I was born in 1968 so remember going to Blackpool as a child in the 1970s we went every summer and always had such happy times. Iv nothing but fond memories of those times. Wish could go back to those carefree days it was magical

@christinacramsie5646

3 жыл бұрын

Same here, my grandparents lived in St Anne's, then moved to Blackpool when I was about 10yrs old. Just coming out of 3rd(4th?) Lockdown here I have spent a lot of time distracted by videos of Blackpool and memories of summer holidays.

@laurencedunn5508

2 ай бұрын

😊🎉

I want to go back in time!

@jodespencer4011

3 ай бұрын

Absolutely 💯

The early 70's was the best era of them all. I look back on that time with great fondness and a sense of sadness for what could have been.

When I was a kid, visiting Blackpool was just about the most exciting thing imaginable.

I was there on holiday in 76-77 and this was when I thought the sea front looked the best..I was looking out for my mam cos she had a bright blonde bee hive and a flower power mini skirt…Anyone else notice how clean and beautiful the streets were

I was only a child in thd early 70s but my holidays in Blackpool were fabulous with my family. Mum and dad passed away now but lovely times. We would always go and see a show on the pier Russ Abbot was there in the 80s lovely times.

@sjp6839

2 жыл бұрын

Your memories sound exactly like mine. The 70s were magical times on holiday in blackpool with my parents and grandparents. I have memories of seeing summer shows on north pier and id give anything to go back to these carefree times

It makes me want to climb into that film. I really miss those days

@WinChun78

4 жыл бұрын

Blackpool was wonderful back then, for all the family.

@jamesauld5145

4 жыл бұрын

Lets get a time machine, go there then burn the time machine!

@xanadudawn

4 жыл бұрын

@@jamesauld5145 That's me and you. Go for it.

@desertrose1226

4 жыл бұрын

You and me both, Paul.

@tracyclark9702

4 жыл бұрын

Ah the 70s. Best times

When the tram came into shot I swear I could hear that metal scraping sound as it goes past , despite there being no sound ....... amazing how the brain and memory work x

@stevenoneill7166

9 ай бұрын

@pizzazzart5310 I think this was one of those short films they played in cinemas before the big movie & I'm guessing the producers would add music, commentary & a few sound effects. I agree it's a terrific piece of film, even without sound

WHAT A PRICELESS TREASURE OF A FILM !

Love, love ,love this, I can actually feel the excitement I felt at the time of seeing the sea and the tower for the first time way back . I’m 57 now and sometimes revisit Blackpool, it’s no where near as it was. Just look at how clean and tidy it is, all those people , some of the elderly who would probably have lived lived through two wars all out in their Sunday best . Fabulous, and thank you for letting us see how it was !

When it was a real family resort, im a 70s kid, it was a real treat travelling from North Scotland for holiday in Blackpool.

When my wife and I got married in 1975, a week in Blackpool was all we could afford, We have been abroad a few times, but for the last 45 years every year we have had a week or weekend in Blackpool. Love the place, great memories

@G4RY1159

4 жыл бұрын

That's great Got some real memories myself as a kid and still try and visit each year.

@jenniferjones188

8 ай бұрын

Me too. I visit Blackpool regularly

Just wish I could go back in time and enjoy Blackpool in the 1970s. My favourite amusements were enjoying the Fun House in grey stockingfeet, riding the Big Dipper, Mouse, and Grand National on the Pleasure Beach. Love the old trams and the tower.

As a child of the sixties who Grandparents lived in Blackpool it was a wonderful place I've not been back since the 70s we emigrated to Canada in 76 but have fond memories of holidays in Blackpool.

As children we went to blackpool every year for our holiday. We had the best times ever! This film really takes me back to the good times.

The glorious 70 s Magical time

So clean, so busy and funfilled I went in the 70's and 80's

It's nice to see people talking to each other instead of staring at a mobile phone. I used to love listening to the Wurlitzer organ at the Tower Ballroom and many of the pubs had a Hammond organ. Package holidays destroyed Blackpool. Then came the drugs.

@andypandy4078

4 жыл бұрын

@@posteveryside-beatsnews Yeah but a few bootboys in exchange for the overall malaise of modern life would be a great price to pay to go back.

