I’d give anything to go back . Life was way so much better . ❤

@vickikay54

2 ай бұрын

You and everybody else😊

@andrewkingdon2000

2 ай бұрын

Ditto

@andybigchief

Ай бұрын

I’d give anything to get them roofers to put a new roof on my house

@stevec-b6214

Ай бұрын

nostalgia - it`s not what it used to be

@rachelbailey-no2pp

Ай бұрын

​@@vickikay54Alot of people wouldn't appreciate it if we did go back. People have changed.

Look how CLEAN the streets were, how times have changed.

@farrington4918

Ай бұрын

just looks cleaner on these older cameras as don't pick up the grub

@thewhitedoncheadle8345

Ай бұрын

you might want to see what the slums in london and other major cities looked like

@AlexanderDavidson-lr7dg

Ай бұрын

I was around then and the strreets were full of dog crap. Seems to have been airbrushed out of old films and tv. Dont know how but I've yet to see a street with dog crap in it in film/tv, odd.

@livelongandprosper70

Ай бұрын

Very few immigrants back them, that's why 🤷

@missmuffet3874

Ай бұрын

@@AlexanderDavidson-lr7dgabsolutely. Most places were filthy. x

Roger Tonge Of crossroads fame in his younger days remember as Roger got older and he was in crossroads for nearly 15 years then his disability kicked in, rendering him a wheelchair user and in many ways perfect for crossroads because it was a first time a disabled person was seen on television in a soap opera …

@chriswaring5565

2 ай бұрын

HE WAS SANDY IN CROSSROADS IN THE WHEELCHAIR

@ekspatriat

2 ай бұрын

OMG...this short was superb@@chriswaring5565

@oddjobtriumph1635

2 ай бұрын

@@chriswaring5565 thought he looked familiar ...wow

@pataleno

2 ай бұрын

He died aged 35. Really young that.

@jurgen6768

2 ай бұрын

Yeah he succumbed to heroin in a brothel not far from the motel . His wheelchair was sold for spare parts at British Leyland , very sad.@@pataleno

What an amazing snapshot of what this country once was, oh to be able to go back

@paulyouphone2793

Ай бұрын

If you like "amazing snapshot"s from back then, you should watch the "Look at Life" series.

@spopple88

Ай бұрын

Looks dreadful, a nation full of wife beaters who went to the pub 5 times a week

Back in the days when we actually had a functioning navy, and a functional country.

Back when we had a country worth saving

@shirleydrury5565

2 ай бұрын

You are not wrong. This country is broken and it’s going to get worse😢😢

@ljd8520

2 ай бұрын

100% mucker

@user-be2il8wu6s

2 ай бұрын

Every generation has its moaners saying it was better in the past. Every generation.

@awentimes

2 ай бұрын

@@user-be2il8wu6s But something has seriously gone wrong in todays world. It really has. I'm 39, and compared to what Britain was like when I was 20 it is vastly different now. Mass immigration without proper foundations and infrastructure in place and rapid technological advancements are just two of the issues that have changed the face of this country, its people and its land.

@arfski

Ай бұрын

I blame all of the people from back then, it was them that shaped the world we live in now. You can't blame the young people of today for a world that they did not create.

People always say how they miss previous decades but it’s not those times they miss it’s your youth you miss. Every generation believes their childhood through to adulthood were the best days to be alive but the generation before you would disagree. It’s your youth you miss because that’s the most magical time for most

@sammencia7945

Ай бұрын

Wrong. Put me there at my current age please.

@WillAH956

Ай бұрын

I agree 💯 but not in this present day England is in terminal decline

@henryb160

21 күн бұрын

Wrong! Today's England is an open sewer compared to the 1960s.

@erj145jet

18 күн бұрын

Tempting to think that. But my parents and grand parents who lived through 2 world wars and a economic depression never got tired of telling me how lucky I was being a teenager in the 70's. They never wished to go back like we do today.

@RullXov

8 күн бұрын

@rude2870 You're wrong as usual.

Those carpenters pitching a roof the old way bought back memories of 1961

@spiderbowels

2 ай бұрын

I am right there with you my friend , finished my apprenticeship as a carpenter joiner 1965 great times.

