Two days ago I was sorting a box of stuff from my parents' house and found a red fold up paper bell. At Christmas time we'd have those paper chains around the hall, and as the last touch Mam would pin this bell up over the front door. When I saw it I actually started crying. It's survived the last 60 years very well, though now faded to a rose pink, and it's going to be pinned up in OUR house next Christmas.
When my dad passed a couple of years ago I found the old tree (early 1950s), all the mercury glass baubles, the little figures my mum used to put under the tree on a layer of cotton wool (snow!) and the original fairy lights. They are now all out of retirement and have had pride of place for the last two Christmas's. And will continue to do so, it's about the memories and the feeling of keeping the past alive. Maybe that's why we've just installed an early 60s kitchen and own a 59 MK2 ford zephyr?
All I have is a small collection of Christmas baubles from the 60s/70s I put out every year. Happy memories. I love Christmas any decade really has the later ones 1990s plus are of my children. 60s and 70s are of mine :)
1969, when I turned six, I told everybody "This will be my most beloved year for my whole life". And it did. The world was no more like on that spring, fall, winter, not to speak about that magical summer. I long since many years for a time machine. When they seek candidates, I will yell 'HERE' and jump in; go home and will never ever again be so stupid and let me throw out of Paradise.
They have no childhood and have been brought up with no discipline, no real values and manipulated by social media which they sadly think determines their value and worth as a person.
Inwas born in 1971 ans my Christmas I have lot wonderful memories especially my mom made all kind of candies and cookies and deserts then in Christmas ever when my sister and me went to bed agter decorating my mom our out her nice I can't remember the name of it she filled them with all her candy and treats she made..
I didn't realise how much I missed those days until I watched this video. I was a teenager growing up in the late 60s early 70s. Christmas mornings in front of an open fire, opening Christmas presents and smelling the turkey cooking. Wonderful days of innocence and fun! Thanks for the memories!
Oh yes- the pleasure of an open fire. Dog sitting too close...smell of lightly singeing dog...Seriously though, they were lovely- was allowed to have a fire in my bedroom if I was ill-it was almost worth having mumps/measles/chicken pox for :-)
I absolutely love this. My heart is breaking because its all gone. The magic and the people and the real sense of family and being a part of it, and trusting that good old Santa would always bring you something. No turkey on the day, we couldn't afford one. Big capon if my granny sent one down to us. A dolly. A book. Some sweets. An orange. One year a humming top. Another year a kaleidoscope. New pyjamas with that wonderful new smell. Slippers, IF you were very lucky. Nothing much but all the treasure of the world to us. And dad cursing every year because the tree lights always blew... 🎄😂😂
I remember my grandparents giving me my first watch when i was about 15, and I had a very smart (I thought) set of propelling pencil, pen and fountain pen when I started secondary school. I was trying to explain to someone who's about 30 that those were really nice presents back then- and yes, when you were a teenager boxes of embroidered hankies WERE a thing, as were bathcubes- both things you'd get from great aunts....
That tin of Quality Street brought back memories, we lived on a busy road ,on a bend, one day a lorry went too fast round the bend and shed its load of tins of Quality Street , they all went rolling down the road, that was a good Christmas for us kids, never had a large tin of chocolates before. Mum saved the tin to put her flour in and at 73 I still have it in the loft!
What a great story! That was when the big tins of chocolates were BIG! And Roses & Quality Street really were Roses and Quality Street. No the rubbish (nearly all CARAMELS) they put in nowadays half the size! ☺️
Ah the good old days ,my mum used the biscuit tin for her needle and thread .I can remember her putting an orange in a sock and darning it .I still have that tin and use it for the same thing ,not that I sew or darn anything .
😭 I've just cried me eyes out watching that! Memories of the BEST Christmas Days EVER, thanks to our hard working Mam and Dad buying fab toys etc for us 5 kids! 😢 Oh ay! But they were great times back then! If only we could relive them 💔 The good ol' '60's when we were kids! 💖👍xxx
yes I had three brothers and times were lean but somehow we always got what we wanted but we never got loads of expensive stuff and never expected it, amazing times
yep all part of Christmas , we had loads of fun cutting catalogues up and sticking stuff in a cardboard box to make your ideal house, all ways had load of cut out toys in the make believe house lol
Yes great memories excitement to get the keys and freeman's catalogues straight to back pages to chose a toy which my poor mum would pay weekly for. Don't know what kids today would make of that.
It was because we were children and we were innocent back then nowadays children grow up to fast.and definitely not as innocent as we were it's all about computers games consoles I always got a compendium of games and spirograph I spent hours playing with them those days are long gone 😌😌😌
@@dawnfinch8232same here hours on the spirograph & etcha-sketch oh & fuzzy felt, plasticine & play dough so glad we grew up through those times without technology
That was lovely! Everything was better - the crackers, the selection boxes and looking through your Mum’s catalogue. I want to go back! (Plus it snowed!)
Looking through the Argos and index catalogues and Kays of course ...the toy section was always at the back alongside the Christmas decorations! I used to start looking through those in November lol .. the joy and excitement was magical ...
Oh my goodness. That brought so many memories back. It almost broke my heart as my parents and 2 siblings I shared these days with are now passed. Those were simpler days but seemed to me that we were happier.
I’m sorry to hear this 🥲. This video brings such wonderful memories of my childhood. At some point myself, my sister or brother had most of these toys. I certainly remember putting up those decorations!. I’m lucky to still have my Mum and siblings but this has brought tears to my eyes remembering my grandparents and Dad. It’s a mixture of happiness and sorrow for those of us remembering loved ones lost!
I have since lost both parents, but looking at this video makes me feel like they are still here. It gives me a warm feeling of happy times. Thank you for the video , tonight I think I needed it. Xx
@@Lambchop2701 I also remember these times with great fondness. Some of the presents and decorations here bring back lovely memories of Christmas with my family but sadly both my mother and father have now passed. Definitely a much happier simpler time.
Memories eagerly waiting for my father to come home from work Christmas Eve then loading the car to travel to my nan's house in wales pulling up at the door late at night and my mother telling me to go and knock on the door it echoing down the street as I knocked and my nan coming to the door the smiles and laughter as we all walk in to the living room open coal fire burning memories happy one
Best decade ever, for child or adult. I had some of those toys, still have a few. I still collect tinplate robots, but the remakes of them now are utter crap.
@@jazzman1626 Me too. Today's children have such a miserable time compared to our childhood. We were allowed to be children. These days they forced to be adults when still at primary school.
I remember going to the corner shop and buying those small calenders, to stick onto the large picture to make a picture calendar. When I was at my 1st school.i was so proud ,to give it to my mum....bless her..
Remember doing that- either drawing a picture or cutting one (carefully) out of an old magazine, sticking it on a bit of card then adding the little calendar on. My mother managed to look completely surprised by her present.
Ah yes, heaven...but how would you be able to see things like this without your computer? It’s a wonderful invention, I just ignore all the rubbish, the wonderful internet’s been sadly abused. Facebook, social media etc...I just simply don’t wanna know.
