I'm the little curly haired girl of the family in the video. My sister, dad and I are still alive and kicking! Wasn't it a wonderful place - the sun seemed to shine everyday.
@trevorsmith7753 I know if you've noticed there is all ways chemtrails when it's nice and when low pressure on the way there is non coming out of the planes
3:43 - Who else remembers when a glass of prawn coctail was the height of sophistication? Bit of tomato, slice of lemon, couple of mint leaves, all washed down with a fine glass of Mateus rosé - Magnifique! 👌
These were mostly the middle classes. I was born in London (east) at this time, and I can tell you you wouldn't find "healthy" there. I agree with you regards a shared culture - but it was being unravelled at this very time by the intellectual class through the 60's which in part has led to what we have today. Nonetheless, this is all very nice.
Simple? .. the world was only simple to a child not any adult, I am 62 the 60s and 70s in Britain were not like this just a advert they were far far more complex
@@steve.k4735 Yea, i'm sure buying a house for pennies was so complex, i'm sure you had to navigate a whole heap of morale righteousness, political incorrectness and a constant, numb throb of feeling completely foreign in your own country. You older generation seriously sit and try and tell us that it was bad or difficult. Atleast you could walk outside and feel like you were at home.
@@sloht4061 I pointed out this was a ad .. what you are talking about has nothing to do with my comment .. nor have you ANY idea how I feel on any `issue` you decided to raise .. in other words what the hell are you talking to me about?
@Nzappreciator110 if every white British person still holidayed in the UK it would look like this. Go to Benidorm, Cyprus or Corfu in August and this is basically what it looks like. Cheap European holidays caused the decline, nothing to do with immigration.
These marvellous images of a English resort in the late 60s is a perfect example of life back then. In the scorching summer of 1970 I recall my first visit to Newquay on the South West coast that was not dissimilar to Torquay, Clean colourful and beaches I always believed the 60s and 70s were the best time to grow up in the UK. I/T hadn't impacted on employment, work place stress unheard of, Mortgages within reach with a modest deposit, and TV that entertained.
@@SwissCheese112 Depends on what your circumstances were in the 1970s you didn't need huge deposits to gain a mortgage, and in the UK we had municipal housing, which was a stepping stone on to the housing ladder, now unavailable for first time tenants. And in 1975 the unemployment rate was 400,000. A figure never seen in the 80s and beyond.
@@steve.k4735 What nonsense !!! Its a video and for real its nothing to do with any advert.There are many people your age and younger who have memories of the long gone glory days.Even people much older than you still have wonderful memories of further back in time.
So many anti brits in this country, an thats being aimed at alot of brits not foreigners...u leftist brit hating commies av totally betrayed ur country ur family an future generations...
Aye lass as long as he provided for your family, you've got to respect the man. We used to go on holiday to Silloth and Blackpool, it was great. My mam and dad both worked full time and our grandmother looked after three brothers. We enjoyed every time we went on holiday!
Something that sticks in my mind is having a full English breakfast every morning for a fortnight in the boarding house. It was like we was royalty. I used to wake up at about 5 am , it being light by then and go for a walk along the beach with my brother. We was 12/14 years old. Magic memories. Everyone has passed now . All the adults, mom dad Nan uncles and aunts.😥
Same here, except my mum who’s now almost 90. I’m feeling very mortal right now! But hey, I remember holidays by the sea with my mum and dad, and I smile. Such brilliant times, I had a great childhood, my parents worked very hard and the rewards were regular holidays to the coast.
A journey back in time to the magical 60's. Undeniably, that era was a delight with great quality, in music, in food, in the fashion of people dressing. Today, despite the technological advance, everything seems to have no more soul or quality. Fortunately I lived in that time and I can testify that it was my best years of my existence. - M.S.C.
It wasn't. 1968: Paris riots, Viet Nam, Cold War, worsening relations between capital and labour, Britain vexed about Europe etc. Mods and rockers in Brighton and elsewhere (cp. Quadrophenia). That is, all things being equal, much the same as today.
@@marklion315 When isn't there a riot in Paris, they live for them. For Vietnam I could give you the Middle East. Mods & Rockers was a bank holiday affair, easily avoided. I was just a kid in the 60's so too young to appreciate it but it was evidently a great time for many Brits. You must've been a right miserable blighter if you were sat at home worrying about events in 'Nam.
@@crixxxxxxxxx it's an honour to be invaded by first world empire , it only means your country will get a lot richer , more educated and less primitive .cannot say that for todays invaders
@@crixxxxxxxxx 'It was bad when white people did it 200 years ago; it's good when brown people do it today'. At least have the guts to admit that you just hate white people.
@@TheUtuber999 doubtful. But we only remember the sunny summer days where we did interesting stuff, not the rainy days where we were locked away indoors, so our memories are biased towards the former making it seem like it was always sunny and fun when were younger.
The real reason is probably because most of the people you see in this video grew up during strict food rationing, that lasted well in the 50s for Britian as they recovered economically from WWII.
@@sergeantbigmac this is true, my grandparents still treated food as a luxury and understood that it could 'disappear' at any time. my statement about undiagnosed diabetes was true. my neighbour used to give her kids the 'good food' and would fill survive on chips/fries. They were filling and cheap. She was large...
I grew up during these times and most people smoked quite a bit. You can spy people doing it in this video. It may account for some of the thinner figures.
So I was in Torquay a few days ago and it felt like WWII had just paid a visit. Drab and empty shop fronts, massive roadworks with three or four workmen standing around, and an overall feel of decline and neglect. Who the heck is in charge of the place because someone needs a new job.
It's one of the saddest sights I've seen. In my lifetime it's gone from party central to desolate. Breaks my heart. Pensioners, semi-retired rich vs poor and hopeless. So so sad.
@@dominicbrant1968It's the same in rural North America. Small towns are dwindling away to nothing and its heartbreaking for our elders who still remember the glory days
@@RugMann I genuinely blame the rise of big brands and the move away from the highstreet/mainstreet. all the places I went to as a kid are now 'dormitories' for older people on pensions who use their car to go to the cheap supermarkets - can't blame them, but it's excluded everyone else
I'm 57, I've been here just about every year of my life , even in 1979 &1980 after a month in California, give me the weather & great memories are made forever !
I was stationed in Europe in the US air force.. in 1961 and 62' I visited Greece with a buddy.. we rented a small cheap Vespa traveled all over the country.. and several ionian islands.. I can only say that it was probably the most beautiful countryside I have ever witnessed in my life.... And the people was so friendly... For me the island of keflonia was just incredible.. like the rest of the world things have changed.... But my memories of the Greek people and Greece I will cherish forever
This was perfect. I am feeling very nostalgic but when I watch this kind of videos, the feeling is getting even stronger. Come on, look at this perfect world : no smartphones and social medias, people were all slim and looking healthy, the streets were clean and sophisticated, everyone was elegant and stylish,... Honestly, people just seemed to be much more happy back then. I'm a 22 years old student but I miss the 60s... Actually, I'm getting quite obsessed with this decade ! Good music, good fashion, no untimely multiculturalism... I wish I could travel through time.
