British Seaside - 1978 | The Archivist Presents |
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6 жыл бұрынAh, the Great British Seaside! Blackpool in the 1970s, classic!
Since the late 19th Century, Blackpool has been a major holiday centre on the England's North-West coast. In good weather or bad there are many amusements to keep the visitors occupied, including those of the famous Blackpool Pleasure Beach. ® Each September people flock to the town to see the 'Illuminations' which are strung along the 'Golden Mile'. The special feature of this year's Lights are the television 'Muppets'.
GV sea breaking on shore. MS 2 women sitting in deck-chairs. LS beach and Blackpool Tower. LS aerial view of beach. Ditto. GV people on beach. MS people putting up deck-chairs on beach. MS 2 children paddling in sea. MS naked child walking along beach. LS aerial of beach. Aerial of Blackpool town. LS ditto. GV houses. MS hotels (Sunset Strip). GV rows of hotels. MS hotel window with signs. MS hotel window with 'No Vacancies' sign. MS ditto. LS aerial beach and town. LS Blackpool Tower. MS children playing on beach. CS child digging in sand. MS woman putting up a deck-chair. MS child put up onto a donkey. MS child riding pony. MS woman taking child for paddle. LS Blackpool Tower. GV tram moving along road. LS ditto. GV cars down street. GV crowds walking along. GV cars along street. CU sign 'The Good Old Days'. GV crowds along street. GV ditto. MS sign 'Winter Gardens'. MS signs 'Tom O'Connor' and 'Tony Selby'. MS sign 'Tommy Steele Stage Spectacular'. MS crowds along street. MS ditto. CU candy floss being made. MS candy floss bought and handed to child. BCU child eating candy floss. MS 6 people eating candy floss. BCU ice cream machine and cornet. CU machine turned off. MCU girl's face as she eats ice cream. MCU ditto (another girl). GV street. CU sign 'Bingo'. Various of Bingo session. Various of people with other amusements, including table games, one-armed bandits, fruit machines. Elevated view fairground. MS people boarding fairground scenic railway. GV train moving . LS small boats in water. Various shots people in boats and also from boats. CU view from scenic railway. Train hits water splash. Various ditto. GV elevated mini go-karts. GV elevated view of cottage. GV view from train. MS boy on mechanical horse. MS ditto. MS people on merry-go-round. MS ditto. MS chair lift. LS elevated view from chair lift. LS elevated view of fairground. MS girl on trampoline. MS ditto. MS rockets merry-go-round. MS people in rockets. MS scenic railway. MS ditto. Various ditto. CU people on a 'witch's hat'. MS ditto. GV fairground amusement. CU girl with arm round statue. GV Blackpool beach at dusk. GV Tower at dusk. GV street scene at night. Many various shots of illuminations and street scenes with Muppets as this year's theme. NB aerial shots are really elevated shots from Blackpool Tower.
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@neiledwards5100 Жыл бұрын
And not a mobile phone in sight wonderful
@matthewharding7342 Жыл бұрын
Amazing the difference in 44 years, Blackpool has declined into a dump.
@TrueNativeScot Жыл бұрын
@@odds-and-sods Nah it's extremely different. The racial demographics are wildly different and that brings with it more violent crime and corruption
@justinmorgan2126 Жыл бұрын
Yup, it's a toilet nowadays
@bobpfaff2258 Жыл бұрын
it looked like a dump then!
@suspendeddisbelief401 Жыл бұрын
@@TrueNativeScot There's always someone who plays the 'race card'. You let your govt off lightly.
@MrStoneyburke Жыл бұрын
True Blackpool is just like the rest of Britain now.
@robertwilliams9234 Жыл бұрын
Blackpool will never be the same again
@johnrobertson8263 2 ай бұрын
no where is
@Jkk55 Жыл бұрын
Happy days back then wish I could turn back the clock!
@englishincontext4025 Жыл бұрын
I was born in the north-east and as a child used to go on holiday to Whitby and Scarborough. I'm now 69 and am just beginning to get the warmth back into my skin.
@bobbbxxx Жыл бұрын
Bet the fish and chips wrapped in newspaper were the best of your life!