@malmes999

2 ай бұрын

Them birds mouths on the purlings way to much timber out ahh the good old days 🧐

@mikemcsweeney4753

Ай бұрын

Yep great times finished mine in 1969. No throwaway saws then. 😀@@spiderbowels

@derekroberts8637

Ай бұрын

@@mikemcsweeney4753 just sharpened my grandads old diston.

@mikemcsweeney4753

Ай бұрын

Still have mine.. Just a shame it's rusting away in the shed. Took me weeks of saving to buy it on a apprenticeship wage. 🤥@@derekroberts8637

Luton, It's definitely changed since then and not for the better.

@Gothicgamer-rz2rx

Ай бұрын

Why do u hate the working class for?

@user-jh8no1zb9e

Ай бұрын

@@Gothicgamer-rz2rxwhere does he say that !??

@Gothicgamer-rz2rx

Ай бұрын

@@user-jh8no1zb9e he's ant-communist communism is pro working class and people who support destroying the working class ideology of socialism and communism that means they clearly are connected with ideology that hates the working class such as capitalism, monarchy,fascism and any other ideology

This brought back memories. I joined the Royal Navy at 15 and went to HMS Ganges in 1964. Had a great 12 years. Wish I had stayed in and done another 12.

@brianperry

2 ай бұрын

Hindsight is wonderful isn't it.... l was in the Merchant Navy, looking back it was the greatest time of my life

@anthonydowling3356

2 ай бұрын

You avoided the Falklands ?

@paulmorris5166

2 ай бұрын

@@anthonydowling3356 Yes I had left by then. Upsetting times though.

This is something I could watch every time I’m in that certain mood and it would fit perfectly 👌

Why was this Britain destroyed? People are SO depressed now.

@davidbrims5825

2 ай бұрын

Kalergi plan, There can be no homogenous gentile nations, it poses a threat to a certain ethnic tribe….

@Khayyam-vg9fw

2 ай бұрын

The globalists thought - and still think - that they know best.

@cdub5033

2 ай бұрын

because depressed people are mentally weak & easily controlled. it’s all very deliberate…

@Benzknees

2 ай бұрын

Maybe because they don't know how lucky they are. Back then for most there was no central heating, no cars, no supermarkets, no foreign holidays, TVs were rented not owned, ditto 70% of houses, a lot still had outside toilets, fridges & washing machines were a luxury, further education even to 18 was unusual, jobs were mostly repetitive & boring, and the chances of improving your lot were limited.

@Khayyam-vg9fw

2 ай бұрын

@@Benzknees Are you sure you've got the right century? You may be surprised to learn that not only were there cars in the 1960s, but also supermarkets and foreign holidays. People rented TVs because this tended to be more economical, and they were eligible to receive the next model when it came out.Very few properties had anything but indoor toilets then, even in the poorer type of housing. Further education to 18 was unnecessary because more rigorous intellectual standards ensured that GCE O Levels sufficed for most occupations, even clerical ones. Universities then were reserved for the academically gifted (who were given full grants), not used to warehouse young people for 3 or 4 years (to keep them off the unemployment statistics) while saddling them with debt. If you imagine that boring jobs have been done away with then you are living in some kind of privileged bubble. I would be interested to know how old you are.

I used to work on the building sites in the 80s, when i think about it i was like a part time stunt man,

People were just more community spirited and content then. A hard days work for a full days pay, treat people as you find them, call a spade a spade, learning a trade was a rite of passage passed down from generation to generation- people spoke properly, dressed properly, didn’t take themselves too seriously, and drank buckets of tea. I can’t believe it’s all gone in just my lifetime.

@valley_robot

Ай бұрын

Thank God for that , it's all nostalgia mate , young people were not recognised for their skills and talents, anyone not white was relegated to menial jobs, I'm 54 the past wasn't all that great, the 70s and 80s were awful, good music though

@PamelaD963

Ай бұрын

@@valley_robotthat’s what’s better ? “Young people not being recognised “ ? 😂 Modern life is rubbish, people are depressed and ill. Our society is selfish and greedy and we have no sense of community any more .

