“Mail from anywhere in the country is delivered within 24 hours…” Aaaah, remember those days.
@johnathandaviddunster38Ай бұрын
Amazon joins the chat...🤪😜🤑
@Stripeyperch2 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 .
@reynardbizzar54612 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.
@wanderer55812 ай бұрын
The Fox is still there ...
@johnthompson7105Ай бұрын
And church has been replaced by a mosque
@trondog85032 ай бұрын
An old cottage with a radio , gramophone and a river to bath in, would suit me just fine.
@paulmaryon90882 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.
@johncraske2 ай бұрын
Where did you buy your rose-tinted spectacles?
@tonydean25412 ай бұрын
@@johncraskeyeah the war hadnt long finished id imagine. That was sort of complicated wasnt it 😂
@phillipbailey9615Ай 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.
@davedavis4269Ай бұрын
Back when we had a great country unlike the sespit we know today.
@nickbarber2080Ай бұрын
Yes...and when the future looked hopeful rather than bleak....
@Wench642 ай бұрын
If only life was still like this
@johncraske2 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.
@lorrainenolan56042 ай бұрын
@@johncraskeyou are a bundle of joy 😂
@georgewest54672 ай бұрын
I remember this village life well born 1931 93years old next mouth July now all gone.
@roddymcniven87342 ай бұрын
Well it’s not. Deal with it.
@7kingkev2 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
@jamesellsworth96732 ай бұрын
This is a highly interesting offering about human life between the wars. Thank you for preserving and presenting this.
@Fintoman2 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.
@wanderer55812 ай бұрын
It was pretty much all Finchinfield,, I think the fete was at Spains Hall (Jamie Oliver??)
@Seamus1966Ай бұрын
So no "Y M C A" then.. Beautiful Britain. How i remember it & wish to fight to get it back..
@stephenrice45542 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 . 👍🏴
@cecilefox9136Ай бұрын
What a fascinating old film!😊
@trailerman22 ай бұрын
What a different world it was....imagine anyone today considering themselves 'the Squire'......
@5578pedro2 ай бұрын
Children should be shown what their country used to be like before it was wrecked.
@vercingetorixwulf92982 ай бұрын
That was a gradual process ......
@thomasreed49Ай 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.
@johnthompson7105Ай бұрын
Lovely to see just english and no foreign criminals
@andrewkitchenukАй бұрын
I was brought up in a northern mill town in the 50s, I can assure you that it wasn't like this film. 😂
@Gangstergranny1950Ай бұрын
@@andrewkitchenuk the people that worked in the mills were all indigenous white people until the 50s we built this country not immigration
@grahambarber2766Ай бұрын
The only piece of modern technology I crave is a time machine!!
@Sheikah_Mage252 ай бұрын
They lived a interesting life before phones
@roddymcniven87342 ай бұрын
Indeed. People actually spoke to one another
@michaelgilbey6692Ай 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.
@bobevansIW2 ай бұрын
Great video. Finchingfield, Essex? Is there a part 2........
@ScratchyBawsАй 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.
@Gangstergranny1950Ай бұрын
Built by the poor now owned by the rich or little villages
@deepressland7779Ай 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!
@jeancowan1037Ай 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 !
@theram4320Ай бұрын
I bet crime was a fraction then of what it is now.
@gavinbennett1849Ай бұрын
May have been poorer materially, but far richer in community, social cohesion, sense of community, , deliberately wrecked by the Britian hating mps , establishment.
@ohmeowzer1Ай бұрын
Lovee this ❤
@tonydean25412 ай бұрын
Harry Enfields narrating 😂😂😂
@user-jr3eb5oo3g2 ай бұрын
Britains great farming industry before it was corrupted and destroyed by EU membrrship and the common agricultural policy.
@bfhfhfhdjАй бұрын
utter bull.
@PaulStClair-or3gj2 ай бұрын
TRADITIONAL OLD ENGLISH LIFE. BUT TIMES CHANGE OF COURSE... FOR THE BETTER OR.....??? LETS REMEMBER... "THE ULTIMATE SOPHISTICATION IS SIMPLICITY " 🏡v 🏬
@oneshedsummers16 күн бұрын
The Village People ? Not quite what I was Expecting.🤣
@bfhfhfhdjАй бұрын
I curse Harry Enfield, I can’t stop hearing his voice.
@phillipbailey9615Ай бұрын
My gramp used to say the more that nibble at the cabbage leaf, and then its gone.
@keithedmundson2318Ай бұрын
Tomorrow it all ends.
@PetraSant-fb5nf3 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.
@sicks6sixАй 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,
@robsin28102 күн бұрын
We call what we have now. Progress
@zacmitty7851Ай бұрын
agreed davedavis!
@davidgray2653Ай бұрын
Thruppence or a tanner a pint boy when we think today nearly a fiver
@pbrstreetgang67752 ай бұрын
Does anyone know where this village is and what it’s called
@Fintoman2 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.
@pbrstreetgang6775Ай бұрын
@@Fintomanthank you for the information
@davidhayes4814Ай бұрын
It is like Harry & Paul ……
@pmacc3557Ай бұрын
Is the narrator Mr. Chumdudley Warner?
@allansmith3837Ай бұрын
Lmao we got to the 1980s Village People meant something else 😂
@mariedraghi9394Ай бұрын
What year??
@eddiearmer3580Ай бұрын
If you click on 'more', the description says 1930s film. 😅