Brings back some good memories. It was a totally different world back then; simple pleasures. I used to love to go to Woolworths with my mother at Christmas time. Who remembers “The Broons” and “Oor Wullie”?
I grew up in Canada, but became acquainted with The Broons through a large hardcover book of the comic strip owned by my Great-Grandfather, who moved here from Scotland many years ago. I recall the cover was an illustration of Ma and Pa Broon dancing and surrounded by the family. How l wish l could find a copy now.🙂
So true. My birthday is two days before Christmas and I still remember my mam coming into my room with a smiling face, a plastic bag loaded with a Star Trek annual and a big set of coloured felt tip pens (probably a few more bits, but nothing really expensive....didn't need to be). I'm 55 now (probably around 5 at the time) and as I think back, it still makes me cry with equal happiness & sadness (lost her last year). If only we could go back...
Ah , them were the days . I’m 53 now but 70s were great ... action man , bionic man, evil Knievel , hoop an stick , lol ! Great memories !! Thanks for sharing ☺️ . Greetings from Portsmouth England 🏴
Greetings from Yorkshire. Remember Pippa Doll, spirograph, getting really excited over the hand held organ that made strange noises with metal pen, forgot the name now lol. And the annuals every kid seemed to get lol.
Gosh, so many memories. We had the Nativity ornament at 1.10 and the paper decorations. I loved them. I would go back in a heartbeat when my parents were still here. Christmas just isn't the same these days.
Yes,me too! Its what family and christmas was all about. The build up to christmas was so exciting, I remember me and my sisters drains christmas scenes in the ice on the inside of our bedroom window,4 of us in one room,2 in each bed! Singing carols til we fell asleep! Fabulous.
@@patryan3547 haha, we used to have to pick at the ice inside where our windows had frozen with a screwdriver or knife to get the thing open. No central heating just loads of blankets and a candlewick cover to keep warm. Yet I loved those days so much.
Oh my gosh, this was wonderful, lovely Xmas memories as a child with mum and dad, both now passed, but I’m feeling quite depressed now, sad that these lovely times have gone forever
What a brilliant compilation, I was born in 1959, so 60s and 70s Christmases so nostalgic for me, my parents certainly hadn't loads of money but I always had plenty parcels to open. I got one main present and loads of stocking fillers which were things like colouring books, pencils crayons etc. My mam was an avid knitter so her left over wool created dolls clothes. I had the best dressed sindy dolls in Britain probably. Such happy times❤️❤️
Probably the best decade to be a kid. You really appreciated what you were given for Christmas, my favourite was always the Johnny Seven gun, only kid in the street with one! Life was simple back then with no pressure you just bimbled along at your own pace and had fun.
The trouble with Johnny 7 OMA was it only had one grenade, and a few plastic bullets. However, my gun shaped stick, lovingly found in the trees near the farm at the end of our street, had endless grenades,1000s of bullets and took less than a second to reload! 🤓
I was born in 1962, and I have to say, all the "magic" is gone from Christmas! ... And yes, as a child I really believed in Father Christmas! ... It's sad that such happiness can NEVER be recaptured!
@@marcse7en I’m sorry for your loss. I miss mine terribly. We’re the same age but I lost mom in 1995 and dad in 2008…also lost my oldest sister in 2008. My prayers are with you.
@@ChrysanthsMum I'm saddened to hear of your loss. I also lost my younger brother to suicide, six years before my mother. Thank you for your kind words my friend!
Amazing memories! It is ironic that what we are searching desperately for through fancy electronic tablets and fibre cables are the simpler times of long ago. And when we find something like this what a feeling of contentment and familiarity comes upon us...
I was born in 68 so don't remember the 60's but the 70's was my playground. Absolute best time to be alive as a kid, I don't care what anyone says. Thanks Mam and Dad for the love you gave us although times were hard. XXX
I spent what seemed like hours mesmerized by tree lights through the Angel Hair. Angel Hair was thin spun glass, It created magical circular rainbow effects over each light.
Ahhh...Christmas in the 60s was a VERY magical time. Watching your video brought back many wonderful memories, how sweet it was. If anyone reading this didn't experience the 1960s....I'm sorry you missed it you have no idea how great it truly was!! Thanks again for this wonderful video!!
I remember asking my dad, who loved the Black and White Minstrel Show, why the faces were black. He said it was because we haven't enough black people to sing on tv yet, and we're jealous of their great voices so we want to be like them. Thanks so much for this. Just brilliant.
My mum used to love it. It was always on a Saturday night and we’d always have a cream cake while we watched it. It really was another world and it never entered our heads that it could be offensive! To me, it was just a bit boring but I liked the pretty dresses.
A truly emotional and nostalgic journey back! I remember one year in the mid Sixties, my Dad taking me to Woolworths in December, to buy Christmas presents for my school friends, and noticing the overhead sign; “40 ways to spend 6d”! Christmases were the best in the Sixties and Seventies. Thank you so much, I didn’t want this to end!♥️
oh god what some happy memories.i,m 55 years old .and can remember a lot of these things, back then you had to use your imagination to play with the toy,s I used to enjoy Christmas with making decorations and the Christmas parties at primary school , wish we could go back to those times
@@dawnfinch8232 ABSOLUTELY would love to go back to the good life, people respected one another none of this SJW crap. Life was simple & kind. I know everything wasn't perfect but better than it is now. I'll let you know when I'm done building my time machine.....lol God Bless
Aw the Christmas decorations and crackers were just so magical as a child. The fairy doll with the net skirt we had the exact same one. I remember being so fascinated with it. I must begged my mum for it and she gave it to me eventually. I still remember sitting and twirling her around for hours at a time. Simple pleasures. First time I've seen one of those for so long. All the memories just come flooding back. I still love Christmas decorations even now.
I always remember my mum and dad putting these flat, bell shaped pictures up for Christmas. They must have had them even before I arrived. Finally when I was about 8 my mum decided they were looking a bit faded and was going to throw them away. So I started fiddling with a little metal tag on one of them that had always puzzled me. Suddenly the tag popped and it opened up into a big, red concertina bell! My mum looked amazed! She never knew 🤣
I still have the baubles, little horns, the Xmas fairy, the expanding paper chains and bells, my boxed Lego, Haunted House, Spirograph, Mousetrap, the Christmas annuals, Sooty and Rupert books and so much more! It was great to see this, thank you. I’m decluttering the whole rest of my house down to manageable minimalism but never my childhood memories and possessions.
Loved the selection boxes back then. Some of the old bars don't exist anymore but I still remember the distinct taste. The crackers were great too with so many interesting things in them unlike modern ones. Miss that magic atmosphere✨🎄☃️🍗🍬
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Lovely trip down memory lane, thank you for making this vid
Oh that was so lovely. I was right back there. And the music was just perfect. I feel I should be sitting down in the front room now, with all the family, including my gran squeezed together - and the gas fire’s way too hot. We’re all watching Billy Smart’s Circus on the telly and all the grownups are nodding off. Pass the crystallised orange slices round please!
