I am French and France also had at the time this beautiful time to live and then everything changed immigration destroyed everything everywhere in France even in the small towns of my native Brittany I am now 70 years old and I am nostalgic of this beautiful time . Cordially
what do you mean by that because in terms of ethnicity the overwhelming majority of the population is still white british unlike our other major cities in the uk
Every time I see something similar to this, it doesn’t only pull at the nostalgia strings, but it also makes me incredibly sad that England has declined so much since then.
Yes, Peter it very sadly has. I am only 43 and the UK is a disgrace. All the people that lost their lives in 2 world wars, for it to turn out as we all have. Kids have no respect for anything, Imagine telling my grandparents you would now pay £3 for a bottle of water. That they couldn't pay us to drink, back in the day. £4 for a coffee. The cost of living is a joke. House prices are a joke. Immigration is a joke. Social media is a joke. I'm so glad I am not bringing kids up in this modern world we live in now
@@martinwebb1681 I reiterate, declined. Change is absolutely inevitable and often positive, but where change is detrimental, then it can be described as a decline. If you want to argue on the semantics then fine, but I stand by my comment.
Life wasn't actually that great back then, massive real poverty, atrocious work conditions, institutional racism, institutional paedophilea and the older generation were still moaning about the youth not being what it was!
Yeah, easy to keep things friendly after a World War. But it is exactly to opposite of real authority (that what is meant to keep communities alive and kicking - not only on some stupid song FYI). So... try again.
@@wolfgangdevries127 Authority does not keep 'communities alive and kicking'. Authority tells people what to do. Far from alive and kicking it works best when they are completely inert.
@@billbogg3857 no silly, it's the power that comes with it; is the authority in charge generally accepted by its citizens in the most common sense? Smh
Lovely footage, everyone looked so smart, well groomed and clean, not a pair of ripped jeans in sight. The policeman on a push bike and lots of independent shops. Such a shame how things have declined.
I remember being on holiday in Penzance in 1964 and it was so lovely and vibrant. All those dozens of independent small businesses, cheap public transport, Free car parking and I believe the Gardens and Swimming pool were both free entry as well. Not like todays Greedy councils who like taking your money but hate to use it on upgrading the town and facilities.
"Greedy" councils needs all the funds it can get because of this useless corrupt Tory/ukip "government" stripping local councils of funding ......next time THINK before you vote.
Always makes me feel weirdly melancholic seeing old films like this..... most of the people barring the kids and teenagers you see will be gone now. Most didn't even realise they were being filmed, yet in a way they live on, now just anonymous figures forever moving though a moment captured in time. Real people. Makes me wonder how many times we've all been captured standing oblivious in the background of someone else's photograph or film, completely unaware, and years after we and all who ever knew us have passed away, will some future person see us and wonder who we were and what our name was?...
I know what you mean, I've got a canvas on the wall of my dad and 3 mates in the army back in the early 60s, I don't know they're names and I sometimes wonder if they're sons or daughters know I've got their dad's photo hanging on my wall. I've another canvas of my dad and a mate sitting on the mileage sign at Land's End, there is an old couple walking in the background, I sometimes wonder what became of them too. Funny how the mind wanders off like that.
@@workhaterbloke Yes, I know what you mean, I've seen pictures of the high street in the city where I live and these are ordinary people going about their daily lives, going to work and at the end of the day going home to their families. There are also some old houses that were going to be demolished but have been refurbished instead and when I looked at them in the run down state they were in Iwondered what kind of Christmases the families who lived in them had, it's weird both happy and sad times and memories galore. I wonder what it would be like to travel through time and meet my parents when they were younger an I was just a baby.
We the young and some older but most of us are in our 60s and over now, I was 1 then, people and life was different back then. I came from Sancreed back then and had family living in pz and around treneere back then when visiting Penzance.
I grew up in Penzance, it was such a vibrant, clean looking, & friendly town, a town which embodied a sense of belonging & presence. This film is everything I remember & can feel myself walking down through Causewayhead in the summer sunshine full of excitement & expectation. A lovely video….👒
My home town, I remember this life & shudder at the current one. Life was easier calmer & slower, suited me just fine. I went to school in Lelant where we had unheated outside toilets & had to stoke the boiler to keep warm in winter. I remember the school closing & moving to its current site in Carbis Bay. Happier healthier days. I close my eyes & it seems like only yesterday.
Funny how nostalgia puts blinkers on our recollections of past times - now of course your heating comes on automatically and your en-suite bathroom means you don't have bother freezing your nethers outside in mid-January! And don't get me started on the social mores of those "enlightened" times I live in the 2023 version of Pensans (Kernow) and life is very good for me!
@@peterdavidson3268 Many can't afford ANY heating in the current version of PZ (I don't remember that being a problem for anyone back in the day) , let alone en suite bathrooms. Good luck to you if you're wealthy enough not to worry, but wealth can come with it's own set of blinkers.
