I live in a serene, rural styx. Surrounded by endless miles of rolling green hills & trees. I don't watch the horror stories of the news. I always have ITV3 on, unless something horrible is on. Every night, I watch stuff like this on YT. I put my hands against my ears, close my eyes, & hum "lalalalala" real loud.
where are the Chigley skinheads?. I think Chigley FC must have had an away game the day this was filmed. I heard they took Camberwick Green Athletics home end once.
Why can't real life be like this instead of complicated. there's no financial meltdown in Chigley,Camberwick Green or Trumpton. though there was some riots in Trumpton over 20 years ago but that was because the residents were sick to the back teeth of Trumpton's autocratic mayor.
Trumpton,chigly etc..was another vision of 60's englands obsession for victoriana..psycadelic drug induces simpler times....victoriana and l.s.d. went hand in hand....sideburns,upstairs downstairs,onidian line,..if you were there you would understand....
@MrCrispian I've just started watching Upstairs,Downstairs on ITV3, every saturday morning. I'm hooked. Every saturday morning, it begins, I crack open a bottle of brandy in rural isolation, & pretend the Worlds a "beautiful place".
Love all the comments posted here. Just goes to show that Youtube can be a civilized forum and fun too. Can it be, after all, that Chigley was actually good for us, despite its possibly dubious political overtones!
I work in a crazy fair trade importers, we are incredible laid back and theres bollywood dancing at lunchtimes, a room for our resident rock band. We have a company dog. 19 different nationalities work for us. I hear cantonese, slovakian, french, telegu, marati, hindi, spanish and english spoken frequently. We have a choir. We do yoga together. So from a socialist perpective are we wrong to be similar to the biscuit factory? I.e is hapiness and harmony inherently non-socialist?
It's not just that he "owns" the leisure time at 6pm, he's also trying to pair off his serfs so that - yes - he can ensure a constant supply of prole children to bake more biscuits for him.
It always makes me laugh to see those women dancers gliding along the ground like they have little fitted hovercraft on the bottom of their dresses! This song is brilliant. Good old Freddie Phillips, gone but not forgotten.
I never could get to grips with what the bloke was doing with his hand behind that organ thing, it always looked to me like he had a flappy wing rather than an arm and it used to disturb me! I didn't know he was winding it. Well, I was only about 5 years old I suppose!
Never liked Winnie, she NEVER went to school, and got on a train with strange men. That teaches more than your parents would about not going with strangers ¬¬.
@MeerkatShakes That is an excellent observation and one that something I overlooked when watching. However, this sort of disgraceful subliminal message obviously has had an effect on today's generation. I feel we need to look no further than Chigley, Camberwick Green and Trumpton to understand the root causes of 'Broken Britain'.
@AdaptorPlug Agree! How many factory workers finish their shift & have a dance now? I smashed my moniter & will send the bill to Chigley, Trumptonshire.........C***s.
@MeerkatShakes Ah, but you have to remember that this was from a different time. Going on a train with a stranger, (although to be fair Lord Belborough is a respected member of the Trumptonshire community), isn't anything to be concerned about. People were more trusting, back then. (Although, I will admit that such things that you're referring to did happen and always have.) People thought better of other people, back then, unlike the cynical, suspicious times we live in today.
@rugshort I put my hands up! No. I was having a joke with a mate! I wish I had! A beautiful piece of music that I played the percussion on! ...........No, that's crap aswell!!!! I just love 60's incidental music!!!! Sorry!
Ha -that perhaps explains it ! A form of far eastern utopian communism that allows a hierarchy to still retain it's control over the masses (via State/private owned factories etc) whilst encouraging the workers to be happy and productive via exercise and positive thoughts etc. Hence Chigley's well oiled format.
@AdaptorPlug There wasn't any strings, they were real people made to look like puppets by early CGI. The biscuit factory was indeed a real place, sadly now it has been turned into modern apartments...part of the mid eighties property boom. Biscuit production went to the far east, and the factory is now in China.
Sadly, Mr Cresswell is now in that big biscuit factory in the sky. And the Green at Camberwick has been made into a pay and display car park. Bloody tourists.
How surreal is it now eh? They weren't too far off about the 6'o'clock whistle, just that we flex off then end up the ale house and dance on tables....and talk about what a bunch of tossers the management are. Utopia. So near but yet so far! Thanks for the great vid. Nice one!
Not to be a pedant, but the biscuit factory was owned and operated by Mr Cresswell, who was not motivated purely by profit. For example, he commissioned a fountain for the factory premises on the basis that it would 'look nice', despite delivering no material ROI.
Cresswell, if anything, was an enlightened capitalist, betting that happy workers are productive workers. Belborough's involvement was pure philanthropy. As a landed gentleman who didn't need to work, he saw his function as a support to the community and was constantly volunteering to help out neighbours at his own expense.
But they did make bloody nice biscuits. My dad used to buy a couple of pounds of broken biscuits from Mr Murphy's bakers shop on the green, every Friday night on his way home from work. They were bought in bulk from Mr Cresswell's factory.
Friday was payday, and dad always brought us a treat in on Friday night. I always wanted a dog, but he used to say "you can't eat a dog son".