Having spent all of Xmas and most of January suffering from Covid , and confined to bed having thrown away all our Groceries and meat because we felt too ill to eat , and had no heating for 12 days , you would forgive me if I never celebrated it ever again , And I was done with all the preparation , putting up lights and trees , And Stressful Shopping trips for the sake of 24 hours Of " Festivities" , only to suffer the " Christmas Cold Turkey " that Is Annually falling ill just on or before 23rd Dec . However , being born in AD 1964 , and seeing this , it all came Flooding back , the Cheap Crepe Crackers , the Cadbury Machine , Running back from your last day at school with the Xmas Gift You made for Mum , life was so simple or so it seemed . There is at least one thing we remember on here somewhere ., So Thank you for rekindling my faith , I look forward to Placing a Comment on here , Xmas 2021 , from my Bed surrounded by Vicks Vapour Rub and Beechams Powders . Happy Holidays ! 200 Kid .
I was 5 years old in the 60s I remember alot of these treasures.I still have a few of these in my attic but I'll never forget going to the mail box to get the Montgomery Wards catalog that came out each year I must have circled every toy in the book along with my 3 brothers and 2 sisters we never got anything out of the book lol. My most wanted thing in that book was a canopy bed made for your doll and the bed rocked.I still want that bed 😂...tks for sharring God bless all 🙏💜
your very welcome and its nice to have a 60's Girl watching if you have any suggestions for videos please let me know, I am only too aware that my channel is very much from a male point of view and any female suggestions would be very helpful cheers
@@sixtieschild1035 Thank you I really like your videos even tho they were for mostly boys I was a Tom boy I had to be my older brother bullied me alot hehe. I grew up playing with alot of these toys there very kool and also back then we had such great clothes to wear very fashionable and I might add great cars ! I'am a Chevy girl I drive a 63' Chevy Nova all original the car is 3 years older then me . The 60s and 70s also were great to be a kid ☺ tks for taking the time to make such great videos they really bring back such great joy God bless..
@ Ricki Wolfe If you ever see one, get it! You could always give it to a child after you’ve played with it lol. I got a View-Master 5:40 not too many years ago because my wife and me were talking about them and I got one off eBay then a few months later, gave it to the charity shop. Three or four years ago, I got a train set for Christmas because I wanted one as a kid and I’m glad I did. If it’s good enough for guys like Sir Rod Stewart and Frank Sinatra, it’s good enough for me ha ha.
Believe it or not this brought tears to my eyes looking at the Christmas toys back in the day, it brings it all back when we enjoyed 60s and 70s toy's,,, it's all gone forever now, it only exists in our memories,,,enjoy life 👍
How wonderful to see all these memories of my childhood and teens! Spangles, used to love them and I had the batman car too. And of course the mettle slinky, not the plastic ones of today. How I missed all of these when things were a lot simpler then.
Christmas in the 1960,s more fun people were happy with what they got .Great having a garage ,action man and toy cars. Looking for a sixpence in the Christmas pudding and watching the Queen's speech.
Me too! I was transported back in time with this. Such lovely memories. I wish I could go back for just one childhood Christmas Day. I’d tell my mum how much I appreciated her and all her hard work. Oh how I took it for granted! 😊
I was born in 1961 and this makes me so happy yet so sad as both my parents and older brother and relatives no longer here and i would give a heartbeat to go back to those Christmas happy days. We had so much. Thank you for this.
Absolutely loved this I’ve just turned 60 and would love to relive this time again bought tears to my eye of happy family Christmas times. Life just isn’t the same anymore really miss these times and seeing blue Peter books Rupert books had them all. Life was so much simpler then.
watching this brought so many happy memories of my childhood come flooding back and brought a few tears to my eyes the 60s was truly such a wonderful time sadly gone forever
I would give everything I own and every breath left in my body just to go back for one last Christmas at home with my Mum and Dad. 💔 Thank you for a glimpse back to those wonderful times.
i remember wanting an action man,xmas morning i got up and unwrapped a box,it was empty?..i said "dad whats this?"he said "thats your action man"...i said"there's nothing in there?"..he said."must of been a deserter".
This was wonderful. I have watched it three times today! I still have all my parents and grandparents old glass decorations and I have the fairy with the net skirt. They were happy days.🎄😍
This brings a lot of memories back it looks really old fashion but I can assure you that our parents made our christmases special, I remember my father having 2 jobs to keep us warm and cosy plus he would not allow our mum to go out to work, Our mother was a original house wife if that’s not offending anybody but that was it back then, A lot of the toys you see from back then will shock to say that they are collectors items, Back then Christmas was Christmas considering that you had no modern electronics like you have today, I’ll always remember having a open fire were you could roast chestnuts and cook toaste it may sound awful but back then that sort of thing made Christmas and lastly I would like to thank my parents for making Christmas what it was, I have brought my family up to really enjoy the Christmas spirit.
I remember making paper chains at school in the 70s and taking them home and my dad hanging them on the ceiling life was so simple bk then had no worries as a kid good old days.
same here, and I still think of that each Christmas. and the excitement when Father Christmas visited at lunchtime on the last few days before school closed for Christmas
I remember they used to have a post box in our school where the kids posted their Christmas cards .the excitement of your cards getting delivered to your classroom was amazing .great times .
Santa never visited our house without leaving a colouring book and crayons or felt tips. He once left some plasticine, but rather wisely didn't repeat the gift, since most of it ended up mashed into the carpet.
@@sixtieschild1035 Good stuff, Santa also never repeated the gift of a printing set, complete with an ink pad and a little wooden stamp, into which one used tweezers to insert tiny rubber letters. Yes indeed, one's name looked mighty impressive stamped onto the wallpaper, until the parents noticed it.
The 1960's was the best time to be a child. I remember the most wonderful Christmases back then. So many lovely memories from this video. Oh to be able to go back in time 😌
Yes, we were lucky- times were easier for most of us than even 10 years earlier but it hadn't got to the insane levels of commercialism it has now. Very happy times- but the payoff is that Christmases never feel right now.
@@sixtieschild1035 the hard times made us appreciate things more,I think, and we respected and took care of what had coz they had to be earned,saved for and were much harder to come by,our parents were on low incomes and there wasnt the"luxury" of credit cards for the majority of the working classes , looking back that was a good thing I think, there was less big debt as you could only have what you could afford,....tough times,but good times, we didnt have many choices so we had to make the best of what we had,and I was never really bored as a kid I was lucky enough to live in a relatively rural area do theres was always something to do and explore in relative safety, there werent many" strangers ", in our village so our only hazards were caused by nature,rivers,mountains and derelict coal mines etc....lovin your nostalgic videos...keep up the great work👍👍
Thankyou for reminding me of my childhood Christmas.pillow case with a few nuts ,an orange ,a book ,painting set ,chocolate smoking set ,and paper lanterns hung across the room on string.wonderful times.
