.............. featuring Barton 1000, Lytham buses, trams on the Prom, the (then new) Pleasure Beach Monorail, Lord Street as it was and illuminated trams.
Blackpool was always my parents yearly holiday of choice back then. I used to get so excited that I made myself ill the night before going and was always given a travel sickness pill for the journey. Happy days! That coach journey from the valley town of Caerphilly to the Metropolis of the North seemed to take forever but was well worth the wait and all the travel sickness! God bless Blackpool!
Blackpool in an era when life was simpler The illuminations were so much better than today Sad to see so many hotels,BB,s and businesses boarded up I now live in Australia but have great memories of 60,s Blackpool My late Mums cousin who lived n Bispham was musical director of the ice show when they had live music Miss the bracing air and watching those 9 metre tides
22 people have disliked a vid of extremely rare once in a lifetime footage of Blackpool 1967? What the hell were they expecting to see? The internet baffles me at times
I have lived in Australia since 1968, and 1967 was the last time I visited Blackpool, so these films stir quite a few memories. Great stuff11 Thank you Brian.
My mom's aunt had a boarding house in Blackpool when we were kids in the 60s loved going there haven't been there since the 80s it's not the same could cry at what's become of our beloved country
I used to love to go to Blackpool when I was a child my nan used to take me every year for a week .we had some great times.i hadn't been for many years I went there year and was so shocked how it's changed it's such a shame years ago it was the Vegas of England
@@john111257 I've visited a lot (but by no means all) of tradition English seaside towns the last few years, and of those I think only Lowestoft and Margate were in as sad a state as Blackpool, which shows how far Blackpool has fallen.
I romantically miss those days. ..1967 and i had one more year to go before turning into a dreaded teenager. .now in my 60s and having just returned from holiday in Blackpool i still love the place. .thank you for your film work, very good of you to share it with us.
I loved those old busses with the center door and the full width back seat upstairs and the wonderful old trams. Blackpools motto is Progress and they have progressed all the fun and quality out of Blackpool and its surrounds, its all a cheap dirty dump now. Nice bit of film, I was hoping I might have popped up but not to be.
Ah, I was 3 yrs old in 1967. Used to go on holiday to St Anne's, where my grandparents lived. My grandad was a butcher at Dewhursts in St Anne's Square. Then they moved to Blackpool Victory Rd North Shore. My Mum lived in Fleetwood used to visit her there, know most of the places in the video. Thank you for the memories.
Their is not. The fastest thing in Blackpool now is the quantity of shops that are closing down, Oh yes, that, and the number of 'con merchants' on the prom fleecing visitors of their money. Even some of the Hotels on the 'Prom' are closing down and being converted into 'DSS style' 1 room flats.
Loved Blackpool, used to go often even on bicycles, lived in Preston, now the closest I can get to it is Maine, an ocean apart, miss the place and the illuminations.
Its just so nostalgic and the fact it was shot on Super 8 really adds to it. I often look at some of my early stuff on Super 8. Thanks for sharing Brian
im sand grown grew up here in the 60's & 70's onwards & worked on the old trams in the 90's as a guard always had a good laugh on the balloons didnt like twin cars though none of us did all them trams on these clips ive worked on
I was there that very year with the Methodist youth club by coach from Wirral...almost terrified on the roller coaster ride. Such valuable a piece of Britain!
This was filmed in the year that I was born so it’s a special one for me and so interesting to get a glimpse of life at that time! I may have visited in my mum’s tum! Thanks for sharing this, much appreciated. x
Used to love the Coronation (spiv) trams. Always used to let the Balloons and rail cars go so I could ride one. The Corporation used to have 2 front & centre doored buses in addition to the center only doored ones. They were the last enclosed doored buses they had until they got the single deck AEC Merlins.
This great, Brian, bang on the time I would have been going as a kid. I was desperate for a ride on the monorail but others didn't share the enthusiasm (weird, uh?). Of course it was the trams, especially the double deckers, that made these holidays so memorable. Thanks for posting, enjoyed it immensely.
I was looking for myself in Blackpool 1967 but ......just a lot of trams and buses !!! Only joking ......it's a sad place now although I don't go back much as I left at 18yrs old to go to Uni.. Morecambe is even worse , such a shame really for locals and visitors alike .
I really really loved this. It brought back so many memories of when I lived there. I just wish there was a little longer to read the descriptions. Still there is the pause button. Thanks for posting.