Wonderful times as boy loved the 60s 70s and 80s what fine time we had mother always got top clothing X for our holiday X my dad part time fireman X we go to fire station Christmas party X disco in we were allowed few pints bitter X red barrel X very weak beer X golly X no phone X we play records and go bike rides X soap box carts X cinema X was so cheap keep enjoying the 60s u can feel the nice times come bk those music movies X enjoy X every thing is bit fake now for me X
@@blyat5352 Who cares what his name is? This is not about racism. If I go to China, I want to see chinese culture. If I go to Sweden or Germany I want to see their culture. Not some identity-less melting pot.
6 young Scottish lads went here in 1981 for 2 weeks. Aged from 17 -21. At the time we thought it was a boring holiday,the pubs shut at 11 the discos at 1am. We used to but carryouts and hide them in the bushes and get them after the clubs shut and head down to the beach.We still talk about it today 2022,most of us now in our 60s as one of the best holidays we ever had. Great memories..
You say yourself you thought it was boring, so why the nostalgia for something you didn’t enjoy? In 1981 I was 17. My best ever holiday was in Antigua last year or maybe in the Arctic circle in 2019, certainly not somewhere I thought _boring_
@@JulieWallis1963 No it was just that at that age your expectations are way different.We got up to a lot of nonsense. Just being lads.. Antigua sounds nice and I did honeymoon in Barbados 😆.. I have travelled fairly extensively my whole life but still remember this holiday in Torquay with my first mates and drinking buddies.Nothing wrong with Nostalgia.
I love these period films. I try to reconcile my own youthful impressions with how I've perceived change over the years - up to now. I can't help feeling that there's been a gradual disintegration of certain key aspects of the physical world over recent decades.
@@toastnjam7384 If it's any comfort, I think we've always been the same humans, just our environments have changed, back then people were more conformist and got their info from less sources plus theres less footage from back then compared to now. Now with social media and the internet, people conform less and stupidity can spread like wildfire online and at the same time everyone can watch it. Maybe we are just more aware of it now, either way we all seemed a bit more civilised back then for the most part.
@@MarleyH2022 I think there's a lot of truth in that. People in the 1960s weren't connected instantly to news sources from all over the world, and weren't able to gain anything like the same insight into life in other places and times as we are today.
Beautiful England This hurts my heart and I'm Scottish. Hopefully England and the rest of the UK can get back to those better days. And I'm sure we will.
Britain is still one of the world's most beautiful places. From the Scottish Highlands to the Yorkshire Dales, Devon and Cornwall. So much packed into one small island
Not as nice as it once was. You can still find beautiful places today. I think Harrogate is beautiful and many coastal towns as well. Many places have been destroyed though.
First went on holiday to Torquay and Babbacombe in 1976, long drive from Glasgow. Fantastic memories. Returned in 2011 and it had hardly changed. Well, in my mind at least, lovely part of England.
Babbacombe and Oddicombe were opposite each other they were very beautiful but it was very steep to get down there by car. The funicular railway was great to get to both of those and has been in a couple of films. Great days from the 60s and 70s and there was never any trouble or graffiti unlike now!!
I grew up in Torquay at exactly this time. It was common to see the celebrities like Val Doonigan, The Two Ronnies, Morecombe and Wise et al just wandering around the town. Preston beach for the swimming, Torre Abbey for the girls, so much more friendly than it is today. Now a poor shadow of it's former glory. Sad to see the state of the place now, rubbish and graffiti everywhere, closed down shops and tat.
@freebeerfordworkers I regularly walk through there, I have never once felt uneasy about the middle eastern people, other than those seeking to be processed in the hotel, a sizeable chunk are medical professionals in Torquay Hospital. It is the drunks that fall out of the pubs, the British men in groups that leer and provide unimaginative sexual comments and the addict's, that make me fearful.
"Fings ain't wot they used t'be", Cor, hor, hor, hor, hor, hor. 😜 Sorry couldn't resist that after seeing Max Bygraves and Sid James. I live in New Zealand now but was born in London in 67. This brings back happy memories of family holidays in the 70's to Ramsgate and Margate, much nicer resorts in my honest humble opinion 😄. Thanks for the upload . Ps, Margate was so good Chas n Dave wrote a song about it 👍.
I had a few childhood holidays on the 'English Riviera'. There were always a lot of foreign students living in the area for some reason. Torquay was filled with small hotels and guest houses and even though the beach wasn't a pretty one, it was packed with people and often the gardens behind the beach too. Cheap flights and the package holiday to Spain killed the appeal of the south coast and it hasn't recovered since.
@@jduff7036 Yes, I fondly remember meeting a lot of Scandinavian girls there in the 70's. Penelope's club in Paignton was a favourite place, along with the Pacific Bar. Those girls used to line up inside the door at Penelope's, waiting to pounce on any boy they fancied - no "chatting up" required ! 😁 Daytimes spent on Goodrington sands or catching the steam train to Kingswear and Dartmouth, and once we spotted Agatha Christie from the train. Great times.
I was one of those foreign students. Arrived in the UK for the first time and picked up at Heathrow by my contact from the company that organised the trip, caught the train to Torquay and stayed with a family at their home for 3 months while studying english at the language school. Fond memories that I will never forget.
Wouldn't last a week in the 1960's seems so lovely on UA-cam and all that with the sun shining. I bet it wasn't for your average working class man. "Nostalgia not what it used to be " your average millennial and General Z wouldn't last 5 minutes without the internet Lol! I'm GenerationX (49 years old) and I would miss the perks of modern life.
@@lucaschapman2188 tem que ser o brasileiro falando bosta.. bom é ficar confinado em casa por causa de covid, num calor de 34 graus, tendo que ficar no youtube, ne seu bosta? corno!
This was before the 70’s move to holidays in Spain, after that British holiday destinations and culture died. People also ate properly, today people would eat burgers and litter the place. I’m too young to have lived that life but I think the 1960’s must have been the peak of British civilisation.
would have loved to live back then, all i have are the tales my mother and gran told me and classic clips like this. So sad to see all these things gone now.
@peter burry Yes, that's because things of value have always been lost from one generation to another. Only, the pace is not constant, nor is the pace at which valuable new things, if any, take their place. Optimism, like its opposite, is fatal to the mind. All the best.
@peter burry Not at all, I was a young lad at that time, and my dad had been through the war, starving in Malta, he told me to make the best of it because it was a much better time than he had to live through.
Yeah, that's what your children write will about the present time in 50 years. I'd enjoy yit while you can and stop having nostalgic feelings for a time that wasn't all that great, ask some Vietnam veterans.
I love Torbay, and find it mad that the buildings haven't changed! Even the cafe at the beach in Torquay was there in 1968, and I had thought that looked quite new when I first went about ten years ago!
