1969: What KIDS Think About CHRISTMAS | Children Talking | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
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- Gerald Harrison speaks to boys and girls from North London schools about Christmas.
Clip taken from Children Talking - That Christmas Feeling, originally broadcast on BBC One, 25 December, 1969.
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If you’re poorer, you have more time to think of Jesus - priceless
LOL I love how the "presents for Jesus" are don't talk at church , wash the plates and dont muck about at your cousins house 0:40 😂
Also praying
Yes, don't muck about in your cousin's house.😂
Father Ted: Dougal, you know you can praise God in other ways.
Father Dougal: Oh yeah, like that time you told me I could praise him just by leaving the room.
Father Ted: Yes, that was a good one all right.
@@Veronica705 I remember one Christmas that my cousins came to our house and we mucked about pushing the sofa backwards, making out we were on the Big Wheel at the fair and we went backwards into the front window. The front window had glass where it went down to the floor level. I'm surprised that non of us were hurt but I remember us getting a right rollicking when they knew we were alright. They had the window changed after that where it was bricked up about half way and a smaller window.
he actually spittin facts
These children are so mature compared to children today. So well spoken too.
Yea cause kids these days never mature 🙄 I'm guessing yours and your grandkids are really mature and perfect 🤔
@@Angie-jm8kpHit a nerve did it?
@@charlottec9858obviously hit a nerve with you you miserable old git. I'm guessing your kids and grandkids are amazing it's just everybody else's kids that are no good.
They obviously picked the most articulate kids to interview lol. As always it really depends on the child. I've met plenty of children that act similarly to this! There is plenty of modern UA-cam videos interviewing children where they act exactly like this...
Have you listened to an actual child today?
Wow, it's incredible to see how much British society has changed over the past 50 years...
Yes for the better!😪😪😪
Multiculturalism
These kids are adorable, society was better and stabler then.
How very funny.@@Heaven-dy9lj
Pre multiculturalism England was so much nicer in so many ways, I’m sure these kid’s parents don’t worry about them getting stabbed on the estate.
The young lad who said that, 'money, women and TV ' make men turn against Christ , priceless.I was that age in 1969, very nostalgic.
'I think Jesus would be born in a warehouse.....' 😂😂
Me too!
That kid has seen some things.
Moomin haha
He's clearly parroting his degenerate father
Felt sorry for the kid where all the adults get so drunk they just flop on the floor. He looked quite sad about it.
I felt exactly the same about that boy - he even looked tired himself .... I just hope he didn't have to live the life he describes, often.
That's was the day's when kid's got beaten for nothing by there parents ,and it wasn't called abuse it was called a hiding and you got on with life after being beaten by your parents
I caught that too....relatable...it's a hard way to grow up
'And when you go to your cousins house, don't muck about!' hahaha I can just imagine his mum or dad telling him that as they arrive 🤣
Some of these children are very wise, bless them.
That’s when the British education system was worth something …..
@@lks6248agreed.
Love the boy who remembers the exact time he was sick 😂
😂😂😂
Poor kid... It probably ruined his Christmas. I was once sick at Christmas and was already a teenager by then and it sucked so bad! It has been more than 20 years but I remember it so well that I can describe it as if it was yesterday.
@@alva--._..l-._.-l.._.-- oh no! My sister was sick one Christmas and ruined it for all of us 😂 Never let her forget to this day the Christmas we were all forced to have cereal for Christmas dinner as mum had to look after her 😂 🍽️
@@lellytalks4296 awwww... that was really nice for the family to not eat other things during Christmas while she was sick.🥰 My family didn't care and just ate whatever they wanted while I starved.😒 My narcissistic mother kept yelling at me, saying I was just trying to call for attention during Christmas, whilst I kept throwing up really badly. It reached a point that there was only green bile coming out, and I was so damn thirsty. Couldn't even hold any water in my stomach. And she was the one who gave me food poisoning and wasn't even sorry. Man... it was awful!
Around eight 😂
Look at all the Lady Bird book pictures and words on the walls. So nostalgic.
Peter and Jane and Pat the dog
I loved all those books in the 70’s
The children were so grounded in reality. So different from today's children.
We were more grounded...
They had mothers and fathers in the household. Nowadays kids don't have fathers. The nuclear family is destroyed
Apart from all the talk about Jesus 😂, that’s very far removed from reality.
