The Day Trip (1974)
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- Jack Pizzey Reports from Margate for Man Alive
This documentary was broadcast as part of the Man Alive series which was a documentary series that took a look at all aspects of society in the UK and abroad. This episode was looking at the popularity of the seaside resort of Margate and remains a wonderful time capsule of what the British seaside once looked liked 50 years ago!?
It was first broadcast on the 3rd October, 1974 - Hry
I`m grateful I was born in 1969. Growing up in the 70`s and 80`s was the best time in England. It`s ruined now.
Nah it was shite 😂
@@stephnewman1357 go away troll
I was born.in 1970, feel the same. We're from the East End, now heartbroken to look at it. Third world dump.
you are right there
@@stephnewman1357No, it really wasn't, sunbeam.
I can't watch this. It brings tears to my eyes to see what we've lost.
If I had a time machine I would go back and stay.
Margate, it's beach and Dreamland still exist you know? And very nice it is too. Maybe it's something else that you've lost?
@@Pobotrol I have been reading every comment on this video, and I would say, 95% can see EXACTLY what WE have lost. I'll give you a clue... its not the sand or the rollercoaster.
I was 11 in 1974 we used to stay in Cliftonville in a place called Holland House Hotel and go down to the Lido. It's true that it was a different world back then
@@majordolbyscat I have been a Blackpool regular since 1974 and I am slowly working my way south, Done all the Yorkshire/Lincolnshire/Norfolk/south Devon and North wales ones I have even been to south-end once and I stand with you I also know EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE LOST!
you are weeping for your youth
I feel very blessed to have lived through those precious years.
I was 12 in 1974. My Nan used to live in a lovely bungalow in Margate. Her garden was full of lavender. I love lavender as it evokes so many wonderful memories. I spent lots of years in Margate and I loved growing up in the 70’s. How times have changed.
Growing up in 60’s 70’s ( best time ever ) I was born in 1961 and I’m so grateful for that 👍🏻🙂
My Nan lived in Ramsgate.. and I was 9 in 1974.. we lived in Bham and spent the summer holidays on this beach… such fantastic memories..
I might be living there now. My Margate bungalow has a garden full of lavender... was it opposite a park?
I was 11 in '74, just starting Big School, lol. Times were certainly different.
15 minutes in, that's my dad Mick Webb, 2 years before I was born ❤ lovely seeing him with hair 😂
I always think it's nice when folk are recognised in these old films.
@mushroom_coloured_stepthro they'd always told me about it but I'd never seen it.
Fast forward to the shit hole we find ourselves in now.
That's neo libralism for you !!
sorry but you made me laugh im originally from holyhead and in the 70s and 80s even the 90s it was nice absoulute sh it hole now
The present was created by that past.
@@strategicintelligenceanaly9778 Only in so far as Margaret Thatcher is concerned
@@barnabyhughes5643can’t blame Thatcher for mass immigration.
I want this back.
it will never come back
don't let the door hit you on the way out 🤣
What about it exactly is gone now? You can still go to Margate and the beach?
It’s the youth you want back. That’s all.
you can't have it back because your poor, old and powerless or rather, impotent
I am an old Brit and I was well happy with the way we were.
I am 62 and I feel old. I cant say I was happy back then but seems to me the world was better.Now its going to hell.
You were happy when you were young and not old like you are now and in a state of physical and cognitive decline that old age inevitably brings
old people don't count in England, they're best kept hidden and out of sight
Hard to believe that this is within living memory. Seems like a universe away.
As soon as I read this comment it hit me so hard because it's like a different world from now 😢
Strange feeling isnt it?
Beautiful but devastating to see what we've lost
Breaks my heart every day.
Well stop going abroad
It's the way of the world, each generation doesn't want to do the things the previous generations did. Even those who were around in 1974, expect more now from life & holidays than these folk did.
Older people in the 1970s were saying that and remembering the 1920s with fondness.
@@stephnewman1357
if we stop going abroad, the prices here need to be reasonable. Its way too expensive. You get way better for your money abroad init.
Brilliant, just brilliant!! I console myself with the fact that at least we had those days 😢
There will probably never again be a country like England until recently was. The world is poorer.
