1974: BAKERY has folk queuing AROUND THE BLOCK | Nationwide | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

[@16Arson]

That’s my grandad, Prentice, being interviewed at 2:00 - I often come back here just to hear his voice again. A mighty man in his day, a teacher by trade! He continued to receive Christmas cards from many of his former students until his passing in 1987. Love you, granda Prentice, never forgotten and always remembered with fondness 🙏

[@snowdog9954]

❤

[@sarahharbert8944]

Aww that's just wonderful that you can watch this clip any time of your grandad 😊

[@BecauseJapan]

God Bless your granddad I can tell he was a gentleman.

[@DAndyLord]

Can I strongly suggest you download this clip, just in case it is removed for some reason. I'd hate for you to lose this treasure.

[@16Arson]

@@DAndyLordThank you! I have done so. Screen recorded his little bit and saved 🥰

[@abismith5668]

My ex once got some jam doughnuts from that shop that were rejected for having too much jam. What a day that was.

[@charlesteton]

😭😭😭

[@TheCatBilbo]

That's it then: you've won at life!

[@jjr1728]

Pics or it didn't happen

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

Jammy git

[@self-preservationsociety7057]

I got a bakers dozen there once , only got 12

[@alexcrawford6162]

“A local bakery” with 49 shops. Now the largest bakery chain in the country with thousands of shops and operations overseas.

[@GCAbleism158]

And its still somehow better than some other chains. I would rather eat a greggs than a McDonalds.

[@colindavid2078]

Thing is, I wouldn't call Greggs a bakery, more a coffee shop with treats now. Don't think You can go in for a loaf of bread and some pancakes can you?

[@OffGridInvestor]

I WISH we had greggs here in Australia. McDonald's is getting overpriced to hell and hungry jacks is cheaper for the amount but I'll still spend AU$15.

[@daviddorrian5349]

​@@OffGridInvestor Greg's is getting very over priced here, who knows the premium they'd ad for being in Australia. Not only that they getting very greedy on fillings in their pies and sandwiches. It's gotten so bad I only buy coffee from there now.

[@richardwillson101]

​@@daviddorrian5349 coffee from Gregg's? I find that stuff undrinkable 🤮

[@TheCatBilbo]

These films are a time capsule - the accents, fashions, environment. Talk about a different world, although people dont really change that much.

[@GoodJobLittleBuddy]

Just the sound of the old engines in the background is fascinating.

[@Sweetie8387]

This is so true, love it

[@TrueSkyl1n3]

Certainly was less ‘enrichment’ back then.

[@jonk9697]

The shops still there and the accents are very much still there

[@lewis123417]

The past is another country as they say

[@ma6579]

Right beside my old school and in the year I started there. I counted three old faces I knew in that video and remember those long queues every day they opened.

[@cornbeef]

I wish more stores did this now. A day old pie is still good to eat. So much is wasted from a lot of stores, which I'd happily buy!

[@cryptocsguy9282]

@cornbeef There's an app called too good to go which does something like that , idk of greggs participates

[@Jorhan]

The bakeries near me all sell misshapen products at a discount, but you have to ask. They don't advertise this

[@oeufsurplat]

This exact shop is still open and doing this!

[@BenNewton-c6z]

Try your local food bank. Mine in Barking, East London regularly donates pies, sausage rolls and cakes which are perfectly good to eat one day after the expiry date also bread.

[@cornbeef]

@@BenNewton-c6z Appreciated, but I'm happy to pay a discounted price for a day old pie. Just would rather see this more than the waste thrown away

[@dmcc757]

My pal used to live above gregs, early in the morn 2am, the gregs driver would appear, with fresh stock, taking the day befores away, we used to sit playing the nintendo 64, stoned lol, then run downstairs , the drivers would always say ,just take what you want, munchy time lol, good days, shoutout to cormy,hoggy,sween & gal , duke st glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Distorted-Vision]

Living the dream!

[@dmcc757]

@@Distorted-Vision lol we were 12/13 years old👍

[@Distorted-Vision]

@@dmcc757 Stoned at 13? Only in Glasgow. Definitely living the dream!

[@rossmccabe3667]

Am a fifer bud ❤

[@jamesphlames7498]

N64, hash and Greggs! That's the pinnacle of human satisfaction right there!

[@andrewgnys6285]

I worked in a bakery when I was a kid and I remember one of the bakers rolling sausage rolls while smoking a cigarette. I think the secret back then for flavour was that no one washed there hands. Great video.

