In the early 1980's i remember the only shops open were the newsagents & that was only till midday. The roads were fairly empty & it was a day of peace & quiet.
I think some of the independent stores were open on a Sunday too. But obviously not the big chains like Sainsbury's or Tesco who weren't allowed to open. That all changed in the mid 1990s when they could open on a Sunday but with somewhat restricted trading hours though. 🙂🙂
I KNEW I COULD RELY ON YOU. WHAT ABOUT THE POOR WELSH . NO DRINKING FOR YEARS AFTER WE SAW COMMON SENSE , AND TOLD THE CHURCH WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR HYPOCRISY AND FANTASY. BUT, WHEN WE GOT OUR FREEDOM BACK, THE WELSH FLOODED OVER THE BORDER INTO ENGLAND ON A SUNDAY, TO QUENCH THEIR MINER'S THIRST, MOST DESERVING.
I was in an Irish pub in a tiny village. It turned eleven o'clock so time to close. The owner shoved us all out through the front door, including the local constable. We went to the side of the pub where the owner opened a side-door. We all walked in and continued the nice evening.
@@Liofa73 When it comes to Mondays I am! Of course if we didn't work Mondays, then Tuesday would be like our Monday. I only have one solution - lottery win!
We should go further still and reduce work hours to a maximum of 30 hours a week, people should be paid more for their work and have more quality time to share with their loved ones.
RELIGION SURELY ? THATS WHAT THAT WAS ALL ABOUT, EVEN THEN, FOR MANY, AFTER BEING INVOLVED IN WW2, GAVE UP ON RELIGION, AND IS STILL IN DECLINE. THE CHURCH WAS WORRIED ABOUT IT, SO THAT'S WHY THEY BACKED THAT DRACONIAN ATTITUDE. THAT IDIOT COMPLAINER, WOULD HAVE BEEN A WITCH--FINDER 300 YEARS BEFORE.
I'm nearly 50 and caught the tail end of it. Was a glorious time to be a child, hardly anyone worked Sunday and everyone sat down for dinner together as a family. Priceless memories.
I was a child in 1957 and I loved Sundays. My father and older siblings worked on Saturdays, so it was the one day when everyone was home. I especially loved the wintertime when we were all gathered around the open fire. Sunday lunch was followed by board games in the afternoon, then sandwiches and cake for tea. Then bath time and an early night ready for school and work on Monday. I would love to see Sunday made special again.
Would you have imagined back then that the world would be like this now. If you had asked me then I would imagine we would be holidaying on the Moon by now!
@@MrDaiseymay nailed it in one. These people with their happy IT free childhoods are now happy to sit at home watch and comment at length on RUclips videos. We all want to stay young but time flies. PS though oldish I am not deaf so no need to shout! 😀
During COVID I was walking around East London and it felt so peaceful. It took me back to the 70s when Sunday was a day for church and family. It made me realise how much we have lost just for the sake of consumerism. The atmosphere was so different. It was wonderful to feel that feeling to remind how things were so much better then. Life was so much simpler and people were happier.
@@cherylschantz9893 the same with the police & emergency services, firemen etc. but they know the hours they will be working when they take up that line of work ...
@@anneroy4560 - Funeral Parlors as well. My father would just sit down for Christmas Dinner and the business phone would ring. Back then, you had to tend to the dead immediately, get them out of the hospital, house, road.
On the flipside that excludes those many people who do not have families or do not have family they wish to spend time with. Allowing some communal places and spaces to open any day is more inclusive.
Couldn't agree more! I'm not religious either, but l loved Sundays as a child in the 60's. Would love to see them back, but l guess that will never happen in our "progressive society." 😢
@@carolinehops Is this comment meant for me, or was it meant for the comment where someone said Christmas is just another day?? I didn't mention Christmas at all. 😶
@@jimthompson939 Maybe there could be some kind of compromise with shops and services that are community oriented or family run being allowed to open. No large chains. I don't have a problem with markets, small boutique shops and some nice cafes for example. Make it feel special again with a nod to modern times.
I loved sundays,mum lighting the fire an getting the roast dinner ready for lunch, always quiet an peaceful,walking to my grandparents to get my pocket money,felt safe an loved,now shopping centres have become the new church,we have given away so much,
I agree partially with what you said here, but we now have to make a conscious choice not to go to these shopping centres on Sunday. We live next to Cheshire Oaks and I deliberately avoid it on a weekend because there are thousands of people there and it’s depressing.
Born in November 1963, Sunday's were so quiet and peaceful when I was a youngster, hardly a car 🚗 went by, you could sit outdoors and listen to the Birds singing, 😊
Oh lol, I was born in November 1963!! Bloody 61 soon. I was born in Wirral , seventh child of eight, so no days were exactly peaceful, but my mum (who was widowed when I was a toddler) had a day off (if being a single parent of eight ever meant a day off??) and that was very precious
@@toni4729 yes, central London may have been busier but in a typical street in a housing estate it was quiter, the concentration of traffic was more the city centres and larger, busier roads etc . The 60's and 70's had a lot less vehicles / traffic , much lower population, more woodland, fields etc until the modern day obsession with mass House building everywhere, and millions of cars on the roads. Im in the North West...
@@clareshaughnessy2745 yes me too, 61 in a few weeks, 21 November...im just across the Water in Liverpool. My mum had 10 children and her first child sadly died 😔..I guess larger families were popular back then...question is ... Where has the time gone 😕
My memories of Sunday in the 50's as a child, Sunday school (not religious family) roast dinner with pudding, listening to Billy Cotton, Beyond our Ken, Jimmy Clitheroe, Sing something simple with the King singers. Card games with the family, no television but we had Mini cine (hand cranked movie films). Tea in the living room and not the kitchen as we did for the remainder of the week. Not being allowed to play out. Watching the Catholics stream up our road towards their church, mostly Polish who were evacuated in the war. If weather was good a walk (the whole family) to a local park.
I was born in 56. Sunday was church and Sunday School in the morning,home for a roast Sunday lunch, then a quiet afternoon. I was never allowed to visit friends on Sunday. The day concluded with a sandwich tea in the front room, and something on the TV. I miss there not being a day that is different - it punctuated the week. Now everything is the same -which I feel is a shame.
I was also born in 1956. But I have lived in four countries. When I first came here in 1970, Britain was already a bit backwards then (despite some attempts to update and improve the country along the way) it's now fallen even further behind the rest of Europe because of BREXIT. As my father, a Dane, often said "Wake up England"
@@plunder1956 never miss an opportunity for a sneer,eh? The country if anything has had plenty of periods of being a leader in Europe when it comes to change from fashion to music but undoubtedly we are better when we work closely with our friends in Europe. Britain joined the EU in 73 and Brexit has been a disaster.
I was a young lad in 1957 and I remember when the streets were deserted. My parents sometimes went window shopping when the stores were all closed. Sunday was the day of rest with the family. Happy days
Everywhere was like a ghost town on a Sunday in the 1960s and 70s even in London. Absolutely deserted of traffic and people and everywhere closed. Things started to change slightly in the 1980s but change didn't fully come until 1994.
When i visited my grandmother in Walworth , south London , i could clearly hear the Chimes of Big Ben , at a distance of about 3 miles . This was in the ' 50s .
Aah. My Friend lived on Amelia St, in the 80's.The Mansion Blocks. I lived opp St. Thomas's Hospital. We could hear Big Ben chiming sometimes if the wind was in a certain direction, and the Window was open. I used to go to Marks and Spencer's on the Walworth Rd, and the A1 Record Shop.
Yes, and sadly most of them were wiped and no longer exist, tragic really that just a handful of episodes still exist, out of 432 episodes that were made 399 no longer exist as they were totally wiped.
It’s chaotic and stressful now. Sundays are just like Saturdays and there’s no break in the week, sad really. I’m happy to at least have lived in a time when Sundays were “boring”.
Sundays used to be relaxed, time doing things as a family or time peacefully on your own or with friends. Sunday dinner, maybe a walk or bike ride, reading or drawing, playing games, perhaps doing some domestic jobs that needed doing and everyone is home to help, gardening etc. Having Sunday like any other day has broken that. In some ways its very convenient but it also means that there is not really any time that is peaceful and carved out for family and friends and for our brains and bodies to really have a break. I lived in Hong Kong, which really is a 24hr place, every day. I then moved to Germany, where Sunday was still preserved, everything closed, and you can't even mow rhe lawn. Huge culture shock that I couldnt even find the equivalent of a 'corner shop' that was open for milk and nappies! 😮😮😮😮
Hi 👋 , I was born in 1968 and can remember Sunday’s was fairly quiet due to very few shops actually open but the roads were very quiet . Ahh,it was lovely ☺️ !! Greetings from Portsmouth England
I'm in Spain and Sundays are still quiet with most shops closed. It's wonderful as families spend time together outside, having lunch or on the beach instead of shopping.
That's if the beach is not full of brits destroying the place. For some reason the same thing happens in the UK as well whenever a slight bit of sun comes out
@SubtraxionStudio nothing like Blackpool . It's hugely Spanish with a very small "English " area which provides money into the local economy . Obviously your worldly view is not a vast as your ego .
Sunday morning church bells, relaxed breakfast, do your chores, Sunday roast, flake out in the garden, ice cream van, Sunday bath, cold meat tea & cake, bit of tv, last minute homework then bed. Miss those Sundays.
