Britain in the 1950s

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  • Опубликовано: 14 ноя 2022
  • At the beginning of the 1950s, Britain was threadbare, bombed-out, financially and morally exhausted. Its major cities were still bombsites, it was almost impossible for many families to borrow money, rationing was harsher than ever, and there was an acute shortage of decent housing.

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  • @angelamary9493
    @angelamary9493 Год назад +200

    Oh England ...my England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 what has happened to it ... destroyed by those traitors in Parliament !

    • @gustavmeyrink_2.0
      @gustavmeyrink_2.0 Год назад +1

      And yet people keep voting for treacherous tories.

    • @folksurvival
      @folksurvival Год назад +15

      They aren't traitors, they are serving their masters well.

    • @misterprecocious2491
      @misterprecocious2491 Год назад +2

      @@folksurvival yeah, WEF PuPpeTs.🤮

    • @bengunn3698
      @bengunn3698 Год назад

      @Angela Don't forget to credit the voters of the '' safe seats '' with the destruction too. After all they did keep the traitors in power year after year.

    • @paulcarter6146
      @paulcarter6146 Год назад +5

      Your so right

  • @stevenpotter3812
    @stevenpotter3812 Год назад +66

    I thank God I was brought up then and not now.

    • @magirusdeutzjupiter2234
      @magirusdeutzjupiter2234 3 месяца назад +1

      Me too, still write with a fountain pen, respect everyone, and do my very best at all times, 50s style.

    • @jean2740
      @jean2740 Месяц назад

      I say the same thing now

  • @denisescutt1865
    @denisescutt1865 Год назад +60

    We feel we are living in a foreign country now. Things have really deteriorated so much.

    • @totoroid
      @totoroid 5 месяцев назад +1

      It’s very important for me that you are watching it happen. Thank you!

    • @maxbaker7327
      @maxbaker7327 4 месяца назад

      ​@@totoroiddo one you little prick

    • @tonyclifton265
      @tonyclifton265 Месяц назад

      yup, and not even a nice foreign country but a third world shithole with high crime

    • @jean2740
      @jean2740 Месяц назад

      I never saw our country so filthy dirty ,as if it's a third world country.
      They !!!the invaders brought there ways to our land ???

  • @victoriatampling5049
    @victoriatampling5049 Год назад +92

    I mourn the loss of my country 😔 I do not recognise it anymore, it's not my country anymore. I am glad that I grew up in a time when there was freedom and innocence for children and you knew everyone in the street.🇬🇧

    • @paullacey2999
      @paullacey2999 Год назад

      Since covid its changed.And I dont like what I see....

    • @briannewman6306
      @briannewman6306 Год назад +3

      How well you have summed it up to perfection. Reading your comment as sad as it was has eased my pain that there is someone out there that has the same vision of truth that I have. Thank you.

    • @apollonia6656
      @apollonia6656 Год назад

      Victoria,
      You nailed it.
      Britain is unrecognizable.
      Kids are continually being indoctrinated into a mindset: "Diversity is good" when it is the opposite:it has taken away out lives.

    • @ChorltonM21
      @ChorltonM21 Год назад +1

      @@briannewman6306 There are many of us who think this way. Chin up Brian :0)

    • @briannewman6306
      @briannewman6306 Год назад +1

      @ChorltonM21 Thank you sir for your support. It is much appreciated.

  • @rgsnr8702
    @rgsnr8702 Год назад +75

    i was born in 1949 and lived on a council estate all my life only had 3 professions all my life 1 of them for 45 years .i worked hard hardly had a sick day i retied better off with my pensions than working ,i loved my time growing up i was always out in the countryside with friends ,it was not till i was in my mid teens i came to realise the sacrifices my mum was making to cloth and feed us all she divorced my dad when i was 10 and we all mucked in all 7 of us , my mum was bedridden for many years and is was never a chore for us all to look after her it was our honour ,god bless you mum .

    • @jimmydempsey6857
      @jimmydempsey6857 Год назад +6

      Well said

    • @rgsnr8702
      @rgsnr8702 Год назад +2

      @@MiPointIs CSA are strident in pursuit of spouses paying their share as they are about benefit scroungers they add up what they are owed and at whatever point they work it will be collected ,give the CSA as much information as possible,i assume he has no access to his kids

    • @jillybean5159
      @jillybean5159 Год назад +1

      @@rgsnr8702 Access is not a matter for working out the amount of Child Support payable. Shared custody is the only time the amount will be amended. Also the person receiving the Support (usually the Mum) has no legal requirement to account for how any of the money is spent. Things change over time, as needs become more complex but the basic tenet remains firm: BOTH parents are required to contribute to their children's care and support whatever their circumstances.

  • @ncooper8438
    @ncooper8438 Год назад +71

    You could leave school and easily find a job, free further and higher education for those who wanted it, buy a house after 4 or 5 years, roads safe and traffic free. The 1960's the good old days.

    • @ncooper8438
      @ncooper8438 Год назад +3

      @Wallace Carney the UK government wanted them and still do, they can't or won't close the doors.

    • @maxinegalloway3459
      @maxinegalloway3459 9 месяцев назад

      There were plenty of jobs before Thatcher ruined it all, all the factories mines and everything the working classes did went in the blink of an eye
      @@ncooper8438

    • @jean2740
      @jean2740 Месяц назад

      I always say that left school at 15 start a job straight out of school ,pack it in walk straight into another job😊

  • @iainsan
    @iainsan Год назад +170

    Some of these photographs are from the 60s. Although times were hard until the mid-60s, there was much greater social cohesion than can be found in Britain today. In many ways, it was a much happier place, despite the poverty.

    • @tomblack6965
      @tomblack6965 Год назад +12

      The picture early on of people in a club has to be early 70s. There's an older man with long hair and mutton chops. Very '71-'74 I reckon.

    • @tomblack6965
      @tomblack6965 Год назад +5

      If you remember the time, think of the Frannie Lee the footballer

    • @philyew3617
      @philyew3617 Год назад +15

      Agreed a number of these photo's are significantly later than the '50s. Also agree Britain was a much better and happier place than it is today. People knew what hardship was and got on with life. They worked hard to make things better instead of protesting and wanting everything for nothing in return.

    • @philyew3617
      @philyew3617 Год назад +4

      @@tomblack6965 Now that's a blast from the past. Frannie Lee lived about 4 miles from me and was the nicest bloke you could ever meet. Occasionally used to see him in my local where he was just a great bloke you could have a laugh with.

    • @tomblack6965
      @tomblack6965 Год назад +2

      @@philyew3617 what a great era of football too. I still have the theme from "The Big Match "with Brian Moore playing in my head. Cheers.

