East Anglian Holiday (1954) - extract

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  • One of British Transport Films' relatively early travelogues, 'East Anglian Holiday' was shot in Technicolor. Its narration combines clipped patrician received pronunciation with occasional interludes delivered in a strong local accent.
    In King's Lynn, the region's unique geology is commemorated in the architecture of the Guildhall, whose flints were originally sponges growing underwater. In Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, families enjoy a seaside holiday, rollerskating, riding boats and pedal cars, or watching Punch and Judy shows. Nearby, the local fishing industry is hard at work sorting the latest catches. Suffolk's coastline combines marshes with sandy beaches., and its distinguishing marks are Blythburgh Church, the Southwold lighthouse, and Henry II's Orford Castle.
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Komentáře • 83

  • @simonf8902
    @simonf8902 Před 3 lety +8

    I love these old British tourist films ! Don’t you wish you could go back just for a day !

  • @MaggieJones1953
    @MaggieJones1953 Před 15 lety +23

    Isn't nostalgia a wonderfully comforting thing!

  • @andrewnorris2
    @andrewnorris2 Před 12 lety +13

    Wonderful scenes and especially the quality of the film itself. How tired these holiday places, like Yarmouth, look now. No one has much pride in their towns these days while all the streets are jammed full of traffic.

  • @Celtopia
    @Celtopia Před rokem +1

    My childhood came flooding back, thank you !

  • @iainclark5964
    @iainclark5964 Před 6 měsíci

    An absolute gem from the British Transport Film Unit.

  • @richardtownshend56
    @richardtownshend56 Před 2 lety +1

    A lovely little gem..!

  • @liquidoxygen819
    @liquidoxygen819 Před 6 lety +3

    My family is sourced from Suffolk in East Anglia, I hope to come for a visit sometime

  • @andrewshere
    @andrewshere Před 11 lety +9

    I love these kinds of films, the history of England's regions, the accents, the dialects. We never were "one" country so to speak. We have always been diverse, and on a day to day basis regional identity has often been stronger than national identity. Why, we even used to have a whole bunch of kings ruling different regions. Great Britain - what a nation, what history, what people!

  • @mikkifly
    @mikkifly Před 15 lety +3

    quite splendid

  • @CelticSaint
    @CelticSaint Před 15 lety +6

    'Places like YYYYAAARRRRRRRRmouth'!!
    love it!

  • @pabloalvez915
    @pabloalvez915 Před 2 lety +3

    East Anglia ❤️Australia

  • @colinhazell6259
    @colinhazell6259 Před 4 lety +1

    Very good!

  • @colinhazell6259
    @colinhazell6259 Před 3 lety +1

    Super!

  • @bigboxbobby2
    @bigboxbobby2 Před 15 lety +4

    I love the phoney local accent! Great gem of a film.

  • @StephenCurtis63
    @StephenCurtis63 Před 14 lety +4

    Norfolk dialect is hard to do thats why many voiceovers sound like west country cider drinking accents. This is pretty close!!! ;-)

  • @indy5624
    @indy5624 Před 11 lety +9

    Remember Yarmouth being a nice place to visit as a kid, now its a run down sad old place and full of foreigners ,

  • @PiousMoltar
    @PiousMoltar Před 5 lety +1

    This is amazing. I'm from the area. I believe I recognise Santon Downham church at 0:33? Yet the trees are so small!

  • @freddielaker2
    @freddielaker2 Před 13 lety +5

    I love Kings Lynn, Cromer, and NE Norfolk. it maybe now theres a recession the londoners will bugger off back home! hoepfully

  • @FF-so3su
    @FF-so3su Před rokem +4

    When England was England❤️

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Před rokem

    R.I.P H M Q E the II.
    70 Years Regin on The Throne of The UK and The Commonwealth 1952-2022.
    Elizabeth 1926-2022.
    Final resting place at Windsor Castle, down in the Valut of St George's Chapel.

  • @wendae1
    @wendae1 Před rokem +1

    We don’t all speak like they do in Somerset, perhaps the raconteur didn’t do enough listening to how people in Norfolk really speak! He’s not the first, and won’t be the last, we don’t all speak like Cornish pirates, or Tom Forrest in “the Archers”!

  • @norristerse
    @norristerse Před 14 lety +5

    of all the people they could have got to do the "local dialect" voice-over they had to pick james robertson bastard justice.

    • @henryhunter5026
      @henryhunter5026 Před 4 lety +3

      I lived in Lowestoft back in the1950/early 60s and can honestly say that is a totally unconvincing East Anglian accent. Excellent film quality though.

  • @simonf8902
    @simonf8902 Před 3 lety +1

    High ricketty Barlow ? Please some kind person explain why herrings get this treatment.

