Blackpool in the 1960s ( Excursion ) 

This video demonstrates everything, that you cannot do in Britain now. Simpler times and Happier times.

Like a different world, a better world and generally comforting watching these old simpler times.

Absolutely fantastic. Sadly a Britain long gone.

Let's face it, everything is crap now, not just Blackpool. At least Blackpool tries to put a smile on people's faces!

I was born in 1959 but this was Blackpool at its best and years before,the place now is an absolute shithole,I left Anglesey to go and live there for 6 years biggest mistake of my life that was approx 20 years ago now. Look how cleaner Blackpool was there and people all dressed smart and the crowds just amazing. Thank you so much for sharing the real Blackpool 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Omg!! This is how I remember Blackpool, my home town!! Sad to see how it is now. Life was so much simpler then.

I went in that open air pool at 6.50 in the 60s. Remember going down the slides into freezing cold water (kids were tougher back then). Happy memories !

Lovely video, bought back many happy memories of going to Blackpool with my Mum and Dad in the wonderful sixties. We always stayed in a great guest house, with lots of tasty food. Remember the beautiful Tiger with its gorgeous green eyes. Plus I saw the great Reginald Dixon playing that very famous organ . Such happy days.

This 1960's film of Blackpool in its heday, has to be the best available, crystal clarity, great audio, and best of all, all those children and their folks just loving their holidays. Thank you for the excellent film.and the shear nostalgia ! We spent our holidays here, back in this time, shame we missed the film crew.

Life looks so much better in the 1960s, for one reason alone, it was !

It brought back golden childhood memories of visiting Blackpool on day trips as a child in the late 1970s,.....Blackpool a magical place to visit as a kid growing up, .....from the arcade penny machines, to the smell of fish and chips and hotdogs wafting through the warm sunny skies , ......it filled me with so much fun and excitement......simpler times but real good memories I will treasure forever ...

The donkeys on Blackpool beach, I have a photo of me and my cousin aged about 5 in 1966 there, sadly my cousin died aged 40 I remember we once talked about what we thought life would be like in the year 2000 we would be 40, it seemed impossible that we would get there so far ahead in time God bless you wherever you are 🙏

I was born 1949 in Blackpool and I and all my mates thought we were blessed to live in Blackpool it was a great place to live it really was not only for fun but there was lots of work and ways in which to make money and the entertainment was the best in the whole of the UK although the U K was called England then ,and a lot of it free, rock bands, vaudeville type acts jugglers ect the circus with Charlie Caroli and Paul, went every year and the ice show at the Casino on pleasure beach , Diamond Lil's at the pleasure beach it could turn into a blood bath now and again but the lads had to let of a bit of steam now and again ,all part of the show, I left in 1970 for adventure in Australia met the love of my life and that was that never regretted it and as it turned out poor old Blackpool started to wain but I tell you it was the best of places all the entertainment was concentrated so if a place was not firing for you you you just went two doors up to a place that did. So sad to see how things have gone just like England really, oh sorry the United Kingdom ( not sorry )

Sitting here during lockdown Watching this I was only a child back then.How the world has changed since the 60s,people reading newspapers instead of phones ,men in suits sitting on the beach😂and ladies sunbathing with rollers in their hair.Life after this virus will be different,but we will still have our memories.🍦🎪💃👫👙🍺🍷⛱🎡🎢

The one thing I'm happy about that has changed in Blackpool, is the wild animal not being caged up like they used to be.

that was nice, I was in Blackpool 15yrs ago, took a ride on the last of the old trams, looking at this film, the buses & trams looked cool, life was a lot simpler, to have a place like this not too far away was brilliant.

One of the great shames of all time.... That clock don't roll back. Love blackpool. Great times. Plesent, peaceful, and most of all safe.

There is a youtuber called A Walk on the Wild Side who films present day Blackpool if you want to see what it's like now.

During the bingo the guy calls "Wilson's den, No 10". Harold Wilson became PM in October 1964, which means that this footage is 1965 at the earliest.

That was an absolute joy to watch Howard! My old dad (rest his soul) was a driver for Hebble coaches of Halifax in the mid sixties and regularly took day trippers over the Pennines in summer for a magical trip to Blackpool. As a big treat he was occasionally able to take me and mum along too. Wonderful memories. Thank you very much for posting, you've really cheered me up!

Excellent loads of memories of my childhood holidays,spent hours in the fun house !

Thank you so much. Brought tears to my eyes remembering the such happy times with my late Mum and my Dad, going to Blackpool each year and staying in a boarding house for a week, when I was a child in the sixties. Remember the Lido so well and the boating lake on the prom. All of it gone now. So upsetting to see it as it is today.

That's amazing! Straight back to the Blackpool of my youth. Thank you for sharing.

Nvr seen ppl with ties and jackets and kids in socks and shoes on the beach , and one lady in her curlers ... so kind someone letting the dog enjoy an ice cream, loved that and everyone eating with such good manners in the restaurant. Lovely era to go bk to ... kids were calm

Great video, I loved the old coaches, even older as the ones I drove when I started. Wish I could still get fish and chips for 2/9.

