Blackpool in the 1960s ( Excursion )

Back in the 1960`s a small group of camera and sound technicians from the Pendle Movie Makers which was then the Pendle film Society set about making a film covering the main amenities in the Lancashire seaside resort of Blackpool. Shot over a period of several weekends , and many feet of film and audio recordings we produced " Excursion" a record of a typical day at Blackpool as the people of that day would very well remember.
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[@rabmc]

Like a different world, a better world and generally comforting watching these old simpler times.

[@Ian-gw2vx]

I agree - the appalling zoo

[@Tidybitz]

​@@rabmc ... why would you abolish them if you think they're so appealing?

[@rabmc]

@@Tidybitz Appalling…

[@Clara-ph7my]

This video demonstrates everything, that you cannot do in Britain now. Simpler times and Happier times.

[@andrewcroft6855]

What a wonderful timepiece this is, back in the days when Britain was great and people had respect and decency. Being over 60 a lovely nostalgic comforting film

[@dryflyman7121]

An excellent video of happier and safer times, when people enjoyed life. A time when the casual clothing era had not yet arrived, no mobile phones and life’s enjoyments were much simpler.

[@spleeeen4it]

Absolutely fantastic. Sadly a Britain long gone.

[@howardswayable]

Thankyou 😊😊

[@Bella-zq6nb]

I was one of those kids,I'm in my mid 60s, I love the life that was .Such a shame now. We've lost all the character.Thank God there are people with films.Lovely memories.

[@OldhamSteve52]

Me too, I’m 64.

[@LadyGmarilyn]

@@OldhamSteve52 me too, I'm 70...

[@soulboy6073]

im in the 65 gang as well

[@jamesodonnell4830]

Thank you so much for posting this. It brought back some amazing memories , I smiled all the way through it. When I was young Blackpool was the most amazing place in the world. And in a corner of my heart it still is. Thanks again.

[@sophiedavies5104]

I was born in 1959 but this was Blackpool at its best and years before,the place now is an absolute shithole,I left Anglesey to go and live there for 6 years biggest mistake of my life that was approx 20 years ago now. Look how cleaner Blackpool was there and people all dressed smart and the crowds just amazing. Thank you so much for sharing the real Blackpool 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@dianesilva1078]

Yes. Behind the seafront and town centre Blackpool is rife with social problems, sometimes holiday makers go to Blackpool have a good time, see how cheap property is and move there without realising. Blackpool is on the up though. There is major investment going on, it will rise again to its glory days and I wish them every success with that. It's a unique town which holds alot of happy memories for many generations of children and adults alike.

[@simonp7095]

It's still nicer than alum rock

[@jacquiquinn997]

Don't scare me now Am thinking of moving back to retire after 40 years

[@jenniferjones188]

I am 59 always remember Blackpool. I still visit because my parents always took me and family every year, my dad was based at squires gate in the RAF during the second World War. It held memories for him. I still love Blackpool although it as changed a great deal.

[@PeterSmith-ls7ut]

​@jacquiquinn997 it's on the up!

[@annagray6491]

Omg!! This is how I remember Blackpool, my home town!! Sad to see how it is now. Life was so much simpler then.

[@chrislox1]

Let's face it, everything is crap now, not just Blackpool. At least Blackpool tries to put a smile on people's faces!

[@JJONNYREPP]

Blackpool in the 1960s ( Excursion ) 0835am 6.6.24 it's still replete with bemused Scotsmen... but, yeeha, Blackpool can be relied upon, for sure...............i need a long haul holiday as opposed to looking at their faces or watching others jet off to warmer climes...

[@ZowieBBowie]

Modern life is rubbish by Blur.

[@juliemcleod9869]

I was there two weeks ago with work. We stayed at the Elgin right on the sea front it was lovely.

[@chrislox1]

​@@juliemcleod9869We're moving to the outskirts due to a job relocation. Can't wait 🎉🎉🎉

[@SIRDKA]

I went in that open air pool at 6.50 in the 60s. Remember going down the slides into freezing cold water (kids were tougher back then). Happy memories !

[@karenchance6098]

Thank you so much. Brought tears to my eyes remembering the such happy times with my late Mum and my Dad, going to Blackpool each year and staying in a boarding house for a week, when I was a child in the sixties. Remember the Lido so well and the boating lake on the prom. All of it gone now. So upsetting to see it as it is today.

[@kevn9002]

Also brought great memories with my Mum and Dad and my brothers and sisters 6 in total we also stayed in boarding house it was the "the Alexandria" on Albert rd, Blackpool has totally changed from then and not for the good.

