I moved to Blackpool in 1981, that's my late auntie & uncle who owned the Morleigh Hotel & Paula Paradema was my best friends mum, miss them all so I'm glad I found this ♥️
my step father whose from Lancashire told me that many Scots went to Blackpool which is surprising, these days they all go to Spain on holiday instead ?
Your Right,When the Liscence Fee was reasonable and they employed proper Talent not like the who Evers mate you happen to be Crap like Claudia Winkleman etc.
I used to go to Blackpool with my grandparents in the late 80's/early 90's. Candy floss, slot machines, rides, donkeys, pleasure beach, and ballroom dancing. It always felt special when we could spot the tower in the distance.
I remember seeing this on the TV first time round,I must of been 18 stuck in my mind for some reason.30 year ago Gosh! Time flies! "Enjoy your self it's later than you think"
I'm from Watford ( alot of people would class it as the North) I have a lot of time for Northerners down to earth and generally more friendlier than southerners and especially Bloody Cockneys ! I can say that coz I'm technically not a Londoner. Hertfordshire for ever!Lol! Come on you Hornets !!.
I remember girls dancing around the heir handbags, pre Internet, going out instead of staying in on the net, actual friends instead of virtual friends. Lot's of changes.
OMG a young Rita Webb in 'Hindle Wakes' as Mrs Slaughter born 1904 and the film was 1952 so makes her 48 years of age, she died in 1981 aged 77, I shall never forget her brilliant performance as Auntie Ada in Steptoe and Son, the funeral episode where everyone knows that the only thing worth anything is the porcelain figurine on the mantelpiece
Blackpool is a symbol of a by gone era. Sadly, it’s just as cheap to go abroad on a plane, with easy flying so doable these days...the seaside days of fish and chips...and sticks of rock...and arcades...is embedded in the past. It’s a curious fascination to know my father and his father, would go to places like Blackpool for there summer holiday. I still go to Blackpool with my son from time to time. £40-£50 a night for a decent/sometimes lovely room and a fried breakfast...and often a swimming pool thrown into the mix...you can’t get fairer than that!! The Norbreck is still only £29 a night!!👌. it’s an inexpensive trip away for the more poorer in our society...the hotels do some great deals and financially it is not too taxing. The natives seem to be out dated somehow...as do the shops and the fashions...the two ladies in this film have similar haircuts to the ladies of today!!....in many ways it’s stuck in a time warp and it looks like it needs a lick of paint...but for a young child it’s still great...you have the beach...the sea...the fairground...the tower...the bright lights...and the leisure pool is genuinely modern, as far as major swimming pools go. These old school, pier places like Southport, Scarborough, Brighton etc...are a special part of England’s heritage, history and culture...and to a degree they still have something to offer...but It’s sad to see these resorts so run down, paralysed by modern day economics and the changes in modern day travel....even the seagulls and the poor Donkeys look like they have had enough. If the government were to seriously invest in our seaside towns, maybe it’s possible for a resurgence in the holiday experience. I seriously believe that the potential is still there...the space to grow and renew. The novelty of such an experience could easily entice foreigners to experience a little of the Old England...whilst at the same time creating a while new generation of seaside visitors...it needs a more re-vamped, modern day version...not just one that caters for hen nights and the holiday season...just a thought!! Viva La Blackpool!! x
@sarah jones What utter bollocks! If we didn't have Asian doctors working in the NHS it would collapse. What has a persons religion got to do with anything anyway? NOTHING
I think the days of any UK resort being as big as Blackpool used to be are long, long gone. International travel is just too easy these days. The tragedy of Blackpool is that it is now a dumping ground. You say it's a good place for kids, but it has the highest number of convicted paedophiles living there of anywhere in the UK. I'd keep your kids very close to you next time you go there.
Bob would be in sooo much trouble in 2024 - once that nosey neighbour (next door to the house for sale used by Bob & his girlfriends )with his garden hose updated the local Facebook … 😃👍
@@newforestpixie5297looking back, Bob was basically a predatory paedophile. Preying on schoolgirls. Very striking how our perceptions of these things have changed since the 80s.
I can completely remember s-express thumping out at the pleasure beach around then and the triumph tr7 go kart type things that went round a track that had a rail in the middle that stopped you being able to drive the kart off the track
God I can see it now...went about 4 times a year. Remember the excitement in the back of mum and dad's car going there. That first glimps of the tower. Went back recently and well, it is what it is really, but stood on the sand and closed my eyes breathed deeply and that familiar smell took me back in an instant to the joy I felt. The first donkey ride...sand in the sandwiches lol. Like to go back for a day and just enjoy thd place with young eyes again.
I was born in Blackpool. Its hell for the people that live there. No work out of season. Full of alcoholics and drug addicts. I couldn't wait to grow up and get the hell out of there. I rarely go back, it's so depressing.
That "psychic" is the sort of performer who comes on stage and says "The spirits are strong tonight - Is there anybody in the audience called "John" ? "
"I feel there's a reason for you saying this. Has somebody disappointed you in some sort of way? Don't feel you have to answer now. You'll know when to talk about it, but I feel you must."
Those girls with white stilettos on, dancing round their handbags. Hilarious. For those who weren't around in those days, those girls would have been known as a "Sharon and Tracy".
The package holiday was the death knell for the British seaside holiday, It became almost as cheap to go abroad as it was to holiday at home. So at first it was the middle classes who stopped holidaying at home followed by the majority of the working class. It is now cheaper by far to holiday abroad than at home, A week in Cornwall costs twice as much as two weeks in Greece.
