The Great British Countryside | Pt1 - Village Life
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- This 1930s film captures life in countryside on the cusp of change.
The coming of the motorcar, radio, telephone and with them 'new ideas & expectations from the city' would see a centuries old way of life change for better or worse.
The first in a series of films part 1 captures all aspects of life in a village. From having a pint and a natter and setting the world to rights in the local village pub, to village green politics and a wonderful conversation with old timer questioning the "need for a bath when he has a perfectly good river at the end of the garden"
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The pubs are all closing.
The telephone boxes have disappeared.
The village green is now a car park and the pot holes are getting bigger .
We destroyed the pubs with cheap supermarket alcohol, and breweries charging high rents. We killed off phone boxes too, as we all have mobile phones.
The Fox is still there ...
And church has been replaced by a mosque
Back when we had a great country unlike the sespit we know today.
Yes...and when the future looked hopeful rather than bleak....
Wonderful film thank you. Happy uncomplicated days, I can't help thinking that we've made a bit of a mess of it since.
Where did you buy your rose-tinted spectacles?
@@johncraskeyeah the war hadnt long finished id imagine. That was sort of complicated wasnt it 😂
I think people had more humble things to really look forward to in the lesser material world, you can get close to that feeling, visit an old village on a bicycle for a day, reminisce take your time, add something unpasteurised as a token to your visit, like plant a small rosebush in the village church grounds or the village green, then have lunch at a local fete or church cafe, im sure you would connect somehow with the days past.
This is a highly interesting offering about human life between the wars. Thank you for preserving and presenting this.
If only life was still like this
You wouldn't survive five minutes in this world. Life was tough, people were poor nd the average person didn't live beyond 60.
@@johncraskeyou are a bundle of joy 😂
I remember this village life well born 1931 93years old next mouth July now all gone.
Well it’s not. Deal with it.
Life is still tough now , people are still poor , but at least back then our country wasn’t being wrecked by 3rd world immigrants
An old cottage with a radio , gramophone and a river to bath in, would suit me just fine.
What a fascinating old film!😊
I believe some of the shots were taken in Finchingfield Essex. I have a photo of my great grandfather, who was a stockman on a farm in the village, sitting outside The Fox pub having a beer with his mates. Probably taken around the time the film was made. I'm sure he would have known some of the individuals in the clip.
It was pretty much all Finchinfield,, I think the fete was at Spains Hall (Jamie Oliver??)
Children should be shown what their country used to be like before it was wrecked.
That was a gradual process ......
Sadly they are taught that we had black Africans and immigrants here at that time. they have stolen your country but please don’t let them steal your memories.
Lovely to see just english and no foreign criminals
I was brought up in a northern mill town in the 50s, I can assure you that it wasn't like this film. 😂
@@andrewkitchenuk the people that worked in the mills were all indigenous white people until the 50s we built this country not immigration
Great life , healthy people , the pub and the green were the centre of the village . That game of shove hapenny ( halfpenny ) I played , and still do in certain places where the old games can still be found . 👍🏴
So no "Y M C A" then.. Beautiful Britain. How i remember it & wish to fight to get it back..
The only piece of modern technology I crave is a time machine!!
They lived a interesting life before phones
Indeed. People actually spoke to one another
What a different world it was....imagine anyone today considering themselves 'the Squire'......
Great video. Finchingfield, Essex? Is there a part 2........
No fat bums no tattoos no piercings no trainers no hi guys no phones glued to heads still I suppose we have better healthcare and dentistry if you can get it !
50yrs this year i have lived in my local village and it has been ruined, now it just get's flooded because they have built far too many houses and extensions onto existing properties and for what?......GREED.
Built by the poor now owned by the rich or little villages
May have been poorer materially, but far richer in community, social cohesion, sense of community, , deliberately wrecked by the Britian hating mps , establishment.
It wasn't much different to this, in villages and small towns throughout the UK till early/mid 60s. Today, the multiple everyday choices that everybody has to consider just makes life much more complicated/difficult imho, unfortunately! I thought that technology was supposed to enlighten our lives - perhaps, not as ultimately the case may be!
Lovee this ❤
I bet crime was a fraction then of what it is now.
This was filmed in Finchingfield in Essex. My earliest known ancestors come from here and I can trace them back to 1709. It does make one wonder if some of the villagers in this film could also be my ancestors.
Harry Enfields narrating 😂😂😂
Britains great farming industry before it was corrupted and destroyed by EU membrrship and the common agricultural policy.
utter bull.
TRADITIONAL OLD ENGLISH LIFE. BUT TIMES CHANGE OF COURSE... FOR THE BETTER OR.....???
LETS REMEMBER... "THE ULTIMATE SOPHISTICATION IS SIMPLICITY " 🏡v 🏬
The Village People ? Not quite what I was Expecting.🤣
I curse Harry Enfield, I can’t stop hearing his voice.
Tomorrow it all ends.
My gramp used to say the more that nibble at the cabbage leaf, and then its gone.
We call what we have now. Progress
Queue spitfire, Jureselem, local Bobby, Milk churns at the village PO, The mobile shop,
I'm glad foreigners never saw it when it was good,
Aye it were just grand, I’d be up at four int morning getting coal fire started. It were hard life back then, but we were a happy and cheerful lot. Working sixteen hours a day, six days a week , fifty two weeks a year. I always looked forward to my bread and cheese, when I got home from work at eleven pm each night. Aye it were just grand.
agreed davedavis!
Does anyone know where this village is and what it’s called
It is Finchingfield Essex. The pub is still there and thriving.
If you look on Google maps, you'll easily find the pub. Instantly recognisable and still identified by many of the exact same features as shown in the film.
In particular, the bracket carrying the pubs sign is the same.
Many of the other village landmarks and features are still there. The windmill, church, memorial on the green to name a few.
My grandfather and many relatives on my father's mother's side were from Finchingfield. I have a old photo of my Grandfather sitting on that very bench shown in the film outside The Fox having a pint with his mates. I feel sure he would of known some of the individuals in the clip. Looks to be around the same time.
@@Fintomanthank you for the information
Thruppence or a tanner a pint boy when we think today nearly a fiver
It is like Harry & Paul ……
Is the narrator Mr. Chumdudley Warner?
What year??
If you click on 'more', the description says 1930s film. 😅
Too many people now
Lmao we got to the 1980s Village People meant something else 😂
Dimbleby narrating?