  • @gordonhutchison9647
    @gordonhutchison9647 Год назад +173

    I'm a 50s kid and only remember having a lot of fun despite shortages and housing at that time, alot of developments and regeneration was going on, and a Mars bar was the size of a brick costing three old pennies.

    • @paulnicholson1906
      @paulnicholson1906 Год назад +5

      My weakness was Crunchies at 3d 🙃

    • @brianupton2520
      @brianupton2520 Год назад +2

      Before they completely stuffed it up. Look at the shit it is now.

    • @martincook318
      @martincook318 Год назад +11

      So am I as I was Born on Saturday December 22nd 1956 and I well Remember the 1960's and how times were tough and as a child I could play in the Street where I live and no one would touch us and we were far happier in those days

    • @vstafford4761
      @vstafford4761 Год назад +17

      Duffle coats, Penny Arrow Bars , Old Trafford , Denis Law, Ford Anglias , Airfix Kits , Bus Conductors and of course the big decision .. Bus fare spent on a Mars Bar or walk home after school ! 😆

    • @paulnicholson1906
      @paulnicholson1906 Год назад +4

      @@vstafford4761 sounds an easy choice although these days I might take the bus🙃

  • @johnjamesflashman6856
    @johnjamesflashman6856 Год назад +37

    It was much better than it is now .

  • @johnpage4581
    @johnpage4581 Год назад +74

    Great times when you could play in the street ,boys playing football and cricket ,girls skipping and playing rounders.Yes please take me back.

    • @commonsense718
      @commonsense718 Год назад +7

      Skipping rope right across the street. Hopscotch numbers on the pavement 😊

    • @jimmydempsey6857
      @jimmydempsey6857 Год назад +2

      Catch the girl kiss the girl, u always went for the looker 😂😅

    • @magirusdeutzjupiter2234
      @magirusdeutzjupiter2234 3 месяца назад +1

      kids now would rather smash your windows and blame the drugs they took as a game.

    • @jean2740
      @jean2740 Месяц назад +1

      Yes made yer own fun, 😊

    • @jean2740
      @jean2740 Месяц назад

      ​@magirusdeutzjupiter223well said but true .

  • @cristinamorenolamin3217
    @cristinamorenolamin3217 Год назад +25

    What has happened to the world? Nobody is happy anymore. Just greed, hate, selfishness and murderous thoughts. We should love and help each other. We are all from the same source.

  • @migranthawker2952
    @migranthawker2952 Год назад +64

    Born in 1947, I have much better memories of the 50s than this video portrays. Maybe inner cities were drab and dreary, but living in a more rural area, we had a clean and cheerful environment

    • @Ballinalower
      @Ballinalower Год назад

      I was born 1941. I agree. My memories are cleaner and more spacious.

  • @TheGlassman14
    @TheGlassman14 Год назад +56

    And it was all given away without a single bullet fired

    • @gustavmeyrink_2.0
      @gustavmeyrink_2.0 Год назад +6

      Yeah but Tory donors made a LOT of money from the giveaway and apparently that is all that matters.

    • @TheSeafordian
      @TheSeafordian Год назад +10

      @@gustavmeyrink_2.0 And Labour sold our gold reserves on the cheap.

    • @truxton1000
      @truxton1000 Год назад +2

      @@gustavmeyrink_2.0 Globalism was the worst problem, and Labour was even more positive to that change than Tories. Now they are just as bad as each others.

    • @countfosco8535
      @countfosco8535 Год назад +2

      Your Michelle Mone benefited from the giveaway.

    • @michaelfoy
      @michaelfoy 5 месяцев назад

      ​@TheSeafordian A mere drop in the ocean compared to the £40-60 BILLION MAD Lizzies budget cost the Economy! AT least the VAST majority of MPs back THEN were competent!!!!!

  • @MOLYN867
    @MOLYN867 Год назад +274

    It was tough but compared to today’s complete mess I’d return to those hard days in a flash.

    • @christinecraig7473
      @christinecraig7473 Год назад +17

      I agree.

    • @chasidahl8563
      @chasidahl8563 Год назад +18

      Me too.....👍

    • @GFSTaylor
      @GFSTaylor Год назад +8

      No. I

    • @GFSTaylor
      @GFSTaylor Год назад +1

      I'd rather have the better medicines we have now. The right to control my own money, to work after marriage, decent birth control, central heating, legal equality for women, homosexuals and non whites.

    • @energybrown
      @energybrown Год назад +18

      Count me in...if you find a way to get back there.

  • @williamkennedy5492
    @williamkennedy5492 Год назад +28

    Being a 50s kid this video wakens good memories of how our country was, Remember ice on the inside of bedroom window glass, Now its 2022 and this government returns us to those icy days due its lack of investment in UK energy, instead we pursue a net zero agenda we suffer they dont , this is madness, we are suppose to be going forward in time not backwards.
    Yes those days were good for children growing up and adults too, but now i just dont like what the country has become i simply do not recognise it . Our streets were safe then our borders secure , unlike now.

  • @jennyb7745
    @jennyb7745 Год назад +33

    The post war years were by far the happiest although ppl struggled & still on rations in the early 50s.People lived simple lives.They were content & enjoyed the peace after living thru 6 yrs of gruelling war! Children were children & played with imagination,they were not materialistic or corrupted by Tv. I'd give anything to bring that kind of life back.

  • @johnhehir508
    @johnhehir508 Год назад +189

    No 🔪 crime ,no ethnic minority guilt trips ,just people doing their best to carry on after the second world war And hoping for a better world and standard of living

    • @PK-yf3hd
      @PK-yf3hd Год назад +30

      Exactly in every respect john

    • @johnhehir508
      @johnhehir508 Год назад +13

      Almost my Generation

    • @briangreaves8236
      @briangreaves8236 Год назад +24

      You are spot on with your comments, the whinging brigade, wouldn't last 2 minutes, no central heating, double glazing, ect, I was born in 53, and things didn't seem to improve till the mid 60s, although both my parents worked full time, food in particular wasn't as cheep as it is now, by comparison to wages.

    • @chrisgray4651
      @chrisgray4651 Год назад +22

      No crime? Ffs

    • @multipipi1234
      @multipipi1234 Год назад +7

      Dixon of Dock Green would be furious at these comments about crime. 🤣🤣😂🙃🤣 You should have had a better history teacher. I'm from this era ..you guys wouldn't survive one jot in the area I came from. These people who rebuilt the ruins after the war many came from overseas and Ireland..from countries some would argue we shouldn't of been there in the first place. So these wonderful pictures are a blessing and a curse that helps formulate unbalanced comments. I love the old movie pictures people send in of old London and the 'Oh look how clean it looks and people look so proud of their appearance' ....Brigade. comments that continue to make me smile and cringe at the same time.