Because Greek workers are poorly paid compared to here. That's the real reason it's cheap. Also a minority of people think they can behave badly in foreign countries in a way they wouldn't do in their home country.
Not everyone wants to go on holiday abroad. Ive had a lot of fun over the last few decades with holidays in the UK. People mainly go abroad to get a tan and cheap booze. I cant stand airports and certainly wouldn’t want to be on the piss for two weeks getting sunburnt while you cant even sleep at night because of the noise from pubs and clubs. Nope, not for me.
@@oddities-whatnot You mix in strange circles. European holidays ,to me, mean exploring beautiful places, whether City, Town, Rural or Coastal. Meeting people from other Countries. Exploring Cultures, food, wines, history. Visiting beautiful Architecture. Dressing for Evening meals at different Restaurants. Knowing it will be sunny every day. Walks, Boating, exploring. We don't all live to get drunk and sunburnt. Speak for yourself, love ! You can have your grey UK holidays, with bland food and filthy Streets. Enjoy !! 🤮🤢🥴👍
I first visited Blackpool when I was five,it was truly magical,and it was like another planet compared to my home town of Birmingham..lol happy days indeed..
I used to study at Blackpool college in the 70s..and those days it were a very nice and friendly place ..pleasure beach,the promenades ,south central and north piers ,the tower,short distance to st.Annes on sea, Fleetwood, poulton le fylde etc
Sad to see Blackpool now, I want a time machine to visit in 1950s & 60s there's a channel on here that films daily as it is. Neverr been and won't as it is today
I’m flicking through the channels on my television 📺 on a Saturday night. There is absolutely nothing on . All 💩 crap and I’m paying circa £13.50 a month for the privilege!
Ha I still want my pirate VHS copy of Jurassic Park exchanging please. I got it home and it was a blank tape. Those days of Blackpool are special. I visited a few years back, wet, windy and changed a lot. My fondness of the place won't die though, visiting with my grand parents and parents, simple memories. My kids hate the place been to spoilt rotten travelling abroad.
The two women putting make up on, getting ready to go out. They talk totally different to women of the same age today. There is an innocence in their voices and the outlook they have on life. Social media influences have turned a lot of women today into fake self important attention seekers. If you filmed the same scene today the women would be playing up to the camera with exaggerated expressions and saying “hi guys whats up” etc, constantly checking their phone to see how popular they are. It’s all gone wrong.
A very interesting documentary, thank you. The working people on this video are the salt of the earth , a generation we will never see again. Having said that Blackpool would not be for me, just too many people and huge crowds. Quiet solitude of the countryside for me.
I'd love to know where those two blonde hotties are now and how refreshing their honesty as naieve as it was @ 35.00 talking about what blokes they go for - very specific were their requirements ! . Funny I was a young gun in 1989 and watching this it seems so bloody long ago ..not just in time but in attitudes and the way we were . Great upload though a real piece of social history .
I was 16 back then and it feels like a hell of a long time ago to me. Most of the 90s all seem like a lifetime ago too, but the last 20 years have zipped by at a frightening rate!
I was born and brought u in Blackpool, but left for university in 1983 and never went back. Even then it was declining due to cheap package holidays abroad with guaranteed sunshine.
Strange the man’s comments at the beginning , he didn’t realise that working class people actually liked each other , and therefore liked to have fun together .
Absolutely brilliant! I love Blackpool. Sadly it's not as good as it used to be. So it's so good to watch this documentary. It brings back happy memories 😊😊😊😊😊
The front got done up about 10 year ago or more. I was there 3 years ago. We went to the Zoo there which is good and the pleasure park. There is alway something to do there.
South shore, the fun house at 9 yrs old, the underground pub next to it seeing lads dancing motown at 14, Fathers Moustache punk at 18, The Galleon with plastic fish and a geriatric band with lost limbs and heart attacks imminent, the Mitre pub, South shore football hooligans, the Dutton arms trashed by Man city. 70's & 80's memories of Blackpool resonnate with vibrancy.
As much as I love Blackpool even to this day, if it takes that much money, how comes it always looks as though it needs money needing to be spent on it ?? Why do people think it looks so tacky ?
gingerladyaubern took my kids there a few years ago it was messy rubbish all over all down the front was take aways and crap it used to be good not no more no more kiss me quick hats
Blackpool has been in massive decline for decades. It's an incredibly depressing place these days, used as a dumping ground for the sick, the poor and the dangerous because accommodation is so cheap. It has the highest concentration of convicted sex offenders in the UK as a result. There have been a couple of murders of young girls in recent decades.
I had the best times of my life in Blackpool growing up with my mum grandma and cousins I think sometimes I was looked down on at school when I mentioned about going there as someone in my class at junior school said that only scrubbers to go Blackpool I think they was having a dig at me personally as always I really miss those times and I won't get that time back with my mum and grandma I really miss them in 40 in a couple of weeks time and I feel so lost nothing is ever going to be the same again because of this virus
Yes, I though that. They would be early fifties now I guess, probably got married and had kids. Most want that traditional life. I never did, I’m a bit lonely at the moment in my mid fifties but less responsibility means I have more freedom to do what I want in my life.
@@oddities-whatnot Would be great if they did a follow up on this program, and tried to find some of the people who were in it, some will be long gone i think but some will not
I wonder what cards life dealt the two 80's gals Kay and Colette ? They were influenced by blond haired guys because of Bros the pop group at the time. Not an ounce of sense between their heads just two naive girls enjoying life at the time.Great nostalgia. Shiny faces - badly bleached hair - white stilettos thinking they were the biz dancing round their handbags - great stuff.
