The Friendly Inn (1958)

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  • čas přidán 13. 12. 2013
  • A trip around English Pubs narrated by Michael Dennison in 1958

Komentáře • 154

  • @user-mg8fx4ge7w
    @user-mg8fx4ge7w Před rokem +21

    What a nostalgic find. I lived in the Punch Bowl in Lanreath. The Atkinsons were very kind to me, Bill taught me to sail in his little dingy. I recognise several of the darts players, the darts team had a great reputation in those days. I still have several of the plates as seen on the dinner table.

    • @KingWhiskers1
      @KingWhiskers1 Před rokem +3

      My parents and I ran the Punch Bowl from November 1967 to June/July 1986. We were the last successful publicans to run it. The people we sold it to drank it away and it became derelict. It is now in the process of refurbishment.

    • @mariolopez-oi2td
      @mariolopez-oi2td Před rokem

      Wonderful memory. You're very lucky!

  • @happy_camper
    @happy_camper Před 3 lety +65

    There's a heartbreaking beauty to this. In years past, I would've scoffed at the typical film narration of the time.. But it struck a chord with me just now, and the ending left me teary-eyed. This is a Britain that doesn't exist anymore. We must hold onto whatever remains of it. God save the pubs.

    • @nonegone7170
      @nonegone7170 Před 3 lety +11

      We may have gone too far with 'modernism'...

    • @davesaunders3334
      @davesaunders3334 Před 3 lety +5

      You’ve now got Wetherspoons selling cheap frozen food and fizzy lager. Enjoy.

    • @trollinrollinrollin
      @trollinrollinrollin Před rokem +8

      I've always dreamed of going to Britain my lineage is all from great Britain and Ireland it saddens me to hear that THIS culture is dying because I've always loved it and thought it beautiful from British tea culture to hunting and game shoots to bespoke tweed suits it an amazing culture and hope I get to see it one day before THIS BRITAIN disappears

  • @mrdeafa25
    @mrdeafa25 Před 3 lety +31

    Here we are in 2020, saying goodbye to our pubs forever.

    • @sethaldarith6778
      @sethaldarith6778 Před 3 lety

      What's happening over there, George? Asking from Canada.
      Pandemic closures?

    • @mrdeafa25
      @mrdeafa25 Před 3 lety +10

      @@sethaldarith6778 All the pubs and restaurants have been closed for lockdown for the second time. Many of them will never open again.

    • @chrisfryer3118
      @chrisfryer3118 Před 3 lety +9

      Its the first time in 50 years I haven't been to a pub in the last 4 weeks. Covid (&supermarkets) have killed pub culture. When my local changed hands (shut), it felt like a relative had died.

    • @StacyL.
      @StacyL. Před 3 lety +5

      @@mrdeafa25 Yes. Sadly the deaths of small business and the pubs are the majority of the casualties of this bloody virus that has a 99.4% survival rate!

    • @sirparzival9372
      @sirparzival9372 Před 3 lety +3

      They will probably get replaced with Afro-Muslim shops.

  • @chunkygroove9038
    @chunkygroove9038 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Utterly charming little documentary. I just hope there are still a few of these beautiful places around in years to come.

  • @pablozewoppa
    @pablozewoppa Před 3 lety +16

    'For in Britain the inns are as fascinating and varied as the highways and byways that lead to them' - what a beautiful line. 'And may you come to know [the inn] not as a stranger, but as a friend.'
    This is the world my grandparents knew, albeit rendered here in a somewhat sunny way.

  • @zaruszin7249
    @zaruszin7249 Před rokem +5

    i’m liking this old era more then modern

    • @sky.the.infinite
      @sky.the.infinite Před rokem

      *than

    • @zaruszin7249
      @zaruszin7249 Před rokem +1

      @@sky.the.infinite english not my main just trying to write so more people can understand

  • @I_stand_with_Israel.
    @I_stand_with_Israel. Před 4 měsíci +3

    10:37 The Old George Hotel in Salisbury is now part of a shopping mall. The ground floor was removed and a steel frame inserted in 1967, a mere 299 years after Samuel Pepys had stayed there. 😢

  • @davidmann8254
    @davidmann8254 Před 3 lety +40

    Utterly enchanting. Is there anywhere that is like this still? Sigh.

