I moved to Blackpool in 1981, that's my late auntie & uncle who owned the Morleigh Hotel & Paula Paradema was my best friends mum, miss them all so I'm glad I found this ♥️
@zamiadams4343
2 ай бұрын
I'm from Glasgow and going to Blackpool as a kid was a magical experience. The glory days of the late 70's and early 80's. A long time ago now.
@buy.to.let.britain
2 ай бұрын
its all gone on the noo'
@envsf03
29 күн бұрын
I use to love when it was Glasgow fortnight.
@46metube
5 жыл бұрын
It's so easy to forget how brilliant the BBC used to be.
@alfching2499
4 жыл бұрын
Your Right,When the Liscence Fee was reasonable and they employed proper Talent not like the who Evers mate you happen to be Crap like Claudia Winkleman etc.
@numberstation
4 жыл бұрын
It’s a crying shame.
@petemcnamara5070
4 жыл бұрын
BBC still makes great documentaries.
@pinetree1616
4 жыл бұрын
@@petemcnamara5070 Inferior to what they used to make pre-2000s.
@nicoladouglas3270
4 жыл бұрын
Yes but not easy to forget they protected Jimmy Savile!!!! Oh dear!!!!
@ean-r
3 ай бұрын
Excellent footage of wonderful memories of Blackpool, back in the day, 1989 Thank you. 👍😊
@AmandaEm7
5 жыл бұрын
Always loved the floating bottle intro Brian Eno's music
@numberstation
4 жыл бұрын
The sight of that neon lit bottle floating towards you with Eno’s music playing...it transfixed me as a kid.
@RexOrwell
4 жыл бұрын
I thought it was abjectly depressing. It's a lovely ident in fact.
@rexterrocks
4 жыл бұрын
I saw that someone at the BBC found the actual bottle used in the titles with the neon light in it. It's funny to see it out of context.
@TimelordUK
4 жыл бұрын
As a child I was captivated by these titles and that music. It made me think the adult world was scary and depressing. I was right
@totall2952
4 жыл бұрын
Me to lol
@DisneyMarkUK
4 жыл бұрын
This is still to this day one of my favourite TV shows ever, Blackpool is so special to me. Thank you for sharing it.
@lucaschapman2188
3 жыл бұрын
I'm from Watford ( alot of people would class it as the North) I have a lot of time for Northerners down to earth and generally more friendlier than southerners and especially Bloody Cockneys ! I can say that coz I'm technically not a Londoner. Hertfordshire for ever!Lol! Come on you Hornets !!.
@martinnorth2680
9 ай бұрын
@@lucaschapman2188 used to visit blackpool twice a year from Oxhey. Moved to Midlands now, and still visit very often
@Harry-fk5of
2 жыл бұрын
I used to go to Blackpool with my grandparents in the late 80's/early 90's. Candy floss, slot machines, rides, donkeys, pleasure beach, and ballroom dancing. It always felt special when we could spot the tower in the distance.
@zaftra
4 жыл бұрын
The actress was still beautiful, dying in 2014 in her 80's.
@salvador130
4 жыл бұрын
Yes
@Stiffd1
3 жыл бұрын
Yes she still had that beguiling character
@paulbaumer8210
4 жыл бұрын
This put me back on citalopram.
@lucaschapman2188
3 жыл бұрын
😂
@padraicodomhnall2760
3 жыл бұрын
I'm howling!
@TimelordUK
4 жыл бұрын
Those two girls are priceless. I loved the old lady who was a weaver. I felt some sadness for the actress. Great documentary
@lucaschapman2188
4 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing this on the TV first time round,I must of been 18 stuck in my mind for some reason.30 year ago Gosh! Time flies! "Enjoy your self it's later than you think"
@dukeofpreston3228
4 жыл бұрын
Hi ... Mine names Terry and I'm going to enjoy myself first
@rexterrocks
4 жыл бұрын
@@dukeofpreston3228 Hi, my names Jerry and I too am actually enjoying myself first too.
@johndaarteest
4 жыл бұрын
Those blonde girls seem to have come straight out of Rita, Sue and Bob too. Brilliant bit of nostalgia.
@TimelordUK
4 жыл бұрын
They are priceless. Wonder if they ended up with blonde boys in suits with nice cars in America
@aclark903
4 жыл бұрын
@@flamezodiac5736 'Keep your mouth from lies..' #Proverbs 4:24
@newforestpixie5297
7 ай бұрын
Brilliant . Jesus - that Estate Agent would now have the nosey neighbour with his garden hose on fb in a second ..😁👍
@newforestpixie5297
7 ай бұрын
Bob would be in sooo much trouble in 2024 - once that nosey neighbour (next door to the house for sale used by Bob & his girlfriends )with his garden hose updated the local Facebook … 😃👍
@zeddeka
5 ай бұрын
@@newforestpixie5297looking back, Bob was basically a predatory paedophile. Preying on schoolgirls. Very striking how our perceptions of these things have changed since the 80s.
