Well said, Francesca!

Great comment and fascinating video. These little gems are what make YT such a wonderful library of cultural history.

Not just people from British Isles and Britain's, but the Irish and people from the Irish Isles, but of course its mostly an Irish influence where all forms of set dancing Sean nos dancing, and Irish dance are still going strong and haven't died out like they have in Britain

​@@marcphelan9883 "The British Isles" usually includes Ireland.

@@j.503 if you're a British imperialist it does

Cumbria too.

@@henryb160 Cumbria was once part of Wales, when Mercia, Wessex and Kent were England. Anglia was Saxon, ie Fresian, and has it's own clog heritage, closely tied to seafaring, although rarely worn aboard, too slippery. The Bretons also have a celtic clog heritage.

@@JelMain Yes, I know.

my mum was irish but went to live in lancashire, she wore clogs to work in the 40s

Someone I know went through that in a pub in Wales. She sat and listened to her group being insulted and scorned for being tourists. As they got up to leave she turned and told them off in fluent Welsh and silenced the pub...... :)

Not always that way. We are Welsh and moved to live in England in the early sixties. We used to go back to Nefyn for holidays as the full English tourist family bit - beach, shoes, shorts, nylon kaguls for the rain, etc. One rainy afternoon, we went shopping in Pwllheli and as we trooped into a record shop, one of the assistants said, in Welsh, "Here come the English tourists". The other one said instantly "No, they're Welsh". (We had not spoken a word in any language). Must be something in the gait - or perhaps we seemed too much at home in the Gwynedd rain - anyway, no correction needed!.

She sounds like an absolute legend, good for her!

Served her right, too. Deserved anything your mother handed her and more. Besides, I not one bit of patience for people who want to make money off people they despise. Can't have it both ways. If you don't like tourists, stay away from the tourist traps. I don't like them either, people tend to leave their brains at home for some reason when they go on vacation. So, I stay away from places that attract the idiots. And there's a lot more tourist traps to dodge here than there, trust me on that . You people are lucky, you don't have to deal with places like Disney or Sea World or Six Flags...or the literal hundreds of little places scattered all over the 3,531,905 square miles of my nation. Of course, we told the British where to shove it, twice. Second time they got the point. We fought two wars to kick them out and make sure they stayed out. I'm an American and damned proud of it.

@@janestreeter8570 😎

We can call it ”the good old time”.😊😊😊😊😊😊😅😊😊

This type of documentary reminds me of Mr Rogers!! (in a very good way)

I don't find much of that "3 minutes and move on" attitude I have to say!

He'd be welcome back here now. They started expanding Borehamwood and Elstree three years ago, and so were up and rolling when the Hollywood strike started. It's nor really strikebusting when the companies concerned aren't part of the American film industry because they're an online medium, use a far older acting heritage than Hollywood, and have different legal and contractual forms.

stilll plenty of clogging in the USA

13 in 1959 makes you and all your friends 1946 war babies. 1946 was a time of rationing and food shortages. No wonder there was "no overweight kids".

I was 11. There were only 2 overweight children in my high school, out of about 250 students. We walked or rode bikes everywhere. There were no fast food places in my small hometown.

Me too! 13 in 1959. Living near Plymouth Devon.

No? You must have been blind and deaf to have neither seen or joined in with the bullying and teasing.

Great post. It would be ideal if more real musicians felt the same way as you since we seem to be listening to the same thump nowadays.

ME too, in Lacashire, late 40's early 50's.

You must have had such a wonderful time growing up in those times. So, you knew all the children in the film... Is anyone still around and in touch perhaps. Thanks

I 🇨🇦 would love love to learn to clog with you!

If you try to do that now days, someone gonna ask what set you claim foo cryp walking like that n shit cuz sawhooo !!!!

I read this as “I used to clog with my boys”

I'm not usually a fan of commercials, but that one makes me smile every time I see it.

