'Our Native Shore' - 1960's British Coast Documentary.
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- During the 1970's these amazing colour films provided a break in between the test card and the television trade information. It provided a chance to view some of the best freely available colour films then available. This mixed range of footage was often 'sponsored' as an indirect form of advertising, but these informative, usually beautifully shot colour movie features were indeed classics in their own right.
Enjoy this nostalgic trip around the coast of Britain showing different aspects of our shore-line, courtesy of ESSO films and subsequently the BBC's iconic, Colour Television Trade Test Transmissions.
Apologies for any copyright issues the uploading of this video is not for any element of profit or personal gain.
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Times long since gone but fondly remembered by those of us who grew up in the 60s and 70s. A simpler, slower paced life, still with plenty of social and economic challenges but faced with a more positive attitude and a more communal, friendlier spirit
Amen to that....
Spot on.
And we did not regret our past and hate ourselves
@@tetraquark2402 car strikes , miners strikes…Thatcher,high unemployment ,soaring inflation …and worse than all that put together..flared trousers and blood platform shoes…🤣
Had a tear in my eye watching this....when we had an identity as a nation. A long time gone now...but..."Never Forgotten"
When i watch this nostalgia, i always think of the great poet laureate....Sir John Betjeman. "A True Great Englishman!"
It's nothing short of criminal what governments have done. We have lost too much, for what?
I want to go back to the sixties ! What charm , I don't like my country now. That was proper diversity when each region had a separate character, there was work aplenty, life seemed kinder, gentler, less materialistic, more sense of community and belonging. A great watch, I loved it ❤
i was not born then but it looks lovely when Britain was Britain
Irretrievably totally ruined.
I wish I had A “time machine “ wonderful days
I have one for sale low hours but has electrical problem , will swap for unicorn , no more time wasters or dreamers serious enquiries only ..
Dial set to 1960.
We have lost so much. 😢
Our Family were lucky enough, to grow up in Dawlish, Devon, UK, back in the 60's and early 70's. We had the best of both worlds living in a Seaside Town that had rolling fields and hills as its backdrop. It was a great place to grow up as a child. 😊👍🇬🇧
@@iamgod6464 in the 50s there was a little bungalow on the left going down to the beach i used to dream of living in..
@@griswald7156 Is it still there?
Our once great civilised country, a great place to live.
Now sadly destroyed by spineless and incompetent politicians.
Yes halcyon days when l was young, happy days
Fills me with a longing. Thanks for putting this on 😊
Beautiful people. Just look at our nation now.
Absolutely
I visited Northumberland last week and saw fantastic untouched beaches with sand dunes, seaside villages, and towns that remind you of long ago times. Small hidden harbours still with the fish smokehouses. Drive over to Holy Island, and you are again transportered back in time. The countryside is beautiful, with quite long meandering roads as you drive back on the Scottish & English border over the Tweed through quite sleepy towns and villages back home to the Eden valley. What a trip in our Vdub. It's still there, but find it before it goes. As a southern now living in Cumbria, i can say up north is the best. Fab film, reminded me of holidays as a kid in the 60's. Even the sunlight looked the same.
Mate honestly...... The reason nobody is on those beaches is because the weather is just awful most of the year. What good is a beautiful sandy beach if most of the year its in lashing rain and freezing strong winds coming off the North Sea. The sea is black, freezing and polluted, its proper inbred once you get past Newcastle aswell, pit villages that the people haven't worked for 50yrs, don't bother to go to school and have zero education. Go to Berwick, Shilbottle, Seahouses and see how bad the effects can be. Berwick is a desperate place. The other towns in Northumberland are full of unfriendly posh rich people. Or castles with evil owners. Holy Island has nothing there but some ruins and will wreck your car with sea water to see the most boring island. The rolling hills are all ruined by rubbish wind farms, the farmers hate anyone going there. A lot of the countryside is also military. The beaches have nothing but a car park, dogs poo all over them. if you park up over night or leave your car/van in the car park, you are likely to get broken into. To get there you have to drive the A1 motorway that goes all the way to the capital of Scotland. Worst motorway ever and the only motorway that goes to one lane. It will also take anyone a good 30/40 mins just to drive a few miles on the A1 through Newcastle.