    • @chrisfryer3118
      @chrisfryer3118 Před 3 lety +3

      yeah right

    • @davidmann8254
      @davidmann8254 Před 3 lety +6

      @@chrisfryer3118 it’s sad, isn’t it?

    • @daveyr5462
      @daveyr5462 Před 3 lety +5

      Sadly no, you can't even find a good carvery now let alone atmosphere and local beer, you're better off getting a pie from a vending machine (said vending machine proves better company too). The proper British pub has been killed off by chains and for that we are all poorer

    • @majidskinnerkhan6960
      @majidskinnerkhan6960 Před 3 lety

      @@johnnyaction750 🤣🤣🤣

    • @CA-ee1et
      @CA-ee1et Před rokem

      Mr Wetherspoon's welcoming hostelries?

  • @elrjames7799
    @elrjames7799 Před 3 lety +9

    Good food / drink in pleasant surroundings and everyone properly washed and dressed.

    • @bobtim1008
      @bobtim1008 Před 3 lety +1

      Sounds too good to be true now a days

    • @elrjames7799
      @elrjames7799 Před 3 lety

      @@bobtim1008 Yes: heading toward the lowest common denominator, quite often.

    • @aaarrrggghhhh
      @aaarrrggghhhh Před 2 lety +2

      Not an Adidas hoodie in sight. It reminded me of when Vivienne Westwood said we are the worst dressed generation ever now. Even when people didn't have much they wore suits, not adverts for clothing companies.

  • @19661945
    @19661945 Před 3 lety +10

    Not a mobile in sight...

  • @vjab1108
    @vjab1108 Před rokem +5

    The UK at its best, it has declined so much since these times.

  • @harrynewiss4630
    @harrynewiss4630 Před 2 měsíci +1

    How utterly charming

  • @optimisticfuture6808
    @optimisticfuture6808 Před 3 lety +10

    I’m from the USA and really enjoy frequent travel to UK where we rent a car and enjoy the countryside. Off subject somewhat but so many persons there seem to enjoy apologizing for their country. To me quite ridiculous, sure as with every country wrongs were done, but most places in the world with any sense of order were colonized by GB. Imagine how much grief and hardship that has saved. Who is thanking GB for what they have done for the betterment of mankind?

    • @davesaunders3334
      @davesaunders3334 Před 3 lety +4

      Nobody ever thanked the USA for building upon the British business model of enslaving the inhabitants of the places they colonised and selling them as livestock either. I’m sure the 20 million Africans they kidnapped, chained up and forced into a life of back-breaking indentured slavery would love the opportunity to thank us and you for allowing them to become stakeholders in the cotton and tobacco industries. Well, the ones who survived, anyway, as it is estimated that 5 million of them didn’t make the journey across the Atlantic due to sickness and disease and were thrown overboard, alive or dead.
      Still it turned out ok in the end didn’t it? A handful of families of European descent made enough money to ensure their families remain wealthy and powerful for centuries and the descendants of the people they enslaved are grateful for the opportunity to live as second-class citizens in the nations their ancestors helped build, sometimes at the end of a whip.

    • @erinc.1610
      @erinc.1610 Před 3 lety +1

      Lol when I was in London for a visit an old cab driver called me a "bloody colonialist" 🤣

    • @davesaunders3334
      @davesaunders3334 Před 3 lety

      @@erinc.1610 - Why?

    • @erinc.1610
      @erinc.1610 Před 3 lety

      @@davesaunders3334 I don't really know lol... I was a young American girl trying to find Abby Rd (I am a huge Beatles fan) and I didn't have a clue how to get there...perhaps he didn't really want to make the drive? Lol I tipped him well all the same. It's a funny memory that has always stayed with me.

    • @davesaunders3334
      @davesaunders3334 Před 3 lety

      @@erinc.1610 - London cabbies are a funny lot. What year was this?

  • @MsCaleb79
    @MsCaleb79 Před 3 lety +13

    Good old days, how could everything go so wrong? ? ?