@mistofoles
Жыл бұрын
That "psychic" is the sort of performer who comes on stage and says "The spirits are strong tonight - Is there anybody in the audience called "John" ? "
@jasongray4517
Жыл бұрын
"Has anyone here lost someone close to them recently?". Well, isn't that why most of them visit a psychic? They're gullible, desperate and vulnerable.
@drweetabix
2 жыл бұрын
A good snapshot of history. Such a shame the bbc has turned to crud.
@philsooty5421
4 жыл бұрын
OMG a young Rita Webb in 'Hindle Wakes' as Mrs Slaughter born 1904 and the film was 1952 so makes her 48 years of age, she died in 1981 aged 77, I shall never forget her brilliant performance as Auntie Ada in Steptoe and Son, the funeral episode where everyone knows that the only thing worth anything is the porcelain figurine on the mantelpiece
@stephenguppy7882
6 ай бұрын
Yes, she was brilliant. 'Course I've got me bleedin' drawers on. They don't come off as often as some people's'. Fabulous stuff.
@DisneyMarkUK
4 жыл бұрын
Love this so much, I loved this show as a child and this brought back so many memories, thank you
@wormsnake1
4 жыл бұрын
Blackpool is a symbol of a by gone era. Sadly, it’s just as cheap to go abroad on a plane, with easy flying so doable these days...the seaside days of fish and chips...and sticks of rock...and arcades...is embedded in the past. It’s a curious fascination to know my father and his father, would go to places like Blackpool for there summer holiday. I still go to Blackpool with my son from time to time. £40-£50 a night for a decent/sometimes lovely room and a fried breakfast...and often a swimming pool thrown into the mix...you can’t get fairer than that!! The Norbreck is still only £29 a night!!👌. it’s an inexpensive trip away for the more poorer in our society...the hotels do some great deals and financially it is not too taxing. The natives seem to be out dated somehow...as do the shops and the fashions...the two ladies in this film have similar haircuts to the ladies of today!!....in many ways it’s stuck in a time warp and it looks like it needs a lick of paint...but for a young child it’s still great...you have the beach...the sea...the fairground...the tower...the bright lights...and the leisure pool is genuinely modern, as far as major swimming pools go. These old school, pier places like Southport, Scarborough, Brighton etc...are a special part of England’s heritage, history and culture...and to a degree they still have something to offer...but It’s sad to see these resorts so run down, paralysed by modern day economics and the changes in modern day travel....even the seagulls and the poor Donkeys look like they have had enough. If the government were to seriously invest in our seaside towns, maybe it’s possible for a resurgence in the holiday experience. I seriously believe that the potential is still there...the space to grow and renew. The novelty of such an experience could easily entice foreigners to experience a little of the Old England...whilst at the same time creating a while new generation of seaside visitors...it needs a more re-vamped, modern day version...not just one that caters for hen nights and the holiday season...just a thought!! Viva La Blackpool!! x
@jerrycooper1428
4 жыл бұрын
Stoker Films: You have the vision but unfortunately the UK Government and the scumbag politicians don’t!
@naelyneurkopfen9741
4 жыл бұрын
Gov is too interested in supporting invading hordes & destroying British people.
@rexterrocks
4 жыл бұрын
@sarah jones What utter bollocks! If we didn't have Asian doctors working in the NHS it would collapse. What has a persons religion got to do with anything anyway? NOTHING
@zeddeka
5 ай бұрын
@@naelyneurkopfen9741are you a russian troll or just a lunatic?
@zeddeka
5 ай бұрын
I think the days of any UK resort being as big as Blackpool used to be are long, long gone. International travel is just too easy these days. The tragedy of Blackpool is that it is now a dumping ground. You say it's a good place for kids, but it has the highest number of convicted paedophiles living there of anywhere in the UK. I'd keep your kids very close to you next time you go there.
@Ian-gw2vx
5 жыл бұрын
And now everyone is tattooed up to their eyes. Fascinating programme, if not just to see Lisa Daniely. Sadly passed away in 2014.
