UK Christmas in 1958, HD from 35mm

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UK Christmas in 1958, HD from 35mm from the Kinolibrary Archive Film Collections. To order the clip clean and high res for your commercial project or to find out more visit www.kinolibrary.com. Available in 4K. Clip ref CHX1131.
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Christmas shop window display, oriental inspired. EXT Liberty & Co, hanging lanterns. Christmas decorations. EXT Selfridges, large statue of Father Christmas, Santa Claus waving. INT boy sits on Santa's knee, boy talking to Santa. CU Santa with very shiny face. INT lovely shot man and woman Christmas shopping, holding wrapped presents. EXT NIGHT Trafalgar Square, Christmas tree. Nice shot silhouette residential houses at night, smoke from chimney, one light just seen, could be London suburbs. NIGHT EXT house, group of carol singers gathered. Man and woman walk out of old old building to listen. Creepy child with face in window, looking out for Santa. Group of old and young people holding torches singing, carolling. Village, snow, children dragging sledges along, winter wonderland, snowball fight in BG. INT pub, chef carrying pig's head on platter, roast turkey. Family sat at table wearing Christmas hats, Christmas dinner, Christmas party. CU chef carving turkey. Man puts log on roaring fire, cosy pub, CU fire. Village, snowy, stone cottages, lone man walks along street with dog.
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  • @billclarke3773
    @billclarke37733 жыл бұрын

    I wish Britain was still like this. I weep for the state of this country.

  • @briannewman6306

    @briannewman6306

    Жыл бұрын

    I totally agree with you sir

  • @orangeedo

    @orangeedo

    Жыл бұрын

    When the sun takes out our electricity grids and everything falls, the village suvivers will restore normality. This is not fantasy, it's statically about due.

  • @michael42158

    @michael42158

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, it would have been great to have had all those chefs and servants.

  • @MSalt69

    @MSalt69

    Жыл бұрын

    In what ways do you think 1958 was better than now?

  • @orangeedo

    @orangeedo

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MSalt69 Community, limited screen time, own culture, optermism... these are the most important things for happiness.

  • @martinmanifold2241
    @martinmanifold22413 жыл бұрын

    When a little was a lot ......now people have lots - and its never enough .

  • @TS-bn7zt

    @TS-bn7zt

    3 жыл бұрын

    Spot on!!👍

  • @louisemackay4804

    @louisemackay4804

    3 жыл бұрын

    Contentment ..best gift of all

  • @markbennett2170

    @markbennett2170

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@louisemackay4804 Well said Loiuse. Contentment is in short supply.

  • @contact3604

    @contact3604

    3 жыл бұрын

    How true🤔 God bless🙏 Moira From England.

  • @Shane-Flanagan

    @Shane-Flanagan

    3 жыл бұрын

    Exactly! Simpler times

  • @susanbrown2909
    @susanbrown29093 жыл бұрын

    The good old days.,,it’s enough to make you cry ,as to what we are left with now.

  • @minimotsu9273

    @minimotsu9273

    3 жыл бұрын

    You're depressed Susan.

  • @minimotsu9273

    @minimotsu9273

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Mark Holmes what secret knowledge do you have that we don't?

  • @minimotsu9273

    @minimotsu9273

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Mark Holmes what's the true meaning of England?

  • @nicoladouglas3270

    @nicoladouglas3270

    3 жыл бұрын

    I wasn't born till the 1970s but I know what you mean!!!! It's all gone to Hell !!!!

  • @minimotsu9273

    @minimotsu9273

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Mark Holmes but what's the true meaning of England got to do with covid?

  • @breadring
    @breadring3 жыл бұрын

    50S /60S Probably the best 2 decades of the last century , very fortunate to have been around to enjoy them and will remain as the best memories ever.

  • @angelamary9493

    @angelamary9493

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm so glad that i grew up in the 50s ..teen in the 60s ..such happy decades to be young ..i feel Dad for the young ones if today ..

  • @RA76951

    @RA76951

    3 жыл бұрын

    And you probably were very fortunate. Not all of us lived like this 'propoganda' nonsense.

  • @breadring

    @breadring

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@RA76951 so tony what part of this is propaganda.

  • @vladtheinhalerYT

    @vladtheinhalerYT

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Mark Holmes hear, hear

  • @oakleyadoakley696

    @oakleyadoakley696

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's a generation thing to me the 80's and 90's were the best to others it'll be different..

  • @madcyclist58
    @madcyclist583 жыл бұрын

    My first Christmas. I was six months old. My parents bought a table-top Christmas tree which we used for the next forty years.

  • @karen6603

    @karen6603

    3 жыл бұрын

    And mine. I was 5 months old 😀

  • @madcyclist58

    @madcyclist58

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@karen6603 so that's you, I and Mick. We should start a club.

  • @jimmymorgan3324

    @jimmymorgan3324

    3 жыл бұрын

    AND ME. IWAS. 4. Months , ALL The. Sixties XMAS . GREAT. MEMORIES ,

  • @chrisdavey8941

    @chrisdavey8941

    3 жыл бұрын

    I too was 5 months old Xmas 1958 and we still had our first spindly tree from then with the pifco lights and glass ornaments when I left home in 1978, amazing!

