How to Make Cricket Bats: Old Traditions & Modern Methods (1962)

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How to Make Cricket Bats: Old Traditions & Modern Methods (1962) | British Pathé

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This segment of Pathé Pictorial gives a snapshot in the process of the Cricket bat industry in Suffolk. The manufacturing of the cricket bat is a curious blend of old tradition and modern methods, from splitting the wood by hand to grating the block into the familiar bat.
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Bungay, Suffolk.
Various shots of two men tending to saplings and seedlings. Man looks at the trunk of a willow tree to see if it is ready to be felled in order to provide wood for cricket bats. A "W" is cut into the trunk of a tree selected for felling. A chain-saw is used to fell the tree. The trunk is measured and cut.
C/Us of man cutting a piece of trunk into three. The splitting of the wood is always done by hand - never by machine.
Interior of a workshop. Craftsmen are seen working on cricket bats. All the processes involved in making the bats are shown.
Film ends with short shot of a game of cricket in progress on a village green.
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@peternorman2563 3 жыл бұрын

The best cricket bats were made by Trimmings at Lt Paxton, St Neots. All the test cricketers in the 1950s ordered them. Sadly the factory closed in around 1977

@alanrogs3990 3 жыл бұрын

Just think people had these jobs and they still had a decent life.

@jokomane1433 3 жыл бұрын

No „decent life“ by today‘s standards. One could still live the equivalent of 50s living standard with a simple woodworking job today. However few would nowadays find that „decent“

@alanrogs3990 3 жыл бұрын

@@jokomane1433 Yes, I agree. People just didn't buy so much crap back then as we do now. We buy so many trinkets these days.

@duggiebader1798 3 жыл бұрын

This was 70 years ago. After the war, it took over ten years before most homes got a toilet plumbed within their house. Gas heating, fitted kitchens, cars. Imagine the difference 70 years before then. Folks who could remember 1880 would've said "People of today have it too easy, all these workers rights and NHS. Don't know their born!" So please, shut the f up with all your rose tinted glasses. Read a fking history book instead of Facebook memes complaining about the EU and "in our day". Shove it up your arse.

@roar40s 3 жыл бұрын

@@duggiebader1798 There's absolutely nothing good about the EU. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!

@kingspeechless1607 2 жыл бұрын

Well why not? They didn't have the 'excessive' material expectations of many people today.

@glitzwithglam3875 5 жыл бұрын

Honestly, I love your channel and videos! It gives me every nostalgic and retro feelings but at the same time i'm learning honestly all your videos need to be shown in schools.

@iamdamo 3 жыл бұрын

I like changing it to 240p for the real, authentic look.

@ianboard3555 3 жыл бұрын

I had no idea they were made out of willow - learn something every day.

@theonlybuzz1969 3 жыл бұрын

It is so good watching this that I have to watch it again...simply wonderful!

@NoosaHeads Жыл бұрын

These films are delightful. I just really wish they were much longer

@neilpountney9414 3 жыл бұрын

You know the modern manufacturing we enjoy today is great in many ways but I am sorry the skills these guys have was amazing and is sorely missed. Today the cost of anything handmade is so much more than mass produced. That is both a good thing and a bad thing

@jogreeen 4 ай бұрын

they are still using machines, these machines were modern in those days, are you stupid?

@MrINSANITY321 9 жыл бұрын

This is the most British video I've ever seen

@yashwardhanmadnawat6578 3 жыл бұрын

True

@iain2279 3 жыл бұрын

English

@firojsamafirojsama315 3 жыл бұрын

Veri nice

@mattouli 3 жыл бұрын

As a kid half my dad’s pals had cigarettes behind one ear 😂 never see that nowadays

@JckSwan 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know Suffolk is/was a centre of the cricket bat industry! 😃

@stephenspence1192 2 жыл бұрын

There are a lot of cricket bat willow plantations in Suffolk. The town I grew up in has a plantation but I took them for granted as just part of the landscape. I find the whole process of cultivation and the finished product as shown here fascinating.

@zahidshakeel8900 3 жыл бұрын

GROWING TREES CUTTING AND MAKING CRICKET BATS THIS IS SHORT BUT V NICE VIDEO

@lostinpa-dadenduro7555 3 жыл бұрын

Certainly, in the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, having a good solid piece of wood in your hand is often useful. - Ian Faith in reference to why he carries a cricket bat around.