@gabrielsalvador334
4 жыл бұрын
They should have shown more of Lisa Daniely 🙄she was the 🌟
@karmariver2480
4 жыл бұрын
@@viralroot What good about it
@gabrielsalvador334
4 жыл бұрын
@@viralroot Because they look awful , tattoo's 👎😒
@damienlovestheoutdoorsandr6110
7 жыл бұрын
it's a marvelous site to me even today. I fell in love with Blackpool when I was five. I always wanted to live there. still do to this day.
@kevcatnip7589
4 жыл бұрын
Sad to see BLACKY rot away ...great place and fond times...
@Drobium77
Жыл бұрын
19 million visited Blackpool in 2021!! that's amazing, more than ever
@feeltheforce10
2 жыл бұрын
I wonder what cards life dealt the two 80's gals Kay and Colette ? They were influenced by blond haired guys because of Bros the pop group at the time. Not an ounce of sense between their heads just two naive girls enjoying life at the time.Great nostalgia. Shiny faces - badly bleached hair - white stilettos thinking they were the biz dancing round their handbags - great stuff.
@susandoig4192
Жыл бұрын
And not forgetting double denim
@RicTic66
4 жыл бұрын
Thoroughly enjoyed this documentary. 😁 Thanks for posting.
@IngenerateIngenue
11 күн бұрын
Oh I LOVED the George Formby appreciation guys doing A Little Bit of Blackpool Rock, brilliant!
@bigearedmouse17
4 жыл бұрын
The package holiday was the death knell for the British seaside holiday, It became almost as cheap to go abroad as it was to holiday at home. So at first it was the middle classes who stopped holidaying at home followed by the majority of the working class. It is now cheaper by far to holiday abroad than at home, A week in Cornwall costs twice as much as two weeks in Greece.
@ajs41
3 жыл бұрын
Because Greek workers are poorly paid compared to here. That's the real reason it's cheap. Also a minority of people think they can behave badly in foreign countries in a way they wouldn't do in their home country.
@oddities-whatnot
3 ай бұрын
Not everyone wants to go on holiday abroad. Ive had a lot of fun over the last few decades with holidays in the UK. People mainly go abroad to get a tan and cheap booze. I cant stand airports and certainly wouldn’t want to be on the piss for two weeks getting sunburnt while you cant even sleep at night because of the noise from pubs and clubs. Nope, not for me.
@sharky8577
4 жыл бұрын
38.02 white stilettos dancing round their handbags - 80s girls were awesome
@kane211
5 жыл бұрын
I was born in 91 and this glimps into the past was wonderful
@ianbentley7276
4 жыл бұрын
you can go back much further than this on here re Blackpool
@wrestle259
4 жыл бұрын
I can completely remember s-express thumping out at the pleasure beach around then and the triumph tr7 go kart type things that went round a track that had a rail in the middle that stopped you being able to drive the kart off the track
@marccas10
4 ай бұрын
God I can see it now...went about 4 times a year. Remember the excitement in the back of mum and dad's car going there. That first glimps of the tower. Went back recently and well, it is what it is really, but stood on the sand and closed my eyes breathed deeply and that familiar smell took me back in an instant to the joy I felt. The first donkey ride...sand in the sandwiches lol. Like to go back for a day and just enjoy thd place with young eyes again.
@StirlingVoid
4 жыл бұрын
All those lasses wanted was a tall blonde bloke with a mullet in a suit driving a nice car! 😂
@gplunk
9 ай бұрын
A certain melancholic cheesy seediness prevails in this depiction; which I somehow find rather alluring....
@canibeserious
4 жыл бұрын
I first visited Blackpool when I was five,it was truly magical,and it was like another planet compared to my home town of Birmingham..lol happy days indeed..
@catbrownlee7413
4 жыл бұрын
now it is full of alkies, scruffs and tattooed women with no morals.
@canibeserious
4 жыл бұрын
cath bailey which can be said for a lot of our seaside resorts these days.a sad indictment of our times..
@canibeserious
4 жыл бұрын
Houston's mccaine so is your mouth
@09weenic
4 жыл бұрын
John Lynch a holiday in Beirut would be more pleasurable than a long weekend in Birmingham 😂
@canibeserious
4 жыл бұрын
I suspect you have had a few weekends on hurst st my friend..
@racheldoesacrylic4089
5 жыл бұрын
oh dear god the noise of the machines i would go nuts and deaf i thank god i was born after all this man
@kokloketan1177
4 жыл бұрын
I used to study at Blackpool college in the 70s..and those days it were a very nice and friendly place ..pleasure beach,the promenades ,south central and north piers ,the tower,short distance to st.Annes on sea, Fleetwood, poulton le fylde etc
@vintagemovielover4511
7 ай бұрын
Sad to see Blackpool now, I want a time machine to visit in 1950s & 60s there's a channel on here that films daily as it is. Neverr been and won't as it is today
@zeddeka
5 ай бұрын
The man getting the tattoo at 45:00 looks suspiciously like one of Steve Pemberton's characters in The League of Gentlemen
@keithireland6627
3 жыл бұрын
Simple I Phone free times where expectations stayed within the possible.