I love that ad

What does this have to do with a Geico commercial?

in western canada it is said native children learn how to "jig" before they walk. the jig: mainly scots-irish, pipes (rarely), fiddles, drums. i've seen teenaged native canadians jig and am astounded at the sight - it's as if you really can't see their feet move, they are simply there.

Wish we could teach our teenagers this wonderful dance!

@annedeline4421 where there a will, there's a way! You'd be surprised who will come forward to help when you put the word out, and make a start!

How lovely to read of your experience, from Roland Mb Canada

There are still a few clog makers in the U.K., sometimes to be found demonstrating their skills at heritage museums

he was lucky to keep his fingers so long too

Volendam and areas in Holland 😍

@@carolilseanne2175 Hmm, never saw that in Volendam when I was there in 86. Not in the tourist part?

@@majajh Volendam is just for show. The real clogmakers live in the village of Enter. In the eastern part of the Netherland

Yes we should build a kiosk We need to regain that has been lost within us. And build a shelter of wood and stone.

Hey, Albert... Today is 06/06/19. I'll be 67 in a little less than two months. And it's a special day for me, 50 years since I graduated from high school. I went out of my first date that night. And when I took her home, before she got out of the car, she slid across the seat...and kissed me...my first kiss! You are so right, of course. It is the simplicity of life in what "old guys" like you and me those "good ol' days," for me, beginning in the '50s, that simply vanished. And there is no going back. You stay safe and take care of yourself.

This documentary is actually really beautiful, even if a bit hokey. As time goes on, it gets even better.

Reading your comment on the 6th of May 2020

Rubbish there was never a simple day.It was that things were never dealt with or spoken about.Ignorance is only bliss when you choose it to be.

James Kristoff One of my doctors had a Welsh partner; when he spoke I couldn’t understand him: I was too busy listening to the beautiful lilt of his speech!

So many forms of art are becoming lost. I would love a future that incorporated new technology with a very back to the earth living style where artisan pursuits are just as valuable as high tech ones.

Alder is still one of the hardwoods. Furniture etc. The blades he is using are very sharp. Original miter boxes for cutting house trim were much the same. A lost technology.

Pennsylvania was once the 'Welshiest' US state. Look at all the Welsh place name surrounding Philly. That area, IIRC known as the Welsh Tract, had the heaviest concentration of Welsh Immigration in the US.

I used to live in South Western Pennsylvania.

@@freedomatlast8756 Wasn't sure if you were replying to me or gelli :) How long did you live in Pennsylvania? It is a very pretty state. I live more towards Cook Forest area. Used to be a popular fishing and hunting area - not so much anymore. During the first week of trout fishing, it was hard to drive down the roads around here - cars parked on the sides of the roads, people carrying fishing pools, coolers, canoes, walking in all different directions. A driver had to be very careful because they were all concentrating on vacation, camping & fishing - people darting back & forth, not watching their kids ... but, they were all having a good time :)

I'm from Chicago, but met a "long-lost cousin" in Wales two years ago. To say I love Wales would be an understatement! Can't wait to return to that magical place.

I am 2nd generation welsh from Pottsville penna near the welshest city in the USA. Mount pleasant and didn’t realise how much it looked like wales until I went to Swansea

The Welsh accent is the best..I lived in Swansea and it took me a while to get used to some of the real hardcore speakers there..I hope they keep that language alive

Go back now and they are speaking Welsh in the streets and the shops.

@@duckweedy what joy that many of the languages that were once dying are making a comeback!

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When my mum was young it was still frowned on to speak Welsh except at home... maybe at chapel

So do I. Pathe News. That’s giving my age away. The narrator's is what completes the film. Loved those old Pathe News films as they gave us a window on the world.

I remember them also. Now all you get is adds. Haven't gone to the movies in years, Lord of the Rings I think. Better watching in the comfort of home!

niteowl365 I was just thinking that same thing!

The Appalachians derived from Scots Irish and all the Celtic dancing styles are related.

Very interesting.