It used to be a day when families ate together, everyone had a lie in, after working hard all week you got the opportunity to relax. And of course single people especially went OUT Friday and Saturday nights and needed a day to recover 😂 As a child in a small village I went to church 3 times on a Sunday! 😇
I desperately miss Sundays as they used to be - even in the 1980s. Very quiet all day with the exception of the pealing of church bells - lunch at nans - the 10 minute lunchtime news, followed by a few cartoons, then the EastEnders omnibus. Then back home - no traffic on the roads - and an early night for school in the morning.
ABSOLUTELY! It was a time for faith and family. It was meant to be a day for church, chats with our families, tranquil walks down the lane....It was lovely. We need to revive The Lord's Day just as it was. Sure miss the "Old World" values when God was more important than selfishness and greed.
In Bavaria most shops etc are closed. Sunday is called a quiet day. In apartments you can't even use a vacuum cleaner between certain hours. My gson loves it. Sunday is an unbroken day to spend exclusively with his wife and children.
@@brianbadonde8700 Not for me. My German wife wished it was like in England, with more freedoms and options. As atheists, we didn't appreciate being dictated to largely based on old religious ideals. She ended up moving to England.
@@lyndoncmp5751, I brit, live in germany and have never heard anyone moan about the Sunday. Families can do lots of things together. People have a lie-in which is needed as the germans work long hours. Children go to school at 7am in our village during the week.
I was born in 1950, a typical Sunday was church in the morning and the family Sunday lunch after Father arrived home at 12.30 on the dot from his lunch time drink at the Rose & Crown. The afternoon for me was usually playing football in the street or getting into mischief! Must return home by 4 pm for the Sunday ceremony of afternoon tea. The above you might think to be very middle class, no, we were a typical Northern working class family, and my Father was not a tool maker!
Thank you for sharing. Here in the U.S., it was common for most businesses to be closed on Sunday up until the 1980s. A Sunday mid day meal with family was also common.
Born 1951. You just described my Sundays back then. Thank you for reminding me. You missed the comics, Dandy and Beano, and the "blackjacks", 2 for a farthing IIRC, the afternoon film and Sunday Night at the London Palladium with Brucie. In my mind it was always raining, but you still had to go out and play so that mom and dad could have their afternoon "nap."
A real touch of nostalgia. The ticking clock, rustling newspapers, shifting of coals in the grate during winter, and finally tea and Mr Kipling chocolate cup cakes. Those were the days.
I made a choice four years ago that Sunday was my day of rest so barely use my phone, I never leave home aside from walks and occasional family meet ups. It's been like changing and I'd highly recommend it
@@TestGearJunkie. I've been retired for nearly half a century (medical reasons) and still wonder how it was that I ever found the time to indulge in paid employment.
I remember Sundays in the late 1950s and 60s when I was a kid. It was so quiet on the roads you could happily walk in the main road and rarely see a car, just the odd bus. Now look at Sundays, busier than a week day.
I was born in 1951 and well remember the long dark tea-time of the soul that was Sunday afternoon. For me, as a youngster, it was gruesome. Today? (a Sunday in September 2024), it's just like any other day of the week. In fact, the Supermarkets are busier because its, often, the only day many people are able to do the weekly shop.
I can remember the day when we found Radio Luxembourg and in the 60s when the Pirate Radio Stations started up , it was wonderful. Sundays were always so boring.
Also the long boring wet Saturday afternoons having to watch tv in black and white, all the sports programmes after father got back from the pub. The highlight was the telecaster football pools results🥴. Never mind, we had the Val Donnigan show to look forward to later😏
@jimmeltonbradley1497 was born in 41 . Remember playing on Bomb sites in Bermondsey.Remember Dick Barton special agent. Journey into space ,Hopalong cassidy .RadioLuxembourg where as a young 15 or 16 year old I heard Elvis come across the Airways late at night on my little transistor radio.
When shops opened on a Sunday, they promised a work life balancr and extra pay. And how long did that last? This country is driven by greed The population are seen as sheep by the politicians and business. Its cash before people If I had my time again, I would emigrate. Ant p uk teacher retired
@@oilyrag525 Sadly, most people cant think for themselves....they are sheeple....just the way the government want them, with the wool pulled down over their eyes. Baaa...spend your hard earned money 7 days a week....baaa....pay your extortionate taxes....baaa.....inflation cant be helped....baaa....accept the status quo....baaa....tolerate corruption..... baaa....immigration is good.....baaa....dont complain.
The very reason I refused to sign a petition to allow large shops to open on a Sunday. I said at the time, premium rates for the staff would soon stop and Sunday working would become a compulsory part of their normal working week.
@@secondchance6603 Neither of these comments are true. Christmas day is NOT just another day in fact the Christmas season starts too early now. How has that got 50 likes? I'm afraid one harsh truth also needs to be faced up to. Most white British may identify passively as Christian but they do not practise their faith. The Church of England is so moribund that the majority of regular church going Christians in the UK are actually Roman Catholics. Muslims for all their faults are mostly practising too. If you want want the UK to be more Christian it's in our hands. No point blaming others.
Sundays in Ireland revolved around going to mass and having a lovely Sunday dinner that was all prepared on a Saturday night. We were lucky to have a car and sometimes went for a drive or dropped in to visit friends. Yes literally ‘drop in’ unannounced! I think a lot of people today would have the horrors at that thought! 😅 I do think we miss out on routines that included rest times.
Where? Where do you live that you generalise like this? I live in a big Town, just went out for a walk - very quiet. Also, when the weather is nice, I'd far rather see many people out enjoying the sunshine, than nobody around at all.
So many cars now not only moving but parked and for me that ruins the look and feel of housing estates a feeling of constantly on the go and making noise. I enjoy looking at olde paintings of streets from a hundred years ago where there were no or few cars on display.
THE FACT IS, IT'S A TOTALLY DIFFERENT WORLD NOW.PEOPLE NOT ONLY HAVE MORE SPARE MONEY AND TIME TO SPEND IT, THEY HAVE CARS, AND MAYBE A CARAVAN, AND IF THE WEATHER IS GOOD, THEY WILL GET AWAY FOR A WEEKEND., AND POPULAR PLACES WILL BE THANKFUL FOR THE TRADE. WITH ALL THE NEIGHBOURS GONE AWAY, YOU CAN REAX IN YOUR GARDEN. EXCEPT, THE BLOKE NEXT-DOOR WITH A PETROL ENGINED GRASS MOWER. DECIDES, '' TODAY IS THE DAY.''
I can remember taking my baby for a walk around an Inner City shopping centre one Sunday morning (it was spotles ly clean) AND A SUPERMARKET WAS OPEN. I was horrified and couldn't understand why people would want to shop on a Sunday. Were they so stupid that they had to shop 7 days a week, what was the matter with them. Crazy people I thought. How things have changed, for the worse I believe.
@@dianapeek6936 Many people had to work 5 or even 6 days a week so their time to shop was limited. When I was growing up, most shops were closed on Sundays. I certainly prefer the option to shop on Sundays if I need or want to.
@@Elbowendj Indeed. The normal working week for most was a 44 hour, five & a half day week leaving only Saturday afternoon for shopping or the pursuit of anything banned on Sundays.
1970s/ early 80s in our house when I was a child: We’d wake up to Dad playing his favourite music on the record player as loud as can be (usually ABBA, the Beatles or Queen). Once we’d all woke up, had breakfast cereal and had a boogie and a laugh together we’d go out to play in the morning with our siblings and neighbours, whatever the weather. Mum would spend the morning preparing Sunday Dinner, Dad always prepared and cut the meat. We’d be called in around 1pm for a feast followed by something like apple crumble and icecream. Mum and Dad then slumped on the sofa in the living room (they usually went to an afternoon kip), we went back outside to play. Then we’d be called in after a while to help with clearing up the dinner. We might have a board game together with the family then in the afternoon. Sunday evenings was making sure all homework was completed, shoes cleaned and uniforms and school bags ready for the week.
Opened up all these shops and businesses on a Sunday, but still no doctors open. Fod forbid you fall ill at the weekend and need to be seen, have to wait until Monday.
Maybe we should start " community day " Sundays ,once a month , for all the good things we used to do on Sundays . Family get togethers , community projects , cultural celebrations, performances ,outings etc . Could be fun and something to look forward to ! 🤔
Because that would turn into all the different “minority” peoples making it all about how their pet projects are the most high. I’m sick of being politically preached at and that’s what “community projects” turn into now. We don’t clean up parks and have picnics, we protest and denigrate certain races or ideologies as oppressors. No thank you. Family time would be great.
I remember a recommended London walk by Christopher Somerville in the Daily Telegraph in the very early 1990s. It took in much of the South Bank around The Clink, the remains of Winchester Palace, Southwark Cathedral and other attractions. There was no Tate Modern, Millennium Bridge or Globe Theatre. Borough Market had yet to be redeveloped. I did the walk on a cold Sunday. There was hardly anyone around. You got a real sense of the ghosts of the past, especially Victorian London. Nowadays, you can barely walk or think in the same area on any day of the week for all the noise of the people around you.
As a 1953 London boy Sundays were quiet, no shops etc and in many ways it was a day of forced rest regardless of spiritual beliefs which at best were never held in high regard. 40 years ago I did a diploma in electronic, I struggled with the ,maths as some of it such as calculus I never did at school. I went to see a counsellor as this was driving me mental. She said something very interesting to me,she said regardless of what I needed to do, one day a week you should down tools and rest. Now this day didn't have to be a Sunday but it is true that we need to wind down. Here we are 2024, people are impatient, they stress out if they can't go to the shops on Christmas day, they panic buy because they will starve to death. I believe now we were all better mentally when we had that day of rest,there was also I think a strong community feeling in the air on Sundays. Even the pleasure of a stroll up the high road windows shopping was relaxing. Well we now got the Anerican dream, 24 7 shopping fast food and and a sense of urgency and impatience.
