Why cant we make such lovely films like this today without some so called "celebrity" presenting it and crappy background music. The narration was perfect, the Welsh have a way of making anything sound like poetry especially when talking about their own country. Perhaps if we did produce films like this today it might encourage people to again use the railways as a means of getting places?
I once had a leather school sachel, yes now I remember, it takes me back, back to a far better time and nobody can tell me different because I was there and now it's time for a few scotches to reminise on the great days of my youth.
Nicely put - in 60 years time will people be watching a film from 2018 and saying "ahh..the good old days"? Methinks not - we had our golden era. and I am chuffed we have a nice reflection of it here.
Simon I can't say if the present folk will be watching films of nostalgia many years hense, but what I am sure of is that the quality will be far inferior than that of my youthful past, oh yes that I am sure of, no not sure of, I know positively.
what a lovely film. the erstwhile days of steam and a dearth of mobile fones. many people all gone now, when I see these nostalgic films I often wonder what happened in their lives and for those alive, where are they now. thank you.
Thank you for your lovely comment. I often wonder of the fate of many of those in this film. The children now in their late sixties and seventies - I wonder what they must make of it all. Thankfully, celluloid has preserved what appears to be a gentler time. Not sure it was, but there is a beauty in nostalgia.
I remember going to Towyn in north Wales for my first caravan holiday,fifty years ago,with my family. I remember the Church at the cross roads and every time i pass it now ,it brings back happy memories. What great times. It was at Browns camp if I remember.
Yes has to be Euston today, but in my youth it was Paddington ,Cambrain Coast all the way to Aberdyfi, Castle loco up front dinning car to Wolverhampton, Break the train for Shrewsbury/Birkenhead. put on a Grange and maybe a Dukedog as well if we came heavy during peak holiday traffic,if so we might have come up behind a King so far. Snow Hill ,Shrewsbury,Welshpool and on to a part we call North Wales,but it is not nor is it mid Wales,and it was not LMS country either despite the oridginal line to Welshpool being LNWR. 11.05 Padfington 4.55 pm Aberdyfi. Can't run that time to 58yrs later!
In 1956 when this was filmed cars and fashions were very different! But the mountains and the valleys could have been filmed yesterday. They were filmed 33 years before I entered this world and they'll still be there long after I've departed.
Nigel K Thomas It looks like it may be one of the productions which was shot on 16 mm Kodachrome Commercial and printed by the Technicolor process, like The Lancashire Coast, for example. But why is the sound so poor on many BTF films? Ok, it’s an Academy mono optical track so it’s not going to be exactly hi-fi, but that’s what the vast majority of feature films had at that time, and they don’t sound that bad.
Euston is the gateway to Wales......................is it? Not if you want to go to Cardiff, Swansea, Pembroke, Merthyr Tydfil, Pontypool, Ebbw Vale, Pontypridd, Abergavenny, Caerphilly, Aberdare, Treorchy, Tonypandy, Abertillery, Llanelli, Llandovery, Port Talbot, Neath, Carmarthen, Haverfordwest, Talybont, Tredegar, Tenby.
Alright. There’s always one sharp-jack! I think they mean Euston is the gateway to North and Mid Wales. It’s Paddington for South and South West Wales!
