Christmas in early times | Christmas | Edwardian Christmas | Days gone by | Good Afternoon | 1973
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- Presenter Mary Parkinson looks back at Christmas in days gone by with three ladies who grew up at the turn of the century:
Edna Brannon
Florence Edwards
Emily Holde
First shown: 05/12/1973
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How lovely to interview ordinary ppl who have wonderful stories to tell ,, We don’t always NEED celebs ,,,, I could listen to these ladies for hours & not get bored 😐
Good point...celebs...😝😝
christopher carrier Thank you kind sir ... At least these ladies aren’t boring ,, well as far as I’m concerned they’re not ,,,,
@@katieoreilly7846 They are lovely..as you are.
christopher carrier aww thank you , you’ve made my day , that’s so nice of you to say that ,, I have a smile on my face now ,,, 🎅☘️
@@katieoreilly7846😊 goodnight..from the states..'cross the pond
Notice how nobody butts in, or starts over talking each other. Very polite and in plain English with manners. Very enjoyable stuff
Don John it’s because there are no men present
I agree. I find it almost repulsive to watch interviews today by celebrities or worse yet news personnel who talk over the people their interviewing. If we could harness the ego energy and convert to electricity we could light a whole city.
The lady interviewing could be a voice stand in for Julie Andrews.
I agree. It's a huge problem but few people complain about it. I had to deal with rude interruptions today during a meeting. Nice video.
@Eagle1 I agree 100%
I was born in 1975 but my parents were immigrants from Europe and raised me with a very old school mentality.
They both lived through the Depression and taught me to appreciate every single meal, appreciate the luxuries of today like having indoor plumbing and hot-water to shower, the luxury of sleeping in a comfortable bed, all of the things that most people take for granted now.
I also feel as though I was born an " old soul" and never felt comfortable with the way people act, I was drawn to movies and shows from the 40s and 50s always wishing I had grown up at that time.
I'm embarrassed by my generation but I'm even more disappointed and heartbroken for the younger generations growing up now.
Nobody seems to understand respect and appreciate life!
I am grateful to have a vehicle that runs yet everyone my age is looking for the next bigger, better, more expensive car, television, phone, etc.. 😣
None of those things matter to me. I don't even have a TV
What I care about is love, respect, connections, human spirit, all of the things that actually matter at the end. Idk, it's been very difficult getting through life when you feel like you were born in the wrong era.
I grew up in a spanish household and we had seafood and turron on Christmas day..we all slept in because of midnight mass then feast ..
God. When she said her brother, whom she clearly loved, died in the war my heart skipped a beat. The strong Yorkshire woman is just the salt of the Earth and and the lovely lady in the blue cardi is so humble. What remarkable women. What remarkable footage.
Wendy Herbert I think the Yorkshire lady was also featured in a video about mining.
@@CZcamsSpareTime They are such wonderful ladies.
My grandad was Yorkshire and very old school but a wonderful gentleman. He would help or do for anyone. He grew up with what he used say was 'nowt' .... and when things were bad or had to do something that was hard or tough or didn't want to do he just used to get on with it and say 'well, you have it to do, don't you?'
Gordon Taylor I agree. They were a totally different breed back then. I think what I've noticed is that no matter the class, life was difficult for everyone to some extent. I mean, can you imagine having no running water or inside toilet. I mentioned the Yorkshire lady being featured in a mining video on this same CZcams and the sheer disregard for health and safety was astounding. A guy who was on with her said there was an accident down the mine and the operators just ignored the accident, resulting in the miners carting the dead miners home.
Yes it was a breath of fresh air to hear these wonderful 'ordinary' people tell their stories.
These sweet people are examples of how much having family and friends
who are present is better than being materially spoiled.
Calm down u edgy weirdo 😂😂😂 u wouldn’t survive back then
@@AaronTheGreat________ at all…not for more than an hour 🤣
Exactly. One thing said that really stuck out was when she said her parents were never too busy to play with them. Rare these days.
Who would have thought that I would be sat here on Christmas eve 2019 watching an interview from 1973 with women talking about their Christmas childhoods in 1903. Thames tv is truly one of my favourite channels.
Same!! Haha
You and me both 😁
Same, these people are so interesting 🤗
Amazing. Great insight into times long gone.
Waxadisc Music I was 1 of 6 kids when Xmas came, we were lucky to get an Apple Or Orange!! That was in Aberdeen. Scot. WW2. On rations!!
Think how lucky everyone is today, especially the children!! 🎄👍🏻
These ladies are pure gold. No glamour, no egos, no show off, no fakeness and terible makeups just pure honesty and telling the way it was. I could listen to them for hours.
Me as well 😀
Yes I agree. The best storytellers for me are those who lived through times that we didn't and enjoy telling you all about it. A lot more people seemed to be in the same boat back then.
A song and dance from the ladies would have brightened it up a bit.
@@WhiteStripesStripiestFan Today these grandmothers would have Botox, nose jobs, lip fillers, garish make-up, fake boobs and ink from shoulders to ankles. And of course the plastic claws. They'd be talking about their plans to spend holidays at some exotic, expensive location and the ridiculous priced bag they got as a gift.
Yes they are great.
I will always remember being introduced to a lady celebrating her 100th birthday in 1977. I was thirteen years old at the time, and was absolutely fascinated by her, listening intently to everything she had to say. I cherish this memory and feel very privileged to have experienced it all those years ago. 💕
Wow, it’s a privilege indeed to have met someone born in the 19th century!
