This is an England that is lost forever. So sad.

@dawnfinch8232

Жыл бұрын

I know I feel that way too brought back some lovely memories for me

@BackToNature123

Жыл бұрын

I still have many elements of this, turning my back on lots of commercialism. Me and friends are going back to our roots, growing food, fermenting food and drink, no chemicals where possible, cleaning products consist of vinegar and water or other homemade options. The rebel children nowadays are more conservative in nature and getting back to nature, wanting smallholdings or space for permaculture food forests. Its not entirely gone, keep your faith 💜

@angelamary9493

Жыл бұрын

Mass immigration has destroyed our Country ...our traditions and Culture

@gordongonegolfing7129

Жыл бұрын

Your dead right, I fear for my grandkids

@dawnfinch8232

Жыл бұрын

@@gordongonegolfing7129 me too

Makes me sad for happier times when the World was a gentler and less complicated place .

@frankiepitt9135

Жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t call it gentler, we had the Kray brothers, the moors murders and plenty of other horrifying things going on

@bobholyoake8577

Жыл бұрын

It's all by design

@gordonbriggs2345

Жыл бұрын

@@frankiepitt9135 No immigrants

@Efferpheasants

Жыл бұрын

@@frankiepitt9135 The difference was they were unique and that is why we heard about them. I am not a catholic but I had friends who were and certainly don't remember any sex hungry priests (they seemed too tired and harassed to even think about it) and sadistic nuns as they are widely depicted today.

@kathythompson2434

Жыл бұрын

@@frankiepitt9135 YES - and let’s not forget that’s when it was the last time we were on the brink of a nuclear war again with Russia !!!

Actually charming. I grew up during this time. You could say life looks boring, but we knew who we were, who we loved and cared for; we didn’t get in debt, we had enough week by week. Dad went out to work, he earned enough. Mum ran the house, my brothers and I went to school, knowing home was a safe place. Life was simpler; no mobiles, social media, no tv on Sundays. Family Christmas was something to look forward to. You could rely on a snowy December. No blm, no woke, no lgbt(q) or whatever the bloody hell it is. So glad I’m an old bloke. The world as it stands now can get stuffed.

What happy times. I am nearly 64 and I can honestly say that we had a great time during our childhood years. We never had the material things that we have today but we were well fed, had a clean and happy home. My Mum and Dad worked wonders and I am forever grateful to them. Life was so much simpler, yes times were hard but Neighbours had a real sense of community pride and everyone looked out for each other. They really were the happiest days of my life.

@dirkbruere

Жыл бұрын

For those lucky enough, our "privilege" was having good parents

@bluenose7984

Жыл бұрын

Times are harder today, my mom and dad survived on one wage and their house cost 2,000 which was paid off in the 80's, today it's extremely hard to get on the property ladder and both have to work to make ends meet! We might have more material things but bills and cost of living takes all your money! Wages have increased way below inflation since the 60's, unless you're a politician. They set their own wages and always give themselves way over the 3%! My dad paid all his bills, bought a home and brought up 4 kids on 1 wage...Try that today...

@peteruk8925

Жыл бұрын

Hi Stephen I'm on the way to 65yrs and just wanted to say that I agree 100% , we had as much fun playing in a big cardboard box etc and match box car's on kitchen table, than all these electrical gadgets kids have today .Plus Sunday dinners with family around table, this has also disappeared mostly across country.

@stephensmith4480

Жыл бұрын

@@peteruk8925 You are dead right Peter. Sunday Dinner was time for family to talk and tell each other about their week and just enjoy each others company. We used to make swings out of old length`s of Rope and Steering carts out of a couple of planks and two old Pram axles, we would play for hours. It`s no use sending a child up to it`s bedroom today because they have every type of gadget to amuse themselves and keep in contact with their mates. Getting sent to your Bedroom when we were kids was like getting locked up. We used to really look forward to the School Summer Holidays and some serious Fun 😊

@thomasreed49

Жыл бұрын

@@dirkbruere Dirk Mum and dad Were the icing on the cake. Love to go back and do it all again. I’m 68.

As a boomer this footage brought a lump to my throat when remembering family no longer with us

England oh England where hast thou gone ?

@alfredroyal3473

Жыл бұрын

Sold out by disgusting politicians both of the Left and Right. There is no hope now. The Queen has been dead only 2 months and the country has gone to the dogs.

I recently overheard an old man telling his friend that he had watched two young lads climbing a tree and tying a rope around a branch to make a swing. His friends reply was priceless. “Thank the Lord”.

@PeterShieldsukcatstripey

Жыл бұрын

Yes life is still happening.

@Anglo_Saxon1

Жыл бұрын

It was a Tarzan!

@gooderspitman8052

Жыл бұрын

Probably committing suicide.