As an adult you learn the value and importance of what your ignorant child’s mind couldn’t comprehend. This mindset is what wholesale threw out cherished traditional values. This is why we now live in the world we are in.
@@Pianoguy32 Perhaps if we lived in a more God-centric age, you might. The fact that you just mentioned His name means that you took the time to do so. God gave you a free will. You can seek Him out or ignore Him -- believe or reject Him -- that is your choice. We are chained to a world of suffering and sin. God liberates the heart, mind, and soul once you open the door and let Him in.
When i was little in the 1970's Sunday was like a ghost town. Most people stayed in. My brother used to do bicycle races which were possible then as there wouldn't be any traffic on the roads.
@NigelHyphenJones I live in Hull, and nearby on the coast at a small town called Withernsea, there was a market every Sunday. It was apparently set up in 1972 and was able to get round Sunday opening rules.
Sunday was a day for trainspotting. We would go down to Stockport Edgeley shed 9B, and most of the steam locomotives would be sat in the shed, or yard, instead of working as they did in the week. Happy days ❤
We used sit around at home with The Bible and talk about God as well in those days. That was the 19, not 1860's by the way. I still those lazy family Sundays.
I loved my Sundays it’s when I went to the stables, paid my 4/0 shillings for an hours horse riding, then hung around the stables until dusk grooming horses sitting on the hay bails chatting to friends lovely Sundays
I can well remember in the 1960’s my dad as a train driver being one of the few men working on a Sunday and the looks be got from the neighbours as he left for or returned from work on his motorbike. The closest thing that I have seen to Sunday closing was the Covid lockdown the only difference was there was still delivery vans and many cars parked at the side of the road.
How lovely to have a day of rest. I remember Sundays being so lovely when I was small in the 70s. Always saw family and got together for meals. Now everyone goes shopping or is in work.
Don't even attempt to generalise what people are doing, just because it's what you or YOUR family do. There's still very many people who rest on a Sunday. Besides, do you really think nobody went to work on a Sunday in the 1950's? Much of the working class still did!
@@ENGLISHMURPHYWhen each household had a person who was home during the weekdays to take care of things, it made more sense. Your weekends were for liesure or hobbies or home repair instead of being a mad rush to do a whole second job worth of stuff in 2 days.
We arrived in NZ on a Sunday in 1956 from Belfast; what a bloody shock! Nothing, nothing was open, the place looked like a ghost town. My father said, "what have I done?"
For those who work the 9 to 5 weekday routine it is definitely a plus to not have to rush around on a Saturday trying to get all your weekly shopping done. BUT at the same time I do miss quiet Sundays. Especially in our 24/7 never ending consumer crazed culture. The peace that descended during the initial Covid lockdown was eye-opening. The lack of traffic and the amazing quiet made my body feel more relaxed than it had been in years. And despite the stress and uncertainty of Covid I actually slept better than I had in years.
I've been in my full time career for 14 years. Never once had a problem with just doing my food shopping on a quiet weekday evening, or on my way home from work at 6pm or so. I still don't understand the mad weekend scramble because even if your home life doesn't accommodate mid-week evening shopping too well (maybe you work shifts, or you've got young kids who are in bed very early) you can still get a delivery. Go at the weekends to find you can barely get parked and there's nothing left on the shelves. Weekends are for chilling or at least throttling life back, unfortunately we're expected to use them to catch up on domestic admin we didn't have time for during the week. Who the hell wants to get up at 7am on a Saturday to scrub the toilet and hoover the lounge?
@@halfbakedproductions7887 the comment refers to how shops were closed on Sundays - at this time they were also closed in the evenings (except for some late night Thursdays or corner shops) so Saturday would be the only time for many people to do the shopping be it grocery, clothes etc. 'Deliveries' would be daily from the milkman for most essentials.
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@halfbakedproductions7887 Well, that's what we used to do!! I can rember when ALL, shops shut at 5.30pm during the week, plus Saturday!! Also, mothers stayed at home to bring up children and didn't dump them in Day Care from 6 months on!!
I was a newspaper boy and milkboy doing deliveries in a rather well heeled part of town. I always remember how quiet Sundays were with hardly any traffic and in the morning no one out except walking their dogs. It was the day of the "long lie in" and the "Sunday roast" and looking back a great day to un stress before the grind started on Monday. I can't help feel we actually lost something.
Miss those quiet Sundays, empty streets, walking with a young lady window shopping, talking about all the things we could perhaps one day afford to buy! Picnics in a park or on a country walk, perfectly safe and hardly anyone else about! Double time at work if you were one of the folk who kept the wheels turning, often I chose to work a Sunday, extra money and a day off in the week as compensation...almost impossible to believe now! A lost civilization sadly!
Hospital doctors of the time were not so lucky. The one-in-two rota that was quite common had you working alternate nights and alternate weekends for which you were paid at one fifth normal rate. No compensating days off.
It changed in Britain in 1983 with Petrol Stations but only until the afternoon. It was classed as a necessary relief to stop roads being clogged up so the fuel outlets started selling all that you would find at a corner shop.
One thing that dawned on me yesterday and its crazy. With all the advances, technology and supposed liberation and freedoms in society. Society functioned better and people were happier with very little technology! Its unreal.
Idk they grew up starving wearing potato sacks in the depression, entered adulthood in WW2, Polio (imagine COVID but instead of flu like symptoms you're deformed and paralysed for life maybe in an iron lung) then the cold war. This was the heyday of lunatic asylums, lobotomies, electroshock etc. What makes you think society functioned better or that people were happier?
Sundays were always seen as a day of rest irrespective of religious practice. Working people needed a day of rest. Shops were closed and pubs open for limited hours As a result life was quieter - people had the time and space to rest and relax- no rushing to the stores etc = less stress and aquisitiveness There was a great deal to be said for those days
I enjoyed this video so much. As an American I remember when all stores and shops were closed on Sunday. I didn’t mind at all. Nowadays everything is open.
The Republic of Ireland had a more relaxed nature to Sunday trading, especially areas close to the border with Northern Ireland. One prime example was the seaside town of Buncrana, County Donegal close to Derry City. Northern Ireland had the most strict Sunday trading rules, even pubs shut. Buncrana had everything open, and people from Derry flocked in their thousands to Buncrana on a Sunday usually on the bus to enjoy themselves.
It took until 1989 for Northern Ireland to have Sunday opening for pubs. And even today the Dutch border towns are full of German-plate cars on a Sunday because Germans are looking for something to do.
@@halfbakedproductions7887 How strange. 1989. That is far too restrictive. The English licensing laws for pubs back then had a lunchtime opening and then reopen in the evening. Usually 8 hours of drinking per day. So it may not have been a free for all, but at least they were open.
@@Bella-fz9fy Who would have thought that the Roman Catholic dominated Republic of Ireland would be more liberal in Sunday trading? The church back then felt, as long as people went to Mass in the morning, shops could open from 1pm and it wouldn't affect their masses.
Oh black and white Britain you look so homely and friendly. Sunday papers and church, maybe a Sunday stroll instead of 'black face' then back for roast dinner was the 'norm'.
I was born in the early 1960s and Sundays indeed were a day when all the family were together. A home cooked roast, kids playing safely outdoors, no shops open at all. Sunday tea time baths and then TV finished after the London Palladium around 10pm. Sunday TV was limited and actually went off for a couple of hours late afternoon, but we were never bored, always games to play and fun to be had. Happy days they were, carefree and wholesome. 😊
Ah yes, when women knew their place, thought kittens lovely and the word Gel meant something pretty to decorate one's arm, not apply liberally to one's hair.
Yes women cleaned the house. Someone cooked the dinner. Any washing was strung up in the kitchen on a rack after cooked food cleared away. If you wanted cake you had to make one. That took time! As a child I liked it. Reading or the radio. Depending on the weather might go to a park. You didn't feel pressured to be doing stuff once chores were done. The day also seemed longer but there was more family interaction.
Fascinating - I love how the Lord’s Day Observance Society has offices on Fleet Street, and their position is so uncompromisingly strict! The secretary’s interview is amazing.
@@Hans-gb4mv But failed to succeed, one thing I would change about modern Sundays is allowing supermarkets including petrol station shops to be open, small independent yes but not national chains. One doesn't need to go shopping on a Sunday with online and deliveries nowadays.
@@HarryInEdi imagine all those Fleet Street journalists drinking like there’s no tomorrow. Surely the observance society was imbued with a sense of humour.
@@rossspenser8314 i was the one ringing those bells lol. I wasn't anywhere near good but as a 14 year old I was allowed just to do one bell tug to say Sunday school was starting 😁
People were so very proper in 1957..year I was born.Try growing up in North Wales where I did. Life is in colour now. All my early memories were black and white for sure.
1:12 Trafalgar Square and the Forth/Empty Plinth in the background. It's interesting to see there was once vegetation within the square. I guess it was removed to make the square bigger or maybe for security reasons.
Television on a Sunday in 1957 was also very restricted. Until 1958, the 6.00pm to 7.30pm slot had to be closed down, to allow people to go to Sunday evening services. That was amended in 1958 to allow "only religious programming" to air in that 90 minute slot. Also "no entertainment especially those appealing to children" to air before 3pm. Adult educational programming would soon fill a lot of Sunday TV too.