@chasbodaniels1744 9 ай бұрын

You beat me to it … I intended to post the same thing. Terrific bit of dialogue.

@lostinpa-dadenduro7555 9 ай бұрын

@@chasbodaniels1744 You are a gentleman of impeccable taste. 👍😀

@jogreeen 4 ай бұрын

Pom walks out with his new hand crafted bat, gets nought.

@Individuo80 Жыл бұрын

Seriously, I thought for a moment that this was going to be about a flying mammal sub-species

@amandajstar 9 ай бұрын

I'm native English and I never knew anyone that spoke with an accent like this.

@whiterabbit5921 3 жыл бұрын

interesting!

@antonemilit2178 3 жыл бұрын

No safety glasses - Madness!

@chase4086 3 жыл бұрын

first thing i thought of when i saw that lathe

@mattmead2623 3 жыл бұрын

Just blinking the shavings away like a boss

@chrislewis7811 3 жыл бұрын

Next video will be about the thriving glass eye industry of this era.

@joealtmaier9271 3 жыл бұрын

Nor safety when felling the willow. The wedge was put in by hand, right alongside the whirring chainsaw blade!

@thedisabledwelshman9266 Жыл бұрын

no health and safety in those days.

@alzeNL 3 жыл бұрын

of course all good cricket bats come from Gray-Nicolls in EAST SUSSEX (Robertsbridge)

@user-hp9gs3cn5o 8 ай бұрын

Voice of David de Keyser

@RCichard 3 жыл бұрын

2:10 - Back in the day when you can run a lathe WITHOUT ANY EYE PRO!! Bet hes had more then one trip to the mirror to pull out a eye-splinter!

@chrisbates7743 8 жыл бұрын

This is probably Gray Nicols or Stebbing, the giant tree that produced a 1000 bats was cut down by Warsops around about 1914. www.batmaker.co.uk

@havingalook2 3 жыл бұрын

That was very interesting. I confess I cringe when I see any of these trades and NO SAFETY GOGGLES. You just know many eyes were damaged.

@michaeldodd3563 3 жыл бұрын

Even the people who play the game don’t know how it’s played.

@paddypup1836 3 жыл бұрын

Is that a record plane at 2.31

@Seminex222 3 жыл бұрын

it is a Stanley not sure which model

@peterwood-jenkins3634 8 жыл бұрын

Good old days Today people know fuck all about anything except Boozing and taking drugs a oh yeas and fighting each other

@dsd.8435 3 жыл бұрын

McCulloch

@coldlight9776 3 жыл бұрын

Раньше было много деревьев что бы сделать одну спичку целое дерево уходило 😅😅😅

@goodmorning8172 3 жыл бұрын

What is the bat?

@richardrejmer8721 3 жыл бұрын

Is that Mel Smith, from "Alas, Smith and Jones" T.V. Show?

@christopherdean1326 3 жыл бұрын

Given that he was about ten years old when this film was made (1962), I'm gonna say "no".

@user-gs7hh1dy9x Жыл бұрын

😀😀😀🥰🤟🤟👍🌲🌳

@aninditasakti 3 жыл бұрын

Please how to make spitfire fighter...

@tubeymcdee 3 жыл бұрын

THATS A BIT OF A JUMP ISNT IT

@user-hb4zz4gh5e 3 жыл бұрын

@@tubeymcdee 😂

@markbenjamin1703 2 жыл бұрын

@@tubeymcdee i wouldn't put it past British Pathé, having a Spitfire Factory film

@egorbiletskiy2950 3 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure you can still buy plans with all the details you need on Woodprix.

@Nat-jf2ge 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderbats are made from lightning striking the tree first.

@nenoob9468 6 жыл бұрын

what is the bat

@shamrockshore6308 4 жыл бұрын

+Phago Damber It's the thing with which you hit your opponent over the head.

@Simon-1965 3 жыл бұрын

It's the thing that you hit the ball with. It could also be a flying rodent but I think it's the former of the two!

@luthmhor 3 жыл бұрын

These videos in the archive are much longer as far as I know. Why are we restricted to short versions of them? I don’t just mean on KZfaq, but on the website as well. Were these filmed by a private company originally? If so that explains it. The filming just makes me think that it was a publicly funded thing.

@alanrogs3990 3 жыл бұрын

It always seems the beginning was cut off. I thought these were selected shorts in movie theaters before the main film hence the shortness of the video.