I was born in 1946, my son was born in 1977, he always says we had the best of times. He was right, no gender confusion, no BLM, people were so content with their "lot". There was ambition, and young people didn't want to be a "celeb". Less stress, wonderful.

@theprior46

Жыл бұрын

May I ask what BLM means? Hundreds of things it could be but I hope it's not what I think it might be.

@soylentroy7585

Жыл бұрын

@@theprior46 I think he's talking about the racist, marxist scam organization masquerading as a civil rights movement. That one.

@davidfisher9026

Жыл бұрын

@@theprior46 Black lives matter. It's an anti white organisation full of mostly white racists.

@clarathordiss3663

Жыл бұрын

Lots of homosexual people living tragically miserable lives, black people being discriminated against and treated abominably, working class people (particularly women) with massive intellect and ability unable to access the education they deserved... The world was indeed simpler, but certainly not better for everyone.

@Zoe-dr5ps

Жыл бұрын

@@theprior46 it means Black Lives Matter

Being a kid in the 1960´s was a happy time for me and our family.

@minkgin3370

Жыл бұрын

I was 13 in 1960 & still remember the Xmas’s of those days very well. I got my first Pencil Skirt that Xmas, (grown-up clothes) & my first L.P record.

Lovely to see children playing……… and not on their mobiles, play stations or watching television ! Great video thanks a million, it brought back many happy memories

@clouddog2393

Жыл бұрын

A time when kids used the thing that God had given them to amuse themselves ...their imagination .

@marcse7en

Жыл бұрын

We are products of the time we were born into! ... I was born in June 1962, and life has changed almost beyond recognition! ... You can't really criticise, as nobody can help being born into a particular era! ... That said, I hate mobiles and video games, but I do like (and build) computers

@atmywitsend1984

Жыл бұрын

@@marcse7en There is nothing wrong with the modern inventions in themselves. It is a problem when we don't think that we can be without them. The mobile phone obsession is ironically making us more anti social. I am of the same generation as you are,and I have been an avid gamer since the 1970's. It is one of many pastimes that I enjoy. I love to read and draw,I listen to music and really enjoy watching films of social history,hence my reason to be here. The thing I love the most though is to be outdoors what ever the weather. I believe that is the main reason society is In decline,we live a very indoor lifestyle. One thing I really do miss these days is the winters we had as youngsters,my mother would have to physically drag me into the house for my tea or bath time. We were lucky to be born when we were for many reasons,and we somehow need to try and get some of that back before it is too late.

@bobholyoake8577

Жыл бұрын

Exactly 🎯

@dryflyman7121

Жыл бұрын

@@atmywitsend1984 absolutely, couldn’t agree more, we sound very much from the same mould. My outdoor passion is fly fishing - it has been for 68 years ! I think Marc is right to say “we are products of our time”, it’s a good description. I have an iPhone and an iPod but I am not addicted to them, I prefer the outdoor life and don’t need to be constantly entertained.

Ah, the relaxed and gentle times of the 60's before ultra commercialisation, no one had a lot of anything except lots of love and family time. Just lovely!

@steffanhoffmann8937

Жыл бұрын

Don't agree sorry. David Frost. The sexual revolution. The Beatles. Many many more. The 60s was possibly the start of commercialisation.

@elih9700

Жыл бұрын

@@steffanhoffmann8937 In the UK, ''you've never had it so good'', but the 50's in America.

@asensibleyoungman2978

Жыл бұрын

Not everyone had loving families. There was the same amount of abuse back then and nowhere near the support abused people have these days. It was a great decade but it wasn't perfect.

