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- Bob Wellings joins the queue for "seconds" goods at a Greggs bakery in Newcastle. The pastries may be misshapen, or the pies a little overdone, but the pensioners queuing around the block can’t resist a bargain.
Originally broadcast 16 July, 1974.
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My ex once got some jam doughnuts from that shop that were rejected for having too much jam. What a day that was.
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That's it then: you've won at life!
Pics or it didn't happen
Jammy git
I got a bakers dozen there once , only got 12
That’s my grandad, Prentice, being interviewed at 2:00 - I often come back here just to hear his voice again. A mighty man in his day, a teacher by trade! He continued to receive Christmas cards from many of his former students until his passing in 1987. Love you, granda Prentice, never forgotten and always remembered with fondness 🙏
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Aww that's just wonderful that you can watch this clip any time of your grandad 😊
God Bless your granddad I can tell he was a gentleman.
yes, theres a CITY TV intro here on youtube, it catches my mom and dad enjoying each others company downtown T.O ..... I do the same, bittersweet
Can I strongly suggest you download this clip, just in case it is removed for some reason. I'd hate for you to lose this treasure.
“A local bakery” with 49 shops. Now the largest bakery chain in the country with thousands of shops and operations overseas.
And its still somehow better than some other chains.
I would rather eat a greggs than a McDonalds.
Thing is, I wouldn't call Greggs a bakery, more a coffee shop with treats now. Don't think You can go in for a loaf of bread and some pancakes can you?
I WISH we had greggs here in Australia. McDonald's is getting overpriced to hell and hungry jacks is cheaper for the amount but I'll still spend AU$15.
@@OffGridInvestor Greg's is getting very over priced here, who knows the premium they'd ad for being in Australia.
Not only that they getting very greedy on fillings in their pies and sandwiches. It's gotten so bad I only buy coffee from there now.
@@daviddorrian5349 coffee from Gregg's?
I find that stuff undrinkable 🤮
These films are a time capsule - the accents, fashions, environment. Talk about a different world, although people dont really change that much.
Just the sound of the old engines in the background is fascinating.
This is so true, love it
Certainly was less ‘enrichment’ back then.
The shops still there and the accents are very much still there
The past is another country as they say
I wish more stores did this now. A day old pie is still good to eat. So much is wasted from a lot of stores, which I'd happily buy!
@cornbeef There's an app called too good to go which does something like that , idk of greggs participates
The bakeries near me all sell misshapen products at a discount, but you have to ask. They don't advertise this
This exact shop is still open and doing this!
Try your local food bank. Mine in Barking, East London regularly donates pies, sausage rolls and cakes which are perfectly good to eat one day after the expiry date also bread.
@@user-wp8vy8le3y Appreciated, but I'm happy to pay a discounted price for a day old pie. Just would rather see this more than the waste thrown away
My pal used to live above gregs, early in the morn 2am, the gregs driver would appear, with fresh stock, taking the day befores away, we used to sit playing the nintendo 64, stoned lol, then run downstairs , the drivers would always say ,just take what you want, munchy time lol, good days, shoutout to cormy,hoggy,sween & gal , duke st glasgow 🏴
Living the dream!
@@Distorted-Vision lol we were 12/13 years old👍
@@dmcc757 Stoned at 13? Only in Glasgow. Definitely living the dream!
Am a fifer bud ❤
N64, hash and Greggs! That's the pinnacle of human satisfaction right there!
Right beside my old school and in the year I started there. I counted three old faces I knew in that video and remember those long queues every day they opened.
R.I.P. To all those old folk.
Eating that stuff didn't add any years on for them
They got processed into sausage rolls.
@@Smokey2McIt's what they would've wanted 😢
@@Smokey2Mc I don't need to be processed
What a stupid comment
When i was a lad in the early 90s my local baker Lawsons sold day old cakes for between 5p and 10p, loved it, my primary school was across the road from it and the smell in the mornings was beautiful, sadly the bakers gone now
"The only thing that would bother me I think is perhaps you're buying second-hand stuff" - This reporter is a bit of a simpleton.