No we weren’t I was 7 in 1969 it was awful
@@KD400_ LMAO, you have no idea.
I was at school in this era. The children looked and sounded so different to kids today.
No mobile phones, internet, junk food and limited tv in those days , the good old days when people socialised, talked and thought for themselves.
I always find those observations strange there where always insufferable people out there we just know about them now because of the internet and social media. Before you hardly knew anyone outside the town or city you grew up in so there was a very tiny sample size of people now we can see every idiot out there but those people have always existed. We act like the past was more social but for example you see all the people on trains they just read a newspaper and still ignored everyone it’s not that different it’s just a phone instead.
@@GuitarJammerJohn I lived in a Buddhist community as a child , we had several house around the country, London , Manchester , Leomister several in Wales ect. Everywhere I went people knew their local communities , were friendly and chatty. In Wales which was extremely poor (except for some farmers) there were the usual enemies and people who stayed out of the communities but they were the minority , however in a crisis everyone chipped in , enemies, foes and recluses. The mobile network has demolished communities and caring. The blue screen in an addiction that isolates and makes people into robots as good as.
@@peacedreamerable that’s exactly my point you knew a few small groups in those places and I’m sure they were very friendly and social but it would have been impossible for you to meet everyone. Now you can see and hear what every idiot thinks and unfortunately the worst people usually attract attention online but I can guarantee those people always existed it’s just unfortunate that now everyone has to hear from them.
@@GuitarJammerJohn I lived in a community of around 80 people and their children scattered over the country in the 60 &70's &80's . Your point is invalid. I knew communities in all the houses as I regulary visited and lived in them for lengths of time being the daughter of one of the teachers, I moved most of my childhood on weeekly or monthly basis and so was incorporated in every one of the communities simultaneously. You don't know what you are talking about.
@@peacedreamerable you knew a few communities its highly unlikely you actually knew more than maybe 300 people at most. Today we can see thousands of people a day online you are bound to come across some stupid people. My point is completely valid I'm not saying you didn't know many friendly social people but that was only a tiny proportion of the population.
I was so lucky to have been born in 1960, I would have been the same age as these children back then. The only chocolate we had was a tin of quality street that the whole family shared. Real treats were grapes, tangerines and a fresh pineapple. Nuts too if you could crack them open. The smell of cigars and satsuma’s Christmas hanging in the air. The magic of Church in the morning, dinner at 2pm, later in the day Aunties and nanny’s to cuddle by the fire, carols to sing and shop bought novelty Christmas stockings to open, which contained cheap chocolate tools, snakes and ladders game, magic curly fish and a paper trumpet. Aahhhh those memories are so precious. I feel sad for the children of today that don’t know the meaning behind a Christmas celebration.
Totally summed it up! I literally could cry for today's children.
The children of yesteryear had respect for all adults and for the law ,what horrible kids today are ,well some are horrible and the rare few are still lovely, but that's few and far 😢
I was 1972, it wasn’t that much different but of course there would be some.
“One over the eight.” Haven’t heard that in many years. So funny hearing it from a junior school boy too!
That struck me too. My uncle used to say something like 4 sheets to the wind as well
@@barb46454 sheets to the wind is still quite common
What does it mean?
@@caracara300 It used to be thought that the average man could drink eight pints of beer and still be (relatively!) sober. But if he had one more he’d he drunk, hence “one [pint] over the eight.”
@@caracara300
"Four sheets to the wind" is a sailing term - the ropes tied to the sails are called 'sheets' so if attached to certain sails, and turned into the oncoming strong winds, the boat (yacht, schooner etc) could pick up speed and be "flying along"...as far as I'm aware of that particular saying...
I was born in 63 and the difference between the kids these days . Kids are funny,, and there's no kidding them. I remember my whole family Aunts, Uncles, cousins friends and their parents all being together then. Now my family are here there and everywhere. I don't see any of them anymore at Christmas. But I suppose families used to live in the same towns but now they don't. Sad that we've lost that 😢
"Who would come and see Jesus now?"
"Harold Wilson" 😂😂😂😂😂
I loved my 1960s childhood , much better times people were more equal and we were happier with less by gum !! I’m 61 now and almost feel sorry for my grandchildren nowadays . Wish we could roll back time !