[@dickplum2034]

Karen never let those memories fade and always keep them in your heart Hun.Godbless you and loved ones passed and present.🙏♥️

[@Jefferson1969-u4s]

Same for me 😢 At least we have the memories, though they are bittersweet

[@LadyGmarilyn]

Oh I really enjoyed that! We used to go to the "hallucinations" (as the great Hylda Baker used to call them), every year. Brought back some very happy memories...thank you for posting. 🤩

[@Benzknees]

The past is a different country. Everyone back then seemed so well dressed & respectable, occupying a much more civilised and culturally unique country. We have since been ruined by external influences.

[@stephenroche5107]

Benzknees Racist.

[@Benzknees]

Stephen Roche - Defending your culture is not racist.

[@lumemaa7]

Benzknees its nothing to do with outside influences, its how some kids are raised , without manners or respect for others and environment.

[@johnlowdon5809]

@@stephenroche5107 If you think Britain has changed for the better you`re a f*****g idiot.

[@stephenroche5107]

I think you mean ignorance you silly arse not racism.

[@robharding4028]

This 1960's film of Blackpool in its heday, has to be the best available, crystal clarity, great audio, and best of all, all those children and their folks just loving their holidays. Thank you for the excellent film.and the shear nostalgia ! We spent our holidays here, back in this time, shame we missed the film crew.

[@howardswayable]

Many thanks for that, it seems a long time since my dad and a few others went out to film this, the film was of course filmed over the duration of a couple of years and not all in one day as you get the impression of the film.

[@jonfitz2278]

When the Country was a Great Place Live in

[@chrisevans4123]

It brought back golden childhood memories of visiting Blackpool on day trips as a child in the late 1970s,.....Blackpool a magical place to visit as a kid growing up, .....from the arcade penny machines, to the smell of fish and chips and hotdogs wafting through the warm sunny skies , ......it filled me with so much fun and excitement......simpler times but real good memories I will treasure forever ...

[@eugenespex9432]

Your description says it all. Whatever happened to those 'seaside pebbles' in jars from the rock shops? Used to love them.

[@vaslav030547]

This brought back so many happy memories. What good times they were.

[@john111257]

innocent times, i remember listening to radio caroline on the beach on my Dads transistor

[@crispinalanrobinson4515]

Love to go to that time if only for one day

[@padraicodomhnall5925]

That was an absolute joy to watch Howard! My old dad (rest his soul) was a driver for Hebble coaches of Halifax in the mid sixties and regularly took day trippers over the Pennines in summer for a magical trip to Blackpool. As a big treat he was occasionally able to take me and mum along too. Wonderful memories. Thank you very much for posting, you've really cheered me up!

[@suemcconnachie3371]

Was hebble coaches based in Gibbet Street ..

[@lparky4409]

There is a youtuber called A Walk on the Wild Side who films present day Blackpool if you want to see what it's like now.

[@spleeeen4it]

Yeah, bloody awful

[@lilgeorge34]

The one thing I'm happy about that has changed in Blackpool, is the wild animal not being caged up like they used to be.

[@myk6694]

that was nice, I was in Blackpool 15yrs ago, took a ride on the last of the old trams, looking at this film, the buses & trams looked cool, life was a lot simpler, to have a place like this not too far away was brilliant.

[@amandabluebird1597]

Yes I agree life was a lot simpler then. What happened to life. We never really needed crock technology after all. It's taken the magic out of life. We all had as kids especially going to Blackpool on holiday.

[@andw2638]

There are still heritage trams (as they are now called) though sadly not yet on the new Talbot Road line.

[@michelles2299]

The donkeys on Blackpool beach, I have a photo of me and my cousin aged about 5 in 1966 there, sadly my cousin died aged 40 I remember we once talked about what we thought life would be like in the year 2000 we would be 40, it seemed impossible that we would get there so far ahead in time God bless you wherever you are 🙏

[@kenwilkins8237]

People were so smart,they really took a pride in their appearance.

[@christinedavison7604]

Lovely video, bought back many happy memories of going to Blackpool with my Mum and Dad in the wonderful sixties. We always stayed in a great guest house, with lots of tasty food. Remember the beautiful Tiger with its gorgeous green eyes. Plus I saw the great Reginald Dixon playing that very famous organ . Such happy days.

[@Rongturn777]

It was a simpler and happier life 😊👍🏻

[@davidwright7923]

Excellent loads of memories of my childhood holidays,spent hours in the fun house !

[@ladytron9188]

Sitting here during lockdown Watching this I was only a child back then.How the world has changed since the 60s,people reading newspapers instead of phones ,men in suits sitting on the beach😂and ladies sunbathing with rollers in their hair.Life after this virus will be different,but we will still have our memories.🍦🎪💃👫👙🍺🍷⛱🎡🎢

[@streamsofconsciousness8651]

Me too. I don't remember those days but it's such a pleasure to look back on a more innocent time

[@padraicodomhnall5925]

Yes I agree. Very nicely put.