Reporters would use any chance they could to look down on anyone living in the North!
yes madam, You are buying a second hand pancake, someone has already eaten it, crapped it out, and reformed it into another pancake! yum!
‘Yes, these pies have already been eaten, but I don’t mind’
Pie for sale. One careful owner. In good condition, apart from a few teeth marks. 1 shilling or nearest offer.
Are they being interviewed by Bob from the Likely Lads
The irony being that the quality of this "reject" stock is almost certainly massively superior to what Gregg's knocks out now at full price.
Absolutely packed with filling, and loaded with butter, lard, milk and salt...
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@@lewis7515 Nothing wrong with butter and lard. You should be more concerned about all those sunflower oil spreads.
Greggs still has outlet shops.
It's basically just stuff that they haven't sold and is about to go off .......
A company not selling stuff in bulk on moral grounds is unheard of today lol
these people we're unified by a world war, this was the peak of british community action. People needed eachother.
@@st20332 The War is the reason we lost the British community.
Of course the shop cannot sell the seconds to the hotels, the hotels do not want seconds.
@@JBTheMightyno, wind rush and insane immigration is
@@kazsmaz Why so racist?
I worked in a bakery when I was a kid and I remember one of the bakers rolling sausage rolls while smoking a cigarette. I think the secret back then for flavour was that no one washed there hands. Great video.
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My uncle worked in a sausage-making factory for a while. From then until the day he died he wouldn’t eat a sausage.
I never knew Greggs was such a national treasure..
Now its half the size twice the price!
The funny thing is we look back at these times and think they had it tough when in reality we are getting screwed over now more then ever before 😢
They did have it tough in many ways but they were strong and proud people who’d been through the war etc. At least there was a lot more social cohesion back then, people looked out for each other more than they do now. They didn’t have the luxuries many would consider completely normal today, rarely went on holiday, if at all. The men in those areas and times would probably have to work in pits or factories whereas today they could get an education and work in many different fields. Not saying things now are easy, but I think there are many more opportunities now if someone is willing to graft.
Those pies would be nearly fifty years old by now.
My goodness, where does the time go?
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To be fair, Gregg’s do have a decent shelf life! 😁
"Preserving our history"😆
@@jasonayres I saw what you did there! 😌 Creaming off more jokes including the preserve…. Scones anyone? 😌
And you know someone would still buy them, at the right price.
The people are all so lovely. Friendly and happy
I love the way that lady who works there speaks, it's strangely soothing 😊
My thoughts too. She has a lovely manner about her.
Lovely accent
That's her telephone voice!
People used to speak that way. They typically didn’t use filler words and were comfortable with pauses in their speech in order to retrieve the best words to use. In other words, people spoke better.
She picked it up whilst travelling on the bus through Gosforth with the window down
It is cool to see that these still exist to this day as Greggs Bakery Outlet shops!
403 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6PB. It's still there!
Really ? Do they still sell seconds ?
@@mistofolesyes, according to the Google reviews, but the sign says
Greggs
Bakery Outlet
now (I looked on Google Street View).
@@mistofoles Yup. maps.app.goo.gl/QfbHS4gaXiVGJ3it7
@@mistofolesyes
How wow I want to visit it if that still there
They had a Greggs seconds shop in Rusholme, Manchester in the early/mid 1980's. Steak pie for 10p. Loaf of bread - 20p. We queued down the street . Allegedly the Russian press got wind of this and reported on the terrible economic state of the UK, which had resulted in us poor downtrodden masses having to queue for bread every day.
@doriskarloff964 Lmao the Russians were queuing for bread everyday too , there's lots of interesting cold war propaganda from back in the day. You should watch on youtube " Inside Gorbachev's USSR 1990" and "The people's century episode on the fall of communism if you can find it. Russians queuing for rotten fish from the super market and watching Oliver Twist and being led to believe that Britain of the 1800s is the same as Britain of the mid-late 20th century. Indeed Marx thought a communist revolution would happen in the UK and not Russia based on what he has seen in his life
What a peaceful voice the bakery lady had
Love seeing the older ladies and gent.
