East Anglia (1930s film)
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- This is a late 1930s travelogue. These films became popular in the 1930s and were shown to groups and societies , mainly in urban Britain during the winter months to encourage tourism. The bourgeoning middle classes with their semi-detached homes and Austin 7 cars , the working classes visiting Gt Yarmouth in holiday special trains, clubs organising coach trips, it was all knocked on the head with the arrival of WWII.
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Before my time. but would do anything to go back to that era in East Anglia.
Lavenham probably looks exactly the same as this video.... England doesn't change much, if ever
@@pavelow235 if you don't consider that most churches are being re-purposed into mosques or migrant shelters. Aside from that and that nearly all quaint countryside villages all have substantial numbers of non-native residents living in the council homes... is that the type of change you refer to?
What a lovely documentary. How nice to see streets so free of traffic that children could play in them safely and enjoy cycling in the narrow country lanes. All this has now vanished in the name of "progress".
Fascinating old black and white film with interesting architecture and added narrated information. Very few cars too, which is a great bonus for the eyes.
My parents were children in Norfolk and Suffolk in the 1920s, and it is incredible to see things as they must have seen them. Thank you for uploading it.
I was born and grew up in Lowestoft. I wish it still looked like that. Thanks for sharing this.
Beautiful, I grew up in between Ipswich and Norwich, near to Bungay. I hope to return some day but every time I am able to visit it has become more like the rest of the country. I sued to love fishing and swimming in the River Waveney which separates the north folk and the south folk (Norfolk and Suffolk).
90 years and changed almost beyond recognition. Traffic has ruined our peaceful land.
Yes that’s true x
I love walking along the river stour from Manningtree to Flatford , it’s even today a lovely walk , and although lots of things have changed Manningtree has a lot of hidden charm , the small market on Saturday where lots of the local people buy their fruit,veg, meat and groceries , lots of moments from are there if you know where to look , and along the river is beautiful one of the best place to see all kinds of birds , waterfowl , geese and swans , and some lovely pubs , although sadly a couple of the pubs have. closed in recent years xx
@@richbutler718 I lived in Manningtree for a couple of years (1997/98) and used to enjoy the walk to Flatford. I remember watching a kingfisher skimming along the surface of the river and, if very fortunate, could even look down on it as it perched on a water pipe.
I lived in a flat next to the fire station.
On one occasion I saw a couple of men unload a punt (painted pink!) from a trailer; in the bows a length of what looked like drain pipe. They launched the boat and stalked a flock of ducks on the far side of the river. A cloud of black smoke signalled the discharge of the punt gun, then one crew member stood in the bows with, I think, a 12-bore, finishing off any survivors.
A pub (?The Crown?) had information on the history of punt guns on its walls. It's a fascinating topic and I was quite lucky to see the weapon in use.
I suspect, however, that the ducks had a very different opinion.
Where is Tim's Machines
@@richbutler718 True indeed; but traffic is interchange and exchange…from afar. Even where this might happen locally growth would change what is ideal not to say idyllic, and traffic distances minimal, there would still be ‘change’ ie a change from small to large…Then therefore the option ‘change from ‘modest to big’ or from ´poor to rich’, even from ‘mediocre comfort’ to satisfying comfort..Change even stems from activity aka work. But there is born of reflection: ‘wisdom’ from which the concepts of ‘preservation and conservation’. True that the Greeks may have acquired much of this on pure reflection, meditation, calculation and speculation, with benevolent slaves doing all the work. The Romans couldn‘t follow this…all beyond their ken..but were envious of the results, but wondered how could such fame come about from so little action…‘action‘ being their dynamic. Back to where we began: where ´activity‘ means action it need not mean ‘upheaval’: ipso facto activity and action meaning ‘change for the better’ aka ‘improvement’. We who experience ‘better’ but regret ie miss the past ie ‘no traffic’, have better thanks to those who saw progress in prosperity emanating from exchange ie trade which necessitated exchange, receipt and delivery ie traffic. Traffic…by roads barely built, waterways rivers becoming canals, iron roads becoming railways…And so on, ad infinitum…
If it wasnt for the Internet, google,and youtube etc. you wouldnt be looking at these films of 85 years ago !!