  • @jimmymorgan3324

    @jimmymorgan3324

    3 жыл бұрын

    madcyclist58 . Put me In I’ll Join. All the Best jimmy

  • @henryellis1358
    @henryellis13583 жыл бұрын

    This last Christmas 2020 my two grandkids had so man presents they opened some on Christmas day and the rest on Boxing day, my daughter asked me " Dad did you open your presents over two days during WW2 ?" I replied " I had one apple + one orange a brand new thruppeny bit and a book of about twenty pages , we opened everything on Christmas including half an orange - we ate the other half on Boxing day :-)

  • @cherbrowne1637

    @cherbrowne1637

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi Henry 🙋 your lovely story made me want to cry for how things must have been so tough for parents and families. But the strength to overcome adversity was admirable. Good values.

  • @henryellis1358

    @henryellis1358

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cherbrowne1637 Hi Cher, thank you for your kind words, when one has nothing they know no difference, so they don't realise they are deprived, when at school and we had to run to the air raid shelters as the sirens blared, we were each given a digestive biscuit, we were really grateful for that. This will make you smile, we kids had only seen bananas in films or comic mags, one day about 1945 this boy comes to school with a banana, there must have been 30 kids trying to see if it was real, the boys father owned a horse and cart greengrocery , as you know banana skins peel off like string, this boy ate the banana in front of a crowd, he then handed all the boys he liked including me a banana string, as I scraped the inside over my teeth I remember thinking " what was all the fuss about it was horrible". Those were the days :-(

  • @nellspencer6417

    @nellspencer6417

    3 жыл бұрын

    As a young girl, my mum grew up during WW2. Bananas came in and she joined the queue. A man pushed in in front of her. He realised what he had done, he apologised and stepped back. My mum had the last of the bananas.

  • @mr.bnatural3700

    @mr.bnatural3700

    3 жыл бұрын

    We were so poor we couldn't pay for anything. We couldn't even Pay attention. On Christmas Mother made a cake out of sawdust and clay; Father would would suck on a cough drop so we could all sit around his extended tongue for warmth.

  • @leejones3061

    @leejones3061

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mr.bnatural3700 fair play that's killed me to poor to pay attention

  • @graaarm
    @graaarm3 жыл бұрын

    Don't we all miss those Christmasses when a team of chefs and waiting staff eagerly served us our food and drink

  • @ianclarke1852

    @ianclarke1852

    3 жыл бұрын

    Im still served by a chef and waiting staff. Theyre called my wife and children.

  • @gilliansnook5583

    @gilliansnook5583

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Sian Dyas This isn't to be taken seriously - it's the English sense of humour. I presume you aren't English !!!!!

  • @mazhansen8804

    @mazhansen8804

    3 жыл бұрын

    & what's up with that pig?

  • @sheilawood4063

    @sheilawood4063

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂😂 remember it well

  • @labradormom3656

    @labradormom3656

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, imagine that most women do all of that by themselves each Christmas Day!! Team of chefs - pah 😂

  • @africareigns
    @africareigns3 жыл бұрын

    Everyone is so well dressed, regardless of class.

  • @clockworkdave9850

    @clockworkdave9850

    3 жыл бұрын

    People actually made an effort.. imagine going to the shops in your pjs then.. they'd lock you up,

  • @clockworkdave9850

    @clockworkdave9850

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yea ,I've seen people in their pyjamas.. in supermarket, students mainly

  • @africareigns

    @africareigns

    3 жыл бұрын

    No class these days

  • @paulohagan3309

    @paulohagan3309

    3 жыл бұрын

    Maybe the fimaker didn't film around deprived areas?

  • @keithrose6931

    @keithrose6931

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@paulohagan3309 people still made an effort.

  • @bethanhamer.8669
    @bethanhamer.86693 жыл бұрын

    Saddens me what this country used to be like , it will never get back to how it was

  • @harmony3395

    @harmony3395

    3 жыл бұрын

    It must. We must bring it back. Re-establish values and freedom. 🤨

  • @robjackson1319

    @robjackson1319

    3 жыл бұрын

    This doesn’t quite represent the uk as it was I’m afraid.... would be quite different if scenes from inner city London, Birmingham and Liverpool would have been shown. Huge levels of unreported poverty ,violence , domestic and drug abuse, and massive inequality.

  • @randomuser4201

    @randomuser4201

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bankaihadouken1180 What are you talking about? Are you saying that there were no black people in England pre 1950's??? Do your research and go back to the racist hole out of the ground that you came from.

  • @randomuser4201

    @randomuser4201

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@robjackson1319 Agreed, this was more like a tv advertisement than any kind of reality.

  • @mr.bnatural3700

    @mr.bnatural3700

    3 жыл бұрын

    We were so efn' poor we would go to the butcher's shop to watch the bacon slicing machine; nowt a proper toy in sight.

  • @topquark6919
    @topquark69193 жыл бұрын

    We'll never get these special Christmas's back again. They are gone for good. 'We' are made to feel guilty for celebrating Christmas now. Apparently it's not inclusive enough.

  • @topquark6919

    @topquark6919

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Christina Lawrence Until the 'boys in blue' come knocking!

  • @topquark6919

    @topquark6919

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Julius Ramone And now it appears you are whinging about people voicing their opinion. Idiot.