Bless their youth and naivety. I’m delighted I got to wear my white stilettos in the day and feel fabulous. Too much criticism from women of other women today.
@@efitz3397 Nobody is being critical if you read my comment properly i was making observations and said GREAT STUFF !!!! Those days were great and totally different to the trash we have now.Naivety and not being wordly was a breath of fresh air to see.Its no longer like that now.I have tried to find out what became of them - did their dreams happen ? how did life turn out for them both ? i cant find anything about them.
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ahh the days when the UK could count on it's thriving tourism industry for economic activity and wealth creation for 7 months of the years..!
I went to Blackpool in 1989. It was so depressing. I noticed that early in the morning as the tide went out the sand looked filthy. I saw a tractor with a rake on the back cleaning it. There was a sign that said 'The Golden mile starts here' and I noticed the tractor only stuck to the 'Golden mile'. I lost my g/f and friends and I tried to borrow 10p off someone for a phone call. I got nothing but insults. Luckily I found my friends and we unanimously decided that after less than 24 hours spent there we had all had enough. We had more fun driving back through Moss-side.
We have enough scumbags begging for change and running that "I just need it for the phone" bollocks on our streets already. Nobody was ever gonna buy that! And if you had given them anything but a kicking you would have been an idiot! Give 'em NOTHING!
@@XantroyX Haha, I get pissed off at beggars, and professional charity collectors. I had a guy approach me with bloodstains on the arm of his shirt. He said he had been in an accident and needed money to get to the hospital. I saw him the following week and he said exactly the same story, and again a couple of days later. The bloodstains were from injecting drugs.
@@rexterrocks i had a guy with a high viz outfit carrying a hard hat and an open holdall full of rusty spanners and nails approach me on the stairs of a train station asking for a tenner for a train ticket he was claiming he had lost his wallet , it was bollocks of course .i saw him again a couple of weeks later i said you're one unlucky man.
@@johnsmith-wx5fb Hahaha! I had a guy come up to me with a makeshift bandage on his hand claiming that he had just had an accident on a building site and didn't have his wallet with him. He asked if I could give him the money for the bus. It sounded bollocks and 3 days later he approached me again with the same story. I suggested maybe he should get a different job. It makes it hard for an honest beggar like I was :-)
@@rexterrocks ha ha the lengths they go to. As a general rule all i do is look for the drugs , its always there in the face somewhere. I hope ive never turned a genuine person down. However on occasions ive asked a guy for the time he wouldnt tell me and walked away all nervously he was in a suit he literally would not give me the time of day and another time i said excuse me to a group in a train station i needed directions and they just kept walking , i must look like a smack head meself😂
Wakes goes back centuries and was the week or weeks following the harvest (where land workers would celebrate the harvest). With the Industrial Revolution and the movement of land workers into the factories it was the way of things that many such traditions were carried on into the cities. Factory and mill workers would save a little bit of their earnings each week towards a week by the seaside. It got to the point where whole towns would effectively close for the week whilst its inhabitants boarded trains bound for sunshine city (or rain). Blackpool was deliberately designed to be a get-away for working class people which is why many of the Victorian built buildings had the decor of the Music Hall theatres similar to those in London. Indeed, much of Blackpool was built on the earnings of the mill workers from many of the UK's industrial towns and cities. Wakes week was also the time when factory or mill owner would take the opportunity to make any major repairs to his machinery, buildings etc. Anything that had to do with production.
I used to visit a mate in Blackpool between 1988-1990 He lived with his GFriend in central drive One day I was coaxed into driving us to Hull across the moors.
Advance a few more years to Blackpool 2020 on a bank holiday weekend at dinner time and the promenade was deserted because of the Coronavirus where the police were instructed by the government to fine people they see flouting the lockdown rules while in the NHS doctors and nurses were dying as the government allowed flights into the country where passengers were left unquarantined. Millions lost their jobs, kids were finally kept away from schools and the prime minister ignored his own advice and ended up in hospital with the virus.
I was a child in the 80's in the UK, mostly London, and i don't know if it's just old age clouding my memory, or whether there's a north-south cultural divide, but i honestly don't remember the England portrayed in this documentary. It's undoubtedly very interesting, but it also feels very alien, and foreign to me somehow. There's a huge irony i just realised, since i am the son of migrants, and that i should find the people of England foreign in their own land. But there it is nonetheless. Perhaps it has something to do with Empire, and the legacy such a system brings to every nation that had one, it changed them forever.
In 1989 I worked in industry in Lytham St Annes and each year for two weeks (last week in July- first week in August) the factory shut. This was by tradition in line with Wakes week practices. Of course, it was Thatcher and the introduction of 'continental shift' hours and changes to the Sunday working hours that was the final nail in the coffin for Wakes...
I started work in 1990 and wakes was still an expression alot of the older lads at work still used then , alot of them still booked there holidays at that time too. Maybe just out of habit ?
Oh thanks for sharing this video it brought back such wonderful memories of Ringside seat at Blackpool Tower Circus… The Golden mile with the freak shows… Eating lots of candy floss… And spending a lot of time on the Central Pier… Those were the days when Blackpool with great in 1950s
Haha, not really, that psychic Paula Paradema is still plying her trade and there are still plenty of "cheap looking" girls knocking around, (like them 2 gormless blondes - owt for nowt).
@@RudieRickenbacker I'm really sad to hear that.. Paula Paradema used to live next door to me for a while, she was a proper character and everyone on the street liked her..
