@@davidlee6720 That's the best part! My grandpa took me to all the roadways and sidewalks he built with his company. I still remember all of them; I do the same with my niece and will eventually do the same with my own kids someday. It's a nice reminder now that your loved ones are gone.
I was only just born in the 80s but I’d love to have experienced the 60s. Everyone was so real. People these days .. they fake their feeling and are only friends with you to get what they want.
My first decade, the 1960s, was lived in earshot of house building, just like this. We seemed always to live on the edge of an expanding housing estate. One side still wilderness, long grass, butterflies. The other, dozens of houses under construction. We’d collect bottles of fizzy drinks and return them to the shop for pennies which we’d use to buy sweets.
Roger Tonge Of crossroads fame in his younger days remember as Roger got older and he was in crossroads for nearly 15 years then his disability kicked in, rendering him a wheelchair user and in many ways perfect for crossroads because it was a first time a disabled person was seen on television in a soap opera …
This brought back memories. I joined the Royal Navy at 15 and went to HMS Ganges in 1964. Had a great 12 years. Wish I had stayed in and done another 12.
What a meticulous insight into a young man's life's journey. From the drudgery that many experienced on civvy street, to the exacting disciplines of military training. Great prodution!!
They teach children that none white people built Stonehenge, Roman Britain was black and that immigrants rebuilt Britain after the war. All lies and propaganda.
I was an apprentice plumber 1971-74 great times on site. No health and safety. Everyone took responsibilities for themselves but you still looked after your mates. Sure we use to play pranks on each other but no one got hurt. Great times. Great mates.
This takes me back to my apprentiship on building sites in 1955 as a carpenter. I made tea on average for 40 workmen each one liked it different in his own mug and I had to remember the brew and in which mug. The Foreman was watching discreetly seeing how I coped. The previous apprentice who had this task showed me how he managed the tasks pointing out the awkward beggers. Also the ones you could get in there good books with an occasional biscuit or piece of cake. The foreman was also watching your predecessor, how well did he partake his know how? This decided on his next task it could be one that demanded a limited skill such as backing off for the wood machinist learning safety practises. How he coped decided what his next required skill would be or he would take him to oneside and say listen son I dont think you will make a carpenter but there a place here for you as a labourer. And that is how one progressed and how after 12months the Foreman could advise management by, yes this lads OK sign him up on his endentures.
My first job labouring in Victoria 1986 Tea was almost a religious ceremony, learnt so much at that place Great times, the guys were like a cast from Minder! Such happy times
I was around then and the strreets were full of dog crap. Seems to have been airbrushed out of old films and tv. Dont know how but I've yet to see a street with dog crap in it in film/tv, odd.
@@arfski I started my apprenticeship on the railways as a diesel fitter. We use to remove the loco exhaust pipes that were wrapped in asbestos, all we were given was flimsy decorators dust masks as we were told it was only "blue" asbestos that was dangerous.
@@John-l3t7g But something has seriously gone wrong in todays world. It really has. I'm 39, and compared to what Britain was like when I was 20 it is vastly different now. Mass immigration without proper foundations and infrastructure in place and rapid technological advancements are just two of the issues that have changed the face of this country, its people and its land.
I blame all of the people from back then, it was them that shaped the world we live in now. You can't blame the young people of today for a world that they did not create.
@@adZHARRISON he's ant-communist communism is pro working class and people who support destroying the working class ideology of socialism and communism that means they clearly are connected with ideology that hates the working class such as capitalism, monarchy,fascism and any other ideology
@johnpaulnash8144 so this country has freedom of religion ur the type that claims to be a "patriot" while simultaneously going against our values one of which is freedom of religion if there was 0 mosques like u want that would go against the freedom of religion
What a great flashback film. I love seeing the 1960s cars, they all looked classy. Wish cars could be that shape again! THOUGHT I recognised the actor - later played Sandy in Crossroads, but his health declined sadly during that role.
People always say how they miss previous decades but it’s not those times they miss it’s your youth you miss. Every generation believes their childhood through to adulthood were the best days to be alive but the generation before you would disagree. It’s your youth you miss because that’s the most magical time for most
Tempting to think that. But my parents and grand parents who lived through 2 world wars and a economic depression never got tired of telling me how lucky I was being a teenager in the 70's. They never wished to go back like we do today.
And then it all went (and is still going) to ratshit. Yup ! Enoch told us - but would we listen. !! A world full of neon-lefties and change- culture cretins have a lot to be answerable for.
