'London Rock' Making Candy Factory (1957) | British Pathé

[@TheWindii]

I am equally amazed by the quality of the narration.

[@francissantiago4110]

Bare hands, no gloves

[@edwardcamp3376]

Old Received Pronunciation was smooth as buttah!

[@victorarmijo8434]

He's been making ROCK for 38 years!! Quite they experience.

[@tonygunk6345]

Back in the day it was totally normal to be an apprentice for six years to be a candy maker. I wish I lived when times were so simple

[@Liusila]

No upwards mobility options though - that same job you started as a teenager you have for life.

[@Oddballkane]

​@Liusila is true, it also ment you would never be out of a job but it also meant you could afford everything on one salary.

[@Carroty_Peg]

@@Liusila where's the upward mobility now! less now than in the 60s, akkkstually.

[@tomlawson4713]

Amazing doesn’t even sound like a real word anymore after looking at these comments.

[@coloradostrong]

Amazing you would say that.

[@abductedbyfairies]

The fact that you see candymakers today using gloves because of the heat makes you respect those mofos back in the day even more, beasts' hands they fear nothing lol

[@romainvicta3076]

And No leeched Estrogenic microplastics from Plastic gloves into the Sweets either!

[@abductedbyfairies]

@romainvicta3076 yeah, I'm kinda annoyed by this obsession with gloves. Soap and water is literally what lowered the transmission of every disease. If you're healthy and wash your hands you can't give people anything. Plus, it's the same people who complain about the lack of gloves, ignoring the long ass beards and hair flowing around instead of wearing a cap and keeping well groomed. Goofy aah wannabe hygienists.

[@Krasniysharigg]

​​@@romainvicta3076 but pieces of sweat, skin and maybe blood (which comes off hands much more easily than microplastic comes off gloves) - very tasty 🙃

[@resentfulsoulofthetoilet589]

​@@Krasniysharigg Adds flavour

[@BBPalmer420]

@@KrasniyshariggI love a lil flesh in my rock

[@ryanwhite7906]

this is amazing. Many people think that factory work is low skilled work which justifies low oay. Yet this shows that some factory work requires a more wider skillset than some office jobs. Having to do an apprenticeship which lasts six years which is more longer than a university degree

[@H-D1]

It’s amazing

[@barbd5607]

I know you can still see this amazing work in Yarmouth, UK.

[@ariangh815]

Nice 👍👍👍

[@thenotoriousblank3502]

it's amazing

[@iczer01]

The heat that’s gotta be coming off those and no gloves those guys are crazy skilled

[@rumelia]

İt's amazing.

[@Twirlyhead]

Never ceases to impress me. Amaze even.

[@spazticle8752]

that first machine looks straight out of wallace and gromit

[@stephanieparker1250]

I bet those guys have muscles like piano wires 😲

[@Liusila]

Why?

[@leniszameit]

i have tried searching for this candy. i only knew what my foster welsh gma called it.ive google search for it by that name.never found it. now i know what the proper name for it is called and i will finf it. tyvm much for this info

[@sebeckley]

The umbrella term is picture candy.

[@davinatest8467]

Those old copper boilers and bowls would cost a fortune now…..perhaps stainless steel wasn’t available back then.

[@sarahlouise7163]

copper is preferred as it allows for a more even temperature, apparently

[@sweypheonix]

Commercial candy makers generally still use copper. I have seen brittle makers still using what looks like the same pot for 40 years

[@A_Ejem]

Amazing work!

[@tedoneilclark4710]

Absolutely amazing. I would love some of this rock from 1957. It looks delicious.😄♥️😄

[@oldhippie81]

I have some Blackpool Rock from the 1970;s. Hi. from Tasmania Australia.

[@tedoneilclark4710]

@@oldhippie81 Have you tried eating it 🤣🤣🤣

[@oldhippie81]

@@tedoneilclark4710 Still looks goodenough to eat🙂

[@tedoneilclark4710]

@@oldhippie81 let me know 😀

[@ajanideroock]

That looks so amazing!

[@Oddballkane]

It's fascinating that these ways haven't really changed they still make the rock the same way for years.

[@buoyanProjects]

Amazing it is

[@robharding5345]

Losing most of my teeth in my early teens was mostly down to the wonderful world of Rock, But everything has to come to an end at some point, But it was worth it, These rock makers are so skilled in the art of rock making, they are probably long dead by now, But we wont forget you guys. Rock on !

[@robharding5345]

It depends on what flavour you prefer, from mint, to liquorice.and many more to boot.@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn

[@DefendTheStar]

​@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn sweet it was equal parts fructose and cane sugar

[@anthropomorphie]

it’s amazing

[@paradisehotel5005]

Absolutely amazing!

