Transport films from the 1950's

My how things have changed

[@mrnobody1067]

I had 2 grandfather's and 6 uncles fight for my freedom and my lovely country AND I'M NEVER GIVING HER UP ! Great film thanks 👍❤🇬🇧

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

👍 Mr Nobody you are someone 🙏 God bless you sonny. 🙏 England needs you 🙏

[@johno4521]

Mostly flat bed lorries in those days - the forgotten joy of roping and sheeting; a skill in itself.

[@alestout5632]

Roping &sheeting yes I did do a bit of that not pleasant in a strong wind and when that was done you had a crash gear box and no power steering

[@radiosnail]

I can remember courses for that being advertised in he back of Commercial Motor back in the late 80s

[@georgerenton965]

Dad did that back in the day. He hauled a lot of fresh fish into the markets like Hull, and Grimsby from various ports in Scotland depending on where the trawlers where landing. It was an interesting life for a young school boy. I’d help him fold the tarps while he shouted about how useless I was. I loved every minute of it. The fish would be packed in big reusable wooden boxes with crushed ice, covered with tarps, and an all night drive from places like Ardrossan. I’d watch him work his magic with the ropes, everything would be nice and tidy. With fresh fish, the ropes would get wet, and the hemp would get into your skin. Buy the end of the summer I’d have working man’s hands, and a cornucopia of swear words that would make me popular among the lads in the playground. Hey ! How are you going to learn good behaviour if you can’t measure it up against some bad behaviour. Comes down to how far the needle swings. I’m 71 now, we left Scotland in 65, just before the fishing industry collapsed, I’ve been a truck driver the majority of my working life, still doing it part time, but closer to home. Most drivers these days don’t know what a hard days work is. Or know how to drive a truck for that matter.

[@gegwen7440]

On lorries that were so gutless they would pass out at the site of a hill & praised by so many “dim witted drivers” who would always sprout that they never go wrong. Indeed they did as there was nothing much to go wrong as they were so basic.

[@georgerenton965]

@@gegwen7440 how much power did they need to roll along at the speed limit of 30 mph over roads and bridges built by the Romans. Vacuum brakes, and mechanical levers. There was the fleet owners who counted every penny they consumed, who where still lamented giving up on horses. Dad started out working for a man who had 150 draft horses, wouldn’t pay to use antifreeze, they had to drain the radiator and engine block every night.

[@48billy0]

Those men running alongside the railway wagons must have been extremely fit. The Dover/Calais ferry would be too busy dodging dinghies these days.

[@unconventionalideas5683]

They would just stow away on the ferry instead.

I wonder what their job title was?

[@mh53j]

Why would you want to dodge them?

[@jfboomerang1310]

My guess is Runners but since they appeared to break and slow the cars, Running Brakeman. lol

[@itadrummer1]

@@mh53j 🤣🤣🤣👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@kenstevens5065]

If this film doesn't prove how wrong the Politicians have been creating a service industry economy with little manufacturing I don't know what will. The trouble is it will be the working people who trusted Politicians who will suffer the most.

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

I'm sure you wouldn't mind paying double or triple prices for everyday commodities, but I would. We buy from overseas to take advantage of their cheap labour, we don't have cheap labour. So how do you want it?

[@johnross2924]

You trust the politicians!

[@philthycat1408]

@@johnross2924😂👍

[@davidgreenwood5241]

@@DomingoDeSantaClaratrouble is we’ll end up with no Labour at all

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

@@davidgreenwood5241 we can't have it both ways, I know it's far from ideal but if we bring back manufacturing, expect huge price increases. I certainly don't have the answers other than to say, be careful what you wish for.

[@georgemoskal2098]

Love these old films, if I could go back to the days when the film was made, I'd be off like a shot. Before we were blessed with diversity.

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

Please go ...

[@VickersDoorter]

​@@johnathandaviddunster38 I'm guessing you're finding diversity such a rewarding success.... Luton, Wolverhampton, Southall and Slough, to name but a few, are such shining examples of cultural integration, whereby the incoming peoples have improved their local environment, beautifully renovated their houses, barely need to thrust themselves on the NHS or benefit office and of course, have lowered the crime rate appreciably. Diversity - bring it on!

