British T.V. from 1950s/60s

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  • @johnlavery6116
    @johnlavery6116 9 місяців тому +169

    Brings back memories of my school days, happy care free times ...gone. forever !

    • @Robertonnz
      @Robertonnz 9 місяців тому +19

      different planet now

    • @marta70423
      @marta70423 Місяць тому +3

      ​@@RobertonnzТа же планета - люди другие, совсем другие...😮

    • @annettefowler4704
      @annettefowler4704 3 дні тому +2

      we did have beautiful times, and we had a lot of respect for each other,

    • @marta70423
      @marta70423 3 дні тому

      ​@@annettefowler4704Да, у меня тоже...но люди, они т а к изменились - и это уже совсем другие люди : в своем большинстве р а в н о д у ш н ы е - отсюда все беды...

  • @Top2tow
    @Top2tow Рік тому +231

    Life was so much simpler then. I hade a blessed childhood.

    • @michellefalleur960
      @michellefalleur960 10 місяців тому +7

      Lucky you , eh.

    • @Top2tow
      @Top2tow 10 місяців тому +26

      Yes lucky me!! It is so sad how this country has changed in the past 72 years of my life.

    • @michellefalleur960
      @michellefalleur960 10 місяців тому +17

      @@Top2tow yes, I know, I'm 58 and it's changed drastically

    • @Paul-010
      @Paul-010 8 місяців тому +13

      Yes, us “Boomers” were so fortunate. Happy days!

    • @rongendron8705
      @rongendron8705 6 місяців тому +13

      Reminds me of the British entertainment, that you see, on English, WWII movies! I wonder what those
      older, 1950's Brits. would think of the U.K. today? I don't think that they would recognize it, anymore!

  • @leonfairhurst7597
    @leonfairhurst7597 3 місяці тому +292

    I pray every night to wake up and be back then, life was hard but wonderful, but sadly I find myself still here.

    • @KeithOwen
      @KeithOwen  3 місяці тому +35

      if you find that time machine, ley me know.

    • @mesparky9
      @mesparky9 3 місяці тому +9

      Not as hard as me.

    • @helencheadle5709
      @helencheadle5709 3 місяці тому +25

      I think as we get older and many things don’t improve as we had hoped, many of us wish we had a Time Machine to go back to those days we most enjoyed.we were very lucky by many comparisons, but I’d still like the old Tardis or similar if it’s going! Keep your chin up and keep smiling…things could always be a lot worse! Best wishes and good health wished for you all! 👩‍🦳💕🥰🌹😁🫶

    • @victordevonshire807
      @victordevonshire807 3 місяці тому +20

      Better than the alternative. I miss the old lead Christmas baubles, so fragile but such beautiful colours and the old Japanese tin toys. Health and safety 😅. I'm still here. 🙏

    • @karentaylor1729
      @karentaylor1729 3 місяці тому +13

      If only,I,d be the first in line.

  • @mariannelaba
    @mariannelaba 3 місяці тому +105

    Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end

    • @mariannelaba
      @mariannelaba 3 місяці тому +6

      Is this precious or what?

    • @bofor3948
      @bofor3948 2 місяці тому +6

      Ah Mary Hopkins. Very apt song title.

  • @IanSizer-co7vb
    @IanSizer-co7vb 3 місяці тому +116

    A safe warm family night together
    No phones no brain washing a happy home
    Sadly days that will not return 😢

    • @cherylschantz9893
      @cherylschantz9893 3 місяці тому +2

      They can, if we work for it.

    • @lindatambini2760
      @lindatambini2760 3 місяці тому +5

      So true so true happy days they were

    • @patkennedy2620
      @patkennedy2620 2 місяці тому +6

      @@IanSizer-co7vb Yes, those family nights felt so safe & close; listening to classical music on the radio, father with his beloved cats on his knees, mother knitting. I can still feel that room & warmth 60 years on

    • @Paul-py4ij
      @Paul-py4ij 23 дні тому

      @@cherylschantz9893 Too many today that don't want it, they want total control of our lives sadly.

  • @CuppaTeaandaSliceoCake
    @CuppaTeaandaSliceoCake 11 місяців тому +55

    Absolutely brilliant ... thank you very much indeed.

    • @KeithOwen
      @KeithOwen  3 місяці тому +1

      Glad you enjoyed it

  • @stephenphillip5656
    @stephenphillip5656 3 місяці тому +78

    Oh memories of an innocent 1950s & 1960s childhood. My parents didn't have a lot of money but probably went without to make sure that the children had not what we *wanted* but what we *needed.* So much is taken for granted nowadays.

  • @katewebber1131
    @katewebber1131 3 місяці тому +99

    Born 1950, this brought back so many memories. Thank you. ❤

    • @paularowe7651
      @paularowe7651 3 місяці тому +4

      My birthyear also!

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP 3 місяці тому +1

      British T.V. from 1950s/60s 0228am 9.9.24 arthur askey, what was his catchphrase?

    • @richardjardine5864
      @richardjardine5864 3 місяці тому +2

      Oi thank yow something like that😅

    • @monteceitomoocher
      @monteceitomoocher 3 місяці тому +8

      72 here absolutely golden times, I'm privileged to have been there.

