British Seaside - 1978 | The Archivist Presents |

[@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.

[@axoscurry.]

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

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

Many things better, some worse.

[@FairyGrandmother-n6m]

I agree 😞

[@markovilla1]

I was ten in 1978.. what hasn't changed is that it's still only 11 degrees in Blackpool at the height of summer, regardless of what the climate warriors are trying to have us believe!!

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

@@markovilla1 Your personal experience is simply irrelevant to the undeniable and accelerating rise in global temperatures due to climate change. "Earth’s temperature has risen by an average of 0.11° Fahrenheit (0.06° Celsius) per decade since 1850, or about 2° F in total. The rate of warming since 1982 is more than three times as fast: 0.36° F (0.20° C) per decade. 2023 was the warmest year since global records began in 1850 by a wide margin. The 10 warmest years in the historical record have all occurred in the past decade (2014-2023)." (NOAA)

[@markovilla1]

@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Yep! We’re all gonna die!!!

[@Jkk55]

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

[@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

[@neiledwards5100]

And not a mobile phone in sight wonderful

[@robertwilliams9234]

Blackpool will never be the same again

[@johnrobertson8263]

no where is

[@jean2740]

Buetifull white people ❤❤❤❤

[@bethanhamer.8669]

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

[@TheGreatest1974]

It’s very sad indeed.

[@john111257]

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

[@eileenpritchard9154]

@@TheGreatest1974 ABSOLUTELY.

[@bustedfender]

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

[@bethanhamer.8669]

@@bustedfender that’s true !

[@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

[@MsArrowroot]

And now they've stopped your heating allowance.🥶

[@neilmalloy5830]

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

[@V1010.]

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

[@martinholmes-ue9ko]

Britons

[@pamelamckenzie2685]

Those times was fun times and simple I love it.

[@BB-wc9jx]

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

[@matthewharding7342]

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

[@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.

[@MrStoneyburke]

True Blackpool is just like the rest of Britain now.

[@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.

[@annwornell7510]

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

[@Weho.]

There’s something very soothing Sat on the beach, eyes closed and listening to the waves crashing on the beach. I used to love swimming in the sea as a kid, never a fan of swimming/walking through a cloud of seaweed knowing there are crabs not far from your feet. Don’t think I’ve swam in the sea in the Uk since I was a kid either. Time really does pass us by quickly 🙄

[@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 💖💖!!

[@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 !!

[@rosiew1952]

love the accent, even though I cant hear you talk, your comment says it all . Yorkshire is it?

[@sparerib]

@@rosiew1952 'tha guessed reet, well done. West Yorkshire to be precise. 👍

[@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?

[@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...

[@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?

[@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

[@larrydickman5936]

Ask the natives of many third world nations what their lives and homes looked like before the British arrived ( eg. The Deigo igo Garcians , Palestinians, Kenyan etc)

[@TrueNativeScot]

@@larrydickman5936 no modern medicine and no roads lol. Also those places were never ethnically cleansed

[@teesman61]

Yeah, shame the tories ruined it.

[@Boilingfrogg]

@@teesman61 Tories? I think I recall Tony Blairs Labour came into power in the mid 90s. That's when it it all went down hill.

[@beedee4427]

"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...

[@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.

[@bobbbxxx]

They've upped the "vulgar frequency" over the decades! 😉

[@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.

[@topcat4759]

Cromer in Norfolk was my holiday destination in '78 with my Cousin and his parents. Decent weather, beach and the amusement arcades, what more could you ask for. Compared to the British Summer of 2024 absolute paradise tbh 😃😃😃😃

[@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.

[@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

[@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. ??

[@rosiew1952]

my first ever holiday to Blackpool was the late 90,s I think. I have to say though, I loved every minute of it. we had good weather first time we went ( it was a heatwave) and I loved walking, my late sister in law didnt. so we went on a tram to see Chubby Brown . I was sweating like hell . but loved Blackpool. went every year for 14 years . would love to go back for a holiday , but Im from south wales valleys and the bus journey was over 7 hours , couldnt cope sitting that long now though.

[@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

[@CB-RADIO-UK]

Not a mobile phone in site. Such simple times.

[@jean2740]

Or a migrent 😅

[@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.

[@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

[@loushared6602]

….and the elastic on the wrists was really tight!

[@KerryWoolley-d5l]

Fracking marvellous.

[@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?????

[@gill8779]

I always wanted a pony as a child, so at the pleasure beach the ride with the horses was my favourite. I remember rushing to get a black horse before anybody else did lol. Luckily I did get to own real horses.

[@sallybutler1005]

Exactly same here ! I got a black horse many years later 😊

[@gill8779]

@@sallybutler1005 I had two palomino's & two chestnuts. Sadly they have all passed, but all lived to thirty years old.

[@sallybutler1005]

Had to have my black mare put to sleep at twenty six - so then I bought my Gypsy trotter he's eighteen - he just goes on steady hacks now - according to his passport he's lived at Blackpool and Skegness.

[@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😅

[@tinamartin8890]

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

[@donna1420]

First visited Blackpool in 1978 this brings back happy memories

[@BlytheWorld1972]

I was nearly crying watching this my god it looked fantastic happy PEOPLE HAVING FUN THE LIGHT LOOKED SENSATIONAL

[@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.😎

[@traceyculyer5811]

Used to love Blackpool, Great fun

[@paullacey2999]

Before the UK was infected.....

[@cquilty1]

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

[@davedixon2068]

Yrah Covid caused a lot of problems.

