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.
@nonegone71703 жыл бұрын
We may have gone too far with 'modernism'...
@davesaunders33343 жыл бұрын
You’ve now got Wetherspoons selling cheap frozen food and fizzy lager. Enjoy.
@trollinrollinrollin Жыл бұрын
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
@johncarlisle68652 ай бұрын
@@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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful memory. You're very lucky!
@chunkygroove90385 ай бұрын
Utterly charming little documentary. I just hope there are still a few of these beautiful places around in years to come.
@pablozewoppa3 жыл бұрын
'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.
@mrdeafa253 жыл бұрын
Here we are in 2020, saying goodbye to our pubs forever.
@sethaldarith67783 жыл бұрын
What's happening over there, George? Asking from Canada. Pandemic closures?
@mrdeafa253 жыл бұрын
@@sethaldarith6778 All the pubs and restaurants have been closed for lockdown for the second time. Many of them will never open again.
@chrisfryer31183 жыл бұрын
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.3 жыл бұрын
@@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!
@sirparzival93723 жыл бұрын
They will probably get replaced with Afro-Muslim shops.
@davidmann82544 жыл бұрын
Utterly enchanting. Is there anywhere that is like this still? Sigh.
@chrisfryer31183 жыл бұрын
yeah right
@davidmann82543 жыл бұрын
@@chrisfryer3118 it’s sad, isn’t it?
@daveyr54623 жыл бұрын
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
@majidskinnerkhan69603 жыл бұрын
@@johnnyaction750 🤣🤣🤣
@CA-ee1et Жыл бұрын
Mr Wetherspoon's welcoming hostelries?
@elrjames77993 жыл бұрын
Good food / drink in pleasant surroundings and everyone properly washed and dressed.
@bobtim10083 жыл бұрын
Sounds too good to be true now a days
@elrjames77993 жыл бұрын
@@bobtim1008 Yes: heading toward the lowest common denominator, quite often.
@aaarrrggghhhh2 жыл бұрын
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.7 ай бұрын
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. 😢
@Mattriver74 жыл бұрын
Outstandingly beautiful! Sentimental and romantic but rather nice.
@zaruszin72492 жыл бұрын
i’m liking this old era more then modern
@sky.the.infinite Жыл бұрын
*than
@zaruszin7249 Жыл бұрын
@@sky.the.infinite english not my main just trying to write so more people can understand
@u.s.militia76823 жыл бұрын
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.
@bertroost16752 жыл бұрын
Is it very popular or is it kind of out of the way and not crowded?
@u.s.militia76822 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@bertroost16752 жыл бұрын
@@u.s.militia7682 Sounds comfortable
@BushGold4 жыл бұрын
Splendid........
@MsCaleb793 жыл бұрын
Good old days, how could everything go so wrong? ? ?
@godfrey_of_america3 жыл бұрын
Because of people with names like Moshe Finkelstein
@harrynewiss46305 ай бұрын
How utterly charming
@196619453 жыл бұрын
Not a mobile in sight...
@optimisticfuture68083 жыл бұрын
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?
@davesaunders33343 жыл бұрын
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.16103 жыл бұрын
Lol when I was in London for a visit an old cab driver called me a "bloody colonialist" 🤣
@davesaunders33343 жыл бұрын
@@erinc.1610 - Why?
@erinc.16103 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@davesaunders33343 жыл бұрын
@@erinc.1610 - London cabbies are a funny lot. What year was this?
@mitchellmcdowell85463 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!
@fuzzylightning3 жыл бұрын
This guy is a total badass.
@paulallison24123 жыл бұрын
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!
@postscript673 жыл бұрын
I just Googled the Old George Inn, Salisbury and found that it is now a shopping mall.
@johnbockelie38993 жыл бұрын
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.
@TarmanTheChampion3 жыл бұрын
its still there... it was just renamed to old george shopping mall
@peezebeuponyou37743 жыл бұрын
@@TarmanTheChampion So what is it- a mall or an inn?
@TarmanTheChampion3 жыл бұрын
@@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
@peezebeuponyou37743 жыл бұрын
@@TarmanTheChampion Fucking scandalous. We wonder why society's gone down the plughole.
@StacyL.3 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Wow! How deep ~
@patrickrose12212 жыл бұрын
Snuggly lovely !
@vjab1108 Жыл бұрын
The UK at its best, it has declined so much since these times.
@philyaboots14 жыл бұрын
Cheers..!!
@paulusher35603 жыл бұрын
The queen hits a mean bullseye 🎯
@samaraisnt3 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I wasn't the only one to notice!! hah it's uncanny, like staring at money!
@RichardWinder-l9z24 күн бұрын
The lady carrying in the hot dish to the table is Margot Bryant Minnie Caldwell from Coronation Street What a lovely film
@stephenarnold59812 ай бұрын
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 !