  • @Mattriver7
    @Mattriver7 Před 4 lety +17

    Outstandingly beautiful! Sentimental and romantic but rather nice.

  • @u.s.militia7682
    @u.s.militia7682 Před 3 lety +21

    We have an old inn like this in Abingdon Virginia. It’s simply called The Tavern. I believe it was built in the 1770’s. They have great German food and beer there. Prices are great too.

    • @alanrogs3990
      @alanrogs3990 Před 2 lety +1

      Is it very popular or is it kind of out of the way and not crowded?

    • @u.s.militia7682
      @u.s.militia7682 Před 2 lety +2

      @@alanrogs3990 it’s on the main street through town and is very popular. I used to be stationed in Kaiserslautern Germany in the early 2000’s and when I walked in it reminded me of being in Germany again. Prices aren’t too bad. You can get 2 meals at $100 or less and the food is great.

    • @alanrogs3990
      @alanrogs3990 Před 2 lety +1

      @@u.s.militia7682 Sounds comfortable

  • @BushGold
    @BushGold Před 4 lety +8

    Splendid........

  • @mitchellmcdowell8546
    @mitchellmcdowell8546 Před 3 lety +5

    Wonderful!

  • @fuzzylightning
    @fuzzylightning Před 3 lety +5

    This guy is a total badass.

    • @paulallison2412
      @paulallison2412 Před 3 lety +2

      Michael Dennison - famous British actor of the day. Married to actress Dulcie Gray, theirs lasted without scandal. Rare in celeb-land especially these days. Pure class!

  • @postscript67
    @postscript67 Před 3 lety +5

    I just Googled the Old George Inn, Salisbury and found that it is now a shopping mall.

    • @johnbockelie3899
      @johnbockelie3899 Před 3 lety

      A shopping mall? . Well some one sold out. The remains of King Richard 3rd ( " A horse, my Kingdom for a horse".) was found a few years ago in England way under a modern parking lot. So, don't surprise me that that inn is now a shopping mall.

    • @TarmanTheChampion
      @TarmanTheChampion Před 3 lety +1

      its still there... it was just renamed to old george shopping mall

    • @peezebeuponyou3774
      @peezebeuponyou3774 Před 3 lety

      @@TarmanTheChampion So what is it- a mall or an inn?

    • @TarmanTheChampion
      @TarmanTheChampion Před 3 lety +3

      @@peezebeuponyou3774 its still the inn because it's on the second story, there's just an arcade on the first floor now, so if you want that old time experience with modern day arcade breaks it's the place for you LOL

    • @peezebeuponyou3774
      @peezebeuponyou3774 Před 3 lety +2

      @@TarmanTheChampion Fucking scandalous. We wonder why society's gone down the plughole.

  • @StacyL.
    @StacyL. Před 3 lety +11

    Brilliant documentary of my heritage in the Campbell Clan. My hair literally stood up on end when I seen the castle where once my ancestors I've lived! To see the tartan of the Campbells, makes me well up with such pride!

  • @mrdeafa25
    @mrdeafa25 Před 3 lety +25

    The Lugger at Porthole is still there. Sadly it is a generic, sterile version of what we see here. No character at all.

  • @patrickrose1221
    @patrickrose1221 Před 2 lety +1

    Snuggly lovely !

  • @philyaboots1
    @philyaboots1 Před 3 lety +4

    Cheers..!!

  • @paulusher3560
    @paulusher3560 Před 3 lety +3

    The queen hits a mean bullseye 🎯

    • @samaraisnt
      @samaraisnt Před 2 lety +1

      I'm glad I wasn't the only one to notice!! hah it's uncanny, like staring at money!

  • @MOOSEDOWNUNDER
    @MOOSEDOWNUNDER Před 3 lety +57

    Britain, what have we done. I know this is a propaganda bit but still, what a bloody shame.

    • @Surreptitious_1
      @Surreptitious_1 Před 3 měsíci

      Many, many things have contributed to our demise, but Blair stabbed us mortally. He and all the leaders who have followed are traitorous criminals.

    • @spiffinz
      @spiffinz Před 3 měsíci

      How is it propaganda you clown lmao

    • @jamesdeluca6657
      @jamesdeluca6657 Před 18 dny +1

      What's propaganda??

