Blackpool - Early 1960s (pre-1964) - George Formby Soundtrack

A short film showing mostly Blackpool (with a few scenes from other resorts of the period including Margate) in the early 1960s - certainly before 1964 as that was the year that Blackpool Central Station was closed.

[@feeltheforce10]

Brings a tear to your eye - the glory days ! Long gone.I always thought it would stay like that but..............no.What a mess it all is now.

[@feeltheforce10]

@explore with russ No it hasn't and its getting worse.Take a proper look and also the local news - see the crime incidents etc.If thats " improvement " then you are in delusion.As i said in my comment the glory days are gone - it is a mess now.

[@clifftonicstudios7469]

@@feeltheforce10 Thats why I choose to live 1950s style apart from my hidden laptop. Todays world horrible.

[@feeltheforce10]

@@clifftonicstudios7469 Good for you - I agree its horrible now and getting worse.

[@craigmullen9046]

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[@41708]

Glory days, too true.

[@Chipchase780]

An England from another time, more innocent, more honest, just within memory for some of us (I’m 57) but seems so distant now. Would I want it back ? YES PLEASE !!

[@royksk]

Hardly honest when landladies ripped people off spivs selling dodgy gear - but a great time could still be had.

[@grottybt5006]

Search " Patriotic Alternative " a new movement with aims to stop the replacement of Ethnic Britons and the resulting cultural degeneration

[@harrison6143]

Yes because indigenous Brits are so well behaved and cultured and never stagger about town on piss ups.

[@td370]

@@harrison6143 odd you associate modern day night club culture with the olden days. Besides those who do act like cunts on night outs don’t represent the average brit. I swear you people find anything to complain about

[@mick6370]

@@harrison6143 Brits were more disciplined and respectful back in the day oh and no woke crap around like today.

[@robharding4028]

Now this is the Blackpool I love to remember !! Fantastic in every way.

[@christopherfisher6293]

Mum and dad worked so hard so we could always have a holiday 😀 Thank mum and dad!!😁😁😁

[@lenfoster1622]

I was born in Blackpool and remember this era well. The lad at 0.53 with his handcart could have been me, just what I was doing then from Blackpool south station. Asking people on a Saturday to carry their suitcases in a handcart my dad made me. The magic amount was to make £1 that day. Taxi drivers used to try and chase us away but we just stared them down. Sometimes the trip to the digs was almost to the town center and then you were only given sixpence. Others might give a shilling for a much shorter trip which was great. A great childhood and great times and friends. I think we had the best times compared to today. Kids do not seem to get much of childhood now.

[@roomark2]

@@markyefc You are or would be shaming them 50 years too late 😂🤣

[@lindabirtwistle2662]

I was 12 years old at this time lived in Thornton-Cleveleys and visited Blackpool often great times everything was so simple back then children of today don’t know what fun is I loved growing up in the 60s great memories

[@robertparkes4982]

Isn't it sad that we can no longer be happy with a nice ice cream and walk along the prom......... everyone seems to have everything today, yet have nothing..........

[@theindividualizt]

Spot on.

[@larciabella]

interesting comment,observation.

[@glynnevans1851]

@@theindividualizt Hi Sandi I quite agree with you. Today people think it is so marvellous going abroad but don't know what their missing, in our wonderful country we have so many wonderful places to holiday and tour ..I first went to Blackpool in 1965 and have been back many times also I love Southport too in particular and St Anne's plus Ryhll and Aberystwyth/Borth..Kind regards to you Glynn n Greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands 🎄🎄🤗🤗

[@kristinejames9812]

Yeah very very sad Robert. Nowadays everyone walks about with a mobile phone glued to their hand, and now of course a face mask on. XXX

[@davidwright7923]

This brought back great happy memories of my childhood holidays here,wonder if I’m in the crowd,spent hours in the pleasure beach especially the fun house,what a time pity the kids of today will never experience a proper upbringing like this,thanks mam&dad!

