The Friendly Inn (1958)

[@happy_camper]

There's a heartbreaking beauty to this. In years past, I would've scoffed at the typical film narration of the time.. But it struck a chord with me just now, and the ending left me teary-eyed. This is a Britain that doesn't exist anymore. We must hold onto whatever remains of it. God save the pubs.

[@nonegone7170]

We may have gone too far with 'modernism'...

[@davesaunders3334]

You’ve now got Wetherspoons selling cheap frozen food and fizzy lager. Enjoy.

[@trollinrollinrollin]

I've always dreamed of going to Britain my lineage is all from great Britain and Ireland it saddens me to hear that THIS culture is dying because I've always loved it and thought it beautiful from British tea culture to hunting and game shoots to bespoke tweed suits it an amazing culture and hope I get to see it one day before THIS BRITAIN disappears

[@johncarlisle6865]

​@@davesaunders3334hi if you're still alive. they're far from ideal, but I've had several decent pints of real ale in various spoons pubs

[@suerobinson-tye]

What a nostalgic find. I lived in the Punch Bowl in Lanreath. The Atkinsons were very kind to me, Bill taught me to sail in his little dingy. I recognise several of the darts players, the darts team had a great reputation in those days. I still have several of the plates as seen on the dinner table.

[@KingWhiskers1]

My parents and I ran the Punch Bowl from November 1967 to June/July 1986. We were the last successful publicans to run it. The people we sold it to drank it away and it became derelict. It is now in the process of refurbishment.

[@mariolopez-oi2td]

Wonderful memory. You're very lucky!

[@chunkygroove9038]

Utterly charming little documentary. I just hope there are still a few of these beautiful places around in years to come.

[@pablozewoppa]

'For in Britain the inns are as fascinating and varied as the highways and byways that lead to them' - what a beautiful line. 'And may you come to know [the inn] not as a stranger, but as a friend.' This is the world my grandparents knew, albeit rendered here in a somewhat sunny way.

[@mrdeafa25]

Here we are in 2020, saying goodbye to our pubs forever.

[@sethaldarith6778]

What's happening over there, George? Asking from Canada. Pandemic closures?

[@mrdeafa25]

@@sethaldarith6778 All the pubs and restaurants have been closed for lockdown for the second time. Many of them will never open again.

[@chrisfryer3118]

Its the first time in 50 years I haven't been to a pub in the last 4 weeks. Covid (&supermarkets) have killed pub culture. When my local changed hands (shut), it felt like a relative had died.

[@StacyL.]

@@mrdeafa25 Yes. Sadly the deaths of small business and the pubs are the majority of the casualties of this bloody virus that has a 99.4% survival rate!

[@sirparzival9372]

They will probably get replaced with Afro-Muslim shops.

[@davidmann8254]

Utterly enchanting. Is there anywhere that is like this still? Sigh.

[@chrisfryer3118]

yeah right

[@davidmann8254]

@@chrisfryer3118 it’s sad, isn’t it?

[@daveyr5462]

Sadly no, you can't even find a good carvery now let alone atmosphere and local beer, you're better off getting a pie from a vending machine (said vending machine proves better company too). The proper British pub has been killed off by chains and for that we are all poorer

[@majidskinnerkhan6960]

@@johnnyaction750 🤣🤣🤣

[@CA-ee1et]

Mr Wetherspoon's welcoming hostelries?

[@elrjames7799]

Good food / drink in pleasant surroundings and everyone properly washed and dressed.

[@bobtim1008]

Sounds too good to be true now a days

[@elrjames7799]

@@bobtim1008 Yes: heading toward the lowest common denominator, quite often.

[@aaarrrggghhhh]

Not an Adidas hoodie in sight. It reminded me of when Vivienne Westwood said we are the worst dressed generation ever now. Even when people didn't have much they wore suits, not adverts for clothing companies.

[@I_stand_with_Israel.]

10:37 The Old George Hotel in Salisbury is now part of a shopping mall. The ground floor was removed and a steel frame inserted in 1967, a mere 299 years after Samuel Pepys had stayed there. 😢

[@Mattriver7]

Outstandingly beautiful! Sentimental and romantic but rather nice.

[@zaruszin7249]

i’m liking this old era more then modern

[@sky.the.infinite]

*than

[@zaruszin7249]

@@sky.the.infinite english not my main just trying to write so more people can understand

[@u.s.militia7682]

We have an old inn like this in Abingdon Virginia. It’s simply called The Tavern. I believe it was built in the 1770’s. They have great German food and beer there. Prices are great too.

[@bertroost1675]

Is it very popular or is it kind of out of the way and not crowded?

