My first good bike was a Raleigh, my first motorcycle was a BSA, my first good stereo was a Roberts, my first PDA was a Psion, and my first new car was an MGB - and I live in the US! It wasn't unusual in the 50's and 60's to look for to Britain for high quality and innovation. There was nothing in the world like a Psion 3 when it first came out, and no US car was anywhere near as fun to drive as an MGB. Starting in the 70's this all went to hell. I don't know how it all started, but it's well over by now. I can't think of the last British product I bought other than the odd tin of jam.
We lost our empire, we forced it to sell us cheap raw materials or just took them by force, then we made it into stuff and forced them to buy the stuff at prices that we.re far too high given the economies of scale of exporting to the quarter of the planet.
Britain joined the EU in 1973 or the EC as it was called at the time, that is what happened. Pretty hard to keep a strong economy when your Government freely gives control over it's own resources away.
@@andrewoliver8930 totally agree and let`s not forget that they stuck their collective heads in the sand ,only have to look at how edward turner at first mocked the scooter market in the early fifties then tried to catch up with a half arsed design totally missing the market
@@darrinslack1269 Japanese 2 Stroke or a BSA bantam? Vertical twin OHV or a Japanese OHC four? The market decides and the market didn't want the British motorcycles as they weren't as good as the competition.
3:20 That baby would be 70 or 71 years old now! Love Sid James doing the narration, a very talented man indeed. 10:05 I’d have thought it was the mattress that got the Bonks.
Only a notebook shows that someone’s bought and someone has sold.... Can you imagine trying to operate a system like that... with nationalities other than honest Europeans? Some people from other parts of the world ? How many days before chaos would reign?
rogerand out well said. I’m from the U.K. but live in the States. Walmart gets blamed for doing that here and yet isn’t it the people willing to buy cheap stuff from China that are truly to blame for the smaller shops going under. Now there are places where Walmart, after decimating the local businesses, is pulling out of certain locations. Communities left with nothing. No where to shop, not even the low paying jobs Walmart is famous for. It’s horrible. I do everything I can to buy local, even avoiding amazon unless I can’t get it from or order it from a local shop. Sadly I’m in the minority now.
@@prepperjonpnw6482 Agreed. In my town, WalMart opened a few miles away and was blamed for killing the locally owned stores, which have since been replaced with Dollar Tree and Dollar General. Cheap crap that people willingly buy. Sad.
Can you imagine having a British week now, we can't even celebrate St George's day without being classed as racist. Such a shame that we have to feel guilty if we are proud of our country's past.
Chuby123 do you know where I can see season 2? I know 5 months later lol but hay I was quicker than you lol Please don’t make me wait 4 years like that other bloke lol Cheers mate
paper clips to Rhodesia? surely must have been filmed 6 years before UDI because now Zimbabwe cant even make their own ball point pens, they have to be imported!
The scene is set by the superb jazzy fanfares - with slightly disturbing harmonies and suspensions - relieved by the the swinging Hammond organ. What follows is almost too absorbing.
18 mins 5 seconds "Britain is, by far, the world's largest bike exporter." Check out how many bikes they export now. - It's somewhere between -1 and +1. Thanks, China, what would we have done without you?
@@acptelford1307 Yes, I've owned many British made bikes, over the years. Some of them were very well made. They were heavy but they would have become lighter, as manufacturing techniques and materials improved over time. Knocking British industry became a national pastime in the 1970s. It's the reason we make so little nowadays - because our own citizens had such little faith in Britain or themselves. We went on strike because the toilet paper was the wrong colour. The Asians laughed all the way to the bank, whilst we were happy to buy foreign goods "due to an oily patch on their garage floor". Now, everything that comes into the country is made in China. It's junk (nowhere near as good as British produce used to be) and it doesn't last 5 minutes - but nobody seems to care, because it's cheap and it satisfies our lust for immediate gratification.
I'm guessing your'e too young to remember those favourite 60's tea time snacks for kiddies of either bumble bee sandwiches or caterpillars on toast. Kids today have no idea how good things were back then!
@@kevinmothers904 yes you're right there, we had Toad in the Hole followed by Spotted Dick and we were happy with that, i'm green with envy, wish I was 15 years older!
Manufacturing at all levels is sadly now a thing of the past. And to think that the industrial revolution started in the UK is amazing to say the least!
@@davidpanton3192 I served an engineering apprenticeship in Coventry, England when UK was an example to the world. Cars, machine tools and aircraft to name a few. Shipbuilding and locomotive manufacturing in other areas of the country. Then what do they manufacture now at any sizeable industrial level? It seems to me that 'service industry' occupations are the mainstay. Greetings from an 'old school' Brit residing in the USA.
@@paulbroderick8438 In the sixties I was an apprentice at what is now the JLR car factory in Castle Bromwich. In those days, companies regarded apprentices as an investment, not just as a way of getting money off the Government then getting rid of them. The training was such a high standard, that many lads like yourself were able to get jobs anywhere in the World.
