England in the Sixties and Seventies

[@robertkeddie]

Cheer up people - it's nice to be nostalgic about the good old days, but modern life isn't completely rubbish. For a start, we have KZbin to watch this stuff on.

[@paulthesquid3595]

True some people have rose tinted memories of that rubbish vastly overated decade.

[@robertkeddie]

@@paulthesquid3595 I don't remember the sixties but I was there.

[@john-de5vf]

Yeah can't wait to see this in another 30 years 🤔😡

[@john-de5vf]

​​@@robertkeddie. you did it the right way then 😂😂

[@leigh7507]

I bet its depressing for old people to see how bad its gotten over the years. Us younger lot never knew any better.

[@fairman1455]

Yes it is

[@missasinenomine]

Gotten? Are you American?

[@countryman5329]

That, my friend, is a good example of Great British understatement.

[@mogznwaz]

I remember Britain like this and yes it’s so fecking depressing it makes me want to puke

[@kenneths1585]

As a 71 year old, I just wish you as youngsters had experienced the 60s and 70s. Life was so uncomplicated then and the city streets were safe places. The country was still in process of rebuilding itself after WW2 and the feeling of optimism and community was immense. All my family aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins etc: all lived in one street, so family support was guaranteed, we could leave our doors open, no one would go in uninvited. Personally if I was younger I would not stay in the UK now, apart from the historic buildings, it no longer resembles the country I was born in, its more like an African or Middle Eastern country.😢

[@davesimpson4314]

What hits me most is the sense of belonging...and sense of familiarity..a sense i no longer have today.

[@MrMatthewhg]

Diversity is our strength, though, Dave, isn't that obvious?

[@Take_Me_Back_To_The_1980s]

Whatever flaws Britain may have had in the 20th century, at least it was home

[@opinando68]

I wish I could go back in time!!!

[@SheilaNiven]

This is the England I knew and loved. Thank you so much for bringing back happy memories.

[@kiddlesk]

Wonderful. I passed my test at 18 in 1977 and that's how I remember the cars and traffic around my home in north London. Still love the Mk2 Cortina.

[@bobspeller2225]

another great look back at life, I had just passed my driving test in 1963 and heading out was an adventure and fun.(look at the traffic on the M6, cheers Bob

[@robertkeddie]

Thanks. I was driving on the M6 just a few months ago, and there was definitely a lot more traffic. Should have shot some video while I was stopped at Lancaster Services.

[@countryman5329]

A view of a heaven that's gone forever to be replaced by the hell of today 😔🇬🇧

[@paulthesquid3595]

@countryman5329 that decade the 60's was trash just rose tinted memories you have there much better today i am 69 now. And those cars were heaps of junk that rotted away in no time and the engines were clapped out at 40,000 miles

[@countryman5329]

@@paulthesquid3595 That's one opinion but it may be a surprise for you to learn that there's probably more to life than cars 🛺😎

[@SheilaNiven]

@@paulthesquid3595 But there were far fewer cars then which is a major plus I think.

[@TonyEnglandUK]

@@countryman5329 And it might be a surprise for you to learn that you are the problem, not the solution. You cannot wait to say negative things about Britain. There's no praise, no love, no appreciation, nothing but your tiresome negativity. You're the problem, not the solution.

[@TonyEnglandUK]

I bet even in your reply, should you make one, you now praise this country but only so you can attach an inevitable "but" at the end of that praise. Test yourself and count how long it takes you to get there.

[@jimboyle6974]

So little traffic compared to now

[@richardcummins5465]

Yes, but all made un Britain.

[@beatxt]

That holiday traffic on the M6 looked horrendous!😀

[@timsharp]

Lovely to see these reminders of my childhood. When it was really exciting to stop at a Motorway service area and watch the traffic. I was always interested in motorways seeing as we lived in the middle of nowhere and they seemed so space age! My father used take me with him to deliver chicks to farmers all over the North and we actually went on the Preston Bypass (first bit of UK motorway) the day it opened when I was 4

[@kevb8544]

just imagine if this lot were suddenly transported to 2020's or thereabouts, they would be shocked out of their wits. Clearly a calmer place & time to inhabit.