The 60s....it was a very good decade. Memories of Christmas ..the best music of the century....a one of a kind...glad to be conscious and alive during this time....yes...I'm blessed..🙂...thank you.
I loved the large tin watercolour paint box I had. I wish paper decorations would make a comeback. I loved seeing the ceiling covered by them with only “the big light” visible in the middle. I remember little bits of coloured paper in the corner of the ceiling for ages after they were taken down. At work in the canteen, they were still there next year lol. Our tree lights at home were much bigger than the ones you get now. They were about six times bigger and ours were Scots thistle shaped of different colours. I never saw tree lights of only one colour or just white until the 80s.
Sixties Child Ha ha we called the living room, “the kitchen” and the actual kitchen, we called “the back kitchen”. I think it comes from the days when people had what they called ”a single end” when it was a living room and kitchen all in one and even the bed was recessed in the wall, separated only by a curtain. So the house we grew up in became the kitchen and the back kitchen. I remember when I was 14 years old, my mother took me with her to visit an old lady in a tenement in Edinburgh. The old lady had an old original black range complete with a swee which is a metal arm that swung round to hang the kettle and pots over the fire. It had a door in the front for the coal and flat surfaces at each side. Fantastic things they were.
Who else remembers making paper chains from lick and stick colored paper strips.
Ran out of wet....
Yes at school
.. Here's one I made earlier!
They had to be repaired every morning as they fell apart ,like the balloons that shrunk to the size of an orange .ah the good old days ...
Spent hours sticking those chains together, hate to think what that glue was made from
Two days ago I was sorting a box of stuff from my parents' house and found a red fold up paper bell. At Christmas time we'd have those paper chains around the hall, and as the last touch Mam would pin this bell up over the front door. When I saw it I actually started crying. It's survived the last 60 years very well, though now faded to a rose pink, and it's going to be pinned up in OUR house next Christmas.
how lovely
When my dad passed a couple of years ago I found the old tree (early 1950s), all the mercury glass baubles, the little figures my mum used to put under the tree on a layer of cotton wool (snow!) and the original fairy lights. They are now all out of retirement and have had pride of place for the last two Christmas's. And will continue to do so, it's about the memories and the feeling of keeping the past alive. Maybe that's why we've just installed an early 60s kitchen and own a 59 MK2 ford zephyr?
All I have is a small collection of Christmas baubles from the 60s/70s I put out every year. Happy memories. I love Christmas any decade really has the later ones 1990s plus are of my children. 60s and 70s are of mine :)
Olwen s. How lovely. You'll never want to get rid of your paper bell now.. I hope it brings some comfort to you .
these types of videos make me feel lonely
If only we could bring that world back again. Happy memories.
1969, when I turned six, I told everybody "This will be my most beloved year for my whole life".
And it did. The world was no more like on that spring, fall, winter, not to speak about that magical summer.
I long since many years for a time machine. When they seek candidates, I will yell 'HERE' and jump in; go home and will never ever again be so stupid and let me throw out of Paradise.
b lovely 👍
I know lolx
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Same
@@winterweib I turned seven in 69 City won the cup and Neil Young scored the winner. Made it big as a singer a year or two later.
This made my shed a tear, we were so Blessed to have been born in those days. I pity the children of today
They have no childhood and have been brought up with no discipline, no real values and manipulated by social media which they sadly think determines their value and worth as a person.
@@JH-ck1nr ok boomer
Yeh and they all have adhd, now
Indeed.
Inwas born in 1971 ans my Christmas I have lot wonderful memories especially my mom made all kind of candies and cookies and deserts then in Christmas ever when my sister and me went to bed agter decorating my mom our out her nice I can't remember the name of it she filled them with all her candy and treats she made..
I didn't realise how much I missed those days until I watched this video. I was a teenager growing up in the late 60s early 70s. Christmas mornings in front of an open fire, opening Christmas presents and smelling the turkey cooking. Wonderful days of innocence and fun! Thanks for the memories!
Glad you enjoyed it
Oh yes- the pleasure of an open fire. Dog sitting too close...smell of lightly singeing dog...Seriously though, they were lovely- was allowed to have a fire in my bedroom if I was ill-it was almost worth having mumps/measles/chicken pox for :-)
Yes feel same
I know how wonderful I don't know about the Turkey though we never saw one lolx 😀❤😀
My brother got Johnny Astro, Xmas 1968, magical times.
I absolutely love this. My heart is breaking because its all gone. The magic and the people and the real sense of family and being a part of it, and trusting that good old Santa would always bring you something. No turkey on the day, we couldn't afford one. Big capon if my granny sent one down to us. A dolly. A book. Some sweets. An orange. One year a humming top. Another year a kaleidoscope. New pyjamas with that wonderful new smell. Slippers, IF you were very lucky. Nothing much but all the treasure of the world to us. And dad cursing every year because the tree lights always blew... 🎄😂😂
Thats what my channel is about preserving all that we had as kids
I remember my grandparents giving me my first watch when i was about 15, and I had a very smart (I thought) set of propelling pencil, pen and fountain pen when I started secondary school. I was trying to explain to someone who's about 30 that those were really nice presents back then- and yes, when you were a teenager boxes of embroidered hankies WERE a thing, as were bathcubes- both things you'd get from great aunts....
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Me too 😥if only I could go back in time when my family were alive and together just once more ❤️ memories sometimes make me feel really sad X
Yes, it IS all gone.😭
As a 58 year old I keep wondering where all those yesterday's have gone ,remembering all those happy times
Snap, same age as me. Where has the time gone?
@@simonleaf2765 yes too fast ❤️
I'm 64 and wonder the same thing. Times have changed and sadly not for the better.
Richard Richardson same here with a tears in my eyes (1962).
It makes me said. We were a lot happier then.
That tin of Quality Street brought back memories, we lived on a busy road ,on a bend, one day a lorry went too fast round the bend and shed its load of tins of Quality Street , they all went rolling down the road, that was a good Christmas for us kids, never had a large tin of chocolates before. Mum saved the tin to put her flour in and at 73 I still have it in the loft!
what a lovely story,
Aw bless you lovely story 💕
What a great story! That was when the big tins of chocolates were BIG! And Roses & Quality Street really were Roses and Quality Street. No the rubbish (nearly all CARAMELS) they put in nowadays half the size! ☺️
What a lovely story! Special memories ☺️xx
Ah the good old days ,my mum used the biscuit tin for her needle and thread .I can remember her putting an orange in a sock and darning it .I still have that tin and use it for the same thing ,not that I sew or darn anything .
😭 I've just cried me eyes out watching that! Memories of the BEST Christmas Days EVER, thanks to our hard working Mam and Dad buying fab toys etc for us 5 kids! 😢 Oh ay! But they were great times back then! If only we could relive them 💔 The good ol' '60's when we were kids! 💖👍xxx
yes I had three brothers and times were lean but somehow we always got what we wanted but we never got loads of expensive stuff and never expected it, amazing times
@@sixtieschild1035 yeah, exactly xx ohhh such innocent/happy times... what a great place Britain was then! 💜
I remember sitting making paper chains and stringing popcorn with my mum ...I’d give anything for one day of that with my mum ..
