Wonderful to see this. My wife and two very young children travelled on the Orcades from Southampton to Wellington over the Christmas - January period in 1967-68. The route was supposed to take us through the Suez Canal but the 6 Day War in June 1967 put paid to that, and we travelled instead via Capetown and Durban. We have lots of happy memories but the first few days were memorable for all the wrong reasons. We hit rough weather in the Bay of Biscay and some passengers didn't show their faces in the dining room for several days. Our table steward told us that his cabin was under water as the rough seas had burst his porthole overnight! As I recorded in my diary at the end of the voyage 'The food was terrific. Just like a first class hotel with plenty of choice at each meal'. It was a great experience for all of us.
Watching this I realise how much we've lost....not just gracious travel but the sense of safety and familiarity of a civilised world. I wish we could have those days back again 🙏
High-trust, functional societies, and the safety and order they long nurtured, have been stolen from us. Remember those times, when governments and institutions of power did not exist to despise and harm those they controlled.
Thank you indeed for this marvelous look at the past. Those of us who grew up in this time frame appreciate it. I remember going down to the piers in NYC in the 1960's to say farewell to various relatives sailing on the Giulio Cesare (Italian Line), Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. Magnificent ships, never to be seen again.
@vibratingstring Well I mean, seeing them in their glory days. I also remember the United States at the docks in NYC, just so impressive. I was a kid back in the 60's.
I went down to Southampton (UK) pier to wave my Aunts off to NY in 1960.🙂 They were on the Queen Mary and we were allowed on board to say goodbye. I was only 5 years old but I still remember (or at least I think I do) the call for visitors to leave.
All these people had survived a war..! Tends to deliver a whole new perspective and a deep sense of appreciation.. it permeates EVERYTHING..! Those around you and yourself regained the sense of joy of just ‘being’ alive.. 💃🏽🥳 🥂intoxicating, and so, nothing is too much effort..☺️ 💓
I love this! Thank heavens for Pathe and real films of the time. So sadly much of the 70s-90s is littered with nearly worthless videotape recordings of horrific graphic quality. But here… the past was the future with beautiful HD content! Thank you for posting!
@No Wallet Of course there was plenty of crime around, and poverty etc, but in general, this is a true reflection of life as I remember it as a child in the 1960's. People were generally polite, considerate and respectful. It all started to go wrong in 1970's.
This is an advert. Those times were not like that. Don't forget about the slums and squalor of the 60s. The hippy movement and what it was they were disgusted by. This!
@@daithiocinnsealach1982 the antifa of today are the same as the counter culture commies of the 60s. Only even more extremists every social norm that survived the 60s the anquifa want destroyed for good. Hopefully they are destroyed instead.
Mike Adams that's cool hope your dad enjoyed his time at sea that era in time was when men did a solid days work plus I've always liked cunard's ship's 👍😁
In 1959 I was only 4 when my family migrated to Australia from Scotland on the Orcades. I still have some memories I remember the smells of the oily rope, the coffee machine in the galley, I can remember the pool event when we crossed the equator. My mother kept a post card from the ship in-fact in the film in the printing room a noticed the same photo on the card she had. I also remember being at the rear of the ship and watching the crew throwing big paper bags full of rubbish onto the ocean and bobbing up and down for miles behind the ship. For many years my mother kept these little aluminium arrows that would have been in cocktail’s. Funny how some things stick in your mind all these years later. Thank you for posting this interesting film on the Orcades👍
@@HUMPTYNUGGET Thats the ferries, I worked on ocean liners, but still it doesnt sound too good. The ships I worked on always had other nationalities working on them even in the 60s
@@stuartlennox66 I’d love to sit and chat with you sailor Stuart 😘 @Humpty, don’t confuse the ferry company and the cruise company . They are *nothing* to do with each other, nothing.
No ugly people pillaging or destroying property here, back when people were cultured, lovers of arts and wholesome civilised. Sorely missed these days, the which we'll never see again. Thank you for this magnificent upload, thank you for the memories.
@@chriscangdradaniel4846 You made a good point, I assure you, Jabba the Trump has done his best, the left rigged the election (Trump really won by a landslide) & dirty socialists have finally trickle down into good O’l USA 🇺🇸 let’s just say we are sadly looking down @ the last days of the Republic, all those clowns in the upper echelon in the great scheme of things are in China’s pockets, as in the case of corrupted China endorser Joe basement Biden and his putrid cache of hoodlums.
@@missasinenomine Capitalism was different when people had higher standards, and that was probably a relic of the monarchy. Personally I can't really deal with colony behaviour, I'd prefer there to be less quality but more independence e.g the should make all their stuff themselves like a children's playset..
I think its possible that people had a better sense of duty, of right and wrong. We hadn't, at that point, imported the "third world" into our society. What did we think we were playing at ?