I moved to Blackpool in 1981, that's my late auntie & uncle who owned the Morleigh Hotel & Paula Paradema was my best friends mum, miss them all so I'm glad I found this ♥️
Paula Paradema looks very like two of my sisters! She looks a nice lady.
I'm from Glasgow and going to Blackpool as a kid was a magical experience. The glory days of the late 70's and early 80's. A long time ago now.
its all gone on the noo'
I use to love when it was Glasgow fortnight.
my step father whose from Lancashire told me that many Scots went to Blackpool which is surprising, these days they all go to Spain on holiday instead ?
It's so easy to forget how brilliant the BBC used to be.
Your Right,When the Liscence Fee was reasonable and they employed proper Talent not like the who Evers mate you happen to be Crap
like Claudia Winkleman etc.
It’s a crying shame.
BBC still makes great documentaries.
@@petemcnamara5070 Inferior to what they used to make pre-2000s.
Yes but not easy to forget they protected Jimmy Savile!!!! Oh dear!!!!
I used to go to Blackpool with my grandparents in the late 80's/early 90's. Candy floss, slot machines, rides, donkeys, pleasure beach, and ballroom dancing. It always felt special when we could spot the tower in the distance.
Always loved the floating bottle intro Brian Eno's music
The sight of that neon lit bottle floating towards you with Eno’s music playing...it transfixed me as a kid.
I thought it was abjectly depressing. It's a lovely ident in fact.
I saw that someone at the BBC found the actual bottle used in the titles with the neon light in it. It's funny to see it out of context.
As a child I was captivated by these titles and that music. It made me think the adult world was scary and depressing. I was right
Me to lol
A good snapshot of history. Such a shame the bbc has turned to crud.
The actress was still beautiful, dying in 2014 in her 80's.
Yes
Yes she still had that beguiling character
I remember seeing this on the TV first time round,I must of been 18 stuck in my mind for some reason.30 year ago Gosh! Time flies! "Enjoy your self it's later than you think"
Hi ... Mine names Terry and I'm going to enjoy myself first
@@dukeofpreston3228 Hi, my names Jerry and I too am actually enjoying myself first too.
This is still to this day one of my favourite TV shows ever, Blackpool is so special to me. Thank you for sharing it.
I'm from Watford ( alot of people would class it as the North) I have a lot of time for Northerners down to earth and generally more friendlier than southerners and especially Bloody Cockneys ! I can say that coz I'm technically not a Londoner. Hertfordshire for ever!Lol! Come on you Hornets !!.
@@lucaschapman2188 used to visit blackpool twice a year from Oxhey. Moved to Midlands now, and still visit very often
This put me back on citalopram.
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I'm howling!
Those two girls are priceless. I loved the old lady who was a weaver. I felt some sadness for the actress. Great documentary
Excellent footage of wonderful memories of Blackpool, back in the day, 1989 Thank you. 👍😊
I remember girls dancing around the heir handbags, pre Internet, going out instead of staying in on the net, actual friends instead of virtual friends.
Lot's of changes.
And now everyone is tattooed up to their eyes. Fascinating programme, if not just to see Lisa Daniely. Sadly passed away in 2014.
They should have shown more of Lisa Daniely 🙄she was the 🌟
@@viralroot What good about it
@@viralroot Because they look awful , tattoo's 👎😒
OMG a young Rita Webb in 'Hindle Wakes' as Mrs Slaughter born 1904 and the film was 1952 so makes her 48 years of age, she died in 1981 aged 77, I shall never forget her brilliant performance as Auntie Ada in Steptoe and Son, the funeral episode where everyone knows that the only thing worth anything is the porcelain figurine on the mantelpiece
Yes, she was brilliant. 'Course I've got me bleedin' drawers on. They don't come off as often as some people's'. Fabulous stuff.
Love this so much, I loved this show as a child and this brought back so many memories, thank you
Blackpool is a symbol of a by gone era.
Sadly, it’s just as cheap to go abroad on a plane, with easy flying so doable these days...the seaside days of fish and chips...and sticks of rock...and arcades...is embedded in the past. It’s a curious fascination to know my father and his father, would go to places like Blackpool for there summer holiday. I still go to Blackpool with my son from time to time. £40-£50 a night for a decent/sometimes lovely room and a fried breakfast...and often a swimming pool thrown into the mix...you can’t get fairer than that!! The Norbreck is still only £29 a night!!👌. it’s an inexpensive trip away for the more poorer in our society...the hotels do some great deals and financially it is not too taxing.
The natives seem to be out dated somehow...as do the shops and the fashions...the two ladies in this film have similar haircuts to the ladies of today!!....in many ways it’s stuck in a time warp and it looks like it needs a lick of paint...but for a young child it’s still great...you have the beach...the sea...the fairground...the tower...the bright lights...and the leisure pool is genuinely modern, as far as major swimming pools go.
These old school, pier places like Southport, Scarborough, Brighton etc...are a special part of England’s heritage, history and culture...and to a degree they still have something to offer...but It’s sad to see these resorts so run down, paralysed by modern day economics and the changes in modern day travel....even the seagulls and the poor Donkeys look like they have had enough.
If the government were to seriously invest in our seaside towns, maybe it’s possible for a resurgence in the holiday experience. I seriously believe that the potential is still there...the space to grow and renew. The novelty of such an experience could easily entice foreigners to experience a little of the Old England...whilst at the same time creating a while new generation of seaside visitors...it needs a more re-vamped, modern day version...not just one that caters for hen nights and the holiday season...just a thought!!
