East Anglian Holiday (1954) - extract

[NIETZSCHEAN14]

Multi-culturalism/multi-racial­ism has destroyed the true English culture, and the British politicians are all to blame for allowing it to happen. It is foolish to blame the foreigners for wanting a piece of Britain, as it is only natural for a people to want to improve their situation in life; they were only brought into Britain to be cheap labor for the greedy capitalists. The true British people were never asked if they wanted multi-culturalism/multi-racial­ism. Notice how slim the people are!

[andrewnorris2]

Wonderful scenes and especially the quality of the film itself. How tired these holiday places, like Yarmouth, look now. No one has much pride in their towns these days while all the streets are jammed full of traffic.

[rankingtrevor]

By London accent I think you are mistaken. There are three types of London Accent historically . Estuary = general London (mild 'RP') / Cockney = east end working class / RP (Received pronunciation aka Queens English) = elitist public school speech. The new type of accent spoken by many young chaps in inner London areas they all 'MLE' (multi-cultural English) a supposed amalgamation of Jamaican, west African Indian etc. The fellow narrating this is clearly an RP speaker.

[TrancetasticWilza]

I kept expecting to see a bloke pushing a bike up a cobbled street selling Hovis bread!

[emberiza]

That is not an East Anglian accent of any kind. It's a laughable attempt at one by someone who has done their very best but has my Suffolk in-laws in stitches !

[prben2]

In them days they could reminisce about George the Third, today it's just George the Turd.

[prben2]

An age before chavs.

[lozziebo]

It is the teaching of the Standard English in schools not overspill that is taking away the accents

[marktravelling]

It's a shame that the 'Norfolk' guy's accent sounds like a non-East Anglian reading from a script. It's specifically Norfolk that he's trying to do (rather than Suffolk), but it's still a pretty poor attempt.

[freddielaker2]

I love Kings Lynn, Cromer, and NE Norfolk. it maybe now theres a recession the londoners will bugger off back home! hoepfully

[prben2]

@freddielaker2 Wiz there AliG accent.

[freddielaker2]

@prben2 qwoit roit mayte.... bunch o spivs....

[alicejdnsk]

I love a good suffolk accent but this one's terrible!! it's so obviously fake! couldn't even get a real suffolk person to do it??

[Sesquipedaliantique]

I grew up in Cambridge and I can honestly say there is no accent I hate more in the whole of England than the East Anglian accent. It's like a horrible, nasal take on the West Country accent.

[thegladdy]

New Labour nutters have destroyed our once beautiful Country with cheap East European labour and mass immigration.

[12Aggiefan]

This is when Great Britan was great and still pure, and when East Anglia was still the old East Anglia of my childhood. Now its all lost culture the sense of community and the accents. Damn Multiculturalism. 

[chanctonbury63]

@12Aggiefan Sorry to spoil the party, but we were a tired country in serious decline and it got much much worse. Loss of empire, War recovery, then we had the economically calamitous 60s and 70s to look forward to.

It wasnt until maybe 30 years later that we really began to turn things around.

[12Aggiefan]

@chanctonbury63 Yes we were in decline but then we recovered. I have no problem with a few immigrants coming in and helping but when a millions come into this little island and are a drain to our nation and change it forever I have a big problem with that. That's wasn't my orginal point by point is that East Anglia my childhood birthrplacea and region that I grew up is being changed forever we no longer have our Anglo-Scanadvian hertiage its sad.

[norristerse]

@12Aggiefan

perhaps you could explain what "pure" anglo-scandinavian" is?

[Lytton333]

@chanctonbury63 How right you are!.. There's no place like good old McBritain.. How I love to watch the chavs screaming round the concrete hell of inner-city Blighty in stolen-cars.. and watch the sunsetting over the retail-parks and burger-drive-ins.. and read of the latest crime-figures and oap murders..It gives one the sense of a true Renaissance..

[chanctonbury63]

@Lytton333 Fair comment! But at least we get more than 2 nanograms worth of meat per quarter...

[spentonmediocrity]

I know it's a stretch but part (pahhht) of the east Anglian accent survives in parts of Massachusetts and even up to Maine.I should know,I'm a life long New Englander.