They probably weren’t that old
@@garryleeks4848 you're right lol.
whatever happened to hair nets
@@spudspuddy in a museum
In them days 35 was the new 70!
I just love looking at the people the elderly women and men ,will never see the likes of them again..those days have long gone
The days when Greggs was just a high quality, Newcastle bakery. It is a shame they went down the snack route and stopped selling a wide selection of bread.
The days of people going to the butchers, grocers, bakers, etc died with the supermarket.
Because no one bought the bread.
People are going back to their butchers, grocers and cheesemongers now
@@cartoonhead9222 Yes and people were lot healthier than they are now. Look at these old videos, do you see any fat people despite them queuing for pies and pastries.
@@andywatts8654Good.
This Greggs is still there today selling discount stuff.
Great video!
Time for a trip to Geordie land. You canna beat it.
The shop's still there called Greggs Outlet!
Which one is it? I was trying to work out where it was from the background, but I can’t place it!
top of Westgate rd, next door to the Najeb Supermarket@@diamlee
Im sure i Used to go to one about 20yrs ago in Birmingham, but i cant remember where it was exactly!
Greggs, has to be said, they are always very good at reinventing the wheel . Fair play to them.
@Mr_Smith_20 never said they did to be fair. Did, however, say they were good at " reinventing the wheel" , i.e taking an existing idea and manipulating it to the benefit of both them and their customers. They are effectively being Pound Bakery here decades before that company came into being.
Not compared them with any independent baker either, favourably or otherwise.
@Mr_Smith_20 clothing lines? Not that ive ever seen anyone wearing it, but im assuming they sell enough to make it viable. Up here they also were the first to bring in coffee and seating areas too so theres two examples.
, im not particular interested in their products, find them bland and expensive, , just paying credit where it is due.
@Mr_Smith_20 if you are ever in Bolton, Lancashire, comment on here again and ill take you to Ye Olde Pastie Shoppe in the town centre. Been going for centuries. Worth the price and a real treat. Carrs pasties too, superb
@Mr_Smith_20 To be fair I don't think their success resulted in the demise of so many traditional bakeries. They are a glorified snack outlet now. British people these days don't appreciate a good bakery like the French do.
And look how popular Greggs is today.
don't like their food now, sausage rolls are horrible and they don't do lardy cake anymore
I live in Darlo. Zero Burger King. Zero Pret a Manger. Zero Starbucks. Zero Pizza Express. Six Gregg's.
@@spudspuddy LARDY CAKE? British food. I just don't like the sound of it.
@@MarkEliasGrant lovely, like a moist cake, google it
That's because the chavs have taken over
Auto-captions is having a breakdown watching this
Gregs at Leyland 1980, not only the best cakes in town, the staff were fab as well.
there was no complants because if bread went stale it was turned into bread and butter pudding
I wish we could go back to those days.
I honestly can’t remember the last time I saw an old lady smoking in the street. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it.
That Nationwide footage was shown on Soviet TV as evidence of food shortages in the UK! 😮😂
to be fair, it does look phenomenally bleak. I'm glad I didn't grow up then (I'd probably have been 10cm shorter if I had!)
I grew up in the 70s in Coventry - I was cold all the time - 3 channels on tv we got tired of it - emigrated to South Africa 😂
Now we queue around the block to see the dentist
@ethan3709 Perfect Russian propaganda yet it's true , that's why foreigners think all Brits have bad teeth
How come? They don't give appointments?
Who does?
@moniquem783 we the people of the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 because the NHS is useless & too many people are useless at caring for their teeth 😬 properly & don't even get me started on those who have halitosis because they do not realise that brushing your tongue 😛👅 is important for fresh breath
So sad thinking all the old people are gone now ,
I suspect some are still alive and will outlive you if you had the COVID vaccine.
If that generation saw Britain today they would be genuinely be appalled, despite the difference in personal wealth.
But the pies are still there. They've now passed through 50 hands since this film was made.
yes. people die. very sad. did you also know water is wet?
Good for them, it's a jolly good idea. So much perfectly good food gets thrown away because it's not "up to standard", the right shape or a day over its sell by date. Why don't shops do this now.
