1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive

[@jimbo6693]

I actually feel like crying when I'm watching this. This was my England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and my youth when England was for the English and we were a proud country..

[@ziggsstar]

You mean no black people? We were called 'the sick man of Europe' for a good reason.

[@ry491]

My late wife and I went to Scarborough every year for about 20 years. Our last visit 5 years ago was our last . We stayed at the Grand hotel. She died shortly afterwards. In a way I long to go back there but without my beloved wife it would break my heart. We were so happy there . Simple memories but so precious .

[@wobber999]

Sorry for your loss, the best memories are the simple ones.

[@raphaelnoz8321]

Ah, so sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing a bittersweet memory. I’m an American but what difference does that make to the human story. I hope you can go somewhere beautiful that your dearly departed can look down on you and smile knowing that you’re still here and enjoying something for you both. Best to you.

[@ry491]

Raphael . Thank you so much for your kind message . I send you my warmest wishes for a happy and healthy life .

[@charlie6751]

Bless you sir

[@HoolyDooly-si2zz]

Mum and Dad often took us kids there in the 1950"s back when seaside towns wre a good place to visit now they are all old and tired and neglected from that I see of them from Australia

[@MartinWhite-i5u]

Made me cry . I was 9 in this particular year. Simple beautiful times and I'm proud and happy to of lived in these times.

[@kevinbell8245]

My time to.

[@littleredrose6254]

Me too. Much happier times.

[@philipamer5855]

It may look grim to people today but when I was a kid this was how it was no costas or Florida and we loved it.Be grateful for what you had or have

[@LurkingCrassZero]

It was never grim. We used to ge here in the late 70's early 80's when I was a kid and I loved it.

[@tomthomas9708]

Why was everyone so ugly in those days?

[@swf4841]

I don't think it looks grim at all. I think it looks amazing. It's so nostalgic.

[@hilaryepstein6013]

These films are an amazing snapshot of life in Britain over the past 70 or so years. I loved seeing the old candy floss maker which seemed quite magical to me as a small child.

[@raphaelnoz8321]

So funny that we have such a different word for it here in the US- we call it cotton candy. If you said ‘candy floss’ people would think it had something to do with keeping your teeth clean (dental floss) 😊

[@hilaryepstein6013]

@@raphaelnoz8321 Also, we don't really use the word candy in the UK, we say "sweets" but not when it comes to candy floss!

[@Tapper1969]

I was 7 when this came out and lived in Scarborough having been born there. I moved away a few years later but my childhood days wandering around by the sea, cliffs and amusements are some of my best memories. My friends and I could go to the cinema or swim in the north and south bay pools without parental supervision and we’d be out all day. What a time. I loved it.

[@angelacooper2661]

You are therefore a year older than me, as I was just six!

[@M_Bamboozled]

Love 'quiet' documentaries where scenes & people tell all you need to know. Some sounds bring back memories - the train doors being closed is a sound we don't hear any more.

[@Susancorbinart]

I worked in the Scarborough Youth hostel one year after this, in 1977. Being a Canadian it was my first experience of an English seaside resort. An experience I came to love, later working in a hostel near Paignton and Brixham in Devon. Memories do lose their details however so it’s fascinating to see what it was like in 1976 - so popular and busy! A lovely portrait of the quintessential seaside resort in it’s heyday!

[@peterharvey1762]

Wouldn’t think it was the year of long hot summer looking at this film , making my dinner cold watching this

[@Vics251]

This was before that summer kicked in. 😎

[@hammerqos]

1977 was the hot summer. This was 1976

[@scott4361]

Sent this over to my mum and she loved it. Thank you BBC!

[@ppullman5470]

Yes, when the BBC was at its finest and wanted to represent all classes and parts of Britain. Completely different to the woke propaganda service we have today. No wonder they've lost half their licence fee subscribers; will they ever wake up?

