Camping in the 1970s | Holiday Camps | Hayling Island | Wish you were here? | 1974

The 'Wish you were here?' team take a trip to Hayling Island in Hampshire to take a look at the difference between the "holiday camp' and the new and improved 'Holiday centre' -
First shown: 11/02/1974
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[@58johnjohn]

Had a week there in 1975 with a couple of mates, stayed in a real old style "chalet" complete with the tea trolley rumbling along the path at 8am when we were still hungover.!! Happy days.

[@patriciapalmer4873]

Me to I used to go to sunshine holiday camp it was fantastic knobby knees competition

[@sarahcellblockh1562]

I would love to go back to the 70's and spend my summer there, it honestly doesnt take much to make me happy, no phones etc... sign me up.

[@pigknickers2975]

I know it's bollocks but as a kid of the 70s that spent much time in Skeggy and Mablethorpe this stuff is so in my blood. I can't get enough of it!

[@lewissmith3896]

Good on ya mate.

[@johnroberts7924]

People sure were closer, happier, and more relaxed back then. Best days! Thank you.

[@markedwards1515]

They were!

[@alfching2499]

@@markedwards1515 yeh very close.Oy Do Me A Favour

[@lorrainecann683]

Got a photo of my mum (she’s 90 in July) winning miss coronation , 1960 and I won the baby competition age 1 , happy days!

[@patrickstarnes2355]

How nice to see all those 70s cars! I could watch them for hours.

[@madeinuk68]

patrick starnes Me too,sad but true. Nostalgia overdrive.

[@mooseyman74]

The mini was everyone's first car, now they're like hens teeth on the roads

[@nostromoau]

Notice the Wolseley going over the bridge? I wish I had had enough money and knowledge to keep my 63 16/60 which I bought in 73.

[@davidellis485]

Aug 1964 and a week’s holiday at Sunshine Holiday Camp. I was nearly 16 and my holiday romance there was with a girl named Rita Lewry from London. She had long hair like Cathy McGowan. We never saw each other again but I still have wonderful memories of the camp and her.

[@MrNobbyify]

*Centre

[@MarkHenstridge]

@@MrNobbyify It was called a "camp" in 64

[@sajanwoss5698]

Nobby Nobbyify fuck off knobby

[@lizclegg7556]

That was probably the best thing about holiday camps, the opportunity for secret teenage liaisons.

[@perolagrande]

Horny devil 👿!

[@natalianatalia383]

I am watching this in the morning instead of coronavirus news. I love the language that they speak, and also those videos are very kind and positive. 🤗👍

[@kK-ox7rk]

Michael John Dennis well you could get out in the morning and go visit some places in Spai and get to learn something

[@naughtydorf18]

U seem to speak it well

[@COIcultist]

@Michael John Dennis Oh, Michael! You have brought back a flood of memories. I was born in 1962. The youngest son of an Irishman who sought work in Manchester in 1946. Every summer we took the train from Victoria station (Manchester) to Holyhead and a train down from Houston (Dublin) to Limerick. There must have been something different in the pricing of railway food and beverages in the 60s and 70s. We always had pots of tea and plates of sandwiches and scones on the way down. Not a full meal but plated sandwiches and tea in china in the dining car for 7 would be a minor mortgage now. Two things I remember that have been lost to time. The massive number of telephone lines that ran down the side of the track. Especially memorable in Ireland. Colbert station (Limerick) had either two separate cabins inside one selling newspapers and tobacconists products. One selling tourist gift products/tat. Either that or they were one and the same. I remember my Dad buying me a penknife. Buying your son a knife, that idea has completely different connotations in the 21st Century. Both my Mum and Dad smoked I remember them getting IMCO Lighters from there. Now whether they were genuine or early Chinese knock off products? kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5S3nn6IhdZ_aac&noredirect=1 www.imcolighter.com/#

[@comealongcomealong4480]

@Michael John Dennis That's the slow train home, for sure. Try a flight sometime Michael, especially if you're on a short visit - I hear good things about the airports in Ireland ✈.