[@edwardcooper5479]

It’s now 2024 and hopefully for yourself and your family Covid hasn’t impacted your life and things are back to normal.

[@Thursdaym2]

My stomping ground in the fifties and early sixties. Dreadful though to see those poor animals in The Tower Zoo. We were so ignorant then.

[@kevinhoughton9134]

Just what I've said in comments.

[@audreymcleod563]

I agree.

[@whisthpo]

Yes, we were...Do you remember the Polar Bears out of their minds, just swaying left to right swinging their arms? But Wow, what a time machine the Camera is eh? Excellent film and Thanks for posting !

[@Sr19769p]

Yeah I though that

[@davidhoward2487]

@@whisthpo No were there? I left Blackpool in 1960, so didn't know that..Thank goodness we went to the new Zoo last year, it's 100% better!

[@mike.47]

I was born in Blackpool in 1952. My father was in the RAF so we moved around quite a bit, but I remember having holidays there when we visited my grandparents who lived in Devonshire road. Happy days,

[@8-bitsteve500]

Good times! I've lived in Blackpool since the very early 70s and sadly I've seen it change from a lovely and friendly place full of good people, to a miserable shit hole full off druggies, alcoholics and low lifes. What a huge shame

[@dutchdutch7594]

Yeolde GamerSteve and muslims

[@mike.47]

Real Wonder was that really necessary?

[@marcse7en]

Druggies, Alcoholics and Low Lives? You just described my Adactus Hovel Association neighbours! They've stolen from me, threatened to kill me with knives and have set fire to my home multiple times! Yes, Lancaster, at least these flats, is a miserable shit hole too! Thanks Adactus, I hope you all burn 🔥 in hell for ruining my life! 😠😠😠

[@stephenduncan3605]

So is Warrington where I have the misfortune to live, full of druggies and lowlife talking in that horrible Salford/Manchester accent where every other sentence is "Know what a mean"

[@jeff1962-y]

@@stephenduncan3605 Warrington is getting worse. Born here and would move if i could afford it .

[@daveenglish7060]

One of the great shames of all time.... That clock don't roll back. Love blackpool. Great times. Plesent, peaceful, and most of all safe.

[@visitfyldecoast]

That's amazing! Straight back to the Blackpool of my youth. Thank you for sharing.

[@vincentjohnson3763]

I was born 1949 in Blackpool and I and all my mates thought we were blessed to live in Blackpool it was a great place to live it really was not only for fun but there was lots of work and ways in which to make money and the entertainment was the best in the whole of the UK although the U K was called England then ,and a lot of it free, rock bands, vaudeville type acts jugglers ect the circus with Charlie Caroli and Paul, went every year and the ice show at the Casino on pleasure beach , Diamond Lil's at the pleasure beach it could turn into a blood bath now and again but the lads had to let of a bit of steam now and again ,all part of the show, I left in 1970 for adventure in Australia met the love of my life and that was that never regretted it and as it turned out poor old Blackpool started to wain but I tell you it was the best of places all the entertainment was concentrated so if a place was not firing for you you you just went two doors up to a place that did. So sad to see how things have gone just like England really, oh sorry the United Kingdom ( not sorry )

[@alistairshaw3206]

Great video, I loved the old coaches, even older as the ones I drove when I started. Wish I could still get fish and chips for 2/9.

[@marilynkennedy8236]

I used to go for holidays and day trips in the Fifties. The coaches we travelled on were Ellen Smith's and Yelloway from Rochdale. The Yelloway coaches came in at Bloomfield Road near Blackpool Football ground. I can't remember where Ellen Smith's came in. Do you know either of these coach companies?

[@alistairshaw3206]

@@marilynkennedy8236 I have seen coaches from both companies, they are still trading, they are both from the Rochdale area. I'm from Scotland, but in normal times, drive all over Britain. The coach industry is in a bad way at the moment, we have no work!

[@marilynkennedy8236]

@@alistairshaw3206 Thanks for your reply Alistair. I am amazed that Ellen Smith's and Yelloway coaches are still in business. I am sure they closed in the Seventies or Eighties in Rochdale. I know the coach business is in trouble our local travel company Citicoach in Plymouth has closed. We have very little in the way of coach holidays to offer down here. We can't get Shearlings because they don't pick up in Plymouth. Nor do Wallace Arnold.