I wonder what she’s up to nowadays? In all seriousness, we’ll done you for having such curiosity at such a young age. Looking back, I wish I had.
I always thought it would be the most interesting thing to be born in the mid 1800s and live to be a hundred through the mid-1900s. Think about all of the things you would have seen change so astronomically. Going from covered wagons to space shuttles. I love all these old videos that are popping up on CZcams of 100-year-old people talking in the '40s about growing up during the civil war, or seeing Lincoln get assassinated. It's just so fascinating to me, it's like a time machine.
My nanna (born 1914) used to take on visits to her friends in care homes in the early 1980s. I was preschool age, so I didn't think much of it back then. However, in retrospect how many people I would have seen and walked past that were born in the 1870s onwards. I wish now I appreciated and remember these details better. My granddad from my mother's side was born in 1901 - that's the closest I get to engaging with someone close to that era.
@@Lantern66 what lovely memories you have, bless you. 🙏🏻 Thank you for sharing them. Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to you and your family. Tim
This program could have been another 5 hours and I would have loved every second more!
logarithmic7 Me too, it brought back many memories of Grandma’s and Granda’s gone, also later Ma’s & Da’s. Nothing compares to Family 💕
Me too! I’ve watched it 3 times!!! 🥰
@@bethrobb3684 ..so true, I spend so many hours daydreaming of the past & how I miss people no longer with me. (As much as I do love the family I am lucky enough to have)
Me too :)
I am 50 now... lost my father when I was 28... miss him more and more day by day... my childhood too.. growing up in India in the 70s... middle class.. we have many festivals.. but like the ladies here, we had a lot more warmth, good cheer and everything homemade.. I miss those days.. less money but so much more hope
When she said her brother was killed in the first war my heart broke 💔
Then she said she nursed the wounded during the first war and “those were lovely Christmases.” Bless her
Its such a devastating detail which almost feels glossed over. In an age where large families were the norm this family had only two children. Only to lose one to the devastation of world war 1. It must have been utterly devastating and all she says about it is that the Christmases were "quiet". Our modern world is a blessing and so few appreciate how far we have come.
@@poling1990 when she said her mother wasn’t well it made me think that she was probably devastated by grief 😢
Indeed.
Wonderful. I miss this generation of people ❤️🎄
Me too.
I’m 36 and as I’ve grown older I have started to gravitate towards the elder generation. I can’t stand these young kids nowadays.
Everybody should miss them. We won't see their like again.
Yes these women were just a little bit older than my grandmother. They were a really wonderful generation of people.
@@MyName-bi4pt I don't want to stand them, they aren't even brought up by anything anymore except their own mind. There almost inhuman...its...so...wrong these generations are.
I saved this video in my favorites for those days when it seems the whole world has gone mad, I can come back to watch this again and let these ladies take me back to a time when life was so much simpler....
I've saved it too ☺️
Same 😔
I've only just discovered this.
It's joyous 🎄❤️
Absolutely 💯
Little late to the video but I am
Saving this because now the world is insane
Nice to listen to these sane women
I remember this generation as a child. They are all gone and we are poorer for it.
Me too. My great aunt and uncle were part of that generation and I think my grandparents were. I miss them all so much. I’m sorry but today’s generations just don’t feel the same.
These women also probably watched husbands go off to the Great War and Sons WWII while they kept the home front going, nothing but respect.
yes they had nothing, but the hars humbling true life.
@@katycheeseburger Those women didn't make those decisions only lived with the consequence. By the way please try to not be an idiot for your entire life.
@@katycheeseburger how old are you with that "triggered" silliness?
I don`t think they was old enough to have a son in ww1 maybe a brother
??? if they were all born around 1903-ish they would have been about 11 years old when WW1 started. Do the math.
Believe me, Christmas in the 1970’s was a lot simpler than it is today
Christmas was awesome then, and everyone was nice too.
So true.
Happy Times
Adrian Heath there would have been elderly people back in the 1970’s that shuddered at the idea of having children and adults watching TV on Christmas Day too. Times change, not better or worse, just change.
Mitchell C Let’s hope Brexit doesn’t happen. ( my opinion !)
This is the most fabulous interview and a real insight into what life was like for people of that generation. I wish we had TV like this now, just unpretentious straightforward chats about issues that mean something. Absolutely great.
Couldn't have said it any better
My only criticism of this video is that it should have been longer
Get a bigger computer.
I agree.
One Christmas around 1987 my whole family on my mums side chipped in to get me a present. A fullsize Kermit the frog that I then used to 'entertain' everyone. Hardship can breed strong memories.
One is indeed British, foreskin intact.
Mark Henry Ramsey 😂😂😂
Mark Henry Ramsey Nice subject at the Xmas Dinner. !! 😂 Happy New Year.🍻
Happy new year to all 🍻
calihartley2010. ..... What’s that got to do with the price of turnips ?????? Why ask that question to begin with ????
November 2023 calling in ,im 60 but in my heart atm im having tea and battenburg cake with me old Nan and uncle charlie so thanks for this its gold
No miserable grannies there, they've brightened up my day, they are had so much less but so much more!!!!!
I know what you mean, selective videos are so much better than reality.
@@ColtraneTaylor its just great to hear these people, they are not now in living memory, so thank goodness there were people around who thought of doing the interviews 👋
Yes they had less but were still happy thats what my mum and aunts use to say to me sometimes when they use to talk about their childhood days 🙂
Yes, I love and respect grannies who manage to remain cheerful. In those days those women had so much which was understandably unfair, some were poor too but they made the best of it which warrants that additional respect.