I’ve got home movies from 1968 that are just like this! So lucky that my dad was a photographer. There can’t have been cameras beck then, unlike today when everyone has one.
So refreshing to see the Britain of my childhood, north east coast wasn't quite so posh, but I can relate. Stuck in London now, an eye opener to hear anyone speak English on a bus or in the street.
@@dennis8196 I'm British and proud of my inheritance, and would probably avoid talking to people like you. Any of the countries I've visited and lived in have exactly the same attitude as me. Note, I didn't say learning another language is bad... Written by someone who spoke enough German to qualify for a German passport, and who has heavily invested in Ethiopia and been learning Amharic.
@@ric6383 people from around the world do great things to ensure the dominance/longevity of their cultures in their own countries yet the west is shamed whenever it does so
Brings back so many memories of when I was a 9 yr child (50 yrs ago), our 1weeks annual holiday was spent Paington lots of happy hours spent on Goodrington sands, we always went to see Val Doonican summer show 👍😁
unfortunately you would still get old you would have t keep going back don't forget to charge your batteries, and take some spare parts with you they didn't make them back then, shame, nothing's perfect
Having lived the first 30 years of my life without smart technology, I could easily live without it. The 60s and early 70s were a great time to grow up. I can definitely understand the desire to go back to that time. Unfortunately, it's not possible. More's the pity.
What amazing film stock! Warm & luscious. I wonder what stock it is? Wish we made more of these travelogues & not the ‘selfie’ celebrity nonsense of today.
@@garden2571 No. Most people know that it was far better to be in that era. A lowly educated person for that era could make a career or life for them self. Unlike today.
Having a laugh? The climate hasn't actually changed yet. If you were serious you could move to Canada, where the summers are hot. I see no one sweating in the video and the way they're dressed they appear to be on the verge of chilliness. Is it a degree over 20? I suppose shorts were indecorous at the time, as well as sandals (and t-shirts of course).
Loved my home in Brixham - the 80’s. High above the bay. Gorgeous view. And of course, the famous clotted cream 😉. Stunning walks thru neighboring Dartmoor.
I’ve literally just stayed in the back cottages shown in Brixham at 3:04. They actually look better now they’ve been painted different colours and I can confirm Brixham was an amazing holiday and defo recommend a place to visit
England is looking for her Churchill, America Eisenhower, Stalin's Russia, and only Germany, the poor thing, except the Fuhrer and there is no one to remember. Let's pray for her sinful soul.
@colorado121 1. globalism is a necessity of the modern world it was the same back then 2. I don't see how leftism has anything to do with this 3. find me 1 peer-reviewed study on how climate change isn't real 4. can you clarify that? what is mass imigration
This Documentary Channel is 1one of the VERY BEST that British people has ever created to record and show the Whole World how their lives have been decade after decade!. Thanks British Pathe.🤗🇬🇧💖
I was coming up for seven in '68 and all thirteen of my family and I crammed into a Ford passenger van at two in the morning heading to Ilfracombe for a fortnights holiday. Still have the snaps (4x3) in b&w!
My mother was born in Brixham in 1962. Her family going back quite a few generations come from Torbay. I spent my summer holidays with my maternal grandparents and cousins, where we would go round Brixham, Torquay and Paignton. I know these places better than my own hometown. The fascinating thing about this film is how it does not show the dark side of Torbay. When the tourists go and autumn rolls in, it is GRIM. I like to watch these videos as it makes me think of the hot July days making sandcastles with my cousins, rather than February half-term where the wind blows strong and a fisherman comes home injured. What's funny now is that Granny ran the fish shop on Brixham's harbour, now a very plush restaurant, next to the Golden Hind replica. I wonder if the clientele in there would like to know that I hauled ice for crab displays there only 15 years ago?
This was the highest level of life ever achieved for an ordinary, little man. At about that time Trilateral Commission was established and we have downfall ever since.
Yes, I read somewhere that 1970 was the peak of living standards for the ordinary working man in the USA and UK. After that, they were gradually eroded by inflation, longer commutes, longer working hours, more debt and higher house prices caused partly by the spread of two-income households.
That depends on if you’ve RSVP’d the invitation. But no, there is no sun (and no moon, no night) as we know it, but there will be light, and it will be even better, for those who did accept the invitation as outlined in the 4 Gospels, (and who apply John 14:12, if they want to fully engage, but it’s not part of Salvation, which is a gift and cannot be earned, and it’s already paid for, so no “penance” or any other false, pagan activities pawned off by Catholicism, which is a counterfeit and very pagan religion, who has taught their people to pay for what is already paid, and to engage in all manner of pagan and ungodly activities, so do t go to any organized version of Christianity, they have all added and deleted bits)... following John 14:12, a direct quote form Jesus himself, and knowing all means all, except the one thing only he could do, the Crucifixion, everything else he expects us to do. It’s not for salvation, it’s just part of doing what Jesus expects).
Agree with all these comments. I was born in 1963 and England was a wonderful country to grow up in. Hard to believe or recognise it now. Trying to find a sense of belonging gets harder every year 😢
We used to go on holiday to Torbay most summers in the 1960’s up until ‘75, the drive from London would take 8 hours with various stops, my Dad would avoid the nightmarish A303 wherever possible. Many happy childhood holidays there, we saw Val Doonican and Sid James at their respective summer shows that year. Thank you for posting and bringing back many happy memories.
How much simpler it seemed then, the air looks cleaner, the streets, even all the people look healthier and better dressed, now adays half the people would be fat pale people in sweatpants flipflops,and staring at their phones while sitting in folding lawn chairs,we've lost so much in 50 years.
The air was cleaner? You could see the air back then. Rivers in the industrial heartslands of Europe were so poisonous that swimming was completely out of the question. You're right with the style, though.
I traveled to Torquay every summer from 1965 to 1979 with my parents in Rover 3 litre towing a caravan. Yes.. like the film suggests it was a better time.
The Dutch do the model village thing, um, big time. There's an extensive one in Amsterdam. But of course, it's Dutch, so they depict an SS Panzer battalion at the edge of town.
Wonderful days of yore. We went there, well Paignton actually, in 76 in the summer of all summers. It never rained for months on end and all the grass turned brown. Unforgettable bliss.
@@annodomini7887 I'm 9 years old and my sister is 16 and when she drives me around with her in her little car both of us are always barefooted and I am shirtless and my sister wears her bikini top and bottoms and drives barefooted
I'm the little curly haired girl of the family in the video. My sister, dad and I are still alive and kicking! Wasn't it a wonderful place - the sun seemed to shine everyday.
If only we could go back in time
@@dave788 Nope- it's over for u edomites! You'll never have those days back and it will get worser for u.
Best time ever, I've often said, if they ever invent a time machine just dial in 1960 and I'm out of here, glad you're all still about.
@trevorsmith7753 I know if you've noticed there is all ways chemtrails when it's nice and when low pressure on the way there is non coming out of the planes
At 4:35?
