Victorian Seaside Holidays | How The Victorians Built Britain | Absolute History

In Blackpool, Michael Buerk discovers how the seaside mini-break was transformed from a perk of the wealthy to a British institution.
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[@reneemoreno8030]

Frank Matchum is my Great great Uncle.🙏 What a surprise to see his works across the pond in England as we are in America. I'm so proud of my ancestors. ❤

[@Witchofthewoods.]

I'm so proud of my heritage!! It's fascinating, even though I wasn't there...my ancestors were part of it. I love watching Royal & British history. It's absolutely amazing whether it's positive or negative. Can't get enough of these channels. 👑

[@SeekHistory]

I absolutely adore the quality of these videos. Thank you for sharing this stuff with us, really appreciate it!

[@forway286]

Is it just me or is learning about British history more interesting than American U.S history.

[@christinebiada1292]

I agree, I can’t get enough British history!

[@rachaelmcclure3825]

I’m not sure why, but I agree ha

[@mrkshply]

US history has a lot of uncomfortable aspects to it. So does British but the Brits accept it. They aren't trying to restart the empire unlike in America where people still think the confederacy was a good idea.

[@jsas2047]

@@mrkshply ig so but we accept it here in germany too yet i still like British documentaries more. I don't know why but the British have documentaries about literally anything, just daily life, daily items, buildings, all with nice music and great narration. In germany there are many, many documentaries about history but they're all quite depressing and war-focused. I feel comfortable watching these videos while eating or doing chores, just letting it run in the background. I would never watch german documentaries like that. Also i love British English, it's very nice to listen to lol

[@zsigzsag]

I love British history as well. I also like the Native American history of my country before settlers.

[@offrails]

I did a brief visit to Blackpool many years ago as part of a group tour, and while we did not visit the tower or ride the trams, we did have a blast riding the Grand National

[@mrs.g.9816]

I just loved this episode! If I could ever travel overseas, one of my stops would be Blackpool. The hotels were absolutely gorgeous, and I'm glad they've been kept up. When I was a schoolgirl in the mid 1960's, I loved going on class trips to a smaller, old fashioned amusement park called "Playland", located by the town of Rye, New York, on the shore of Long Island Sound. BTW - One of George Formby's songs was "With my little stick of Blackpool Rock". That's what was playing in my head during the segment on making the candy. (If you don't know about George Formby, his cheeky songs and two of his movies are on KZbin. You can also look him up on Wikipedia.)

[@michealpersicko9531]

I live about a 20ish minute care ride from Play land and it's a shitty place to go now its so dilapidated and rundown; I can think of about 20 better uses for the lot of land than an oversized church carnival.

[@JGJGAGSG]

Blackpool is a complete shithole now.

[@mmgibson1]

Lately I've been keeping myself entertained during the pandemic by watching the series "Victoria" on Amazon video, which is about the queen as she is coronated & then her early reign as she starts her family with Albert. I just watched one episode where they both ride on a locomotive for the first time and travel with ease through the woods & across meadows. They are both very excited and see this as the future of England. It is amazing to learn about what was accomplished in later years, and some of that even trickled over here "across the pond" to the "colonies".

[@janetadkins6224]

Thank you so much for this video. This completely satisfies my intense interest in the ingenuity of the Victorian era and fascination with seaside resorts and theatres & architecture. I could have watched a 4 hour documentary on this.

[@MrPh30]

Exellent series about the great time that did so much for the future.

[@Delaney-and-the-Starlight]

What fun it must have been to promenade during this time to a pleasant sea breeze! ☺️💕 I loved this!

[@stephaniemitchell5760]

I found myself wondering why I love these documentaries when I'm not British but then I remember American history Channel is alien and ghost theories 🤣🤣🤧

[@colincofield3747]

I enjoyed that brought some good memories back. To bad they didn't touch on the donkey rides on the beach during low tide. Those were fun as a kid.

[@sylvia106]

Please tell us more about donkey ride experience?

[@TheInstinctWithinV2]

Is there a word for the feeling of nostalgia you get about something even though it hasn't happened to you? Because that's what this series makes me feel.

[@Kategerszewski]

Thank you for these awesome videos!

[@aaronpilkington1604]

Awesome series, thank you for upload. Appreciated

[@Myriako]

Thank you for this video ! 😊💐

[@ninnani4632]

Spitting can spread disease like tuberculosis, and is one of the reasons spitting was prohibited.