[@johncalder5703]

“Live in hope die in despair” a bit of Yorkshire optimism

[@M_Bamboozled]

With fish and chips at 75p and the Icelandic cod wars on, I dare say the man was trying to catch his own fish and save some money 😉

[@happyapple4269]

proper practical thinking is that.

[@richardcwmason4492]

What a great video, such more laid back and innocent and people were just nicer in general

[@SmithMrCorona]

And then the boomers came along and turned everything to shite

[@DaveKerr-n7m]

I thought we had a litter problem these days, but the amount of litter there was shocking !

[@robbflynn4325]

Born in 1967. Had a week in Scarborough in the summer of 1979. It rained all week apart from the last day 😂. I remember making the journey in our little gold colored Hillman Imp. It barely made it over the Pennines. My sister and I had suitcases on our laps, a very memorable journey. Money was tight, but they were definitely happier times.

[@angelacooper2661]

You are therefore the same age as my brother Anthony. I am three years younger than you and would have been six - halfway through infant school here. Remember going to Scarborough aged fifteen (nine years later). Yes, I did see the Fair, but that was about five years ago!

[@robbflynn4325]

@angelacooper2661 My middle name is Anthony! My initials are RAF, but I ended up serving in the USAF! We emigrated to the USA in 1983, so these old videos bring back so many special memories, I'll probably watch it all over again!

[@chriswaring5565]

A LOTS CHANGED SINCE 1976 BUT I STILL GO IN AUGUST FOR A 2 WEEK STAY DID YOU SEE HIM SERVING THE ROAST SPUDS WITH HIS FINGER'S CAN'T DO THAT NOW

[@zeddeka]

Not sure I'd describe them as happier times. The 70s were utterly grim.

[@TheMockatiel]

We were a Hillman Avenger 😂

[@stevemills9982]

This was the day of my 21st birthday. Happy times 😢

[@garyrigby21]

I was 13 in 1976 I remember it being a hot summer. Good times

[@harold6863]

That was a great summer and no talk of global warming 😂

[@Jefferson1969-u4s]

I was 12. What a summer! I had rather hoped it would go on forever.

[@garyrigby21]

@@harold6863 hosepipe ban, ladybirds, Abba

[@garyrigby21]

@@Jefferson1969-u4s Space hoppers, flares, pogo stick

[@Jefferson1969-u4s]

@@garyrigby21 no Muslims 🤣👏👏

[@PaulJenner-xr4ks]

The litter was appalling, but that did take me back to happier times. 85p for Fish and Chips was expensive back then.

[@Victoria-gq8gt]

And now it's 20 quid!!! Disgraceful that supermarket fish and air fryer chips are what people can just about afford nowadays. All the chippies that are closed down, communities lose out, what a waste of a wonderful past time... going out and buying f&c...

[@triodehexode]

1976 had the long hot summer this looks like mid winter!

[@margaretmaskell9985]

The long hot Summer didn’t actually begin until the end of June.The temperature was below average until then,as this film shows.

[@M_Bamboozled]

I was 4 when this came out & seeing those little kids on the beach, I can't believe I was ever that young. Time flies, make the most of it.

[@arkyoptrix]

Scarborough is my second home. It's interesting how it just doesn't change but also has changed so much.

[@charlie6751]

Very true

[@VeteranHedonist]

