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  • čas přidán 28. 07. 2024
  • With new restrictions in the North of England coming into place recently due to the Covid-19 pandemic, let's look back to happier times.
    Workers receive pay before leaving on their holidays, and one goes home to tell his wife the happy tidings. They pack, and leave for Blackpool. At Blackpool, the beaches are crowded, and donkey rides, sea trips, and shellfish are in great demand. Even the famous ballrooms and Amusement Parks are well patronised, and Dancers perform the Lambeth Walk and the Blackpool Walk, not, perhaps, as expertly as it is done in one of the shows. After the holiday, the workers return, broke but happy. see story number 33854/2 for cuts
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Komentáře • 48

  • @jack7431
    @jack7431 Před 3 lety +14

    I've got a photograph of my Great Great Grandmother taken at Blackpool beach and on the back the date is stamped, 15th August 1938. It's amazing to see what she would have seen back then.

  • @ianwhitehead691
    @ianwhitehead691 Před rokem +16

    The good old days when the place wasn't full of Smack-heads.

    • @robpugh1000
      @robpugh1000 Před 6 měsíci

      You mean people with issue's who may be struggling?

    • @robpugh1000
      @robpugh1000 Před 6 měsíci +1

      And don't be fooled by the video's. In those days they rarely focused on the social issues of the day

  • @mariannewilliams845
    @mariannewilliams845 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Eeeee bye gum, that really was champion 😊

  • @detoxlangley8863
    @detoxlangley8863 Před 4 lety +12

    Poor Elephants.

    • @franceskronenwett3539
      @franceskronenwett3539 Před 2 lety +2

      That is exactly what I thought.

    • @anythingoldmechanical
      @anythingoldmechanical Před rokem +2

      Yes me too..
      When you look back, that was sheer cruelty.

    • @mariannewilliams845
      @mariannewilliams845 Před 3 měsíci +2

      This was well before my time, but certainly in the 50s and 60s the elephants 🐘 were taken regularly, early in the morning across the road from the tower onto the beach and into the sea. It was very normal to see them there.
      I felt sorry for the lions and tigers 🐅 even as a child I knew it was wrong, they must have had a life of misery 😢

  • @blank-dr2kx
    @blank-dr2kx Před 2 lety +2

    Pure times

  • @wastelanderone
    @wastelanderone Před 2 lety

    The big dipper is still here, a few repairs over the years and she's still my favorite rollercoaster haha

  • @mabel8179
    @mabel8179 Před 2 lety +4

    It wasn't so happy for the poor elephants though! But the rest was fun.

  • @ianofliverpool7701
    @ianofliverpool7701 Před 2 lety +1

    Right then i`m off to watch George Formby Liver at the theatre.

  • @paigeleigh2554
    @paigeleigh2554 Před 3 lety +1

    Wonderful.
    Thank you!

  • @jacquiquinn997
    @jacquiquinn997 Před 4 lety +2

    So interesting. Those people living thre lives and now all gone.

  • @mybluebelly
    @mybluebelly Před 4 lety +9

    Poor sods. Head first into the coming war. What a sad fate.

  • @jabscha7051
    @jabscha7051 Před 4 lety +2

    2020 has gotten to me and the sight of crowds in this makes me uneasy 🤣

  • @borusa32
    @borusa32 Před rokem

    I expect the Blackpool walk lasted about as long as it deserved.'Ee by Gum,It's champion'

  • @franceskronenwett3539
    @franceskronenwett3539 Před 2 lety +6

    A really charming video. The only thing I did not like was seeing those poor elephants in that circus, especially those made to walk only on their hind legs for our entertainment. The welfare of our fellow creatures did not matter so much in those days.

  • @rpowell3000
    @rpowell3000 Před 4 lety +6

    paid holidays , not for people on zero hour contracts in 2020.

  • @bredaquirke7362
    @bredaquirke7362 Před 9 měsíci

    Very interesting video xxx

  • @brenda6580
    @brenda6580 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Great video, not the elephants though.

  • @kingdan5617
    @kingdan5617 Před 4 lety +2

    For some reason I wouldn’t have trusted a rollercoaster in 1938 🤣🤷🏽‍♂️ I don’t know why!

    • @blank-dr2kx
      @blank-dr2kx Před 2 lety +1

      Ypu wouldn't of known any different at the time

    • @natsabuannam1725
      @natsabuannam1725 Před 4 měsíci

      British engineering was the best in the world.

  • @senorpasso8670
    @senorpasso8670 Před 4 lety +3

    The flying rockets are still there! Bring back the Mad 🐁

    • @jrsc01.
      @jrsc01. Před 4 lety +3

      the Wild Mouse was the most terrifying ride in the whole park..!

    • @uk-martin4905
      @uk-martin4905 Před 3 lety +2

      Hiram Maxim's 'Flying Machine' which was installed in 1905 and still going strong after 115 years.....

  • @geoffreyadlam4586
    @geoffreyadlam4586 Před 3 lety +4

    Well. HOLIDAYS 😁
    WITH. 1938. I. SAY
    JOLLY GOOD SHOW WHAT
    GEOFF STOCKPORT CHESHIRE

  • @user-zi8dr1ns9c
    @user-zi8dr1ns9c Před 4 měsíci +1

    Pleasure Beach please bring back tickets or do something better as its so K-rap at the moment....also make it free to walk round once again so families can enjoy it better....Ie older people enjoying grand-kids on rides!!

  • @GreatBritain105
    @GreatBritain105 Před 2 měsíci

    Anyone know the song at start?

  • @GreatBritain105
    @GreatBritain105 Před 2 měsíci

    whats the song?

  • @fieldsofgreen8857
    @fieldsofgreen8857 Před rokem +3

    The only thing that's good today is that circuses are dying out 5he cruelty some of these animals endured so people could call this entertainment poor elephants.

  • @malayneum
    @malayneum Před 4 lety +15

    when england is still white and clean.

    • @bootylove2276
      @bootylove2276 Před 3 lety +8

      I know exactly what you mean 👏👏👍

    • @None-zc5vg
      @None-zc5vg Před rokem +2

      England was (mostly) white but not-so-clean for most of its people, who were worked hard for little reward.

  • @mahmudmohayuddin8212
    @mahmudmohayuddin8212 Před 4 lety

    Thanks anyway, I'll be luckier next time.,!

  • @The_meme_archives11
    @The_meme_archives11 Před 4 lety

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