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- Ah, the Great British Seaside! Blackpool in the 1970s, classic!
Since the late 19th Century, Blackpool has been a major holiday centre on the England's North-West coast. In good weather or bad there are many amusements to keep the visitors occupied, including those of the famous Blackpool Pleasure Beach. ® Each September people flock to the town to see the 'Illuminations' which are strung along the 'Golden Mile'. The special feature of this year's Lights are the television 'Muppets'.
GV sea breaking on shore. MS 2 women sitting in deck-chairs. LS beach and Blackpool Tower. LS aerial view of beach. Ditto. GV people on beach. MS people putting up deck-chairs on beach. MS 2 children paddling in sea. MS naked child walking along beach. LS aerial of beach. Aerial of Blackpool town. LS ditto. GV houses. MS hotels (Sunset Strip). GV rows of hotels. MS hotel window with signs. MS hotel window with 'No Vacancies' sign. MS ditto. LS aerial beach and town. LS Blackpool Tower. MS children playing on beach. CS child digging in sand. MS woman putting up a deck-chair. MS child put up onto a donkey. MS child riding pony. MS woman taking child for paddle. LS Blackpool Tower. GV tram moving along road. LS ditto. GV cars down street. GV crowds walking along. GV cars along street. CU sign 'The Good Old Days'. GV crowds along street. GV ditto. MS sign 'Winter Gardens'. MS signs 'Tom O'Connor' and 'Tony Selby'. MS sign 'Tommy Steele Stage Spectacular'. MS crowds along street. MS ditto. CU candy floss being made. MS candy floss bought and handed to child. BCU child eating candy floss. MS 6 people eating candy floss. BCU ice cream machine and cornet. CU machine turned off. MCU girl's face as she eats ice cream. MCU ditto (another girl). GV street. CU sign 'Bingo'. Various of Bingo session. Various of people with other amusements, including table games, one-armed bandits, fruit machines. Elevated view fairground. MS people boarding fairground scenic railway. GV train moving . LS small boats in water. Various shots people in boats and also from boats. CU view from scenic railway. Train hits water splash. Various ditto. GV elevated mini go-karts. GV elevated view of cottage. GV view from train. MS boy on mechanical horse. MS ditto. MS people on merry-go-round. MS ditto. MS chair lift. LS elevated view from chair lift. LS elevated view of fairground. MS girl on trampoline. MS ditto. MS rockets merry-go-round. MS people in rockets. MS scenic railway. MS ditto. Various ditto. CU people on a 'witch's hat'. MS ditto. GV fairground amusement. CU girl with arm round statue. GV Blackpool beach at dusk. GV Tower at dusk. GV street scene at night. Many various shots of illuminations and street scenes with Muppets as this year's theme. NB aerial shots are really elevated shots from Blackpool Tower.
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i was ten in 1978.... this has took me back.... its not the same country now..... it has changed beyond recognition.☹☹☹☹
Many things better, some worse.
Amazing the difference in 44 years, Blackpool has declined into a dump.
@@odds-and-sods Nah it's extremely different. The racial demographics are wildly different and that brings with it more violent crime and corruption
Yup, it's a toilet nowadays
it looked like a dump then!
@@TrueNativeScot There's always someone who plays the 'race card'. You let your govt off lightly.
True Blackpool is just like the rest of Britain now.
And not a mobile phone in sight wonderful
I miss those times , who’d have thought this country would end up like this 😢
It’s very sad indeed.
it is so sad, monkey dust...homelessness..and more
@@TheGreatest1974
ABSOLUTELY.
You can guarantee someone was saying exactly the same thing in 1978 too.
@@bustedfender that’s true !
Happy days back then wish I could turn back the clock!
Blackpool will never be the same again
no where is
I wish we could go back to those days. Simple, safe, fun. 😢😢😢 Look at the mess we’re in now.
The devil plays the long game.
it was a shet show
@@mh20162 go away
Bombs going off in Northern Ireland and England, Soviet threat of global nuclear war, high inflation...probably worse than today, although they probably had less crime.