If things were still like they were in the old days I wouldn’t want to.
Yes you're right, things for ordinary folk were not easy, except buying a house I think that was easier, my Dad a tool fitter bought a house in 1936, so did a lot of his working class blue collar mates.
Magical piece of history. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful post. I spent two years in Norwich - 1955-1957,and I loved every minute of it
I am a big time history buff and wow😮! I loved watching it. I immediately subscribed and about to watch more.
East Anglians are a quiet, hard-working people, and obviously the original Anglo-Saxon group. Most look like Danes, not surprising, given where their forefathers came from - Jutland
Lovely to see how hard our ancestors worked and lived, so proud of where I come from.
This is a great film. A very important piece of our social history. Thank you for putting it on.
I love this little film. Thank you, Beulah24.
When England was England
Shame about today.
Dam easy travel and the iinternet.
I grew up in Diss and remember seeing this film in school !
Wonderful, Thank you. Point of accuracy for those interested. Woodbridge tide mill (2:25 in the film) isn't the only tide-operated mill. There is a second at Eling, in Hampshire, dating back a comparable number of centuries.
Well , another point if interest is this : the world’s largest tide-mill is in beautiful Stratford, and I don’t mean Avon😂 yes Stratford in east London!
Reminds me of my favourite town.
Great scenes of rural East Anglia. Often people think of the 1930s as a time of poverty, it was in areas of heavy industry, but not in areas where new technologies were being manufactured. These films would be directed towards those people who had a bit of extra money to spend on their holidays.
A very good succinct appraisal given by the film provider to whom and for which I extend my most sincere compliments and thanks.
THE 1930S? MAN.THAT SOUNDS LIKE A FANTASTIC,FASCINATING BEAUTIFUL TIME.A LOT OF US WOULD CHOOSE THOSE TIMES OVER THESE!ANYTHING BUT A VACUUM!
Until the great depression came around and a certain painter who looked like Charlie Chaplin decided to invade Poland
Lovely film and interesting..........I hate to think what it looks like in 2023
Oliver Cromwell was born in Huntingdon and lived in Ely. His house is the tourist office. It's on a stretch of grass at the head of which is the Cathedral. In front of this cathedral is a cannon, captured at Crimea in 1851 or so, and given as a present to Queen Victoria, who gave it to the Cathedral.
Royal wrath is the sort that runs deep, and no opportunity to rub it in is missed, no matter how subtle, it's possibly deliberate that it's directly pointed at Olly C's house ( on account of Charles I losing his head with Olly C )
But the last laugh is at the Queen. On the cannon’s trunnion pins is some Cyrillic lettering. It’s part of the original casting but it’s faint and unobtrusive, so easily overlooked. My Russian isn't great. But it's a very phonetic language and I love trying to pronounce it. There's no way I'll ever forget the double take as I came to the end of the word. It’s the maker’s name and about as English sounding as you could get. It’s kept me amused for years and I wonder just who else has noticed.
The maker is a D. Gascoin.
Gascoin is a french last name
Rubbish Oliver Cromwell was From Huntington.
@@lordeden2732 True. I've made this clear now. He was born in Huntingdon but lived in Ely when he inherited the house in 1636. It's still very much there, it has its own website and you can do tours. He live there for 10 years.
@@BalkanTimberMan Good point. It's English enough now- there's a lot of Gascoins - plus Gazza, Paul Gascoin, for example. But it would be interesting to know the how it travelled. It could all go back from the Napoleonic Wars to the Norman Conquest. And I wonder about the Hugenots and Protestant refugees. So all we can say is that someone called Gascoin dealt with arms.
Awesome, ty for the upload
Thankyou for sharing.
Really great stuff for history buffs Be lovely to see more Thanks
Beautiful. Seems like so long ago but my mum would have been about 14at the time.