I love this. I was born in 1974 and I remember as a young girl my Aunts and Mother washing the dishes after big dinner that my Grandmother had cooked and I couldn't wait to be a grown up woman who would be included in the washing up. Tho I was occasionally allowed to put away Tupperware in the lower cubby and I thought it was so very important. Lol
Wow..u must have been VERY young! By the time I was 3, I was standing on a chair and washing most of the dishes! Never thought it was fun. My more made every task absolute drudgery.
I was born in 1966, and love helping with the cooking as well as cleanup. I would stand on a stool and dry the dishes for my mother. No complaints at all.
I remember being at my grans house always full of family x
@@staceykersting705 When I was ten after washing up I dropped the pile of plates,at my aunt's in Paris.
@@richardc8795 If u were still standing on a stool, u weren't working too hard yet. Once u turn 5-6, it got serious at mom's. If it wasn't perfect, u got beaten bad. I swear, we put in 12 hour days. My mom was from the 'old country'...cooked all night many nights. Ever prep 2 boxes of apples and one box green beans in one afternoon? Min weight of produce boxes is 38 lbs, BTW. Ya, the simpler stuff was fun...like baking...roll out cookies are easy, even if you're 8-10 yr old. Maybe it was being hit and yelled at that made it harder. Hit more if we cried. We did this on top of changing cloth diapers, scrubbing floors, doing windows, darning wool socks, hand scrubbing heels of socks to perfection, scrubbing bathrooms, ironing everything, etc
Great to listen to these ladies. Mind blowing to hear Emily remembering the year 1902.
Derek C
.....id a great aunt who was born in 1902 and died 1998.........used to love listening to her talk about the past.....i wish she was still here as ive a box full of old family photos - some from 1800,s but no names on the back of who they were......ive also traced family tree during covid lockdowns and have managed to get back as far as 1460...some gravestones are still standing in a nearby cemetery from way back then (but they are fragile).....family havent moved far over the centuries....been fun finding out who they are and jobs they done,etc......alot of them lived well into their 80,s and 90,s
@@geoffdundee That's interesting, I've been doing my family tree as well. I tried going back directly from each of my four grandparents, their fathers then their fathers and so on. It's frustrating that the 1921 Census details won't be available until next January (2022). It should be easier to find 1900's info than the 1800's, but it isn't. Our social history shows how lucky we are nowadays. I've always been in awe of our WW2 generation, our greatest. I think it's important to find out our family history. Some intriguing stories to be found.
@@derekc6445 ...most of my family have stayed local (scotland) so its sortoff been easy so far but im stuck on one member at moment (found zero records after his birth) may have either emigrated or went to england? (ive yet to research there..ive just used scotlands people website so far and found most of what i need (it is otherwise free to browse but been costly as i pay to download all birth/death/marriage/wills documents,etc)....ive just done my mothers side so far and i have no doubt i will be frustrated with fathers side as from ireland a few generations back.....rekon it will be a nitemare LOL......i guess the census records are to protect anyone who may still be alive - even aged 100......good luck with your research.
my great grandmother died with 102 yo, in 1999, still with 19 century mannerisms.
...120 years ago!
Good British television before the madness
Absolutely Mark ... It’s full of rubbish now & one show trying to be “ madder “ than the nxt ,,, So boring !!
@Maitre Mark yes, 3 years for me. Never turned it on. I don't even know if I still need a TV licence for the internet? I've been paying it all this time
I'm 44 and I can't stand the programs on today
@@vmm5163 ....you only need a licence if you watch live tv (news,etc) including on the internet.......lots of advice on clips on here should you wish not to pay it anymore.........If YOU DONT USE YOUR TV you more than likely dont need to be paying anymore but check first.
I could listen to the Yorkshire women all-day long. If these women were transported into 2021 they'd die of shock.
Hello Amanda, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
I think that they would be very disappointed in how things are now. Most of us have plenty, but we still aren’t happy. They grew up poor but very happy!!! These lovely ladies are a fine example of the people of that time, and I admire them.
@@trevorjennings go away
I miss this long lost world, with nan’s and mum’s who looked after the household, everything was cooked from scratch and really tasty, it made being at home such a joy. I miss my childhood and my nan’s so much. Life these days is so hectic and rushed.
The downside of feminism lol
Now women haven't got the time to make everything from scratch, and if they did they'd get upset that the men aren't helping
So true
Well stop.
Return to tradition.
Don't buy into the hectic.
Sadly the reality is to buy the raw ingredients and DIY costs more than a mass produced product, I imagine if you could purchase directly from farmers markets this may still prove cost effective (unless you have a productive garden of your own which would be even better).
Me too!!
Thank you Florence, Edna and Emily.
I say this honestly, I could have listened to these sweet ladies for hours. Each one so charming as they retold their past Christmases. I literally stopped all my housework to actually watch these ladies talk. I was born in the late 50s, so I smiled to see the host’s outfit because it was so early 1970s clothes. 😁😬. This was an enchanting show.
These memories should be kept as part of our national identity. So priceless. Christmas memories are so very special.
What a treasure! It warmed my heart
I just stumbled on to this broadcast ( Dec 15, 2022 ). I'm so happy to listen to these ladie's Christmas stories. The simplicity & happiness in their childhood Christmases was so heart warming. ♥️👌🎄❄️☃️🎅
It’s so strange watching this with just days until the 2020s begin
I agree i dunno how i stumbled across it . Fate i suppose to show me how precious time is
I was just thinking the exact same thing!
