Born in 1967. Had a week in Scarborough in the summer of 1979. It rained all week apart from the last day 😂. I remember making the journey in our little gold colored Hillman Imp. It barely made it over the Pennines. My sister and I had suitcases on our laps, a very memorable journey. Money was tight, but they were definitely happier times.
You are therefore the same age as my brother Anthony. I am three years younger than you and would have been six - halfway through infant school here. Remember going to Scarborough aged fifteen (nine years later). Yes, I did see the Fair, but that was about five years ago!
I was 7 when this came out and lived in Scarborough having been born there. I moved away a few years later but my childhood days wandering around by the sea, cliffs and amusements are some of my best memories. My friends and I could go to the cinema or swim in the north and south bay pools without parental supervision and we’d be out all day. What a time. I loved it.
These films are an amazing snapshot of life in Britain over the past 70 or so years. I loved seeing the old candy floss maker which seemed quite magical to me as a small child.
Yes, when the BBC was at its finest and wanted to represent all classes and parts of Britain. Completely different to the woke propaganda service we have today. No wonder they've lost half their licence fee subscribers; will they ever wake up?
This was filmed the day after my 17th birthday. I'm a Gloucestershire girl so Weston super mare would've been our local go to seaside outing but I bet it all looked very much the same. I can't believe all the litter that was being swept up! And that poor little child practically being run over by a wayward donkey! Health and safety today would have something to say about how that bloke, supposedly in charge, was just letting it happen! A great film archive though. Really enjoyed this one.
1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive 1049am 26.11.24 you think that's bad. go to Margate and walk down the prom at 4am or 5am prior to the fine old road sweepers and trashmen setting to work. post-apocalyptic is not the word.......
It was like that everywhere then, I was 8 when this was made and about that time at school they were drumming it into us about littering. There was a song, milk bottle tops and paper bags, iron bedsteads, dirty old rags...
The litter!! It’s easy to think this is a modern problem but obviously our nation has always been scruffy. I really don’t remember litter when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s
I spent a week in Scarborough one night. The window in the B&B I was staying in couldn't shut properly, oh how the North Sea blew a gale through that gap. Cold as.
tbh i dont remember ever going to Scarborough as a kid despite coming from Sheffield, we went to Blackpool, Cleethorpes, Mablethorpe a lot, it wasnt until i got my own family we went a couple of times, now i live near Whitby.
❤ What a completely different world from today's perspective: Despite all the hustle and bustle, there was still a feeling of serenity without today's downright terrorizing hectic pace, stress, time pressure - and you always ask yourself: How did we get here...
Being based in Sussex we used to alternate our seaside trips between Littlehampton, Bognor Regis, Brighton, and the Isle of Wight (Sandown, Shanklin and Blackgang Chine).
Thougherlly enjoyed this . I was 21 in 76 working in a paper mill . My work place was unbearably hot . One day in September I came out after the 6 to 2 shift there was a clear sky and sun and there were flakes of snow coming down . One of my colleagues upon seeing this said well Ive seen everything now .
1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive 26.11.24 1053am i wouldn't admit to that... good idea, though - shouting out the time of the last train to one's home town... the day's yer own, then...
Campervan on the North Bay in 1976. Now stopped from overuse and abuse. I remember the guy shouting the morning newspaper. Hasn't changed much really in Scarborough.
Back when Britain was full of life & normality. All these seaside towns were full of life families going about their daily lives having fun. Local businesses were thriving aswell a vast contrast to today's world. It really depresses me seeing a once thriving nation that had morals & culture has been completely wiped out & replaced with such desolation & all sorts of riff raff roaming our streets
I was born in Chatham Kent 1954, I got Married in Welling in Kent, 1975, I lived in Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, in 1976 with that years Drought, Bags of gravel in your loo Cistern, to reduce water usage, Of Course 1977 was Queen Elisabeths Jubilee, I never made it up to North Yorkshire, until the early 90's, I still live in Peterborough, But me little Sis made it up to Peterlee, What a fantastic Isle we live on, Best in the World,
Have seen many about Scarborough…being born in 1966 and living there for 5 years in my 20s…this I very much relate to…….definitely one of the best and must sees….FIVE STARS……..JOE
Going to send this to my 90 year old mum, she’s from Yorkshire and she always complains about how much litter there is on the streets these days and nobody cares 😂
@@AntMan-b8lsounds about right. When I was a kid and just about old enough to buy chips I remember paying 6d (2.5p) for a full bag of chips. The early 70s saw massive inflation.
