British Seaside - 1978 | The Archivist Presents |

Ah, the Great British Seaside! Blackpool in the 1970s, classic!
Since the late 19th Century, Blackpool has been a major holiday centre on the England's North-West coast. In good weather or bad there are many amusements to keep the visitors occupied, including those of the famous Blackpool Pleasure Beach. ® Each September people flock to the town to see the 'Illuminations' which are strung along the 'Golden Mile'. The special feature of this year's Lights are the television 'Muppets'.
GV sea breaking on shore. MS 2 women sitting in deck-chairs. LS beach and Blackpool Tower. LS aerial view of beach. Ditto. GV people on beach. MS people putting up deck-chairs on beach. MS 2 children paddling in sea. MS naked child walking along beach. LS aerial of beach. Aerial of Blackpool town. LS ditto. GV houses. MS hotels (Sunset Strip). GV rows of hotels. MS hotel window with signs. MS hotel window with 'No Vacancies' sign. MS ditto. LS aerial beach and town. LS Blackpool Tower. MS children playing on beach. CS child digging in sand. MS woman putting up a deck-chair. MS child put up onto a donkey. MS child riding pony. MS woman taking child for paddle. LS Blackpool Tower. GV tram moving along road. LS ditto. GV cars down street. GV crowds walking along. GV cars along street. CU sign 'The Good Old Days'. GV crowds along street. GV ditto. MS sign 'Winter Gardens'. MS signs 'Tom O'Connor' and 'Tony Selby'. MS sign 'Tommy Steele Stage Spectacular'. MS crowds along street. MS ditto. CU candy floss being made. MS candy floss bought and handed to child. BCU child eating candy floss. MS 6 people eating candy floss. BCU ice cream machine and cornet. CU machine turned off. MCU girl's face as she eats ice cream. MCU ditto (another girl). GV street. CU sign 'Bingo'. Various of Bingo session. Various of people with other amusements, including table games, one-armed bandits, fruit machines. Elevated view fairground. MS people boarding fairground scenic railway. GV train moving . LS small boats in water. Various shots people in boats and also from boats. CU view from scenic railway. Train hits water splash. Various ditto. GV elevated mini go-karts. GV elevated view of cottage. GV view from train. MS boy on mechanical horse. MS ditto. MS people on merry-go-round. MS ditto. MS chair lift. LS elevated view from chair lift. LS elevated view of fairground. MS girl on trampoline. MS ditto. MS rockets merry-go-round. MS people in rockets. MS scenic railway. MS ditto. Various ditto. CU people on a 'witch's hat'. MS ditto. GV fairground amusement. CU girl with arm round statue. GV Blackpool beach at dusk. GV Tower at dusk. GV street scene at night. Many various shots of illuminations and street scenes with Muppets as this year's theme. NB aerial shots are really elevated shots from Blackpool Tower.
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[@peterlawson777]

That was my England; the country has changed beyond recognition since then and not for the better.

[@paullacey2999]

Too woke now bud...

[@peterlawson777]

@@paullacey2999 yeh, and I hate it.

[@paullacey2999]

@@peterlawson777 the adverts get me cross too man.This country is ruined...

[@peterlawson777]

@@paullacey2999 absolutely.

[@_B.M_]

Bet you loved Jimmy Saville, Gary Glitter and Fred West. Your kinda England as you say

[@jantune]

I wish we could go back to those days. Simple, safe, fun. 😢😢😢 Look at the mess we’re in now.

[@DiscoverJesus]

The devil plays the long game.

[@mh20162]

it was a shet show

[@jantune]

@@mh20162 go away

[@8G00SE8]

Bombs going off in Northern Ireland and England, Soviet threat of global nuclear war, high inflation...probably worse than today, although they probably had less crime.

[@jantune]

@@8G00SE8 as someone who lost a very close relative serving in the army at the hands of the IRA in the 80s, I absolutely do not need to be reminded of that, thanks very much. However, all things considered, it was still a nicer, simpler time to live than the shambolic world we are in now and going by the comments, most people agree with that. So please, for the second time, go away.

[@bethanhamer.8669]

I miss those times , who’d have thought this country would end up like this 😢

[@BottleBri]

It’s very sad indeed.

