Growing up in the 70's was great. I don't get offended by most things, I got to see the Dukes of Hazard and the A-Team first time around, I learnt that life can be unfair and it owes me nothing and I got to go on those space hopper things!

1974, yes i wish i was there

Lovely. As a local, I can say that not much has changed since this programme was aired.

In general, peoples minds were much calmer back then.

That was probably the best retro look at the english countryside and its people. and more than a couple of minutes...There must be more like this...Please put more of them on please Thames TV

I went there on holiday with my school in 1979. One of the most beautiful places in England. We canude 7 miles down the river Severn. The most amazing forest I've ever seen is the forest of Dean. It has thousands of giant ant hills or nests and the ants are massive about a centimetre long and they bite ❤️👍

A few holiday suggestions for the discerning millionaire there. The only holiday I ever had was being shipped off to Grandma and Grandad in Surrey for a fortnight. It was quite exotic, though: the tap water was so 'hard' (infused with limestone) it may as well have been mango juice; all-day breakfast; Grandma was a fellow gee-gee aficionado so afternoons watching the box with her were very rare and valued instances of adult interaction which didn't involve getting a bollocking; I could walk over the road and watch fackin enormous machines laying the foundations for the M25. To this day, Chertsey never fails to get a mention on travel reports. I did eventually get to see the Brecon Beacons and it is indeed beautiful.

Canal boating looks like a pleasant way to spend a holiday. Are there still boats there today? 1974 doesn't seem like that long ago to me until I start counting and realize it's almost 46 years now!

The interview with the Walters on the waters was amusing, poor Mr Walters needs a holiday from this holiday by the looks of it!

A mini van with a roof rack and luggage which is rarely seen now probably because most cars are hatchbacks. Back in the 1970s my father used a roof rack on his Triumph Toledo driving the family to North Wales for holidays. We usually had to stop at least twice there and back due to the engine overheating.

That is just so lovely. I used to trek with Ray and the ponies. I spent most of my young life there whenever I could. Ray Smith was a wonderful man, he was very good to those horses and had a deep knowledge of the Black Mountains history an wildlife. He died in 1982 and over 300 hundred people attended his funeral. He was very special and this is a wonderful memory for me.

How times have changed. For the worst. I miss Hereford.

I really enjoyed that thanks for the upload

Blimey ! This took me back. I went to a PGL Holiday there in approx 1978. Absolutely fantastic.... Mum & Dad dropped me off with a bag of old clothes & I had the time of my life . Stayed for a week spent the first 4 nights in an old converted Manor house & the last few camping on the lawns. Did Archery ,Kayaking , Horse Riding, Orienteering , Fencing , Abseiling and more .... well worth the £40 they paid to get me out of their hair for a week.

I do like a bit of Judith Chalmers

There’s no way I would go in a canoe, but the scenery is so idyllic !!

In two weeks time I am thinking of booking a holiday in the 1970s, but do you know if they have wi-fi back then please? Only I plan on being so self-absorbed with my phone and photographing my dinner from every conceivable angle I hope to negate the point of going away at all. I would also like to use the same smartphone to have my food delivered by moped providing I can be absolutely sure the rider has secretly just scraped it up off the road. Thank you in advance.

Oh that was great! Bit Alan Partridge - "What a way" to have a good time! Really appreciate her 70s barnet - my auntie Pauline had that but the home brew version LOLOLOL

Met her in the 80s. Yes. Lovely 'excent' when she spoke.

Love the canals they are so pretty and peaceful.

Lovely accent Judith Charmers has got, hardly ever hear it these days

The good old days

Oh this is all so terribly wholesome

I did that holiday in the 70’s for 5 days brilliant

1976 Bracelands Campsite..Happy Daze!!!

i went to an activity centre at long town when i was at school in the 80s it was brilliant!! the last scene with judith on the boat, the 2 kids behind her look really fed up i wish i was there back in time

I went there with my school back in 1975, haven't been back

More of. ... Wish we were There

Aww happy days 👍

25 quid for the whole week plus equipment. Those were the days.

Spend manys days with the gang at Bracelands camp site great days 😎😊😎

I went to school at the Convent in Ross on Why when I was 4. The youngest pupil. I was spoilt wrotten. My brothers were at The Benedictine Abbey in Hereford. Beautiful area.

They wouldnt allow that canoeing now to be so free these days. The amount of regulations and health and safety crap people have to endure these days, takes the fun out of half of it

These days were better, much better.