[@kristinejames9812]

Yeah David,thanks to my mum and dad too because we didn't have much money! I believe that you have to pay about £5 now just to go into the pleasure beach,and not even go on a ride. It won't be long before they charge you to stand on the prom just to see the Big One come down! (LOL) As a kid,I loved the fun house,Noah's Ark, and the Log Flume best.

[@Lazerbather400]

People seemed a lot happier back then.

[@robertp.wainman4094]

They weren't such snobs as nowadays!

[@rmg5111]

People are miserable these days 21st century for you

[@rick182z]

They are on their jollys ... Isn't just a little bit obvious

[@johnroberts8233]

Back then they had jobs, rising standards of living, and adequate wages. Little did they know that right around the corner was stagflation, oil shock and stagnation of wages.

[@Honest_and_Brutal]

Phones and social media didn't exist. They have ruined society.

[@deletedchannel926]

Back when Blackpool was lovely no dossers or criminals just a heavily crowded beach on the lovely sunny day

[@G4RY1159]

Strange how the worlds moves

[@masterknife8423]

Dude Blackpool would've definitely had criminals in the 60s

[@seanbyrne8226]

No chemtrails

[@rob5197]

@Paul Astle don't ask what the GOV can do for you, ask instead what you can do and the answer is....

[@paulbarrett22]

@Paul Astle nah theyre dossers scroungers and junkies theyve fallen into victim syndrome and handing benefits to them every week to keep them down at the bottom of the ladder is wrong

[@MrMjp58]

A lot of folk hanker for a time machine when faced with this kind of footage. The only one we'll ever have in reality, is in our heads - prompted by period films, music, objects etc. It'll have to do to be going on with.

[@carolwilkins2265]

Everyone looked so much happier then

[@rightmarker1]

I was looking out for my Grandma and Grandad in the footage - they had a shop in Blackpool in these years. They’d take my brother and me on the sands for the day which was magical to us. Then we grew up and discovered the delights of the Mediterranean and so dear old Blackpool receded into our past like childhood sweethearts . . .

[@allegra0]

I went to Blackpool many times in the early 50s and always loved it (as a young Lancashire boy would)....then emigrated to Australia....I went back to Blackpool in 2010 - it was hell...vulgar coarse and ugly. Still loved the tower though.

[@penfloyd]

Could we turn back the clock.....LIfe was simpler then....Less expectations and families that played together stayed together!

[@splatcave3145]

Not an immigrant or chav in sight it's like Bagdhad now....or Blagdhad as I like to call it. Fucking shithole 😢😢😢

[@gameofthrows9357]

Not a Burqa in sight, great days 👍🏻

[@shamteal8614]

From a time when we were all part of one nation with similar aims, ambitions and culture. Sadly no.more, now a divided nation.

[@grottybt5006]

Search " Patriotic Alternative " a new movement with aims to stop the replacement of Ethnic Britons and the resulting cultural degeneration

[@igottheshaft]

Britain is being colonized and genocided.

[@robbflynn4325]

All by design of course, their objectives are becoming more and more apparent.

[@jamesmcshane2922]

The saucy postcards were fantastic, always brought a smile and a laugh to everyone.

[@salvador130]

Oh really 🙄😷NO

[@keyfizz]

Ha hah ........ my favourite James was the one with a picture of a bloke in a hospital bed red faced and screaming in agony...... with a young nurse holding a kettle and a doctor shouting at her : " I said prick his boil !!!! " 😄😂😂

[@jamesmcshane2922]

@@keyfizz lols yes they were always innocent and funny. Sad we now live in a world that probably would frown on such a thing.

[@mick6370]

@@jamesmcshane2922 Exactly they might upset the woke brigade.

[@keithnaylor1981]

Wonderful, been there, done it, and when it showed that Blackpool red mint rock I would swear I could taste it!

