Rare footage of countryside life in Iwerne Minster, Dorset.

[@freespirit8508]

What a beautiful film. How my great granparents would have lived at that time

[@tiger100ss3]

Alas our beautiful countryside will ever be the same again!

[@bobroberts6155]

What I find heartbreaking is those children toddling into school not knowing their lives will be blighted by the horrors of WW2. Don’t take life for granted, no one knows what the future holds.

[@stevenhibbitt6380]

When you could have pride in your country! I look at what's happened and weep. 😢

[@andrewst9797]

Hard times and still so much dignity and beauty. People and animals alike knew where they belonged.

[@johncraske]

They knew where they belonged? What does that mean? Explain please.

[@bonniebluebell5940]

Hard times and yet, England was England then. Two world wars destroyed its empire. Now, it is about to destroy itself.

[@trysam]

​@johncraske Where you from originally? Are you musi

[@johncraske]

@@trysam I am puzzled as to the relevance of where I am from. But, as you've asked, I'm originally from Scotland. As to me being 'musi', I'd answer it if I knew what musi meant.

[@andrewst9797]

@@johncraske All animals have a very strong 'feeling and need of belonging' - both for their habitat, range or farm as well as socially, to each other. Many animals and most humans nowadays are rather confused about their place in the natural world as well as our cultural surroundings. Birds of a feather sadly can no longer stick together. Any old countryman/farmer (like me) would understand!

[@rockyrowlands3652]

What has happened to our country since then ?😢

[@trysam]

Musi took over leftist do nation replacement advising them with obortion and blocking them having kids go parties and drink, drugs change boy friends they did all their best to shatter their society and end their race europe sadly this time is gone for ever even its history musi will demolish or burn they are hood at this france is a good example

[@nicholasr82]

We got an enemy against us that hates us in Parliament.

[@felixfedre518]

WindRush?

[@MarkAdams-os8is]

Old England -sadly gone under a tsunami of immigration and wokeness

[@nicholasr82]

We can stop it. They have a locust mindset. They move from ripe fields to ripe fields causing devastating outcomes. Where the literal locust is psychologically driven by crops, these imitators of locust are driven by economics. So this is what we can do.we must not gove a penny not in their shops, takeaways or barbers. They will swarm on else where. You see the government knows that these won't go to work. So why are they brining them here? There is the theory that they want to water us down which I don't doubt, the evidence is before you. But the government are going to overhaul the benefits system forcing people into very low paid jobs. Those already in minimum paid work will get less all to reduce the inflation they will say. They know that most people will say no so they have the migrants there ready to do it or they get no money. We have to stop this now before it happens. Don't give a penny.

[@timstradling7764]

I spent 5 mostly happy years at Clayesmore in the 60s, and recognise many of the scenes shown. Strange thinking now that my time there was approximately equal time from 1918 and to the present. Happy Days.

[@richardgill9484]

Looking back at the Census it seems that since 1860 the population of the village has been around 900 and still is. However, this delightful film shows what a village is and how it functions best. A far cry from today. For us, on the other side of two World Wars and a gulf of years, such scenes have a simple charm and a sad remoteness.

[@skadiwarrior2053]

Fascinating thanks for taking the trouble.

[@williamkosh3672]

Paradise almost lost. Oh to go back!!!!

[@deja-view1017]

Makes me so nostalgic (my ancestors came from Dorset & Hampshire). The sheep market reminds of a time when I was young I asked the shepherd what he was doing that day, his reply 'I'm taking the lambs from their mams and splittin' the rams from the dams' (to be said in a strong local accent!) - it stuck in my head for over 50yrs.

[@NutritionalHealthService]

Beautiful Thank you

[@milorudge5110]

A very white balcony! 🤗

[@nickevett4707]

Thank you for the video 👍

[@markpattinson4627]

...and we wonder why we should stop the boats. This is the reason.

[@adagietto2523]

I know this village well, wondeful film.