I'm with u gilly xxx
Same here brings back so many memories, don't know how my parents did it with 6 kids to buy for but we always got what we asked for!
Couldn't wait for the 'Kay's Catologue'. Straight to the back to choose your toys..
yep all part of Christmas , we had loads of fun cutting catalogues up and sticking stuff in a cardboard box to make your ideal house, all ways had load of cut out toys in the make believe house lol
We always had Grattans or Littlewoods catalogue.
J D Williams for my family. 🙂
My mam had Empire Stores catalogue and we used to do the same, straight to the toys and games at the back. Happy days 😍
Yes great memories excitement to get the keys and freeman's catalogues straight to back pages to chose a toy which my poor mum would pay weekly for. Don't know what kids today would make of that.
Fighting back tears here, so many fantastic memories.
here a strange one , you have the same name as me, I too am Michael Hill middle name James
Absolutely! Long live those days
Yep!
Me too Michael, I’d go back in a heart beat, never to return,
Me too! Was a magical time, all the family was together and there was a special feeling in the air,even at school!
Oh for a time machine, I so wish I could go back to my 60’s Christmas as a kid.
I remember the smell of clementines and cardboard ....I wish I could go back just for one day ,I’d be as good as gold for my wonderful mum and dad ...
Move over....
Great video
Can we see more of them
We had it all, and didn't realise.
@@clockworkdave9850 Too true we did and now look at us.
Wonderful! I would so like to go back and be with my family again for Christmas. The sixties were so different than today. Miss it very much.
It was because we were children and we were innocent back then nowadays children grow up to fast.and definitely not as innocent as we were it's all about computers games consoles I always got a compendium of games and spirograph I spent hours playing with them those days are long gone 😌😌😌
@@dawnfinch8232 I never had Spirograph but my friend did. It kept us amused on many a rainy day.
@@dawnfinch8232same here hours on the spirograph & etcha-sketch oh & fuzzy felt, plasticine & play dough so glad we grew up through those times without technology
I would give anything to see my mum and dad again.
That was lovely! Everything was better - the crackers, the selection boxes and looking through your Mum’s catalogue. I want to go back! (Plus it snowed!)
me too
Absolutely! Those were the days
Looking through the Argos and index catalogues and Kays of course ...the toy section was always at the back alongside the Christmas decorations! I used to start looking through those in November lol .. the joy and excitement was magical ...
Oh my goodness. That brought so many memories back. It almost broke my heart as my parents and 2 siblings I shared these days with are now passed. Those were simpler days but seemed to me that we were happier.
I just think were lucky to have lived through those times todays life style seems so rushed
I’m sorry to hear this 🥲. This video brings such wonderful memories of my childhood. At some point myself, my sister or brother had most of these toys. I certainly remember putting up those decorations!. I’m lucky to still have my Mum and siblings but this has brought tears to my eyes remembering my grandparents and Dad. It’s a mixture of happiness and sorrow for those of us remembering loved ones lost!
I'm the same video so nostalgic it brings memories of joy and love lolx 😀❤😀
I have since lost both parents, but looking at this video makes me feel like they are still here. It gives me a warm feeling of happy times. Thank you for the video , tonight I think I needed it. Xx
@@Lambchop2701 I also remember these times with great fondness. Some of the presents and decorations here bring back lovely memories of Christmas with my family but sadly both my mother and father have now passed. Definitely a much happier simpler time.
Memories eagerly waiting for my father to come home from work Christmas Eve then loading the car to travel to my nan's house in wales pulling up at the door late at night and my mother telling me to go and knock on the door it echoing down the street as I knocked and my nan coming to the door the smiles and laughter as we all walk in to the living room open coal fire burning memories happy one
were good times to grow up in
Sounds absolutely wonderful lolx 😀❤😀
That's what it's all about - family.... love that has been lost
So many happy memories ! I'm so happy that I was a 60s kid !
we are so lucky to have grown up in such a fantastic time
I am too. I feel so very sorry for young kids today.
Best decade ever, for child or adult.
I had some of those toys, still have a few.
I still collect tinplate robots, but the remakes of them now are utter crap.
Me too!
@@jazzman1626 Me too. Today's children have such a miserable time compared to our childhood. We were allowed to be children. These days they forced to be adults when still at primary school.
This made my heart ache for my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. And even for the child I was who still believed in magic.
funny that this video has touched so many and yet it was one of the quick and easy ones to make
I remember going to the corner shop and buying those small calenders, to stick onto the large picture to make a picture calendar. When I was at my 1st school.i was so proud ,to give it to my mum....bless her..
Remember doing that- either drawing a picture or cutting one (carefully) out of an old magazine, sticking it on a bit of card then adding the little calendar on. My mother managed to look completely surprised by her present.
Take me back there and when I start to return to what is now "normal" take me back again! I belong there.
Yes me too I would kill to spend a day back then. Simpler and better times in so many ways.
Ant p Uk teacher
Me too. I would give anything to live through the 1960s again.
I’m coming with you
I’m coming don’t leave me behind .👍
@@fayecox9401 don’t forget me!
Remember making the tinsel coat hanger candelabra!.....no computers or mobile phones or Facebook....heaven!
It certainly was I remember making lanterns at school and the chain decoration's and the orange and lemon slices in the hamper ha ha
I remember that being an annual Blue Peter Christmas project. Lesley Judd, my first television fancy!
@@wetleyrocks3092 ah yes I loved John Noakes God rest his soul
Ah yes, heaven...but how would you be able to see things like this without your computer? It’s a wonderful invention, I just ignore all the rubbish, the wonderful internet’s been sadly abused. Facebook, social media etc...I just simply don’t wanna know.
@@arriesone1 yes your right we wouldn't
I'm suddenly very nostalgic I want to go back to the 70s 😢
The days when the UK was a simple place to live We saw the future as bright and inviting lots of progress Now I fear the future
as we get older we start to see things that we never really had time to see those days
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Brings back some good memories. It was a totally different world back then; simple pleasures. I used to love to go to Woolworths with my mother at Christmas time. Who remembers “The Broons” and “Oor Wullie”?
oh yes
We never saw The Broons or Oor Wullie south of the border, but the Christmas annuals were always in English shops.
Ahhhh Woolworths at Christmas time 😍 the smell of the chocolates all openly displayed pick and mix 😋 oh the memories 🙂
Broon s +Oor Willie were in the Sunday post that mam bought
I grew up in Canada, but became acquainted with The Broons through a large hardcover book of the comic strip owned by my Great-Grandfather, who moved here from Scotland many years ago. I recall the cover was an illustration of Ma and Pa Broon dancing and surrounded by the family. How l wish l could find a copy now.🙂
Stuff that dont cost much but ITS WHO BOUGHT IT FOR YOU....FAMILY IS WHAT MATTERS...
