Kids playing in the 50's. (UK)

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  • @ivyj5698
    @ivyj5698 Рік тому +6

    We did it all morning till night all the kids all ages xxhappy days

  • @minisculecakes
    @minisculecakes 3 роки тому +16

    I’m 19.
    Sometimes it was frustrating to grow up today. There were so many things I wasnt allowed to do because they were “too dangerous”. Many things are banned.
    In my elementary school we werent even allowed to pick things off the ground, from snow to sticks. Meaning snowball fights were forbidden, I pretended a stick was a sword once and had to spend three recesses alone in a room.
    Kids today are rarely allowed to have fun, so they often give up on it and learn to enjoy the tech given by their parents instead.
    Boredom can be dangerous, I watched my peers grow up bored, and always being told “no” and not being allowed to have fun. This led some of them to grow up angry, finding temporary relief from boredom in drugs and such when we reached highschool.
    I’m lucky to have parents that made sure I didn’t have my phone until I was older, that allowed me to play outside and get bruised and grow from it.
    It’s not fair for children who aren’t that lucky to be blamed for being indoors on technology all day when that’s how their parents raised them, and when school’s today don’t allow play for the sake of “safety”.

  • @bahoonies
    @bahoonies 2 роки тому +6

    Just found this video by chance and very glad I did. I was born in 1952 and this brings back so many happy memories.

  • @dryflyman7121
    @dryflyman7121 2 місяці тому +2

    What wonderful times they were, I would willingly live them all over again if I could.

  • @anngillingsspinks2799
    @anngillingsspinks2799 8 місяців тому +6

    When children really did play nobody had much but they were very happy NO EMAILS to worry about I was born in 1947 so I remember all this

  • @trueblue2124
    @trueblue2124 4 роки тому +7

    my era too - happy days - its the old story I guess - we had little, but had so much fun - no telly - no computers - just active games outside - footy, girls always skipping etc / always on the park - fit as a fiddle - - - but didn;t realise it of course- and the only time we got in to trouble ? - - - - we used to get chased by the police for playing footy in the park when it was closed !!- yes truly happy days - -

  • @Luke_Marto
    @Luke_Marto 7 років тому +24

    Im 15 years old and i wish i grew up at a time like this, or even the 70's or 80's

  • @vintagebrew1057
    @vintagebrew1057 5 років тому +21

    I was "Jacks" champ in my primary school in the 70's. Remember playing for hours on cobblestone streets. You only needed a few marbles or ball and some imagination and playmates and it was fun. Mum called you in for supper and after that you had cheap colouring books, comics and puzzles until bedtime. I would'nt swap that for all the high tech and pampering that goes on today. The kids I see today are incredibly self absorbed and seem desperate for attention. Don't see much natural happiness in them.

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 Рік тому

      The discussion is about the 50s, what’s this about the 70s. I’ve got unpaid bills older than that.😉

  • @grahampayne5073
    @grahampayne5073 4 роки тому +7

    I know times were hard back then but when you see the kids playng with their happy uncomplicated life it brings it all back.

    • @sistersusie8569
      @sistersusie8569 2 роки тому +1

      yep, we grew up with the belief that money wasn't the be all/end all of our existence

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 Рік тому

      @@sistersusie8569 Yes but we all wished we had more because we had very little.

    • @sistersusie8569
      @sistersusie8569 Рік тому

      @@anthonyeaton5153 that wish was there to foster our gratitude for all (or anything) that would come our way in the future

  • @dancepiglover
    @dancepiglover 4 роки тому +7

    I keep seeing comments about how these kids were free to play without overprotective adults hovering over them. But what I kept thinking is that I wish kids played this nicely when I was growing up.

  • @paulbroderick8438
    @paulbroderick8438 7 років тому +32

    I remember it all! The cobbled streets(to give horses traction), children's outside activities and clean sensible wear ready to go anywhere in. Now it seems kids have to have their parents spent a fortune on "protective wear' before they can ride a bike. Nobody wants serous injury, however, bumps and scrapes never hurt anyone, girls included!!