[@u.s.militia7682]

@@bertroost1675 it’s on the main street through town and is very popular. I used to be stationed in Kaiserslautern Germany in the early 2000’s and when I walked in it reminded me of being in Germany again. Prices aren’t too bad. You can get 2 meals at $100 or less and the food is great.

[@bertroost1675]

@@u.s.militia7682 Sounds comfortable

[@BushGold]

Splendid........

[@MsCaleb79]

Good old days, how could everything go so wrong? ? ?

[@godfrey_of_america]

Because of people with names like Moshe Finkelstein

[@harrynewiss4630]

How utterly charming

[@19661945]

Not a mobile in sight...

[@optimisticfuture6808]

I’m from the USA and really enjoy frequent travel to UK where we rent a car and enjoy the countryside. Off subject somewhat but so many persons there seem to enjoy apologizing for their country. To me quite ridiculous, sure as with every country wrongs were done, but most places in the world with any sense of order were colonized by GB. Imagine how much grief and hardship that has saved. Who is thanking GB for what they have done for the betterment of mankind?

[@davesaunders3334]

Nobody ever thanked the USA for building upon the British business model of enslaving the inhabitants of the places they colonised and selling them as livestock either. I’m sure the 20 million Africans they kidnapped, chained up and forced into a life of back-breaking indentured slavery would love the opportunity to thank us and you for allowing them to become stakeholders in the cotton and tobacco industries. Well, the ones who survived, anyway, as it is estimated that 5 million of them didn’t make the journey across the Atlantic due to sickness and disease and were thrown overboard, alive or dead. Still it turned out ok in the end didn’t it? A handful of families of European descent made enough money to ensure their families remain wealthy and powerful for centuries and the descendants of the people they enslaved are grateful for the opportunity to live as second-class citizens in the nations their ancestors helped build, sometimes at the end of a whip.

[@erinc.1610]

Lol when I was in London for a visit an old cab driver called me a "bloody colonialist" 🤣

[@davesaunders3334]

@@erinc.1610 - Why?

[@erinc.1610]

@@davesaunders3334 I don't really know lol... I was a young American girl trying to find Abby Rd (I am a huge Beatles fan) and I didn't have a clue how to get there...perhaps he didn't really want to make the drive? Lol I tipped him well all the same. It's a funny memory that has always stayed with me.

[@davesaunders3334]

@@erinc.1610 - London cabbies are a funny lot. What year was this?

[@mitchellmcdowell8546]

Wonderful!

[@fuzzylightning]

This guy is a total badass.

[@paulallison2412]

Michael Dennison - famous British actor of the day. Married to actress Dulcie Gray, theirs lasted without scandal. Rare in celeb-land especially these days. Pure class!

[@postscript67]

I just Googled the Old George Inn, Salisbury and found that it is now a shopping mall.

[@johnbockelie3899]

A shopping mall? . Well some one sold out. The remains of King Richard 3rd ( " A horse, my Kingdom for a horse".) was found a few years ago in England way under a modern parking lot. So, don't surprise me that that inn is now a shopping mall.

[@TarmanTheChampion]

its still there... it was just renamed to old george shopping mall

[@peezebeuponyou3774]

@@TarmanTheChampion So what is it- a mall or an inn?

[@TarmanTheChampion]

@@peezebeuponyou3774 its still the inn because it's on the second story, there's just an arcade on the first floor now, so if you want that old time experience with modern day arcade breaks it's the place for you LOL

[@peezebeuponyou3774]

@@TarmanTheChampion Fucking scandalous. We wonder why society's gone down the plughole.

[@StacyL.]

Brilliant documentary of my heritage in the Campbell Clan. My hair literally stood up on end when I seen the castle where once my ancestors I've lived! To see the tartan of the Campbells, makes me well up with such pride!

[@sky.the.infinite]

Wow! How deep ~

[@patrickrose1221]

Snuggly lovely !

[@vjab1108]

The UK at its best, it has declined so much since these times.

[@philyaboots1]

Cheers..!!

[@paulusher3560]

The queen hits a mean bullseye 🎯

[@samaraisnt]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one to notice!! hah it's uncanny, like staring at money!

[@RichardWinder-l9z]

The lady carrying in the hot dish to the table is Margot Bryant Minnie Caldwell from Coronation Street What a lovely film

[@stephenarnold5981]

Michael Denison, star of many 1940's films, now only a ghost in a land he showed, that is now only a ghost, and now betrayed !

[@snowdog9954]

The George Inn has such history, it should be a tourist attraction in itself. It is now the entrance to a shopping mall

[@secretsquirrel6718]

Missed anything like this on my brief buisness trip to London....

[@lemfarba4827]

London is no longer England.