@@Automedon2 Technically not correct. The Gaelic Celts use "soft" soles which flex and solid soles which are a bit different then. "ours". The Cymrieg use only hard soles which prevent the foot from flexing, thus the limited heal and toe tapping. Surprised the video did not mention WHY the solid wood clog soles? Back in the early days of the industrial revolution Cymru, at first, saw more industry move in/develop then most of the rest of the British Isles. People seeking employment came from all over Cymru seeking work in the southern valley. That introduced the varied local dancing styles to people whose homes were elsewhere ( in Cymru). When they had a chance to go home the newly learned dance styles went with them. But why clogs? #1 SIMPLE, a good many of the jobs meant working in a damp or wet environment. Flexible leather soles would rot due to the water, wood soles did not. So flexibility of the feet was traded for dryer feet. #2 And let's face it, no one had several pairs of shoes in their closet, and that led to clog dancing. Other clog dancing moves such as the use of a broom were more common in Cymru then Ireland and Scottland. Dancing while holding the broom parallel to the ground with knees bent, as in Russia, was common to Cymru and not the Gaelic Celts. The dancing while "jumping the broom", as I understand, has more to do with the Brythonic Celts beliefs then of the Gaelic Celts. So of the Celts, whose dancing was picked up by the more modern "clog dancing" of the United Stars? Long argument. However, Canadian "step dancing" is mostly the clog dancing of Cymru AND what became tap dancing of the United States. Why? When the Brutish, er British, tried to force the Accadains out of Canada those people fled into the hills where they mixed with the Irish, Scots, and Cymru who had as much "dislike" for the English as the French. Cultures were altered(?) A large bit of my knowledge on the subject of clog dancing came with the chance to mix with a band of Accadains known as Barachois out of Prince Edward Island who would come down and perform at Celtic Festivals in the States. While watching them dance I could not help but see a connection with the clog dancing (NOT "CLOGGING") of Cymru. Other factors came out as I don't know anything about the Accadains but we somehow seemed to be "neighbors". In this case it turns out the 2nd largest minority of people in Prince Edward Island are the CYMRIEG!

@@rogerc.roberts4705 clogs and the industrial revolution began in northern England

@Big Bill O'Reilly Saddo

@Big Bill O'Reilly People like you represent all that is wrong with the world.

I had a great time in 1959 - I was 9 years old at the time. And no, I don't remember ANYTHING being even remotely like this!

I bet you couldve drank the water straight from that river

@@Cola64 Well friend, you would have been deathly sick within 24 hrs. Remember this was before there were any health considerations for industrial pollution. The coal mines and Railroads in South Wales were dumping chemical filth by the ton onto the hillsides to wash straight down into the rivers. About this time one of those slag heap mountains collapsed and buried a school killing many children. One of the worst domestic tragedies ever in the UK.

CLOG SHOES MADE BETTER THAN TODAY'S.

This video serves to pass it along.

I sister had a pair of wooden clogs. She loved them and wore them for years.

I watch this video and it does remind me of simpler times: not times where you had nothing to do. Just times that didn’t fill up your day with empty things. It makes my memories as a child seem that much richer!

I'd have had only 8 fingers left it were me being the clog maker. 8 fingers at max.

Yes, and I wonder how many are alive. The kids must be in their 70's now!

A priceless treasure! A testament for future generation!

Sure they did. But they figured we'd be watching it on ducane model 600 16 mm projector... they would have thought you were crazy if you'd have told them you'd be watching it on a phone. Lol!

@elmosmidlap : Do you mind? I'm at least 5 years older than the youngest boy in that video - he can't be more than 10. And Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are at least 2 years older than me! So eff off ( 'scuse my Welsh)!

@@wayinfront1 was the comment you are referring to deleted? if so pity, not least cos when fo!llowing your 'excused welsh,' there was no mention of taking comment with him when doing so - but there you go, or rather, there goes elmosmidlap, cheers

Oh, only one in the main street.

I didn't see nobody with a cell phone either

I thought I saw one just at the end of the film? ,behind the wagon. About 14.45?

No money, no industry, food rationed, yeah, just effen spiffy...

