The Great British Countryside | Pt1

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The Great British Countryside | Pt1 - Village Life

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@deepdiver51 2 ай бұрын

“Mail from anywhere in the country is delivered within 24 hours…” Aaaah, remember those days.

@johnathandaviddunster38 Ай бұрын

Amazon joins the chat...🤪😜🤑

@Stripeyperch 2 ай бұрын

The pubs are all closing. The telephone boxes have disappeared. The village green is now a car park and the pot holes are getting bigger .

@reynardbizzar5461 2 ай бұрын

We destroyed the pubs with cheap supermarket alcohol, and breweries charging high rents. We killed off phone boxes too, as we all have mobile phones.

@wanderer5581 2 ай бұрын

The Fox is still there ...

@johnthompson7105 Ай бұрын

And church has been replaced by a mosque

@trondog8503 2 ай бұрын

An old cottage with a radio , gramophone and a river to bath in, would suit me just fine.

@paulmaryon9088 2 ай бұрын

Wonderful film thank you. Happy uncomplicated days, I can't help thinking that we've made a bit of a mess of it since.

@johncraske 2 ай бұрын

Where did you buy your rose-tinted spectacles?

@tonydean2541 2 ай бұрын

@@johncraskeyeah the war hadnt long finished id imagine. That was sort of complicated wasnt it 😂

@phillipbailey9615 Ай бұрын

I think people had more humble things to really look forward to in the lesser material world, you can get close to that feeling, visit an old village on a bicycle for a day, reminisce take your time, add something unpasteurised as a token to your visit, like plant a small rosebush in the village church grounds or the village green, then have lunch at a local fete or church cafe, im sure you would connect somehow with the days past.

@davedavis4269 Ай бұрын

Back when we had a great country unlike the sespit we know today.

@nickbarber2080 Ай бұрын

Yes...and when the future looked hopeful rather than bleak....

@Wench64 2 ай бұрын

If only life was still like this

@johncraske 2 ай бұрын

You wouldn't survive five minutes in this world. Life was tough, people were poor nd the average person didn't live beyond 60.

@lorrainenolan5604 2 ай бұрын

@@johncraskeyou are a bundle of joy 😂

@georgewest5467 2 ай бұрын

I remember this village life well born 1931 93years old next mouth July now all gone.

@roddymcniven8734 2 ай бұрын

Well it’s not. Deal with it.

@7kingkev 2 ай бұрын

Life is still tough now , people are still poor , but at least back then our country wasn’t being wrecked by 3rd world immigrants

@jamesellsworth9673 2 ай бұрын

This is a highly interesting offering about human life between the wars. Thank you for preserving and presenting this.

@Fintoman 2 ай бұрын

I believe some of the shots were taken in Finchingfield Essex. I have a photo of my great grandfather, who was a stockman on a farm in the village, sitting outside The Fox pub having a beer with his mates. Probably taken around the time the film was made. I'm sure he would have known some of the individuals in the clip.

@wanderer5581 2 ай бұрын

It was pretty much all Finchinfield,, I think the fete was at Spains Hall (Jamie Oliver??)

@Seamus1966 Ай бұрын

So no "Y M C A" then.. Beautiful Britain. How i remember it & wish to fight to get it back..

@stephenrice4554 2 ай бұрын

Great life , healthy people , the pub and the green were the centre of the village . That game of shove hapenny ( halfpenny ) I played , and still do in certain places where the old games can still be found . 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@cecilefox9136 Ай бұрын

What a fascinating old film!😊

@trailerman2 2 ай бұрын

What a different world it was....imagine anyone today considering themselves 'the Squire'......

@5578pedro 2 ай бұрын

Children should be shown what their country used to be like before it was wrecked.

@vercingetorixwulf9298 2 ай бұрын

That was a gradual process ......

@thomasreed49 Ай бұрын

Sadly they are taught that we had black Africans and immigrants here at that time. they have stolen your country but please don’t let them steal your memories.

@johnthompson7105 Ай бұрын

Lovely to see just english and no foreign criminals

@andrewkitchenuk Ай бұрын

I was brought up in a northern mill town in the 50s, I can assure you that it wasn't like this film. 😂

@Gangstergranny1950 Ай бұрын

@@andrewkitchenuk the people that worked in the mills were all indigenous white people until the 50s we built this country not immigration

@grahambarber2766 Ай бұрын

The only piece of modern technology I crave is a time machine!!