  • @stormytempest6521
    @stormytempest6521 Год назад +19

    NOT ALOT OF MONEY ABOUT, BUT ALOT OF DECENT, RESPECTFUL PEOPLE, EVERYONE JUST TRYING TO MAKE THE BEST OF THINGS.

  • @phoenixrising5088
    @phoenixrising5088 Год назад +97

    There was no unemployment. Young men left school and learned a trade. There was a real sense of community. We were more content with our lot and appreciated the more simple things in Life. We had a great NHS. There was still a lot of poverty that comes from social standing and stygma. I was born in 54 and I have fond memories of growing up in a small Perthshire Town in Scotland. There was so much to do, all year round.

    • @phoenixrising5088
      @phoenixrising5088 Год назад +1

      @Stanly Stud Blairgowrie

    • @phoenixrising5088
      @phoenixrising5088 Год назад

      @Stanly Stud where, near Stirling?

    • @george11419
      @george11419 Год назад +1

      I was born in Glasgow. By the way, it’s in Scotland!

    • @phoenixrising5088
      @phoenixrising5088 Год назад

      @@george11419 No kiddin. Glasgow's in Scotland. Yer gonay tell me Glesgies on the Clyde. 😆

    • @bar10ml44
      @bar10ml44 Год назад +1

      1954, Glasgow born. Played outside all the time. Glad to know I won’t have to live much longer. It’s all utter madness now.

  • @lindsaysmith7825
    @lindsaysmith7825 Год назад +26

    Far better world than now

  • @smokeless7774
    @smokeless7774 Год назад +13

    I sat on a wall with my mate with a notebook and pencil collecting car numbers.
    On a good day we got six.

    • @Gunnar_Gunnarson
      @Gunnar_Gunnarson  Год назад

      Car spotting? I have heard of train spotting!

    • @macraghnaill3553
      @macraghnaill3553 Год назад

      @@Gunnar_Gunnarson We would be taken out at school to take car numbers and when we got back to school we looked up the registration to see where the car came from

    • @magirusdeutzjupiter2234
      @magirusdeutzjupiter2234 3 месяца назад

      I can remember Sambo on the Snoopy cartoons and thought he was odd, now theres millions of them in the UK 😁

  • @johnfoster3286
    @johnfoster3286 Год назад +65

    I was born in 1946 when my dad came back from Stalag Luft 3 (he was not on the great escape wing.) One of my earliest memories is the air raid shelter in the back garden of the rented house that was home to 4 adults and 3 children. In 1952 the king died and 1953 on my birthday they had Lizzys coronation with a huge number of RN ships in the solent and the firework display was amazing. We stood in Oakhill road and watched for ages. 70 years later the house is still called Braeside.

    • @Gunnar_Gunnarson
      @Gunnar_Gunnarson  Год назад +10

      In some respects he was lucky. Many of the great escapers did not return.

    • @johnfoster3286
      @johnfoster3286 Год назад +2

      @@Gunnar_Gunnarson 50 of the 73 that were recaptured were shot on hitlers orders (according to wiki) but it goes beyond that because as the germans retreated the prisoners were forced to "the long march" and if you didnt keep up for whatever reason you were executed an the spot. The experience gave him a "lust for life," make the most of the time left cos you never know when you will be pushing up daisies.

    • @billsamuls7620
      @billsamuls7620 Год назад +2

      I WAS BORN IN 1941 REMEMBER THINGS FROM 1945 THAT WHEN MY LIFE TOOK OFF

    • @donaldjohnston1458
      @donaldjohnston1458 Год назад +2

      I left school in 53 and was 16. 2 years later I went to France Germany holland and Luxembourg in my Morris minor convertible.

    • @keithsewell8389
      @keithsewell8389 Год назад

      Is that Oakhill Road, London SE20? KCS in Melbourne

  • @lesleysmith7025
    @lesleysmith7025 Год назад +33

    In the 50s I asked my dad why we didn't lock our backdoor. His response was if they are so hard up as to want anything from our house they can have it!

    • @douglasgosney9172
      @douglasgosney9172 Год назад +2

      I can remember my mum saying the very same thing times where hard kids of today don’t know half of it . Hard times but good times to 😀

    • @jimmydempsey6857
      @jimmydempsey6857 Год назад +4

      In r house someone broke in and decorated the front room.

    • @kerryquinn6218
      @kerryquinn6218 Год назад +2

      @@jimmydempsey6857 Lol brilliant

    • @jimmydempsey6857
      @jimmydempsey6857 Год назад +1

      @@kerryquinn6218 👍

    • @christopherckarkson5605
      @christopherckarkson5605 Год назад +3

      ​@@jimmydempsey6857 hello, you think you had it hard ? Even the mice in our house went out begging. We once had a kipper for christmas dinner, we all had a lick of it then my dad resoled his work boots with it.🤣🤣

  • @terrysmith7441
    @terrysmith7441 Год назад +66

    lt comes back to me, playing in the streets of liverpool , almost dock side, mams, aunties , uncles and cousins, hard working families trying to survive, the rationning still on, and bombed out buildings to play in. The security of common spirit and background, and who wouldnt want a pint at the end of the day.

    • @stephensmith4480
      @stephensmith4480 Год назад +8

      My family and myself all grew up in the South end of Liverpool Terry, just off the Dock Road. My Mum witnessed the Bombing raids on the Docks. I grew up in the 60s and 70s, times were hard but what Lovely people we had around us. My Auntie is 95 next year, she is as sharp as a Razor and I love listening to her tales of growing up with My Mum and her other sisters. I think you would have savoured the little things in life, like a hot Dinner when you came home off The Docks or a Pint at the end of the day as you say mate 🙏

    • @doloressimpson7456
      @doloressimpson7456 Год назад +6

      @@stephensmith4480 "Thank you" Stephen for your comment of actually "being there" & having first-hand experience of what it was really like !!! Now I don't have to "imagine" what it was like.

    • @doloressimpson7456
      @doloressimpson7456 Год назад +5

      "Thank You" Terry for your RICH comment & your experience of actually having "lived there !!!"

    • @stephensmith4480
      @stephensmith4480 Год назад +4

      @@doloressimpson7456 You`re Welcome Dolores 😊

    • @stormytempest6521
      @stormytempest6521 Год назад +1

      @@stephensmith4480 WASN'T THE DINGLE WAS IS STEPHEN ?