@@oldboy5001 Please feel free to take my comment completely out of context? I wasn't attempting to belittle the problems endured by the most vulnerable in our community - I was simply countering a widely expressed rose tinted view of past times - a past in which the gulf between top and bottom in society was massively more pronounced than it is today; even 2023. That said, you are correct in pointing out that the negative consequences of poverty are now increasing, reversing an established trend of reducing inequality witnessed since the 1960s - I wonder who you blame for that outcome?
The stunning thing, for me, is how few few cars were on the road back then. Our whole little island seems to be completely swamped and gridlocked with vehicles today, whenever and wherever you go. I do believe that some aspects of life are better today, but that doesn’t include the traffic, or the music! Great nostalgic video, many thanks.
That’s because they were filling the buses and trams as they didn’t have the money to buy a car. I agree that it was a slower , less crowded place but as someone who has been blessed with the ability to travel easily and often around this beautiful country on motorbikes and in cars, it’s a balancing act that needs careful handling. Totally agree about the music!! I stopped listening to mainstream radio in the 90’s .
People are too idle to walk anywhere these days, these school runs are a disgrace, kids who can’t walk 400 mts to school or their parents can’t be bothered, that’s a main reason for traffic congestion in rush hrs, we need to reduce the number of private vehicles !!!
I counted at least six policemen in the footage going about their "beat". They were an excellent deterrenat and re-assuring to (most of) the general public too. Sad we see so little of them now.....
Mylor boy here. I was four in '64. I had to endure Pen with a ryn. not a zance! I had t'wait till I went to Falmouth Grammar School before I went Zance, to play rugby against Humphry Davy. They were gool old boys too . Kernow Kensa and remember 'the Smith'. 👍
This footage is totally filled to the brim with memories if not overflowing. How the memories of the shops return; Timothy Whites and International to name just two. I also remember that park! And as for those milk machines... 'twas all just a part of the sixties! How the memories remain!
Thanks so much for uploading this! In those days, local councils could afford to keep an army of gardeners to maintain their various "pleasure gardens", something everyone took for granted. Nowadays, we "can't afford" such frippery.
I was a slim young teenager back then. I tried to talk to an old local, and I could not understand him. I wish I had given him more time. I was on a school holiday trip. from Basildon. That was when I discovered the sea was actually blue, and beaches were sandy, What a difference it was to the grey waters of the east coast, and the pebble beaches. Scones and strawberry jam with clotted cream. Wonderful.
Well, the red phone boxes are still there if totally filthy. And Jubilee pool is amazing now. Finally, Morrab Gardens is being revamped (hope the fountain will work now. ) These gardens are the jewel in the crown of Penzance. I should add that the prom has had an amazing facelift and is a place to spend hours too. For those watching this video but not having visited for years and loved the Meadery....its still there.
Thanks for this fascinating film. I did not visit Penzance until 1978 when I was a medical student and spent a week shadowing the doctors at Morrab Rd Surgery. In 1983 I joined the same practice as a junior GP partner. I enjoyed spotting Peasgoods Pharmacy in your film. I was told Humphry Davy had done some of his experimental research in the room at the back of the pharmacy. I left Penzance in 1996 but miss West Penwith very much and still return to visit friends.
thanks for your service to society. I was a seasonal hotel worker myself. love Cornwall. so many memories and beautiful girlfriends, all to the tune of the Beachboys!
@@davidlee6720 Thanks for your appreciation of my work David. I presume you were enjoying the girls and The Beach Boys in the 1970's. A golden decade for music from the late sixties. I recently went back to an ancient hotel in Anglesey where I was a barman in 1972 and the bar was just the same.
@@Befuggled I did not study exceptionally hard like you but eventually became a writer and artist- although I have never stopped developing these skills throughout my life. But we do share a love of freedom that only the seaside, being independent and away from home in your youth can give to you. By the way . yes , I even go back as far as the sixties!
Cornish lad born in 1998 here. I catch the bus into Penzance basically every day now, and to see what it once was, seeing what the shops and roads use to look like compared to today, it's fascinating
Enjoyable, thanks for posting. Penzance in 1965 was the venue for my first holiday--with a girlfriend! We stayed in a large house B&B near the Morrab Gardens. As others have said it's an England now gone.
to young to know my home town from 60s, made me wish could go back. 80s and 90s I watched our town grow and change as a children, now a adult walking the streets can't help look in empty shop windows only wonder how this county sink so low to what it once was. Penzance in such sorry state, so many empty shops, most all charity own now, rate own a shop just eye watering. god, recall causeway head "Charlies southern Chicken" take away come restaurant. that during 1987 to want say 1997?, top of causeway head which I think now insurance company use to be old toy shop had trains running on track around the store. cherished memories of when it was simple.
Excellent. I can still remember visiting Penzance while on holiday - just after the end of WW2 (possibly the late 1940s) - I would have been 10-12 at the time and my father told me that the traffic lights near the entrance to Penzance had just been installed and were the very first in Cornwall!. People clearly still didn't always know how they were to be used.