@yvonneryder1109 Жыл бұрын
Whitby better than anywhere else I know
@bobbbxxx Жыл бұрын
@@yvonneryder1109 Oh aye. Nowt wrong with a Whitby fish supper.
@Jarjarbinks4president Жыл бұрын
Ditto
@fatbelly27 Жыл бұрын
Notice how the kids are all slim. Yes they would eat ice cream and candy floss on holiday but that was probably a once a year thing. They also walked and played games outdoors.
@arianbyw3819 Жыл бұрын
And smoked from a young age...
@PeterPete Жыл бұрын
And very few of those kids are truly happy in their adult lives!! No change there!!!
@dax8753 4 ай бұрын
An ice cream was a massive treat
@mpwheatley 3 ай бұрын
There's a few fatties, one wearing brown trousers on the beach @ 00:21. I was a chubby kid back then, it's a myth that people were slim in the 70s - after all the food was stodge. Lots of potatoes, pies, fish & chips, jam sandwiches etc. We never had a salad. In the summer we would eat ice cream from the ice-cream van at least once a week & drink sugary drinks all the time. Loads of rose tinted glasses here.
@spmoran4703 Ай бұрын
There were fat people then.
@V1010. Жыл бұрын
For almost a century Britain's have frozen happily on it's sands. 😊
@martinholmes-ue9ko 7 ай бұрын
Britons
@jantune Жыл бұрын
I wish we could go back to those days. Simple, safe, fun. 😢😢😢 Look at the mess we’re in now.
@DiscoverJesus Жыл бұрын
The devil plays the long game.
@mh20162 Жыл бұрын
it was a shet show
@jantune Жыл бұрын
@@mh20162 go away
@8G00SE8 Жыл бұрын
Bombs going off in Northern Ireland and England, Soviet threat of global nuclear war, high inflation...probably worse than today, although they probably had less crime.
@jantune Жыл бұрын
@@8G00SE8 as someone who lost a very close relative serving in the army at the hands of the IRA in the 80s, I absolutely do not need to be reminded of that, thanks very much. However, all things considered, it was still a nicer, simpler time to live than the shambolic world we are in now and going by the comments, most people agree with that. So please, for the second time, go away.
@paullacey2999 Жыл бұрын
Before the UK was infected.....
@cquilty1 Жыл бұрын
Pauline Racy Yes, but thankfully this covid pandemic is on the wane.
@peterlawson777 Жыл бұрын
That was my England; the country has changed beyond recognition since then and not for the better.
@paullacey2999 Жыл бұрын
Too woke now bud...
@peterlawson777 Жыл бұрын
@@paullacey2999 yeh, and I hate it.
@paullacey2999 Жыл бұрын
@@peterlawson777 the adverts get me cross too man.This country is ruined...
@peterlawson777 Жыл бұрын
@@paullacey2999 absolutely.
@_B.M_ Жыл бұрын
Bet you loved Jimmy Saville, Gary Glitter and Fred West. Your kinda England as you say
@sparerib Жыл бұрын
This brought back some memories, bloody freezing sea, cold chips and flasks of coffee to combat the bone chilling wind. Them were't days. 😂
@clarenicola1 Жыл бұрын
Tell me about it 😂
@lillianbourne575 Жыл бұрын
I emigrated to Western Australia. Beautiful life 😊😊😊😊
@nickstone3113 Жыл бұрын
Go on you loved it. ❤ I'm Anglo Greek and used to love it. Especially the cool wind. 🎉🎉🎉. U enjoy the Greek islands and leave more😅 space for us !!
@rosiew1952 4 күн бұрын
love the accent, even though I cant hear you talk, your comment says it all . Yorkshire is it?
@sparerib 4 күн бұрын
@@rosiew1952 'tha guessed reet, well done. West Yorkshire to be precise. 👍
@pennybunny Жыл бұрын
Now you're lucky to find someone who speaks English
@pamelamckenzie2685 Жыл бұрын
Those times was fun times and simple I love it.
@CB-RADIO-UK Жыл бұрын
Not a mobile phone in site. Such simple times.