  • @snowdog9954
    @snowdog9954 Před 2 měsíci

    The George Inn has such history, it should be a tourist attraction in itself. It is now the entrance to a shopping mall

  • @secretsquirrel6718
    @secretsquirrel6718 Před 3 lety +3

    Missed anything like this on my brief buisness trip to London....

  • @kingofkroon
    @kingofkroon Před 3 lety +2

    I really need to get a cravat.

  • @DDandrums
    @DDandrums Před rokem +2

    Those darts players were quite something.

    • @KingWhiskers1
      @KingWhiskers1 Před 2 měsíci +1

      The Champion was my Father in Law. Sadly passed away from throat cancer many years ago. He was actually a Cornwall County Champion for quite a few years.

  • @mhockey23
    @mhockey23 Před 3 lety +7

    I didn't know you weren't aiming for the bullseye🤷‍♂️

    • @corey46
      @corey46 Před 3 lety +1

      Triple 17-20 will bring you more points than scoring a bullseye

    • @peezebeuponyou3774
      @peezebeuponyou3774 Před 3 lety

      @@corey46 Why did he go for doubles and not trebles? Strange that.

  • @samaraisnt
    @samaraisnt Před 2 lety +2

    4:50 absolute dead ringer for the queen. Never seen anyone actually look like her...wow.

  • @bretttempleman5373
    @bretttempleman5373 Před 3 lety +7

    Shamefully half of them are probably McDonalds

    • @paulallison2412
      @paulallison2412 Před 3 lety +2

      Thankfully they are all still in business. Perhaps lost some of the character and charm etc - but then again, so I suspect have the visitors.

  • @derekthompson6992
    @derekthompson6992 Před rokem +1

    9:10 Looks like scones homemade jam and *Window Cake?* at the back

  • @adam_p99
    @adam_p99 Před 2 měsíci

    The fact is now a shopping mall is a disgrace. However treble 20 is more than double 20

  • @davidbarnes241
    @davidbarnes241 Před 3 měsíci

    The importance of being Earnest😢

  • @Ass_Burgers_Syndrome
    @Ass_Burgers_Syndrome Před 2 lety +2

    The Slaughtered Lamb? What kinda ad is that for a pub?

    • @luckybag6814
      @luckybag6814 Před 3 měsíci

      I used to go to a 16th century pub called The Headless Woman.
      But it was demolished in 2014.
      My guess is it started out as The Quiet Woman, with a headless (so quiet) woman as the sign. That was a thing a few centuries back.

  • @ReasonAboveEverything
    @ReasonAboveEverything Před 3 lety +2

    "In such a setting the atmosphere is bound to be gay"
    I swear to god my lungs collapsed.

    • @kingofkroon
      @kingofkroon Před 3 lety +2

      Mine when he said it's better to be punted.

    • @davesaunders3334
      @davesaunders3334 Před 3 lety +1

      You definitely need to get out more.

    • @ReasonAboveEverything
      @ReasonAboveEverything Před 2 lety

      @@davesaunders3334 I already do. It's just funny how language changes.

    • @davesaunders3334
      @davesaunders3334 Před 2 lety

      @@ReasonAboveEverything - But not so funny your lungs collapsed. Mildly amusing, if that. Do you feel anxious when you see two men holding hands?

  • @srl6018
    @srl6018 Před 3 lety +2

    Beautiful women 7:13 and 7:54. Fabulous horse and hay cart 11:56. Even the car 12:20 was splendid. Chrome bumpers and whitewall tyres. I like to think I might be dreaming and soon I'll wake up and it will be like this again.

  • @whoknows2054
    @whoknows2054 Před měsícem

    That one lady at the head of the table in the 4:35 min. Got the biggest nose I"ve ever seen.

    • @solo_indiana6979
      @solo_indiana6979 Před 14 dny

      For such a beautiful video, I don't think that specific thought of yours needed to be typed out here...

    • @whoknows2054
      @whoknows2054 Před 14 dny

      @@solo_indiana6979 snowflake

  • @dandean2345
    @dandean2345 Před 2 lety +1

    I want cake! And your finest wines!