Although the tower looks great with the lights it has on now running in different sequences and in all sorts of colours i prefer this old plain white running light sequence as i remember it from my childhood at 14 years old. I'll be 69 on may the 8 th.
At 4.23 I spot a Red Cab old Bomber... in the 60s and 70s my Dad had one of these... and there weren't many of them at all that looked like that.. I don't know for sure because I can't tell... but that could be my dad's taxi :)
Hope that Iam not ruffling to many feathers when I say that it's good to see Blackpool, Fleetwood and Morecambe plying their soccer trades in the football league!
Some of the footage is from 1968 or later as the trams were renumbered in that year, single deck cars in the 600 series and double deckers in the 700s, having previously been numbered in the 200s.
My parents used to take me on holiday there as a young boy. Later in the early 60s I spent my honeymoon there. Thought the town was wonderful, always plenty to do even if the weather was bad. But later on due to our English weather not being reliable, change to visiting Spain in the 70s. I visited Blackpool again last year for the first time in 30 years. I was shocked to find how it had become rundown. Drugs, empty shops, boarding houses on the side streets looked dreadful. Not the place I remember from way back. Sorry Blackpool, but unless considerable funding is made available for improvements, I wont be visiting again.
It went that way because people like you stopped going, preferring Spain instead. I'm not blaming you, but you don't seem to have made the connection here.
that shitty unpaved Starr Gate Carpark probably still exists, it certainly did up until 2010.....plus that Monorail, maximum 5 people per 20 carriages.....oh Blackpool...
They're doing their bit. I believe they spent over two million quid on the 'comedy' carpet, then had to dig part or it up again because it was too close to the road.
This cannot be 1967 as the trams in the video are running with 600+ and 700+ numbers applied to them in the computerisation of fleet in 1968. In 1967, trams would have carried fleet numbers between 200 and 328. It is though, a lovely historical record of Blackpool in the late 1960s
I was born there in 76 and lived there until a few years ago, I used to blame the cheap flights to spain for its downfall but it looked like a runs down shitehole 9 years prior to my birth. That being said, it was a great place to grow up and it is such a shame to see it today, as I cant blame Brexit for this, perhaps Brexit could assist Blackpool in some way, maybe as part of a deal to relocate it, its junkies and cheap foreign labour to eastern europe somewhere?
Blackpool was always my parents yearly holiday of choice back then. I used to get so excited that I made myself ill the night before going and was always given a travel sickness pill for the journey. Happy days! That coach journey from the valley town of Caerphilly to the Metropolis of the North seemed to take forever but was well worth the wait and all the travel sickness! God bless Blackpool!
Love this ,I'm a southerner and love Blackpool ......always will be in my heart
Blackpool in an era when life was simpler
The illuminations were so much better than today
Sad to see so many hotels,BB,s and businesses boarded up
I now live in Australia but have great memories of 60,s Blackpool
My late Mums cousin who lived n Bispham was musical director of the ice show when they had live music
Miss the bracing air and watching those 9 metre tides
22 people have disliked a vid of extremely rare once in a lifetime footage of Blackpool 1967? What the hell were they expecting to see? The internet baffles me at times
Yes Carbon.... they go by the collective name of Cretins.....
They were all the people who clicked to see balloons and could only see trams.
I have lived in Australia since 1968, and 1967 was the last time I visited Blackpool, so these films stir quite a few memories. Great stuff11 Thank you Brian.
Blackpool was the ultimate holiday destination for this Welsh lad of the 60's and 70's!
Thank for the memories. I still remember my first visit to Blackpool , September 1939. I just visited Blackpool this year 2015.
My mom's aunt had a boarding house in Blackpool when we were kids in the 60s loved going there haven't been there since the 80s it's not the same could cry at what's become of our beloved country
Thank you so much for this time travel back to the days.
I used to love to go to Blackpool when I was a child my nan used to take me every year for a week .we had some great times.i hadn't been for many years I went there year and was so shocked how it's changed it's such a shame years ago it was the Vegas of England
Just what I was thinking, my nan used to take me.
Lovely film. Great to see the wonderful old trams as they were back then. I wish Blackpool was still like that.
its better than most seaside places in UK
I can think of a load of seaside resorts that are way and ahead better than Blackpool. In fact so many I wouldn't know where to start.
@@john111257 I've visited a lot (but by no means all) of tradition English seaside towns the last few years, and of those I think only Lowestoft and Margate were in as sad a state as Blackpool, which shows how far Blackpool has fallen.