3:43 - Who else remembers when a glass of prawn coctail was the height of sophistication?
Bit of tomato, slice of lemon, couple of mint leaves, all washed down with a fine glass of Mateus rosé - Magnifique! 👌
i literally had a prawn cocktail today for lunch, im telling it might be dated and uncool nowadays but it was lush.
Or Ritz crackers with cheese and a pineapple chunk
Would sir like a bowl of cornflakes for breakfast or a glass of pure orange ? Ned & Breakfast finest.
I still eat 60s 70s 80s style comfort food in the winter months . 😊
People look slim, healthy and all are enjoyimg a shared culture, beautiful
These were mostly the middle classes. I was born in London (east) at this time, and I can tell you you wouldn't find "healthy" there. I agree with you regards a shared culture - but it was being unravelled at this very time by the intellectual class through the 60's which in part has led to what we have today.
Nonetheless, this is all very nice.
All this brings me is nostalgia and a sad, heavy heart.
Definitely an era that is gone forever . No internet and everybody looks so happy!
@@richardgray115 Not only "no Internet", but everyone looks so slender, too!
Back when the average person looked middle class.
My God, how much we lost! Actually, how much was stolen from us while our backs were turned!!
Amazing how tv back then was so propaganda based, my expereince of the 60's and 70's was very different to this.
I wonder how many people who lived around that time would dearly love to be back in more simple and enjoyable times. I know I would.
me too 😢
And me in a heartbeat.
Simple? .. the world was only simple to a child not any adult, I am 62 the 60s and 70s in Britain were not like this just a advert they were far far more complex
@@steve.k4735 Yea, i'm sure buying a house for pennies was so complex, i'm sure you had to navigate a whole heap of morale righteousness, political incorrectness and a constant, numb throb of feeling completely foreign in your own country. You older generation seriously sit and try and tell us that it was bad or difficult. Atleast you could walk outside and feel like you were at home.
@@sloht4061 I pointed out this was a ad .. what you are talking about has nothing to do with my comment .. nor have you ANY idea how I feel on any `issue` you decided to raise .. in other words what the hell are you talking to me about?
Every British seaside town councillor should be forced to watch this on repeat until they break down and weep
Yes.
Stephen.. beautifully put ! 🎯
They're too busy counting their ill-gotten cash in their brown envelopes to even care.
what a rational response
@Nzappreciator110 if every white British person still holidayed in the UK it would look like this. Go to Benidorm, Cyprus or Corfu in August and this is basically what it looks like. Cheap European holidays caused the decline, nothing to do with immigration.
These marvellous images of a English resort in the late 60s is a perfect example of life back then.
In the scorching summer of 1970 I recall my first visit to Newquay on the South West coast that was not dissimilar to Torquay, Clean colourful and beaches
I always believed the 60s and 70s were the best time to grow up in the UK.
I/T hadn't impacted on employment, work place stress unheard of, Mortgages within reach with a modest deposit, and TV that entertained.
are you kidding the 70s was economically dismal lmao.
@@SwissCheese112 Depends on what your circumstances were in the 1970s
you didn't need huge deposits to gain a mortgage, and in the UK we had municipal housing, which was a stepping stone on to the housing ladder, now unavailable for first time tenants. And in 1975 the unemployment rate was 400,000.
A figure never seen in the 80s and beyond.
@@fisherpeter695 Curious that you didn't mention the arts, especially music.
I agree, I loved the 70s.
'Social' media is what's killing us.
I wish I could go back in time!!! Those were good times!!!
FrogFace-fy1tg Britain was sinking fast in 1968..........bit like now really.
Why? Because everyone is white?
@@jurgen6768 Britain and the British people have been defiled and humiliated.
The glory days - never to be seen again - just memories on videos like this.
Torquay still exists. I'm sure if you have money you too can experience many of the things in this video.
@@respectedgentleman4322I live in Torquay. You’ll never see it like this again
If you watch ads you can .. this is not real its a extended ad .. AND I am 62 old enough to remember the reality of British sea side holidays
@@steve.k4735 What nonsense !!! Its a video and for real its nothing to do with any advert.There are many people your age and younger who have memories of the long gone glory days.Even people much older than you still have wonderful memories of further back in time.
So many anti brits in this country, an thats being aimed at alot of brits not foreigners...u leftist brit hating commies av totally betrayed ur country ur family an future generations...
I can see my dear old dad in his budgie smugglers, pot belly hanging over like a bay window plodding down Paignton beach. Bless him!
Nick, your Mum must have been one lucky woman haha
Aye lass as long as he provided for your family, you've got to respect the man. We used to go on holiday to Silloth and Blackpool, it was great. My mam and dad both worked full time and our grandmother looked after three brothers. We enjoyed every time we went on holiday!
Legend :)
I have fond memories of Torbay in the 60s and 70s. It really was just like in the film. How I wish I could go back to those times.
My mum and dad took our family there in 1978; I was nine years old. This film took me right back to some very happy memories.. Thank you British Pathe
I hope you had a lovely time John, a right grand holiday.
@@LordJimUSA Yes we did thank you.. It was a different time though, all gone now. I'm glad I was a kid of the 70s
@freebeerfordworkers It's all very sad, I think it's much the same across the UK..
I think your dad might be my father
@@Bingpot_Cowabunga Sorry, what do you mean?
I was 18 and I drove up to Torbay every night from Plymouth, what a great time I had.
How were the fish'n'chips ???
And you would have a great time today if you were 18.
Ok Steve how does that compare to today?
@Mark Miller you have no idea what you are gibbering about. 3 towns share torbay. torquay,paignton and Brixham
Everything is better when you're young :)
It's quite clear that even the people over 50 were in much better shape back then
No such thing as binging a Netflix series with a takeaway box on a recliner leather sofa. That’s why.
@@smith9808 Don't forget they had lived through food rationing though.
@@christophercook723😅😅 want
Well when you've got "body positivity" / "being fat and unhealthy is fine" being rammed down our throats it's no surprise.
People in general live longer these days and look younger too.
Something that sticks in my mind is having a full English breakfast every morning for a fortnight in the boarding house. It was like we was royalty. I used to wake up at about 5 am , it being light by then and go for a walk along the beach with my brother. We was 12/14 years old.
Magic memories. Everyone has passed now . All the adults, mom dad Nan uncles and aunts.😥
Those last two sentences..woah, thats a heavy feeling.
Same here, except my mum who’s now almost 90. I’m feeling very mortal right now! But hey, I remember holidays by the sea with my mum and dad, and I smile. Such brilliant times, I had a great childhood, my parents worked very hard and the rewards were regular holidays to the coast.
Sadly that's our situation, everyone passed away, so sad thinking about those day's, these towns are a shadow of their former glory 😢
Yeah it seemed most people back then were middle class, then it seemed to change the following decades.