@@8G00SE8 as someone who lost a very close relative serving in the army at the hands of the IRA in the 80s, I absolutely do not need to be reminded of that, thanks very much. However, all things considered, it was still a nicer, simpler time to live than the shambolic world we are in now and going by the comments, most people agree with that. So please, for the second time, go away.
Notice how the kids are all slim. Yes they would eat ice cream and candy floss on holiday but that was probably a once a year thing. They also walked and played games outdoors.
And smoked from a young age...
And very few of those kids are truly happy in their adult lives!! No change there!!!
An ice cream was a massive treat
There's a few fatties, one wearing brown trousers on the beach @ 00:21. I was a chubby kid back then, it's a myth that people were slim in the 70s - after all the food was stodge. Lots of potatoes, pies, fish & chips, jam sandwiches etc. We never had a salad. In the summer we would eat ice cream from the ice-cream van at least once a week & drink sugary drinks all the time. Loads of rose tinted glasses here.
There were fat people then.
That was my England; the country has changed beyond recognition since then and not for the better.
Too woke now bud...
@@paullacey2999 yeh, and I hate it.
@@peterlawson777 the adverts get me cross too man.This country is ruined...
@@paullacey2999 absolutely.
Bet you loved Jimmy Saville, Gary Glitter and Fred West. Your kinda England as you say
For almost a century Britain's have frozen happily on it's sands. 😊
Britons
I was 11 in 1978 and it was a great time to be a kid. Britain actually looked British in those days.
I was 1 :D
Ask the natives of many third world nations what their lives and homes looked like before the British arrived ( eg. The Deigo igo Garcians , Palestinians, Kenyan etc)
@@larrydickman5936 no modern medicine and no roads lol. Also those places were never ethnically cleansed
Yeah, shame the tories ruined it.
@@teesman61 Tories? I think I recall Tony Blairs Labour came into power in the mid 90s. That's when it it all went down hill.
Those times was fun times and simple I love it.
Before the UK was infected.....
Pauline Racy
Yes, but thankfully this covid pandemic is on the wane.
With morons like you? No, there's always been idiots like you 💩
Racist.
Yrah Covid caused a lot of problems.
... with Covid-19, like the rest of the world.
"frequently vulgar" hahahahaha! This was basically my childhood. I'm from Yorkshire so my "seaside" was at the other side of the "North". This is EXACTLY how I remember it, even the clothes (although Bridlington didn't have all the lights and rides as Blackpool did). Sitting on a gloomy, windswept beach eating candy floss and paddling in the chocolate coloured North Sea in your undies is exactly what it was all about. Then after a packed lunch of sandwiches and crisps we'd head for the arcades, play "smash and grab" and "shove the penny" before buying a stick of rock and eating a waffle with fresh cream on your way back to the car. I now live by the sea in Australia and my experience with the "seaside" is something quite different to my childhood memories. Thanks for posting!
Same here from Yorkshire our holidays were spent at Scarborough with cousins 13 of us year after year glad my childhood was in a much better era,
...never had to worry about sharks in the sea @ brid....the floating turds were another matter...
Where in Australia? I’m from London, but I live in Newcastle, NSW, now. Near the beach-ish. I miss what England used to be. I have those same memories you have of the seaside. It’s different here, isn’t it? There’s no fanfare at the beaches here, not like at home. I went to visit my parents in November. England has changed. It’s not anything how I remember it, and I was 30 when I moved here.
@@pommiebears England is a sh*t show, absolute disgrace what's happening to it.
They've upped the "vulgar frequency" over the decades! 😉
This brought back some memories, bloody freezing sea, cold chips and flasks of coffee to combat the bone chilling wind. Them were't days. 😂
Tell me about it 😂
I emigrated to Western Australia. Beautiful life 😊😊😊😊
Go on you loved it. ❤ I'm Anglo Greek and used to love it. Especially the cool wind. 🎉🎉🎉. U enjoy the Greek islands and leave more😅 space for us !!
love the accent, even though I cant hear you talk, your comment says it all . Yorkshire is it?