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP 3 місяці тому +1

      @@monteceitomoocher ????

  • @gsxrinfrance5827
    @gsxrinfrance5827 2 місяці тому +55

    Born in '48....a child in the 50s, a teenager in the 60s, what a time, to have experienced it was a privilege.l look at my grandchildren and weep for their future..

    • @anthonyclent6240
      @anthonyclent6240 2 місяці тому +11

      We had the best decades!

    • @kenstevens5065
      @kenstevens5065 Місяць тому +6

      I weep for My Grandkids and it doesn't have to be. Back then we had more common sense and less greed throughout society. Most people back then, even non Church goers had faith in some form and Christian values.

    • @Landfill-703
      @Landfill-703 25 днів тому +3

      Born in '47, I cry at the loss of the innocence of what had to be the best time ever to have been a child. This poor sad generation of brainwashed zombies will never feel the kind of freedom and genuine happiness that having so little compared to today, gave us.

  • @peacockpaula4723
    @peacockpaula4723 3 місяці тому +77

    Although I am young I love the diction, beautiful, loving real English, a pleasure to listen to🙂👏❤. Thank you for sharing such precious treasure, bless you.

    • @Lily_The_Pink972
      @Lily_The_Pink972 3 місяці тому +5

      My 42 year old son says the same.

    • @garyfrancis6193
      @garyfrancis6193 3 місяці тому +1

      How do you know ?

    • @peacockpaula4723
      @peacockpaula4723 3 місяці тому +8

      @@garyfrancis6193 Because is so nice, clear, melodious, wow, a delight🙂🙏!

    • @Lily_The_Pink972
      @Lily_The_Pink972 3 місяці тому +6

      @peacockpaula4723 Whilst I really enjoy regional accents, I do dislike the sloppy speech we hear today, especially from actors, presenters etc..

    • @peacockpaula4723
      @peacockpaula4723 3 місяці тому +6

      @@Lily_The_Pink972 I don't blame you, is a shame that elocution is not taught in schools any longer. I think the youngsters will enjoy it as I did when I did it privately. Mrs Foster my elocution teacher was very good🙂.

  • @rosemaryjessop4045
    @rosemaryjessop4045 3 місяці тому +61

    What a wonderful collection, I loved the Wooden Tops, Rag, Tag and Bobtail, Mr Pastry, Lenny the Lion and of course I was madly in love Cliff Richard and Richard Greene oh happy days! Where are the now?

    • @OonaghKolek
      @OonaghKolek 3 місяці тому +4

      In our happy memories.

    • @Tranmere59
      @Tranmere59 3 місяці тому +4

      I'm told (by big sis) that I once had a screaming fit because Lenny the Lion came on after my bedtime. Cruel parents!!

    • @Woodman-Spare-that-tree
      @Woodman-Spare-that-tree 2 місяці тому +4

      I remember them 😊 And Andy Pandy and Bill & Ben, the original version of the Magic Roundabout

    • @gdok6088
      @gdok6088 Місяць тому +2

      I remember Mr Pastry. I thought no-one else did! And the Wooden Tops, Rag, Tag and Bobtail, Tales of the Riverbank. My goodness!

  • @elainehumphrey2307
    @elainehumphrey2307 Місяць тому +8

    Sunday lunch time we listened to….Two way family favourites. Makes me so sad that times have changed so much.😢

  • @Valerie-u1t
    @Valerie-u1t 3 місяці тому +70

    Sunday lunch to the sound of Billy Cotton , happy Days !

    • @ajarnwordsmith628
      @ajarnwordsmith628 3 місяці тому

      Snap

    • @mechanoid5739
      @mechanoid5739 3 місяці тому +3

      Don't forget 'Round the Horn' and 'The Clitheroe Kid' Sunday lunchtime on the radio. Happy Days!

    • @pennystapley50
      @pennystapley50 2 місяці тому +3

      Sundays were church, ice cream, Sunday papers and Billy Cotton.

    • @CrankCase08
      @CrankCase08 2 місяці тому +1

      Wasn't that Three-Way, Four Way, Five Way Family Favourites?

    • @johnbatch9276
      @johnbatch9276 21 день тому

      Wakey Wakey 😊

  • @suzannebraham5138
    @suzannebraham5138 3 місяці тому +39

    Those were the days when I was a child I remember all those lovely programs & shows & adverts I loved Billy Bunter alot of these TV acters have now passed on.

    • @johnjephcote7636
      @johnjephcote7636 2 місяці тому +2

      Billy Bunter (Gerald Campion) was great and father who drew his pictures from The Magnet during the First War (I still have them) loved it too. I remember the theme song 'Portsmouth'.

  • @batman51
    @batman51 3 місяці тому +56

    A few memories there. What was most noticable was that I could understand every word, unlike the endless mumbling that goes on on TV today.

    • @Julia-fo4tk
      @Julia-fo4tk 3 місяці тому +2

      I listen to Radio 3 as the presenters are well spoken.

    • @CrankCase08
      @CrankCase08 2 місяці тому

      @@Julia-fo4tk Albeit with plums in their mouths.

