Three Salons At The Seaside
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2015
- Update December 2022. I visited Blackpool a few weeks ago and, although I could not find Tricia's the Vanity Box is still there with a new facade and neat as a new pin although apparently not trading - Hillary would be just over 80 now. Mary's Way is still trading although now under different management, Mary herself was recently interviewed by a radio news programme and sounded in fine fettle.
From 1994 this slice of pure television gold focuses on the staff and customers of three Blackpool hair dressing salons. Stories of love, loss and gritty determination to carry on and make the best of things with a sense of humour abound. I am sure there are (still) salons all over the world where the same characters and stories abound. - Наука та технологія
Last night I watched a documentary about Caroline Ahearn, they showed a clip of Three Salons At the Seaside. Craig Cash said it was a big inspiration for him and Caroline when writing the Royle Family. I love this, salt of the earth, real people are the most interesting x
I've just watched the documentary which led me to this.
@@matthewwilkes1973same here!
me too
The very same reason I decided to watch it.
It was just as much as inspiration for the Mrs Merton character
Just to let you know the vanity box is still there with the same owner still doing hair xx
that's amazing!! I hope it still has the same retro signage outside
I tried searching vanity box and upto date photo and couldn't find one
@@missw324 your at the wrong shop lov trust me she's my sister and still there and doing hair what's wrong with being 80 we come from hardworking parents
Dont know any Charlotte 🤔
Just googled it and google maps shows the shop still with nets and the owner in front garden . The next door that was a video shop is now overgrown with leylandi
Great stuff! A lost world. No mobiles, not even for emergencies. And hair set so tough that even the worst Irish Sea gale wouldn't trouble it.
I grew up in Lakeland Florida, a small town. There was a beauty shop called "Talk of the town" it was wear my gramma got her hair done every friday afternoon or Saturday. I used to sit and wait for her. Reading trashy magazines and listening to them talk and gossip for an hour or 2. Then they got a tv and I was able to watch cartoons while I waited. It was like another world lol
My gramma was a southern belle. She died her hair black with a blue sheen, until she died. She never left the house with out makeup on, drenched in perfume and costume jewelry. She had no eye brows, she drew them in with pencil. She had an eyebrow pencil in every room, in every purse, in the car, her coats, everywhere. She could not be without her eyebrows!!! She jokingly said she could be Elizabeth Taylor's younger, prettier sister.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣 She was a hoot, I miss her dearly 💖
Do you know Sheriff Grady Judd?
@@bouffant-girl
I dont know him personally but he's the sherriff of Polk county. Why?
She sounds amazing 👏xxxxxx ♥️ 😍
How wonderful. Little did we know at the time, but the 90's really were the "last breaths" of many 20th century societal traditions - that have since been swept away during the 21st century at an astonishing rate - mainly caused by the pervading influence of the internet and the way business is conducted in the digital age
It's been like that since the dawn of time. Go back several decades before this and the idea that working class pensioners would be able to spend time in hairdresses would have been an unimaginable luxury. We all seem to struggle with the fact that all of us, in every era that ever existed, are all on a giant conveyor belt. Nothing ever stays the same, ever. The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus knew this when he said "You cannot step into the same river twice". Everything is constantly changing and evolving.
@@th8257 I agree wholly, but I really do think the last 20-odd years have seen the statues-quo challenged at a pace much faster than before. So much change and demand for acceptance has been pushed onto us, and that's not me saying I don't agree with how things evolve, this is me saying that us as human beings are proving we can't all of us adapt at the same pace as the change.
One minute I was in my late teens and learning about how to behave as an adult in society, then the next I was in my 40s feeling equally as perplexed as all the rules had changed. It's the apparent lack of social boundaries that I struggle with most now, almost as if there's nothing there anymore against which anything can be bench-marked...it wasn't all that long ago that the overpowering aroma of the new neighbour's cannabis that invaded my home, left me wondering if my inability to sit in my living room and enjoy watching TV while they sat next-door & smoked it was in fact less important than their right to do as they pleased in their home...I'm still not sure as to the answer, all I know is I found the stench to be unbearable to the point of having to go out when they smoked it.