Viva La Blackpool!!
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Stoker Films: You have the vision but unfortunately the UK Government and the scumbag politicians don’t!
Gov is too interested in supporting invading hordes & destroying British people.
@sarah jones What utter bollocks! If we didn't have Asian doctors working in the NHS it would collapse. What has a persons religion got to do with anything anyway? NOTHING
@@naelyneurkopfen9741are you a russian troll or just a lunatic?
I think the days of any UK resort being as big as Blackpool used to be are long, long gone. International travel is just too easy these days. The tragedy of Blackpool is that it is now a dumping ground. You say it's a good place for kids, but it has the highest number of convicted paedophiles living there of anywhere in the UK. I'd keep your kids very close to you next time you go there.
it's a marvelous site to me even today. I fell in love with Blackpool when I was five. I always wanted to live there. still do to this day.
Sad to see BLACKY rot away ...great place and fond times...
Those blonde girls seem to have come straight out of Rita, Sue and Bob too. Brilliant bit of nostalgia.
They are priceless. Wonder if they ended up with blonde boys in suits with nice cars in America
@@flamezodiac5736 'Keep your mouth from lies..'
#Proverbs 4:24
Brilliant . Jesus - that Estate Agent would now have the nosey neighbour with his garden hose on fb in a second ..😁👍
Bob would be in sooo much trouble in 2024 - once that nosey neighbour (next door to the house for sale used by Bob & his girlfriends )with his garden hose updated the local Facebook … 😃👍
@@newforestpixie5297looking back, Bob was basically a predatory paedophile. Preying on schoolgirls. Very striking how our perceptions of these things have changed since the 80s.
Thoroughly enjoyed this documentary. 😁 Thanks for posting.
I was born in 91 and this glimps into the past was wonderful
you can go back much further than this on here re Blackpool
I used to watch these types of documentaries on our ABC here in Australia. Quality productions and brilliantly made.
I can completely remember s-express thumping out at the pleasure beach around then and the triumph tr7 go kart type things that went round a track that had a rail in the middle that stopped you being able to drive the kart off the track
God I can see it now...went about 4 times a year. Remember the excitement in the back of mum and dad's car going there. That first glimps of the tower. Went back recently and well, it is what it is really, but stood on the sand and closed my eyes breathed deeply and that familiar smell took me back in an instant to the joy I felt. The first donkey ride...sand in the sandwiches lol. Like to go back for a day and just enjoy thd place with young eyes again.
I was born in Blackpool. Its hell for the people that live there. No work out of season. Full of alcoholics and drug addicts. I couldn't wait to grow up and get the hell out of there. I rarely go back, it's so depressing.
19 million visited Blackpool in 2021!! that's amazing, more than ever
That "psychic" is the sort of performer who comes on stage and says "The spirits are strong tonight - Is there anybody in the audience called "John" ? "
"Has anyone here lost someone close to them recently?". Well, isn't that why most of them visit a psychic? They're gullible, desperate and vulnerable.
"I feel there's a reason for you saying this. Has somebody disappointed you in some sort of way? Don't feel you have to answer now. You'll know when to talk about it, but I feel you must."
I saw one who asked the audience if anyone was on medication...Medication!
Those girls with white stilettos on, dancing round their handbags. Hilarious. For those who weren't around in those days, those girls would have been known as a "Sharon and Tracy".
The package holiday was the death knell for the British seaside holiday, It became almost as cheap to go abroad as it was to holiday at home. So at first it was the middle classes who stopped holidaying at home followed by the majority of the working class. It is now cheaper by far to holiday abroad than at home, A week in Cornwall costs twice as much as two weeks in Greece.
Because Greek workers are poorly paid compared to here. That's the real reason it's cheap. Also a minority of people think they can behave badly in foreign countries in a way they wouldn't do in their home country.
Not everyone wants to go on holiday abroad. Ive had a lot of fun over the last few decades with holidays in the UK. People mainly go abroad to get a tan and cheap booze. I cant stand airports and certainly wouldn’t want to be on the piss for two weeks getting sunburnt while you cant even sleep at night because of the noise from pubs and clubs. Nope, not for me.
@@oddities-whatnot You mix in strange circles. European holidays ,to me, mean exploring beautiful places, whether City, Town, Rural or Coastal. Meeting people from other Countries. Exploring Cultures, food, wines, history. Visiting beautiful Architecture. Dressing for Evening meals at different Restaurants. Knowing it will be sunny every day. Walks, Boating, exploring. We don't all live to get drunk and sunburnt. Speak for yourself, love ! You can have your grey UK holidays, with bland food and filthy Streets. Enjoy !! 🤮🤢🥴👍
I first visited Blackpool when I was five,it was truly magical,and it was like another planet compared to my home town of Birmingham..lol happy days indeed..
now it is full of alkies, scruffs and tattooed women with no morals.
cath bailey which can be said for a lot of our seaside resorts these days.a sad indictment of our times..
Houston's mccaine so is your mouth
John Lynch a holiday in Beirut would be more pleasurable than a long weekend in Birmingham 😂
I suspect you have had a few weekends on hurst st my friend..
The man getting the tattoo at 45:00 looks suspiciously like one of Steve Pemberton's characters in The League of Gentlemen
I used to study at Blackpool college in the 70s..and those days it were a very nice and friendly place ..pleasure beach,the promenades ,south central and north piers ,the tower,short distance to st.Annes on sea, Fleetwood, poulton le fylde etc
38.02 white stilettos dancing round their handbags - 80s girls were awesome
hahaaaaahaha
A certain melancholic cheesy seediness prevails in this depiction; which I somehow find rather alluring....