Loved watching this and it struck me that watching the old people, we are looking at the last of the Victorians. What changes they had seen. Makes you think.
I was 14 at the time and living in East Anglia. Penzance or Australia it made no difference, they were both too far away to ever consider visiting. I have been in Penzance 3 times now but Aussie land is still a dream.
Don't know what it's like there now but me and my mate went Penzance in 1964 when we were both 18 and it was really nice. The locals then were fascinated by our London cockney accents when we spoke. 🤣 I don't know if the Cornish accent has survived over the years, shame if it has gone now, it was lovely to hear. We also paired up with a couple of local girls for the week we were there and had a good time. They said they came from "Mowzall" Mousehole 🤐😂 Wonder what happened to them 🤔🤔
You hear more British accents in Cornwall than you do in London. People travel down for their hols and a lot decide to stay put. Lots of different Cornish accents too based on age and location.
My late dad would probably have known the cycling bobby as he was posted to Penzance nick between 1967 and 1970. We lived in Stamford Close - then police married quarters - behind the station. Many happy memories of Saturday morning pictures at the 'Saveloy' cinema in Causeway Head. And the (then) unheated Jubilee Pool. Brrr! :)
As a recent 'innie', 25 years +, I couldn't help but notice the abundance of colour on display in Morrab Gardens; however, since government austerity cuts, how dismal the grounds are now, in comparison to then. Sad!
Nice view of the past, enjoyed the traffic scenes, a mini van, Thames van, Austin vans one large, one small, all shown briefly, also an Austin lorry, and a Bedford TK, and later a Thames trader tipper briefly passes by. Lots of cars and some buses made this an interesting few minutes, and of course not forgetting the people, the shops, and the bobby on his bike.
I think I was there then (might have been '63 but I don't think so) on holiday. We stayed on a farm and travelled there in my dad's old Rover 12. He got a wasp up his trouser leg, the starter motor fell off the car and I came down with pneumonia just after getting home but it was still a good holiday.
No boob jobs, no mobiles, A lot of businesses that I remember going under🤫 And now this lovely time is a historical Document 😢 🆘🙏💯🗣️ I did wonder how many people are here remembering such times, but I see from the comments there are still lots of us...🎬👁️😘👁️💪👍 Thanks for the MEMORY'S. London's LOVIN IT 😍🤩🇬🇧💯🙏
Great quality and thanks. Those young mods would be in their 70s now. If one assumes they were 16. I can't add anything else, to what others have said, about how UK has declined. So much so, that I left after BREXIT vote and travelled a lot. Almost two years ago, settled in Alanya region, of the beautiful Med Sea climate. 320 sunny days a year. Yesterday was Dec 29 2022. I was on the beach almost alone...tourism is mid March to late Nov. It was 23c 🌞. Saw a dragonfly and a few bees. All flowers are in full bloom. Fruit trees of all types everywhere (in streets also) Prices? I don't smoke but ciggies are £1.35. My last electric bill for November; was £16 and water bill was £7. I have a beautiful flat, overlooking the Med Sea at 400 Euro a month. All mod cons. Winter contract so less. I won't tell you about how much cheaper food is; you can guess by what I've said. Transport infrastructure is better here also. One way bus ticket everywhere about 60p. 200km luxury coach journey about £4. My friends thought I was crazy leaving UK but I suggest I'm not.
Spoilt by some old person trying to be hip by playing orchestrated Beatles music, but still very evocative of the time. Spent a lot of my youth working down Cornwall. Another world to England and much more relaxed - all probably changed now.
Lovely colour footage of a Cornish town in the swinging 60s ,l heard Donavons aunt lived thier .Bri gs my childhood to life ,the old cars ,un modernised buildings Thanks
Simpler times. Britain before the madness came and enveloped a once great Nation. Before mobile phones, internet and brainwashing destroyed this Country. An intelligent and sensible Brit becomes as rare as Hen's teeth. Sad times 🤔🤔
Images of a world lost in time! Very cool! There is a woman who appears three times in the film on different occasions. She is wearing a red blouse and dark dress at minute 1:07 walking alone on the sidewalk. Then she appears in the middle of several people, on the sidewalk, at minute 3:14 and at minute 3:27. This time she holds the red blouse in her right hand. Thanks for the video!
So glad for films like this if only to show what we've lost... or rather what we didn't have to put up with... no kids on mobiles, no migrant hotels, no litter, no yellow lines, no fatties, no beggars, no burger kings, no women with willies, no rainbow police cars, no CCTV, almost no traffic. Happier times indeed.
