Classic Road Trip: Touring Scotland in 1961 - Digitised Cine Film

[@PierreHamard-wh7qu]

Merci de rappeler de merveilleux souvenirs au petit Français qui avait 11 ans à l'époque et qui garde en mémoire la qualité de l'accueil, la dignité et la gentillesse de la population du Royaume Uni dans ces années 1960.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@PierreHamard-wh7qu Merci pour vos aimables paroles et merci d'avoir regardé. Meilleurs vœux.

[@wareidav]

This is just wonderful and takes me back to my childhood when the family would go on a massive road trip of about forty miles.... A full service kit and a gallon of water wet weather gear in the boot (just in case) the obligatory picknick hamper and blanket to sit on.. A thermos flask with the tea in. Then we all piled into the car. Wonderful wonderful days this captures exactly. Just a brilliant post. Thank you

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@wareidav Thank you very much. Your description is simply wonderful.

[@kimmcvitty3580]

This was filmed a year before I was born. I am looking forward to showing it to my grandchildren. Ladies all in skirts. Stone buildings black with soot. Policemen on points duty . Men in suits on the beach. I thought the film of the Forth Rail Bridge might show the Forth Road Bridge under construction. I think it opened in 1964. I have no memory of being on the ferry , but I was ! Thank you for posting.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@kimmcvitty3580 Thank you for watching. In those days everyone wore a suit to watch Football. Nowadays it's only the Directors who wear suits!!

[@MartinElwick]

Is it me or did anyone else notice how clean and well kept all the pavements and curb stones were not a weed in site beautiful

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@MartinElwick That seems to be the case in all my films from the 1960s. I have already uploaded a few but they are just scratching the surface, as I have 100s of films to edit and upload.

[@anselman3156]

And people knew how to dress well.

[@MartinElwick]

@@TransportNostalgia I go to Scotland every week in my truck it is noticeably better cared for

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@anselman3156 Those were the days when men used to wear their suits on the beach!!

[@anselman3156]

@@TransportNostalgia Yes! I saw that. Loved it! (I'm a bit like my grandparents in that regard. Been known to have collar and tie on a picnic!)

[@alanhayward8458]

I would go back to 1961 in a heartbeat given a time machine, much better than 2024!!!

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@alanhayward8458 I know what you mean. Different way of life.

[@TheKievKen]

@@TransportNostalgia We would most likely feel lost. So much has changed in this land and a lot of it for the better, despite the endless nostalgia. Would be fun to visit the 60s for a holiday or something, though. Don't forget to google the horse racing results before you go!

[@Cruising_the_Dash]

No one stopping for selfies..... awesome video 👍

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@Cruising_the_Dash Thank you. It would be difficult to film the same today without others using their phones for any kind photography.

[@RobertMiller-ye9hm]

I wish I could go back to that wonderful place in time

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@RobertMiller-ye9hm You are not alone.

[@dryflyman7121]

What, no rain 😂

[@HorseRacingLegends]

Little had changed in those places.Great Video.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@HorseRacingLegends Thank you very much. Will be interesting to see how much has changed in some of my forthcoming videos - ie Blackpool, Skegness and Essex from the 1960s

[@tamasmarcuis4455]

Most of Scotland looks pretty much the same now. The highland roads are better and Edinburgh isn't black with coal smoke.

[@johnorourke1636]

This brings back memories of travelling from Edinburgh to the west coast for holidays in the seventies. There was never any rush to get there and no hellish motorway. Numerous stops to feed horses and eat sandwiches. The journey was part of the holiday 😊

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@johnorourke1636 My first visit to Scotland was in 1976 when I joined a ship which was laid up in Loch Striven. A few visits whilst working on ships and the first holiday (other than visits by Cruise ship) was about 10 years and have returned about 6 times since. Fantastic country to visit.

[@davidwatt7663]

Watching this film , I always think you might just see a fleeting glimpse of a parent or grandparent , or their Car . A joy to watch thank you so much👍😊

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@davidwatt7663 Thank you. Also knowing the majority in the film are no longer with us.

[@Pitcairn2]

I remember those days, I was staying with my Grandmother in Perthshire when this was filmed, the cars looked so ultra modern to me then!

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@Pitcairn2 They would have looked that way, plus most cars had chrome numbers and trimmings. There were more different designs. Cars these days are either saloons or hatchbacks with the occasional sports car.

[@davidpatterson1657]

It would be nice to have lived then! People had pride and respect for each other and how clean is everything ❤

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@davidpatterson1657 I certainly lived then... But not in Scotland. My first visit to Scotland was when I was working in the Merchant Navy in 1970s.