[@lornocford6482]

🤮

[@cryptocsguy9282]

🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@menelise]

My uncle worked in a sausage-making factory for a while. From then until the day he died he wouldn’t eat a sausage.

[@toker6664]

When i was a lad in the early 90s my local baker Lawsons sold day old cakes for between 5p and 10p, loved it, my primary school was across the road from it and the smell in the mornings was beautiful, sadly the bakers gone now

[@revengenerd1]

Greggs in my town in the late 90's/early 00's did that too, remember getting loaves of bread for around 10 or 15p and a bag of jam donuts for about 10p, and like 4 nice cakes for like 30p

[@paulpaul5606]

The people are all so lovely. Friendly and happy

[@BlueCrayon77]

"The only thing that would bother me I think is perhaps you're buying second-hand stuff" - This reporter is a bit of a simpleton.

[@jonathanlandau-litewski7405]

Reporters would use any chance they could to look down on anyone living in the North!

[@colindavid2078]

yes madam, You are buying a second hand pancake, someone has already eaten it, crapped it out, and reformed it into another pancake! yum!

[@yelb9135]

‘Yes, these pies have already been eaten, but I don’t mind’

[@stephenhumphrey7935]

Pie for sale. One careful owner. In good condition, apart from a few teeth marks. 1 shilling or nearest offer.

[@liveloud9894]

Are they being interviewed by Bob from the Likely Lads

[@Lin.J333]

I just love looking at the people the elderly women and men ,will never see the likes of them again..those days have long gone

[@wolfman6941]

R.I.P. To all those old folk.

[@tonybarrett8543]

Eating that stuff didn't add any years on for them

[@Smokey2Mc]

They got processed into sausage rolls.

[@UnIimited_Power]

​@@Smokey2McIt's what they would've wanted 😢

[@clavichord]

​@@Smokey2Mc I don't need to be processed

[@leebarrett9581]

What a stupid comment

[@doriskarloff964]

They had a Greggs seconds shop in Rusholme, Manchester in the early/mid 1980's. Steak pie for 10p. Loaf of bread - 20p. We queued down the street . Allegedly the Russian press got wind of this and reported on the terrible economic state of the UK, which had resulted in us poor downtrodden masses having to queue for bread every day.

[@cryptocsguy9282]

@doriskarloff964 Lmao the Russians were queuing for bread everyday too , there's lots of interesting cold war propaganda from back in the day. You should watch on youtube " Inside Gorbachev's USSR 1990" and "The people's century episode on the fall of communism if you can find it. Russians queuing for rotten fish from the super market and watching Oliver Twist and being led to believe that Britain of the 1800s is the same as Britain of the mid-late 20th century. Indeed Marx thought a communist revolution would happen in the UK and not Russia based on what he has seen in his life

[@jasonayres]

Those pies would be nearly fifty years old by now. My goodness, where does the time go?

[@pipmcg1]

😂

[@kylesanders9]

To be fair, Gregg’s do have a decent shelf life! 😁

[@jasonayres]

"Preserving our history"😆

[@kylesanders9]

@@jasonayres I saw what you did there! 😌 Creaming off more jokes including the preserve…. Scones anyone? 😌

[@TheGreenReaper]

And you know someone would still buy them, at the right price.

[@Psykelektric]

The irony being that the quality of this "reject" stock is almost certainly massively superior to what Gregg's knocks out now at full price.

[@lewis7515]

Absolutely packed with filling, and loaded with butter, lard, milk and salt...

[@redcropuk]

😂😂😂😂

[@thomasamos4055]

Greggs still has outlet shops.

[@zeddeka]

It's basically just stuff that they haven't sold and is about to go off .......

[@Jimbo-gi7xn]

​@Jack_Warnerabsolutely right. Nothing at all wrong with butter lard salt and sugar

[@itsrenderman]

It is cool to see that these still exist to this day as Greggs Bakery Outlet shops!

[@UnIimited_Power]

I love the way that lady who works there speaks, it's strangely soothing 😊

[@gmc9451]

My thoughts too. She has a lovely manner about her.

[@crabapples1995]

Lovely accent

[@hermanmunster3358]

That's her telephone voice!

[@__seeker__]

People used to speak that way. They typically didn’t use filler words and were comfortable with pauses in their speech in order to retrieve the best words to use. In other words, people spoke better.

[@chipbuttytime3396]

She picked it up whilst travelling on the bus through Gosforth with the window down

[@simonpowell9975]

403 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6PB. It's still there!