@BB-wc9jx Жыл бұрын
Wonderful happy and safe times, sadly not now....😔
@beedee4427 Жыл бұрын
"frequently vulgar" hahahahaha! This was basically my childhood. I'm from Yorkshire so my "seaside" was at the other side of the "North". This is EXACTLY how I remember it, even the clothes (although Bridlington didn't have all the lights and rides as Blackpool did). Sitting on a gloomy, windswept beach eating candy floss and paddling in the chocolate coloured North Sea in your undies is exactly what it was all about. Then after a packed lunch of sandwiches and crisps we'd head for the arcades, play "smash and grab" and "shove the penny" before buying a stick of rock and eating a waffle with fresh cream on your way back to the car. I now live by the sea in Australia and my experience with the "seaside" is something quite different to my childhood memories. Thanks for posting!
@mick6370 Жыл бұрын
Same here from Yorkshire our holidays were spent at Scarborough with cousins 13 of us year after year glad my childhood was in a much better era,
@MrRadiorobot Жыл бұрын
...never had to worry about sharks in the sea @ brid....the floating turds were another matter...
@pommiebears Жыл бұрын
Where in Australia? I’m from London, but I live in Newcastle, NSW, now. Near the beach-ish. I miss what England used to be. I have those same memories you have of the seaside. It’s different here, isn’t it? There’s no fanfare at the beaches here, not like at home. I went to visit my parents in November. England has changed. It’s not anything how I remember it, and I was 30 when I moved here.
@MrRadiorobot Жыл бұрын
@@pommiebears England is a sh*t show, absolute disgrace what's happening to it.
@bobbbxxx Жыл бұрын
They've upped the "vulgar frequency" over the decades! 😉
@bethanhamer.8669 Жыл бұрын
I miss those times , who’d have thought this country would end up like this 😢
@TheGreatest1974 Жыл бұрын
It’s very sad indeed.
@john111257 Жыл бұрын
it is so sad, monkey dust...homelessness..and more
@eileenpritchard9154 Жыл бұрын
@@TheGreatest1974 ABSOLUTELY.
@bustedfender Жыл бұрын
You can guarantee someone was saying exactly the same thing in 1978 too.
@bethanhamer.8669 Жыл бұрын
@@bustedfender that’s true !
@axoscurry. 3 ай бұрын
i was ten in 1978.... this has took me back.... its not the same country now..... it has changed beyond recognition.☹☹☹☹
@TheForkhandles Жыл бұрын
I was 11 in 1978 and it was a great time to be a kid. Britain actually looked British in those days.
@supahfly_uk Жыл бұрын
I was 1 :D
@larrydickman5936 Жыл бұрын
Ask the natives of many third world nations what their lives and homes looked like before the British arrived ( eg. The Deigo igo Garcians , Palestinians, Kenyan etc)
@TrueNativeScot Жыл бұрын
@@larrydickman5936 no modern medicine and no roads lol. Also those places were never ethnically cleansed
@teesman61 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, shame the tories ruined it.
@Boilingfrogg Жыл бұрын
@@teesman61 Tories? I think I recall Tony Blairs Labour came into power in the mid 90s. That's when it it all went down hill.
@williamkennedy5492 Жыл бұрын
I first went in 1978 , i had a TR6 then and drove through the town lights with the top down , since then i have been a regular visitor, thanks fir the video, happy memories.
@version736ha2 Жыл бұрын
Great comment
@mikeymoo1291 Жыл бұрын
1978? I might have passed you in my Triumph Spitfire....
@RobertA-zk4yc Жыл бұрын
I had a mg midget when i was 23..it was round wheel arch.. older than me it was.. took me girlfriend for the day often and drive the illuminations.. What the hell happened to our world. ??
@rosiew1952 4 күн бұрын
my first ever holiday to Blackpool was the late 90,s I think. I have to say though, I loved every minute of it. we had good weather first time we went ( it was a heatwave) and I loved walking, my late sister in law didnt. so we went on a tram to see Chubby Brown . I was sweating like hell . but loved Blackpool. went every year for 14 years . would love to go back for a holiday , but Im from south wales valleys and the bus journey was over 7 hours , couldnt cope sitting that long now though.
@LittlePinkPiggy1 Жыл бұрын
Look at how slim everyone was.
@chrisshaw451 Жыл бұрын
Not so much fast food around then and people used to go out and do stuff instead of sitting indoors in front of computer screens and smart TVs etc, do not get wrong I am as guilty of that as the next person.
