........
fantastic times
Pure Gold 👌🏻😎
I swear the Mary Mungo & Midge theme tune was inspired by this...lol
WOW. Driving your car onto a plane!
This video is much improved with the sound off. It'd be even better overdubbed with a commentary.
the time before the health and safety, bring it back
Great film. £425,000 for a 2 bedroom flat in Santley house these days (the place the hop pickers lived). SE1 Waterloo and perfect for anyone with a city job. Maggie T was selling these places off for a pittance in the early 80's. Anyone with any sense bought their council flat and set themselves up for life.