Up until around 1972 or so, TV was only allowed to be on air for around 7 and a half hours per day and there was no commercial radio. The BBC didn't have any breakfast programming until the early 1980s and only did a 24 hour broadcast for the very first time during the 1984 Olympics.
@@halfbakedproductions7887 It is strange how restrictive the British government was over television and radio back then. Feels very paternalistic. Something which strangles TV. 7.5 hours of television a day! In the US in 1972, the three main networks NBC, CBS and ABC were all on air by at least 6.30am and carried on non-stop until around 1am/2am. It was money for them. You don't have gaps or close downs during the day as British television had.
That wonderful Hancock's Half Hour radio show from the late 50s is on RUclips somewhere and captures Sunday Afternoon At Home brilliantly. Those of us who remember the period can testify to its accuracy!
im a 90’s child and i distinctly remember on boxing day it being sooo silent and streets deserted, it felt like a mystery to me as a child, but now its always busy and congested…
Worth noting the massive increase in stress, anxiety and depression since Sunday became an ordinary work day; likewise family break down. people constantly twining about being tired and busy and stressed...bring back a day of rest!
I'm in Austria. Almost all shops are closed - but if you really need something there are some shops open, for example at railway stations. Our local bakery is allowed to open because it is also home to a café. Small convenience stores at petrol stations may be open. You can't do anything noisy outside, for example lawn-mowing. The result is that Sunday is quiet, and I find that pretty pleasant, and I'm used to it.
Sundays for us living in Clerkenwell EC1 were surreal. Only because Monday till Friday it was full of millions of workers. Come the weekend, it was almost completely empty. We loved it! The smell of roast dinners, coming from different houses. My favourite was roast chicken with sage & onion stuffing. Billy Cotton 'Wakey Wake' on the radio. Everyone bought 'The News of the World' for gossip & scandal. Taking a go cart to the top of City Road, then whizzing down it. During the week, it was one of the busiest roads in the UK. But Sunday hardly any cars at all. Halcyon days...❤
Immigration started in the 1950s to grow the economy again after the war and really went crazy from 1997 onwards. It's what happens when there are people who only care for wealth and power.
A very distant memory since my move from UK (Plymouth) in 1977 to New Zealand, but I have fond memories of waking up in my Grannies/Grandads house in Exeter on Sundays probably in the early 60's to the sound of church bells, queuing for an ice cream in the afternoon from a van and simply enjoying what I would now call total serenity including waiting for my Grandad to come out of the pub after a few pints of cider (some of which I enjoyed in later years)....but that was then and this is now...things are what they are folks....let's hope our modern children can enjoy such serenity from time to time.....
Better Life, better country!! Sunday's, only Churches, News agents (closed by lunchtime) and Pubs were open twice a day. Sunday Lunch with family. Eve Tea simple Happy Safe days😢
In the early 1980's i remember the only shops open were the newsagents & that was only till midday. The roads were fairly empty & it was a day of peace & quiet.
I think some of the independent stores were open on a Sunday too. But obviously not the big chains like Sainsbury's or Tesco who weren't allowed to open. That all changed in the mid 1990s when they could open on a Sunday but with somewhat restricted trading hours though. 🙂🙂
We should go back to that
@@t8br00k36 Nobody forces you to go shopping.
It was boring.
@@davidross2379 you obviously had nothing better to do.
As a mark of respect in Ireland the pubs front door was always closed on a Sunday - the only thing was, the back door was wide open 😂
I KNEW I COULD RELY ON YOU. WHAT ABOUT THE POOR WELSH . NO DRINKING FOR YEARS AFTER WE SAW COMMON SENSE , AND TOLD THE CHURCH WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR HYPOCRISY AND FANTASY. BUT, WHEN WE GOT OUR FREEDOM BACK, THE WELSH FLOODED OVER THE BORDER INTO ENGLAND ON A SUNDAY, TO QUENCH THEIR MINER'S THIRST, MOST DESERVING.
😂
The Irish are pragmatic.
The Holy Hour! 😊
I was in an Irish pub in a tiny village. It turned eleven o'clock so time to close. The owner shoved us all out through the front door, including the local constable.
We went to the side of the pub where the owner opened a side-door. We all walked in and continued the nice evening.
Let’s go further and abolish Mondays!
I'll second that motion! 👍🏻
Are you a Boomtown Rat?
@@Liofa73 When it comes to Mondays I am! Of course if we didn't work Mondays, then Tuesday would be like our Monday. I only have one solution - lottery win!
We should go further still and reduce work hours to a maximum of 30 hours a week, people should be paid more for their work and have more quality time to share with their loved ones.
RELIGION SURELY ? THATS WHAT THAT WAS ALL ABOUT, EVEN THEN, FOR MANY, AFTER BEING INVOLVED IN WW2, GAVE UP ON RELIGION, AND IS STILL IN DECLINE. THE CHURCH WAS WORRIED ABOUT IT, SO THAT'S WHY THEY BACKED THAT DRACONIAN ATTITUDE. THAT IDIOT COMPLAINER, WOULD HAVE BEEN A WITCH--FINDER 300 YEARS BEFORE.
I'm 32 and I love these archive videos! Gives me a glimpse into a world I've never seen!
Yep ,I am 83 ( was 16 in 57 )
Nothing was open .Was dead boring to teenagers .Does not seem.possiblei was there.lol
And not an Islamist Muslim in sight.
I'm nearly 50 and caught the tail end of it. Was a glorious time to be a child, hardly anyone worked Sunday and everyone sat down for dinner together as a family. Priceless memories.
I'm 55 - so I've have one foot in each world!
I never knew the 50's obviously - but the 80's were great!!
@@LesterMooreEnlightened times back then.
I was a child in 1957 and I loved Sundays. My father and older siblings worked on Saturdays, so it was the one day when everyone was home. I especially loved the wintertime when we were all gathered around the open fire. Sunday lunch was followed by board games in the afternoon, then sandwiches and cake for tea. Then bath time and an early night ready for school and work on Monday. I would love to see Sunday made special again.
Would you have imagined back then that the world would be like this now. If you had asked me then I would imagine we would be holidaying on the Moon by now!
BUT---YOU ARE FREE TO DO THAT NOW , SURELY ? THEY CAN'T TOUCH YOU FOR IT. OR ,IS IT BEING A CHILD YOU WANT BACK?
100% agree.
@@MrDaiseymay nailed it in one. These people with their happy IT free childhoods are now happy to sit at home watch and comment at length on RUclips videos. We all want to stay young but time flies. PS though oldish I am not deaf so no need to shout! 😀
Lovely not much to ask for. Simple easier times.
During COVID I was walking around East London and it felt so peaceful. It took me back to the 70s when Sunday was a day for church and family. It made me realise how much we have lost just for the sake of consumerism. The atmosphere was so different. It was wonderful to feel that feeling to remind how things were so much better then. Life was so much simpler and people were happier.
Same for me in Nottinghamshire
I WAS A GREAT ADVOCATE OF SUNDAY TRADING I was wrong
Totally agree with you. Sunday is the Lords day 🙏
@@melk6720 I think most people in the country would be very upset of there was no football, sport or any recreation of any kind on Sundays.
@@nailartguy3363 that would depend whether they loved God or they didnt
I remember those Sundays well . I'm nearly 69 now and at times miss the quiet . 👍🏴
Ditto - albeit 63.
Yes, me too. But at least there was some good music on BBC Radio 2 in those days.
I loved it too....It was so nice to have one day like Christmas day every week.....
61, same memories.
It was as boring as hell, be honest.
Sunday was always a peaceful day growing up, here in Canada. I miss the common day off we all had at one time.
Doctors and nurses still have to be ready to work at hospitals.
@@cherylschantz9893 the same with the police & emergency services, firemen etc. but they know the hours they will be working when they take up that line of work ...
@@anneroy4560 - Funeral Parlors as well. My father would just sit down for Christmas Dinner and the business phone would ring.
Back then, you had to tend to the dead immediately, get them out of the hospital, house, road.
I live now in rural france. Its lovely and quiet on a Sunday. Families get together.
me too
On the flipside that excludes those many people who do not have families or do not have family they wish to spend time with. Allowing some communal places and spaces to open any day is more inclusive.
Germany still has this. I had to adjust, but now I love it - & I’m not religious. The quiet feels very civilized - an expression of higher priorities.
Well said.
Couldn't agree more! I'm not religious either, but l loved Sundays as a child in the 60's. Would love to see them back, but l guess that will never happen in our "progressive society." 😢
@@DD-ts5ojI bet u still celebrate Christmas ? If so it would make u a.
@@carolinehops Is this comment meant for me, or was it meant for the comment where someone said Christmas is just another day?? I didn't mention Christmas at all. 😶
Well done the Germans
I used to love walking around London on a Sunday, it was so quiet and peaceful
Here's a question, do you think we should go back to that? Not necessarily as a religious observance, but a general day of rest.
@@jimthompson939 Maybe there could be some kind of compromise with shops and services that are community oriented or family run being allowed to open. No large chains. I don't have a problem with markets, small boutique shops and some nice cafes for example. Make it feel special again with a nod to modern times.
I remember
MUST HAVE BEEN LONELY, ON YOUR OWN
When we were more
Civilised today most people
are running 🏃♀️ round like
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Where only spending money
I loved sundays,mum lighting the fire an getting the roast dinner ready for lunch, always quiet an peaceful,walking to my grandparents to get my pocket money,felt safe an loved,now shopping centres have become the new church,we have given away so much,
I agree partially with what you said here, but we now have to make a conscious choice not to go to these shopping centres on Sunday. We live next to Cheshire Oaks and I deliberately avoid it on a weekend because there are thousands of people there and it’s depressing.