I was blessed to have traveled on both the magnificent RMS Queen Mary and the equally magnificent RMS Queen Elizabeth II with my parents. It was towards the end of the heyday of ocean travel. The attentiveness of the ship's crews still amazes me to this very day, I still marvel at their eagerness to help and overall knowledge! On the QEII, I met a man who actually lived on the ship. (wouldn't that be great!) With my parent's permission, he took me under his wing, gave me a detailed tour, and taught me a great deal about the ship and his life on it. From what I have been told, ship travel is on the rebound. Not just cruises, but trans-Atlantic travel as well. I really do hope that is true.
Loved those simple ships, the Sydney, the Roma and the majestic Achille Lauro, all Lauro Flotilla. They had often berthed here in Port Melbourne. As a kid, I used to rush to the pier everytime the Sydney arrived to visit my uncle's brother who was Captain for the last 9 years. Then the lovely ships came no more. I miss them all 😪
I also from the 1950s would catch the train from Dandenong to Station Pier to look at the magnificent P&O and Orient Liners and migrant ships that would berth there dreaming that one day I would get to travel on some of them. Of course I did for most of my adult life including my honeymoon on the Lloyd Triestino Marconi and topped it off with the mighty QM2 a few years back.The romance of the sea has a very strong pull.
A library on a cruise ship. People reading books while relaxing. Children behaving well on their own at their designated dinner area. Is this some alternate universe?
I felt a tear swell up.. Just remembering the world at those times.. 'it's people and the whole works... And today's world... You would wish you weren't around today. ''Never get back those fabulous times...
Congratulations British Pathé by preserving the History. My parentes travelled on board of The "Cabo San Roque" and "Charles Tellier" Ships (1960) and afterwards "Costa Linea C" (1966) with me. But, unfortunately there is no recording. Only old postcards. From Rio Brazil.
I’m gobsmacked! When I was a child I had a large plastic model boat. I used to sail it in the bath. It had a name on the front “Orcades”! Sorry, I know it doesn’t mean much but I never realised it was an actual real life liner! 😅
I was alive in that era and looking back from this hi-tech world where all we do is stare at screens and don’t actually deal with PEOPLE I want it back
I THANKYOU WHOEVER PUT THIS MOVIE ON HERE OF THE ORCADES, I WAS A 4 YO FROM GLASGOW, SCOTLAND. I NEVER SEEN SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT LIKE THE SHIP AND ALL, IT WAS A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE, WOULD ANYONE HAVE SOME PRIVATE PHOTO'S OF INSIDE THE SHIP? WE WENT TO BUNNERONG HOSTEL IN HILLSDALE, THANKYOU VERY MUCH ALL,
Well of course they showcase the good things about the era, but there were still major social problems. We’re far better off today, even though we have different and still bad problems now. It’s easy to forget, but progress has actually been made since the past. Don’t worry about it so much!
@@MaxGreen111 I didn't say there are no problems and there is nothing bad back then or now, and I didn't say I was worried. Maybe spend a little more time reading for comprehension instead of just skimming and then verbal-diahrroeaing out whatever blither occurs to you.
@@MrSimonmcc Oh, you can hear written words? Quite the fascinating talent, if so! And if not, then the tone you're assigning my words is coming _from you, and not me, Dear!_
Looking at some of these old film reels, I get to thinking where did it all go wrong,No one talks to each other anymore, next door neighbours, no one knows them anymore, peoples faces only communicate with their smartphones, they call this modern life social media, But in reality, its just the opposite.
I travelled the Pacific on P&O SS Orcades. I was all of 16 years old and by myself. The opulance, the cleanliness, the pantry and cabin 'boys'. Bobby was 60-70 in the shade. Invited to Captains table for dinner. Because I was 'summonds', I refused. 2nd Engineer asked me out to dinner in Noumea -didn't have the heart to say 'I'm only 16'. I took 5 huge suitcases as had to have much formal wear. The best time of my life.
Given that P&O and Orient Lines merged in 1960 and that the SS Orcades was painted that yellow hue until 1964, this film can be dated between 1958/9-1964 at the latest.
We (my family, I was about 6) used ships many times to go to South America in the 50's, on a freight-ship with passenger accommodation, back and fro from Holland. Later we went with the Super Connie. It was fun on the ships. To Suriname and Colombia.
My first cruise was on RMS Carmania (Cunard) pictured behind the Orcades on sailing at Southampton in 1968 when I was 8 I still remember men playing deck quoits in tweed suits.I was on the Orcades when she ran aground temporarily in the Guidecca canal in Venice.
@@guillermoelenes7252 the only countries that are high in diversity population of race and religious background are the white western countries. The bigotry of racism is amazing from ignorant racist ppl like yourself. Try India on diversity. Try Africa on diversity. Try most countries of the Middle East with diversity. Try Asia with diversity. China kill their minorities in slave camps. The only true multicultural diverse countries are the traditional white countries. What’s your plane of deception?