[@john111257]

it is so sad, monkey dust...homelessness..and more

[@eileenpritchard9154]

@@BottleBri ABSOLUTELY.

[@bustedfender]

You can guarantee someone was saying exactly the same thing in 1978 too.

[@bethanhamer.8669]

@@bustedfender that’s true !

[@neiledwards5100]

And not a mobile phone in sight wonderful

[@matthewharding7342]

Amazing the difference in 44 years, Blackpool has declined into a dump.

[@odds-and-sods]

It was back in the day, it's just nostalgia that fogs the brain.

[@TrueNativeScot]

@@odds-and-sods Nah it's extremely different. The racial demographics are wildly different and that brings with it more violent crime and corruption

[@justinmorgan2126]

Yup, it's a toilet nowadays

[@bobpfaff2258]

it looked like a dump then!

[@suspendeddisbelief401]

@@TrueNativeScot There's always someone who plays the 'race card'. You let your govt off lightly.

[@Jkk55]

Happy days back then wish I could turn back the clock!

[@fatbelly27]

Notice how the kids are all slim. Yes they would eat ice cream and candy floss on holiday but that was probably a once a year thing. They also walked and played games outdoors.

[@arianbyw3819]

And smoked from a young age...

[@PeterPete]

And very few of those kids are truly happy in their adult lives!! No change there!!!

[@dax8753]

An ice cream was a massive treat

[@mpwheatley]

There's a few fatties, one wearing brown trousers on the beach @ 00:21. I was a chubby kid back then, it's a myth that people were slim in the 70s - after all the food was stodge. Lots of potatoes, pies, fish & chips, jam sandwiches etc. We never had a salad. In the summer we would eat ice cream from the ice-cream van at least once a week & drink sugary drinks all the time. Loads of rose tinted glasses here.

[@spmoran4703]

There were fat people then.

[@robertwilliams9234]

Blackpool will never be the same again

[@johnrobertson8263]

no where is

[@paullacey2999]

Before the UK was infected.....

[@cquilty1]

Pauline Racy Yes, but thankfully this covid pandemic is on the wane.

[@TheForkhandles]

I was 11 in 1978 and it was a great time to be a kid. Britain actually looked British in those days.

[@supahfly_uk]

I was 1 :D

[@Ardwick-Crome]

I was 10 in 78 and remember bugging my grandparents to take me on the 100 mile round trip to the Blackpool illuminations where we'd motor at 5mph along the prom in a Vauxhall Chevette. Great memories.

[@markmcgonnell9824]

I was 8 in 1978. .Went to Scarborough for a fortnight absolute bliss. My dad dad drove down from Glasgow. Great holiday, great place and how I miss the 70s.

[@markmcgonnell9824]

@@Boilingfrogg no , but went to peaseholm park . Superb day out .

[@markmcgonnell9824]

@@Boilingfrogg I went to cayton bay caravan park in the mid 80s absolutely loved it . Great memories 👍

[@V1010.]

For almost a century Britain's have frozen happily on it's sands. 😊

[@martinholmes-ue9ko]

Britons

[@englishincontext4025]

I was born in the north-east and as a child used to go on holiday to Whitby and Scarborough. I'm now 69 and am just beginning to get the warmth back into my skin.

[@bobbbxxx]

Bet the fish and chips wrapped in newspaper were the best of your life!

[@yvonneryder1109]

Whitby better than anywhere else I know

[@bobbbxxx]

@@yvonneryder1109 Oh aye. Nowt wrong with a Whitby fish supper.

[@Jarjarbinks4president]

Ditto

[@sparerib]

This brought back some memories, bloody freezing sea, cold chips and flasks of coffee to combat the bone chilling wind. Them were't days. 😂

[@clarenicola1]

Tell me about it 😂

[@lillianbourne575]

I emigrated to Western Australia. Beautiful life 😊😊😊😊

[@nickstone3113]

Go on you loved it. ❤ I'm Anglo Greek and used to love it. Especially the cool wind. 🎉🎉🎉. U enjoy the Greek islands and leave more😅 space for us !!

[@peterdalyy3542]

How refreshing to remember England when it was England how I miss it

[@paullacey2999]

Blame Your governments for ruining your England.And they are still doing it...