[@mistofoles]

Really ? Do they still sell seconds ?

[@RWL2012]

​​​@@mistofolesyes, according to the Google reviews, but the sign says Greggs Bakery Outlet now (I looked on Google Street View).

[@epoch71]

@@mistofoles Yup. maps.app.goo.gl/QfbHS4gaXiVGJ3it7

[@account-now-closed]

​@@mistofolesyes

[@obibraxton2232]

How wow I want to visit it if that still there

[@carltonascarf7694]

A company not selling stuff in bulk on moral grounds is unheard of today lol

[@st20332]

these people we're unified by a world war, this was the peak of british community action. People needed eachother.

[@JBTheMighty]

@@st20332 The War is the reason we lost the British community.

[@siewheilou399]

Of course the shop cannot sell the seconds to the hotels, the hotels do not want seconds.

[@kazsmaz]

​@@JBTheMightyno, wind rush and insane immigration is

[@jackdubz4247]

@@kazsmaz Why so racist?

[@fifagod1000]

What a peaceful voice the bakery lady had

[@fellspoint9364]

I love her whole delivery. Very pleasant

[@surreyscouse2873]

We had a Sayers bakery and a United Biscuits factory in Liverpool. The "reject" stuff was bang on. Who remembers big boxes or random broken biscuits for next to nothing?

[@ZSTOREY]

The days when Greggs was just a high quality, Newcastle bakery. It is a shame they went down the snack route and stopped selling a wide selection of bread.

[@cartoonhead9222]

The days of people going to the butchers, grocers, bakers, etc died with the supermarket.

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

Because no one bought the bread.

[@andywatts8654]

People are going back to their butchers, grocers and cheesemongers now

[@PopularesVox]

@@cartoonhead9222 Yes and people were lot healthier than they are now. Look at these old videos, do you see any fat people despite them queuing for pies and pastries.

[@jujutrini8412]

@@andywatts8654Good.

[@Charlotte66666]

Love seeing the older ladies and gent.

[@garryleeks4848]

They probably weren’t that old

[@Charlotte66666]

@@garryleeks4848 you're right lol.

[@spudspuddy]

whatever happened to hair nets

[@garryleeks4848]

@@spudspuddy in a museum

[@darrenedwards8433]

In them days 35 was the new 70!

[@butterfliesandtape]

I work in a large chain bakery at the moent and it's soul-destroying to watch how much stock goes straight to the pigs.....

[@dean6816]

The shop's still there called Greggs Outlet!

[@diamlee]

Which one is it? I was trying to work out where it was from the background, but I can’t place it!

[@dean6816]

top of Westgate rd, next door to the Najeb Supermarket@@diamlee

[@therewdy4038]

Im sure i Used to go to one about 20yrs ago in Birmingham, but i cant remember where it was exactly!

[@garethluvsthetruth6782]

there was no complants because if bread went stale it was turned into bread and butter pudding

[@cryptocsguy9282]

All those pies and sweet treats look delicious , I know a lot of people on the comments are saying modern greggs is bad quality but I still like it cheese and onion pasty steak bake chicken bake sausage roll 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

[@stevnreed7763]

love these archive films.

[@therewdy4038]

I love it when you see the prices we used pay!

[@fredo1070]

And look how popular Greggs is today.

[@spudspuddy]

don't like their food now, sausage rolls are horrible and they don't do lardy cake anymore

[@audiodead7302]

I live in Darlo. Zero Burger King. Zero Pret a Manger. Zero Starbucks. Zero Pizza Express. Six Gregg's.

[@MarkEliasGrant]

@@spudspuddy LARDY CAKE? British food. I just don't like the sound of it.

[@spudspuddy]

@@MarkEliasGrant lovely, like a moist cake, google it

[@hmq9052]

That's because the chavs have taken over

[@tjpj111]

Auto-captions is having a breakdown watching this

[@johnathanryan2117]

Greggs, has to be said, they are always very good at reinventing the wheel . Fair play to them.

[@johnathanryan2117]

@Mr_Smith_20 never said they did to be fair. Did, however, say they were good at " reinventing the wheel" , i.e taking an existing idea and manipulating it to the benefit of both them and their customers. They are effectively being Pound Bakery here decades before that company came into being. Not compared them with any independent baker either, favourably or otherwise.