I agree, loved up there when I went in 2022. Went to Cumbria coastline just last August, I liked it there but not the beaches like Northumberland has.
@@MichaelCook84Untrue. Yes, the weather can be bad but that goes for any area of the country. That’s the UK for you. Days can just as easily be warm and sunny up there as any other stretch of coast and I’d rather have an inclement day in Northumberland than one in the overcrowded south.
@jupiterfive3379 Mate I live in the north east and work all over the country. The beach just isn't where you want to be when the weather is awful and the weather is awful in the north east for about 300 days a year. The winds at the beaches that come in off the North Sea aswell makes it extra pleasant alongside sidewards driving rain. Or without the rain the wind is blasting your eyes and face with sand. In the north east a clear blue sky day all day is incredibly rare. This year so far we've had less than a handful. You get up in the morning,clear blue sky and a lovely day. By the time you drive to the beach in Northumberland it's overcast, windy and lashing down. Sitting outside in your campervan freezing cold, soaking wet trying to be in good spirits because there's an empty beach. There's a reason those beaches are empty. Because nobody wants to go to the beach in litter weather. The beaches are packed in the south because its much better weather. Plenty of us from the north east go to the south west every year for the better weather and better beaches. Its just a fact mate, they get the atlantic ocean and the gulf stream that brings nice weather in the summer down there, we get the north sea and the cold winds, alongside heavy pollution. The whole coastline from Blyth all the way down to Saltburn by the Sea is heavily polluted. The most polluted coastline in the UK. From Blyth to Berwick it may not have the same pollution from industry but it certainly gets the brunt of it when the wind blows north and the smog clouds from teeside make their way to Alnwick.
In the 1960s, we spent many holidays in Blyth, Northumberland. Visted places like Whitley Bay, South Shields, Cullercoats and other nearby places I can't remember the names of now.
When the UK was the best place to live in the world 🌎
When the UK actually worked.
You weren’t living in abject poverty in a slum in Liverpool in the 60’s then. With no toilet in the house only one tap of running water, horrific sanitation and nightly terrorized going to bed because of the epidemic of burglaries in your street. Even the coal wasn’t safe from people breaking into the yard to steal it.
@@davidtaylor6793😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
@@davidtaylor6793 No I was living in Manchester. Born 1964. Nobody had any money in those days. Would you rather have what is going on now in broken Britain ?
Well…living in Manchester with no money sounds horrendous 😂…not quite sure what’s broken in Britain…but I’m having a ball😂
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When we appreciated who we were , sadly now we “stand for nothing” and have “fallen for everything”. !!!
We have surrendered the heritage that was bestowed on us
We at the Miserable Old Farts Society are always on the lookout for new members. Having read your post, we feel that you would make an ideal person to join our ranks.
@@johncraskenot funny, you've got Stephen totally wrong , myself like him , we are actually grateful for the amazing childhoods we had in this once great country , nothing to do with being old or miserable or flatulent , if you understood what Stephen said , you would realise his very lucid observations .
@@andyking6051 I am 80 next birthday, so i grew up in the 1950s and 60s. Yes, there were good things to enjoy in my youth, but life is far better nowadays. Jesus, Sundays were SO boring, thanks to the Lord's Day Observance Society. No, give me 2024 every time.
Everything, nature, people and the countryside looks so much more healthy than today. Yep we've rely screwed the place up and I don't see how it can be fixed along as were still around.
what's that word salad even meant to mean, apart from something AI generated on a Russian troll farm?
Totally fascinating. I was a child when this was made and I was struck by how it's a world that has virtually disappeared. Shipbuilding has almost disappeared, along with much of the fishing industry. The lighthouses are automated. And so on. Life moves on of course, but it is amazing to think of the pace of change. One might also consider just how much time and effort went into making the film as well.
What have politicians done to us.