I love the cord swichbroad brings back memories, I started my career with good old ma bell in 1972 for 34 years don't have career like it anymore, now it's all warehouse jobs
I wonder how much a ticket was for an outside cabin with a porthole for two people all inclusive? All that efficiency and people happy with their jobs, how did it all go to sh*t?
Ten pounds one way if you were emigrating. The Orient Line had three pretty much identical ships built immediately post war. Initially for Mail, trooping and then used for transporting a mix deluxe passengers and ten pound emigrees. Sister ship Oronsay carried future Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (then aged 2) in 1960. My Uncle who was an engineering officer on the third ship Orsova also emigrated with his young family on Oronsay in 1960, but a different voyage.
Tina, my own guess (You ask such a good question) is that the decline in "standards" started with our schools. I think values such as duty and work, became after the mid 60's a kind of "dirty word" ....
Yes first class was very luxurious, but it was not how the majority of passengers travelled. Now if they'd done it on tourist class it would have much more relevant. Those of us that did it know. I did it three times; on the Strathmore, the Orsova an the Southern Cross between 1957 and 1966.
So neat story here, my Great-Grandfather traveled on both Cunard line ships and other ships back and forth from the USA to Germany, he usually just went down to the engine room and waved a hearty "hello!" To the engineers and engine tenders and they would "talk ship" for awhile. I think everyone on a certain ship knew him well too! 😄
Socialism and liberalism is a disease, lack of will and commitment today, people expect too many handouts from the government, hence becoming lazy and unproductive.
This is how my parents travelled to OZ, they didn't know each other on the trip (different ships), ended up meeting each other at a sailing club in Hobart, Tasmania!
No we don’t! You’re remembering nostalgia with your rose tinted glasses! No health and safety, men working with no hard hats or safety boots. But with the right to rape his wife nightly. Woman unable to buy a car without their husband signing the finance agreement. Children or wives beaten and abused but nobody intervened because its ‘family business’ Overcrowded slums just a way of life for too many, London still scarred with bombed out buildings from the war. Remember if you had a heart attack or was in an industrial accident and lost a lot of blood, when the ambulance came it was just transport to the hospital, no paramedics in those days. You’d probably die on your way to hospital. You can return, I’ll stay happily here in my bright future.
Well, it's four years ago but at 14:00 there's an adjustable sign which says „Orcades will arrive at 8 on TUE 1 SEPT.“ Tuesday the 1st of September was 1959 and again 1964.
Just watched him put a raw meat on a griddle and use the same tongs to take off cooked. Made my stomach do a lil flip.. love the pathe videos though :)
Absolutely not! For one it doesn't sound at all like him and two the royals don't do commercial product endorsements other than the Queen's seal of approval
We used to have holidays with my Grandparents at Bexill. Always watched the Birkenhead Express arriving at 12:00. That was the highlight of the holiday!
@@missasinenomine Heh Munich! Well it seems like a friendly and free atmosphere if you get to let such a great organiser be in charge of the grill, so probably to somewhere like heaven instead of somewhere like heck.. But yes ehm I did hear that KR was in an "apocalyptic mood" towards the end of his life..
@@RoskinGreenrake He certainly did great things with the Munchner Bach Chor. (Munich Bach Choir). I'm a big fan! Wonderful interpretations. Excellent conductor. Not sure about the apocalypse though. Haven't heard anything about that.
Then go transatlantic on the Queen Mary 2 New York to Southampton or vive versa. It’s just about the same. Afternoon tea service with waiters in white gloves, drinks with the captain, 3 course 5 star dinners, an on board library, deck games, _proper_ wooden deck chairs. It will only cost you a few thousand, depending on time of year. So there, don’t _wish_ don’t ask God, just do it.
LET'S FACE IT YOU'VE HEARD THE SONGS THOSE WERE THE DAYS MY FRIEND WE THOUGHT THEY WOULD NEVER END LIFE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL BACK THEN MY FRIENDS GREAT MEMORIES THANKS FOR SHARING 👍👍🇺🇸 .
They’ve just boarded at Southampton and they’ve already changed from staid business attire into floral print short sleeve shirts and shorts as if they’re already in the steaming tropics! But their hair is still lacquered to the max with, guess it was Brylcreem those days. But they changed into their “business” attire when they disembarked at Sydney or Melbourne, to ensure they were to be treated with the respect they expected from immigration officials! I’m old enough to remember those days! I was there!