@stevenoneill7166

9 ай бұрын

@eddienewall5033 I agree 100 %+ regarding Blackpool's demise. Also a lot of the entertainers who did summer shows there had their TV shows axed during the 90's & that didn't help Blackpool's fortunes either

Can you imagine a prawn and oyster bar on the beach nowadays? It would be like;"let's see now, that's 4 prawns and an oyster...that'll be £52, thanks very much".

@paulj1

4 жыл бұрын

Indrid Cold Exactly! That’s if they pass all the health & safety checks these days, which they probably wouldn’t...!

It looks so clean and fresh - nice to see some of the buildings and streets looking different to what they do now

@blank-dr2kx

2 жыл бұрын

Blackpool has never been clean tbh, fresh yes, signwriters would look after their fronts more. But always been litter

@nightw4tchman

2 жыл бұрын

Well you wouldn't film it looking bad if you wanted people to visit would you?

@underneonloneliness2

Жыл бұрын

@@nightw4tchman There was more cleaners back then, less chavs, less immigrants. More of our own English people enjoying themselves and respecting one another. Decent culture back then.

The dislikes are from people who never experienced the seventies. They really missed out. It was a magical era, same as the sixties.

@john111257

Жыл бұрын

60s chips and tea for the beach, pirate radio, 240 pennies to play the 1d machines..how things have changed

@aldorfc220

Жыл бұрын

Love to go back to 90s as today sucks but then again we wouldn't have time machines lol

@underneonloneliness2

Жыл бұрын

When the country had more respect and everything was better well kept. The country has been destroyed.

@Asduyr

11 ай бұрын

Its not about the 70's its about what the country's like now ! A tip😨

@stevenoneill7166

9 ай бұрын

​@john111257 it's interesting you mentioning pirate radio. I went to Blackpool in August 1982 & I remember listening to the Irish chart show on RTE Radio 2 (now 2FM) on 612 AM. In my hometown of Middlesbrough I could barely pick the signal up, but in Blackpool it were clear as a whistle. I also picked up a rock show on BBC Radio Wales, all kinds of stuff on Manx Radio & even the IBA's test transmissions for Red Rose Radio. Wonderful memories

This vlogger was way ahead of his time.

Those were the days. I was a teenager. Great times.

Oh my goodness. I visited Blackpool as a 17 year old tourist from Australia 1971. I bought postcards from all over during my 6 month travel and my collection captures some of the very images seen in this footage. Nostalgic indeed. Will have to look at my albums again since I also used it as a diary entry under each postcard.

@LHRTW

11 ай бұрын

A convict

i was a little girl in the 70s and remember the beautiful weather, sounds of car horns and music!

@desertrose1226

4 жыл бұрын

A Simple Life...a Perfect life. I hate today.

@spo5egy

4 жыл бұрын

@@desertrose1226 Same here, I went in the mid 70s as a wee boy and it was buzzing... In a Good way.

@mohammadwasilliterate8037

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I was there when I was a kid, I bet it's full of 3rd world immigrants now.

@spo5egy

4 жыл бұрын

@@mohammadwasilliterate8037 Everything in this world has changed now... But don't blame anyone but the elites, as they play both sides of the chessboard!

@mohammadwasilliterate8037

4 жыл бұрын

@@spo5egy I blame whoever allowed mass 3rd world immigration 300,000/yr. However I left, couldn't stand the overcrowding, Australia is far better.

A trip to Blackpool was like winning the lottery when I was a kid. My wife’s from Lytham, she makes a Yorkshire person look like a spendthrift. Sad to see so many lovely old seaside destinations decline as they have.

@desertrose1226

4 жыл бұрын

Llandudno is still nice but unfortunately we still get trashy young scousers there..I used to love scousers having been born in Liverpool however they're a rotten bunch , the young ones now... I'm only in my thirties but I see the decline.

@douglasb.5601

4 жыл бұрын

I was born in Yorkshire (Elland) and at the age of 5 in 1970 my parents moved us to Lytham...never seemed like Yorkshire...but it was posh after Elland. 🙂 I used to run accross the sand dunes to Blackpool on those Sunny Summer days, it (Blackpool) really was a very nice place back in those days. Lytham is still nice as my Mum and Sister still live there.👍🏻

Born in Blackpool 1974, and raised here x gorgeous video! Xx

A beautiful clean and tidy country long since gone,which unfortunately we’ll never see again a great pity.