It does look like it, but remember things were not so good for women, for example: No Equal Pay Act, no pill unless you were married, no such thing as rape within marriage, couldn't get HP without your husband's signature, sexual harassment EVERYWHERE and no one batted an eyelid. No to mention the awful, terrible time the gays had.
People were just more community spirited and content then. A hard days work for a full days pay, treat people as you find them, call a spade a spade, learning a trade was a rite of passage passed down from generation to generation- people spoke properly, dressed properly, didn’t take themselves too seriously, and drank buckets of tea. I can’t believe it’s all gone in just my lifetime.
Thank God for that , it's all nostalgia mate , young people were not recognised for their skills and talents, anyone not white was relegated to menial jobs, I'm 54 the past wasn't all that great, the 70s and 80s were awful, good music though
@@valley_robotthat’s what’s better ? “Young people not being recognised “ ? 😂 Modern life is rubbish, people are depressed and ill. Our society is selfish and greedy and we have no sense of community any more .
@@PamelaD963 no I think you misread,young people in the past were not recognised for their talent and skills, that's different now, young people are at the cutting edge of invention and technology, minority people being used as cheap labour for menial jobs was a horrendous slight on our hard working brothers and sisters who came from our commenwealth countries to live in great Britain and were faced with racism and terrible job prospects
@@valley_robot young people now are at the cutting edge of building your digital panopticon, which will affect everyone . There was no “minorities” in the 70s doing menial jobs…maybe a few inLondon …but I don’t know where you got the idea that people from the commonwealth ( Australia, Canada ?) were forced to come to the U.K. to be cleaners ? Now we have modern slavery , beheadings , machete attacks, stabbings and a million bad takeaways not to mention the money being funnelled out of the country to third world nations. But I suppose you can watch wars live on your iPhone if you think that’s progress.
Everyone wants to go back to a time when times were better, but let's be honest how many of us knew exactly what was going on outside our own little world?..if you do go back it has to also include all the nonsense that went with it and definitely no taking back any technology. Like mobile phones. Life is better because of what you make of it and having a better life shouldn't necessarily mean someone else having a crap one.
😊it was the nostalgia from seeing the house styles that drew me in! My parents paid around 7k for one of the semi-detached houses in 1971. I lived there with my family from age 2 to age 20, good times ❤
Those old enough and lucky enough to have lived in these times what a wonderful country we had, how did it go from this to the 3rd world crap hole we have now!
The Imperial War Museum collection lists this film as 1965 but it cannot be as early as that. The Martin/Coulter track played towards the end dates from 1967. I'd suggest this film was made in 1968.
I would have been 10 in 1968 . I failed the 11 Plus round about that time . Then after entering Secondary school my education carried on going downhill . 😔
"Thanks, but somehow I see my future as having Noele Gordon as my Mum and helping to run a motel in the West Midlands". It was, in other words, the usual story for so many naval recruits at that time.
45 Mosques in Luton now. Tory and Labour have imposed MASS IMMIGRATION 15 Million foreign nationals have increased the population of the UK..... and they keep coming 🤦
Good movie.,it reminded me when I joined up and I see this was in 1965 released..I joined up at Raleigh November 65.and I thought I was back then just watching it ..good memories.....Terry
Spanner wont work. Ummm... Loved the big hammer @4:30. I was going to join the RN but I decided not to and joined the MN instead in the early 1960s. First trip, woke up one morning went on deck and found Sydney had come to visit me. Visited several times a year after and permanently in 1971.
ROGER TONG AS TERRY BEFORE JOINING CROSSROADS PLAYING THE PART OF SANDY IN THE WHEELCHAIR WITH THE WOBBLY SCENERY AND PHONES THAT STILL RANG WHEN THEY PICKED THE RECIVER UP
Amazing to think when 'Crossroads' started in 1964 it was still common practice to broadcast episodes live, and performed almost as if it were a small scale theatre production, but in a tv studio. As with theatre, you carried on, whatever disasters befell the production.
@@andrewlilley3660 Or encouraging young kids to stand up and defend our democracy and all its associated freedoms. One of which allows people like you to talk bollox in YT comment sections if you so wish.
@@colby25 We've never had a democracy, and we certainly don't have any freedoms, unless it's the freedom to freeze to death because you can't afford the Gas bill, as thousands do every year.
we don't have democracy, freedom or even our own homeland anymore, what are you talking about? Britain will be majority african and asian within this century @@colby25
The difference; Back then there were exiting inventions in all aspects of life that supposedly had the potential to make life better, longer. In reality the relatively low tech world was interactive personally Coraderie strong bonds of friendship and a social conscience the result. Great times. Today, people don’t know their neighbours interact with only technology and future developments create fear. This is the last hurrah Before a world reset
Days of Sanity! Our Beautiful Home has Been Desocrated! All Because of Cowardice & Compliance! FGS! Stand up to This Tyranny! Think of Your Childen & Grandchild !