I was born in December 1975 just before. I wasn't even one yet when this film was made. However, I have such fond memories of Scarborough. My mum couldn't have children because she had cancer of the womb in her early 20s and had to have a hysterectomy and other surgeries, so she fostered and adopted all her life. And in the 60s and 70, you didn't get lots of money like foster parents do today. I'm not saying today they do it for the money, but in the 60s and 70's it was for the love of helping children because the money you did get was not much more than child benefits. Plus my mum and dad ended up adopting 4 of us too. I was one of the lucky ones. Anyway, there was always quite a few of us, kids running about everywhere. It must have been a real headache. 🙄😁 However, even though money was short, we had an old Bedford van, we were like the 70s and early 80s Beverly Hillbillies 😁 But we didn't care. In Burnley where I was born (I think) but definitely raised all my life, we used to have our summer holidays two weeks before most other towns and cities, etc. So we packed as much as we could in the van and even though they hadn't much money, we used to go away every year, TWICE in summer we'd go to places like Tenby in Wales or Devon, Dorset, down that way. Mostly the south West. We used to book a small static caravan on a park where they had free kids activities like swimming and holiday clubs and two of us, normally the two eldest which were my sisters both were over 10 years older than me (the youngest) and my youngest sister who was a year older than me. Anyway, (if you're still reading, I always go off on a tangent and end up writing autobiographies 😂) every September we Burnley had another week holiday for schools and factory workers etc. My dad worked at Michelin for over 40 years and for our September holidays we always went to Scarborough and I loved it. The old counterbalance trams to get you the hill (Correct me if I'm wrong naming it). The massive ice creams with three big scoops in. The best thing, though, for me was Peasholm Park. Beautiful park with lots of things to do for kids, but the main attraction was the World War 2 Model Navel Battle. It was amazing for a young lad. My earliest memories are probably from 1981 ish onwards. And we all were treat exactly the same and got the same spending money etc, apart from when my eldest sisters got to their teens and wanted to go to the caravan park disco, so I think mum would of give them a little more then, Just like me and my younger sister when we got to that age. Sometimes, they'd take us to the disco and get us big gob stopper bubblegum from the bubblegum machine. And I always got told to stop staring at the mean looking punks 😂 and the New romatics and their clothes etc. It was a whole new world. And watching my two eldest sisters going for it on the dance floor doing the most 80s dance ever. Where you just kick one foot to your left, then the right with the occasional finger clicks and arm movements. The best bits, though, were when Black lace or Russ abbots 'Atmosphere' was played by the DJ 😂 And what was the song where everyone sat down and did this weird rowing gesture to the song? What song was that? The esrly 80s were so bizarre, haha. It was a big melting pot of all different subcultures. Some that had disappeared, but come back like the Mods and Skin heads and Ska and post punk and the Punks that wouldn't stop being punks 😂For a young lad at my age though it was like going to the star wars bar. All these totally different looking people all dressed differently and speaking differently etc. It's the small things in life that make you happy. And the memories from being young when your family was all closer and you went away with your grandparents and aunties and uncles etc. Some nights we'd just stay in the caravans playing domino's and cards, monopoly etc while my Grandma drank Sherry and others were drinking Babyshams, snowballs, martini rosso 😁 I was allowed little sips to taste it. You'd probably get done for that now 😂. I used to love the taste of Bailey's though. Sometimes my dad would put a tiny bit on ice creams. Not walking down the seafront with a bottle of Bailey's, but ice cream we used to put in the caravan freezer in tubs. So many fond memories. Then when I got to about 9 or ten my dad took me on my first sea fishing trip down near Bridlington down the road. He'd already got me into course fishing and I was casting my own fly rods about 8/9 year old. But my first sea fishing trip was so exciting. Sometimes, more often than not without modern radar and all that, some fishing excursions would catch absolutely nothing, but my first ever sea trip out I caught a plaice, Dog fish and a small cod and I don't think one person on that boat didn't go home empty handed. Then I was hooked (excuse the pun 😂). I once went on a fishing trip off Scarborough or Whiteley Bay (can't remember exactly) when I was about 14 with my dad and it looked a really calm day, but harbours can be deceiving. It looked really calm but as soon as we got out of the harbour the boat started rocking and the captain kept the engines on for ages. It was only about 4 miles, but it felt like we'd travelled to Denmark it took hours, and the conditions got alot worse. Every person, including the skipper, was sick. Sea sickness is much worse than just normally being sick. Even when you get back, which seemed like the longest boat ride ever and got of the boat everything still felt like it was bobbing and moving. Anyway I'm going to shut up now. I bet I've bored so many people 😂😂😂 I just don't know when to shut up haha. I'd be very surprised if anyone's made it to the end and read everything. Better stop now the osteoarthritis in my thumbs and hands is giving me hell. I'm not even 50 (Just quite yet) and live in the body of a 90 year old. 🙄😁 Anyway, thanks again Scarborough for all the memories that will stay with me forever, even though there's only me and my sisters and cousins left now, that's why I cherish it so much when all the families used to come with us. ❤