Most of the ladies gossiping in the salon are of the World War 2 generation, which has almost completely died off now, its final flickering flame arguably being extinguished with Queen Elizabeth's death 2 years ago. That generation, with their amazing life experience, had their own very distinct way of looking at things and we are the poorer for their passing. Like many others on here I can hear the voices of many sadly departed relatives in these ladies.
The funeral bag! ‘ A little bit of money and a mint. Perfect.
That is just perfect as you say , imagine 2 clients going the same funeral needing it 👍🤣, It would be Handbag wars !
What a treat. How I wish I could go back to the days before the world changed with the rise of the internet, smartphones. Simpler better times, wonderful characters.
Who came here after the amazing tribute to Caroline Aherne last night on BBC2? 😎
I did exactly the same as you - looked for it straight after watching the Caroline Ahern documentary because Hillary from the Vanity box is my mum’s hairdresser! I couldn’t believe my eyes 😂
The ritual of being human is everywhere. Fair play to the director Philippa Lowthorpe for capturing this wonderful slice of it.
This is ace when your mum's 85 and goes for a shampoo and set every Wednesday just to get out of the house and have a good old chinwag. I worked the watermains around this area back in the 90s and I bet that a lot hasn't changed since then, except for the video shops and death sticks adverts on the newsagents.
Reminds me a lot of the row of shops across the road from where I grew up. Each one of them doing their own little bit for the community.
@MartinvonBargen . I used to go to a unisex shop for my haircuts instead of a barbershop.. most of the ladies there were getting their weekly shampoo and set .. plenty of chins waggin there some pretty juicy stuff too .. I was 31 or 32 at the time getting shampooed right along side of them -but no set 😝and the ladies in there were all about 85 including the ladies that would shampoo and cut my hair - they did better job than the barbers I went to. They were all nice with me .. I think they liked a young guy among them .. the only rooster in the henhouse .
I just watched the parody of this on Documentary Now! and had never heard of it before. I see now that it was barely a parody. Amazing.
same and same, lol
Came here from reading re documentary now!'s spoof. Fascinated by this. Its wonderful. Like listening to my aunts sitting chatting!! Bizarre how the ideal parking spaces say no parking everywhere!! And the sign forbidding long hair?!&the scandal of the new windows!! Lol! The ladies were all so lovely especially the lady who kept up her husbands favourite hairstyle tho he was gone...such lovely eyes! And how devastating when she says I was cut in half. How well put. Bless her!!
I recently visited Blackpool and had a look for these salons. The Vanity Box is still there with an update to the exterior, neat as a pin - I half expected to see Hilary at the door. It does not seem to be trading now, hardly a surprise as Hilary would be 80 now. Mary's Way is still in business, outside updated a bit but much the same :)
‘I never get good use out of a chair…’. Wonderful.
Women are just so so amazing. What a beautiful film.
I absolutely adore women; especially the lady who like md to drink Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey 😍 ❤️ 💕 💗 💖 💓
You can hear glimpses of Mrs Merton in many of the voices here. Although some distance from Manchester, the lyrical quality of North West England conversation is unmistakable as key source material for Coronation St, Alan Bennett, and The Royle Family.
The syntax of the upward-looking, aspirational working class seems now just a memory, but one wonderfully captured here in the general chit-chat in these 3 Blackpool hair salons.
This treasure trove of Lancastrian conversation is a joy to behold, featuring ladies who all lived through at least one World War, tough as boots, but all with a fighting spirit.
Thanks so much for archiving and uploading. A joy!
This was a great watch,reminded me of my years in Hairdressing started as a Saturday girl in 1975,then onto Apprenticeship from 1976,it was a meeting place aswell for the older people ,things have changed a lot in Salons now which is a shame .
A brilliant piece of social history
The mentions of Lewis's closing down and litlle bits of local gossp added to it even more for me. I grew up in this time in this place.
Documentary Now brought me here. Brilliant!
A real piece of British social history. For the days when the BBC still produced quality programming. Thanks for uploading.
That hairwashing scene at around 11:00
Beautiful
The woman with the thick long white hair is "lovely" as the British say---inside-out.