    • @Julia-fo4tk
      @Julia-fo4tk 2 місяці тому +3

      @@CrankCase08 Better usage of grammar and annunciation. People who can't write correctly, can't speak correctly either. I don't mind accents.

    • @franceskronenwett3539
      @franceskronenwett3539 2 місяці тому +3

      People had to speak correctly back then. Diction was a pleasure to listen to.

    • @rosiheyer5501
      @rosiheyer5501 2 місяці тому +2

      Terrible grammar. Don't actors nowadays learn their job properly.?
      I often switch the TV off, because I can hardly understand the so-called actors.

  • @peterg.crosby6320
    @peterg.crosby6320 3 місяці тому +61

    Yes I remember a lot of these thanks for sharing

  • @stewartwebb5699
    @stewartwebb5699 3 місяці тому +34

    I was born in 1955. But still remember much of these shows, Realised my dad must have been earning good money to be able to afford a TV back than. Thanks for the memories

    • @davidharwood9552
      @davidharwood9552 3 місяці тому +5

      Yes I was born 1954. Now classed as a boomer. We had a different lifestyle. It’s only when you look back you appreciate how lucky we were. Times were hard but we communicated and made our own amusement Maybe our generation ruined it by so called computers

    • @peterjones6640
      @peterjones6640 3 місяці тому +3

      Back then most people rented a TV ( Radio Rentals or Granada etc), I remember our first Tv the screen was small but the cabinet was about 4 times the size of the screen.

    • @CrankCase08
      @CrankCase08 2 місяці тому

      @@peterjones6640 The screens were a mere 12 inches to 14 inches diagonal.

    • @ScotchMist-lx1gk
      @ScotchMist-lx1gk 2 місяці тому +2

      Same here. We didn’t have a telly , but my grandparents did. Such a novelty in those days , only for the wealthy ! My grandpa puffing away on his pipe… 😊

    • @PeterFairhurst-v3e
      @PeterFairhurst-v3e 2 місяці тому

      @@davidharwood9552 Snap David. Born May 1954. We played in the street for goodness sake...with all the other children. You cannot put a price on that.

  • @SusanReeves-ft1sg
    @SusanReeves-ft1sg 3 місяці тому +95

    These times were the best. People enjoyed themselves with very little.

    • @tedthesailor172
      @tedthesailor172 2 місяці тому

      Just as well - in the 50's all they had a lot of was rubble...

    • @Dollie-f2c
      @Dollie-f2c 2 місяці тому +3

      And we were a darn sight happier!

    • @SanCristobal63
      @SanCristobal63 Місяць тому

      @@Dollie-f2c A darn sight happier. Constant nuclear threat. Bent coppers fitting innocent people us. Wrongly convicted Welshmen being hung. Chilblains, TB, lead paint. Coal fires, pea soapers, crap food and even worse telly. Sadistic teachers, sadistic fathers. MPs, parish priests and Jimmy Saville passing kids in care homes round like sweets. Nylon Trousers. Restaurant starters involving tinned grapefruit. Oh, weren't we spoilt.

    • @johnbatch9276
      @johnbatch9276 21 день тому +1

      74 and i don't like the direction our once great nation is heading Susan 😢

    • @Dollie-f2c
      @Dollie-f2c 21 день тому +1

      @@johnbatch9276 At my age I worry about my kids and grandkids future!!😢

  • @gerrydepp8164
    @gerrydepp8164 2 місяці тому +12

    Now I remember why I havent watched "TV" for 25 years; I was born in 1957 and grew up with the real thing...back when Britain was Great.

  • @johnlavery6116
    @johnlavery6116 Рік тому +67

    Wish I could go back!

    • @Toozelwoozle70
      @Toozelwoozle70 3 місяці тому +5

      Oh me too !!

    • @spellbound111
      @spellbound111 3 місяці тому +3

      So you'd rather be living back then in a draughty house with no insulation or central heating, single glazed windows, boiling water in pans on the gas stove to get hot water for your tin bath and with an outdoor toilet at the end of the back yard where you wiped your backside on pieces of old newspaper.

    • @CrankCase08
      @CrankCase08 2 місяці тому +4

      @@spellbound111 Not everyone lived like that.

    • @spellbound111
      @spellbound111 2 місяці тому

      @@CrankCase08 Lots of people lived in those conditions and most couldn't afford a TV. I guess you didn't grow up in one of the many rows of terraced back to back houses, two up two down that got demolished in the early to mid 60's for slum clearance and redevelopment.

    • @David-uf8ex
      @David-uf8ex 2 місяці тому

      @@spellbound111yes it’s so perfect today isn’t it ? Mass immigration mass overpopulation stabbings and crime through the roof graffiti everywhere. Thousands will freeze this winter thanks to labour . Research some facts before you slag others off

  • @SteveWeaverIvyfield
    @SteveWeaverIvyfield 3 місяці тому +20

    All those great memories. I’m the youngest of a family of 9 (5 older sisters and 1 brother) plus Mom & Dad who raised me ‘proper’.
    For that, I will be forever grateful. ❤

  • @PaulineMitchell-b8i
    @PaulineMitchell-b8i 2 місяці тому +12

    Those were the days,easy watching with all the family, sheer bliss❤

  • @jayturner3397
    @jayturner3397 8 місяців тому +78

    You lucky people..if only we had known what was to come 😢

    • @trevordance5181
      @trevordance5181 2 місяці тому

      "You Lucky People"... That was the catchphrase of comedian, Tommy Trinder, who was the first compare of Sunday Night At The London Palladium.

