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Better than the shit hole we have now 😢

Born in Didsbury, Manchester in 1941, I lived in Marple and, as a child, I roamed the woods and canals completely unfettered and happy.

We always complained becos we just came out of a war and was very austiier at that time. So people think they can come here and seriously think they are entitled to a life of reilly, and complain it's not enuff... everyone forgets what we loved after the war. Haven't got a fukin clue. Sentences for nonces are still inadequate for a fukin sloth.... cultures been brushed under the corporate carpet.... FUKIN LIBERTY, AINT IT ?....

Sixteen children. Typical Catholic.

Britain was so beautiful and peaceful then with nice, polite people you could have a chat with, or a pint. Also clean and prosperous.

Not a chunky monkey in sight.

It was lovely in those days.I did my Nurse training during that time and the NHS ran beautifully and everyone was cared for.Oh to have that time back it’s so dreary now.

I was too young to Understand, I was born in 1956, so my brain wasn’t developed enough to understand world events.

The future, most of them were looking for, and looking at it seems,,,,,,I WOULD be more happier not knowing what lies beyond,,, BUT HERE,,, but here we are,, and asking our selves do I want to say to myself

Where did you find this footage please I would love to know thank you as I used to be a resident of Castle Vale born and bred

Hello Mr Donovan. Many happy memories of the Museum of Science and Industry on Newhall Street. I'm sorry that it wasn't seen as worth retaining, but I'm glad that I didn't witness it's demolition. Every room was a treasure trove of learning. Gone, but not forgotten. Thank you for posting.

Yes.... Margaret and her husband, they really stood the test of time! When people look back at years gone with rose tinted spectacles it's not a surprise they want things to remain the same.

For most, rationing, dreary bland food, no washing machines, no fridges, rented TVs, no gas boilers, dirty coal fires, no insulation, single glazed windows with frost on the inside in Winter, no cars, no foreign holidays, TB, lots still dying in early life, drudgery in monotonous industrial work, no university opportunity for 90%, social compliance, etc.. Ah, what a wonderful time!

Now it's the illegal immigrants that are having the 16 children , with the governments help of course

Not all great though; polio and tuberculosis still rampant, not to mention STD'S but all in all the children were as yet still free of the computer and still able to use their imaginations and play games on the street. My most nostalgic, happy memories come from this period. Have got an album of old family photos from this period - everyone gone now alas.

Your first issue was taking it to Halfords, you're best off taking it to a local, Independent garage

Do you have any videos of Bradley Bear

I was born in 1962 and grew up in Amington village, Tamworth. Our playground was the local recreation ground, Coventry canal and the acres of fields surrounding the village (we called them the 'hilly fields' - they later became the golf course. Even that has now been sacrificed for housing). I have happy memories of growing up in this Vaughan Williams image of England. Then it ended. The creation of huge council estates (Glascote Heath, Kerria, Stoneydelph, etc) was a disaster. The influx of a huge Birmingham overflow population changed the town forever. Tamworth Castle and St Editha's church could have been the centrepieces of a wonderful historic town. however the planners thought differently. The town was sacrificed to relieve the social and economic problems crippling Birmingham. I no longer live in the town as it has become nothing more than a concrete mess, full of charity shops, fastfood outlets and boarded up shops. What could have been....

the best era

Only proved that we was as bad the Gerry’s with murder and destruction with side of our island.

I love how they go to bed in full makeup and their hair done. :)

Will some kind soul create a time-machine and take me back ... Please??

thank you for sharing this and part 1, i don't suppose you have any footage or photo's from the toy department inside the big co op from mid 90s, ive been trying to to find some for ages to show my daughter.

Anyone remember that bmx track that once existed before the Snowdome was built? I wonder if that huge old Coop in Wilnecote is still about?

Warsaw Pact: Did Britain, the West and NATO really think the East would not react to NATO. Not really, right.

Priceless. I am not British, hair somewhat grizzled by now. Felt instantly at home when watching this and would go back to those days in the wink of an eye if I could.