A journey back in time to the magical 60's. Undeniably, that era was a delight with great quality, in music, in food, in the fashion of people dressing. Today, despite the technological advance, everything seems to have no more soul or quality. Fortunately I lived in that time and I can testify that it was my best years of my existence. - M.S.C.
That is what happens when a nation loses its identity and tries to pretend that it does not matter.
It wasn't. 1968: Paris riots, Viet Nam, Cold War, worsening relations between capital and labour, Britain vexed about Europe etc. Mods and rockers in Brighton and elsewhere (cp. Quadrophenia). That is, all things being equal, much the same as today.
Isaac Mercado no one is listening to you
Isaac Mercado. your a glass half empty person.
@@marklion315 When isn't there a riot in Paris, they live for them. For Vietnam I could give you the Middle East. Mods & Rockers was a bank holiday affair, easily avoided. I was just a kid in the 60's so too young to appreciate it but it was evidently a great time for many Brits. You must've been a right miserable blighter if you were sat at home worrying about events in 'Nam.
What a paradise compared to now
Before third world invaded us
@@Anticommunism99Poor Brits being invaded. After they invaded every continent on the globe for 400 years.
@@crixxxxxxxxx it's an honour to be invaded by first world empire , it only means your country will get a lot richer , more educated and less primitive .cannot say that for todays invaders
@@crixxxxxxxxx 'It was bad when white people did it 200 years ago; it's good when brown people do it today'.
At least have the guts to admit that you just hate white people.
@seanosullivan8779 Yes, you absolutely do. The actions of a people have ramifications for decades to come.
Memories of childhood holidays, when the sky was always blue and the days were always long and sunny.
true
It rains more these days?
Ah yes, selective memory leaning towards the positives while ignoring the many negatives.
When Britain was muslimfree
@@TheUtuber999 doubtful. But we only remember the sunny summer days where we did interesting stuff, not the rainy days where we were locked away indoors, so our memories are biased towards the former making it seem like it was always sunny and fun when were younger.
Everyone looked slimmer back then!
most were, those who weren't probably had undiagnosed diabetes
Everyone walked everywhere and nobody had 20 snacks between meals
The real reason is probably because most of the people you see in this video grew up during strict food rationing, that lasted well in the 50s for Britian as they recovered economically from WWII.
@@sergeantbigmac this is true, my grandparents still treated food as a luxury and understood that it could 'disappear' at any time. my statement about undiagnosed diabetes was true. my neighbour used to give her kids the 'good food' and would fill survive on chips/fries. They were filling and cheap. She was large...
I grew up during these times and most people smoked quite a bit. You can spy people doing it in this video. It may account for some of the thinner figures.
So I was in Torquay a few days ago and it felt like WWII had just paid a visit. Drab and empty shop fronts, massive roadworks with three or four workmen standing around, and an overall feel of decline and neglect. Who the heck is in charge of the place because someone needs a new job.
It's one of the saddest sights I've seen. In my lifetime it's gone from party central to desolate. Breaks my heart. Pensioners, semi-retired rich vs poor and hopeless. So so sad.
The country cannot exploit others nations any more and it will decline rapidly
@@dominicbrant1968It's the same in rural North America. Small towns are dwindling away to nothing and its heartbreaking for our elders who still remember the glory days
@@RugMann I genuinely blame the rise of big brands and the move away from the highstreet/mainstreet. all the places I went to as a kid are now 'dormitories' for older people on pensions who use their car to go to the cheap supermarkets - can't blame them, but it's excluded everyone else
I'm 57, I've been here just about every year of my life , even in 1979 &1980 after a month in California, give me the weather & great memories are made forever !
Happy times indeed, i loathe what we've become in only fifty years.
I was stationed in Europe in the US air force.. in 1961 and 62' I visited Greece with a buddy.. we rented a small cheap Vespa traveled all over the country.. and several ionian islands.. I can only say that it was probably the most beautiful countryside I have ever witnessed in my life.... And the people was so friendly... For me the island of keflonia was just incredible.. like the rest of the world things have changed.... But my memories of the Greek people and Greece I will cherish forever
Tell me about it!😩
Absolutely 💯
Look on the bright side, you’ve probably only a few years left.
@@wellyftw Alright, no need for the death warning
This was perfect. I am feeling very nostalgic but when I watch this kind of videos, the feeling is getting even stronger. Come on, look at this perfect world : no smartphones and social medias, people were all slim and looking healthy, the streets were clean and sophisticated, everyone was elegant and stylish,... Honestly, people just seemed to be much more happy back then. I'm a 22 years old student but I miss the 60s... Actually, I'm getting quite obsessed with this decade ! Good music, good fashion, no untimely multiculturalism... I wish I could travel through time.
untimely multiculturalism?
it's like you instinctively know something is wrong despite not having lived in that era
When Britain was white
Wonderful times as boy loved the 60s 70s and 80s what fine time we had mother always got top clothing X for our holiday X my dad part time fireman X we go to fire station Christmas party X disco in we were allowed few pints bitter X red barrel X very weak beer X golly X no phone X we play records and go bike rides X soap box carts X cinema X was so cheap keep enjoying the 60s u can feel the nice times come bk those music movies X enjoy X every thing is bit fake now for me X
The 60s was the best decade ever. Things started to go wrong from the 70s onwards. I wish I could travel back to that time and stay there.
These old films fascinate me. Back when Europe was still Europe.
Indeed. Those were the days of casual racism.
@@cosmoray9750 As opposed to today, with constant, directed racist behaviour towards anyone... that is not with the 'program'.
Days when european women were slim
Lol your name is "Al Sayid"
@@blyat5352 Who cares what his name is? This is not about racism. If I go to China, I want to see chinese culture. If I go to Sweden or Germany I want to see their culture. Not some identity-less melting pot.
6 young Scottish lads went here in 1981 for 2 weeks. Aged from 17 -21. At the time we thought it was a boring holiday,the pubs shut at 11 the discos at 1am. We used to but carryouts and hide them in the bushes and get them after the clubs shut and head down to the beach.We still talk about it today 2022,most of us now in our 60s as one of the best holidays we ever had. Great memories..
Rose tinted glasses I believe is the expression
You say yourself you thought it was boring, so why the nostalgia for something you didn’t enjoy?
In 1981 I was 17. My best ever holiday was in Antigua last year or maybe in the Arctic circle in 2019, certainly not somewhere I thought _boring_
@@JulieWallis1963 No it was just that at that age your expectations are way different.We got up to a lot of nonsense. Just being lads.. Antigua sounds nice and I did honeymoon in Barbados 😆.. I have travelled fairly extensively my whole life but still remember this holiday in Torquay with my first mates and drinking buddies.Nothing wrong with Nostalgia.
I love these period films. I try to reconcile my own youthful impressions with how I've perceived change over the years - up to now.
I can't help feeling that there's been a gradual disintegration of certain key aspects of the physical world over recent decades.
That's an understatement!
Especially the people. It's like witnessing human de-evolution.