[@jennifersiswick7488]

I’m Blackpool born and bred (a ‘sad grown un’ I was a teenager in the 60’s ,it was a great place to live . Recently I visited ,it was a glorious day and ,although times have changed, we had a fab weekend .Only one thing ,the Pleasure Beach Laughing clown has moved site and a new outfit ,a pity ,he doesn’t look half as good as he did .Bring back his ruffles and striped shirt please !

[@garybrindle6715]

Also grew up there, it was awful along the seafront, the Stanley Park was good and we could go away to the lakes for a change.

[@Bluediamond200]

I don’t remember a clown I always thought it was a policeman , I must have been 5 or 6 when we visited

[@jantune]

Loved this. Thank you Howard. Makes me sad for the world today though. 😢 these were happy days.

[@kenwalker8370]

This really takes me back. I lived in Blackpool during the 60's and during the school holidays I worked on the beach donkey rides, the Pleasure Beach, Pablos Cafeteria and other places. There were so many ways to boost your pocket money! There wasn't a single machine on the golden mile that I couldn't get a coin out of. Cleaning the coaches out while they waited for returning trippers paid half a crown, plus what dropped change you could find on the floor. We waited at the South Station with out home-made trolleys for arriving trippers and carted their suitcases to the boarding houses or holiday flats for sixpence per suitcase.

[@blzbob7936]

Not changed at all! Still attracts folk who think just being there, shows how fun loving they are. But back in the days when this was filmed, our Lancashire industrial workers loved Blackpool because it was a place of fun and entertainment, and you didn't have anything like it in your home town.

[@johnbarter3446]

Life looks so much better in the 1960s, for one reason alone, it was !

[@henryhunter5026]

Great stuff! In the 1960s we were seeing the beginning of the end of the traditional British seaside holiday. People whose families had always spent a couple of weeks on the English coast were beginning to sample the delights of endless sunshine and cheap beer in places like Spain.

[@helenamcginty4920]

Pkus a hotel room that they werent locked out of from 10.00am to 5.00 pm. Rain hail or blowing a gale.

[@lilgeorge34]

This made me happy and sad, happy because it brings back so many happy memories of my childhood we used to go every year for our holidays and stayed in the same guest house 11 Bairstow St, Sad because its changed so much, Thank you for sharing this with us.

[@howardswayable]

Thankyou for your comments

[@robertrafferty6614]

i was a bus driver in late sixties and many a trip I done from Glasgow to Blackpool Southport Rhyl in the summer months and the crowds you could hardly walk on the streets

[@vincentjohnson3763]

People do not believe you when you tell them it was incredible especially Glasgow week and Wakes week like leaving a Rangers, Celtic match with no police separating the crowds

[@alanwilliams1982]

EEeee it were grand, no mobile phones.

[@MYERZ08]

Or people dressed as Middle eastern arabs

[@karenblackadder9446]

Also parents had control over their kids. Mine certainly did! My sister and I had a great time without money.

[@maunster3414]

I'm certain it was grand. Looks like loads of fun.

[@stephenpenrose3499]

Here here no mobile phones they have taken over peoples lives

[@GBfirst]

That used to be our family week holiday late 50s early 60s and it was great, nightly entertainment was first class, no apparent druggies or dropouts around to spoil things. Great times and thanks for the film.

[@alyb731]

Fantastic film, brought back great memories, I didn’t like seeing the poor animals in the zoo either but they were different times and we hopefully know better now.

[@karenblackadder9446]

Zoos all over the world have now followed Chester. NO BARS

[@Sr19769p]

Correct. Your comment was what I was about to type! I had to laugh at the woman's disdainful look at the laughing clown, tho'

[@tangerinedream7211]

Nice to see all the old trams, 1930s balloon cars and 1950s Vambacs, we used to go to Blackpool late sixties, took the touring caravan, Sprite Major, on the beach at North shore mum would shout to me ,Don't go in the mud, of course it wasn't mud, brown and slimey it was discharge washed in by the tide.

[@sabihadoolarkhan9152]

Nvr seen ppl with ties and jackets and kids in socks and shoes on the beach , and one lady in her curlers ... so kind someone letting the dog enjoy an ice cream, loved that and everyone eating with such good manners in the restaurant. Lovely era to go bk to ... kids were calm

[@lparky4409]

Curlers in, just so her hair could look nice when she went out in the evening,looks like Hilda Ogden from Coronation Street!

