So true. I love watching old archive clips on here. Fascinating that for a brief moment these old folk are brought back to life. They could never have imagined that 50 years later people would be watching them on a handheld device!!

Agreed, this is what happens when KZfaq's powers are used for good. What a beautiful bit of history

Just pictured him still working there even though they don't have a VW depot in Ramsgate any more 😂

😂

Dad's 144 years old now, and 'junior' is 117, still bringing dad to the Volkswagen plant every morning.

@@SZPWS1777 Junior 😂🤣😂

@@campbellgraham1979 🤓

"Thanks for making our shareholders and directors billionaires over the last 10 years. Here's £6000..well done" 😢

wow thats a lot of money! how much was a new beetle back then?

@mainframe

@@fidelcatsro6948 about 700 quid I think.

@@swanvictor887 Wow so he got paid half the amount of a beetle back then 🤔

he probably saw Jack the ripper buying a newspaper at the corner shop to see what they wrote, the day after each murder

He maybe was jack the ripper 😂

Honestly that was my first thought too. I was surprised when I scrolled down and saw it was the third comment. Strange how we use the Whitechapel murders as a measure of time and how well known they are in today's world. It's mind boggling to think he was alive and already in work at that time.. it seems like 1888 was so far back in history.

Legend

Breakfast of Champions

Crazy how some people can smoke like a chimney eat fatty foods and barely exercise yet live to 80-90+

Probably died the day after filming!!

​@@DTM93it's called statistics ;)

Looks like Ernest "Pop" Turner died towards the end of 1975.

its*****

Great year it was

Agreed, I was born in '71 and it seems amazing now that as a boy I knew men who had fought in the First World War.

My female line were all in their 40s , so my great great grandmother was born around the 1820s

Fyfe

good old days before fake carbs and gmo foods

He was a solder, they said in in the clip, he would have been in his mid 30's when the war started so plenty young.

Fyfe without deerstalker, no less.

Maybe you missed it but it said he was a WWI soldier. Back in WWI and WWII it was totally different to today. They didn't discriminate as much in age. Nowadays, when it comes to the military, a man is often considered an old man or past it by the time they hit late 20s. They wouldn't even be considered for duty. But back then soldiers were often much older.. due to different attitudes and indeed shortage. Sometimes the average age of soldiers was literally 30s.. you even had middle aged men in their 40s and possibly even elderly men in their 50s going off to fight as infantry in the world wars.. so him being late 30s would not have been out of the ordinary at all. The sitcom Dad's Army was even inspired by older soldiers. While many were for reserves or home guard.. the reality was towards the latter part of the wars, there were much older men going to fight.

and those supa taps though

They're far too busy brainwashing the population with their woke agenda and hating the white indigenous people to do that.

They're too busy being woke and filling people's heads full of crap

Brilliant idea. I've often thought the same. Would be fascinating to see how many are still remembered. It is a format for a BBC4 programme. Someone should suggest it!! Some of these old folk were born in the 1870s; might have aged grandchildren who remember.

@@daviddixey Exactly mate. Its most trash on daytime Freeview hers in the U.K but certain channels do play classic some British sitcoms from the 1960's and 1970's. As the idea of having a follow up documentary on the surviving living descendants of people interviewed in the 60, 70s and 80s here in Britain (prior to mass immigration) I certainly think it's a great idea.

Spend their times walking round graveyards

Good research 👍

I found a Facebook comment by someone who worked at VW at the time confirming "Pop" died in November 1975. Presumably the death was registered in December. I wonder if his son lived to a similar old age.

so different from the BBC today. To be a 'modern' cameraman, you must have a degree, obtained by writing a 50-thousand word thesis on how a TV camera works. You don't actually need to know how to use the bloody thing mind you, daft things like exposure and focus, you know, all that 'old-fashioned; nonsense we had to learn in the 'old days' when we knew what the hell we were doing! There are days when I watch BBC News reports and I cringe at the level of 'expertise' in the shots broadcast. I'm guessing the BBC's mantra of 'Inclusivity and Diversity' extends to hiring Blind Camera Operators....

how old are you?

It's very interesting to point out that the Father and Son grew up in an age when there wasn't any TV or obsession with health. And yet, there they were working when most of today's generation would find it impossible? So, the old fashioned ways are the best?

@@fidelcatsro6948 Interesting response. What prompted you to ask?

@@davidaston5773 I think the best ways are unchanging, stretching back to antiquity. I think there is a middle ground to be had between idleness and so adhered to toiling as to never glance up at the stars. I do think that the grotesque convenience of the day has coopted us. Older generations never had to contend with the addictiveness of various internet platforms.