[@DAVID-bv2gv]

Here, Here, I Totally Agree With You 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 👍🏻

[@ilovenitnat]

@@DAVID-bv2gv hear, hear. Not here, here.😂

[@DAVID-bv2gv]

@@ilovenitnat Hi thanks shall I change it too Here Here !!! 😂🇬🇧

[@darrenrexfrancis2538]

England when it was England? Why? What is it now?

[@BB-wc9jx]

Wonderful happy and safe times, sadly not now....😔

[@pamelamckenzie2685]

Those times was fun times and simple I love it.

[@CB-RADIO-UK]

Not a mobile phone in site. Such simple times.

[@johnferrari3821]

We remember had bloody good it was back then and not just Blackpool. Now we see it and long for the old times,can you imagine how bad it’s going to be in similar years to come. How bloody sad.

[@sidilicious11]

I’m from the USA and curious why so many in the comments feel life is so much worse now. Why?

[@LittlePinkPiggy1]

Look at how slim everyone was.

[@chrisshaw451]

Not so much fast food around then and people used to go out and do stuff instead of sitting indoors in front of computer screens and smart TVs etc, do not get wrong I am as guilty of that as the next person.

[@robertfisher2844]

No KFC no macdonalds etc now look at everyone lol

[@oli230]

It’s not just the availability of fast food, even if they kids had sweets or a burger they’d go home and have a proper home cooked meal at tea time, not something made in a factory heated up in a microwave. When you eat a lot of toxins your body stores it in your fat.

[@rhondaprice5202]

Whilst out shopping in London a few days ago I was astonished that most people I saw was fat. We need to limit our intake of high calorie foods and get out more!

[@davethewife7628]

It was good when you could walk around the pleasure beach without paying to go in. It was a fun place and felt safe.we used to go to the wrestling and stayed in a hol flat in dickson rd near the fry by night chippy.we went to see the krankies and the grumbleweeds on the pier.horrible place nowx

[@annwornell7510]

OMG what happened. I was born in 1942 and never expected to see our Country in this state!

[@andrewdales5962]

Beautiful Blackpool in the sophisticated 1970s. Like it.

[@sebastianwelcome2080]

simple 70s you mean was born in 76 remember the 80s

[@John-ob7dh]

Only went there twice .near froze my nuts off .

[@monk3yboy69]

@Sebastian Welcome A time just before consumerism engulfed the world. And here we are now……fucked.

[@beverleydeeming4427]

"frequently vulgar" hahahahaha! This was basically my childhood. I'm from Yorkshire so my "seaside" was at the other side of the "North". This is EXACTLY how I remember it, even the clothes (although Bridlington didn't have all the lights and rides as Blackpool did). Sitting on a gloomy, windswept beach eating candy floss and paddling in the chocolate coloured North Sea in your undies is exactly what it was all about. Then after a packed lunch of sandwiches and crisps we'd head for the arcades, play "smash and grab" and "shove the penny" before buying a stick of rock and eating a waffle with fresh cream on your way back to the car. I now live by the sea in Australia and my experience with the "seaside" is something quite different to my childhood memories. Thanks for posting!

[@mick6370]

Same here from Yorkshire our holidays were spent at Scarborough with cousins 13 of us year after year glad my childhood was in a much better era,

[@MrRadiorobot]

...never had to worry about sharks in the sea @ brid....the floating turds were another matter...

[@markmcgonnell9824]

😂😂

[@pommiebears]

Where in Australia? I’m from London, but I live in Newcastle, NSW, now. Near the beach-ish. I miss what England used to be. I have those same memories you have of the seaside. It’s different here, isn’t it? There’s no fanfare at the beaches here, not like at home. I went to visit my parents in November. England has changed. It’s not anything how I remember it, and I was 30 when I moved here.

[@MrRadiorobot]

@@pommiebears England is a sh*t show, absolute disgrace what's happening to it.

[@pauljohnson5319]

Just how I remember it as a child. Everything in Blackpool was much better then. I would swap it for todays Blackpool!!!

[@tappym9141]

@DoubtingThomas It is now Blackpool for all the wrong reasons.