Penzance is like in a island on its own and I have been to Penzance and the surrounding area's like Mousehole Marazion Newlyn wherrytown etc and made a few friends along the way plus stayed in now the queen's Hotel ( formerly Mount's Bay Hotel) lovely place and I am planning for another visit soon
Cracking film. A bygone age, regretable. A Bobby on a bike, reminds me of a line in that 1965 song by Roger Miller "England Swings", the line is "Bobbies on bycicles two by two". A couple of observations: 1. Who is the blond, did you know her? 2. No yellow lines on the roads. 3. British motor bikes and cars. No BMWs or Audis, nothing for the present day "badge buyers"...LOL!
I just had a look at a more recent walkabout in 4k in Penzance and the 60s Penzance looks far more charming to my eyes. The shops looked more interesting and people healthier and happier looking too and the streets look nicer. Nowadays it looks ok but its missing something and the fast food joints dont help.
Different shaped cars, different shops, different fashions, a walking on duty policeman but, other than that, I am surprised just how much the everyday way of life looks much like today - and I was 11 in 1964 so I can remember what it was like then, although I was living in a London suburb then so there is a huge difference there because a street scene now would have very different looking people being multi-national in appearence
I remember visiting Penzance in June 1964,on a touring holiday around Devon and Cornwall, I must be honest, it was a bit drab, we found a dance hall along the bay, and the Eric Delaney Band were performing there, he was probably at that time the Best Drummer in the World!
Absolutely wonderful real times real men real women "" absolutely beautiful,, maybe the downgrading of education in school's was step one in world plan,,and look now
I am French and France also had at the time this beautiful time to live and then everything changed immigration destroyed everything everywhere in France even in the small towns of my native Brittany I am now 70 years old and I am nostalgic of this beautiful time . Cordially
It makes me very sad to see what’s happening to our Cornish way of life today. Thank you for showing the film 😢
what do you mean by that because in terms of ethnicity the overwhelming majority of the population is still white british unlike our other major cities in the uk
Why are the people and houses so clean and smart , why is the music of those years simply breathtaking ...where was this island we once knew 🙂
Every time I see something similar to this, it doesn’t only pull at the nostalgia strings, but it also makes me incredibly sad that England has declined so much since then.
Declined!? In what way?
Yes, Peter it very sadly has. I am only 43 and the UK is a disgrace. All the people that lost their lives in 2 world wars, for it to turn out as we all have. Kids have no respect for anything, Imagine telling my grandparents you would now pay £3 for a bottle of water. That they couldn't pay us to drink, back in the day. £4 for a coffee.
The cost of living is a joke.
House prices are a joke.
Immigration is a joke.
Social media is a joke.
I'm so glad I am not bringing kids up in this modern world we live in now
Not declined, just changed ... nothing stands still and change is inevitable.
@@martinwebb1681 I reiterate, declined. Change is absolutely inevitable and often positive, but where change is detrimental, then it can be described as a decline. If you want to argue on the semantics then fine, but I stand by my comment.
Life wasn't actually that great back then, massive real poverty, atrocious work conditions, institutional racism, institutional paedophilea and the older generation were still moaning about the youth not being what it was!
Everyone looks so smart and stylish. Long before the evils of casual tracksuits.
Bull there selective rose tinted memories.
1964 the year I was born..wish I could go back to the 60s to the 90s ,yes there was problems but nothing like the s**t show we have today
The bicycle-riding policeman at 1:03 symbolizes the era;
a lost society where even power and authority had a dignified restraint.
And on foot
A police service, not a police "force".
Yeah, easy to keep things friendly after a World War. But it is exactly to opposite of real authority (that what is meant to keep communities alive and kicking - not only on some stupid song FYI).
So... try again.
@@wolfgangdevries127 Authority does not keep 'communities alive and kicking'. Authority tells people what to do. Far from alive and kicking it works best when they are completely inert.
@@billbogg3857 no silly, it's the power that comes with it; is the authority in charge generally accepted by its citizens in the most common sense? Smh
England was a wonderful happy place back then. Where has it all gone.
Given away
Same with the USA pedo Joe and obozo destroyed it
Such ashame we descended into total breakdown , I would go back in a heartbeat.
Lovely footage, everyone looked so smart, well groomed and clean, not a pair of ripped jeans in sight. The policeman on a push bike and lots of independent shops. Such a shame how things have declined.
Lovely piece of film. I went to penzance in 1964. Brought back some happy memories. Britain as it used to be.
what a lovely memory the red phone box's not vandalised either.
i live in pz now. absolute shithole.
Cornish accents everyone you talked to! Bleddy Cockneys everywhere in Kernow now!😉
@@KernowekTim Bloody cornish cocks ripping tourists off! Backward hicks!
@@KernowekTim and flipping Brummies.
Wow, not a migrant in sight anywhere 😱 I loved life as a teenager back then 🥰
I remember being on holiday in Penzance in 1964 and it was so lovely and vibrant. All those dozens of independent small businesses, cheap public transport, Free car parking and I believe the Gardens and Swimming pool were both free entry as well. Not like todays Greedy councils who like taking your money but hate to use it on upgrading the town and facilities.
"Greedy" councils needs all the funds it can get because of this useless corrupt Tory/ukip "government" stripping local councils of funding ......next time THINK before you vote.