So true. My birthday is two days before Christmas and I still remember my mam coming into my room with a smiling face, a plastic bag loaded with a Star Trek annual and a big set of coloured felt tip pens (probably a few more bits, but nothing really expensive....didn't need to be). I'm 55 now (probably around 5 at the time) and as I think back, it still makes me cry with equal happiness & sadness (lost her last year). If only we could go back...
Well said x
Ah , them were the days . I’m 53 now but 70s were great ... action man , bionic man, evil Knievel , hoop an stick , lol ! Great memories !! Thanks for sharing ☺️ . Greetings from Portsmouth England 🏴
you were a lucky chap and greeting back from Warrington not quite as glam as portmouth but I like it
Greetings from Yorkshire. Remember Pippa Doll, spirograph, getting really excited over the hand held organ that made strange noises
with metal pen, forgot the name now lol. And the annuals every kid seemed to get lol.
Gosh, so many memories. We had the Nativity ornament at 1.10 and the paper decorations. I loved them. I would go back in a heartbeat when my parents were still here. Christmas just isn't the same these days.
I know exactly what you mean
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Yes,me too! Its what family and christmas was all about. The build up to christmas was so exciting, I remember me and my sisters drains christmas scenes in the ice on the inside of our bedroom window,4 of us in one room,2 in each bed! Singing carols til we fell asleep! Fabulous.
@@patryan3547 haha, we used to have to pick at the ice inside where our windows had frozen with a screwdriver or knife to get the thing open. No central heating just loads of blankets and a candlewick cover to keep warm. Yet I loved those days so much.
So long ago and so far away.
Different world.. literally.
Oh my gosh, this was wonderful, lovely Xmas memories as a child with mum and dad, both now passed, but I’m feeling quite depressed now, sad that these lovely times have gone forever
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Tears of happiness for those wonderful days spent with those no longer with us.. I wish with all my heart I could have them back again.?
Same here
I was born in 1961, thanks for the memories 💜💜💜
your very welcome
What a brilliant compilation, I was born in 1959, so 60s and 70s Christmases so nostalgic for me, my parents certainly hadn't loads of money but I always had plenty parcels to open. I got one main present and loads of stocking fillers which were things like colouring books, pencils crayons etc. My mam was an avid knitter so her left over wool created dolls clothes. I had the best dressed sindy dolls in Britain probably. Such happy times❤️❤️
Glad you enjoyed it
Probably the best decade to be a kid. You really appreciated what you were given for Christmas, my favourite was always the Johnny Seven gun, only kid in the street with one! Life was simple back then with no pressure you just bimbled along at your own pace and had fun.
I had one too. Amazing guns.
The trouble with Johnny 7 OMA was it only had one grenade, and a few plastic bullets. However, my gun shaped stick, lovingly found in the trees near the farm at the end of our street, had endless grenades,1000s of bullets and took less than a second to reload! 🤓
My older brother had one, I liked looking at the red sparks inside it.😂
A stick for a gun! Great stuff, life was so simple when kids had imagination!
I was born in 1962, and I have to say, all the "magic" is gone from Christmas! ... And yes, as a child I really believed in Father Christmas! ... It's sad that such happiness can NEVER be recaptured!
Oh how true! Sweet memories tinged with sadness for days gone by.
@@nicolaanne6341 It's even more true now, as both of my parents have passed away in the last 20 months!
@@marcse7en I’m sorry for your loss. I miss mine terribly. We’re the same age but I lost mom in 1995 and dad in 2008…also lost my oldest sister in 2008. My prayers are with you.
@@ChrysanthsMum I'm saddened to hear of your loss. I also lost my younger brother to suicide, six years before my mother. Thank you for your kind words my friend!
Amazing memories! It is ironic that what we are searching desperately for through fancy electronic tablets and fibre cables are the simpler times of long ago. And when we find something like this what a feeling of contentment and familiarity comes upon us...
My sentiments exactly. It felt like a hug from the past. I’m smiling and crying at the same time!
life just seemed more manageable then, not complicated and definitely not at all scary.🎈🎈🎈
I was born in 68 so don't remember the 60's but the 70's was my playground. Absolute best time to be alive as a kid, I don't care what anyone says. Thanks Mam and Dad for the love you gave us although times were hard. XXX
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I spent what seemed like hours mesmerized by tree lights through the Angel Hair.
Angel Hair was thin spun glass, It created magical circular rainbow effects over each light.
magic indeed
Would get a paintbox every Christmas. Still remember the smell. Lovely 😊
if only we hade smellavision lol
Yes! That's what struck me most ..I had forgotten about paint tins until I saw this...and you're right, the smell was part of the pleasure somehow!
Ahhh...Christmas in the 60s was a VERY magical time. Watching your video brought back many wonderful memories, how sweet it was. If anyone reading this didn't experience the 1960s....I'm sorry you missed it you have no idea how great it truly was!! Thanks again for this wonderful video!!
your welcome and thanks for watching
I remember asking my dad, who loved the Black and White Minstrel Show, why the faces were black. He said it was because we haven't enough black people to sing on tv yet, and we're jealous of their great voices so we want to be like them. Thanks so much for this. Just brilliant.
I never understood it at all but it was normal back then
My mum used to love it. It was always on a Saturday night and we’d always have a cream cake while we watched it. It really was another world and it never entered our heads that it could be offensive! To me, it was just a bit boring but I liked the pretty dresses.
And now we're overrun with black people on TV. The 60's were great.
A truly emotional and nostalgic journey back! I remember one year in the mid Sixties, my Dad taking me to Woolworths in December, to buy Christmas presents for my school friends, and noticing the overhead sign; “40 ways to spend 6d”! Christmases were the best in the Sixties and Seventies. Thank you so much, I didn’t want this to end!♥️
glad you enjoyed it
oh god what some happy memories.i,m 55 years old .and can remember a lot of these things, back then you had to use your imagination to play with the toy,s I used to enjoy Christmas with making decorations and the Christmas parties at primary school , wish we could go back to those times
Same here!
It was great being a kid back in the 60's.
it was, without a doubt, merry christmas
Especially if you had the Johnny Seven O.M.A.
@@sixtieschild1035 it certainly was....thank you for these great memories.
Nah...the 70s was way better!!!
@@waynewhite2323 I had to wait a couple of weeks until my birthday. That's when I got my very own Johnny Seven O.M.A.
I'm 57 now. This reminded me of my mum and dad so much
i used to love getting the wriggly fish in the crackers,also the red lips
Loved this. Simpler times but Christmas was always special
wasn't they just
What a happier and better world we had then loved the trip back down memory lane almost in tears when I saw the BAT-MOBILE my son loved Batman
I was a 60s kid thank you for the lovely memories
your very welcome
Thank you so much, brought me back to a simple time in life. I would love to get in a time machine & re live those days.