Discipline and respect back then. Not like now. Nil respect for anybody, no discipline. Trash thrown in the streets. Who’s responsible ? Well I gotta say, it all started in the 80’s under Thatcher. Buy this, invest in that, greed is good. It’s turned us all into horrible human beings where the only person who matters is me, me , me. Current government just as bad, setting a poor example for everyone else, lining their pockets at the expense of the populace. Wouldn’t it be great to rewind back to these times ?
You are absolutely correct, my friend. We all live now in a thoroughly Dystopian 1984-ish world made ever more frightening to us all - because we cannot live our lives at a fast computer-generated pace and under constant CCTV surveillance; it's unnatural to do so. And the worst thing of all is that everyone is now encouraged to inform on their neighbours - which just leads to distrust and disharmony. It's worth re-reading some Dystopian novels like '1984' or 'Lord of the Flies' to see how society has evolved from the twentieth Century into today's dysfunctional and ever-more fractured and unstable world that we all inhabit.
I grew up in one of the first half dozen houses on such an estate. I was three and my mate and I would play in what seemed a mountain of sand next to houses being built. Mother would occasionally come to the corner to investigate and the foreman would shout to her, "it's ok missus, they're just here", while the crew kept an eye on us. At break time, they would invite us into their cabin and made us a brew in metal 'billy cans'. We really felt like we were part of the team, taking a well earned break from all the hard digging. Can you just imagine that scene now?
For those who it applies, I do hope Britain is restored back to these days of glory for all your generations to come. Sorry about the current sight of Britain, what a free for all it has become.
People on here moaning about the state of this country well it’s all by design and you have all voted either way for the system thus you have all destroyed what you claim you valued. Wake up.
"Well you're not exactly Hercules unchained... but your sight is alright!" Clearly before self-esteem was clinically recognized! 😂👍🇬🇧 (Cue national anthem)
Well you guys wanted cheap labour.. and doing menial work was beneath the colonialists' pride. Now dunno about the Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.. but Indians have bided their time, worked super hard and studied like crazy; ( well for all racial superiority, Indians are super intelligent) and are now the richest ethnic group in UK.
Wasn’t the young actor Roger Tonge of Crossroads fame? I did recruitment medicals for the Army, Navy, Royal Marines, RAF I did this for 10 years at the Army careers Office in Leeds. All the recruits were really nice young men and women. I was lovely meeting them and I often wondered how they all failed in their various branches of the armed forces. Looking back, it was an absolute privilege.
In 1976, I began a five year Indentured Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship with the Health Authority .... In 1980 They stopped engineering apprenticeships .... A sign of worse times to come.
Remember these times so well age catches up with us all,growing up in the 50s I never thought I would see my country of uk in such a mess,our forefathers fought for this country blood sweat and tears,no longer Great Britain those times are now gone .
my brother not longed finished his bricklaying apprenticeship then - just died this year alas- bless him .
Sorry to hear it.
@@MuckyPup115 he loved his work and followed in my Dads footsteps who both of them never missed a days work in their lives, lots of buildings remain.
@@davidlee6720 That's the best part! My grandpa took me to all the roadways and sidewalks he built with his company. I still remember all of them; I do the same with my niece and will eventually do the same with my own kids someday. It's a nice reminder now that your loved ones are gone.
Never realised how good the 60s 70s 80s and the 90s was till we got to 2020
Spot on mate. Please give me a TARDIS so I can go back to 1960/1970 and finish off my last 40 years before we hit 2020 again.
911 changed everything
Rose tinted glasses mate.
I was only just born in the 80s but I’d love to have experienced the 60s. Everyone was so real. People these days .. they fake their feeling and are only friends with you to get what they want.
Same here,,
My first decade, the 1960s, was lived in earshot of house building, just like this. We seemed always to live on the edge of an expanding housing estate. One side still wilderness, long grass, butterflies. The other, dozens of houses under construction. We’d collect bottles of fizzy drinks and return them to the shop for pennies which we’d use to buy sweets.