[@traceyculyer5811]

I am older and shocked out of my wits at the state of the country.

[@senianns9522]

Nice days! I try to remember them! Love the cars!

[@mda5003]

Yes, and each car had is own identity which I can remember even now. Today's cars all seem to look the same.

[@davidsamways]

The last section is from the eartly/mid 70s judging by the cars and the yellow rear number plates (which became a legal requirement for all new vehicles in 1973).

[@robertkeddie]

Thanks. Grandad once inserted clips with dates into the film, but it's been re-edited since then so we lost track. And my grandparents are no longer around for me to confirm details.

[@michaelkenny8540]

Looks like a yellow 'H' plate at 3:48 which would be Aug 1969+. Yellow plates were first introduced in 1968 and only became compulsory in 1973.

[@deano3580]

There is a Ford Granada being followed towards the end in light blue so must be summer 1972 or shortly after

[@andrewsmith3344]

So we closed the railways down. And the roads got a lot busier!!

[@GabrielCohen-b6m]

The Beeching Cuts.

[@bushwhackeddos.2703]

Before the final betrayal really kicked in.

[@JohnSmith-ei2pz]

Windrush had docked!

[@rebelruth9582]

Where did it all go so wrong?

[@dulls8475]

@@cliff-nb6bm I agree. He destroyed our culture.

[@alanfizzypop9607]

Westminster

[@richardcummins5465]

Almost EVERY VEHICLE in this film was manufactured in Britain. What a travesty. Thank you Conservatives, thank you Labour. 60 years of total neglect.

[@traceyculyer5811]

My thoughts too.

[@TheBigjimlizzy]

You forgot the Unions.

[@derekwhyle1884]

You can’t blame the government for the crap vehicles we used to build. Poor design, Sub-standard materials and shoddy workmanship on top of bad management and militant trades unions are what killed the British motor industry.

[@richardcummins5465]

​😢​@@derekwhyle1884 So nothing to do with the EU then. What about: Mining, Shipbuilding, Gas, Electricity, Water Utilities, Railways,,Fishing, Insurance, Banking. All either sold to, or in the control of foreigners? Seems like a deliberately orchestrated system of mass destruction, doesn't it? Britain's only growth industry seemingly immigration and assorted terrorism!

[@juanleahy2202]

& from before the 60's until the 90's we have been breathing in vehicle exhaust petrol fumes with the metal lead! I still wonder what was the ppm (parts per million) of lead in the road side air in those days & of course the traffic density was gradually increasing from the 1960's onwards. Although a northerner, thankyou for this video.

[@fairman1455]

Time to go electric

[@traceyculyer5811]

Well you could go electric , but they cost more to make and buy, cause more pollution while making them and where do you think the batteries will end up when all energy has been extracted. Battery gate in twenty years time. Every thing causes pollution , even the horse and cart did.

[@tonycox5625]

​@@fairman1455😂😂😂

[@tonycox5625]

Yeah, and we're all still here, we haven't died of lead poisoning, and I've just bought myself a 68' Triumph Vitesse! Good luck with that electric shite.👍

[@traceyculyer5811]

Well at least you have bought an old car, and one that will not pollute while being made as millions more electric cars will do more so. No wonder the price of used cars is going up. Have fun in your Triumph.@@tonycox5625

[@robertbaglin3973]

No crash helmets in those days just the wind in your face and blowing my long hair all over the place on my Lambretta scooter. Brilliant days long gone and never to be repeated growing up in and around Louth Lincolnshire.

[@whu58]

Born in 1958, I experienced those days, Was it any better then?..........I guess it depends on your own importances & perspectives - Today we have technologies like KZbin & other social media outlets, cleaner more reliable cars, more continental travel, better heated homes (that we can`t afford to heat anymore), cleaner air, but the downsides are kids today make social contact by iphones and less in person, we also have far too many CCTV cameras + socially far too many many single parent families = less disciplin and increased mental health issues - violent crimes (stabbings) is the norm nowadays. - back in the day, life was simpler, people valued families & communites more than possessions, you had far more freedoms and less nanny state regulations.