  • @TrancetasticWilza
    @TrancetasticWilza Před 13 lety +1

    I kept expecting to see a bloke pushing a bike up a cobbled street selling Hovis bread!

  • @fordlandau
    @fordlandau Před 15 lety

    I bet the water at the beach was freezing...Are there any fish left in those waters?...love the film ..tnakks!!

  • @emberiza
    @emberiza Před 13 lety +7

    That is not an East Anglian accent of any kind. It's a laughable attempt at one by someone who has done their very best but has my Suffolk in-laws in stitches !

  • @thebannedgreenman8939
    @thebannedgreenman8939 Před 8 lety +17

    It is a social nightmare that Yarmouth and Lowestoft are now being filled with 'Africa's overspill' populations and 'self-exported dross' from other third world countries that have invaded to swill from the UK taxpayer-funded welfare trough. The social homogeneity of East Anglia is being deliberately destroyed by the race-industry's imposition of 'enforced multiculturalism at any costs' , and the crime rate reflects that undesirable change.

    • @thebannedgreenman8939
      @thebannedgreenman8939 Před 8 lety +1

      Harry Warne Mohammed Warne your purple-faced liberal outrage marks you as the "twat". It is obvious that 'the stone underneath which you dwell', is nowhere near the turd-world 'welfare tourist' colonies of Yarmouth or Lowestoft .

    • @HW-ct1iq
      @HW-ct1iq Před 8 lety +1

      I literally don't even know what the point is you're trying to make.

    • @thebannedgreenman8939
      @thebannedgreenman8939 Před 8 lety +2

      Harry Warne The point that you are too liberal to consider (or too dense to realise?) is Yarmouth and Lowestoft are now being filled with 'Africa's overspill' populations and 'self-exported dross' from other third world countries that have invaded to take up a 'LICENCE TO SWILL' an unearned drawdown of social benefits from the UK taxpayer-funded welfare trough. The social homogeneity of East Anglia is being deliberately destroyed by the race-industry's imposition of 'enforced multiculturalism at any costs' , and the crime rate reflects that undesirable change.

    • @HW-ct1iq
      @HW-ct1iq Před 8 lety +6

      Bruv, this country is built on migrants. Time and time again studies and statistics show immigrants are a net gain for the UK. The fresh influx of younger labour helps prop up our aging population and the social services we all rely on. The NHS would not be able to run without the large amount of migrant labour it needs. There is no proof that there is an en masse influx of immigrants putting extra strain on social services. The vast majority of migrants work hard and pay taxes, thus contributing to the overall prosperity of the country. You're just repeating stock phrases but it doesn't reflect any reality. And pretty racist stock phrases at that. You are the descendent of immigrants who arrived in the UK centuries ago, if not sooner. Populations move around all the time. Stop getting your knickers in a twist because you saw someone with different colour skin to you. Come join the 21st century. Or, get out of my town if you don't like it. Go start a commune with a bunch of other racist conspiracy theorists.

    • @familiecole
      @familiecole Před rokem +1

      If the only suffering that you experience is having to socialise with individuals that do not suit your eye and mannerisms, then you really have it very, very easy.

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Před rokem

    Norfolk Lighthouse.

  • @jonnybabes1
    @jonnybabes1 Před 4 lety +1

    Image at 1:03 is still there. goo.gl/maps/G73JQkK79uzNes4bA

  • @grumpymax
    @grumpymax Před 10 lety +1

    No mention of dear old Felixstowe ... pity.

  • @TheTk1971
    @TheTk1971 Před 10 lety +1

    sounds like james robinson justice.

  • @simonf8902
    @simonf8902 Před 3 lety +3

    What strange foreign country is this ?

  • @Lytton333
    @Lytton333 Před 13 lety +1

    @chanctonbury63 How right you are!.. There's no place like good old McBritain.. How I love to watch the chavs screaming round the concrete hell of inner-city Blighty in stolen-cars.. and watch the sunsetting over the retail-parks and burger-drive-ins.. and read of the latest crime-figures and oap murders..It gives one the sense of a true Renaissance..

  • @metalorg
    @metalorg Před 15 lety

    Look at all those rays/skates! Is he going to eat them?

  • @soundnicetome
    @soundnicetome Před 12 lety +8

    What I think people are saying is....what has happened to our once beautiful country and its inhabitants,all gone in the name of multiculturalism and `profit/greed...so very sad.

  • @NR3HGV
    @NR3HGV Před 12 lety +2

    @marktravelling what are you talking about; the guy in the filum was probably some londoner from travel agency or w.e. they were called in them days; im from norfolk and i know; if anyone wants to hear what a REAL norfolk accent sounds like then you should listen to the guy in my broad norfolk dialect video.

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Před rokem

    To His Majesty King Charles the III.
    Elizabeth's Beloved Son.