[@grahamc887]

Brings back memories of our holidays touring round Scotland with my family in a similar Ford Anglia in the 1960’s. Interesting to see how little some places have changed, the car park at Loch Katrine and the Pitlochry Dam are identical to the view today.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@grahamc887 I didn't visit Scotland when this film was made. But have been to both locations you mention. Perhaps they are the same, but maybe more weeds now!!

[@scottishsuzuki8132]

So good that people have the foresight to preserve these.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@scottishsuzuki8132 I also wished I had taken more of my home town when I had my cine camera in the 1980s. But I did take it to sea with me for part of my sea going career which is great to look back on. Those films will also be edited and uploaded here.

[@scottishsuzuki8132]

@@TransportNostalgia 👍🏼

[@elainekerslake6865]

My first car...a 1960 ford anglia..rust bucket by the time i got it...and the Herald. Great film.😊😊😊

[@MonicaStevens-h3h]

Yes, definitely the good old days

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@MonicaStevens-h3h You will be pleased to know then, that I have plenty more films from the past to keep me occupied for the next 5 years!!!

[@moshihus]

Wonderful film.....never saw Edinburgh so quiet! People had respect for not only themselves but also their surroundings. The whole place looked so colourful. Thank you and if you have more then please post!

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@moshihus Thank you very much. I have 100s of cine films which will be Digitised, edited and uploaded so I hope you stay around. I have enough for at least the next 4 or 5 years!

[@markshrimpton3138]

I live north of Dundee and was in Edinburgh two weekends ago having lived there in the 1980s. It was hideous. My wife and I stood in the utterly jam-packed Royal Mile, possibly the only two Scots present apart from the obligatory pipers. We could hardly move and that was on a dreich day in October.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@markshrimpton3138 I was in Edinburgh in August 2 years ago and it was particularly busy - certainly much more than in 1961.

[@markshrimpton3138]

@@TransportNostalgia I’m glad I don’t live there now or at least in the centre as I did.

[@shaleshiftersvintagespeedw2291]

I didn’t move from Yorkshire to Edinburgh until 20 years after this wonderful film was shot but it features so many still recognisable places. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@shaleshiftersvintagespeedw2291 Thank you for watching. I have another film from Scotland coming up soon. This time from 1973.

[@shaleshiftersvintagespeedw2291]

@@TransportNostalgia looking forward to it already.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@shaleshiftersvintagespeedw2291 I have edited several films and haven't yet decided on when each will be available. The Scottish one is in that list of films.

[@elainekerslake6865]

My first car...a 1960 ford anglia..rust bucket by the time i got it...and the Herald. Great film.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@elainekerslake6865 Thank you. You may be pleased to know I have a film coming up soon which features a Triumph Herald in a driving test - that and a Hillman Imp - which I used to drive in the 1970s.

[@tombegg5648]

Wonderful. The obvious pride in the new Ford Anglia. The relative lack of crowds and, Princes Street aside, traffic. The wonderful weather - now there’s a turn up. A lesson in enjoying every moment because so much of what you take for granted so quickly disappears. Thanks to all involved

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@tombegg5648 Thank you. Perhaps there was poor weather during their holiday, but that wasn't Filmed!!

[@Lar308]

But that's the thing - they did not seem to have any fun at all. To a casual observer you would think they all were not on speaking terms. Perhaps they were just passing time waiting for their divorces to come through.

[@derekcoleman9305]

The scenery looks great, but the cars are even greater. Wonderful cine film.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@derekcoleman9305 Thank you very much. There must be close on 200 cars in the film, most of which are recognisable!

Rover, Humber, Hillman, Morris, Wolseley, Singer, Renault, Simca - just to name a few I spotted.

[@tommilton5753]

Wonderful nostalgia. That little kid dancing on the Ross Bandstand in Princes Street Gardens. In the summer holidays, the kids in our street would be given the bus fare and sixpence for sweeties to go "up the town". There would be morning shows for children. Strange, I can never remember it raining!

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@tommilton5753 Thank you four watching

[@pokeyjeanne]

Great to see. I was a schoolgirl in California in 1961. Always wanted to see Scotland and finally I did and I lived there off and on for a few years. Fascinating for me to see it when it was just a dream of mine. Thank you

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@pokeyjeanne Thank you for watching. I always wanted to visit California when I was in the Merchant Navy, but sadly it never happened. I love Scotland though and have had a few holidays there in recent years.