[@ianglover3642]

I have a Photograph of a little Girl of 18 Months old, on my dressing table! It was taken in Blackpool in 1927! The Little Girl grew to be a very Beautiful Lady, my Beloved Mother! The opening scene depicted an Elderly Lady, who resembled my Mother, in her later years! I am now reflecting with a tear of all the Happiness I shared with Her and my Father! Thank you so much for posting 💖💖!!

[@cannonfodder6654]

When wearing a nylon Cagoule with a front pocket was the law

[@melgrant7404]

I had an orange one I was ten then

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

@@melgrant7404 Blue for me, with a white zip above the chest pocket... we wuz posh !!!

[@howareyou857]

yellow!

[@shakeyhandsshedmodelrailwa2494]

various cagouls were great folded up into thier own front pocket small enough to clip onto a belt

[@markmcgonnell9824]

Yip had a navy one 😂

[@marilynmills2273]

Oh the good old days how I miss them. Things seemed so much simpler then and safer. I’m kind of glad that I’m older now as I know I’ve had the best of times before the UK became like an unrecognisable, nightmarish dystopia.

[@londo776]

What does nightmarish dystopia actually mean

[@chandlerbingbong]

i agree. I'd hate to be a kid growing up in todays broken society.

[@sambrooks7862]

@@londo776 kids stabbing each other to death, women being raped and murdered by coppers hotels filled with foreign criminals people spending half their wages on gas and electric government corruption on a scale we've never seen.

[@carolinemcgreal2382]

Yea, seems like biblical end times to me'

[@abc-ye2ec]

look at London, shithole of the highest order now...

[@ianwhitehead691]

The days when you never saw any Beggers or Smack-heads in Blackpool.

[@paulmcdonough1093]

you never looked they had drunks

[@bartonseagrave9605]

Yes they did, I remember you.

[@sassi7966]

And all white. Just an observation.

[@theshamanarchist5441]

No Scottish there back then.

[@neilmalloy5830]

Good Times, went to Blackpool on day trips with working men's club, loved it 😊

[@sueblackwood6843]

That's when it was England

[@londo776]

What does that actually mean

[@PeterPete]

@@londo776 It means Sue is mentally fixated on the past. Back in the old days she was happy; she had a lot to live for but now she's unhappy. English life can easily make one bitter as one gets older 👍

[@sniper7014]

@@londo776 bellend springs to mind

[@axoscurry.]

i was ten in 1978.... this has took me back.... its not the same country now..... it has changed beyond recognition.☹☹☹☹

[@CheshireCat6639]

Awww fabulous innocent seaside family fun🎉ty for staring 🎉

[@websherpa]

I was a Canadian kid in Blackpool in 1978 in a Caravan with extended family and staying in those seaside British B&Bs. (It was a warmer time when I was there.) I have many amazing and happy memories from that trip and several others, and to this day remain fascinated by Fruit Machines, Penny Falls, the donkeys, and HATE rock candy. lol

[@nickstone3113]

Listen rock candy has kept generations of Brit dentists in clover. . u don't know what u missing ❤

[@CheshireCat6639]

​@@nickstone3113ha was just thinking the same😅

[@abduldaniel9964]

Great memories of my childhood times. The general public were financially poor them days, going abroad was not viable for everyone, so the seaside resorts were always flocked during the holidays. Yes, as a child it was heaven for me, candy floss and rocks were a must.

[@sarahstrong7174]

Lots of people now cannot afford a sandwich, certainly not a day trip. Let alone any sort of a holiday.

[@IndieVolken]

@@sarahstrong7174 another sjw ffs

[@sarahstrong7174]

@@IndieVolken Good day to you too. S

[@JulieWallis1963]

@@sarahstrong7174 ODFOD!

[@sarahstrong7174]

@@JulieWallis1963 What?????

[@williamkennedy5492]

I first went in 1978 , i had a TR6 then and drove through the town lights with the top down , since then i have been a regular visitor, thanks fir the video, happy memories.

[@version736ha2]

Great comment

[@mikeymoo1291]

1978? I might have passed you in my Triumph Spitfire....

[@RobertA-zk4yc]

I had a mg midget when i was 23..it was round wheel arch.. older than me it was.. took me girlfriend for the day often and drive the illuminations.. What the hell happened to our world. ??

