Although as a general advisory, if you find that you can't go 8 minutes, 34 seconds without a cup of tea in your life, you should contact your doctor :D
Those cups are now micro plastic pollution in our food. Apparently we eat about a credit card size of plastic a week, and we wonder why western sperm count is collapsing.
tea knows ... if one is hot it cools you down, it cold it warms, if upset it calms. if deflated it gives a boost ... it knows what is needed and provides it!
@@bearmerica6668 as long as it's a decent brew I think for the most part we won't mind ...blended black tea no flavours added and a splash of milk at the end
I used to teach and I always thought if a child was really upset send them off with an adult to have a cup of tea or hot chocolate and a biscuit made them feel better, same with something like a chest cough and poorly. In that way it’s a sense of being nurtured and appropriate, in a school, a show of caring and affection to the children. Children who are shown that & understand that people do care will be far more likely to tell someone about abuse.
🎶🎵 "If you're slaving all alone or relaxing, or you're working in a noisy fact-or-y, just set yourself free when the clock strikes three, 'cos everything stops for tea!" 🎶🎵 Happy days!
Butlers Wharf, which you see with Tower Bridge in the background, where they are loading up the tea chests is now a popular tourist venue with fancy shops, restaurants and very expensive riverside apartments.
The views at 0:55 and 1:35 are right in the middle of London too. Now you'd see the London Mayor's bubble for a start, and the area is part of the City on the North side. If the camera panned to the right, you'd see the Shard. Amazing to think it was actually industrial within living memory. (Also Tower Bridge looks a bit less shiny back then).
@ bejay69 I actually have a full set of Cheesecake or pinup girls from the boxes of tea. I remember collecting butterfly ones too. Canny beat a wee cup of tea.
@@rocker-barrel4786 So do I! What a waste of time. We collected for yonks, & got a fishing rod. A pathetic piece of thin bamboo which bust when I used it on Hastings pier. :-(
Someone commented about the cards that children collected from boxes of tea. As I read it I could smell tea! I don’t even like it. I don’t think the smell is offensive though. I love the smell of Earl grey tea. I can smell that as well now
My father hated to have his Army unit attached with the English troops during the Korean war!! He told of going up a hill under fire and looking around and all the UK troops found a hole and set up for tea time. Stopped in the middle of a battle? I always thought it was just a story until I heard it from other American troops! In the 60s my best friend was from the UK. His mother made the most wonderful tea I have ever had. I have not had a good cup of tea after 1968 when I left for the Army myself.
That reminds me of an old Asterix and Obelix comic. The Romans were fighting a battle with the Britons and the Brits stopped the fight for a tea break.
If your working at a stove or relaxing, Or working in a noisy factory, then set yourself free as the clock strikes three, everything stops for tea...... A old Tony Blackburn jingle off the radio
with automation and population growth, we should probably start to restructure the economy. Think about it, having less jobs is a good thing. We produce more with less so more get to enjoy, Right? But no, because in our economy we provide based on work but we don't really need all the work. That's why they are so many bullshit jobs these days. Meanwhile 9% of all workers in America work in transportation and we're already seeing the development of driving cars. Our economy is becoming unsustainable.
@@puddleglum9179 Well, from a practical viewpoint, the ruling class will have all the incentive to kill off the population once they don't need the ruled masses to produce anything for them.
@@LastNRA I would disagree, if they didn't have us to lord over they would turn on each other and they know that. They wouldn't be at the top without people at the bottom to affirm their power. What i actually fear is a future where we dedicate our life to pointless tasks only to be paid just enough to buy the products manufactured by machines that are owned by plutocrats. It would be the last stage of consumerism, the only purpose of life from studying to reproducing would only be in the service of making the wealthy wealthier.
@@puddleglum9179 Why go through all the trouble of keeping them alive when you can just kill them all? They can have their civil war later, since they all have much to gain in killing off the ruled masses. What you're witnessing is not late stage -isms, you're witnessing the last stage of human society.