  • @robertguildford
    @robertguildford 2 місяці тому +11

    1954 when my family got our first TV. I remember many of these programmes and performers. It's like meeting old friends you have not seen for decades.

  • @juliehubbard9752
    @juliehubbard9752 Місяць тому +7

    Sunday teatimes…. my dad always listened to Sing Something Simple on the radio. Mum never missed Z Cars, the Black & White Minstrel Show and Sunday Night at The London Palladium….watching the Tiller Girls go round at the end was the height of glamour for me! We listened as The Beatles hit the charts and changed the face of music forever. Mum always preferred Val Doonican though.
    Life was simpler, values both morally and family-wise were just part of everyday normal life. We didn’t have much money, not by a long chalk, so in many ways we didn’t have much, but in some ways we had everything.

  • @DavidLiggins-c9d
    @DavidLiggins-c9d Місяць тому +4

    1950 Child..Remember It All...Thanks For The Memory...74 Years UK 👍

  • @weaton25
    @weaton25 3 місяці тому +20

    This takes me back I was borne in 1945 and recognized almost all of the people more than I can say about today's TV

  • @Margaret-p4r
    @Margaret-p4r 3 місяці тому +17

    I was born in 1946 thank you for some lovely memories ❤️

  • @davidlee6720
    @davidlee6720 3 місяці тому +43

    knew everyone on my old street then and can still name them to this day - bless em - all gone now alas.

    • @mesparky9
      @mesparky9 3 місяці тому +4

      Same here my Friend, and I miss every one of them.

    • @glenc3249
      @glenc3249 18 днів тому

      I live in a little Close of nearly 60 flats blocks of 4 & 6's. I've been here since 2011 and I know only 6 to talk to!! When I was a kid in the 70's, where I lived, I knew just about every single neighbour on both sides of a long Close and other families in the nearby Closes.

  • @4KVideoPlaces
    @4KVideoPlaces 3 місяці тому +8

    Almost forgotten, wonderful childhood memories brought back to life, enjoyable back then without the fowl language of today's entertainers! "THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES"

  • @ContentJapaneseMaples-gk8ji
    @ContentJapaneseMaples-gk8ji 6 місяців тому +34

    I went with my daughter and granddaughter to watch Sooty live a couple of years ago. Richard Cadell who works for Sooty, pointed out that most parents were really there for themselves. We all agreed. Including my daughter and myself 😄
    He still says " bye bye everybody, bye bye "
    This brought a tear to this granddad's eye😊

  • @jenniferarcher1593
    @jenniferarcher1593 2 місяці тому +6

    I was born in 1951 and I remember everything you showed on this video. I was about 9 years old when we got our first television and was hooked! It sure has gone down hill since then.

  • @lorrainedrake6462
    @lorrainedrake6462 2 місяці тому +9

    Oh what lovely memories ,iwould rather be back there great entertainment (better than today) a great selection of childrens shows and fab adult entertainment 👍🏻

  • @blackpoolbarmpot
    @blackpoolbarmpot 2 місяці тому +6

    As an 'OAP' I remember so many of these programmes ! They brought back so many pleasant memories...!

  • @Jacqueline-ts1wd
    @Jacqueline-ts1wd 2 місяці тому +37

    Best times ever ,sad our children will never have that privilege. peace, freedom, true friendships , helping one and other, and manners.

  • @colinpumpernickel2605
    @colinpumpernickel2605 2 місяці тому +10

    It's easy to get depressed watching what the British people have lost but I take some comfort in knowing that the TV we now suffer is on its last legs

  • @lilgeorge34
    @lilgeorge34 2 місяці тому +4

    This video took me straight back to being a kid, I remember them all, thank you for sharing this with us all.

  • @robertp.wainman4094
    @robertp.wainman4094 Місяць тому +12

    When TV provided 'entertainment' - and not supposed 'reality'!

  • @stevebuckley2429
    @stevebuckley2429 2 роки тому +54

    Fond memories.I was there.

    • @KeithOwen
      @KeithOwen  2 роки тому +8

      We did not have a T.V in house, until 1959, when I started work and shared the cost of renting one with my sister.

  • @merlin5476
    @merlin5476 3 місяці тому +52

    The days when 90% of tv was light hearted humour 👍.
    Today its 90% of gloom unfortunately.

    • @John-c1n9t
      @John-c1n9t 3 місяці тому +5

      + 10% misery!

    • @spellbound111
      @spellbound111 3 місяці тому

      Especially the gloom and misery of Eastenders. What a bad reflection on our nation that TV soap is. It's a wonder the people who live in the East End of London don't sue the programme makers for false representation.

    • @CrankCase08
      @CrankCase08 2 місяці тому +3

      'Dark' days is most certainly not an understatement.

    • @spellbound111
      @spellbound111 Місяць тому

      @@Mario-k6t9o I just found out that Winston Churchill is dead.