Did you see that? Scarborough Fish n chips fur 75p. Haddock /chips, 85p. Plaice /chips - a £1 and a full brekky of ham, bread, eggs and chips for a whacking £1.10. Where'd 50 years go a time when quids was quids?
Just look how happy and chatty people are, must be something that changed since then which has made everyone bloody miserable and unsociable… some kind of demographic shift.
It's an obvious thing to say, but I can't help thinking about what the last 48 years had in store for all of these people. Of course, 85% are long gone, but even the youngest children will be 50+. The sands of time wouldn't have been generous to them all.
Absolutely loved watching this ❤🇬🇧 back when britain was full of normal white brits going about their everyday life & enjoying all things british..Please post more videos like this..
15:20 They always miss the first question out of banners like this. The full text reads, “How was your day dear?” Replied by what you see on the banner, “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, the same today, and forever.” 😅😅
back when people had morals and manners, were normal, kids behaving themselves and dressed smartly, and people knew had to have fun without waving a mobile phone about.
1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive 1110am 26.11.24 look at them shopping local, though, and not winging off into the Spanish crime infested costa sunset... ahahaha... proper. maybe if they invested in their seaside resorts the british might shop local again? a new labour party initiative to get folk to shop and soak up that vague sunshine at home(?)
I’d rather stay home and chill instead going to an overpopulated event where you have traffic, smelly people and too much noise! Bourbon 🥃 and a cigar in my backyard instead!
1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive 1059am 26.11.24 10 mins 27secs into skit.. that looks like a very young music hack mark ellen... or maybe that's just a filthy rumour re: his lowering himself to such dastardly digs? dunno about a bourbon and cigar in yer backyard. i'd take the bourbon and cigar to the resort find a nice sun trap and chill there...
@@raijinenel3116 Comments on ‘1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive’ 26.11.24 1137am some people are smelly. i smell of onions at present. i smelt of onion and vinegar on sunday and monday... are you discussing the indian raj or the british holidaymaker...?
The litter!! It’s easy to think this is a modern problem but obviously our nation has always been scruffy. I really don’t remember litter when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s
One for the people who usually pop up under these videos and wax lyrical about how great everything used to be back in the days, before all the foreigners etc etc
1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive 1055am 26.11.24 she's got crabs. he's now got crabs. before you know it - they all have crabs.... i remember the cod wars. the era of standing at the front window and watching the morning star. and thinking - Icelandic people are horrible people. was i right...?
1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive 26.11.24 1101am a filthy rumour if ever i heard one... 75p for chish and fips. i mean... i bet they dont do a retro price match at harry ramsdens as a nice gimmick for the punters. i think they charge about 14 quid now.
This is how British Riviera looks like ???😂🤣 The weather looks like perpetual winter Looking at British people I always wonder how little of that centuries of pillaging the world got to them. Amazing!
1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive 1104am 26.11.24 with stew pot stewert hello darlin' at the helm the world's yer oyster...
Born in 1967. Had a week in Scarborough in the summer of 1979. It rained all week apart from the last day 😂. I remember making the journey in our little gold colored Hillman Imp. It barely made it over the Pennines. My sister and I had suitcases on our laps, a very memorable journey. Money was tight, but they were definitely happier times.
You are therefore the same age as my brother Anthony. I am three years younger than you and would have been six - halfway through infant school here. Remember going to Scarborough aged fifteen (nine years later). Yes, I did see the Fair, but that was about five years ago!