  • @bazandjamie
    @bazandjamie Před 3 lety +1

    1.18 ....is that MINNIE CAULDWELL ?

  • @jonstclair3290
    @jonstclair3290 Před 3 měsíci

    You were warned in 1976, "no future in england's dreaming"

  • @mihaelazlate4729
    @mihaelazlate4729 Před 3 lety +1

    Wonder how ordinary ppl lived not rich ones

  • @justincase4812
    @justincase4812 Před 3 lety

    Buhfo the Bee uhhls. That's how a Man-cue-nee-an would say it no?

  • @RetroSega
    @RetroSega Před 3 lety +6

    Why didn't he talk about the wifi in those rooms? That's what I wanted to hear about, not about swans and elegance!

  • @hollywoodundead72
    @hollywoodundead72 Před 3 lety +6

    life before cocaine infected the system

    • @frank6842
      @frank6842 Před 3 lety +1

      Uhhhh, you could buy coke over the counter a few years before this was filmed.....

    • @hollywoodundead72
      @hollywoodundead72 Před 3 lety

      @@frank6842 🤣

    • @maxiejohnson8356
      @maxiejohnson8356 Před 3 lety

      @@frank6842 the Good old days when we can get Meth for coughing.

  • @gestapo81
    @gestapo81 Před 3 lety +3

    i don't get it...where is the shawrma?

  • @josemonte4083
    @josemonte4083 Před 3 lety +4

    I imagine now is saggy pants and hip hop music..

  • @deadsouls72
    @deadsouls72 Před 3 lety +42

    Before Afro-Islamic conquest.

    • @wilmdanby3232
      @wilmdanby3232 Před 3 lety +21

      I think you might do well to reflect on the wider context of British history outside of this promotional video for tourists.
      In the year that this was made, our fine nation still had colonies from the Carribean, all accross Africa, and via the Middle East and all the way to Hong Kong. Our presence in all of these nations was nothing less than conquest, and rule by threat of violent force. Infact, in the 1950s, when this cute snapshot of pub life was made, British force was in full effect across Kenya, and to quash local uprising, we condoned torturous concentration camps, mutilation and rape. Some 20,000 Kenyans died in the conflict, which was centered around the British will to cling to power. You see, with our history we cannot pick and choose. We as a nation opened our doors wide when we trampled across the world extracting resources and violently coercing people.
      No nation has done a better job of covering its tracks, and sprinkling its attrocitites with charm than we, the British. We carved up Africa and the Arab world (along with other European nations) creating conditions of endless conflict from which we still see the tragic results to this day. When people from these other worlds come over here to improve their quality of life, try to keep in mind that our histories our inextractably meshed together, and not because of their actions, but ours. I say this as someone from a white colonialist English family.
      I see so many comments such as yours, and no doubt of many people watching this video, to the effect of: "where did it all go wrong?...Foreigners!". If you feel your community lacks the "charm and character" seen in this old snapshot, then do work to retrieve it yourself, and dont endlessly point as incomers, it is extremely lazy to think that a brown family moving down the road somehow made your white family less well mannered and obedient. Infact it is evident that families from other cultures have a much more traditionally respectful family structure. The fact that white British culture has proverbably shat itself and cant stop wanking and eating burgers is most certainly its own fault (and something to do with American capitalism).
      You probably havent read this far and are preparing a reply to the effect of "wow there mate, nice essay" or to focus on my grammatical spelling mistakes. This is the first CZcams comment I have made in a very very long time and I write it in pure frustration at how lazily our people point their fat greasy fingers at the other. The British soul killed itself with entitlement.
      God Bless.