  • @spherevision360
    @spherevision360 2 місяці тому +3

    Thanks so much! Made me so happy to see these people and programmes but sad to see what we’ve come to now.

  • @lynnedavies5884
    @lynnedavies5884 3 місяці тому +24

    The days when we had Mum and dad.

  • @alecwilliams249
    @alecwilliams249 25 днів тому +1

    Thankyou so much for the wonderful memories of great TV.

  • @scottyjoe21
    @scottyjoe21 2 місяці тому +10

    And great home cooked fresh food.

    • @1tonyboat
      @1tonyboat Місяць тому

      And the shop`s NEVER opened on a Sunday ....

  • @stevebuckley2429
    @stevebuckley2429 2 місяці тому +4

    I am absolutely dripping in nostalgia...and i love!

  • @den264
    @den264 10 місяців тому +39

    I was hoping they had the flower pot men in watch with Mother. I was born in 1952 and these clips sent me rushing back in time.

    • @johncraske
      @johncraske 9 місяців тому +5

      It's a pity about the Flower Pot Men. They caused a scandal after they began to make obscene gestures to the camera and even sexually assaulted Little Weed. Had to be taken off the air as a consequence.

    • @bigmeltie1
      @bigmeltie1 7 місяців тому +5

      Slobalob.

    • @jenteale
      @jenteale 6 місяців тому +1

      @@bigmeltie1 😊

    • @SuperKanonier
      @SuperKanonier 3 місяці тому +5

      "Are you sitting comfortably, then I'll begin ""

    • @doeharris5363
      @doeharris5363 3 місяці тому +2

      Me too l just loved Bill and Ben makes me a bit sad knowing those days will never return. Thank you so much for sharing. ❤❤

  • @funkyalfonso
    @funkyalfonso 3 місяці тому +22

    The best thing about Pussycat Willem and Aunty Mu was seeing Bert Weedon playing guitar. Just turned 70....OMG.

    • @DAVID-ks9vp
      @DAVID-ks9vp 3 місяці тому +1

      "We are normal and we dig Bert Weedon"

    • @funkyalfonso
      @funkyalfonso 3 місяці тому

      @@DAVID-ks9vp Perfect reply considering he's got a head on him like a rabbit. I just heard it again and the intro is very trippy.

    • @Woodman-Spare-that-tree
      @Woodman-Spare-that-tree 2 місяці тому +1

      Did you have the records (LPs) too? I did.

  • @adriansmith6530
    @adriansmith6530 2 місяці тому +9

    When I was a child in the 1950s I longed to be grown up. I naively assumed that I would be an adult in the world I knew as a child but by the time I got there that world had gone.

  • @mid-walesrover681
    @mid-walesrover681 2 місяці тому +5

    Some things are better today but we have lost so much from that era. I would happily go back.

  • @Talboy-p4e
    @Talboy-p4e 3 місяці тому +10

    Gold years back then 1960❤❤
    When England was great
    When tv was great
    Only 2 channels
    Great educational programmes
    Great flims
    Great Brtish natural actor an actress
    And beautiful ladies back the ❤
    Great childhood happiness
    Were the days
    We didn't have anything it was normal
    Just beautiful
    People always
    Thanks
    Taste of England again back then
    1950 /80
    My time ❤
    To day 2024
    Life is
    Brain dead
    Robots
    Not allowed to think
    Not allowed to speak
    Don't worry
    If you had 1960
    You can handle life today
    Such a don't need a mental health card
    Remember we made England back then
    And flew our England flag
    Great life back then ❤❤

    • @spellbound111
      @spellbound111 3 місяці тому +1

      So you'd rather be living back then in a draughty house with no insulation or central heating, single glazed windows, boiling water in pans on the gas stove to get hot water for your tin bath and with an outdoor toilet at the end of the back yard where you wiped your backside on pieces of old newspaper.

    • @Talboy-p4e
      @Talboy-p4e 3 місяці тому

      @@spellbound111 2024
      Still the same
      Nothing working
      Nothing left
      No service
      No police
      Pot holes every where
      Not allowed to drive your cars
      Very expensive transport
      Very expensive energy bills
      BBC out of date
      Council tax out of date
      Prison full
      Kids stabbing each other every day in England
      14 million on Benifits
      Millions and millions of migrants coming to uk every year. Free Benifits for life
      And now you have the zombies government
      The worst pm in Brtish history
      I could go on 2024
      Yours Brtish citizen 1960 from Portugal my second home
      Ps
      I had my golden years back then especially my childhood
      I didnt noticed being poor
      It was normal back then
      So tell. Me 2024
      What happened to England??
      Where the future
      Where the investment
      What have you done to our England 2024
      What the plan now........
      Please tell me
      So I can come back to England
      And let me know when Labour been kicked out
      Thanks....
      Yours Brtish citizen 1960

    • @Talboy-p4e
      @Talboy-p4e 3 місяці тому +1

      @@spellbound111 ps
      We came from the third world country
      England 1960 was heaven
      Compared what we had in life
      Ok poor in England
      But heaven. Trust me
      Today paradise in Portugal
      My second home
      Should have been England
      Unfortunately no future
      Even worse labour in government
      Good luck.........

