Reminds me of the tales my dad told me, growing up on an estate farm, managed by my grandfather That was in Norfolk UK where brick and flint buildings dominated the landscape Thank you for sharing the film Geoff

That’s exactly how my grandad and great-grandad worked in the 1920s and 1930s. Everything was horse power with very long days in favourable weather. I’m not sure when great-grandad bought his first tractor but it would have been post-war when the number of farm labourers decreased considerably.

Good film, fair commentary and good choice of music - but poor choice of volume setting!

Did my share of haymaking as a teenager in the 1950s, bloody hard work and you had to know how to pace yourself to last a long day but you certainly slept well that night.

I was lucky to experience pubs when pubs were pubs , didn’t do me any harm . Well , I became a raging alcoholic and have COPD , but still consider myself fortunate to have grown up in the 70s and 80s

I despise the combines we use now, one can always see chopped body parts of Fawns and ground dwelling birds, my dog is a scavenger so she shows me.....I remember using an old swan necked scythe in the 1980's to clear the footpaths, so relaxing and not hard work as they were well balanced tools.

Hearing the Hal an Tow means a lot to us. Summer is on the way and the rain is warmer!

The Art Deco pub at 5:40 is "The Comet", in Hatfield. It's near the De Havilland factory, hence the name. It's still there.

If anyone wants to know why my ancestors migrated to New Zealand in the 19th century, all I have to do is direct them to this video.

Starmer would still be barred

Does anyone know where I can watch the full documentry? It was on youtube but I can't find it anymore.

This is a typical May Day garland festival once found all over England - bringing in the green and decorating the town with it, night and day songs raising the maypole etc. But with the addition of a hobby-horse that evidence suggests once paraded at Christmas (like most hobby-horses did and still do in some areas). Talk of pagan 'Celtic' Beltane origins are unfounded.

How I wish I could have been born in the 1940s instead of in the 1960s, and also I would have been more at ease and had better luck getting a job unlike when I left school in the 1980s when there were more people in the world than there were jobs.

My great great grandfather's family were Wiltshire farm labourers back then; he took advantage of railway work around the time Box Tunnel was built and lived with his wife for some time after in a navvies' shanty town with a formal name, quite established, beside the GWR line,- all now long long gone but evident from maps of the time. Free housing, likely, of a temporary nature with privations.

I remember that law used to say all pubs had to have frosted windows to prevent minors looking in and seeing adults get drunk. Not so now it seems.

Not quite the same in a Wetherspoons...

White privilege?

Beautiful

Be non left soon.....

What a shame what has happened to this country

thank you for this video

We call what we have now. Progress

4.30 the toll gate at the Spaniards london Nw3 a hang out of dick Turpin highway man, its still there !

Aye it were just grand, I’d be up at four int morning getting coal fire started. It were hard life back then, but we were a happy and cheerful lot. Working sixteen hours a day, six days a week , fifty two weeks a year. I always looked forward to my bread and cheese, when I got home from work at eleven pm each night. Aye it were just grand.

Ye olde fighting Cocks. 😛

Probably the same as a good old Scottish or Welsh pub too.🥱

At least they weren't afraid of being attacked with a machete.

We're screwed. Goodbye England.

Just waiting for Mr Chumley Warner to walk out..😀

Worst day’s work ever was letting kids into pubs. Men used to go to the pub to escape those gits.

I just ordered a shit load of beer from Tesco these days and get wasted at home while eating oven pizza, Jaffa cakes and crisps

Petrol motor? Can’t see that catching on….

Surprisenly I didn't struggle too much in understanding the dog😂😂

I'm an brit/american born in America my dads from Dudley and i have a bit of a bastard accent i wish i could spake with a proper Yam Yam accent!

Actually, beer was crap back then, far better today, with all the small breweries, and IPA ales…well in my opinion

Courage best bitter smoking at its best with sheirhorses delivered barrels of beer

Now a trip to the pub is £90 down and a knife wound for the walk home.

Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town, and Starmer.

I’ve been to The Spaniards once

Excellent

Remember when this program was made, they actually thought smoking and drinking was good for you. just like the twits taking drugs today. Yes, most have the carvings have a religious meaning the most importing that you are going to meet your maker sooner than you think if you keep smoking and drinking hard and fast.

The banning of Cigarette Ads really worked on the fruitcakes commenting herein. A social drink is fine,however, there is no such thing as a social coffin nail for 5he smoker or the people breathing in the rotten second hand smoke. The stench it leaves on everyone’s hair and cloths. Arriving home you gave the excuse that you had to work late, the wife thought to herself what a stupid git!

The Village People ? Not quite what I was Expecting.🤣

I go for a drink at the local crèche these days as all the kids are in the pubs.

I do like English beer A good one is heavenly

Interesting that some commenters here are bemoaning the loss of their country, whatever that means. Pubs still exist and you can still drink in them. My village has two that are five and six hundred years old. I suspect what the commenters really mean is that there are no black or brown faces in the pubs shown in this film. In other words, racism pure and simple.

Was that a black gentleman at 2.40 ? Maybe a ex navy

The Blue Peter Peterborough 👍

They are from quite a few, all Weatherspoons for instance.

Both great and heartbreaking at the same time....a country and lifestyle now completely obliterated...find it hard to watch to be honest..!!!!!