  • @Corkedwolf43771

    @Corkedwolf43771

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Julius Ramone go fu..ck yourself

  • @djx64

    @djx64

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Corkedwolf43771 I second that.. go fxxk himself and stay there.

  • @AlistairIsCool

    @AlistairIsCool

    3 жыл бұрын

    Can you give me one actual example of the police coming round to warn people against celebrating christmas?

  • @franceskronenwett3539
    @franceskronenwett35393 жыл бұрын

    What a beautiful film. I was four years old in 1958 and have vague memories of a very hot summer. We did not have much money and my sister and I had one big present and a lot of tiny ones including nuts and tangerines. My mum always made her own Christmas Pudding. Christmas was a magical time back then.

  • @juliehock6059

    @juliehock6059

    2 жыл бұрын

    Did you live in Australia? My German husband didn’t enjoy Christmas in Australia, felt very alien to him.

  • @franceskronenwett3539

    @franceskronenwett3539

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@juliehock6059 No, I lived in England. We had snow back then.

  • @andrewguttry6886

    @andrewguttry6886

    Жыл бұрын

    @Frances Kronenwett I was a little older, being born in 1952 but my memories are similar. I lost my father at age three, so my mother had to care for both me and my grandmother (born 1905), on a meagre wage in Acton, West London. Our life was a frugal one, but Christmas always meant a warm home, good food and good friends. Thank you for evoking some precious memories of a very different, simpler and less complicated time, and all the better for it.

  • @mags127
    @mags1273 жыл бұрын

    Bring it back I loved the days even here in Ireland simplicity and people come together not a robot world

  • @kevsmithard5586

    @kevsmithard5586

    3 жыл бұрын

    If only .

  • @brianstockwell4069

    @brianstockwell4069

    3 жыл бұрын

    You're deluded. In fact what came together was a church and state bent on controlling and abusing the people at every opportunity. Sin a bfuil!

  • @davinathorne5215

    @davinathorne5215

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@brianstockwell4069 Ireland’s shame. Thousands of babies stolen, young women criminalised and shamed while the fathers - the uncles, brothers, got off Scot free, along with the Church who covered it up.

  • @mags127

    @mags127

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@giveusanepleasebob992 thanks very much and the same to you have a good one in 2021 the simple things in life are free.🤝😊

  • @paulohagan3309

    @paulohagan3309

    3 жыл бұрын

    You obviously didn't live in Northern Ireland ...

  • @orwellboy1958
    @orwellboy19583 жыл бұрын

    I was born 25/12/1958. Thank you for posting this.

  • @jayarajjohnson2476

    @jayarajjohnson2476

    Ай бұрын

    From what was then, to what is now...must be heart breaking...

  • @robharding4028
    @robharding40283 жыл бұрын

    I was born in this great city the previous year 57 ! But looking at this wonderful Christmas period in that old fashioned way, I cannot help but feel very nostalgic ! It looks like another world .

  • @kevsmithard5586

    @kevsmithard5586

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thats because it is another world Sadly lost.

  • @robharding4028

    @robharding4028

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kevsmithard5586 Ah " so I was right !!

  • @clockworkdave9850
    @clockworkdave98503 жыл бұрын

    Look and weep people...look and weep..

  • @Pheebs77
    @Pheebs773 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in the early 70s, I had books, board games, we went out to play from dusk till dawn and mum didn't know where we were but assumed we were OK. No mobiles, no social media, no body image pressure on kids, innocent TV programmes. There was a fat kid called Tony Stamp who used to pick on us but that was small fry stuff compared to what kids go through today. I'm so glad I grew up without phones and social media 💕

  • @janewillis6052
    @janewillis60523 жыл бұрын

    This is making me cry, I would go back to those times in a heartbeat if I could, the world was a much kinder and happier place, people communicated and looked out for each other and everything didn't revolve around money

  • @stephenhumphrey4748
    @stephenhumphrey47483 жыл бұрын

    if only we could go back to those days it’s sad how the world is getting

  • @indianatone218

    @indianatone218

    3 жыл бұрын

    i was born in this year ,but according to the bible there are better times ahead and everything will be as it should be ,just minus evil people governments and armies all will be gone these are the last days of this system .

  • @joesmoke9624

    @joesmoke9624

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@indianatone218 Last days of what system? I doubt we’re in the so called last days but, I don’t doubt there is far worse to come though, especially for our children and grandchildren sad to say.

  • @indianatone218

    @indianatone218

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@joesmoke9624hi joe good question how far do you want to go down the rabbit hole ? for starters then get your bible out and read 2nd timothy chaper 3 verses 1 to 5 and analise eac ststement of how people are today ,but particuarly note the first verse .im not saying everything hangs on this but its an opener .

  • @joesmoke9624

    @joesmoke9624

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@indianatone218 I don’t have a bible.

  • @indianatone218

    @indianatone218

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@joesmoke9624 OK 2nd tim chapter 3 But know this that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves lovers of money self assuming, haughty blasphemers . disobedient to parents unthankful disloyal. Having no natural affection not open to any agreement ,slanderers with out self control, fierce without love of goodness. Betrayers ,headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of god, Having a form of godly devotion ,but proving false to its power. so here is a breakdown of the human race today if we take each statement and got a newspaper and read how we behave and whats going on in the world a person can identify these signs ,Take for instance children disobedient to parents ,i dont know how old you are but when i was a child there were no backchatting or tantrums we did what we were told and had respect .have a look yourself and see if you can see the situation and how it fits today ,this is only eh start of the signs of the times ar last days before god would step in and sort things out ,the evidence and proof is in the bible if people are shown ,

  • @djx64
    @djx643 жыл бұрын

    My God this country has gone rotten, look at it back then, I know things weren't perfect but it's a million times better than present day GB.