@oddities-whatnot
3 ай бұрын
People lived in the moment. I miss the old days before mobile phones and the internet.
@JohnnyWaterbucket
Жыл бұрын
Back when the BBC was good at making interesting watchable programs.
@lucaschapman2188
Жыл бұрын
I’m flicking through the channels on my television 📺 on a Saturday night. There is absolutely nothing on . All 💩 crap and I’m paying circa £13.50 a month for the privilege!
@Consistentlycrazy
19 күн бұрын
Take my kids to Blackpool every year to see the lights, its our little family tradition
@RoadmanRob8
3 жыл бұрын
Blackpool makes Bournemouth look like the Bahamas. For such a little country there is such a massive difference between north and south
@IngenerateIngenue
11 күн бұрын
Yes…the weather.
@justmadeit2
4 жыл бұрын
When this was made in 1989 this was modern times! Now its 31 years later, time goes so quick.
@ZnenTitan
4 жыл бұрын
So VERY, VERY, quick.
@flamezodiac5736
4 жыл бұрын
It goes quick cause you spend your time in your crap job
@TheRowlandstone73
2 жыл бұрын
I was 16 back then and it feels like a hell of a long time ago to me. Most of the 90s all seem like a lifetime ago too, but the last 20 years have zipped by at a frightening rate!
@justmadeit2
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheRowlandstone73 I turned 15 in November of 89 and yeah time does go quick!
@Clara-ph7my
4 жыл бұрын
Ha I still want my pirate VHS copy of Jurassic Park exchanging please. I got it home and it was a blank tape. Those days of Blackpool are special. I visited a few years back, wet, windy and changed a lot. My fondness of the place won't die though, visiting with my grand parents and parents, simple memories. My kids hate the place been to spoilt rotten travelling abroad.
@gorillatagfun5336
4 жыл бұрын
Those blond mullets ! When looking like rod Stewart was the thing for most women 😲
@whoareyoutoaccuseme
4 жыл бұрын
That hairstyle was out of style in usa by 1989, it's funny /interesting to see these old shows and contrast the UK and USA.
@itsdebs
Ай бұрын
Those guys on the ukuleles are so good! 😂
@shadow-Sun
4 жыл бұрын
I'd love to know where those two blonde hotties are now and how refreshing their honesty as naieve as it was @ 35.00 talking about what blokes they go for - very specific were their requirements ! . Funny I was a young gun in 1989 and watching this it seems so bloody long ago ..not just in time but in attitudes and the way we were . Great upload though a real piece of social history .
@shadow-Sun
4 жыл бұрын
@@flamezodiac5736 thanks for your insight ..very Troll like
@pyewackett5
4 жыл бұрын
I loved Arena
@dryflyman7121
Жыл бұрын
A very interesting documentary, thank you. The working people on this video are the salt of the earth , a generation we will never see again. Having said that Blackpool would not be for me, just too many people and huge crowds. Quiet solitude of the countryside for me.
@gingerladyaubern
4 жыл бұрын
As much as I love Blackpool even to this day, if it takes that much money, how comes it always looks as though it needs money needing to be spent on it ?? Why do people think it looks so tacky ?
@andyreading
4 жыл бұрын
all the profits went down south , and was never reinvested in to the local economy
@Michelle-qd9gm
4 жыл бұрын
gingerladyaubern took my kids there a few years ago it was messy rubbish all over all down the front was take aways and crap it used to be good not no more no more kiss me quick hats
@vantheman12welshman66
4 жыл бұрын
gingerladyaubern no reinvestment by the local council I would imagine.
@zeddeka
5 ай бұрын
Blackpool has been in massive decline for decades. It's an incredibly depressing place these days, used as a dumping ground for the sick, the poor and the dangerous because accommodation is so cheap. It has the highest concentration of convicted sex offenders in the UK as a result. There have been a couple of murders of young girls in recent decades.
@AniWatX
10 күн бұрын
Brilliant watch, thanks.
@zeddeka
5 ай бұрын
Those girls with white stilettos on, dancing round their handbags. Hilarious. For those who weren't around in those days, those girls would have been known as a "Sharon and Tracy".