  • @AmbroseB1900
    @AmbroseB1900 Год назад +30

    Your comments in the description are very true - I know 'cause I was there! Bombed out, broke, rationed and taxed yet we didn't look for somewhere else to live, we stayed on, got stuck in and rebuilt and regrew.

    • @roops2939
      @roops2939 Год назад

      Did them bluedy Geermans bomb your chip shops too?

    • @chrisgray4651
      @chrisgray4651 Год назад +1

      Unless you were one of the millions that emigrated to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Rhodesia or Canada!

  • @osocool1too
    @osocool1too Год назад +39

    The 1950s were my formative years living in Oldham, Lancashire and it was an era where children could play outside without being accosted or abused. 👍🥳

    • @andrewkitchenuk
      @andrewkitchenuk Год назад +2

      Well, I was born & brought up in Werneth and there was plenty of child abuse going on except it was behind closed doors and not talked about plus there's the more obvious case of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, the Moors Murderers in Saddleworth.

    • @SteeeveO
      @SteeeveO Год назад +1

      @@andrewkitchenuk I think the fact we still recall the Moors murders is because it was so rare - compared to nowadays when each year we have reasons for yet more "safeguarding" training & specialist police initiatives.....

    • @philipshakles760
      @philipshakles760 Год назад +3

      Before the Asian sub continent became established in that part of Lancashire.

    • @roops2939
      @roops2939 Год назад

      ​@@philipshakles760 curry's good tho. Murghi Masala anyone?

    • @chrisgray4651
      @chrisgray4651 Год назад +2

      Unless they lived in the North West and came across Myra and Ian!

  • @donaldbuckley971
    @donaldbuckley971 Год назад +25

    They were great times not liike broken Britain today

    • @jean2740
      @jean2740 Месяц назад

      And it WAS OUR !!!!°COUNTRY

  • @pennylane9730
    @pennylane9730 Год назад +20

    Love those old photos..
    Life seemed more relaxed
    Easy going... less crime
    Would love a time machine

  • @leonfairhurst7597
    @leonfairhurst7597 Год назад +62

    I would go back to the 50's at the blink of an eye, hard yes, but wonderful compared to these days, we had nothing, but everyone we knew had nothing, and we helped each other

    • @truxton1000
      @truxton1000 Год назад +4

      Not only that, it was getting better, people had optimism. Now it's getting worse, and we have seen nothing yet as it will get MUCH worse. Mostly because the "green" maniacs are ruining the ability to produce affordable energy. Also a lot of red tape killing creativity and freedom.

    • @PeterPete
      @PeterPete Год назад +1

      @@truxton1000 Quote - Also a lot of red tape killing creativity and freedom.
      Red tape creates jobs for thousands of people. You've only got to look at the England football team to know there's no creativity and freedom!!

    • @truxton1000
      @truxton1000 Год назад

      @@PeterPete Well, the England team did well in the World cup, played better than France but lost, that's football. So I guess red tape would be your plan to create more jobs, you must be very intelligent...!

    • @PeterPete
      @PeterPete Год назад

      @@truxton1000 England never played better than France. France scored two goals from open play, England never scored from open play. The captain missed a penalty. Need I say more? Red tape creates jobs, I guess you'd have lots of people out of work just to lessen red tape. BTW, it's good Charles decided not to frack in the UK. Oh aren't they mining coal in Cumbria? Guess that shoots your green agenda ideas off goal.

    • @truxton1000
      @truxton1000 Год назад

      @@PeterPete Looking at the stats of the match England had 56% possession, France 44%. England had 7 attempts on goal, France had 5. England played better and it of course showed in the statistics, of course it did not produce enough goals, as I said that’s football.

  • @anthonyupson9734
    @anthonyupson9734 Год назад +42

    I loved the 50s great memories.

  • @garyhope3731
    @garyhope3731 Год назад +14

    Took me back to my childhood, thanks.😀

  • @jimcrossland3575
    @jimcrossland3575 Год назад +91

    I was born in 1953 and lived through many problems i.e. heating no glass in windows miles walks to shops have to catch a bus to school and walk 2 miles to bus stop. Had to play sports outside in rain snow. We lived through 15% mortgages had little fresh food, poor clothing no internet no tele. People today think they are struggling they don't know half. We struggled through hardships non of the modern people will ever see and what do the government do give us £783 a month to live on whilst people on benefits get £90,000 a year nearly £2,000 a month what sort of society do we have now in them days people helped each other now you don't even see person next door for months. Well done the British Government for taking us from the greatest nation in the world TO THE WORST

    • @wilcaroll1410
      @wilcaroll1410 Год назад +11

      Well said

    • @madmaxmckinnes5862
      @madmaxmckinnes5862 Год назад +11

      Er, people on benefits are getting 90 grand A YEAR?????????? Not the ones I know, they're not!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @chrisgray4651
      @chrisgray4651 Год назад +7

      Apart from the fact most of what you said is total bollocks, why should people in this day and age have to suffer, we live in the world's 8th richest country! Could be anything to do with idiots voting tories into power could it? I'd say definitely.

    • @wivaquif
      @wivaquif Год назад +9

      You forgot to mention living in a cardboard box int middle of road, 😂

    • @chrisgray4651
      @chrisgray4651 Год назад +4

      @@wivaquif luxury!

  • @Guccit865
    @Guccit865 Год назад +12

    Pubs with me on the step with a arrow route biscuit and lemonade whilst my wonderful dad had a beer at the bar with no need to keep an eye out because England full of English was a very safe place to be.

  • @stanleywoodison8699
    @stanleywoodison8699 Год назад +15

    England then was another country and by Christ I'm homesick.

  • @lharris828
    @lharris828 Год назад +14

    I was 5 - 15 years old at the time. I remember it well. Parks to play in while 7 years old and your parents knew that you were safe. A bygone era. My back pages.

  • @energybrown
    @energybrown Год назад +11

    Lovely compilation! Great images and an excellent choice of music.

  • @madeleinel6089
    @madeleinel6089 Год назад +13

    How I wish we could go back to those days, yes, we didn’t have a lot, everyone was in the same boat, all had keys on bits of string through the letterbox because we had nothing to steal, but the fun us kids had, out all day, just running in at dinner time, which was at 12 not like in the evening now, rushing out again, and back in later for tea. I lived in London, in a very deprived area, in Ladbroke Grove, just up from the Portobello Rd market, but look back on those days with much fondness

    • @branscombeR
      @branscombeR 8 месяцев назад +1

      I grew up not too far from you off Westway, in the shadow of White City stadium ( where we had our annual school sports!). Mum and dad were both born in Paddington & North Kensington, so our grandparents and most of our aunts, uncles and cousins lived around Portobello Road, Golborne Road, Ladbroke Grove. Of course, as kids in the 1950s, we didn't realise we were poor. In 1960, under a government policy of slum clearance, we were offered a new house and guaranteed jobs for mum & dad, in Swindon, Wiltshire ... 70 miles from home ... the same happened to our cousins and aunts, but they went to 'new towns' in different directions, so the extended family broke up forever. I now live in Australia and carry an Australian passport. I've been back to the UK many times over the years but find no pleasure in it any more ... I'm better off where I am, but like you I still recognise my London from these photos, with fondness.