Several cars insight. Get yer eyeballs checked. ;)

...but some new inhabitants

@@georgealderson4424 Ooooooh, I see what you did there! Are you intimating that the place smells like curry now?

@@trimule No not at all. Talking of curry I wonder if these were the houses The Mahatma visited when the cotten problem was around?

Do they still use the horse with carts in the small villages?

The Welsh ,as i told by a couple of Welsh,are English with an Indian accent....@@trimule

john smith This was made in 1959. lol

@@talon1706 Yeah, we didn't mention England enough, so they wouldn't let us make another :D

Yeah some really good drum and bass from Anglesey and Gwynedd. Just ignore the "washing machine techno". Xxx

john smith Yes, the sheep can finally relax.

sylw ffôl ! @@talon1706

There's Cornish and Lancashire clogging/clog dancing too I believe.

The Appalachian region is very remote, with few people coming and going, therefore the communities are rather insulated. Even to today there is no cell phone service into the more remove "hollers.'

yeah-like chucking the rolled up newspapers back in the day ! 😂...plus while riding a bike 🤣...✌

The import of American trends hasn't done Britain a lot of good that's for sure.

Alfred Lawrence Wales such a special place!

Gathering No Moss They gave us a few too that proved not so great. Its not all one country’s fault what has happened.

@@Automedon2 Oh, come on. You're implying the UK is some kind of victim. You know, the Beatles and Stones could be thought of as the beginning of the debauching the US, too. Culturally, the US is always 5 to 10 years behind the UK, IMO.

@@Automedon2 Americans were essentially English in 1959 and even now to a lesser degree, since the push for white erasure.

It came from English and Welsh immigrants to there.It was incredibly popular in England but then has died out so much.Even Bob Hope and Stan Laurel (real name Stan Jefferson)were part of clogging groups when they went to America!

That's a lost art right there. I can only hope he had ancestors or apprentices that carried on those skills and tools.

@@MacHamish 🌵🙋💥🎯💯🍒 05-06-19. 4:41 pm pdt. ca., 🇺🇸

Yes, lovely tools. In Sweden there are still a few clog makers, but the ones in this video looked more practical. Like you could wear them for everyday and walking in the muck.

You could find a blacksmith to make those tools for you. Or attach blades to wooden poles and add a hook to the end. A large "eye" screwed into a sawhorse and there you go!! Some clever person could help you.

some of us still wear clogs, theres a clog shop in Yorkshire who hand makes clogs, very comfy. www.clogs.co.uk

Undoubtedly, modern mobile tech has destroyed street life and ruins both kids and adults minds.

True. Good cardio too

:) You've described my family perfectly :) My Mother's side is Scottish & Irish :) My Father's is German. They all settled in the Appalachian mountains & foothills of Pennsylvania. Grandpa (Mom's Dad) was a coal miner - died of Black Lung. Family gatherings and reunions (when I was very young) were so much fun - the air was filled with fiddles & banjos ... sack races, games of horseshoe, penny pitches, (to raise money for the next year's reunion), door prizes, seemingly endless amounts of food, homemade breads & jam, some even brought moonshine :) I have/had 37 first cousins on my Mother's side of the family, then all my Great Aunts & Uncles had large families, too. We all had wonderful times when we gathered for the reunions. So many attended that at times it felt like a fair. :) This video brought those memories back for some reason :) All of the older generation in my family is gone. Grandma & Grandpa's house was bought years ago & made into a camp.

Yes, plenty of the old Welsh cottages and villages remain. In Europe history and cultural inheritance is valued, things aren't usually torn down randomly in the name of progress.

Lovely! Scots Irish is what I think you mean. Anything else refers to a bottle of whisky, LOL

No kidding! The first thing I did was to count his fingers! I started to close my eyes!

No kidding! The first thing I did was to count his fingers! I started to close my eyes!

Never know they might be related

@J A C I picked up on that, too. Mary Ann is the name of the girl in the David Hoffman video on Appalachia.

@@larryhagemann5548 we love Hoffman!

That is what I thought as soon as they showed her.

I thought that too. Weird.