This is such a bittersweet video. The passage of time and fashions have made beauty shops like this so rare nowadays. The idea of the “funeral bag” that different ladies would borrow for funerals and it would be stocked with a bit of money and a mint was so considerate. Loved this documentary!
The funeral bag was just the sweetest thing...the diary of death was, however, a whole new level! One has to wonder how such a document would have stood up to the rules of the modern-day GDPR. I know it's a cliche, but there is so much mileage in it, when I say that times were in so many ways much simpler back then...if it wasn't for Hilary's dislike of smoking (a fact that we learnt about from the documentary) you can be sure that several of her old girls would have been puffing away while under the dryer, such was the culture of day. I find it so, so hard to understand that 1994 was, in fact, thirty years ago. It seems like only yesterday.
This was a wonderful watch. Following all the conversations was like watching an episode of Coronation Street in its glory years, when it was well written and astutely observed. Full of warmth, sincerity and pathos. It took me back to my childhood- both my grandmothers were like these ladies, going to get their hair set every week. It’s a beautiful piece of film-making that allows real people to shine. I almost welled up at times.
I love this so much, its like a real life Victoria Wood sketch. Also reminds me so much of my Nana who was a Lancashire lass, the beautiful turn of phrase, never stepped out looking anything less than her best. They don't make women like that anymore. Absolute diamonds:)
so true
Read about this recently and found it here. One of the best things I have seen in many years.
I love telly like this, that makes everyday life magical. Do the BBC still commission stuff like it? I can remember my Gran referring to lifelong neighbours as Mr this and Mrs that - friendship with dignity.
I wish they did still make shows like this about every day life and it's characters
I grew up not knowing a lot of our neighbour's Christian names.Even where I lived for 25 years I still referred to some by Mr or Mrs.
Aww love this , wish it was like it nowadays, down to earth people
I will never forget this, thank you ❤
Just found this after it was mentioned on a Caroline Aherne documentary. If you have seen Derren Litten's series "Scarborough", you will be amazed how much came from here: Mrs Bookham featured in both, both had a customer "dying on our toilet", the phrase about "us old girls having nowhere to go" if the salon closes, and the "Vanity Box" itself even mentioned. Even Geraldine, the owner of the hair salon in "Scarborough" is dressed just like one of the owners in the documentary. Really enjoyed watching.
It called beauty parlour stroke,
Just read about this in the Guardian. Thank you for uploading it to UA-cam! This gives fond associations to my favourite series, The Royle Family. Such wonderful women in Three Salons at the Seaside, helping one another to get on with living while here on earth.
Yes I very much agree. Definite royle family vibes. One of my fave tv shows too. It would’ve been funny if they did a salon episode. With all the ladies gossiping under the dryers 😂. God bless and hope you have a great day. Glad to relate and reminisce with a fellow Brit x ❤
Royle Family - Best Series ever!
I watched a doc about Caroline Ahearne and Craig Cash mentioned that this programme was a huge inspiration to them
Thank you documentary now!!!! This was as hilarious as their parody. But after watching their parody this was kinda touching!!!!
I saw this ....years ago and loved it. I've been looking for it ever since. Thanks a mil for posting, this is documentary film making at it's absolute best.
Apparently it was one of the late great Caroline Aherne's favourites, I'm sure Mrs Merton would have felt at home in one of these salons.
@@jodypritchard5425 Maybe she would. May be not. Let's have a heated debate!
Fantastic - I was born and grew up in Bispham/Blackpool. The clients remind me so much of my mum and her twin sister (who was a client of the vanity box !). Good people - kind and funny - the very best combination.
I loved this. As a salon owner myself and a hairdresser, I loved watching this. How the salons have changed and what I do miss is the the community spirit that was so present back then. I think I would like to go back intime for a bit :)
thats it the community spirit and of course the gossip I remember going to a salon like this with my mum and I would always see the same ladies there .