@Nine-Signs

Жыл бұрын

Before commercialization?? What on earth ? :) Look, capitalism was a globalized commercialized entity long before the 60's, what happened was the jet engine and shipping container was invented as well as women entering the workplace (as was their right) and computerization/automation. The end result is the 70's where through a fortunate (for the minority capitalists) combination of an oil price spike and inflation crisis combined to asset strip workers and ensure there were vastly more people than jobs. The end result of that has been 40 years of wage stagnation while capitalists have done what capitalism incentivizes them to do, which is a) lobby govs to bring cheaper workers to the jobs b) lobby govs to make it easier to send the jobs abroad to cheaper workers c) demand massive tax cuts and subsidies in order to keep a sliver of their operations in their original nations were producing anything is hellishly expensive compared to Vietnam where you can hire a PhD engineer for less than the cost of a cleaner in Hackney. or d) the usual, ALL OF THE ABOVE SIMULTANEOUSLY. And this could only ever result, in decimated towns and cities as productive capitalism left for greener pastures, mass breakdowns of families, collapsing infrastructure, the works. And for the last 40 years of my life all anyone has ever voted for is either a centre right PM or a right wing PM, both of whom have only ever bent this nations people over a desk for whatever the hell the capitalist minority wanted at the time no matter red or yellow or blue ribbons. They are all in bed with this system and what it has done to the majority below, because it works for the minority above who've bought enough minds in each party to ensure no matter who the majority workers vote for, so long as they vote for a centrist to a right-winger, it will never be a vote for the interests of the majority workforce before the minority rich and their system extracting wealth from all unto few. We were given a viable alternative to all this in 2017 and 2019 but 70% of my elders decided they wanted more of the same so voted for incompetent racist thieving bastards over an ardent humanitarian with a boat load of costed policies to help workers before the rich for once in my God damned life. And now no such alternative exists, and nor will it ever again for the remainder of my lifetime. So that is why we are in the shit we are in with life far harder for many despite abundant technology, it is because of the rewards and incentives of capitalism combined with a parade of weak-minded leaders since 1979 at least, who were subservient to the wishes of this system and the few at the top of it, above any other demands from the majority below. And the very union of the United Kingdom itself, may well be the cost of that. p.s. Always remember, Brexit would never have been possible without decades of the failures of capitalism and its corruption of democracy stoking anger among the population that was then misdirected by media owned by the rich unto "insert a minority with no money and power / foreign government of choice" And the gullible intentionally badly informed masses swallowed it all hook line and sinker and were so easy to divide against themselves to ensure no change would ever come to a capitalism that serves the top alone at ever-increasing cost to the rest of us.

I was a little boy in the 60's and had a really wonderful childhood - climbing trees, scrumping apples, Tree swings, riding bikes, swimming in rivers, riding buses and trains, building bikes with my dad, making snow men in winter, bonfires in autumn, building model planes, making Rock cakes with my Mum, cuddling up on the sofa to watch movies with my Mum & Dad, Sunday lunches. I remember the first new bike they bought me for Christmas, I was about 9 I guess, and we spent most of Christmas day morning riding up and down the street in thick now on it. I was blessed with my parents I really was. My dad was taken very young at 41 but I still have Mum who is my world. I wish we could have afforded a film camera to record it like this, but I do have my memories. I just thought of another memory I have - ICE on the inside of the windows in winter - and I am NOT kidding.

@lynnepostings

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your memories ... beautiful ! 💞

@paulchristopher8634

Жыл бұрын

You sentimental old thing. But seriously I was born in 1964 and I remember all the things you did in the early 1970’s. If only I had a Time Machine

@maxthelab8457

Жыл бұрын

@@paulchristopher8634 Honestly I do grieve for the young of today - they grow up in such a messed up psychological landscape, dominated by social media. They are all growing up nuts.

@matoko123

Жыл бұрын

Every word you wrote could have been written by me right down to my dad being taken young (48) and my mother still being here at 90. Think I was 7 when I got my first bicycle for Christmas. As far as I'm concerned the kids of today have a very shallow existence.

@taffyddu

Жыл бұрын

Ice in the glass I kept my toothbrush in the kitchen, having to snap the ice to get the toothbrush out. Then clean teeth with a little salt on the brush, we couldn’t afford toothpaste.

Great video I was a child in the 60's anybody remember Christmas decorations in your parents home like when they use to put different coloured crate paper on the ceiling going from all 4 corners to the centre of the ceiling with balloons also loved playing in the snow

@Boppa1260

Жыл бұрын

I used to sit at me granny's table making the chains to hang, licking and sticking 🥰👏🏻

@trevorchambers1812

Жыл бұрын

Wife doesn't like balloons but we still hang up different colour crepe twists and those concertina paper decorations.

@angelamary9493

Жыл бұрын

Yes ..

@carolemoores2480

Жыл бұрын

Using flour and water to make glue!

@C.E.Thomas1952

Жыл бұрын

@@Boppa1260 Me too and my sister would make a winter scene on a mirror with cotton wool for snow...

A more happier time. Lovely video 😊

Happy faces, happy times and real conversation, no gormless blank faces staring at mobile phones ! I was a child in the sixties, times were hard in respect of we didn't have the material things of today, what we did have was a true sense of community and oh those quiet roads

Thank god for whoever took this had their camera with them because this stuff is pure gold!

@iant9461

Жыл бұрын

It wasn’t by chance they had their cine camera with them. Things like that had to be planned and one would have to make sure they had all of the equipment, because you’d be hard pushed and out off pocket big time to buy a spare.

Wish I had a time machine. 🥰

I remember those days as if they were yesterday.

If only I had a time machine, what I'd give to go back to those times...and how fast the years pass...Its funny you never really appreciate the time you live in and those that are around you...until they are there no more...make the most of every day and those that are in your life.