Wonderful to see this. My wife and two very young children travelled on the Orcades from Southampton to Wellington over the Christmas - January period in 1967-68. The route was supposed to take us through the Suez Canal but the 6 Day War in June 1967 put paid to that, and we travelled instead via Capetown and Durban. We have lots of happy memories but the first few days were memorable for all the wrong reasons. We hit rough weather in the Bay of Biscay and some passengers didn't show their faces in the dining room for several days. Our table steward told us that his cabin was under water as the rough seas had burst his porthole overnight! As I recorded in my diary at the end of the voyage 'The food was terrific. Just like a first class hotel with plenty of choice at each meal'. It was a great experience for all of us.
Thank you John i enjoyed your story
Sounds like you had a wonderful time 😁😁
So much more gracious than air travel. Those were the days.
Family migrated to Sydney on the P&O Oriana in 1967. Had my 21st birthday pool party on board and it was a blast.
Amazing all for £10!
If only we could all go back in time 😄
17:42 I suppose that's not you.
What a time to be young!
Watching this I realise how much we've lost....not just gracious travel but the sense of safety and familiarity of a civilised world. I wish we could have those days back again 🙏
How true. Times could be hard but all I could see was a golden road full of promise.
High-trust, functional societies, and the safety and order they long nurtured, have been stolen from us. Remember those times, when governments and institutions of power did not exist to despise and harm those they controlled.
Wish we could still travel like this. We would arrive at our destination relaxed and happy instead of tired and stressed!
Back then, the travel was the vacation. Now we actually do things at the destination...
Try the QM2
It’s all coming back traveling by ship is coming back ten fold I think airline travel will take a massive back seat for along time to come
@@thefowlyetti2 Have you tried the QMII?
@@MrMenefrego1 Not yet, but its the only Ocean liner left. So fits the bill. I will travel on it within the next couple of years.
Thank you, British Pathe for capturing these images for posterity in beautiful 35mm colour.
Thank you indeed for this marvelous look at the past. Those of us who grew up in this time frame appreciate it.
I remember going down to the piers in NYC in the 1960's to say farewell to various relatives sailing on the Giulio Cesare (Italian Line), Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. Magnificent ships, never to be seen again.
@vibratingstring Well I mean, seeing them in their glory days. I also remember the United States at the docks in NYC, just so impressive. I was a kid back in the 60's.
I went down to Southampton (UK) pier to wave my Aunts off to NY in 1960.🙂 They were on the Queen Mary and we were allowed on board to say goodbye. I was only 5 years old but I still remember (or at least I think I do) the call for visitors to leave.
All these people had survived a war..! Tends to deliver a whole new perspective and a deep sense of appreciation..
it permeates EVERYTHING..!
Those around you and yourself regained the sense of joy of just ‘being’ alive.. 💃🏽🥳 🥂intoxicating, and so, nothing is too much effort..☺️ 💓
I love this! Thank heavens for Pathe and real films of the time. So sadly much of the 70s-90s is littered with nearly worthless videotape recordings of horrific graphic quality. But here… the past was the future with beautiful HD content! Thank you for posting!
I thank God I'm old enough to remember those times
@No Wallet Of course there was plenty of crime around, and poverty etc, but in general, this is a true reflection of life as I remember it as a child in the 1960's. People were generally polite, considerate and respectful. It all started to go wrong in 1970's.
You are right. We took a wrong turn in the 70s and have been lost ever since. I miss those days so much.
This is an advert. Those times were not like that. Don't forget about the slums and squalor of the 60s. The hippy movement and what it was they were disgusted by. This!
@@daithiocinnsealach1982 the antifa of today are the same as the counter culture commies of the 60s. Only even more extremists every social norm that survived the 60s the anquifa want destroyed for good. Hopefully they are destroyed instead.
@@steamgent4592 shhh be open minded please
My dad was a press officer for Cunard late 50s into the 60s, until air travel took over. He loved his job. RIP Dad❤️
He was a lucky man to travel the seas in this age .
13:14 Mike pence is a time traveler
The romance of sea faring liners is unmatched by the huge jets of these days.
@@CelticConservative His wife will kill him for "observing" when she sees this!
Mike Adams that's cool hope your dad enjoyed his time at sea that era in time was when men did a solid days work plus I've always liked cunard's ship's 👍😁
In 1959 I was only 4 when my family migrated to Australia from Scotland on the Orcades.
I still have some memories I remember the smells of the oily rope, the coffee machine in the galley, I can remember the pool event when we crossed the equator. My mother kept a post card from the ship in-fact in the film in the printing room a noticed the same photo on the card she had. I also remember being at the rear of the ship and watching the crew throwing big paper bags full of rubbish onto the ocean and bobbing up and down for miles behind the ship. For many years my mother kept these little aluminium arrows that would have been in cocktail’s.
Funny how some things stick in your mind all these years later.
Thank you for posting this interesting film on the Orcades👍
Sounds like great memories ^^
You certainly have not missed much in Britain it is indeed a right dump, one question I would like to ask you is would you ever come back.
