1975: A SKIING Safari to the ENGLISH ALPS | Nationwide | Niche Sports | BBC Archive

[@siwhite2445]

Its lovely to see the kids in kirkby keeping the traditional local winter sports alive and well today.

[@jale7967]

Watching this while sipping my tea and having a jolly good time.

[@jokeexplainer6006]

“By Job I needed that!” Killed me

[@dawnyWestScotland]

Loved the old footage, and the cars! ☀️

[@VInterPaul]

It's a glamorous little corner of the world we live in.

[@fredo1070]

Dig the 1970s skiing fashions, very Roger Moore.

[@DustyCustard]

Glang. Glang-a-langa langa langa langa lang.

[@petergivenbless900]

Very dashing, in a lemon ski-suit with maroon piping!

[@themadplotter]

And yes he’s necking with a lady 😊

[@smillabutryn7517]

This is so heartwarming piece and so funny...

[@kendrapratt2098]

4:20 And he just shrugs and goes on 🤣

[@jasonayres]

I'm feeling like this is "Deja vu,all over again," after another recently unearthed video of the ski slope built next to a motorway. They look like monuments, from afar. Monumental disasters, I suppose.

[@Reprobus3]

Deja vu, all over again 😂

[@memofromessex]

Can we please see the Nationwide video of the presenter above, James Hogg, trying to survive stranded on a Scottish isle with little more than a machete? It sounds hilarious!

[@tjm3900]

I remember that one !

[@ipunkhc]

This is great

[@PlanetImo]

I'm always fascinated to see stuff from this year, as it was the year I was born, but of course, I don't remember it.

[@octaviussludberry9016]

Wearing a seatbelt in 1975? Wow, impressed.

[@ceward28]

Well, it is a Volvo

[@keithrose6931]

😂

[@mtns7036]

We dont need a ski slope in kirby, well not at the moment, maybe in the future! Hehe . I seem to remeber one on my way to Aylesbury to visit my nan in the 80s... always a strange sight

[@nigelcarren]

Respect to this man for the correct pronunciation of the word plastic! Today the BBC think there is an 'R' in the word?

[@MichaelBosley]

Apparently the UK was going through a weird ski slope phase in the 70's. And all with the same build quality of everything else British in the 70's.

[@themadplotter]

It was all a bit dodgy, many of them were back handers and general Arthur Daley goings on. There was one where they made it and put in a paper *free rubbish dump* and they built it on top of that.

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

Kidsgrove Ski Centre still exists.

[@notreallydavid]

I remember when everything was these colours

[@Tee_Leaf]

Kidsgrove got its ski center in the same place pretty much and quite a nice one compared to some

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

Ski Centre*

[@michaelbyrne5507]

Nice car!

[@michaelt8682]

what car is he driving? its beautiful

[@jerseyjackstudios]

Volvo 1800ES

[@michaelt8682]

@@jerseyjackstudios I knew a guy with a plane as a picture would have the answer I needed ;) thanks man

[@Derek_C]

Volvo P1800 shooting-brake. Roger Moore drove the original P1800 coupé when he starred in 'the saint' Production of the coupé ended in 1972, the shooting brake was in production 1972-3. On checking I found that the car that James Hogg was driving is still on the road today! I wonder who the lucky owner is?

[@HALLish-jl5mo]

Volvo P1800ES Basically the estate version of the P1800S, which Irv Gordon bought in 1966, and drove for 3.2 million miles before dying in 2018, which looks set to remain the mileage record for a non commercial road vehicle. Second place is a Mercedes, currently in a museum on 2.85 million miles, for reference.

[@GrahamGroovyUK]

The one in Kendal in Cumbria managed a little more success, thankfully!

[@Dan23_7]

He missed out Rossendale and Sabden dry slopes 😂

[@greenman6141]

The banana ski suit. Almost as terrible as the Kirby ski slope.

[@dcallan812]

I have to admit it makes me sooo happy, to know that its not just modern-day councils throwing money away as it grows on trees

[@themadplotter]

Does anyone know what car that is? Is it a Volvo p1800 or similar?

[@LapsangTe]

The model was called Volvo P1800 ES.

[@douglasharley2440]

5:40 ah yes, the 1970s!...i remember it well. 😒

[@odakyuodakyu6650]

was there a dry ski slope boom/bust in the 70s?

[@mcwomble99]

Was certainly grim up north in the 1970's

[@christophercooper6731]

Two words: fun bins

[@pritchardpritchard8830]

We'll have none of that foreign sport around here. We need football 😂

[@Finallybianca]

What’s the car the dude is driving?

[@dh2032]

Volvo P1800 shooting-brake. Roger Moore drove the original P1800 coupé when he starred in 'the saint' Production of the coupé ended in 1972, the shooting brake was in production 1972-3. On checking I found that the car that James Hogg was driving is still on the road today! I wonder who the lucky owner is? and a side note, Basically the as the estate version of the P1800S, which a Mr, Irv Gordon bought in 1966, and drove for 3.2 million miles before dying in 2018, which looks set to remain the mileage record for a non commercial road vehicle. Second place is a Mercedes, currently in a museum on 2.85 million miles, for reference.

[@rensha8635]

Empty motorways - just goes to show the craziness of England’s main roads now.

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

Nope

[@Chudnut]

Is that a volvo he is driving?

[@dh2032]

Volvo P1800 shooting-brake. Roger Moore drove the original P1800 coupé when he starred in 'the saint' Production of the coupé ended in 1972, the shooting brake was in production 1972-3. On checking I found that the car that James Hogg was driving is still on the road today! I wonder who the lucky owner is? and a side note, Basically the as the estate version of the P1800S, which a Mr, Irv Gordon bought in 1966, and drove for 3.2 million miles before dying in 2018, which looks set to remain the mileage record for a non commercial road vehicle. Second place is a Mercedes, currently in a museum on 2.85 million miles, for reference.

[@jeshkam]

Popcorn

[@PlanetImo]

I spotted that too. :)

[@Schnorbitz]

I guess as a gateway into the 9/11 “conspiracy” this film might hook a few but there was nothing presented here that changes my mind.

[@ReubenTM936]

Love the snobbery. Notice it's all slagging off midlands/nw slopes not in the south! Luckily some have survived and produced Olympians!

[@danbul5853]

this video is skibidi boo

[@mrlotusmic]

You imagine if the old fella could see what Woking Council has done and the billions in debt for council tax payers with their scheme. He’d keel over 😂 Councils don’t change, just get worse.

[@ahassen1236]

What a waste of public funds. 40k in 1974 could buy you 25x 2 bed terraced properties back then. Imagine the rent and the uplift in value they could have accumulated in 50 years!

[@RinoaL]

This is so depressing lol

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

'lol' is a modern-day mark of a simpleton.

[@nervousheadache]

@@heraldeventsandfilms5970ur so smart lol

[@pauls8456]

That’s a thing of the past - councils building white elephants……

[@trevorastley1727]

And councils are still wasting money.

[@JanUl-ne5lg]

Great stuff - nobody speaks like that anymore and it is a huge pity to whatever little remains of Britain and her natives...

[@smillabutryn7517]

The way English used to speak was exactly the style I want to aim for studying English.

[@michaelt8682]

language changes and that should be celebrated, we have lost much of our working class accents as well. the modern southern english child is actually quite posh, although a different type of posh to this chap.

[@TrueFilter]

Nah it’s contrived and insincere.

[@smillabutryn7517]

This is so heartwarming piece and so funny...

[@smillabutryn7517]

This is so heartwarming piece and so funny...