I romantically miss those days. ..1967 and i had one more year to go before turning into a dreaded teenager. .now in my 60s and having just returned from holiday in Blackpool i still love the place. .thank you for your film work, very good of you to share it with us.
Great someone got something nice to say about the place 👍
1967 was the year I was born. visited Blackpool many many times having grown up in north west England. now living in the US.
Born in '63, this is how I remember my holidays to Blackpool ( Lythem St Annes and Fleetwood included ) Thank you for the memories!
Absolutely incredible how it managed to keep its trams for so long.
I loved those old busses with the center door and the full width back seat upstairs and the wonderful old trams. Blackpools motto is Progress and they have progressed all the fun and quality out of Blackpool and its surrounds, its all a cheap dirty dump now. Nice bit of film, I was hoping I might have popped up but not to be.
Ah, I was 3 yrs old in 1967. Used to go on holiday to St Anne's, where my grandparents lived. My grandad was a butcher at Dewhursts in St Anne's Square. Then they moved to Blackpool Victory Rd North Shore. My Mum lived in Fleetwood used to visit her there, know most of the places in the video. Thank you for the memories.
Great memories,there was always a prize for us young uns first one to spot the tower on the way there ha.
Used to get a sixpence - sometimes thought we saw it but ot was a pylon!
We used to that too 😊 the first person the see either the tower or the windmill.
You just cant beat these vintage old clips of a thriving holiday resort, second to none in my book,
I saw the Beatles in Blackpool think I was 9, all the great shows, Morcambe and Wise etc
B H I am really envious of you, seeing the Beatles live, the nearest I got was to see Help at the cinema, with my mum and dad in Blackpool 1965
really enjoyed it . my husband is always telling me about his childhood holidays, I didn't know that there was was so much going on.
Their is not. The fastest thing in Blackpool now is the quantity of shops that are closing down, Oh yes, that, and the number of 'con merchants' on the prom fleecing visitors of their money. Even some of the Hotels on the 'Prom' are closing down and being converted into 'DSS style' 1 room flats.
Loved Blackpool, used to go often even on bicycles, lived in Preston, now the closest I can get to it is Maine, an ocean apart, miss the place and the illuminations.
Its just so nostalgic and the fact it was shot on Super 8 really adds to it. I often look at some of my early stuff on Super 8.
Thanks for sharing Brian
I had a week's holiday in Blackpool in 1968,
I remember this at 6 years of age fond memories
Fascinated by stuff like this
Many Thanks
im sand grown grew up here in the 60's & 70's onwards & worked on the old trams in the 90's as a guard always had a good laugh on the balloons didnt like twin cars though none of us did all them trams on these clips ive worked on
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I lived and went to school there 1954 to 1963. A Canadian now.
Nice to see Blackpool in the 1960's. From St.Annes my first memories are end of the 70s early 80s☺
Wonderful looooooove it
Brought back lots of lovely memories from my childhood, especially the 'Lights' and the Thwaites beer lorry, a taste of home for this Blackburn lad!
I was there that very year with the Methodist youth club by coach from Wirral...almost terrified on the roller coaster ride. Such valuable a piece of Britain!
This was filmed in the year that I was born so it’s a special one for me and so interesting to get a glimpse of life at that time! I may have visited in my mum’s tum! Thanks for sharing this, much appreciated. x
Used to love the Coronation (spiv) trams. Always used to let the Balloons and rail cars go so I could ride one. The Corporation used to have 2 front & centre doored buses in addition to the center only doored ones. They were the last enclosed doored buses they had until they got the single deck AEC Merlins.
Those old buses are pretty cool
Very nice little Historical video thanks for sharing it.
Hi from Canada.
the quality and clarity of this is excellent!
lovely film.
Simon
I am a tiny baby somewhere in that film... - I could be on one of those trams or a 727 taking off or coming back in over in the background...
Great to see all the old cars as well. Many are now collectors items. Great film.
Great film, I love Blackpool.
This great, Brian, bang on the time I would have been going as a kid. I was desperate for a ride on the monorail but others didn't share the enthusiasm (weird, uh?). Of course it was the trams, especially the double deckers, that made these holidays so memorable. Thanks for posting, enjoyed it immensely.
I was looking for myself in Blackpool 1967 but ......just a lot of trams and buses !!! Only joking ......it's a sad place now although I don't go back much as I left at 18yrs old to go to Uni.. Morecambe is even worse , such a shame really for locals and visitors alike .
I used to go late sixties, early seventies as a child. My gram parents had a caravan there. Proposed to my wife in Blackpool New Years Day 2008.
great video, Blackpool was a much nicer place to holiday back then, thanks for sharing this.