[@sianwarwick633]

​@VickersDoorter thanks for that well-written support

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

@@VickersDoorterThe NHS would barely exist were it not for the West Indian immigrants who staffed it... so all you racists would have been Rickety and dying of TB.

[@johndean4765]

But our 'pro British BBC' are Always saying diversity enriches our society we know that has in fact been the opposite.

[@tangerinedream7211]

All those Bristol factories have long since disappeared, Wood head route closed, automated marshalling yards superceded by freightliners. Brave new world of the BTC gave us some fascinating films, all praise to Edgar Ansty. Thanks for uploading.

[@sianwarwick633]

Well, hmm, thanks for the update. Times change eh ?

[@davidclinch1358]

Thanks for this very interesting film that takes us back to our childhood. Unlike today we didn't spot one overweight person !!!

[@robertmulhall1634]

Zand not a single person of a certain colour.

[@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq]

And no spades either !

[@James-jd6in]

😂😂😂​@@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq

Or anyone checking their mobile phone.

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

@@robertmulhall1634 They made srue they avoided us when they were doing their filming - but we were there! Sadly you racists were also there...

[@jamesavenell1205]

Good old days the 1950s. I was between 12 & 22 during that era. It was all labour intensive. The transport age most exciting for me, in that time I progressed from rabid train, bus & British Road Service number collecting to working on the railway & National Service. The next decade was even better because I encountered the most wonderful thing that ever happened to me as shorty after demob I met my future wife {Marilyn) of over 55 years before she reverted back to our true home out there in the universe. The old lads back when I was an apprentice always fondly remembered the 20s & 30s despite the hard times & I am left to reflect on those years following the second war. I wouldn't swap that for all the riches of the world.

[@steveb1739]

Beautiful James. RIP Marilyn .

[@chestnutsev7]

Great footage! Seeing The cross channel ferry Maid of Orleans brought back a fond memory of my dad taking me to France for the first time and we went on that ferry in early 70s. My dad was working on the SS Lord Warden in 1956 sailing across to Dover in heavy fog and they hit another ship pushing the Lord Warden bow in badly but she stayed afloat . Thanks for sharing this !.

[@bertiewooster3326]

Common language!!!!! Joke of the year today

[@davedixon2068]

careful your racism is showing

[@rivergladesgardenrailroad8834]

Common language separated by dialects.

[@Kamina1703]

Oi!, You got a loicence for that accent, Bruv?

[@raybob49]

Sad isn't it?

[@harri2626]

Amazing how the film makers managed to get ordinary folk to act normally without looking into the camera or smiling inappropriately - looking for five minutes of fame.

Not really, they edited out the other bits.

[@philthycat1408]

I like seeing tram and train lines reopening in systems that were torn up because of ‘progress’. Replaced exactly the same at the cost of billions and were only ripped up in the late 60s and early 70s. I suppose ‘Great ideas’ are meant to flow both ways.

[@danielbarton9291]

The kid at the end working the lathe with no goggles absolutely fabulous!!!! This film is brilliant. Thanks for sharing it.

[@ianjeffery6744]

A very enjoyable film - as one who was born in 1951, there are a lot of happy memories here! Note, though, how the then up-to-date technology of Whitemoor Yard contrasts with the antiquated four-wheeled goods wagons still in use at that time...

[@willowwobble]

Woodhead tunnel: 30 workers killed, 200 maimed and 450 injured. There were no health and safety rules... that can be seen in the film.

[@johno4521]

That guy in the dumper leading away the rock and stones - perilously close and no head protection!

[@kevinmoffatt]

Guarantee that, if they lived long enough, those men would all have had hearing problems in later life. I only drove trucks but am now virtually deaf.

[@nounoufriend1442]

Then they closed tunnel !

Shocked to see workers breathing in all that dust. I bet many died before their time.

[@Peter-sl6mf]

It wouldn't have got through with the modern health and safety rules. I know I work with some of these men. Rip lost friends

[@trondog8503]

Everything appeared to run with military precision back in the 50’s .

[@robertsmith9810]

ALL i remember as a kid growing up in the 1950s was how dirty the trains were and going to London people always refereed as going up to the smoke and a day in london you needed a bath on return home

Because they avoided filming the things that didn't.

[@trondog8503]

Like what?

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

That was the point of the film - to hide the grime, inefficiency and slums and to present a false image of efficiency and success at every turn. I know better; I was there!