@johnm2558
4 жыл бұрын
There's God knows how many uke players & still keeping it tight! Impressive.
@padraicodomhnall2760
3 жыл бұрын
That scene of them all sat in a row thrashing away at their instruments, gazing wide-eyed at the screen had me in stitches! 🤭
@TheRowlandstone73
2 жыл бұрын
At the beginning of that scene, I thought I was going to be squirming in my seat watching it.. But actually, I thought it was quite impressive too!
@sephirothff7ps164
3 жыл бұрын
great to watch, the good old days, before you know what?
@lucaschapman2188
8 күн бұрын
The X factor?
@lalamc948
5 жыл бұрын
44.56 Leage of gentlemen
@XantroyX
4 жыл бұрын
He's certainly not local.
@Hellodoggywoof
4 жыл бұрын
Lol...why are the d's not capital...not to worry at least the tattoist tret him right.
@Joanna7428
4 жыл бұрын
Creme caramel 😀😀
@BigDuke6ixx
4 жыл бұрын
LoG 44:56 indeed has lots of references to documentaries hidden in it, so this must be another that I hadn't seen before.
@TheWully09
4 жыл бұрын
That’s first thing I thought ?
@randalpmcmurphy1340
4 жыл бұрын
Those fellas at the George Formby sing-a-long look so happy haha.
@ladytron9188
4 жыл бұрын
Randal P McMurphy yes that was brilliant.Highlight of the documentary.
@salvador130
4 жыл бұрын
Pathetic 👎 you mean ,sad
@salvador130
4 жыл бұрын
@@ladytron9188 No it was not 👎🙄,Lisa Daniely was the 🌟 highlight
@colinwaltone1514
4 жыл бұрын
still going strong today. you should attend.
@stephencampbell2115
4 жыл бұрын
The George Formby part makes me so happy it's why the BBC is so great and diverse
@ventibreeze6648
4 жыл бұрын
Woooah! Bleach blonde hair and acid washed denim, bring back the days.
@oddities-whatnot
3 ай бұрын
I had the snow washed jeans, ghastly really and the cheaper brands it was sort of yellowy instead of white.
@emmacrozier5917
4 жыл бұрын
I had the best times of my life in Blackpool growing up with my mum grandma and cousins I think sometimes I was looked down on at school when I mentioned about going there as someone in my class at junior school said that only scrubbers to go Blackpool I think they was having a dig at me personally as always I really miss those times and I won't get that time back with my mum and grandma I really miss them in 40 in a couple of weeks time and I feel so lost nothing is ever going to be the same again because of this virus
@brianquinn6030
3 жыл бұрын
There is no virus....
@tootsy1100
2 жыл бұрын
Emma don't worry i felt the same but it's much better now x
@Paul_owie
11 ай бұрын
Absolutely brilliant! I love Blackpool. Sadly it's not as good as it used to be. So it's so good to watch this documentary. It brings back happy memories 😊😊😊😊😊
@steviet3880
2 жыл бұрын
luv blackpool best days ever
@mistofoles
4 жыл бұрын
Gotta love that "psychic" at the start - "You've been to Blackpool before, haven't you?" Hardly a groundbreaking revelation...who hasn't ??
@jj68
3 жыл бұрын
45:06 Jimmy did my 1st tattoo! He was an arrogant sod but was bloody good at his craft!
@RubyMarkLindMilly
4 жыл бұрын
Something melancholy about this a forgotten past not so long ago
@ZnenTitan
4 жыл бұрын
The loss from things-as-they-were passing away. A kind of sweet sadness no?
@simonbpuk2949
4 жыл бұрын
Advance a few more years to Blackpool 2020 on a bank holiday weekend at dinner time and the promenade was deserted because of the Coronavirus where the police were instructed by the government to fine people they see flouting the lockdown rules while in the NHS doctors and nurses were dying as the government allowed flights into the country where passengers were left unquarantined. Millions lost their jobs, kids were finally kept away from schools and the prime minister ignored his own advice and ended up in hospital with the virus.
@juliemcleod9869
5 ай бұрын
The front got done up about 10 year ago or more. I was there 3 years ago. We went to the Zoo there which is good and the pleasure park. There is alway something to do there.
@celestialteapot309
4 жыл бұрын
I was a ring doffer when I was sixteen, int' asbestos factory thanos. fond, memories my arse.
@09weenic
4 жыл бұрын
Celestial Teapot what is a ring doffer ?
@XantroyX
4 жыл бұрын
The Memory Man was a local cabbie if I'M remembering the right guy...