[@thealchemistdaughter3405]

When the British were civilised and cared about one another.. 💞

[@markrees8166]

When it wass mainly British not foreigners

[@grottybt5006]

Search " Patriotic Alternative " a new movement with aims to stop the replacement of ethnic Britons and the resulting cultural degeneration

[@masterknife8423]

Yeah back when our idea of being civilised was colonising other countries and forcing our culture onto their land....

[@td370]

@@masterknife8423 in the 1960s?? You’re acting as if it was the 1760s lmao People like you always go straight to thinking colonisation. Must live a miserable life if you have such negative thoughts every time you see old footage

[@Steampunksaly]

We still are and we still do, way more than we did back then

[@MARKETMAN6789]

This is the Britain we all enjoyed to live in ,before all the minority loonatics took over

[@thegroove2000]

Blame your parliament.

[@johnmccoy8960]

remember it well, I used to be a "carry your bag sir" boy in the 1950s now in Tauranga New Zealand but still love blackpool as it was.Last there in 2004 what a shock to see it now!!!!!!!

[@erniejenx]

Nice to see some footage of the old Blackpool Central Station. Remember going there many times as a youngster

[@johnroberts8233]

Back when they had steam!

[@anythingbootneck]

Days when people had a pride in their appearance and behaviour.

[@rob5197]

Very much so - - thanks to the flowers generation and USA -

[@sal.salvador202]

Yes

[@anthonyphipps5162]

@Mr Do and so they should be.

[@sempereadem54eadem64]

@Mr Do piss off moron.

[@masterknife8423]

There are still people out there that still take pride in their appearance

[@theostickley6492]

How can anyone not like that!

[@billsmith305]

Blackpool is a bit "darker," now, sadly

[@graemeyetts3465]

Sadly like most seaside towns its a toilet nowadays

[@blzbob7936]

Thanks for putting this on. I'd only be a toddler when it was filmed, so it is nice to see my elder generation on their holidays. Holidays used to be set by the industries these guys worked for, and going to Blackpool in the summer was a world apart from some of the grimy industrial towns these families came from. It was crowded in these weeks because Lancashire industries all had the same summer holiday dates. So . . . (and this was nice for them) . . . they all had a community spirit, borne from working together, and holidaying together. Happy days.

[@oddities-whatnot]

No tracksuits, hen and stag do’s or drunks staggering about. Everyone well dressed and well behaved, having fun. Now look at the place. A drink and drug addled benefits hole.

[@neiltaylor8198]

BENIDORM seems the place for that now ,boozed up British and turning it into a shite hole, bringing there ways with them.🤔👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jacekg4571]

Live looks better without smartphones 😁

[@carlslater9022]

Jacek G life ** 😉

[@cosmic4037]

The Blackpool I want back.

[@macrh48]

I live in Australia emigrated in 1978, but did not leave Blackpool till I was in my late 20's so I have fond memories of my childhood and growing up there in my teens it was just like this film happy days. Went back in 2011 to show my daughter as she was only a baby when we left, I did like the new prom walkway but it was so sad to see the Pleasure Beach half its size, and the prom seemed like it was missing something no atmosphere, and all the B&B looking so run down the one we stayed in was, I hope it can be saved the illuminations need to get more high tec half of them were not working when we returned and the Tower was hardly lit, a lot of the old shops need demolishing down from the old central station it needs someone with a bright idea and a lot of money to bring Blackpool back to its glory days.Maybe its got better since we visited hope to come back again in the future as part of me will always be there. Good Luck....

[@turnerbridge]

very good clip and thanks for adding the great George Formby to it thanks

[@salvador130]

George Formby was disgusting !. Sly double meaning songs 👎🤨

[@spex357]

Those Donkey's lived behind my house and provided hours of fun in bare back races.

[@flagwanker6346]

Can't get over the fact everyone is fully clothed on the beach

[@IrishFuryan]

A country still with Christian morals

[@brownfulk]

People often wore a shirt, tie and pullover!