3:30 - Kersey, Suffolk - I used to live in the furthest cottage you can see on the rh side, which was opposite The Bell...that was about 1977. And my friends lived in that old building on the bridge!
Wow! Is it still there? If it is I bet it's so "modernised" inside as to be unrecognisable.
@@mabel8179 Still there!
@@ajadrew Great to know!
@@mabel8179 Cheers 😊
What an interesting film even for now, makes me want to go visit all of those places!
You will need a time machine
Hi Beulah23, thanks for posting this. I'm the archivist for the Tide Mill mentioned at 2:24 (the mill is now a museum and still grinds corn). I'd not seen this film before, could you please provide a few more details about its origins? Thanks and regards.
Once sound had come to film making this type of travellogue became popular especillay in the late 1930s. There were companies, like Fidelity Productions who made this, who specialied in this sort of production and would approach councils, major tourist attractions and the railway companies for funding. We copied a distibution library 16mm print which had seen better days. It now resides in the West Sussex County Archives. The film would have been shot on 35nn film and could have been distributed to cinemas as a supporting film.
Many thanks. Keep up the good work
Preserving and broadcasting these treasures is important.
A Mill worked by the Tide. It’s high time someone came up with the same idea for to worn a generator. It would be a lot better than looking at all those wind turbines. And the tides never fail like the wind does.
Did he say the Angles' civilisation has passed away? We ARE that civilisation! But I guess I can't blame him, this is from the '30s.
well we use the same sources for anglo-saxon england as people in the 30s
he means the civilisation of the east angles whose kingdom was dissolved in the 10th century. a kingdom passing and a civilisation passing are different things though and east anglia's civilisation of course continued as a part of england, so you're right there
Crazy to think some of these people would have known other people born in the late 1700's
i went on holiday there by foot and public transport and can attest that this is a good travelogue! Norwich is very cute, also great vietnamese cuisine everywhere (from rural wales, super exotic); Ely is beautiful, if basically a cathedral; and King's Lynn well worth a visit, there's an android app which is a pdf guided tour of the town which is great. Castle Rising is tiny but fascinating and worth a morning or a day, i can recommend staying at The Red Lion (i think it was a pub) with the landlady who teaches yoga:) Trains in the southeast are frequent and go everywhere - no 60s cuts for them - but getting bus information was the usual nightmare: i had to get the bus information from Castle Rising from the bus stop, by first finding a bus stop. There are some cross-country walking routes linking parts of the district which are in good repair. Some churches have round towers instead of square ones, that's worth looking out for. By the looks of this, i missed out on Framlingham. My favourite thing was Strangers Hall museum in Norwich: beware, it's only open one or two days a week, ring up and check. The main museum in the castle is okay but not essential: it's the exterior that's amazing.
I would rather have lived in these times than now people just stopped caring about their country and other people we should take note get rid of all the junk food takaways go back to healthy living
Not a fan of 'Eat out to help out' then? Me neither.......
Or make fast food places
sell healthy foods
I'll never get those who romanticise these clips as if "back in those days things were much better."
Do they forget about the poverty. The disease. The lack of modern medicine, hygiene and sanitation? Extremely poor and dangerous working conditions. Lack of modern convenience such as electricity, indoor plumbing and appliances like refrigerators and washing machines?
I find these clips interesting to watch, but I'd never for a moment want to live in that period.