@acex222

4 жыл бұрын

Mate there's litter in almost every shot

@warsawtugger

4 жыл бұрын

Litter everywhere, Irish sea pure sewage, cars belching lead, the beach one giant ashtray and I remember making sandcastles at Blackpool back then and digging up the odd sand encrusted dog turd. It was pure filth everywhere you went.

@imonlyhereforthecomments4267

4 жыл бұрын

Take off the nostalga glasses.

@imonlyhereforthecomments4267

4 жыл бұрын

@Anglosaurus Rex good

@thecritic8586

4 жыл бұрын

@Anglosaurus Rex white girls love bbc, 99 out of 100 white girl got a black baby. White girls dont like the 2 inch white men.

Blackpool was wonderful back in these days

I can see my house! Used to live on this street, lovely times wish I could just pop in to see my mum sadly passed away. The row on the right sadly now demolished 😥

This is exactly how I remember it

Damn that beach was packed

Looks so clean

Standard of living is better today but the quality of life was much better back then.

@spleeeen4it

4 жыл бұрын

sorry mate but standard of living was way better back then if you were on a low wage, you could live then, you cant now, not under this government

Please let me go back.

People all look quite happy....back in the days when a trip to Spain would have been an unaffordable luxury to most.

@ryanniv1851

4 жыл бұрын

Surely that would have been a lot earlier than the 70s

@therebel4332

4 жыл бұрын

They made it affordable to bring in a one world order

@john111257

3 жыл бұрын

the kids wanted blackpool

Amazing film, look how clean it looks

Stunning!!! Not many know but Blackpool remains the most visited seaside town in Europe... quite a feat

My grandparents lived in Lytham so we visited Blackpool alot ,loved this video ,so nostalgic for a 63 year old ❤

Holidayed in Blackpool from Scotland many a time, loved it. Shame its not like it used to be but still nowhere is these days.

Brought back memories of my childhood holidays at blackpool. The beach had food and icecream Van's on it and was always busy. Blackpool looked clean back in the 70's and 80's. Fantastic old video.

@paulhagen5645

4 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@Keithbarber

4 жыл бұрын

Probably cine film

@retroDaz992

4 жыл бұрын

@@Keithbarber my grandad had loads of cine film of Blackpool. My favourite was a pov of the big dipper rollercoaster and he would project it onto a white wall.

@Keithbarber

4 жыл бұрын

@@retroDaz992 be good if it could be uploaded onto you tube for posterity As I live near the Olympic park in London, I should search for old videos of southend in essex, the nearest seaside resort to the east end

@paulhagen5645

4 жыл бұрын

Yes it does look like cine film. Probably 16, 35 ml film.

Watching this with so much nostalgia, thanks for sharing

One of the main things I noticed is how clean it is and how well maintained the buildings are. 70s and 80 was a good time for Blackpool. 90s was a bad time for Blackpool I feel not enough money was put into and it lived in the past. It's definitely back on track now there's so much to do for everyone. Might not be clean and might smell of weed sometimes but Blackpool can't help who comes there

@scottwilson5979

4 жыл бұрын

Which blackpool are you referring to ,back on track is not the word I would use.lived here since 94.

@critchblackpoolful

4 жыл бұрын

@@scottwilson5979 are you kidding me. What about all the attractions the work that's been done on the seafront If you don't like it why don't you leave

@scottwilson5979

4 жыл бұрын

@@critchblackpoolful I don't even know what to say,do you think the sea front is the only relevant part .as regards leaving blackpool why would I, my issue is with the town council selling off parcels of public land for 300 million and then claiming poverty, the town council leader took a loan out apparently to build the wooden climbing structure at Stanley park which is never used and when it is by schoolkids such as my son they are charged £8 .

@critchblackpoolful

4 жыл бұрын

@@scottwilson5979 well of course you have to pay for it!! It has staff and needs maintaining 🙈🙈😂😂

@scottwilson5979

4 жыл бұрын

@@critchblackpoolful have a good day.

I was born in 64 so spent many happy times as a kid in Blackpool with my parents and sister. Fabulous times.

