What it was like to live in Great Britain in the 1950s

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In the late 20th century Britain became a multi-cultural society. Also, in the 1950s young people had significant disposable income for the first time. A distinct 'youth culture' emerged, with teddy boys. A revolution in music was led by Elvis Presley and Bill Haley.
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@colinmccarthy7921 12 дней назад

I remember the 1950’s.❤.

@T_Bone58 12 дней назад

Still better off then than the present day🕺🕺

@MELVYNANDERSON 4 дня назад

crap then and crap now

@mattiewilcox8463 8 дней назад

The 50"s was a Magical Time to be a teenager ⭐⭐⭐🎶🎵🎶. So lucky to have experienced it

@Htdobb458e 8 дней назад

Whichever way you look at it i think id rather go back to that time.

@briannickson6631 11 месяцев назад

I lived through these times and despite its faults and problems, I much preferred it to today’s life.

@griswald7156 4 месяца назад

You had your youth and vitality you were forever young..and you know now you were safe..

@arthurwebber-g4l 16 дней назад

ME TOO.

@anthonyeaton5153 6 дней назад

Do you remember the polio epidemic, millions of homes without a bathroom many without running water. Rationing, national service, the war in Korea. Did you or your parents have a car. The best part of the fifties was that it wasn’t the forties wartime etc.

@davidcorcoran5463 6 дней назад

@@anthonyeaton5153 And today we have thousands of people sleeping on the street maybe with the luxury of a cardboard box, the long line ups for the National Health Service, shootings, more muggings than the fifties, few jobs for the unskilled, people unable to afford rents or food and the Covid epidemic. If I had to live in London, England again, it would be in the fifties or sixties

@brianpope5243 2 дня назад

What great days these were , rock n roll taking over from our parents music & it’s still going strong today

@dalebenton3354 11 месяцев назад

People dressed up really smart back in the 1950's,How I get dressed up smart for a Job interview or a wedding or something to be posh for,Strange how fashion changes over the years

@Julia-fo4tk 10 дней назад

People dressed smartly especially on Sundays. They had pride in their appearances.

@buntyrarebit 20 дней назад

The 1950s were pretty dull. Most people didn’t have money to spare. It was better for kids, who weren’t watched over like now. Go out with a bottle of water. Come home when the street lights came on.

@AnnabelleJARankin 4 дня назад

WRONG! These kids a cool as f@ck, and did not need money to spare to have a great time, even though post-war England was not the most glamorous era!

@susangailcortes8006 Год назад

People actually look happy then & knew how to enjoy life.

@LondonPower Год назад

They look more healthy and confident True

@haydenbretton2990 11 дней назад

And every "Man Jack expected to do National Service" and what did it do, "It made Men out of them"

@petergalloway7978 14 дней назад

There were also people in the 1950s who didn’t live in London l was one of them

@dalebenton3354 11 месяцев назад

This is going back some years,God knows where I was,More years before my time,Interesting looking at old history

@v8pilot 9 дней назад

Teddy boys - the greatest menace to society that ever existed. But by 1960 they were all middle aged. I remember pointing out the middle aged teds.

@noelsalisbury7448 9 дней назад

New Teddy Boys used to fight the Punks in London in 1977.

@Ted-f4o077 4 дня назад

@@noelsalisbury7448 starting out from Sloane Square, walking down the Kings Road with the skinheads till they met the punks coming from the opposite direction. I was there in my drape jacket but one day I did fall for a good looking Punk girl and dated her for a while

@tooyoungtobeold8756 16 дней назад

Sundays were the pits, everything closed, apart from newsagents for a few hours in the morning and pubs. We weren't allowed out past the front gate wearing Jeans on a Sunday. For a child it was dead.

@basicconcepts1d 16 дней назад

The Pubs were closed on Sundays. Hotels were open but you had to prove that you were a bona-fide traveller to get a drink .

@180ballybollock 6 дней назад

Now every days the pits

@richardl772 День назад

Sundays were the best for us kids……few cars on the road so you could get on your bike and travel allover for hours!