[@rabburns1382]

@@TransportNostalgia STAND FAST CRAIGELLACHIE

[@kelvinheron3425]

Wonderfully nostalgic. My first real family holiday was to Scotland (Loch Earn) in 1961 - I was 7 years old. I can remember Edinburgh bathed in afternoon sunshine, and the Ferry trip across the Forth (no road bridge at that time). Some great footage of Whitley Bay at the end. I was there yesterday, fortunately it hasn't changed too much. Thank you so much for uploading.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@kelvinheron3425 Thank you. Didn't realise that Whitley Bay was in the film. I think the film maker was from the Nottingham area. I have other similar films from other par s of the UK.

[@T-Bone54]

Goodness! Near the end before the motorway shots, there is St Mary's Island lighthouse in the background with all the cars parked on the top, then a shot the other way along Whitley Bay beach (North East Coast, England) and the dome ballroom (and Spanish City of Dire Straits fame....Tunnel of Love) in the distance. However, what memories of my father's Ford Anglia. A superb car at the time.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@T-Bone54 Thank you for watching. Plus the information about the locations in the film.

[@bullfrommull]

Utterly wonderful. Especially callender.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@bullfrommull Thank you for watching.

[@bullfrommull]

@@TransportNostalgia also Brig O’Turk tea room. Really brought back memories. Thank you.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@bullfrommull Thank you. Well I have plenty more nostalgic films to publish, covering all sorts of subjects.

[@anselman3156]

I'm transported back to my childhood!

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@anselman3156 Pleased you enjoyed it.

[@boydovens4180]

Many who watched this would love to go back , the world was better then .

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@boydovens4180 There were less distractions and simpler times.

[@Mlaargaar]

Oh of course… Cold War, nuclear threats, eastern bloc.. Homosexuality criminalised, abortion still illegal. Yes, simpler times.

[@michaelbaulcombe7677]

hang on, am I seeing things, isnt that St. Marys lighthouse and Spanish City towards the end of the film clips? Lovely to see those old places and wonderful cars, I was only 5 in 1961. Thankyou for sharing and reminding me of what a beautiful country we live in.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@michaelbaulcombe7677 It's all the UK. Although towards the end is Whitby, in Yorkshire.

[@billfish5913]

In 1961, my Bristolian Dad, took his big American four door Ford Sedan to a dealer in Houston, north of where we lived in Galveston, Texas, and traded it for a new English Ford Anglia, like the one in this video. He wanted an MG or Triumph, sports car, but with three kids, a wife and a dog, the Anglia made sense. We named it Dinky after my Dinky cars collection. It was his sports car. My uncles all had Cadillacs, Oldsmobiles and Chevrolets. They called it the sardine can. We definitely stood out among the huge 1960’s American cars in Texas.😎👍

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@billfish5913 Wonderful story. Thanks for watching

[@philthycat1408]

Amazing to think that we had it just perfect and then we fkd it up.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@philthycat1408 But as others have said, in 60 years time people will be looking at films of today saying the same thing!!

Successive governments did that. And we voted them in.

[@alicydonmeld8363]

Not sure it as perfect: leaded gasoline, no seat belts, no crumple zones, common breakdowns, drink driving, no environmental management, poor traffic management...

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@alicydonmeld8363 60 years ago most of those who were alive and commenting were kids and everything is great no matter where you are.

[@shazza160]

@@alicydonmeld8363wives getting beaten and no laws to protect them. No single parent allowances. Babies taken from frightened young girls. Yeah great times. Not.

[@notyhbynorthwest]

My first car was a Ford Anglia, two tone with a white roof and light blue bodywork. I believe it was a '65 model, bought it in 1974. Super reliable car, put on many miles driving around the UK. I can remember being a passenger in the 1960's so this video really was a blast from the past for me. Great video.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@notyhbynorthwest Thank you very much. So pleased it brought back memories for you. But this film is just one of many in my huge collection.

[@desperatedan279]

What a beautiful wee video .

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@desperatedan279 Thank you very much 👍

[@PleasantvilleLad]

Extremely enjoyable. I was no more than four weeks old when that was filmed …

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@PleasantvilleLad I was only 9 when it was filmed. Pleased you enjoyed it. I have plenty more of a similar quality and same era.

[@padraig7744]

Wonderful post. I was born in October of that year. It's fair to say there have been many changes, some for the better, some not, since then. Thank you for sharing.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@padraig7744 Thank you for watching. More films to come going forward.

[@dabhand6796]

Great video that brought back some wonderful childhood memories. Particularly the Forth Rail Bridge views as I recall traveling on the ferry around 1961, when aged around 8yo, during a family trip to Fife from London in a Standard 10 visiting grandparents in Cowdenbeath. Thanks for your excellent work.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@dabhand6796 Thank you for watching. I have other films taken in Scotland including a stock car meeting at Cowdenbeath

[@dabhand6796]

​@TransportNostalgia Now, that would be interesting. My father was posted to Singapore in early 1962 and the 1961 visit was a final trip to see grandparents. We then returned in 1965 and stayed in Cowdenbeath for a few months before relocating elsewhere in Scotland. It was then that I saw the stock car racing at Central Park. Quite an experience as a 12yo. Look forward to your future videos.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@dabhand6796 Thank you very much.