[@jerryduhon1075]

I ENJOYED READING ABOUT YOUR CHILDHOOD.. AWESOME

[@meagain3876]

The tramway to the beach is called a funicular. The song is 'Oops up side your head' by The Gap Band. I've had many visits to Scarborough Beach, both as a child and taking my kids there. I'm so glad that you've got so many happy memories of visiting Scarborough and of your childhood in general. ⛱️🪣🍦

[@TheMockatiel]

I’m 3 years older than you.The star wars bar is a brilliant description of the pubs n clubs of those times 😂 All the different subcultures sat in clusters. I was one of them. All those old ladies reminded me of my Gran I just wanted to fall into their arms. ❤

[@raphaelnoz8321]

Yeah, you can judge yourself, but not everyone reading will. I also liked hearing (reading ) your story. Maybe that’s why- it was like listening to someone tell stories that brought a smile to their face. ..and smiling is contagious. 😊

[@Jefferson1969-u4s]

That’s a dissertation!

[@Jack_Warner]

I wish I could go back to 1976. I was 14. I only wish I'd been old enough to drive.

[@angelacooper2661]

If I went back to 1976, I would have been six and halfway through infant school then, eight years younger than you!

[@chriswaring5565]

I WAS 10 YEARS OLD IN 1976 CAN REMEMBER THAT LONG HOT SUMMER WATER SHORTAGES

[@mbgames73]

Growing up in Whitby down the road in the 1970's and 80's, this film fills me with happy childhood sounds and unlocks memeories.Was always lots of working boats and loud characters and old ladies with plastic scarfes on their heads with shopping bags. All gone now.

[@dino575]

I was 8 years old grew up less than 30 miles from Scarborough -I wonder on that day what me and my family were doing - so many of them now passed - and I live in a world I hardly recognise anymore - it makes me sad - life seemed simpler then ... maybe I am wrong but it is how it makes me feel watching this reel.

[@robwilton9539]

I sold popcorn on Skegness beach during the heatwave of '76, aged 15. When the Red Arrows flew over I sold 288 bags in half an hour and made £8.80 in commission. Happy days!

[@FrankJCarver]

About £50 in today's money. Lucky devil.

[@robwilton9539]

@@FrankJCarver Thanks for the reply Frank. Yes, at the end of the season I bought a brand new Carlton Corsa racing bike for £74. A fortune! So about £440 in todays money?

[@Victoria-gq8gt]

Wow you've got a mighty fine memory to remember the exact money you received!

[@robwilton9539]

@@Victoria-gq8gt LOL, not that great a memory really Victoria. It was a record breaking event so it sticks in my mind. The bags of popcorn were packed in boxes of 72 and sold for 10p each (£7.20). On any typical day we would only sell around three boxes for a whole day's work. We had a six foot, square edged, wooden pole and we used drawing pins to attach the bags to it, three at a time. (Sore thumbs!). The result was what looked like a giant corn-on-the cob. The most we could fit on the pole, and actually lift the weight, was four boxes. The shop owner got a fiver and we got the £2.20 per box.

[@rensha8635]

I watch these archive videos to remember the people of Britain as we all were then. Loyal, peaceful, polite society and we’re proud of who we were.

[@eliotclarke1129]

Best invention of the 20th Century - those little motorised road sweepers

[@pit_stop77]

Well they were old times, maybe not great. All those middle aged men would have served in the war, so respect to them

[@peaeater1]

Some of the older may well have served as teenagers in the Great War!

[@Wreckhead]

I spent a week in Scarborough one night. The window in the B&B I was staying in couldn't shut properly, oh how the North Sea blew a gale through that gap. Cold as.

[@jameshardy6277]

lol

[@SimonEllwood]

Great hearing Johnny Walker who has just made his last show.