    • @spellbound111
      @spellbound111 3 місяці тому

      @@Talboy-p4e Espero que esteja a aproveitar a vida em Portugal :)

  • @JHurt-yj6ts
    @JHurt-yj6ts 7 місяців тому +25

    Well done! I really enjoyed watching those clips. The acting was so good back in those days. As a young boy in the 1950's, I certainly remember those shows.

  • @livvymunro1929
    @livvymunro1929 3 місяці тому +8

    Thanks for the memories. I was surprised that William Russell (Sir Lancelot) only died a few months ago at the age of 99. I loved him and Richard Greene. I'm currently enjoying reruns of "Robin Hood" on Talking Pictures TV. It was interesting to see Anne Reid appearing on the series recently in one of her earliest roles. She must be about the only cast member still alive.

  • @lpoollady12
    @lpoollady12 3 місяці тому +3

    May have been in black and white and we didn’t have two hundred channels, but the shows entertained and there was something new every day!

    • @marta70423
      @marta70423 Місяць тому

      Когда всего слишком - перестаешь это ценить и теряешь интерес. Хороша золотая середина.😊

  • @oconnorkieran5837
    @oconnorkieran5837 3 місяці тому +12

    Cadbury Flake is half the size these days as is everything else.. 60s 70s best times . safe to walk streets at night

    • @CrankCase08
      @CrankCase08 2 місяці тому +1

      As are Wagon Wheels.

  • @ednammansfield8553
    @ednammansfield8553 3 місяці тому +7

    I was born in 1948 but I remember a lot of these programmes from the 1950's. Happy times then even though things were difficult sometimes for my parents..

  • @michaeltreadwell777
    @michaeltreadwell777 2 місяці тому +4

    That was BRILLIANT ! I was born in 1955 and had forgotten most of these progs and adverts. Excellent memory joggers - thank you. Great fun 🙂

  • @lablackzed
    @lablackzed Місяць тому +1

    Thanks brings a lot of good memorys of my child hood.

  • @colettefleck9238
    @colettefleck9238 Місяць тому +2

    Yes really enjoyed remembered each and everyone. Thank you so much for your hard work,in putting together a wonderful walk ,down memory lane. .

    • @marta70423
      @marta70423 Місяць тому

      "Переулок воспомининий"-здорово !❤❤❤

  • @jonhumble7199
    @jonhumble7199 3 місяці тому +8

    I remember everyone loved watching the yes/no interlude on Take Your Pick... and it is still highly entertaining to watch. Micheal Miles was a pro at breaking the contestant's concentration. The Gong man had lightning reflexes.

  • @borusa32
    @borusa32 3 місяці тому +16

    Good gracious-that brings back memories.It wasn't all rose tinted either,I am afraid.

  • @rogermoore5761
    @rogermoore5761 3 місяці тому +42

    At least we could have a laugh in those days without offending someone.

    • @1tonyboat
      @1tonyboat Місяць тому +1

      Imagine what would happen if they did a re run `The black and white minstral show` Real entertainment ...

  • @kevinburrows735
    @kevinburrows735 2 місяці тому +3

    Every single clip every single person in them clips, I remember blimey I’m with my mum and dad again

  • @seangage9088
    @seangage9088 2 місяці тому +3

    Wonderful to see these again......life was so much simpler in those days.........

  • @mariannewilliams845
    @mariannewilliams845 8 місяців тому +20

    A real gem, thank you 😊

  • @robbuxton8438
    @robbuxton8438 2 місяці тому +2

    I am 70, and I can honestly say that for me, NOW is the best time.
    Some commentators on here may have genuine reasons to think otherwise, in which case my sympathy, but I think that positive outgoing attitude, and willingness to embrace new learning and change really helps.

  • @richardfroud8970
    @richardfroud8970 3 місяці тому +14

    Wonderful years of TV. I do miss the posh talking on TV. We seem to have lost the dignity.

    • @CrankCase08
      @CrankCase08 2 місяці тому +1

      Not to mention presenters in between the programmes - before it all went facelessly corporate, thanks to the horror that was Carlton TV.

  • @richardhumphreys8662
    @richardhumphreys8662 9 місяців тому +18

    That was the Duke of Bedford advertising Flash. He and the Duchess did quite a few adverts.

    • @livvymunro1929
      @livvymunro1929 3 місяці тому +2

      To me the Flash adverts are synonymous with Molly Weir.

  • @douglasgosney9172
    @douglasgosney9172 3 місяці тому +99

    Better than the rubbish today 07/09/2024❤

    • @amandadavies..
      @amandadavies.. 3 місяці тому +1

      I hate 95% of TV, but it was way worse back then, and no catch up, so you couldn't watch something after it was shown, if you had to miss it for whatever reason. Dreadful quality too. I'd have gone insane if I'd had to be stuck in front of a TV with all that sort of stuff on.

    • @sinopiarossa7851
      @sinopiarossa7851 2 місяці тому +1

      1950s TV was awful. I was there.

    • @elainehumphrey2307
      @elainehumphrey2307 Місяць тому +1

      @@amandadavies.. Well! Back then we didn’t sit in front of the tv most of the day watching repeat after repeat of tasteless crap. Also, it was all new to us and didn’t know any different.

