Camping in the 1970s | Ross on Wye | Retro holidays | Wish you were here? | 1974

[@linarez90]

Growing up in the 70's was great. I don't get offended by most things, I got to see the Dukes of Hazard and the A-Team first time around, I learnt that life can be unfair and it owes me nothing and I got to go on those space hopper things!

[@knacka8796]

1974, yes i wish i was there

[@Monkey_Joe_Tokyo]

Lovely. As a local, I can say that not much has changed since this programme was aired.

[@edsanzo9131]

In general, peoples minds were much calmer back then.

[@annother3350]

Because we didn't know about the savilles and rose wests of the world

[@paulbaumer8210]

Nah. They were the smuttiest potty-minded lot ever. It was a true low point in UK culture with the 'Confessions' movies and every sitcom jam-packed with boring double-entendres and racist jokes.

[@annother3350]

@@paulbaumer8210 Nah, I actually think people have become too puritanical. You should check the comments on youtube under those 'mind your language' videos -- it's got a big Indian following -- They're not offended one bit

[@neilmadden505]

@Jerry Donohue In a sense we are already there with our virtue-signalling 'woke' culture. i.e. It is pure hypocrisy to pay attention to 'divisive' language while ignoring the poverty that actually creates the divisions. However, the 1970s smuttiness thing was purely a UK phenomenon. The puritanical Brits couldn't cope with the new permissiveness so they created a fig leaf of smut and double-entendres which permeated every aspect of popular culture at the time. It was really annoying.

[@neilmadden505]

@Jerry Donohue It wasn't the real 'left'. It was the neoliberals who pretend to be on the left. They yell about stuff the right wing establishment does not care about (LGBTQ issues, gender, racism etc) in order to distract people from real issues like poverty, health and education.

[@sallyhamlyn802]

That is just so lovely. I used to trek with Ray and the ponies. I spent most of my young life there whenever I could. Ray Smith was a wonderful man, he was very good to those horses and had a deep knowledge of the Black Mountains history an wildlife. He died in 1982 and over 300 hundred people attended his funeral. He was very special and this is a wonderful memory for me.

[@mozdickson]

Great comment, thanks.

[@Monkey_Joe_Tokyo]

Did you ever trek from Wilf Thomas’s Pegasus stables, Ian Jones in Llangenny or John Parsons in Abergavenny?

[@sallyhamlyn802]

@@Monkey_Joe_Tokyo No, but I remember Pegasus and then there was Trevor's Treks, but I only ever rode with Ray. I did go once to Phil leRent at The Newadd, but that was after Ray had died.

[@Monkey_Joe_Tokyo]

Sally Hamlyn sadly trekking isn’t as widespread as it once was, not surprisingly the insurance premiums and all other costs involved with keeping ponies have rocketed making it an expensive day out. I had a summer job taking the treks out for Ian in Llangenny, I loved the ponies and couldn’t believe I was being paid for a job I’d have happily done for free. Fun, simple times that I miss.

[@sallyhamlyn802]

@@Monkey_Joe_Tokyo We worked for Ray during the summer, I loved it so much, I often wish I had just moved down there and made it my life, but never did. I did however get to buy one of the ponies when they sold up and had him for 17 years. You can just see him at the back of the trek, chestnut with the white star. He was 6 then and died when he was 33. I still miss him, so it is lovely to be able to catch a glimpse of him there.

[@herbert9241]

A few holiday suggestions for the discerning millionaire there. The only holiday I ever had was being shipped off to Grandma and Grandad in Surrey for a fortnight. It was quite exotic, though: the tap water was so 'hard' (infused with limestone) it may as well have been mango juice; all-day breakfast; Grandma was a fellow gee-gee aficionado so afternoons watching the box with her were very rare and valued instances of adult interaction which didn't involve getting a bollocking; I could walk over the road and watch fackin enormous machines laying the foundations for the M25. To this day, Chertsey never fails to get a mention on travel reports. I did eventually get to see the Brecon Beacons and it is indeed beautiful.

[@aprilapril2]

Herbert what a lovely image there. What kind of house and telly did the g parents have? Where did you live? How did you travel to g parents ?

[@lizclegg7556]

That sounds so cool. You should write a memoir.

[@Merseysiderful]

A mini van with a roof rack and luggage which is rarely seen now probably because most cars are hatchbacks. Back in the 1970s my father used a roof rack on his Triumph Toledo driving the family to North Wales for holidays. We usually had to stop at least twice there and back due to the engine overheating.