Yeah, the one day of the week that mums had to work.
Thank cripes we've abandoned churches.
I'm from the millennial gen and I need stuff to do and cant allow the state to ruin my fun.
A change for the better, mate.
Born in November 1963, Sunday's were so quiet and peaceful when I was a youngster, hardly a car 🚗 went by, you could sit outdoors and listen to the Birds singing, 😊
Born Jan. 1963, miss those days.
Oh lol, I was born in November 1963!! Bloody 61 soon. I was born in Wirral , seventh child of eight, so no days were exactly peaceful, but my mum (who was widowed when I was a toddler) had a day off (if being a single parent of eight ever meant a day off??) and that was very precious
I don't know where you lived, but in central London that certainly wasn't the case. Yes there were birds, but there were also cars and buses too.
@@toni4729 yes, central London may have been busier but in a typical street in a housing estate it was quiter, the concentration of traffic was more the city centres and larger, busier roads etc . The 60's and 70's had a lot less vehicles / traffic , much lower population, more woodland, fields etc until the modern day obsession with mass House building everywhere, and millions of cars on the roads. Im in the North West...
@@clareshaughnessy2745 yes me too, 61 in a few weeks, 21 November...im just across the Water in Liverpool. My mum had 10 children and her first child sadly died 😔..I guess larger families were popular back then...question is ... Where has the time gone 😕
My memories of Sunday in the 50's as a child, Sunday school (not religious family) roast dinner with pudding, listening to Billy Cotton, Beyond our Ken, Jimmy Clitheroe, Sing something simple with the King singers. Card games with the family, no television but we had Mini cine (hand cranked movie films). Tea in the living room and not the kitchen as we did for the remainder of the week. Not being allowed to play out. Watching the Catholics stream up our road towards their church, mostly Polish who were evacuated in the war. If weather was good a walk (the whole family) to a local park.
I was born in 56. Sunday was church and Sunday School in the morning,home for a roast Sunday lunch, then a quiet afternoon. I was never allowed to visit friends on Sunday. The day concluded with a sandwich tea in the front room, and something on the TV. I miss there not being a day that is different - it punctuated the week. Now everything is the same -which I feel is a shame.
The black and white minstrels Sunday evening.
I was also born in 1956. But I have lived in four countries. When I first came here in 1970, Britain was already a bit backwards then (despite some attempts to update and improve the country along the way) it's now fallen even further behind the rest of Europe because of BREXIT. As my father, a Dane, often said "Wake up England"
@@plunder1956 never miss an opportunity for a sneer,eh? The country if anything has had plenty of periods of being a leader in Europe when it comes to change from fashion to music but undoubtedly we are better when we work closely with our friends in Europe. Britain joined the EU in 73 and Brexit has been a disaster.
@@plunder1956😂
@@plunder1956so you are no longer in the uk right?
I was a young lad in 1957 and I remember when the streets were deserted. My parents sometimes went window shopping when the stores were all closed. Sunday was the day of rest with the family. Happy days
It was quiet (ish) even in the 90’s. When supermarkets started to open on Sundays it was quite a big deal.
I'm just glad I can get a pint on a Sunday now
Everywhere was like a ghost town on a Sunday in the 1960s and 70s even in London. Absolutely deserted of traffic and people and everywhere closed. Things started to change slightly in the 1980s but change didn't fully come until 1994.
Yep that was the straw that broke the camels back sadly.
"Super"? markets have ruined everything.Nothing but Capitalist, nothing but Capitalist, profiteering so and so's.
When i visited my grandmother in Walworth , south London , i could clearly hear the Chimes of Big Ben , at a distance of about 3 miles . This was in the ' 50s .
That must have been a blast.
Being able to hear the chimes of the bells of St Mary le Bow was what defined a cockney. Not many cockneys today.
Aah. My Friend lived on Amelia St, in the 80's.The Mansion Blocks. I lived opp St. Thomas's Hospital. We could hear Big Ben chiming sometimes if the wind was in a certain direction, and the Window was open. I used to go to Marks and Spencer's on the Walworth Rd, and the A1 Record Shop.
@@MonicaLillis A1 gone M@S still there.
@@nobbynoris😂
The incomparable Jack Warner. How wonderful to see him again. Dixon of Dock Green was part of my childhood and such happy memories.
I still watch Jack Warner on Iplayer. Good Night All!!!
Its back on Talking Pictures TV channel 81
Yes, and sadly most of them were wiped and no longer exist, tragic really that just a handful of episodes still exist, out of 432 episodes that were made 399 no longer exist as they were totally wiped.
The Blue Lamp.
It’s chaotic and stressful now. Sundays are just like Saturdays and there’s no break in the week, sad really. I’m happy to at least have lived in a time when Sundays were “boring”.
My Sundays are still 'boring', though I live in a small village.
Sundays used to be relaxed, time doing things as a family or time peacefully on your own or with friends. Sunday dinner, maybe a walk or bike ride, reading or drawing, playing games, perhaps doing some domestic jobs that needed doing and everyone is home to help, gardening etc.
Having Sunday like any other day has broken that. In some ways its very convenient but it also means that there is not really any time that is peaceful and carved out for family and friends and for our brains and bodies to really have a break. I lived in Hong Kong, which really is a 24hr place, every day. I then moved to Germany, where Sunday was still preserved, everything closed, and you can't even mow rhe lawn. Huge culture shock that I couldnt even find the equivalent of a 'corner shop' that was open for milk and nappies! 😮😮😮😮
Hi 👋 , I was born in 1968 and can remember Sunday’s was fairly quiet due to very few shops actually open but the roads were very quiet . Ahh,it was lovely ☺️ !! Greetings from Portsmouth England
I'm in Spain and Sundays are still quiet with most shops closed. It's wonderful as families spend time together outside, having lunch or on the beach instead of shopping.
That's if the beach is not full of brits destroying the place. For some reason the same thing happens in the UK as well whenever a slight bit of sun comes out
@SubtraxionStudio Mmmmm GET YOU
I've never been to southern Europe myself but I was told that Spanish cities never sleep… 🤔
@SubtraxionStudio nothing like Blackpool . It's hugely Spanish with a very small "English " area which provides money into the local economy . Obviously your worldly view is not a vast as your ego .
@@brexitgreens Spanish cities are very quiet and relaxed with lots of shops closed, even in Barcelona.
Those were the days my friend i thought they'd never end ....
@@paulacol2142 yep, they are afraid of being mugged by an import !
..."we'd sing and dance forever and a day" - Mary Hopkin song reference.
@@paulacol2142Only the paranoid survive.😂
Sunday morning church bells, relaxed breakfast, do your chores, Sunday roast, flake out in the garden, ice cream van, Sunday bath, cold meat tea & cake, bit of tv, last minute homework then bed. Miss those Sundays.
Perfect
Sunday bath
yep i n the tin one in front of the range in the kitchen while the scones werebaking great smells. @elizabethannegrey6285
Cold meat?😂 you people eat like you're homeless
And to top off the Sunday evening sinking feeling Sing Something Simple on the radio, like music from the afterlife.
Peace and quiet on sundays is priceless.
I have no money to feed wives and ten children.
It used to be a day when families ate together, everyone had a lie in, after working hard all week you got the opportunity to relax. And of course single people especially went OUT Friday and Saturday nights and needed a day to recover 😂
As a child in a small village I went to church 3 times on a Sunday! 😇
Loved Sundays in the 1960's
Me to roast beef dinner,mum's home baking tarts scones
I desperately miss Sundays as they used to be - even in the 1980s. Very quiet all day with the exception of the pealing of church bells - lunch at nans - the 10 minute lunchtime news, followed by a few cartoons, then the EastEnders omnibus. Then back home - no traffic on the roads - and an early night for school in the morning.
ABSOLUTELY! It was a time for faith and family. It was meant to be a day for church, chats with our families, tranquil walks down the lane....It was lovely. We need to revive The Lord's Day just as it was. Sure miss the "Old World" values when God was more important than selfishness and greed.
lunch at Nan’s 😢just a very distant memory now 😢
Eastenders ruined Sundays, if I went to my in-laws my mother in law would insist on putting that dreadful annoying nonsense on.
In Bavaria most shops etc are closed. Sunday is called a quiet day. In apartments you can't even use a vacuum cleaner between certain hours. My gson loves it. Sunday is an unbroken day to spend exclusively with his wife and children.
it's brilliant I wish Ireland was still like this
Very archaic/outdated.
@@lyndoncmp5751 I think it's Brilliant
@@brianbadonde8700 Not for me. My German wife wished it was like in England, with more freedoms and options. As atheists, we didn't appreciate being dictated to largely based on old religious ideals. She ended up moving to England.
@@lyndoncmp5751, I brit, live in germany and have never heard anyone moan about the Sunday. Families can do lots of things together. People have a lie-in which is needed as the germans work long hours. Children go to school at 7am in our village during the week.
I was born in 1950, a typical Sunday was church in the morning and the family Sunday lunch after Father arrived home at 12.30 on the dot from his lunch time drink at the Rose & Crown. The afternoon for me was usually playing football in the street or getting into mischief! Must return home by 4 pm for the Sunday ceremony of afternoon tea. The above you might think to be very middle class, no, we were a typical Northern working class family, and my Father was not a tool maker!
Thank you for sharing. Here in the U.S., it was common for most businesses to be closed on Sunday up until the 1980s. A Sunday mid day meal with family was also common.
Sport on a Sunday, naughty boy.