Nice that some did. Mine wasn’t bad but I was made aware that it was an exhausting and expensive thing for my mother. We did enjoy it but I didn’t often get what I wanted when my sister did. We had to clean everything up immediately after opening the presents and help with the dinner and then we often had to
top and tail in a tiny bed at the grandparents house, had to behave etc, so not much freedom really. I’m glad I don’t have to do all that grandparent turn taking now and my children don’t want children. Easy. I’m even thinking of doing something completely different next Xmas hols rather than present buying and dinner making and just going off somewhere as a family instead. I’m tired of the whole expense and effort of it all. I don’t believe in god or the bible anyway so it’s only a family gathering thing for me now.
@@amayastrata4629do it, do what makes you happy ❤
Some people were more equal lol
With you all the way! 🙏
I was 6 then and remember the vile old headmaster caning kids in front of the school. Yep- brings it all back.
Someone else was prowling around hospitals too in London- Savile . Creepy stay in a Hospital then with complications after surgery & multiple injections with needles like they now use on horses.
Pervy Heath was PM I think. Or on the campaign trail.
I saw Concorde flying over Surrey. The Mitcham gasworks blew up which I also saw. The shops were full of virulently coloured pop bottles in the shape of spacemen as we called them. Astronauts was the American term. We all saw the moon landing on the old school BW tv.
Absolutely priceless- what sweet little kids
The BBC came to our school in 1969 to film an episode of 'Children Talking'. Big excitement! The subject was 'Love & Marriage'!
I hope the bbc archive put it up so we can see!! 😂
@@themadplotter 😄😄I wasn't on it. Not photogenic enough. A researcher asked me if I was going to get married and have kids. I said yes and I'd have about seven kids, but I'd check to see if that was alright with the wife first (True). Couldn't understand why all the adults fell about laughing.
That is so cute. 😌@@Cameraman61
@@themadplotterit would be banned today as non-inclusive.
@@steve9542000 sorry piers Morgan’s not home can I take a message?
School kids back then look and act older than teachers now.
Cause our parents didn't treat us with kid gloves
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I was 6 in 1967 . Kids are so honest .
Hope the blond haired boy kept his faith. What beautiful children.
😮 Why _would_ you want any of those children to "keep their faith"?!
I hope they didnt.
@@brigidsingleton1596 Because if mankind follows his own way , they make a mess. Follow the way of Jesus you get comfort and strength to live a good life., I've tried both ways !
@@AL-wn2tt
Jesus died (_IF_ he ever lived - as a son of a deity) _thousands_ of years ago...so... No good to anyone now in the 21st Century!!!
@@brigidsingleton1596 Look into Christian neoplatonism and the Orthodox faith. I have a hunch your opinion of Christianity is tainted by American protestantism (High Church Anglicanism is pretty solid but the entry of modern politics into the Church is less than ideal).
What delightful children ,so articulate ,entertaining ,respectful and polite .Society today could learn a lot from this old recording . Makes one sad to watch it .
These kids are now Grandparents
If they had children, and if their children had children themselves. So not necessarily! But they’re that age, yes.
I'm 70 now, have three 'children' (aged now nearly 36, and 30) but am not a grandparent... 😶🏴
I was 8 in 1969 and can imagine answering these questions in much the same way.
The language skills were so much better back then
Because they, and their parents weren't glued to their screens and actually spoke to each other unlike today.
Britain, I loved you then and I love you now. May we all have a joy-full and healthy 2024!
I wonder what these children would have thought if they were told that when they were in late middle age they would watch this on their mobile phones
2;15 this kid is a hardened witness to a boozefest.
If only we could go back in time, i dislike what this world is now..
We have devolved. Technology is mainly to blame I think. Phones, Internet are useful but have become indespenable to most people now. It's sad.
@@andydixon2980 I disagree. It's who owns it and what they are using it for. Fraudulent and malicious corporations own the means of production and are using it to keep people numb, dumb and impressionable.
Big Pharma and Big Tech is the catalyst, technology just one of their tools.
Great description of being drunk at 2:00 😂
This actually brought tears to my yes....the innocence of these lovely children,I was born in 1955,and remember finding out Santa didn’t exist,yet not really wanting to believe it.Kids nowadays know it all....they have everything and they have nothing! I can’t imagine children today being as articulate as these kids of the 60s.Love these archive films.