[12Aggiefan]

Born and raised in East Anglia moved to London though when I was 11.Eastern Anglia though is being changed by all the transplants from London. The old Anglo-Scandinavian culture is now being lost.

[coltsuperocean10]

@12Aggiefan thats right!! The Polaks have taken over!! Even as far as Lincolnshire, all you see is Polak workers.

[rubysson57]

@coltsuperocean10  "Polaks" : Some people dont know how lucky they are. For immigration and 'loss' check out all the major cities starting inwards from London. Colonisation is what it really it is. Certainly indiginous Englanders are a minority in most of them already.

[redcardinalist]

@rubysson57

What exactly are" indiginous Englanders"? Immigration has always been a part of what has made this country great and I think you'll find that many English people have grandparents or great-grandparents who were immigrants.

And as for saying that they're in a minority, what rot. Evidence to back up your ludicrous claim please?

[12Aggiefan]

@redcardinalist Typical multicultralist clown. Our beloved East Anglia is not what it once was because of immigration and because of internal emigration if you cannot understand that you must not be from here.

[tenterden16]

I spent many happy holidays in Great Yarmouth. Nice to see Regent Road with all the gift shops and Botton Brothers Pleasure Beach with a glimpse of the alpine covered Rollercoaster. Wonderful video. Thank you.

[cherrypietogo]

It is a shame that the East Anglian accent is being watered down. I come from North London and moved to Clacton on Sea 30 years ago then you still had local dialect but now its Dagenham init

[okuma0kuma]

i love how northick folk always been in denial about sounding like pirates lol

[fordlandau]

there was an old herring ..high ricketty barlow ??? was this guy out of the looney bin ?

[Pitcairn2]

Lovely shots of Lowestoft and Yarmouth- I am sure I can see my Brothers watching the Punch and Judy at Childrens corner- great memories.

[Take2VideoBeccles]

Norfolk dialect is hard to do thats why many voiceovers sound like west country cider drinking accents. This is pretty close!!! ;-)

[norristerse]

of all the people they could have got to do the "local dialect" voice-over they had to pick james robertson bastard justice.

[chanctonbury63]

@norristerse How do you know its Justice.

[norristerse]

@chanctonbury63

there's no mistaking that voice, even with the bad accent!

(can't stand the bloke generally, but i DID like him in a film called "pool of london" 1951)

[davidrobert2007]

Accent not correct. That jist int roit buh...

[crustyhead]

James Robertson Justice doing the bad accent...

[harry23769]

not much of a Norfolk accent but nice to see the old place Swaffham now thers a place to go and talk proper like

[redredbull17]

ive lived in bedfordshire all my life and everyone sounds cockney or midlands here , my mums from canterbury and my dad from huntingdon he has a very midlands accent ofen slipping out some brumy every now and then yet i sound cockney

[markimark03]

it's a terrible shame that our beautiful east anglian accents are being watered down and destroyed by london overspill in norfolk, suffolk and cambridgeshire, let alone essex.

[Punktuality]

Yh like wot wud u know, bet u iz some toff graduate wiv blonde hair or summat or nuffink.

[markimark03]

@ Punktuality:

move along scum, don't you have some hubcaps to steal?

[Punktuality]

2 markimark03:

Wot wud u kno. I aint never not done stealing.

[chanctonbury63]

@markimark03 Its happening all over the place. I grew up in W Sussex. People spoke in a similar way to those in Dorset. Now, except very occasionally, theres nothing left of that anymore. Shame really.

[Mounhas]

Time when everyone knew their place (not that I agreed with that but may be it worked), no mass estate building or items on easy terms, country was at peace with itself. Then it changed...

[lauriebooth]

Great to see the pedal cars.

[hwame]

Isn't nostalgia a wonderfully comforting thing!

[mikkifly]

quite splendid

[fordlandau]

I bet the water at the beach was freezing...Are there any fish left in those waters?...love the film ..tnakks!!

[metalorg]

Look at all those rays/skates! Is he going to eat them?

[bigboxbobby2]

I love the phoney local accent! Great gem of a film.

[Kenn1965]

(Sighs) There's a Britain we'll never see again. Thank you BFI for finding these gems and sharing them.

[CelticReject]

'Places like YYYYAAARRRRRRRRmouth'!!

love it!