@valley_robot

Ай бұрын

@@PamelaD963 no I think you misread,young people in the past were not recognised for their talent and skills, that's different now, young people are at the cutting edge of invention and technology, minority people being used as cheap labour for menial jobs was a horrendous slight on our hard working brothers and sisters who came from our commenwealth countries to live in great Britain and were faced with racism and terrible job prospects

@PamelaD963

Ай бұрын

@@valley_robot young people now are at the cutting edge of building your digital panopticon, which will affect everyone . There was no “minorities” in the 70s doing menial jobs…maybe a few inLondon …but I don’t know where you got the idea that people from the commonwealth ( Australia, Canada ?) were forced to come to the U.K. to be cleaners ? Now we have modern slavery , beheadings , machete attacks, stabbings and a million bad takeaways not to mention the money being funnelled out of the country to third world nations. But I suppose you can watch wars live on your iPhone if you think that’s progress.

When Luton was a lovely old town.

@ivortoad

Ай бұрын

If only Harpenden knew what was to happen next door they'd placed it somewhere else.

@user-jh8no1zb9e

Ай бұрын

i just moved back to England from the US - what happened to Luton

what a beautiful society it once was.

@derekroberts8637

Ай бұрын

Shame the zionist banking kabal succeeded in destroying it😢

@derekroberts8637

Ай бұрын

Shame it was sold to the red shield banking family.

@binagarten4667

Ай бұрын

@@derekroberts8637 and had Islam shoed down our throught, with black rights

@i_know_youre_right_but

Ай бұрын

The irony of you saying something like that with your profile pic.

@Gurkha73able

Ай бұрын

@@i_know_youre_right_but I reckon

Wow! what a paradise we lived in then.

@johnniethepom7545

2 ай бұрын

We were warned but didn't heed .

@seansands424

2 ай бұрын

until you know what came in

@malcolmmcrobert9853

2 ай бұрын

And then it all went (and is still going) to ratshit. Yup ! Enoch told us - but would we listen. !! A world full of neon-lefties and change- culture cretins have a lot to be answerable for.

@trappistpreserves

2 ай бұрын

It does look like it, but remember things were not so good for women, for example: No Equal Pay Act, no pill unless you were married, no such thing as rape within marriage, couldn't get HP without your husband's signature, sexual harassment EVERYWHERE and no one batted an eyelid. No to mention the awful, terrible time the gays had.

@derekroberts8637

Ай бұрын

There was lots of opposition, but as now, it went unheeded.

the good old days

The Day`s before Fluorescent Jackets and Hard Hats with a Pre Common Market attitude for work . Love it !

@arfski

Ай бұрын

When this was filmed there were 300 recorded work-place deaths in construction, last year 45. Love it!

@derekroberts8637

Ай бұрын

@@arfski where did you get this info? I'd like to see it.

@ontheslide2339

Ай бұрын

​@@arfski those statistics are meaningless unless you provide the sector workforce numbers..

Hi...yes sandy from crossroads ...younger..

we didn't have any shows like this in the USA in the day. Very good.

This takes me back to my apprentiship on building sites in 1955 as a carpenter. I made tea on average for 40 workmen each one liked it different in his own mug and I had to remember the brew and in which mug. The Foreman was watching discreetly seeing how I coped. The previous apprentice who had this task showed me how he managed the tasks pointing out the awkward beggers. Also the ones you could get in there good books with an occasional biscuit or piece of cake. The foreman was also watching your predecessor, how well did he partake his know how? This decided on his next task it could be one that demanded a limited skill such as backing off for the wood machinist learning safety practises. How he coped decided what his next required skill would be or he would take him to oneside and say listen son I dont think you will make a carpenter but there a place here for you as a labourer. And that is how one progressed and how after 12months the Foreman could advise management by, yes this lads OK sign him up on his endentures.

@pod9538

2 ай бұрын

Very cool 😎 .

@anmaruberuss

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for this insight into how it worked back then.

@harbourdogNL

2 ай бұрын

What a way to start a career, making tea 40 different ways for a bunch of tossers. Bloody load of nonsense, thank goodness those days are gone.

@pigknickers2975

2 ай бұрын

My first job labouring in Victoria 1986 Tea was almost a religious ceremony, learnt so much at that place Great times, the guys were like a cast from Minder! Such happy times

@allotmentuk1303

2 ай бұрын

@@pigknickers2975 I bet you did not get it wrong

I was at Raleigh Nov 71, brought back good memories.