[@davedixon2068]

@@noneofyourbeeswax01 but it did get better.

[@williamseaborne2694]

A big shout out to the composer who wrote the equivalent of a 26 minute symphony to accompany the pictures on screen. A lot of work!

[@waterboy8999]

My ears respectfully disagree.

[@Senna-xi1gr]

Thanks for uploading Nigel. Great film 👍🏆🇬🇧 My grandfather worked for BRS for 35 years out of Newcastle upon Tyne. Cecil cogger was his name.

[@michaelkinsey4649]

Scotland - how beautifully written and spoken by John Laurie

I love the way they trill their Rs.

[@anthonykoller4459]

It’s amazing how everything looks and so organised and clean, now with mass immigration and crime and the streets being turned into refugee camps, the good old days of the 1950s looks like heaven compared to today

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

Within living memory millions of white Europeans killed millions of white Europeans twice and they still are r.e Ukraine 🩲👙👚👑💩

Amazing? They simply didn't film the disorganized things.

[@stuartbroome1258]

Machines are all very well, but you can't beat the working man or woman on the ground. A great era of camaraderie back then, with most in employment. I knew it well.🎉

[@DavidFennessy-yj7du]

The guys running alongside the wagons to put the brakes on was a very dangerous job and there were deaths and injuries involved in this job, it was known for being very dangerous

[@nounoufriend1442]

No Hi viz clothing ! but makes no difference with the waggons rolling down the hump ! , still risky job now as corners sometimes get cut to get job done faster

[@sidneydawe9937]

23:16.......''fickle as a woman any day''. This was a time when men were in charge. Thanks for the upload.

[@johngallacher383]

My god! What a dinosaur!

[@johncoyle8139]

Lie down lad​@@johngallacher383

[@sianwarwick633]

Absolute rubbish, I'm sure you'll agree

Men did all the dirty, hard work. Women typed, filed papers and sewed.

[@johncoyle8139]

@@sianwarwick633 No actually!

[@everestyeti]

In the days when there was a working transport infrastructure, where everyone benifited. Shame successive Governments have sold everything off to Hedge Funds, who only care about money and not providing a service.

[@henrygingold6549]

Successive *TORY* governments

[@everestyeti]

@@henrygingold6549 Mostly yes Conservatives, mainly because they always want something for nothing. Unfortunately Tony Blair's government was as bad, especially when it came to awarding PFI contracts.

[@vikingsmb]

@@henrygingold6549 labour as well

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

​@@vikingsmbyeah both parties are virtually the same. it seems to be more of a class thing. these politicians think that they are better than us. they are malignant narcissists . no morals, ethics or standards. unscrupulous. career politicians never worked a real day's work in their life.

[@SuperMikado282]

​@@henrygingold6549Who voted for them?

[@SimonLloydGuitar]

Those poor blokes. Just returned from war, then work underground, doing dangerous, life shortening back breaking work for a pittance. No respirators, no ear defenders, no safety glasses...Now to be told that they were 'privileged' and immigrants built Britain. How ungrateful we are to these brave heroic men to allow their memory and sacrifice to be denigrated.

[@davedixon2068]

where did it say that? must be in a different post

[@LordTantrums007]

Today Britain cannot even complete HS2 to the North!

[@daleharper2007]

I wonder how many billions were spent on consultants

[@everestyeti]

​@@daleharper2007Probably 2/3rds, as you now need a consultant to tell you what toilet paper to use and which hand.

[@Handlebar-MustDash]

Imagine how much these infrastructure projects cost back then. Now the politicians are too busy stealing the nations wealth whilst we are a much wealthier country than post war Britain was then. MPs think we are all dumb and haven't noticed. 😂

[@kevinmoffatt]

The building part was unimportant; the great achievement has been to transfer lots of taxpayers money into the pockets of the already wealthy; bit like the covid PPE.

[@everestyeti]

@@ttm2609 Because of our own activities over the centuries, we've been colonized for years, that's why we are Great Britain.

[@marka2520]

Thoroughly enjoyed this.

[@davebeech236]

When Britain was still British. Lord, how I miss my home.

[@williamseaborne2694]

I couldn’t agree with you more. What we have lost can never be recovered.

[@fabiotabaton314]

The good old days........!!!!!!

[@SEPK09]

110% dont recognise my own country anymore!