Roger Tonge Of crossroads fame in his younger days remember as Roger got older and he was in crossroads for nearly 15 years then his disability kicked in, rendering him a wheelchair user and in many ways perfect for crossroads because it was a first time a disabled person was seen on television in a soap opera …
HE WAS SANDY IN CROSSROADS IN THE WHEELCHAIR
OMG...this short was superb@@chriswaring5565
@@chriswaring5565 thought he looked familiar ...wow
He died aged 35. Really young that.
Yeah he succumbed to heroin in a brothel not far from the motel . His wheelchair was sold for spare parts at British Leyland , very sad.@@pataleno
This brought back memories. I joined the Royal Navy at 15 and went to HMS Ganges in 1964. Had a great 12 years. Wish I had stayed in and done another 12.
Hindsight is wonderful isn't it.... l was in the Merchant Navy, looking back it was the greatest time of my life
You avoided the Falklands ?
@@anthonydowling3356 Yes I had left by then. Upsetting times though.
HMS Ganges..my goodness that was tough
Got some great images of Ganges in the 60s and early 70s, including the mast for ' button boy' lol
I used to work on the building sites in the 80s, when i think about it i was like a part time stunt man,
I do that today! bike journalist...
Those carpenters pitching a roof the old way bought back memories of 1961
I am right there with you my friend , finished my apprenticeship as a carpenter joiner 1965 great times.
Them birds mouths on the purlings way to much timber out ahh the good old days 🧐
Yep great times finished mine in 1969. No throwaway saws then. 😀@@spiderbowels
@@mikemcsweeney4753 just sharpened my grandads old diston.
Still have mine.. Just a shame it's rusting away in the shed. Took me weeks of saving to buy it on a apprenticeship wage. 🤥@@derekroberts8637
I’d give anything to go back . Life was way so much better . ❤
You and everybody else😊
Ditto
I’d give anything to get them roofers to put a new roof on my house
nostalgia - it`s not what it used to be
@@vickikay54Alot of people wouldn't appreciate it if we did go back. People have changed.
What a meticulous insight into a young man's life's journey. From the drudgery that many experienced on civvy street, to the exacting disciplines of military training. Great prodution!!
What an amazing snapshot of what this country once was, oh to be able to go back
If you like "amazing snapshot"s from back then, you should watch the "Look at Life" series.
Looks dreadful, a nation full of wife beaters who went to the pub 5 times a week
They teach children that none white people built Stonehenge, Roman Britain was black and that immigrants rebuilt Britain after the war. All lies and propaganda.
@@paulyouphone2793everything is better than being invaded by the Muslim mob
I was an apprentice plumber 1971-74 great times on site. No health and safety. Everyone took responsibilities for themselves but you still looked after your mates. Sure we use to play pranks on each other but no one got hurt. Great times. Great mates.
This takes me back to my apprentiship on building sites in 1955 as a carpenter. I made tea on average for 40 workmen each one liked it different in his own mug and I had to remember the brew and in which mug. The Foreman was watching discreetly seeing how I coped. The previous apprentice who had this task showed me how he managed the tasks pointing out the awkward beggers. Also the ones you could get in there good books with an occasional biscuit or piece of cake. The foreman was also watching your predecessor, how well did he partake his know how? This decided on his next task it could be one that demanded a limited skill such as backing off for the wood machinist learning safety practises. How he coped decided what his next required skill would be or he would take him to oneside and say listen son I dont think you will make a carpenter but there a place here for you as a labourer. And that is how one progressed and how after 12months the Foreman could advise management by, yes this lads OK sign him up on his endentures.
Very cool 😎 .
Thanks for this insight into how it worked back then.
What a way to start a career, making tea 40 different ways for a bunch of tossers. Bloody load of nonsense, thank goodness those days are gone.
My first job labouring in Victoria 1986
Tea was almost a religious ceremony, learnt so much at that place
Great times, the guys were like a cast from Minder! Such happy times
@@pigknickers2975 I bet you did not get it wrong
Look how CLEAN the streets were, how times have changed.
just looks cleaner on these older cameras as don't pick up the grub
you might want to see what the slums in london and other major cities looked like
I was around then and the strreets were full of dog crap. Seems to have been airbrushed out of old films and tv. Dont know how but I've yet to see a street with dog crap in it in film/tv, odd.
Very few immigrants back them, that's why 🤷
@@AlexanderDavidson-lr7dgabsolutely. Most places were filthy. x
When Britain was great..l love watching how we were..
The Day`s before Fluorescent Jackets and Hard Hats with a Pre Common Market attitude for work . Love it !
When this was filmed there were 300 recorded work-place deaths in construction, last year 45. Love it!