They do!!
Boots used to donate their leftover meal deal sandwiches to foodbanks but after someone complained they had a dodgy stomach one time, the policy changed. Now it's all put in the skip outback when the store closes. Just not worth the risk.
The shop is still there in exactly the same place
They do - they have phone apps where you can see what's available in your area, pay a small fee and then go and pick up the food.
Like @dawnlovejoy8917 says, the shop is literally still there, in the same place (Westgate Rd in Newcastle, opposite the primary school) and Greggs is still opening new ones. Their website says they aim to have have 50 of them open by 2025.
Love the moral grounds , wish that mentality still existed in business.
Companies absolutely still take moral stances, though not always ones I agree with. Ben and Jerry’s tried to stop selling to parts of Israel, for example.
But I don’t think this was a moral stand. They could sell to hotels, sure, but they’d risk repetitional damage if people first sampled their defective products without realising they were defective, and therefore formed false assumptions about average quality. Meanwhile, this shop, for only slightly higher overheads, gets the goods sold just as well, along with some free advertising.
It does - Greggs now calls them ‘outlet shops’.
I love this. Seems like a lifetime ago, a quieter and slower pace of life.
Different people today, totally.
Same people, just different social norms etc@@PopularesVox
Same people? Have you looked at a demographic of the UK recently?@@Alloneword-cp2xw
Yeah OK blinky@@Alloneword-cp2xw
love these archive films.
I love it when you see the prices we used pay!
Humble beginning but already showing signs of the empire to come
now known as Greggs outlet
The precursor to the yellow sticker haul you can still easily get in many a store, if you time it right, just like these venerable OAPs. A whole shop of that would be magic!
Having worked in retail I have to admit the amount of food wastage in the industry is criminal. Doubly so when you know there are so many people in this country struggling for food. Anything that reduces wastage is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. I'm guessing Greggs no longer do this? And yet they have outlets on just about every high street of the UK. What a shame.
Wait until you realise most industry is based on waste. In built obsolesce, new smart phone every year, new car every 2 years, gadgets for everything you can imagine. Don't forget all that plastic food packaging.
@@cattysplat Yes and all that waste is terrible for the environment, but nobody actually NEEDS a new phone, new car, new TV ect. wheras everybody DOES need food and always will. So food waste in my mind is the very saddest kind of waste.
The Shop still exists as far as im aware.
There was a shop like that in Carlisle down Botchergate what 15 years ago, I used to buy half price scran.
The origin of a legend. Hell yeah
about a year ago just down the road from me they opened a greggs store similar to this only selling day old stuff. I love it
I have a Greggs outlet store nearby. I use when going on a day trips as loads cheaper than a fresh store.
Is that where all the vegan sausage rolls go because the two local stores in here in sultry South London never ever have any!
Such a huge company now, sold on from the original owner years ago..
Well over 100m turnover last year.
In Manchester they give a lot to the homeless ..
Greggs revenue for 2022 was 1.51 billion. That’s a lot of food!
Try billion hovermotion. And this isn’t about Greggs, it’s about their Greggs seconds shop, today called Greggs Outlet
“Second hand goods”, what like someone’s already eaten it?
Love how CZcams auto subtitles struggles with the Geordie accent 😂😂😂
The subliminal message to the British people in the early part of the voice over was awesome! 0:29
Those poor old ladies and men, at Seven on weekends! 😢 Brutal! Young people today have no idea how demanding the forests were back then. They don't realise how lucky they are!
We speak the -queens- Kings English ya naa!
"couple of old ladies and a gentleman killed from seven at weekends"
@@daniellamcgee4251 good catch, I'm trying to understand the context of "save the universe" in that sentence. I cant, could it have just been an editing error?
I love watching the olde footage it makes me wonder what they are doing today and I hope they get to see themselves or a relative on this broadcast.
I would say the majority of these people will be well dead. Perhaps some folks passing in the background will still be alive, the couple pushing the pram and the kid in the queue etc.
The lady interviewed who worked in the shop could still be alive. Anyone younger than about 55 years old then, could potentially be alive now. It was only 1974!