@@zoiciteUK Well said. Here's to a good decade
@@zoiciteUK Kismet.
well that was the way it was for real,,i remember we had lots of food, and we made the decorations for the tree because we were poor and couldn't afford much but most of all " WE HAD LOVE FROM OUR PARENTS " JIMMY
I can barely express how much I enjoyed listening to these ladies chatting about Christmas ‘in the old days’. Wonderful.❤
I’m very grateful to the people of the 50s, 60s and 70s for making these important historical documents. Hearing from women at different walks of life unfiltered through someone else’s or even their own written word is so important and so unique and I’m glad people began making these types of recordings relatively early on😊
My parents emigrated from England to the Canadian prairies in 1952, with three of us under 3. We were very poor, but I remember many of the things these ladies remember from the early 1900’s - home made everything, mince pies, Christmas pudding, Christmas cake, paper chains, one of our own chickens, (wood stove and no running water or electricity), singing carols, one present each from Father Christmas, my father would have a cigar, and those very precious parcels from England. How my mother worked!
The generation that remembers both World Wars and the Depression and hard times.
@Maitre Mark Wow, how smart and prophetic he was!
And a generation that remembers good manners, discipline and respect - things you rarely see nowadays. Respect to these delightful ladies!
I love that these women are still sporting the hairstyles that were in when they were young. Every generation does that, my own mum and aunts wore short hair like the host into old age as they were about her age, but it's delightful to see these guests sporting bobs and a wave from the days of flappers and bright young things.
Astute observation, there.
Even in the 1950s it would be a simple Christmas. We had a tiny Christmas tree. And hung paper chains across the ceiling. And basically got one or two but no more presents. Our food was homemade. And Mum put a silver sixpence in the pudding. No fridge. No TV. But a big roaring fire and fresh food.
This should be shown in all Schools
Mary Parkinson is 83 now, probably older than her interviewees here
Good comment and makes you think! time catches us all.
@@insertnamehere5146 Indeed. Time waits for no one.
She was hot then whoa.
Always loved Mary, much nicer than her husband
It'd be great to hear she talking about her impressions about this interview
A fascinating discussion; a reminder that people matter far more than things.
Omnivorous Biped How right you are, these ladies could teach some respect these days, especially when it comes to families. My grandchildren are taught the best things, “ caring, dignity, respect for Elders” also , Please & Thank You!!
I'm sure the poor in are country where we are as bad as then parents not able to eat just so there children can
I love the gold painted walnut shells with a coin inside. That would've made my day as a kid.
ManInTheBigHat
In our family we do this. But we just glue a string in them and then back together for painting.
Never would I have thought of putting coins in them for the children to crack open! She just inspired a new tradition!
My grandad used to give me matchstick dolls. They were little dolls, in a matchbox, and I loved them.
Emily's mother took in a lady from the workhouse for Christmas. That is so touching.
Hello Paula, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
The sad thing is that there were workhouses...
My grandma was born in 1894. She said for Christmas she usually got a peppermint stick & a shiny penny in her stocking.
❣
My grandfather said they would always get an orange and a small bag of peanuts
@@rebeccacharles4010 my nannan was born in 1905 and said they might get an orange, a few walnuts and perhaps a little doll in a stocking.
my grandmother was born in 1903 & she got a book ( a local directory) she wrote in it that she received it from her parents in 1910,& i still have the book,
Wonderful x
Everyone was so polite and well-spoken.
What ever happened to our world
@@carolyningalls4580 Indeed.
@@carolyningalls4580 Boomers, media and schools.
@@carolyningalls4580 our country
I miss that most!
I thought I would just watch a few minutes of these ladies reminiscing about Christmas long gone. Watched the whole video - what delightful ladies they are. Assume they have all passed on now, thank goodness they had the chance to reminisce and tell their stories.
I was a chef for many years and used to deliver cookery lessons to young people (11-21) at a youth centre in London. I was shocked that they knew nothing about food and nutrition. It was frightening that they rarely cooked at home and thought eating fried chicken and pizza every day from a take away shop was healthy. All they wanted to cook was cakes. I had to redo all the washing up myself because they didn't know how to do it and were painfully slow. One girl told me that her aunt refused to eat anything that had ever been touched by another person. They lived in a dream world where food grows already prepared in plastic packaging.
I remember a story I heard from a lady who took care of foster children during the summers. One particular day the children sat in the kitchen drawing pictures as she was making lunch. She asked them to paint a sun and the painted a yellow ball with "rays", she told them to draw an apple and they all drew a heart shaped sphere etc. She then proceeded to tell the children to paint a landscape under the sea. She remembered how befuddled she was when one of the boys drew boxes so she asked the boy what those were and he replied that those were schools of fish. It turned out that the boy had only eaten fish sticks in his family in his life so he imagined fish looked like squares.
Well this is 2019 and i still love the old vintage christmas, to me when i visit my older neighbours and have a good cup of tea and chat that means so much, my christmas tree is 35 years old and has the same dacs each year, i love to hear the christmas songs on the raido in bed, all the gift thing means nothing to me, having time for people is what matters, each year here in the UK another wee bit of christmas goes, its even called now the big day, where did that come from, its Christmas day, and the 12 days of christmas which ends on 6th jan. I willl always keep christmas the old way and i wish everyone many blessings for 2020.