Good times! I've lived in Blackpool since the very early 70s and sadly I've seen it change from a lovely and friendly place full of good people, to a miserable shit hole full off druggies, alcoholics and low lifes. What a huge shame

Oh I really enjoyed that! We used to go to the "hallucinations" (as the great Hylda Baker used to call them), every year. Brought back some very happy memories...thank you for posting. 🤩

i was a bus driver in late sixties and many a trip I done from Glasgow to Blackpool Southport Rhyl in the summer months and the crowds you could hardly walk on the streets

Fantastic film, brought back great memories, I didn’t like seeing the poor animals in the zoo either but they were different times and we hopefully know better now.

0:19 Coach turns off Bond Street into Pleasure Beach coach and car park, with Balmoral road in the near background. The hotel at the end of Balmoral Road ( which I went to when it was called 'The Balmoral Hotel', later 'The argosy' ) has now been demolished. Fabulous slice of history here, even the old coaches look terrific.

Brilliant, Brought back some good childhood memories

Nice to see all the old trams, 1930s balloon cars and 1950s Vambacs, we used to go to Blackpool late sixties, took the touring caravan, Sprite Major, on the beach at North shore mum would shout to me ,Don't go in the mud, of course it wasn't mud, brown and slimey it was discharge washed in by the tide.

Dont know anyone in the clip but it was when i was little.. such a great time.... loved the simplicity and general good nature. Thanks for sharing.❤️

This really takes me back. I lived in Blackpool during the 60's and during the school holidays I worked on the beach donkey rides, the Pleasure Beach, Pablos Cafeteria and other places. There were so many ways to boost your pocket money! There wasn't a single machine on the golden mile that I couldn't get a coin out of. Cleaning the coaches out while they waited for returning trippers paid half a crown, plus what dropped change you could find on the floor. We waited at the South Station with out home-made trolleys for arriving trippers and carted their suitcases to the boarding houses or holiday flats for sixpence per suitcase.

Lovely! This brings back so many memories. :-) Thank you, Howard.

We had our honeymoon in Blackpool, 1966, it was a magical place then, the illuminations were on and we saw some great shows. Sad to hear how it’s gone. Thanks for the happy memories.

That used to be our family week holiday late 50s early 60s and it was great, nightly entertainment was first class, no apparent druggies or dropouts around to spoil things. Great times and thanks for the film.

Was it just my family or did everybody as kids save their pennies all year for the family annual holiday to Blackpool, Rhyl etc.

We now live in a society that has been changed by governments past and present. Our police look more like a Swiss Army knife than they do coppers , obesity is getting worse ( didn’t see many fatty’s in the film ) if you don’t have tattoos you are now out numbered by the ones that do ( thanks David Beckham) Less people smoke but more people are taking drugs . Alcohol is sold everywhere including petrol stations , licensing laws are all but in name . People that come to England don’t come to be English , they come from country’s that they don’t like only to turn this country into the one they’re running from . Funny how a lot of people that come here don’t drink , but come to the most drink fuelled place on earth. We have men wanting to be women, and women that want to be men , and the others that don’t want to be either . We have a leader that thinks he’s Winston Churchill , but runs from any kind of crisis. We have gays that want to marry in churches, ( not that I think they shouldn’t get civilly married ) that’s government intervention. We are an island but we have the second biggest death rate from the Coronavirus ( sorry forgot to mention we don’t have border control) We have a media that the only thing they get right is the date , journalists that want to become celebrities more than tell it how it is . Am I a bigot , homophobic, racist , sexist, Call me old fashioned but I don’t have a f..king choice, nor do you . Spain , Italy , Greece, aren’t perfect but they still have Family values . Which is all but destroyed in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ( sorry can’t use this flag anymore , it’s just for demonstration purposes. ). Me and my family shouldn’t have to leave the country we were brought up in , but we just can’t stay here .

I was born in Manchester in 1949, and my Grandad had a jewellery/souvenir shop at 65 Bond street. When Mum and Dad used to visit at the weekend, they used to put me in my pram at the back of 65 bond street in the yard. I have only been back there twice, once in 1956, and then in 1983 to visit my Aunt Dolly at Squires gate.

I remember that one year it rained. The wind blew a gale off the sea and the heavens opened for the whole week of my dad's summer holiday. We were staying at a guest house (bed, breakfast and evening meals) so we had to eave the house during the day. The 'attractions' emptied my dad's pockets of the little spending money he had at a frightening rate so we had to look for shelter where we could. Mostly bus shelters and shop awnings. It was cold, wet and uncomfortable. That went on the whole week until the time came to catch the train home again. Pretty much what life was like most of the time back then. Funny how easy it is to forget.

I am 58 years old and been all over the world but nothing beats Blackpool. Shame everything is dying due to cheap holidays abroad.

Why does life look so much better in the 60s

Great video,, I’m 53 and remember these days but there is no way I would ever want to go back to these days, I think that the people who are reminiscing are forgetting how hard life was back then and only remembering what they want to remember

Bless the two lads having a wee in the puddle the social services would whip them off into care these days ...