I went to Blackpool as a seventeen year old with some mates, and collected some great memories in 1971. Sun seemed to shine all the time back then

Blackpool has a charm to it and has a wonderful atmosphere

@flamezodiac5736

4 жыл бұрын

It's a shit hole and the people are annoying nosey trash

@Tmuk2

4 жыл бұрын

Someone hasn't been recently

@ianstewartorr8455

4 жыл бұрын

Tmuk2 last summer

@montyzumazoom1337

4 жыл бұрын

Flame zodiac Yes a bloody shit hole, I went once then I took someone a second time to show them just how shit it really was. Drunken yobs fighting in the middle of the afternoon, left over fish and chips in the street-everywhere, bloody noisy clapped out trams. Walk back a couple of streets from the sea front and it’s a real mess. Blackpool no thanks

@desertrose1226

4 жыл бұрын

Monty Zumazoom nothings the same now..I'm sorry but the younger element are trash, some aren't, but lots are, they're sleazy trashy arseholes who behave like they're on love island.

I think it was 1975 or 76 I had my 1st holiday in Blackpool and still try and get down each year from Glasgow. Got so many memories in the place.

I look at old films like this and hope I see myself :) A few good holidays here as a kid in the early 70s, we always stayed at Dunkerlys on St Chads Road. I remember the barrow boys at the bus station who would carry your cases to your digs.

We lived in the midlands so we used to go too Rhyl which tried to be a mini Blackpool.

Every place in the 1970s uk looked like a paradise, living in the 1970s uk looked like a paradise, a lot like the 1950s America. If only I could be there.

@sjp6839

2 жыл бұрын

Britain looks totally different back then in the 70s to how it is now, so clean and tidy and no sign of the mass immigration waiting to happen that will slowly but surely change britain in to something totally unrecognizable from this wonderful film.

@isaacsrandomvideos667

2 жыл бұрын

@@sjp6839 yep

I love Blackpool, something for everyone.

That's quite an achievement to make the film so good quality.

I can be seen on this serving an ice cream from the blue and cream van furthest from the camera at 2:34 . I worked in that van most days during the seasons of 1972 & 1973. I think this is 1973

This brought back some lovely memories glad I came across it

I was a baby in the 70s reminds me of the time we went to Blackpool every year in the late 70s and 80s with my late mum and dad when Blackpool was great not as good as it once was but still go to Blackpool as and when I can

Fantastic quality footage

Y’all who lived through 60s to now are lucky.

Can’t express how amazed I am too watch this I LOVE my history and just too see how everything use too be back in the days is incredible☺️

Thank you for this memory flashback, I was there in the mid 60's. We used to travel there courtesy of 'Eavesway Coaches'..

It was quite a cheap day out as well, back then. A lot of the small rides were only 10p to get on The log flume and roller coaster were 50p if you wanted to push the boat out.. ;-)

@veilbreak5867

4 жыл бұрын

WinChun78, yea it was cheap, a pound note went a long way. I remember the cigarette machines were on the wall, outside the shops! 50p for 20 (i was a child, I dint smoke)...but that trust of having them on the wall, no cameras or alarms! Now they're under lock and key behind the counter and cost a small fortune.

@christinacramsie5646

3 жыл бұрын

I remember Walls "Heart" ice cream 10p early seventies.

Lovely old film.

Growing up in the 70s we didn't have much money, so a day at the seaside was a real treat, penny arcades candyfloss and saucy postcards sticks of rock ahhh great memories 😀

Not a tracksuit in sight 👍

@dickplum2034

4 жыл бұрын

Yes mate or chav shitheads trying to act hard .

@JasonZero0

3 жыл бұрын

Or some ethnic obese woman pushing a double stroller shouting at their 10 kids with a foreign accent

@flamezodiac5736

3 жыл бұрын

@@JasonZero0 I never see those I see loads of chavs though

@JasonZero0

3 жыл бұрын

@@flamezodiac5736 seasides on the south coast you see them all of the time. Yeah Pb is full of chavs

@plymouthtoleedsonaxchst9537

3 жыл бұрын

@@JasonZero0 and no Scottish

Never went to Blackpool, but Barry Island near Cardiff was just like this. Great memories of the moment the ocean came in sight upon arrival, and all those colorful stores along the promenade selling buckets and spades.

I remember as a kid I was on holiday in Blackpool in 74 and 75.l wish I knew exactly when this footage was taken because it looks much the same. Makes me want to visit the place again. The last time I was there was 1982. I'll bet there been some changes since then. In the seventies it was a boarding house run by a Mrs Mellor near the North side that we went to.

@adrianfox9431

4 жыл бұрын

if you do go, only plan a one night stop-over max. It's a bit of a dump now in comparison, so set your expectations accordingly. We called in on the way back down from the lake-district.

