This is extraordinary footage; just what RUclips was made for. To see people dancing in the streets and just enjoying life for the sake of being alive and having one another.♥
This is such a wonderful film all those amazing people,their faces and outfits are a real delight. Such a joyful celebration of the human spirit that had been through so much,and had so much more trouble waiting. Added to my favourites,may all those dear souls rest in peace. bernie
Such feisty old folk! I love them. My grandmother told me to always befriend and help old people. They have much knowledge and experience to share and are the most loyal and loving friends and are very appreciative of friendship and love. I know this because I followed her advice and she was actually my very best friend and and still is, 26 years after her passing!
I love this because generally when you see people from then in portraits, they look so serious and somber. Not these guys! It's a freaking Party! It makes me smile and laugh. Thanks for uploading!!
All dead now. All laying 6 feet under long forgotten and unvisited gravestones. Just a pile of bones. When once there was such life and spirit. Makes you realize just how precious and fleeting life is.
What a fantastic video, i am originally from Southend, born and bred there, watching this video makes me miss the place even more. Thanks for sharing, a great video, and you got yourself a new subscriber here... Carl
No casual clothes then on a day out.All the men wore a suit and a hat.All the women in a dress.Happy days.Little did they know what 1939 was about to bring them.Just a great moment in time captured forever
Hi there, we've been enjoying watching this. (especially as we make walks in soulful cities and have just filmed in in Leigh on sea and Southend), so it's lovely to see the contrast. It's our home town too. Thanks for taking the time to add it.
A great nostalgic movie clip, in the late 40s I would sit on the fence outside the Flag inn Great Bentley writing down coach numbers heading for Clacton, the coaches full of happy fun loving holiday makers, I would look forwards to them on their trip home as they would stop for a tipple at the Flag Inn, and I would sell them bunches of daffodils or violets peacefull boyhood days.
I love how at 0:44 the bus pulls off without any regard whatsoever for the schoolboy on the bicycle. Did bicycles and motor vehicles coexist more amicably in those distant times?
mantovannni in them days out a trip to the seaside was a special thing such a sham life has to move on and it's good watching old footage ge like this just feel sorry that a lot of these people have gone
"what's with all the white people?" well, this film was made in 1938, a decade before mass immigration to the UK started, so you really wouldn't expect many non-white faces at this time. Brilliant film, by the way. Great to see something where everyone seems so uninhibited. Amazing quality too.
Yes! That's me standing by the boating lake-I think I was a deck chair attendant at the time aged 42-wonderful days pre 1939.My aunt Sally is there too, she now lives round the corner to me in Westcliff. Her boy friend who was killed on the Somme in 1916 she never really got over ,but thanks to appearing on a recent TV dating channel she has recently married.
Ummm, yeah!! A bicycle in Britain, was a vehicle. If you tried riding on sidewalk or "pavement" as its called there. A policemen see you? It was a ticket or fine. You had to have working lights at anytime of day or night; or another fine. God forbid if you did not signal ......
What the hell are you talking about? How is it racist for a group of people not to contain a coloured person? Why would you expect to see any coloured people in Britain before mass immigration? And what aparthied are you talking about?
Lots of these pensioners had sunken cheeks which signified a lack of teeth. This film was made before the nation health system came into being in 1948. Most people could not afford decent dental care.
Quite simple to explain why some people were apparently "ugly" back then. The majority of the working class lived hard lives, working long hours for low wages. Many lived in houses that were unfit for human habitation. As well as this many were undernourished because they could not afford the food they needed. They had little money left over for new clothes or a visit to a hairdresser, let alone a beauty salon!! I personally do not consider these wonderful people of a bygone era ugly.
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This is extraordinary footage; just what RUclips was made for. To see people dancing in the streets and just enjoying life for the sake of being alive and having one another.♥
This is such a wonderful film all those amazing people,their faces and outfits are a real delight.
Such a joyful celebration of the human spirit that had been through so much,and had so much more trouble waiting. Added to my favourites,may all those dear souls rest in peace.
bernie
Such feisty old folk! I love them. My grandmother told me to always befriend and help old people. They have much knowledge and experience to share and are the most loyal and loving friends and are very appreciative of friendship and love. I know this because I followed her advice and she was actually my very best friend and and still is, 26 years after her passing!
and at the end of the day we all get old.☺
What lovely happy faces.
I never tire of this.
I love this because generally when you see people from then in portraits, they look so serious and somber. Not these guys! It's a freaking Party! It makes me smile and laugh. Thanks for uploading!!
Great little film.. It made me smile.