You don’t get the winters now like you got then, I can remember opening the front door as a young girl and about a foot or more of snow falling in the door as you opened it. We had no central heating in those days and my bedroom on really cold winter days had frost on the inside of the windows. But you just wore more layers, we had a coal open fire, and the bed was so cosy, warm flannelette sheets, layered blankets and top throw covered by this thick padded quilt along with a hot water bottle if needed 😁. Probably my happiest memories were of being young and that era but then it’s probably tied in with nostalgia for a lovely home life and wonderful parents now long gone. The Christmases were fabulous, we didn’t have much financially, but always came down to a sofa full of presents, my Mum did all the home baking in preparation and the smell on Christmas Eve of cooking and baking was wonderful. Just such cosy sweet memories.

Beautifully capturing the memories of the people you love and sadly are not with us today. A lovely set of times held forever.

@angelamary9493

Жыл бұрын

Yes ..we still here ..

@martinriggs9116

Жыл бұрын

Sadder to see a country that is no longer with us, that's the greatest tragedy.

I am now 70 years old and this video made me weep.

Fantastic footage of a bygone time.

@gazza2933

Жыл бұрын

A Great Time. 👍 🇬🇧

@angelamary9493

Жыл бұрын

Yes ..kids lived ..a time when kids were Safe ..play outside ..

@johnhankinson1929

Жыл бұрын

it was very moving and lovely

I was a kid in the sixties, a much happier, slower and relaxed pace of life. Something that has been systematically and purposefully eroded over decades.

@matoko123

Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

I remember those times, as a child in the 60s/70s. People smiled a lot more then and got together to have a good time without being drunk and causing problems. Given a choice I would rather go back to those simpler times.

Born in 1958 I remember many events from the 60s. On my 4th birthday Hanratty was hung in Bedford prison about 1 mile from my house at the time, The big snow & freeze of winter 62-63 walking to my first year in school with snow up to my chest with my older brother aged 5 alone, no parents dropping their kids of 2 miles down the road to school in their car then. No phone & a tin bath in the kitchen you shared water, the toilet was outside down the garden, white washed brick walls with old newspaper threaded on string a gaps at top & bottom of the loo door letting winter winds in. 3 years old playing in the street alone with no adult supervision, playing football in the street because about 1 in 50 people had a car A 12 inch black & white TV with 2 channels that shut down about 11 pm. A mother dumping us kids alone for another man til dad came home later. I had the loveliest aunt who cared for me as if I was her own. Could today's kids survive that, they moan when there is no Internet.

I was a child in the sixties. Born 1960. I remember the snowballs we used to throw every winter, and we only had a very small Christmas tree, paper decorations which we would have to glue together and an open coal fire that heated only the living room and the upstairs water tank. What memories.!💕😺

@michaelmccrory2220

Жыл бұрын

And no double glazing, going to primary school in the foggy misty mornings, and waiting for the school bell to ring. I still miss those school meals. Happy days!

@ChristineFisher123

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelmccrory2220 Winters were colder then as well..👍😄😀

@michaelmccrory2220

Жыл бұрын

@@ChristineFisher123 So many memories of the early 60's as if it was yesterday, my early memories sitting on my mum's knee watching 'Watch with Mother' then the TV channel closing down, then the 'test card' appeared. I'm with you on the paper decorations, helped at home and school putting them together, terrible tasting too, we were a bit posh as we had little silver strands of tinsel for our tree. 👍

@ChristineFisher123

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelmccrory2220 We still had no central heating, although I suppose that was beginning to come in. We were so old fashioned when I was a young kid. All the modern appliances were beginning to appear but my mum didn't have them. She was still using an old roller to wring the washing out, and the coal men would turn up once a week to deposit the sacks of coal in the outhouse. Days that are gone forever sadly..☺☺

@michaelmccrory2220

Жыл бұрын

@@ChristineFisher123 We too had a tin tub roller to do the washing, and can still smell the washing powder. 👍

This is absolutely how it was and still should be...children playing dad going down the pub ..mum doing the dinner..and us kids getting excited..when dad comes home we all used to drag him to lie floor..laughing our heads of...beautiful times..we must never forget the memories and the meaning of Christmas 🎄...don't forget good people that is all we will have left ...

I miss my parents special generation with their dressing up to go out, no nonsense attitude and sense of fun in the simplest things. Lovely video, thank you.

I was a child in Scotland in the 1960's. Some of the coldest winters ever but we never got a single day off school due to snow.

@dawnfinch8232

Жыл бұрын

We used to get a lot of snow uppo north too and no I don't remember getting any time off

@mazzholmes2086

Жыл бұрын

@@dawnfinch8232 I lived in a valley and all the schools I went to were at the top. When it snowed the buses couldn’t get up the hills, so we had to walk there and back. Snow was no excuse for not attending school in those days. We used to make great slides in the playgrounds, health and safety in schools won’t even allow kids to have snowball fights these days.