[@mungomidge1090]

In the 70's everyone was over 40, even the kids.

[@bobbbxxx]

😅

[@rosieHolliday5887]

Goodness me this was my childhood hahaaa. All I remember is my grandparents always being fully dressed on the beach & I swear my grandad wore a shirt & tie lol. Mind you, you had to remain fully dressed on Blackpool beach. Bl*ody freezing it was & if you didn't batten down at least 4 wind breakers everything would blow a mile down the beach. Good times!

[@jharris947]

As a kid my Dad used to take us to Clacton and I well remember him banging the winbreakers into the sand.😁He always wore a shirt, jacket and trousers on the beach. Can picture him now with his shoes and socks off and trousers rolled up walking in the waters edge...May seem silly but they're wonderful memories for me now.😎

[@menopausalbarbie7467]

I was seventeen in 1978, the years have flown by!

[@chobbler]

Same here.

[@peterlawson777]

Me too.

[@zetametallic]

I really like the music. It was a long time ago, people were pleased by simpler things as the pace of life was slower back then. I was only 2 but I went to see the illuminations and it started my love of novelty lighting.

[@nathancox6249]

How times have changed

[@BottleBri]

It’s a shame people who remember these great times, can only see them now on film- because britain has changed out of all recognition.

[@pedrorenard8439]

Don’t worry, these films and any other record of what we once were will be seized and destroyed to remove all trace. People will see that we have always been a multi cultural society 😢

[@mash83]

@@pedrorenard8439 go back to bed..

[@TheGodParticle]

@@pedrorenard8439 well said, it's a disgrace how down hill this country has gone in 44 years.

[@theshamanarchist5441]

@@pedrorenard8439 "He who controls the past, commands the future. He who commands the future, conquers the past." George Orwell - 1984

[@paulkazjack]

Not really. It was a shithole then and is a shithole now.

[@paganjon6529]

Make Britain great again.

[@Paul-ki2cz]

If only

[@angelamary9493]

Too late sadly

[@paganjon6529]

@@angelamary9493 never give up .👌

[@henryjames5663]

Then don't Brexit

[@robertwilliams9234]

@@henryjames5663what has that got to do with it

[@vanessahawarden9028]

Sad to see Blackpool and Morcambe turn into smack head central both

[@1gerard47]

Is it ?

[@eveoakley6270]

Just what I stated on the main thread. A lot of those guesthouses are now crack dens and the deprivation is very apparent.

[@ThisWontEndWell]

for three decades councils have moved their problem cases to the empty seaside towns, which only made things worse.

[@christinekelly5916]

Simple times - less stress and worry then

[@arianbyw3819]

Maybe for you, not for everyone

[@mikeymoo1291]

Today...most of the people in that video couldn't afford the petrol to get there.

[@shirleyellis9708]

Bring back time anytime. I loved the donkeys miss it those were the days.

[@traceyculyer5811]

Used to love Blackpool, Great fun

[@loxleyltd]

No devices. 😂 everyone’s on the same page

[@donna1420]

First visited Blackpool in 1978 this brings back happy memories

[@ThisWontEndWell]

Odd how the people who ditched Blackpool for a warm Spanish beach complain Blackpool is not like it used to be... Od course it isn't, you stopped bringing money into the town so it declined.

[@bobbbxxx]

You got it in one. Cheap package holidays destroyed all the traditional seaside towns

[@hideouslyugly]

For a few pence, you can have the thrill and excitement of the rapids! Not any more. Lovely video, I was 15 then.

[@tinamartin8890]

I love those classic cars. I need a time machine 😫

[@robsawalker]

Happy times! Love it

[@raymondbonington9355]

Had my first kid in 78 , that s gone quick .

[@christopherckarkson5605]

Hello that takes me back the Great British sun bather. The suns out but its still 14degrees in the full sun.

[@stephenroney2366]

Except 1976. I was 8. Went whole summer wearing undies, white socks white shorts and "gutties" I was brown as a berry.

[@christopherckarkson5605]

@@stephenroney2366 hello, i was 20 spent my summer hols with a gang of mates in cornwall. A great summer.