  • @elainescott4702
    @elainescott47023 жыл бұрын

    I was a month old then. When I look at this it makes me realise how much better days were then

  • @ruthm3813

    @ruthm3813

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was 10 years old. I lived in a small town so things didn't look quite as pretty as the country shown looked. I guess it must have snowed heavily that year but I can't remember that. The rest of the film seems like how I remember things, though no chefs serving from platters of Christmas fare! My mum made a fabulous Christmas dinner though. The Father Christmas(as he was then and not Santa) shown in the film looked fantastic and pretty 'realistic'.

  • @angelanicholson951

    @angelanicholson951

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was aa month old, too.

  • @indianatone218

    @indianatone218

    3 жыл бұрын

    i was 6 month old ,wish id been a teenager then ,id gladly be gone by now

  • @nickhyde420

    @nickhyde420

    3 жыл бұрын

    You only have to go back to the 90s for better days. 90s and before. Total rubbish now.

  • @marielouiseweeksb33attitud33

    @marielouiseweeksb33attitud33

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was 3 months old. Good vintage eh?

  • @Jo-hc8pm
    @Jo-hc8pm3 жыл бұрын

    I wasn't born until 1983 but I still enjoyed watching this as my mother (who passed away in 2012) was just under 6 months old on Xmas 1958. It's lovely to see footage of how things was back then when she was a baby.

  • @Tagoreapoet777
    @Tagoreapoet7773 жыл бұрын

    The best of the year; after collecting money for, “penny for the guy”. We went straight into singing carols, door to door, all the monies we collected was put towards our Christmas Presents... Helping Father Christmas, with our presents on Christmas Day. Oh I am so glad that I lived in this period of History. :-)

  • @steve5825
    @steve58253 жыл бұрын

    My how far we’ve slid

  • @randomuser4201

    @randomuser4201

    3 жыл бұрын

    We slid from a tv advert? What video were you watching because it was not reality.

  • @alfching2499

    @alfching2499

    3 жыл бұрын

    We Won’t know this Country from them days pretty soon.You have only got to look who is taking over Parliament.A Nightmare

  • @garyzod8818

    @garyzod8818

    3 жыл бұрын

    You boy, go down to the butchers and find the largest Turkey you can find.

  • @garyzod8818

    @garyzod8818

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not one Asian to be seen anywhere, an those were the days.

  • @killjoy4540

    @killjoy4540

    3 жыл бұрын

    Gary Zod and others don't be discriminating

  • @cynthiastogden7000
    @cynthiastogden70003 жыл бұрын

    I was 13 then and although times were hard I would love to have those days back. Now is terrible.

  • @papabear5253
    @papabear52533 жыл бұрын

    6years old in 58 .an orange an apple some horrible figs bar of chocolate and a toy . And was I happy . Yes and grateful. Didn’t want much didn’t get much but we were grateful anyway

  • @nikkijackson2981

    @nikkijackson2981

    3 жыл бұрын

    My dad was born in '52 also. I think you guys got the best years to be honest. War was over and the madness hadn't yet begun.. I was born in '81 & even I wish I could travel back.

  • @johnlavery6116

    @johnlavery6116

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's very true. I remember that.

  • @benitobueno3373
    @benitobueno33733 жыл бұрын

    Memories flood back of the great snowball fight of 1966..4 of us grammar school boys one on each corner of a quiet junction manically throwing snowballs at each other for the whole hour of our lunch break..things petered out when we eventually ran out of snow

  • @mjbadboy14
    @mjbadboy143 жыл бұрын

    Today, Christmas ain't the same these yesrs.

  • @cockneylol
    @cockneylol3 жыл бұрын

    Much much happier times. Those WERE the days.

  • @randomuser4201

    @randomuser4201

    3 жыл бұрын

    Said every old person throughout the generations for thousands of years...

  • @annababukhan1801
    @annababukhan18013 жыл бұрын

    I was born in 1960. I remember lots of snow, and hot summers. Our first Christmas tree was from a catalogue, and it's in my loft now. Use to get an outfit every Christmas and me and my brother and sister were always happy. We loved playing outside with the other kids building snowmen, and Carol singing for money to buy our parents and friends a present. I've always had a thing for glittery Christmas cards. So simple and fun then.🌞💜

  • @peterhunt2723
    @peterhunt27233 жыл бұрын

    I was 17 years old and had had a great early life, we lived a mile outside a village south of Nottingham and I had had a great early life. I look back on those days with enormous pleasure. I married in 1967 and have had a good life. I do miss those gentler days though. No mobile phones!! Our phone in the '50 s did not have a dial, you lifted the receiver and waited for the operator to ask what number you wanted!

  • @maaan8494

    @maaan8494

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nice story Peter I went to uni in South Nottingham, I know a few villages round there like Gotham, Bunny Ruddington, Thrumpton. Some of the best memories I will ever have are walking through the fields and woods with my now wife when we were at uni together. Beautiful part of the world.