[@jamieb0nd]

I went there on holiday with my school in 1979. One of the most beautiful places in England. We canude 7 miles down the river Severn. The most amazing forest I've ever seen is the forest of Dean. It has thousands of giant ant hills or nests and the ants are massive about a centimetre long and they bite ❤️👍

[@barryroach1980]

The interview with the Walters on the waters was amusing, poor Mr Walters needs a holiday from this holiday by the looks of it!

[@acidsunrise]

I do like a bit of Judith Chalmers

[@CiBi1968]

Blimey ! This took me back. I went to a PGL Holiday there in approx 1978. Absolutely fantastic.... Mum & Dad dropped me off with a bag of old clothes & I had the time of my life . Stayed for a week spent the first 4 nights in an old converted Manor house & the last few camping on the lawns. Did Archery ,Kayaking , Horse Riding, Orienteering , Fencing , Abseiling and more .... well worth the £40 they paid to get me out of their hair for a week.

[@jennytaylor3324]

The comment sections on these uploads are always so great to read. Thanks for your contribution.

[@HighHoeKermit]

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[@robertharris7526]

Same here 73/74 I think. Canoing/Ponytekking/Sailing and I remember the horror film Taste the Blood of Dracula. Loved my time there.

[@alanfaulkner6329]

How times have changed. For the worst. I miss Hereford.

[@pigknickers2975]

so depressing isn't it.... What a lovely world we used to have.....

[@jamieb0nd]

Sorry to say that Jamaican yardie gangsters are pushing heroine in Hereford these days

[@johnroberts7924]

Love the canals they are so pretty and peaceful.

[@sarjim4381]

Canal boating looks like a pleasant way to spend a holiday. Are there still boats there today? 1974 doesn't seem like that long ago to me until I start counting and realize it's almost 46 years now!

[@Keithbarber]

@Rain Dog I take it you had bad experiences?

[@terrytk9398]

Sar Jim seems like yesterday!😀

[@piccadilyroad66]

Yeah, Time flyes fast, then we just realized we were going into mature. How sweet and lovely our nostalgic old days.

[@jackwatsonepic626]

@Rain Dog and if you went on a foreign holiday you could have a bad experience there as well in fact you can have bad experiences anywhere you go especially at foreign airports

[@noka79]

Check out a channel called cruising the cut

[@tina5203]

There’s no way I would go in a canoe, but the scenery is so idyllic !!

[@moran68]

You should try kayaking on the sea a lot more stable .

[@pmacc3557]

ok we wont ask ya so

[@jamieb0nd]

I canoed 7 miles down the river Severn there. There was salmon jumping all around and king Fisher birds it was beautiful

[@YogZab]

Those boats are kayaks, nothing like canoes, I can't understand the mix-up in the program!

[@jamieb0nd]

@@YogZab we were definitely in canoes. 3 nearly all my team capsized except me 😝

[@nickname1812]

Met her in the 80s. Yes. Lovely 'excent' when she spoke.

[@maxflight777]

Shame she put on so much weight ! She would have been lovely as a slender older lady.

[@Greaseball68]

Oh this is all so terribly wholesome

[@bpapao]

The good old days

[@pigknickers2975]

Oh that was great! Bit Alan Partridge - "What a way" to have a good time! Really appreciate her 70s barnet - my auntie Pauline had that but the home brew version LOLOLOL

[@Tmuk2]

Lovely accent Judith Charmers has got, hardly ever hear it these days

[@iVenge]

Quite true. Nowadays they will let any slopmouthed chav get in front of a microphone, and make them a presenter.

[@EgoShredder]

It just occured to me that her voice is similar to Mariella Frostrup, and she even has a slight look of her too. They both share that Scandinavian look.

[@HighHoeKermit]

@@EgoShredder Mariella always sounded like Honor Blackman to me. Weird given that Ms Frostrup was born in Norway and moved to Ireland aged 6. And Judith came from Stockport so I'm not sure where her accent came from!

[@europa2000man]

Nowadays, everyone has to have this annoying type of accent, a cross between their native accent of English, Irish, Swedish, French etc, and American. Young women and teenage girls (and boys as well) are the worst for this type of accent. Judith Charmers has a proper English accent. I don't mind different types of accent from which ever part of the country you are from (Cockney, Brummie, Scous, Goordie, Manchunian, Glaswegin, etc) or an American accent from a person from America, but the nonsense they go on with now is a disgrace. Television presenters were so much better back then that what they are now, well spoken, better class, friendlier, informative, I could go on for ages

[@EgoShredder]

@@europa2000man I strongly agree with you!