And we paid them top dollar to do it, gold plated pensions too.
How did England ever manage to survive before "cultural enrichment" was forced upon us? My childhood, in the 60's & 70's, was simple, well mannered, disciplined, forward looking and, most of all, safe.
Heartbreaking 🇬🇧
Impressively photographed.
The calmness and orderly atmosphere is most salient. A trip down memory lane when freedom was taken for granted. A more sane world.
An absolute gem.I do hope that these films are archived,they are historical documents.
They are indeed Steve, the BFI have an extensive library, I don't know if these films are included though. They ought to be re-mastered and screened just like the fantastic Look at Life series. x
@@feline1104until a few years ago much of the Esso Film Unit archive was viewable online via their website, and they were they were very bullish about issuing copyright strikes against viewers who reposted many of them on RUclips, particularly the James Hill-directed films such as The Home-Made Car and Giuseppina. I’m not sure what’s happening now because there’s multiple postings of either on YT and other platforms now.
Sadly todays society won’t be interested in any of it. It’s a me, me throw away generation.
Great times. Sadly, gone, but never forgotten. A time when life was much simpler, uncomplicated. Great Britain now is unrecognisable. I’d like our country back, please. We’ve been corrupted by social media, big business and corrupt politicians, ( All of them.) I feel sorry for the young of today who will never understand the freedom and quality of life we had in the 6o’s and 70’s. And, we had very little, but did’nt whinge endlessly.
you're whinging now. bet you never stop whinging.
Where are all the diverse people that ‘built Britain?’
You are too funny.
@@Dani92670 … I thought about it and I’ve come to the conclusion that they must all be hard at work whilst the indigenous population are lounging around claiming benefits!
We had our own diversity, southerners, midlanders, northerners, Cornish, English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish. We didn't need more than that.
After the war, so 20 years before this film, the government was making plans to find cheap labour to rebuild the country.
They have been finding cheap labour ever since.
It's not the fault of the cheap labour, it's the fault of those of us who haven't held politicians and big businesses to account.
My how things have changed 😢😢😢😢 born in 1954 remember the good old days , England has been ruined by weak self serving greedy politicians over the last 30 years 😡
45 years
I was born in February 1964, so my earliest memories of holidaying in the UK are in the late 60s. Such lovely times, just wish we could have held on to this for so much longer than we did! Great download, thanks for sharing it. 💕
Just look at us now…it’s criminal 😢
It’s tragic 😢. Treasonous politicians have destroyed this country and its culture. We’ll never get it back. 😢
That was one country back then
Sadly many people didn’t realise how lucky they were to be alive then.
Lovely stuff, many thanks for posting.
What a wonderful civilised nation we once were. Sadly, due to an abundance of "cultural enrichment" our wonderful British way of life is no more. 😢
I was born in early 60s i remember simple times like these. I loved going to Herne bay , Swanage and Weymouth as a child. i have so many happy memories. Everything seems so crowded and fast paced now. We spend a lot of our holiday time in Lanzarote a very chilled place , its Spanish in culture obviously, but a little bit old fashioned in some ways.
BRILLIANT 🙂
I sure enjoy these old first color films, especially these old sponsor films! thanks for posting. Great state of Texas.
Made in 1956 and sponsored by Esso. Great footage - I especially liked the few seconds of the Queen Mary being pushed away from Southampton? docks.
The UK has not changed for the better in the intervening years.
2:37 Chesil Beach, we moved to Weymouth in the mid 60s. Lovely film and glorious music. Cheers.
Thank you. What a beautiful trip.
wonderful England, "rich in history and even more in beauty", before the terrible experience of the European Union, and the migratory invasion that violates and denatures her... forever.
Maes. Beautiful British name 😮. I never left the EU and it gave me a total escape from the wilfully ruined economy of North East England 🇨🇵🇪🇺. Enjoy your pils 🍻.
What complete and utter rose tinted, xenophobic codswallop….. it’s dismal xenophobia that has been a major factor in the startling decline of the UK since brexshit
Nice blue skies I see no certain white lines with naught a crosses in the sky
Wonderful times
A different world , literally, never mind that nice Mr Starmer has pledged plenty of improvements.