@rexterrocks
4 жыл бұрын
I went to Blackpool in 1989. It was so depressing. I noticed that early in the morning as the tide went out the sand looked filthy. I saw a tractor with a rake on the back cleaning it. There was a sign that said 'The Golden mile starts here' and I noticed the tractor only stuck to the 'Golden mile'. I lost my g/f and friends and I tried to borrow 10p off someone for a phone call. I got nothing but insults. Luckily I found my friends and we unanimously decided that after less than 24 hours spent there we had all had enough. We had more fun driving back through Moss-side.
@XantroyX
4 жыл бұрын
We have enough scumbags begging for change and running that "I just need it for the phone" bollocks on our streets already. Nobody was ever gonna buy that! And if you had given them anything but a kicking you would have been an idiot! Give 'em NOTHING!
@rexterrocks
4 жыл бұрын
@@XantroyX Haha, I get pissed off at beggars, and professional charity collectors. I had a guy approach me with bloodstains on the arm of his shirt. He said he had been in an accident and needed money to get to the hospital. I saw him the following week and he said exactly the same story, and again a couple of days later. The bloodstains were from injecting drugs.
@johnsmith-wx5fb
4 жыл бұрын
@@rexterrocks i had a guy with a high viz outfit carrying a hard hat and an open holdall full of rusty spanners and nails approach me on the stairs of a train station asking for a tenner for a train ticket he was claiming he had lost his wallet , it was bollocks of course .i saw him again a couple of weeks later i said you're one unlucky man.
@rexterrocks
4 жыл бұрын
@@johnsmith-wx5fb Hahaha! I had a guy come up to me with a makeshift bandage on his hand claiming that he had just had an accident on a building site and didn't have his wallet with him. He asked if I could give him the money for the bus. It sounded bollocks and 3 days later he approached me again with the same story. I suggested maybe he should get a different job. It makes it hard for an honest beggar like I was :-)
@johnsmith-wx5fb
4 жыл бұрын
@@rexterrocks ha ha the lengths they go to. As a general rule all i do is look for the drugs , its always there in the face somewhere. I hope ive never turned a genuine person down. However on occasions ive asked a guy for the time he wouldnt tell me and walked away all nervously he was in a suit he literally would not give me the time of day and another time i said excuse me to a group in a train station i needed directions and they just kept walking , i must look like a smack head meself😂
@RodKirkbride
8 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!!
@royfr8136
7 ай бұрын
I remember the intro to this as a kid - I thought it was really depressing
@lucaschapman2188
8 күн бұрын
Depressing ! Spending Christmas Day at me parents that was depressing!
@lennylaa1686
Жыл бұрын
@21-35....who else thought there would be a huge round of applause when all the banjo boys stopped playing! 😆😆🤣🤣😂😂
@KebabMusicLtd
4 жыл бұрын
Wakes goes back centuries and was the week or weeks following the harvest (where land workers would celebrate the harvest). With the Industrial Revolution and the movement of land workers into the factories it was the way of things that many such traditions were carried on into the cities. Factory and mill workers would save a little bit of their earnings each week towards a week by the seaside. It got to the point where whole towns would effectively close for the week whilst its inhabitants boarded trains bound for sunshine city (or rain). Blackpool was deliberately designed to be a get-away for working class people which is why many of the Victorian built buildings had the decor of the Music Hall theatres similar to those in London. Indeed, much of Blackpool was built on the earnings of the mill workers from many of the UK's industrial towns and cities. Wakes week was also the time when factory or mill owner would take the opportunity to make any major repairs to his machinery, buildings etc. Anything that had to do with production.
@spo5egy
4 жыл бұрын
Went there in 1978 aged 5 with my parents and then in 1991 for a packet of cigs and straight home again... I drove from Scotland.
@lennylaa1686
Жыл бұрын
cigs only....or for a holiday as well?
@tinatina1104
4 жыл бұрын
I used to go once a year for the day in the 70 s
@MARKETMAN6789
4 жыл бұрын
Marvelous I loved this video ,
@jonnyburgo
4 жыл бұрын
Absolute shitehole, one of the few places where you can see people puking outside the pub at 11am.
@zaftra
4 жыл бұрын
This is why they said it was built for nothing else but pleasure all the weay through
@reesemorgan2259
4 жыл бұрын
I'm ashamed to be British these days. I'm perfecting an Irish accent - thank God I'm entitled to an Irish passport. Not that they're saints, but at least they don't have the godawful reputation we've got. When they drink, they don't seem to become thugs and thugettes.
@zaftra
4 жыл бұрын
@@reesemorgan2259 Just terrorists.
@davidwood5703
4 жыл бұрын
I,m filling up..... Lol.