[@madcarew.3256]

1976 Bracelands Campsite..Happy Daze!!!

[@Electrozonelectronic]

People looked healthy back then.

[@helenm2169]

i went to an activity centre at long town when i was at school in the 80s it was brilliant!! the last scene with judith on the boat, the 2 kids behind her look really fed up i wish i was there back in time

[@sheilamorrell6329]

I went to school at the Convent in Ross on Why when I was 4. The youngest pupil. I was spoilt wrotten. My brothers were at The Benedictine Abbey in Hereford. Beautiful area.

[@RockMonster1000]

I really enjoyed that thanks for the upload

[@mikmac220]

More of. ... Wish we were There

[@Electrozonelectronic]

These days were better, much better.

[@nigelcarren]

In two weeks time I am thinking of booking a holiday in the 1970s, but do you know if they have wi-fi back then please? Only I plan on being so self-absorbed with my phone and photographing my dinner from every conceivable angle I hope to negate the point of going away at all. I would also like to use the same smartphone to have my food delivered by moped providing I can be absolutely sure the rider has secretly just scraped it up off the road. Thank you in advance.

[@sanchoodell6789]

Good idea. My Delorean in for a service but I'm going to travel there in my Morris Marina (with a push button radio AM/FM/cassette player) Booked a nice caravan in the West Country and just survive on take away Fish'n'Chips and or a chinese or indian take away food. Just bring a battery operated radio and listen to Radio One. How's that.

[@nigelcarren]

@@sanchoodell6789 I am in and all in glorious Mono! I will be the guy 'cruising the campsite' in the shiny new red Talbot Rancho. If you can't see me then just listen out for my tappets! I hope I can get this thing back up to 88mph or I will be stuck here... Living off Vesta Curries and Site-Shop Shandy... which on balance doesn't actually seem too bad. 🇬🇧

[@jamesshore2987]

How about a carrier pigeon and a Polaroid camera? 😄

[@nigelcarren]

@@jamesshore2987 Why not... perhaps then there will be no need to oder a starter... Unless we all wanted to chip in for the Fondue?

[@johnshort5003]

25 quid for the whole week plus equipment. Those were the days.

[@woodyeckerslyke9676]

That's 240 quid for the week in today's equivalent when you take inflation into account. Easily a weeks wage for a working parent back then.

[@garyhooper2728]

I did that holiday in the 70’s for 5 days brilliant

[@janeokeeffe5297]

Aww happy days 👍

[@whufciironworkes]

I went there with my school back in 1975, haven't been back

[@Waxadisc]

They wouldnt allow that canoeing now to be so free these days. The amount of regulations and health and safety crap people have to endure these days, takes the fun out of half of it

[@pigknickers2975]

I think that's point ultimately. Fun is disallowed. Stuff we used to do in scouts but no one died. We used to have sense.

[@sharpgage6512]

health and safty dose sufficate living life in the moment. takes away a sence of freedom. like riding on the roof of a train in india compared to riding a train in a air conditoned locked in tube. which is more memorable and fun. more dangerouse too yep , but somthing of value is traded for safty

[@janemarett1885]

Perhaps the BBC should show these 1974 holiday venture videos. To show people what British life was like back then , compared to today . I don’t think anyone today would think their life is any better than it was then .

[@paulbanner9612]

Spend manys days with the gang at Bracelands camp site great days 😎😊😎

[@darthirae8270]

Those 2 kids at the end were passed off that their dad cheaped out on their holiday.

[@samoyedpuppy]

Watching this all these years later, it really plays out like a comedy show for me, very 'Alan Partridge' with a hint of 'The Fast Show' so funny 🤣

[@EdDueim]

I must admit, when I was 17 I had a bit of a thing for her.

[@briansparks8528]

EdDueim mmmmm interesting so did I

[@peterbalac1915]

She's a little Hottie let's make that a Hatrick.

[@fasthracing]

More holidays than Judith Chalmers

[@ozgekim010]

"... and folk of questionable ethics." 😂

[@veilbreak5867]

Was Judith Charmers ever a young person? She seems to have been forever middle aged

[@larrydavid6852]

she looks worth a jump in this clip tbh

[@johnmiller2290]

innocent days

[@rajnirvan3336]

Mrs Wish You Were Here Judith Charmers

[@user-lx6bl2wd8g]

I think I went there with my school in 77' Anyone else?