No victimhood .. no pretend racism.. no virtue signalling … no worries.

@harbourdogNL

2 ай бұрын

No non-whites in the video, no acknowledgement of systemic racism....but no Dad in the picture either, so some things haven't changed.

@endangeredstraightwhitemal5124

2 ай бұрын

Absolute bliss!

@MaSoNGaMeR115

2 ай бұрын

bno racism because it was a homogeneous country

@BigAL0074

2 ай бұрын

Just real racism, none of that pretend stuff.

@ThatGuyThanus

Ай бұрын

Eh?😂

How the mighty have fallen, look at England today it's a great pity and very sad.

What a meticulous insight into a young man's life's journey. From the drudgery that many experienced on civvy street, to the exacting disciplines of military training. Great prodution!!

No FCs on site all locals and even an apprentice that’s what it was like then really nice and lovely.

He certainly missed making the tea when it was his turn in the barrel!

@Sidneyyoungblood75

2 ай бұрын

😂😂

Discipline and respect back then. Not like now. Nil respect for anybody, no discipline. Trash thrown in the streets. Who’s responsible ? Well I gotta say, it all started in the 80’s under Thatcher. Buy this, invest in that, greed is good. It’s turned us all into horrible human beings where the only person who matters is me, me , me. Current government just as bad, setting a poor example for everyone else, lining their pockets at the expense of the populace. Wouldn’t it be great to rewind back to these times ?

@thomaslane316

Ай бұрын

I think it's a bit illogical to blame it on one person - there's some deeper trend surely

@user-wp8vy8le3y

Ай бұрын

You are absolutely correct, my friend. We all live now in a thoroughly Dystopian 1984-ish world made ever more frightening to us all - because we cannot live our lives at a fast computer-generated pace and under constant CCTV surveillance; it's unnatural to do so. And the worst thing of all is that everyone is now encouraged to inform on their neighbours - which just leads to distrust and disharmony. It's worth re-reading some Dystopian novels like '1984' or 'Lord of the Flies' to see how society has evolved from the twentieth Century into today's dysfunctional and ever-more fractured and unstable world that we all inhabit.

The difference; Back then there were exiting inventions in all aspects of life that supposedly had the potential to make life better, longer. In reality the relatively low tech world was interactive personally Coraderie strong bonds of friendship and a social conscience the result. Great times. Today, people don’t know their neighbours interact with only technology and future developments create fear. This is the last hurrah Before a world reset

@arfski

Ай бұрын

This is literally a word salad, are you even British comrade?

I enjoyed that..😊

Those are Wimpey houses. Its a very common design, they were built on the 60s and theyres loads of th across the country

@pataleno

2 ай бұрын

Yes I was thinking the same. I used to live in one. They mixed dorma style houses and normal style. Decent builds compared to today’s rubbish.

@gillianm9367

Ай бұрын

😊it was the nostalgia from seeing the house styles that drew me in! My parents paid around 7k for one of the semi-detached houses in 1971. I lived there with my family from age 2 to age 20, good times ❤

The Imperial War Museum collection lists this film as 1965 but it cannot be as early as that. The Martin/Coulter track played towards the end dates from 1967. I'd suggest this film was made in 1968.

@John-lp5xh

2 ай бұрын

There'll destroy all trace of this in 50 years

"Thanks, but somehow I see my future as having Noele Gordon as my Mum and helping to run a motel in the West Midlands". It was, in other words, the usual story for so many naval recruits at that time.

@richardsherburn4816

Ай бұрын

Yeah, that's right... Sandy Richardson.

Those old enough and lucky enough to have lived in these times what a wonderful country we had, how did it go from this to the 3rd world crap hole we have now!

@latorregolf

Ай бұрын

Well governments and their policies didn't vote themselves in did they?

@TheSeventhSeal

Ай бұрын

​@@latorregolf I really don't remember voting for a party that said they'd open the borders. I do remember voting against it, and being ignored.

@Stibbins83

Ай бұрын

😂😂

@user-jh8no1zb9e

Ай бұрын

pathetic governments

@proudindiancitizen2494

18 күн бұрын

Through the laws of Karma..