[@christislord2832]

Calm children due most not injected with a mass schedule of toxic poisons ever increasing annually …especially after 1986 when they became exempt from blame for injury and death due to them. S.i.d.s soared as did brain damage a.k.a autism and the schedules and drugs given to these damaged people are ever increasing their damage

[@sitcorocket]

Dont know anyone in the clip but it was when i was little.. such a great time.... loved the simplicity and general good nature. Thanks for sharing.❤️

[@jota3732]

We now live in a society that has been changed by governments past and present. Our police look more like a Swiss Army knife than they do coppers , obesity is getting worse ( didn’t see many fatty’s in the film ) if you don’t have tattoos you are now out numbered by the ones that do ( thanks David Beckham) Less people smoke but more people are taking drugs . Alcohol is sold everywhere including petrol stations , licensing laws are all but in name . People that come to England don’t come to be English , they come from country’s that they don’t like only to turn this country into the one they’re running from . Funny how a lot of people that come here don’t drink , but come to the most drink fuelled place on earth. We have men wanting to be women, and women that want to be men , and the others that don’t want to be either . We have a leader that thinks he’s Winston Churchill , but runs from any kind of crisis. We have gays that want to marry in churches, ( not that I think they shouldn’t get civilly married ) that’s government intervention. We are an island but we have the second biggest death rate from the Coronavirus ( sorry forgot to mention we don’t have border control) We have a media that the only thing they get right is the date , journalists that want to become celebrities more than tell it how it is . Am I a bigot , homophobic, racist , sexist, Call me old fashioned but I don’t have a f..king choice, nor do you . Spain , Italy , Greece, aren’t perfect but they still have Family values . Which is all but destroyed in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ( sorry can’t use this flag anymore , it’s just for demonstration purposes. ). Me and my family shouldn’t have to leave the country we were brought up in , but we just can’t stay here .

[@JulianBeddow]

Well said....

[@paulworsley2757]

During the bingo the guy calls "Wilson's den, No 10". Harold Wilson became PM in October 1964, which means that this footage is 1965 at the earliest.

[@edwardcooper5479]

You should work for Scotland Yard !

[@mariannewilliams845]

Well spotted 😊

[@CherylFrancis-fn1uf]

It said 1966 at the start of the video

[@nomadsteve5297]

Great video,, I’m 53 and remember these days but there is no way I would ever want to go back to these days, I think that the people who are reminiscing are forgetting how hard life was back then and only remembering what they want to remember

[@maccagrabme]

I think you are blotting out a lot of the things that are a heck of a lot worse today. The only thing better today is the conveniences and the technology. You say it was harder, in some respects yes but you didnt need two incomes to survive and homes were more affordable and abundant and people had pride in their community and the jobs they did and lived within their means.You didnt see police getting attacked and abused, nurses spat at, druggies on every street corner, spy cameras everywhere, mobile phone addiction, tattooed teens, tat shops, gambling shops on every corner, acid attacks, grooming gangs, kids with knives, teachers afraid of kids, political correctness, censorship, celebrity worshipping, body image issues, mental health issues, mass immigration and associated problems and the NHS could cope as well as social services and prisons. It wasnt perfect back in the past but thats because people lived within their means and werent drowning in debt.

[@moodyguymick]

It was a simpler time back then. Life can be just as hard today, if not more so.

[@michelles2299]

So you think frequent stabbings, people walking into you on the street because they are looking at their mobiles, social media bullying and people getting Brazilian butt lifts and filling their lips up like balloons us a better time...... At least we didn't have Christmas in the shops in October and great TV ads people could have a conversation and we left our front doors open, kids played out I don't even remember many obese people then

[@jenniferjones188]

Totally agree. I was only 2 in 1966. I remember Blackpool so well. I think times were better then. We holidayed in Blackpool every year I stopped going 2 years ago it went very downhill. I hope the town does pick up again.

[@matthewgriffiths8423]

What lovely memories. Reminds me of Holidays I took as a kid in the 70's

[@adeh503]

No drunk, tattooed slappers rolling around on the floor and not a football shirt in sight

[@TheDccottrell]

Yeah boring,

[@meirwise1107]

They existed then. They just didn't film them!

[@kevinhoughton9134]

@@meirwise1107 They had tattooed slappers back then,and blokes in football shirts? I thought they all wore suits and dresses!

[@karenblackadder9446]

@@meirwise1107 The MORONS arrived in the late 70s. Strange that it coincided with comprehensive schools, no cane, constant strikes, abrogation of parental care.....shall I go on?

[@jamesellis3535]

They didn’t make replica football shirts back then.

[@meirwise1107]

I went to Arnold School in Blackpool from 1968 to 1975. The shows attracted much bigger stars than today and it was more affordable and better value for money but it isn't rubbish even today ( except for the stag & hen parties). It's still the entertainment capital of the north. The food, the shopping, the illuminations, beaches, parks, sports are great plus Lytham St.Annes, Fleetwood and even the Lake District are within reach.