Businesses riping off tourists
Always makes me feel weirdly melancholic seeing old films like this..... most of the people barring the kids and teenagers you see will be gone now. Most didn't even realise they were being filmed, yet in a way they live on, now just anonymous figures forever moving though a moment captured in time. Real people. Makes me wonder how many times we've all been captured standing oblivious in the background of someone else's photograph or film, completely unaware, and years after we and all who ever knew us have passed away, will some future person see us and wonder who we were and what our name was?...
I know what you mean, I've got a canvas on the wall of my dad and 3 mates in the army back in the early 60s, I don't know they're names and I sometimes wonder if they're sons or daughters know I've got their dad's photo hanging on my wall. I've another canvas of my dad and a mate sitting on the mileage sign at Land's End, there is an old couple walking in the background, I sometimes wonder what became of them too. Funny how the mind wanders off like that.
@@workhaterbloke Yes, I know what you mean, I've seen pictures of the high street in the city where I live and these are ordinary people going about their daily lives, going to work and at the end of the day going home to their families. There are also some old houses that were going to be demolished but have been refurbished instead and when I looked at them in the run down state they were in Iwondered what kind of Christmases the families who lived in them had, it's weird both happy and sad times and memories galore. I wonder what it would be like to travel through time and meet my parents when they were younger an I was just a baby.
well said
the same girl was in this 3 times,might have been his girlfriend.
We the young and some older but most of us are in our 60s and over now, I was 1 then, people and life was different back then. I came from Sancreed back then and had family living in pz and around treneere back then when visiting Penzance.
I grew up in Penzance, it was such a vibrant, clean looking, & friendly town, a town which embodied a sense of belonging & presence. This film is everything I remember & can feel myself walking down through Causewayhead in the summer sunshine full of excitement & expectation. A lovely video….👒
My goodness how slim we all were, not one obese person.these were the days before fast food took off!
And no tattoos and metal studs in our faces or green/blue hair.
Your right about no obesity, also see how clean every looks compared to how things are today.
Before GM crops were invented
All organic food. You can see it in the smooth skin and femininity of women then!!
@@iseegoodandbad6758 yes your right. Women looked like women
My home town, I remember this life & shudder at the current one. Life was easier calmer & slower, suited me just fine. I went to school in Lelant where we had unheated outside toilets & had to stoke the boiler to keep warm in winter. I remember the school closing & moving to its current site in Carbis Bay. Happier healthier days. I close my eyes & it seems like only yesterday.
Funny how nostalgia puts blinkers on our recollections of past times - now of course your heating comes on automatically and your en-suite bathroom means you don't have bother freezing your nethers outside in mid-January!
And don't get me started on the social mores of those "enlightened" times
I live in the 2023 version of Pensans (Kernow) and life is very good for me!
@@peterdavidson3268 Many can't afford ANY heating in the current version of PZ (I don't remember that being a problem for anyone back in the day) , let alone en suite bathrooms. Good luck to you if you're wealthy enough not to worry, but wealth can come with it's own set of blinkers.
@@oldboy5001 Well said....totally agree
@@oldboy5001 Please feel free to take my comment completely out of context?
I wasn't attempting to belittle the problems endured by the most vulnerable in our community - I was simply countering a widely expressed rose tinted view of past times - a past in which the gulf between top and bottom in society was massively more pronounced than it is today; even 2023.
That said, you are correct in pointing out that the negative consequences of poverty are now increasing, reversing an established trend of reducing inequality witnessed since the 1960s - I wonder who you blame for that outcome?
Wow! Seeing my old house with the phone box outside was the last thing I was expecting today.
All the best from Penzance.
The stunning thing, for me, is how few few cars were on the road back then. Our whole little island seems to be completely swamped and gridlocked with vehicles today, whenever and wherever you go. I do believe that some aspects of life are better today, but that doesn’t include the traffic, or the music! Great nostalgic video, many thanks.
the brakes on cars then were rubbish.
My two children, 25 & 22 think the music of the 60s & 70s was so much better, and they wonder why their music is so dreadful?
That’s because they were filling the buses and trams as they didn’t have the money to buy a car.
I agree that it was a slower , less crowded place but as someone who has been blessed with the ability to travel easily and often around this beautiful country on motorbikes and in cars, it’s a balancing act that needs careful handling.
Totally agree about the music!! I stopped listening to mainstream radio in the 90’s .
People are too idle to walk anywhere these days, these school runs are a disgrace, kids who can’t walk 400 mts to school or their parents can’t be bothered, that’s a main reason for traffic congestion in rush hrs, we need to reduce the number of private vehicles !!!
I dunno about the music - I'm 63 and a huge Rammstein fan...there wasn't any industrial metal bands back then, lol!
Like it, its nice to see roads with hardly any cars parked on them, what have we done ourselves...
I counted at least six policemen in the footage going about their "beat". They were an excellent deterrenat and re-assuring to (most of) the general public too. Sad we see so little of them now.....