Sad to see Blackpool now, I want a time machine to visit in 1950s & 60s there's a channel on here that films daily as it is. Neverr been and won't as it is today
oh dear god the noise of the machines i would go nuts and deaf i thank god i was born after all this man
Back when the BBC was good at making interesting watchable programs.
I’m flicking through the channels on my television 📺 on a Saturday night. There is absolutely nothing on . All 💩 crap and I’m paying circa £13.50 a month for the privilege!
Ha I still want my pirate VHS copy of Jurassic Park exchanging please. I got it home and it was a blank tape. Those days of Blackpool are special. I visited a few years back, wet, windy and changed a lot. My fondness of the place won't die though, visiting with my grand parents and parents, simple memories. My kids hate the place been to spoilt rotten travelling abroad.
Take my kids to Blackpool every year to see the lights, its our little family tradition
Poor kids,how cruel.
The two women putting make up on, getting ready to go out. They talk totally different to women of the same age today. There is an innocence in their voices and the outlook they have on life. Social media influences have turned a lot of women today into fake self important attention seekers. If you filmed the same scene today the women would be playing up to the camera with exaggerated expressions and saying “hi guys whats up” etc, constantly checking their phone to see how popular they are. It’s all gone wrong.
They were lovely girls and I hope they had a great life.
Men have changed for the worse also!
This was first aired 35 years ago..... How Blackpool has fallen....sadly Its a decaying mess nowadays...
Brilliant watch, thanks.
A very interesting documentary, thank you. The working people on this video are the salt of the earth , a generation we will never see again. Having said that Blackpool would not be for me, just too many people and huge crowds. Quiet solitude of the countryside for me.
Simple I Phone free times where expectations stayed within the possible.
People lived in the moment. I miss the old days before mobile phones and the internet.
I'd love to know where those two blonde hotties are now and how refreshing their honesty as naieve as it was @ 35.00 talking about what blokes they go for - very specific were their requirements ! . Funny I was a young gun in 1989 and watching this it seems so bloody long ago ..not just in time but in attitudes and the way we were . Great upload though a real piece of social history .
@@flamezodiac5736 thanks for your insight ..very Troll like
When this was made in 1989 this was modern times! Now its 31 years later, time goes so quick.
So VERY, VERY, quick.
It goes quick cause you spend your time in your crap job
I was 16 back then and it feels like a hell of a long time ago to me. Most of the 90s all seem like a lifetime ago too, but the last 20 years have zipped by at a frightening rate!
@@TheRowlandstone73 I turned 15 in November of 89 and yeah time does go quick!
Those fellas at the George Formby sing-a-long look so happy haha.
Randal P McMurphy yes that was brilliant.Highlight of the documentary.
Pathetic 👎 you mean ,sad
@@ladytron9188 No it was not 👎🙄,Lisa Daniely was the 🌟 highlight
still going strong today. you should attend.
The George Formby part makes me so happy it's why the BBC is so great and diverse
Blackpool makes Bournemouth look like the Bahamas. For such a little country there is such a massive difference between north and south
Yes…the weather.
There's God knows how many uke players & still keeping it tight! Impressive.
That scene of them all sat in a row thrashing away at their instruments, gazing wide-eyed at the screen had me in stitches! 🤭
At the beginning of that scene, I thought I was going to be squirming in my seat watching it.. But actually, I thought it was quite impressive too!
Those blond mullets ! When looking like rod Stewart was the thing for most women 😲
That hairstyle was out of style in usa by 1989, it's funny /interesting to see these old shows and contrast the UK and USA.
@@whoareyoutoaccuseme Its still in style in parts of America lolol
@@mjh5437 Too true 🤣🤣🤣
Something melancholy about this a forgotten past not so long ago
The loss from things-as-they-were passing away. A kind of sweet sadness no?
I was born and brought u in Blackpool, but left for university in 1983 and never went back. Even then it was declining due to cheap package holidays abroad with guaranteed sunshine.
Strange the man’s comments at the beginning , he didn’t realise that working class people actually liked each other , and therefore liked to have fun together .
All those lasses wanted was a tall blonde bloke with a mullet in a suit driving a nice car! 😂
Yup, with their brown roots showing.
Gotta love that "psychic" at the start - "You've been to Blackpool before, haven't you?" Hardly a groundbreaking revelation...who hasn't ??
I loved Arena
Absolutely brilliant! I love Blackpool. Sadly it's not as good as it used to be.
So it's so good to watch this documentary. It brings back happy memories 😊😊😊😊😊
I remember the intro to this as a kid - I thought it was really depressing
Depressing ! Spending Christmas Day at me parents that was depressing!
Still do.
The front got done up about 10 year ago or more. I was there 3 years ago.
We went to the Zoo there which is good and the pleasure park. There is alway something to do there.
A crying shame what’s become of Blackpool nowadays - I still like going though.
South shore, the fun house at 9 yrs old, the underground pub next to it seeing lads dancing motown at 14, Fathers Moustache punk at 18, The Galleon with plastic fish and a geriatric band with lost limbs and heart attacks imminent, the Mitre pub, South shore football hooligans, the Dutton arms trashed by Man city. 70's & 80's memories of Blackpool resonnate with vibrancy.
great to watch, the good old days, before you know what?
The X factor?
