1960: A Year in Ickham | Reflections in a Village: Kent | Classic BBC Clips | BBC Archive

[@JohnHonda101]

I was born in the 60's and remember people like this when I was very young, looking back now it seems so old fashioned.

[@andydixon2980]

Good to see that people still hated each other back in the good ole days.

[@garryleeks4848]

Especially the posh and peasents

[@hilaryepstein6013]

Another wonderful BBC Archive film bringing these forgotten people to life again. I do like Mrs Belcher, she seems like a nice sensible lady. Interesting too for me to see Jan Morris before she transitioned.

[@wayinfront1]

I live 20 minutes drive from Ickham. It has a marvellous pub, the Duke William. Lovely interior, all low wooden beams, and in winter always a good fire going in the big fireplace. Nice garden for summer, lots of seating and good views over the fields. Good selection of beers too.

[@thecaveofthedead]

Great to hear someone who remembers the last dregs of feudalism and can remind us of what the past was for most people.

[@MTCason]

Feudalism? That was dead by the 14th/15th Centuries. No one remembers it and certainly not these kind and inherently free folk. The squire was simply a landlord. Perhaps one with a title and a good deal of land but not someone who could force others under their heel lawfully. Every landlord today is no different and a lot of them are good, decent people.

[@OlafProt]

I believe this film beautifully refutes the narrative of “the good old days” 😂

[@thecaveofthedead]

@@OlafProt Exactly.

[@MTCason]

@@OlafProt Not at all. That was a far better system to what we have today. Welfare was local, accessible, and built up out of a sense of community and common courtesy. The squire provided much of what the government provides now. I am sure there were some cases of abuse but it was better than the detachment of a government welfare system that doesn't know you and isn't accountable to you.

[@TinLeadHammer]

Better to live in a village in your own house than in a retirement home.

[@gordonmilne4323]

Definitely!

[@theendofeverything6356]

Fascinating. Whatever the community, there will always be resentment, strife, kinship and love. We mess with the natural order at our peril.

[@marymary5494]

I just looked up the population of Ickham, 437 were recorded in 2011.

[@SBAYLISS]

The class system of this country I don’t think has done England many favours over the years and still think is as strong today unfortunately.

[@garryleeks4848]

Definitely right there

[@FISHINGMINTY]

Good old Mrs Holiday, Holiday by name but not by nature. "I've never been to London and I don't want to and I don't like Ickham either" 😆

[@heinkle1]

Could be 1910. Seems odd to pull down the school in such a small place just because it’s not used for teaching.

[@succulent951]

thankfully most seem to have been converted to houses

[@geoffreydowen5793]

"oh England , my lionheart" I've travelled the world, and there is no finer country.

[@Laura-sg6ss]

😂😂😂😂get real

[@OlafProt]

When councils still provided low cost housing for low paid workers. We really messed a lot of things up. Mrs Belcher is proper old money, kind and more open. Mrs Harmsworth, is new money, less open, and her son is probably now a Tory peer. 6:00 ahhh the good old days of dear old blighty..... this was the reality as opposed to the rose-tinted-Daily-Mail-type memories.

[@Simpaulme]

Surely incomplete?

[@geoffreydowen5793]

Mrs Belcher looks like Michael Rutherford, from Genesis! Awl very posh

[@garryleeks4848]

When there was a community, people don’t want to talk to you now

[@garryleeks4848]

@@silvertip185 very true 👍

[@JLO-ie8gy]

Ickham most definitely has a great community spirit. Most are very friendly and will give you the time of day. It's a great village to work in.

[@mfgt4595]

They'd never show this today. Bent Broadcasting Corporation . Creepy too.

[@mfgt4595]

Doomed we're all doomed.these lot are to blame too. Shakespeare and Wordsworth will be burned next. Free country gone , Xmas gone. Easter gone. It's Holiday time, NOT Xmas. Rule Britannia is being changed for the theme of the Titanic. We're sunk.

[@Laura-sg6ss]

2:21 so....ugly. okay cool. Yeah knobbly in character, everyone's had a turn huh?

[@roasty80]

back when everyone spoke english

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

Is it YOUR fist language you racist see you enn tee?

[@succulent951]

yup, just a few hundred years after latin

[@mariGentle]

Theres always one bringing the tone down. I know who you’d be in the village…..the angry rascist playing the victim

[@lorrainecrampton1632]

​@@mariGentleWhy is it racist to point out that people spoke English in England? Is it 'racist' to point out that people spoke French in France or Russian in Russia? Oh, of course not, sorry, my mistake ... you can only be racist for pointing out that fact about England and nowhere else.

[@stephfoxwell4620]

But what about climate change and the slave trade?