I noticed that as well. Amazing. Especially the copper on a bike going full pelt at 1.03. Obviously a 999 call!
They're too busy "investigating" mean tweets on social media
@@wallyjumblatt Mc'ds in Cornwall?
As the population has exploded, the Police have gradually withdrawn from the streets.
sadly the police aren't there for the people, just do what government tell them.
So grateful that I was 17 years old in 1960, but I feel sad for 17 years olds now.
Mylor boy here. I was four in '64. I had to endure Pen with a ryn. not a zance! I had t'wait till I went to Falmouth Grammar School before I went Zance, to play rugby against Humphry Davy. They were gool old boys too . Kernow Kensa and remember 'the Smith'. 👍
I was a young policeman in Pz in 1964 - and this film brought back many memories of Pz and its people in those happy days.
Thankyou for your service John
How many innocents did you fit up, for promotion?
Not you on the bike, I suppose.
This footage is totally filled to the brim with memories if not overflowing. How the memories of the shops return; Timothy Whites and International to name just two. I also remember that park! And as for those milk machines... 'twas all just a part of the sixties! How the memories remain!
Thanks so much for uploading this! In those days, local councils could afford to keep an army of gardeners to maintain their various "pleasure gardens", something everyone took for granted. Nowadays, we "can't afford" such frippery.
I was a slim young teenager back then. I tried to talk to an old local, and I could not understand him. I wish I had given him more time. I was on a school holiday trip. from Basildon. That was when I discovered the sea was actually blue, and beaches were sandy, What a difference it was to the grey waters of the east coast, and the pebble beaches. Scones and strawberry jam with clotted cream. Wonderful.
Well, the red phone boxes are still there if totally filthy. And Jubilee pool is amazing now. Finally, Morrab Gardens is being revamped (hope the fountain will work now. ) These gardens are the jewel in the crown of Penzance. I should add that the prom has had an amazing facelift and is a place to spend hours too. For those watching this video but not having visited for years and loved the Meadery....its still there.
Thanks for this fascinating film. I did not visit Penzance until 1978 when I was a medical student and spent a week shadowing the doctors at Morrab Rd Surgery. In 1983 I joined the same practice as a junior GP partner. I enjoyed spotting Peasgoods Pharmacy in your film. I was told Humphry Davy had done some of his experimental research in the room at the back of the pharmacy. I left Penzance in 1996 but miss West Penwith very much and still return to visit friends.
thanks for your service to society. I was a seasonal hotel worker myself. love Cornwall. so many memories and beautiful girlfriends, all to the tune of the Beachboys!
@@davidlee6720 Thanks for your appreciation of my work David. I presume you were enjoying the girls and The Beach Boys in the 1970's. A golden decade for music from the late sixties. I recently went back to an ancient hotel in Anglesey where I was a barman in 1972 and the bar was just the same.
@@Befuggled I did not study exceptionally hard like you but eventually became a writer and artist- although I have never stopped developing these skills throughout my life.
But we do share a love of freedom that only the seaside, being independent and away from home in your youth can give to you.
By the way . yes , I even go back as far as the sixties!
Cornish lad born in 1998 here. I catch the bus into Penzance basically every day now, and to see what it once was, seeing what the shops and roads use to look like compared to today, it's fascinating
Enjoyable, thanks for posting. Penzance in 1965 was the venue for my first holiday--with a girlfriend! We stayed in a large house B&B near the Morrab Gardens. As others have said it's an England now gone.
Thank you for posting this. I spent 3 weeks in Marazion in 1964 staying with my friend. This video brings it all back.
A glimpse into a bygone era. Thank you for sharing..
to young to know my home town from 60s, made me wish could go back. 80s and 90s I watched our town grow and change as a children, now a adult walking the streets can't help look in empty shop windows only wonder how this county sink so low to what it once was. Penzance in such sorry state, so many empty shops, most all charity own now, rate own a shop just eye watering. god, recall causeway head "Charlies southern Chicken" take away come restaurant. that during 1987 to want say 1997?, top of causeway head which I think now insurance company use to be old toy shop had trains running on track around the store. cherished memories of when it was simple.
I was there in 1965- as a 22 year old tourist .. Happy days!!
I love two cars with bumper lock - and the efforts to bounce them apart - that was a regular thing with old chrome bumpers
Excellent. I can still remember visiting Penzance while on holiday - just after the end of WW2 (possibly the late 1940s) - I would have been 10-12 at the time and my father told me that the traffic lights near the entrance to Penzance had just been installed and were the very first in Cornwall!. People clearly still didn't always know how they were to be used.
This was the year my parents moved to Cornwall; I was 10yrs old. We lived in Hayle but moved to Newlyn in 1974.
I was born in Newlyn 1973
Then moved to Hayle until 15 then I moved back to Penzance.