Yea it's sandy richardson

Isn’t the boy the guy who played Sandy Richardson in the tv soap Crossroads?

@coveralljohn

6 ай бұрын

thats what i was thinking. no wheelchair though 🧐

@davidwardle5

3 ай бұрын

I think it is Roger Tonge but having trawled the internet can’t find any info.

@gerrynicol3951

2 ай бұрын

Yes Sandy without the wheelchair

@rgrace6609

2 ай бұрын

Yes, Roger Tonge

@khiggins7231

2 ай бұрын

He was fooling us all along …….he can walk

Isn't that Sandy Richardson off Crossraods? Nice to see him so young and fit - died young.. R.I.P Roger Tonge

@keithpower4526

Ай бұрын

Yes correct 👍🏻

Fantastic! And to some extent brings back many memories of my own training as an L albeit in HMS Sultan MTG. 22 years an MEM(L), 15 of which as a PO.

Groovy music Man…

This is absolutely brilliant.

No quotas cuz you didn't need them.

Everything about this film is simply magic

God.. innocent times...

@andrewlilley3660

2 ай бұрын

There was nothing innocent about encouraging young lads to become canon fodder!

@colby25

2 ай бұрын

@@andrewlilley3660 Or encouraging young kids to stand up and defend our democracy and all its associated freedoms. One of which allows people like you to talk bollox in YT comment sections if you so wish.

@andrewlilley3660

2 ай бұрын

@@colby25 Don't be an idiot all your life, have a day off. By the way, we don't have a democracy, or any freedom, where were you the last four years?

@andrewlilley3660

2 ай бұрын

@@colby25 We've never had a democracy, and we certainly don't have any freedoms, unless it's the freedom to freeze to death because you can't afford the Gas bill, as thousands do every year.

@MaSoNGaMeR115

2 ай бұрын

we don't have democracy, freedom or even our own homeland anymore, what are you talking about? Britain will be majority african and asian within this century @@colby25

Fantastic. Best job going. Jolly Jack loved it laugh a minute Great to see what it was like in the day. Rum tot the lot.

Great Times.

@harryproud9679

Ай бұрын

Thank You.👍

Roger Tonge if I'm not mistaken.... Sandy in Crossroads!!! 😅

ROGER TONG AS TERRY BEFORE JOINING CROSSROADS PLAYING THE PART OF SANDY IN THE WHEELCHAIR WITH THE WOBBLY SCENERY AND PHONES THAT STILL RANG WHEN THEY PICKED THE RECIVER UP

@frglee

2 ай бұрын

Amazing to think when 'Crossroads' started in 1964 it was still common practice to broadcast episodes live, and performed almost as if it were a small scale theatre production, but in a tv studio. As with theatre, you carried on, whatever disasters befell the production.

Taking positives from this … they can’t take from you what you’ve already had!

It all looks very professional.

Hello Sailor 😁

wow, i remember working on a big tea kettle like that as a lad !

'City to City' - Bill Martin and Phil Coulter

@61chickens

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for that, I was wondering!

People on here moaning about the state of this country well it’s all by design and you have all voted either way for the system thus you have all destroyed what you claim you valued. Wake up.

@andrewmcnulty6789

Ай бұрын

You miserable git. Who did you vote for? 🥱 You sound like a member of just stop oil 😂

The mum was attractive

Days of Sanity! Our Beautiful Home has Been Desocrated! All Because of Cowardice & Compliance! FGS! Stand up to This Tyranny! Think of Your Childen & Grandchild !

@arfski

Ай бұрын

By the very people that lived back then, oh the irony of your thinly disguised racist rant!

@asha-kb9yh

Ай бұрын

@@arfski Boosters are Taking Effect! 😂

@proudindiancitizen2494

18 күн бұрын

Well, man up and face your collective Karma! The curses of the people you guys subjugated, humiliated, and looted are finally working

The young actor is Rodger Tonge who played Sandy in Crossroads

His mum is stunning

Good movie.,it reminded me when I joined up and I see this was in 1965 released..I joined up at Raleigh November 65.and I thought I was back then just watching it ..good memories.....Terry

Sandy from Crossroads!

For those who it applies, I do hope Britain is restored back to these days of glory for all your generations to come. Sorry about the current sight of Britain, what a free for all it has become.