Summer of ‘74, when I had just turned 20. Oh how I would love to go back to that time!
I was 6, but yes agree would love to wind back time from the total BS these days..
Yes, I was 20 in 1974, just like you John. Peace and goodwill.
I was 12 and hated my life and family but those days seemed better that the hell this world is now!
I was 22 and back in Scotland. I had been working in John Lewis, Oxford Street, and staying in West Hampstead. In April 1971, I took a day trip to Margate and met a Swiss aupair who was also on a day trip. She was working for a family in Edgware, North London. She was my girlfriend for 5 months before she returned to Switzerland. London was wonderful back then.
Me too !! 😊😊😊
The woman nursing the sleeping baby, the baby who would be 50 now…life goes by so quickly.
That’s funny. I was thinking the same thing that baby would be the same age as me.😂
Tell me about it. One minute I am the cheeky, mischievous Boy and next Saturday,I enter my 8th decade..lol
🎂 Happy birthday mate!..I’ve just turned 75..all the best ..🍻cheers from Liverpool..👍🏻
@@frankhornby6873 Thanks Frank from Millwall,South East London/Kent:)
Good Luck..
Excellent. . Thanks for showing this . This is when England was England
Flipping Londoners coming down to Kent wrecking the place..😂
@@stephnewman1357 Yeaaahhh. I don’t think they mean that tbch, or I have missed the point. 😇
England is still England!
this was when you were young, relevant and powerful. But every dog has his day. Thankfully the working, lower classes have no say
@@SHEARMINATOR Nope, it's Englandistan now!
Watching this and how wonderful it was you would not believe what it has now become. 😢
blame the poor and therefore powerless, working classes for letting this happen
The country we live in now is unrecognisable from the old days. 😭😭
So is ours..concrete USA all the developers are ruining nature...we should have taken care of it..
Surely we should be thankful for that, it's called moving with the times,,,
apart from the legions of poor, powerless working class tripe that will sadly be omnipresent
50 years ago where did the time go. Life looks more peaceful and less chaotic than it is today.
It was, there was less to do & more time to do it in & the only screens were TV sets.
Sadly, 3 of my 4 grandparents died in their early and mid 60s in that decade.
@@lyndoncmp5751 There was a lot of it about. My maternal grandfather died of a heart attack in 76, just 6 months after retiring, he was 65.
@@LowPlainsDrifter60
Sad. Yes that age seemed fairly common to die at.
Life was much more chilled. Enjoy your weekend, and Sunday was when shops were closed.
We are now in the fast age/Tech age where everything needs to be done fast in real time.
Makes me sad that those long ago innocent days of simple pleasures are gone forever. Lovely film.❤
Imagine the dingy brigade coming up on the Margate beach then 🤣
@@mmm091000 yeah what would they do? Exactly the same as now moan..
@@stephnewman1357 Food for thought indeed ? Im old enough to remember those times, yep your probably right ? we lost our back bone many years ago.
And those old couples (Pensioners) would remember the 1920s (50 years from 74) as peaceful time
@@mmm091000
This was not even thought about as it was easy for anyone to come over via Heathrow back in them days. Times have changed with foreign policy dictating the intervention of other countries. What goes round comes round. The foreign policy needs looking at. Interfering in other peoples business is the reason the UK is in the mess and dinghies coming in
Simple Symantec
You'll never see an England like this again! These are mostly people who survived the war and are showing they are glad to be alive.
You're right, you won't. Lost and gone forever.....☹️
As a local, I used to love the influx of Londoners every summer ; it kept Margate, well the whole of Thanet, lively. It was great place to grow up. It breaks my heart to see its decline since the 70s. No different to other seaside towns, I suppose. The English culture depicted here has vanished, sadly and I'm not sure that diversity has improved it.
The “pier” was always known as the Jetty, btw, a remnant from history when trippers arrived by boat.
I used to visit my auntie and uncle in the summer, early 80s. They had a chip shop on Ramsgate sea front. I last went 2021 and she died a few months later. She still owned the chippy but rented it out. Lovely memories of the Bembom brothers fair. She used to live on Westbrook avenue. I thought it was so posh lol.