[@Justdocuments]

My nan took me here I miss them days 😢

[@thecontractor365]

Instant Time Travel. Love It.

[@Nettsinthewoods]

There’s nothing like sitting on a British beach with all your clothes on plus extra to keep the draught at bay.

[@John-ob7dh]

Very good.And very true

[@sparerib]

When the narrator said "the razzmatazz was much livelier and twice the fun!" 😂 I nearly pissed myself, everyone had a face like a wet weekend in Blackpool, literally! 🙄😂

[@michaelwhiles5282]

Epic - will never return.....

[@maggiemay6625]

loved getting the sharra to the lights with me mam and nana back then blackpool was pure magic ❤️🇬🇧

[@steve20664]

No cameras on every corner watching you, no satellite dishes, no phones , I grew up in 70s80s Redcar and it was way better then I just didn't realise at the time.

[@bvfckyou]

thankyou this is gold

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

The woman sitting on the deckchair in the beginning of the video . Would have been known as the battle axe . Lol 😂

[@rebeccaculling825]

Would she have been my age, 60?!

[@self-preservationsociety7057]

Worked her arse off for 51 and a half weeks of the year to get a couple of days at the seaside

[@dazdaz105]

She was only 32 when the film was made.

[@adamsaint2890]

The illuminations, the pleasure beach and the road out. Three good things about Blackpool.

[@minimaxi802]

Posh Lytham is just four miles down the road from Blackpool.

[@nigelpowton9509]

Indeed it is, I was born there.

[@MyVmh]

That was ace. I'm a Sandgrownian. Thankyou. I really enjoyed that 🌹

[@freedom00666]

Use to go to Weymouth every year thro out the seventies it was great always seemed warm weather every one happy the hotel was called the cutter it was brilliant the landlady and landlord were always laughing every a minor bird in the hotel lounge which made the noise of children playing on the beach with the tide coming in and out what great times we had

[@video99couk]

The incandescent bulbs were so inefficient that you could literally warm yourself from the heat of the lights.

[@AMikeOnLine]

Anyone remember the 'Fun House'? There were huge Skittles that moved about right left and back and forth.. I managed to get my right foot stuck fast between one of the skittles and the floor. Horrific experience and scarred me for life. I was 7 years old. I've never been back. Great old film though.

[@pigeon51]

The fun house was so dangerous! I spent hours in that place when I was a kid. 60p to get in and you could stay all day. I remember many drunken Scottish men on the joy wheel and one getting taken out on a stretcher 😂

[@MegaPontoon]

How lovely

[@nigel8499]

Brilliant!

[@WhistleStatus]

yes bro

[@WhistleStatus]

i m indian

[@blakesteele7800]

Frik Planet I'm American

[@WhistleStatus]

+Blake Steele Nice my Bro

[@chris-rfs]

Great memories...but i can assure viewers that Blackpool guest houses were hardly immaculately clean as described!.🤣

[@tonyclifton265]

i was a kid in the 70s and we loved blackpool for holidays. simple times.

[@johnrider5701]

I miss the 1970s has anyone got a time machine I can borrow?

[@shakeyhandsshedmodelrailwa2494]

that was blackpools peak , been downhill since nowhere near the place it was or crowds that visited today , in a hot summer day in the late 70s you were shoulder to shoulder all along blackpools golden mile wakes weeks helped a tradition long gone

[@mindblast3901]

Blackpool's Hallucinations

[@markunsworth2364]

I was 6 in 1978 and remember going to the seaside in Whitley Bay 🙂 take me back please

[@chrisgrey5921]

Wow, how times have changed, fantastic film😀

[@gavindouglas3196]

Look not a knife Drugs or grooming gangs in sight

[@cosh5]

That's because there are no blacks in sight

[@sandwichbar8226]

@@cosh5 Only because they were hard at work building this country up. As the 50p says .. "Diversity built Britain ' 😂

[@arianbyw3819]

If you think drugs weren't a thing in the70s, you weren't paying attention. I recall several stabbings in the papers. And the grooming gangs were all white, so I suppose that was okay.

[@arianbyw3819]

Several stabbing murders in Blackpool then, also Disney Cooke and his paedo gang were abducting young boys up and down the country...