Perhaps the BBC should show these 1974 holiday venture videos. To show people what British life was like back then , compared to today . I don’t think anyone today would think their life is any better than it was then .

Was Judith Charmers ever a young person? She seems to have been forever middle aged

Those 2 kids at the end were passed off that their dad cheaped out on their holiday.

"... and folk of questionable ethics." 😂

I must admit, when I was 17 I had a bit of a thing for her.

Not a high viz anywhere.

I think I went there with my school in 77' Anyone else?

More holidays than Judith Chalmers

Judith Chalmers visited Ross to get sharpened up 😂

Watching this all these years later, it really plays out like a comedy show for me, very 'Alan Partridge' with a hint of 'The Fast Show' so funny 🤣

innocent days

heard the intro and thought it was Alan Partridge :)

Mrs Wish You Were Here Judith Charmers

What does Mr Walters get out of a holiday like this? He sleeps in the same room as his kids and wees in a bucket.

Like a carry on film lol

Now known as Ross Vegas

People looked healthy back then.

So anyone been there lately? How's it now?

i so wish they still did these kind of things as nowadays its all about money on holiday parks everything costs money and is not included in costs and its never peaceful as it was

£25 is £277 today.

I like her coiffure.

Just growed oh dear Judith you meant grown surely 😯

That canoe capsize rig looks just too unsafe for modern standards

Why don't you all finish you complaints about modern technology and foreigners, put down your foreign built smartphone, and drive to the countryside and have a lovely holiday instead of reminiscing like this doesn't exist anymore and everything is shit🤣 Enjoy your life people!

I don't want to be over judgemental... but, that canoe instructor looks a bit suspect, and the bloke with the cap probably has surpressed anger issues and owns a double barrel shotgun.

Beautiful part of the world not far from where I grew up. When I was a kid I read a book called the Weathermonger set in the area around Ross, the Black Mountains, etc., about an England that magically rejected all modern technology and went back in time to the Middle Ages, and remember thinking how if that happened, it wouldn't actually be much different, lol. Very slow pace of life that I can't imagine has changed much in hundreds of years. And yes, for those who care about such things, it's all still very white, middle-class, Tory-voting around there. You're very unlikely to meet an immigrant (unless a recent income from London swapping their 1-bed flat for a rambling B&B and pricing out all the locals counts). I found it all a bit too bucolic and now live in a big city where my neighbourhood is like the United Nations, Tories are nowhere to be seen, and I couldn't be happier.

Growd? Really Judith.

oh matter and patter , have gone orf again, rather

£25 for the week....absolute bargain....but probably a lot of money to some people back then....i'd rather do more pony trekking than water sports though.....and great to see none of them wearing helmets ....wouldn't be allowed today lol

Why pay thousands of pounds to go on a foreign holiday when this country is better... you don't have no queues at the airport or foreign currency to exchange or a foreign language or buy water..... it's the buying the water what's my point .... in England it's free ....tap water that is you can drink you can't drink tap water in foreign countries can you that's what I'm talking about when I mentioned water to me it is common sense what I am talking about

How grim and unenlightened I remember those times to be, so much better now we have better lives

Little Britain

English people made England such an attractive nation, that others left their ethnic homelands to live in England.

very diffrent times. its really starting to show now. a mum and dad thats not plastered in tattoos for a start, all the blokes now are on steriods with shaved heads so are are the woman. that barn with the bat in it would be closed of and the owner would be getting fined by the bat protection league for not perserving it. camp site is proberly 25 pound a night now or its been banned years ago due to noise and winging nimbys. couldnt mension that a pub is an attraction now cuase its premoting brooze. theres proberly a prtest going on there right now over someone 300 years ago having something to do with selling opium to china. theres proberly less police there now then befor there was a police force, place is full of london yuppys too, locals cant aford t live there, the hopuse trekking proberly been long since banned too. or thay got sued cuase someone fell off. or animal crulity people saw it off.

The kayaks were called canoes here - most peculiar and confusing. The differences between kayaking and canoeing seem quite obvious but should have been completely obvious to a TV presenter to avoid that huge blunder! Odd.

It's extra for the 1970s polyester clothes... £25 for a week, activities, board and lodgings... Mmmm I'll have to speak to the bank manager before splashing out that sort of money...

What no ethnics book me in

Christ there are a lot of racists leaving their comments on here. Fremantle should block them.