[@dappergent9422]

What a beautiful country Scotland is. Stunning then, stunning now.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@dappergent9422 Scotland is beautiful. My first holiday there was within the last 10 years, but have been back several times since.

[@georgegraham3342]

A great nostalgic journey back to the city of my birth! I left Edinburgh with my parents in April 1961, bound for a life in Australia. I have never been able to get back. I enjoyed the section 4:30-5:00 - I loved the old ferries with a turntable for turning larger vehicles. I can remember the old trams from the 1950’s which ran along Princes Street.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@georgegraham3342 Thank you for watching. Where in Australia did you emigrate to?

[@georgegraham3342]

@@TransportNostalgia Melbourne, Victoria. More precisely, Kilsyth, then Montrose and back to Kilsyth when I married, 53 years ago. All are in the same area, at the foot of the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@georgegraham3342 Thank you. Have visited Melbourne twice during my time in the Merchant Navy. First trip in 1974 and my last deep sea trip in 1987. Saw Eric Clapton in 1987.

[@dieseldavetrains8988]

The Ford Anglia at the start is a classic. Background music reminds me of "River Dance", lovely video and great scenery.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@dieseldavetrains8988 Thank you Dave. Yes, it is very similar, but I originally uploaded with my own background music, but wasn't happy with it. Really wanted Scottish themed music. Found what I was looking for and so much better. The Ford Anglia put in some miles on that trip.

[@dieseldavetrains8988]

@@TransportNostalgia My cousin Robert had a Ford Anglia in the early 1970's, nice little car but not good with four large adults in it and a big hill to climb...

[@anotherangleUK]

@@dieseldavetrains8988 My folks had an Anglia Super in two tone paint, white body and a dark blue roof and stripe along the side. I think it was a 1200cc. First holiday I remember was taking it to the Isle of Man and it being hoisted up and into the hold of the Manxman steamer at Liverpool docks.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@dieseldavetrains8988 Dave I used to have a 4 door Austin A30 which my dad bought me for my 21st birthday. It went very well. Lasted me all through college at Grimsby before I went to sea.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@anotherangleUK That must have been something to watch!

[@valtraone]

Pushing on at 40 mph, and not a pothole to be seen. Glorious days.

[@stranraerlad1]

This brought back many memory's when my cousin and I were taken on holiday in a camper van in the early 60's

[@TransportNostalgia]

I bet that was an exciting holiday!

[@alanoneill3065]

Great quality...thanks

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@alanoneill3065 Thank you for watching. But this film is only one of many I do have, so I hope you stay around 👍

[@watchman2263]

All within a lifetime but a different country now long lost, and on reflection probably a better, easier more peaceful time.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@watchman2263 There were less distractions "in the old days". No Internet, mobile phones, 2 channels on the TV, less cars on the road!!

[@captainlengthwidth6692]

Aye, as long as you weren't Black, gay, an unmarried woman with children - or even just a woman! Try opening a bank account in 1961 without your husband's consent - or getting a job that paid the same as a man for the same work and didn't expect you to quit and stay at home and look after the kids when you got married. I'm in my mid sixties. A white man, born just two years before this film was made. I'm glad I don't live back then. The food was shit too.

[@watchman2263]

Never said it as perfect, And now , are people are so much more happier now with easier cheaper living of course less laws, taxes, and controls with crowded heaving infrastructure, endless traffic, NHS waiting lists, violent protest, knife crime, drugs, filthy graffiti litter strewn cities, chronic housing shortage and high cost of living ?Probably not

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@captainlengthwidth6692 Food was OK. There wasn't any junk food as there is today.

[@captainlengthwidth6692]

​@@TransportNostalgia If you like bland unimaginative stodge then fine, British food in the 1960s was the best in the world. But heaven help you if you tried to find anything even slightly 'exotic'. British prejudice against 'that foreign muck' - meant it was damn near impossible to find many of the things we take for granted on our supermarket shelves today. Yoghurt was unknown - outside the fringe world of 'health nut', things like olives, garlic and salami were impossible to buy outside of specialist delicatessens. Pasta came in two types: macaroni and spaghetti. No one knew what an aubergine was... etc. I remember back in the mid-seventies my mother making hummus (when she could find the ingredients) as a special dinner party treat! As for junk food - chips with everything.