@oldben5772 13 дней назад

I saw only one female in trousers, near the end, being rescued so perhaps they were her husband's. You should have warned us it would be 99% London.

@Ted-f4o077 4 дня назад

Kids wearing Edwardian clothes not allowed into Hotel Dances in Luton in the 1950's..... Fast forward to today and Friday afternoons in Luton, they are nearly all wearing Pyjamas and carrying a magic carpet

@tooyoungtobeold8756 16 дней назад

Whoever made the poster re. the hotel banning Edwardian Dress, obviously skipped English classes. And the photo of Windsor Castle, is actually Hampton Court.

@roycampbell5605 4 дня назад

If you think the fifties were dull .you were not there.i would sooner be in the fifties than now.we had better cars .beer was ten old pence a pint.20 Benson and hedges 1s.and 10 pence .the music was better.pubs had open fires .etc etc etc.

@MrSofakinggreat 8 дней назад

Anyone got a spare seat in their time machine?, take me there!

@TechnoMagi-h4r 9 дней назад

Depends on which part of the 1950's rationing didn't really end till 1954 so on the Whole the first half of the decade was Dull ...

@mackfin8869 11 дней назад

Girls are the coolest ❤

@bobbojones8157 2 дня назад

In answer to the title . Better than it is now even though times were tough just after the war .

@petermartin7350 13 дней назад

The Tories returned to government in 1951, not 1950. The great thing about the 50s was that they weren't the 40s! It's all very well to look back 60+ years - the past is another country, they do things differently there. Impossible really to compare then and now.

@brickie59 День назад

A much Brighter time to live in London.

@artrandy 8 месяцев назад

Whoops, a couple more errors! One @ 4.27, the street scene is at least 1940s, but more likely pre-war, the 30s!! Some of those vehicles look to be from the 20s😀. @ 5.18 those are 40s hairstyles, but could be as late as early 50s I suppose, if they were a group of young mothers striving to be unfashionable. Look at the lady's hat to the left, 40s I should think. And @ 7.29, that is also 1940s, in fact its WW2. The sign to the right references the Home Guard.😀Thanks for the good fun as usual.........

@v8pilot 9 дней назад

There were lots of cars from the 20's and 30's in the 1950's. Everybody was skint and you had to be really well off to buy a Morris Minor. My neighbours had Austin 7's from the 20's. My dad who was a well paid civil servant had a 1936 Riley (like the one at 4:27).

@freeserve1942 7 дней назад

In my experience, a lot of so called ‘Teddy Boys’ were thugs !

@kevintrace5396 8 дней назад

I bet it was safer than today's shit people got to put up with drugs knives etc. I tell u

@Respectforpensioners 4 дня назад

It was fantastic as we didn’t have kier Starmer pretending to be PM.

@kenmay1572 3 дня назад

Thanksgiving ? Harvest festival I recon

@johnminshell7595 2 дня назад

It was Great get yourself a Motor for Just 50 quid and go out 7 nights a week my knee hurts a bit now 😅 and I cough a bit due to all the Fags we all smoked .

@mikewa2 5 дней назад

1950’s were awful in Uk, everyone was poor! TV was pathetic, really awful. Coal fires and scrapping ice off the inside of the windows. Everyone smoked. Rationing and no supermarkets. Unreliable cars and no sun. Summer holidays in landlady houses! Thank goodness for the 1960’s which stared bad but improved rapidly in 1963, such a great time of hope in the 60’s

@AnnabelleJARankin 4 дня назад

Post-war England was not glamorous but a lot better than wartime, these kids are cool and enjoying themselves, nothing to do with having money! TV is far more pathetic today.

@plentyofnothing 7 дней назад

Must have been a lot of PTSD - but never acknowledged - stiff upper lip. Lot of community - we're all in this together - but that spirit gradually faded.

@MELVYNANDERSON 4 дня назад

crap that's what it was like

@garyproffitt5941 4 дня назад

Addicted to nicotine.

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