  • @peterhunt2723

    @peterhunt2723

    3 жыл бұрын

    Maaan ah well we lived at Stanton on the Wolds near Keyworth! It is indeed a nice area. Happy memories for both of us!

  • @dave20thmay

    @dave20thmay

    3 жыл бұрын

    I also was born during the war, 1941. Such an amazing time, with great pop music starting to appear. Was an apprentice at BOAC, but still did a paper round to supplement my £4 15s 6p

  • @peterhunt2723

    @peterhunt2723

    3 жыл бұрын

    dave20thmay ! Does that indicate that your birthday is 20th may? Mine is the 18th! ; I was an apprentice on £3.5.0 ( £2.19.07 'after stoppages) started in October 1958 Christmas 1954 had my Philips record player and some 78's

  • @dave20thmay

    @dave20thmay

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@peterhunt2723 Yes that's right. So your older than me. Think we had the best times, but I do like my modern kit. Just click on my name to see what I've been up to over the years. Best Dave

  • @PH-vv1ky
    @PH-vv1ky Жыл бұрын

    I was born in the 90s and just love watching videos of old Britain from these times. I just love it. I so wish it was still like this. You can just feel the festiveness, the atmosphere. A gentler time. Obviously it was far from perfect (nothing is) things just seemed more civilized. People more polite. I get no feeling of festiveness today during Christmas.

  • @akumar7366
    @akumar73663 жыл бұрын

    How wonderful, I can feel the atmosphere just watching the video .

  • @retronartz1268
    @retronartz12682 жыл бұрын

    This is so perfect looking, like a norman rockwell painting

  • @chazzsavis6706
    @chazzsavis67063 жыл бұрын

    Living in the country, I remember many a snow drift dawned our roads, one year they were 4-5 ft high. Some years no snow. Weather cycles around. Some times we had hot summers and other times mild winters. But one thing remained constant....You could rely on loving neighbours and friends. These days we are living in a culture of ‘self’. Tale telling on your neighbour for walking down the street, or doing some shopping for an elderly neighbour is frowned upon. This is a corrupt and sad world that is quickly turning into “controlling” ALL our freedoms”.ie they will no longer exist.😞

  • @paullee5573

    @paullee5573

    3 жыл бұрын

    Very true. And 99% of it is caused by adopting the american way of life.Christoper Columbus should have kept his big mouth shut when he discovered the bloody place.

  • @marshhen

    @marshhen

    3 жыл бұрын

    What are you talking about? Who is controlling all your freedoms? What utter nonsense. Do you realize how much all your freedoms were curtailed during the war or during the flu epidemic? People followed the rules and got on with it. They did not have social media to whine and moan and complain to. That is why it was better.

  • @chazzsavis6706

    @chazzsavis6706

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi Marshhen..... not sure what you are stating!... but well I guess if you cannot perceive what others can... (so far 27 👍) ...then perhaps you shouldn’t be so judgemental of other’s. Oh and yes “social media” is to blame for a lot of untruths and ‘moaning’ as you so delicately put it. But isn’t that “freedom of speech”! I think we still have that? Keep smiling 😊

  • @RA76951

    @RA76951

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@chazzsavis6706 - that's the problem with living in the country......you don't see the bigger picture. I have always lived in London, and it's a damn sight better now than back in those dingy miserable years - something new everyday - BTW, here we all help older & disabled people, from all backgrounds - despite what the Daily Mail will tell you......

  • @chazzsavis6706

    @chazzsavis6706

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi Tony P, l have lived in and visited many cities around the world Tony, even London! But I was fortunate enough to spend my childhood in the country, my grandfather was a game keeper back in the day. And yes we try to help our older folk too but more often than not we are questioned, watched and in some cases told on for doing so. 🙁 ‘sad, mad world’. Many don’t see the ‘bigger picture’.🦠

  • @eliakimjosephsophia4542
    @eliakimjosephsophia45423 жыл бұрын

    I miss the sound of Church bells where we lived in London.

  • @naturalroyalflush

    @naturalroyalflush

    3 жыл бұрын

    I am not really religious but love the sound of church bells.

  • @jayarajjohnson2476

    @jayarajjohnson2476

    Ай бұрын

    Something about Church Bells ...so Wonderful & Peaceful.

  • @margiedee6700
    @margiedee67003 жыл бұрын

    This is the time when you could leave your doors wide open and your next door neighbours would always knock and walk in and say their problems Christmas was exactly this Christmas your dad would give you half a crown to get the things that you really want it good times everybody was alive then

  • @johnlavery6116

    @johnlavery6116

    3 жыл бұрын

    I remember that well.

  • @ZiggySearchfieldCactus
    @ZiggySearchfieldCactus3 жыл бұрын

    The high street is Broadway in the Cotswolds

  • @Prairiestar193

    @Prairiestar193

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also where the boys are having a snowfight is Snowshill Village, and the very end shot is at Stanton war memorial.

  • @stevewebster317

    @stevewebster317

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Prairiestar193 Lived in Stanton in the early 1970`s, I worked at the pub, "The Mount Inn" while waiting to go into the Army. The village had many characters then, Jack Hunt the shepherd comes to mind.