[@Flintynicknacks]

Bet some of those Morris Minors are still on the road! Lovely film- quite nostalgic - we holidayed in Scotland every year for about 10 years from the mid 60’s, my father driving from Kent in a series of fairly unreliable cars😂 the Triumph Herald was particularly temperamental. Like this film- I remember it as always sunny🌞

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@Flintynicknacks Thank you or watching and also describing your childhood holidays in Scotland.

[@elainekerslake6865]

Lots of old Minors around but they cost 20 to 40k. I had two in 1980 and gave them to a mechanic in Hackney who specialised in minors refurbs. I thought why bother mate...now I know. They are goldust.😊😊😊

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@elainekerslake6865 I had a Orange Ford Escort Sports in mid 1980, and sold it. Would be worth over £50k now!!

[@Pitcairn2]

Nice scenes of Perthshire where I live, I recognise a few places. Calander is a pleasant wee town , some nice cafes and the Wife's favourite- plenty of charity shops..

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@Pitcairn2 It is a lovely part of Scotland.

[@PhilipMurphy8]

This is a wonderful video

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@PhilipMurphy8 Thank you very much. Plenty more to come.

[@daveysmith7580]

I would have been four years old when this was filmed. My grandparents lived in Edinburgh and my paternal grandmother's family were from the Black Isle, I remember travelling up there to visit them. The maroon buses on Princes Street, travelled on them a few times when I was young. The film was amazing and brought back some wonderful memories.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@daveysmith7580 Thank you for watching. It's pleasing when viewers have memories to look back on after watching my films👍

[@David_H-73]

Really enhanced by the music and I shed a few unexpected tears. 😅

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@David_H-73 Thank you for watching, and that it "moved you". Don't shed more tears because I have a huge collection of cine films which will eventually be put on KZbin.

[@David_H-73]

@TransportNostalgia thanks, I've subscribed so won't miss them.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@David_H-73 Thank you

[@Carl-x8y3c]

Good quality film. I was only a year old in 1961.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@Carl-x8y3c Thank you very much. I have many more films of similar quality.

[@johnusher7628]

This is fantastic

[@TransportNostalgia]

Thank you. Plenty more still to come!!

[@daveated1]

Great quality picture... thank you.

[@TransportNostalgia]

Thank you for watching.

[@Aircooledflat4bug]

Really enjoyed that, thanks for posting. I have a big box of cine film that my grandfather took in the 60s. Sadly I have no projector to play it on, and have no idea what to do with it. But I don’t want to throw it out! It should really be uploaded so that everyone can enjoy it.

[@TransportNostalgia]

Thanks for that - I have loads more! Send me an email (check for it on the "about page") regarding your box of films. PS - do not throw away your cine films!

[@Aircooledflat4bug]

@@TransportNostalgia brilliant. Will do👍

[@searcaig]

Thanks for sharing, my parents took my sister and I all around Scotland almost every summer for years in an Austin A35 van (with windows on the rear sides installed by my father). I recognise several places in this KZbin video.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@searcaig Thank you for watching and your memories of Scotland.

[@margarettownsley9500]

When our country was a place to be proud of

[@Eric_L456]

I remember visiting Edinburgh as a small boy in the 60s , this really took me back.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@Eric_L456 Thank you for watching and pleased it brought back your pleasant memories.

[@kevinpalmer7452]

Wonderful

[@tatata1543]

I bet the people in those films would say this t was better in the twenties. It’s a belief that’s as old as civilisation that things were better in the past. It’s also a KZbin cliche that films like this are full of comments saying how much better it was then, in thirty years there will be people saying that about the 2020s.

[@kevinpalmer7452]

@@tatata1543 your absolutely right now will be the good old days in the future. I couldn’t help but think very few of the people seen in that film will still be with us and less when it comes to the vehicles.

[@tatata1543]

@@kevinpalmer7452 Yes, I find these videos poignant knowing that most of the people in them will have passed. I do enjoy them but it’s a rather bitter sweet sensation.

[@kevinpalmer7452]

@@tatata1543

[@kevinpalmer7452]

@@tatata1543here’s one for you! Things that go on in my head let’s say you could open a door and bang your back in 1961 on that day in Edinburgh you have a couple of hundred old money in your wallet and hire a car ! Spend a week touring Scotland staying in hotels no credit card needed! How strange would it seem living that week in the past, and when you get back you have only been gone 7 minutes! Would one keep returning to that day in 1961 and living two lives then and now but then one time something goes wrong and you can’t get back and you will never live long enough to get back to the present.