    • @amandadavies..
      @amandadavies.. Місяць тому

      @@elainehumphrey2307 I definitely didn't as I said above (still don't), but I might have been more interested if I hadn't been tied to watching stuff as it was shown, had there been catch up options....even recording on video tape (as bad as it seems now) would have been better.

  • @beverlygannon4141
    @beverlygannon4141 Місяць тому +1

    Michael miles. Loved It ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏👍👍

  • @carolefreeman2544
    @carolefreeman2544 24 дні тому +1

    Brings back so many happy memories

  • @haroldpearson6025
    @haroldpearson6025 3 місяці тому +33

    I remember watching Quatermass from behind the sofa🥴

    • @Roger.Coleman1949
      @Roger.Coleman1949 3 місяці тому +5

      I have it on DVD , Quatermass & The Pit - and it's still spooky - 1959 - the last episode was called ' HOBB ' !

    • @johnkerr7286
      @johnkerr7286 3 місяці тому

      That was really weird - never quite understood Quatermass.

    • @rclrd1
      @rclrd1 2 місяці тому +2

      I saw the original BBC serial "The Quatermass Experiment" (1953) at my friend's house (my parents didn't have a TV till a few years later). That was the beginning of my lifelong love of science-fiction and horror movies. The scariest thing was _cycling home in the dark_ after each episode!

    • @british4199
      @british4199 2 місяці тому +1

      I remember watching the Trollenberg Terror with a friend at my house - we opened the front door for her to go home and there was a thick fog outside - her face was a picture - anyone who remembers it will know what I am referencing

    • @1tonyboat
      @1tonyboat Місяць тому

      Watched some on youtube only last week ....👍👍

  • @Nickmedium
    @Nickmedium 3 місяці тому +14

    Those were the days far better entertainment. Thank you ❤

  • @SuperLoyalist
    @SuperLoyalist 2 місяці тому +1

    Thank you for the memories.

  • @peternelson4419
    @peternelson4419 Рік тому +9

    Thank you!

  • @jamesgale2147
    @jamesgale2147 2 місяці тому +3

    Thanks for the memory

  • @AlanBoddy-fl2qp
    @AlanBoddy-fl2qp 7 місяців тому +18

    Loved Annette Mills singing I love muffin the mule 🙏😲😊😊😊😊

    • @british4199
      @british4199 2 місяці тому

      coming from the north - I thought for years it was called Maffin 😊

  • @m33cav
    @m33cav 16 днів тому

    Unfortunately those days are gone and never to return. Thank God for our memory.

    • @KeithOwen
      @KeithOwen  5 днів тому

      keeping the memories alive

  • @keithevans7996
    @keithevans7996 3 місяці тому +5

    Born in 1944 so remember all these tv programmes. Dad bought a tv for the queen's coronation in 1953.

  • @karenlewis6711
    @karenlewis6711 3 місяці тому +5

    OH MY LIFE.. this full of memories x

  • @bethel1019
    @bethel1019 2 місяці тому +4

    I noticed that the sign on the wall in the Tony Hancock clip says "Drinka Pinta Milka Day". I remember that from my childhood in the 60s.

    • @bofor3948
      @bofor3948 2 місяці тому +3

      And "Go to work on an Egg"

    • @spellbound111
      @spellbound111 Місяць тому

      @@bofor3948 And 'I like my eggs in threes'.

  • @davecooper3238
    @davecooper3238 3 місяці тому +14

    1953. Our first TV had a nine inch screen.

    • @rclrd1
      @rclrd1 2 місяці тому +2

      A big event of 1953: the live broadcast of the Queen's coronation. Along with other families who didn't own a TV till a few years later, we were invited to spend all day in the living room of a friendly neighbour. One of many treasured memories of the 1950's (my "teenage" years - I was born in 1940). Living in the 21st century is like being on a different planet. 😟

  • @helenday5031
    @helenday5031 3 місяці тому +6

    Feels amazing to be reminded in this video of things I reckon I was watching from when I was about 1 or 2 years old and only just aware of the world. Seems almost as good as time travel.

  • @caz3502
    @caz3502 3 місяці тому +10

    THANK YOU!

  • @franceskronenwett3539
    @franceskronenwett3539 2 місяці тому +2

    I remember a lot of these programmes. As a very small child I used to watch Watch With Mother. I loved Billy Cotton's Band Show. Times were a lot simpler back then.

  • @ancientmusketeer6564
    @ancientmusketeer6564 3 місяці тому +11

    My favourite was Robin Hood and all the other ATV adventure series like William Tell and Long John Silver.

  • @ThomasPrior-wv6zn
    @ThomasPrior-wv6zn 3 місяці тому +6

    WHEN I FIND THE TIME MACHINE GUESS WHERE I WILL BE , IN MY BED ROOM JUST BORN IN 1953 HACKNEY , SO I COULD LIVE ALL THESE OVER AGAIN AND MORE
    GROWING UP WITH THE GREATEST MUM AND DAD BROTHER AND FAMILLY A MAN COULD WISH FOR
    LIFT ANY ONE DONT RUSH T Y FOR POSTING THIS MORE PLEASE

    • @spellbound111
      @spellbound111 3 місяці тому

      So you'd rather be living back then in a draughty house with no insulation or central heating, single glazed windows, boiling water in pans on the gas stove to get hot water for your tin bath and with an outdoor toilet at the end of the back yard where you wiped your backside on pieces of old newspaper.