[@johnathanryan2117]

@Mr_Smith_20 clothing lines? Not that ive ever seen anyone wearing it, but im assuming they sell enough to make it viable. Up here they also were the first to bring in coffee and seating areas too so theres two examples. , im not particular interested in their products, find them bland and expensive, , just paying credit where it is due.

[@johnathanryan2117]

@Mr_Smith_20 if you are ever in Bolton, Lancashire, comment on here again and ill take you to Ye Olde Pastie Shoppe in the town centre. Been going for centuries. Worth the price and a real treat. Carrs pasties too, superb

[@PopularesVox]

@Mr_Smith_20 To be fair I don't think their success resulted in the demise of so many traditional bakeries. They are a glorified snack outlet now. British people these days don't appreciate a good bakery like the French do.

[@thekaratekidpartii2169]

I honestly can’t remember the last time I saw an old lady smoking in the street. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it.

[@hilaryepstein6013]

Good for them, it's a jolly good idea. So much perfectly good food gets thrown away because it's not "up to standard", the right shape or a day over its sell by date. Why don't shops do this now.

[@philjones45]

They do!!

[@ChrisM-yr1vq]

Boots used to donate their leftover meal deal sandwiches to foodbanks but after someone complained they had a dodgy stomach one time, the policy changed. Now it's all put in the skip outback when the store closes. Just not worth the risk.

[@dawnlovejoy8917]

The shop is still there in exactly the same place

[@Cave_Monster]

They do - they have phone apps where you can see what's available in your area, pay a small fee and then go and pick up the food.

[@davidf2281]

Like @dawnlovejoy8917 says, the shop is literally still there, in the same place (Westgate Rd in Newcastle, opposite the primary school) and Greggs is still opening new ones. Their website says they aim to have have 50 of them open by 2025.

[@hovermotion]

Such a huge company now, sold on from the original owner years ago.. Well over 100m turnover last year. In Manchester they give a lot to the homeless ..

[@Scottinuk]

Greggs revenue for 2022 was 1.51 billion. That’s a lot of food!

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

Try billion hovermotion. And this isn’t about Greggs, it’s about their Greggs seconds shop, today called Greggs Outlet

[@john8451]

That Nationwide footage was shown on Soviet TV as evidence of food shortages in the UK! 😮😂

[@EdJonesVideos]

to be fair, it does look phenomenally bleak. I'm glad I didn't grow up then (I'd probably have been 10cm shorter if I had!)

[@ianhunt4147]

I grew up in the 70s in Coventry - I was cold all the time - 3 channels on tv we got tired of it - emigrated to South Africa 😂

[@alexanderrahl482]

​@@ianhunt4147How you liking South Africa now? 😆

[@ianhunt4147]

I come back to uk to work for a friend 3 weeks a year every year for the last 10 years You can see how it’s slipping - prices shot up - very angry people on both sides of the spectrum - health services standards have dropped jobs are zero hours or not available I’d say it’s a toss up which country potentially will eventually come right - I’ll still stay here in sa with all its faults

[@wardjunior1450]

@@EdJonesVideosbleak? It looks great.

[@thinguk]

I have a Greggs outlet store nearby. I use when going on a day trips as loads cheaper than a fresh store.

[@memofromessex]

Is that where all the vegan sausage rolls go because the two local stores in here in sultry South London never ever have any!

[@dreamclaw00]

This Greggs is still there today selling discount stuff. Great video!

[@ruskinyruskiny1611]

Time for a trip to Geordie land. You canna beat it.

[@jaymac7203]

I'm so glad that Greggs is still going strong today lol Best sausage rolls ever! 😋

[@ceefaxbbctv8788]

I love this. Seems like a lifetime ago, a quieter and slower pace of life.

[@PopularesVox]

Different people today, totally.

[@Alloneword-cp2xw]

Same people, just different social norms etc@@PopularesVox

[@tdegrddeehjgd]

Same people? Have you looked at a demographic of the UK recently?@@Alloneword-cp2xw

[@braille5575]

Yeah OK blinky​@@Alloneword-cp2xw

[@MrMann0123]

Humble beginning but already showing signs of the empire to come

[@AnthemisPatch]

The precursor to the yellow sticker haul you can still easily get in many a store, if you time it right, just like these venerable OAPs. A whole shop of that would be magic!

[@TheVideoGamesHistorian]

So sad thinking all the old people are gone now ,

[@dougie1968]

I suspect some are still alive and will outlive you if you had the COVID vaccine.