@@arfski where did you get this info? I'd like to see it.
@@arfski
those statistics are meaningless unless you provide the sector workforce numbers..
@@arfski I started my apprenticeship on the railways as a diesel fitter. We use to remove the loco exhaust pipes that were wrapped in asbestos, all we were given was flimsy decorators dust masks as we were told it was only "blue" asbestos that was dangerous.
Health and safety was before common market and certainly before eu
How the mighty have fallen, look at England today it's a great pity and very sad.
This is something I could watch every time I’m in that certain mood and it would fit perfectly 👌
Young actor was in Crossroads ‘Sandy’ Roger Tonge , unfortunately died age 35 RIP
Everything about this film is simply magic
I was at Raleigh Nov 71, brought back good memories.
Terrific footage… like many others, I’d like my country back.
Back when we had a country worth saving
You are not wrong. This country is broken and it’s going to get worse😢😢
100% mucker
Every generation has its moaners saying it was better in the past. Every generation.
@@John-l3t7g But something has seriously gone wrong in todays world. It really has. I'm 39, and compared to what Britain was like when I was 20 it is vastly different now. Mass immigration without proper foundations and infrastructure in place and rapid technological advancements are just two of the issues that have changed the face of this country, its people and its land.
I blame all of the people from back then, it was them that shaped the world we live in now. You can't blame the young people of today for a world that they did not create.
Hi...yes sandy from crossroads ...younger..
Luton, It's definitely changed since then and not for the better.
Why do u hate the working class for?
@@Gothicgamer-rz2rxwhere does he say that !??
@@adZHARRISON he's ant-communist communism is pro working class and people who support destroying the working class ideology of socialism and communism that means they clearly are connected with ideology that hates the working class such as capitalism, monarchy,fascism and any other ideology
45 Mosques in Luton now. It's not England.
@johnpaulnash8144 so this country has freedom of religion ur the type that claims to be a "patriot" while simultaneously going against our values one of which is freedom of religion if there was 0 mosques like u want that would go against the freedom of religion
Back in the days when we actually had a functioning navy, and a functional country.
Navy , country , a nation , Christianity, schools discipline....
"Back in the days when we actually had a functioning navy" - stupid comment
@@sg-yq8pm and that's the best comment you can pull together is it? 😜
Brainwashed and controlled
Agree.....you could describe the country today with a word beginning with fu but it's only got 6 letters...
What a great flashback film. I love seeing the 1960s cars, they all looked classy. Wish cars could be that shape again! THOUGHT I recognised the actor - later played Sandy in Crossroads, but his health declined sadly during that role.
People always say how they miss previous decades but it’s not those times they miss it’s your youth you miss. Every generation believes their childhood through to adulthood were the best days to be alive but the generation before you would disagree. It’s your youth you miss because that’s the most magical time for most
Wrong. Put me there at my current age please.
I agree 💯 but not in this present day
England is in terminal decline
Wrong! Today's England is an open sewer compared to the 1960s.
Tempting to think that. But my parents and grand parents who lived through 2 world wars and a economic depression never got tired of telling me how lucky I was being a teenager in the 70's. They never wished to go back like we do today.
@rude2870 You're wrong as usual.
Wow! what a paradise we lived in then.
We were warned but didn't heed .
until you know what came in
And then it all went (and is still going) to ratshit. Yup ! Enoch told us - but would we listen. !!
A world full of neon-lefties and change- culture cretins have a lot to be answerable for.
It does look like it, but remember things were not so good for women, for example:
No Equal Pay Act, no pill unless you were married, no such thing as rape within marriage, couldn't get HP without your husband's signature, sexual harassment EVERYWHERE and no one batted an eyelid. No to mention the awful, terrible time the gays had.
There was lots of opposition, but as now, it went unheeded.
People were just more community spirited and content then. A hard days work for a full days pay, treat people as you find them, call a spade a spade, learning a trade was a rite of passage passed down from generation to generation- people spoke properly, dressed properly, didn’t take themselves too seriously, and drank buckets of tea. I can’t believe it’s all gone in just my lifetime.
Thank God for that , it's all nostalgia mate , young people were not recognised for their skills and talents, anyone not white was relegated to menial jobs, I'm 54 the past wasn't all that great, the 70s and 80s were awful, good music though
@@valley_robotthat’s what’s better ?
“Young people not being recognised “ ?
😂
Modern life is rubbish, people are depressed and ill.
Our society is selfish and greedy and we have no sense of community any more .