    • @johnukey
      @johnukey 5 років тому +3

      As we ran off to play with pals to adventures and a free run of the city, the only health and safety consisted of a mother shouting after us: "Mind the roads!".

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 Рік тому

      Those cobbled stones gave people twisted ankles or worse.

  • @larryriley2565
    @larryriley2565 5 років тому +11

    Great to see that's just has is was did you notice not one overweight kid out there they where really enjoyable days I played all of them and I'm still not overweight I'm nearly 78 six foot two fourteen stone play golf three times a week living the dream after doing my fifty years working

  • @532bluepeter1
    @532bluepeter1 4 роки тому +4

    I remember most of these games from the 1970s when I was a lad. Some I do not recognise though like the one with four bases set out in a square and a centre base.

  • @Mazalinda
    @Mazalinda 3 місяці тому +1

    I grew up on a council estate in Harlow New Town. It was known as “pram town” because there were so many young families which meant there were so many kids to play with. We played in the street because cars were rare then and we could run around and play the games that the East End families had brought with them. And we weren’t far from green spaces either: the common, fields, woods, Epping Forest were all in a walkable distance. We walked to school, we walked everywhere until Father Christmas brought us a bike or Jako roller skates (all second or third hand) and I would cycle for miles unhampered by traffic. I don’t remember ever being worried by anything that was going on in the world until the Moors Murders and that, I believe, was the end of my childhood.

  • @peacockpaula4723
    @peacockpaula4723 3 місяці тому

    Although I am young I miss those times, very weard... it brings tears to my eyes...

  • @Fairygirl-q6g
    @Fairygirl-q6g 5 років тому +7

    I miss being a kid. I miss playing with my toys.

    • @Fairygirl-q6g
      @Fairygirl-q6g 4 роки тому

      MM M
      Well that childhood should never be wasted. We are adults longer then we are kids. We can’t do it over like one species of jellyfish/sea jelly.

  • @flatop47
    @flatop47 10 років тому +11

    This Brings Back Some Memories Mick

    • @OnlyFiftiesAgainmjp
      @OnlyFiftiesAgainmjp  10 років тому +1

      flatop47 Thanks very much Brian,glad you enjoyed this bit of nostalgia :-))

  • @karhukivi
    @karhukivi 4 роки тому +16

    The toys I had would probably be banned now - chemistry set, meccano, cap guns and an electric train - sharp objects, mains transformers, poisons etc. - I'm glad I grew up then! Yes, there was polio, TB and other diseases caused by poor diet and minimal healthcare, but is today any better - AIDS, autism, diabetes, gender and mental health issues, etc.?

    • @janicebarthram6759
      @janicebarthram6759 4 роки тому +3

      George Reynolds we weren't baby wiped from birth and built up strong immune systems. I never knew anyone as a child that had depression or allergies. I am so glad that I was a child of the fifties.

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 Рік тому +1

      @@janicebarthram6759I lived thru 40s and 50s, yes there were pleasant times which we all remember, but not the bad times. I now am retired, I my own bungalow have have nice modern car 2 pensions and life is pleasant. Would I want the fifties life style back, not on your life!

    • @janicebarthram6759
      @janicebarthram6759 Рік тому +1

      @@anthonyeaton5153 I wouldn’t want those days back, but I am so glad that I had them. At least we at our age have reaped the benefits of growing up with the opportunities to buy our own property, have job security, get to see a doctor and feel safer on our streets…..unlike my grandchildren.

