What a beautiful country we had

Went to Butlins at Filey in about 1955. It was one of the best holidays I have ever had in my life, absolutely loved it. Thanks for posting.

These two are quite tame really! Heard stronger accents in Bilston market.

The subtitles/closed captions are more puzzling the the speech.

ONCE A GREAT COUNTRY

The pilgrims inn at 2:01 and 2:04 is my local boozer in Glastonbury. Just sayin.

A modern film set then would have to have modern demographics

How many lives destroyed because of this alcohol culture?

How many lives destroyed because of this alcohol culture.

I was born in the early 1970s and village life was still very much like this then. Of course many things are better nowadays, but a hell of a lot are a damn sight worse than they were. We are losing our country, we need a peaceful revolution to recover it... 👍

Our poor country has been wrecked 😡

Proper police not tattooed thugs, and nice looking British people

It's tragic what mass immigration has done. So much damage, from people bringing in inferior cultures.

The good old days

Well I've visited at least three of these pubs.

Then the planners got hold of it...

Love it! 🎉❤👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

This can't be Birmingham,the people are the wrong ethnicity.

Brum, a dump then, a bigger dump now. Best avoided.

THIS WONDERFUL FILM , OF BLACKPOOL PROMENADER'S ESPECIALLY, IS A SMALL FOOTAGE FROM THEMASTER'S OF EARLY BRITISH FILM MAKING, MITCHELL AND KENYON. FOR THOSE UNAWARE OF THEIR STORY, IT WAS PART OF A BBC DOCUMENTARY, EARLY THIS CENTURY. OLD BARRELS, FOUND IN THE BASEMENT OF A VICTORIAN SHOP ( BEING DEMOLISHED ) IN BLACKBURN LANCS. CONTAINED 800 ROLLS OF M& k'S FILMS, WHICH WERE GIVEN TO THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE, FOR RESTORATION. USING MODERN COMPUTER'S THEY CLEANED MILLIONS OF FRAMES , REPAIRD DAMAGE, AND CORRECTED THE SPEED. THIS WAS SHOWN ON TV. AND IS /WAS ALL AVAILABLE ON DVD. THIS IS ONLY A TINY EXAMPLE. CHECK IT OUT. AND ENJOY. THERES MORE TO COME.

Lovely, clean, lots of white familys not hooked on crack, none of the usual suspects, i wish i was alive back then

far to white .

I love watching these old videos but it makes me depressed when I look at the state of this country today.

.....And not a Peaky Blinder in sight!

I watch this and can't help but feel like something has been lost.

Police-full 20th Century.

A policeman actually being useful. What a NOVELTY.

“Men of all degrees and all opinions meet in comradeship”, today we hear that Kier Starmer’s Labour government want to stop the all opinions bit, because opinions can upset people, oh how on earth did we get from there to here and which do we think is better for all.,

Brummie here ..

I miss drinking songs

Margate wins every time- neither are somewhere I’d choose to go now

More of these sorts of old films of Birmingham would be really interesting. This one was very informative.

Pubs were the living rooms of working men and women who rented rooms and flats. it was a big part of the social lives of the people.

Always great, especially non-colorized.

Nasty place for nasty people.

Great films, but please remove the fuzzy edges. Very distracting.

"White people have no culture."

Love it, class determined by hats 😊

Wonderful. Thank you for sharing this beautiful piece of nostalgia.

First part about cobbler I think of hobsons choice, I watched today on KZbin

What we have lost .🇦🇺🦘🇦🇺🦘

I still remember pubs with wooden barrels behind the bar from which either the local ale, stout or mild was served, with an ancient bottle of Scotch hidden away. It was just those three choice, and none of this fizzy stuff or the plethora of others all vying for your money. I'm not quite old enough to remember when the landlord had a jug full on the bar from which he poured the beer, and which he popped into the next room to fill when it was getting low. I can also remember when bar food was a sandwich the landlord's wife, or at times, the landlord would make from home baked bread, home cured ham [often from pigs reared at the rear of the pub] and pickles make at Christmas time. Occasionally, very occasionally there would be home made pork pies, and these bore little resemblance to the faceless industrial estate produced things that only have the name in common with real ones. Tables were not sprayed down with some stuff from a plastic bottle by some tattooed and "sculpted" hair trend bag, but merely given a cursory wipe with the cloth kept on the landlord's shoulder. Customers wore their work clothes of boots and cords with a tweed jacket, and generally still wore a tie. They ladies wore dresses or skirts, or rarely a pair of trousers if they had been working at a manual job. Steel framed and ancient bikes were piled up outside, and many people would think nothing of walking for miles to get home. No cars for 100 yard journeys, and even better, there was little or no option other than to go and be social in the pub. No slabs of flavourless fizzy stuff from the so-called "supermarket". No "booze-cruises", just real life lived by real people who lived by the rising and setting of the sun, and the passing of the seasons. I still recall pubs with paraffin lamps and candles, and no electricity. Open fires were the only means of heating, and it was always cash, counted out in real LSD coins and sometimes notes, that paid for the beer. No paying by card or 'phone, no dabbing of your watch*, and I miss those days. * A separate story there concerning buying a bike.

Like bein um 😢

Johnny Morris ??

Southend on Sea, Londoner's Blackpool.

Before Southend was ruined by chavs and migrants.

And now Britain is shit and run by shit politicians beholden to shit billionaires and filled with shit immigrants and shit religions.

Me too ..50s 60s a time i grew up in

Take me back to the wonderful 60’s.

The government has taken a lot way from the real working people, how on earth are they allowed to get away with so much, its really sad what's going on