@@PamelaD963 no I think you misread,young people in the past were not recognised for their talent and skills, that's different now, young people are at the cutting edge of invention and technology, minority people being used as cheap labour for menial jobs was a horrendous slight on our hard working brothers and sisters who came from our commenwealth countries to live in great Britain and were faced with racism and terrible job prospects
@@valley_robot young people now are at the cutting edge of building your digital panopticon, which will affect everyone .
There was no “minorities” in the 70s doing menial jobs…maybe a few inLondon …but I don’t know where you got the idea that people from the commonwealth ( Australia, Canada ?) were forced to come to the U.K. to be cleaners ?
Now we have modern slavery , beheadings , machete attacks, stabbings and a million bad takeaways not to mention the money being funnelled out of the country to third world nations.
But I suppose you can watch wars live on your iPhone if you think that’s progress.
Everyone wants to go back to a time when times were better, but let's be honest how many of us knew exactly what was going on outside our own little world?..if you do go back it has to also include all the nonsense that went with it and definitely no taking back any technology. Like mobile phones. Life is better because of what you make of it and having a better life shouldn't necessarily mean someone else having a crap one.
what a beautiful society it once was.
Shame the zionist banking kabal succeeded in destroying it😢
Shame it was sold to the red shield banking family.
@@derekroberts8637 and had Islam shoed down our throught, with black rights
The irony of you saying something like that with your profile pic.
@@i_know_youre_right_but I reckon
That's my home town of Luton lived there for 62 years before moving to Spain in 2019. Unrecognisable to the complete hell hole it is today 😢
No FCs on site all locals and even an apprentice that’s what it was like then really nice and lovely.
Isn’t the boy the guy who played Sandy Richardson in the tv soap Crossroads?
thats what i was thinking. no wheelchair though 🧐
I think it is Roger Tonge but having trawled the internet can’t find any info.
Yes Sandy without the wheelchair
Yes, Roger Tonge
He was fooling us all along …….he can walk
Those are Wimpey houses. Its a very common design, they were built on the 60s and theyres loads of th across the country
Yes I was thinking the same. I used to live in one. They mixed dorma style houses and normal style.
Decent builds compared to today’s rubbish.
😊it was the nostalgia from seeing the house styles that drew me in! My parents paid around 7k for one of the semi-detached houses in 1971. I lived there with my family from age 2 to age 20, good times ❤
This is absolutely brilliant.
we didn't have any shows like this in the USA in the day. Very good.
Fantastic! And to some extent brings back many memories of my own training as an L albeit in HMS Sultan MTG. 22 years an MEM(L), 15 of which as a PO.
Those old enough and lucky enough to have lived in these times what a wonderful country we had, how did it go from this to the 3rd world crap hole we have now!
Well governments and their policies didn't vote themselves in did they?
@@RockfordFiles74 I really don't remember voting for a party that said they'd open the borders. I do remember voting against it, and being ignored.
😂😂
pathetic governments
Through the laws of Karma..
The Imperial War Museum collection lists this film as 1965 but it cannot be as early as that. The Martin/Coulter track played towards the end dates from 1967. I'd suggest this film was made in 1968.
There'll destroy all trace of this in 50 years
I would have been 10 in 1968 .
I failed the 11 Plus round about that time . Then after entering Secondary school my education carried on going downhill . 😔
"Thanks, but somehow I see my future as having Noele Gordon as my Mum and helping to run a motel in the West Midlands". It was, in other words, the usual story for so many naval recruits at that time.
Yeah, that's right... Sandy Richardson.
When Luton was a lovely old town.
If only Harpenden knew what was to happen next door they'd placed it somewhere else.
i just moved back to England from the US - what happened to Luton
45 Mosques in Luton now.
Tory and Labour have imposed MASS IMMIGRATION 15 Million foreign nationals have increased the population of the UK..... and they keep coming 🤦
@@adZHARRISONer, different kinda folks moved in then took over. Changed irreversibly
@@gaycha6589 yeah , seems like its happening in many places including here in Bournemouth where i grew up
Yea it's sandy richardson
No victimhood .. no pretend racism.. no virtue signalling … no worries.
No non-whites in the video, no acknowledgement of systemic racism....but no Dad in the picture either, so some things haven't changed.
Absolute bliss!
bno racism because it was a homogeneous country
Just real racism, none of that pretend stuff.
Eh?😂
Wigan 1964 I saw John lee Hooker at the Bluesville club up Scoles.
Went on my Arial Arrow 250cc motorbike.😄👍
Isn't that Sandy Richardson off Crossraods? Nice to see him so young and fit - died young.. R.I.P Roger Tonge
Yes correct 👍🏻
Taking positives from this … they can’t take from you what you’ve already had!