@dawnfinch8232

Жыл бұрын

@@mazzholmes2086 absolutely didn't do us any harm could you imagine kids nowadays doing what you did

@mazzholmes2086

Жыл бұрын

@@dawnfinch8232 No, I can’t…..mollycoddled comes to mind lol. Parents running kids to school and picking them up. My parents couldn’t afford a car.

@dawnfinch8232

Жыл бұрын

@@mazzholmes2086 wrapped in cotton wool aren't they

I loved Christmas in the 60s and 70s. It was always atmospheric and I really looked forward to it

@lesleyhubble2976

Жыл бұрын

@Ama Daetz yes it did big time. We didn’t have what my daughter expects now. It’s like Christmas every day. She’s nearly 20, I was 42 when I had her and my mums 83 so each generation is totally different

Wonderful. When life was simple and happy and no one knew that 60 years later darkness and tyranny would fall on Britain. Who would have thought that George Orwell's books would go on and become not only novels, but instruction manuals for the politicians?

@matoko123

Жыл бұрын

Yup, it's a terrible shame what a small number of people have brought about to be in the west.

@steecofarn

Жыл бұрын

Agree, it is so sad what has been purposely done to this once wonderful country. This happy breed indeed

@markmeade2937

Жыл бұрын

Britain died a long time ago , I work for a company and in its magazine it tells you about white privilege . What a joke all this rubbish is , reminds me of being at school and December time and early January in the late 70s , 55 now and just getting on with the current madness in our lunatic world . Be safe everyone 👍

@kenstevens5065

Жыл бұрын

Traditional British way of life being destroyed by a few selfish and greedy people in high places. Hard to believe it's happening in such a short time. Since Mr Blair, globalisation and new technology perhaps. Many of the people in these films are gone and no longer have to witness the mess of today. They went through world war and pre war poverty though. Nice to look back at my Country when I was a teenager all the same. Thank you for posting.

@markmeade2937

Жыл бұрын

@@kenstevens5065 Very sad indeed, I’m 55 and the Britain I grew up in has vanished, it’s like chalk and cheese , and it will never return. The pace of the world is a hundred miles an hour and people are in there own world trying to keep a roof over there heads and food in there stomachs . It’s like a madhouse with all the doors unlocked…..,

Happy fond memories of my childhood. We were poor but life was better then. People, society and goverment have changed so much.

I was a 60s child things were a lot simpler then

@clouddog2393

Жыл бұрын

Me too Dawn . Call me a sentimental old fool but these old videos bring me close to tears . We were truly blessed being kids in the '60's .

@dawnfinch8232

Жыл бұрын

@@clouddog2393 I'm a silly old fool as well because I feel the same as you do happiest days of our lives ❤️

@trevorchambers1812

Жыл бұрын

It was, certainly for us kids. We were insulated from the rest of the world and just allowed to be kids. I never knew my parents worried about money or that the Bay of Pigs was happening. Childhood is robbed too easily nowadays.

@johnhankinson1929

Жыл бұрын

@@clouddog2393 yes , i was in tears thinking of my mam and dad and you're not a fool

@wolf3104

Жыл бұрын

When you are a child everything is simple. You see life different. Doesn t mean life was easy back then. It wasn t.

I'm from the North East and Christmas in the 60s & 70s held wonder for me growing up then. Snow is rare now and because of the long commercial run up to Christmas now (cards and decorations etc in shops in Oct for instance) It feels like an ordinary day for me. We don't get kids carol singing (like we did and Penny for the guy) I now know what people meant by 'The good old days!'

@marciamorgan5316

Жыл бұрын

Loved carol singing even though I couldn’t sing ,to be honest we didn’t have much growing up my mum didn’t have the money ,but Christmas we had maybe one or two presents ,and we so appreciated them .The day actually felt like Christmas 🎄

@colinhutchinson1664

Жыл бұрын

@@marciamorgan5316 Exactly the same here.we never got pocket money so penny for the guy,trick or treat and carol singing were looked forward to. I had money from odd jobs and when I was thirteen started cleaning offices after school.12 hours a week for the princely wage of £5 a week. God I feel old. ☹️......😄

@marciamorgan5316

Жыл бұрын

@@colinhutchinson1664 absolutely spot on .I looked forward to guy Fawkes making the guy and then off for most of the day lol and come back with money and sweets lol the days your parents would let you out .

What a great little film when my family grandparents were all alive good times all but gone except for my memories I have those 💜

@mazzholmes2086

Жыл бұрын

I agree, but some memories make me sad that those we loved are no longer with us. I would give up all I have today to go back to those happier times. I’m 73.

@jackkruese4258

Жыл бұрын

I agree I’m 52 and my family seemed a three times bigger back then. What I don’t understand is also how I’ve got relatives who today have problems like ADHD I never remember anything like that 40 years ago or am I being selective in memory.