@robertfisher2844 Жыл бұрын
No KFC no macdonalds etc now look at everyone lol
@oli230 Жыл бұрын
It’s not just the availability of fast food, even if they kids had sweets or a burger they’d go home and have a proper home cooked meal at tea time, not something made in a factory heated up in a microwave. When you eat a lot of toxins your body stores it in your fat.
@rhondaprice5202 Жыл бұрын
Whilst out shopping in London a few days ago I was astonished that most people I saw was fat. We need to limit our intake of high calorie foods and get out more!
@davethewife7628 2 ай бұрын
It was good when you could walk around the pleasure beach without paying to go in. It was a fun place and felt safe.we used to go to the wrestling and stayed in a hol flat in dickson rd near the fry by night chippy.we went to see the krankies and the grumbleweeds on the pier.horrible place nowx
@andrewdales5962 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful Blackpool in the sophisticated 1970s. Like it.
@sebastianwelcome2080 Жыл бұрын
simple 70s you mean was born in 76 remember the 80s
@John-ob7dh Жыл бұрын
Only went there twice .near froze my nuts off .
@monk3yboy69 Жыл бұрын
@Sebastian Welcome A time just before consumerism engulfed the world. And here we are now……fucked.
@johnferrari3821 Жыл бұрын
We remember had bloody good it was back then and not just Blackpool. Now we see it and long for the old times,can you imagine how bad it’s going to be in similar years to come. How bloody sad.
@sidilicious11 Жыл бұрын
I’m from the USA and curious why so many in the comments feel life is so much worse now. Why?
@annwornell7510 Жыл бұрын
OMG what happened. I was born in 1942 and never expected to see our Country in this state!
@marilynmills2273 Жыл бұрын
Oh the good old days how I miss them. Things seemed so much simpler then and safer. I’m kind of glad that I’m older now as I know I’ve had the best of times before the UK became like an unrecognisable, nightmarish dystopia.
@londo776 Жыл бұрын
What does nightmarish dystopia actually mean
@chandlerbingbong Жыл бұрын
i agree. I'd hate to be a kid growing up in todays broken society.
@sambrooks7862 Жыл бұрын
@@londo776 kids stabbing each other to death, women being raped and murdered by coppers hotels filled with foreign criminals people spending half their wages on gas and electric government corruption on a scale we've never seen.
@carolinemcgreal2382 Жыл бұрын
Yea, seems like biblical end times to me'
@abc-ye2ec Жыл бұрын
look at London, shithole of the highest order now...
@ianglover3642 Жыл бұрын
I have a Photograph of a little Girl of 18 Months old, on my dressing table! It was taken in Blackpool in 1927! The Little Girl grew to be a very Beautiful Lady, my Beloved Mother! The opening scene depicted an Elderly Lady, who resembled my Mother, in her later years! I am now reflecting with a tear of all the Happiness I shared with Her and my Father! Thank you so much for posting 💖💖!!
@pauljohnson5319 Жыл бұрын
Just how I remember it as a child. Everything in Blackpool was much better then. I would swap it for todays Blackpool!!!
@tappym9141 Жыл бұрын
@DoubtingThomas It is now Blackpool for all the wrong reasons.
@cannonfodder6654 3 жыл бұрын
When wearing a nylon Cagoule with a front pocket was the law
@melgrant7404 2 жыл бұрын
I had an orange one I was ten then
@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 2 жыл бұрын
@@melgrant7404 Blue for me, with a white zip above the chest pocket... we wuz posh !!!
@howareyou857 Жыл бұрын
yellow!
@shakeyhandsshedmodelrailwa2494 Жыл бұрын
various cagouls were great folded up into thier own front pocket small enough to clip onto a belt
@loushared6602 Жыл бұрын
….and the elastic on the wrists was really tight!
@zetametallic 3 жыл бұрын
I really like the music. It was a long time ago, people were pleased by simpler things as the pace of life was slower back then. I was only 2 but I went to see the illuminations and it started my love of novelty lighting.
@rosieHolliday5887 Жыл бұрын
Goodness me this was my childhood hahaaa. All I remember is my grandparents always being fully dressed on the beach & I swear my grandad wore a shirt & tie lol. Mind you, you had to remain fully dressed on Blackpool beach. Bl*ody freezing it was & if you didn't batten down at least 4 wind breakers everything would blow a mile down the beach. Good times!