​@@Eleutherarch So, true and correct. My sweet gentle late Mama said "In moderation". And, I've come to realise it is spot on in so many ways when it comes to life. She was still working in her early 70s. "grotesque convenience" has undone a rigid discipline and 'just get it done' attitude which is the key to success in any era. It is NO CO INCIDENCE, on KZfaq there's several people 60 to 90s, who work out and are far more healthier than people half their age? JUST like the two gentlemen in this video from 1972. The idea we should slow down past 60, IS actually, the very thing killing OAPs because their routine doing the opposite of the 72 gents. Our society has been purposely changed to make us weak, dependant on our fascist governments and with little control over our lives. When the truth is? We can have COMPLETE control over ourselves and lives by being like my Mama or the Father and Son in the video. Thank you for your great reply and goodnight, David

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no I think you are wrong there my father worked well past retirement he had lots of hobbies , his father retired early and died before he reached 70 years of age because he sat around the house and slept late and was not active My father did not want to go the same way as his father, my dad died in 2018 he was 96 when he was not working he made furniture in his Garage in the garden and gave it to local charities to sell for funds, some people don't want to stop working because they see it as the quickest route to death, dad was still making Furniture and tending to his garden three days before he died. My mum is in her 80s she was forced to retire in 2004 as a nurse she did not want to retire either she would still be doing it , thankfully the laws changed to allow people to work past state retirement age if they want.

I think working class people of that generation didn't really think in terms of hobbies and leisure time as we do. They spent most of their time working and most of their money went on food, rent and clothes. There wasn't much time or money left over for anything else, so their spare time was spent doing one sort of work or another - growing food, mending things etc. That's probably why this gentleman wanted to stay active.

You could likely get some cash in hand job for 4 or 5 hours a day

I'll take you on, any good on a shovel?

I am 70 with Arthritis in hip and back with a large Garden orchard , 200 year old yew tree any chance you coming to work here . Brother is older then me with 300 farm could do with help as well

@@algrant5293 I have just asked him plenty of work here in Wales

Very common for bachelors back in the day and it still is in many cultures. The purpose of moving out into your own home was to start your own family. If you didn't get married there was no point in moving out. It was a more family-orientated era. As we see here, it enabled the old dad to be taken care of in his own home by his son. My great-grandfather's brother, one of eleven, inherited his parents' house, which he was born in and had always lived in, in his 40s presumably because he was the only one unmarried. He ended up having children in his 50s and died in the house aged 88, having changed absolutely nothing of the interiors and saving up a small fortune for a coal miner. He bequeathed the house to his own son and it was lived in by that son's daughter and her baby. The humble terraced house ended up being home to five generations of my family over the period of around 100 years. In Asian families today it is the responsibility of the eldest child to house the parents when they are elderly, leading to multi-generational homes. I think it is wonderful and it's how Britons also were in living memory before the age of individualism took hold. Back then it was a case of staying at home and saving up until you needed to leave; now it's leave as soon as possible in early adulthood to "have your own space".

About 5000

@@blitzroehre1807 £3867 according to the Bank of England inflation calculator.

It was great back then .....not so sure now tbh

Belive me it still is, i'm a cameraman on Croatian television, most of the importetd program is made by BBC, as a kid loved Doctor who, Only fools and horses and wildlife documentarys , (sorry for the writing mistakes)

Sorry but the BBC has sunk very low now. They don't seem to make this kind of thing anymore, ie, objective assessments of people and situations. Everything now seems to be viewed through an ideological lens. Of course, there has always been bias of one sort or other, but it seems much more obvious nowadays.

No way, 93 years old and nothing to do but work for other people out of ingrained habit, count me out

Today's workshy youngsters would probably regard this bloke as "brainwashed" into believing that hard work was a good idea. Actually, he's right and they're wrong, in my opinion.

​@@halfabeet I suppose you didn't bother to get an education either? I mean, why would you want to follow other peoples habits, of going to school? Good luck making it to 93, and being anywhere near as healthy as this guy. That's with you having access to better medical treatment. Unfortunately for you, no amount of medical treatment makes up for the way hard work helps your health. I imagine this old guy, had no time to think about silly things, that stress people out today either, making him healthier both mentally and physically. Plus, you'll be lucky to have a government retirement fund, by the time you retire. So have fun working so hard at a young age, that you have enough saved up to retire. Remember inflation when you're saving, so you have enough money as the years pass. Most of all, good luck surviving if society ever wavers, let alone falls.

@@northernsnow6982 Boy you were triggered bad there huh

@@halfabeet triggered? Nope. Just trying to open your eyes. You don't want to see, you can stay blind. Enjoy old age.

still crap for a retirement gift

@@lesweizman388You sound like a spoilt brat.

What a pathetic comment.

@@ronin8926 Thank you. The oaf with their 'lol' signifies a participant in the Age of the Idiot.

Hobbies are a relative recent concept for working class people. Before the 1920s or so they just didn't have the time/money for them.

Maybe he tried to bring a 'bird' home, but his old dad kept showing him up like Albert Steptoe?