[@EdgyNumber1]

They were pretty crap holidays to be honest, especially in economy class lol. It was only when CentreParcs raised the game then staycations started to become more attractive.

[@davis7099]

Simple pleasures and people trying hard to make the most of what they have. We are such a spoiled lot today.

[@VooDooMaGicMan81]

Weakened (intentionally) not spoiled. Weakened.

[@barbiemortimer1322]

Summer of 76 we went to the Oven camp site on Hayling Island. Holiday I’ll never forget. Those were the days when life was great

[@mickd6942]

My grandad was in a camp like this , his wallace arnold bus was shot down over kent but he never talks about it much.

[@DMC888]

Tsk, camp is a four letter word.

[@sanchoodell6789]

Sorry to hear that. Did he get his Wallace Arnold Bus back after the War?

[@motherland80]

I expect he was forced to participate in group karaoke, a particularly humiliating form of punishment that was practiced in those camps.

[@charlieminaj2]

mickd6942 he was probably abused at these camps

[@mickd6942]

motherland80 worse he was forced to enter the knobbly knees competition which was banned by the Geneva convention

[@markhealey3831]

I never understood the concept of paying money to stay somewhere that is , in most cases, not as nice as where you live!. . . However.. .as a 13 year old lad in 74 . . .it was fabulous. . . Happy memories

[@Keithbarber]

Now 58, or 59 now(?)

[@MegaDeansy]

'I've never consider foreign package holidays as a threat to us' - Wow - he was on the track but couldn't see the train headed right for him !

[@timaustin2000]

I actually winced when he said that!

[@tapperzukie3994]

Fried food no keto no gym memberships more alcohol than safe...And no one was overweight.

[@lunasanja4574]

because ppl were moving more, more still worked in physically more demanding jobs than just sitting on an office chair, and, most importantly: food was less genetically altered

[@Jack-bf6hv]

People were not grazing constantly, they were smoking.

[@math1182]

Wow! How our expectations have changed. I remember staying in a single brick and concrete chalet in rainy May (because early season was cheaper) shivering under a damp, itchy ex-army blanket. No fridge and a coin operated electric metre.

[@stevemann3375]

Luxury!

[@Juliukas101]

meter

[@beachlife2968]

The asbestos ceiling is the clincher for me 10:16

[@battmann7089]

I agree, if it it wasn’t for the asbestos roof I wouldn’t be interested. What’s missing in holidays these days is asbestos. More asbestos please.

[@dandare2586]

The public's lungs were not snowflake back then!

[@garymason7]

That's BARE asbestos I'll have you know!

[@COIcultist]

@@garymason7 It's asbestos cement which is relatively benign though you wouldn't hear anyone say that these days. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos_cement

[@Isleofskye]

I was joining in the joke until I remembered my best M8 who I had socialised with over 3,000 times died suddenly in 2014 when the asbestos that went into his lungs when he was a kid playing in his Dads Building Yard and which had laid dormant in him for 45 years suddenly came out as Cancer and he was dead within the year.

[@natalianatalia383]

10:05 'Throwing members of staff in pool or lake is strictly prohibited')))

[@chandlerbingbong]

there must of been a whole spate of staff dunkings for that sign to go up. lol

[@MediaWatchDawg]

o.0 0.o

[@iangallager4091]

probably when one gets thrown in there's a domino effect and the rest of the staff quickly follow.. This is what happens when the prisoners take over the camp!!!How dare they break out of their shackles!!!!!

[@Madmax-iy8fi]

Was waiting for Stan and Jack to turn up with a bus

[@number6ix929]

"I 'ATE YOU BUTLAAAAAA!"

[@woodyeckerslyke9676]

Stayed in one of these places as a kid in the 70’s. I thought it was amazing but my father went home as it reminded him of an army barracks. It actually was a former barracks.

[@waiata216]

no your father went home to get away from the missus and the kids and get a holiday at home :)

[@woodyeckerslyke9676]

@Wayne Gatfield : Actually looking back I think he did have a 19 year old girlfriend on the go 😁

[@pigknickers2975]

kids and parents on holidays have such different needs! I thought Butlins was basically the promised land- - my mother despised it!