"Janice is the one with 6 cans of light ale in her handbag" ..they don't make them like that any more..
She dead now 😢😢
@@angiedougan
How do you know?
2024:
Janice is the one with a gram of Charlie, an eighth of weed and a bottle of vodka in her bag.
@@NoLefTurnUnStoned. Easy my sister is Marion and the three of them were best friends. Don't be so disrespectful
@NoLefTurnUnStoned. because one of then girls are my sister and Janice was her best friend
Wow - how polite people were then and spoke so well.
People have greatly deteriorated.
@@Tempe1962I was born in the 40s and have witnessed change, both good and bad. It's our way of life which has deteriorated, and no particular generation is to blame. I like to think there are still plenty of us who seek better times, an opportunity to turn things around, young and old stand together for good.
Innit bruv….🤦♂️
I think that if this were done today the editor would have a job on. The profanities I hear every time I pass people talking is far more frequent. I have to admit that I am guilty of it myself. Though I never swear around children. It really grinds me to hear a parent swearing at their children.
@@nickgodfrey1148 nah the working class are always the poor and powerless, things are still the same thankfully in that regard
Everyone was so much slimmer in those days.
Fastfood & take-aways were occasional treats back then, not everyday chow & people tended to only have 3 meals a day. 🙄
This was just before diet culture and the low fat nonsense was popular. Thanks to big food conglomerates
Fatphobic swine 😂
No Internet hence you had kids that played outside when the weather allowed and thus kept fit.
Now, everyone is hooked on the internet via computers or phones and have become couch potatoes
And nobody went 'down the gym' neither. People cooked far more proper food then than now, natural exercise (walking!) and far less processed food. All makes a massive difference.
When we were Great Britain
Which year was that?
@@stephnewman1357Before the traitors like you took over you cretin.
Alright Dad's army
@@stephnewman1357 go
I remember these days at Margate full of English people good people how sad what our politicians have done to this country 😢
And Burt thought ‘today I’ll be an antagonistic arse hole.’ For Burt today was going to be just like every other day.
Bleedin beaker folk! Comin’ over ‘ere
i hope you dont mean me crikey ive not said a word crikey@@user-xw3zu1gm4q
@@andrewt836 I see we have a Stuart Lee fan?
@@user-xw3zu1gm4q I am 70 this week and it was a little too close to the absolute truth. You, obviously, were not there. Giving lifts at Bus Stops to 3 complete strangers.Open Plan Design for a Bank or Building Society. I stopped complete strangers at Crayford, Lewisham, and on the way to Brighton and got them to change my flat tyre (The A A never did it then). Got other strangers to help push my car 1/2 mile down the road as The A A rules said "1/2 mile away from home".
London "Evening News " vendor left his papers AND moneybag out on the pavement overnight for a decade and collected the same,the next morning. Rent Man walking around (with the equivalent of( £1,000 on him with few problems.
My first encounter in Kennington Park,S E London, with nonindigenous people, circa 1968, was to be mugged for 2 old pence (1p)by a Black kid and "Clint" of Mixed Heritage. This was one mile from our school near Brixton.
The school enjoyed 350 years of "academic excellence" until the local "yoof" came, in numbers, and within 5 years it was a Government "Sink School" with special measures, and last summer, Archbishop Tenisons School opposite THe Oval Cricket Ground closed permanently as few parents wanted to send their kids there.
Burt..
Not a Spicehead, Smackhead, Or Beggar in Sight.
Innit, the UK is a scummy place these days and back then the beaches were for the British people but these days they are for foreigners in their boats!!.
You forgot too mention no hijabs neither!
Nor immigrants
@@adamweston4152 In those days nobody used the kind of black slang you use either...........""innit""
All those older people never had to deal with computers laptops mobiles A.I and living as a foreigner in your own land. I am so glad I grew up when England was England uncomplicated so much fun.
Well said!