I just think we were lucky enough to have lived in those times
Can I come with you Jayne would go back tomorrow if I could happier times 😊
@@dawnfinch8232 ABSOLUTELY would love to go back to the good life, people respected one another none of this SJW crap. Life was simple & kind. I know everything wasn't perfect but better than it is now. I'll let you know when I'm done building my time machine.....lol God Bless
@@jayne59brohammer love to God bless you too
You watch this with sheer bliss and fond memories. You feel like a child again, even though your 50+.
Hi how are you doing?
Aw the Christmas decorations and crackers were just so magical as a child. The fairy doll with the net skirt we had the exact same one. I remember being so fascinated with it. I must begged my mum for it and she gave it to me eventually. I still remember sitting and twirling her around for hours at a time. Simple pleasures. First time I've seen one of those for so long. All the memories just come flooding back. I still love Christmas decorations even now.
This was so great,brought back all my wonderful memories of when I was a child.I wish I could go back,simpler days no worries.
But at least you were there
I always remember my mum and dad putting these flat, bell shaped pictures up for Christmas. They must have had them even before I arrived. Finally when I was about 8 my mum decided they were looking a bit faded and was going to throw them away. So I started fiddling with a little metal tag on one of them that had always puzzled me. Suddenly the tag popped and it opened up into a big, red concertina bell! My mum looked amazed! She never knew 🤣
Bloody hell...now that is funny😂
I still have the baubles, little horns, the Xmas fairy, the expanding paper chains and bells, my boxed Lego, Haunted House, Spirograph, Mousetrap, the Christmas annuals, Sooty and Rupert books and so much more! It was great to see this, thank you. I’m decluttering the whole rest of my house down to manageable minimalism but never my childhood memories and possessions.
That is awesome!, I too have lots of stuff
I was born in 1964 so I'm a 57 year old lady,I remember all those toys,lovely to see no phones or screens,hate the way we live now!!!
I don't hate it, just think we were lucky to grow up in that era
I’m the same vintage and I thoroughly agree! X
Wow.. takes ya back the best days ever.. Not like it is now.. Thanks for this...xx
Christmas stockings with full size chocolate bars.
no food shrinkage then , multi pack bars were the same size
And didnt taste like plastic.
I noticed a "Marathon" bar, no wishy washy snickers.
i keep coming back to this. love it memory lane,
Absolutely fantastic. I'm now about age 6 or 7. Happy times x
nothing wrong with that, happy thoughts
I so wish children today could know the joy of those Christmases,the excitement of The Girls Crystal Annual.xx
excitement of receiving anything
I remember all that as a youngster in the 70s. It was very bitter sweet, as it breaks my heart to think back to those times 😢
Loved the selection boxes back then. Some of the old bars don't exist anymore but I still remember the distinct taste.
The crackers were great too with so many interesting things in them unlike modern ones. Miss that magic atmosphere✨🎄☃️🍗🍬
Lovely trip down memory lane, thank you for making this vid
your very welcome
Some of the best and happiest memories EVER! Thank you for this wonderful blast from the past compilation. 💖
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for bringing back wonderful childhood memories.
your very welcome.
We still put an apple and orange into our daughter’s Christmas ‘pillow case’....... she’s 41. !!!!!
Ahhhh the 60's, a much better time to be a kid growing up.
Oh that was so lovely. I was right back there. And the music was just perfect. I feel I should be sitting down in the front room now, with all the family, including my gran squeezed together - and the gas fire’s way too hot. We’re all watching Billy Smart’s Circus on the telly and all the grownups are nodding off. Pass the crystallised orange slices round please!
my mission is complete then
Hello Deborah, how are you doing?
I miss my golly 😍 and Spirograph haha
I still have my Spirograph in the loft, box is a bit bashed but everything is still inside. Played for hours with this
Did you ever get a slinky? I had a golly and a Spirograph!
I saw a movie that had a golly. The little boy called it My black wife.
@@janetgray8638 I had a Slinky and a Sprograph.
So many happy memories of our kids very nostalgic. Happy and simpler times
Having spent all of Xmas and most of January suffering from
Covid , and confined to bed having thrown away all our Groceries and meat because we felt too ill to eat , and had no heating for 12 days , you would forgive me if I never celebrated it ever again ,
And I was done with all the preparation , putting up lights and trees ,
And Stressful Shopping trips for the sake of 24 hours
Of " Festivities" , only to suffer the " Christmas Cold Turkey " that
Is Annually falling ill just on or before 23rd Dec .
However , being born in AD 1964 , and seeing this , it all came
Flooding back , the Cheap Crepe Crackers , the Cadbury Machine , Running back from your last day at school with the Xmas Gift
You made for Mum , life was so simple or so it seemed .
There is at least one thing we remember on here somewhere .,
So Thank you for rekindling my faith , I look forward to
Placing a Comment on here , Xmas 2021 , from my
Bed surrounded by Vicks Vapour Rub and Beechams Powders .
Happy Holidays !
200 Kid .
get well soon and thanks for watching
Oh yeah, presents you made at school, forgot about that. Hope you get well soon.
Sounds like you need a Wright's coal tar vaporiser for Christmas.
Watch this while snowing outside what lovely memories take me back
The salvation army playing
I need to be back in those happy times not now in lockdown
don't we all, stay tuned more too come
I was 5 years old in the 60s I remember alot of these treasures.I still have a few of these in my attic but I'll never forget going to the mail box to get the Montgomery Wards catalog that came out each year I must have circled every toy in the book along with my 3 brothers and 2 sisters we never got anything out of the book lol. My most wanted thing in that book was a canopy bed made for your doll and the bed rocked.I still want that bed 😂...tks for sharring God bless all 🙏💜
your very welcome and its nice to have a 60's Girl watching if you have any suggestions for videos please let me know, I am only too aware that my channel is very much from a male point of view and any female suggestions would be very helpful cheers
@@sixtieschild1035 Thank you I really like your videos even tho they were for mostly boys I was a Tom boy I had to be my older brother bullied me alot hehe. I grew up playing with alot of these toys there very kool and also back then we had such great clothes to wear very fashionable and I might add great cars ! I'am a Chevy girl I drive a 63' Chevy Nova all original the car is 3 years older then me . The 60s and 70s also were great to be a kid ☺ tks for taking the time to make such great videos they really bring back such great joy God bless..
@ Ricki Wolfe
If you ever see one, get it! You could always give it to a child after you’ve played with it lol. I got a View-Master 5:40 not too many years ago because my wife and me were talking about them and I got one off eBay then a few months later, gave it to the charity shop. Three or four years ago, I got a train set for Christmas because I wanted one as a kid and I’m glad I did. If it’s good enough for guys like Sir Rod Stewart and Frank Sinatra, it’s good enough for me ha ha.
@@jazzman1626 nothing wrong in with buying toys I have loads and will review em in the near future
Believe it or not this brought tears to my eyes looking at the Christmas toys back in the day, it brings it all back when we enjoyed 60s and 70s toy's,,, it's all gone forever now, it only exists in our memories,,,enjoy life 👍
How wonderful to see all these memories of my childhood and teens! Spangles, used to love them and I had the batman car too. And of course the mettle slinky, not the plastic ones of today. How I missed all of these when things were a lot simpler then.