That was lovely. I was a little child then and the girls in the grey uniform with ties were a bit like I was - one looked like I did. How sweet they all were. The kind interviewer was good too in getting his questions at just the right level for the little children and he interviewed people from all classes too. Fascinating to see this.
Those were the days! No materialism, greed and most notably, the kids had great imagination and RESPECT❤️
We don't LIVE in the world of today. We EXIST!😥
I was only four years old in 69, things were so much better, more optimistic back then.
My great niece (7 yrs) was walking with her Mum and said ‘Mum, I don’t think Santa’s real’. Her Mum asked ‘Why do you think that?’ ‘I googled it’ she said and then went on ‘but I think I’ll just keep believing for now’. Changed times for sure 😂
I was told by a friend father xmas wasn't real when I was about 7 or 8 and ran into mum and told her - she was totally horrified and confirmed again Father Christmas IS real 😂
Adorable accents. What a shame you don’t hear them anymore
I love the pictures of Peter and Jane behind them, I learned to read with those books
Wish England was still like this. Such a wonderful clip. Vernon Kay plays similar archived clips on BBC2 . 🥰
The children look so so so clean!! I wonder if their mothers scrubbed them the night before these interviews!! haha. I love that they wear a proper school uniform, shirt and tie and jumper. so much smarter than some of the uniforms you see today. I was 8 in 1969, seemed a much simpler time. One thing that hasn't changed is the amount of alcohol consumed on Christmas day!!😂
I was 7 in 69 my school uniform then was grey skirt white blouse blue jumper or cardigan,a blue tie and white socks or grey tights.
The accents- adorable!! 😍
Well I was 7 at Christmas 1969, I remember being quite frightened of Father Christmas.
I do think it was all better back then compared to today’s expectations.
Remarkable...kids stringing coherent sentences together without using the word "like" every four seconds.
How I absolutely agree - how well these kids spoke, like kids but stringing proper sentences together. Love the accents too, they all had "proper" London accents not like the Asian/African influenced accents of today
@@suebradford890is there something inproper about an Asian or African accent??
@@kjp1232 Yes…it’s not an English accent. Nothing wrong with an Asian or African accent, it’s just not an English accent. What you hear on this video is an English accent.
@@pommiebears that was over 60 years ago.
Yeah, it was, like, great.
This is gorgeous. What an incredible look into that time. Lovely children. Love their thinking “a derelict house” ❤ aww. I’d love to know what they are like now.
Me too! ❤️
Me too! ❤
I miss this England !
My generation, born in the early 60's, A Notts lad forever!
I miss those days, what happened to our culture.
Aparently we don't have a culture or a country anymore😢😢😢😢
Jolden this is what has happened all the anti British traitors made a decision to destroy our culture with unsustainable mass immigration and the result is the majority don't want to assimilate into our culture this together with a massive increase in violence and anti social behaviour has resulted in the worrying state of our once truly Great Britain .
Gosh 😩 takes me back. I was 6 in 1969 , reminds me of how kids were in my day
Literally a different time back then. Appreciative for what they got, respectful to their elders, teachers, the police &c, unlike 2023.
I'm 27 and agree but it's not as different these days as some think
Myra Hindley etc
That's because they're white and the kids today are all black and brown 😂
@@StratsRUshow many little blacks have killed each other in the last 3 years??? They make myra Hindley look like a Saint.
@@user-wh3vq1qi7xyes my children are 27 and 20...(I was a mum at 18)I raised them single handed after 7 years)and they have fab manners..lots of even younger generation have good manners.😊it's down to the parents standards x
I wonder how many of those children are still with us, and how they feel these days about religion etc... I like listening to those children, their views etc, and can't help wondering how their lives turned out... Bless their hearts.🤔❤🏴😏🇬🇧🖖
Wonderful. It’s how I remember it from the 70s too!!
I was one of these..What a change in the kids these days.Wee loved it &where so grateful for everything 😂.
That kid talking about the adults getting drunk and laughing etc - hilarious!
He looked kinda sad
The accent of these kids. Same as mine. East London. I would have answered the questions much the same as these kids did. This has all gone now…..that complete innocence. Too much iPad now. 3:18 She sounds a lot posher than I ever did lol. 😂❤
Beautiful archive footage thank you for sharing this nostalgia.