@@toastnjam7384 Thanks for the reply. I have to agree.
@@toastnjam7384 If it's any comfort, I think we've always been the same humans, just our environments have changed, back then people were more conformist and got their info from less sources plus theres less footage from back then compared to now. Now with social media and the internet, people conform less and stupidity can spread like wildfire online and at the same time everyone can watch it. Maybe we are just more aware of it now, either way we all seemed a bit more civilised back then for the most part.
@@MarleyH2022 I think there's a lot of truth in that. People in the 1960s weren't connected instantly to news sources from all over the world, and weren't able to gain anything like the same insight into life in other places and times as we are today.
Beautiful England
This hurts my heart and I'm Scottish.
Hopefully England and the rest of the UK can get back to those better days.
And I'm sure we will.
Dream on Tracey. Those days are never coming back, especially after Brexit.
Torbay is gorgeous and holds tons of memories of lovely family holidays ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Britain is still one of the world's most beautiful places. From the Scottish Highlands to the Yorkshire Dales, Devon and Cornwall. So much packed into one small island
Max Heidcase lol behave you
Muppet
Not as nice as it once was. You can still find beautiful places today. I think Harrogate is beautiful and many coastal towns as well.
Many places have been destroyed though.
Enjoy it before it gets swept away into the 3rd World!!! believe me it won't be long!!!!
So much weather, most of it bad, packed into
such a small island.
Yes, one day too they will change. Appreciate them while we can :)
Growing up in the 60s and 70s was brilliant. It was great seeing Sid James again.
Happy days. I was hugely enjoying myself in that year.
First went on holiday to Torquay and Babbacombe in 1976, long drive from Glasgow. Fantastic memories. Returned in 2011 and it had hardly changed. Well, in my mind at least, lovely part of England.
Babbacombe and Oddicombe were opposite each other they were very beautiful but it was very steep to get down there by car. The funicular railway was great to get to both of those and has been in a couple of films. Great days from the 60s and 70s and there was never any trouble or graffiti unlike now!!
Those were the days my friend, thought they would never end.......
We'd sing and dance forever and a day..........
Nice pop culture reference. Mary Hopkins.
Forever and a day
music from originally russian song added with old turkish song "uskudara gideriken", with new lyrics
Goes to show the lack of education then.
Look what a proud and happy place we were back in the late 60s......all gone by the 2000s
I moved to torquay from Plymouth 5yrs ago and never looked back, I love it here, so much to see and do and most of it walking distance.
whats it been like since covid. Friends tells me its been eerily desolate. hope it comes back..
I grew up in Torquay at exactly this time. It was common to see the celebrities like Val Doonigan, The Two Ronnies, Morecombe and Wise et al just wandering around the town. Preston beach for the swimming, Torre Abbey for the girls, so much more friendly than it is today. Now a poor shadow of it's former glory. Sad to see the state of the place now, rubbish and graffiti everywhere, closed down shops and tat.
The two Ronnies!😅 Huge earthquake in Chile with hundreds dead, its Chile con carnage...
Torquay just feels so dangerous. I couldn't imagine being amongst this holiday paradise.
@freebeerfordworkers I regularly walk through there, I have never once felt uneasy about the middle eastern people, other than those seeking to be processed in the hotel, a sizeable chunk are medical professionals in Torquay Hospital. It is the drunks that fall out of the pubs, the British men in groups that leer and provide unimaginative sexual comments and the addict's, that make me fearful.
@@maidindevonlucky you.
Crazy seeing this when you live in Torbay, it really is a shadow of its former self
"Fings ain't wot they used t'be", Cor, hor, hor, hor, hor, hor. 😜 Sorry couldn't resist that after seeing Max Bygraves and Sid James. I live in New Zealand now but was born in London in 67. This brings back happy memories of family holidays in the 70's to Ramsgate and Margate, much nicer resorts in my honest humble opinion 😄. Thanks for the upload .
Ps, Margate was so good Chas n Dave wrote a song about it 👍.
The amazing 60's. The 60´s and 70´s (the 80´s too) was the best decades around the world. Regards from Brazil.
I wish life was still like this in the UK 😢
move to eastern europe
I was born in 1963,60 yrs and it's all gone,i was so so lucky
The 1960's, when Torquay was in France and Dad was as fit as fuck.
Ha ha ha. The good old days.
Such a joy watching the real England! What have you done to yourself England??!?!?!
It's the politician's. They ruined it.
You mean what have the politicians done to England
The government wanted a new Africa
@@shaunbat5097 actually that’s not a bad idea that means we will be able to receive more handouts
Correct exactly
I had a few childhood holidays on the 'English Riviera'. There were always a lot of foreign students living in the area for some reason. Torquay was filled with small hotels and guest houses and even though the beach wasn't a pretty one, it was packed with people and often the gardens behind the beach too. Cheap flights and the package holiday to Spain killed the appeal of the south coast and it hasn't recovered since.
Torquay has a large English as a foreign language school, hence the students.
@@jduff7036 Yes, I fondly remember meeting a lot of Scandinavian girls there in the 70's. Penelope's club in Paignton was a favourite place, along with the Pacific Bar. Those girls used to line up inside the door at Penelope's, waiting to pounce on any boy they fancied - no "chatting up" required ! 😁
Daytimes spent on Goodrington sands or catching the steam train to Kingswear and Dartmouth, and once we spotted Agatha Christie from the train. Great times.
I was one of those foreign students. Arrived in the UK for the first time and picked up at Heathrow by my contact from the company that organised the trip, caught the train to Torquay and stayed with a family at their home for 3 months while studying english at the language school. Fond memories that I will never forget.
Even the Seagulls where friendly back then.
ohh yeah brilliant observation love it
they were probably homophobic sexist and racist too
Seagulls are white.
were*
Seagulls are not seagulls, they are Gulls.
Conclusion: Those people lived their life and we spending our time on UA-cam wishing we were born in that era.
True
yes , very true
Wouldn't last a week in the 1960's seems so lovely on UA-cam and all that with the sun shining. I bet it wasn't for your average working class man. "Nostalgia not what it used to be " your average millennial and General Z wouldn't last 5 minutes without the internet Lol! I'm GenerationX (49 years old) and I would miss the perks of modern life.
@@lucaschapman2188 tem que ser o brasileiro falando bosta.. bom é ficar confinado em casa por causa de covid, num calor de 34 graus, tendo que ficar no youtube, ne seu bosta? corno!
True and sad. Can't escape that conclusion.
This was before the 70’s move to holidays in Spain, after that British holiday destinations and culture died. People also ate properly, today people would eat burgers and litter the place.
I’m too young to have lived that life but I think the 1960’s must have been the peak of British civilisation.
would have loved to live back then, all i have are the tales my mother and gran told me and classic clips like this. So sad to see all these things gone now.
@peter burry
Yes, that's because things of value have always been lost from one generation to another. Only, the pace is not constant, nor is the pace at which valuable new things, if any, take their place. Optimism, like its opposite, is fatal to the mind. All the best.