[@steveosshenanigans]

At 9..29 Yes indeed

[@marine4lyfe85]

15:57 The senior citizen with a Bay City Rollers hat.

[@MrMerrrrrrr]

Wow 🤩 what a beautiful video. Me and the wife’s happy place my in-laws let me tag along back in 1993 a couple of teenagers back then. Still love the place today. Scarbados xxx

[@kenstevens5065]

Still plenty of blokes with suits, collars and ties on ready for a day on the beach!

[@wobber999]

I preferred Scarborough back In the 70s and the tree walk wonderland was brilliant.

[@craiglbeaumont]

When did the Tree Walk Wonderland close down? I remember it in the mid-80s.

[@wobber999]

@@craiglbeaumont It closed In 1990 unfortunately, there are attempts to get It back and running again but as usual scarborough council are dragging their feet, the same goes for the mere that was brilliant too as a young lad.

[@bryansmith1920]

I was born in Chatham Kent 1954, I got Married in Welling in Kent, 1975, I lived in Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, in 1976 with that years Drought, Bags of gravel in your loo Cistern, to reduce water usage, Of Course 1977 was Queen Elisabeths Jubilee, I never made it up to North Yorkshire, until the early 90's, I still live in Peterborough, But me little Sis made it up to Peterlee, What a fantastic Isle we live on, Best in the World,

[@cannonfodder6654]

This is excellent!

[@hoisin75]

If they could see what's happened to the grand hotel since their hearts would break

[@chriswaring5565]

AYE SALMONELLA TOWERS AS I CALL IT

[@dawnyWestScotland]

Loved this! 💛

[@AtheistOrphan]

I was 11 years old in 1976, and got heatstroke from running around with my friends all afternoon during the heatwave.

[@zeddeka]

I remember going to Scarborough as a very young child in what must have been the late 70s or very early 80s and there being a greenfly swarm in the city. There was a drunk in a doorway sitting eating chips that were covered in them. A week later there was a swarm of ladybirds trying to eat the greenfly.

[@M_Bamboozled]

Where I grew up we had a blackfly swarm in the hot summer of 1976. I was playing in an overgrown bit of garden and got loads of them in my hair. I was only 4, so I was put in the kitchen sink and hosed down 😂

[@AtheistOrphan]

Being based in Sussex we used to alternate our seaside trips between Littlehampton, Bognor Regis, Brighton, and the Isle of Wight (Sandown, Shanklin and Blackgang Chine).

[@nigelhall6714]

The litter is quite shocking.

[@vintagepipesnightmares]

I was just thinking how little of that colonialism and pillaging the world for centuries actually got to the common people It’s astonishing!

[@andydixon2980]

Bloody northerners. 😅

[@JJONNYREPP]

1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive 1049am 26.11.24 you think that's bad. go to Margate and walk down the prom at 4am or 5am prior to the fine old road sweepers and trashmen setting to work. post-apocalyptic is not the word.......

[@johnd8538]

It was like that everywhere then, I was 8 when this was made and about that time at school they were drumming it into us about littering. There was a song, milk bottle tops and paper bags, iron bedsteads, dirty old rags...

[@Happyinmyautotrail]

The litter!! It’s easy to think this is a modern problem but obviously our nation has always been scruffy. I really don’t remember litter when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s

[@raycathode]

This is priceless thank you.

[@MichaelParkinson-c4s]

Campervan on the North Bay in 1976. Now stopped from overuse and abuse. I remember the guy shouting the morning newspaper. Hasn't changed much really in Scarborough.

[@lemmy6782]

There's another great Scarborough vid on KZbin summer of 1972 .

[@johnathanryan2117]

" We're from Blackburn!" Fair owd treck for the day that.

[@garyrigby21]

She said Bradford

[@JJONNYREPP]

1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive 26.11.24 1053am i wouldn't admit to that... good idea, though - shouting out the time of the last train to one's home town... the day's yer own, then...

[@MichaelLoda]

I love this channel so much

[@Spicedforlife]

That litter was outrageous.