@@andrewsundell2502 And bread wa' penny a loaf
Are you Sir Keir Dad in hiding ?lol
Born 1951. You just described my Sundays back then. Thank you for reminding me. You missed the comics, Dandy and Beano, and the "blackjacks", 2 for a farthing IIRC, the afternoon film and Sunday Night at the London Palladium with Brucie. In my mind it was always raining, but you still had to go out and play so that mom and dad could have their afternoon "nap."
A real touch of nostalgia. The ticking clock, rustling newspapers, shifting of coals in the grate during winter, and finally tea and Mr Kipling chocolate cup cakes.
Those were the days.
I miss the lull of a sunday. Also, half-day Wednesdays.
It was Thursdays where we lived.
I made a choice four years ago that Sunday was my day of rest so barely use my phone, I never leave home aside from walks and occasional family meet ups. It's been like changing and I'd highly recommend it
@@BackToNature123 Being retired (I can recommend it..!) every day is a day of rest 😋
'Make and mend' Wednesdays....!
@@TestGearJunkie. I've been retired for nearly half a century (medical reasons) and still wonder how it was that I ever found the time to indulge in paid employment.
I remember Sundays in the late 1950s and 60s when I was a kid. It was so quiet on the roads you could happily walk in the main road and rarely see a car, just the odd bus. Now look at Sundays, busier than a week day.
I was born in 1951 and well remember the long dark tea-time of the soul that was Sunday afternoon. For me, as a youngster, it was gruesome. Today? (a Sunday in September 2024), it's just like any other day of the week. In fact, the Supermarkets are busier because its, often, the only day many people are able to do the weekly shop.
I can remember boring Sundays in the 1980's when I was a teenager but me and my mates still had a laugh though.
I can remember the day when we found Radio Luxembourg and in the 60s when the Pirate Radio Stations started up , it was wonderful. Sundays were always so boring.
Also the long boring wet Saturday afternoons having to watch tv in black and white, all the sports programmes after father got back from the pub. The highlight was the telecaster football pools results🥴.
Never mind, we had the Val Donnigan show to look forward to later😏
@@ivanward5615 And the horrendous jumpers of his and the b====y rocking chair.
@jimmeltonbradley1497 was born in 41 .
Remember playing on Bomb sites in Bermondsey.Remember Dick Barton special agent. Journey into space ,Hopalong cassidy .RadioLuxembourg where as a young 15 or 16 year old I heard Elvis come across the Airways late at night on my little transistor radio.
When shops opened on a Sunday, they promised a work life balancr and extra pay.
And how long did that last?
This country is driven by greed
The population are seen as sheep by the politicians and business.
Its cash before people
If I had my time again, I would emigrate.
Ant p uk teacher retired
People can choose not to go to the shops on a Sunday. They can think for themselves can't they?
@@oilyrag525 Sadly, most people cant think for themselves....they are sheeple....just the way the government want them, with the wool pulled down over their eyes. Baaa...spend your hard earned money 7 days a week....baaa....pay your extortionate taxes....baaa.....inflation cant be helped....baaa....accept the status quo....baaa....tolerate corruption..... baaa....immigration is good.....baaa....dont complain.
"A nation of sheep will soon have a government of wolves" - Edward R. Murrow
Indeed - and I have already emigrated; best thing I ever did. Brexit was the final straw.
The very reason I refused to sign a petition to allow large shops to open on a Sunday.
I said at the time, premium rates for the staff would soon stop and Sunday working would become a compulsory part of their normal working week.
Christmas Day has virtually become just another day.
Other religions and beliefs seem to get more coverage and respect these days.
@@secondchance6603 Neither of these comments are true. Christmas day is NOT just another day in fact the Christmas season starts too early now. How has that got 50 likes?
I'm afraid one harsh truth also needs to be faced up to. Most white British may identify passively as Christian but they do not practise their faith. The Church of England is so moribund that the majority of regular church going Christians in the UK are actually Roman Catholics. Muslims for all their faults are mostly practising too. If you want want the UK to be more Christian it's in our hands. No point blaming others.
The Christmas stuff is in the supermarkets at the end of September and we haven't even got halloween or guy falwkes over with. It's beyond rediculous.
Newspaper sales have dropped dramatically since the 50's due to the Internet
@@tedoneilclark4710 *ridiculous
Sundays in Ireland revolved around going to mass and having a lovely Sunday dinner that was all prepared on a Saturday night. We were lucky to have a car and sometimes went for a drive or dropped in to visit friends. Yes literally ‘drop in’ unannounced! I think a lot of people today would have the horrors at that thought! 😅 I do think we miss out on routines that included rest times.
As a kid in the 80s, I have fond memories of how quiet Sundays were. Sundays are chaos now and in some way worse than a weekday.
Way worse. I still try and do the least amount possible on a Sunday. I did pop into town a few Sundays ago - it was busier than the Saturday!
Where?
Where do you live that you generalise like this?
I live in a big Town, just went out for a walk - very quiet.
Also, when the weather is nice, I'd far rather see many people out enjoying the sunshine, than nobody around at all.
So many cars now not only moving but parked and for me that ruins the look and feel of housing estates a feeling of constantly on the go and making noise. I enjoy looking at olde paintings of streets from a hundred years ago where there were no or few cars on display.
THE FACT IS, IT'S A TOTALLY DIFFERENT WORLD NOW.PEOPLE NOT ONLY HAVE MORE SPARE MONEY AND TIME TO SPEND IT, THEY HAVE CARS, AND MAYBE A CARAVAN, AND IF THE WEATHER IS GOOD, THEY WILL GET AWAY FOR A WEEKEND., AND POPULAR PLACES WILL BE THANKFUL FOR THE TRADE. WITH ALL THE NEIGHBOURS GONE AWAY, YOU CAN REAX IN YOUR GARDEN. EXCEPT, THE BLOKE NEXT-DOOR WITH A PETROL ENGINED GRASS MOWER. DECIDES, '' TODAY IS THE DAY.''
@@stevestannard6004same, it is the uptake of the personal car and the move to long distance out of town shopping that's really messed us up.
The epiosode of Hancock's Half Hour entitled "Sunday Afternoon at Home" captured the feeling of depression and dreariness very well.
I can remember taking my baby for a walk around an Inner City shopping centre one Sunday morning (it was spotles ly clean) AND A SUPERMARKET WAS OPEN. I was horrified and couldn't understand why people would want to shop on a Sunday. Were they so stupid that they had to shop 7 days a week, what was the matter with them. Crazy people I thought. How things have changed, for the worse I believe.
@@dianapeek6936 Many people had to work 5 or even 6 days a week so their time to shop was limited. When I was growing up, most shops were closed on Sundays. I certainly prefer the option to shop on Sundays if I need or want to.
@@Elbowendj Indeed. The normal working week for most was a 44 hour, five & a half day week leaving only Saturday afternoon for shopping or the pursuit of anything banned on Sundays.
Yes, it's very funny.
My favourite Hancock’s Half Hour
And now we have 24 hour Tesco's.
What was a shock I felt was when morning TV came about, BBC breakfast, TV am, good morning Britain .etc.
1970s/ early 80s in our house when I was a child: We’d wake up to Dad playing his favourite music on the record player as loud as can be (usually ABBA, the Beatles or Queen). Once we’d all woke up, had breakfast cereal and had a boogie and a laugh together we’d go out to play in the morning with our siblings and neighbours, whatever the weather. Mum would spend the morning preparing Sunday Dinner, Dad always prepared and cut the meat. We’d be called in around 1pm for a feast followed by something like apple crumble and icecream. Mum and Dad then slumped on the sofa in the living room (they usually went to an afternoon kip), we went back outside to play. Then we’d be called in after a while to help with clearing up the dinner. We might have a board game together with the family then in the afternoon. Sunday evenings was making sure all homework was completed, shoes cleaned and uniforms and school bags ready for the week.
We need to quiet Sunday more than ever❤
It's quiet every day of the week if you head out at 4am.
I don't. I HATED Sundays.
Opened up all these shops and businesses on a Sunday, but still no doctors open. Fod forbid you fall ill at the weekend and need to be seen, have to wait until Monday.
Maybe we should start
" community day " Sundays ,once a month , for all the good things we used to do on Sundays .
Family get togethers , community projects , cultural celebrations, performances ,outings etc . Could be fun and something to look forward to ! 🤔
Because that would turn into all the different “minority” peoples making it all about how their pet projects are the most high. I’m sick of being politically preached at and that’s what “community projects” turn into now. We don’t clean up parks and have picnics, we protest and denigrate certain races or ideologies as oppressors. No thank you. Family time would be great.
@@sandradelvecchio6894 Someone has been drinking the Daily Mail kool-aid it seems.
I very much like your idea! 😺
Yes but we don't have "communities" any more - just a load of selfish, miserable gits.
I remember a recommended London walk by Christopher Somerville in the Daily Telegraph in the very early 1990s. It took in much of the South Bank around The Clink, the remains of Winchester Palace, Southwark Cathedral and other attractions. There was no Tate Modern, Millennium Bridge or Globe Theatre. Borough Market had yet to be redeveloped. I did the walk on a cold Sunday. There was hardly anyone around. You got a real sense of the ghosts of the past, especially Victorian London. Nowadays, you can barely walk or think in the same area on any day of the week for all the noise of the people around you.
6 years after A Christmas Carol with Alistair Sim, and 6 years before The Beatles. Wonderful. Thanks for posting
The Beatles. 🤦🏻♂️😂
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I expect you're Cliff Richard fan.