Chris Mullen, Same here, the 12 days of Christmas start on 26th.
Pagan fest perhaps?
That Yorkshire lady is Class. XXXX
Chris Mullan I am with you, 100% 🎄. Happy New year from a Scot.🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦🍻🥂 Cheers !!🤗
Chris Mullan Thank you so much. I always take a trip down memory lane at Christmas time and remember my happy childhood christmasses and the almost unbearable excitement of waiting for my grandparents to arrive by bus on Christmas Eve! Such simple and I believe better times. Of course there was crime but not like the almost daily stabbing reports we get these days. (My tree is old too and I make almost all the decs for it, each year adding a couple of new ones, such pleasure things like that give me).
Chris Mullan I love listening to stories too. Blessing to you also 😊
@@janetcw9808 the twelve days of Christmas begins on Christmas Day the 25th December it ends with twelfth night on 5th January and everything cleared away on 6th. Christmas Eve is not part of Christmas in itself but is the day (or more specifically the evening) before Christmas begins. Of course it has a religious significance but it is rooted in paganism, many symbols of this can still be seen in the food, decorations and traditions that are observed at this time.
How spoiled we are all today. These ladies really appreciated Christmas and not used it like we do today for commercialization.
Ya think?
Vox Clamantis Exactly !!
gary jones People in general, though, not everyone is lucky as some. I feel sad for the Vets that need help ( not just at Xmas) the homeless also @ the other needy. Bless Them.
@gary jones we the people that are fortunate to have better medicines, benefits, social services, helpful charities, food banks , better transport links etc etc etc . It's a shame we live in times of materialistic want, where people don't appreciate what they have. Just don't understand how beggars can afford to drink, smoke and keep a pet dog.
@@originalherdsman3524 It is up to parents of today to show compassion to others. I knew my grandchildren's other grandparents would buy big gifts, so hubby & I bought chickens for people who are doing it tough. Another year I took them out with a set amount of money to buy a gift that they would like to give to another child their age. They enjoyed themselves & spent more time looking for the best for value gift. We are not monetarily wealthy & I work for my dole money at two places that help people. It was an eye opener. May you have a joyous 2020.
Where there’s room in the heart, there’s room in the home…Our purses were often empty, but our hearts were full. ❤
My great grandmother was born 1890s & died in the 1970s. She was a nurse in WW1.
I remember her well, very strict, austere because she’d lived in times when food was really scarce & mothers genuinely struggled to feed & clothe their kids; they’d be grateful for a rabbit even if they had to skin & gut it themselves and we had to use up every scrap of clothing handed down or be considered ungrateful. She’d have been horrified by some of the attitudes today.
I would never eat rabbit. It's the same reason I won't eat duck. They're my friends by the pond in the old days. However my husband has had both.
Merry CHRISTmas!!
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💛💙💛💙💛💙
🎉🎅🏻🤶🏻🛷🍫🎂
❄️☃️🎄🎊🎈🍰
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🥰🇯🇲🏴🕊️🔥✝️
@@royandjacqueline1294 folks on the brink of starvation in the days before welfare cheques couldn’t afford to be so picky. That we get to pick & choose where we get our nourishment is a modern luxury.
We made paper chains and popcorn strings in the 70s. For years We had a little angel tree topper that I made in kindergarten.
hi monkey! Those are the memories that count !!
Same here.
So sweet..
Same in the '80s! I also remember my mom giving me some felt, colored thread, and stuffing to sew ornaments to give my teachers in elementary school.
@@guccideltaco i was thinking about homemade ornaments. i know we made some out of felt, and also out of papier mache, but i can't quite remember how..i mean..i think we stuffed them somehow. i mostly just remember painting them.
I shed a tear for the lady that said they never had any toys, every child and teenager should be made to watch this, the youths of today and the last 40-50 years take the accoutrements of a modern Christmas for granted.
Janette Cotton But they neither missed or needed toys as we are accustomed to and the interviewer talks about the emphasis on food, well i cooked without sleep for two days wrestling with a turkey and ham and various other nice foodstuff so I feel Christmas is still about food, food we normally would not prepare and by god there is no cake baking in our house! No dear! It all comes from either the shop or some family friend who bakes. Also one present per person was common before consumerism and tv commercials made everyone go insane with idea of having lots and lots of everything.
Janette Cotton these women could teach many of today’s “eco warriors” a few things about genuinely being a reusable society too!
These comments are a bit rich: It’s the middle aged and older folk of the baby boom generation who need to learn lessons, not the “youths” and “eco warriors” who will suffer the consequences
Jimmy Durex, fyi: your comment is *literally* pointless.
My father was born in 1927 bronx ny. He had one toy and then he had to trade it for a new one.
This is absolute gold. I loved Edna from the Yorkshire region. What a heart warming lady.
Have you noticed back in the day, older pensioner women were 'allowed' on TV, it was normal. Not anymore. 😐
Yes i have .The ONLY ladies WHO Are allowed on tv nowadays is just young woman with a lot of makeup , fillers and lipinjections.They would not show us ordinary people.
@@maybrittrnningen580 Exactly, it's not right. 😐
@@dawnanderson4967 No its not.And if you Are going to ser a movie , there its not normal looking woman there anylonger either.They Are all fake with fillers and fake lipps.I want too ser normal people .Thats probably why i love watching old black white movies.
Well, there is the show Vera with Brenda Blethyn. I mean, she's not an older pensioner woman but she surely isn't a young blonde with injections.