£2,500 bed? You could buy a decent house for less than that back then.

Hope you paid by credit card,ask them to pay to do a chargeback

I enjoyed the lookback in time but the first UK motorway to be opened was the Preston Bypass opened in 1958. Source Wikipedia.

Just wish we could go back to that time,I was born in 1947 it was such a different world then,we made up a lot of games we played,always found joy in much simpler things ,we never had computers and mobile phones,but our Christmases were lovely,we were happy with a box of Reeves paints and Enid bottom books and puzzles,we never asked for big expensive presents,or expected them,you never had the knife crime or hear daily on rape and murder, children were brought up to have good manners and show respect to their school teachers,it is so sad how it has all changed,Thank you so much for this video it's so nice to slip back to that time for a while

I bought the 600mm version to cut tiles for my bathroom and I have to say I feel like I wasted my money. So many breakages, so many uneven cuts. I ended up using my electric cutter and just having to bare the extra time it took. Awful cutter.

Britain? Scotland got a mention by long distance phone call from the queen

A billion miles away from the shithole we have today

I’m wondering Why the Algorithm chose to share this 1yr old video suddenly, to all of us…& happy that it Did! I’ve Learned so much! As a genXer from the states, this is an eye opening lovely look back, that Truly shows the sadness of our youth & future, as well as giving us a fresh reminder of how Wonderful the world across the pond, once was…may she return😢. This channel is quite wonderful, Thank You

I cry for our country now. It's so sad what's happening. Thanks tony Blair...

It was definitely better. We had industry, hope, social cohesion. Now it’s just shit and getting shitter by the day

I was born in 1945 my brother in 1948. Those times were absolutely the best no bloody immigrants and and governments that cared about British people not like now in Starmers world of shite.

Those boys on that merry go round with those huge smiles,just loving their lives. It wouldn’t happen today because someone somewhere would demand they were strapped in like plates in a picnic hamper and covered in bubble wrap.

The war had been won, the years of hardship and recovery were ending, work was plentiful for all and money flowed to all classes as never before.. Britain was still achieving great things.. Those of us fortunate enough to be coming of age through the 60s were, to my mind, the most fortunate generation in history. Thank God I won't be around to witness the mess it's in 25 years from now.

I was a school girl in the 60s & in those days the mini skirts were very fashionable

This is when England was actually GREAT!!!

The child in the side car. Why no crash helmet. So its ok for her to get head injurys.🤔

A familiar voice of the past Bob Danvers Walker was one of the newsreel reporters. Those were the days where did it all go. 😢

Yes a time when you were not arrested and jailed for passing a comment on RUclips............... HELLO, HELLO, HELLO, WHATS ALL THIS THEN LETS BE HAVING YOU

The financial boom of the early 60s was only for the few , we like many many people still had a outside toilet and paraffin heaters , no washing machine, or central heating, no telephone , no car we moved into the cottage in Wales with one ton of red sand in the front room , and an ironing table as a table

And now look at the UK it's a mess

America has been ruined, too. First, after 60s radicals tore the country apart, then Hollywood dismantled their censor board resulting in widespread promiscuity to this day, high tech everything where people don't talk to each other, but worst of all, the nation has blown off the Church of Jesus Christ.❤

Very well put together. Thank you

I entered my teens in the early 60s, it was a great time to be a teenager

This was the 1950s for some people but most of the population was nearer to the situation of the father of 16 who earned £7/10s a week. Most families had very little spare cash after buying food and clothes, even the small amounts that were available on the ration. They bought shampoo a sachet at a time because it was so expensive, New carpets? They had a small square of carpet by the fire and the rest was bare boards or lino, Central heating? The family crowded round the coal fire. Children got dressed and changed for their bath by the fire because the bathroom was unheated. In winter bedrooms had ice on the inside of the single glazed frame. Family car on the new motorway? Most families had no car so the motorway meant nothing to them. But we were happy😀