@paulchristopher8634

Жыл бұрын

Bet it only seems like yesterday when that happened at Christmas

1960, me aged 11 that summer. We had a refrigerator and a black and white television, an open coal fire plus paraffin heaters the only heating. I remember ice forming on the inside of my bedroom window .I had a Saturday job, delivering bread to households, starting that year as I also started at the Secondary Modern school. Cycled everywhere or went by bus with parents.

@lj50

Жыл бұрын

Yes and everyone left school and got a job.we didn't have time for all the nonsense the woke come up with.too much time on their hands.

@djh784

Жыл бұрын

You had a fridge ?! Luxury, we stood the milk in a bowl of water and scraped the mould off everything else.

Fantastic ! I was a child in the sixties and remember the happy days.... we had a real coal fire ... coal was delivered in sacks, milk delivered in glass bottles... Ahh those were the days 😊

@C.E.Thomas1952

Жыл бұрын

And we made the Xmas cake and pudding ourselves usually in September

I am watching this with a tear in my eyes I’m 72 later this month born 1950 that is exactly as I remember my childhood ,lovely nostalgic film we were so lucky I wouldn’t swap my growing up years for this present day woke rubbish

@heatherbatty

2 ай бұрын

I too born in 1950 know just what you mean

Firstly, thank you so much for posting. I was a 1962 baby and can still remember the atmosphere and the feelings of living in this time. The world around us seemed a kinder, more friendly place where most everyone was in the same boat. It was a more or less a level playing field and people where happy with their lot. This footage made me smile an awful lot and filled my heart with joy. Things progress, and we have some wonderful things in this world. I couldn't of imagined I would be typing this reply on such a thing as a computer. It makes me sad that a lot of kindness and compassion has disappeared in our communities. There are very few standards that people live by now along with zero respect for the older generation (me) At least I can be thankful I was bought up with all of the above qualities and still live with them today besides some of the more current ways. Thank you again. Nick xx

How far we have regressed.

Beautiful memories of far better and smpler times. Lots of snow in 60,s, my parents, grandparents now all passed. this brought me to tears honestly. Thank you.

@joeclarke7048

Жыл бұрын

Me too.

@michaelwray1034

Жыл бұрын

Lot of us like you andrew.. 😉

Those duffle coats the kids are wearing are timeless, a little like wellies or Dr Martins! Great video, thanks!

@clouddog2393

Жыл бұрын

Duffle coats , duffle bags , bumpers and wellington boots . Timeless indeed .

@bobholyoake8577

Жыл бұрын

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That much snow would bring every thing to a standstill in 2022.

Watching this brings back happy memories of my mum,miss her so much 😢

Wonderful times, glad we lived then.

@dawnfinch8232

Жыл бұрын

Me too faith 💕

They really were the good old days 🎉families getting together. And we got 2 DAYS OF WORK 😊

Goodbye England - our hearts ache for those days

I remember this England, it felt safe to grow up in , As kids we would roam the fields and towns, but now the country i grew up in is so dangerous , streets are unsafe, and i lay this problem this danger and the destruction of our way of life at the feet of successive woke government, who do it for themselves and not the country or people. I left Luton in 1978 and i am so glad i got away from the place !

@esseker6320

Жыл бұрын

Woke?, what does that even mean anyway?.

@mortalkombat2645

Жыл бұрын

Move to one of Northumberland's rural communities, we still don't lock our doors. Kids right now are raiding conker trees. The biggest fear I have is bumping into someone that talks too much or having to get a Bus as the service is very limited these days. The last scandal we had was someone putting dog poop in newspaper and lighting it on fire outside of an Air B&B when it had out of village guest's.

@emmajanewatts4388

Жыл бұрын

@@esseker6320 look it up

@esseker6320

Жыл бұрын

@@emmajanewatts4388 I won't even waste my time doing so because its obviously some sad arse who made the word up in the first place.

@Paul-md8de

Жыл бұрын

woke LOL you sad pathetic fool ......but hey ho keep tugging your forelock on your knees there .

Great video. people we’re so much more content with with what they had as opposed to the entitled, greedy world we live in today, but then again, I suppose we tend to only remember the good bits but I’m sure there were far more good bits then that there are in todays mad world. As our planet falls into decline, we’ll need to treasure these memories because that’s all we’ll have. Happy days gone for ever.

Now wont you just look at that ! Isn't that what Christmas, and life itself is really all about !😍😍🥰🥰

Small family,me, mum,dad & cat...take me back...now!!!

Great video - very much captured the atmosphere of 1960's UK. As others have commentated the snow in the early 60's was amazing and even with the heavy snow we had in Sheffield everything didn't come to a complete stop as it does these days with just an inch or two of snow.