Me too ✋️ I am dealing with severe urinary retention problems, that are becoming life-threatening, and I have to have badly malformed male genitalia completely removed, including total orchiectomy, and vaginoplastt performed very soon; and they have to dramatically shorten my urethra! Sadly, I have zero bladder tone ?! When I get stressed, it is amazing 👏 🙌 just how much a shampoo and roller wet set bouffant hairdo makes me feel a million times better! I can relax and just be lovingly pampered. It does absoluemtw wonders for my emotional health 😢 ✨️
Sometimes; you just need to be in a safe place; 🙏 ❤️ 😊 ✨️ where you can feel loved 😍 ❤️ ♥️ 💜 💕 💖 and cared for! This is why I am going to study Cosmetology as soon as I am physically able to do so!
i found this after Cate Blanchett mentioned having watched it whilst being interviewed on hot ones. She's just made a parody of it in Australia. She said, that northerners talk about death a lot and from this film you can see it clearly, it's all death. I'm originally from Manchester but married my husband from Lincolnshire. He said, your family always talk about death lol, so i guess Cate Blanchett was right, it is a northern thing.
I think it comes from the Irish my family came from Ireland to Liverpool in the mid 1800s and stayed in Lancashire subsequent generations I remember as a child going to see dead people it was normal for us a part of life
@@michelles2299 you're right. My father's family originated in ireland too. I remember when his mum died in 1985, she was laid out in my aunts home before the funeral. Nobody here ever speaks about death but i make up for it.
That parody is episode 3, season 4, of Documentary Now! and it's very good.
Absolutely brilliant, loved these real wonderful ladies. ❤
The shops is still in the same place you can see it on street view and looks to be in the garden that is now outside the shop. The spat and laundrette plus shop next door on corner all look to be gone now sadly. How we all miss those people from that era. What fantastic spirit. I think they will all begone now. 1994 but looks like could of been 80s that’s Blackpool for you.
Cannot wait for THIS episode of Documentary Now!
It's the episode with Cate Blanchett
Filmed in the actual same salon apparently
Absolutley love this! Reminds me of when i would go out and about with my grandmother in the town for shopping and a cup of tea. The language and dialogue is identical. That was after a morning of helping her battle with her twin tub lol
Fabulous, Thank you. The days my nana and mam always had their hair done has come flooding back to me. Beautiful time in my life. Innocent and no stress.
I always try and go to a more traditional hair salon whenever I can, even if it's just for a wash and blow. They're just so much more peaceful and relaxing than modern day hair salons plus they take me back to my youth
A remarkable documentary---now almost 25 years old---that captures part of UK's cultural history. I can imagine my Scottish aunt and grandmother in such a salon in the Glasgow area!
I can imagine that too
That kid on the roller skates gets about
I was thinking that. She probably died at 13 of exhaustion!
Lovely ! Every week i go to my hairdresser for a wash and set.
A ‘old fashion’ shop in Assen in the Netherlands.
I love the old fashion style in combination with a classic headscarf when i leave the shop.
I am 53 and i hope my hairdresser will do her work for many years.
Regards from the Netherlands 😘
Do you still visit the salon Ellen ?
This documentary was a favourite of the late comedienne Caroline Aherne who wrote The Royale Family and was Mrs Merton.
@@DomBarber o yes i do.
Still happy with my wash and set.
I LOVE ❤️ your big beautiful bouffant hairdo, and will have the same hairdo in a few months ❤️ 💙
I love ❤️ your hair ! I am going to have to have a mtf bottom surgery performed soon at UC DAVIS! I hope that I can find a salon/ school like this for when I just need to decompress; and be pampered for an hour or so!
Reality tv thats actually WORTH watching. More please.
I wish the BBC would still make these one-off documentaries about real people
This is Priceless footage , Great memories for the families of clients , and I think every Hairdresser , From your little corner salon to Chains like Toni&Guy can relate somewhere in their career the sometimes really funny to some serious/sad things in life that clients tell you in confidence or a "Get something off your chest "that you wouldn't tell your nearest and dearest , great video preserved by The Beeb , and there's as I say a bit of "Nana and Barbara " ( Royale Family) in this to the Vera Duckworth gossiper , it easily could have been a series ,or even made into ,which it did with Chanel 4"s The Salon years after this show , Thanks to the uploader , RIP to all who was involved in this ,as I say , priceless memories for those who knew the ladies 🙏
She's 82 this yr and still going strong some of her original clients still go for there hair done she will never giv it up xxxx
My god how times chsnge .
