Great Yarmouth (1974)
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Unused / unissued material - Colour material.
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Travel shots along the funfair on the seafront. Past rollercoaster. Exterior shots of Britannia Pier advertising show featuring Mike and Bernie Winters. VS of people on pier. MS of horsedrawn carriage along seafront road. More shots of pier. MS of Stagecoach Amusement Arcade. VS of Bingo booths on seafront. Various shots of streets of small hotels and bed and breakfast (B&B) place. MS of static caravans / trailers in park. VS few children playing on beach and in sand. Caravans are close to the beach. Ext. of various holiday flatlets and small hotels / Guest Houses. Quick shot of boat on Norfolk broads.
(Neg)
FILM ID:3401.03
A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. www.britishpath...
FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT www.britishpath...
British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website. www.britishpat...
Thankyou so much - My lovely mum took us there every year as Kids - I wish she was still here, and I wish those days never ended
Same here, it was our safe Haven
Luckily my mothers parents and brother lived near the town hall where we stayed for our 2 weeks of heaven
This is how I remember Gt Yarmouth from my childhood in the mid 70’s. Returned in the 80’s and it still held the charm that comes across in this film. Went about 2 years ago with my wife and I was very excited about going for a weekend break here. Much of what you see in the film has disappeared or is a rusting ruin such as what is left of the Pleasure Beach. We still had a good time there but most of the laughs and entertainment came from the pubs and bars that remain. Such a shame that so many seaside towns end up a former shadow of themselves due to lack of visitors and funds. I’m so glad I was a child of the 70’s and experienced the magic of a holiday in this country when things were indeed ‘Great’ . Loved watching this film 👍🏻
My Norfolk Grandad used to take me on that roller coaster when I was about 5; I absolutely loved it - and the Water Chute and the Snails. So sad when they got rid of the mountains and painted the roller coaster plain blue.
I loved this place so much back in the day we always stayed at Mrs Greens Corner House 54 Apsley Road. Loved all the shows and the circus saw so many great entertainers like Morecambe and Wise, Tommy Cooper and many many more. I went there every summer for over 30 years
I had many holidays in get Yarmouth as child and adult , some of the best days ever
Great memories in holiday with my family .was so nice to see the Giant at the pleasure beach that brought so much memories back as my handicap brother loved watching him .Thanks for great vid 👍🏻
And the Witch that used to go round on her broomstick!
Many happy childhood memories spent here on family holidays thank you
Simply a Magical place back in the day, as a kid it was paradise.The wax works was hilarious. Now sadly ruined by neglect, poverty and strange Europeans. But it still holds a warm place in my heart forever. This video is of amazing quality, thank you very much for the upload :)
Maybe if a no-deal Brexit gets through, our Herring trade could be booming again, those Kippers on Regent Street were the best in the world.
Absolutely mate im far from Racist but its definitely gone down hill as soon as they let hundreds of foreign people from all over Europe settle there who don't work, suddenly the heart and sole of the seaside town dies and your general locals diminish, i hate to think of what it will ve like in a hundred years completely unrecognisable 😞
@@RonD84 ah yes, the foreigners who are both taking all our jobs while also scrounging off the benefits system :D
@@raidwipe no not taking jobs just scroungers like are own scroungers but I must admit I absolutely luv the plentiful of Eastern European shops in the backstreets beautiful.
I've lived here since 2011 and the part with the kids playing in the sand made me smile ☺
Look at it now
@@clivegetliff1293👍🏽 it’s still a great place for a holiday isn’t it, my cousin and his family are there now 😍
Was down in Yarmouth 73 74 and 75 this brings back great memories thanks 🏴🇬🇧
Amazing how little it's really changed in nearly 50 years!
What a lovely film. Again, like so many people commenting on here, i enjoyed so many nice memories of holidays as a child here in the late 70s and early 80s. I still take my children back there for a couple of nights every October half term to enjoy the Hippodrome Circus and the Pleasure Beach. Its amazing really because so little has changed, yet so much has changed too. Good luck to Great Yarmouth and its residents for the future.
What a fantastic nostalgia trip this excellent video is. Great work thanks so much for sharing and its great to see a lot hasn't really changed that much.
Love the video is great look back and remember as went there in1974 when I was 8 with grandparents
gary Roberts Your old
We're not old, we're "retro" 😉 I have happy memories of caravan holidays there with my family in the 70's 💘
@@xlsmoo Learn to spell first before trying to insult someone else
I can remember these caravans no running water use to have to fetch water from a water hole in between the caravans always use to be faraway and the little gas lanterns in the caravans Great Times thanks for posting happy days
and dont forget the 'slop bucket'
That was a really great video...loved it..the good old days..just as I remember it..well done...