[@welshpete12]

For my family and many more , we were very poor and life was grim with very little money . I remember when we had a chicken to eat for the first time . We all of use to work hard including my self at the age of 6 . Today life is much much better !

[@davedixon2068]

@@williamseaborne2694 All you have to do is retrace your steps and I'm sure you will find whatever it was you lost dont be defeatist

[@williamboot658]

The lorry pulling out at 9.22 would be done for unsecured load these days, but they still got the job done without anything falling off.

[@doommonger7784]

Not a high-vis jacket in sight, those were the days.🥲

[@rivergladesgardenrailroad8834]

But things did fall off, mate, not all the time, but it happened. Surely, we do not want to go back to the road death toll of the 1950s.

[@thebear3178]

The streets looked so clean. People getting on with their work. We've lost so much. When compared to today's society of benefits scrounging, working from home and the place overrun with illegals costing us all a fortune. I really do despair. Come another 70 years I forecast society will have collapsed.

[@davecooper3238]

I have been hearing that for over 70 years. Get the same story from every generation. The quicker they get the asylum people processed and into work the better. The country will benefit from them paying tax.

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

ILLEGAL s cost every UK citizen 50 pence a day ...

[@rivergladesgardenrailroad8834]

WRONG

[@thebear3178]

​@@davecooper3238ain't no more room at the Inn for these chancers. Deport immediately on landing on our shores and save the taxpayers a fortune!

[@_Dougaldog]

The buildings throughout Britain were filthy, thick with years of smoke and soot, the great smog of London December i952 killed thousands.

[@alfredroyal3473]

A Britain long since lost

And never coming back. Everyone in that film apart from the young children have passed on.

[@SimonLloydGuitar]

Given away and flushed down the drain more like

[@alasdairblack393]

What a beautiful speaking voice. So easy to understand and listen to.

[@mathewgreen4099]

Glorious, thank you.👍

[@rgarlinyc]

There's something quite charming about these old Black 'n White films, their construction, the narrators and the very script used.

[@sianwarwick633]

Really good quality film - i don't know if it has been enhanced digitally, but it looks so sharp and bright. Anyway, the content is so optimistic and confident. A great sort of recruitment film. Especially like the topographical map.

Makes you want to move there and be a part of it.

[@BarryRudge]

Those old time shunting yards have now all gone and those men had to be fit to chase after those wagons.Its was a time if you ordered something to be delivered via mail order it could easily take a month for it to arrive. Times and transport have changed so much that we tend to moan if we haven't received the item the day after ordering. But that's all about progress. Thanks for uploading the quality of the footage is excellent

[@ProfSimonHolland]

one of my favourites....thanks for posting this again.

[@anthonyharrison3343]

I think all those men running to catch a bus would now be running into a car park to get in their cars!!

[@russthebiker]

Not running, they are all so fat these days they would waddle

[@davedixon2068]

All retired/ dead or living in Spain.

[@geoffreylee5199]

Total lack of safety equipment.

If you used safety equipment back then you were considered a 'sissy'.

[@robertsmith9810]

this story was told to me many yrs ago by a BRS DRIVER he said it was a cold foggy night he was loaded with vegetables as he arrived in Covent Garden market a chap jump of the top of his load who`s name was known locally as burglar Bill Dennis thanking him for the lift walked of saying he need to get of our town without being seen this would have been mid 1950`s

[@peacockpaula4723]

Wow, what a responsibility on those dear people. Where does that fog come from? What a good job they've done! Amazing and captivating, wow!

[@mattikaki]

Hello from Finland. This was really nice to see how well everything went those days. That one man who run between the cars braking them was an awfully dangerous job to do. What I love, is the odor of London Underground.

Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London claims "Britain was built by immigrants and has always been multi-cultural". In this film we can clearly see that Britain was built by native Britons with very little, if any, help from immigrants. Films like this should be shown in every school to counter the nonsense being indoctrinated into children today.

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

The canals and railways were built by Irish navvies and the NHS and the transport systems were manned by West Indian immigrants. Just because they took care to avoid filming us didn't mean we weren't there. And films like this were shown in schools back then, but unlike the contemporary racists, we were smart enough to understand that these were promotional films that hid the grimier truth.

[@SimonLloydGuitar]

An insult to us all and shame on those who tolerate having their forefathers smeared like that.