  • @cherbrowne1637

    @cherbrowne1637

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hu Ziggy 🙋 Thanks...It looks a beautiful place.

  • @naturalroyalflush

    @naturalroyalflush

    3 жыл бұрын

    I thought it was in the Cotswolds. I lived in Cheltenham. I think we had tea at the Lamb Inn?

  • @SoniaRossi72
    @SoniaRossi723 жыл бұрын

    When my grandparents and dad came over from Italy .....as well as friends and relatives.

  • @antonyrandell4984
    @antonyrandell49843 жыл бұрын

    I’d have been two years old and I know the world then wasn’t perfect but looking back it was a damsite better than it is today

  • @randomuser4201

    @randomuser4201

    3 жыл бұрын

    I guess you liked being poor, or you were that used to it that it never bothered you, either way its pretty sad.

  • @antonyrandell4984

    @antonyrandell4984

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@randomuser4201 actually my dad had a building firm and ran four lorries he built three bungalows in a village we lived in the middle one plus a lodge at the sea side and we wanted for nothing so fook you 🤫🥱🤩

  • @petacampbell4466
    @petacampbell44663 жыл бұрын

    Awwwwwwww I can almost smell the Christmas turkey cooking, 🦃🤶🎅 x

  • @tomjohnson9730
    @tomjohnson97303 жыл бұрын

    Such nostalgia! I am afraid my memories are not so good. Parents always rowed; dinner would never had arrived if my Dad hadn’t taken over. One year Mum decided it was all too much (there were only 3 of us!) and decided that we should go to a Chinese restaurant for Christmas dinner! They did do a good meal, but I couldn’t wait to escape and go round to the home of friends, where we had a lovely time. Things might have been simpler, but I much prefer the happy times we share now - myself, my wife, our two children and spouses, who each have two children - our four lovely grandchildren: a great time for the ten of us. Missed it last year, but we managed to have a six-some an Christmas Day and another six-some on Boxing Day. Looking forward to our Easter get-together and to next Christmas.

  • @jayarajjohnson2476

    @jayarajjohnson2476

    Ай бұрын

    Keep it up...time flies...

  • @TS-1267
    @TS-12673 жыл бұрын

    ...Yes, sadly we'll never know the like again???

  • @IsabelCharlotte9
    @IsabelCharlotte9Ай бұрын

    I'm so glad my village still does stuff like this

  • @ktkalicka
    @ktkalicka6 ай бұрын

    I was born in 1985 but somehow yearn for the simplicity, warmth and elegance of the fifties. What a perfect world, where you don't have crime waves, dirty streets and where people are elegant and joyful.

  • @feeltheforce10
    @feeltheforce103 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful to watch this - i used to think as a child life would stay like that - sadly as you grow up you see changes happen fast.These glory days will never be seen again - thanks for the memories and uploading.

  • @samsum3738
    @samsum37383 жыл бұрын

    I was 6 years old . I loved Christmas time , it was truly magical . The first one i can truly remember was in 1956 and an uncle wearing a white sheet singing The Sheikh of Araby . I kid you not .

  • @siobhan28483
    @siobhan284837 ай бұрын

    I was born in 1983 but I love watching old footage like this, which I must say is fantastic. My mum was only 1 then, almost 2. I must show this to her. She’ll love it. Thanks for uploading.

  • @jayleigh4642
    @jayleigh46423 жыл бұрын

    My first Christmas I was 3 months old. I remember my parents saying in later years that Christmas was so cold it was 1962 and the snow and a new baby was magical for them at Christmas.

  • @paullee5573
    @paullee55733 жыл бұрын

    UNCLE HOLLY.....now that really brings back fond memories of my childhood.

  • @janfell8228

    @janfell8228

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes uncle Holly he'd give you a badge with his face on if I remember correctly

  • @Prairiestar193

    @Prairiestar193

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@janfell8228 I've still got one

  • @lindalomax9257
    @lindalomax92573 жыл бұрын

    Really enjoyed watching this, i was aged 2 then ❤

  • @classicford4118
    @classicford41183 жыл бұрын

    I wish I could time travel

  • @lucaschapman2188

    @lucaschapman2188

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me too so I can travel forward one week find out the winning lotto numbers .Win a shit load of money and live in Brazil!😁👍🏻

  • @lilbullet158
    @lilbullet1583 жыл бұрын

    A time when people never lived in fear of expressing their pride and love for their own culture less they were Punished for it.

  • @alanwilkinson9487
    @alanwilkinson94873 жыл бұрын

    I have a time machine....anybody interested, no pushing ,room for all...

  • @paullee5573

    @paullee5573

    3 жыл бұрын

    Can I book two places please? One for me and one for the missus. Then we can both go back to the days when we were young, virile, and bloody careless.

  • @alanwilkinson9487

    @alanwilkinson9487

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@paullee5573 all aboard

  • @paullee5573

    @paullee5573

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@alanwilkinson9487 What time is take off please? Lol

  • @alanwilkinson9487

    @alanwilkinson9487

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@paullee5573 dr who.is doing the piloting ,I've got to ask.

  • @paullee5573

    @paullee5573

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@alanwilkinson9487 i'll give it a whirl if you will let me

  • @peterpedant
    @peterpedant3 жыл бұрын

    What the hell has happened to England?