[@MrJustincredible1234]

Now known as Ross Vegas

[@KekeElBecko]

Judith Chalmers visited Ross to get sharpened up 😂

[@gtrrtlim7303]

Not a high viz anywhere.

[@MrThailik]

Isn’t it wonderful !

[@woodyeckerslyke9676]

What does Mr Walters get out of a holiday like this? He sleeps in the same room as his kids and wees in a bucket.

[@annother3350]

Bonding with his kids?! It's very important

[@lizclegg7556]

What does his wife get out of it? What do his kids get out of it? I don't think any of them are enjoying this trip.

[@lizclegg7556]

@@annother3350 This was the 1970s. Mr Walters was probably home from work by 5:00pm and didn't work weekends. He and his kids already had plenty of time to bond, more than any of them wanted.

[@Theocracy8]

So anyone been there lately? How's it now?

[@1985sport]

Hammond Denzel pretty much still do all those things if you wanted to

[@welshlad6427]

Ross has hardly changed since this video. Wonderful idyllic town near the border of Wales. Always love the view that you see in this video looking along the river wye with the town above. Looks exactly the same now.

[@HighHoeKermit]

Barely changed at all except for a one-way traffic system.

[@Monkey_Joe_Tokyo]

Nothing has really changed. You can still canoe, ride and go on boating holidays in Monmouthshire.

[@stewstube70]

heard the intro and thought it was Alan Partridge :)

[@buzzcrushtrendkill]

English people made England such an attractive nation, that others left their ethnic homelands to live in England.

[@derekc6445]

Because of that the UK became less pleasant.

[@lizclegg7556]

English people didn't have enough children so people from other countries were encouraged to immigrate here to prop up the economy.

[@AlexVegasUK]

@@derekc6445 Nonsense. The Ross area is the same now and you and still do all the same things.

[@scottishsoldier130]

i so wish they still did these kind of things as nowadays its all about money on holiday parks everything costs money and is not included in costs and its never peaceful as it was

[@EdDueim]

Oh, don't be Mr. Grumpy. Look in different places. I can recommend some in places in Northumberland or Western Scotland which won't drain your wallet. Obviously, not at the moment. But later.

[@scottishsoldier130]

@@EdDueim am not being mr grumpy at all mate i was just stating facts from my experiences in holiday parks such as haven etc that how everything on the park costs quite alot of money extra on top of what u have paid for the holiday thats all

[@EdDueim]

@@scottishsoldier130 I'm more cheap B&B myself, bit of camping back in the day. I once stayed in a forestry commission park in Yorkshire; basic wood cabins, that kinda rugged play stuff for the kids. Low cost and fun, but you just got a cabin and some swings. Much better value check in to somewhere in Northumberland or Scotland. You'll need a car, but it's wprth it. Also, these parks are mega-businesses. If they go broke in this crisis, screw 'em So many small towns who will wither without tourism. Pub, tea-room, gift shop, general store. Doesn't look like much but it's a dozen jobs in a small town. Seriously, mate. When this is over, come up noth. You'll love it.

[@MrDRUFC1]

Why don't you all finish you complaints about modern technology and foreigners, put down your foreign built smartphone, and drive to the countryside and have a lovely holiday instead of reminiscing like this doesn't exist anymore and everything is shit🤣 Enjoy your life people!

[@YogZab]

Thank you! Well said.

[@MsSteve70]

I don't want to be over judgemental... but, that canoe instructor looks a bit suspect, and the bloke with the cap probably has surpressed anger issues and owns a double barrel shotgun.

[@jennytaylor3324]

Ha! He reminded me of the house husband bloke from Motherland (BBC)

[@janeokeeffe5297]

🤣🤣🤣

[@thesmithsmaf]

How grim and unenlightened I remember those times to be, so much better now we have better lives

[@markphillips8785]

Just growed oh dear Judith you meant grown surely 😯

[@dominiquebrodoteau5135]

Even l was shocked to hear her say growed at 4:38. I looked it up, it is an acceptable form in some dialects of English.

[@annother3350]

It's old fashioned but it's like Burnt and burned. Learnt and learned

[@MarkPMus]

£25 is £277 today.

[@mrbetamax1969]

Like a carry on film lol

[@foxtrotkilomike]

That canoe capsize rig looks just too unsafe for modern standards

[@mozdickson]

Agreed, looked bloody dodgy

[@hugglescake]

I like her coiffure.

