Can you imagine showing up back then with a modern bike like an R1 that can do the ton in FIRST gear!!! They'd freak out!!

I do think it looks neat... But no way is it worth £160,,, I think I,ll wait for Ali express or Temu,then you will see the price plument.

The Brits retreated like pansies

Sir Peter Pears had a unique, distinctive voice.

Apart from loving the whole thing, I Adore the theme music at the beginning, and the music during the programme ♥️ 🌸

Great days, great clothes, great music , great clubs what a great time we had😎

Ye gods! More Boomer nostalgia - give it a rest!

Typical lovely faces of the 60s, the 'Pat Combes' type lady on the left at 58 secs, chattering with her fellow knitters; the red-tied CND marcher at 1.14, face pinched with bitter determination to clear away our nuclear defence when the USSR were poised to attack us; at 1.41 the sweet little model lady covered in animal pelts, smiling uncertainly for the press, looking so unsure as we all did then - no arrogant, misplaced 'Influencer' confidence back then for us British, and we were so much nicer for it. Also the fabulously sinister 'faces' of the Vulcan bombers (with that terrifying 'armageddon' howl to go with them) at 2.30, designed at the end of WW2 but still pressed so effectively into service to neutralise the runway at Port Stanley, preventing the Argentine air force from using it and wresting air superiority from them (please watch the documentary about how many planes were used to get those Vulcans 8000 miles down to the South Atlantic - it is absolutely phenomenal. By the way, the Vulcan bomber, flying as it does at the edge of space, was the basis for Concorde. I love the happy, optimistic music they used back then, and I remember it like it was yesterday, a cheery start before the main feature film as you settled into your seat and put your hand up your girlfriend's skirt. Britain was still absolutely Great back then, and everyone wanted to come here. Now they all have, and it's lost so much in the process that it is unrecognisable, and in part rather horrible. Thank you Tony Blair and Gordon Brown for ruining our lovely country, you utter bastards, turning it into a backwater of Karachi or some other mozlem hellhole. You should both be in prison, especially you Brown for selling off our sizeable gold reserves for next to nothing, costing every one of us enough to buy a Mini. Traitors Oswald Mosely and Lord Haw-Haw had nothing on you Brown, you vandal; it's debatable whether Soviet President Brezhnev's arsenal of nuclear weapons could have wrought as much damage to our beloved country as you did.

The British slaughtered millions in India/Burma and now talking about Japanese aggression. Are they totally shameless?

I did the ton (100mph) when i was 16, 2 days after i passed my test. My dad knew a motorcycle mechanic who tuned my Honda CD175, and it went quick. Brilliant times, i did it back in 1969, now i am 71 i have a Benelli TRK502 500cc bike, i bought it for my retirement present to myself when i was 70 to go camping/touring.

Tune id @ 3:00 ?

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The engines were more of a problem than the Lucas electrics.

I wish the BBC would stop telling us what to think.

For anyone who is interested, you can watch all the “look at life” tv show on talking pictures tv on sky, or on the website of the same name. All those and a collection of tv and films from across the decades, just not current tv.

Dreadful vocal technique. Terrible, tight, nasal sound. Completely wrong. Singers would not model themselves on this dreadful example of vocal technique. Pears was one of the worst tenors of all time. Listen to Caruso.

Absolutely ghastly. Anyone who likes this strangulated crooning knows absolutely nothing about proper singing.😁

After WW2 ended,Britain ruled motorbikes throughout the 1950's,until the Asians joined the game in the 1960's,after that,they left British bikes,most of which were designed before WW2 in the proverbial dust!

8:54 "One of mine could pull two of their bloody things backwards"

That pipe and what's in it looks a bit suspect.

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I think sting did that in Quadrophenia.

Weren’t like that for my late parents. Father (1917-1981). Mother (1927-2005). I was born too late in 1956 to understand any of this at Brentwood in Essex, and trendsetters was correct, do people really dress/hair like that in 2024?.

The Model Railway Constructor of November 1957 exemplified the Dad with his Pipe and his school boy son, and the model of a station and trains. The station in question was the Kyle of Lochalsh. In those days there was no Skye Bridge so ferries/ fishing boats came and went. Ther was, a few yers ago , maybe still is , a layout of Kyle of Lochalsh in one of the former waiting rooms as it was before the bridge. Eilean Donan Castle still there.

Although the 3rd Reich built motorways/ autobahn,s. they apparently got the idea from the dual carriageway around Winchester. In the Cold War era W German Autobahns had dual width straight sections which could be used for landing / takeoff for combat aircraft for dispersal. The USAF Starfighter being one such combat aircraft.

What was that comment about " piddling little branch lines " and therefore needing Diesels to update.our system. Locomotive designers like Gresley and Stannier and Bulleid for example. What about Express trains, for example, like the Red Rose from Liverpool Lime Street to London Euston. Come on.😮 And don't forget Beechings random cuts - and his pal the Minister of Transport Ernest Marples, of Marples and Ridgeway who built motorways. 😮 . The North West of England had more Motorways in PM Harold Wilsons constituency than the 3rd Reich. On some motorway bridges there had been painted " Marples must go ". Well he did - he fled to his Villa at Cap d'Antibes with his money and unpaid taxes.