  • @SpadgerMcTeagle1

    @SpadgerMcTeagle1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tony Blair and then the tories I'm sorry to say

  • @rahilvig8185

    @rahilvig8185

    3 жыл бұрын

    @rubber triangle Lol ok blame everything on immigrants...

  • @paulohagan3309

    @paulohagan3309

    3 жыл бұрын

    The Empire came home?

  • @harmony3395

    @harmony3395

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bojo sold his soul

  • @crazyfishmonster459

    @crazyfishmonster459

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@paulohagan3309 Such an insipid argument. No-one denies that Britain has been a great beneficiary of immigration. Multicultural divergence and division has destroyed our society, not any given group of immigrants. A multicultural society can only ever be united by the lowest common denominator; consumerism. This is especially true amongst groups which are wildly divergent in their heritage.

  • @MsPaintMr
    @MsPaintMr3 жыл бұрын

    This is amazing, thank you.

  • @glenntoplis8872
    @glenntoplis88723 жыл бұрын

    I wasn’t born till 1964 but would love to go back to those days, there’s lots I can’t stand about the way life is today , lovely film, oh well back to reality.

  • @johncleatherbarrow5518
    @johncleatherbarrow55183 жыл бұрын

    I was 7 then and every Christmas remember my mom and dad taking me and my sister to see father Christmas ay Lewis,s in Birmingham town centre. Quing up the stairs for a couple of hours. Brilliant times.

  • @Michelle-qd9gm
    @Michelle-qd9gm3 жыл бұрын

    You don’t hear many carols out in the street nowadays

  • @Paul-md8de

    @Paul-md8de

    3 жыл бұрын

    Because it's not Xmas !

  • @Michelle-qd9gm

    @Michelle-qd9gm

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Paul-md8de ha ha

  • @annababukhan1801

    @annababukhan1801

    3 жыл бұрын

    We get a van with loud music blaring out, and a couple of guys in Santa suits knocking on your door. Not the same as Carol singers.

  • @Aeronwen813

    @Aeronwen813

    3 жыл бұрын

    You don't see many people singing them in churches either nowadays - no one teaches them in schools, not PC) Few people know them.

  • @Paul-md8de

    @Paul-md8de

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Aeronwen813 Oh yes they do , go along next Xmas it'll enlighten you ( hopefully )

  • @enochpowelghost
    @enochpowelghost3 жыл бұрын

    Nice how they show working class celebrating Christmas servants and all!. How they never knew that for generations after would see how fair life was for all at this festive season.

  • @iamthatiam363
    @iamthatiam3633 жыл бұрын

    And now 2020 and possibly 2021 all this is illegal in most countries🙄😕

  • @kevsmithard5586

    @kevsmithard5586

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not in my house its not 👍.

  • @iamthatiam363

    @iamthatiam363

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kevsmithard5586 👍

  • @iamthatiam363

    @iamthatiam363

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Jenny Prestwood snow ball fights and playing outdoors together, xmas shopping even! due to crap covid rules.

  • @user-ie5ez7rd9k

    @user-ie5ez7rd9k

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@iamthatiam363 2020s decade for ya

  • @S7EVE_P
    @S7EVE_P3 жыл бұрын

    If only we could go back in time

  • @robjackson1319

    @robjackson1319

    3 жыл бұрын

    To what? The 2nd world war? Or perhaps bankrupt Britain in the aftermath, Rationing, Massive inequality.? Threat of Nuclear Armageddon, The death penalty, Racism post colonial slavery hanging for being gay.... not all good back then was it...Rose tinted glasses.

  • @daviddisandro821
    @daviddisandro8216 ай бұрын

    awesome footage. i can almost imagine charles dickens down the street, writing a christmas carol

  • @jayarajjohnson2476

    @jayarajjohnson2476

    Ай бұрын

  • @henriettahenson
    @henriettahenson3 жыл бұрын

    I was 6years old... And my MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS THEN WERE THE BEST OF MY LIFE WE DID HAVE SNOW AND WE LIVED ON A SMALL HOLDING WITH LOTS OF ANIMALS TO CARE FOR. WE HAD GREAT CHRISTMAS PARTIES WHEN ALL THE FAMILY WOULD VISIT LOTS OF FOOD WHICH MY MOTHER WOULD PREPARE@ LOG FIRES A GREAT TREE... JUST MAGICAL FOR ME AS A CHILD ... BUT HEY THEY WERE MY GLORY DAYS SO EVERYTHING WAS WONDERFUL... I'M VERY GREATFUL THAT I HAD AMAZING PARENTS WHO MADE IT SO SPECIAL🌨️🎄❄️⛄🤶🎅..WE LOST DAD 7YEARS AGO AND MUM JUST LAST YEAR..... .RIP MA @PA ❤️🙏🏼❤️

  • @twinturbo5212

    @twinturbo5212

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sorry for your loss. Best wishes for the future ❤️

  • @henriettahenson

    @henriettahenson

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thankyou 💋🤗😍

  • @jacksg1809
    @jacksg18093 жыл бұрын

    I was 3months old then , looking back at this makes me sad as to where we have got to now ....glad I have the memories I have of all the last 62 yrs ,what will our kids and grandchildren have to reminisce about ?