[@merlin5476]

Some people nowadays say that they would hate to live in the " olden" days or even the 1970's!! Yes we didnt have the medicine's or understandings of health that we have nowadays, but i think you had more respect for each other & you certainly appreciated food & belongings far more & I'd assume that there was a lot less stress.

[@prof.heinous191]

Wonderful mix of pictures and words, most definitely one for the archives, and no doubt there's a good reason for the crash ending!

[@captainatrixo6217]

Goddard and his pigs crashed into the camera and destroyed it.

[@john-k6k6w]

Absolutely Brilliant Peace be With You 😷😅

[@colinbrigham8253]

Thank you 😊

[@phubblewubbphubblewubb]

It's 2024, and yes the traffic has increased between Shaftesbury and Blandford, the War memorial still stands quietly on the side of the road, it reads 'Is it nothing to you, all thee who pass by.'

[@hoogara]

Found the village on google maps it is still a lovely looking village.

[@rodclyde6215]

Hard times worrying about the men away fighting.Imagine the relief when the war was finaly over.

[@trysam]

Musi took over leftist do nation replacement advising them with obortion and blocking them having kids go parties and drink, drugs change boy friends they did all their best to shatter their society and end their race europe sadly this time is gone for ever even its history musi will demolish or burn they are hood at this france is a good example

[@ernestberry-songsrestored5637]

Grace Bartlett must have been one of my ancestors. My grandfather was a farmer Bartlett from Wimborne 😢

[@jimthorne304]

Hey, I have a distant relative called Bartlett, he ran a watercress plantation near Wool!

[@ernestberry-songsrestored5637]

Sure to be related

[@jamiecooper5543]

Hmmm I think my great grandfather said my greatuncle slept with her

[@trysam]

​@@jamiecooper5543 Musi will do u too 😂

[@spudspuddy]

I remember maypole dancing at school in the 60s even then life was lovely in England, all ruined now by immigration

[@alanhaynes418]

We are having our history and culture systematically destroyed or re-written by the Woke Establishment - and if we raise our voices in defense we are branded as racists.

[@trysam]

Musi took over leftist do nation replacement advising them with obortion and blocking them having kids go parties and drink, drugs change boy friends they did all their best to shatter their society and end their race europe sadly this time is gone for ever even its history musi will demolish or burn they are hood at this france is a good example

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

Again.. how did immigrants stop maypole dancing 😂

[@spudspuddy]

@@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts why did you come here?

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

@@spudspuddy I came to see footage of my local area?

[@colnuttall9035]

I love the comment that Maypole Dancing promote intellect, agility quickness and intellect. Mrs Spencer sounds like she’s really cracking the whip there! A One Act Play: ‘From the mind of an idiot.’ So laddy, you want to fly a Spitfire do you ? Yes, Sir. I dun Maypole Dancin’ an’ everyfink! Well Laddy you’ll fit right in here then. Don’t be bothering them folk up at Bletchley Park but. They only like people wot’s good at crosswords. No Sir, I ain’t never ‘ad a cross word wiv nobody ! I don’t like violence Right sonny, sign here then ! That’s your Spitfire on the left. Just a thought boyo, what do you think about Lancasters ? No, I ain’t never been up North before. Why does ye arks? Bomber Harris …. yer tea’s ready ! The sound of The Luftwaffe circling overhead. Bombs falling with that decisive whistle.

[@giacogiaco5540]

No phones no TVs no Radio No Internet...I remember those days...

[@alandavies3727]

Me too.how I wish I could go back. I hate this country now, it’s been totally ruined by politicians and judges.

[@nicholasr82]

Not one migrant. What a wonderful country we had.

[@felixfedre518]

Yes, you only have to see these old films to realise how they were not "always here" as media likes to tell us.

[@PurpleWhirple]

Yes, Iwerne MInster is just overrun with foreigners and immigrants these days.

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

Ignorant rubbish. Honestly I despair. We have always been a seafaring nation and Dorset has a large and famous coastline. Portland stone is found in all the corners of the world... and sailors came here too. The myth of all the people never leaving the village they were born in really needs to be buried. It's commented on because it was an oddity then as it would be now. People travelled. They came here like we went there. This was the height of the British empire, soldiers and sailors came here as did wives and tradesmen. Read a few history books..