Mallard. 75th Anniversary at Carlisle. Gresley s " Union of South Africa " and Duchess of Sutherland on parade. excursions.and met at Carlisle. ( Citadel).Great cheering at Wheelspin. Carlisle station built by the Caledonian Railway . Similar looking to Perth.

Love the Godfather music

Garbarge English propaganda.

British started the herion & opium business.....what a joke.

i'm american and have a small lionel collection but sometimes i wish i could experience trains like those made during the edwardian age, bassett lowke , marklin etc were like the rolls royce of model trains especially in gauge 1 and larger - live steam , fully furnished coaches that had insides like the real deal and don't forget operating mail cars

Like Pete Waterman, I also like the run down, weathered look.

Thank you for your beautiful guiding through paradise 😅 Having a terrible day & you brought sunshine into my soul ❤

What happened we even sold worms,

Thomas and friends is what awakened by love of trains and railway’s in the first place. I still remember watching cranky bugs for the first time and how charming the early episodes of the show were.

Anyone here ever heard of ever heard of Lionel? They’re an american toy company that made model trains and such as well. There founder I forgot his name had a love of engineering much like Frank.Hornby. Several Lionel trains have become sought after collector items like the Banker’s special or a personal favorite of mine the Black diamond.

Soundtrack Dior and I.....

I can’t get enough of these. They’re so alive! So real ! So special!

Is always fun to revisit the past, but the present is always better.

It's interesting that the BBC caption says that in the 1960's Britain was 'starting' to take recycling seriously...as though WW2 had never happened! The saddest thing is that all the good habits people developed so quickly during the war were instantly dismantled when war ended. We all joked about being brought up to save wrapping paper, bits of string, elastic bands and the like, but absolutely everything was used and reused during the war. Children collected what the business man and housewife didn't. Now we know that we can't dump rubbish in the sea or a hole in the ground, some of that discipline would be good to bring back. The amount of single use plastic,at a time when we have peak oil and oceans full of the stuff,is still growing and we simply have to stop wasting these finite resources.

I like Ian Rice's comment that building a model railway at home is a waste of time really for it's never going to pay the mortgage or put food on the table. But it may just save someones sanity and therein lies the benefit of building a model railway when depression so besets modern life for a model railway unlike a video or computer game is 3D and you can get your hands everything. You can learn so many skills from carpentry to electrical to kit assembly to building structures from scratch to soldering to DCC software. For people who retire model railways keeps their mind active for once you're no longer working a full time job then the challenge you apply your mind to is no longer there and you can start to slide quickly downhill until life is meaningless and you pass away. So whilst some may think that a model railway has no part to play in the modern world I say they're very wrong and model railways are more important than ever simply for keeping one sane.

the Islamists will not allow women any freedom! Free the world from Islam!

Memories are made of this... Early '60s, I lived in England. I bought a NorVin in quasi-Black Lightning tune for 600 pounds...and everyone I knew said I should be committed. But it was the fastest thing on two wheels, or 4 for that matter as only a VERY few exotic cars were faster (and none of them had the NorVin's acceleration). I rode it for 3 years, bringing it back to the states with me. It was a long time ago, but I don't remember having much trouble with it once I'd gotten the electrics de-bugged (damn you, Joseph Lucas, Prince of Darkness...the English drink warm beer because they all have Lucas refrigerators!). Stateside, the NorVin was even more remarkablek, as it just gobbled up freeway miles, and this was the era of vast expansion of the Interstate highway system. Funny thing is, I can't for the life of me remember what happened to it... And, yes, I'm an old fart now (86 and still riding), but I still remember many lesser bikes I've owned and sold. I think the NorVin may have been part of the trade than netted me a beautiful '57 Corvette with newer brakes and a ton of rare go-fast parts...but I'm not sure. If I'd kept all the bikes and cars I've owned over the years, I'd have a collection worth many millions of dollars, but I've got my memories...and those are priceless (and I don't have to store them)!

150 mph wearing a speedo?! i'd probably soil that speedo @ 150 mph.

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Got my first train set, Hornby 0 gauge clockwork, in 1953. Have been modelling railways ever since. A great hobby, you meet other modellers and help each other with any problems that arise. Visited the Bassett Locke shop in High Holborn many decades ago. On visits back to UK visited as many model shops as I could. Semi-retired in Picton, South Island, New Zealand.

I m 64 . I would have been 4 years old in 1964 .yet this is also me .I have for many many years have leaned towards the sixties.soul or northern soul which it became known as at the end of the sixties iwas into .then came in 1979 the mod revival along with phil Daniels and quadrophenia .it hasn't t gone away .over the many years the music the mods and everything to do with the sixties and mod movement has still been going strong. My brother and me with mates who we knew in the mid to late 70 s we had the scooters then my brother had a g s vespasian loads of lights and mirrors mod ralleys still going now as then. Northern soul the mods and the unforgettable sixties even though I wasn't there in 64 I m still in around about way apart of it all sharing the experience.

As the saying goes, "I'd rather find my sister in a whore house than see my best mate on a Honda". British bikes rule!!!

I can watch this documentary over and over again. Thank you