[@phelimoneill8000]

Have seen many about Scarborough…being born in 1966 and living there for 5 years in my 20s…this I very much relate to…….definitely one of the best and must sees….FIVE STARS……..JOE

[@sonnysingh2617]

Wonderful marvellous video footage of seaside life from the late 70s..absolutely priceless..thank you for posting 🙏🙏

[@johnw65uk]

Going to send this to my 90 year old mum, she’s from Yorkshire and she always complains about how much litter there is on the streets these days and nobody cares 😂

[@dannywhite3538]

Oh what a long hot summer that year.

[@mjruston1]

Has this been made just for me? Thank you.

[@melthebell33]

tbh i dont remember ever going to Scarborough as a kid despite coming from Sheffield, we went to Blackpool, Cleethorpes, Mablethorpe a lot, it wasnt until i got my own family we went a couple of times, now i live near Whitby.

[@nervo6321]

For anyone brought up in Yorkshire or Wearside and Tyneside this is beautiful.

[@scotmorley8526]

superb

[@mikebutler3263]

Quite charming.

[@andrewrussell4707]

I was in Scarborough as a child, either 1964 or 1965. Went to see ‘The Black and White Minstrel Show’ which was an amazing spectacle to an 11 year old. More recently went there in 2019 on a day trip from Flamborough Head. It’s a nice place, much nicer than Bridlington, but then an abattoir is more welcoming than Bridlington!! Scarborough is well worth a visit.

[@simonkane]

Phenomenal. Thank you for sharing.

[@amandawhiteley6737]

I was 10 in that year, a fabulous summer, but we were at Filey that year, mid August ❤❤❤😊😊😊

[@mozdickson]

Extremely hard working camera and sound crew - mustve been exhausting

[@TrueSkyl1n3]

Just look how happy and chatty people are, must be something that changed since then which has made everyone bloody miserable and unsociable… some kind of demographic shift.

[@zeddeka]

You russian trolls are getting so useless. People were so "happy and chatty" back then that Scarborough had a massive paedophile ring led by Jimmy saville and Scarborough's mayor, Peter Jaconelli. Maybe you prefer nonces.

[@jerryduhon1075]

WONDERFUL VIDEO

[@londonmadeeasy]

Being a North Yorkshire lad I’ve spent many a depressing bank holiday in Scarborough

[@AlberttheFlasher-i7w]

Why were you depressed?

[@Jamez1093]

@@AlberttheFlasher-i7wbecause it’s a dump pal

[@ianwhitehead691]

Being a Lancashire lad I've spent many a depressing bank holiday in Blackpool 🤣👍🏻

[@bugandbay]

Nice to see the naval battle at Peasholm park which is still going strong & in its 97th year, well worth a visit 🤍

[@andrewboddy3958]

thought that was peasholm park, that was my favourite place in Scarborough. Loved the water splash.

[@mohammedfrancis]

Did you see that? Scarborough Fish n chips fur 75p. Haddock /chips, 85p. Plaice /chips - a £1 and a full brekky of ham, bread, eggs and chips for a whacking £1.10. Where'd 50 years go a time when quids was quids?

[@mci6830]

I did 😮😂

[@AlberttheFlasher-i7w]

£1 in 1976 is £6.59 in today's money.

[@mohammedfrancis]

​@AlberttheFlasher-i7w Agreed. I wonder if it's more. In 1970, I would get a good handful of chips for sixpence, a belly full for 5p and a mountain's worth for 10.

[@ianwhitehead691]

Chippy tea 😋 And the portions looked bigger.

[@andydixon2980]

Looks equally wholesome and hellish. More hellish😀 Most of these old seaside towns are desolate and unloved now.

[@annieoldfield1]

Loved watching that!! The memories!

[@LocutorBritanico]

Great to see life in the UK back in the 70s.

[@Paul-010]

Yes, so much better than today.

[@angelacooper2661]

Especially when you are infant school age, like me - I was just six!

