Enjoy it while you can, films like this will be deleted for crimes against diversity.

@@tractorhead971exactly the pakis have migrated 😢

Totally agree. Delightful filming of what looked like a lovely holiday for that family.

Makes you wonder what on earth they expected to find when clicking on something named "Devon and Cornwall in 1950s or 60s in wonderful 16mm Kodachrome" that left them feeling disappointment. :)

I agree. My daughter lives there and it's a shadow of its former self.

My God, why the hell is Castle Circus allowed to be a social club for all those junkies/petty criminals? Torquay was in my youth wonderful , but corrupt local politicians pulled down the old town and allowed The Willows to be built and having ruined the town made it a magnet for scuzzers. Sorry, rant over!

@@andrewhoward7200 Exactly. Was working in Torquay yesterday morning. At 7am the Junkies were out in full force, down Factory Row, smoking spice and looking smacked out in doorways, then when I was driving out past Castle Circus, there was a couple of hookers clearly trying to sell themselves. This was all in broad daylight on a Tuesday morning. You're also hard pressed to actually find someone from Torquay, in Torquay. They're all Scousers, Romanians and Albanians.

@@masterbeethoven8209 Bang on. Send them all back.

@@andrewhoward7200 Have to agree with most of that - Apart from the bit about the willows. Although since the arrival of Amazon I don't shop there either.

^This comment above makes all the sense in the world!^

nah everyone says this on these kinds of videos. And you can bet the people in them were saying this about a bygone era before them also. Each generation has it better than the previous one, we work less and get more. We can't complain about what choices of food we can eat nor the medicines that allow us to live much longer. The only thing I wish for was the better dress sense and how no one seems to be hell bent on copying each other with tattoos and material wealth.

@@oo0Spyder0oo ...uh, no! (Rejoinder not necessary)

@@rockyzrockyx917 Took some effort to pull that out of your head eh?

@M B Well it is always better, even if some things seem worse. Technology improves, medicines, longevity increases, and so on. No one is lining up in soup kitchens or dying from diseases that have cures now. And if you don't work, you still get money. Yeah, things are better.

Yeah Dawlish used to be lush, The Exeter inn Gays Creamery. A pint of "rough" from a wooden barrel .. Heard the latest incumbents are eating the black swans!!

Interesting stuff "Roy" all first hand knowledge no doubt.....👍

cool . .

1971 was a bit early for Ian Dury? I grew up near by and turned 13 that summer. I've since met others who were hippies in the area but I was oblivious at the time despite being into the music.

Thank you.

Can't believe how less built up torquay was in those days

It is still lovely here in Devon. Come one April or May, not at the height of the season.

Change is innevitable.

@@paulgilson2347 yeah not for the better I'm afraid

@@chucky2316 In your opinion. I think some things are better, some not, but that's irrelevant. Change will happen one way or another.

And the kids will be eligible for retirement any time soon! The march of time.

The curse of the dinghy.

Definitely not.

Guys get over it I prefer the new modern Britain which is a doner kebab and chips x 2 with 3 bottles of coke all for a fiver!! Modern Britain at its very best that’s what happens when you invent the industrial revolution.

@M B Cheers bro!

Bill Wellington . No your not. There's thousands of you pricks on KZfaq, spoiling these enjoyable videos with your negative comments.

I grew up in St Austell in the 1970's. Yes it was nicer than it is now although far from perfect. Most of us moved away for work or study when we were 18 and stayed away. Some of us returned later in life when our parents were elderly and needed our care.

@@cornishhh how come most moved away, same reasons as now? - ie no jobs and wanting the city life where there's more going on? Asking bc I'm Cornish and moving away after uni

@@manvesh97 Pretty much. Also there was no higher education except for Plymouth Polytechnic which was too far away for most Cornish kids to live at home whilst still getting a student social experience.

Looked a bit run down then ( the hotel) - rather nice now with great food.

And now Tunisia just comes to us, & stays!

I remember visiting Upham's shipyard and watching the Mayflower II being built. We lived in Torquay and a trip to Brixham often meant a nice crab to take home and prepare for tea! And there was Berry Head, with the fort and lighthouse - I saw an adder there once. Another very early memory is of standing on Corbyn's Head (Down, Jeremy!) watching the Home Fleet sail into Torbay to anchor and wait for the Royal Yacht, carrying the Queen back from her post-Coronation tour of the Commonwealth - the next day, my mother took me on the Western Lady ferry to Brixham and we went through the lines of warships and circled the battleship Vanguard. The scenes of Babbacombe Down and the cliff railway to Oddicombe Beach also brought back happy memories. I was born (in 1948) in a nursing home on St Luke's Road, overlooking the Princess Pier and Abbey Sands in Torquay, and I see that the shots looking up at this hill were taken before the 'modern' (now rather faded!) flats were built. Many thanks to the poster for this lovely set of films!

RandR ......damn that’s some serious cliff face erosion over a relatively short time!

I live in Babbacombe, and yes England has been seriously eroded in many ways. But, the world's population has increased (from 1950), more than three-fold, finite resources spread-out yet further. World populous searching for better pickings moving about the planet no longer respecting boundaries, all the while our little island is physically shrinking. And, this is just the beginning! Nature though will address the imbalance and reset the system, its pendulum is also - always moving.

I am a Texan by birth and come from a long line of native Texans. I say the same about my state . I have to call it a " state " because it is connected to the united states by treaty . at one time , Texas was it's own country with its own laws , army , and navy . the governments of Britain , and France recognized it as an independent country and had ambassadorships there .the united states wanted Texas tied yo it as a bulwark against Mexico and Spain as the states were a protestant country and Mexico and Spain as is well known is heavily Catholic . my Texas , my " country " has fallen to the depravity of America because ots

I agree with your 1959 onwards assessment- the Ford next to the A40 (1958 - ) was a Popular (distinguishable from Prefects and Anglias by its different rear light units), which came out in 1959. I really must get a life........!

Used to see it every day, had a business in Truro Pannier Market.

@@Thursdaym2 used to catch the bus back to Aggie from the bus park by the toilets...

Still there.....restaurant......at least was a few weeks ago! Didn’t know it was the Compton Castle!

Kodachrome stock was extremely slow, but also extremely sharp. Most 16mm cameras of that time had good lenses.

At 9:16 purportedly shows the Mayflower Ii being built. That would roughly date this segment of the film between July 1955 and September 1956. Source en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower_II

August 63 added suffix in some licensing authorities, but not all, think it became compulsory in Jan 65, C suffix.

Where are the Mirror dinghies?

Not sure about that, it shows the Mayflower II being constructed which dates it to 1955 or 1956, the general clothing looks more fifties too.

@@tree267 Agreed. It looks very 1950s.

Those dinghies with the letter C on the sail are Cadets. Mirror dinghies have red sails.

The Mini towards the end has a 1960 Cornish plate. I didn't see any Mirror dinghies. That BOB catamaran at Polperro would have been pretty new. I'd say it was filmed on different holidays from the mid fifties to the very early sixties.