@@rosiew1952 'tha guessed reet, well done. West Yorkshire to be precise. 👍
Wonderful happy and safe times, sadly not now....😔
How refreshing to remember England when it was England how I miss it
Blame Your governments for ruining your England.And they are still doing it...
Here, Here, I Totally Agree With You 🏴 👍🏻
@@DAVID-bv2gv hear, hear. Not here, here.😂
@@ilovenitnat Hi thanks shall I change it too Here Here !!! 😂🇬🇧
England when it was England? Why? What is it now?
We remember had bloody good it was back then and not just Blackpool.
Now we see it and long for the old times,can you imagine how bad it’s going to be in similar years to come.
How bloody sad.
I’m from the USA and curious why so many in the comments feel life is so much worse now. Why?
OMG what happened. I was born in 1942 and never expected to see our Country in this state!
I have a Photograph of a little Girl of 18 Months old, on my dressing table! It was taken in Blackpool in 1927! The Little Girl grew to be a very Beautiful Lady, my Beloved Mother! The opening scene depicted an Elderly Lady, who resembled my Mother, in her later years! I am now reflecting with a tear of all the Happiness I shared with Her and my Father! Thank you so much for posting 💖💖!!
In the 70's everyone was over 40, even the kids.
😅
Beautiful Blackpool in the sophisticated 1970s. Like it.
simple 70s you mean was born in 76 remember the 80s
Only went there twice .near froze my nuts off .
@Sebastian Welcome A time just before consumerism engulfed the world.
And here we are now……fucked.
Not a mobile phone in site. Such simple times.
Back when people were thinner, happier and it wasn’t so dark.
I remember the 70s, it was very dark with Tories.
I first went in 1978 , i had a TR6 then and drove through the town lights with the top down , since then i have been a regular visitor, thanks fir the video, happy memories.
Great comment
I had a mg midget when i was 23..it was round wheel arch.. older than me it was.. took me girlfriend for the day often and drive the illuminations.. What the hell happened to our world. ??
my first ever holiday to Blackpool was the late 90,s I think. I have to say though, I loved every minute of it. we had good weather first time we went ( it was a heatwave) and I loved walking, my late sister in law didnt. so we went on a tram to see Chubby Brown . I was sweating like hell . but loved Blackpool. went every year for 14 years . would love to go back for a holiday , but Im from south wales valleys and the bus journey was over 7 hours , couldnt cope sitting that long now though.
I was seventeen in 1978, the years have flown by!
Same here.
Me too.
I was a Canadian kid in Blackpool in 1978 in a Caravan with extended family and staying in those seaside British B&Bs. (It was a warmer time when I was there.) I have many amazing and happy memories from that trip and several others, and to this day remain fascinated by Fruit Machines, Penny Falls, the donkeys, and HATE rock candy. lol
Listen rock candy has kept generations of Brit dentists in clover. . u don't know what u missing ❤
@@nickstone3113ha was just thinking the same😅
Great memories of my childhood times. The general public were financially poor them days, going abroad was not viable for everyone, so the seaside resorts were always flocked during the holidays. Yes, as a child it was heaven for me, candy floss and rocks were a must.
Lots of people now cannot afford a sandwich, certainly not a day trip. Let alone any sort of a holiday.
@@sarahstrong7174 another sjw ffs
@@IndieVolken Good day to you too. S
@@sarahstrong7174 ODFOD!
@@JulieWallis1963 What?????
Look at how slim everyone was.
Not so much fast food around then and people used to go out and do stuff instead of sitting indoors in front of computer screens and smart TVs etc, do not get wrong I am as guilty of that as the next person.
No KFC no macdonalds etc now look at everyone lol
It’s not just the availability of fast food, even if they kids had sweets or a burger they’d go home and have a proper home cooked meal at tea time, not something made in a factory heated up in a microwave. When you eat a lot of toxins your body stores it in your fat.
Whilst out shopping in London a few days ago I was astonished that most people I saw was fat. We need to limit our intake of high calorie foods and get out more!