Good movie.,it reminded me when I joined up and I see this was in 1965 released..I joined up at Raleigh November 65.and I thought I was back then just watching it ..good memories.....Terry
Life was happier and hopeful. I would go back in a heartbeat.
Ahh an English programme full of - get this - English people!
Who'd have thought it aye!
Spanner wont work. Ummm... Loved the big hammer @4:30.
I was going to join the RN but I decided not to and joined the MN instead in the early 1960s. First trip, woke up one morning went on deck and found Sydney had come to visit me. Visited several times a year after and permanently in 1971.
ROGER TONG AS TERRY BEFORE JOINING CROSSROADS PLAYING THE PART OF SANDY IN THE WHEELCHAIR WITH THE WOBBLY SCENERY AND PHONES THAT STILL RANG WHEN THEY PICKED THE RECIVER UP
Amazing to think when 'Crossroads' started in 1964 it was still common practice to broadcast episodes live, and performed almost as if it were a small scale theatre production, but in a tv studio. As with theatre, you carried on, whatever disasters befell the production.
No quotas cuz you didn't need them.
God.. innocent times...
There was nothing innocent about encouraging young lads to become canon fodder!
@@andrewlilley3660 Or encouraging young kids to stand up and defend our democracy and all its associated freedoms. One of which allows people like you to talk bollox in YT comment sections if you so wish.
@@colby25 Don't be an idiot all your life, have a day off. By the way, we don't have a democracy, or any freedom, where were you the last four years?
@@colby25 We've never had a democracy, and we certainly don't have any freedoms, unless it's the freedom to freeze to death because you can't afford the Gas bill, as thousands do every year.
we don't have democracy, freedom or even our own homeland anymore, what are you talking about? Britain will be majority african and asian within this century @@colby25
Excellent cinematography for an infomercial
Groovy music Man…
The difference;
Back then there were exiting inventions in all aspects of life that supposedly had the potential to make life better, longer.
In reality the relatively low tech world was interactive personally
Coraderie strong bonds of friendship and a social conscience the result.
Great times.
Today, people don’t know their neighbours interact with only technology and future developments create fear.
This is the last hurrah
Before a world reset
This is literally a word salad, are you even British comrade?
It's coming
@@arfski It's intelligible and the sentiment is sound even if it's not written the best.
Days of Sanity! Our Beautiful Home has Been Desocrated!
All Because of Cowardice & Compliance!
FGS! Stand up to This Tyranny! Think of Your Childen & Grandchild !
By the very people that lived back then, oh the irony of your thinly disguised racist rant!
@@arfski Boosters are Taking Effect! 😂
Well, man up and face your collective Karma! The curses of the people you guys subjugated, humiliated, and looted are finally working
Discipline and respect back then. Not like now. Nil respect for anybody, no discipline. Trash thrown in the streets. Who’s responsible ? Well I gotta say, it all started in the 80’s under Thatcher. Buy this, invest in that, greed is good. It’s turned us all into horrible human beings where the only person who matters is me, me , me. Current government just as bad, setting a poor example for everyone else, lining their pockets at the expense of the populace. Wouldn’t it be great to rewind back to these times ?
I think it's a bit illogical to blame it
on one person - there's some deeper trend surely
You are absolutely correct, my friend. We all live now in a thoroughly Dystopian 1984-ish world made ever more frightening to us all - because we cannot live our lives at a fast computer-generated pace and under constant CCTV surveillance; it's unnatural to do so. And the worst thing of all is that everyone is now encouraged to inform on their neighbours - which just leads to distrust and disharmony. It's worth re-reading some Dystopian novels like '1984' or 'Lord of the Flies' to see how society has evolved from the twentieth Century into today's dysfunctional and ever-more fractured and unstable world that we all inhabit.
Yawn!!! Every set of comments on You Tube has got Thatcher in there somewhere with some sort of political point-scoring.
@@Comfortzone99 bleeding thatchers Britain...
@@Comfortzone99
'There is no such thing as society's
Who was that again?
Filmed in Luton George St town center at the start
My god, I was just watching thinking what a paradise, we all know what it's turned in to
Before the Arndale was built to completely butcher the town center.
It's like a different place and country today/
Makes me wish that I had joined the RN. What a fantastic video. Should be shown at schools.
Beautiful and now a rare sight, a rare sight indeed 😢
Hello Sailor 😁
Wasn't the young guy Sandy from Cross Roads in the Wheel chair.