    • @patdoyle3686
      @patdoyle3686 3 місяці тому +1

      Everything today is judged on how well off you are in monetary terms such a pity we've lost our being thankful for being alive and well being able to share our wealth and kindness too others in our families and friends good neighbours and friends are much rarer nowadays in 1950s no money yet we shared ​the little we had and made the world a happier place today money is the root of all evil 😢@@anthonyeaton5153

    • @BarryEllis-s6i
      @BarryEllis-s6i 3 місяці тому +1

      so agree we were immunised because we played in dirt etc

  • @melcomepay6668
    @melcomepay6668 6 років тому +25

    Yeah, that's us the ," Baby Boomers" at play ..in a fear free Britain....kids today ARE NOT FREE......how I miss those days...we may not have had much ..but we were allowed to be kids.....My mum used to go out and leave the milk money OUTSIDE and the key under the mat....21st century is HORRIBLE. Dr Who, where are you ..I need you...!

    • @deedeedodo8092
      @deedeedodo8092 5 років тому +3

      Haha so true!! We were so innocent back then! Children are missing out nowadays!!

    • @francisraffle2948
      @francisraffle2948 3 роки тому

      Yes mum used to leave the back door open for us if she had gone shopping .I went to school with my brothers mum was at work and cane home again from school with my mates or on my own I'm sure the was bad men out and about but no one spoke about them .I usedvto walk home down a quiet entry to get home but it didn't bother me but I wouldn't do it now I dont go out in the dark alone I only heard about hindley and Brady cos dad had the news in think we were shielded from bad things happening its all over the news now when some bad had happened

  • @kevint7851
    @kevint7851 3 роки тому +4

    By, they were good times. My era...🙄🙄🙄....We was brought up with nowt, and I mean nowt. However happy childhood memories playing out in the streets. Better times, even with no money .OOOOH I can remember the first on our street with a tele..They let all the kids, me as well watch it through there window...Feel for the young ens today, What a world there growing up in. 😱😱😱

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 Рік тому +1

      In the mean time thousand of kids were left hungry and needing a bath. What was so wonderful about having an outside toilet and no bath in the house. Things were not as wonderful as your imagination likes to tell us.

  • @jacobeksor6088
    @jacobeksor6088 6 років тому +6

    Those kids really happy that time .

  • @sitonatree1
    @sitonatree1 9 років тому +14

    Great memories of rough times back then , when kids were able to be kids and get mucky and play and use imagination , I wonder how todays youngsters would cope if they went back in time , they'd be scared witless lol , great upload Mick , and just love the cobbled streets and roads and hardly any cars .. did you ever chase lorries lol we did and tried to get on the back of the coal lorry and nick a bit of coal lol

    • @OnlyFiftiesAgainmjp
      @OnlyFiftiesAgainmjp  9 років тому +4

      +Music Selection ..Hi MS,sorry I'm late with this,but I've stayed away from Y/Tube for a week or two,it just seems like a huge waste of time nowadays and there's still so much of it not working properly,grrr !.....Glad you liked this old video,it certainly takes me back,I played most of the games,even the skipping with the girls.lol...The video has been shared over 7,500 times on Facebook now,,phew !

    • @sitonatree1
      @sitonatree1 9 років тому

      ***** It can get tiresome on you tube lol the comments not working properly drive me up the wall , amazing the shares you have got from this .. it might end up on the history channel lol

    • @AlyxAesthetics
      @AlyxAesthetics 3 роки тому

      Nah id love it. I wish kids like me today werent so hypnotised by screens.im always outside with my imagination

  • @weeyin1155
    @weeyin1155 10 років тому +9

    Wonderful Mick. A great video my friend. God Bless you.♥

    • @OnlyFiftiesAgainmjp
      @OnlyFiftiesAgainmjp  10 років тому +1

      Joan Cuthill Thanks very much Jan,I'm happy you liked this little bit of nostalgia !

  • @roberthyatt393
    @roberthyatt393 4 роки тому +1

    brill.Same thing happend on our streets as kids. Girls skipping. Making swings on lamp post.Jump on there backs.I forgot wot is was called N NOT a car in sight.Kids were out playin.. Now it's all phones n iPad games.Lovely video u put on here.