@jharris947 Жыл бұрын
As a kid my Dad used to take us to Clacton and I well remember him banging the winbreakers into the sand.😁He always wore a shirt, jacket and trousers on the beach. Can picture him now with his shoes and socks off and trousers rolled up walking in the waters edge...May seem silly but they're wonderful memories for me now.😎
@menopausalbarbie7467 Жыл бұрын
I was seventeen in 1978, the years have flown by!
@chobbler Жыл бұрын
Same here.
@peterlawson777 Жыл бұрын
Me too.
@traceyculyer5811 2 жыл бұрын
Used to love Blackpool, Great fun
@websherpa Жыл бұрын
I was a Canadian kid in Blackpool in 1978 in a Caravan with extended family and staying in those seaside British B&Bs. (It was a warmer time when I was there.) I have many amazing and happy memories from that trip and several others, and to this day remain fascinated by Fruit Machines, Penny Falls, the donkeys, and HATE rock candy. lol
@nickstone3113 Жыл бұрын
Listen rock candy has kept generations of Brit dentists in clover. . u don't know what u missing ❤
@CheshireCat6639 3 ай бұрын
@@nickstone3113ha was just thinking the same😅
@neilmalloy5830 4 ай бұрын
Good Times, went to Blackpool on day trips with working men's club, loved it 😊
@donna1420 2 жыл бұрын
First visited Blackpool in 1978 this brings back happy memories
@abduldaniel9964 Жыл бұрын
Great memories of my childhood times. The general public were financially poor them days, going abroad was not viable for everyone, so the seaside resorts were always flocked during the holidays. Yes, as a child it was heaven for me, candy floss and rocks were a must.
@sarahstrong7174 Жыл бұрын
Lots of people now cannot afford a sandwich, certainly not a day trip. Let alone any sort of a holiday.
@IndieVolken Жыл бұрын
@@sarahstrong7174 another sjw ffs
@sarahstrong7174 Жыл бұрын
@@IndieVolken Good day to you too. S
@JulieWallis1963 Жыл бұрын
@@sarahstrong7174 ODFOD!
@sarahstrong7174 Жыл бұрын
@@JulieWallis1963 What?????
@nathancox6249 Жыл бұрын
How times have changed
@peterdalyy3542 Жыл бұрын
How refreshing to remember England when it was England how I miss it
@paullacey2999 Жыл бұрын
Blame Your governments for ruining your England.And they are still doing it...
@DAVID-bv2gv Жыл бұрын
Here, Here, I Totally Agree With You 🏴 👍🏻
@ilovenitnat Жыл бұрын
@@DAVID-bv2gv hear, hear. Not here, here.😂
@DAVID-bv2gv Жыл бұрын
@@ilovenitnat Hi thanks shall I change it too Here Here !!! 😂🇬🇧
@darrenrexfrancis2538 Жыл бұрын
England when it was England? Why? What is it now?
@mungomidge1090 Жыл бұрын
In the 70's everyone was over 40, even the kids.
@bobbbxxx Жыл бұрын
😅
@sueblackwood6843 Жыл бұрын
That's when it was England
@londo776 Жыл бұрын
What does that actually mean
@PeterPete Жыл бұрын
@@londo776 It means Sue is mentally fixated on the past. Back in the old days she was happy; she had a lot to live for but now she's unhappy. English life can easily make one bitter as one gets older 👍
@sniper7014 Жыл бұрын
@@londo776 bellend springs to mind
@TheGreatest1974 Жыл бұрын
It’s a shame people who remember these great times, can only see them now on film- because britain has changed out of all recognition.
@pedrorenard8439 Жыл бұрын
Don’t worry, these films and any other record of what we once were will be seized and destroyed to remove all trace. People will see that we have always been a multi cultural society 😢
@mash83 Жыл бұрын
@@pedrorenard8439 go back to bed..
@TheGodParticle Жыл бұрын
@@pedrorenard8439 well said, it's a disgrace how down hill this country has gone in 44 years.
@theshamanarchist5441 Жыл бұрын
@@pedrorenard8439 "He who controls the past, commands the future. He who commands the future, conquers the past." George Orwell - 1984
@paulkazjack Жыл бұрын
Not really. It was a shithole then and is a shithole now.