  • @norristerse
    @norristerse Před 13 lety

    @12Aggiefan
    perhaps you could explain what "pure" anglo-scandinavian" is?

  • @prben2
    @prben2 Před 13 lety +8

    An age before chavs.

    • @jacktainsh3733
      @jacktainsh3733 Před 4 lety +5

      All of you people who believe that poverty and immigration were suddenly just "invented" in the 70s or whatever are all dumb as shit

    • @JamesTilsley1
      @JamesTilsley1 Před 4 lety

      No but you might have gotten stabbed by teddy boy though.

  • @therealadrinux
    @therealadrinux Před 9 lety +7

    That attempt at a Norfolk accent is truly cringeworthy, mars an otherwise lovely snapshot of life in Norfolk.

  • @chanctonbury63
    @chanctonbury63 Před 13 lety

    @Lytton333 Fair comment! But at least we get more than 2 nanograms worth of meat per quarter...

  • @chanctonbury63
    @chanctonbury63 Před 13 lety

    @norristerse How do you know its Justice.

  • @chanctonbury63
    @chanctonbury63 Před 13 lety

    @markimark03 Its happening all over the place. I grew up in W Sussex. People spoke in a similar way to those in Dorset. Now, except very occasionally, theres nothing left of that anymore. Shame really.

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Před rokem

    Mersea Island.

  • @norristerse
    @norristerse Před 13 lety

    @chanctonbury63
    there's no mistaking that voice, even with the bad accent!
    (can't stand the bloke generally, but i DID like him in a film called "pool of london" 1951)

  • @chanctonbury63
    @chanctonbury63 Před 13 lety

    @12Aggiefan Sorry to spoil the party, but we were a tired country in serious decline and it got much much worse. Loss of empire, War recovery, then we had the economically calamitous 60s and 70s to look forward to.
    It wasnt until maybe 30 years later that we really began to turn things around.

  • @marktravelling
    @marktravelling Před 13 lety +1

    It's a shame that the 'Norfolk' guy's accent sounds like a non-East Anglian reading from a script. It's specifically Norfolk that he's trying to do (rather than Suffolk), but it's still a pretty poor attempt.

  • @prben2
    @prben2 Před 13 lety

    @freddielaker2 Wiz there AliG accent.

  • @charlesedwards4160
    @charlesedwards4160 Před rokem

    And now we have the taste of curry 😁

  • @davidrobert2007
    @davidrobert2007 Před 14 lety +1

    Accent not correct. That jist int roit buh...

  • @keithparnell5233
    @keithparnell5233 Před rokem

    not an East Anglian accent

  • @crustyhead
    @crustyhead Před 14 lety

    James Robertson Justice doing the bad accent...

  • @thethird321321321
    @thethird321321321 Před 5 lety +1

    Lostooft

  • @fordlandau
    @fordlandau Před 14 lety

    there was an old herring ..high ricketty barlow ??? was this guy out of the looney bin ?

  • @freddielaker2
    @freddielaker2 Před 13 lety

    @prben2 qwoit roit mayte.... bunch o spivs....

  • @finnie
    @finnie Před 3 lety

    alrooiiigghhtttttttttt BUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

  • @Pitcairn2
    @Pitcairn2 Před 4 lety

    Just as I remember it growing up.. But not the atrocious attempt at a Norfolk/Suffolk dialect..

  • @coltsuperocean10
    @coltsuperocean10 Před 14 lety

    @12Aggiefan thats right!! The Polaks have taken over!! Even as far as Lincolnshire, all you see is Polak workers.

  • @alicejdnsk
    @alicejdnsk Před 13 lety

    I love a good suffolk accent but this one's terrible!! it's so obviously fake! couldn't even get a real suffolk person to do it??

  • @okuma0kuma
    @okuma0kuma Před 14 lety

    i love how northick folk always been in denial about sounding like pirates lol

    • @danman4633
      @danman4633 Před 3 lety

      Bristol, for pirate accent. Jim lad. I'm Bristol born, I'm Bristol bred, strong in e arm, thick in e head.

    • @charlesedwards4160
      @charlesedwards4160 Před rokem

      Oo'arrr, Oi loike thaaa't

  • @jennygw1883
    @jennygw1883 Před 4 lety +1

    That accent is dreadful!

  • @redcardinalist
    @redcardinalist Před 13 lety +1

    @rubysson57
    What exactly are" indiginous Englanders"? Immigration has always been a part of what has made this country great and I think you'll find that many English people have grandparents or great-grandparents who were immigrants.
    And as for saying that they're in a minority, what rot. Evidence to back up your ludicrous claim please?

  • @ironimp1
    @ironimp1 Před 3 lety

    terrible contrived voice over accent!