[@chrisjohnson6876]

Excellent upload Howard. Fond memories indeed. Loved the old fruit machines and coaches! Thanks!

[@TheHorsebox2]

Yes, they were lovely old coaches. Mainly Bedfords.

[@karenblackadder9446]

We must have been posh, going by rail although you probably got there before we did. Memories of sitting for ages in Preston station So Coĺd!!!!!

[@derekb4731]

Brilliant, Brought back some good childhood memories

[@mulderandscully]

We stayed at a caravan park in Blackpool in August 1966. I was only 7 but I still remember bits of it!

[@DaveMuirhead]

I was aged 4 back in 1966. We had just moved into our new family home, where I still live on my own aged 62, 58 years later! We visited Blackpool for a couple of family holidays in the 1970s. And, how times change. Looking at this film, everything seemed more carefree and easygoing back then. People just got on with enjoying themselves in a seemingly more relaxed, simpler and free manner. There's lots in that film that you just wouldn't see in today's world. Judging by the film, we sadly seem to have lost a lot.

[@howardswayable]

Thankyou

[@lew832]

I was born in Manchester in 1949, and my Grandad had a jewellery/souvenir shop at 65 Bond street. When Mum and Dad used to visit at the weekend, they used to put me in my pram at the back of 65 bond street in the yard. I have only been back there twice, once in 1956, and then in 1983 to visit my Aunt Dolly at Squires gate.

[@robharding5345]

Thank god we have some forward thinking people who bothered to film these vintage clips from a golden era of seaside resorts, and of course Blackpool being no 1.

[@felixgarnet]

Lovely! This brings back so many memories. :-) Thank you, Howard.

[@GasFinger1]

Fantastic magical uncomplicated days

[@MrPeteypoo]

We had our honeymoon in Blackpool, 1966, it was a magical place then, the illuminations were on and we saw some great shows. Sad to hear how it’s gone. Thanks for the happy memories.

[@patriciadaly6938]

Thats when life was good.

[@Kev-wa10-163]

True

[@TheHorsebox2]

Is it so bad now?

[@patriciadaly6938]

@@TheHorsebox2 I know, as a child our big holiday was a week in a caravan in Blackpool, you won't pay me to stay there again. This country has gone to pots.

[@TheDccottrell]

@@patriciadaly6938 Your golden age never existed, life is far better for most people now. do you really think that if people were transported here from the 1960's they'd want to go back?

[@patriciadaly6938]

@@TheDccottrell I was a child in the 60s, and yes I would go back in a heart beat.

[@qwadratix]

I remember that one year it rained. The wind blew a gale off the sea and the heavens opened for the whole week of my dad's summer holiday. We were staying at a guest house (bed, breakfast and evening meals) so we had to eave the house during the day. The 'attractions' emptied my dad's pockets of the little spending money he had at a frightening rate so we had to look for shelter where we could. Mostly bus shelters and shop awnings. It was cold, wet and uncomfortable. That went on the whole week until the time came to catch the train home again. Pretty much what life was like most of the time back then. Funny how easy it is to forget.

[@vincentjohnson3763]

What a ray of sunshine you are , you should of gone to Morecombe

[@qwadratix]

@@vincentjohnson3763 Would you like me to tell of my childhood visit to Cleethorpes one year?

[@vincentjohnson3763]

Verruca @@qwadratix Verruca is a lovely first name but painfully to the foot but with a matched surname of Piles you could be a pain in the Arsenal . Cleethorpes is lovely this time of year so I am told, famous for its icicles I believe ,which is a treatment for piles and verruca's

[@EllisBurton3339]

Bless the two lads having a wee in the puddle the social services would whip them off into care these days ...

[@joesmoke9624]

Ellis B Well said

[@lesleylewer5714]

They did make me giggle!

[@Biggles2498]

I am 58 years old and been all over the world but nothing beats Blackpool. Shame everything is dying due to cheap holidays abroad.

[@KM-mv3qr]

Why do we need to know you are 58 years old?

[@Biggles2498]

@@KM-mv3qr I simply said my age as I still have the mind of a young Boy loving the razzmatazz of Blackpool.

[@KM-mv3qr]

@@Biggles2498 razzamatazz, aww. Cute.

[@stephenduncan3605]

Not when Britain leaves the EU, we might see (in fact we have this year) all this coming back!

[@GasFinger1]

There will always be blackpool brilliant place

[@ianstewartorr8455]

There is kids in the video the same age as me I’ve just turned 55 bloody hell how time flys

[@coggsy3036]

I don’t class kids as 55 year olds they tend to be a lot younger🤪🤪😂😂

[@hootsmon4723]

Jeez your old .........christ I,m 55 tooo oh dear god where did life go . 🤣🤣

[@leslieeaston3383]

My dad was a United bus driver in Hartlepool. He drove a bus load of families, including us, to Blackpool in '65. I still have the 8mm footage. Memory lane indeed. We did Butlins as well.

