Holiday in Blackpool - 1938 | The Archivist Presents |

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With new restrictions in the North of England coming into place recently due to the Covid-19 pandemic, let's look back to happier times.
Workers receive pay before leaving on their holidays, and one goes home to tell his wife the happy tidings. They pack, and leave for Blackpool. At Blackpool, the beaches are crowded, and donkey rides, sea trips, and shellfish are in great demand. Even the famous ballrooms and Amusement Parks are well patronised, and Dancers perform the Lambeth Walk and the Blackpool Walk, not, perhaps, as expertly as it is done in one of the shows. After the holiday, the workers return, broke but happy. see story number 33854/2 for cuts
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@jack7431 3 жыл бұрын

I've got a photograph of my Great Great Grandmother taken at Blackpool beach and on the back the date is stamped, 15th August 1938. It's amazing to see what she would have seen back then.

@ianwhitehead691 Жыл бұрын

The good old days when the place wasn't full of Smack-heads.

@robpugh1000 5 ай бұрын

You mean people with issue's who may be struggling?

@robpugh1000 5 ай бұрын

And don't be fooled by the video's. In those days they rarely focused on the social issues of the day

@mariannewilliams845 3 ай бұрын

Eeeee bye gum, that really was champion 😊

@detoxlangley8863 3 жыл бұрын

Poor Elephants.

@franceskronenwett3539 2 жыл бұрын

That is exactly what I thought.

@anythingoldmechanical Жыл бұрын

Yes me too.. When you look back, that was sheer cruelty.

@mariannewilliams845 3 ай бұрын

This was well before my time, but certainly in the 50s and 60s the elephants 🐘 were taken regularly, early in the morning across the road from the tower onto the beach and into the sea. It was very normal to see them there. I felt sorry for the lions and tigers 🐅 even as a child I knew it was wrong, they must have had a life of misery 😢

@paigeleigh2554 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful. Thank you!

@mybluebelly 3 жыл бұрын

Poor sods. Head first into the coming war. What a sad fate.

@wastelanderone Жыл бұрын

The big dipper is still here, a few repairs over the years and she's still my favorite rollercoaster haha

@blank-dr2kx 2 жыл бұрын

Pure times

@ianofliverpool7701 2 жыл бұрын

Right then i`m off to watch George Formby Liver at the theatre.

@mabel8179 2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't so happy for the poor elephants though! But the rest was fun.

@bredaquirke7362 8 ай бұрын

Very interesting video xxx

@jacquiquinn997 3 жыл бұрын

So interesting. Those people living thre lives and now all gone.

@franceskronenwett3539 2 жыл бұрын

A really charming video. The only thing I did not like was seeing those poor elephants in that circus, especially those made to walk only on their hind legs for our entertainment. The welfare of our fellow creatures did not matter so much in those days.

@mabel8179 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I really disliked that!

@franceskronenwett3539 Жыл бұрын

@GOLD.🕎 Hopefully without animal acts.

@user-zm4cd4vj4z 5 ай бұрын

Ah all good fun!

@jabscha7051 3 жыл бұрын

2020 has gotten to me and the sight of crowds in this makes me uneasy 🤣

@rpowell3000 3 жыл бұрын

paid holidays , not for people on zero hour contracts in 2020.

@mariaevans5793 Жыл бұрын

True!!!!!

@geoffreyadlam4586 3 жыл бұрын

Well. HOLIDAYS 😁 WITH. 1938. I. SAY JOLLY GOOD SHOW WHAT GEOFF STOCKPORT CHESHIRE

@borusa32 Жыл бұрын

I expect the Blackpool walk lasted about as long as it deserved.'Ee by Gum,It's champion'

@brenda6580 6 ай бұрын

Great video, not the elephants though.

@user-zi8dr1ns9c 3 ай бұрын

Pleasure Beach please bring back tickets or do something better as its so K-rap at the moment....also make it free to walk round once again so families can enjoy it better....Ie older people enjoying grand-kids on rides!!

@senorpasso8670 3 жыл бұрын

The flying rockets are still there! Bring back the Mad 🐁

@jrsc01. 3 жыл бұрын

the Wild Mouse was the most terrifying ride in the whole park..!

@uk-martin4905 3 жыл бұрын

Hiram Maxim's 'Flying Machine' which was installed in 1905 and still going strong after 115 years.....

@kingdan5617 3 жыл бұрын

For some reason I wouldn’t have trusted a rollercoaster in 1938 🤣🤷🏽‍♂️ I don’t know why!

@blank-dr2kx 2 жыл бұрын

Ypu wouldn't of known any different at the time

@natsabuannam1725 3 ай бұрын

British engineering was the best in the world.

@fieldsofgreen8857 Жыл бұрын

The only thing that's good today is that circuses are dying out 5he cruelty some of these animals endured so people could call this entertainment poor elephants.

@GreatBritain105 Ай бұрын

Anyone know the song at start?

@GreatBritain105 Ай бұрын

whats the song?

@malayneum 3 жыл бұрын

when england is still white and clean.

@bootylove2276 3 жыл бұрын

I know exactly what you mean 👏👏👍

@None-zc5vg Жыл бұрын

England was (mostly) white but not-so-clean for most of its people, who were worked hard for little reward.

@mahmudmohayuddin8212 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks anyway, I'll be luckier next time.,!

@stephenwain7928 6 ай бұрын

Bit.before.my.time.i.wud.be.85.now.i.was.there.in.the.sixties.

@natsabuannam1725 3 ай бұрын

And you still can't write.

@The_meme_archives11 3 жыл бұрын

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@ahyan14 3 жыл бұрын

big night wing why did you right a poem

@The_meme_archives11 3 жыл бұрын

@@ahyan14 yes