@@davids8449
I went on a short holiday to Britain about 15 years ago.
I think my parents made the right choice migrating to Australia.
Jim671467 very diplomatically put
@@Jim-ok9zi So what is exactly wrong with Scotland???
Beautiful. Thanks for this piece of history.
Memories ... I served in her sister ship "Oronsay" for a few years and on a few other P&O ships , Im over 70 now and would I do it again "HELL YES"
What do you think of P and O saking all of thier workers and bringing in foreign replacements
@@HUMPTYNUGGET Thats the ferries, I worked on ocean liners, but still it doesnt sound too good. The ships I worked on always had other nationalities working on them even in the 60s
@@stuartlennox66 I’d love to sit and chat with you sailor Stuart 😘 @Humpty, don’t confuse the ferry company and the cruise company . They are *nothing* to do with each other, nothing.
No ugly people pillaging or destroying property here, back when people were cultured, lovers of arts and wholesome civilised.
Sorely missed these days, the which we'll never see again. Thank you for this magnificent upload, thank you for the memories.
That's your govenrment fault for supporting and funding left ideology
@@chriscangdradaniel4846 You made a good point, I assure you, Jabba the Trump has done his best, the left rigged the election (Trump really won by a landslide) & dirty socialists have finally trickle down into good O’l USA 🇺🇸 let’s just say we are sadly looking down @ the last days of the Republic, all those clowns in the upper echelon in the great scheme of things are in China’s pockets, as in the case of corrupted China endorser Joe basement Biden and his putrid cache of hoodlums.
Wonderful. Makes you want to be there.
Although i am British but i wish if i could be in that age .
Arm and a leg to travel
I want to go back in time. Looks beautiful. Thank you.
How lovely and relaxed is the atmosphere and fun.
Wonderful days , wonderful ships .
Oh ja das stimmt genau eine wunderbare Zeit
Those ships stank
Everybody was so graceful.
@@vichar4923 That's the way that things are supposed to be. Every day.
And so well dressed!
@@missasinenomine Capitalism was different when people had higher standards, and that was probably a relic of the monarchy. Personally I can't really deal with colony behaviour, I'd prefer there to be less quality but more independence e.g the should make all their stuff themselves like a children's playset..
I think its possible that people had a better sense of duty, of right and wrong. We hadn't, at that point, imported the "third world" into our society.
What did we think we were playing at ?
This is the first class, I'm sure you have seen the airline ads of today.
I was blessed to have traveled on both the magnificent RMS Queen Mary and the equally magnificent RMS Queen Elizabeth II with my parents. It was towards the end of the heyday of ocean travel. The attentiveness of the ship's crews still amazes me to this very day, I still marvel at their eagerness to help and overall knowledge! On the QEII, I met a man who actually lived on the ship. (wouldn't that be great!) With my parent's permission, he took me under his wing, gave me a detailed tour, and taught me a great deal about the ship and his life on it. From what I have been told, ship travel is on the rebound. Not just cruises, but trans-Atlantic travel as well. I really do hope that is true.
I lived in dream for some minutes..thx for this video...
Loved those simple ships, the Sydney, the Roma and the majestic Achille Lauro, all Lauro Flotilla. They had often berthed here in Port Melbourne. As a kid, I used to rush to the pier everytime the Sydney arrived to visit my uncle's brother who was Captain for the last 9 years. Then the lovely ships came no more. I miss them all 😪
I also from the 1950s would catch the train from Dandenong to Station Pier to look at the magnificent P&O and Orient Liners and migrant ships that would berth there dreaming that one day I would get to travel on some of them.
Of course I did for most of my adult life including my honeymoon on the Lloyd Triestino Marconi and topped it off with the mighty QM2 a few years back.The romance of the sea has a very strong pull.
Astor too 😢
A library on a cruise ship. People reading books while relaxing. Children behaving well on their own at their designated dinner area. Is this some alternate universe?
Lol it's a staged documentary
@@Canuck24_7 Took the words from my mouth 😀
@@tedoneilclark4710 🤣
Returning from NZ it was just like that.We kids had a great time. Dances and parties and a library, play room etc and lots of meals and film shows.
I felt a tear swell up.. Just remembering the world at those times.. 'it's people and the whole works... And today's world... You would wish you weren't around today. ''Never get back those fabulous times...
You read my mind 🥲
Well, you lot will get your wish soon enough, soon enough
What an age. A people born of a society that loved it's self. We had this once. We can have it again.
Bitter are we?
No...
What amazing restoration, congratulations for sharing this gorgeous stuff
Congratulations British Pathé by preserving the History. My parentes travelled on board of The "Cabo San Roque" and "Charles Tellier" Ships (1960) and afterwards "Costa Linea C" (1966) with me. But, unfortunately there is no recording. Only old postcards. From Rio Brazil.