[@Jefferson1969-u4s]

Before woke hysteria and mass Muslim immigration.

[@horrortackleharry]

1:15 Ah yes, Peter Jaconelli- mayor of Scarborough, good friend of the great Jimmy Savile and a fellow fan of the younger generation.

[@barrycuda3769]

"Bob Scarborough Ferris ". " Likely lads reference".

[@ccs8575]

So much litter!

[@ByJimineeItsBREXIT-z2k]

31st May, 1976....days later the temperatures rocketed to 90*+ Fahrenheit for 90 days non-stop - not a drop of rain. It was ferociously hot, lawns turned yellow, then brown....and reservoirs dried up. A brutal heatwave across the whole of the UK. Then mercifully, the heavens opened on 31st August Bank Holiday.

[@susanyork5089]

the best night club in Yorkshire , Scene 1 and 2 , The Mandrakes local band , Robert Palmer their main singer he lived in Scarborough, yes that Robert Palmer ! Glasgow fortnight , Rowntrees fortnight , oh happy days, me mam loved Scarborough, Filey and Primrose Valley

[@kingofkroon]

Yes Scene 3 and 4 was in Halifax.

[@ianwhitehead691]

The Mandrakes were they a Local PuNk band? I remember SeX PiStOLs playing Scarborough in 1977. 🧷👍🏻

[@susanyork5089]

@ most definitely not , this was the 60s , Robert Palmer was at college then , so young but it was Soul stuff , long before his Addicted to love and other great stuff , he was Class !

[@paulkearslake]

Lovely to see so many people without masses of tattoos, face piercings or excess body fat.

[@M_Bamboozled]

I wonder how many were judgemental too.

[@atomictraveller]

@@M_Bamboozled i wonder how many GET IM GET IM rofl sweet jesus get a load of yourself

[@stephenscales353]

About five years later they all died of smoking related lung cancer.

[@portcullis5622]

Hearing those Radio 2 jingles and introductiions, it is obvious where the late Victor Lewis-Smith got his inspiration for his irreverent radio and television programmes (especially when I accidentally played the film and audio.at X 1.75 speed!).😂

[@raijinenel3116]

15:46 this was some cheeky editing!

[@clarissa1976]

Thanks for sharing

[@kaymann8007]

God, this is gorgeous.

[@diabolicalartificer]

The fashion's are different, no deck chairs any more & doubt a few 100 people would attend an organ recital, but not much has changed. It's still beer, fish & chips & lying in the sun, having a snooze. Surprised me that there was so much litter, looked like a few more street sweepers then though. At this time we used to go to Bridlington for our holiday. One day we went to Scarborough to see what it was like. There was a punch up between the mods & the rockers. We kept going to Bridlington after that, much more civilised : ) A great snap shot of my youth, this is what the BBC does best, still love Auntie Beeb for the most part.

[@Jefferson1969-u4s]

Not much has changed?! You have to be kidding! Place is dead or else full of loathsome Muslims

[@Jefferson1969-u4s]

The BBC is extremely woke and no longer the wonderful, impartial media outlet it was

[@rjdavey68]

The heatwave and draught that famously lasted all summer in 76, broke at the end of August with heavy thunder showers and continued into a wet September & October. So its not surprising this August bank holiday looks bloody freezing!

[@09weenic]

This was the May bank holiday

[@margaretmaskell9985]

The heatwave didn’t start until the end of June. It was below average Summer temperatures before then- as this film shows.

[@kevinrichards8119]

I was 11 when this 🎥 was shot,things seemed so much simpler then ,no internet,no mobile phones....

[@mike-s8n8y]

They made it look a bit rough and grim , it was not that bad at all , and best it was ours not shared with the united nations as now !!!!

[@briandelaney9710]

I wondered when the racial remarks would start

[@jillyb9995]

This was filmed the day after my 17th birthday. I'm a Gloucestershire girl so Weston super mare would've been our local go to seaside outing but I bet it all looked very much the same. I can't believe all the litter that was being swept up! And that poor little child practically being run over by a wayward donkey! Health and safety today would have something to say about how that bloke, supposedly in charge, was just letting it happen! A great film archive though. Really enjoyed this one.