    • @smogland7933
      @smogland7933 Před 3 lety +9

      ​@@wilmdanby3232 What if the only way to retrieve the English soul is to demand that foreigners leave our lands?
      You say that Britain killed itself with entitlement, which is another way of saying that we deserve to have violent third worlders in our nation, but I do not remember any vote on whether folk from around the world should be allowed to live here, and in fact since 1948 the native population has always opposed more immigration, but have never been listened to. We were never asked, we were told that racial strangers would be moving here, and we were told that we were to keep our mouths shut. We did not have immigration in any notable way until 1948, and even that was forced upon us.
      I do agree that there is more to the collapse of the UK (and the west in general) than foreigners. The west is under foreign occupation, we are all under a system that demands we live unnaturally as wage slaves, stuck in concrete cities without any greenery, eating only processed foods, and wasting away our energies on controlled media and pornography. Our children are raised by the state which fills their heads with poison, our people are so confused, anxious, and scared that depression and suicide is going up every year. The globalist powers that be send us into insane wars, cut down what little remains of our countryside, and tell us all that we don't exist, that everything is relative, and that capitalism is essential to survival, that the only reason that we are alive is because of multinational operations, international banks, and dubious billionaire influencers. It is interesting that these groups also demand more and more immigration into the west. Our population is declining they say, so we need to add biomass to keep up the constant consumption of cheap plastic Chinese tat. Don't blame this on old colonial superpowers, the nation state no longer exists, the people with the most power want to erase borders, erase identity, and make it so that you can travel from London to Beijing and not be able to tell the difference.
      Also, I should mention that races are different biologically, and so it is unrealistic to expect them to be able to live together. We evolved in different parts of the world. This is a serious problem. It is perhaps the most important thing to understand, we cannot share our nations with different races, it only causes disaster.
      Lastly I hope that you do not keep on feeling guilt for your ancestors works. They may have been working for a dubious system of bankers and profiteers, but one must keep in mind that we achieved heights of greatness in our history that we can all be proud of.

    • @pheenobarbidoll2016
      @pheenobarbidoll2016 Před 3 lety +8

      @@smogland7933 As a Native American, I have to chuckle at the idea that people get a vote on violent foreigners showing up. Who got to vote when you showed up? See how outraged you are at the idea, then multiply that by a few hundred years and several atrocities aimed solely at your ethnicity and then we can talk. Fear not, over the course of time those violent 3rd worlders will achieve heights of greatness, and that will make it all ok.

    • @smogland7933
      @smogland7933 Před 3 lety +11

      @@pheenobarbidoll2016 Well first of all, no third worlders will ever achieve heights of greatness. This is because they are incapable of doing this biologically.
      Indeed, you understand the pain of being ethnically replaced, and yet you still support it, what does that say about you?
      Before you go overboard on feeling like a spiteful victim however, I strongly recommend you watch a video called 'Non-Genocide of Northern Native Americans' on bitchute. I feel it is in your best interest to learn the truth about your people. You deserve to feel strong, proud, and forward facing, this can only happen if you abandon the victim narrative, and maintain that you are a victor.

    • @pheenobarbidoll2016
      @pheenobarbidoll2016 Před 3 lety +7

      @@smogland7933 It says you people are incapable of learning something is wrong until it's done to you. It's not my fault you have to learn the hard way. Your disease ridden ancestors were living in 3rd world conditions when you spread out. Literally all you had was more advanced weapons, and those weren't enough when you landed here, it was your disease that killed over 1/3 of the existing population. We had cities, governments and systems of trade, but you brought sickness, shitty food and mental instability. You're still unstable enough to believe that was 1st world. You get back what you put in, so if you don't like it you only have yourselves to blame.

  • @johnhall4146
    @johnhall4146 Před 3 lety +3

    Utter tripe. 1950s Britain was NOTHING like this, except perhaps for a tiny fraction of the population, and in the minds of travel film producers.

    • @davesaunders3334
      @davesaunders3334 Před 3 lety +2

      Too many people regard nonsense like this as documentary. Same people waving their little Union Jacks to make the nasty virus go away.

    • @britbyname3620
      @britbyname3620 Před 2 lety +4

      Utter tripe to you … Yes it was ..

    • @wayinfront1
      @wayinfront1 Před rokem +2

      @@britbyname3620 Indeed it was. I was there.

  • @user-jy2qp8gp2l
    @user-jy2qp8gp2l Před 2 měsíci

    Fajny film

  • @ale942009
    @ale942009 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Britain...what happened?

    • @spiffinz
      @spiffinz Před 3 měsíci

      Coudenhove-kalergi plan