    • @madeleinel6089
      @madeleinel6089 8 месяцев назад

      @@branscombeR we may have passed each other in the street 😀 I went back a few years ago with my brother and sister, I couldn’t believe how the house we lived in, shared with 3 other families had been done up. We took a walk down Portobello Market, but it just wasn’t the same. Hope you have a good life in Australia, you really wouldn’t like what Britain, and most of our major cities have now become. I got out of London 15yrs ago, best move I ever made

  • @williamskyner2887
    @williamskyner2887 Год назад +12

    In those days you could borrow some flour or sugar from your next door neighbour these days you would be told were to go, thats if you knew your neighbour.

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 Год назад

      William sky. Surely there is need to borrow sugar or anything as we are all better off.

  • @davidsherbourne3161
    @davidsherbourne3161 Год назад +17

    Multi culturalism has ruin this once great country ,makes me weep , if my father were to see this he would ask why his generation went to war for freedom

  • @jeffreyhodge5564
    @jeffreyhodge5564 Год назад +28

    What you never had you never missed ,that’s just the way it was !anything like a seaside holiday or the weekly comic was something to look forward to ,in this day of mass communication in every way possible opens the door to life on the other side ,what we didn’t know didn’t bother us!

  • @gillcawthorn7572
    @gillcawthorn7572 Год назад +43

    BUT for those of us who had lived through the War ,this was freedom!
    No bombing ,no blackouts ,yes rationing still for some things but not so many Government restrictions .
    Why do you think think so many of the people in the photos are happy and smiling? You need to compare these pictures with some during the previous decade .
    I know what I am talking about , born in 1938 , I remember those times

    • @StevenGreenGuz
      @StevenGreenGuz Год назад +6

      I agree. I was born in SE London 20 years later than you. I remember the blackout shutters still on the windows, and the gasmasks still on the cupboard. But everyone was happy that the bad times were over. It was a time of hope and joy.

    • @StevenGreenGuz
      @StevenGreenGuz Год назад +9

      One of the pictures in the video was of a boy in a pedal car. I had one just like it. My dad salvaged it from somewhere. He fixed it up and painted it. He even gave it personalised number-plates ("SG1" white on black).
      One of the best Christmas presents I ever got. Being poor doesn't mean being unhappy.

    • @Gunnar_Gunnarson
      @Gunnar_Gunnarson  Год назад +7

      Gill, Thank you for this comment. I have to confess that I cannot relate to those ideas of blackouts and rationing. It seems such a strange world. Where did it go? Your comment certainly made me think.

    • @gillcawthorn7572
      @gillcawthorn7572 Год назад +5

      @@Gunnar_Gunnarson I was just 20 months old when the War started so for me as a
      young child there was nothing else .When the end came in 1945 it was like a different world but that came only gradually. I do remember visiting relatives who lived just outside London( as it then was) and being terrified when civilian planes came over. I suppose I was about 8 then .And sweets( candy) ! In the War years our pocket money went on fizzy lemonade and crisps, neither of these two were rationed ,I suppose the sweet coupons were used by my mother on something else .

    • @johnlawrence2757
      @johnlawrence2757 Год назад +1

      I remember a massive firework display at Croydon Airport, but I think this was after VJ Day as my father was there, and he didn’t come back from India till after VE Day. I remember meeting him off a returning troopship in Guernsey where families had gone to meet them as they got back. He was dreadfully thin and haggard

  • @mikeford-branch7859
    @mikeford-branch7859 Год назад +16

    Yes I was born in early 40s , recall that we were given a Prefab , two bedroons to eventually house 5 of us , we were considered to be underdogs because of our plight in housing ; but we had the benefit of our own front door , our own garden , on all sides , our own letter box , which is what those living in rented accomodation , we collected horse dung , mum used it fo use it on her garden ; we were taught how to be first on scene , before other locals got to it first ; we had free school meals , owing to dads low erratic income ; mum was at home bringing us up , cooking meals , washing our clothes ; generally lking after us all ; Dad as well as he was a War Wounded fella ; we walked about a mile to /from school each day of the week ; crossed them roads on the way ; felt safer then than I do now ; ah well ; oh TV was b/w but we used to visit family who had a TV , pulled the curtains to make room dark ; cripes

    • @jimmydempsey6857
      @jimmydempsey6857 Год назад

      We used to play in the old prefabs in the 60s , always come out dead itchy 🤣😄

  • @ccampbell1117
    @ccampbell1117 Год назад +12

    I was born in the 50’s , how very sad to see all that community that has been lost.

    • @maxinegalloway3459
      @maxinegalloway3459 9 месяцев назад

      also knocked down homes (instead of renovating them) split up families in different areas, lots and lots of different factors that split the working classes of this country up.

  • @Einstein852
    @Einstein852 Год назад +7

    Best years of my life. Parks. Saturday morning pictures, such fun we had. Wish I could go back to those innocent times

  • @juliawigger9796
    @juliawigger9796 Год назад +48

    All we tried to do building this country back up after the war. Now kids just throw everything back in our faces, look at what has happened to what was once a lovely country.

    • @chrisgray4651
      @chrisgray4651 Год назад +9

      That's because people keep voting tory!

    • @juliawigger9796
      @juliawigger9796 Год назад +8

      @@chrisgray4651 woke lib dems and liebour

    • @chrisgray4651
      @chrisgray4651 Год назад

      @@juliawigger9796 I think you will find that the tories have been in power more than the others, therefore it's the tories that made this country the mess it is now!

    • @juliawigger9796
      @juliawigger9796 Год назад +1

      @@chrisgray4651 hmm its been going on alot longer than that. The globalists were rubbing their hands in glee when Blair got in for 2 terms. He signed so many treaties behind our backs, changed our laws, allowed sex education for primary school children, the Syrian debacle opened up the flood gates , the globalists got a firmer grip on the UK , even selling private contracts for hospitals...................

    • @chrisgray4651
      @chrisgray4651 Год назад

      @@juliawigger9796 the war had been over more than 50 yrs before Tony Blair was elected with a 160 seat majority you silly woman! Globalist? Do you mean people that aren't little englanders?