Christmas in the 1960,s more fun people were happy with what they got .Great having a garage ,action man and toy cars. Looking for a sixpence in the Christmas pudding and watching the Queen's speech.
times gone but not forgotten
I was born in 64 what a trip down memory lane xxx
Me too! I was transported back in time with this. Such lovely memories. I wish I could go back for just one childhood Christmas Day. I’d tell my mum how much I appreciated her and all her hard work. Oh how I took it for granted! 😊
@@deborahlucas2282 me too
I was born in 1961 and this makes me so happy yet so sad as both my parents and older brother and relatives no longer here and i would give a heartbeat to go back to those Christmas happy days. We had so much. Thank you for this.
I know but at least you had that special time
Loved those paper Christmas decorations 🎉👍🏆
A great collection of nostalgic images, thank you for sharing them with us. Christmas used to be such a magical time of year. Then along came China.
Glad you enjoyed it
Did anyone else feel like a kid again seeing all those toys?
No thanks I’ve had my fill of those.
Absolutely loved this I’ve just turned 60 and would love to relive this time again bought tears to my eye of happy family Christmas times. Life just isn’t the same anymore really miss these times and seeing blue Peter books Rupert books had them all. Life was so much simpler then.
Wonderful happy memories of the 70s, wish I could go back in time
watching this brought so many happy memories of my childhood come flooding back and brought a few tears to my eyes the 60s was truly such a wonderful time sadly gone forever
That was amazing had a lot of the toys they were definitely the good old days
Yes it was
I would give everything I own and every breath left in my body just to go back for one last Christmas at home with my Mum and Dad. 💔
Thank you for a glimpse back to those wonderful times.
i remember wanting an action man,xmas morning i got up and unwrapped a box,it was empty?..i said "dad whats this?"he said "thats your action man"...i said"there's nothing in there?"..he said."must of been a deserter".
deserter lol old but gold
Dad jokes are the highest form of humor in existence.
Comedy gold right there!
This was wonderful. I have watched it three times today! I still have all my parents and grandparents old glass decorations and I have the fairy with the net skirt. They were happy days.🎄😍
This brings a lot of memories back it looks really old fashion but I can assure you that our parents made our christmases special,
I remember my father having 2 jobs to keep us warm and cosy plus he would not allow our mum to go out to work,
Our mother was a original house wife if that’s not offending anybody but that was it back then,
A lot of the toys you see from back then will shock to say that they are collectors items,
Back then Christmas was Christmas considering that you had no modern electronics like you have today,
I’ll always remember having a open fire were you could roast chestnuts and cook toaste it may sound awful but back then that sort of thing made Christmas and lastly I would like to thank my parents for making Christmas what it was,
I have brought my family up to really enjoy the Christmas spirit.
I was born 23rd May 1968, just want to go back to better times ,! God Bless from northern Ireland UK
Lol this bring me past memories when I was still a kid, how are you doing?
I remember making paper chains at school in the 70s and taking them home and my dad hanging them on the ceiling life was so simple bk then had no worries as a kid good old days.
same here, and I still think of that each Christmas. and the excitement when Father Christmas visited at lunchtime on the last few days before school closed for Christmas
@@toffeetimetv617 wow I remember that aswell hahaha
I remember they used to have a post box in our school where the kids posted their Christmas cards .the excitement of your cards getting delivered to your classroom was amazing .great times .
I love all the old fashioned decorations. Takes me back.
Santa never visited our house without leaving a colouring book and crayons or felt tips. He once left some plasticine, but rather wisely didn't repeat the gift, since most of it ended up mashed into the carpet.
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@@sixtieschild1035 Good stuff, Santa also never repeated the gift of a printing set, complete with an ink pad and a little wooden stamp, into which one used tweezers to insert tiny rubber letters. Yes indeed, one's name looked mighty impressive stamped onto the wallpaper, until the parents noticed it.
The 1960's was the best time to be a child. I remember the most wonderful Christmases back then. So many lovely memories from this video. Oh to be able to go back in time 😌
Yes, we were lucky- times were easier for most of us than even 10 years earlier but it hadn't got to the insane levels of commercialism it has now. Very happy times- but the payoff is that Christmases never feel right now.
@@olwens1368 totally agree
Couldn't agree more!
What a wonderful wander down 60s Christmas memory lane, on Christmas day, thank you so much, l have really enjoyed this
Great memories,I was born in 1960, and was lucky enough to have many of the toys youve shown here,they were "the best of times" .....nice one 👍👍👍
so was I although times were sometimes hard, have nothing but good mems
@@sixtieschild1035 the hard times made us appreciate things more,I think, and we respected and took care of what had coz they had to be earned,saved for and were much harder to come by,our parents were on low incomes and there wasnt the"luxury" of credit cards for the majority of the working classes , looking back that was a good thing I think, there was less big debt as you could only have what you could afford,....tough times,but good times, we didnt have many choices so we had to make the best of what we had,and I was never really bored as a kid I was lucky enough to live in a relatively rural area do theres was always something to do and explore in relative safety, there werent many" strangers ", in our village so our only hazards were caused by nature,rivers,mountains and derelict coal mines etc....lovin your nostalgic videos...keep up the great work👍👍
@@andysmith2417 thank you and I agree with everything you said
Thankyou for reminding me of my childhood Christmas.pillow case with a few nuts ,an orange ,a book ,painting set ,chocolate smoking set ,and paper lanterns hung across the room on string.wonderful times.
your welcome
The 60s....it was a very good decade. Memories of Christmas ..the best music of the century....a one of a kind...glad to be conscious and alive during this time....yes...I'm blessed..🙂...thank you.
I loved the large tin watercolour paint box I had. I wish paper decorations would make a comeback. I loved seeing the ceiling covered by them with only “the big light” visible in the middle. I remember little bits of coloured paper in the corner of the ceiling for ages after they were taken down. At work in the canteen, they were still there next year lol. Our tree lights at home were much bigger than the ones you get now. They were about six times bigger and ours were Scots thistle shaped of different colours. I never saw tree lights of only one colour or just white until the 80s.
I plan to do a video on those wonderful tin paint boxes in the near future and yes I too miss the decs on the ceiling, big light, back kitchen lol
Sixties Child
Ha ha we called the living room, “the kitchen” and the actual kitchen, we called “the back kitchen”. I think it comes from the days when people had what they called ”a single end” when it was a living room and kitchen all in one and even the bed was recessed in the wall, separated only by a curtain. So the house we grew up in became the kitchen and the back kitchen.
I remember when I was 14 years old, my mother took me with her to visit an old lady in a tenement in Edinburgh. The old lady had an old original black range complete with a swee which is a metal arm that swung round to hang the kettle and pots over the fire. It had a door in the front for the coal and flat surfaces at each side. Fantastic things they were.
Spectrum Sinclair
Thanks, I’ll get some for next Christmas.