When did that demise begin? Watching from America, I just assumed saucers, teabreaks, and teapots were still the norm. If Starbucks is part of the reason, my apologies.
@@royrowland5763 Probably during the 1980's. Tea breaks were phased out by businesses looking to maximise profits, although cigarette breaks continued into the early 2000's. Teapots went out of fashion with the introduction of tea bags which made it more convenient to make individual cups of tea. In turn, this encouraged people to drink tea from larger cups / mugs which made saucers obsolete. By the time Starbucks became popularised, the old ways were already a vague memory of a bygone era.
@@royrowland5763 Ha ha ! Thanks ! Coffee shops are partly to blame along with the general loss of culture. They were here a long, long while before Starbucks though. I can't understand the popularity of the latter. Their coffee is dire and their snacks are overpriced and not delicious. Must be very effective marketing I suppose. Particularly product placement in American tv shows and movies.
Tea was just a side-effect of the real issue; everything was better when vacuum cleaners had bags. Ever since that git Dyson did away with them, EVERYTHING'S been worse; music, politics, tea, cling-film, petrol, light-bulbs. True, we have much better child mortality rates, dental health, property ownership, mental health, decreased smoking, inclusivity and people live an extra 15 years, and don't generally go to jail because of their sexuality. But at what cost? Where's my Birds-Eye Super-mousse? Gallon-tin of Esso-Blue (bum...bum...bum), Brentford Nylons, Hoover Junior Senior H1 vacuum bag?!
@@nevergiveup19841 Originally a billion was a million million...(a bi- million). For some reason the Americans didn't like this, and changed it to a thousand million. for a time both uses of a billion existed side by side, as a long billion and a short billion..... now to save confusion, most countries use the short billion. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scale
@@daydreamer102 thank you for explaining! I remember seeing in a language (German) that both "Billion" and "Milliar(d)"? was used and that confused me for years!
I loved to go into Lyons corner houses with my mum and grandmother. Have a nice pot of tea and some very nice cake . Now we have Starbucks that serves awful coffee and cakes that we can’t afford .
@@sudgur990 just general 2021 living. Life was simpler in the 60s. Less crime, people were happier with what they had, houses were affordable, people had respect for each other. The list is endless.
@@oddities-whatnot interpersonal violence was widespread but not discussed; beating children was accepted, domestic abuse was "normal", child abuse was routinely disbelieved, fights were a normal part of pub going life. In the current era, we have recognised that all of these - and more - went on . Violence in the past was ignored, minimised and simply not talked about - it was, however, very much a fact of life
Apart from the wife beating, racism, poor living conditions it was just wonderful, I agree the orchestral music does give one a lift. Isn’t it funny how whenever you watch a similar public broadcast the streets looked cleaner, people dressed smarter and hedges were always tended to.
My grandad used to drink so many cups of tea a day and it was the fresh tea leaves and not the tea bags rubbish. When i started work in 1982 i was the office junior so i used to make tea in a great big urn for around 12 people 3 times a day.
I can remember our tea lady when she first started would put one spoonful in the pot for each person and one extra, it was a tea ern but as there was about 20 or more people you could stand your spoon up in it
@@caroleevans3553 in Russia we make it very strong and heat water in the samovar so you can put hot water and make it as strong as you like. It's easier to do it like this, make very strong tea, leave another kettle with hot water and let everyone serve themselves their tea as they like, it ensures there's enough for all.
If you had told any of the people in this film (in 1962) that today, coffee is consumed more than tea, they would not have believed you. And if you had told them that bottled water would be sold in shops in the future, they would have laughed at you.
I agree but then so many things we have or do would seem impossible then (Internet, computers, mobile phones, electric cars, satellite TV). I don’t think the consumption of coffee was completely un-thought of but buying bottled ordinary water which is as expensive as beer………….
"Bottling water began in the United Kingdom with the first water bottling at the Holy Well in 1621. The demand for bottled water was fueled in large part by the resurgence in spa-going and water therapy among Europeans and American colonists in the 17th and 18th centuries."