  • @npe1
    @npe1 7 років тому +47

    Notice that none of the kids were obese or overweight and that all were healthy and active even though none of them looked to have come from from wealthy homes or privileged backgrounds. That's because they ate proper fresh food not full of sugar, fat or additives and they would have eaten a lot more fruit and vegetables than kids today. Plus they spent their spare time outside playing games and sports which kept them healthy and not in front of x boxes, video games and computers.

    • @TheZimma
      @TheZimma 4 роки тому +6

      Hi i was born in 1948 there was rationing on you could not buy many sweets and not much sugar or fruit plus we could'nt afford a tv so we had to play outside a lot , by the way FAT is not bad for your health fat makes you thin sugar and bread and starch makes you fat

    • @reburdoc4647
      @reburdoc4647 4 роки тому +4

      Maybe like me they walked to school unlike today

    • @npe1
      @npe1 4 роки тому +3

      @@reburdoc4647 Indeed that's another reason. Kids don't walk as much as they did back then.

    • @yemi1776
      @yemi1776 3 роки тому +3

      No it's because of their parents. They're the ones who continue to let them eat. Blame the millennials.

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 Рік тому

      In the 50s Polio was rife as were measles whooping cough and diphtheria and infant mortality also was high. Don’t get carried away about all kids being healthy in the 50s. Certainly some aspects of those times were healthier but not all.

  • @macca8562
    @macca8562 5 років тому +19

    Kids out on the streets playing, not in their bedrooms playing games, no obesity you notice, just good healthy kids having fun, brilliant days.

    • @elliot5986
      @elliot5986 3 роки тому +3

      cause games didnt exist lol

    • @Toby_the_Glen
      @Toby_the_Glen 2 роки тому +1

      Kids out on the streets because houses too small to accommodate them?

    • @bahoonies
      @bahoonies 2 роки тому +2

      @@Toby_the_Glen No, it was because we spent as much time as possible outdoors playing with our friends. We had to be called in for lunch and dinner.

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 Рік тому

      @@bahooniesLunch and dinner? We called them dinner and tea.

    • @bahoonies
      @bahoonies Рік тому

      @ANTHONY EATON Yes, we generally had the main meal of the day at 6pm and called it dinner. If it was a light evening meal then it was called tea.

  • @sparx180
    @sparx180 5 років тому +3

    Children got along, they played well together. Now it is all about fighting and stupidity in the school yards. Oh and that little tot is so cute. Nice video!

    • @Fairygirl-q6g
      @Fairygirl-q6g 5 років тому

      I’m pretty sure kids did that back then.

    • @lindashelley3635
      @lindashelley3635 4 роки тому +2

      Luv Autumn Blaze Pony Yes, but the fights were just mostly just pushing and shoving, and sometimes a bit of punching before a teacher would come and break it up. There was very little chance of being stabbed as there is today. It was a much simpler and less scary time.

  • @paulbroderick8438
    @paulbroderick8438 3 роки тому +3

    Remember the 'piggy back' game at 0.25 well. Used to get one of our team to get on the first back in line so you could jump over him resulting in a total collapse! Injured my left knee real bad in this game a long time ago so never again!

  • @Cumbriahandyman
    @Cumbriahandyman 4 роки тому +1

    Some of those games looked downright dangerous! Thank god I played every one of them. In 1950 I was 1...

  • @coolmum47
    @coolmum47 Місяць тому

    I was born in 1947, I recognise most of the games those children were playing. The only one I didn't see was "Queenie, Queenie who's got the ball" which was one of my favourites. Such a shame that technology has taken over. The children these days are missing out on so much fun.

  • @sandrajones1613
    @sandrajones1613 3 місяці тому +1

    Playing out side with your mates, no knives or weapons, just fun

  • @johnnevada46
    @johnnevada46 5 років тому +4

    Thank God all the kids have stopped playing in the street - otherwise we would have nowhere to park our cars. I wonder why the kids stopped playing in the street?