@@JD-eq4dp , no. I didn't realise there were only two choices and no other genres. 🙄
the beatles...who were they then?
A 'popular beat combo' I believe...
As a 1953 London boy Sundays were quiet, no shops etc and in many ways it was a day of forced rest regardless of spiritual beliefs which at best were never held in high regard.
40 years ago I did a diploma in electronic, I struggled with the ,maths as some of it such as calculus I never did at school.
I went to see a counsellor as this was driving me mental.
She said something very interesting to me,she said regardless of what I needed to do, one day a week you should down tools and rest.
Now this day didn't have to be a Sunday but it is true that we need to wind down.
Here we are 2024, people are impatient, they stress out if they can't go to the shops on Christmas day, they panic buy because they will starve to death.
I believe now we were all better mentally when we had that day of rest,there was also I think a strong community feeling in the air on Sundays.
Even the pleasure of a stroll up the high road windows shopping was relaxing.
Well we now got the Anerican dream, 24 7 shopping fast food and and a sense of urgency and impatience.
As an adult you learn the value and importance of what your ignorant child’s mind couldn’t comprehend. This mindset is what wholesale threw out cherished traditional values. This is why we now live in the world we are in.
@@Patrick3183 Very well said
I hate it.
@@Patrick3183 Well yes, but uncontrolled immigration and "Wokeness" have also contributed to our present dystopian world.
Very good points
What are you doing watching this, it’s a Sunday .
Going one better, I’m watching it at work on a Sunday
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It used to be a bit boring but quite serene at the same time. That kind of tension is no longer found.
That's it - dull but peaceful
It was also a time to think about God instead of shopping. We need to resusscitate The Lord's Day just as it was.
@@bonniebluebell5940 The vast majority of Brits are irreligious. 52% have no religion against the next largest group (C of E) on just 13.7%.
@@bonniebluebell5940 What if we dont think about God at all.
@@Pianoguy32 Perhaps if we lived in a more God-centric age, you might. The fact that you just mentioned His name means that you took the time to do so. God gave you a free will. You can seek Him out or ignore Him -- believe or reject Him -- that is your choice. We are chained to a world of suffering and sin. God liberates the heart, mind, and soul once you open the door and let Him in.
When i was little in the 1970's Sunday was like a ghost town. Most people stayed in. My brother used to do bicycle races which were possible then as there wouldn't be any traffic on the roads.
@NigelHyphenJones I live in Hull, and nearby on the coast at a small town called Withernsea, there was a market every Sunday. It was apparently set up in 1972 and was able to get round Sunday opening rules.
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That sounds like Croatia today
Sunday was a day for trainspotting. We would go down to Stockport Edgeley shed 9B, and most of the steam locomotives would be sat in the shed, or yard, instead of working as they did in the week. Happy days ❤
Won't someone think of Jack's sister, who can't do blackface on Sunday?
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Mr Jorkin does not exaggerate the imprudence of allowing his misdemeanours to be made public..
I know the poor thing 😂🤦♂️
It's when I enjoy doing it most. Gets me funny looks from the neighbours though.
Very interesting. How times have changed & not always for the better.
on Sunday for our family long ago was sunday mass in the morning, then in the afternoon looking forward to a gigantic roast dinner.
Hard work for Mom.
I just remember Antiques Roadshow, Country file, Songs of Praise, Ski Sunday and then waiting to go back to school the next day. Depressing!
@@marviwilson1853 And Catchphrase and Gloria Hunniford. 😐
@@cherylschantz9893 That was when making dinner was seen as just that, making dinner not as 'hard work' like people like to call it these days.
We used sit around at home with The Bible and talk about God as well in those days. That was the 19, not 1860's by the way. I still those lazy family Sundays.
I loved my Sundays it’s when I went to the stables, paid my 4/0 shillings for an hours horse riding, then hung around the stables until dusk grooming horses sitting on the hay bails chatting to friends lovely Sundays
You failed to mention the sexually charged environment, and the need to masturbate.
I can well remember in the 1960’s my dad as a train driver being one of the few men working on a Sunday and the looks be got from the neighbours as he left for or returned from work on his motorbike. The closest thing that I have seen to Sunday closing was the Covid lockdown the only difference was there was still delivery vans and many cars parked at the side of the road.
The News of the World Sunday papers, the English Sunday breakfast, the church bells ringing, the Sunday roast - all unforgetable.
I prefered the daily sun there was 2 things I liked about it but I can't think what they were
I'd forgotten about that! 😊
How lovely to have a day of rest. I remember Sundays being so lovely when I was small in the 70s. Always saw family and got together for meals. Now everyone goes shopping or is in work.
Yeah everywhere closed on just one of the 2 days off, great times 😂
Don't even attempt to generalise what people are doing, just because it's what you or YOUR family do.
There's still very many people who rest on a Sunday.
Besides, do you really think nobody went to work on a Sunday in the 1950's?
Much of the working class still did!
@@ENGLISHMURPHYWhen each household had a person who was home during the weekdays to take care of things, it made more sense. Your weekends were for liesure or hobbies or home repair instead of being a mad rush to do a whole second job worth of stuff in 2 days.
@@matthewtrow5698 wow that’s a snippy and passive aggressive comment. Why? Why do you feel the need to do that? Has someone hurt you?
Would you really rather an enforced day of rest than having the choice?
We arrived in NZ on a Sunday in 1956 from Belfast; what a bloody shock! Nothing, nothing was open, the place looked like a ghost town. My father said, "what have I done?"
For those who work the 9 to 5 weekday routine it is definitely a plus to not have to rush around on a Saturday trying to get all your weekly shopping done.
BUT at the same time I do miss quiet Sundays. Especially in our 24/7 never ending consumer crazed culture.
The peace that descended during the initial Covid lockdown was eye-opening. The lack of traffic and the amazing quiet made my body feel more relaxed than it had been in years. And despite the stress and uncertainty of Covid I actually slept better than I had in years.
I've been in my full time career for 14 years. Never once had a problem with just doing my food shopping on a quiet weekday evening, or on my way home from work at 6pm or so.
I still don't understand the mad weekend scramble because even if your home life doesn't accommodate mid-week evening shopping too well (maybe you work shifts, or you've got young kids who are in bed very early) you can still get a delivery. Go at the weekends to find you can barely get parked and there's nothing left on the shelves.
Weekends are for chilling or at least throttling life back, unfortunately we're expected to use them to catch up on domestic admin we didn't have time for during the week. Who the hell wants to get up at 7am on a Saturday to scrub the toilet and hoover the lounge?
@@halfbakedproductions7887 the comment refers to how shops were closed on Sundays - at this time they were also closed in the evenings (except for some late night Thursdays or corner shops) so Saturday would be the only time for many people to do the shopping be it grocery, clothes etc. 'Deliveries' would be daily from the milkman for most essentials.
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At His right hand are pleasures for evermore.
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Àt 29 I had been reading the Bible for myself. No one forced it down my throat. . . .Holy Spirit is given as a deposit to those who believe, in The Messiah. Jesus The Christ. I was dead In my trespasses and sins without hope or of going to heaven but I figured there must be something more than what I understood work rest play visit Nana's and work as butchers boy on a Saturday 1966? Joint of meat and 10 shillings. . . Trolley buses. Who had a car in our road? Not a lot. Electric Milk float. . .
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'How can a man when he is old go back into his mother's womb?'
Flesh gives birth to flesh, the Spirit to spirit, that why you must be awakened in you heart conscience aka super ego. The Calvary's Mount is of inestimable amount and the subsequent empty tomb? Pick the bones outta that Buddha! Amen
Then, as a result of that, the cost of living and inflation skyrocketed!!! Along with stress!!!
@halfbakedproductions7887 Well, that's what we used to do!! I can rember when ALL, shops shut at 5.30pm during the week, plus Saturday!! Also, mothers stayed at home to bring up children and didn't dump them in Day Care from 6 months on!!
I was a newspaper boy and milkboy doing deliveries in a rather well heeled part of town. I always remember how quiet Sundays were with hardly any traffic and in the morning no one out except walking their dogs. It was the day of the "long lie in" and the "Sunday roast" and looking back a great day to un stress before the grind started on Monday. I can't help feel we actually lost something.
Miss those quiet Sundays, empty streets, walking with a young lady window shopping, talking about all the things we could perhaps one day afford to buy! Picnics in a park or on a country walk, perfectly safe and hardly anyone else about!
Double time at work if you were one of the folk who kept the wheels turning, often I chose to work a Sunday, extra money and a day off in the week as compensation...almost impossible to believe now! A lost civilization sadly!
Hospital doctors of the time were not so lucky. The one-in-two rota that was quite common had you working alternate nights and alternate weekends for which you were paid at one fifth normal rate. No compensating days off.
@@ColinMill1 You would have better of being a Plumber. Less inconvenient hours for the same income.
The back and forth between the lords day society and the reporter is exquisite.
I remember going to the pub for an hour and a half before Sunday lunch then watching Bullseye after lunch and then falling asleep. 😁
I think it's good there's one day of the week not commercialised. What you do with your free day is still up to you
You can do whatever you want to do...except anything you want to do.
Yes and look where it's got us more discontented people
More miserable and stressful
It changed in Britain in 1983 with Petrol Stations but only until the afternoon. It was classed as a necessary relief to stop roads being clogged up so the fuel outlets started selling all that you would find at a corner shop.
Ahh, so that’s the origin story of why petrol stations are stocked like corner shops?! That’s incredibly cool to learn. Thank you!