[@PopularesVox]

If that generation saw Britain today they would be genuinely be appalled, despite the difference in personal wealth.

[@hermanmunster3358]

But the pies are still there. They've now passed through 50 hands since this film was made.

[@GG-xo1dl]

yes. people die. very sad. did you also know water is wet?

[@hazza5999]

Love how KZbin auto subtitles struggles with the Geordie accent 😂😂😂

[@daniellamcgee4251]

The subliminal message to the British people in the early part of the voice over was awesome! 0:29

[@daniellamcgee4251]

Those poor old ladies and men, at Seven on weekends! 😢 Brutal! Young people today have no idea how demanding the forests were back then. They don't realise how lucky they are!

[@dean6816]

We speak the -queens- Kings English ya naa!

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

"couple of old ladies and a gentleman killed from seven at weekends"

[@JN003]

@@daniellamcgee4251 good catch, I'm trying to understand the context of "save the universe" in that sentence. I cant, could it have just been an editing error?

[@ruskinyruskiny1611]

Gregs at Leyland 1980, not only the best cakes in town, the staff were fab as well.

[@MindSetReset]

Any one remember Percy Ingles bakery ? I remember my Mum would request the loaf to be sliced in that noisy cutter and the 'ice cream coned cakes'😇R.I.P Mummy 😢🥲

[@Bella-fz9fy]

I remember ice cream cones with marshmallow stuff instead of a scoop of ice cream on and rainbow sprinkles all over the marshmallow,I don’t know why,but that was a real treat from the bakery as a child for me too,that and custard tarts😅(Did you mean them?)

[@jacquelinehillson9589]

Love the moral grounds , wish that mentality still existed in business.

[@HALLish-jl5mo]

Companies absolutely still take moral stances, though not always ones I agree with. Ben and Jerry’s tried to stop selling to parts of Israel, for example. But I don’t think this was a moral stand. They could sell to hotels, sure, but they’d risk repetitional damage if people first sampled their defective products without realising they were defective, and therefore formed false assumptions about average quality. Meanwhile, this shop, for only slightly higher overheads, gets the goods sold just as well, along with some free advertising.

[@bordersw1239]

It does - Greggs now calls them ‘outlet shops’.

[@cehaem2]

@@HALLish-jl5mo Ben&Jerry's never wanted to leave Israel. They original intent was to prevent their products being sold in the Occupied Territories through Israeli retailers. Shops in the Settlements pay taxes and VAT into Tel Aviv's coffers, not Ramallah's.

[@TryDiy]

And so the legend begins.

[@olivere5497]

0:10, old school domestic UK life, old grannies smoking and wearing them silly head scarves things. Amazing.

[@cryptocsguy9282]

@olivere5497 Them silly head scarf things are because the bible says women should cover their hair but as western society became more secular it became a fashion statement that women did util they become old

[@stephenhumphrey7935]

​@cryptocsguy9282 WTF are you talking about?? Women used to wear head scarves to protect their perms they had done in the hairdressers.

[@cryptocsguy9282]

@@stephenhumphrey7935 This goes back hundreds of years to when Europeans used to respect Christian values of course in more secular times there might be secular reasons for women to want to cover their hair too , it happens

[@olivere5497]

@@stephenhumphrey7935 yeah but thats how it was back then. I remember it, and people now days like to think babg boomers are evil, they never met the parents of the baby boomers.

[@shaunigothictv1003]

​@@cryptocsguy9282Yes its true about the headscarves. I guess that they were great cultural Christians but what i also know is that White anglo saxons today rarely follow any form of Christianity. The are largely athiestic in their mentality and lifestyle.

[@WeskerXM96E1]

There was a shop like that in Carlisle down Botchergate what 15 years ago, I used to buy half price scran.

[@stevestannard6004]

I love watching the olde footage it makes me wonder what they are doing today and I hope they get to see themselves or a relative on this broadcast.

[@swaneknoctic9555]

I would say the majority of these people will be well dead. Perhaps some folks passing in the background will still be alive, the couple pushing the pram and the kid in the queue etc.

[@daniellamcgee4251]

The lady interviewed who worked in the shop could still be alive. Anyone younger than about 55 years old then, could potentially be alive now. It was only 1974!

[@porly33]

The chances of reaching 100 years of age is currently approximately 0.02%, or 1 in 5,000. So, based on the relatively small sample size from the clip, it's highly unlikely that any of them over the age of 50 at the time will be alive today. Sad but true.

