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  • @mozdickson
    @mozdickson Рік тому +8

    wow, beautifully crafted and so moving. i worked with a Geordie in the moshav Fazael fields of the West Bank (yes, that place) in 1986. He used to sing "the collier lad is a canny lad.." song in the fields at 6am as we picked aubergine and tomatoes. Our Palestinian workmates loved Lyndsay's tune.

  • @JohnRickeard
    @JohnRickeard Рік тому +8

    Absolutely love it ,

  • @PlanetImo
    @PlanetImo Рік тому +8

    Fabulous. I live in today's folk scene so this was extra fascinating for me :)

    • @patrickwalsh6873
      @patrickwalsh6873 Рік тому

      Are you in the NE of England ? I'm interested to know if there is a thriving scene there for this kind of music ?

  • @dominicestebanrice7460
    @dominicestebanrice7460 Рік тому +18

    Christ! i spent a lot of my childhood just staring out of the back bedroom window onto the scene depicted at 06'30" (Salford. in my case, mid-late 60s & early '70s). Back then, I thought I was bored but now I'd say i had little distraction; only the public library up the street which was my favorite place and four parks within walking distance (yes, even in Salford). I can literally FEEL the scene, especially the lack of central heating 😏but it might as well be an alien civilization. I visit occasionally and am happy the place is still doing OK: the houses are still there thankfully but now "worth" 200k. The biggest change is the cars; in a photograph from my First Communion taken in the street there is not a single car in the picture, only about two people in the entire street owned one....today, the street and front "gardens" are jam packed with vehicles and the residents occasionally get into fist fights over parking spaces!

    • @johnfowler4820
      @johnfowler4820 Рік тому +1

      Cars are simply and obviously the wrong transport choice for UK cities

    • @sueg2470
      @sueg2470 11 місяців тому

      I'm from and still live in Salford. Much has changed yet there is still heritage and lots of parks and green space if you know where to look. House prices are rediculous though.

  • @verioffkin
    @verioffkin Рік тому +4

    Beautiful! Thanks!

  • @worldofameiso5491
    @worldofameiso5491 Рік тому +1

    Salt of the Earth, and to the Earth many have returned.

  • @JMoruzzi
    @JMoruzzi Рік тому +2

    I had never heard of AL Lloyd before seeing this. Just been to look at his Wikipedia entry. He was quite a character, had quite a life!

  • @mid-walesrover681
    @mid-walesrover681 Рік тому +8

    Only fifty years ago but a completely different world. People then were more resilient, they could turn their hand to anything.

  • @nicmcv6925
    @nicmcv6925 Рік тому

    Amazing singing. Superb documenting. Also, that font at the end 🤤

  • @patrickcrowther9195
    @patrickcrowther9195 Рік тому +7

    Beautifully made and scripted. So much of that world that seemed so stable and unchanging back then has disappeared.

    • @mozdickson
      @mozdickson Рік тому

      all that is solid melts into air

  • @justonsullivan3807
    @justonsullivan3807 Рік тому +7

    The good ole days of simpler times. This world will never be the same. 🙏🇺🇲🗽🇬🇧🙏

  • @leighsavage3073
    @leighsavage3073 9 місяців тому

    Amazing

  • @peterm1826
    @peterm1826 Рік тому +1

    My dads side of the family. Were Scottish. Came from the highlands. They were as rough and tougher then iron fillings. My father had big hands and upper arms from working on a farm. I remember I told him to get stuffed I was 18 at the time. He grabbed me by the neck and lifted me without hesitation. And said wanna repeat that. Lol.

  • @swaneknoctic9555
    @swaneknoctic9555 Рік тому +11

    Rough as iron filings perhaps, but if you talked to these people for the first time, it would be like they've known you all your life.

    • @JMoruzzi
      @JMoruzzi Рік тому +1

      It's the music that is described that way, not the people. Yes the title of the video is ambiguous, but it is clear in the commentary when the phrase is used what is being referred to.

  • @whatsnottohike
    @whatsnottohike Рік тому

    What is the town at the 5.50 mark, anyone know? Somewhere in county Durham?

  • @gezbo66
    @gezbo66 Рік тому +20

    A beautiful record of life as it was and it shows us how much we lose as we "progress and diversify"...

    • @RZPPAA
      @RZPPAA Рік тому +3

      100%! Was thinking about wording this myself but you've done it for me.

    • @moominmay
      @moominmay Рік тому +10

      @@RZPPAAy’all looking at it through rose tinted glasses as per usual. What’s the diversify part got to do with it. First generation immigrants like my parents did an incredible job building up England doing the work indigenous population wouldn’t do so well done those hard working ‘diverse’ minorities like my parents and cousins. Gave me a fantastic future. I have a well paid job, am a homeowner and continue giving back to my wonderful England. Amazes me people born in England (especially those who blame ethic minorities for anything bad) who have struggled to have any kind of success whilst my parents with no understanding of English *worked* their butts off to learn the language, go to night school and better their lives. They paid off their mortgage and paid for our schooling and cars so we could have successful lives and pay back to our communities.