It may look grim to people today but when I was a kid this was how it was no costas or Florida and we loved it.Be grateful for what you had or have
I was 7 when this came out and lived in Scarborough having been born there. I moved away a few years later but my childhood days wandering around by the sea, cliffs and amusements are some of my best memories. My friends and I could go to the cinema or swim in the north and south bay pools without parental supervision and we’d be out all day. What a time. I loved it.
You are therefore a year older than me, as I was just six!
I was 13 in 1976 I remember it being a hot summer. Good times
These films are an amazing snapshot of life in Britain over the past 70 or so years. I loved seeing the old candy floss maker which seemed quite magical to me as a small child.
Great to see life in the UK back in the 70s.
Yes, so much better than today.
Especially when you are infant school age, like me - I was just six!
Wouldn’t think it was the year of long hot summer looking at this film , making my dinner cold watching this
Sent this over to my mum and she loved it. Thank you BBC!
Yes, when the BBC was at its finest and wanted to represent all classes and parts of Britain. Completely different to the woke propaganda service we have today. No wonder they've lost half their licence fee subscribers; will they ever wake up?
I wish I could go back to 1976. I was 14. I only wish I'd been old enough to drive.
If I went back to 1976, I would have been six and halfway through infant school then, eight years younger than you!
Great hearing Johnny Walker who has just made his last show.
This was filmed the day after my 17th birthday. I'm a Gloucestershire girl so Weston super mare would've been our local go to seaside outing but I bet it all looked very much the same. I can't believe all the litter that was being swept up! And that poor little child practically being run over by a wayward donkey! Health and safety today would have something to say about how that bloke, supposedly in charge, was just letting it happen! A great film archive though. Really enjoyed this one.
15:57 The senior citizen with a Bay City Rollers hat.
The litter is quite shocking.
I was just thinking how little of that colonialism and pillaging the world for centuries actually got to the common people
It’s astonishing!
Bloody northerners. 😅
1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive 1049am 26.11.24 you think that's bad. go to Margate and walk down the prom at 4am or 5am prior to the fine old road sweepers and trashmen setting to work. post-apocalyptic is not the word.......
It was like that everywhere then, I was 8 when this was made and about that time at school they were drumming it into us about littering. There was a song, milk bottle tops and paper bags, iron bedsteads, dirty old rags...
The litter!! It’s easy to think this is a modern problem but obviously our nation has always been scruffy. I really don’t remember litter when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s
I spent a week in Scarborough one night. The window in the B&B I was staying in couldn't shut properly, oh how the North Sea blew a gale through that gap. Cold as.
tbh i dont remember ever going to Scarborough as a kid despite coming from Sheffield, we went to Blackpool, Cleethorpes, Mablethorpe a lot, it wasnt until i got my own family we went a couple of times, now i live near Whitby.
I was 11 years old in 1976, and got heatstroke from running around with my friends all afternoon during the heatwave.
❤ What a completely different world from today's perspective: Despite all the hustle and bustle, there was still a feeling of serenity without today's downright terrorizing hectic pace, stress, time pressure - and you always ask yourself: How did we get here...
Being based in Sussex we used to alternate our seaside trips between Littlehampton, Bognor Regis, Brighton, and the Isle of Wight (Sandown, Shanklin and Blackgang Chine).
Best invention of the 20th Century - those little motorised road sweepers
Thougherlly enjoyed this . I was 21 in 76 working in a paper mill . My work place was unbearably hot . One day in September I came out after the 6 to 2 shift there was a clear sky and sun and there were flakes of snow coming down . One of my colleagues upon seeing this said well Ive seen everything now .
" We're from Blackburn!"
Fair owd treck for the day that.
She said Bradford
1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive 26.11.24 1053am i wouldn't admit to that... good idea, though - shouting out the time of the last train to one's home town... the day's yer own, then...
Loved this! 💛
Campervan on the North Bay in 1976. Now stopped from overuse and abuse. I remember the guy shouting the morning newspaper. Hasn't changed much really in Scarborough.