[@stevestannard6004]

@@porly33 there were a few bairns so fingers crossed.

[@Thebrightonexplorerxc]

We have Greggs outlet store and you save a fortune. We got two full bags for a tenner the other week.

[@dfpguitar]

Back in the 90s, the Greggs's in Birmingham were called Braggs. I remember them being so similar to what we see here from the 70s. Much more like a real bakery than what Greggs is today. They still sold literal loaves of bread. I remember eating those identical cream cakes as a kid in the 90s.

[@blaser80]

Braggs was a completely different company, Greggs bought the chain and merged them into the brand in 1999.

[@AliKhan-cd7hs]

Yea I remember Braggs as a small kid and the fresh bread they used to sell. I also remember we were so young that when they changed there name to Greggs we was upset about it.

[@AliKhan-cd7hs]

Yea I remember Braggs as a small kid and the fresh bread they used to sell. I also remember we were so young that when they changed there name to Greggs we was upset about it.

[@AliKhan-cd7hs]

Yea I remember Braggs as a small kid and the fresh bread they used to sell. I also remember we were so young that when they changed there name to Greggs we was upset about it.

[@dfpguitar]

@@blaser80 it had exactly the same branding and store layouts. I visited Aberystwyth in around 1997 and was surprised to find shops called Greggs which were otherwise identical to the Braggs in Birmingham. Maybe they merged much earlier before my time.

[@TheChodax]

Used to visit the one in Openshaw in the early 1980s, that shop kept a lot of really struggling families fed during difficult times.

[@mrsalvatore1234]

now known as Greggs outlet

[@thenext9537]

Here I am watching ancient footage a year before I was born lol.

[@ryanohara476]

I live in Devon and we got our first Gregg's in 2019 I love any of their non seafood products. their ham and cheese baguettes are delicious! Their sausage rolls and their cheese toasties! I also love their delicious selection of confectionery bakery products, ginger bread, doughnuts, Belgian bun etc!

[@audiodead7302]

Their sh*t sandwich is lovely. Just brush yer teeth afterwards.

[@braille5575]

Devonistan you mean.

[@Bella-fz9fy]

Me too,especially the hot sausage rolls.2019,that’s so late,but at least you’ve got one now😅

[@flapjackcathat]

2:18 “Michael that was just a noise”😂

[@EzioAuditoreDaFirenze99]

Today Greggs gives their "seconds" to foodbanks, community fridges, other community schemes and homeless shelters.

[@Nailsnailsnailsallday]

I’m from London. I was brought up in Camden town from Rosehill and also Great Portland Street that is basically the West End quakes was an amazing bakery and we had amazing local bakeries that were so old and have now been closed down and turned into new revamped buildings or new space It’s really sad. I talk to my mum brothers and sisters about old restaurants old Cafes old bakeries that were so amazing so fresh so kind warm sweet people amazing goods and now I just ghosts. Greggs bakery is amazing their sausage roll even their sandwiches and it’s so cheap so please ever watching this if you’re in America don’t think that all we are our roast dinners we have so much to offer we have such healthy good food.

[@gmc9451]

No doubt thirty years earlier, at the end of WW2, those same older people thought better times were ahead.

[@HarryFlashman.]

Greggs do this now. We have a shop in Preston.

[@ethan3709]

Now we queue around the block to see the dentist

[@cryptocsguy9282]

@ethan3709 Perfect Russian propaganda yet it's true , that's why foreigners think all Brits have bad teeth

[@YoBoyMarcus]

How come? They don't give appointments?

[@moniquem783]

Who does?

[@cryptocsguy9282]

@moniquem783 we the people of the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 because the NHS is useless & too many people are useless at caring for their teeth 😬 properly & don't even get me started on those who have halitosis because they do not realise that brushing your tongue 😛👅 is important for fresh breath

[@tennex7454]

They used to have a shop down in hare hills in Leeds but it sadly shut down when I was in my teens...absolutely loved going there before and after college. need to bring them back I think, It'll help so many people

[@thorthaksake8680]

To the gent saving "50p a week" roughly £36 a month in today's rate. More than you'll save at Tesco's.

[@kylebeetham3679]

I love these futuristic videos of what Britain will be like in 5 years from now

[@LittleMissPyeWacket]

The era of headscarf's and hairnets.

[@garryleeks4848]

Might make a comeback

[@paulhease1007]

for everyone over 45 that's our Nan we are looking at...