  • @johnnyrebel7597
    @johnnyrebel7597 Год назад +9

    I have built a time travel machine . No joke .Anyone want to go back to the fifties ?

  • @roncatton7101
    @roncatton7101 Год назад +11

    Just goes to prove that you can be happy with those simple things in life. Families were families then, parents were proper parents with proper parenting. They knew where their children were and what time they were to be in. People looked out for one another, friends were true friends.
    Britain will never be as great as it was back then, even throughout the struggles!

  • @davidoldboy5425
    @davidoldboy5425 Год назад +40

    I was born in the early 50's in a 2 bed council house, slept with my sister until 7, parents couldn't afford school meals we came home for lunch, usually a fried egg and 5 chips. No car, everywhere by bus, the house had one coal fire and was freezing in the winter, no holidays, same food every week etc etc. Only this week I heard one of my neighbours telling the other that because of inflation they were cutting down to 2 foreign holidays, shame eh? Every local house has at least 2 cars and everyone is fat, yep times are hard lol.

    • @donaldellis3609
      @donaldellis3609 Год назад +6

      Poor poor things only two holidays abroad dear me.

    • @davidoldboy5425
      @davidoldboy5425 Год назад +2

      @@donaldellis3609 Sadly I have an ex relative who hasn't worked for 30 years and has 4 a year, true.

    • @highpath4776
      @highpath4776 Год назад +2

      The 2 Bed house should have been designed with the chimney up the middle (some were) with back bolier in the coal fire for hot water. Efficient for distribution of heat from the coal burning. I think it would be the single glazing and being only one brick thick (some were cavity), that lost the heat quickly, your valve TV would keep a corner warmish though. With Terraced houses even if no chinmeny up middle if the living room ones were back on the heat should still rise through the chimney to the bedroom. This will work with gas fires as well as other solid fuel ones, far less so with electric

    • @eleenprosser1577
      @eleenprosser1577 Год назад +1

      😊

    • @elizabethnuttall5374
      @elizabethnuttall5374 Год назад +3

      Poor darlings. We lived in a cardboard box at the side of the road.

  • @helentorr8904
    @helentorr8904 Год назад +9

    Best Days, we were English Then.

  • @michaelmontcombroux3413
    @michaelmontcombroux3413 Год назад +24

    Good effort, but some of the photos are not of the 1950s - the minskirts, hairstyles, and the movie theater showing Carry on Constable (released Feb 1960)

  • @edwarddavison3304
    @edwarddavison3304 Год назад +35

    How did we get from there to here to shit hole we become because no one stood up and said enough enough that day approaching

    • @angelamary9493
      @angelamary9493 Год назад +2

      How ! Mass immigration

    • @gustavmeyrink_2.0
      @gustavmeyrink_2.0 Год назад +2

      Repeatedly voting Tory. That's how...

    • @roops2939
      @roops2939 Год назад

      It's called democracy. It's meant to be the best solution for electing leaders.

    • @countfosco8535
      @countfosco8535 Год назад +1

      How did we get here? We got here because Tories gave us Brexit and Tories strangled the NHS to death.

    • @stylembonkers1094
      @stylembonkers1094 Год назад

      @@countfosco8535
      Brainwashed fool.

  • @unclealbert7377
    @unclealbert7377 Год назад +11

    way too many cars for it to be the fifties more like the sixties as I remember them I was born in 1948, but still some great photos

    • @truxton1000
      @truxton1000 Год назад

      All the cars I saw was 50's cars, one photo of a 1960's motorbike.

  • @deadpoet62
    @deadpoet62 Год назад +6

    Born in 47, childhood was great, we all had very little so there wasn’t envy & influence as there is today. You had a sense of community & often shared things with your mates. People seemed much happier than today. No central heating or double glazing & ate what we could afford. Far less mental health problems with youngsters & no obesity because you mainly walked everyday to school or work etc.

  • @kitfrew9983
    @kitfrew9983 Год назад +9

    Men just back from a war that made them grateful for what they had both in family life and the Brotherhood of war. Material things did not matter, respect for one another and looking out for one another was at the forefront of life in those days. Good old Blighty ,when we were all one family and our borders and doors were still closed .Then they opened up our door to all and sundry, and what you see and hear today is the result of that happening. We have no country that's our own today.

  • @clivebaxter6354
    @clivebaxter6354 Год назад +7

    But this can't be right, the BBC tell us UK was always diverse!

  • @jimandmarypowell9783
    @jimandmarypowell9783 Год назад +9

    We had one power point and one bulb socket in each room in our house. Dad came home for lunch on his motorbike. We were not well off but we had enough clothing and food and plenty of coal. What more does one need? Oh yes. A loving family.

  • @markshrimpton3138
    @markshrimpton3138 Год назад +9

    There was good and bad. Far less crime; less traffic;

    • @markshrimpton3138
      @markshrimpton3138 Год назад

      Sorry I clicked before I’d completed my post. Unemployment was very low, the NHS and state pensions had pulled millions out of a miserable olde age; the only drugs were tobacco and alcohol; police were respected and respectful in return; the nation in general was much fitter than today; we were smarter; children got outside and played; and society in general had far more cohesion.

  • @shirleyellis9708
    @shirleyellis9708 Год назад +6

    Happy day in the 1950s I was born in 1956. And loved the 60s and 70s. Turn back the clock.🤔

  • @joruss12345
    @joruss12345 Год назад +6

    Born 1937 was teenager in fifties,great days you could leave your door open then,nobody to rob you cause we add nothing

  • @NancyDrewe
    @NancyDrewe Год назад +7

    England is becoming unrecognizable now and we all know why. Thanks, good video.

  • @operationgoldfish8331
    @operationgoldfish8331 Год назад +11

    Yeah, the thing about 50s Britain was that everyone was in Black and White, having slowly emerged from the sepia-tone of the 20s and 30s. I was born near the start of the 60s and I recall everything fairly quickly moving into colour, although a few older people weren't too keen. By the end of the 60s, Flower Power was getting us past the pastel stage. Then we had glam rock and everything got really vibrant, but Thatcherism put a stop to that and, over the last forty years, we have been devolving into a sort of fridge-light blue, washed out monotone with day-glo highlights.

    • @truxton1000
      @truxton1000 Год назад +1

      It wasn't thatcher, it was globalism.

    • @george11419
      @george11419 Год назад

      Yea, colour photography was widely available in the ‘50s.