Lovely memories. Think we probably had it best in the 60s and 70s really - we just didn't realise it. Or most of us anyway.

i am 68 now all the memories come flooding back!

Remember the incredible joy of Christmas and snow (1968?) in England (Sheffield) as a small child - and the great community feeling. Just before emigrating to South Africa. These pictures took me back in time. Wonderful times. Thank you for posting.

@minkgin3370

Жыл бұрын

I too was born & brought up in Sheffield. I remember the heavy snow-fall in 62 or 63. My elder sister lived in Dronfield, some 10 miles away from my parents house where I lived. I went to baby-it my 2 Nieces there one Saturday night & was stuck there for 2 days until the snow-plough could get through. 😄

@recoveringscot3587

Жыл бұрын

1967-8 was almost a bad a winter for lasting cold with heavy snow as 1962-3 which I'm guessing from the 1950s/early 60s cars is the date of this film. We had to dig out my grandparents from their country cottage south of Edinburgh at Xmas 1967 as it had been covered with snow drifts up to 12 feet high. We made a tunnel for them, out of which they appeared looking rather bewildered.

@AnnabelleJARankin

Жыл бұрын

@@minkgin3370 It was '63 - began on Boxing Day '62 and went on for months... I remember thinking. 'will it ever end?'!

The Sixties were the peak Days after recovering from WW 2, then things started to go down increasingly fast from there on. The People then could not in their worst thoughts picture what happened to our Society and Culture 60+ Years later.

I grew up in the Sixties, in the North East of England near a town also called Ashington. This film is exactly like my childhood. So many memories.

A lovely film, wonderful memories. We didn't have much money, no central heating... but we had respect for each other. X

Thank you thank you I'm seventy four now and I've just had a lovley trip. Jim

A middle class look at the '60s; I was born in 1952 to working class parents and it wasn't quite as cosy as this!

I remember Christmas 1963( I think it was) we had had so much snow, us kids were in heaven!! I can’t remember the schools closing though, I was 12 and me and my friends had to leave home earlier because we spent so much time having snowball fights on the way to school, which was about 25 minutes walk. That was in New Cross, London. So different now. 😊

@kathythompson2434

Жыл бұрын

NOT SO DIFFERENT- we are again on the brink of nuclear war with Russia as we were then. !!!

@Johnny_Seven

Жыл бұрын

I remember that Christmas Megan. I was 10 and I had a new bike for Christmas, I couldn't ride it until the March because of the snow and ice. I loved being a child in the sixties, we didn't have all the technology of today but we had so much freedom and space to run around in. Happy days indeed.

I grew up in the late 70s early 80s.. this reminds me of Christmas with my Nan!!. Great days great memories..

@DjMaud78

Жыл бұрын

Me too. This vid was a decade before our time but still very familiar, things hadn't really changed that much by the time we came along. The magic!!

Superb and important film showing a snapshot of a different time. A nicer time and certainly the best decade i lived in.

Thanks for sharing this treasured piece of film, who ever you are thank you great film👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@clouddog2393

Жыл бұрын

l remember the hard winter of '63 when it was so cold birds were found frozen on the pavement when we walked to school . l was a kid of nine .

@stuartsinclair6269

Жыл бұрын

@@clouddog2393 Winter of 63, blimey, must of been well into the minus, all I remember in the 80s winter the snow was half way up front doors of houses, those poor birds,

I was 7 years old in 1960, I remember the heavy snow we had, my dad built me a sledge which I had hours of fun in the snow with.

I was so swept away on the happy waves of nostalgia, remembering my wonderful father and my brothers in Christmases past, I've only gone and burnt the dinner! Beautiful beautiful video. Thank you so much for sharing! 💖

I was a kid in the sixties and I really miss those times. We didn’t have much, but we had each other. Families stuck together, were there for each other, never too busy. We haven’t progressed at all really

Better in every way

Thanks for posting. Seeing the snowy countryside, empty roads and stark trees is so beautiful, fires up memories of proper winters, simpler times and childhood wonder and discovery.

This made me cry

This made me smile. Thank you for sharing your wonderful memories. 😃

@clouddog2393

Жыл бұрын

Made me sad for treasured days of youth now long gone .

The sixties were great.snowed every xmas...new toys were arriving like scalextic ..I miss those times!

Such happy times... England was a lovely place back then.., too many people here now, and the countryside is just turning into housing estates.. A right old mess I'm afraid..😪

The winter of 1962-3 was exceptionally cold. In the North East it started snowing on the first weekend in December, and nothing thawed until March.

What a fantastic document to the 1960's and ordinary people celebrating Christmas. A time truly lost. I recently manged to retrieve some VHS tapes of my family and young kids in the 90's and save it in a form they can play on their computer. How delighted they were. Footage they otherwise would not have seen, and be lost forever.