[@johnguthrie7141]

@@brownfulk My Granddad used to wear his suit, waistcoat and trilby hat. 😊

[@ianjefferys6260]

Not all Blackpool.Some shots of Brighton and Margate too!

[@stephenduncan3605]

Ian Jefferys I thought it was Morecambe but now I remember Morecambe promenade didn't have those lamposts

[@lilgeorge34]

This brought back happy memories for me we always went every year to the same boarding house in Bairstow St...the only thing I regret now is going on the donkeys, when your a kid you don't realize that the donkeys had to stay in the sun all day everyday it must have been terrible for them....Thank you for sharing this video with us.

[@greasylimpet3323]

Never been there, but I do remember 3d icecreams in Australia! Quite agree that we'll never see the simple innocent pleasures like these again. Such a shame, what went wrong with the world?

[@Ravenswalk]

The lettering through the rock was invented in Dewsbury West Yorkshire my hometown. Blackpool (Layton)was were my grandparents retired to and I spent many happy days weekends and holidays In Blackpool during the 60s. Been 48 years in Canada and the videos I see of Blackpool now are heartbreaking the sands that used to be full of people practically empty and so many closed shops but I have my memories of the Blackpool I loved.

[@angelagatenby5733]

England at its best what happened

[@Captally]

We gave her away in case someone called us names.

[@tomdarrington]

"Just off to the beach love, better put on my suit and tie."

[@janjanssen7663]

Major MajorMajor

[@carlslater9022]

Sunday best kind sir

[@penfloyd]

My dad would never be seen without his collar and tie!

[@JackRossiney]

@@penfloyd Yes, my dad was the same.

[@gurney2400]

A drop in standards is not a good thing. I'll bet a pound to a penny that your old men were also better disciplined and had more respect than the folk of today.

[@RB-jq6gh]

The train out of Blackpool was the highlight for me.🏃☞🚉

[@leslieconnolly5950]

To all those who said "not all Blackpool" the following is included in the description - (and possibly brief clips of other resort). Ok?

[@jacqieustioneverythingsmit5323]

Look at the sky not a chemtrail in sight , also the weather beautiful and the people just enjoying this holiday , wow that was a better time by the look of things . I was born in 1964 , its lovely to see how people had fun back then .

[@davidwright7923]

Eeee brings back some happy memories!

[@manofweed1]

Half of film was Margate.

[@allanarmstrong4333]

No mobiles , women didn't have tattoos. People had more respect for each other. Most of the population were British. Now England is the dustbin of the world.

[@miketravis6149]

Well said that man ;-)

[@kervilou5905]

muslims !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@salvador130]

@Durian Durian .idiot.shut up!😡👎👎

[@salvador130]

@@kervilou5905 .JOIN BRITIAN FIRST and do something about it 🙂 l did!.

[@po5333]

@@salvador130 Lol Britain's First is contrary by Talmudic Supermacists.

[@robbaggs2400]

Some nice views of Margate!

[@dwezzh2399]

Multiculturalism has certainly laid waste to our English society.

[@InsiderBlackpool]

The sub way on the left in the opening frame is currently being filled in, wish the telephone boxes were still there.

[@hjp1hjp22]

One shot of the video was filmed in Brighton with its pebbly beach.

[@davidtayloruk0001]

good clip wish it was still like that hear in blackpool

[@carltheblue.2531]

Them was days I tell thee! No bloody foreigners, decent chips, great bingo.. I tell thee it was belting! Mind you me and lass was youngsters then and I use to give her a belting scuttling.. I love blackers then BELTING

[@anniespencer7879]

Grow up. I like a mixed culture. The only reason why Blackpool has lost its magic for me is that, thanks to the increase of technology, a lot of things like the ghost train, that used to scare and delight me in equal measures, have been replaced by more sci-fi related rides. I miss the Chamber Of Horrors too. I'll never forget the working model of a lady trapped in the jungle having her leg bitten off by a crocodile...and then you could see her leg joining back on in the not-quite darkness.