What about the last 14 years of the corrupt conservative government?
You can blame politicians for the change in our country
In a democracy the people are responsible for the politicians. Besides which, so many things, like Asian steel production, shipbuilding and heavy industry simply out competing Britain’s industries, and containerisation killing her ports, were beyond any politician’s control.
Great Britain, how we aren't anymore alas. Wonderful old times when we were who we were.
What does that actually mean? ''Who we were''.
How did we let all of this go to waste… 😢
By consistently voting Tory for the last 14 years
Greed and sloth , jump to mind.
Could do a remake of this for modern times ... call it " Our immigrant shores "
Spotted another racist.
Racist much? 💩
Pay per mile is already being paid via fuel pricing. The vast majority of car tax does not go on roads or other motoring projects.
It's hard to believe British beaches were ever that crowded. Certainly none of the beaches I ever visited in the 1960s were like that, but we went to places like Rhyl, Barmouth and Blyth, Northumberland.
The picture for this video is one of Seaside Heights in New Jersey, USA. I spent many days there during the summer.
Way too crowded to be the UK.
Ah that was very pleasant to watch thank you..and a bonus of seeing my home port at 20:30 nobles the boat yard fraserburgh building many fishing boats hence the boat regestration starting FR..once often seen in scarborough...thanks again very much appreciated
Thank you Gordon, it is amazing how people can indentify on a local level with these nostalgic travel films. It is also a shock to the system how things have so rapidly - so it seems - changed. x
Fond memories of Scarborough, Filey, gt Yarmouth, in the 60s and 70s. What went wrong!
A golden time freedom great fantastic days .
Hardly any obese people, most look healthy, compare that with today?
Did the country need effective contraception and multi culture ?
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Ineffective contraception wouldn't be of much use.
So many ships in those days, I sailed on a few.
What stood out most to you
Clean streets people clean well dressed and no obesity
No multiculturalism.
@@davidmacdonald-bi1hy Spotted another racist.
No men in frocks
@@melanieberry8724 so!
What a great film. I had to be one of those in the old days, but you know things we're simpler and more straight forward. Hard work yes, absolutely, but simpler
I seasides still look like this, just 60 years on without a penny being spent on refurbishments
This film is by Esso. They have a vested interest in nice weather, and they’re doing all they can to make it permanent.
Good stuff 👍🏻 - Postwar governments had a backbone and defended us from invaders
Spotted another racist.
What have we become ?
What have we become? Tell me.
Not a burka in sight.
So clad these days are in the past ,much better today with homelessness, drugs ,machetes and kinfe crime all over the place ,disrespectful people and selfish people, and police of the establishment instead of the bobby on the beat that was respected and made sure all was well ,yes today so good .
Before the rubber boats crossed the channel…
The BBC either archived these films or had to hand them back to the film producers. If archived by the BBC the films may be of broadcast quality, or may be restorable.
Nothing 1960s about this film. I would date it to the mid-1950s and no later.
I think the title just refers to when it was produced so footage would pre date the screening?
I think very early 60s I have a family movie from 1963 and yes the clothes are early 60s
The reality was that by the mid 1960s Britain was in Post WW2 terminal decline!
It was later than that. The 1960s and 1970s were great. The decline started after the 1970s.
Wow.
Plenty of “Natives” turning up now.
Spotted another racist.
Racist. Reported
IMDb gives the year as 1956, although the beachwear does indeed look later...
It is 1956 - the clothes, cars, hairstyles etc. are mid fifties not sixties.
Its just unusual to see colour from this period for domestic travelogs.
@@GarethWelch-cb6wv Thanks for the confirmation - mind you, the film does tend to depart from the seaside theme after a while to concentrate on the history side of things...
Fast forwarding 😅 take a look at the news before visiting the U.K ❤ Ahh some genius edit this please 😊
We’ll never see this ever again unless there’s a bibilical miracle….