[@andrewgoodbody2121]

It amazes me that England went and took over everyone else's countries and gets pissed off when a few follow them home, it was foreign peoples wealth that built yiur damn small cold island

[@nicholasr82]

@@andrewgoodbody2121 we didn't we civilised them and stopped them killing eachother

[@jimthorne304]

My grandfather might have been among those workers; he was an itinerant agricultural worker in WW1, (apparently agricultural workers were exempt from military service).

[@delta7155]

Pity about the soppy music; it drowns out some of the narration!

[@goodbarbenie5477]

I lived there for 6years how neat is that. Some local yocals would say.. Dawhzet as against Dorset...Hahaa. Besides they them locals made the Best Apple Cider in the World... LuvU guys and Gals... Hahaa Greetings from S. A...

[@unclescipio3136]

8:33 This guy did not mess around when he decided to grow a beard. No half-measures.

[@riceyo62]

The schools should bring back maypole dancing.. "to develop agility, quickness and intellect " still true today..

[@sarahstrong7174]

Some schools still do maypole dancing.

[@georgegrimes2453]

born in Poole 1942 still a dorset boy in the fens now

[@eddiegould6091]

When children kept Their innocents

[@michaelking8642]

I often wonder how many young men would have gone if they had known they had already been stripped of all their rights ?

[@jenniferkyte1327]

I remember maypole dancing in the 90s in Iwerne Minster (where I grew up) and at school in Fontmell Magna. Even then life was lovely in England, all ruined now by bigots.

[@trollmeistergeneral3467]

1890s or 1990s?

[@rockyrowlands3652]

And immigration 😢

[@trysam]

​@@rockyrowlands3652 Musi took over leftist do nation replacement advising them with obortion and blocking them having kids go parties and drink, drugs change boy friends they did all their best to shatter their society and end their race europe sadly this time is gone for ever even its history musi will demolish or burn they are hood at this france is a good example

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

How did immigrants stop maypole dancing???

[@rockyrowlands3652]

@@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts good question and they probably did not, but we live in a woke society now and we cancel many things for the sake of people that may be offended like celebrating Easter, Christmas and now I hear Disney has cancelled the seven dwarfs in a new movie that will come out later and probably flop. Maybe cancelling the 7 dwarfs had nothing to do with immigration, but some may get the point I’m trying to make.

[@gillianhowell7562]

I really enjoyed the film but the music is intrusive. Balance of sound is incorrect.

[@michealhand1001]

What would those people in this ,think of England today.

[@davidthomson692]

They would probably commit mass suicide

[@nicholasr82]

Turning in their Graves but it's our fault for allowing these none government leaders who think they are our government to do this to us without millions of us going to the streets.

[@trysam]

😢

[@felixfedre518]

They would think they were looking at a foreign country.

[@carolinependleton8445]

They would be horrified

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

Apart from tractors ect doing the work of horses, life in small rural villages hasn't changed that much from those 100+ years ago.

[@trollmeistergeneral3467]

Absolute rubbish. Absolute tosh. You couldn’t be more wrong if you tried. “Life in small rural villages” has changed exponentially in the last 100 years. I have sat here reading, and re-reading, your comment for literally the last 30 mins. I truly cannot believe that in all seriousness you wrote that comment. Can I, with the greatest respect, enquire where you have been living for the last few weeks / months / years? Because it certainly has NOT been on the same planet on which I have been housed, that’s for sure. One last thing. Please, PLEASE, go and get the medical (psychiatric) help which your post tells me that you urgently require.

[@freebornjohn2687]

Apart from: the villages are full of retired people from outside of the area, schools are closing and you are lucky to find a pub or local shop. And lastly, they are full of cars.

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

@@freebornjohn2687 In my village we have two pubs next door to each other, separated by a river, strange I know. We also have a village store open 7 days a week.