[@ianmuir3640]

I remember doing that trip on our way up north Queensferry was packed nose to tail with cars waiting to get on the ferry

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@ianmuir3640 I can imagine. Similar to using the Ferry to get across the Humber from North Lincolnshire to Hull. Better views in Scotland though!

[@jillpirrie381]

Thoroughly enjoyed that. I was born a month after it was filmed😊

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@jillpirrie381 Thank you for watching and so pleased you enjoyed it.

[@mrbigarms]

Fantastic, really enjoyed that!

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@mrbigarms Thank you very much. I have plenty more films to show which I'm sure you will enjoy. So hope you stay around.

[@MrConan89]

In 1961 and at the age of 15, I cycled with a pal from Manchester to Scotland, up the West side and down the East, covering 1,200 miles in three weeks with a budget of 9 pounds each. Beer was one shilling and three pence a pint (six new pence) and we enjoyed a pint each on alternate days I wondered if the footage might feature two cyclists, but no. In 1961 when we crossed the Forth on the ferry, the concrete towers for the road bridge were complete but do not appear here so I wonder about the date? Johnny Wright and I are both now 78 and keep in touch. We both live in the Philippines now.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@MrConan89 How wonderful. Both my brothers did long cycle rides in the 1960s. Return trips Lincolnshire to Anglesey and Lake District. But certainly not as long as your trip. Your trip sounds great, and you did very well in a relatively short time.

[@johnflynn4126]

Ah, marvellous footage....... One minute from the end, the film shows a road sign of 'Newark 40, Nottingham 50' which I go past frequently on the A1 heading south. Fairly sure that that same road sign is still there today..... [unless the film is on the new M1 somewhere in south Yorkshire?].

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@johnflynn4126 Thank you very much.

[@iainmacleod4007]

Loch Katrine makes an appearance at 1 :46. I was there just two days ago, it’s not changed much other than the car park surface being a great deal more shabby.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@iainmacleod4007 Really? Perhaps there are far more cars using it than 60+ years ago.

[@brothermoto1964]

That was brilliant ❤

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@brothermoto1964 Thank you very much👍

[@gerrynicol3951]

Takes me back to when i was young my pal had asked his gran could i go with them to lloch lomond an auld estate car me and micheal sat in the back looking out the window walking up the hills and i fellin to the water great times while my ma sat waiting oot the window as i came home loved it.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@gerrynicol3951 I'm pleased my film brought your pleasant memories.

[@Sabhail_ar_Alba]

A much better country then.

[@gulfstream7235]

That house at 4:08 looks fab, very similar to what they would build in my area today...

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@gulfstream7235 It could have been a guest house as the Ford Anglia was leaving.

[@lindaj5492]

3:38 Aren’t the ‘salmon traps’ more accurately described as ‘salmon ladders’? Designed to let salmon through to spawning grounds upstream of the dam.

[@Pitcairn2]

Yes they are Salmon ladders -exactly for the purpose you mention.

[@DiscoverWithPajerico]

Brilliant

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@DiscoverWithPajerico Thank you very much.

[@PeterMorrow-x3c]

It was a different time with a different point of view. We were a proud people, a time when we respected others and each other. They were tough times for working people but everyone was proud of what we had and achieved as a nation. The public services worked and we all worked hard and made our towns , cities and homes nice places. People scrubbed there steps, cut the lawn short and weeded the flower beds. The government and council had money because we made do much here so there was a revenue stream . The 70s 80s where when it all started to go downhill. The 90s it all started to change, then mass immigration, globalisation and the end of manufacturing has laid waste to it all. Now people are just victims blaming all there woes on others.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@PeterMorrow-x3c Excellent description of how it was/is now.

[@runawayronnie]

50sec into film - the street just before footage of Callander: that's Murray Place, Stirling with Barton Street in the distance.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@runawayronnie Went to Scotland 3 years ago and stayed in Stirling. I wonder if we inadvertently visited the Street you mentioned?

[@alanpercival840]

Around 1964 my father a long distance lorry driver let me have 3 days off school we took a load ot foundry bricks from hunwick co durham to thurso gas works 3 really long days no tachographs we went up to glasgow over the clyde on a ferry 7p the west saw commando memorial overnight stay ay dingwall up the east coast stunning to thurso back down to dingwall 3rd day down A9 to perth gas works with a load then back home to stanhope co durham brilliant trip

[@TransportNostalgia]

That sounds an exciting trip for you - how old were you at the time?

[@alanpercival840]

@TransportNostalgia hi I was 12 Yr old my first trips were when I was in a carry cot dad had a Bedford s type tipper he would take agricultural lime to Fife how me dad and mum fitted in the cab the body had to be washed out and dried to bring sacks of tatties back also back home he had j type the driver would stop mam would put my carry cot on the floor for a 2 hour trip to consett iron works to get the house work done

[@vaadwuar]

The first clip before Main St, Callander is driving along Murray Pl/Barnton Rd, Stirling. ❤

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@vaadwuar Thanks for the info.