They also lived through 2 world wars,and had a lot of hardship. Yet i would swap places with them given the chance. I really dont like what the world has become. Narcissism is the flavour of our day. It is all about "me" when it really needs to be all about we. The old lady was wonderfuul wasnt she. The hall of mirrors was such a lovely thing to watch her. Not a bitter bone in her body❤
Margate is just as lively in the summer today as it was then. We could take a leaf out of that older lady's book from the film "today's generation is no better or worse than yesterday's generation". It was true then, and it is true now. Don't be scared of change. At our core we are still the same. On the surface that may look different, but us Brits still love a day at the seaside. I know I do, and I'm 23. My friends and partner do. We live near Margate. So many happy days spent there. Much love ❤️
She was talking a load of rubbish. It is not as true then as it is now. She was in no position to judge being too old to understand the nature of the changes. Things have declined appallingly. 'Don't be scared of change'. is fatuous. 'Change' does not automatically imply improvement. The word 'change' is merely a descriptor.
You've made the mistake of contradicting the "everything is going to shit" crew. I'm so bored of this myself. Dont let this inexplicably popular wave of miserable pessimism stop you from enjoying the life thats your's. At 23 the world is at your feet, dont let anyone tell you you're "what's wrong with the world". Times are hard, but they've also been much harder. I live in Margate and half the people in this comment section are just using this video as and excuse to rag on young people. The fact is, its still a great town with a great vibe. Incredibly popular in the summer and buzzing at night.
Really enjoyed watching this snapshot of life in the UK.
Has left me with a heavy sadness, of a time long gone unfortunately.
Thank You.
Don't know when you last went to Blackpool? It hasn't really gone 😂 my husband and I having both had happy memories of childhood holidays in the 70's thought we'd have a weekend on our own there a few years ago...my goodness! Most of those hotels haven't changed the sheets since 1979!!! It's all still there, untouched never mind decorated,or modernised. It was quite disgusting. Couldn't find anywhere to eat after nine. We saw hotels advertising in their windows "free soap" in the bathroom 😂😂😂 which was on the landing to share with several other rooms 😂 it was beyond run down,yet still charging top rate prices to the few diehards who were old enough to look like they'd been going every year for ever. It was so grim. We told horror stories for years about the things we encountered 😂 Should have left it as happy memories.
A heavy heart, England no longer like this, so many wonderful memories, now it's a shithole.
how nice ENGLAND was back then , lets have it back
🏴🏴 It’s not mutch to ask for, is it? 🏴🏴......(hope I’ve not offended anyone will my comment)...🏴🏴
We'll go to the coast rather than fly off abroad!
@@frankhornby6873..mate the only ones who would be offended are the low life who shouldn't be here...we need to get our country back!🇬🇧
you can't have it back because your poor, old and working class which therefore makes you powerless.
How much brighter and happier these people were in 1974 ... no looking down into there mobile phones and not having a conversation with others around them because there were no mobile phones ... people engaged with each other even strangers as the man said while digging that deep whole in the sand ... three young girls and no tattoos or rings through there various parts ... I bet now those beaches will be mostly empty.
I used to go to Margate with my parents in the 1960's for a week away and Margate was packed ... always fun at the guest houses as you would meet people from all over the country on there holidays there ... happy memories.
It has been five decades since this event occurred. If mobile phones had been available at that time, individuals would likely have been engrossed in their devices just like now. The comments regarding tattoos and piercings are purely subjective and do not contribute to a productive discussion.
@@BlackRose-vi2yg That they were not hypnotically obsessed by yet to be invented mobile phones is just one of the many reasons why it undoubtedly was so much better then. As for 'body art', everyone's opinion is 'subjective', and all opinions contribute to 'productive' discussion if you are not tethered to a set of pre-defined conclusions. All of these things are indicators. You would rather we ignore them. That tells me you know that the implied point was valid and are trying to concoct a reason why the 'evidence' should be ignored.
I don't know if you were actually here in England at that time, but I was, and it was a much more beautiful and pleasant country. I would assert that most alive now who lived through those times would agree with me.
If you want to discount the opinion of people who were there then go ahead and pontificate all you like, it makes no difference to what almost everyone knows to be the truth.
@@BlackRose-vi2yg Stating the FACTS as shown in the video compared to todays society ... unfortunately your post did not contribute to a productive discussion.
@@gingercat555I last went to Margate in 2003. It was still very pleasant then, but I read it’s getting somewhat gentrified..
Well said.