How old are you sir ?
@@MohsinKhan-yr1rd 57 years old my friend. Regards.
@@Eduardo-uo7qs wonderful Eduardo sir
I’m gobsmacked! When I was a child I had a large plastic model boat. I used to sail it in the bath. It had a name on the front “Orcades”! Sorry, I know it doesn’t mean much but I never realised it was an actual real life liner! 😅
I was alive in that era and looking back from this hi-tech world where all we do is stare at screens and don’t actually deal with PEOPLE I want it back
My ship Monarch of the Seas had a library, which I really enjoyed!
I THANKYOU WHOEVER PUT THIS MOVIE ON HERE OF THE ORCADES, I WAS A 4 YO FROM GLASGOW, SCOTLAND. I NEVER SEEN SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT LIKE THE SHIP AND ALL, IT WAS A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE, WOULD ANYONE HAVE SOME PRIVATE PHOTO'S OF INSIDE THE SHIP? WE WENT TO BUNNERONG HOSTEL IN HILLSDALE, THANKYOU VERY MUCH ALL,
Where abouts in Glasgow?
IF YOU WERE 4 IN THE 60S THEN YOU ARENT OLD ENOUGH TO GET A PASS ON TYPING IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
You don’t have to scream at me:(
@@paul1156 Some people with poor eyesight write in caps because it's easier for them to distinguish the letters. He's not screaming at you.
@@TheBigMclargehuge You do realize that people can have poor eyesight without being old?
The world used to be civilized, people well dressed and well mannered.
Nah. But cameramen were more selective of the footage they shot!
Yeah I'd assume this was the top class 10%-25% of the western population video tapped here.
@@kahn289 I’d rather not look at grunge, myself!
Your dreaming of a past that never existed for the majority of the population.
I remembered. Having to dress up to take a plane flight.
Very interesting film..thanks.
Pathe always drops the fire vids
I enjoy this uploading and I like the vocal and assent of the one who spoke. It carries aroma
Ah, the good ol' days when people were generally civil to each other. Sad what we've become.
Well of course they showcase the good things about the era, but there were still major social problems. We’re far better off today, even though we have different and still bad problems now. It’s easy to forget, but progress has actually been made since the past. Don’t worry about it so much!
@@MaxGreen111
I didn't say there are no problems and there is nothing bad back then or now, and I didn't say I was worried. Maybe spend a little more time reading for comprehension instead of just skimming and then verbal-diahrroeaing out whatever blither occurs to you.
@@lisahinton9682 I must say the tone of your reply is more than a little ironic given the subject of your original post.
@@MrSimonmcc
Oh, you can hear written words? Quite the fascinating talent, if so! And if not, then the tone you're assigning my words is coming _from you, and not me, Dear!_
Looking at some of these old film reels, I get to thinking where did it all go wrong,No one talks to each other anymore, next door neighbours, no one knows them anymore, peoples faces only communicate with their smartphones, they call this modern life social media, But in reality, its just the opposite.
I travelled the Pacific on P&O SS Orcades. I was all of 16 years old and by myself. The opulance, the cleanliness, the pantry and cabin 'boys'. Bobby was 60-70 in the shade. Invited to Captains table for dinner. Because I was 'summonds', I refused. 2nd Engineer asked me out to dinner in Noumea -didn't have the heart to say 'I'm only 16'. I took 5 huge suitcases as had to have much formal wear. The best time of my life.
Thanks for that. I enjoyed this.
Given that P&O and Orient Lines merged in 1960 and that the SS Orcades was painted that yellow hue until 1964, this film can be dated between 1958/9-1964 at the latest.
Charming, I love the way people are so wooden trying to look like the camera isn't there.
So much more civilised & pure in the good ol’ days.
I went from London to New Zealand in 56 on the Orion.Lots of fun.
Oh wow!
I went around this ship, while she was berthed in Tilbury, in about 1949, with my Dad and Uncle. Stunning luxury.
The Best era with no phones, headphones and more physical activity.
You can run whenever you want. I have exercised the most i ever have recently. Stop using your phone. Get off the Internet. Tada. Amazing.
No one is stopping you from putting your phone down & going fishing or hiking or whatever
Do you exercise regularly
What a fantastic way to travel
Rightly said ..I love this travelling and those beautiful days.
I love the commentary
My heart goes out to those workers. I work and never seen anyone care about their job, this much. Lol 😂.
They will be well rested now as they are all on the other side 😊
We (my family, I was about 6) used ships many times to go to South America in the 50's, on a freight-ship with passenger accommodation, back and fro from Holland. Later we went with the Super Connie. It was fun on the ships.
To Suriname and Colombia.