@@lucaschapman2188😂😂😂
As much as I love Blackpool even to this day, if it takes that much money, how comes it always looks as though it needs money needing to be spent on it ?? Why do people think it looks so tacky ?
all the profits went down south , and was never reinvested in to the local economy
gingerladyaubern took my kids there a few years ago it was messy rubbish all over all down the front was take aways and crap it used to be good not no more no more kiss me quick hats
gingerladyaubern no reinvestment by the local council I would imagine.
Blackpool has been in massive decline for decades. It's an incredibly depressing place these days, used as a dumping ground for the sick, the poor and the dangerous because accommodation is so cheap. It has the highest concentration of convicted sex offenders in the UK as a result. There have been a couple of murders of young girls in recent decades.
I had the best times of my life in Blackpool growing up with my mum grandma and cousins I think sometimes I was looked down on at school when I mentioned about going there as someone in my class at junior school said that only scrubbers to go Blackpool I think they was having a dig at me personally as always I really miss those times and I won't get that time back with my mum and grandma I really miss them in 40 in a couple of weeks time and I feel so lost nothing is ever going to be the same again because of this virus
There is no virus....
Emma don't worry i felt the same but it's much better now x
@brianquinn6030 Oh look, Matthew Le Tissier turned up...
The psychic, Paula Paradema, died in 2013, and the actress she read the cards for, Lisa Daniely, died in 2014.
Wonder what became of the 2 young girls in the program??
Yes, I though that. They would be early fifties now I guess, probably got married and had kids. Most want that traditional life. I never did, I’m a bit lonely at the moment in my mid fifties but less responsibility means I have more freedom to do what I want in my life.
@@oddities-whatnot Would be great if they did a follow up on this program, and tried to find some of the people who were in it, some will be long gone i think but some will not
Oh I LOVED the George Formby appreciation guys doing A Little Bit of Blackpool Rock, brilliant!
45:06 Jimmy did my 1st tattoo! He was an arrogant sod but was bloody good at his craft!
I wonder what cards life dealt the two 80's gals Kay and Colette ? They were influenced by blond haired guys because of Bros the pop group at the time.
Not an ounce of sense between their heads just two naive girls enjoying life at the time.Great nostalgia.
Shiny faces - badly bleached hair - white stilettos thinking they were the biz dancing round their handbags - great stuff.
And not forgetting double denim
@@susandoig4192 Worst of all,Stonewashed denim lol
They were lovely girls I hope it worked out for them
Bless their youth and naivety. I’m delighted I got to wear my white stilettos in the day and feel fabulous. Too much criticism from women of other women today.
@@efitz3397 Nobody is being critical if you read my comment properly i was making observations and said GREAT STUFF !!!!
Those days were great and totally different to the trash we have now.Naivety and not being wordly was a breath of fresh air to see.Its no longer like that now.I have tried to find out what became of them - did their dreams happen ? how did life turn out for them both ? i cant find anything about them.
ahh the days when the UK could count on it's thriving tourism industry for economic activity and wealth creation for 7 months of the years..!
I went to Blackpool in 1989. It was so depressing. I noticed that early in the morning as the tide went out the sand looked filthy. I saw a tractor with a rake on the back cleaning it. There was a sign that said 'The Golden mile starts here' and I noticed the tractor only stuck to the 'Golden mile'. I lost my g/f and friends and I tried to borrow 10p off someone for a phone call. I got nothing but insults. Luckily I found my friends and we unanimously decided that after less than 24 hours spent there we had all had enough. We had more fun driving back through Moss-side.
We have enough scumbags begging for change and running that "I just need it for the phone" bollocks on our streets already. Nobody was ever gonna buy that!
And if you had given them anything but a kicking you would have been an idiot! Give 'em NOTHING!
@@XantroyX Haha, I get pissed off at beggars, and professional charity collectors. I had a guy approach me with bloodstains on the arm of his shirt. He said he had been in an accident and needed money to get to the hospital. I saw him the following week and he said exactly the same story, and again a couple of days later. The bloodstains were from injecting drugs.
@@rexterrocks i had a guy with a high viz outfit carrying a hard hat and an open holdall full of rusty spanners and nails approach me on the stairs of a train station asking for a tenner for a train ticket he was claiming he had lost his wallet , it was bollocks of course .i saw him again a couple of weeks later i said you're one unlucky man.
@@johnsmith-wx5fb Hahaha! I had a guy come up to me with a makeshift bandage on his hand claiming that he had just had an accident on a building site and didn't have his wallet with him. He asked if I could give him the money for the bus. It sounded bollocks and 3 days later he approached me again with the same story. I suggested maybe he should get a different job. It makes it hard for an honest beggar like I was :-)
@@rexterrocks ha ha the lengths they go to. As a general rule all i do is look for the drugs , its always there in the face somewhere. I hope ive never turned a genuine person down. However on occasions ive asked a guy for the time he wouldnt tell me and walked away all nervously he was in a suit he literally would not give me the time of day and another time i said excuse me to a group in a train station i needed directions and they just kept walking , i must look like a smack head meself😂
Wakes goes back centuries and was the week or weeks following the harvest (where land workers would celebrate the harvest). With the Industrial Revolution and the movement of land workers into the factories it was the way of things that many such traditions were carried on into the cities. Factory and mill workers would save a little bit of their earnings each week towards a week by the seaside. It got to the point where whole towns would effectively close for the week whilst its inhabitants boarded trains bound for sunshine city (or rain).
Blackpool was deliberately designed to be a get-away for working class people which is why many of the Victorian built buildings had the decor of the Music Hall theatres similar to those in London. Indeed, much of Blackpool was built on the earnings of the mill workers from many of the UK's industrial towns and cities.