[@saran3214]

Love the little hats the candy makers wear. When I eat candy I will pretend they made it.

[@tombranch2261]

That sugar syrup is a huge pain to clean when it hardens, it becomes like concrete.

[@rusipotam]

Just use hot water

[@martinhandy7520]

It's amazing! Just joining the crowd!

[@cynthiaprentice8420]

To the person who was asking about gloves….. nobody had gloves for very much indeed, including hospitals! As a Student Nurse we had to do everything with bare hands, including the very worst imaginable things! But it made sure that you learned how to scrub up properly!!

[@iceetmarne3571]

What a skill. We wonder why people do t want to go to work these days. I'm sure it's boring after a while but it's insanely specialized!

[@nikkithiduong6134]

So relaxing watching your channel

[@hdkdhdodhdnddjfkfjfofkfofo1453]

It's amazing!

[@Bobby-wn5yr]

Thanks KZbin algorithm, now I know how rock’s made… still unclear on the why though.

[@cynthiaprentice8420]

Silly, it is made on purpose just to rot your teeth whilst enjoying the process!!

[@sarahlouise7163]

you are actually asking why is rock made?

[@rauliopinandito9119]

Anyone know the background orchestra song is?

[@melanienagy6389]

A lot work doing it by hand.

[@laurelhardy8886]

It’s amazing 🍬

[@mr.someone6128]

These make me so hungry lol.

[@anuragathelordofspectating9924]

The art of making such ornate candy is impressive. The narrator is a meme producer, though.

[@cfaz6763]

It's AMAZING!

[@Angellirav]

WHY EVERYONE IS SAYING "its amazing"

[@theemeraldomed6856]

it’s amazing

[@NoK1dding]

They made the words LONDON ROCK come out legibly and placed perfectly at such a large scale working with giant ropes of colored sugar. Wow!

[@nunyabiznes33]

Amazing!

[@PlutoTheSynth]

it is amazing

[@justinbetland9792]

I'm amazed

[@ncs8730]

Absolutely amazing. And quite incredible today.

[@autokorrektor8166]

Very interesting!

[@danielmillar7628]

I grew up in Wood Green

[@igjoni1987]

Anyone else here because if the morning brew?

[@101Volts]

I'm here because of the channel this is uploaded from; British Pathe.

[@ticketyboo2456]

Is it amazing? Yes, it is🍭

[@ElleVitaYT]

Amazing

[@timotejpetrovic5626]

I live in Wood Green, London - they recently replaced the factory with blocks of flats.

[@georgezee5173]

I live in Wood Green too and this video just popped up in my feed. Where was that factory? Was it next to the chocolate factory?

[@sammyboyjnr5520]

​@georgezee5173 Yes that's right

[@georgezee5173]

@@sammyboyjnr5520 thank you!

[@avaguitarestava]

I bet candy tasted so much better back then

[@philmuskett265]

Rock on!!!

[@findfind8349]

In the former US and UK, manufacturing is still affecting the world.

[@riananggara5085]

My god, the lettering!

[@rolly97420]

Was there already videos with so much quality and colored in 1957? Or it's remastered.

[@IcheeCOTC]

video on film. Film (it's color variant was invented in about 1900) is much higher resolution than the average LCD or OLED monitor or even camera of the modern day, but it needs to go through development before it can be used. Audio may also be recorded on the unused portion of the same film for an audio-visual recording, or recorded on something else for separate audio and video recordings. it's also entirely possible that the video is indeed remastered, but given that many videos from this channel have been referred to as Reels, I believe that that is the less likely scenario, if only by a very small amount.

[@oscarcacnio8418]

Holy crap, that's a lot of sugar... And if it were Lofty Pursuits making it, that's gonna be a very big batch of Unicorn Droppings.

[@johnnyace1300]

yes!

[@LolLol-xy4rh]

Delicious

[@amarok5048]

Impressive!

[@justinbetland9792]

?

[@danielwyczawski5372]

I used to live on Wood green😍🙈

[@sammyboyjnr5520]

This is from when Wood Green still had English people

[@her_biggest_fan]

Honest fire

[@uyku]

it's amazong

[@600322]

I thought that us was the only strange country to use Fahrenheit-degrees.But the voiceover man clearly speaks uk-english.And England are well known to use Celsius-centigrades and Miles&inch.......

[@ianb9028]

This was the 1950’s. The system of pounds, hundredweight, pints, quarts, inches, foot, yard, rods and roods etc is collectively known as "imperial" measurements. The British at the time did not even use metric money (unlike the US) they used farthings, pounds, shillings and pence - 12 pence to the shilling and 20 shillings to a pound, 5 shillings was a crown. They also had something called a guinea which I think was 1 pound 1 shilling but could be very wrong about that.