    • @operationgoldfish8331
      @operationgoldfish8331 Год назад +3

      @@george11419 Not so much in the UK. But I was making more of a metaphysical point than a factual one. I remember the early 60s as feeling black & white; then flower power seemed to bring in a lot of colour. The glam rock of the early 70s added a lot of glitter. Then punk came along and we were back to black again, except for the odd bit of red plaid and snot green. The Eighties were dreadful pastels and the Nineties were utilitarian blacks, greys and khakis. The 2000s were kind of like that early cheap 'colour' they did in 1940s movies and with the 2010s we went back to the black and white of austerity with the occasional techie blue. That's just the way I perceived it.

  • @neilturner2924
    @neilturner2924 Год назад +4

    left school at 15 learnt a trade still doing it today no mobile phones or computers wish i could go back

  • @uktruecrime
    @uktruecrime Год назад +36

    If only we could reset to 1950!!!

    • @madala9324
      @madala9324 Год назад +11

      Totally agree our parents had little in the way of money, but we lacked nothing when it came to love and family life. Morals etc

    • @angelamary9493
      @angelamary9493 Год назад +5

      I wish ...

    • @nottmjas
      @nottmjas Год назад +2

      To a comfy professional middle class environment. Being stuck in a working class existence won't have been much fun.

  • @SteeeveO
    @SteeeveO Год назад +6

    The 60's weren't that much better but as most people are saying - I'd go back to those times in a heartbeat compared with today.

  • @eloise5177
    @eloise5177 Год назад +5

    No litter in sight or weeds

  • @richardburns5925
    @richardburns5925 Год назад +13

    No multicultural ridden divided isolated English people, booming industry, everything made here, British cars everywhere, kids playing out unsupervised, no grooming gangs, busy pubs n clubs, busy high street, everyone knew everyone, people married, bought a house, lived in it forever, worked at the factory end of the road, booming seaside resorts, no immigrants........what decade is it? 1950s? Bloody hell, my apologies, I thought it was my era, the 1980s!

  • @steved7961
    @steved7961 Год назад +5

    At 0:24 the guy second from right has shoulder length hair! That photo wasn't taken in the fifties, more like the mid-late sixties. The film showing at 0:56 wasn't released until the 60's.

    • @Gunnar_Gunnarson
      @Gunnar_Gunnarson  Год назад

      He was the guy who set the trend for the 1960s. Actually, I think the movie was made in 1959, but released in 1960. But I accept your points.

  • @haroldmerewether1224
    @haroldmerewether1224 Год назад +3

    Everything was so well crafted back then it seems. The clothes, the vehicles. Now everything looks industrialised.

  • @kenstubbs6878
    @kenstubbs6878 Год назад +6

    I was born 47 great times 50s and 60s its a shame that how country as gone down hill.

  • @jillybean5159
    @jillybean5159 Год назад +3

    I grew up in the 50s and have glorious memories of living with my Aunt and Uncle because there weren't enough houses yet built. We were financially poor but so happy with each other around us. My toy was playing for hours with my Uncle's folding wooden tape measure and my cousin trapped rabbits for many stews - until 'Mixing-me-toes-up' (as we children called it) soon put a stop to that. Sadly, when the 60s started, everything went to pot and most of us lived in fear of a nuclear war between the US and USSR. Has anything changed, really? But no-one will ever take those wonderful childhood memories away! Not rose-coloured glasses, BTW, just a warm loving family sticking together.

  • @higherfordkid1625
    @higherfordkid1625 Год назад +8

    In was a teenager in the fifties and joined the Merchant Navy in 1960. The population of our country then was about twenty five million less than today. People were happier than today where we live in constant fear of being scammed, unable to see a doctor being called a racist for expressing love of your own culture as it disappears etc.etc.

  • @paulbroderick8438
    @paulbroderick8438 Год назад +2

    I was brought up in Coventry directly after the war and remember it all too well. Ration books, bomb shelter in back yard, no bathroom, outside toilet and yet got through like so many others. Family had a pet dog and cat and chickens in the back yard. Ah, memories, memories.

  • @cherrytate7149
    @cherrytate7149 Год назад +5

    Oh the 50 s and 60s when I was a kid .
    So healthy ...playing outside ....no telephones ....everyone spoke to each other ....commardery was unique .🥰
    Nobody can be bothered anymore
    Look in a coffee shop these days ....everyone on their phones
    Nobody talking
    AGE OF TECHNOLOGY???
    KEEP IT .😱

  • @codzy3532
    @codzy3532 Год назад +19

    lovely old black an white photos look how all the streets were clean back in the day nnot like this pc crap of a generation

    • @magirusdeutzjupiter2234
      @magirusdeutzjupiter2234 3 месяца назад +1

      The people from the 50s are an amazing generation and have FULL respect not like the dozy, thick, and horrible lot we have today.

    • @codzy3532
      @codzy3532 3 месяца назад

      @magirusdeutzjupiter2234 yes agree 👍

  • @christopherward9230
    @christopherward9230 Год назад +4

    What a fantastic snapshot of our great country, and not too long after WW2.
    Look at it now 🥺😥

  • @andywoods2942
    @andywoods2942 Год назад +4

    i was born 1956 went to work at 15 at 1971 just retired made it

  • @gooderspitman8052
    @gooderspitman8052 Год назад +4

    Ah the sweet smell of nostalgia, glad I was born in the 50s and grew up in the 60s.

  • @pduffy421
    @pduffy421 Год назад +29

    Britain in the 1950s a lot better than broken Britain in 2022. I was born in 1970, which I'd been born at least a couple of decades earlier.

    • @timsharp
      @timsharp Год назад +1

      I was born in 1954 and despite sometimes wishing we could turn back time, we really are so much better off today

    • @pduffy421
      @pduffy421 Год назад +4

      @@timsharp Is the crime rate lower or higher? Is our standard of living increasing or decreasing? Crime is massive rising and living standards are getting lower each year. Mass immigration has ruined Britain all due to ever increasing government and EU corruption. So, no, things are not better today than even when I was born in 1970.

    • @timsharp
      @timsharp Год назад +1

      @@pduffy421Living standards have not got lower, our expectations have got higher - who in the 1950's would think for example that a mobile phone contract would be seen as essential? I was going to say something about Brexit, but thought it best not to get into an argument!

    • @jasoneldridge4738
      @jasoneldridge4738 Год назад

      This is why I refuse to accept the nonsense about child poverty in this Country, all the time people have a mobile phone and Sky tv, you cannot say your living in poverty!

  • @majorlaff8682
    @majorlaff8682 Год назад +5

    What's for tea?
    Chicken surprise.
    That sounds nice. What's the surprise?
    No chicken!
    What's for tea?
    Bread, and duck.
    (At this point you dropped to the floor before mam's open palm clipped you around the ear)

  • @Behyelzebub
    @Behyelzebub Год назад +2

    I born in 1949 into a working class family. We were the luckiest generation in history and it will never be repeated.