@vanessahawarden9028 Жыл бұрын
Sad to see Blackpool and Morcambe turn into smack head central both
@1gerard47 Жыл бұрын
Is it ?
@eveoakley6270 Жыл бұрын
Just what I stated on the main thread. A lot of those guesthouses are now crack dens and the deprivation is very apparent.
@ThisWontEndWell 6 ай бұрын
for three decades councils have moved their problem cases to the empty seaside towns, which only made things worse.
@shirleyellis9708 Жыл бұрын
Bring back time anytime. I loved the donkeys miss it those were the days.
@CheshireCat6639 3 ай бұрын
Awww fabulous innocent seaside family fun🎉ty for staring 🎉
@christinekelly5916 Жыл бұрын
Simple times - less stress and worry then
@arianbyw3819 Жыл бұрын
Maybe for you, not for everyone
@paganjon6529 2 жыл бұрын
Make Britain great again.
@Paul-ki2cz Жыл бұрын
If only
@angelamary9493 Жыл бұрын
Too late sadly
@paganjon6529 Жыл бұрын
@@angelamary9493 never give up .👌
@henryjames5663 Жыл бұрын
Then don't Brexit
@robertwilliams9234 Жыл бұрын
@@henryjames5663what has that got to do with it
@hideouslyugly Жыл бұрын
For a few pence, you can have the thrill and excitement of the rapids! Not any more. Lovely video, I was 15 then.
@BlytheWorld1972 29 күн бұрын
I was nearly crying watching this my god it looked fantastic happy PEOPLE HAVING FUN THE LIGHT LOOKED SENSATIONAL
@thecontractor365 Жыл бұрын
Instant Time Travel. Love It.
@MyVmh Жыл бұрын
That was ace. I'm a Sandgrownian. Thankyou. I really enjoyed that 🌹
@Justdocuments Жыл бұрын
My nan took me here I miss them days 😢
@ianwhitehead691 Жыл бұрын
The days when you never saw any Beggers or Smack-heads in Blackpool.
@paulmcdonough1093 Жыл бұрын
you never looked they had drunks
@bartonseagrave9605 Жыл бұрын
Yes they did, I remember you.
@sassi7966 Жыл бұрын
And all white. Just an observation.
@theshamanarchist5441 Жыл бұрын
No Scottish there back then.
@mikeymoo1291 Жыл бұрын
Today...most of the people in that video couldn't afford the petrol to get there.
@sparerib Жыл бұрын
When the narrator said "the razzmatazz was much livelier and twice the fun!" 😂 I nearly pissed myself, everyone had a face like a wet weekend in Blackpool, literally! 🙄😂
@christopherckarkson5605 Жыл бұрын
Hello that takes me back the Great British sun bather. The suns out but its still 14degrees in the full sun.
@stephenroney2366 Жыл бұрын
Except 1976. I was 8. Went whole summer wearing undies, white socks white shorts and "gutties" I was brown as a berry.
@christopherckarkson5605 Жыл бұрын
@@stephenroney2366 hello, i was 20 spent my summer hols with a gang of mates in cornwall. A great summer.
@MegaPontoon Жыл бұрын
How lovely
@pigeon51 Жыл бұрын
My home when I was a child. Thank you for this. I smiled all the way through 😊
@maggiemay6625 Жыл бұрын
loved getting the sharra to the lights with me mam and nana back then blackpool was pure magic ❤️🇬🇧
@patriciaoreilly8907 Жыл бұрын
The woman sitting on the deckchair in the beginning of the video . Would have been known as the battle axe . Lol 😂
@rebeccaculling825 Жыл бұрын
Would she have been my age, 60?!
@self-preservationsociety7057 Жыл бұрын
Worked her arse off for 51 and a half weeks of the year to get a couple of days at the seaside
@dazdaz105 4 ай бұрын
She was only 32 when the film was made.
@michaelwhiles5282 Жыл бұрын
Epic - will never return.....
@robsawalker Жыл бұрын
Happy times! Love it
@raymondbonington9355 Жыл бұрын
Had my first kid in 78 , that s gone quick .