Thats when life was good.

There is kids in the video the same age as me I’ve just turned 55 bloody hell how time flys

Excellent, best I've seen.

I went there for a few days over this half term, it still has it's Northern charm. We love Blackpool.

Spent many holidays day trips weekends and one Christmas in Blackpool well in Layton my Grandparents lived there. Every illuminations this is the Blackpool I remember. Left the UK to live in Canada in 76 not seen the changes but I hear it not for the better but thank you Blackpool for being a wonderful part of my childhood and yes I did get lost on the beach ended up with an ice cream with all the other lost children.

No drunk, tattooed slappers rolling around on the floor and not a football shirt in sight

What a fantastic video.ty for sharing x

You and your videos are amazing .xx

I remember being mesmerised by the lines of multi coloured coach from seemingly every corner of the country; all of them bringing fortunate people together to the paradise of Blackpool. Gone forever and what a pity.

Nice to finish this with Mr Blackpool himself..Reginald Dixon.

I remember it in the 70s and it was my favourite place bar none.

This brought back many happy memories.

Thank god we have some forward thinking people who bothered to film these vintage clips from a golden era of seaside resorts, and of course Blackpool being no 1.

Only in U.K. would you see holiday makers on the beach in suits , dresses . So many saved all year round in Wakes Clubs for a week spent in a boarding house . I suspect those days long gone. ?

Must have been 1964 or later as the bingo caller shouts out "Mr Wilson's den, number 10"

This film is a masterpiece!

Lovely video and pure nostalgia. Thank you 🎉

Omg truely wonderful x

filmed at a time when there were 1000s on the beach everyday. can remember it being like that in the 70s and 80s, until a certain newspaper ruined it all. it never recovered.

Fascinating footage. I sort of remember it being a bit like that in the 1970s. A bit of a shock to see all the litter over the beach; the caged animals in the zoo and kids pissing in the street. Would be fascinating to see if any of the ancient amusements are still going.

I remember going there as a very young child and seeing the laughing policeman, the donkeys at the beach and the dazzling illuminations.

11:57 That laughing clown. Must have been there years. It was there in the 70's and early 80's when I was a kid. Is it still there today??

Charlie Cairoli was the brilliant clown at the Tower Circus....My late Mums Cousin was musical director at the Ice show on the Pleasure Beach when they had live music..Those small animal cages were awful. The winkles were tasty and the Illuminations were the best....Fresh air n Fun....No Big one back then....Just the Grand National.

I’m a seventies kid and we went to Blackpool quite often back then and I remember it had some sort of magic about the place,they are trying to tidy the place up now but still has a rundown feeling,and I do believe it’s ten pounds just to walk round the pleasure beach 😳

Great vlog Paul and theo, loved that old twister, we used to call it cyclone, lovely little fair, really enjoyed the video

Many thanks

2:42 We wouldn't want to live in a cage. Neither would a bare of tiger.

remind me why diversity is supposed to be good for us ?

I used to live at north shore in the 50 and 60s was such a nice olace to live and work. Who remembers the Lobsterpot restaurant? Now I'm ashamed to say I once lived there its a horrible place willnever go there again. Such a shame!!😅

Aww beautiful memories

Thanks for sharing... remember it well...

what the hell happened to our country you got drugs everywhere and drunks. what I will do to go back in time

So enjoyable. thank you

Can we start again please.

Went to Blackpool back in 2009 .first time I had been there since 1980 ,what a disappointment .Never going back 👎🏻

How I remember Blackpool

Superb!

Love the Punch and Judy show

Everyone on beach is fully dressed lol

Ohhh the memories.

How cruel to see animals in cages.

Great growing up 60's and 70's. left in 80's. was nice but cheetole now.

Went on a day trip/p*ss up to Blackpool on a coach in the early 90's. We all staggered back to the coach and was just about to set off when a young inhebriated jock not from our group boarded and asked " is this coach going to Scotland?" the driver said no it was going back to the Midlands. The jock got off, staggered around the coach, got back in and asked the same question! Hahahahahahaha😂😎

Ahhhhh not a Face Nappy in Sight....... Everybody had a Immune System.

I left school 66. Heaven then in north England. Now. Full Asians takeing over so moved away

I want a toffee apple now...

Love blackpool ❤

my god everything is shite now even though we have more technolodgy

No snowflakes were harmed in the making of this film! ;)

My goodness how things hv changed agree everyone looked immaculate now old place is full drunken hen and stag parties thts what puts lot of people going bk to blackpool definately not same place i used to go,to in 1990s

Before the plague invaded

5.02 that was my spaniel rufus

we never went back after my grandad died in 1985

I LOVE HOW MANY SMOKED AND NO ONE MOANED EVER ON THE COACH AND TRAIN AND PUBS.SAD WORLD NOW, WE LISTEN TO MOANERS AND THE MINORITY IN SOME CASES

I love my class.