[@DDandrums]

Those darts players were quite something.

[@KingWhiskers1]

The Champion was my Father in Law. Sadly passed away from throat cancer many years ago. He was actually a Cornwall County Champion for quite a few years.

[@kingofkroon]

I really need to get a cravat.

[@mrdeafa25]

The Lugger at Porthole is still there. Sadly it is a generic, sterile version of what we see here. No character at all.

[@MOOSEDOWNUNDER]

Britain, what have we done. I know this is a propaganda bit but still, what a bloody shame.

[@Surreptitious_1]

Many, many things have contributed to our demise, but Blair stabbed us mortally. He and all the leaders who have followed are traitorous criminals.

[@spiffinz]

How is it propaganda you clown lmao

[@jamesdeluca6657]

What's propaganda??

[@mhockey23]

I didn't know you weren't aiming for the bullseye🤷‍♂️

[@corey46]

Triple 17-20 will bring you more points than scoring a bullseye

[@peezebeuponyou3774]

@@corey46 Why did he go for doubles and not trebles? Strange that.

[@bretttempleman5373]

Shamefully half of them are probably McDonalds

[@paulallison2412]

Thankfully they are all still in business. Perhaps lost some of the character and charm etc - but then again, so I suspect have the visitors.

[@samaraisnt]

4:50 absolute dead ringer for the queen. Never seen anyone actually look like her...wow.

[@sky.the.infinite]

That’s what _I thought!_

[@derekthompson6992]

9:10 Looks like scones homemade jam and *Window Cake?* at the back

[@stephenarnold5981]

You mean Battenberg Cake

[@srl6018]

Beautiful women 7:13 and 7:54. Fabulous horse and hay cart 11:56. Even the car 12:20 was splendid. Chrome bumpers and whitewall tyres. I like to think I might be dreaming and soon I'll wake up and it will be like this again.

[@samuelclaessens7699]

7:54 is a queen!

[@ReasonAboveEverything]

"In such a setting the atmosphere is bound to be gay" I swear to god my lungs collapsed.

[@kingofkroon]

Mine when he said it's better to be punted.

[@davesaunders3334]

You definitely need to get out more.

[@ReasonAboveEverything]

@@davesaunders3334 I already do. It's just funny how language changes.

[@davesaunders3334]

@@ReasonAboveEverything - But not so funny your lungs collapsed. Mildly amusing, if that. Do you feel anxious when you see two men holding hands?

[@adam_p99]

The fact is now a shopping mall is a disgrace. However treble 20 is more than double 20

[@dandean2345]

I want cake! And your finest wines!

[@leebritnell2405]

Alright here?

nice

[@jonstclair3290]

You were warned in 1976, "no future in england's dreaming"

[@bazandjamie]

1.18 ....is that MINNIE CAULDWELL ?

[@davidbarnes241]

The importance of being Earnest😢

[@whoknows2054]

That one lady at the head of the table in the 4:35 min. Got the biggest nose I"ve ever seen.

[@solo_indiana6979]

For such a beautiful video, I don't think that specific thought of yours needed to be typed out here...

[@whoknows2054]

@@solo_indiana6979 snowflake

[@mihaelazlate4729]

Wonder how ordinary ppl lived not rich ones

[@gestapo81]

i don't get it...where is the shawrma?

[@RetroSega]

Why didn't he talk about the wifi in those rooms? That's what I wanted to hear about, not about swans and elegance!

[@justincase4812]

Buhfo the Bee uhhls. That's how a Man-cue-nee-an would say it no?

[@hollywoodundead72]

life before cocaine infected the system

[@frank6842]

Uhhhh, you could buy coke over the counter a few years before this was filmed.....

[@hollywoodundead72]

@@frank6842 🤣

[@maxiejohnson8356]

@@frank6842 the Good old days when we can get Meth for coughing.

[@josemonte4083]

I imagine now is saggy pants and hip hop music..

[@frank6842]

You know this shit was propaganda right?

[@davesaunders3334]

You dislike Black people.

[@jec1ny]

God I hate the modern world.

[@johnhall4146]

Utter tripe. 1950s Britain was NOTHING like this, except perhaps for a tiny fraction of the population, and in the minds of travel film producers.

[@davesaunders3334]

Too many people regard nonsense like this as documentary. Same people waving their little Union Jacks to make the nasty virus go away.

[@britbyname3620]

Utter tripe to you … Yes it was ..

[@wayinfront1]

@@britbyname3620 Indeed it was. I was there.

[@MarioGon-y5r]

Fajny film

[@ale942009]

Britain...what happened?

[@spiffinz]

Coudenhove-kalergi plan