The chances of reaching 100 years of age is currently approximately 0.02%, or 1 in 5,000. So, based on the relatively small sample size from the clip, it's highly unlikely that any of them over the age of 50 at the time will be alive today. Sad but true.
@@porly33 there were a few bairns so fingers crossed.
Back in the 90s, the Greggs's in Birmingham were called Braggs. I remember them being so similar to what we see here from the 70s. Much more like a real bakery than what Greggs is today. They still sold literal loaves of bread. I remember eating those identical cream cakes as a kid in the 90s.
Braggs was a completely different company, Greggs bought the chain and merged them into the brand in 1999.
Yea I remember Braggs as a small kid and the fresh bread they used to sell. I also remember we were so young that when they changed there name to Greggs we was upset about it.
Yea I remember Braggs as a small kid and the fresh bread they used to sell. I also remember we were so young that when they changed there name to Greggs we was upset about it.
Yea I remember Braggs as a small kid and the fresh bread they used to sell. I also remember we were so young that when they changed there name to Greggs we was upset about it.
@@blaser80 it had exactly the same branding and store layouts. I visited Aberystwyth in around 1997 and was surprised to find shops called Greggs which were otherwise identical to the Braggs in Birmingham. Maybe they merged much earlier before my time.
The era of headscarf's and hairnets.
Might make a comeback
for everyone over 45 that's our Nan we are looking at...
@@paulhease1007I thought you British people hated headscarf’s and called “barbaric” 🤨
Yes as a child this was my nan
it weRe ... tHe eU .... ......wot baNdeD thEm ..
Westgate Road in Newcastle, used to queue there on a Saturday morning with my parents, happy days. It's still there as a Greggs seconds shop. 😋
Is it?
@@claymor8241 It is.
@@claymor8241Yeah, it's called Greggs Outlet now.
Delightful.
I was there yesterday now surrounding it are full of Middle Eastern kebab shops
I remember going there when I lived in Benwell!
What a fantastic idea!
Greggs of Gosforth ❤
I remember essentially same situation at green Friedman's bakery in South Boston Massachusetts.
So cool
That Greggs second shop is still there today Feb 2024
This shop is still in exactly the same spot 50 years later.
They used to have a shop down in hare hills in Leeds but it sadly shut down when I was in my teens...absolutely loved going there before and after college. need to bring them back I think, It'll help so many people
Used to love a Greggs, was the place to go for a spot of lunch, even during my working day I would always do a Greggs over any other place, but now it's just a joke, like most places, cold food and crap service. Back in my younger days my dad used to take our son into the Gregg's seconds shop where we stayed in Glasgow, Toryglen and believe it or not, Jim Kerr's mother used to work in there, Irene, and she used to give my (then about 2) son free cakes as he sat on the counter, always reminded him of this as he grew up that the lead singer of Simple Minds mum, Irene, used to feed him cakes in the shop and now he tells this story to his kids to their disbelief !! Great times, great people, sadly missed now.
@markopolo-1 Bring your kid in to get free food , sounds like a good idea in these economically challenging times , :)
To the gent saving "50p a week" roughly £36 a month in today's rate. More than you'll save at Tesco's.
Greggs toryglen was a seconds shop early to mid 80s , Jim Kerrs mum worked there, was never out of it, awesome
2:18 “Michael that was just a noise”😂
Brilliant idea! Bring it back
It's still there.
They’re called Greggs Outlet now. Quite a few of them around - Google them.
Haven't had Greggs in probably about 15 years but it was great.
I live in Devon and we got our first Gregg's in 2019 I love any of their non seafood products. their ham and cheese baguettes are delicious! Their sausage rolls and their cheese toasties! I also love their delicious selection of confectionery bakery products, ginger bread, doughnuts, Belgian bun etc!
Their sh*t sandwich is lovely. Just brush yer teeth afterwards.
Devonistan you mean.
I'm so glad that Greggs is still going strong today lol Best sausage rolls ever! 😋
A different era and folk who deserved better. 👍🏻🏴
How do they "deserve better"? I'm from this area. The vaste majority didnt even bother to vote in elections. They still don't.