[@MohamedShou]

@@paulhease1007I thought you British people hated headscarf’s and called “barbaric” 🤨

[@dax8753]

Yes as a child this was my nan

[@christophercooper6731]

it weRe ... tHe eU .... ......wot baNdeD thEm ..

[@leahknight1031]

Remember a Braggs/Greggs 'clearance' shop in the Midlands. You would walk away with black bags full of goodies. Happy Days

[@DemonetisedZone]

2.31 Wee guy poking his head up to the camera, i had the exact same haircut covers the ears like earmuffs🙉

[@TheDantheman12121]

about a year ago just down the road from me they opened a greggs store similar to this only selling day old stuff. I love it

[@robertpreston4869]

49 shops fast forward 49 years and they've got hundreds of shops nationwide

[@csb7376]

Used to be a bakery in an industrial unit about 50 yards from our senior school. They had a hatch where you could buy day old cakes for pennies. Always plenty of us topping up on our breakfast on the way in.

[@TakeMeToYoFishmonger]

The origin of a legend. Hell yeah

[@Backwardlooking]

A different era and folk who deserved better. 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@Occident.]

How do they "deserve better"? I'm from this area. The vaste majority didnt even bother to vote in elections. They still don't.

[@scotttait2197]

​@Occident. This is why we have the cretins in power at the moment just to be replaced by more of the same

[@leechilds3725]

Definitely 👍

[@musicjunk8266]

sensible folk. votes are BS.@@Occident.

[@stephenhumphrey7935]

​@@Occident.How'd you know they didn't vote?

[@shaggydog9789]

There’s still Greggs outlet shops that serve the same purpose as this, there’s one in Walker and one in South Shields for example.

[@beebopvroop5218]

Westgate Road in Newcastle, used to queue there on a Saturday morning with my parents, happy days. It's still there as a Greggs seconds shop. 😋

[@claymor8241]

Is it?

[@beebopvroop5218]

@@claymor8241 It is.

[@Levi_Skardsen]

​@@claymor8241Yeah, it's called Greggs Outlet now.

[@jacquelinehillson9589]

Delightful.

[@liamb8644]

I was there yesterday now surrounding it are full of Middle Eastern kebab shops

[@triplevxd]

Those chocolate cakes actually look really good!

[@hermanmunster3358]

Mum used to buy those, and sometimes they had a half Cadbury's flake on top, which I used to nick when mums back was turned. They used to do fresh cream sponge cakes with apple too, which were fokkin godgeous!

[@jonk9697]

This shop is still in exactly the same spot 50 years later.

[@alanlittle3941]

Greggs of Gosforth ❤

[@kenrehill8775]

“Second hand goods”, what like someone’s already eaten it?

[@markopolo-1]

Used to love a Greggs, was the place to go for a spot of lunch, even during my working day I would always do a Greggs over any other place, but now it's just a joke, like most places, cold food and crap service. Back in my younger days my dad used to take our son into the Gregg's seconds shop where we stayed in Glasgow, Toryglen and believe it or not, Jim Kerr's mother used to work in there, Irene, and she used to give my (then about 2) son free cakes as he sat on the counter, always reminded him of this as he grew up that the lead singer of Simple Minds mum, Irene, used to feed him cakes in the shop and now he tells this story to his kids to their disbelief !! Great times, great people, sadly missed now.

[@cryptocsguy9282]

@markopolo-1 Bring your kid in to get free food , sounds like a good idea in these economically challenging times , :)

[@Ineedyoulou]

There was a bakery in Lambs Conduit street Holborn. I remember the ques used to go from the shop all the way around the corner. Best Jam doughnuts ever.......

[@carmellewis2466]

When Lamb's Conduit St had proper shops..

[@Ineedyoulou]

@carmellewis2466 Absolutely. I used to live round the corner in Orde Hall Street. Growing up in the 70s / 80s was the best times ever.

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

Look how big everything is compared to today

[@harry4901]

I LOVE Newcastle. Amazing people, just some lovely characters here.

[@WillScarlet1991]

Greggs in the 70s?? I thought they only existed from 2000 onwards! 😱😱

[@davejohnson3474]

I thought the same i never knew greggs was oldskool

[@eclectica1]

The first shop opened in 1951.

[@davejohnson3474]

@@eclectica1 wow i had no idea but i wonder if they were more up north than down south as to why us southeners hadn't seen one before

[@primalconvoy]

Greggs is from Newcastle. I went to one around 2004 and ate a type of bread found mainly/only in the Newcastle area (a signature item of Greggs). It was like a bread roll and delicious. I don't think Greggs outside the area sells that bread though?