It was good when you could walk around the pleasure beach without paying to go in. It was a fun place and felt safe.we used to go to the wrestling and stayed in a hol flat in dickson rd near the fry by night chippy.we went to see the krankies and the grumbleweeds on the pier.horrible place nowx
No devices. 😂 everyone’s on the same page
Sad to see Blackpool and Morcambe turn into smack head central both
Is it ?
Just what I stated on the main thread. A lot of those guesthouses are now crack dens and the deprivation is very apparent.
for three decades councils have moved their problem cases to the empty seaside towns, which only made things worse.
Good Times, went to Blackpool on day trips with working men's club, loved it 😊
Simple times - less stress and worry then
Maybe for you, not for everyone
First visited Blackpool in 1978 this brings back happy memories
Now you're lucky to find someone who speaks English
Given the sterling efforts that most migrants make to speak several languages, your comment has no connection to reality.
I really like the music. It was a long time ago, people were pleased by simpler things as the pace of life was slower back then. I was only 2 but I went to see the illuminations and it started my love of novelty lighting.
Goodness me this was my childhood hahaaa. All I remember is my grandparents always being fully dressed on the beach & I swear my grandad wore a shirt & tie lol. Mind you, you had to remain fully dressed on Blackpool beach. Bl*ody freezing it was & if you didn't batten down at least 4 wind breakers everything would blow a mile down the beach. Good times!
As a kid my Dad used to take us to Clacton and I well remember him banging the winbreakers into the sand.😁He always wore a shirt, jacket and trousers on the beach. Can picture him now with his shoes and socks off and trousers rolled up walking in the waters edge...May seem silly but they're wonderful memories for me now.😎
It’s a shame people who remember these great times, can only see them now on film- because britain has changed out of all recognition.
Don’t worry, these films and any other record of what we once were will be seized and destroyed to remove all trace. People will see that we have always been a multi cultural society 😢
@@pedrorenard8439 go back to bed..
@@pedrorenard8439 well said, it's a disgrace how down hill this country has gone in 44 years.
@@pedrorenard8439 "He who controls the past, commands the future. He who commands the future, conquers the past."
George Orwell - 1984
Not really. It was a shithole then and is a shithole now.
Used to love Blackpool, Great fun
I was nearly crying watching this my god it looked fantastic happy PEOPLE HAVING FUN THE LIGHT LOOKED SENSATIONAL
How times have changed
That's when it was England
What does that actually mean
@@londo776 It means Sue is mentally fixated on the past. Back in the old days she was happy; she had a lot to live for but now she's unhappy. English life can easily make one bitter as one gets older 👍
@@londo776 bellend springs to mind
Bring back time anytime. I loved the donkeys miss it those were the days.
Epic - will never return.....
Instant Time Travel. Love It.
When wearing a nylon Cagoule with a front pocket was the law
I had an orange one I was ten then
@@melgrant7404 Blue for me, with a white zip above the chest pocket... we wuz posh !!!
yellow!
various cagouls were great folded up into thier own front pocket small enough to clip onto a belt
….and the elastic on the wrists was really tight!
Make Britain great again.
If only
Too late sadly
@@angelamary9493 never give up .👌
Then don't Brexit
@@henryjames5663what has that got to do with it
The days when you never saw any
Beggers or Smack-heads in Blackpool.
you never looked they had drunks
Yes they did, I remember you.
And all white.
Just an observation.
No Scottish there back then.
This has long long gone. Blackpool is the absolute pits now
Awe the grand national ride many a happy whiplash on that😂😂😂😂
Hello that takes me back the Great British sun bather. The suns out but its still 14degrees in the full sun.
Except 1976. I was 8. Went whole summer wearing undies, white socks white shorts and "gutties"
I was brown as a berry.
@@stephenroney2366 hello, i was 20 spent my summer hols with a gang of mates in cornwall. A great summer.
There’s nothing like sitting on a British beach with all your clothes on plus extra to keep the draught at bay.
Very good.And very true
Everything was loved back then.
Fracking marvellous.
My nan took me here I miss them days 😢
How lovely
Cromer in Norfolk was my holiday destination in '78 with my Cousin and his parents. Decent weather, beach and the amusement arcades, what more could you ask for. Compared to the British Summer of 2024 absolute paradise tbh 😃😃😃😃
That was ace.