[@SlinkiestTortoise23]

That’s a proper 70’s Dad right there! First sign of any disgruntlement, ‘fuck this I’m off!’

[@hodgey7183]

“It’s filthy, ideal for children” genius, crying with laughter. Really is warts and all.

[@mrlotusmic]

It’s almost a Monty Python sketch. Funny on so many levels now.

[@indiakhetri]

mrlotusmic but much , much happier than nowadays

[@technicalscience]

@@indiakhetri Rose tinted glasses, much?

[@stevenroberts3872]

Better in them days. No phones. Real memories! 👌

[@4jp]

The strangest thing about this is that these places are all still operating 50 years on.

[@kelenstavis]

What's the name of the place where I can get a bottle of champagne for £3.20?

[@tommillard4193]

@@kelenstavis 😂😂😂

[@leemartin8720]

Loved Sunshine ❤ my family went there every year . Took my own kids there around 18 years ago . Wasnt the same but it always brings back great memories xx

[@crickmalcolm3763]

Worked for Warners, great summers, worked about three seasons on Hayling island, Sinah warren was the up market one, Happy days

[@koont666]

Uncle Garry the children's entertainer 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@callumhardy5098]

simon furlong Oh deer! Probably employed by the bbc! 😂😂

[@chap666ish]

I spent a week at a Butlin's holiday camp in the 60s and loved it. We knew no better then.

[@chrismorhen4839]

I used to go on static,caravan holidays good fun in the sixtys.

[@PAGANONYMOUS]

The quality of the video is amazing considering how old this film is.

[@alfching2499]

About 1974,When you could get by on a small amount and you didn’t need a phone to lead you through life.id go back then any given moment ........from the bloke near the end who I don’t recognise anymore at the age of 73.

[@bencolemanart]

@@alfching2499 That was you in the blue shirt, Alf? Must be a trip to suddenly find a video like that after so long. Good on yourself, hope you've had a load of great holidays since.

[@jonedgar5996]

@@alfching2499 thats awesome that its you in the video. How did you know it was on here?

[@iball310369]

£12 a week.... send me a brochure 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@joarnold7753]

aldin 3103 and 8 hour a day child care wah

[@JohnEdwardBerry]

I went to Butlins and Pontins with my family as a kid, didnt do me any harm, we'd loved it.

[@imansfield]

John Berry we used to go to Butlins at Bognor Regis. Us kids thought we’d died and gone to heaven with the free funfair! The chalets were pretty grim but you don’t care about about that when your a kid.

[@pklongutoobe]

I hated going to Butlins every year.... Wanted to see some of the world.

[@veilbreak5867]

@@pklongutoobe Yea me too...by the time I was 11 I thought I was too sophisticated for Butlins!

[@CM_Burns]

The crew at 0:33 were practicing social distancing before it was even a thing.

[@superduper9357]

The Managers epitomised the blind ignorance of British industry at the time. His misplaced dismissal of foreign packaged holidays as competition was typical. I mean who would ever want to ride a Japanese motorbike?

[@VooDooMaGicMan81]

What business people say in a television interview rarely correlates with what they truly feel or know. His job was to promote his British 'holiday camps' and bravado/positivity sells better than saying they're under pressure.

[@Isleofskye]

The best Camp was The Robin Hood Camp we passed in Wales. Their only feature was a rotting old goalpost in a mud field and they had a large barbed wire fence right round the outside.. That barbed wire was not to stop intruders but to stop the prisoners/holidaymakers escaping :)

[@jcs3330]

I am proud to say I grew up in the 70s and spent my 1-2 week summer holiday on a holiday camp. The first being 'Pipers' and then continuing into my early 20's New Beach Holiday Camp Dymchurch. Some of the best days of my life!.

[@carlbarton7296]

Love it. Everyone puts on their best posh voice. My dad still does it when talking to strangers.