@@hazelanderson1479 Hello. My father is related to them. My father emigrated to the UK in 1958 and as a young man worked for his cousins. He later settled in Cambridge where I was born then in 1984 we all settled back in Italy but my father often recals his days working in the icecream industry.
@@lorenzonotarianni1667 Fantastic! Thank you for that. I have to tell you that Notarianni’s ice cream was the best, and my grandparents would always buy me a cone 🍦 (they would have ice cream sandwiches) whenever we went to Seaburn. Stay well, and my regards to you and your family.
In the 60's workplace, there were machines that made proper tea with tea leaves and fresh milk in a decent sized cup. Now in the 2020's, we have Klix machines that dispense it in crap teabags via little plastic cups with powdered chemical 'milk', which tastes bloody awful. One has to wonder, this is progress?
I moved to the US from the UK in 1997. The only place I have found that can make a proper cup of tea is my kitchen or the kitchens of other British friends. Never, ever order a cup of tea anywhere.
I can remember as a child using old tea chests to pack stuff in when moving home, I bet my dad who's in his 80s, still has a few of them in his loft full of stuff that never got unpacked lol
I'm 60 and lived on cups of tea when a boy in Australia.... From about 18 years of age always drank instant coffee... I still enjoy a nice culpa tea every now and then.... And not in a tea bag !
@@NotQuiteFirst What you mean is that the British population is now far more typical of the actual population of the British Empire, that contributed so much to the power of England for the last 300 years.
Gosh seeing the teasmade takes me right back to my childhood. My grandmother used hers religiously for years right next to her bed with a biscuit barrel close at hand. Couldn't start the day without a decent cuppa
It was this sort of programme that helped inform and educate the population. Because there were only 3 TV Channels there was was not much viewing choice. These programmes were popular !
@@brianw5126 Ah yes. You're right. It was a while back now ! This strengthens my point that these educational programmes would have had a greater audience than they could get today.
@gilburton I take your point btw that this particular series was shown in cinemas. I was a regular at our local Gaumont and Odeon cinemas. And some others. (Remember The Essoldo ?) There were similar educational shorts on tv at the time. In both cases there was a captive audience !
The year I was born.. And I remember as a kid collecting the cards in the packets, it was all loose leaf, don't remember seeing tea bags till the late 70s, (in our house anyway).
It's been a very long time since I made a pot of tea in an enamel tea pot using tea leaves then pouring the tea through a tea strainer into a cup. I always had to have a pot of tea on the table for Mom when she got home from work.
I'm an Aussie & although my Mum & Dad were tea drinkers, I've always drank coffee. But there is nothing like iced tea with lemon on a hot summer day...
I love that the tea vending machine was operated by someone who then handed the tea to the person who wanted it. Obviously they hadn't quite realised the staff savings cost potential by that point.
The one thing in this video that really surprised me most was the level of automation back in 1962. 7:52 This really doesn't look like something you would imagine back then.
It's more than a drink, it's a way of life, a way of welcoming visitors, showing love, a comfort ritual. Put the kettle on, love and we'll have a nice cuppa.
@Personal Jihad Just to clarify, there is no denying that in those times it was intended that there would not only be long usage, but no real consideration was givne with regards to end of life disposal. Plastic was hailed as the wonder product that would replace many natural materials (as suggested in The Graduate; "plastics, Benjamin, are the future). Sure over the year we have abused its usage, but that is what industry (and the public) do. As for rigid cardboard straws, well just take the lid off the drink.
She might have been on to something. Perhaps tea-bags are totally different from back then, but I heard the bags are stuck together with a type of glue, and some bags have tiny plastic particles in them. I only drink loose tea (and use coffee beans rather than instant) now. Better safe than sorry.
They weren't without their share of problems, and it's easy to idealise the past and bang in about 'how everything was better back then' (which I'm guilty of), but I really do feel we've gone too far in the other direction now.
I'd be lost without my cup of tea or a dozen 😂 and what a pleasure it is to have afternoon tea when one goes out cream scones and cakes and delicate sandwiches yummy one of the best thing about being British