[@johncraske]

Excellent quality for amateur film.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@johncraske Thank you. I have plenty more films of similar quality.

A few enthusiasts had very good cine cameras.

[@TransportNostalgia]

That didn't, unfortunately, apply to me. I bought my first cine camera in 1980 and it was second hand. Replaced it couple of years later with a much smaller one.

[@joanne26]

My parents, both now in heaven took me on holiday to Scotland in 1975 So this cine film is much earlier However the places you mention apart from Edinburgh we visited and stayed at lots of B&B’s around during the holiday I remember the midges and neeps and tatties and haggis My mother had learnt to drive in 1974 when I was 9 So she drove in my dad’s company car at that time My dad could drive about 1 years later Callander is famous for being the filming location for TV series Dr Finlay’s Casebook aired ? Don’t know We stayed in the house as it was a B&B On our travels during the day you got water from the streams so clean 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@joanne26 Thank you for watching and also describing your holidays in Scotland

[@petersmith7126]

I'd have been 4 that December and we'd no car or holidays as no money for such luxuries growing up ..... Still thoroughly enjoyed it and agree it was in many ways a better time.... People mention the folk being dressed i remember growing up that was the way it was in the 60s and 70s, even going into the town centre for messages on a Saturday the ladies would wear a skirt or a dress the men would have maybe a suit but more often a pair of trousers and a jacket and even us kids would be dressed in decent clothes ..

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@petersmith7126 Thank you for watching. In the "old days" then men going to football matches all wore suits. Even wearing suits on beach!!

[@petersmith7126]

@@TransportNostalgia ... Yep, trouser legs rolled up to go paddling and a tied hanky over the head to keep the sun off

[@andrewsmith-cm9qw]

I was 6 months old born in Kirkland Street Maryhill Glasgow.

[@douglastodd1947]

Stirling Murray Place just as red line starts to leave tip of arrow below it.

[@Jeffybonbon]

The Scotland and England I loved a much more easy going time

[@Richard-dg7bf]

Have you a link for the music please? Excellent film!

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@Richard-dg7bf Thank you very much. The music is provided by Epidemic Sounds which is a subscription based music provider. So no links.

[@Richard-dg7bf]

​@@TransportNostalgiaExcellent! Many thanks.

[@perkinscrane]

I was trying to identify the Motorway featured near the end. I assume that it was the then newly opened Doncaster bypass A1(m)?

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@perkinscrane I should think so. It fits in with Newark being 40 miles away.

[@stewartfraser2574]

What happened.Its all very different now. People in this film have dressed up and made an effort. Civic pride in the places they visited.

[@prayermanone]

The old cars would be worth a small fortune today, especially if they were still in good condition.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@prayermanone If only we knew that 60 years ago!!

[@Tessa-sh8dj]

The people were so well dressed back then! Missing this. We should all go back to certain dresscode, back then also so much more politeness.

[@TransportNostalgia]

That would be almost impossible to achieve. Could you imagine some of the teenagers of today not wearing their jeans halfway down their legs!!

[@Tessa-sh8dj]

@@TransportNostalgia haha! At least I wouldn’t have any discussions anymore with my children about mini tops en clothing which you cannot call clothing. But on the other hand: we have gone from one point (decent clothes) to the other point (where teenagers are dressed to be sexual attractive). If the world (the people living in it) would wanna go back to old morals, it should be possible.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@Tessa-sh8dj And there lies the problem! If the celebrities started a trend, of turning the clock back then it maybe possible, but cannot see it happening without something like that taking place.

[@andrewharvey6400]

Visual proof that times were better then. So no Rose tinted spectacles. I recommend watching again at half speed, surprising how much more one can see.

[@lindaj5492]

Is ‘The First House’ in Gretna Green? Young couples would cross the border from England to marry there, when they were too young in England.

[@Pitcairn2]

Yes I was there last week, much bigger attraction now , a bit of a tourist trap now with expensive shops. You can still marry in the Blacksmiths shop.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@lindaj5492 It had a familiar to it, the last time we called there.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@Pitcairn2 That's what I thought. Have called there on way to Scotland.

[@gavinmillar7519]

Barnton Street Stirling before Callander Main Street footage

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@gavinmillar7519 I had holiday in Stirling 3 years ago. Will check through photos I took to see if I can recognise any of the footage.