@whoareyoutoaccuseme
4 жыл бұрын
Great, and here i am planning a 3 day trip there in January. I never get to go anywhere, would much rather spend a few days in Manchester, Liverpool, Brighton, Bristol, London, etc. But oh well. What do you recommend to do while there? I'm mostly into art, alt theatre, comedy, antiques, museums, old cemeteries, good food (no fish & chips or sausages etc), obscure things (think atlas obscura), and anything of a darker nature.
@elizabethbower2168
4 жыл бұрын
Oh thanks for sharing this video it brought back such wonderful memories of Ringside seat at Blackpool Tower Circus… The Golden mile with the freak shows… Eating lots of candy floss… And spending a lot of time on the Central Pier… Those were the days when Blackpool with great in 1950s
@gabrielimmanuelgoldmann6276
4 жыл бұрын
Circuses are cruel to the animals 😡why would you want to watch animals doing STUPID TRICKS!👎👎
@lucaspastina
Жыл бұрын
Great doc!
@ChorltonBrook
Ай бұрын
A crying shame what’s become of Blackpool nowadays - I still like going though.
@rrtjoh
7 жыл бұрын
PLEASE GIVE US THE NAME OF THE FISH ´N CHIP SHOP FEATURE SO THAT I KNOW NEVER TO GO THERE, THE PORTION SIZES ARE MISERABLE
@norepetitivebeats
5 жыл бұрын
Well, unless you have a time machine YOU CAN'T GO THERE!
@goldcup11
5 жыл бұрын
Haha, not really, that psychic Paula Paradema is still plying her trade and there are still plenty of "cheap looking" girls knocking around, (like them 2 gormless blondes - owt for nowt).
@RudieRickenbacker
5 жыл бұрын
@@goldcup11 she died in 2013
@brianrobinson7984
4 жыл бұрын
@@RudieRickenbacker I'm really sad to hear that.. Paula Paradema used to live next door to me for a while, she was a proper character and everyone on the street liked her..
@catfive23rd
4 жыл бұрын
@Jetsonic Thank god 30 years have passed since then eh? Trying to judge the town on 30 year old footage just makes you look a bit special
@andreesimpson4232
4 жыл бұрын
The eighties , big hair and shoulder pads
@paulmcdonough1093
4 жыл бұрын
people in Bolton are still like that
@imogenimeson664
4 жыл бұрын
@@paulmcdonough1093 why not the 70's or 90's??why does it always have to be the crap eighteees
@dasreich5126
4 жыл бұрын
Now Blackpool's a Tip.
@rexterrocks
4 жыл бұрын
It was back then.
@garypriestley7517
4 жыл бұрын
No it isn't lot of money spent on the town
@jerryjerg406
4 жыл бұрын
macc lads song brought me here
@Paul.in.Ireland
2 ай бұрын
This was first aired 35 years ago..... How Blackpool has fallen....sadly Its a decaying mess nowadays...
@lostboy8814
4 жыл бұрын
Eeeeeh.......Turned out nice again !
@paulbaumer8210
4 жыл бұрын
That guy at 45.14 should have spent less on tattoos and more on haircuts.
@Parseenfroo
4 жыл бұрын
Bloke, not guy.
@paulbaumer8210
4 жыл бұрын
@@Parseenfroo Point taken.
@Parseenfroo
4 жыл бұрын
@@paulbaumer8210 : )
@peterivory2037
3 жыл бұрын
Hmmmmm the £2,000.00 or so he spent on tatoos would be worth just over £5,000.00 now......and that is without investing it in stocks....still he must get immense pleasure parading around stripped to the waist for everyone to admire
@rogerlegends166
Жыл бұрын
Should have spent the money on gym membership
@warpigeonofdoom
4 жыл бұрын
Surely By 1989, the Wakes Week tradition had come to an end, but one of the interviewees gives the impression that they still ran over the summer.
@KebabMusicLtd
4 жыл бұрын
In 1989 I worked in industry in Lytham St Annes and each year for two weeks (last week in July- first week in August) the factory shut. This was by tradition in line with Wakes week practices. Of course, it was Thatcher and the introduction of 'continental shift' hours and changes to the Sunday working hours that was the final nail in the coffin for Wakes...
@TheDodger74
4 жыл бұрын
I started work in 1990 and wakes was still an expression alot of the older lads at work still used then , alot of them still booked there holidays at that time too. Maybe just out of habit ?