    • @bofor3948
      @bofor3948 2 місяці тому +1

      @@spellbound111 Dont forget the ice pattern on the inside of the windows in winter and Mum saying don't make patterns with your finger, the glass will crack. The freezing lino underfoot. Oh and if you were lucky instead of newspaper you had that medicated IZAL greaseproof crap that slid around polishing your turds.

  • @appledoreman
    @appledoreman 3 місяці тому +2

    This was brilliant, brought back lots of great memories. Thanks so much for posting!

  • @malacca1951
    @malacca1951 3 місяці тому +13

    I just realised how blooming old I am! I can remember the day the TV arrived and that my mother would not let it every be switched on until 5 p.m. (Except for Bill and Ben, Andy Pandy and that other one! She liked those ; I hated them!)

    • @bofor3948
      @bofor3948 2 місяці тому

      What the WoodenTops and Spot the dog. And don't forget Muffin the Mule

    • @malacca1951
      @malacca1951 2 місяці тому

      @@bofor3948 I'm told that muffin the mule is now illegal in this country!

    • @1tonyboat
      @1tonyboat Місяць тому

      @@bofor3948 Sparky , Sparky the battery boy and Ivor the engine ,,, great 👍👍

  • @JayneBennett-d8c
    @JayneBennett-d8c 3 місяці тому +7

    We didn’t have a TV back then but we had a good radio x

  • @AlanBoddy-fl2qp
    @AlanBoddy-fl2qp 7 місяців тому +11

    Always got caught out on Michael Miles show😲😊🥰

    • @johnorchard4
      @johnorchard4 3 місяці тому +6

      I much preferred Michael Miles to the smug Hughie Green

    • @AlanBoddy-fl2qp
      @AlanBoddy-fl2qp 3 місяці тому +4

      ​@@johnorchard4Wilfred Pickes...Have a go JOE!😂😅

  • @lynmatthews8252
    @lynmatthews8252 5 місяців тому +9

    We did enjoy it very much. So different today!

  • @johnlawrence2757
    @johnlawrence2757 3 місяці тому +12

    At the start of the decade very few people had sets. Wealthier .
    We didn’t have a TV until I brought one home on starting work in BBC Radio in 1962.
    Prior to that we used to go to our grocer’s home over the hill and watch things like the Oxford and Cambridge boat race (don’t ask). And the coronation of QE2. Certainly I wasn’t aware of it as a source of entertainment that would put radio virtually out of business. All that changed when I was up at University.

  • @arickett68
    @arickett68 3 місяці тому +15

    I remember that pottery video - something they put on to kill the time till the next scheduled programme!

    • @rclrd1
      @rclrd1 2 місяці тому +2

      One of the "Interludes". That was hypnotic - never tired of watching it...

  • @RinpochesRose
    @RinpochesRose 3 місяці тому +9

    This is great, thanks! Had no idea Dusty Springfield did a Mothers Pride advert. Now, where is Pogles Wood 🙂

    • @alanserjeant4947
      @alanserjeant4947 2 місяці тому

      Don't you mean "Rusty Springboard" !! 🙂😂🤣

  • @NiallHogan-r5k
    @NiallHogan-r5k 3 місяці тому +3

    Life was much better , people talked to each other and had an inner sense of decency . Miss it

    • @spellbound111
      @spellbound111 3 місяці тому

      Stop picking your nose when you're talking to people.

  • @Ethericrose
    @Ethericrose 2 роки тому +27

    Blimey! I've owned around 2 twin tub washing machines in my 20s and as a child my mother's twin tub was the envy of the street as it had an agitator for washing and a spinner in the same unit. If you owned an electric spinner unit on its own you were well off. Mom used to wash by hand and use the spinner. I recall it took mom all weekend to do the family laundry.

    • @Smudgecat1947
      @Smudgecat1947 Рік тому +3

      We had a second hand Rolls Rapide Twin Tub washing machine given to us in the 60's. It was the best we've ever had & no automatic can match it for whiteness! :)

    • @spellbound111
      @spellbound111 3 місяці тому

      Can't beat the old dolly tub for washing clothes in using Dolly Blue and a dolly stick, squeezing out water from washing with the trusty mangle. The old washboard was great for playing sounds on with thimbles on fingers.

  • @albionplace1556
    @albionplace1556 2 роки тому +15

    Great. Thank you for posting this.

  • @ianturpin9180
    @ianturpin9180 2 місяці тому +3

    I remember watching the coronation on a tv with a 12in screen in front of which was a large liquid filled magnifier.

  • @juliavanstone7870
    @juliavanstone7870 2 місяці тому +1

    So many good memories bought back....simpler times.......so good.

  • @michelecaira2367
    @michelecaira2367 3 місяці тому +3

    Excellent !! However I was looking out for my favs … Flash Gordon and Superman !! Great childhood memories … thanks for sharing !!