  • @twinturbo5212

    @twinturbo5212

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Marshall Carwood BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA

  • @twinturbo5212

    @twinturbo5212

    3 жыл бұрын

    They'll remeniss about the great times before the nuclear war, yes even today will seem like a good time for whats about to unfold. Get your popcorn ready but dont bother microwaving it.

  • @nicholabowskill8706

    @nicholabowskill8706

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was two weeks old ,still better times ,I miss them years

  • @user-vs2wd6fk3m
    @user-vs2wd6fk3m5 ай бұрын

    Was born in London 1958 can't remember it ever like this..lucky them..

  • @simonnorth-coombes
    @simonnorth-coombes3 жыл бұрын

    The Britain sadly long gone!

  • @johnlamb2754
    @johnlamb27543 жыл бұрын

    No mums in pj's taking the kids to school back then.

  • @olielapz3534
    @olielapz35345 ай бұрын

    when I was 6 Santa left a 4 x AA battery in my Christmas sock. I was so happy I could make my small AM radio work again. Simple and sweet life back then!

  • @richardhumphreys8662
    @richardhumphreys86623 жыл бұрын

    I remember that Christmas very well. I and three other children performed a dance and recitation as part of a show for our parents at the primary school I attended.

  • @stuartsinclair6269
    @stuartsinclair6269 Жыл бұрын

    I’m a 70s lad, but this is very nice, looking back on Christmas over the years, thanks for putting this on here

  • @lostsoul3723
    @lostsoul37233 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely wonderful

  • @johnlavery6116
    @johnlavery61163 жыл бұрын

    I was 10 that year ,and remember the atmosphere of those great days, simple times gone forever......Ireland

  • @c8136132
    @c81361323 жыл бұрын

    I was 2 weeks old, remember it well!

  • @tonybaloney4195
    @tonybaloney41953 жыл бұрын

    The year I left school happy days

  • @Nick-X
    @Nick-X3 жыл бұрын

    If you happen to share my heritage, I know what you want to say. Because we're all thinking it. lol. One day my friends, one day.

  • @clockworkdave9850

    @clockworkdave9850

    3 жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @kevsmithard5586

    @kevsmithard5586

    3 жыл бұрын

    👏👏👏

  • @wrexshunt
    @wrexshunt3 жыл бұрын

    How wonderful - more please

  • @Senna-xi1gr
    @Senna-xi1gr3 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant 👍🇬🇧

  • @contact3604
    @contact36043 жыл бұрын

    How lovely♥😊 Thank you for sharing! Moira From England.

  • @PlanetImo
    @PlanetImo3 жыл бұрын

    Wow! It's amazing to see this.

  • @timothyj1966
    @timothyj19662 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful. Carols, Snow Village, Holly hung from the paintings, and hearth!

  • @edwardpaton9111
    @edwardpaton91113 жыл бұрын

    I wish i had a time machine I'll go back there and stay there

  • @purplebottle2042
    @purplebottle20423 жыл бұрын

    A beautiful White Christmas ..🟢

  • @marje8249
    @marje82493 жыл бұрын

    It’s like a lost world 😔 glad I saw it though.

  • @michelledelaney5132
    @michelledelaney51323 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful 💓💓💓💓

  • @ktkalicka
    @ktkalicka6 ай бұрын

    This is so heartwarming! Thank you for posting/sharing.

  • @susanwright1999
    @susanwright19993 жыл бұрын

    How lovely.

  • @carmenfernandez4464
    @carmenfernandez44643 жыл бұрын

    🤩waooo. Love christmas 🎄

  • @hivebrain
    @hivebrain3 жыл бұрын

    Things were so much better whenever it was that I happened to be young. What a coincidence.

  • @avybenfield508
    @avybenfield5083 жыл бұрын

    This is amazing

  • @Nemetona225
    @Nemetona2256 ай бұрын

    So nice and homely. Such a lovely atmosphere ❤️

  • @eileenjones5943
    @eileenjones59432 ай бұрын

    This was lovely to watch the country and the world saddens me so much with the way it is now I could cry and cry wish we could turn back time 😢

  • @borderlands6606
    @borderlands6606 Жыл бұрын

    I recall one unseasonably warm and sunny Christmas day in the 1960s. Us terraced street kids had the chance to play on our new bikes, roller skates, pedal cars, pogo sticks and whatnot. There was never much money about but my parents always made sure we had a great Christmas.

  • @sandgrownun66
    @sandgrownun663 жыл бұрын

    My left ear loved this.

  • @2006Crusader2006
    @2006Crusader20063 жыл бұрын

    Wonderfull!

  • @bridgetryan9705
    @bridgetryan97053 жыл бұрын

    We use to go to our uncles xmas morning and he and his wife allways had mistletoe in the house happy days

  • @ltproperties6131
    @ltproperties61313 жыл бұрын

    wonderful

  • @peaky859
    @peaky8593 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful wen you felt the christmas spirit

  • @MichaelAuthorAllAges
    @MichaelAuthorAllAges3 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating. Liked, shared and subscribed. :)

  • @Wriggs74
    @Wriggs743 жыл бұрын

    When Christmas was Christmas. Sadly it doesn't feel like Christmas anymore.

  • @bernadettemurray8260
    @bernadettemurray82602 ай бұрын

    Beautiful ❤

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