I'm a Sandgrownian.
Thankyou.
I really enjoyed that 🌹
Happy times! Love it
My home when I was a child. Thank you for this. I smiled all the way through 😊
Odd how the people who ditched Blackpool for a warm Spanish beach complain Blackpool is not like it used to be... Od course it isn't, you stopped bringing money into the town so it declined.
You got it in one. Cheap package holidays destroyed all the traditional seaside towns
loved getting the sharra to the lights with me mam and nana back then blackpool was pure magic ❤️🇬🇧
I love those classic cars. I need a time machine 😫
Look not a knife Drugs or grooming gangs in sight
That's because there are no blacks in sight
@@cosh5
Only because they were hard at work building this country up. As the 50p says .. "Diversity built Britain ' 😂
If you think drugs weren't a thing in the70s, you weren't paying attention. I recall several stabbings in the papers. And the grooming gangs were all white, so I suppose that was okay.
Several stabbing murders in Blackpool then, also Disney Cooke and his paedo gang were abducting young boys up and down the country...
Had my first kid in 78 , that s gone quick .
Brilliant!
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Use to go to Weymouth every year thro out the seventies it was great always seemed warm weather every one happy the hotel was called the cutter it was brilliant the landlady and landlord were always laughing every a minor bird in the hotel lounge which made the noise of children playing on the beach with the tide coming in and out what great times we had
Blackpool before the waves of illegal immigrants hit! All the B&B's now full of foreign refugees all on British assistance ! The madness continues!
Nostalgia always brings out the racists. How predictable the ignorant are.
@@suspendeddisbelief401 I just hope you are not stabbed by same!
Lancaster County Council dumped all their problem cases in Blackpool most of them white British it has very little diversity, 94% of the population are white British or Irish.
No cameras on every corner watching you, no satellite dishes, no phones , I grew up in 70s80s Redcar and it was way better then I just didn't realise at the time.
When the narrator said "the razzmatazz was much livelier and twice the fun!" 😂 I nearly pissed myself, everyone had a face like a wet weekend in Blackpool, literally! 🙄😂
that was blackpools peak , been downhill since nowhere near the place it was or crowds that visited today , in a hot summer day in the late 70s you were shoulder to shoulder all along blackpools golden mile wakes weeks helped a tradition long gone
Anyone remember the 'Fun House'? There were huge Skittles that moved about right left and back and forth.. I managed to get my right foot stuck fast between one of the skittles and the floor. Horrific experience and scarred me for life. I was 7 years old. I've never been back. Great old film though.
The fun house was so dangerous! I spent hours in that place when I was a kid. 60p to get in and you could stay all day. I remember many drunken Scottish men on the joy wheel and one getting taken out on a stretcher 😂
No dinghys full of fighting aged men washing up? This footage must be doctored
The days when you were proud to be British
Bet you loved the IRA bombs and the likes of Fred West, Jimmy Saville and Gary Glitter.
@@_B.M_ oh please, don't be silly
We are still proud to be British, it's just that we don't feel the need to shout it from the rooftops.
@@oldjake4233
This country of ours is a piss-hole now for all and sundry from across the water. Nothing left to be proud of.
Yawn.
thankyou this is gold
Blackpool's Hallucinations
Wow, how times have changed, fantastic film😀
The woman sitting on the deckchair in the beginning of the video . Would have been known as the battle axe . Lol 😂
Would she have been my age, 60?!
Worked her arse off for 51 and a half weeks of the year to get a couple of days at the seaside
She was only 32 when the film was made.
I was 6 in 1978 and remember going to the seaside in Whitley Bay 🙂 take me back please
I miss the 1970s has anyone got a time machine I can borrow?
I went 1983,amazing place very good.
"Oh I do like to be beside the seaside, I do like to be beside the sea"🥰
The Pleasure Beach and the Illuminations were much better then than now, more real and fun. As a kid in the 1960s I worked at the pleasure beach during the summer school hols, I ran the ice cream stall next to the wild mouse, it was very enjoyable, people were much nicer/kinder then. Why the council got rid of those decorated trams was really stupid, they were fantastic to see.