Left Margate in Autumn '74 away for 47 years now been back 3 years .......Its changed and not for the better!
So why go back then.
@@goldieandblackie because I still love the place
@@goldieandblackieSmart arse.
Britain, where you need a coat to sit on the beach like that lady at the start....that hasn't changed 😂
Everything in the world has changed for the worse.
I was 18 in 1974, but rather than going to Margate that year, I was busy packing and saying goodbye to my friends as I emigrated to Canada on June 12th, 1974. It was a very different world, but a move I never regretted. I still find it hard to believe it was 50 years ago. Have many fond memories of Margate.
No Internet and no mobile phones it looked so much better back then
Come back please.
@hudson7354 To be honest, there's not much for me to come back to. All of the family that I had here, have since all passed on. Sadly also many of my friends have passed on, and the few that remain have all moved away. It's a nice thought, but at my age (68) something that won't happen.
I am from Wolverhampton birn and raised. Never been to margate, however I have such a nice impression of margate from watching the only fools and horses episode "The Jolly Boys Outing."
@@pauldg837 nah don't come back, not being nasty, it's absolutely shit now , remember it as it was , I do
I’m glad I was a kid in the 70s thanks for the vidio
The seaside towns nowadays bear no resemblance to the old,popular family locations R.I.P.
They really don’t, Southend is a shit hole,, Margate has tried to come back but lost itself in the 90’s, u need a knife to go out in Blackpool… I reckon cleethorps was alway rubbish but my mum reckoned it used to be good back in the 70s
I lived in Worthing for five years I would go back on heartbeat still lovely with lovely people
My Dads the D.j in the Bali Hai , about 28 mins in , great footage , thanks for posting it.
Oh how lovely!
Fantastic!!
Dude he looks the spit of Noel Edmunds !
@crumplezone1 lol , used to think that , when I was a kid . 😂
@@majordolbyscatI have a postcard somewhere of a band which played there in the 50s. Such fun in those days.
A snapshot of better times.
The 3 girls will be drawing their pension now.
and the govt snatching it back underhandedly
They would be my age now 67 . Lovely times that we can never go back to .
@@maggiefisker99468
The girls like any 18 year old, wanting to go out on a day trip. We all done it at that age all be it slightly older.
They won't be smiling now then.
Old folks who’d been through the rigours of 2 World wars just chilling out…. And indeed, why not 😊
Watching this was amazing. When England was England. I remember Tony Savage and many of the sights. A real blast from the past.
My namesake!
@@tonysavage8933 Are you Tony Junior?
I used to go to margate and other seaside places in the early 70s but otherwise no connection.
@@tonysavage8933 spooky though, the same name. You should’ve taken up playing the organ. They wouldn’t have needed to change the signs lol. Seriously though, I loved Margate. My parents used to stay at 26 Ethelbert Cresent. I went back in 92 and it was changing then. A nightclub was set up just a few yards away and a Saturday night was brutal.
England so name by a Germanic tribe the Angles (anglo -saxon) They named it Englaland meaning Land of the Angles.
Proper working class people. Not a chav in sight. Proper people proper times.
Definitely right. Proud of who they were with decency and respect for eachother.
I agree.
This was made at a time when the BBC was worth watching.
he says watching on CZcams
People used To laugh 😂😁🙂and enjoy themselves..⛱🤽♀️🏖👍🏻
Without smartphones! How is this possible? 😂
We still do, two oldies born in the 40s making the most of life as best we can.😊
I wonder if the politicians ,then, had the same level of contempt for us as they do now.
Definitely...they will NEVER change!...🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴
It was Harold Wilson's Labour government at the time. Politicians had les opportunity to show their contempt back then & they were less present in our lives.
@LowPlainsDrifter60 Very true. Control seems to be main priority these days .
Oh yea they did. Nothing has changed and yet we vote them in. Crazy.
Yes, they were bad back then but are worse now.
I was born in 1983 so well before my time but this breaks my heart to see. Nothing like this any more 😞
What a treat. A lost world!
Just think those young girls out for a giggle in Margate are now in their late 60s/early 70s, if they are still with us.
Before Blair. How life was sweet.
If only we knew it at the time
Before Thatcher. Fixed it for you.
