Round the Wirral with a Movie Camera (1934)

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@gumpy4960 Жыл бұрын

What on earth had happened to the wirral since then? Parts of it are still nice but the whole area looked lovely back then

@joebish6629 7 ай бұрын

Woodchurch and Ford, to name just two.

@andybowyer3602 3 жыл бұрын

A great place to live! Lived in South wirral all my 45 years my mates call it "gods best kept secret" Eastham village is beautiful in the summer 😉👍

@davidsheriff8989 Жыл бұрын

Used to go thru there on Crosville single decker C7 through Hooton passing the old aerodrome and Rivacre swimming baths...

@twish1999 Жыл бұрын

Life just seemed more charming back then

@scabbycatcat4202 3 ай бұрын

Yes but its so easy to look back at the past through " rose tinted spectacle's " I am very interested in ships and hanker after Lpool and Bhead when they were full of ships. But I would be viewing them from a bicycle, not a car and I would be going home to an outside toilet and tin bath with perhaps only a radiogram for entertainment. On balance perhaps life was not as charming !!

@derekcoe9633 7 жыл бұрын

I live on the Wirral and it certainly doesn't look like this anymore!

@colinhamlet2425 7 жыл бұрын

Angels Arehere no shit sherlock

@derekcoe9633 7 жыл бұрын

Well well well.. a twat has learned to use a keyboard..there's hope for the underclasses after all. 🤔

@colinhamlet2425 7 жыл бұрын

Angels Arehere if your going to make statements use some grey matter ffs

@aegg9915 6 жыл бұрын

Well I think seacombe is a beautiful place to get your socks robbed

@DavidB-rx3km 4 жыл бұрын

@@colinhamlet2425 *you're (as in you are going to make statements, use some grey matter ffs), 'you're' is a shortened version of 'you are'. 'if your going to make statements' makes no sense. I hope this basic school level grammar doesn't go over any heads/grey matter (ffs)

@donnagray9579 3 жыл бұрын

The park was the model for Central Park in New York.

@donnagray9579 3 жыл бұрын

My uncle was an apprentice at Grayson Rollo beside the landing stage, during the war until he was called up in 1943. He was recruited into the RE, Port Reconstruction Battalion. Served until 1947 with his last deployment at Nagasaki.

@kellyprice8246 2 жыл бұрын

The Wirral looks absolutely delightful. I'm quite tempted by that little Woodchurch village next to Upton.

@paulbrady5772 2 жыл бұрын

Wait til 50 million Afghans arrive you won't be sarcastic then.

@joebish6629 7 ай бұрын

Thing is, the Woodchurch Estate won prizes when it was built. The houses are fine. The inhabitants are not.

@roconnor01 5 жыл бұрын

Narration by Mr Chumley Warner.

@mactheweld 6 жыл бұрын

wow so quiet , noticed the house in upton looks like grafton drive and the car was driving along noctorum road and ford hill hill!!

@user-qd1rz6su2m 6 ай бұрын

I like that a lot. Very good clear footage. Would love to see more like that of the Wirral and surrounding area.

@MetalFan10101 3 жыл бұрын

Alot of these "new" houses still look the same today

@EVERTONFC. 3 жыл бұрын

Progress ? Birkenhead? Meh. The place was more modernised, civilised and more pleasant in 1934. Well done Wirral Council & owned affluent businesses for literally doing f-all in 90 years.

@elmexingles 5 жыл бұрын

To think that little baby is now 85!

@peterc9153 3 жыл бұрын

Better world in some ways, worse in others. But in the fundamentally important ways, those which made most people happier, better.

@EVERTONFC. 3 жыл бұрын

Nothing worse than this.

@EVERTONFC. 3 жыл бұрын

@Morocco Mole agreed.

@littlepeanut5557 6 жыл бұрын

A gem . Thanx for posting

@andrewjames3908 5 жыл бұрын

why am i reminded of when rodney makes a film at the art college and del has sold advetising to all the local businesses so the story gets lost amoungst the continuous mentions of local firms

@Jay-bg1ex 7 жыл бұрын

lol i love how the house from wallasey has no windows

@gavinmillar7519 6 жыл бұрын

I noticed that too!

@fireal8807 3 жыл бұрын

No point in putting any in!

@Stevo_YouTube 3 жыл бұрын

Regular folk couldn't afford such a luxury in those days.

@paulnicholson1906 3 жыл бұрын

It’s under construction silly.

@ianclarke1852 Жыл бұрын

It was most fashionable method of ventilation in 1934

@dean8979 8 жыл бұрын

Outstanding... Could almost feel I was their ... it's a sobering thought that the world now in 2016 is populated by a completely different human race...whilst almost everyone in this video of busy Liverpool area 1930s is no longer with us.. A true look in time

@kennyguitarallen5662 3 жыл бұрын

brilliant loved it,my home town,30 years before i was born.