Really enjoyed Brian. Great to see so many Coronatios in service.
I really really loved this. It brought back so many memories of when I lived there. I just wish there was a little longer to read the descriptions. Still there is the pause button. Thanks for posting.
Wow! Barton's buses! Went to school on one ! 😁
loved the old trams :-)
I remember so many school trips on the good old Duple coaches!
Although the tower looks great with the lights it has on now running in different sequences and in all sorts of colours i prefer this old plain white running light sequence as i remember it from my childhood at 14 years old. I'll be 69 on may the 8 th.
At 4.23 I spot a Red Cab old Bomber... in the 60s and 70s my Dad had one of these... and there weren't many of them at all that looked like that.. I don't know for sure because I can't tell... but that could be my dad's taxi :)
spotted it yes those really were the days
I need to stop watching these old pictures, if I could time travel I’d definitely go back.
Excellent video, likes from me
Excellent
Hope that Iam not ruffling to many feathers when I say that it's good to see Blackpool, Fleetwood and Morecambe plying their soccer trades in the football league!
I love the trams.The double deckers mostly.l think they were a unique attraction and like the malta buses being removed was a mistake
That was all because 'Health & Safety' had to poke their noses into everything. It all has to be so 'Politically Correct' nowadays it makes sick.
The illuminations were better fuller motifs on the lamp posts but the Tower lights more imaginative now
The illuminations in those days were fantastic compared to todays rubbish LED's...
You did well to get a couple of the centre-entrance Leyland buses into the video; I don't think there were many left by 1967
Thanks
Some of the footage is from 1968 or later as the trams were renumbered in that year, single deck cars in the 600 series and double deckers in the 700s, having previously been numbered in the 200s.
Ian Simpson
Neeerrrrrrrrrdddddd!!!
memories .
Steamed up windows because of so many people...one day I hope Blackpool will return.
My parents used to take me on holiday there as a young boy. Later in the early 60s I spent my honeymoon there. Thought the town was wonderful, always plenty to do even if the weather was bad. But later on due to our English weather not being reliable, change to visiting Spain in the 70s.
I visited Blackpool again last year for the first time in 30 years. I was shocked to find how it had become rundown. Drugs, empty shops, boarding houses on the side streets looked dreadful. Not the place I remember from way back. Sorry Blackpool, but unless considerable funding is made available for improvements, I wont be visiting again.
It went that way because people like you stopped going, preferring Spain instead. I'm not blaming you, but you don't seem to have made the connection here.
If only Alan Bradley had watched this ... he may be alive today.
blackpools full of stags now
Looks more like1957!!!
when there was still a Great in Great Britain
The old Woolworths on the prom ☹️
Don't remember that monorail that resembled a giant caterpillar though.
Outdoor pool in the background
After 1964 it was only grey in Blackpool
When you think of the daily mileage these machines did in an average week
My mother said you could see a red fire glow,over Liverpool during the war if you stood on the promenade..very sad
lets go crabbin :-)
that shitty unpaved Starr Gate Carpark probably still exists, it certainly did up until 2010.....plus that Monorail, maximum 5 people per 20 carriages.....oh Blackpool...
Very good i enjoyed every Super 8 Reel like you i to have many Super 8 films Thanks for posting
My dog jumped over the log flume wall we all got out car 🚗 water run around to get him
I was born in that year march
Thank you so much for this and please join our Blackpool's Past group on FaceBook where I have shared your lovely film. :-)
its a bit a dump now been today not nice. Could be nice if the council put some in to it .
They're doing their bit. I believe they spent over two million quid on the 'comedy' carpet, then had to dig part or it up again because it was too close to the road.
Great video, but its 1968 not 1967.
This cannot be 1967 as the trams in the video are running with 600+ and 700+ numbers applied to them in the computerisation of fleet in 1968. In 1967, trams would have carried fleet numbers between 200 and 328. It is though, a lovely historical record of Blackpool in the late 1960s
Wrong title. Should be...... .'Trams in Blackpool'
I was born there in 76 and lived there until a few years ago, I used to blame the cheap flights to spain for its downfall but it looked like a runs down shitehole 9 years prior to my birth.
That being said, it was a great place to grow up and it is such a shame to see it today, as I cant blame Brexit for this, perhaps Brexit could assist Blackpool in some way, maybe as part of a deal to relocate it, its junkies and cheap foreign labour to eastern europe somewhere?