@@numinousbookofreview after Jimmy Savile fixed it for your mum
what misfortune did Blair inflict on England.
@@daydays12 he's a war criminal for starters for the pointless Iraq war. Also the never ending war togetjer with the USA at the behest of arms companies against the middle East. Its still going on and it will never end now.
I was there in 1975 Steve Harley and cockney rebel was no 1 at the time with come up and see me, i played it non- stop on the juke box, i was 19 at the time i just loved the solo in that record, so i learnt it on my guitar, it was a nice sunny saturday the beach was packed so was dreamland....please lord take me back if only for one day.
The best days with the right people
Load of ole uneducated commoners coming down to kent with their ragamuffins spoiling the place 🤣
That's the England I remember. The England I'd die for.
Wasn't expecting this. I smiled and chuckled all the way through! I could almost smell the sea air mingling with the alluring scent of carbolic soap and Old Spice!
One thing which surprised me, though - having grown up mostly in Wales during this period, I've never seen so many 1970s Cockneys in one place.
And not a single one of them was Micky Flanagan!
Everywhere is the same now, it's not just England. It's all by design. God Bless England.
The Lost World. Makes me melancholy beyond belief.
When Britain was Great 😢
never was great
@@burthectorcummings6732clueless
That is debatable,but it was better back then in many ways ,and not so good in others .
Nostalgia does tend to blinker us ,and the good times shine over the bad.
@@burthectorcummings6732 alot fucking better then the shit state it's in now
@@compostcorner5934 I know I'd go back to them days in a heartbeat then the shit show were in now ,we will be the minority in our own country in I'd say the next 50 years ,we can just about fly an England flag in your garden without it getting asked to be taken down
England and English people were so lovely then. Everything is spoilt nowadays
Before the meddling traitors foisted millions of foreigners upon our tiny overcrowded Island to destroy our culture and way of life.
I couldn’t agree more I remember margate been there many times as a child in the late 70s how this country has changed and they say it’s progress we have gone backwards not forwards and I’m not looking at past times with Rose tinted glasses. It’s just the truth. The politicians of this country are treacherous individuals
Diversified to oblivion.
@@inglepropnoosegarm7801 yeah, that seems the way it’s gonna be unless something drastically can change
Blame it on Lydon..
3-foot tall kids in a 5-foot deep hole in the sand, and not a care in the world
I loved the 70's
😬😱
Does anyone else remember a story, from a summer in the early 80s I believe, of a bloke that dug such a hole, but he really went to town and it collapsed on him. couldn't get him out. died. 😥
All the old people are having such a good time. These days they're hidden away and drugged up out of sight in retirement homes
Their children just can't wait to get hold of their houses and assets, that's why they get 'rushed on'.
Very good point
Your not wrong
@@museonfilm8919that’s not true…. There’s no house if you put your parents into care… the council will sell it and take the money to pay the 2k a week it costs. … so care company CEOs can have their six figure wages
@@aprilapril2 The council also get something out of it.
Brilliant reminder of past days!
Best time to be a teenager’ hard to believe how this country has changed 😖
I was born in Margate in 1967 and I moved to Thailand seven years ago. But for 50 years, Margate was my hometown and this is exactly how I remember my childhood days with my family on the beach. Thank you so much for the upload, this was great to watch.
People appreciated simple life then
The tall dark haired girl with her two mates was stunning
Top tier agreed
Bought tears to my eyes,I was 13 in 1974 , I’ve always wanted to go back to the 70s , life seemed calmer and fun , now we live in a country that isn’t great anymore , government letting migrants in , and charity has never began at home for British people , this isn’t England any more 😢😢😢
Oh bless.
Same here,I was 13 then.
@@stephnewman1357away with you, troll!
🤣 those bloody other members of our species, migrants....all or them or just some?
@@missrachael1709No Rachael not all of them, my dad is am immigrant , I’m talking about the all the immigrants that come over especially illegally, sometimes paying thousands to get here, then claiming hard earned tax payers dosh, I’m talking about the immigrants that ask my daughters to get their t*ts out and can they have sex with them whilst rubbing their trousers …I’m talking about the men that attack and kill our citizens because no checks . I’m talking about the lack of our services , nhs etc .. Im not talking about the hard working migrants that contribute to our society,most of them are wonderful and we need them. What we don’t need is immigrants coming in and making this a shittier country than it already is …..