@Sheikah_Mage25 2 ай бұрын

They lived a interesting life before phones

@roddymcniven8734 2 ай бұрын

Indeed. People actually spoke to one another

@michaelgilbey6692 Ай бұрын

This was filmed in Finchingfield in Essex. My earliest known ancestors come from here and I can trace them back to 1709. It does make one wonder if some of the villagers in this film could also be my ancestors.

@bobevansIW 2 ай бұрын

Great video. Finchingfield, Essex? Is there a part 2........

@ScratchyBaws Ай бұрын

50yrs this year i have lived in my local village and it has been ruined, now it just get's flooded because they have built far too many houses and extensions onto existing properties and for what?......GREED.

@Gangstergranny1950 Ай бұрын

Built by the poor now owned by the rich or little villages

@deepressland7779 Ай бұрын

It wasn't much different to this, in villages and small towns throughout the UK till early/mid 60s. Today, the multiple everyday choices that everybody has to consider just makes life much more complicated/difficult imho, unfortunately! I thought that technology was supposed to enlighten our lives - perhaps, not as ultimately the case may be!

@jeancowan1037 Ай бұрын

No fat bums no tattoos no piercings no trainers no hi guys no phones glued to heads still I suppose we have better healthcare and dentistry if you can get it !

@theram4320 Ай бұрын

I bet crime was a fraction then of what it is now.

@gavinbennett1849 Ай бұрын

May have been poorer materially, but far richer in community, social cohesion, sense of community, , deliberately wrecked by the Britian hating mps , establishment.

@ohmeowzer1 Ай бұрын

Lovee this ❤

@tonydean2541 2 ай бұрын

Harry Enfields narrating 😂😂😂

@user-jr3eb5oo3g 2 ай бұрын

Britains great farming industry before it was corrupted and destroyed by EU membrrship and the common agricultural policy.

@bfhfhfhdj Ай бұрын

utter bull.

@PaulStClair-or3gj 2 ай бұрын

TRADITIONAL OLD ENGLISH LIFE. BUT TIMES CHANGE OF COURSE... FOR THE BETTER OR.....??? LETS REMEMBER... "THE ULTIMATE SOPHISTICATION IS SIMPLICITY " 🏡v 🏬

@oneshedsummers 16 күн бұрын

The Village People ? Not quite what I was Expecting.🤣

@bfhfhfhdj Ай бұрын

I curse Harry Enfield, I can’t stop hearing his voice.

@phillipbailey9615 Ай бұрын

My gramp used to say the more that nibble at the cabbage leaf, and then its gone.

@keithedmundson2318 Ай бұрын

Tomorrow it all ends.

@PetraSant-fb5nf 3 күн бұрын

Aye it were just grand, I’d be up at four int morning getting coal fire started. It were hard life back then, but we were a happy and cheerful lot. Working sixteen hours a day, six days a week , fifty two weeks a year. I always looked forward to my bread and cheese, when I got home from work at eleven pm each night. Aye it were just grand.

@sicks6six Ай бұрын

Queue spitfire, Jureselem, local Bobby, Milk churns at the village PO, The mobile shop, I'm glad foreigners never saw it when it was good,

@robsin2810 2 күн бұрын

We call what we have now. Progress

@zacmitty7851 Ай бұрын

agreed davedavis!

@davidgray2653 Ай бұрын

Thruppence or a tanner a pint boy when we think today nearly a fiver

@pbrstreetgang6775 2 ай бұрын

Does anyone know where this village is and what it’s called

@Fintoman 2 ай бұрын

It is Finchingfield Essex. The pub is still there and thriving. If you look on Google maps, you'll easily find the pub. Instantly recognisable and still identified by many of the exact same features as shown in the film. In particular, the bracket carrying the pubs sign is the same. Many of the other village landmarks and features are still there. The windmill, church, memorial on the green to name a few. My grandfather and many relatives on my father's mother's side were from Finchingfield. I have a old photo of my Grandfather sitting on that very bench shown in the film outside The Fox having a pint with his mates. I feel sure he would of known some of the individuals in the clip. Looks to be around the same time.

@pbrstreetgang6775 Ай бұрын

@@Fintomanthank you for the information