Back when Britain was full of life & normality. All these seaside towns were full of life families going about their daily lives having fun. Local businesses were thriving aswell a vast contrast to today's world. It really depresses me seeing a once thriving nation that had morals & culture has been completely wiped out & replaced with such desolation & all sorts of riff raff roaming our streets
I was born in Chatham Kent 1954, I got Married in Welling in Kent, 1975, I lived in Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, in 1976 with that years Drought, Bags of gravel in your loo Cistern, to reduce water usage, Of Course 1977 was Queen Elisabeths Jubilee, I never made it up to North Yorkshire, until the early 90's, I still live in Peterborough, But me little Sis made it up to Peterlee, What a fantastic Isle we live on, Best in the World,
Have seen many about Scarborough…being born in 1966 and living there for 5 years in my 20s…this I very much relate to…….definitely one of the best and must sees….FIVE STARS……..JOE
superb
Well they were old times, maybe not great. All those middle aged men would have served in the war, so respect to them
Some of the older may well have served as teenagers in the Great War!
Going to send this to my 90 year old mum, she’s from Yorkshire and she always complains about how much litter there is on the streets these days and nobody cares 😂
Looks equally wholesome and hellish. More hellish😀 Most of these old seaside towns are desolate and unloved now.
Quite charming.
If they could see what's happened to the grand hotel since their hearts would break
I love this channel so much
It does look somewhat grim….not quite as I remembered it (aged 16 back then). I'm fascinated by the old fishing boats…
1976 was a scorcher.
Yes, and I was six and halfway through infant school then. Fell ill when the temperature dropped in September - I got bronchitis!
4:30 Cod & Chips 75p ... Haddock & Chips 85p ... Halibut & Chips £1 20
Even if those were the prices now I still wouldn't go
Quite expensive really.
£1.20 in 1976 is equivalent to £10.82 in 2024.
@AntMan-b8l Tourist pricing .. still, that's quite steep when converted.
@@AntMan-b8lsounds about right. When I was a kid and just about old enough to buy chips I remember paying 6d (2.5p) for a full bag of chips. The early 70s saw massive inflation.
If you listen to the radio news from world service we were still in the “cod war “
Take the cardigans off - get ready for the Summer of Sizzling! 🌞
15:46 this was some cheeky editing!
Did you see that? Scarborough Fish n chips fur 75p. Haddock /chips, 85p. Plaice /chips - a £1 and a full brekky of ham, bread, eggs and chips for a whacking £1.10. Where'd 50 years go a time when quids was quids?
I did 😮😂
Mothers Pride bread 🍞
‘Sunblest’ also available. (I think that’s how they spelt it!)
The plastic ties went on the bike brake cables....and a chip fork wedged at the back wheel against the spokes for that "engine" sound 😂
@@AtheistOrphan or slimsea
What happened to sunblest and other bread makers, 😢
@ - And Nimble!
Wow😮❤
Just look how happy and chatty people are, must be something that changed since then which has made everyone bloody miserable and unsociable… some kind of demographic shift.
adds new meaning to the term 'its grim up north'
Same as London when you look back.
Didn't see any newcomers.
Hols at Caistor in '76, much nicer but remember water rationing, stand pipes etc.
It's an obvious thing to say, but I can't help thinking about what the last 48 years had in store for all of these people. Of course, 85% are long gone, but even the youngest children will be 50+. The sands of time wouldn't have been generous to them all.
Someone’s Nan is on this, probably the only moving video of her and they will never know. Looks bleak.
Perhaps, but these people were far happier with life back then…..
Simpler days, under the threat of anhiallation constantly aswell.
Happy days. No mobile phones or fat people back then.
Happy days when you are infant school age, like I was - just six!
The year i was born 😁
So was my friend Heidi! In 1976 I was six and halfway through infant school then!
Ah the early 70's, back when we had real inflation.
How wonderfully English shame it wasnt two hours long its like a nice cup of tea and buttered toast before the days of the toolmaker son .