[@christinesmith171]

They don't deliver tea and paper any more, but this site is still in use as Away Resorts Mill Rhythe. It does still provide value for money, but there are plans to make it self catering in caravans for the future. For a cheap weekend, it's great

[@BrettWolfgangFischer]

I remember Butlins, I enjoyed it. Maybe because I was a child. I can remember horse ryding and meeting the Krankies in person. My mum, my grandma and I had a chat with them after the show. They were lovely.

[@philjames2542]

"Its filthy and there's no entertainment, but its ideal for children" 😂😂😂

[@clivejones5880]

I used to fish for crabs with friends from that bridge shown in the opening minute. I have fond times of Hayling Island.

[@bobrew461]

In your pants or in the sea?

[@briansparks8528]

Whatever happened to DDT?

[@JohnnyPaton]

The 1970s. It seems so surreal watching that it’s as if it didn’t happen.

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

Bollocks.

[@annother3350]

Herald - why are you so abusive you twat?!

[@JohnnyPaton]

Herald Events and Films knob

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

You're not very good at it. @@JohnnyPaton

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

@alanrtment porter FFS! It is Roger Mellie's signature word in Viz. You're a fecking idiot pal.

[@iball310369]

Wine 85pence a bottle. Sold

[@repletereplete8002]

stick it on yer 2p chips too!

[@MrAlwaysBlue]

I went to Pontins in Morecombe as an 8 yr old in 1973 with my Mum and great grand parents. It was good for it’s time. My Mum won the lovely legs competition!

[@dandare2586]

11:52 Kenny Everett character Sid Snot

[@Seeker7100]

LOL!!! He even looks Kenny!

[@pigknickers2975]

@@Seeker7100 I mean he must have seen it! It's like a copy!?!?!

[@joarnold7753]

Ha cracked up, love it memories

[@Psyrax64]

Allo creeps 😂

[@psammiad]

It looks freezing. In the great English summer you definitely need a "heated sun lounge" 🤣 Amazingly this place is still going, called Mill Rythe Holiday Village!

[@Lipupfattyman]

The good old days....much better than going abroad!

[@creepingjesus5106]

Getting the boot firmly stuck into Coronation! Don't hold back now...

[@button1ginger1]

Sunshine Holiday Village is now called Mill Rythe Holiday Village and part of Away Resorts Group, it offers a variety of ways to stay. Sinah Warren is now part of Warner Leisure Hotels group Coronation Holiday Village is now Lakeside Holiday Village also part of the Warner Leisure Hotels group. They are still going.

[@oldlordys]

Amazing film and all 3 camps still there. Whats funnier is their ratings are still the same too. Sinah (Warners Adults only) considered the more upmarket one with Lakeside (was coronation, also Warner Adult only) slightly lower and cheaper and Sunshine (presumably Mill Rythe) the cheapest and still family oriented.

[@buxvan]

It's Sid Snott here as 11.52 ! I remember going to hayling island with my parents & sister for a week in a really old static caravan twice in the early 70's. Gas mantle lights, a cold water tap in the field & 2 toilets in a shed, my parents like most, we're not rich but we still had a holiday. I remember my dad's sit up & beg Ford popular driving there up Bury Hill in West Sussex A29 in 1st gear & my sister & I always thought it wouldn't get to the top !

[@frazzleface753]

God bless the coronation people. Just trying to get away for a little while for a few quid. Didn't really like the condescending tone of the reporter.

[@EdgyNumber1]

I think it was justified.

[@baslongstaff1819]

EdgyNumber1 that’s coz you sniff toilet seats

[@EdgyNumber1]

@@baslongstaff1819 So what?

[@john6291]

the petitioner, at the end, was having none of it! though, i agree.. for the price and being able to take the whole family.. not too bad..

[@MrNobbyify]

@@john6291 "Petitioner"?

[@janemarett1885]

What a change in our society compared to today . People were kinder to one another.

[@alfching2499]

Not Always,People haven’t changed much we still really don’t like each other much,just the same as them days

[@Skaterbun]

How was it so cheap but standards so high! You got so much for your money, all those added extras. Everything is the opposite in British holiday "centres" these days.

[@muk8804]

Globalised capitalism for you . All owned by multi nationals.