@adamsaint2890 Жыл бұрын
The illuminations, the pleasure beach and the road out. Three good things about Blackpool.
@minimaxi802 Жыл бұрын
Posh Lytham is just four miles down the road from Blackpool.
@nigelpowton9509 Жыл бұрын
Indeed it is, I was born there.
@tinamartin8890 7 ай бұрын
I love those classic cars. I need a time machine 😫
@ThisWontEndWell Жыл бұрын
Odd how the people who ditched Blackpool for a warm Spanish beach complain Blackpool is not like it used to be... Od course it isn't, you stopped bringing money into the town so it declined.
@bobbbxxx Жыл бұрын
You got it in one. Cheap package holidays destroyed all the traditional seaside towns
@lucaschapman2188 Жыл бұрын
First went to Blackpool only 2 years after when this was 🎥 filmed 👍🏻
@markgreet3543 Жыл бұрын
I went 1983,amazing place very good.
@tonyclifton265 Жыл бұрын
i was a kid in the 70s and we loved blackpool for holidays. simple times.
@chrisgrey5921 Жыл бұрын
Wow, how times have changed, fantastic film😀
@video99couk Жыл бұрын
The incandescent bulbs were so inefficient that you could literally warm yourself from the heat of the lights.
@nigel8499 5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@WhistleStatus 5 жыл бұрын
yes bro
@WhistleStatus 5 жыл бұрын
i m indian
@blakesteele7800 5 жыл бұрын
Frik Planet I'm American
@WhistleStatus 5 жыл бұрын
+Blake Steele Nice my Bro
@Nettsinthewoods Жыл бұрын
There’s nothing like sitting on a British beach with all your clothes on plus extra to keep the draught at bay.
@John-ob7dh Жыл бұрын
Very good.And very true
@LOVEchristHEwasVEGAN Жыл бұрын
thankyou this is gold
@freedom00666 Жыл бұрын
Use to go to Weymouth every year thro out the seventies it was great always seemed warm weather every one happy the hotel was called the cutter it was brilliant the landlady and landlord were always laughing every a minor bird in the hotel lounge which made the noise of children playing on the beach with the tide coming in and out what great times we had
@markunsworth2364 Жыл бұрын
I was 6 in 1978 and remember going to the seaside in Whitley Bay 🙂 take me back please
@ainsleystones4600 Жыл бұрын
That's beautiful! I've only been to Blackpool once........in 1978!
@gavindouglas3196 Жыл бұрын
Look not a knife Drugs or grooming gangs in sight
@cosh5 Жыл бұрын
That's because there are no blacks in sight
@sandwichbar8226 Жыл бұрын
@@cosh5 Only because they were hard at work building this country up. As the 50p says .. "Diversity built Britain ' 😂
@arianbyw3819 Жыл бұрын
If you think drugs weren't a thing in the70s, you weren't paying attention. I recall several stabbings in the papers. And the grooming gangs were all white, so I suppose that was okay.
@arianbyw3819 Жыл бұрын
Several stabbing murders in Blackpool then, also Disney Cooke and his paedo gang were abducting young boys up and down the country...
@loxleyltd Жыл бұрын
No devices. 😂 everyone’s on the same page
@shakeyhandsshedmodelrailwa2494 Жыл бұрын
that was blackpools peak , been downhill since nowhere near the place it was or crowds that visited today , in a hot summer day in the late 70s you were shoulder to shoulder all along blackpools golden mile wakes weeks helped a tradition long gone
@steve20664 Жыл бұрын
No cameras on every corner watching you, no satellite dishes, no phones , I grew up in 70s80s Redcar and it was way better then I just didn't realise at the time.
@johnrider5701 Жыл бұрын
I miss the 1970s has anyone got a time machine I can borrow?
@shanegeneral3874 Жыл бұрын
Love it. Down by the seaside but everyone is rugged up in coats!
@kokloketan1177 Жыл бұрын
I'm glad i were in Blackpool during 1975-1978...Those days were great fun and bring back sweet memories and have a great time there..
@AMikeOnLine Жыл бұрын
Anyone remember the 'Fun House'? There were huge Skittles that moved about right left and back and forth.. I managed to get my right foot stuck fast between one of the skittles and the floor. Horrific experience and scarred me for life. I was 7 years old. I've never been back. Great old film though.