Enoch Powell was spot on in his prediction , this is how England was.
Enoch Powell didn't predict state wide robbery by the Conservatives! That is what has ruined this country! They haven't finished either!
Time for u to go to a nursing home or graveyard... Ur best years are done and ur just decomposition in action me old mucker😊
Er yes and in 1974 the nhs wouldve collapsed without people from overseas working in it - and the same goes for today. Powell was a lying gutless bigot who has no relevance to the world we live in today - he was wrong about everything.
This is how your youth was before you got old and started to decline/physically and mentally decompose... and ended up in a nursing home. Why do old people look like saggy, frail, living skeletons? Because they are decomposition in action.
If you're old enough to remember Enoch Powell, you'll be a "was" soon too from natural, senile causes :)
I loved Man Alive One of the best TV programmes on the TV.
Yes, it was great. A lot of beauty in the mundane here.Excellent reporting. Good to see it's available again. The theme tune takes me back.
@@traceya9615 'Beauty in the mundane' - wonderfully put!
Aren't Cyril and Em just the loveliest couple ❤️ What a decent, honest, sensible woman she is 🥰 of course sex wasn't invented in the 70's😂
These films are great pieces of social history - like the Harold Baim shorts Talking Pictures TV are showing at the moment.
All the commentators those days were all really well spoken and professional as well. Good old days now lost. Our seaside towns and beaches are now a total disgrace.
The hotels full of asylum seekers.
Scooter rally,s in the 80,s and 90,s,,,,, BEST EVER,, just loved MARGATE!!! AWSOME!!
I LOVED this England but I have had 70 wonderful years. My first great 29 years were living in the heart of S E London just 2 miles from Central London and exactly 41 years ago, in 1983,I moved to this ordinary home. We have 76 Open spaces within 6 miles. 4 busy Towns within 2 miles.Out into The Countryside in 20 minutes and have been out 7,770 times, with only minor incidents. It has been stimulating and truly wonderful.
"7,770" lol Absolute nonsense. I forgot 8,500 dog walks, with between 1 and 8 dogs(usually 3/4) over the last 33 years and other Sports and Girlfiends, as a single guy. It is around 16,500 times with only a few minor incidents.:)
the isle of skye i love that place so much i used to work hotel elien airmen isle of sleet not far from broadford i love that place so much great place
@@godschildse That is good to hear:)
Beautiful video, 5 years before I was born, but it looked great times, sad things have changed so much
Insane how the UK has changed 😮
What a fantastic documentary. I live close to margate down in Sandwich. Margate is now considered a bit of a joke but I do pop up there once in a while for a few hrs. Alas outside of old town you'll find a lot of boarded up shops and buildings. Drugs are rife as well poverty and dangerous folks pottering about. It is better in the summertime as the crowds do mask the issues the area currently has. What is amazing watching this is how backwards we have gone. It's rather alarming. Living so close to margate and seeing what I see now compared to what I've just seen from this wonderful short film it is rather sad indeed.
Drugs ruin's every life it touches, its taking the world down to a new low and for what, People expect too much out of life so they finish up depressed, smart people never touch any of it.
I really enjoyed this look back in time, great days.
I once ate a sandwich in margate
Damn!!! I remember that music at the start of the show, I must have been 4 years old when this show was aired and I was always in to music and hearing it now i automatically remembered it.
Not a burka in sight.
We've lost so much.
Everyone had so much more respect for each other in them days.
@@freedom123515I put that but sadly I'm shadow band. So it's removed instantly
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The good old days when England was English...🇬🇧🏴....(hope this isn’t offensive)...🤭
@@frankhornby6873 I don't care if some people think it is. Truth should never be offensive.
@@lemming9984 When White people had the ffeedom of association.
not a burka in sight aye but a bit too many mobility scooters and walking sticks for my liking... the living dead, ageing and taking up resources
Wonderful piece of history, thanks for uploading
Breaks my heart to see what England has become. These were indeed the days.