[@SimonLloydGuitar]

@@noneofyourbeeswax01 Canals and railways were built by more English than anyone else. West Indian migrants accounted for less than 1% of the workforce.

[@itadrummer1]

With today ‘s “ rewriting “ of history according to the most radical Marxist canons , documentaries like this are considered racist and discriminatory when in fact the complete opposite is true !! By then immigrants were nothing more than the 0. Something of the British population, AS EVERYONE KNOWS BUT REFRAINS TO OPENLY SAY !!!!

[@davedixon2068]

@@SimonLloydGuitar IRISH ACTUALLY

[@apacherider7110]

People with pride in their work, such a rarity now days.

[@alastairstaunton7081]

Cities grow (18:09)..... street shots of a "busy city" with half-empty roads, mostly bikes, walkers, and busses moving freely. The mass adoption of the car was some time away.

[@Paul-md8de]

At 0.54 thats Henley on Thames market place in the back ground + the town hall, looks like the bus is driving towards the bridge

[@bobcannell7603]

The tide of work injuries was never mentioned. No dust masks, hard hats, ear protection. No gloves, safety boots, or protective clothes is just a sign that working people were expendable back then. My father was riddled by work injuries and died in pain ten years early.

[@johno4521]

The bloke operating the windy pick would have benefited from all of the above PPE...

[@Bigbro28]

Back in those days - Occupational Health and Safety? Never heard of such a thing.

[@noddylpd]

Ah yes the good old days! 😢

[@jameswhite6589]

Wonder how many men you would get to work like that to day yes I know modern technology taken over no need for lots of men woman to do some of the job's done then hard work but happier times ..........

[@neilbain8736]

That was an unexpected scene at Garelochead with- I'm assuming - the Aquitania. The scene immediately before is just as striking of Ben Lomond in the middle from the approx South looking like an Olympic podium with three flat tops.

Thanks. I wondered which ship that was. An impressive sight with four funnels.

[@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq]

1.05 is that the Transporter over the river Tees ? I like these films showing how good we used to have it before mass immigration was forced upon us.

[@motorbikemuso]

Very enjoyable - and I bet people in those days thought the country was going to the dogs too!

No, because they were still glad the war was over.

[@arcoulant87]

Elf and safety would have a fit today .Great film .

[@daveabbott]

Films such as this really contradict the current narative of the mixed race family and immigrants at every level of society back then. Start counting at 1!

[@daveabbott]

And 1 it is!

[@willx9352]

You do not need films like this! There were very few non Whites in the UK prior to the late 1950s. You would have only been likely to see a non-white person in the UK in port cities such as London, Liverpool or Glasgow or in university cities (where there were a small number of Asian and African students). These are facts.

[@harri2626]

@@daveabbott ....and no doubt the Woke Brigade will think that the director deliberately avoided filming all the thousands of ethnics in the streets and workplaces.

[@thomasreilly6362]

This is very nostalgic but it hid the reality of post war Britain. Over crowded housing, slums, rationing of food,made do and mend with no money to invest in more efficient work practices and machinery. Wages were very poor low. The most noticeable change for everyone was the NHS. People no longer feared having to use the services of a doctor and the unknown expense it entailed.

[@gardamus]

Nostalgic, yes, for those of us who lived it but more sadness and disappointment that all that hard work for a better future seems to have been for nought. We are giving our country away.

[@astrecks]

The good old bad old days! Somewhere between then and now must have been the optimal time to live.

[@michaellongstaff4624]

Mid 60s, best time!

1960s/1970s was the best. I know, I lived through it as a young man.

[@davedixon2068]

I'm doing fine. nice house, car, well educated hard working kids. Certainly far better off than my parents were at the time of this film. And I'm not exceptional by any means, just an ordinary bloke living my life, most of you seem to be bots attempting to disillusion people and cause trouble where there isnt any.

[@astrecks]

​@@davedixon2068It's easy to look back with rose tinted glasses. As a youngster back in the '50s & '60s I wouldn't have appreciated the hardship my parents faced. Like you I've done okay. I'm not rich, but not destitute either. But I do think we are heading for times where younger people will be less well off than their parents.

[@davedixon2068]

@@astrecks no rose tinted glasses here, I was brought up by parents with not very much who worked very hard to give us a good start. I worked hard to help my kids, and they are doing the same for theirs. Is it going to be easy no, but then it never has been nor will be.