  • @bsport131
    @bsport131 Год назад +9

    Lovely and homogenous and a better country

  • @dryflyman7121
    @dryflyman7121 Год назад +3

    My favourite decade without a doubt. I was so happy as a child. I remember my Mother wearing dresses like the ones shown, it was the best ever fashion, so vibrant.

  • @swanpub1
    @swanpub1 Год назад +13

    I find some of the photographs very depressing, but true to life I was born 1957 one of 7 siblings. I feel 65 years later history is repeating itself. Sorry to be gloomy.

  • @johnbruce2868
    @johnbruce2868 Год назад +8

    Technology may solve a problem but it resolves nothing, creating only the circumstances for still greater problems to develop that require still more complicated and expensive solutions in their turn. That sums the rise and fall of Britain from the 50's very well. There was poverty and whilst there was greater respect there was also rancorous bitterness and envy between the classes. There was also joy in the simplest things, in community, in shared rationing. There were social problems, ex-servicemen with PTSD turned meths drinkers. There was a profound appreciation of the cultural differences between the regions and countries comprising the Unite Kingdom, from 'Bonnie Scotland' to 'Devon, Glorious Devon'. Above all, there was industrious hope for a better future. The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions...

  • @gilliandianeryan1493
    @gilliandianeryan1493 Год назад +6

    We had nothing ,but we had everything .I wouldn,t change my upbringing ,for all the money in the World .

  • @fpostolache
    @fpostolache 8 месяцев назад +2

    Memories.
    Photos don't say much but memories.
    Tnx for sharing.

  • @carlatopino2902
    @carlatopino2902 Год назад +8

    Magnifiche le foto in bianco/Nero.
    Creano molta veracità ai soggetti.
    Ho alcune vecchie foto di mio fratello in italia e certe pose in gruppo hanno gli stessi gesti gli stessi sorrisi.
    Molto molto bello

  • @briannewman6306
    @briannewman6306 Год назад +3

    The 1950s has to be the best decade of all. There are too many reasons for me saying this and it would take too long. That tells you how much I loved the 1950s, along with all the lovely comments I have read here.

  • @ronayling1979
    @ronayling1979 Год назад +3

    Growing up in the 50's was the best years of my life, we didn't have much but I was never cold or hungry, two loving parents, my dog, we kept a few chickens for eggs and Christmas, guy Fawkes night, playing in the street they were Halcyon days, I've watched a steady decline into todays selfish depressing and evil times...

  • @derekevans1994
    @derekevans1994 Год назад +9

    What lovely times!!!

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 Год назад

      Derek you obviously did not live in those times if not aware of the grimness.

  • @katewebber1131
    @katewebber1131 Месяц назад +1

    Born in the UK in 1950 these pictures are so relevant. Thanks for uploading them . ❤❤ Gymslips and school blazers. Mods or rockers.

  • @Richard-fv7rq
    @Richard-fv7rq Год назад +4

    Jeez it looked so different, it was 70 years ago I guess. 70 years prior to the 50's was the 1880's! So much has changed since then, some good and some bad.

  • @wilsonflood4393
    @wilsonflood4393 Год назад +6

    Carry on Constable was the 60s! Good photos though

    • @Gunnar_Gunnarson
      @Gunnar_Gunnarson  Год назад +1

      I know. I found out too late. One or two images are a bit out of period.

    • @gvdlpgg2406
      @gvdlpgg2406 Год назад +1

      Just being cheeky. Not much difference between 1959 and 1961. Your photos are good moody shots. Would look at more.

  • @albie7581
    @albie7581 Год назад +1

    Thanks brought back childhood memories

  • @allanwildman28
    @allanwildman28 Год назад +35

    And it all changed when Blair was pm, but it’s a change for the worse, and major didn’t change anything when he was in office either, it’s just got worse as every pm since Blair hasn’t had a clue

    • @Joeblogs111
      @Joeblogs111 Год назад +4

      Enoch Powell the best pm we never had.

    • @countfosco8535
      @countfosco8535 Год назад

      Blair was bad but Cameron should have been court-martialled.

  • @truth.952
    @truth.952 Год назад +3

    When I was a kid in the 50s I remember my aunts and uncles saying they wished they were young again...older people never say that now....says everything

    • @stevenashford8029
      @stevenashford8029 Год назад

      The golden age never was the present.

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 Год назад

      @@stevenashford8029That is very profound and memorable. I shall remember that.

  • @johnbowkett80
    @johnbowkett80 Год назад +2

    I was born in 1956 in Birmingham . This is how I remember my childhood and I miss it . A simple kind of life . 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @limedickandrew6016
    @limedickandrew6016 Год назад +8

    There's a couple of photos here that looked more like 70s than 50s.

    • @truxton1000
      @truxton1000 Год назад

      A couple from 60's, but could not see any from the 70's.

    • @limedickandrew6016
      @limedickandrew6016 Год назад

      @@truxton1000 I think the one at 0:24 could be 70s. Could be late 60s, but looks to me more like early 70s.

  • @StevenGreenGuz
    @StevenGreenGuz Год назад +29

    I was born in Bermondsey (SE London) in the 1950s. Some quite familiar scenes there.
    The sad music was a bit weird though. I remember it being a wonderful place and time.

    • @Gunnar_Gunnarson
      @Gunnar_Gunnarson  Год назад +8

      Thank you so much for the kind words. You made an interesting point about the music. I was not there and so I cannot appreciate the intrinsic happiness of the time. I was in London about two months ago and I cannot connect the city of today with those scenes from the 1950s. It seems like a completely different world.

    • @StevenGreenGuz
      @StevenGreenGuz Год назад +7

      @@Gunnar_Gunnarson ,
      The last time I visited London I went to my old street. The folk who lived there were much more wealthy than we were. But it was sterile. None of the buzz and joy that I knew.

    • @Chopsyochops
      @Chopsyochops Год назад +3

      Some hillbilly rock and roll would have shown some of the mood I’m guessing.

    • @StevenGreenGuz
      @StevenGreenGuz Год назад +4

      @@Chopsyochops ,
      Nah. More like Mary Hopkin. Or maybe the Benny Hill theme. 😜

    • @Chopsyochops
      @Chopsyochops Год назад +3

      @@StevenGreenGuz 🤣🤣

  • @bezstarling8419
    @bezstarling8419 Год назад +2

    I was born in 1950 and they WERE happy days. Camping holiday in Cornwall every July. Lived in a council house with just one coal fire. Our village had one bus an hour and the fare into anywhere with shops was 4d single. We had no cars, phones, computers but we had freedom. Playing in the fields all day during school holidays