Only "gorgeous" people allowed now.
Please , please keep these videos for future generations! We need to keep these stories alive because we'll never get a chance to teach our children, grand-children etc if they are all destroyed or lost.
I would love to go back in time. I much prefer these simpler times. These ladies are so lovely!
What to workhouses? The rich crushed the common man, today's tories like Mogg would love to take us back im sure
Wouldn’t want to do the chicken killing.
I have always loved listening to the elderly. They’re so respectful, have integrity and are grateful for the little things. They also have a wealth of knowledge and we can learn so much from them.
When I started caring for elderly folks in the mid 1980s I loved listening to my patients and listen to all their wonderful stories we had a few ladies who were born in the 1880s/90s it was always so fascinating and I remember so many lovely elderly people (you never forget their names) and I am blessed knowing all their lifetime memories. By the way I now have a beautiful rescue Pug called Edna 😊
Hi Richard, I had the same experience as you, and remember the lovely folk born in the 1880s & 1890s, whilst caring for them. The oldest person I remember talking to was a lady born in 1877, when I was 13 years old, in 1977. She was celebrating her 100th birthday. I will cherish these memories for all time. ☺
It is such a tragedy that no-one wants to listen to old people's stories any more. Because they are so interesting and old people love to talk about the old days. Well done for getting Edna, hope she is still going strong.
@@marilynkennedy8236 wait til we are old talking about "before the internet..." As a person born in 1980....I can say, we witnessed a giant shift in humanity. Born during vinyl and 8- track...just before remote controls. Pay phones and dewey decimals at the library for book reports.
@@sexyblackjag Thanks for your comments . I was born in 1946. I honestly don't know what I would do without the Internet. It has been a lifeline for me during lockdown.
How did folk survive during lockdowns associated with the Spanish Flu pandemic? They had not even radio! Perhaps they sang songs and played the piano.
Love the Yorkshire lady talking about her mother making cakes for everyone who wanted one and woe-betide anyone who opens the back door! She reminded me of my own Yorkshire granny. ❤
I don’t understand the back door reference?
How does that relate to cakes?!
@@fashionkiller5052 probably make the cake go flat ?
@@fashionkiller5052 Keeping the heat in the kitchen to ensure the cake rise perfectly I guess. Not opening it to to the freezing backyard (I’m assuming they had a 2 up 2 down) with a back door leading to the yard.
The cake will not rise properly.
I live in yorkshire and I can identify with the Yorkshire lady, my mother was exactly the same when it came to not opening the back door when the cakes were in the oven, we dare'nt slam any doors, because mother didn't want the cakes to sink, THOSE WERE THE DAYS.
I count myself fortunate to have a childhood listening to my elders of stories like these .
I could listen to these ladies all night :)
How nice of Thames to record this while this generation was still with us. Wonderful historical record (and quite charming!)
Very true 👍
My nana was of this era, a completely different world to what we live in now.
Mine too but she taught me well and I still make xmas pudding, gingerbread house (We're not xmas cake lovers), fruit mince and mince pies.
@A Real Londoner absolutely true, it was more about family xx
@@cassieoz1702 that's so lovely, Nana taught her daughters who in turn taught us. It has all been passed down xx
@A Real Londoner I think it is most places now, families are so spread out, such a terrible shame. We can hope that community and caring for one another will come to the for again. It cant be just us that crave it. Have a lovely new year x
Yes my nana was born in 1898. They were so poor they never received anything for Christmas. Even though she never had any gifts as a child this woman had the greatest Christmas Spirit I have ever encountered. I owe her my love of the season
We never get these types of interviews nowadays. The interviewer is calm, asks interesting questions ( & seems genuinely interested in the answers) gives people time to answer, hardly ever butts in. Interviews today make me feel tense & I never really learn much from them. I loved this!
Yeah, this almost sounds like a family dinner conversation.
Michael Parkinson’s wife. An ‘accidental’ but similarly good interviewer on Good Afternoon with the recently departed and absolutely brilliant Mavis Nicholson
This sparked a memory. . . I think my father put our fresh trees in a bucket of sand or dirt. My Mom always gave us things she knitted or crocheted. Practical things like hats, gloves, scarves. We also always got books. One Cmas we got an encyclopedia set. 🙂
Nearly fifty years ago, and this still fascinated me and put more than a single tear in my eyes. Thanks for re-broadcasting this.
Just realised the presenter would be closer in age to these gorgeous oldies today!! People and their memories are so precious.
I was born in 1995 so only 25 years old but when I was younger in my stocking I got an orange, apple, pencils and paper. We weren’t a poor family but Christmas was about family. We always went to church before opening our presents. It’s shocking how many presents children get now...I feel like Christmas is very materialistic now 🎁 (sorry omg I sound so old)
@Hitogokochi So is the U.S. My husband and I "defected" last week.
I completely agree with you. Christmas is now materialistic and based of how many gifts. Its never truly enjoyed with happiness and simplicity.
an apple! you so rich! i was 91 and we only had orange 🤭
I am 34 born in 1988, and I can confirm that my childhood was full of so many presents and very materialistic 😅😅 (also I am an only child 😊)
Do you think you are the only one who was an only child and got a few presents?? Your comment comes across as vulgar, selfish and crass. Grow up.
How sad that lady's brother died in the first world war. He must have been very young.
KatyandJoemac My grandfather was 16, joined up in 1917 and was gassed and left for dead but survived, they all were young.