  • @royjeffries7934
    @royjeffries7934 3 роки тому +2

    I remember when I was a wee lad in the 50s

  • @Awebreeze-zm3st
    @Awebreeze-zm3st 2 роки тому +1

    What I'd give to run and jump and feel that good again.

  • @thesmallnotesduo
    @thesmallnotesduo 10 місяців тому +1

    So much better now - no playing outside getting vitamin d, no learning how to interact, make friends, deal with 'teasing', no exercise, no making your own fun, no joie to vivre, no being children - none of that rubbish.

  • @dannywhite3538
    @dannywhite3538 4 роки тому +5

    Hang on where's their iPhones and there not wrapped in cotton wool, lol

  • @normaread8771
    @normaread8771 5 років тому +4

    No two or three balls up the wall! With a song sang at the same time.

  • @edean75
    @edean75 Рік тому

    Wondering where it is, mabe Bradford, up north somewhere.

  • @melcomepay6668
    @melcomepay6668 6 років тому +1

    Ps.Some of these films are available on Dvd....Try the BfI ( British film institute).

  • @marcussewell7678
    @marcussewell7678 3 роки тому +1

    It all was finished by the early 70 s shame on us adults,,.

  • @jacquikalich3873
    @jacquikalich3873 5 років тому +11

    Such big girls playing such innocent games. Notice there is not one overweight child in sight. Plenty reasons why.

  • @janicebarthram6759
    @janicebarthram6759 4 роки тому +4

    Today's children are like androids. No conversations...no views about anything except computer games...dehumanised.

  • @abcd12342830
    @abcd12342830 7 років тому +20

    Everyone is so well dressed unlike today with half the body showing.

    • @avationgeek.1217
      @avationgeek.1217 4 роки тому +3

      And there was no kids twerking or listening to WAP.

  • @gwendolinekenyon8560
    @gwendolinekenyon8560 3 роки тому +2

    Happy memories

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 Рік тому

      We all remember the good times the bad times are pushed out of our memory box. Speak to guys who fought in the war, they talk about the comradeship but hardly ever about the battles fought.

  • @robertcooke1774
    @robertcooke1774 3 роки тому +2

    today they would all be texting on their smartphones.

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 Рік тому

      Robert what are you using to chat on this forum. Just curious.

  • @sunshinerythym
    @sunshinerythym 4 роки тому +3

    These streets would be full of parked cars nowadays 😏

  • @pamelamckenzie2685
    @pamelamckenzie2685 4 роки тому +1

    We was healthy not one over weight child in school as we did not have the crap they eating now and we was happy being out side playing not sitting in front of computtters bring those days back plus we was tuff children not like the wimps now sorry to say love your video fab.

  • @simonholmes891
    @simonholmes891 3 роки тому +1

    I was born in 56 and by 66 I had an eight pack not an ounce of fat on my scrawny carcass we had bugger all but new how to play.

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 Рік тому

      Most have a six pack and by the way you would not have remembered much about the 50s.

  • @francisraffle2948
    @francisraffle2948 3 роки тому +2

    I was born in54 and I was one of 6 my little brother came in 55 so the us only 16 month between us and 8 and a half years between the 6 of us so mum dad had the handful but not knew of hs was angry trouble dad was a nurse at the hospital and just before my little brother went to school mum started as a cleaner at the hosp part time mum always said she didn't want to go to work she had enough to do at home it was because they need ed the money to feed and clothe us all oh those where the days we all played out even some mums helped turning the skipping rope well washing line .onlynposh girls had a proper skipping rope with wooden handles but we were happy with a piece of washing line everyone was free then to play out to go the playground and safe to play on the road we lived in a bus route so when we heard a bus we got on the pavement. We never heard of dirty old men think I was 10 when hindley and Brady killed the kids I remember seeing it on the b and w tv only posh people had cars and telephones in the houses we as kids uf a older person got on a bus we would stand up or sit on mums knee it's not like that now even little tots are left sitting there mums crack on they haven't seen you .I wish I had a magic key for the clock and I would turn the clock back to those days I'd be little again not 67 this year we didn't need money taking a pop bottle and getting 3d back I'd share mine with my little brother aay us or we would get a penny lollyice the shop keeper made and 2 fruit salads each I'd like to see a kid today with 5 p god that was a fortune to us a shilling it's all money now and keeping up with the Jones's as to speak