[@johannnunweiller9634]

Beautiful! Thank you!

[@TifTafsArtsAndCrafts]

Thank you for this fun video

[@michaelhurley3171]

I love how you guys preserve all this stuff rather than destroy history like here in the US

[@JoMarieM]

Those ballrooms are absolutely gorgeous! I wonder if they're still being used for events today? The British, at least, are more diligent about preserving beautiful historic buildings. Sadly, here in America, many similarly beautiful buildings have been demolished or left to collapse into ruin, in favor of sleek and gleaming, but boring and personality-less replacements. I also never knew that Blackpool had so many fascinating places!

[@taylorprocker]

Where else would we put our Walmart’s and mini-malls?? Tear out that old beautiful theater from the 19th century so we can put in a bodega with a Subway next door??? Wee... yeah! Duh

[@jacobwoods8738]

They are. Both the Tower and the Empress are home to Wurlitzer Organs. The Tower’s is very original and the ballroom (and Wurlitzer) are still used for dancing daily in season. The Empress is not in daily dancing use. The Palace Ballroom nearby was demolished decades ago. And for the organ enthusiast, another exists at the Opera House in the Winter Gardens just next to the Empress, which is Britain’s largest theatre. It was the last new instrument Wurlitzer built.

[@jaymartin8273]

@@taylorprocker Don't forget the Apple stores :=(

[@somebody8633]

So fascinating

[@janettemcgregor4100]

I wouldn't say so , im not American but I love global history , there are alot of countries with riveting history , how about Africa, India, the carribean lots of extremely interesting history there .

[@cherylmaden5989]

Ft. Lauderdale here...now that I KNOW about the Blackpool 🗼 I will try to help it be world famous 🤗

[@antlouc13]

Great to see the history of my kids hometown.

[@MsDDutch]

Very interesting and lovely show. Only the 14 mandetory advertisment blocks are really tarnishing this show.

[@theekatspajamas]

Just skip the ads. You'd have gotten significantly more if this were on TV like when it originally aired

[@MsDDutch]

@@theekatspajamas They were mandetory and could not be skipped. This was far more that on TV. Also a shame for the channels. They have become unwatchable. Pity.

[@theekatspajamas]

@@MsDDutch lol no. Instead of 5-6 minutes of 6-7 ads every 10-15 minutes. Rather than 1-2 ads every once in awhile at less than 15 seconds an ad, because they'd have to be less than that for them not to be skipable

[@theekatspajamas]

@@MsDDutch how else do you expect them to get the money they need to share these with us? Ad revenue makes up a huge chunk of the money youtube accounts make. If you don't like the ads, don't watch. Otherwise, they're what you get for being able to watch this for free.

[@theekatspajamas]

@@MsDDutch also, the ads were such a small part of the video that I didn't even remember there were ads throughout it at all until you responded. Pay for premium if its that big of a deal to you

[@juliaelrod2154]

Fall is coming! Holidays with it! 😁💞

[@m1t2a1]

The seaside vacation, and Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) by Squeeze. You mean all seaside vacations aren't like Les Vacances de monsieur Hulot?

[@jmmahony]

OK, tell me you didn't laugh when you heard that the guy who saved the erection of the big tower was named "Biggerstaff"!

[@pickybitch2707]

Bickerstaff* 🥴

[@Famous_Mist]

Those British tropical beaches....

[@joymorgan3090]

Thank you for showing this video. But did anyone notice that the lady with one of the ball rooms that she looked like she just rolled out of bed, because her hair was falling out of her bun you can clearly see the hair sponge on the back of her head.

[@pickybitch2707]

Everyone who lives in Blackpool these days has given up on life and style! 🤣

[@jacksimper5725]

Like this but Eddison did not invent the light bulb, he was 2 weeks too late to claim that invention the claim even went to court and Eddison lost .

[@peteraugust5295]

24 Million Pounds for that tower, that still stands 100 years later should give you an idea of how inefficient and waterheaded our society got since then. For that money you would not be able to build the foundation of that tower today. The building permits and licensing would probably tripple that price alone.

[@MovieJustin]

What on earth was the temperature?

[@pickybitch2707]

Subzero!

[@JeffAM1986]

An excellent series, even to us Americans. Such an amazing and important time for Western Civilization thanks in large part to British ingenuity.

[@deetanner7153]

We all know that this happened during Queen Victorias reign, but wasn't it more driven by Prince Albert if you were to put a royal into the frame!!?