[@artfuldodger2623]

Those were the days! Very happy times and a totally world to what we know today!

[@davegalea6689]

60's and the 70's was the best. Wish we had a Time machine to go back those days

[@valicourt]

4:52 ah back in the day when choices were simple. BBC room or ITV room....?

[@theangrygamer1008]

Riff raff in one, identity politics in the other

[@cappaculla]

"opening next week, the BBC2 room In Colour !!"

[@pigknickers2975]

my grandma would not have the ITV on, no way.

[@EdgyNumber1]

That's depressing. That said, Sid Snott at 11:52 did provide some light amusement...

[@mrtwostrike]

‘...I like it all round n so does me wife’. I bet she does 😆

[@TheHorsebox2]

Kids go-carting without crash helmets, three year old kids sipping wine, asbestos everywhere. God, I miss the '70s.

[@Jade-pd3wm]

i lived nearby a Pontins holiday camp when i was a kid in the 70's. In the Summer Holidays my friends and I would sometimes sneak in and use the open air swimming pool. I loved the architecture of the main Canteen and upstairs Ball Room very 50's in style. Sadly the place closed by about 1995 after decline in this type of holiday. It is now a posh hotel and restaurant and housing complex.

[@beachlife2968]

Wow, it lasted until 1995.

[@davidmarks7728]

First went to the sunshine in 1966 and still visit today although changed a lot.

[@wordsfromtheheart-bethsumm6897]

Memory Lane! I remember staying at Hayling Island camp in 1957 - when I was 16. I went with a boyfriend and his family. We stayed in little concrete shacks - no heat - no comfort of course but there was a very early morning wake up call via the loud speakers!!

[@keef300]

Spent a great summer in 78 working as a Host at Sunshine, get holiday centre and fantastic times

[@timothyhh]

So Coronation was for the poors, got it.

[@themightyjuju]

Love Centre owner’s accent, you just don’t get that ‘Pathe News’ ‘British Establishment’ accent any more

[@ellenthorne8222]

I lived on Hayling Island from 71 to 77 and first job after leaving school in 74 was at Warners Southleigh, I enjoyed working there. Loved living on Hayling.

[@Astro_War]

The year I was born, so I don't remember 74, but I remember late 70s/80s and everything and everyone was much nicer. People appreciated the little things too.

[@annother3350]

No. Around that time you'd get beaten up just for looking different. If a man wore a pink shirt it was considered 'gay' and they risked a beating!

[@chloexianah3070]

Same.. good year! Don’t remember the 70’s really

[@annother3350]

@Nidgi As a kid in the 80s it was quite normal for my brothers friends to have a knife on them - they would come round and play with those butterfly knives and various other types like it was nothing. The only thing thats changed is now the press make a massive deal of it and people report it more. In the old days many people wouldnt go to the police or wouldnt speak out for fear of being called a grass.

[@juliemcleod9869]

Yeah I was born in the 70's..I went to Skegness withe the Jazz band in the 80's. I remember this program in the 80's my mam would watch it. Was it Judith Chalmers who presented it then?..not sure of her second name.

[@Usedtobeagrl]

We need these camps again. Kids need this.

[@cafsixtieslover]

Those long tables would be a nightmare. I remember those from Butlins in the sixties and accommodation without en-suite facilities would be unthinkable now. And a wire fence round it? Kind of sweet and simple though.

[@misterwibble6411]

Worth pointing out though that if you went abroad on holiday and stayed at a cheap (1 or 2 star) hotel, that would normally wouldn't be en-suite either. Same in the UK generally I think.

[@mistofoles]

@@misterwibble6411 Even up to very recently the ultra-low budget Formula One hotel in Liverpool (now defunct) offered a toilet-less room for as cheap as £12 per night.

[@kellymoulds7133]

I worked at both sinah warren and the coronation ( now called Lakeside) in the 90's on the Entertainments team.They had been upgraded by the time I worked there! And both where upgraded whilst working there. They where quite upmarket by the time I left. Except for the staff accomodaion! Don't think that ever got upgraded!🤣Brings back some fond memories.