[@Kampala69]

Ahh! An insight into the days before global warming. You can tell there is very little sunshine. because everyone in the film is pasty white, not a sun tan to be seen!

[@trackdusty]

Hahahhahahaahahahahahah!

[@All_Good_Things]

Imagine the health and safety people from today going back to them days 😂😂

those days.

[@All_Good_Things]

Them days

[@rogersmith9579]

Gotta love that radar,

[@reynardbizzar5461]

“ In spite of the excavator and the drills , tunnelling hasn’t changed” . Well it has now😂

[@RussellJamesStevens]

Where are all the black and brown folk that we are led to believe were living in our beloved realm????

[@stupididiot6116]

They were over in fuzzie wuzzie land chucking spears and doing that jumpy up and down dance with rings round their necks ! Just biding their time waiting to asked over here to “culturally enrich “ us all !

[@davecooper3238]

Good job they are here because without them working the country can’t afford to pay our pensions.

[@stupididiot6116]

@@davecooper3238 utter bullshit

[@davecooper3238]

@@stupididiot6116 Not enough people being born to keep up with pensions. One option to bring people in to work & pay tax. Failing that the people who are already here need to pay more tax. Can you come up with another option ?

[@stupididiot6116]

@@davecooper3238 so you want open borders to anyone from some third world hellhole who wants to work here just to pay for your pension !

[@McLintox]

Health & safety offs would be having a baby looking at the woodhead tunnel workings!

[@russelmurray9268]

Overpopulation is the problem, not politicians

[@SuperMikado282]

Politicians have always been a problem. They are a first-class reason to stay at home on polling day.

[@windypup8845]

A time when leaders supported their country and it's workers, unlike today's leaders who should be tried for treason.

[@crumplezone1]

On those trucks only the driver had a windscreen wiper, economy at its best

[@WilliamJohnwon1522]

It was before de-industrialisation 70s-80s, 90s and then the 21st century. Happier days eh? And not forgetting Richard Beaching with the railways, in the 60s.

[@andrewbennett7756]

Great video thanks

[@mikebutler3263]

Excellent.

[@andypayne5771]

This is why are country is finished! We were great unfortunately no more. I am only 54 but I can see it. SO SAD.

[@OldManRunning-dj7qi]

When was Britain was indeed truly Great!

[@matthewharding-ew1ts]

Life must have been..........happier, safer and simplier!

[@hughoconnor9172]

But in reality it wasn't!

Definitely not safer at work!

[@martinholmes1369]

When Britain was Great!

[@raybob49]

We were a busy nation....once.

[@stevewiles7132]

When England was still England.

[@stephenweston1807]

Interesting! 0:53 = High Wycombe High Street.

[@RaggedRomeo]

Infrastructure should be nationalised. Today's water supply and treatment, rail, road and electric systems are in a state of collapse and cost a fortune as the shareholders and directors pocket billions every year.

[@thomasm1964]

Everyone "sirring" like mad. I wonder if they were quite so formal when the cameras were off them ....

[@sianwarwick633]

I was taught to say sir or madam in a shop. Not easy, certainly

[@rayg4360]

20 min wait for a bus. Have to do that for most of them now

[@rachelanderson-z6n]

This is before the Martell Man was an advert in the CIty Centre.

[@paulwright9749]

The train coming out of the tunnel is Standedge Tunnel in West Yorkshire - all still looks the same on Google Earth 😊

[@bobbycaldwell4132]

Good times , industrious places and people earning a wage for a days work , now those in charge are quite happy to have everything done on line saving money and being able to sit on fortunes for what ?????

[@johnmatthews8959]

Talk about looking back through rose tinted spectacles I grew up in the 1950s and wouldn’t go back

[@sfsnedker1467]

I would go back.

[@peterfrazer1943]

Born in 1943, l would go back, hard life but happy.

[@vincekerrigan8300]

johnmatthews. Spectacles or not, the country was better then in most essentials.

[@radiosnail]

Love these old documentaries. At least they didn't have a commentator with a posh "Received Standard" English accent.

[@jonahallen4867]

My grandfather and great grandfather both worked on these tunnels as drivers including coach and horses and pulled out many dead and casualties on these tunnels . Lived in Dukenfield and Godley junction before moving to Glossop where they were eventually laid to rest . ..many stories .. RIP .