@skipandjump 7 жыл бұрын

This is great, what an ace little insight.

@psycoticbastard 4 жыл бұрын

Why do i keep thinking of Harry Enfield 😂😂

@GBPaddling Жыл бұрын

Could see name of 'Grayson' on the Landing Stage, ha ha.

@psycoticbastard Жыл бұрын

@@GBPaddling lol, indeed

@AFord1981 3 жыл бұрын

That Co-Op on Mount Road only changed to a different shop a few years back!

@MrOvershoot 3 жыл бұрын

"Why Greyson they look like people from the north do they smell" Full on Mr Chumley Warner in this clip. Harry Enfield had obviously researched well. I drive through a fair bit of it every day to work in Liverpool and its quite sad how things have been chaved along the way

@greenisnotacreativecolour 3 жыл бұрын

Spelled "Cholmondley".

@philcliffe6909 Жыл бұрын

@@greenisnotacreativecolour 'Spelt' ... Glass houses and all that.

@greenisnotacreativecolour Жыл бұрын

@@philcliffe6909 Either is fine - look in a dictionary.

@philcliffe6909 Жыл бұрын

@@greenisnotacreativecolour If you are outside the UK then I will accept that. If not then you are a hypocrite.

@greenisnotacreativecolour Жыл бұрын

@@philcliffe6909 You really think the whole of the UK uses the same word? Are you still in school?

@sirrichardrichard7461 Жыл бұрын

What a fantastic video 👍👍

@Northenstar13 6 жыл бұрын

Great 👍 film, really enjoyed it

@gavinmillar7519 6 жыл бұрын

A window on a vanished world.......

@JGRIMES 3 жыл бұрын

*random obligatory comment for exposure hi everyone*

@MegaNeil1955 3 жыл бұрын

the co-op on Mount road is still there! it is still a co-op supermarket!

@kennyguitarallen5662 3 жыл бұрын

our local shop as a kid

@TheWirralChannel 6 жыл бұрын

More modern videos on the Wirral channel

@doodemog 3 жыл бұрын

Ridden past those houses in Burton

@Poliss95 8 жыл бұрын

Sounded like they were about to mention the Co-op funeral service. Cut scene?

@hardcoreboyish2 5 жыл бұрын

is there any footage or maybe more photos of woodside dock i want to see how the whole thing looked like before it got all ripped out

@sirierieott5882 3 жыл бұрын

As a softie southern - it's good to know Chumley Warner was as real as I expected and this documentary of modern northern life has solidified my prejudice and characterture of 'The North' as a living museum ... A wonderful time capsule of life before that hateful hun Hitler had his evil way - life was so positive and progressive... Even in the north! This was early industrial-scale property marketing at it's pre-war finest.

@nicopmvm 3 жыл бұрын

hi bfi! wanted to use this footage for non commercial purposes, obviously ill credit the source...

@hellie_el 3 жыл бұрын

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

@jeffreybresnahan 3 жыл бұрын

Good old "Lino?"

@andrewjames3908 5 жыл бұрын

Which is the house at 0.43?

@cbrboy76 3 жыл бұрын

Were was the co-op dairy situated?

@Si-ew3ff 3 жыл бұрын

Woodchurch Road, on the right, before you get to the Swan pub, if you're coming from Birkenhead. Now a car showroom. Was knocked down in the 1980s.

@johndavid5618 3 ай бұрын

"Like everything else in the world has become corrupted.

@jenhowitt1783 3 жыл бұрын

0.48 does anyone know what stately home that is and where?

@tusdardcart 3 жыл бұрын

I think it is Burton Manor

@Imfat8888 3 жыл бұрын

the Wirral is a beautiful place spoilt by a small percentage of human pond life just like every other area in UK nowadays.. its pretty sad to see the amount of homeless in the once thriving shopping center. that's what 40 years of neo liberalism has done.

@fredworks4907 3 жыл бұрын

Nazi

@MrOvershoot 3 жыл бұрын

@@fredworks4907 I'm not sure you understand what neoliberalism means? A political approach that favours free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending. Pretty much the complete opposite of a Nazi state? Or are you saying master plan is a Nazi for being against the Thatcher years of cutting anything that wasn't the "City"

@sniffmearse Жыл бұрын

You say pond life . But society is the way it is by design. Government flooding the streets with heroin. In the 70s. Don’t say it was some idiot of the ford . Obviously government. Then the constant peppering of guns gangs and drugs in the music people listen too.

@Imfat8888 Жыл бұрын

@@sniffmearse i knew many people who got addicted to heroin back in the late 70's 80's, under the pretence that it was not addictive, i was not referring to the so called smack heads of the day,

@sniffmearse Жыл бұрын

@@Imfat8888 no but it’s there kids kids kids running around today shooting people and stabbing other kids of the nocky etc . Your just a moron mate

@davefool6815 6 жыл бұрын

I want to know the road names

@carlbranny5414 5 жыл бұрын

One in Prenton is 24 waterpark road off storeton

@KaptainKastle 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder how much the houses cost back then?