KatyandJoemac ......most in WW1 were very young......id a relative died aged 16 (but on paperwork he is 18 - he signed up early to fight for his country and changed his age to make him look older so he could join up)......he unfortunately died soon after and his uncle age 32 died 5 days later.........same story happened to many families and this is why WE MUST NEVER FORGET THE SACRIFICE THESE MEN MADE.....same with WW2.
Yes, I was moved by that too; so many were lost.
Yes. This broke my heart too.
🥺
This is a generation I hold so much respect for. Consumption has killed our senses!
Loved this. And hearing how one woman’s family took in an old lady from the workhouse on Christmas day just drives it home how very lucky we are today.
My nan used to take in an old gentlemen who had no family to spend Christmas with. My mum did the same thing as I grew up and then when I was older I did the same thing when I found a young lad I knew couldn't get home for Christmas so I invited him for Christmas and again as we all have we treated him like a member of the family
Gosh yes... Absolutely
@@MultiPurplemist Sounds like your Nan would have been a great guest on that program... And did such a good job raising your Mum and then your Mum of you, that you opened your homes at Christmas.. (I have never done such thing, but humbling to hear that, and makes one think). Kind regards.
@@martynwhitworth5301 My Nan was a wonderful person ❤️ . Unfortunately the cooking skills skipped a generation lol, my mum has never been a cook and she's never been keen to learn either.
Lucky. I wouldn't say that we are lucky to be living today. It's a very toxic depressing world
Brilliant video. Makes you realise it ain't all about lots of presents
Vote labour
"Presence is more important than presents".
I was born in the mid 1940s, the 7th of 8 children. Dad was a coalminer but, in his earlier years, he'd worked in the city's Fish & Poultry Market. In the 1950s people couldn't afford oven-ready turkeys but undressed (feathered) birds were available. In the week before Christmas my Dad would dress 3 birds per evening for 10/- each, extra money that came in very handy for us.
Hello Val, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
These ladies remind me of my grandparents and what fun I used to have with them. We’d play games and make things and laugh. It was lovely … very special. I miss the good ol days.
Same. I so miss my grandparents and my elder relatives. All my family are gone now. I lost my mother a few years ago. There was so much love and fun. Today the world is a colder place.
I did enjoy listening to these lovely ladies. Sad that one lost her brother in the 1914-18 war. Funny how Mary Parkinson looked so 1970's and the others wouldn't have looked out of place in 2019.
"but'ed always used to be sunday afternoon; after she'd took a last yorkshire puddings out 'oven" - that's a dying accent right there. charming to hear almost fifty years on
truly!
There's some little kids with amazing Yorkshire accents. One video called My Son's Amazing Yorkshire Accent, and another called Interview With Millen Eve. They're great !
I'm Russian, and I really enjoyed this old interview. So many stories and memories these ladies have, it's was fascinating! The old times and a distant country... both of which I haven't seen. Our Christmas in Russia is January 7th and it's mostlya religious holiday, but anyone willing can celebrate it. People go to churches and stand through the long service well into the night on the 6th. The 7th is filled with trips to the relatives and friends for gift giving and dinners together. Or you could just stay at home and enjoy the Holiday dinner with family and entertaining Christmas TV shows and movies. For us the New Year Holliday has much more significance and is more festive than the xmas. But the Xmas coming a week after the New Year celebration gave us somehting fun to look forward to as kids :) For ALL the western world: Merry Christmas!
God bless you
Thank you for sharing this story!
Merry Christmas and a blessed and peaceful New Year, Amen!
Merry Christmas from Romania!
I'm Orthodox and live in U.S., and we celebrate Christmas/Nativity on January 7th as well. 😊
Stir up Sunday……I love it. How wonderful and simple those times were ❤️
This speaks volumes of how people appreciated less and seemed to have a wonderful family time.
Great video and to think these ladies may have been born in the late 1800's and seen two world wars. Amazing!
It's important to have a historical grasp of some of the contextual details of the era these ladies grew up in. It's not just the technology that was different, but the economics of everything was VERY different than today.
Food was much more expensive in 1900. One woman mentioned chicken was not a regular meal. This was absolutely true. Chicken originally was a luxury meat, as they took a long time and space to raise a chicken that was signifantly smaller and lighter than today.
The wages their fathers made were about 1/4 what someone would be paid today for the same or similar work, or likely something much more physically demanding and dangerous. And I'm talking about wages adjusted into current time.
Families were generally much larger than today. Housing would have been cheaper than now, but with wide spectrum of quality and possibilities.
All of this had a huge effect on local culture and attitudes of the time. It really was a different world.
The agricultural revolution played a huge role in changing the food culture and landscape across the world. Regardless of how one feels about factory farming, the ability to raise thousands of birds in a confined space and get them to market weight in 6 weeks is nothing short of miraculous. It takes a quarter the time (which also saves on feed and water) to raise a bird 25 percent larger. A roaster then might be a 3-5lb bird vs now that same bird is 5-8lbs or more. Used to take 24 weeks to get a market bird and now only 6 weeks.
I am here in Texas watching in 2022. I love listening to these sweet ladies. I especially love listening to Edna and her Yorkshire dialect. Reminds me of the old “All Creatures Great and Small” series. Those were the best.
Can I please go back in time and sit with these ladies, have a cup of tea and a mince pie, carry on talking about times gone by, they remind me of my mum and aunties who are all sadly long gone. X
I just want to bundle these ladies up and take them home with me! They remind me so much of my grandmother, who was only slightly younger than them. I want to just sit in the kitchen and listen to them talk for hours.