[@imjskyler]

I like to watch this when I’m high shit jus be entertaining

[@AdrianSpencerElizalde]

“What is a weekend?”

[@reginaromsey]

These are good research to help Americans realize that the 19th century was Britain’s and only in the last 3/4 of the 20th was the Americans.

[@appleslover]

How the Victorians built Britain while starving and destroying Ireland and India*

[@BuddyLee23]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

[@appleslover]

@@BuddyLee23 "I like throwing random words around because they make me sound cool and educated"

[@mtsenskmtsensk5113]

[recently changed] Many Victorian Irish built Britain, especially the railways and before that the canals. The Irish navvy could outperform any workers in Europe, consuming 8,000 calories a day. A contemporary account stated that an experienced navvy could shift 12 cubic yards of earth a day: that's the same as digging a trench 3ft wide, 3ft deep and 36ft long every day. So the Irish were an integral and necessary part of the British Empire.

[@romydamons9351]

And South Africa

[@15Jamesi]

First comment! Love these series

[@appleslover]

The opium queen!

[@gwillis01]

hello people

[@avedee]

How is it that you guys always fail to mention that the slave trade and theft paid for all this English “glory”?

[@leehughes5336]

GLAD TO HEAR SOME TRUTH.... WHY DIDN'T I KNOW OR REMEMBER THAT... THEY DIDN'T WANT TO TEACH THOSE TYPES OF INTERESTING THING'S GROWING UP IN THE 1960'S AMERICA.... (SHAME ON-US).... SORRY TO SAY, BUT THANK-YOU FOR BRINGING SOME TRUTH AND (RELEVANCE) IN THIS CONTEXT, MAYBE IF MORE OF US CAN DO THE SAME, WHO KNOW'S, MAYBE SOMEDAY WE COULD LOOK- FOWARD TO A BRIGHTER (BETTER) WORLD.

[@mtsenskmtsensk5113]

Ave Dee, There are always two sides to every coin, but you cannot but admire how the modern world came about, and the invention of the holiday for the working class (1906 Wakes weeks). How the Victorian railways not only unified Britain, but also far flung countries like India, and other colonies in Africa. Also the education act of 1870, meant that by the time of WW1, most British soldiers serving in France could both read and write, sending letters home to their mothers before they were slaughtered on the western front. The Victorians were very moral and entrepreneurial, they banned the slave trade to the Americas from 1807 and spent money to police the trade with their navy,.They invented a police force to prevent the use of the army into minor problems that didn't threaten the realm. They built a modern sewage system to prevent disease (last cholera outbreak in London 1870). When fighting Russians in the in the Crimea 1854, Alexis Benoît Soyer invented a field kitchen so that soldiers could have hot food, and Florence Nightingale devised the modern hospitals system controlling infection for the wounded, where deaths from wounds and disease went down from 40% to 2%. So please don't dismiss history, as you seem to do, with what were after all, common practices all around the world at that time. Apart from the ultra wealthy building palaces for themselves, at the same time the Victorians, also put mains gas in cities lighting a hitherto dismal life into a brightly illuminated future, in a word PROGRESS, and even the common man experienced it.

[@mtsenskmtsensk5113]

@@avedee Is there any country that hasn't been brutalised in its history, and even now, free India, still has slavery to this day (as does Africa, China abolished 1949), and not all of the slaves agree to it. Your stance is a modern one, but yes, agreeing that slavery is wrong, yet it still exists because it does create wealth. The point of this programme is showing how some of that wealth was spent in the industrial revolution which virtually unified the whole world with modern steam powered inventions. So you cannot change the past, but instead of being negative, you can learn, and still be impressed by what those historical oppressors did with that wealth. When you see the Pyramids in Giza, Egypt , is your first thought those lazy Egyptian oppressors whipping their slaves to death, or do you dismiss the Great Wall of China, by saying, well anyone could have built that with enough slaves, it doesn't impress me. I am afraid your objection is specious it is irrelevant to the point of the programme and frankly annoying.

[@mtsenskmtsensk5113]

@@avedee I don't understand why you bothered to watch the programme if you yourself are so against history. Stay ignorant then, put your head in the sand, and if something doesn't fit your indoctrination, pretend it doesn't exist. As they say ignorance is bliss and a closed mind is a dying mind, never allow truth to ruin a good prejudice.

[@fionafiona1146]

@@mtsenskmtsensk5113 China is still using slave labor, woman and north Koreans can be sold without any punishment.