Fifties Coach Travel

The 1950s was the age of the coach. Before the package holiday people used to travel by coach to their holiday destinations as well as taking coach tours. Here we have film of those far off times set to sounds and music of the 50s.
The music is played by Cyril Stapleton and his orchestra. Download it at:-
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or in CD quality sound at:-
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or listen for free on Spotify at :-
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[@spleeeen4it]

I'm 51 and the 50's appeal to me so much more than the horrible times we live in now. Would love to have been aroubd back then.

[@Daisyandchlo]

So nice to see smartly dressed men and women. And with no ugly tattoos.
I remember mum in the 1960s and '70s always made an effort to put rollers in her hair the night before she went into town, shopping.
She always looked smart when going out.

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Everyone made the effort to look good 😊 stylish & classy. Make up on & hair done 😊 people took Pride in themselves & everything they did 😊 miss the great attitude of people & country 😊 I was a 60s baby & always admired how smart people were for every occasion.

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Sunday best was extra special 😊 going to church in a lovely red coat & hat white wicker with a blue ribbon wrapped around the base & elastic band behind the ears to keep it on 😊

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Style & Manners go along way . Different world we never dreamt would deteriorate to what is now 😊😊 but continue to make the best of yourself & be cheerful 😊

[@Ryan-vg4wn]

Many take longer today to get ready and to greater lengths so you're premise is incorrect.
Styles changes - and some come back, some never - surely you've learned this by now.

[@angelsone-five7912]

Wonderful stuff, wasn`t Britiain a wonderful place back in those days?

[@mickd6942]

Just bought the Triang minic motorways bedford coach and wanted to see how coaches looked in the 50's , marvellous film of a bygone era

[@geoffwelburn7839]

I like your choice of music with a certain type of bus engine!

[@ricardo2266]

Fabulous 1950s colour footage set to music. Thanks for taking me back to a long gone era of travel, where coach drivers wore peak caps and white coats, and the roads seemed almost deserted.

[@laurataylor824]

Beautiful days, lovely pace of life

[@andrewreynolds2647]

Thanks for sharing it brought back many memories of a better time. Cheers. Andy. Scotland.

[@johnturnbull3361]

this has to be one of the most beautiful coach promotional films i have ever seen! the music is breathtaking and the film quality and the professionalism of the camera men is behond reproach. so thank you BOGGLESHAM for presenting this to us and if possible please can we have some more. Many thanks J.T. at 73 !!

[@andyrob3259]

Captures the time. Free and easy in retrospect but at the time everyone worked hard and cut their cloth to suit their salary.

[@robertp.wainman4094]

​@@andyrob3259 So true!

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Absolutely stunning 😊

[@markwoodley712]

I remember being able to walk among the stones at Stonehenge in 1977, but the next time I visited in 1991 you had to gaze at them from a few metres distance. Maybe if we had dressed better, things wouldn't have changed. 🙂

[@laurataylor824]

What a beautiful short film of life when it was so good , wish it could be like that today

[@robertp.wainman4094]

Lovely film - travel really was nicer then!

[@ketoking9435]

This is a gem,,,I grew up in 70s worked on Bedford TK,,,,,Thanx for a great upload

[@heikkirautanen]

Lovely film, just lovely.

[@emmascully9850]

Lovely, thank you.

[@geoffjoffy]

Love this. Thanks

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Lovely band music 🎶

[@J2onton]

Good Edit. Well Captured. Love it.

[@raymondfunnel6856]

With a coach supplied by Thomas Tilling

[@kevinmoffatt]

Remember the AEC coaches in the fifties; could count the engine revs at idle because it was so slow. The drivers then had to work very hard with no power steering, low engine power and poor braking ; I think a lot must have gone deaf prematurely.

[@billbulpitt2414]

Looks very civilized...

[@buckthebusker]

It's a lot like Magical Mystery Tour without the LSD.

[@peterroberts2737]

Looks good, but it was in a travelling ashtray, the smell was vile, some things have improved and a clean bus is definitely one of them

[@TomRelubbus]

Yeah, I was a coach driver for 35 years. I was a non-smoker and sometimes it was pretty grim when they lit up, smoke always seemed to travel down the coach towards the driver.
The job got vastly better when we stopped them smoking.
Apart from that, it was a fantastic job that I absolutely loved doing.
OAPs were always the best passengers

[@johnturnbull3361]

well spoken peter!

[@RStantun]

I definitely don't miss emptying ashtrays on coaches, often found half eaten sandwiches or chewing gum in them.

[@jackmchammocklashing224]

All well dressed and Well mannered a pleasure to travel with no tattoo's foul language and filth

[@simonr2749]

There was another version of this without the 50s music but with more ambient sound and some classical music. Do you still have that version or was it another Channel? I can't find it any more on UA-cam

[@reynardbizzar5461]

I thought so : Bristol AVW engine. Can you hear the sound effects 👍

[@peterw29]

Sorry but MXB740 was a very rare LL6G, so a Gardner 6LW engine.

[@ix.cryo1]

Wow back when doors don't have a pneumatic system 😂

[@robertjones-eb4xo]

Pity no Captions saying where we were .

[@robertfrankgill5962]

Nice but much better when this was accompanied by music from the first movement of Dvorak's 7th Symphony.

[@bwghall1]

where was that ferry on the river..................

[@alansharp307]

Ferry for the Isle of Skye across the Alsh loch

[@simontaylor2319]

Enjoyed that, pity, that the music chosen was American rather than 50's British (strings etc) to suit the location

[@garyparker2541]

at 8.30....lady....man.....hard to tel!!🤣

[@brianlarkin9160]

Lady

[@nicholasforman1195]

I thought it was only doctors who wore white coats...?