    • @OlafProt
      @OlafProt Рік тому +4

      @@moominmaywell said 👍🏼👍🏼

    • @RZPPAA
      @RZPPAA Рік тому +2

      @@moominmayWon't be reading that x

    • @moominmay
      @moominmay Рік тому +5

      @@RZPPAA truth hurts 🤷🏻‍♀️

  • @richardjames3356
    @richardjames3356 Рік тому +1

    3:27 - Is that his own pint mug with his name on it?

  • @DustyCustard
    @DustyCustard Рік тому +1

    3:22 16p a pint

  • @sicks6six
    @sicks6six Рік тому +1

    when I was a little kid everywhere and everyone was like this, what we have today is not progress, no one is happy, everyone is a member of a group who complains about something, everyone protests about stuff they're not happy about, social media is nothing more than a platform for unhappy people to express how they feel, everyone you speak to seems worried about something, back in the late 1950s (my DOB) everyone was busy working to make enough money to feed themselves, pay the rent and pay the Christmas club money each week, no one owned a car or telephone, not everyone had a TV yet, we didn't have a fridge or carpets and often went without food for a day or two and I would collect wood from derelict houses to burn at home on the one source of heat we had, a small coal fire, ask me when I would choose to be alive now or then. . .

  • @tancreddehauteville764
    @tancreddehauteville764 Рік тому +2

    Sad video. Anyone in the video is now either dead or old.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 Рік тому +1

      My parents were around in 1971 and they're still going strong. Not old at all.

  • @Velocifred
    @Velocifred Рік тому +8

    Days before working class disappeared

    • @tancreddehauteville764
      @tancreddehauteville764 Рік тому +4

      The white working class.

    • @Velocifred
      @Velocifred Рік тому +3

      @@tancreddehauteville764 Working class: "the social group consisting primarily of people who are employed in unskilled or semi-skilled manual or industrial work" ...and sharing similar values, culture, traditions

  • @OlafProt
    @OlafProt Рік тому

    AL Lloyd is Britains Harry Smith or Alan Lomax

  • @WKCockRobin
    @WKCockRobin Рік тому +4

    They'd be far right today

  • @Shilly-Mcshillface
    @Shilly-Mcshillface Рік тому +16

    I'd go back there in an instant, there's strength in those communities, before we were 'diversified'.

  • @jasper3127
    @jasper3127 Рік тому +8

    When men were still men! I'm 44 and can't comrehend what men my age and younger have transformed into (obviously not all) and that is very feminine guys. There's a culture of guys that are super vain,use make up and filters online, lip fillers and as for the way they dress...your sister wants her leggings back😅it's quite surreal!

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno Рік тому +8

      You’re worse for caring what other people do or wear, ma’am.

    • @RZPPAA
      @RZPPAA Рік тому

      They probably don't identify as 'men'. How dare you assume their gender.
      PS:- I am a similar age and agree entirely, I dread to think what would happen if a world war broke out and all these gender-confused were all that was left to defend the country.

    • @sands7779
      @sands7779 Рік тому +1

      Maybe judge people by "the content of their character" as a wise man once said ;)

  • @andygarner7747
    @andygarner7747 Рік тому +20

    Can you imagine what these people would think of the sterile, politically correct, idiotic woke society we live in today.

    • @heraldeventsandfilms5970
      @heraldeventsandfilms5970 Рік тому +12

      You'd still be thought of as an r.sole.

    • @RZPPAA
      @RZPPAA Рік тому +8

      @@heraldeventsandfilms5970 And you'd probably have no teeth, if you wanted to be rude back then you'd have to say it somebody's face, no monitor to hide behind.

    • @heraldeventsandfilms5970
      @heraldeventsandfilms5970 Рік тому +6

      Aye. right. r.sole.@@RZPPAA

    • @RZPPAA
      @RZPPAA Рік тому

      ​@@heraldeventsandfilms5970 Ok Jock Ferguson x

    • @RZPPAA
      @RZPPAA Рік тому

      @@heraldeventsandfilms5970 Be very silly if your email and phone number were on the internet wouldn't it. They could be added to all sorts ;)

  • @luiathmorgan7709
    @luiathmorgan7709 11 місяців тому

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne#:~:text=Newcastle%20was%20part%20of%20the,part%20of%20Tyne%20and%20Wear.

  • @luiathmorgan7709
    @luiathmorgan7709 11 місяців тому

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Newcastle_upon_Tyne#:~:text=During%20the%20civil%20war%20between,was%20effectively%20in%20Scottish%20hands.