Filmed in Luton George St town center at the start

@John-lp5xh

2 ай бұрын

My god, I was just watching thinking what a paradise, we all know what it's turned in to

@Luton-Mick

Ай бұрын

Before the Arndale was built to completely butcher the town center.

@PopularesVox

Ай бұрын

It's like a different place and country today/

Professional, Trades Persons. When Fings Were Goooooooooood. Happy Times. Plenty Of Jobs, Council Houses . Sad How Things Have Changed ?., 🤬

@proudindiancitizen2494

18 күн бұрын

Well you guys wanted cheap labour.. and doing menial work was beneath the colonialists' pride. Now dunno about the Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.. but Indians have bided their time, worked super hard and studied like crazy; ( well for all racial superiority, Indians are super intelligent) and are now the richest ethnic group in UK.

I reckon Paddy, is well chuffed with new beauty..! 😂

Foster Brothers shop, is/was it in Stourbridge?

@seanvapes8625

Ай бұрын

It was George Street in Luton

Wasn't the young guy Sandy from Cross Roads in the Wheel chair.

@andybailey3888

2 ай бұрын

Yes it is, Roger Tonge, died of cancer in 1981 aged 35, well spotted

12:11 Wow! A Action Man toy comes to life.

Blimey, he looks like a young Andrew Lawrence.😃

I thought I recognised him! 🧐🤔 Crossroads!

I remember the learning machines

Is that a Young Sandy from Cross Roads?😱

today you’d be repairing a brand new aircraft carrier.

@kingbillyja

2 ай бұрын

Today you'd be attending a diversity course and building a prayer room on the aircraft carrier...

@arfski

Ай бұрын

@@kingbillyjaAll those in favour of intolerance and bigotry please raise their hand!

@Sean-fj9pn

Ай бұрын

Intolerance of nonsense and foolishness is a virtue not a vice.

How did he get away with that hair cut in the RN.

Not a pernicious lefty in sight.

In the navy, you can sail the seven seas.....

That’s Sandy from Crossroads 😊

Those look like the Wimpey houses built late 60s.

Is that lad Sandy from Crossroads?

That Kid played Sandy in Crossroads !

I'd be stuffed with the colour test, being colour blind. No Navy for me. I could always make the tea.

...and then along came Edward Heath.

1:42 Does anyone know what town this is?

2:36 - David Gahan before singing career

"If you see a foreign in\/asion force pick them up and bring them here, make sure they ain't cold like our pensioners in the winter".

I joined up in 77. RAF.....

LORD Mountbottoms boys ❤❤❤

@kenstevens5065

2 ай бұрын

Rum bum and baccy. Join the Air Force son.

I did all the things shown here at the same time. I bought myself out.

Back when people respect one and other,

Sandy from Crossroads ?

this is flimed in Luton

❤

I’m not entirely sure but I think that might be Sandy from Crossroads…

Yes, I see it now, he wasn’t wheelchair bound in real life however

@michael1714

2 ай бұрын

Must have slipped and tripped on that dodgy scaffolding. I reckon that’s how he ended up in a wheelchair!

@daleharper2007

2 ай бұрын

It was due to ill health that he was given a wheelchair in Crossroads as they didn't want to write him out.

@michael1714

2 ай бұрын

@@daleharper2007 thanks, I didn’t know that.

@michael1714

2 ай бұрын

@jouessa wow, had no idea, that’s sad! Thank you for letting me know. It was a good soap at the beginning.🙏

@michael1714

Ай бұрын

@jouessa happy days!😊

All that matters now is our people continue.

Much happier times.

Isn't that Roger Tonge, Sandy from Crossroads?

I want my country back.

Sandy from crossroads

It is so depressing seeing how people and things have changed in 50 years. What is even more depressing is how things will be in another 50 years from now, it really doesn't bear thinking about what an absolute mess we will be in. It is bad enough now. It would be great to have hope and think positive but it is pretty obvious things can only get worse. We are beyond help now.

@rude2870

Ай бұрын

You don’t think that was said 50 years ago by the older generation back then ?

@BillyJango

Ай бұрын

@@rude2870 In 1974? Well yes, probably and obviously they were right. What is your point?

Before we where enriched