[@kneolith]

When Queensferry was QueensFerry: Forth Road Bridge opened 1964

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@kneolith The original Cine Film used titles describing the locations. Forth Bridge was one of them. I followed on from the originator, but take your point.

[@anselman3156]

@@TransportNostalgia The "Forth Bridge" then was the railway one featured in the film.

[@DS-ke8pq]

Whitley Bay at end?

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@DS-ke8pq Someone else mentioned that it was Whitley Bay at the end. Thanks

[@lindaj5492]

In the Description, please edit ‘Lake Katrine’ to read ‘Loch Katrine’.

[@TransportNostalgia]

Have corrected it - thank you!

[@andrewsimon8498]

Wonderful video, thank you. Notice the lack of signage around! It seems that people in the sixties didn’t need to be instructed or ordered about so much, our country is ugly with signs now.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@andrewsimon8498 Thank you. Perhaps because the roads weren't as busy. Notice the A1 towards the end of the film - hardly any cars on it.

[@evelynwilson1566]

I wonder if that's a hangover from the War? A lot of signs were taken down during the War. Maybe it took a long time to replace them. A lot of these small towns were still busy and prosperous because they weren't bypassed as well. Then again, could they cope with the noise and pollution from the sheer amount of traffic we have today, when the car is king? No litter either, unlike today😢

[@rabburns1382]

The Kirk ruled the Jock......definite lack of Indian and Chinese restaurants..😢........deference to their betters... forelock tugging.....in vogue.....halcyon days of yore....❤

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@rabburns1382 The Kirk? You have lost me!!

[@rabburns1382]

@@TransportNostalgia Free lemonade on the bar......Hays....for your whisky...free air for your tyres at the garage/petrol station.... Diversity....?....what's that....?..

[@nrw34260]

The women wore pearls, and the men wore jackets and ties.

[@johnrawlinson]

A music credit would be nice !!! in other words who is it,,

[@TransportNostalgia]

I have added the music in the description. Supplied by Epidemic Sound.

[@christoph404]

what's happened to that wonderful world? It's gone, wish I could go back to that time, so much better then.

[@hankspangle3867]

Try a wee film on the inner Cities at this period. See if that helps clear the Rose tint.

[@tamasmarcuis4455]

The real stand out here for me is how much Scotland looks the same. All I noticed was that Edinburgh was black with the smoke from coal fires. There are more modern buildings but the majority of Princes Street is the same. I'm not sure which roads were travelled in the highlands but I am fairly sure those are better built now. Other than that I recognised places very easily.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@tamasmarcuis4455 I have visited many of the places featured in the film. The first hotel in Scotland looks familiar but not sure where it is.

[@stevenrobertson8329]

When people cared !!!!!!!

[@hughferrier5837]

What a charming and evocative little film. These were the good old days. The pre-woke and nonsense days.

[@brianjamieson8653]

No takeaway packaging or empty high energy drink cans blowing along the roadsides , note how fit and slim people were .

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@brianjamieson8653 You find how much slimmer people were in the past. People exercised more. Ate better food - no junk/convenience food

[@leannecampbell4551]

Not a Wokey-Woke soul in sight±

[@gijgij4541]

Including Berwick-upon-Tweed: ooo, that's controversial...

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@gijgij4541 Why controversial?

[@gijgij4541]

@@TransportNostalgia Tour of Scotland... ? Lizzy I and Jimmy VI came to a final agreement about that 400+ years ago 🙂

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@gijgij4541 The majority of the film was Scotland. Berwick followed by Whitby is towards the end of the film.

[@gijgij4541]

@@TransportNostalgia I know Berwick, it is actually a very "Scottish" town... The butchers even sell square sausage.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@gijgij4541 Only 3 miles from the Scottish border!

[@nilesdelta8636]

The og van lifers can’t believe that car slept 4.

[@brianmcl2010]

what is this music all about?

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@brianmcl2010 I wanted Scottish type music and that's what it is, if that's what you mean.

[@grahamlait1969]

I remember it so well as a six year old who lived in Scotland... and with the benefit of hindsight I can remember just how boring it all was. Everything shut on a Sunday, Pacamacs and egg sandwiches in the rain, colourless people in colourless clothes leading colourless lives, all the style of a cold half-eaten haggis. Thank God the Beatles came along.

[@TransportNostalgia]

I don't know about Scotland, but that isn't how I remember growing up in Lincolnshire

[@Pitcairn2]

Yes it was pretty driech.. My Mum moved us from east Anglia to Kincardineshire (Now Aberdeenshire) when I was 11 all of what you say was accurate.

[@TransportNostalgia]

@@Pitcairn2 Whereabouts in East Anglia did you live and what was the reason for moving to Scotland?