[@davidtaylor2054]

Oop North? Mostly Dahn Sahf! At least 50% of the footage here is of Margate!

[@delstevens5067]

life then really uncomplicated

[@dutchdutch7594]

Beautiful white people❤️

[@tab6496]

a beautiful paradise :D

[@joenoi1652]

this society has been undermined and destroyed

[@john111257]

is it me but didnt the sun shine more back then

[@moodyguymick]

It's you.

[@john111257]

thought so

[@mitchly]

To be honest, I thought it did! I'm sure it shone for at least 6 weeks during the Summer when we were off school.

[@colinbryan5376]

What was it called Wakes Week? When mills were closed!

[@jeanettecole8146]

I always tell my family that when I was a child it seemed to be summer all year round

[@landrovervideos1182]

This reminds me of the film “ it’s a wonderful life” but in the film George Bailey succeeds, now the big bankers (mr potter) are in control and now its a disaster

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

You made me visualise George Formby as George Bailey. Thanks for that!

[@ladytron9188]

Take a look at the Chanel,a walk in the wild side the guy films Blackpool as it is today.A real eye opener.

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

I remember going on holiday there when we had that red hot summer think it was 77..The beach was that busy my mum give always gave us a reference point but I was having such a good time the current must have carried well down wind and I remember the fear and tears when I realised I was lost lol..Even remember the guesthouse it was next to the football ground and run by a lovely old couple called Ethel and Claude..They even looked after us a few nights so our parents could go for a pint haha, you would never do that now but everybody was just so nice back then…Memories aye 😂

[@rar321blue]

Bit of Margate in this....part way through

[@mikehudson8884]

Great film but the link you give in the about section with original narration has been blocked.

[@Honest_and_Brutal]

It's so vile now and extremely sad to see nothing like it was when I was younger. An absolute ghost town.

[@philwoodford]

Great footage.

[@mickeymunkchunk4512]

Will soon be having camel rides the way it's going.

[@ib1378]

What a good idea.

[@unions100]

mickey munkchunk I HOPE SO

[@mickeymunkchunk4512]

@@unions100 May the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

[@mickeymunkchunk4512]

@@ib1378 🐷🐷

[@ib1378]

@@mickeymunkchunk4512 yummy pork chops as well. Barbequed of course

[@johnroberts8233]

How things have changed!

[@booth2710]

i Love Blackpool but it's a shame its glory days are well and truly gone. I was there last summer and it was so dead you could have fired a canon in any direction and not hit a single person !

[@Ricksta66]

Blackpool and Margate by the looks of it :))

[@Ricksta66]

@1:14 for example that's definitely Margate

[@johnbade2395]

Yes your right about a little bit of Margate in that video . There was the harbour, the beach and the promenade which included Margate Clock Tower!!

[@jamesdickson3616]

In its hay day .its a dump now

[@tonyknowles1864]

Not all Blackpool, other resorts are shown as well. Is Morecambe on there? Just wondering.

[@leathandrubb]

I bet the lad at 2.46 will be my age 68 coming up to 69 on may 8 TH. Had many happy holidays at Blackpool.

[@X-GamerPro-HD]

That many people on the beach is way too much to relax

[@gohumberto]

Little did we know back then, that just across the channel those beautiful foreign types were strolling along stunning beaches, eating beautiful food, and not getting lashed with horizontal rain. Our parents and grandparents were happy to sit on a shitty beach for a week, in suit and waistcoat (maybe trousers rolled up and tie removed). No budgie-smugglers for grandads. Them, after a week of Watneys Red Barrel and Bingo, it was back to Manchester for some more rain. I love these old cine films but they just remind me how far I've come from those days. Anyone nostalgic for these days just needs to keep voting Tory and wait a few years.

[@bunionpain16]

Makes me think of Douglas (IoM).

[@kathybarry2765]

Yes,,,I think some of It has been taken on Douglas prom.