[@freebornjohn2687]

@@trytellingthetruth.2068 I very pleased to hear you have a functioning village, you didn't mention a school. Do you have a balanced population or is it skewed to the old? Pretty villages attract the retired rich who can afford to go to the pub.

[@stephenlever419]

This film could be colorised ,, would be amazing

[@davidthomson692]

This film could be authentic in black and white

[@tyrantwitness2482]

What did the news papers have on the front pages? Coming soon! Covid1918!

[@bartonseagrave9605]

So did the Mayor and his Councillors take this pastoral ditty to the Front to show Tommy that all was well back home and country folk had it real cushy compared to those awful townies.

[@rodjones117]

"Iwerne" is pronounced "Eye-wurn" or "Yorn", not how the presenter pronounces it.

[@bicaroyoda4686]

Life looked idyllic. Too bad wars etc messed it up.

[@robnewman6101]

King Edward the VII. Victoria's Son.

[@brianbanks703]

ahh before schoolchildren were anti-educated to merely move and pretend it is dance without anything above the neck, thus requiring them to photo what they are eating and drinking.. Progress

[@johncourtneidge]

Hmmm . . . Tolpuddle Martyrs.

[@eddiegould6091]

Not a migrant in sight

[@andrewst9797]

Just some lucky Germans

[@jeanwood6392]

When England was England , sigh !!!

[@alanhaynes418]

How much longer will we be able to view such revealing films I wonder.

[@rockyrowlands3652]

Or anyone declaring themselves to be a cat or other such nonsense

[@kenrunciman8706]

I suppose that's why we had two world wars-so we could get the riff riff out of the countryside, and let the Tories have it all to themselves....

[@Lazydaisy646]

That's all you've got to say? Pft.

[@deepdiver51]

Because we don’t want you poor people making the place look untidy….and it’s riff raff, not riff riff.

[@trysam]

​@@deepdiver51 Don't worry musi will skew ... up will take care of u 😂 they are here boy 🎉😅

[@AA-69]

And the PROPAGANDAS STILL GOING STRONG ..😏

[@honkytonk4465]

Ai enhancement would be nice

[@davidthomson692]

Too much of today is artificial Let’s keep it real. Not spoil it

[@Tawny6702]

⁠@@davidthomson692it wouldn’t be artificial, adding the colour would actually make it more real, the rest is just cleaning up the clarity of the film. Some of the enhancements I’ve seen are brilliant.

[@trollmeistergeneral3467]

Whilst I accept that some of the men shown in this film might have been men who had served in the Armed Forces, and sustained injuries requiring them to be discharged as medically unfit, many look to be of military age. So why aren’t they fighting in France? Some of those young men could have lied about their age and enlisted. They should have fought in France.

[@davidhookway514]

If a great number of men on both sides of the conflict could see us today they wouldn't have bothered.

[@bigglesharrumpher4139]

Britain still needed large numbers of rural labourers and factory workers to maintain the country.

[@trollmeistergeneral3467]

@@bigglesharrumpher4139 Women could have done that work. The Army needed more and more men and I’m of the view that some of those men shown were loafers and shirkers. Why wasn’t that teacher in France? I don’t care how old he is. Why weren’t most of those men at the “livestock fair” in uniform? As I said, some of them might have been men who had served but who had been discharged for some reason. Some might have been men on leave. But many were shirkers, in my view. Where were the women who distributed white feathers when you need them?

[@bigglesharrumpher4139]

@@trollmeistergeneral3467 From wikipedia - 25% of the UK male population were mobilised. "The available pool was diminished by roughly 1.5 million men who were "starred": kept in essential occupations. Almost 40 percent of the men who volunteered were rejected for medical reasons. Malnutrition was widespread in U.K. society; working class 15‑year‑olds had an average height of only 5 feet 2 inches (157 cm) while the upper class was 5 feet 6 inches (168 cm)." - so thats why.

[@robwilde855]

@@bigglesharrumpher4139 Don't bother replying to such idiots.