[@lindamcmahon3577]

Oh my very nostalgic, I couldn't believe my eyes that we bingo place that u cover the numbers and get a prize is still working 2 day exactly the same, always buisy not a single thing has changed with it i know because my elderly friend always likes 2 go play the bingo in it. Good old Blackpool still a great place for a we holiday, my friends and I all luv 2 go something for everyone, yes changes but loads 2 do. Thank u for that really enjoyed watching it.

[@theqslearningmethod]

Brings back happy memories. Every day in Blackpool was a sunny day ... !!! When the summer was over there was the illuminations to extend the season and provide an excuse for another trip to the seaside. I've been going to Blackpool from 1956 until 2022.

[@ngle]

This film is a masterpiece!

[@howardswayable]

Thankyou glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@Jefferson1969-u4s]

I remember being mesmerised by the lines of multi coloured coach from seemingly every corner of the country; all of them bringing fortunate people together to the paradise of Blackpool. Gone forever and what a pity.

[@Sr19769p]

Fantastic footage, made me feel 7 again with my grandparents who always went to Blackpool for their hols - to me it was like Las Vegas! Didn't like to see the caged animals but had to chuckle at that woman's disdainful look at the laughing clown! Damn, now I need a Westler's burger and a toffee apple...

[@cannonfodder6654]

When working class family's got away for a week from the grind of everyday life. Everyone was in the same boat, not a lot of money but made the most of everything free like a day on the beach. Now relatively cheap Air travel to sunny package holidays to Spain and Greece etc has made the world smaller and the week long British seaside holiday a thing of the past

[@loftyskies123]

looks like a coach load of sad people going home at the end . people knock blackpool but i still love the old place ,it has its good and bad but so does everywhere else . i wouldnt live anywhere else

[@Embracing01]

Looking back at those times seen here gives you an overwhelming sense of freedom in light of the blatant fascist state we are currently having to endure in the name of this (supposed) virus pandemic. We have been under this fascistic dictatorship for years, but it's only now that it's reared its ugly head for all to see with this absurd social distancing and lockdown rules, but sadly most still can't see it for what it is. We had so much freedom and privacy back then despite the hardships and struggles, and id rather have that than be subjected to 24/7 surveillance whenever I'm out in a public place or on the internet, being told what I can or can't say on the internet.

[@Embracing01]

@Pantani 1998 Thsnks. I'm "woken" to certain degree, but I'm skeptical of claims like nano bots etc. Not everyone in the "truth movement" agrees on everything others are claiming, and I think things like the 5G issue needs to be proven,otherwise it's seen as just a wacky conspiracy. Not everyone is convinced 5G has anything to do with the virus. The real issue is to do with the mandatory vaccines and this restriction, something which most "normies" should understand. Hope that makes any sense. You should watch the rant video by Mark Devlin. Wish more people would express their feelings like that.

[@Embracing01]

@@pyewackett5 Did you watch Neil Sanders last night on Raconteurs News?. He believes the virus is real and the claims made by Dr Andrew Kaufman are false. He could be right as people just blindly accept what someone says without checking out the facts for themselves.

[@paulholland5270]

very sad days were living in .a lot of those old innocent people there killing of to rise the number of corona deaths is sickening .and to think those innocent people were young when this video was filmed .makes you feel like crying .

[@willduggan6170]

@DagJab. You are right. We are undergoing the biggest fear/mind control in recorded history. All for Bill Gates and his quest to further his $Billions by producing vaccines marketed like his Windows programme, with updates. Neil Ferguson is controlled by Gates and he released his dire predictions that have removed democracy and freedom, whilst he shags his 'Open Marriage' lefty bitch. We are being played for fools and his computer programme is a sham. Read this about his so called 'Computer Model' www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/i-have-reviewed-fergusons-code/

[@amandabluebird1597]

I agree with your comments. We are all free people with a right to free speech. Believe me if we bow down to colluding greed driven fascism. They will dictate to us more. If enough good men stand around and do nothing. Evil will flourish. I for one know goodness truth honour has to win over this tyranny.

[@emilbordon1329]

I remember going there as a very young child and seeing the laughing policeman, the donkeys at the beach and the dazzling illuminations.

[@PUGthaTHUG]

Why does life look so much better in the 60s

[@welshlad6427]

OfficialPUGthaTHUG because is was me love.

[@karenblackadder9446]

Because in some ways, it was.