[@sueherron8207]

Wonderful to watch. Along with a dear friend I worked as a waitress in the Sunshine Camp ‘74 Made grand friends & good fun even though we worked hard Did look for myself... we looked like Swiss maidens in the uniforms Great fun

[@MediaWatchDawg]

Except for that unverified appearance by the California Raisins on Top of the Pops, the purple microphone (2:38) was thought to be little more than an urban legend.

[@caramilne4851]

He loses the foam bit off the top of his microphone at one point and is interviewing someone with a purple stick!

[@MediaWatchDawg]

@@caramilne4851 Been there, done THAT. o.0

[@rhythmictiger]

The bare asbestos ceiling 😳

[@katcankan7129]

I know 🤣🤣🤣

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

That's how we used to get our five a day.

[@Thedoctorlee999]

When England was simple safe and very sociable for us, no terrorism no shootings or stabbings no BLM no lockdowns no control.

[@Cjbx11]

Except for the IRA bombings the 3 day week and all the constant strikes it was fantastic.

[@Thedoctorlee999]

Sounds like that was just a walk in the park compared to these day's 😉

[@paulhillman400]

@@Cjbx11 And the fear of a nuclear attack by the Russians !.

[@carlbarton7296]

And the constant fear of nuclear attack in the 80s

[@doreenlloyd4885]

I used to work at a holiday camp. Most fun job I ever had.

[@emmajones3131]

This is making me laugh so much! Esp the tea trolley

[@valicourt]

6:46 What about the food? There is just enough for everyone. That’s it, I am going!

[@cappaculla]

I mean they have just enough for everyone in a prison

[@lesleymetthews4590]

🤣

[@stubailey9433]

Great times!

[@mathewgreen4099]

Fascinating, many thanks for posting. Despite the drawbacks of the last camp, everyone is awake & talking with one another. How things have changed in the last 45 years. Lastly, what a fantastic pair of sideburns that guy has at 11.50 minutes in!

[@sumanthkumar6665]

😊👏👌😇 Good Old Days

[@stephenroche5107]

When times were simple.

[@EdgyNumber1]

Fuck me, I'd never wanna go back to that. And you wonder why package holidays on the continent killed the Holiday scene in the UK - at least until Centreparcs sorted it out for a while. Jeezus.

[@stephenroche5107]

@@EdgyNumber1 You mis guided silly arse.

[@EdgyNumber1]

@@stephenroche5107 Go on then, educated me, I could do with a laugh....

[@stephenroche5107]

@@EdgyNumber1 I will start with your grammar first you silly arse.

[@cappaculla]

And fannys were covered in bushy hair

[@thornbird6768]

Looks wonderful 👍🏻 we will all be taking holidays like this again in the future ! Especially as it won’t be worth the hassle of going abroad and quarantine !!!

[@Isleofskye]

" Sinah Warren" !! We were there in 1968 singing the Camp Theme Tune: I Left My Heart In San Francisco every mealtime, 3 times a day :). Remember meeting a Family from Waleran Flats, Old Kent Road who lived near us when we there. Reminds me of the time , on holiday abroad , when I fell in love with a lovely girl in Samuel Plank's Entertainment Venue...... Oh ! Hang On that was " I Left My Heart In Sam Plank's Disco !":)

[@1Johnnybird]

This was the year I joined the BBC. It was a different world.

[@charlieminaj2]

John Stevens the bbc are nonces? John why would you promote them?🤔🤔

[@stevenhackett5876]

I can remember a holiday I had in the early 80's I think, staying at what was advertised as Sinah Warren chalet hotel. It was quite o.k. and we toured the New Forest and surrounding areas.

[@marionjames4986]

Compared to Pontins in 2020 this looked like luxury, the places are falling down, death traps and rooms are disgusting 🙁

[@balthiersgirl2658]

Try Butlins much better or we went to haggerston brilliant fun and caravan stay

[@tina5203]

The people at the end didn’t seem very impressed with the place . I’m not surprised !!