[@lucaschapman2188]

First went to Blackpool only 2 years after when this was 🎥 filmed 👍🏻

[@pigeon51]

My home when I was a child. Thank you for this. I smiled all the way through 😊

[@johnathanryan2117]

Bolton By The Sea. Im sure most North west towns would say the same. Wakes week might be a thing of the past, but its still possible to go up there and see a dozen folk you know . Gets some stick these days but theres nowt wrong with Blackpool. It never pretends to be anything other than what it is. Some great times there as a kud and as an adult in its pubs, clubs and football ground....great place and long may it continue. Lovely film

[@Mark-Singleton]

I beg to differ, I’ve lived here 60yr’s and, quite sadly, there’s plenty wrong with Blackpool. 😥

[@Bombabingbong66]

I think many of us have such great memories even though it's a poor town with a bad drug problem.

[@johnathanryan2117]

@@Bombabingbong66 true of a lot of places in the North West Kerrie, for a multitude of reasons. All the best!

[@salus1231]

Get a good day and Blackpool is quite ok. But it's a town with real problems that you cant hide with the sound of arcades, lights, illuminated trams and fair rides

[@Lionofjuda957]

1979, my family and I were on our way to Canada 🇨🇦 never regretted it. I did have good times from the 60s until we left. We were from Plymouth, have to say, we never went to Blackpool, but looks an okay 👍 place.

[@markgreet3543]

I went 1983,amazing place very good.

[@pingpong5000]

The Pleasure Beach and the Illuminations were much better then than now, more real and fun. As a kid in the 1960s I worked at the pleasure beach during the summer school hols, I ran the ice cream stall next to the wild mouse, it was very enjoyable, people were much nicer/kinder then. Why the council got rid of those decorated trams was really stupid, they were fantastic to see.

[@Bombabingbong66]

I was from Leyland, born 67 and remember the Wild Mouse and this film really takes me back and the fun of Blackpool. We went for a week most years. Scott's week the kiss me quick squeeze me slow hats, fish n chips. Great memories. I live in France now, my kids hv no idea what Fun really was back then.

[@kopthelotklopp1523]

The wild mouse is still there isn't it? Certainly was around 10 years ago.

[@pigeon51]

@@kopthelotklopp1523 it got dismantled a few years ago 🙁

[@kopthelotklopp1523]

@@pigeon51 that's a shame. Although I assume it was for the best considering its age. Thanks for letting me know 👍

[@nikolibolokov4521]

That because you was a kid not an adult

[@denniseldridge2936]

There was a famous seaside place called Blackpool, noted for fresh air and fun So mister and misses Ramsbottom when there with young Albert, their son...

[@joedennehy386]

We kiwis love the beach , with togs and t shirts. We don't bother if you have to wear coats, jackets, shoes and socks. Amazing. But the street attractions were fantastic

[@kilburncounty]

All this and that nice Mr Saville on the telly!

[@B50Stevie]

Great times, completely woke free, when you could have a different opinion and still be great friends, had some lovely times in Blackpool, and you’ll not find more friendlier, fun loving, salt of the Earth folks than those in Lancashire.

[@pennybunny]

Now you're lucky to find someone who speaks English

[@Holly_2011]

Back when you could call a spade a spade..

[@anthonybardsley4985]

Every era brings new challenges.

[@brunopascolini5726]

J was in England in Preston 1970 , J visit many places, J miss England ❤❤❤

[@simonirvine1628]

It looks rough then and looks even rougher now....

[@bobholyoake8577]

The year I was born 👍

[@kenbradley5035]

Bracing summers! Chuckle.

[@kokloketan1177]

I'm glad i were in Blackpool during 1975-1978...Those days were great fun and bring back sweet memories and have a great time there..

[@tomasrikona4021]

"Oh I do like to be beside the seaside, I do like to be beside the sea"🥰

[@foxyladythewitch]

I was only 1 year old in 1978... Blackpool then is a lot better then

[@fatlad5090]

When british holidays were declining the 70s. cause of affordable package holidays abroad. Big hotels were first to suffer. then railways. Holiday camps.

[@arianbyw3819]

Beeching started slashing the railways in the 60s