[@johntaylor1759]

Wonderful dollop of nostalgia. :o)

[@andrewspencer4843]

So good to see these videos. Thanks for posting.

[@jasonladd6400]

I remember it in the 70s and it was my favourite place bar none.

[@flurblewibble7735]

Oh wow, brilliant memories. Thank you.

[@Ravenswalk]

Spent many holidays day trips weekends and one Christmas in Blackpool well in Layton my Grandparents lived there. Every illuminations this is the Blackpool I remember. Left the UK to live in Canada in 76 not seen the changes but I hear it not for the better but thank you Blackpool for being a wonderful part of my childhood and yes I did get lost on the beach ended up with an ice cream with all the other lost children.

[@sylviafrost8990]

You and your videos are amazing .xx

[@howardgreenwood1842]

Thankyou so much.

[@geof1954]

Lovely video and pure nostalgia. Thank you 🎉

[@craeside28]

That was brilliant thanks for posting

[@stokegaz1069]

Great footage 😊 everyone looks so slim in those days !

[@millionseller001]

Nice to finish this with Mr Blackpool himself..Reginald Dixon.

[@mousecharger]

What a fantastic video.ty for sharing x

[@helenweston4740]

I went there for a few days over this half term, it still has it's Northern charm. We love Blackpool.

[@hootsmon4723]

I have to agree with you there. But take a street back and it's going to the pits .which is a great shame because i loved visiting Blackpool..

[@KM-mv3qr]

You should get out more if Blackpool is good.

[@hootsmon4723]

@@KM-mv3qr oh I have.... holland,Belgium, Andorra, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Germany,isle of man,Ireland , tenerife,.. how about yourself. Oh that was in just one year . 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 silly sod

[@KM-mv3qr]

@@hootsmon4723 ... What are you ? A fucking gypsy? " Silly sod"?

[@KM-mv3qr]

Mind you Isle of Man, well I,LL give you that one. Did you get jet lag?

[@StaffordshireTravelAdventures]

filmed at a time when there were 1000s on the beach everyday. can remember it being like that in the 70s and 80s, until a certain newspaper ruined it all. it never recovered.

[@DeniseFactor]

Newspaper ? Please do explain.

[@StaffordshireTravelAdventures]

@@DeniseFactor 1000s on the beach everyday in the summer. Then a uk newspaper printed blackpool were pumping sewage into the sea and it was making everyone ill. So people started stopping away from the beach.

[@DeniseFactor]

@@StaffordshireTravelAdventures Ah, thanks.

[@StaffordshireTravelAdventures]

@@DeniseFactor late 1970s early 1980s couldn’t find a space on the beach to put a deck chair or towel to lie on in the sun. It was packed. They had Punch and Judy shows. Donkey rides. Ice cream vans. Entertainers etc. then it all went. Now you only have someone maybe walking a dog or a few kids dipping there feet in the sea.

[@imonthetelephone-twice4181]

0:19 Coach turns off Bond Street into Pleasure Beach coach and car park, with Balmoral road in the near background. The hotel at the end of Balmoral Road ( which I went to when it was called 'The Balmoral Hotel', later 'The argosy' ) has now been demolished. Fabulous slice of history here, even the old coaches look terrific.

[@martinnorth2680]

Excellent, best I've seen.

[@Ben83597]

Back to when everything was still British and secure.

[@helenamcginty4920]

Secure? Yes kids with good parents were secure but my dad worked a 60 hour week and even 90 in the summer as a railway van driver. Earning £4 a week in the 50s. There were tins on the mantlepiece with the rent £1 and money for the bread, coal and milk man. Times for my parents and millions like them were hard.

[@Derpaherpa123]

Yeah let’s not pretend everything was hunky dory always lol

[@iancampbell6925]

@@Derpaherpa123 Diversity = disunity = a public easy to manipulate and control

[@Derpaherpa123]

@@iancampbell6925 Ian people were always easy to control. It doesn’t take diversity to control a people. The working classes were always fighting amongst themselves when we should have been together. You have the wrong idea that diversity is dividing us The idea of the ‘middle classes’ was the death blow. Everyone is one or two pay checks away from hell. There’s them and us. Rich and not poor

[@gavinstrachan1373]

Lovely memories

[@KazamiasBoulton]

Moved to Blackpool in 1950 from Burnley. Happy prom and beach memory/ Thank :)

[@howardswayable]

Many thanks

[@robertallen2832]

This brought back many happy memories.

[@michaelroebuck1340]

Only in U.K. would you see holiday makers on the beach in suits , dresses . So many saved all year round in Wakes Clubs for a week spent in a boarding house . I suspect those days long gone. ?