[@stevef9530]

Does anyone know where the scene at 0:58 is? There’s so much going on, it’s fascinating. It would make a great scene for a model layout.

[@tominnis8353]

And all for nothing. The new Woodhead tunnel was closed at the beginning of the 1980s.

[@neilthorpe3914]

Must have been really skillful before radar .

[@grendel_nz]

Now watch the view from the canal today.

[@brianmillerthomas]

Spotted the bridge at Inveraray straightaway at 7:38 followed by the lorries driving through the town....bonnie Scotland!

[@Bigbro28]

Occupational Health and Safety? It hadn't even been thought of, back then.

[@andyditchfield9757]

great film footage such a shame the woodhead has closed

[@andrewallen9993]

Common way if living my arse!

[@kafkastrial8650]

We were promised a better world then and now are hurtling towards a much worse one .

[@borderlands6606]

Health and Safety: What's a shunter's pole?

[@michaellongstaff4624]

A wooden pole used by the shunter to pin down the brakes to slow the wagon down.

[@johncourtneidge]

Superb! Thank-you. One of, if not the, worst things that our Country was saddled with is that dan tunnel under La Manche. And the abolition of Imperial weights, measues and currency!

[@davidbarrett1006]

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[@davecooper3238]

Imperial money became too expensive & a pain in the butt to administer. Especially with people traveling abroad more. The Euro helped a lot when traveling round Europe. Having different currencies for each country was a pain. Especially if you returned with change from each different country.

[@HYUKLDER1]

Film shows the days before socialists deindustrialised Britain and flooded the country with foreign benefit seekers thus increasing taxation on workers to pay for Labour's 'utopia'.

[@tobythehairlessdog8876]

Thatcher deindustrialised Britain. Woof!

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

.read mor ,on

[@doodeen]

What! Maggie Thatcher destroyed the manufacturing industry.Sold off all our assets.Beeching Another Tory nut destroyed the Railways.The Tories brought us Brexit another f...g disaster.They never valued the British worker they rather we had cheap imports than pay the workers in the 50's a decent wage,forcing people to have smaller families,which is why we need foreign workers to fill the gaps.!

[@henrygingold6549]

Before the Tories closed or sold off our infrastructure. British Railways was forced to reduce itself to bare bones. The *TORY* transport minister, Ernest Marples got together with his chum, Lord Beeching to emasculate the railways. Most goods in those days came by rail. Why did Marples and Beeching destroy the railway network? Simple, Marples owned Marples Ltd, the main contractor for motorway building and he ensured that 90% of goods were transported by road. The Tories under that evil, twisted witch, Thatcher destroyed our national utilities such as gas and electricity, telephones, airlines, building societies, and much more. As to, "foreign benefit seekers", behave yourself and pop off to a quite place and worship your hero Nigel Farage who tell you more Fascist lies.

[@hughoconnor9172]

Thatcher closed the mines and sold off the railways, water; gas, electricity and the NHS. Socialists have never been in power in the UK!

[@johnpark-jones4285]

And to think that the channel can be crossed in a dingy nowadays.

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

Bloody foreigners couldn't even spell dinghy.

[@DavidFennessy-yj7du]

Well, they are desperate people aren’t they, would you like to cross open sea in a rubber boat???

[@trackdusty]

They very rarely make the full journey. They're picked up at sea, courtesy of HM Government. IOW, they are authorized invaders.

[@vincekerrigan8300]

​@@DavidFennessy-yj7duThey are only desperate for British hand outs.

[@SuperMikado282]

It always could be.

[@hugoagogo9435]

Men were men. Women were women. Coloured people came out of coal mines. What a fantastic country this used to be

[@davidgreenwood5241]

How did they manage without computers and mobile. Phones

[@waterboy8999]

Chicken nuggets and Pot noddles.

[@davidgreenwood5241]

@@waterboy8999 not in those days none of this crap food just home made stuff trouble today because of all this crap burgers and stuff people are getting to fat that’s an extra burden on our health services

[@SEPK09]

15:20 rare to this today !!!!if at all

[@andyneill6391]

Tunneling near the start, no ear protection, no face mask, what else is missing.

[@steve-fb1pz]

Too much haste now, no time for living