All dead now. All laying 6 feet under long forgotten and unvisited gravestones. Just a pile of bones. When once there was such life and spirit. Makes you realize just how precious and fleeting life is.
What a fantastic video, i am originally from Southend, born and bred there, watching this video makes me miss the place even more. Thanks for sharing, a great video, and you got yourself a new subscriber here... Carl
Hi Carl have you been back to Southend how long have you been living in the Philippines my friend owned a beach resort there
No casual clothes then on a day out.All the men wore a suit and a hat.All the women in a dress.Happy days.Little did they know what 1939 was about to bring them.Just a great moment in time captured forever
Hi there, we've been enjoying watching this. (especially as we make walks in soulful cities and have just filmed in in Leigh on sea and Southend), so it's lovely to see the contrast. It's our home town too. Thanks for taking the time to add it.
Love it...bless them !
Absolutely delightful.
Great footage...many thanks
wow! i live in southend! and you still get odd old pensioner having it down the seafront at the weekend!
its very interesting how people used to live how times have changed
wow to think everyone in that clip has past on
A great nostalgic movie clip, in the late 40s I would sit on the fence outside the Flag inn Great Bentley writing down coach numbers heading for Clacton, the coaches full of happy fun loving holiday makers, I would look forwards to them on their trip home as they would stop for a tipple at the Flag Inn, and I would sell them bunches of daffodils or violets peacefull boyhood days.
I love how at 0:44 the bus pulls off without any regard whatsoever for the schoolboy on the bicycle. Did bicycles and motor vehicles coexist more amicably in those distant times?
And everywhere, ads for BOVRIL. Orwell had a ball with them in Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
Sadly the BFI lost the footage of the bottle-fight outside Mayhem.
How sad so negative about people enjoying themselves
Good heavens. They must have been exhausted after that lot.
did anyone spot the old girl in the middle of the bench texting?
All those sets of Darby and Joan...
look how well dressed everyone was. i bet they were sweating in those suits.
mantovannni in them days out a trip to the seaside was a special thing such a sham life has to move on and it's good watching old footage ge like this just feel sorry that a lot of these people have gone
SILENT?...you could put music on.
Different places, different names for the same thing.
Mods and Rockers in the sixties, Gangster Grannies in the thirties.
"what's with all the white people?" well, this film was made in 1938, a decade before mass immigration to the UK started, so you really wouldn't expect many non-white faces at this time. Brilliant film, by the way. Great to see something where everyone seems so uninhibited. Amazing quality too.
Just think most of these people were too old to have fought in WW1 having been born around 150yrs ago.Some may have fought in the first boer war.
are they still alive?
Yes! That's me standing by the boating lake-I think I was a deck chair attendant at the time aged 42-wonderful days pre 1939.My aunt Sally is there too, she now lives round the corner to me in Westcliff. Her boy friend who was killed on the Somme in 1916 she never really got over ,but thanks to appearing on a recent TV dating channel she has recently married.
It's England...!
Ummm, yeah!! A bicycle in Britain, was a vehicle. If you tried riding on sidewalk or "pavement" as its called there. A policemen see you? It was a ticket or fine. You had to have working lights at anytime of day or night; or another fine. God forbid if you did not signal ......
Now look at our country such a shame !
I'm thinking mainly about the women. Hair? Teeth? Makeup?
What the hell are you talking about? How is it racist for a group of people not to contain a coloured person? Why would you expect to see any coloured people in Britain before mass immigration? And what aparthied are you talking about?
ok
I hope I have as much time when I retire but a better looking babe!
Pensioners don't look like that now. Wonder how old they were?
Lots of these pensioners had sunken cheeks which signified a lack of teeth. This film was made before the nation health system came into being in 1948. Most people could not afford decent dental care.
Apartheid was in South-Africa! Get your facts right....
Muslim is not a race issue. Muslim is the name given to those that follow a particular religion. "Religist", maybe...but not racist
what ??? lol
looks racist to me, I guess this is before they ended apartheid
Maxsdamageman, 5 years after you made it, your comment is still as dumb and ignorant as it was when you made it. Have you grown up since then?
How is it that people were so blooming ugly back then!! It's not just down to the fashions
Quite simple to explain why some people were apparently "ugly" back then. The majority of the working class lived hard lives, working long hours for low wages. Many lived in houses that were unfit for human habitation. As well as this many were undernourished because they could not afford the food they needed. They had little money left over for new clothes or a visit to a hairdresser, let alone a beauty salon!! I personally do not consider these wonderful people of a bygone era ugly.
@@franceskronenwett3539 The majority of women in this video were certainly not undernourished!