I was from Leyland, born 67 and remember the Wild Mouse and this film really takes me back and the fun of Blackpool. We went for a week most years. Scott's week the kiss me quick squeeze me slow hats, fish n chips. Great memories. I live in France now, my kids hv no idea what Fun really was back then.
The wild mouse is still there isn't it? Certainly was around 10 years ago.
@@kopthelotklopp1523 it got dismantled a few years ago 🙁
@@pigeon51 that's a shame. Although I assume it was for the best considering its age. Thanks for letting me know 👍
That because you was a kid not an adult
Bolton By The Sea. Im sure most North west towns would say the same. Wakes week might be a thing of the past, but its still possible to go up there and see a dozen folk you know .
Gets some stick these days but theres nowt wrong with Blackpool. It never pretends to be anything other than what it is.
Some great times there as a kud and as an adult in its pubs, clubs and football ground....great place and long may it continue.
Lovely film
I beg to differ, I’ve lived here 60yr’s and, quite sadly, there’s plenty wrong with Blackpool. 😥
I think many of us have such great memories even though it's a poor town with a bad drug problem.
@@Bombabingbong66 true of a lot of places in the North West Kerrie, for a multitude of reasons.
All the best!
The year I was born 👍
It looks rough then and looks even rougher now....
My parents actually took me to Blackpool in 1978 and even as a 13 year old i remember thinking that it was the most depressing place I'd ever seen, and I'd been to skeg and great yarmouth!
I felt totally different, I loved Blackpool!!
Back when you could call a spade a spade..
Great memories...but i can assure viewers that Blackpool guest houses were hardly immaculately clean as described!.🤣
Ooh wasn't everything lovely in the olden days? 😂😂😂😂
There was a famous seaside place called Blackpool, noted for fresh air and fun
So mister and misses Ramsbottom when there with young Albert, their son...
I notice a complete lack of diversity in this video. Thankfully our wise leaders have addressed that problem over the last 40 plus years!
I like your humour. Keep it going.
@@ingridlinbohm7682 Thank you Ingrid. It would certainly be hilarious if it wasn't so sad. Would love to know your thoughts? 🙂
"Britains have frozen happily on its sands"!!
We kiwis love the beach , with togs and t shirts. We don't bother if you have to wear coats, jackets, shoes and socks. Amazing. But the street attractions were fantastic
1979, my family and I were on our way to Canada 🇨🇦 never regretted it. I did have good times from the 60s until we left. We were from Plymouth, have to say, we never went to Blackpool, but looks an okay 👍 place.
I know we’re all nostalgic for those days. But the sea was pretty much a sh*t dump in those days. I grew up on the Wirral and we went to the beach a LOT. But I knew when we went to the beach in North Wales it was the ‘proper’ sea because you could see your feet when you were paddling - the water wasn’t like oxtail soup.
There were definitely nice things, but some stuff has changed for the better
*this*. I grew up in wales, when we went to one popular beach, sewage was being dumped into the sea. Right by the holiday camp! No era is perfect but I wouldn't go back to that.
@@arianbyw3819 ooh, whereabouts, silver life (is that what your name means?)? I’ve lived in Wales for nearly 30 years now, but in the far north, Denbighshire. Not too far from where I was born on Wirral
Well there was Barry island...then porthcawl. You took your life in your hands bathing at either of these places. I've also lived in West wales, by the time I got there, it was much cleaner
I'm glad i were in Blackpool during 1975-1978...Those days were great fun and bring back sweet memories and have a great time there..
2022, most of the seaside accommodation in Blackpool now house migrants.
People need to stop calling them "migrants", that term suggests that they've come here perfectly legally. These lot are foreign criminals and that's exactly what they should be referred to as.
Everyone was the same then their place in society was understood.
Get a good day and Blackpool is quite ok. But it's a town with real problems that you cant hide
with the sound of arcades, lights, illuminated trams and fair rides