Just amazing! Absolutely loved it!
That brought back very happy memories of my days as an apprentice in the 1960’s.. and i worked at Lewis’s department store in the late 60’s early 70’s…
Looking at Google streetview, it is as if "Vanity Box" has been converted / converted back into a house. Last photo was from September 2022, with a lady in the front garden who looks very like Hillary.
There are also several previous pictures of it on streetview, from May 2009, October 2014 & 2018, and January 2021, all of which seem to suggest it was still open for business and closed down quite recently. What is perhaps most interesting of all is what happened to the shop attached to it next door - you will see that the matching rectangular extension to the front of the building has been removed, making it look like a regular 1930s / 50's type house. I wonder how they did that.
Also on the 2009 streetview, you can see a launderette on the opposite corner - presumably the same one where the woman who worked there came in to Vanity Box to announce the death of the wrong Betty.
You are right about the video shop next door, you would think the shop part had never been there, now replaced with a rather nice rose garden
What a peculiar, entertaining, GEM! 🤗
My aunty is in this filming the lady having her hair put up. we only ever seen her with her hair up love watching this
She had the most GLORIOUS head of hair!
Her Crown was most Beautiful 🧡
Gosh Mrs Merton and one lady sounded just like Ena Sharples.
I know about the Documentary Now spoof but this would be fabulous as a sitcom set in this era.
Fabulous upload!
Cate Blanchett and Hot Ones brought me here
Watched this when it was originally aired, love it.
I don't know how Tricia made a living, with those opening times.
Can anyone recommend any similar documentaries? I know this is a one off but I love stuff like this. Looking at normal life and conversation of time gone by is fascinating. Used to go to the hairdressers with my Nan in the mid 90s in Yorkshire. Exact same set up. Lovely.
While not quite the same thing as this, two documentaries I thoroughly enjoyed (not least because of the interviews with ordinary people who talked about their everyday experiences) were as follows:
The Secret Life of the National Grid 2 - Switching On (2010)
All Mod Cons - NEW upload! - Complete
Both are on youtube and can be found if you copy & paste the titles to the search box.
I enjoyed every second of it! And how amazing was that thick snowwhite hair from that lady!Do you have more documentaries like this?
No other word but Brilliant.
My Mother always had the same kind of hairstyle as many of these ladies. I always wondered where it came from. 50’s film starlets perhaps? The style never changed for 50 years!
If it isn't broken, don't try to fix it!
Nice story ! Great documentary .. I actually used to get haircuts in a small beauty shop .. those beauticians were up age but they cut my hair better than the barber. And it had dated decor , typical grandma beauty shop and for $8 they gave me a very thorough shampooing , haircut and dry... Barber charged $12 just for the haircut, he didn't wash hair.
I was a hairdresser for 45 years and loved every bit of it. The ladies would sit under the dryers and we would all talk and laugh!! These sweet women would confide to me the drama in their lives!! Made me happy that they felt better after I was done. They'd say " See ya next week"
Amazing, it was wonderful watching this. If life was only as good now. Real community and real people.
reminds me of my childhood :)
just wonderful!
@Vacbear58 Thanks so much for uploading this, I've been looking for this excellent documentary for years.
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This documentary was absolutely lovely! I could watch hours and hours. Can anyone tell me who the ladies were gossiping about having plastic surgery in the very beginning?
Their stories were wonderful and heartfelt. Brought me to tears several times.
Ivy in Coronation Street, a character who’d been in it for years played by Lynne Perrie. She had plastic surgery without letting the programme makers know. It really changed her appearance and she was written out of the show soon after.
@@robertm4102 I remember that then she went onto The Word and made a show of herself, that kiss, if you know you just know, wish I didn't 😂
Northern life stories and humour at its best, every street corner had one !!
The shampoo set Era was wonderful , women came EVERY week...not once a month or 6 weeks. I worked 20 years behind a chair...had a few embarrassing bouffant hair donts but they liked it!!!