Absolutely loved watching this ❤🇬🇧 back when britain was full of normal white brits going about their everyday life & enjoying all things british..Please post more videos like this..
Last time I went here it looked like New Dehli on the beach!
@HP23569 😔😔😔😔😔
What a shame, what's happened to England.
Fish n' chips 75p !!
I believe that if these people saw what became of their country now. They would have sooner destroyed it then.
I believe you may be wrong. There were a lot of problems back then that we no longer have. We just have different problems now.
I think we have to go back to the mid-sixties to see England as a clean country that took pride in its streets. Then it stopped for some reason.
15:20 They always miss the first question out of banners like this. The full text reads, “How was your day dear?” Replied by what you see on the banner, “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, the same today, and forever.” 😅😅
Do enlighten me though I gate to miss things ,and no it's not FOMO I'm a 70s child 😂
back when people had morals and manners, were normal, kids behaving themselves and dressed smartly, and people knew had to have fun without waving a mobile phone about.
See? Things were just as bad/worse back in the today. Look at the disgraceful litter, weather and deprivation.
Atleast there were no migrants.
Well atleast there were no m I g r a n ts.
1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive 1110am 26.11.24 look at them shopping local, though, and not winging off into the Spanish crime infested costa sunset... ahahaha... proper. maybe if they invested in their seaside resorts the british might shop local again? a new labour party initiative to get folk to shop and soak up that vague sunshine at home(?)
The BBC and Britain has turned into something not as good.
They made it look a bit rough and grim , it was not that bad at all , and best it was ours not shared with the united nations as now !!!!
I’d rather stay home and chill instead going to an overpopulated event where you have traffic, smelly people and too much noise! Bourbon 🥃 and a cigar in my backyard instead!
1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive 1059am 26.11.24 10 mins 27secs into skit.. that looks like a very young music hack mark ellen... or maybe that's just a filthy rumour re: his lowering himself to such dastardly digs? dunno about a bourbon and cigar in yer backyard. i'd take the bourbon and cigar to the resort find a nice sun trap and chill there...
Boring B
Smelly people? How rude.
@@raijinenel3116 Comments on ‘1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive’ 26.11.24 1137am some people are smelly. i smell of onions at present. i smelt of onion and vinegar on sunday and monday... are you discussing the indian raj or the british holidaymaker...?
When Britain was still Great.
Former haunts of Savile and Jaconelli. Go t' harbour bar instead, like.
The litter!! It’s easy to think this is a modern problem but obviously our nation has always been scruffy. I really don’t remember litter when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s
The litter is horrendous
One for the people who usually pop up under these videos and wax lyrical about how great everything used to be back in the days, before all the foreigners etc etc
@@csr7080EXACTLY
1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive 1055am 26.11.24 she's got crabs. he's now got crabs. before you know it - they all have crabs.... i remember the cod wars. the era of standing at the front window and watching the morning star. and thinking - Icelandic people are horrible people. was i right...?
Make a documentary about the BBC’s strange propensity to hire nonces
Documentary, more like an epic
I wish you did not chop it up, and not because of commercial music.
Don't understand any of that ,ha x 🧐
75p for fish and chips and a "racist" donkey! 😂
The rubbish on the street
Bacon Bonce Central ,home of the wrong-uns!
This was before Tony Blair.
1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive 26.11.24 1101am a filthy rumour if ever i heard one... 75p for chish and fips. i mean... i bet they dont do a retro price match at harry ramsdens as a nice gimmick for the punters. i think they charge about 14 quid now.
This is how British Riviera looks like ???😂🤣
The weather looks like perpetual winter
Looking at British people I always wonder how little of that centuries of pillaging the world got to them.
Amazing!
It's the north.
To be fair, the fuzzy desaturated look of the footage really doesn't help.
If by pillaging the world you mean building, trading and laying the railway.
@@firewizzard86Let's not pretend that the chief reason we did it wasn't to pillage like mad and make tonnes of cash.
1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive 1104am 26.11.24 with stew pot stewert hello darlin' at the helm the world's yer oyster...