These little boy's must be the same age as me
Theu are adorable ❤❤
This made me cry, how beautiful.
We are all in tears it's for our past our country our traditions our lives😢
Have you seen the British tv seiries, "7 Up"? It follows a variety of kids every 7 years from the 60s. It's really interesting. I've checked and there's a playlist of them on UA-cam. I would really recommend it.
I always watched it on tv - it would be great though for Americans to see though
Priceless. Those were the days.😀😀😀😀
Won the pools😂 brilliant. I miss the good old days.
Me mother always did Vernon's pools every week and always talked about what she would buy when she won the pools, but sadly she never did poor bugger😢😢😢
What a beautiful innocent children.
Lovely looking boys,and well spoken,not like the kids today that swear and are rude ,
Yes and back then we didn't understand sex or what it was it was kept private away from us kids that's the way it should be aswell keeps our children innocence untill they are adults ,as pure innocence doesn't need to know about such grown up world
Oh thats fabulas. "And who do you think would come and visit Jesus if he were born today " ? Harold Wilson 😁 Such lovely children. I have had very indepth conversations with my grandchildren, they amaze me how wise they are.
4:30.Absolute gold
It must be my father because I don't know how anyone else can get in the house. 😅😂😂
Stupid father didn't tell them about the chimney.🎅🧱🚪🤶
This was when Britain was Great.
Wonderful time's, hard and tough, but wonderful
❤ Beautiful, but also quite sad to realise how standards have dropped so dramatically since then. 😢
What standards there's no standards ???
Brilliant time to grow up in sadly those times gone forever 😢
Legends. this is brilliant.
Adorable
The two little lads sussing out Santa oh my gosh my heart!
Peter and Jane pictures in the background. That’s how I learnt to read.
These children speak so well
what a delight....I was 12 then.... different era!
I was 12 in 1969 as well!
woohoo twins!! 😄😄@@wendyryder2708
Me too!
'57 was a good year 😊
@@splodge5714 excellent year!! 🙂
I was 6 in 1967 and I look at the children today... so different and not always for the better...
Wasn’t it 1969 this was produced?
8:19 these kids got it right!😂
Harold Wilson 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 oh bless them
Tragic what has become of our educational system. It is now down to the personal convictions of the headteacher as to whether the children hear anything about the true meaning of Christmas.
This video is so
well done. It's precious and priceless! So glad I was part of this era. Less is more certainly taught us to appreciate what we had!❤🎯
Lively London accents
I love the cockney London accent.
I’m surprised the BBC published rather than destroying the tapes.
Yes thats true and they wouldn't dare show any white British children on telly now it would offend
It's disconcerting to be smiling ❤ and crying at the same time - I was 6 then.
I know I feel the same it's so sweet and so sad😊😢
Priceless
That wonderfully wise little boy who said that money.women and television take men away from Jesus Christ !
These lovely kids must be in their 60s now, I wish them all well.❤
I hope they had a happy life. I was 6 in '69
Children were so different back then, loved listening to them.
Glad we can watch the old footage, just great!
I loved growing up in the 70’s the good old days ☀️
The best days. Full of joy
I was 5 in 1969 this really made me smile😂
It's mad that these kids are all now my mum's age.
I was 7 in 1969 and remember watching the USA moon landing. An era where there were only three TV channels, no daytime programmes and we really had to make our own entertainment. We had so much freedom to roam with our friends. In 1969 there was a scrubby field next door to my house which was a fantastic playground for me and the neighbours' kids.
Wow pretty wise little kids
Adorable.... 'be good and wash the plates up'
Adorable ❤
They are very sensible and nice
They're white
Thank you for this video :)
It's hard to believe they're now over 55 years old
Love the old fashioned London accents, sadly no more.
These are posh kids, though, most likely middle class
@@CaptainBollocks.... The girls are terribly posh, but most of the boys have London accents.
@@fredo1070judging by your previous comments you seem quite a hateful person. Oh well hope you learn to love your life soon life’s too short buddy. Merry Christmas! 🎄
@@moominmay Please stop trolling and stalking me.
@@fredo1070 lol i just comment ad hoc to anyone - especially covertly racist comments so means you must have made a heck of a lot if I’m inadvertently’stalking’ you. As for trolling that’s what you do. Bye
Love this 😊
So much to learn from these angels!
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 ❤️