    • @trudimcpherson55
      @trudimcpherson55 5 місяців тому

      My pocket money was a shilling and I got a big bag of sweets for that in a lovely brown paper bag 🎉🎉

  • @anngillingsspinks2799
    @anngillingsspinks2799 8 місяців тому +1

    Also when parents told the kids won’t to do exspeialy they fathers now it the other way other way around round and you couldn’t answer back or your father would pull down your underpants and give you them a good hiding but some kids turned out really fine I had plenty

  • @mickbrod1
    @mickbrod1 10 років тому +7

    no haz/op .hard ...,......hats or the dreaded high viz no tablets I phones etc .just innocent imagination ,,,.it....... dident even require music thankyou mick .

  • @goldkhw
    @goldkhw 3 місяці тому

    Everyone is wearing their "Sunday Best" clothes. We would not have been allowed to play out in our best clothes.

  • @jager896
    @jager896 2 роки тому

    Playing outside no fear of strangers no fighting with other children or was it just a dream Eileen

  • @KidsPlanetTV
    @KidsPlanetTV 8 років тому +1

    NIce, very nice:D

  • @jayneshort6103
    @jayneshort6103 4 роки тому

    oh lord memories

  • @australiancoincollector2452
    @australiancoincollector2452 4 роки тому

    Cool

  • @alanmirell7448
    @alanmirell7448 7 років тому

    What no stick ball.

  • @alecjefferson6993
    @alecjefferson6993 3 роки тому

    No phones 📵 or electric toys

  • @aurora4407
    @aurora4407 4 роки тому +1

    The thought of smo filming kids without em knowing creeps me tf out

  • @Bertrum123
    @Bertrum123 4 роки тому +2

    I wonder which planet people are on saying kids were healthy polio rickets bronchitis because of smog the reason there thin is because they were hungry most of the time

    • @edwardkerrigan5356
      @edwardkerrigan5356 4 роки тому +5

      They weren't thin because they were hungry - not generally anyway - it was because they took a lot of exercise and ate real food, not the ersatz rubbish many eat today.

    • @Bertrum123
      @Bertrum123 4 роки тому

      @@edwardkerrigan5356 must a diffrent planet to the one i knew then

    • @edwardkerrigan5356
      @edwardkerrigan5356 4 роки тому +3

      @@Bertrum123 Good heavens - I wasn't saying that all those illnesses weren't in evidence, but even then the majority would have not suffered from them. I stand by my 'not hungry' comment - the fact was that everybody, adults as well, took a lot more exercise than they do today, hence the absence of obesity - or even fatness. Regrettably, the advances made in public health, which began to accelerate from that time, are being adversely impacted today by peoples' life styles. I was definitely on that planet though, even though I was several years older than the kids in that film.

    • @Bertrum123
      @Bertrum123 4 роки тому

      @@edwardkerrigan5356 when i was at school there was a lot of malnourished kids and a lot of unhealthy ones these illnesses were veru much in evidence and would be today if not for vaccines . And you get scaremongering cranks scaring the public into believing the world governments are trying to kill them when its the exact opposite some years ago in us a mum refused her kids a vaccine there kids got it passed it on to some othere kids one died she was brought up on manslauter charge's bit unfair you might say but not if you were the kid that dieds mum and dad

    • @wendywiltshire2102
      @wendywiltshire2102 3 роки тому

      Vaccines