[@adminemails]

You’re so handsome. Let’s date x

[@hazelb7218]

£25 for the week....absolute bargain....but probably a lot of money to some people back then....i'd rather do more pony trekking than water sports though.....and great to see none of them wearing helmets ....wouldn't be allowed today lol

[@dazzlerbob1870]

Probably the value of the average weeks wage in 1974

[@hazelb7218]

I know my parents wouldn't have afforded it for sure back then...but it does sound sooo cheap now lol!! x

[@fuckfannyfiddlefart]

On the plus side with the canoes no animals are exploited. You can always trek with your own legs!

[@annother3350]

The ponys love walking. As long as you're not a fatty

[@rich_edwards79]

Beautiful part of the world not far from where I grew up. When I was a kid I read a book called the Weathermonger set in the area around Ross, the Black Mountains, etc., about an England that magically rejected all modern technology and went back in time to the Middle Ages, and remember thinking how if that happened, it wouldn't actually be much different, lol. Very slow pace of life that I can't imagine has changed much in hundreds of years. And yes, for those who care about such things, it's all still very white, middle-class, Tory-voting around there. You're very unlikely to meet an immigrant (unless a recent income from London swapping their 1-bed flat for a rambling B&B and pricing out all the locals counts). I found it all a bit too bucolic and now live in a big city where my neighbourhood is like the United Nations, Tories are nowhere to be seen, and I couldn't be happier.

[@jackwatsonepic626]

Why pay thousands of pounds to go on a foreign holiday when this country is better... you don't have no queues at the airport or foreign currency to exchange or a foreign language or buy water..... it's the buying the water what's my point .... in England it's free ....tap water that is you can drink you can't drink tap water in foreign countries can you that's what I'm talking about when I mentioned water to me it is common sense what I am talking about

[@AQUAFONIC]

Will Richards hahahahaha always one 😂🤣😂

[@jackwatsonepic626]

@Will Richards we live in England so we are used to a bit of rain ..but if you hit it right this country can be just as good wether wise than foreign countries no tidal waves or hurricanes E.C.T and you haven't paid thousands to go... to be disappointed .

[@MrDRUFC1]

I got two weeks in Morocco 400 quid, sunbathing in January whilst it pissed it down here. Airport ques were non existent as it was off season. You don't have to be fluent in a foreign language to order water either you just say "water" and they bring it you. You can keep your rainy camping trip lol

[@jackwatsonepic626]

@@MrDRUFC1 I am talking about a family of four not a single guy

[@bid84]

MrDRUFC1 “Water Please” is also understood i believe.

[@stephengreen6338]

oh matter and patter , have gone orf again, rather

[@trevorrandom]

Little Britain

[@annother3350]

It's great

[@Monkey_Joe_Tokyo]

Better Britain.

[@nickwalter9630]

Growd? Really Judith.

[@YogZab]

The kayaks were called canoes here - most peculiar and confusing. The differences between kayaking and canoeing seem quite obvious but should have been completely obvious to a TV presenter to avoid that huge blunder! Odd.

[@sharpgage6512]

very diffrent times. its really starting to show now. a mum and dad thats not plastered in tattoos for a start, all the blokes now are on steriods with shaved heads so are are the woman. that barn with the bat in it would be closed of and the owner would be getting fined by the bat protection league for not perserving it. camp site is proberly 25 pound a night now or its been banned years ago due to noise and winging nimbys. couldnt mension that a pub is an attraction now cuase its premoting brooze. theres proberly a prtest going on there right now over someone 300 years ago having something to do with selling opium to china. theres proberly less police there now then befor there was a police force, place is full of london yuppys too, locals cant aford t live there, the hopuse trekking proberly been long since banned too. or thay got sued cuase someone fell off. or animal crulity people saw it off.

[@garyfinn8772]

What no ethnics book me in

[@YogZab]

Really? You're saying that in 2020? How do I get booked into a place with no bigots, I wonder...

[@newbeginnings8566]

It's extra for the 1970s polyester clothes... £25 for a week, activities, board and lodgings... Mmmm I'll have to speak to the bank manager before splashing out that sort of money...

[@mpwheatley]

Christ there are a lot of racists leaving their comments on here. Fremantle should block them.

[@annother3350]

No, it's free speech. If we go down that path Fremantle would have to pay someone to regulate the comments of every KZbin arsehole and distinguish irony, sarcasm and jokes from real racism. No. Either debate them or ignore them

[@chucky2316]

Don't read it then. And a lot of those comments are the truth. Go and knit some yoghurt snowflake