@chazwalker7156
Жыл бұрын
I'm sure me and my cuz did those 2 on a stag weekend in Blacky back in'th'80's... great days, smashin' nights 🤠💃🏻🤠💃🏻
@salus1231
Жыл бұрын
Blackpool had it's day in the sun ( no pun intended😎 ) some moons ago and has been desperately trying to re - invent itself ever since which is commendable but ultimately it's treading water because the world has long since moved on from those heydays. It seems to instil marmite memories. If you don't have big expectations of sun, 'Med' sand and cultural things but of fun and a deep realization that it is not Britain's Cannes😍😍 you should be ok
@mAiSiEbOOOO
Жыл бұрын
'I'm unemployed at the moment', admits Collete, (08:52) which explains why she holidays at Blackpool.
@cannonfodder6654
2 жыл бұрын
Has Blackpool still got a train station
@oddities-whatnot
3 ай бұрын
Yes.
@zaftra
4 жыл бұрын
34:36, nice to hear girls being honest, rather than the beauty within, got to make me laugh what women parrot out these days.
@anniespencer7879
4 жыл бұрын
Funny, I find men's chauvinistic blatherings equally hilarious.
@zaftra
4 жыл бұрын
@@anniespencer7879 right on sister.
@johnsmith-wx5fb
4 жыл бұрын
@@anniespencer7879 you're a saddo aren't you
@johnsmith-wx5fb
4 жыл бұрын
@@zaftra another one
@lordred4116
4 жыл бұрын
Loved Blackpool trips with mates when single. Always birds from Carlisle or somewhere, absolutely gagging for it.
@imogenimeson664
4 жыл бұрын
I pity who ever you're with then,once a dirtbag always a dirtbag.
@lordred4116
4 жыл бұрын
@@imogenimeson664 awww thanks, one of the nicest things thats been put in print about me. But in reality Blackpool was like that in the 1970s 1980s.
@09weenic
4 жыл бұрын
Lord Red na the birds from Barrow were much dirtier
@lennylaa1686
Жыл бұрын
U need to meet the porno babes from Workington and Whitehaven, ultra dirrrrrty.
@kerensabond9245
17 күн бұрын
Jimmy did my first tattoo 27 years ago 😅
@royfr8136
7 ай бұрын
Disappointing to not hear more from the actress. ((( she died in 2015 -
@helenblackburn6162
4 жыл бұрын
Wonderful documentary. I wonder if the girls went to America?
@Ahibasabala
Жыл бұрын
I was a child in the 80's in the UK, mostly London, and i don't know if it's just old age clouding my memory, or whether there's a north-south cultural divide, but i honestly don't remember the England portrayed in this documentary. It's undoubtedly very interesting, but it also feels very alien, and foreign to me somehow. There's a huge irony i just realised, since i am the son of migrants, and that i should find the people of England foreign in their own land. But there it is nonetheless. Perhaps it has something to do with Empire, and the legacy such a system brings to every nation that had one, it changed them forever.
@keithrobinson8113
4 жыл бұрын
Fish n chips in newspaper 🗞
@andrewdaley3081
4 жыл бұрын
They stopped putting them in news paper something to do with the ink being poisonous. Andy England 🇬🇧📰
@jubbaronny
4 жыл бұрын
I’m from the area and the food was never put directly onto the newspaper, there was a sheet of white paper laid down on the newspaper first.
@henkhemming6674
10 күн бұрын
the UK and the USA were so much alike, and still are..in a way.....
@BlackpoolRockTV
6 ай бұрын
This is a prime example of just how brilliant the BBC used to be, back in the day when they didn't have their woke crap agenda.
@sharky8577
4 жыл бұрын
17.55 those George Formby fans look as if they mean business
@gabrielimmanuelgoldmann6276
4 жыл бұрын
Their pathetic 🙄
@telstar32
Жыл бұрын
Back in the days when the BBC produced good programming, rather than the drivel they push out now.
11 күн бұрын
ahh the days when the UK could count on it's thriving tourism industry for economic activity and wealth creation for 7 months of the years..!
@lewisaugustwilliams
3 жыл бұрын
Could have been good but ruined for me by the sneering condescension of Paul Theroux, whoever he is, and the fake footage of fish and chips directly on newspaper - the BBC might not have been as arrogant and out of touch back then as they are now but you can see those same traits in this.
@kevinfowkes2327
3 ай бұрын
Have to say I agree with this. It is a useful reminder of how much the left wing intelligentsia constantly sneered and whined about the Falklands war at every conceivable opportunity right through the 80s. Pretty sure fish and chips were not served directly on to old newspaper in the 80s. I do remember a few places still used newspaper for the outer wrapping, but as you say, this all seems a bit like the BBC poking fun at the oiks.
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