Very enjoyable watch, taking me back to the world in which I grew up as a child. I can fully understand the nostalgia for that time which many comments show. However, progress of sorts has been made; women in commercial/work contexts in this film are all (with one exception, I think) all shown in subservient roles. The women slave away, the men look on with clipboards; the woman goes into the shop to buy the meat, which is then taken out to be reweighed (to confirm the accuracy of the scales) BY MEN. One forgets just how male-dominated the workplace was.
Thank you, Rank... and thank you, Modified Method, for posting this great series.
What a huge difference between then and now !
My first good bike was a Raleigh, my first motorcycle was a BSA, my first good stereo was a Roberts, my first PDA was a Psion, and my first new car was an MGB - and I live in the US! It wasn't unusual in the 50's and 60's to look for to Britain for high quality and innovation. There was nothing in the world like a Psion 3 when it first came out, and no US car was anywhere near as fun to drive as an MGB. Starting in the 70's this all went to hell. I don't know how it all started, but it's well over by now. I can't think of the last British product I bought other than the odd tin of jam.
We lost our empire, we forced it to sell us cheap raw materials or just took them by force, then we made it into stuff and forced them to buy the stuff at prices that we.re far too high given the economies of scale of exporting to the quarter of the planet.
Britain joined the EU in 1973 or the EC as it was called at the time, that is what happened. Pretty hard to keep a strong economy when your Government freely gives control over it's own resources away.
@@billijomaynard8924 BSA made crap bikes that leaked oil when compared to what you could get from Japan in the 1970s
That's why they didnt survive.
@@andrewoliver8930 totally agree and let`s not forget that they stuck their collective heads in the sand ,only have to look at how edward turner at first mocked the scooter market in the early fifties then tried to catch up with a half arsed design totally missing the market
@@darrinslack1269 Japanese 2 Stroke or a BSA bantam?
Vertical twin OHV or a Japanese OHC four?
The market decides and the market didn't want the British motorcycles as they weren't as good as the competition.
Thank you for posting this series. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it!
I had a Raleigh bike in the US, 3 speed, hand brakes, double rear baskets, royal blue.
As Maurice Chevalier once sang "Ah, yes, I remember it well".
Absolutely superb.
However, I wish they had made each presentation much longer.
thank you for uploading these series ... such a delight videos. and the subtext is like the sweet cherry on top. great stuff.
It all looked so much more satisfying then.
As Harold McMillon said, "You've never had it so good"
Thanks for this. Shame we fell asleep and lost it all
We didnt but went given a say or criminalized if you did.
3:20 That baby would be 70 or 71 years old now!
Love Sid James doing the narration, a very talented man indeed.
10:05 I’d have thought it was the mattress that got the Bonks.
but not 600? Or 20 a minute?
Your math is seriously off
Even if that baby was 1 year old in 1960 it would only be 62 in 2021
Peace
Love it
Watching these films makes me envision what I want heaven to be; living in a prosperous 1960s forever.
really enjoying these programmes thanks
Only a notebook shows that someone’s bought and someone has sold.... Can you imagine trying to operate a system like that... with nationalities other than honest Europeans? Some people from other parts of the world ? How many days before chaos would reign?
In the days when if you wanted some thing and had no money you saved up or went with out life was better then.
Never Never
Good old Maggie introducing easy credit to get people in debt.
Sad that most of those factories were closed. Most businesses now are services
Supermarkets, they killed the corner shops,independent retailers, high streets,milk rounds..
No Rachel you and the general public are to blame. You like most would rather shop in a supermarket as everything is there under one roof.
rogerand out well said. I’m from the U.K. but live in the States. Walmart gets blamed for doing that here and yet isn’t it the people willing to buy cheap stuff from China that are truly to blame for the smaller shops going under. Now there are places where Walmart, after decimating the local businesses, is pulling out of certain locations. Communities left with nothing. No where to shop, not even the low paying jobs Walmart is famous for. It’s horrible. I do everything I can to buy local, even avoiding amazon unless I can’t get it from or order it from a local shop. Sadly I’m in the minority now.
@@prepperjonpnw6482 Agreed. In my town, WalMart opened a few miles away and was blamed for killing the locally owned stores, which have since been replaced with Dollar Tree and Dollar General. Cheap crap that people willingly buy. Sad.
Supermarkets shaft farmers so that they can offer prices too good to resist. Of course supermarkets are to blame
@@hubs37 just seen your reply, a little late but heres my reply, i lived in a village where there were no supermarkets. Not Guilty .
Can you imagine having a British week now, we can't even celebrate St George's day without being classed as racist. Such a shame that we have to feel guilty if we are proud of our country's past.
Thank you !
14:01 is funny that as the narrator says 'increased enthusiasm and productivity' as she walks all the way from the back in high heels.
Ye olde 16mm Kodak warmth. Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.