@peterc9153 3 жыл бұрын

An average semi would cost less than £500.

@cbrboy76 3 жыл бұрын

@@peterc9153 yes but they probably only earned about 3 shillings a week lol.

@GBPaddling Жыл бұрын

Thirty Bob an a bottle of Guiness.

@ianclarke1852 Жыл бұрын

@@cbrboy76 my dad started work in 1931 at 15. He worked a 57 hour week including all day Saturday, half a day off midweek. He earned 9s 6d a week, about 48p. No paid holidays.

@danielgill9846 6 ай бұрын

Filmed in a better time before greed and corruption comes into politics and ruins our country 😢

@kgs42 4 жыл бұрын

Product placement is obviously not new!!

@amyclarke41 6 жыл бұрын

Bet it dont

@nubbitudejack8542 7 жыл бұрын

Wirral or the Wirral?

@AFord1981 5 жыл бұрын

The Wirral (peninsula).

@octaviussludberry9016 4 жыл бұрын

Wirral.

@AngloCelticMetalDetecting 3 жыл бұрын

My hometown back in the day looked amazing. Shame the Tories took all the jobs and turned a blind eye to all the drugs.

@keithmartland6463 5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful! and 84 years later we have litter all of the place, plastic filling the oceans and the Tories still in power

@AFord1981 5 жыл бұрын

Actually, Ramsay MacDonald was the Prime Minister at the time.

@markcartwright2263 4 жыл бұрын

And doing a jolly good job.old boy.

@paulwalters2350 2 жыл бұрын

Since Frank field left Birkenhead Mr whitley has opened the flood gates to the wirral and we will be the next Rotherham in 5 years time.

@leonarddavies3178 6 жыл бұрын

i'm 33 2018 and i'd give anything to go back raise my kids and live in a socirty like this , manufacturing jobs generally your own country no islam no muggings most ppl are English look how it's ruined nearly 100 years later .mass unemployment , multi cultural hell hole if your working class your considered scum ,zero hour contracts no decent work no chance of owning a decent home oh god how i'd yearn for these days back .

@lifedecoded9842 5 жыл бұрын

I feel you on this man. 21, born & bred here & I honestly can't wait to take my partner & leave this place. The destruction of local industry by successive neoliberal governments & their lapdog councils have completely decimated this area.

@silversparks4372 4 жыл бұрын

dont get islamaphobic when you cant spell society and your name is fucking leonard

@tropicalnofruit1419 3 жыл бұрын

Fuck off mate no one wants you here anyway. Try going to an all white society... oh wait you can’t because you wouldn’t have enough money. How does it feel that my dad is Nigerian and I’m going to do my masters in a month when your probably on the dole with a shitty house and family😂😂multiculturalism all the way.

@tropicalnofruit1419 3 жыл бұрын

Leonard Davies horrible racist hope I see you in the street. I’ll be asking all the 35 year olds I see about if their name is Leonard Davies.

@MrBiggiefuckinsmalls 3 жыл бұрын

@@tropicalnofruit1419 haha wee man thinks his masters will automatically make him rich, precious!

@johnwilliamknox7156 3 жыл бұрын

When Wirral was pure! Now it's "Wheele kumm tou de Wirral "

@dac545j Жыл бұрын

Harumph!

@killdapakis 5 жыл бұрын

Shithole now! Gota shotgun pulled on me lastweek.

@glyn5385 2 жыл бұрын

hahaha good

@JGRIMES 3 жыл бұрын

*random obligatory comment for exposure hi everyone*

@cameronbateman599 4 жыл бұрын

Scouse mac pebb1 ye gang of wools

@tropicalnofruit1419 3 жыл бұрын

Cameron Bateman fuck off lad

@DavidB-rx3km 3 жыл бұрын

@@tropicalnofruit1419 Said in the voice of the narrator in this video: "And here's a pair of delinquents whose sole purpose in life is to seemingly ruin it for everybody, every word uttered from their mouths are vulgar, and almost certainly points to an upbringing of very meagre schooling"

@muzzer6557 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine this these days, "and here we have a section for the none binary transsexual vegetarian left wing everything must be giving to you on a plate because life is too hard" kind of people, HAHAHA

@autisticdrone. Жыл бұрын

Ha, that gave me a laugh. It is hard to believe these weirdos actually exist, my step daughter had to educate myself and my wife a couple of years ago as we had not heard of these binary people, poly wotsits, and all the rest of the alphabet pronoun wacko’s, we were both under 50 at that time ( at least, I still am). These wackos make Autistic people look normal ..