My first cruise was on RMS Carmania (Cunard) pictured behind the Orcades on sailing at Southampton in 1968 when I was 8 I still remember men playing deck quoits in tweed suits.I was on the Orcades when she ran aground temporarily in the Guidecca canal in Venice.
Thank you.👍❤️❤️❤️👍
12:50Good times, thoroughly enjoying that bunch of catiritos. 😄
Back when travel was civilized, for civilized travellers.
you mean whites only?
God 🦠 traveled all over this journey
Asian folks spend more money when they travel compare to the "others/so called civilize" who travel as backpackers or more like begpackers.
@@guillermoelenes7252 Whiter than the Texaco board of directors.
@@guillermoelenes7252 the only countries that are high in diversity population of race and religious background are the white western countries. The bigotry of racism is amazing from ignorant racist ppl like yourself. Try India on diversity. Try Africa on diversity. Try most countries of the Middle East with diversity. Try Asia with diversity. China kill their minorities in slave camps. The only true multicultural diverse countries are the traditional white countries. What’s your plane of deception?
Aaa the time when people had unions and actually liked what they worked and could make a decent living of it as well:D oh how times have changed
I believe people would love the option of this travel today.
I love the two tiny twin beds in the couple's cabin LOL
Right 👍 how they supposed to get the nasty on?
Ricky and Lucy had no problem!
In those days it was said if the man put his hat on her bed it was GO time.
😂
Everything perfect..
Anybody here still alive ?❤️
Can i book trip on this ship now , I'm sold :)
Now! We can’t even get out of our houses cause of the pandemic mate. We gotta wait nobody knows until when 😔
Great stuff ! Thank you
Omg every one look so posh and gorgeous..😍
This is hilarious Mr Cholmondley-Warner.
“24 hours a day, we’re in touch with the world” oh you haven’t seen anything yet! Just wait till the internet becomes available to the world haha
I love the cord swichbroad brings back memories, I started my career with good old ma bell in 1972 for 34 years don't have career like it anymore, now it's all warehouse jobs
There was even a printing press onboard !!
And a morgue, but that they won't tell you.
And a Post Office
I wonder how much a ticket was for an outside cabin with a porthole for two people all inclusive? All that efficiency and people happy with their jobs, how did it all go to sh*t?
Ten pounds one way if you were emigrating. The Orient Line had three pretty much identical ships built immediately post war. Initially for Mail, trooping and then used for transporting a mix deluxe passengers and ten pound emigrees. Sister ship Oronsay carried future Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (then aged 2) in 1960. My Uncle who was an engineering officer on the third ship Orsova also emigrated with his young family on Oronsay in 1960, but a different voyage.
There’s still cruise ships...
I think air travel drove this industry under- ground for a while
Liberalism.
Tina, my own guess (You ask such a good question) is that the decline in "standards" started with our schools. I think values such as duty and work, became after the mid 60's a kind of "dirty word" ....
They didn't show the swingers lounge
Yes first class was very luxurious, but it was not how the majority of passengers travelled. Now if they'd done it on tourist class it would have much more relevant.
Those of us that did it know. I did it three times; on the Strathmore, the Orsova an the Southern Cross between 1957 and 1966.
Orcades was a one class ship
Ah - a time when every woman was dressed like HRH Elizabeth II.
Only the rich ones
So neat story here, my Great-Grandfather traveled on both Cunard line ships and other ships back and forth from the USA to Germany, he usually just went down to the engine room and waved a hearty "hello!" To the engineers and engine tenders and they would "talk ship" for awhile. I think everyone on a certain ship knew him well too! 😄
So sad that not one of these wonderful ships were saved at all!
The Queen Mary is a museum in Long Beach, she no longer sails, but you can still see what it was like back then.
Passengers arriving in suits and dresses instead of flip flops, shorts and wife beaters. Man...what became of us...
Socialism and liberalism is a disease, lack of will and commitment today, people expect too many handouts from the government, hence becoming lazy and unproductive.
please don’t call sleeveless tops “wife beaters”
You let labor , Blair , Merkel and that fool Biden in. Enoch Powell was prescient !
@@brotha.b they are wife beaters periodn
This is how my parents travelled to OZ, they didn't know each other on the trip (different ships), ended up meeting each other at a sailing club in Hobart, Tasmania!
Diversity sure has made the world a better place eh.
Fortunate to work as a waiter in the first class restaurant on her last cruise. A good ship, sad to see her go.
Omg. American women of the past were so beautiful, slim, elegant ...
Sorry but I do believe the women are British since the ship is departing from England.
We need to go back into the 1960s.
No we don’t!
You’re remembering nostalgia with your rose tinted glasses!