@@sudgur990 I was a child in the 1950s and can vividly remember my grandparents cottage out in the rural wilds of Norfolk. They didn't get electricity until the late 1950s and then only on the ground floor. The oven was built into the chimney above the fire in the kitchen. The oven had no regulator obviously, but my grandmother made the best cakes I have ever tasted. She used to guage the temperature by putting her hand in the oven (quickly!!) to see if it was hot enough. The only other fire was in the front room. There was no heating upstairs so we went to bed with the old fashioned stoneware hot water bottles. The mattresses were duck-down and handmade by my grandmother. They used to take a lot of hard work because they needed "turning" every few days to stop the down becoming compacted. Lighting upstairs was by little paraffin Kelly lamps. Before they got electricity, the lighting downstairs was by Tilly lamps. The lav (toilet) was down the back path and was just a hole in the ground with a box on top that was dug out every few months. The cold ashes from the fire were put down it so there was no smell. If you wanted the toilet at night, you used a chamberpot. Laundry was done in the wash house, a small shed which had a tub in it with a fire underneath. Baths were once a week on a Sunday night in a tin bath in front of the kitchen fire. Water was drawn from a well which my grandparents shared with neighbours. They had a very decent sized bit of land to the cottage and grew all their own fruit and veg. They also kept chickens and rabbits for the table. Entertainment was a valve radio once they got electricity, before that it was reading and handicrafts. My grandmother made the most exquisite knitted lace which she used to sell to supplement their income from my grandfather's farm job. The cottage was, of course, tied. It came with the job. They raised seven children in that tiny cottage and to me it was heaven. They died within a few weeks of each other aged 83 years old. My grandparents lived a physically harder life than people today, but I believe it was a better life. Would I swap their life for mine in the modern world? Yes, in a heartbeat.
@@snowysnowyriver amazing story
Very nice thank you 🙏
Fascinating film, I’d love to see what these places look like today.........or probably best not too!
Probably most of them are gone, sadly to be replaced by ugly supermarket car parks and flats.
Actually a surprising amount of it looks just the same.
Lavenham has been preserved.
Most interesting!
Thank you very interesting
Wonderful stuff,,,,gratz to you uploader.
Wwwwwweerrt
Wow. Interesting.
At 4:22 the word subtitled as 'pocketing' ought to be 'pargetting'
Same with Mousehold. We pronounce it as it is written. The narrator had used the Cornish pronunciation which we don't.
Magnificent! Thank you for uploading this. Olde England. Now? Not so much. It's the people! The people who made England, Britain. It was once unique with identity. Globalization has ended all of this in the West.
Anglia means Angles
Oh I say, it’s all rather super isn’t it! Love it.
Good
There were enough jobs then technology has destroyed a lot of good things now shopping on the internet lots of jobs gone because not needed things made cheaper so a lot of industries shut down so sad
Emergency Services in the 20th Century.
The King's Head 1680 in Fulham London has closed after 344 years, It will now be converted into flats for the never-ending newcomers.
20th Century's Law Enforcement Police Officers.
It is amazing to see that the Flint industry for guns (flintlocks) thrived up until the 1930's as an export item from Brandon.
This is very true. I also read that over time, the dust from knapping ate into the lungs; imagine trying to recruit now..
Suffolk & Norfolk Constabulary.
East Anglia, the Wales of the East.
No, We are friendly unlike the Welsh who have more chips on their collective shoulders than a chain of fried fish shops
When Britain was British.
Oh my days the comment section here , the good old days and I'd prefer to live then ..... no you wouldn't!
Oh yes, I would.
Without things such as the WiFi that using to do this, waht about up to date laws ? Womens rights barely existed, ww2 to look forward too, what about the science and medicine side that's helped make the life's of billions better, is the world shit aye it is, would it have been better then than now ? Well I guess it goes down to your life now doesn't it
I prefer penicillin and modern medicine.
Yes I would
@@terencemullins1422 terrence no offense ... but no you wouldn't... you like tooth ache? Well dentists back then... .think about it ....
Rural Policemen.
It's a shame these comments are filled pretty horrid hateful and racist stuff, I'm only here because I've been reading the book When Marnie Was There, which is set in 1960s Norfolk by an author who grew up there in the 10s and 20s, and just wanted a look at the real deal.
@Anglus Patria What was their intention
Yep, those wonderful glory days, this region representative
of a quieter, bygone era,..a land of content and a people at
ease with itself.
The Pensioners still live there, and still wear their distinctive dress.
Feel sorry for the old ladies who have to wear the witches hats
They are like the hats of the National dress of the Welsh and in Brittany in France. The Celts
With the melting of the polar ice caps most of East Anglia will be under water in the next 30 years. So catch the Norfolk Broads while you still can.