@paulhagen5645

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much I appreciate that.

Great film. I was surprised to see the boat tram at the end.. I though that was a modern thing!

My late parents had great holidays here

Remember it well ,so thank you for sharing .👍

When Blackpool was the destination for the summer holidays, it was brilliant when I was growing up I went about 3 times when I was a kid. Early 90s I loved it then I went about 9 years ago for a 4 day break with my girlfriend. Wasn't the same hardly no families just stag nighters and that's it's problem it hasn't got rid of the image. I really hope it goes back to this for families like it should be

This is just beautiful, thank you

wonderful footage.

I went to Blackpool as a kid in the 50s & 60s, this film brings back such good memories, people comment that Blackpool is now a rundown dump, that makes me a bit sad.

Thank you very much for the upload this takes me back.

Throughout time as we get older we reminisce of a better world but what hellish future will we be in 50 years time when folk are reminiscing about smart phones, drivable cars and months of coronavirus lockdown.

The beaches in some parts of Spain and Greece are like this , family’s having family time . You only have to look at our police force ( dressed more like batman than coppers) to know it’s not a nice place to live anymore .

I lived down south and we used to go to Weymouth instead but things were pretty much the same at all the main English seaside resorts (beach, bucket and spade, deckchairs, rock, amusement arcades and fairs, donkeys, punch and judy etc) and as a young boy or girl back then you'd always have a great time at the seaside. Even at this stage a few people had started going on foreign package tours to Spain so its days were numbered. But these were great times and the English seaside holiday was a tradition we sadly lost.

Wow the beach at Blackpool is never like this anymore I love Blackpool 🗼

Lovely trip down memory lane, blackpool was the bee's knees when I were a kid in the 80,s, a special treat for all the family, sad to hear of it's demise

I use to love going to Blackpool in the 60s and 79s. 😊xxxx❤❤❤❤

Simple times,less stressful times,happy times.

Went to Pontins blackpool in 72 & 73...it was never this sunny but always very windy. Haven't been there in years now.

If KZread had existed in 1973 there would have been a video on it of Blackpool from the 1920s and all of the comments would have been "those were the days, not like now, you can't leave your door unlocked now" and "back when this was a PROPER Country before the war, not like nowadays". Everything was better when the person posting was growing up.

@ivahadenuff9080

4 жыл бұрын

I was a teenager in the 70s. I am really glad social media was not around then. the mischief we used to get up to .happy days

Wonderful. I want to go back there and stay.

thankyou for posting this

Looks really clear, good filming

"with me little stick of Blackpool rock along the promenade I stroll, it may be hot and sticky, but it's nice to have a nibble every now and again" George Formby

@bonniecat2918

4 жыл бұрын

Is that a double entendre ??? 😂😂😂😂

@christinacramsie5646

3 жыл бұрын

All Formby's songs were double entendre - just listen to the lyrics!

Was a great place still in the 70s before the cheap flights to Spain.

@Nilguiri

4 жыл бұрын

Cheap flights to Spain started long before the 70s. In 1957 to be precise.

I lived 200 yards from where this was filmed. Mum ran a guest house on Coop St. I'd just started at Blackpool Collegiate Grammar. Dad managed the Merrie England Bar on North Pier.

Wow quality film , looks great times

I want to be there 😢

Superb..my era...watched it hoping to see my parents and me....the place looks so clean..guest houses painted... donkeys on the beach ..no mobile phones or beggers etc....simpler and better times.❤

Amazing thank you.

Not the same place or decade but this video reminded me of my family holidays to Great Yarmouth and Skegness in the 80s when I was a kid. Happy times.

@Sr19769p

4 жыл бұрын

Same, dude. Reminded me of family hols in Mablethorpe, too

@Sr19769p

4 жыл бұрын

@S S I'm so sorry to hear that, dude. Hang in there. All my love

If only Blackpool was like that today, instead of the cespit it is today.

Very Enjoyable ! 😁

Man those were the days.where did everyone go?I'm still here tho!!Ilove this shitty little town. HOME SWEET HOME X

I was only nine then, good times sadly missed.

Great weather

Around that time I went to Blackpool with my parents and stayed at a b&b in Gynn square & had many memorable childhood holidays. 50 years later I holiday with my wife & visit the island of Madeira twice a year.Wouldn't stay in Blackpool if it was free. How times change....

Great video buddy.