[@whiskymacable]

Nice film..& nice bit of George to boot!

[@larryellisreed280]

Now imagine this as the musical score to a Blackpool Coastal Trams video....

[@philby1]

used to go every year from early 60s to late 70s. great times.

[@robh699]

A lot of shots are not even in Lancashire ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[@grumpyold-git4286]

Nice to see old footage,but why have you used scenes from Margate in Kent ??

[@gazzab3224]

Should not have closed Blackpool Central railway station

[@john111257]

Dead right, a great loss

[@paulineclarke1190]

Beeching proposed Blackpool Central station remain open & North to close but a deal was done between the British Railways Board & the Councils. Lancashire County Council wanted to use the land for the new Police Station & Blackpool Borough Council also wanted the land for car & coach parking. Bpl Central Stn closed on 1st November 1964, Bpl North main line platforms closed in 1974 & the current Bpl Nth Stn uses the former excursion platforms. Central had 14 platforms & North had 16 platforms, total 30. Today just 6 platforms remain at Bpl Nth & excursion trains have virtually disappeared.

[@barrycollins2287]

I think that may have been me (3.42) as the bobby doing point duty at New Inn point.

[@anyone173]

Fully clothed on the beach .. suits an all ...seems strange to see these days .

[@leightonlewis4954]

You're spot on there Poopingbotham my friend :)

[@Thursdaym2]

Shots of other places interposed and where did the rocks come from? Still, good memories of my "second" home in those days.

[@stephenduncan3605]

several of these promonade scenes look more like they are in Morecambe! You can tell by the lack of tramway on the seafront and the promonade being very curved!

[@viennapalace]

I came for the music but stayed for the nostalgia...

[@41708]

Excellent video but some bits are not Blackpool, however I loved it all.

[@WildPhotoShooter]

Lovely to see Blackpool as it used to be, but as a kid I hated that crowded beach with a passion .

[@vincentlewis1297]

Some of these shots are Margate

[@englishperson6601]

Vincent Lewis Yes... and at 0:07 we are in Brighton!

[@kathybarry2765]

Some of it looks like The IOM.Thankyou👍

[@jullianmark2577]

killed by the aeroplane

[@blackpoolbob1]

Some shots are not Blackpool

[@TheStephenheath]

that's what it says

[@raymondbradley4558]

Correct,some look a lot like Brighton,what with pebbles on the beach,still nice memories

[@tygerrruk2313]

1:03 there’s no cliffs in Blackpool

[@roomark2]

@@tygerrruk2313 There are cliffs down Norbreck and Bispham way

[@tygerrruk2313]

1:05 ,,that’s not Blackpool

[@WiganandPeople1st]

Thanks

[@harrison6143]

Some of the clips here are clearly not Blackpool. On another note, films about Blackpool usually ignore Stanley Park. I can understand folk not caring for the tackiness of the Golden Mile however Stanley Park remains a lovely part of the town.

[@OopNorth1]

As it says in the description... Mostly Blackpool with a few scenes from other resorts of the period including Margate

[@elizabethgribben8140]

I was there 1964

[@alisonsmith4801]

I was there as well in 64, only 2 but with measles to add to the fun, and my mam was 6months pregnant with my brother, she was desperate to come home, but as we had all gone as a large family group from Tyneside my Granda was having none of it, so we stayed, the photos from that holiday are a joy to behold, especially me with my measles. Luckily we went to Edinburgh the following year, much closer to home and no one came down with anything.

[@delboytrotter8806]

Ooooh muther, Turned out nice again !

[@thefabulousstevieg]

I can't find a link to the narrated version, would love to hear descriptions instead of good old George!

[@brianmorley7165]

A lot of those pictures are of Margate

[@S1m0nX386]

Not a 'hen do' in sight.. No inflatable c🐔cks either. Great times.

[@mayaavidov]

hello, can I license this from you ? please let me know