13:50 So this is what the young Sybil Fawlty did before she met Basil.
oooh that intro music,... ohhhh yesssssssssssssss
All gone now
Everyone looks much smarter compared to today
Love the intro music.
The narrator is Sid James.
Does anyone know the name of the band playing "Money Talks" at 02:40 under Syd James' voice over?
I know 4 years later but it's Money Talks by The Penguins: th-cam.com/video/iQeT-_QOqWg/w-d-xo.html
Chuby123 do you know where I can see season 2? I know 5 months later lol but hay I was quicker than you lol
Please don’t make me wait 4 years like that other bloke lol
Cheers mate
paper clips to Rhodesia? surely must have been filmed 6 years before UDI because now Zimbabwe cant even make their own ball point pens, they have to be imported!
The scene is set by the superb jazzy fanfares - with slightly disturbing harmonies and suspensions - relieved by the the swinging Hammond organ.
What follows is almost too absorbing.
06:04 - is that Mary Berry?
18 mins 5 seconds "Britain is, by far, the world's largest bike exporter." Check out how many bikes they export now. - It's somewhere between -1 and +1.
Thanks, China, what would we have done without you?
Yeeeees, British bikes weren’t that good though were they? Have you ever owned one? I have oil all over my garage floor lol
@@acptelford1307 Yes, I've owned many British made bikes, over the years. Some of them were very well made. They were heavy but they would have become lighter, as manufacturing techniques and materials improved over time. Knocking British industry became a national pastime in the 1970s. It's the reason we make so little nowadays - because our own citizens had such little faith in Britain or themselves. We went on strike because the toilet paper was the wrong colour. The Asians laughed all the way to the bank, whilst we were happy to buy foreign goods "due to an oily patch on their garage floor". Now, everything that comes into the country is made in China. It's junk (nowhere near as good as British produce used to be) and it doesn't last 5 minutes - but nobody seems to care, because it's cheap and it satisfies our lust for immediate gratification.
At 5:12, in between the tins of prawns and lychees, there are tins of bumble bees and tins of caterpillars!?
I'm guessing your'e too young to remember those favourite 60's tea time snacks for kiddies of either bumble bee sandwiches or caterpillars on toast. Kids today have no idea how good things were back then!
@@kevinmothers904 yes you're right there, we had Toad in the Hole followed by Spotted Dick and we were happy with that, i'm green with envy, wish I was 15 years older!
The good old days mother
I wonder if toothbrushes are still made in the U.K. ? The Tesco’s ones are Made in China.
"Excuse me SAH I wish to fucking YOLO on GME"
There were more different kind of foods and products in the supermarket. In these days, there are only limited brands.
@26:30 yes please...
Miss Coffee Lady :)
3:05 in - Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrel anyone? ;)
The good old days .
Manufacturing at all levels is sadly now a thing of the past. And to think that the industrial revolution started in the UK is amazing to say the least!
@@davidpanton3192 I served an engineering apprenticeship in Coventry, England when UK was an example to the world. Cars, machine tools and aircraft
to name a few. Shipbuilding and locomotive manufacturing in other areas of the country. Then what do they manufacture now at any sizeable industrial level? It seems to me that 'service industry' occupations are the mainstay. Greetings from an 'old school' Brit residing in the USA.
It couldn't compete with others doing it better or on a larger scale.
@@paulbroderick8438 In the sixties I was an apprentice at what is now the JLR car factory in Castle Bromwich. In those days, companies regarded apprentices as an investment, not just as a way of getting money off the Government then getting rid of them. The training was such a high standard, that many lads like yourself were able to get jobs anywhere in the World.
Very enjoyable watch, taking me back to the world in which I grew up as a child. I can fully understand the nostalgia for that time which many comments show. However, progress of sorts has been made; women in commercial/work contexts in this film are all (with one exception, I think) all shown in subservient roles. The women slave away, the men look on with clipboards; the woman goes into the shop to buy the meat, which is then taken out to be reweighed (to confirm the accuracy of the scales) BY MEN. One forgets just how male-dominated the workplace was.
13:15 be in their mid to late 80s now :-(
I guess everyone of those hand barrier creams didn't work...
5:23 "checkin' up the lolly". Love it!
Sid James narrating?
Alright, Del Boy?
I prefer to watch the original films loaded one at a time on youtube instead of these collections, which have had editorial comments added.
hi sir. do you have the link of those original videos? please put them here...
is that sid james talking?
Peter. It is Tim Turner who was an actor from the 50's.
Since they told us it was I guess it was!
Yes it is, From 2:39 - 5:48
All given away. What a tragedy......
If andrew marr narrated it would be better
And now we make bugger all
Прекрасный канал!Смотреть одно удовольствие. Впечатлений много! Огромное спасибо!!!!
What happened we even sold worms,
Shopping used to be a necessity, now it's a hobby. Go figure.
I was a butcher in the 60/s
Trust me ..this was a better way of living.
PROPAGANDA FILM
BANKS ARE YOUR ENEMY
Idiot. Keep your propaganda to yourself, FFS.