@snowdog99545 ай бұрын
The George Inn has such history, it should be a tourist attraction in itself. It is now the entrance to a shopping mall
@secretsquirrel67183 жыл бұрын
Missed anything like this on my brief buisness trip to London....
@lemfarba48272 жыл бұрын
London is no longer England.
@DDandrums Жыл бұрын
Those darts players were quite something.
@KingWhiskers15 ай бұрын
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.
@kingofkroon3 жыл бұрын
I really need to get a cravat.
@mrdeafa253 жыл бұрын
The Lugger at Porthole is still there. Sadly it is a generic, sterile version of what we see here. No character at all.
@MOOSEDOWNUNDER3 жыл бұрын
Britain, what have we done. I know this is a propaganda bit but still, what a bloody shame.
@Surreptitious_17 ай бұрын
Many, many things have contributed to our demise, but Blair stabbed us mortally. He and all the leaders who have followed are traitorous criminals.
@spiffinz6 ай бұрын
How is it propaganda you clown lmao
@jamesdeluca66573 ай бұрын
What's propaganda??
@mhockey233 жыл бұрын
I didn't know you weren't aiming for the bullseye🤷♂️
@corey463 жыл бұрын
Triple 17-20 will bring you more points than scoring a bullseye
@peezebeuponyou37743 жыл бұрын
@@corey46 Why did he go for doubles and not trebles? Strange that.
@bretttempleman53733 жыл бұрын
Shamefully half of them are probably McDonalds
@paulallison24123 жыл бұрын
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.
@samaraisnt3 жыл бұрын
4:50 absolute dead ringer for the queen. Never seen anyone actually look like her...wow.
@sky.the.infinite Жыл бұрын
That’s what _I thought!_
@derekthompson69922 жыл бұрын
9:10 Looks like scones homemade jam and *Window Cake?* at the back
@stephenarnold59812 ай бұрын
You mean Battenberg Cake
@srl60183 жыл бұрын
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.
@samuelclaessens76992 жыл бұрын
7:54 is a queen!
@ReasonAboveEverything3 жыл бұрын
"In such a setting the atmosphere is bound to be gay" I swear to god my lungs collapsed.
@kingofkroon3 жыл бұрын
Mine when he said it's better to be punted.
@davesaunders33343 жыл бұрын
You definitely need to get out more.
@ReasonAboveEverything3 жыл бұрын
@@davesaunders3334 I already do. It's just funny how language changes.
@davesaunders33343 жыл бұрын
@@ReasonAboveEverything - But not so funny your lungs collapsed. Mildly amusing, if that. Do you feel anxious when you see two men holding hands?
@adam_p995 ай бұрын
The fact is now a shopping mall is a disgrace. However treble 20 is more than double 20
@dandean23452 жыл бұрын
I want cake! And your finest wines!
@leebritnell24057 ай бұрын
Alright here?
3 жыл бұрын
nice
@jonstclair32906 ай бұрын
You were warned in 1976, "no future in england's dreaming"
@bazandjamie3 жыл бұрын
1.18 ....is that MINNIE CAULDWELL ?
@davidbarnes2416 ай бұрын
The importance of being Earnest😢
@whoknows20544 ай бұрын
That one lady at the head of the table in the 4:35 min. Got the biggest nose I"ve ever seen.
@solo_indiana69793 ай бұрын
For such a beautiful video, I don't think that specific thought of yours needed to be typed out here...
@whoknows20543 ай бұрын
@@solo_indiana6979 snowflake
@mihaelazlate47293 жыл бұрын
Wonder how ordinary ppl lived not rich ones
@gestapo813 жыл бұрын
i don't get it...where is the shawrma?
@RetroSega3 жыл бұрын
Why didn't he talk about the wifi in those rooms? That's what I wanted to hear about, not about swans and elegance!
@justincase48123 жыл бұрын
Buhfo the Bee uhhls. That's how a Man-cue-nee-an would say it no?
@hollywoodundead723 жыл бұрын
life before cocaine infected the system
@frank68423 жыл бұрын
Uhhhh, you could buy coke over the counter a few years before this was filmed.....
@hollywoodundead723 жыл бұрын
@@frank6842 🤣
@maxiejohnson83563 жыл бұрын
@@frank6842 the Good old days when we can get Meth for coughing.
@josemonte40833 жыл бұрын
I imagine now is saggy pants and hip hop music..
@frank68423 жыл бұрын
You know this shit was propaganda right?
@davesaunders33343 жыл бұрын
You dislike Black people.
@jec1ny2 ай бұрын
God I hate the modern world.
@johnhall41463 жыл бұрын
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.
@davesaunders33343 жыл бұрын
Too many people regard nonsense like this as documentary. Same people waving their little Union Jacks to make the nasty virus go away.