[@darrenwilson8042]

as ever you get what you pay for - there is a blatant snobbery in the presentation but no for me if I could have afforded it I'd have gone Sinah Warren too

[@briangray00]

@@darrenwilson8042 I grew up on Hayling Island. The camps all had their own character. All brilliant in their own way. I had a (teenage) dream Saturday job at Sinah Warren. Saturday=Change over day. Guaranteed quiet, so I took a book in. put half a table tennis table against the wall, played snooker against myself. Occasionally someone would come in to scope the games out. I'd play them to amuse myself (rather than as a sense of duty). 3 course lunch was at 12:45. The only thing I regret was missing the 1977 cup final. Four years earlier I regularly broke (in) to Coronation to use their (really nice) pool. I used to breeze in to the discos too at Southleigh (not featured) and Sinah Warren, which were great fun. TL;DR Growing up on Hayling in the 70s, especially the summer was fantastic.

[@annother3350]

Brian - who won the snooker??

[@briangray00]

@@annother3350 I generally lost.

[@annother3350]

@@briangray00 Ugh. Downer

[@Bloodgod40]

I find it weird that the 70's were chronologically closer to WW2 than to today, but they _look_ more like today than the 40's.

[@mogznwaz]

Colour. TV Old = black & white. Colour = modern. 👍

[@Bloodgod40]

@@mogznwaz I think it's a combination of things, though color is definitely one of them. The way people dressed, the way people styled themselves, the popular music of the time... and indeed the TV / film footage of the time, which is not only in color but also has better audio reproduction than 1940s footage. All of these together give the 1970s a look and feel that feels more like now than the 40s, despite being closer in time to the mid 1940s than to 2020.

[@dream-67]

Rapid social and material change in the sixties are the reasons....also culturally the UK and other nations in the West have regressed the past 25 years or so

[@iangallager4091]

If they are still charging twenty two a week ; then I'm on my way!!!!

[@pauldixon8870]

i was 10 when i went to Sunshine . Brillaint memories.

[@ianstoys13mgs]

HA "Uncle Gary" ( not surname Glitter I hope ) different times !!

[@atulnayak5715]

Ian Temple Yes, children were allowed to play freely outside and most married men and women were decent and trusted.

[@mrchestwell]

Mr Newington, thank you

[@stuartwallace6154]

The good old days. No health and safety no pc crap no smart phones, innocent fun

[@donner101]

"Dinner includes such delicacies as egg and chips and Cornish pasties". Sign me up.

[@annother3350]

9:55 the seaweed costume!!

[@AtheistOrphan]

Ann Other - We have a winner!

[@annother3350]

@@AtheistOrphan And a Loser!

[@joarnold7753]

Wah the roads, the cars, people were so slim

[@unohoncho7727]

The way the Centre Manager (Ken Newington) talks with his BBC English/received pronunication accent makes me smile and feel sad at the same time. From a generation that were taught to speak correctly, now received pronunciation is virtually dead and replaced by thick accented idiots all over telly

[@simonmoore2380]

Uno Honcho speaking “correctly” involves the correct use of words and grammar. The accent used to speak does not determine the correctness of what is being said. So drop the snobbish bullshit, it’s not 1950 - we’ve moved on. Muppet.

[@unohoncho7727]

@@simonmoore2380 - fuck off and read your Socialist Worker you bellend

[@presidentelectzigenpuss3570]

@@simonmoore2380 drop the patronising bullshit, you knob

[@stephenhickey1709]

Couldn't agree more..well said (from an Irish person!)..

[@markwalters5919]

The summer of 76 at sunshine with my family. The best holidays of my life. Made friends that I stayed in contact with for many years

[@brucenichols9153]

Sinna Warren refused me and a friend entry as we did not wear a tie, later we arrived in his Rolls Royce wearing flip flops, shorts and a tie, their faces were a picture!

[@puddlespickles8810]

This was my childhood, and they still great holidays today, although a week in a holiday park is expensive but so much fun especially the club house

[@rainechambers5652]

Worked as a waitress at Pontins in 1975 before going to train as a nurse. Absolutely hated it!