@peter burry Not at all, I was a young lad at that time, and my dad had been through the war, starving in Malta, he told me to make the best of it because it was a much better time than he had to live through.
@peter burry no these were really peak Western Civilization times .before that it was horrible ,and now it's just anxious and dangerously unstable .
the good old days were never as good as today.
Yeah, that's what your children write will about the present time in 50 years. I'd enjoy yit while you can and stop having nostalgic feelings for a time that wasn't all that great, ask some Vietnam veterans.
No fat slappers with tats and dodgy eyebrows in the 60s 70s and 80s. Natural stunning women.
You made me laugh out loud with that statement, cause it’s true
Lmfao
It was all white back then
😂😂😂
Careful sounds a bit as they say now . But agree
Back when people were civilised, lovers of fine arts and Nature, kindness everywhere, no pillaging and no ugly people destroying property.
truly a false image of reality :D
And no phones anywhere
@@rastislavstanik You May have a point, but you cannot deny that things are pretty bad nowadays.
@@AFMMD-q8 whats pretty bad nowadays?
@@Luca-nu2zg you must be dumb to say something like that because Islam had existed since the 600s
I love Torbay, and find it mad that the buildings haven't changed! Even the cafe at the beach in Torquay was there in 1968, and I had thought that looked quite new when I first went about ten years ago!
You are lucky for that. I live in Dallas Texas, a city that spits in the face of history. If something is old we demolish it, pronto!
There all derelict and abandoned
It's gone down hill quite a bit since this film was made, and more so in the 8 years since you made this comment.
50 years ago........ amazing
Wow, look at how far-right everything was!
Strange comment 🤨🤨
@@shinyjohn6568 I'm a strange person.
The quality of this clip is amazing. I feel like I'm watching a modern recording of people dressed in costumes from the 60s.
16mm film is amazing. Have a look at people doing 16mm film today to see what it is like.
Its remastered
I feel like I’m watching recording through a 2005 cellphone...
I’ve got home movies from 1968 that are just like this! So lucky that my dad was a photographer. There can’t have been cameras beck then, unlike today when everyone has one.
@@arunv4243
Remaster means they got it to the original film standard.
From a time when this country was worth some thing ... Oh how far we have sunk down ... sad but true ... good to be reminded of how it all was.
So refreshing to see the Britain of my childhood, north east coast wasn't quite so posh, but I can relate. Stuck in London now, an eye opener to hear anyone speak English on a bus or in the street.
Is english being the lingua franca not enough for you people lol. Matlab kuch bhi bolne ka english nahi bolne mei tumhe kya farak pad raha hai re
I'm British, learning other languages to avoid talking to people like you.
@@dennis8196 I'm British and proud of my inheritance, and would probably avoid talking to people like you. Any of the countries I've visited and lived in have exactly the same attitude as me. Note, I didn't say learning another language is bad... Written by someone who spoke enough German to qualify for a German passport, and who has heavily invested in Ethiopia and been learning Amharic.
@@ric6383 people from around the world do great things to ensure the dominance/longevity of their cultures in their own countries yet the west is shamed whenever it does so
@@newtonia-uo4889 Very true, the other half is Amhara, they are polite, decent, but damn well stick up for their culture.
Brings back so many memories of when I was a 9 yr child (50 yrs ago), our 1weeks annual holiday was spent Paington lots of happy hours spent on Goodrington sands, we always went to see Val Doonican summer show 👍😁
as grow up in 60s, remember my holiday in weymouth with fonds memories , with prefect summer and plenty to do, had great time
Holidays of my childhood. Great days!
"Sophistication? I've been to Torquay..." I remember our neighbours used to go there on holiday and we all thought of it as Monte |Carlo!
It was an absolutely beautiful place as were several other places. Many places have turned into slot machine gala bingo hell holes.
Compared to Monte Carlo today, the Torbay of the 1960s does look rather sophisticated, actually. In an understated elegance kind of way.
Torquay is more beautiful than Montecarlo. Montecarlo is just ugly concrete tower blocks.
Wish I had a time machine. I'd go back and stay there.
unfortunately you would still get old you would have t keep going back don't forget to charge your batteries, and take some spare parts with you they didn't make them back then, shame, nothing's perfect
Will you leave all of the technology in this time?
Im just glad I finally have a washing machine.
Too bad it doesn;t take ppl back in time during one of the long kind of boring cycles >
@John Evans my home town is unrecognisable now because of the politicians satanic policy's.that ruined our? Country.
Having lived the first 30 years of my life without smart technology, I could easily live without it. The 60s and early 70s were a great time to grow up.
I can definitely understand the desire to go back to that time. Unfortunately, it's not possible. More's the pity.
I'm ready to go on vacation to this time.
What amazing film stock! Warm & luscious. I wonder what stock it is? Wish we made more of these travelogues & not the ‘selfie’ celebrity nonsense of today.
love these times of innocence and simplicity although narrators sounded
like MR. Chumley Warner
...and people will look back at the "youtube voice" that is so popular.
Yes, Grayson.
It's spelled Cholmondley-Warner.
Small sacrifices one can’t have everything!
@@peakperformancetrain I wonder who inspired Harry Enfileld when he was creating Cholmondley Warner.
I grew up with smartphones and I wish I hadn’t , I wish I lived in s time where people were happy , spoke to eachother and the weather was astonishing
You're romanticising the past so much mate
@@garden2571
No.
Most people know that it was far better to be in that era. A lowly educated person for that era could make a career or life for them self. Unlike today.
@@bighands69 exactly
Having a laugh? The climate hasn't actually changed yet.
If you were serious you could move to Canada, where the summers are hot. I see no one sweating in the video and the way they're dressed they appear to be on the verge of chilliness. Is it a degree over 20? I suppose shorts were indecorous at the time, as well as sandals (and t-shirts of course).
@emergerq technology isn't a curse .....majority humans are not ready for it. Neanderthals living among us
Life in 1968 better than the most part of the rest of the world in 2028.
We will have to wait and see.
Great to see Torquay back then . . . .
I’ve been in your swimming pool lots and it is really fun!
Shame it’s changed. I was there on business a few years ago and it was in a poor condition.
Whats it like now?
@@tlhtorquay thank you!
@@Generalfund went there last year with my wife, there is nothing there rubbish.
Loved my home in Brixham - the 80’s. High above the bay. Gorgeous view.
And of course, the famous clotted cream 😉. Stunning walks thru neighboring Dartmoor.
i love seeing all the lights reflect onto the harbour at brixham!
It's devastating what has become of this once beautiful coast.
I’ve literally just stayed in the back cottages shown in Brixham at 3:04. They actually look better now they’ve been painted different colours and I can confirm Brixham was an amazing holiday and defo recommend a place to visit
The good old days, remember them well
Grim
@Eat your cake and Have it too Too few racists apparently.
@Alice Rabbit Quick question. Is that the only option you can think of?