Amazing footage of a very nostalgic era for me ...thank you for posting 👍
Loved watching this and it struck me that watching the old people, we are looking at the last of the Victorians. What changes they had seen. Makes you think.
Last of the Victorians was about 100 years earlier
What an innocent world it seemed to me at 7 years old.....sigh.....
The world probably looked at you thinking "what an innocent little shaver we have here"!
The love of my life was born in 1964 made me very happy to watch I was 4 years old then Kev Mandy Devon
I know many of the people are still alive. But it does remind us that entire worlds existed where no one is now alive.
I was 14 at the time and living in East Anglia. Penzance or Australia it made no difference, they were both too far away to ever consider visiting. I have been in Penzance 3 times now but Aussie land is still a dream.
I was no where near being born during these films but it’s still nostalgic seeing my home town back 60 years ago
The world I grew up in.
A World worth growing up in Keith.
Yep. The real Kernow, as 'we' knew it, not the 'Little England by the Sea-Sides', like 'tis now.
Don't know what it's like there now but me and my mate went Penzance in 1964 when we were both 18 and it was really nice. The locals then were fascinated by our London cockney accents when we spoke. 🤣 I don't know if the Cornish accent has survived over the years, shame if it has gone now, it was lovely to hear. We also paired up with a couple of local girls for the week we were there and had a good time. They said they came from "Mowzall" Mousehole 🤐😂 Wonder what happened to them 🤔🤔
Yes cos back in the day if you heard a cockney acsent you thought hey up there's a foreigner talking
You hear more British accents in Cornwall than you do in London.
People travel down for their hols and a lot decide to stay put. Lots of different Cornish accents too based on age and location.
Copper on a bike, wearing a helmet! Love it.
My late dad would probably have known the cycling bobby as he was posted to Penzance nick between 1967 and 1970. We lived in Stamford Close - then police married quarters - behind the station. Many happy memories of Saturday morning pictures at the 'Saveloy' cinema in Causeway Head. And the (then) unheated Jubilee Pool. Brrr! :)
As a recent 'innie', 25 years +, I couldn't help but notice the abundance of colour on display in Morrab Gardens; however, since government austerity cuts, how dismal the grounds are now, in comparison to then. Sad!
Nice view of the past, enjoyed the traffic scenes, a mini van, Thames van, Austin vans one large, one small, all shown briefly, also an Austin lorry, and a Bedford TK, and later a Thames trader tipper briefly passes by. Lots of cars and some buses made this an interesting few minutes, and of course not forgetting the people, the shops, and the bobby on his bike.
Annndd. A Morris Minor.
I think I was there then (might have been '63 but I don't think so) on holiday. We stayed on a farm and travelled there in my dad's old Rover 12. He got a wasp up his trouser leg, the starter motor fell off the car and I came down with pneumonia just after getting home but it was still a good holiday.
Anywhere in 1964 is fascinating for me to see, when I was 13/14
No boob jobs, no mobiles,
A lot of businesses that I remember going under🤫
And now this lovely time is a historical Document 😢
🆘🙏💯🗣️ I did wonder how many people are here remembering such times, but I see from the comments there are still lots of us...🎬👁️😘👁️💪👍
Thanks for the MEMORY'S.
London's LOVIN IT 😍🤩🇬🇧💯🙏
If only we could go back in time 😊 no PC OR WOCKE
Loved watching this from Belfast
Great quality and thanks.
Those young mods would be in their 70s now. If one assumes they were 16.
I can't add anything else, to what others have said, about how UK has declined.
So much so, that I left after BREXIT vote and travelled a lot.
Almost two years ago, settled in Alanya region, of the beautiful Med Sea climate.
320 sunny days a year. Yesterday was Dec 29 2022. I was on the beach almost alone...tourism is mid March to late Nov. It was 23c 🌞. Saw a dragonfly and a few bees. All flowers are in full bloom.
Fruit trees of all types everywhere (in streets also)
Prices?
I don't smoke but ciggies are £1.35.
My last electric bill for November; was £16 and water bill was £7.
I have a beautiful flat, overlooking the Med Sea at 400 Euro a month.
All mod cons.
Winter contract so less.
I won't tell you about how much cheaper food is; you can guess by what I've said.
Transport infrastructure is better here also. One way bus ticket everywhere about 60p.
200km luxury coach journey about £4.
My friends thought I was crazy leaving UK but I suggest I'm not.
only idiots stayed behind. after england died there was nothing to stay for
the first year I came to live in cornwall I was 16 and Im still here/ fab video
Sue Robinson born in truro I woz
Great memories, Thank you Bob
all of us the same colour .....those were the days
Idi Amin kicked the doors open and they never closed again.
Crikey that’s the most Police men I’ve seen on the streets for decades !
Splann yw y weles, meur ras / Great to see this, many thanks
Brilliant. I was 3. Same age as my Grandson today. I will enjoy showing him my World at the same age 😊
Great video! Would be even better with street chitchat audio; Cornish folk giving each other the time of day
I liked the original sound track ...but this one is growing on me ..still one of the best video footage of Penzance ....