@pigeon51 Жыл бұрын
The fun house was so dangerous! I spent hours in that place when I was a kid. 60p to get in and you could stay all day. I remember many drunken Scottish men on the joy wheel and one getting taken out on a stretcher 😂
@Mrc172 Жыл бұрын
Watching this is giving me a touch of the rapids.
@chris-rfs Жыл бұрын
Great memories...but i can assure viewers that Blackpool guest houses were hardly immaculately clean as described!.🤣
@borleyboo5613 Жыл бұрын
I’ve never been to Blackpool. In 1978, my sister and I went to Penzance in Cornwall. But I do love watching these old films because we did have lots of ‘bucket and spade’ holidays as a family. Usually in Scarborough on the Yorkshire coast.
@bobholyoake8577 Жыл бұрын
The year I was born 👍
@Holly_2011 Жыл бұрын
Back when you could call a spade a spade..
@kilburncounty Жыл бұрын
All this and that nice Mr Saville on the telly!
@mindblast3901 Жыл бұрын
Blackpool's Hallucinations
@denniseldridge2936 Жыл бұрын
There was a famous seaside place called Blackpool, noted for fresh air and fun So mister and misses Ramsbottom when there with young Albert, their son...
@tomasrikona4021 Жыл бұрын
"Oh I do like to be beside the seaside, I do like to be beside the sea"🥰
@jstone247 Жыл бұрын
Fun in the sun, English style. Laughing all the way from Australia.
@johnathanryan2117 Жыл бұрын
Bolton By The Sea. Im sure most North west towns would say the same. Wakes week might be a thing of the past, but its still possible to go up there and see a dozen folk you know . Gets some stick these days but theres nowt wrong with Blackpool. It never pretends to be anything other than what it is. Some great times there as a kud and as an adult in its pubs, clubs and football ground....great place and long may it continue. Lovely film
@Mark-Singleton Жыл бұрын
I beg to differ, I’ve lived here 60yr’s and, quite sadly, there’s plenty wrong with Blackpool. 😥
@Bombabingbong66 Жыл бұрын
I think many of us have such great memories even though it's a poor town with a bad drug problem.
@johnathanryan2117 Жыл бұрын
@@Bombabingbong66 true of a lot of places in the North West Kerrie, for a multitude of reasons. All the best!
@Lionofjuda957 Жыл бұрын
1979, my family and I were on our way to Canada 🇨🇦 never regretted it. I did have good times from the 60s until we left. We were from Plymouth, have to say, we never went to Blackpool, but looks an okay 👍 place.
@simonirvine1628 Жыл бұрын
It looks rough then and looks even rougher now....
@sambrooks7862 Жыл бұрын
My parents actually took me to Blackpool in 1978 and even as a 13 year old i remember thinking that it was the most depressing place I'd ever seen, and I'd been to skeg and great yarmouth!
@michellerowell158 Жыл бұрын
I felt totally different, I loved Blackpool!!
@pingpong5000 Жыл бұрын
The Pleasure Beach and the Illuminations were much better then than now, more real and fun. As a kid in the 1960s I worked at the pleasure beach during the summer school hols, I ran the ice cream stall next to the wild mouse, it was very enjoyable, people were much nicer/kinder then. Why the council got rid of those decorated trams was really stupid, they were fantastic to see.
@Bombabingbong66 Жыл бұрын
I was from Leyland, born 67 and remember the Wild Mouse and this film really takes me back and the fun of Blackpool. We went for a week most years. Scott's week the kiss me quick squeeze me slow hats, fish n chips. Great memories. I live in France now, my kids hv no idea what Fun really was back then.
@kopthelotklopp1523 Жыл бұрын
The wild mouse is still there isn't it? Certainly was around 10 years ago.
@pigeon51 Жыл бұрын
@@kopthelotklopp1523 it got dismantled a few years ago 🙁
@kopthelotklopp1523 Жыл бұрын
@@pigeon51 that's a shame. Although I assume it was for the best considering its age. Thanks for letting me know 👍
@nikolibolokov4521 Жыл бұрын
That because you was a kid not an adult
@sandwichbar8226 Жыл бұрын
No dinghys full of fighting aged men washing up? This footage must be doctored
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