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

... with Covid-19, like the rest of the world.

[@loxleyltd]

No devices. 😂 everyone’s on the same page

[@menopausalbarbie7467]

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

[@chobbler]

Same here.

[@peterlawson777]

Me too.

[@TheGreatest1974]

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.

[@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

[@shirleyellis9708]

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

[@vanessahawarden9028]

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

[@1gerard47]

Is it ?

[@1961-v9k]

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.

[@lee-annebarrett366]

I moved from Australia to England in 1977. I never regretted it. I loved England and everything it was.

[@GriefTourist]

When kids actually left the house, when you knew all your neighbours, when haif of teenagers didn't want to kill themselves , when the gap between rich and poor wasn't Pacific Ocean wide, when everyone knew what the number one record was and liked it!

[@CheshireCat6639]

Well said! 👍🇬🇧💯

[@rosiew1952]

the sea looked a lot cleaner, wouldnt even go for a dip now .

[@christinekelly5916]

Simple times - less stress and worry then

[@arianbyw3819]

Maybe for you, not for everyone

[@nathancox6249]

How times have changed

[@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.

[@jonahspiper]

“The future couldn’t be brighter” the final words from the commentator. I loved my country as a child and this is how I remember it. I would’ve been 8 at the time of this video and have fond memories of the Queens Silver Jubilee in 1977. I left in 2009 disillusioned, now live in Asia have only been back twice very briefly. I’m reasonably well travelled but have not seen another country that’s not in war change and decline faster than the UK and British society.

[@adamc9834]

It's very sad

[@thecontractor365]

Instant Time Travel. Love It.

[@mungomidge1090]

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

[@bobbbxxx]

😅

[@maggiemay6625]

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

[@MyVmh]

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

[@pigeon51]

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

[@MerkabaKid]

I want to go back to 1978 😔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🤍🇬🇧

[@tonyclifton265]

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

[@iangeorge745]

I was 14 in 1978. Blackpool was magical in these days. One arm bandits. Air hockey. Fabulous memories in the pleasure beach. I too mourn for these times. It's turned into a s...ehole NOW sadly

[@chrisgrey5921]

Wow, how times have changed, fantastic film😀

[@Justdocuments]

My nan took me here I miss them days 😢

[@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

[@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..

[@MegaPontoon]

How lovely

[@michaelwhiles5282]

Epic - will never return.....

[@pennybunny]

Now you're lucky to find someone who speaks English

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

Given the sterling efforts that most migrants make to speak several languages, your comment has no connection to reality.

[@jean2740]

Exactly 💯 percent true

[@jean2740]

​@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx??..your not english then

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

@@jean2740 If I were not English, I suspect that my knowledge of languages would be much greater than it is, sadly. Most if not all migrants speak several languages so to criticise their English skills is unfair and lacks self-awareness.

[@Hakushin68000]

Pardon, moi? 🤔

[@robsawalker]

Happy times! Love it

[@markunsworth2364]

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

[@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.

[@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 😂

[@raymondbonington9355]

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

[@dmomcilovic9185]

This has long long gone. Blackpool is the absolute pits now

[@lucaschapman2188]

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

[@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

[@kenbradley5035]

Bracing summers! Chuckle.

[@Holly_2011]

Back when people were thinner, happier and it wasn’t so dark.

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

I remember the 70s, it was very dark with Tories.

[@bluecyprus1]

Its never been the cleanest of places but now its like a third world dumping ground. I happily remember my parents taking me there as well as Bridlington as we are from west Yorkshire. Its a knock out was there live one year and the place was packed out i slept in a wardrobe floor as it was the only place with any room to spare. Chips in old newspaers always tasted great along with prawns fresh from the sea still with heads on and not from the freezer!!. You could have great time just walking around the pleasure beach. Was free back then and hope you would be allowed on the bigger rides. A slow walk bck to the digs and asleep after all the fresh air happy days. When the uk was the uk . Im so glad i had my youth back then..Thanks for posting

[@nigel8499]

Brilliant!

[@EnterRedRoom]

yes bro

[@EnterRedRoom]

i m indian

[@blakesteele7800]

Frik Planet I'm American

[@EnterRedRoom]

+Blake Steele Nice my Bro

[@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.

[@1gerard47]

No boat people, if I lived there I would leave by boat.

[@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

[@BariandHamza]

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.

[@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.

[@hopebgood]

But "woke free". What do you mean by that? Genuine question.

[@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

[@donniblanco5239]

I’ll never forget “Fixby” - Proper Digs with Good Grub and Plenty of it 👍🏻✌🏻

[@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.

[@davestationuk7374]

Hartlepool beaches in the summer , rock pooling , crabbing and if lucky a trip into the arcades. Simple times

[@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

[@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

[@clarenicola1]

Awe the grand national ride many a happy whiplash on that😂😂😂😂

[@ianrobert6239]

'Impeccably clean' .Now there is a thing of the past.

[@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! 🙄😂

[@Mrc172]

Watching this is giving me a touch of the rapids.

[@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

[@Key-Wound]

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!

[@theflyinghamster8442]

I like other people that have commented was 18 in 1978 !! I remember these times well , now I look at what's happened to my beloved England and it makes me weep !!!

[@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...

[@chiarabay9364]

Oh dear how did it all change!? 😢. I loved it when he said impeccably clean guest houses run by landladies with an iron fist (or something). Being from down south my beach holidays as a kid was Cornwall but the general population is the same. Oh for those days.