No health and safety, men working with no hard hats or safety boots. But with the right to rape his wife nightly. Woman unable to buy a car without their husband signing the finance agreement. Children or wives beaten and abused but nobody intervened because its ‘family business’
Overcrowded slums just a way of life for too many, London still scarred with bombed out buildings from the war. Remember if you had a heart attack or was in an industrial accident and lost a lot of blood, when the ambulance came it was just transport to the hospital, no paramedics in those days. You’d probably die on your way to hospital.
You can return, I’ll stay happily here in my bright future.
@@JulieWallis1963 and people use to smoke everywhere and anywhere.
@@bengunns yes, good point. Life is so much nicer now.
@@JulieWallis1963 Bright future ???? No way , sadly
@@JulieWallis1963 .... and we were then, the vast majority , MUCH happier
Old fashioned good service.
FYI - Prior to refit of 1964 when her hull was painted white.
any idea exactly when this was shot, I was a babe in arms in 1960 when we migrated on the SS Orcades from UK to Australia
Sometime prior to the merger in 1966
How long did the voyage take ? 3 or 4 weeks ?
Well, it's four years ago but at 14:00 there's an adjustable sign which says „Orcades will arrive at 8 on TUE 1 SEPT.“ Tuesday the 1st of September was 1959 and again 1964.
@@Kansoganix This looks far more like 1959.
Just watched him put a raw meat on a griddle and use the same tongs to take off cooked. Made my stomach do a lil flip.. love the pathe videos though :)
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that!
I hadn’t notice how much uk changed and I grew up through this
Carry on cruising?
Narrated by the Duke of Edinburgh apparently
Absolutely not! For one it doesn't sound at all like him and two the royals don't do commercial product endorsements other than the Queen's seal of approval
And of course, starring HRH Elizabeth II, as the holiday travel
advisor. 6:23
A surprising number of the ships company are sporting campaign and service ribbons on their P&O uniforms.
if this is from the 60s then I expect a lot of ex navy men from the second world war would have been working on ships like this
@@panda-wk8mv The title 1960-1969 is misleading, according to many good observers here it was most likely 1958 or 1959
Nice film, unfortunately we only had enough money to go to Birkenhead
Birkenhead ? Luxury
@@jettydoom I used to dream of going to Birkenhead.
We used to have holidays with my Grandparents at Bexill. Always watched the Birkenhead Express arriving at 12:00. That was the highlight of the holiday!
I was waiting for some detective story)
it's Good Old Days that we can smoke anywhere
It was delightful.
Fascinating to see..........and very sad.
When the world was a nice place, people had respect for each other and dressed smartly. Where did it all go wrong?
Using a sextant to navigate? Why not GPS? Oh wait...
I'm 100% sure people live in that period is more lucky than us now
Nobody says this is only for the rich. For 90 percent of people, this is not available.
That ship looks a lot different to how it looked in that other documentary... Carry On Cruising.
Organist/ conductor Karl Richter at the grill at 4:29 -where is this ship heading again... ;)
Are you serious? Richter had dark hair?
@@missasinenomine lol
@@RoskinGreenrake I was impressed at your recognition of "KR", but curious about your question. To Munich?
@@missasinenomine Heh Munich! Well it seems like a friendly and free atmosphere if you get to let such a great organiser be in charge of the grill, so probably to somewhere like heaven instead of somewhere like heck.. But yes ehm I did hear that KR was in an "apocalyptic mood" towards the end of his life..
@@RoskinGreenrake He certainly did great things with the Munchner Bach Chor. (Munich Bach Choir). I'm a big fan! Wonderful interpretations. Excellent conductor. Not sure about the apocalypse though. Haven't heard anything about that.
God wish I could travel like this now!
Then go transatlantic on the Queen Mary 2 New York to Southampton or vive versa. It’s just about the same. Afternoon tea service with waiters in white gloves, drinks with the captain, 3 course 5 star dinners, an on board library, deck games, _proper_ wooden deck chairs.
It will only cost you a few thousand, depending on time of year.
So there, don’t _wish_ don’t ask God, just do it.
LET'S FACE IT YOU'VE HEARD THE SONGS THOSE WERE THE DAYS MY FRIEND WE THOUGHT THEY WOULD NEVER END LIFE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL BACK THEN MY FRIENDS GREAT MEMORIES THANKS FOR SHARING 👍👍🇺🇸 .
They’ve just boarded at Southampton and they’ve already changed from staid business attire into floral print short sleeve shirts and shorts as if they’re already in the steaming tropics! But their hair is still lacquered to the max with, guess it was Brylcreem those days.
But they changed into their “business” attire when they disembarked at Sydney or Melbourne, to ensure they were to be treated with the respect they expected from immigration officials!
I’m old enough to remember those days! I was there!
@@Tolpuddle581 had to laugh!
Thank goodness they clarified that merger at the start. How embarrassed would I have been when I tried to book my Orient cruise!?
Those days are gone even before I was born in 1970