Yes it is, Roger Tonge, died of cancer in 1981 aged 35, well spotted
I enjoyed that..😊
I grew up in one of the first half dozen houses on such an estate. I was three and my mate and I would play in what seemed a mountain of sand next to houses being built. Mother would occasionally come to the corner to investigate and the foreman would shout to her, "it's ok missus, they're just here", while the crew kept an eye on us. At break time, they would invite us into their cabin and made us a brew in metal 'billy cans'. We really felt like we were part of the team, taking a well earned break from all the hard digging. Can you just imagine that scene now?
'City to City' - Bill Martin and Phil Coulter
Thanks for that, I was wondering!
Starmer and Co will ban these films next - they don't want people to see what Britain was once like.
My god you conservatives are such snowflakes ❄️
What, you mean before Thatcher ruined it?
They would want to do some colouring of the film.
@@gyorkshire257 I think you’ve missed the point 😮
Bloody Labour, they never build houses, look at how good we've had it for the last 14 years eh?
For those who it applies, I do hope Britain is restored back to these days of glory for all your generations to come. Sorry about the current sight of Britain, what a free for all it has become.
Sadly not a chance, too far gone 😢
Roger Tonge if I'm not mistaken.... Sandy in Crossroads!!! 😅
Navy recruitment was very deferent from the 1970's when I went to Portsmouth!. All a little 'Rose Tinted' from Pathe.
Foster Brothers shop, is/was it in Stourbridge?
It was George Street in Luton
1:42 Does anyone know what town this is?
It's Luton.
People on here moaning about the state of this country well it’s all by design and you have all voted either way for the system thus you have all destroyed what you claim you valued. Wake up.
You miserable git. Who did you vote for? 🥱
You sound like a member of just stop oil 😂
Spot on pal 👍
I wonder how many labourites have since regretted where they stuck their X in the ballot booth .❓
"Well you're not exactly Hercules unchained... but your sight is alright!"
Clearly before self-esteem was clinically recognized! 😂👍🇬🇧
(Cue national anthem)
Boy o’ boy I would love to go back - happy days.
I reckon Paddy, is well chuffed with new beauty..! 😂
Moment has passed
But the memories remain
How a building site should look, not these cramped houses with cigarette packet gaps between houses.
The mum was attractive
Working on a roof with no hard hat or hi vis. How did you stay safe?
They didn't
Professional, Trades Persons. When Fings Were Goooooooooood. Happy Times. Plenty Of Jobs, Council Houses . Sad How Things Have Changed ?., 🤬
Well you guys wanted cheap labour.. and doing menial work was beneath the colonialists' pride.
Now dunno about the Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.. but Indians have bided their time, worked super hard and studied like crazy; ( well for all racial superiority, Indians are super intelligent) and are now the richest ethnic group in UK.
Wasn’t the young actor Roger Tonge of Crossroads fame? I did recruitment medicals for the Army, Navy, Royal Marines, RAF I did this for 10 years at the Army careers Office in Leeds. All the recruits were really nice young men and women. I was lovely meeting them and I often wondered how they all failed in their various branches of the armed forces. Looking back, it was an absolute privilege.
Is the foreman Bryn Cartwright from Twin Town??
wow, i remember working on a big tea kettle like that as a lad !
What did they do to my country and my navy???
"If you see a foreign in\/asion force pick them up and bring them here, make sure they ain't cold like our pensioners in the winter".
In 1976, I began a five year Indentured Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship with the Health Authority .... In 1980 They stopped engineering apprenticeships .... A sign of worse times to come.
Remember these times so well age catches up with us all,growing up in the 50s I never thought I would see my country of uk in such a mess,our forefathers fought for this country blood sweat and tears,no longer Great Britain those times are now gone .
His mum is stunning
Terry ended up on "Crossroads" Soap In a Wheelchair!!
Sandy Richardson from Crossroads.
No girls covered in tattoos. How beautifully feminine they looked in this film clip.
Turnpike Drive, Luton?
No civil servants, no contractors, all servicemen. No Sodexo or other dreadful companies. Those were the days
the good old days
He certainly missed making the tea when it was his turn in the barrel!
😂😂
My favorite barrel joke😂
My dad joined the Royal Navy in the 50s,so this very similar to the way it was when he joined,he did 25 years as a frog man!
The main actor looks like the bloke who played Sandy, Meg Richardson's son in Crossroads.
12:11 Wow! A Action Man toy comes to life.
Thought I was watching Crossroads for a minuet there!