One thing that dawned on me yesterday and its crazy. With all the advances, technology and supposed liberation and freedoms in society. Society functioned better and people were happier with very little technology! Its unreal.
this is very true, the more freedoms we get, the more chaos we get and the more depression and anxiety we get
It’s also not true.
Idk they grew up starving wearing potato sacks in the depression, entered adulthood in WW2, Polio (imagine COVID but instead of flu like symptoms you're deformed and paralysed for life maybe in an iron lung) then the cold war. This was the heyday of lunatic asylums, lobotomies, electroshock etc. What makes you think society functioned better or that people were happier?
They had lots of technology, what are you talking about?
@@silvrfruit Go on. Name one
It could be argued that a day of reflection is healthy for the soul
...in this age of non stop phone watching
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My love for music, was kick started, I'm sure...., by listening to " Family Favourites" every Sunday arvo, sat by the radio. Happy days !!
Sundays were always seen as a day of rest irrespective of religious practice. Working people needed a day of rest. Shops were closed and pubs open for limited hours
As a result life was quieter - people had the time and space to rest and relax- no rushing to the stores etc = less stress and aquisitiveness
There was a great deal to be said for those days
I enjoyed this video so much.
As an American I remember when all stores and shops were closed on Sunday. I didn’t mind at all. Nowadays everything is open.
When I was in Atlanta for work, I was shocked I couldn't buy alcohol from a supermarket on a Sunday but I could go to a bar and have a drink.
The Republic of Ireland had a more relaxed nature to Sunday trading, especially areas close to the border with Northern Ireland. One prime example was the seaside town of Buncrana, County Donegal close to Derry City. Northern Ireland had the most strict Sunday trading rules, even pubs shut. Buncrana had everything open, and people from Derry flocked in their thousands to Buncrana on a Sunday usually on the bus to enjoy themselves.
It took until 1989 for Northern Ireland to have Sunday opening for pubs.
And even today the Dutch border towns are full of German-plate cars on a Sunday because Germans are looking for something to do.
@@halfbakedproductions7887 How strange. 1989. That is far too restrictive. The English licensing laws for pubs back then had a lunchtime opening and then reopen in the evening. Usually 8 hours of drinking per day. So it may not have been a free for all, but at least they were open.
That sort of sounds ideal!Enforced boredom/resting and then the thrill of escaping over the border for a day out of excitement 😅
@@Bella-fz9fy Who would have thought that the Roman Catholic dominated Republic of Ireland would be more liberal in Sunday trading? The church back then felt, as long as people went to Mass in the morning, shops could open from 1pm and it wouldn't affect their masses.
@@johnking5174 That is really weird,but maybe the reasoning was quite smart.🤔
Looked like a pleasant time. Look at how tidy the shops look
Oh black and white Britain you look so homely and friendly.
Sunday papers and church, maybe a Sunday stroll instead of 'black face' then back for roast dinner was the 'norm'.
I remember the family eating Sunday roast and listening to Jimmy Clitheroe on the radio. Distant memories, but happy memories.
Great rest on a Sunday
I was born in the early 1960s and Sundays indeed were a day when all the family were together. A home cooked roast, kids playing safely outdoors, no shops open at all. Sunday tea time baths and then TV finished after the London Palladium around 10pm. Sunday TV was limited and actually went off for a couple of hours late afternoon, but we were never bored, always games to play and fun to be had. Happy days they were, carefree and wholesome. 😊
Lovely to see Jack Cholmondeley-Warner in such fine fettle
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Ah yes, when women knew their place, thought kittens lovely and the word Gel meant something pretty to decorate one's arm, not apply liberally to one's hair.
@@VickersDoorter I think gel is used for other purposes now . .
Sundays growing up were a drudge. The bright spot was two way family favourites!
Followed by WAKEY WAKEY!!!
@@lawrencemain9436 then “left hand down a bit!” It was all small relief from imposed restrictions.
Yes women cleaned the house. Someone cooked the dinner. Any washing was strung up in the kitchen on a rack after cooked food cleared away. If you wanted cake you had to make one. That took time! As a child I liked it. Reading or the radio. Depending on the weather might go to a park. You didn't feel pressured to be doing stuff once chores were done. The day also seemed longer but there was more family interaction.
Fascinating - I love how the Lord’s Day Observance Society has offices on Fleet Street, and their position is so uncompromisingly strict! The secretary’s interview is amazing.
They still exist 😮
@@Hans-gb4mv But failed to succeed, one thing I would change about modern Sundays is allowing supermarkets including petrol station shops to be open, small independent yes but not national chains. One doesn't need to go shopping on a Sunday with online and deliveries nowadays.
@@HarryInEdi imagine all those Fleet Street journalists drinking like there’s no tomorrow. Surely the observance society was imbued with a sense of humour.
Yes when UK had Christian leadership and a leader of the church in Canterbury who could be respected..unlike now
@@tonys1636 One can choose what one needs to do, it is not for you to tell me what I can, and cannot do. Stop trying to control people.
Sundays were a day for families to be together. It should go back to this. A quality of life is what everyone needs.
Sundays where relaxing and the church bells would ring and my father would cut the grass and I would wash the car for half crown back in the 1970 s
Paid work on a Sunday! Take him away.
@@rossspenser8314 i was the one ringing those bells lol.
I wasn't anywhere near good but as a 14 year old I was allowed just to do one bell tug to say Sunday school was starting 😁
@@celestesmith6060 oh they did ... he is due to be released a week Thursday ...
People were so very proper in 1957..year I was born.Try growing up in North Wales where I did. Life is in colour now. All my early memories were black and white for sure.
All corner shops and town centre where closed on northern towns
1:12 Trafalgar Square and the Forth/Empty Plinth in the background. It's interesting to see there was once vegetation within the square. I guess it was removed to make the square bigger or maybe for security reasons.
Television on a Sunday in 1957 was also very restricted. Until 1958, the 6.00pm to 7.30pm slot had to be closed down, to allow people to go to Sunday evening services. That was amended in 1958 to allow "only religious programming" to air in that 90 minute slot. Also "no entertainment especially those appealing to children" to air before 3pm. Adult educational programming would soon fill a lot of Sunday TV too.
Up until around 1972 or so, TV was only allowed to be on air for around 7 and a half hours per day and there was no commercial radio. The BBC didn't have any breakfast programming until the early 1980s and only did a 24 hour broadcast for the very first time during the 1984 Olympics.
@@halfbakedproductions7887 It is strange how restrictive the British government was over television and radio back then. Feels very paternalistic. Something which strangles TV. 7.5 hours of television a day! In the US in 1972, the three main networks NBC, CBS and ABC were all on air by at least 6.30am and carried on non-stop until around 1am/2am. It was money for them. You don't have gaps or close downs during the day as British television had.
That wonderful Hancock's Half Hour radio show from the late 50s is on RUclips somewhere and captures Sunday Afternoon At Home brilliantly. Those of us who remember the period can testify to its accuracy!
On Iplayer, and BBC Sound now.
Wednesday afternoons too, in Bristol at least, many shops would be shut.
im a 90’s child and i distinctly remember on boxing day it being sooo silent and streets deserted, it felt like a mystery to me as a child, but now its always busy and congested…
Worth noting the massive increase in stress, anxiety and depression since Sunday became an ordinary work day; likewise family break down. people constantly twining about being tired and busy and stressed...bring back a day of rest!
I'm in Austria. Almost all shops are closed - but if you really need something there are some shops open, for example at railway stations. Our local bakery is allowed to open because it is also home to a café. Small convenience stores at petrol stations may be open. You can't do anything noisy outside, for example lawn-mowing. The result is that Sunday is quiet, and I find that pretty pleasant, and I'm used to it.
Lovely video, just had time to watch it before my third job at Tesco Sunday worker starts………financial gain?
We have somehow managed to run out of loo rolls, just got an hour or so to wait, so I'm glad of people like you working Sundays, thank you!
@@grannyweatherwax9666 that comes under merciful acts
@@grannyweatherwax9666hope you can hold it in long enough
Back in the day when money wasn’t god 😢.
Sundays for us living in Clerkenwell EC1 were surreal. Only because Monday till Friday it was full of millions of workers. Come the weekend, it was almost completely empty. We loved it! The smell of roast dinners, coming from different houses. My favourite was roast chicken with sage & onion stuffing. Billy Cotton 'Wakey Wake' on the radio. Everyone bought 'The News of the World' for gossip & scandal. Taking a go cart to the top of City Road, then whizzing down it. During the week, it was one of the busiest roads in the UK. But Sunday hardly any cars at all. Halcyon days...❤
I wonder at what point over the past seventy years did spoken English undergo such a profound change?
Immigration started in the 1950s to grow the economy again after the war and really went crazy from 1997 onwards. It's what happens when there are people who only care for wealth and power.
A very distant memory since my move from UK (Plymouth) in 1977 to New Zealand, but I have fond memories of waking up in my Grannies/Grandads house in Exeter on Sundays probably in the early 60's to the sound of church bells, queuing for an ice cream in the afternoon from a van and simply enjoying what I would now call total serenity including waiting for my Grandad to come out of the pub after a few pints of cider (some of which I enjoyed in later years)....but that was then and this is now...things are what they are folks....let's hope our modern children can enjoy such serenity from time to time.....
The best thing about Sunday growing up was Channel 4 Football Italia lay in’s!
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Evening all. Thanks for sharing this awesome video.
Watching just before I go to work as a Sunday worker.😉
Better Life, better country!! Sunday's, only Churches, News agents (closed by lunchtime) and Pubs were open twice a day. Sunday Lunch with family. Eve Tea simple Happy Safe days😢