@Alice Rabbit So is that the only option you can think of? Why be so shy, may as well just admit it?
@Alice Rabbit How am I anti white? Define forced diversity.
Dear Lord, please take me back to those times...
Until you have to go the dentist.
@@Playsinvain lol, fair call!
amen to that
England is looking for her Churchill, America Eisenhower, Stalin's Russia, and only Germany, the poor thing, except the Fuhrer and there is no one to remember. Let's pray for her sinful soul.
@colorado121 1. globalism is a necessity of the modern world it was the same back then 2. I don't see how leftism has anything to do with this 3. find me 1 peer-reviewed study on how climate change isn't real 4. can you clarify that? what is mass imigration
My goodness, never to ever to be seen again ever on these shores!
This Documentary Channel is 1one of the VERY BEST that British people has ever created to record and show the Whole World how their lives have been decade after decade!. Thanks British Pathe.🤗🇬🇧💖
I was coming up for seven in '68 and all thirteen of my family and I crammed into a Ford passenger van at two in the morning heading to Ilfracombe for a fortnights holiday. Still have the snaps (4x3) in b&w!
My mother was born in Brixham in 1962. Her family going back quite a few generations come from Torbay. I spent my summer holidays with my maternal grandparents and cousins, where we would go round Brixham, Torquay and Paignton. I know these places better than my own hometown.
The fascinating thing about this film is how it does not show the dark side of Torbay. When the tourists go and autumn rolls in, it is GRIM. I like to watch these videos as it makes me think of the hot July days making sandcastles with my cousins, rather than February half-term where the wind blows strong and a fisherman comes home injured.
What's funny now is that Granny ran the fish shop on Brixham's harbour, now a very plush restaurant, next to the Golden Hind replica. I wonder if the clientele in there would like to know that I hauled ice for crab displays there only 15 years ago?
4:25 perfection personified.
I gotta agree with you on that
I wonder if she has seen this recently!
I remember my parents taking us there for a summer holiday.
my family long motherside lived in Brittain , Luton Brighton and Brixham Torquay......i missed those holidays spending with our family
This was the highest level of life ever achieved for an ordinary, little man. At about that time Trilateral Commission was established and we have downfall ever since.
jovan jelic + So damn true.
Yes, I read somewhere that 1970 was the peak of living standards for the ordinary working man in the USA and UK. After that, they were gradually eroded by inflation, longer commutes, longer working hours, more debt and higher house prices caused partly by the spread of two-income households.
@@Londonfogey Don't forget the immigration from non white countries started after that and Diversity was pushed by politicians in west.
@@haryanvvi Mass immigration started in 1948 but I agree it increased a lot in the early 70s when Idi Amin kicked out the Ugandan Asians.
No-one staring at a phone, instead enjoying the views and surroundings.
True, but make no mistake, if we’d have had phones back then, we would have been the same as the kids today.
Long live peace its the secret of the beauty and fun at any place on the globe.
Throw your phone if you hate technology
@@americanpatriot3759 crazy
@Mr.ΠΩβΩDΨ which world Mr. phony
Oh England.. The state of you today 💔
Please tell me this is on the “other side” I’m ready to leave 2020 now.
Me too
That depends on if you’ve RSVP’d the invitation. But no, there is no sun (and no moon, no night) as we know it, but there will be light, and it will be even better, for those who did accept the invitation as outlined in the 4 Gospels, (and who apply John 14:12, if they want to fully engage, but it’s not part of Salvation, which is a gift and cannot be earned, and it’s already paid for, so no “penance” or any other false, pagan activities pawned off by Catholicism, which is a counterfeit and very pagan religion, who has taught their people to pay for what is already paid, and to engage in all manner of pagan and ungodly activities, so do t go to any organized version of Christianity, they have all added and deleted bits)... following John 14:12, a direct quote form Jesus himself, and knowing all means all, except the one thing only he could do, the Crucifixion, everything else he expects us to do. It’s not for salvation, it’s just part of doing what Jesus expects).
Agree with all these comments. I was born in 1963 and England was a wonderful country to grow up in. Hard to believe or recognise it now.
Trying to find a sense of belonging gets harder every year 😢
My memories of childhood holidays in Torbay: stuck in a grotty caravan, watching the rain beat endlessly on the window.
We used to go on holiday to Torbay most summers in the 1960’s up until ‘75, the drive from London would take 8 hours with various stops, my Dad would avoid the nightmarish A303 wherever possible. Many happy childhood holidays there, we saw Val Doonican and Sid James at their respective summer shows that year. Thank you for posting and bringing back many happy memories.
How much simpler it seemed then, the air looks cleaner, the streets, even all the people look healthier and better dressed, now adays half the people would be fat pale people in sweatpants flipflops,and staring at their phones while sitting in folding lawn chairs,we've lost so much in 50 years.
You can set an example, dress better, get in shape and don't look at your cell.
I NEVER open my cell in public, live in the moment people.
@@bossrat BE the change you want to see in the world.
The air was cleaner? You could see the air back then. Rivers in the industrial heartslands of Europe were so poisonous that swimming was completely out of the question. You're right with the style, though.
@@DiogenesOfCa
If you want to become a Roman, be one every day.
@@DiogenesOfCa Be yourself and let the world think what it wants about you.
Pure nostalgia, everything changes but not for the better. Carry on Sydney and Arthur..........
Aye, that's a fact, even nostalgia is not what it used to be....
I traveled to Torquay every summer from 1965 to 1979 with my parents in Rover 3 litre towing a caravan. Yes.. like the film suggests it was a better time.
The miniature village is awesome
Model Village. Not far from Torquay Utd's ground.
The Dutch do the model village thing, um, big time. There's an extensive one in Amsterdam. But of course, it's Dutch, so they depict an SS Panzer battalion at the edge of town.
It sure was, a paradise!
Look how slim everyone was!
Beautiful England at a more beautiful time in history.
What a delight to watch this.
Damn those must've been the days... Born in 1991, life ain't too easy now. Living in Finland.
I thought Finland is the happiest place on Earth.
What a truly great film.....love the old days 😍😍😍...now it's just finished.
Wonderful days of yore. We went there, well Paignton actually, in 76 in the summer of all summers. It never rained for months on end and all the grass turned brown.
Unforgettable bliss.
Was there in late 60s. The Beach Boys “Do It Again” could be heard everywhere on the tiny portable transistor radios.
I want to be there. We need time-travelling!
Too bad time traveling will never exist, or else there would be time travelers everywhere.
@@annodomini7887 I'm 9 years old and my sister is 16 and when she drives me around with her in her little car both of us are always barefooted and I am shirtless and my sister wears her bikini top and bottoms and drives barefooted
What? Where the hell did that come from????
*covid-68 has entered the medical journals*
If only 😞
Beautiful people , wonderful time
This was happy times.
Love to live in Torbay. Smashing place to holiday and relax.
In the rain .....😂😂