[@diabolicalartificer]

The amount of litter threw me too. Goes to show some or memories & perception is wrong sometimes.

[@johnd8538]

The "racist" donkey? 🤣

[@Alan..W]

Happy days. No mobile phones or fat people back then.

[@angelacooper2661]

Happy days when you are infant school age, like I was - just six!

[@stormytempest6521]

Poorer people, but better people. 🇬🇧

[@Luxsound67]

❤ What a completely different world from today's perspective: Despite all the hustle and bustle, there was still a feeling of serenity without today's downright terrorizing hectic pace, stress, time pressure - and you always ask yourself: How did we get here...

[@summermcculloch6975]

i remember the wee guy at 15.17 on the film --his name was alf ,and he worked in one of the jaconelli bingo places on the front just along from gillys. there were two brothers denis and michael who worked there as well. this was in the 70s

[@adrianhart5244]

I was 13 in 1976 and grew up in Whitby, but but I can't remember it been as grim as this. Then again, Scarborough (apart from the castle) is still pretty grim.

[@peaeater1]

It's an obvious thing to say, but I can't help thinking about what the last 48 years had in store for all of these people. Of course, 85% are long gone, but even the youngest children will be 50+. The sands of time wouldn't have been generous to them all.

[@Jefferson1969-u4s]

That’s exactly what I was thinking. All those people…gone.

[@peaeater1]

@@Jefferson1969-u4s A cheerful pair, aren't we!!

[@ianwhitehead691]

🥺😩☹️ Cheer up 😂🤣

[@Mistydazzle]

Take the cardigans off - get ready for the Summer of Sizzling! 🌞

[@paulhease1007]

I think we have to go back to the mid-sixties to see England as a clean country that took pride in its streets. Then it stopped for some reason.

[@GaryJohnWalker1]

Bank holiday daytrips more important than ever for towns like Scarborough as for a good six or seven years so many Brits were now taking their main summer hols in the Med on package tours rather than a week or two at the seaside.

[@jep1912]

Not a claat in sight. Beautiful.

[@zeddeka]

Interesting that they mention how an Australian had said British people were scruffy and stank. This was the era when virtually no homes had showers, and many people only had a bath once a week, on Sundays. Industrial Britain was a very dirty place.

[@yorkyswe]

Wow, it's amazing people take the time to write a comment that's absolute rubbish. Do you even believe the twaddle that you wrote?

[@zeddeka]

​@@yorkyswewow it's amazing how you troll accounts write such utter rubbish. I lived through those times. I was there. Many people have subsequently written about it. Robert Webb wrote about how common what he called "thermostat parents" were back then. People who had a terror of switching on the heating or the immersion for hot water because they had a terror of the cost. Ruby Wax has also talked about how she was shocked at how dirty so many people were in the UK when she moved here in the 70s. It was the era of greasy spoons and industrial muck. You trolls really need to up your game a bit. Maybe actually have a clue what you're talking about before opening your mouth?

[@Victoria-gq8gt]

On the Underground people stink now too.

[@Amanda-h9k]

Mothers Pride bread 🍞

[@AtheistOrphan]

‘Sunblest’ also available. (I think that’s how they spelt it!)

[@johnd8538]

The plastic ties went on the bike brake cables....and a chip fork wedged at the back wheel against the spokes for that "engine" sound 😂

[@rupert-j8f]

@@AtheistOrphan or slimsea

[@Wench64]

What happened to sunblest and other bread makers, 😢

[@AtheistOrphan]

@ - And Nimble!

[@chrisrovai9625]

Great vid

[@antmerritt]

………………And jimmy Saville had a flat near the sea front. Ah good old seventies

[@onnoithong3692]

Wow😮❤

[@hammerqos]

I love Scarborough . This is a gem and thanks for uploading. The WW2 naval battles in Peasholm Park have been going on for years.