Wakes week was also the time when factory or mill owner would take the opportunity to make any major repairs to his machinery, buildings etc. Anything that had to do with production.
The Memory Man was a local cabbie if I'M remembering the right guy...
44.56 Leage of gentlemen
He's certainly not local.
Lol...why are the d's not capital...not to worry at least the tattoist tret him right.
Creme caramel 😀😀
LoG 44:56 indeed has lots of references to documentaries hidden in it, so this must be another that I hadn't seen before.
That’s first thing I thought ?
luv blackpool best days ever
Those guys on the ukuleles are so good! 😂
Banjos aren`t they?
@@mjh5437No. Ukeleles
I was a ring doffer when I was sixteen, int' asbestos factory thanos. fond, memories my arse.
Celestial Teapot what is a ring doffer ?
I used to visit a mate in Blackpool between 1988-1990
He lived with his GFriend in central drive
One day I was coaxed into driving us to Hull across the moors.
@21-35....who else thought there would be a huge round of applause
when all the banjo boys stopped playing! 😆😆🤣🤣😂😂
Advance a few more years to Blackpool 2020 on a bank holiday weekend at dinner time and the promenade was deserted because of the Coronavirus where the police were instructed by the government to fine people they see flouting the lockdown rules while in the NHS doctors and nurses were dying as the government allowed flights into the country where passengers were left unquarantined. Millions lost their jobs, kids were finally kept away from schools and the prime minister ignored his own advice and ended up in hospital with the virus.
I used to go once a year for the day in the 70 s
Woooah! Bleach blonde hair and acid washed denim, bring back the days.
I had the snow washed jeans, ghastly really and the cheaper brands it was sort of yellowy instead of white.
@@oddities-whatnot😂🤣
I'm sure me and my cuz did those 2 on a stag weekend in Blacky back in'th'80's... great days, smashin' nights 🤠💃🏻🤠💃🏻
I was a child in the 80's in the UK, mostly London, and i don't know if it's just old age clouding my memory, or whether there's a north-south cultural divide, but i honestly don't remember the England portrayed in this documentary. It's undoubtedly very interesting, but it also feels very alien, and foreign to me somehow. There's a huge irony i just realised, since i am the son of migrants, and that i should find the people of England foreign in their own land. But there it is nonetheless. Perhaps it has something to do with Empire, and the legacy such a system brings to every nation that had one, it changed them forever.
macc lads song brought me here
Loved Blackpool trips with mates when single. Always birds from Carlisle or somewhere, absolutely gagging for it.
I pity who ever you're with then,once a dirtbag always a dirtbag.
@@imogenimeson664 awww thanks, one of the nicest things thats been put in print about me. But in reality Blackpool was like that in the 1970s 1980s.
Lord Red na the birds from Barrow were much dirtier
U need to meet the porno babes from Workington and Whitehaven, ultra dirrrrrty.
Blackpool, The UK, society, decency, BBC, etc, all infinitely better several decades ago 😢
Surely By 1989, the Wakes Week tradition had come to an end, but one of the interviewees gives the impression that they still ran over the summer.
In 1989 I worked in industry in Lytham St Annes and each year for two weeks (last week in July- first week in August) the factory shut.
This was by tradition in line with Wakes week practices. Of course, it was Thatcher and the introduction of 'continental shift' hours and changes to the Sunday working hours that was the final nail in the coffin for Wakes...
I started work in 1990 and wakes was still an expression alot of the older lads at work still used then , alot of them still booked there holidays at that time too. Maybe just out of habit ?
Went there in 1978 aged 5 with my parents and then in 1991 for a packet of cigs and straight home again... I drove from Scotland.
cigs only....or for a holiday as well?
Brilliant!!
'I'm unemployed at the moment', admits Collete, (08:52) which explains why she holidays at Blackpool.
Marvelous I loved this video ,
Oh thanks for sharing this video it brought back such wonderful memories of Ringside seat at Blackpool Tower Circus… The Golden mile with the freak shows… Eating lots of candy floss… And spending a lot of time on the Central Pier… Those were the days when Blackpool with great in 1950s
Circuses are cruel to the animals 😡why would you want to watch animals doing STUPID TRICKS!👎👎
first time I've heard anyone say they actively seek someone with a mullet with no sense of irony at all
Great doc!
PLEASE GIVE US THE NAME OF THE FISH ´N CHIP SHOP FEATURE SO THAT I KNOW NEVER TO GO THERE, THE PORTION SIZES ARE MISERABLE
Well, unless you have a time machine YOU CAN'T GO THERE!
Haha, not really, that psychic Paula Paradema is still plying her trade and there are still plenty of "cheap looking" girls knocking around, (like them 2 gormless blondes - owt for nowt).
@@goldcup11 she died in 2013
@@RudieRickenbacker I'm really sad to hear that.. Paula Paradema used to live next door to me for a while, she was a proper character and everyone on the street liked her..
@Jetsonic Thank god 30 years have passed since then eh? Trying to judge the town on 30 year old footage just makes you look a bit special
Dont need bbc documentaries anymore , RUclips killed it all
Damn those girls need some setting or mattifying powder they were shining like they just dipped their face into some crisp and dry haha
Winifred @ 4.25 looks like she flattened some grass when she was younger
Inspiration for the Royle Family
Paul Theroux, wow, sounds and looks like a retro version of his son's Louis and Marcel!
Funny that
Yes . He came in handy, when it came to his sons careers.