[@hermanmunster3358]

Who would've thought that the earth was inhabited by humans BEFORE the Millennium eh?

[@butterwortha1]

We used have one of these shops in Bradford 10 years ago. You could buy three sausage rolls for £1.00. If you want them warm, put them in the microwave when you are at home

[@daveyeddie8176]

That Greggs second shop is still there today Feb 2024

[@glassowlie]

Was that their first logo!? Wow, barely even counts.

[@prun8893]

Sometimes the misshapen ones provide the most pleasure. Not necessarily for the pensioners; but you never really know, really.

[@Scotland_Scorpion]

I wish we could go back to those days.

[@markfairfield1552]

Greggs toryglen was a seconds shop early to mid 80s , Jim Kerrs mum worked there, was never out of it, awesome

[@dazzag]

And not a vegan sausage roll in sight. Perfect

[@Alloneword-cp2xw]

Imagine getting triggered over someone else's life choices LMFAO I hope you find peace.

[@dazzag]

@@Alloneword-cp2xw Take a day off from being the perpetual victim. It was a joke. But thanks for proving a great point.

[@dazzag]

@@gan9e I had a bite of one once and it turned me into an unbearable bore that just wanted to force my opinion on people and when people presented me with facts that challenged my views I threw a tantrum. because I thought I was better than everyone else so I've not had one since

[@hermanmunster3358]

​@@Alloneword-cp2xwAre we any better as a society, really, for all the extra choices at our disposal? I suppose if eating a vegan sausage roll makes the consumer feel somehow more virtuous, then good for them. But to me, they are just insufferable boring cnuts, with only a nut roast for a friend. Be happy 😚

[@songindarkness]

Yes!!!

[@PikaJess123]

How BIG some of these items are compared to now

[@AndrewDaley-lr9qg]

And they will actually have meat in the pies.

[@qster]

A lot of that looked delicious! I bet the pigs weren't too pleased about this though

[@PopularesVox]

Yes, they would have loved those pies, they got our left over school dinners instead poor things.🤪

[@hermanmunster3358]

The ones from Market Street Nick had to pay full price. They weren't allowed to accept gratuities, in case they were compromised.

[@hermanmunster3358]

​@@PopularesVox I remember that, our school had a pig bin for all the waste food too. I expect it was luxury, compared to the pellets they were normally fed.

[@PopularesVox]

@@hermanmunster3358Wasn't a luxury the stuff from my school. The dinners were truly awful. The pig farm was nearby on a lane, and I use to think on passing, how can they eat that stuff 😃In adulthood I feel guilty that I didn't say to my mum I want to come hone for dinner sooner, and wasted plateful after plateful, or rather plastic tray full, which it was dished out onto. Still, the pigs weren't complaining, the dinner ladies were very friendly and it kept me thin.

[@mcguinnessav1980]

I can remember the old Greggs in Perry Barr Birmingham which was then called BRAGGS.They did pasty’s for 10p and penny doughnuts ! What a time to be alive ☺️

[@soundseeker63]

Having worked in retail I have to admit the amount of food wastage in the industry is criminal. Doubly so when you know there are so many people in this country struggling for food. Anything that reduces wastage is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. I'm guessing Greggs no longer do this? And yet they have outlets on just about every high street of the UK. What a shame.

[@cattysplat]

Wait until you realise most industry is based on waste. In built obsolesce, new smart phone every year, new car every 2 years, gadgets for everything you can imagine. Don't forget all that plastic food packaging.

[@soundseeker63]

@@cattysplat Yes and all that waste is terrible for the environment, but nobody actually NEEDS a new phone, new car, new TV ect. wheras everybody DOES need food and always will. So food waste in my mind is the very saddest kind of waste.

[@tisFrancesfault]

The Shop still exists as far as im aware.

[@celestesmith6060]

Young people these days...you won't find them getting up at 6 in the morning to go and queue for half price stale bread and mouldy cakes...Make Britain Great Again.

[@BinnyBongBaron_AoE]

And people say living standards have gone down...

[@PopularesVox]

Such people weren't alive back then.

[@peterrear2864]

There is a greggs seconds shop in south shields,locally called the second hand greggs

[@gives_bad_advice]

1:36. She's got a lot of character. I bet she was a hot number in her day.

[@UnIimited_Power]

If I was 50 years older! 😁