[@cdl0]

It is remarkable how much of this has _not_ changed.

[@clivebaxter6354]

like what, the trees?

[@macca8562]

Please please take me back to these days, an era i grew up in, life before we were invaded by foreigners from another continent, when England was English.

[@unies176]

Amazing I can't see any brown people or immigrants

[@michaelkenny8540]

Looks like a 'J' plate at 3:10 on the 1100 so Aug 1970+? For certain a 'G' plate at 3:44 on the Mini Clubman Estate so that is Aug 1968+

[@paulbroderick8438]

Before 'asylum' seekers in their dinghies! Carry on Sargeant Major, carry on.......!

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

It was a different world and a very different country back then. The only answer is to simply accept the way things are and try to remain cheerful.

[@AnimaChristisalvame]

It might look idyllic, but the 1960s sewed the seeds of ruin that we now know.

[@traceyculyer5811]

The seeds of wreck started before then.

[@dulls8475]

Well said. The 60s were where our destruction really got its momentum from. The whole sale loss of Christianity as an influence is the biggest disaster ever.

[@comealongcomealong4480]

@@dulls8475 (now Apr 2024) I see the 70s as the decade when much of today's 'Right Think' began to appear in the media and among the social and political influencers of the day. As for Christianity; if Britain had accepted a majority of immigrants from other Christian countries, I suggest we'd have a more cohesive, agreeable society today. /I was just watching a TR short video from last month where he says the Sikh, Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and suchlike religious faiths have blended well with the English, and us with them. There is ONLY ONE ideology that should have been strictly curtailed in numbers. /Poland, as an example, upholds in their Constitution that their national religion is Catholicism. And therefore, NO MOSQUES are permitted to be built there. Poland has a very small Muz-lim population who I guess worship at home. WHO WAS BEHIND THIS SUBSTANTIAL DE-CHRISTIANISING AGENDA IN THE UK I WONDER?!!

[@caroltweedie9729]

Guess todays young people will look back in 50 years with the same nostalgia !!!

[@dulls8475]

They wont. This generation are miserable as supported by the suicide rate and anti depressants taken. We have also lost our freedom.

[@MrMatthewhg]

Look at the pattern - and speed - of change since the 1970's. If young British people don't wake up really quickly, in 50 years the chances are they will have very few of the few freedoms they have now, if they do not find themselves replaced entirely, that is. Democracy in its current form has failed here, in Europe and in the USA. Significant change is needed very soon if we are to get a Government with real benevolence towards its people. Increasingly, we are moving towards control.

[@markshrimpton3138]

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be though.

[@Take_Me_Back_To_The_1980s]

To some extent but only because things can always get worse and Britain will become the next Yugoslavia eventually

[@clivebaxter6354]

Pre invasion

[@missasinenomine]

England in the sixties........with German music.

[@bluebellmalarkey3538]

What's wrong with German music?🤔

[@lighthouse620]

That country is dead

[@paulthesquid3595]

Thankfully.

[@lighthouse620]

@@paulthesquid3595 im not even british, the uk is finished

[@dulls8475]

@@lighthouse620 Ya dont say.....

[@nickwillobey2205]

Forget it......too late now.Time for the final reckoning.

[@Spscc23998]

Tempus edax rerum 😔

[@robertkeddie]

Carpe diem 😎

[@JfK--OBJECTivE]

@@robertkeddie botrix dexum lol

[@1258-Eckhart]

Caesar adsum iam forte Brutus aderat Caesar sic in omnibus Brutus inisat

[@robertkeddie]

@@1258-Eckhart Sorry, my latin is a little rusty. What's that about Caesar getting travel sick and thowing up in Brutus' hat? 😊

[@1258-Eckhart]

@@robertkeddie It's not Latin, it's schoolboy doggerel. But you got the gist ok 👍

[@desmondrobinson169]

I blame the Saxons.

[@steffenrosmus9177]

The only difference to today is, that the cars are now from the 1980ies and not from the 1950ies 😂😂😂😂

[@richardcummins5465]

And all made overseas

[@dulls8475]

I doubt there are hardly any 80s or even 90s cars on the road now.