So sad for Emily when she says her brother was killed in WWI. You could tell she was close with him. Lovely ladies, all of them.
Those wonderful simple days - I wish they would return.
I’m a Yorkshire lad watching this from Australia in 2020 - wow, this was a great watch!
I remember my stocking : an orange, nuts in the shell, chocolate pennies, a whistle, hair ribbons and new socks 😊
Cassie Oz You we’re lucky, my 4 brothers, 1 sister, got an apple....or an orange, not both, it was WW2 times, we were on rations!
@@bethrobb3684 I wasnt 'lucky', I'm talking about in the 60s. I wasn't complaining, I think it was better than today. Oranges were exotic but in season in winter. Before clumate controlled storage, mid winter apples were poor somewhat wrinkled things. As I'm sure you recall.
ALWAYS the orange in the toe and nuts. lol That somehow never seems to change much.
I didn’t get a stocking :(
tee What did you get?....😂
"...before Christmas became a gift wrapped convenience...". We now know she's referring to the time before "investors" bought Christmas and sold it back to us disguised as a gift wrapped convenience.
Jellybean
Ageee .
Thank goodness for those "investors"!!
You feel ripped off by conveniences? The ones sold to you, but somehow you never wanted? (I wonder how that works?)
This is so brilliant, kids today would die if they had to make their own decorations and entertainment.
my christmas stocking in the 1960s was much the same as these ladies remembered - an orange, some nuts, a new penny and a sugar mouse are all things I remember. Maybe some other bits and pieces like hair slides or a box of crayons. My main presents were often toys passed down from older cousins, or things made by my parents- like a miniature wooden ironing board, and a wooden doll's house - both of which I still have and treasure. And I still have some of the glass tree decorations that my parents put on their tree. I also remember my parents carrying the Christmas tree home from a local shop, with me at the rear, proudly holding onto the top spike. Christmas then was simpler, but magical for a small child like I was.
I could have listened to these ladies for hours. Their anecdotes were really fascinating. Thanks for the upload and merry Christmas! 🙂🎄☃️🎉🍾
Jez T ......Back at you from 🏴🇨🇦. 🎄🍻🥂👍🏻
Weird to think that all of the women interviewed here will be long gone now, even the presenter Mary Parkinson is 86 years old now. Really interesting to hear how Christmas has changed so much. It seems like a very traditional like for like event every year, but times really are changing fast.
Wow….how did we get to where we are now? Having nothing was so much more. We have too much today and we always want more. People do not appreciate what they have. Great insight into happier and more wholesome times. Thank you.
Wonderful stories! My parents were both born in the 1950s and grew up very much the same way in the rural Dakotas, USA. Homemade decorations and big dinners with self-butchered meat from your own livestock and what you could hunt, cold root cellars and frost on their blankets in the morning, and of course, church was always the main event.
My mom still talks about how amazing it was to get an orange in her stocking on Christmas morning. My Dad would only ever get new church clothes, no toys. As kids we thought that all was so tragic lol, oranges and clothes?? We were definitely spoiled by comparison.
For all you out there whose parents and grandparents are getting older, ask them about their lives before you. Someday, you won't be able to ask any more questions, and that will truly be tragic.
RIP, Dad. I miss you every day, but especially on Christmas ❤
Those ladies spoke beautifully.
I loved how gently spoken the Yorkshire lady was
@@violettiger21 They were from a generation where people did speak politely. Notice the lack of swearing. The modern generation could learn a lot from these delightful people!
All very courteous and well spoken.
@@gordontaylor5373 please nobody takes this a racist thing. as a non British person I think emigration definitely has a big influence in Britain's culture and manners. Most of young white brits certainly have a friend who is not really an English person. The way their friends are talking, acting can be very different from what they saw from their Grandparents.
I imagine these wonderful ladies would be a similar age to my northern Nana. She was born in 1899. But died suddenly in 1974 the day before my 9 th birthday. I can’t tell you the number of times over the years that I wished that she had been in my life for longer. I would have asked about so many things. Such as her and my Grandad( who was gassed in the first war, and died of the lung damage during the second war. They both emigrated to America during the depression, but returned two years later due to lack of work.
But as a child all you focus on is the present time, you don’t really think about the past.
Her name was Emma, she hated the name as she thought it was “ old fashioned!!
I miss her still.....
lovely ladies i couldve listened to them for hours..God bless them.
Choked up when the lady said her Mum used to invite a lady from the workhouse to come for Christmas dinner. I have ancestors who did end up in the workhouse for a while. The family did manage to get out, but it would have been awful to be split up and alone at Christmas. I think this is a truly lovely thing to do.
Most of theses lovely lady's are gone now, today its hard to find men and women who have who have theses fine values today.
@Jellybean :-)
Gosh the lady in blue who was so delighted to have a skipping rope in her stocking, so charming. How times have changed we really need to go back to this basic way of living where things are better appreciated. Lovely interview such sweet and charming ladies.
Absolutely lovely. Their simple childhood Christmases seem so joyful. The magic of Christmas was there. And I feel we've lost a bit of that along the way.
I love how direct and matter-of-fact these interviews are. No posturing, no proselytizing, just describing their own experiences and nothing more. What a fantastic source of understanding of how things were long ago.
Anything that’s nostalgic and involves good old England is always fascinating to watch.
CZcams is amazing 🙌