[@eXorae325i]

Shutup It's amazing

[@HariSupriono]

....what weight?

[@DavidJCane]

The measure is a "hundredweight" (abbreviation "cwt"), so this was 2 cwt equal to 224 lbs or 101.6 kg.

[@101Volts]

Quite a feat.

[@Khan-ro2ol]

Where are they now ? I want to meet them 😊

[@Philontheisland]

Now you just get a rock thrown at you in Wood Green

[@Captain-Nostromo]

A lot of DNA in that candy 😝

[@user-lt5xi8iz3g]

Now the stretching is done by a machine 😮

[@SlavicMogger]

Wonderful and amazing candy, right about enough to get 100 people diabities

[@ncs8730]

You're not expected to eat a pile of those.

[@charlieterry6483]

wonder how many arm hairs fall into this candy🤔

[@apomegranatefrog]

I hade Margate rock and it’s tasty

[@proputeshestviya]

Все работают без перчаток. Сейчас такое не возможно, а тогда все проще было.

[@Betitrox]

😳😳😳wooooo

[@2027النجم]

💯

[@S.E.C-R]

Oh well, we almost saw how they make the letters…

[@DarkMetaOFFICIAL]

ah yes, british crack rocks. indeed

[@square-on-wheels]

💗🍬

[@francissantiago4110]

No protection 😃 if he got burn 0:17

[@luthmhor]

Used to be able to earn a living wage working at places like this. Didn't have to compete with people from all over the world for jobs in your own country, let alone city.

[@laerwen]

Wages need to go up with the cost of living. Blaming this issue on immigrants is what the fascists want you to do.

[@coloradostrong]

Illegal Invaders, not "migrants". And you can thank the _small hats_ for their usury that everyone calls "inflation". @@laerwen

[@馥瑜郭]

三座木橋！？

[@isabellaliwanag7241]

The only thing makes me interested in this is the style of the 50s

[@estudiante3438]

😗🤤candyyy

[@Blackluck9647]

3:02 he's goddamn cute, i wonder how is he now

[@PlutoTheSynth]

truee :3

[@Blackluck9647]

​@@PlutoTheSynth maybe he is now an elderly grandad or sad thing hopefully not maybe long gone, but i am certain of one thing he is no longer a cute boy

[@DavidJCane]

Michael Young would probably have left school at 14. If he had served the full six-year apprenticeship mentioned he would have been around 20 in 1957. So if he is still around today he will be around 87 years old.

[@michaelroberts7374]

Blackpool rock did for my teeth!! 😂

[@yedamsshoes2309]

Where the rock was made😨

[@simonnuman6840]

It’s amazing, the art of rolling rock by hand is dead now. Shame, these people used to be able to make a living doing regular jobs and now you need to sell your soul to barely survive.. that’s if you can even get a job.

[@PlutoTheSynth]

what's a "weight"?

[@DavidJCane]

The measure is a "hundredweight" (abbreviation "cwt"), so this was 2 cwt equal to 224 lbs or 101.6 kg.

[@mikeoxynormous3643]

Either this is AI or that man lost a finger

[@donniecatalano]

No gloves, damn they used to be tough back then. I feel like every generation is getting a little softer...

[@Super-BallSharp]

No, each generation is getting *smarter.* What is the downside of using gloves?

[@ezpz3784]

Asbestos hands!

[@georginashanti4605]

OHS nightmare....

[@francissantiago4110]

No gloves, I can see theres a hair in that candy

[@evegreen7604]

It’s not toffee

[@jerrywhitmarsh]

Pure sugar, pretty much ...

[@Hero101010]

Do you think they had an inkling of a suspicion their children would be replaced by pakistanis?

[@evegreen7604]

That why people have lost all these teeth 😅

[@JackSmith-kp2vs]

Ah well who cares about art anyway

[@kinetsievarvenfloot1237]

Rock is foul. 🤢

[@someoneelse.2252]

It's not amazing.

[@justinbetland9792]

?

[@someoneelse.2252]

@@justinbetland9792 : I was making fun of all the "it's amazing' crowd. I honestly enjoyed watching craftsmen at work.

[@ilovegot7754]

Lol these bots are ridiculous they ruin the comments

[@101Volts]

@@ilovegot7754 I saw 13 or more comments saying the same exact "it's amazing" thing, and all were upvoted over 400 times. Yeah, that only seems _normal_ of bots.

[@mohmdakel]

Disgusting

[@dannydougin3925]

*Ew!* No gloves! Gross!

[@pallavroy7215]

Copper use ❤❤❤

[@cask1]

Willy wonka-ess