Wounderfull England
Before the dinghy invasion
Polish? Na, not the Polish.
Sadly they've been coming in since 1948
Yeah....but now it’s an invasion 🇬🇧🏴...(hope I’ve not hurt any feelings)....🇬🇧🏴
All the polish down in Kent?
Most Brits f off abroad and started there British invasion of pubs serving roast dinners!
@@majordolbyscatper capita muslims are the biggest donors to charity in the UK followed BY the jews 😢😮😅
Thanks Major, really nostalgic stuff. A simpler time, society has lost so much!
What a time to be alive!!
When britain was still a great place to live.
I would rather be 20 in the 70's than 70 in the 20's.
Isn’t this truly wonderful. I wish I could’ve experienced this 😢
Very enjoyable, thank you for posting
How things have changed lovely to see English white people enjoying MY country
Ah yes the seventies and the white heroes. Glitter, Savile, Harris etc etc
Ok let’s ignore our fabulous army and nurses and ambulance guys you twit
The beautiful sight of the White faces.
@@user-my2ji5dr9v You should visit England if you like seeing those.
Where's dem white women at 🌰🍆🌰
The glory days of the Great British Summer.
Absolutely brilliant
What a charming film that made me smile all the way through! It's a wonderful look back into better times long gone. I wasn't even born until '76, but I can relate to family hols as a kid, much like this film shows.
I remember being buried up to my neck in the sand on a beach, by my Dad and my brother (which still makes me laugh on the photographs from then) probably in Scarborough where we had a lot of family holidays, or maybe Ireland where we also holidayed a lot, and they were truly wonderful times with family, absolutely treasured memories.
Sadly the world has changed a lot since the internet, smart phones, and all that goes with it came along, and I feel like the last of a generation, that enjoyed my childhood before all that came along, and i'm glad I was born when I was to have experienced those good times.
It's kind of a bitter sweet feeling really, and I know where others are coming from with some of the comments already posted.....
Cherish those good times you had folks :)
The piano player was Jimmy Harvey and we worked together as porters at Margate hospital in the 70 ts. He was a great musician and character. Great cumin across this . I miss him.
There was a boozer in Margate called the " Achillies Heel" I remember being on a beano, we ended up in there ,I ended up on the stage singing old numbers and getting the conga dance going !
I wonder if any of our politicians responsible for what has happened to our country in the last 30 years ever thinks guilty feelings.
Not a chance in hell.
I very much doubt it. They live in their ivory towers
They don’t even know we exist.
I wonder where those three lovely young ladies are now, love their natural smiles and that London accent.
All aged 68 now and probably with a good story to tell.
I was lucky to be born in 1954 and experience the late 60's and the 1970's, unique years, yes, so lucky....
I came from Margate born in 1949 and spent many times in Dreamland, my mum used to work there taking money for one of the rides in the 1950s. Nice to know it has been reborn but not as good as it was when i was young. Plus of course the pier has gone after one storm too many but we had a good life there.
A wonderful glimpse into a time long gone. I was 1 year old then, so I remember it well.
Also look how thin everyone was then.
Yes, it's a disturbing feature of footage from before the 1990's, the scarcity of noticeably overweight people. It's alarming how the change in eating habits ( according to a recent study the *amount* we eat & our level of physical activity today is about the same as it was in 1970s ) has seen the situation almost reverse with 'normal' bodyweight steadily becoming the exception rather than the rule.
1 year old, and you remember it well? Lol.
me to we might have even bumped into one another😀
I grew up in Thanet, I was 12 at the time of the film, so many happy memories, xx
I wish our country was still like this, what shit hole it is now
Really enjoyed looking back at this when I would have been about one year old. Superb documentary, and just illustrates how the BBC and the quality of its output has declined amongst other things.
I loved watching every bit of this, I was 11
I was 17 when this was recorded, and it was my second summer holiday there. I stayed in Cliftonville with my friends' family at their guest house - I ended up visiting for five years and boy, did we have some fun. Sorry that young people don't have this tech-free uncomplicated freedom anymore.
Emily, the lady in beginning was just like my dear old nan, same accent. Lovely documentary. Thankyou Major! 😅