@Occident. This is why we have the cretins in power at the moment just to be replaced by more of the same
Definitely 👍
sensible folk. votes are BS.@@Occident.
@@Occident.How'd you know they didn't vote?
this shop is still there :)
Those chocolate cakes actually look really good!
Mum used to buy those, and sometimes they had a half Cadbury's flake on top, which I used to nick when mums back was turned.
They used to do fresh cream sponge cakes with apple too, which were fokkin godgeous!
There’s still Greggs outlet shops that serve the same purpose as this, there’s one in Walker and one in South Shields for example.
We have Greggs outlet store and you save a fortune. We got two full bags for a tenner the other week.
Young people these days...you won't find them getting up at 6 in the morning to go and queue for half price stale bread and mouldy cakes...Make Britain Great Again.
49 shops fast forward 49 years and they've got hundreds of shops nationwide
I love Greggs!
We had two of these shops in Manchester. My mother worked part time at one in the late 70s . It was brilliant, cheap doughnuts and cakes 😂.
All those pies and sweet treats look delicious , I know a lot of people on the comments are saying modern greggs is bad quality but I still like it
cheese and onion pasty
steak bake
chicken bake
sausage roll
🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
And the shop is STILL THERE!!!
Look how big everything is compared to today
There used to be one of those in Walthamstow in the late 90s/early 00s
We live near a second day Greggs shop today.
The immortal influence of Greggs
Even in the last ten years Greggs has changed massively.
I remember flying into Newcastle airport and finding it hilariously Geordie that the eatery in arrivals was a Greggs. Now that doesn’t seem strange in any airport or station anywhere in the country.
And when the vegan sausage roll I felt so out of my comfort zone even going in there to ask for one, as I just thought of it as such a cheap and greasy place, but now it just seems completely neutral.
Sadly it's hard to even find a bakery in most towns these days, just Greggs selling pastries. Turns out moving from bread to solid butter also increases waistlines.
Growing up in Gateshead, we grew up on Gregg's during the 80's, mum used to buy bread, tea cakes, steak & kidney pies, and sandwich cakes for a treat. And us kids used to spend our school lunch money in Greggs, 2 Sausage rolls or a Cornish pasty, an Apple Danish, and a carton of pop for about 50p. You can't even get one Sausage roll for that price now, since Greggs went all Hollywood.
@hermanmunster3358 2 Sausage rolls or a Cornish pasty 😋😋🤤🤤
You mean since inflation happens? Greggs is still a pretty fair price imo!
'80s *
Was that their first logo!? Wow, barely even counts.
This is great. I was 10 years old, back then. Very different times. Not always better, either.
The scale of change has been huge - far greater than it was between my parents and theirs.
And you try telling that to young people today; and they won't believe you. 🙂
Greggs was a great shop in the 80s when I started work. Used to get a pack of cheese salad butties for 48p and tuna salad for 52p, and they were better quality than they are now. Pound bakery pasties are far better. Greggs cheese and onion pasty, look inside. Its just a yellow cheese mush, no pieces of onion or potato to be found, and overpriced with it, even more so as a lot are franchised they charge different prices at each branch. Worst one for rip off prices ive seen is just south east of Nottingham at some old half demolished petrol station off the A46. I dont know how they justify it.
My siblings and I used to queue after school to get bread for our parents and grandparents during the bakers strike...
Greggs took over Braggs in Brum. There used to a small shop called bargain bakery where i used to get yesterdays bread at less than 1/2 the price! sometimes cheaper. Cuz i dont live there any more i dont know if its still open! will have to check next time im in the uk!
This shop is still there in the exact same spot.
Was still one of them in South Shields around 10 years ago, don't know if it's still there!
Those words of "on moral grounds"
They have greggs outlet stores now which do exactly the same thing.
I work in a large chain bakery at the moent and it's soul-destroying to watch how much stock goes straight to the pigs.....
You should really hold your customers in higher esteem.
I miss the ole Toon!
The lady who works there has a lovely kind face , my Gregg's dont sell reduced food in my area it's full priced or binned!