Great memories of the winter 1962 / 63 . When life was OK .

I was born in 59, I remember family gatherings like this, proper winters like 63, ice on the inside of your bedroom window in the morning, we were made of sterner stuff back then, an England gone forever...

1962 and 3 were the really snowy months in the 60s. Certainly brings back the memories! Nice music as well.

I was a child of the 80's but this is very reminiscent of my grandparents house at Xmas and how my dad describes his childhood. This is England no matter what year isn't it, we don't change .I loved it.

@jamiemerchant7933

Жыл бұрын

Not being rude but are you serious? of course we’ve changed modern life it’s nothing like these days I’m sorry to say

@lilme7052

Жыл бұрын

@@jamiemerchant7933 I think you can tell they are British. Yes the 21st century is way more modern. Kids have it different now but look at the silly uncle type messing about for one thing. I think it screams Britain. Or where I live in the sticks still where it could be that year still.

@hahanah1463

Жыл бұрын

sorry but have you seen Bradford.. Leicester... bristol..

@lilme7052

Жыл бұрын

@@hahanah1463 some inner cities have sure

Early 1960s, wonderful nostalgia.

Pure magic I so love Xmas and things nostalgic ❤

@clouddog2393

Жыл бұрын

Magical days .

Fantastic times, that's my childhood right there! Happy smiling people and a much more wholesome and simpler way of life. Look around you today, miserable faces everywhere you go, hustle and bustle and generally nastiness.

When an Englishman could be an Englishman

I was born in 1951 and from 1943 lived in a village south of Nottingham wonderful childhood. Married in 1967 we have seen many changes and I feel we have lived through the best years!

I was born in 1955 allways felt loved safe and wanted

Remembers me of the early 80s nans house party bits, good old gathering, family time…. Good old days when everyone was happy,

That was really interesting ! I enjoyed that. 👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧💖

@chrisharrison4470

Жыл бұрын

Happy days so sorry That England is like the people in the film no longer with us l was a child in the Sixties so lucky to have experienced England at it's best .

@TheoriginalANGEK439

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisharrison4470 excellent. 👍🇬🇧👍

@supersparks9466

Жыл бұрын

Why no longer with us? Only 60 years ago.

@natwel1544

Жыл бұрын

🇬🇧👎🏻60 year too late

Good old times

I remember when the milk froze and the teacher told us to put it on the radiator, well of course it went sour and she made us drink it, I've never touched milk since then, we don't get winters like that nowadays but it doesn't seem to stop the softies putting their heating on during the summer

Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s in the country was brilliant. We didn’t have much but that never seemed to matter to us kids. Winters were long and summers seemed to last forever. Of course things weren’t perfect. Plenty of bad stuff happened, just like today. But on the whole people were happier and far more sociable than today. Don’t get me wrong. So many things have improved since then but it was a great time to be a kid.

Really lovely, heartbreaking film. I was seven in 1960 from London, worlds apart but just the same.

Memories cheaper times kids playing had more snow then . People talked more no internet

How lovely, really took me back

It brings a 😢 to the eye..

Born 61 take me back good old days happy times

So nice to see this video, took me straight back to memories of being young lad in a parker coat playing in the snow, or at kitchen table playing with matchbox cars 🚗. Remember my dad having a Austin Cambridge then a Ford Zodiac car's. No mobile phones no Internet no social media for kid's etc , just plane fun with a cardboard box being pulled along by your big brother - hard but happy days! 😊

@fritzthedog007

Жыл бұрын

Funnily enough, both those cars you mention feature in this film...or is that why you mentioned them? Of course, they could be a Morris Oxford and Ford Zephyr, I can't tell.

A 1960's child along with my brothers & sisters, we played with what we had, cars Lego blocks & colouring books. Winters were cold with plenty of frost, ice & rain & snow. I didn't have my first pair of jeans until I was 10! Plimsoles or shoes not trainers. We played in the street as our parents did without fear of anyone & when older in the park on the swings & witches hat roundabout. Played unsupervised near the local brook & stream dodging the cows as we ran through the meadow. TV was 10 minutes warm up from 4.30pm to watch Jackanory, Superman, Blue Peter or Magpie then the Magic roundabout. We ate what we were given at teatime & if you didn't went without! Bed usually by 8pm bathed & powdered 😂 I must admit, my son's plated outside regularly during the noughties, though kids today are more selfish than we were then & I think I enjoyed it then with fantastic music & visited my grandparents every week when grandad would make us something to play with, aftef coming home ftom his night shift, be it sword, kite or wooden car...

Thats exactly what it was like. Lovely to see it again. Thank you!

Amazing what the algorithm picks up on sometimes, as nearly all of the comments have come in the last week, and most within one day. I thoroughly enjoyed this one.