There's not many "West End " stylists who can't Dress Hair that good , "Cottage Loaf" if not mistaken it was called
Brilliant I remember this from when it was first broadcast, always enjoy watching it.
Remember this when it first came out. A lovely slice of real Northern life!
I recently discovered this gem on BBC I PLAYER I could have just watched it here along time ago if I had known
I tell just about everyone I know to watch this. It’s amazing x
Love this my nannas hairdressers Mary’s way as I remember being a little girl and getting biscuits from the back. Now my own hairdressers
Do you still visit the salon ?
This was EXACTLY the same way in the States. Anyone old enough to remember the 1980's will definitley remember this scenario and how virtually all their daughters broke the cycle by never going as women became more empowered to do their own hair with the Advent of the hand held blow dryer.
I enjoyed watching this!
... 13:37 " HIYA DOROTHY! ".... Splendiferous Indeed 🏴🥂🌄🌄🌄
THIS IS BRILLIANT X
reminds me of my Saturday job late 60's happy times
I remember when I was 7 years old, and was with my grandmother, just before school started. We go to Mary's, where I just get the same treatment as my grandmother, a perm, and set... And after we were there, I became a regular customer there for the next 3 years. I always looked forward to getting there weekly for my set. When I would get perms, went all afternoon I remember..
I loved this, too. ♡
I remember this from the original broadcast. ...fascinating
I’m in a hotel at the minute and a couple doors down they are filming for this in Blackpool :)
One of these is so close to Caroline Aherne’s character I found it a struggle to keep a straight face at times
I read somewhere that Caroline Ahearn loved this documentary and that Mrs. Merton was based on the owner of Vanity Box. I had the same weird deja vu while watching this!
@@bonapolone yes the similarities in looks, voice and mannerism are so clear!
Laughing so much, I am crying!! Thankyou.
that one salon owner MUST have been the inspiration for mrs merton 😁 crikey. oh but the lady with the luscious long silver hair! wow. so nice to see older ladies with longer hair. really beautiful. i think the production is definitely of it's time. the slightly annoying tinkly piano music, and the repeat vignette of the girl skating. somewhat contrived. and i won't be convinced that they aren't playing up to the camera - just a little bit. entertaining, none the less.
They were all oh-so playing up to the camera at times, never more so the part where Hilary talks about her mother coming to the salon each morning "generally chewing an apple", and cue the grin & nod to camera...and from my end the sound of tumbleweed passing by...the fact that she thought it was funny is what make me giggle, not it being funny in isolation, because it wasn't. Nevertheless, the story about the woman getting knocked over outside Kwik Save never ceases to reduce me to fits - "I'VE BEEN IN THE GAZETTE BEFORE!".
As for Mrs Merton, I don't doubt she was drawn from Hilary's "type", but whether Blackpool or Birmingham, women like her existed all over. As a child of the 70s who grew up in the 80s & 90s, I adored them.
some of this could have been written by victoria wood is is so funny
Exactly what I said to my sister but it's because Victoria Wood had observed places like this that her writing is so brilliant.
it's VERY Victoria Wood. I love the hairdresser who sounds like Mrs Merton
Beautiful!
Our mum began training at a salon in a newly built multi-storey block & parade of shops upon the clifftop at Barton On Sea at the now eastern tip of Bournemouth in 1950 & the premises only ceased use as a hairstylist in the late 00s.
Love this ❤
Bellissimo e commovente
Amazing
Wonderful
Brilliant
Wonderful footage
Very motivational to take care of oneself
Fantastic
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If anyone has the Philippa Lowthorpe (who directed this) documentary "A Childhood" from 2000 please upload it. I used to have it on tape and loved it but it long lost now and I'd love to see it again.
J'adore ce vieux salon de coiffure et les
great goodold wetsets.
Vanity Box is in St Leonard's Road Blackpool and the Chinese takeaway Hilda had spare ribs in syrup, beef and bamboo and chicken with cashew had "Eggy" fried rice and chips is just across the road over the junction, The Great Wall!
World and all within was definitely better back then!