Some of the original trade test colour films have been broadcast by Talking Pictures TV. A channel devoted to solely these films is probably not viable. Perhaps with the help of AI some of the films not beyond redemption can be restored to HD standard.
The BFI list this film as dating from 1956, and certainly the vessels and so much more look to be more from that period than the 60s. Perhaps the most telling footage is of the huge fishing industry, now largely unrecognisable from then.
"Our flat and vulnerable seaboard tempted successive invaders"........it still does, daily!!
Happy Days
1950s, not 60s. I thought it looked a bit before my time - growing up in the 60s.
Now we look like Africa
The orchestra playing is loud and strange .
BUT IS IT A TRUE SNAPSHOT REPRESENTATION ? OR IS THE SILLY MUSIC CLOUDING THE CONTENT ?
Now we have RNLI escorted boats landing with thousands of men who despise our way of life….
Why do you find it necessary to let us all know what a racist bigot you are?
@martinpeirce8224 why do you call him that? He is actually speaking the truth.
You can now add to the invaders, syrians, afghans, pakistanis, somalians, senegalese and more.
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Where are the Parkistarnis ?
Lands End is not in the Atlantic Ocean, it’s in the Celtic Sea which is hundreds of miles away from the Atlantic Ocean. Will people never learn?
I’m 60 years old and nobody ever taught me that before.
"The oldest trade along the coast..." Fishing?
I wonder how long the no doubt Oxbridge-educated, patronising narrator would last doing one of those back-breaking/dangerous/soul destroying jobs. They all seem so happy with the twee music playing in the background but the reality of their lives was very different. The women look ground down and old before their time and one can only imaging how the cockle-pickers would have suffered with their backs and rheumatics in later life.
Not much noise from the rivet gun in that shipyard either
@@johngibson3837 so many naive comments about the 'good ol' days'. Imagine gutting those fish in the winter. The painful cracked hands. Freezing cold feet. Weather-beaten faces. Poor wages.
@@gmc9451 it's called life mate and did you not notice the woman's proud face whilst she was doing good work
@@johngibson3837 tough and resilient folk for sure. No data- entry jobs in those days.
Well said.
Sure as hell don't look like that now!
Go Barry Beach now and its like Bagdad
Spotted another racist.
Is English not your native language?
Now a dying husk. Goodbye Britain.
1:49 EXAMPLE : WHERE IS THAT ?
The beginning is Brighton.
1956 from that year things started going downhill fast fot UK. Loss of empire made clear by Suez crisis, advent of rocknroll, and no more the cute little farthing !
It’s worth noting that the obesity that is very common today really wasnt around then. The world has gotten fat
A proper country with a border.
And not an illegal immigrant rubber boat to be seen…..
I do not see any Palestinians ..
Before England was Demographically destroyed. I lived then but moved out years ago.
DISTURBING CONTRAST
Lovely memories but never to be seen again. Great era.
2024 and still tempting invaders 😂
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Ah yes, whenever these nostalgia videos come up, I am always amused to see all the rose tinted glasses wearers in the comments, often bursting with barely concealed xenophobia … ah the good old daze; rampant racism, sexism and homophobia, classism and plenty of crime … I’m 64 and I Do remember the 60s … as largely being pretty boring; a great time for music etc but that’s about the only thing I would go back there for tbh.
Ah yes, the nostalgic racists.
The comments that appear under these types of videos are very formulaic, makes you wonder who/what writes this nonsense.
@@PERCYxyz when the peak of the weekend excitement was watching the golden shot on Sunday afternoon waiting for the pubs to reopen!
Brings a tear to my eye to read all the comments from the nostalgic racists here 😂
That’s your twisted version.
A country in severe need of multiculture ...
Not.
I agree wholeheartedly with David Macdonald. Just look at what we have lost - national pride, tradition, hard work, stoicism...
@@davidmacdonald-bi1hyI think he was being ironic.
Spotted another racist.
Not a dhingy in sight !!
Worrying lack of diversity... 😢
Blah blah rose tinted goggles