Lived there for seven years, 33 Adelaide st. ( Seaview fish and chip shop).
Not surprising that the sixties have been described as the best decade of the 20th Century.
Rubbish decade.
Love vid I also knew every word to the tune made me happy watching and singing along thank you for making memories 😊
When our country still belonged to us.
The good old days,I've enjoyed watching that,I like the music to,😊👍
Loved the music and the blend of instruments.
The good old days when you could tell your boss to stick their job, walk round the corner and get another job.
Oh England my England. Look what’s happened to you. Those days were so much nicer
Fabulous, thankyou
Aloha no ! That was beautiful Nani loa mau 🥰
I was born in 1964 it is nice to see England then & it's fashion & cars while my mother was pregnant with me.
Spoilt by some old person trying to be hip by playing orchestrated Beatles music, but still very evocative of the time. Spent a lot of my youth working down Cornwall. Another world to England and much more relaxed - all probably changed now.
Thanks for this video I am currently living in Penzance.
Lovely colour footage of a Cornish town in the swinging 60s ,l heard Donavons aunt lived thier .Bri gs my childhood to life ,the old cars ,un modernised buildings Thanks
Donovan wrote some of his best songs in St Ives. Round about this time.
wonderful. thank you
Simpler times.
Britain before the madness came and enveloped a once great Nation.
Before mobile phones, internet and brainwashing destroyed this Country.
An intelligent and sensible Brit becomes as rare as Hen's teeth.
Sad times 🤔🤔
Rubbish times as i remember them some have rose tinted memories there.
Images of a world lost in time! Very cool! There is a woman who appears three times in the film on different occasions. She is wearing a red blouse and dark dress at minute 1:07 walking alone on the sidewalk. Then she appears in the middle of several people, on the sidewalk, at minute 3:14 and at minute 3:27. This time she holds the red blouse in her right hand. Thanks for the video!
I noticed another glamorous dame several times also.
I still like Penzance , not too much left open these days , barbers the bank an Poundland are keeping it afloat
Great music! Beatles
Used to go there from Glasgow with the 445 light air defence regiment Royal artillery for 2 weeks camp happy memories
Did you camp up at Madron?
My cousin's farm would have military staying on it every year.
So glad for films like this if only to show what we've lost... or rather what we didn't have to put up with... no kids on mobiles, no migrant hotels, no litter, no yellow lines, no fatties, no beggars, no burger kings, no women with willies, no rainbow police cars, no CCTV, almost no traffic. Happier times indeed.
Happier times not for me they were not hat decade was TRASH!!!
Amazing, I was there on holiday with my parents in 1964
Penzance is like in a island on its own and I have been to Penzance and the surrounding area's like Mousehole Marazion Newlyn wherrytown etc and made a few friends along the way plus stayed in now the queen's Hotel ( formerly Mount's Bay Hotel) lovely place and I am planning for another visit soon
Magic ! My childhood summer holidays !
Not a forign car in site...wonderful, thanks.
No just a load of unreliable rust prone English cars that were junk that's the stark truth there.
Whatever happened to our lovely country.
Ask the government they destroyed it and still are
@@jean2740
I agree 100%
People keep voting Tory because they fall for the divide and rule trick
Cracking film. A bygone age, regretable. A Bobby on a bike, reminds me of a line in that 1965 song by Roger Miller "England Swings", the line is "Bobbies on bycicles two by two". A couple of observations:
1. Who is the blond, did you know her?
2. No yellow lines on the roads.
3. British motor bikes and cars. No BMWs or Audis, nothing for the present day "badge buyers"...LOL!
How we have advanced since these primitive times is amazing........
I wish I could step into the video
I just had a look at a more recent walkabout in 4k in Penzance and the 60s Penzance looks far more charming to my eyes. The shops looked more interesting and people healthier and happier looking too and the streets look nicer. Nowadays it looks ok but its missing something and the fast food joints dont help.
Wonderful
Different shaped cars, different shops, different fashions, a walking on duty policeman but, other than that, I am surprised just how much the everyday way of life looks much like today - and I was 11 in 1964 so I can remember what it was like then, although I was living in a London suburb then so there is a huge difference there because a street scene now would have very different looking people being multi-national in appearence
I remember visiting Penzance in June 1964,on a touring holiday around Devon and Cornwall, I must be honest, it was a bit drab, we found a dance hall along the bay, and the Eric Delaney Band were performing there, he was probably at that time the Best Drummer in the World!
Nostalgia is just not once was! 😂😂😂😂
Seriously though, this made me feel quite sad. I wonder why?
Immigration! Immigration!
Immigration!
England 1964. Clean streets, well dressed people. Young people having fun. All gone.
Utter bull there i don't remember it bein so at all there.
Absolutely wonderful real times real men real women "" absolutely beautiful,, maybe the downgrading of education in school's was step one in world plan,,and look now