Wow, fantastic quality footage for 1974, must have been an expensive camera 🎥
Spent many hours there with mum and dad in the 70s
Great film. I still have the merivale model village booklet somewhere, circa 1972 lol
Gt Yarmouth as I remeber it best
Seeing The Giant at the Pleasure Beach which was my mother's favourite (both gone now) made me cry,
Yes. With the witch flying around him and the club raising and falling
Thank you for posting this
This brings back some memories. You could have great holidays in Yarmouth in the 1970s.We saw Freddie Starr and Mike and Bernie Winters at the Britannia Theatre the year this was made. If you were lucky you'd see some of the acts on the Pier and chat to them. The tickets were £2/£3 at the most, in those days (£25 to £40 now). Kids could see a show with their pocket money. Some of the shows might not have been very good but I wouldn't bother going nowadays.
I remember the double ferris wheel at the pleasure beach.
The year i was born I have always gone to yarmoumth for my holidays still go now with my family
It was always cold in January and February and I'm old enough to remember this country's worst two winters...
Great video
It was a very magical place for us kids back then. The sun was always shining and the sand was hot under our feet.
I used to go regularly as a child . Yes a lot has changed but I still had a good time when I went down for a week in July
Such a shame gt yarmouth is in the state it's in now. Sea front is improving but 2 streets back its a right mess with drunks, rubbish in the streets & gardens, unkempt properties. The town center is dieing on its feet with so many shops closed down. The pristine golden beach in front of the south denes caravan park is now completely covered by grassy dunes and the caravan site is a wasteland. Such a shame as it was once a major holiday destination but is going downhill fast 😢.
In 2021 that orange border is still there around the britana pier!
when we used to visit Yarmouth my dad used to park down the side streets..lol..not nowadays!
Impressive paint job on the roller coaster back then! Britannia Pier and Joyland still look pretty similar from the outside, but I think the seafront looks nicer now than it did then.
❤️ great channel ❤️
If you filmed kids making sandcastles and playing on the beach today you would get arrested, strange times we live in.
not really
Worlds gone to far PC
Worlds gone crazy is such a short space of time. Everyone likes to be a victim or blame everyone else instead of taking responsibility. Too much health and safety and too much political correctness which is bad for society.
lol, that’s not true
Mam, dad and myself was at at Yarmouth in 72 and 74.Maybe it was the week or the day when you were filming.
At 4:57, there's a seven year old version of me, looking at the camera!!!! I'm famous!
What do you mean by a ‘seven year old version of you’? Do you mean you looked like that when you were a kid?
The year I left school (Fakenham) and started at Art School - Great Yarmouth College of Art & Design
0:36. I still have nightmares about that giant.
How old would some of the children be now60s?
Why does everything look so clean an tidy then? I see no litter and the roads and pavements look to be in great condition
People took more pride in where they lived back then.
What ever happened to it,?
Soooo quiet! Foreign holiday attractions. More cars polluting the air causing weak sunshine and cloud. Never mind, things are changing. GT. Yarmouth will become 'great' again very soon
Not to talk about the depression rates...
All those children on the beach are pensioners now
Wait I'm wrong... They are more likely in their 50s
The kids on the film looked about 5/6 years of age as I was in 1974 so would put them about mid 50’s now
@@CollaroRC54 In 74 I was 8 years old and I am not a pensioner just yet.
Great Yarmouth in its heyday, before low cost continental holidays were available and attainable for all.
I notice several things, firstly people in general are far better dressed and have much more pride in their appearance, both men and women. They're also slimmer, as slim as the East Asians are today in fact, whereas today you would not be able to go there without seeing elephant like humans waddling the streets. Back then people would have ate much more meat, cooked in animal fat rather than vegetable oils, much less processed foods, there wouldn't be ready meals, frozen pizza bunged in the oven, it would be more home cooked.
They're far fewer cars despite the fact that it was thriving then, rather than now. That would be down to two main reasons, reduced car ownership and reduced population, I can presume without looking that we would have been under 50m people in 1974, now we are hitting almost 70m and of course that is not from English people having more babies.
The streets are cleaner, the buildings are maintained far better with nice paintwork, all that has sadly been lost with modern Britain and the seaside towns illustrate most fittingly how far Britain has demised as a nation in the span of 50 short years.
That large rollercoaster has been there around 100 years and has been repainted multiple times, now it stands an American theme bearing the American Flag. Pretty cool
It's looks terrible now and lost that sparkle 😢
Are you sure this is 1974 ? Seems as though it could be 2004 !!
No in 2004 the roller coaster looks the same as today. The cars are the biggest giveaway that it's 70's though.
Definitely 70s, alpine scene on the roller coaster, the giant still there, sea under the Pier, bingo and cinema at the Empire, the ark at Joyland,and my auntie's hotel on Princes Rd , such wonderful days, Gt Yarmouth truly was great then ,
seems strange to me there is so much made of global warming nowadays, but then it was just warm summers ?