Why he used to say that is a constant mystery.
Our winter nights used to just fly by, such was the jovial banter...
I live in a serene, rural styx. Surrounded by endless miles of rolling green hills & trees. I don't watch the horror stories of the news. I always have ITV3 on, unless something horrible is on. Every night, I watch stuff like this on YT. I put my hands against my ears, close my eyes, & hum "lalalalala" real loud.
borgduck 3 weeks ago
where are the Chigley skinheads?. I think Chigley FC must have had an away game the day this was filmed. I heard they took Camberwick Green Athletics home end once.
Jeffreythepeffrey 1 month ago
Why can't real life be like this instead of complicated. there's no financial meltdown in Chigley,Camberwick Green or Trumpton. though there was some riots in Trumpton over 20 years ago but that was because the residents were sick to the back teeth of Trumpton's autocratic mayor.
Jeffreythepeffrey 1 month ago
every day at 6 o clock out they come to dance on the green , then the police come out and dance on the folk lol
bonzo874 7 months ago
just like real work
mangyan35 7 months ago
Trumpton,chigly etc..was another vision of 60's englands obsession for victoriana..psycadelic drug induces simpler times....victoriana and l.s.d. went hand in hand....sideburns,upstairs downstairs,onidian line,..if you were there you would understand....
MrCrispian 10 months ago
@MrCrispian I've just started watching Upstairs,Downstairs on ITV3, every saturday morning. I'm hooked. Every saturday morning, it begins, I crack open a bottle of brandy in rural isolation, & pretend the Worlds a "beautiful place".
borgduck 3 weeks ago
Did they ever broadcast the vocal version?
"Hurry up, hurry up, gather around.
Music and laughter are here to be found.
Now is the time for a breath of fresh air.
Come and enjoy all the fun of the fair.
Side shows and swings there's so much to be seen.
Old friends from Trumpton and Camberwick Green.
Everything pleases and nothing dismays
as the music so merrily plays."
Dristarg 11 months ago
Yes but working in the NHS is a vocation and we appraciate the sacrifice you are making
Pyramus4Thisbe 1 year ago
Love all the comments posted here. Just goes to show that Youtube can be a civilized forum and fun too. Can it be, after all, that Chigley was actually good for us, despite its possibly dubious political overtones!
20callenderslady 1 year ago
I work in a crazy fair trade importers, we are incredible laid back and theres bollywood dancing at lunchtimes, a room for our resident rock band. We have a company dog. 19 different nationalities work for us. I hear cantonese, slovakian, french, telegu, marati, hindi, spanish and english spoken frequently. We have a choir. We do yoga together. So from a socialist perpective are we wrong to be similar to the biscuit factory? I.e is hapiness and harmony inherently non-socialist?
Pyramus4Thisbe 1 year ago
@Pyramus4Thisbe Nice! But at where I work, on the hour, someone gets crucified! Beat that!
martynpank 1 year ago
@Pyramus4Thisbe Hooray- Any spare jobs?
keltyk 11 months ago
OMGGGGGG
fuck yes havent watched this in YEARS
lettuce601 1 year ago
It's not just that he "owns" the leisure time at 6pm, he's also trying to pair off his serfs so that - yes - he can ensure a constant supply of prole children to bake more biscuits for him.
Good tune though!
brhodes0 1 year ago
bum chi chi bum chi che
ShaurntheSheep 1 year ago
I'm sure this was a direct rip off of the Band ending of Trumpton, except Trumpton was better.
RichXbox360 1 year ago
It always makes me laugh to see those women dancers gliding along the ground like they have little fitted hovercraft on the bottom of their dresses! This song is brilliant. Good old Freddie Phillips, gone but not forgotten.
JFredUK 1 year ago
0:25 onwards.... bloody Romanian Gyppo`s even back then.
darrowby1972 1 year ago
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darrowby1972 1 year ago
I never could get to grips with what the bloke was doing with his hand behind that organ thing, it always looked to me like he had a flappy wing rather than an arm and it used to disturb me! I didn't know he was winding it. Well, I was only about 5 years old I suppose!
rachfatcat 1 year ago
Fuck me,i wanna job there...if you feel like dancing at the end of the day,it must be good....where do i sign up?!!!!!
DiddlyDom 1 year ago
Never liked Winnie, she NEVER went to school, and got on a train with strange men. That teaches more than your parents would about not going with strangers ¬¬.
MeerkatShakes 1 year ago 2
@MeerkatShakes That is an excellent observation and one that something I overlooked when watching. However, this sort of disgraceful subliminal message obviously has had an effect on today's generation. I feel we need to look no further than Chigley, Camberwick Green and Trumpton to understand the root causes of 'Broken Britain'.
AdaptorPlug 1 year ago
@AdaptorPlug Agree! How many factory workers finish their shift & have a dance now? I smashed my moniter & will send the bill to Chigley, Trumptonshire.........C***s.
martynpank 1 year ago
@MeerkatShakes Ah, but you have to remember that this was from a different time. Going on a train with a stranger, (although to be fair Lord Belborough is a respected member of the Trumptonshire community), isn't anything to be concerned about. People were more trusting, back then. (Although, I will admit that such things that you're referring to did happen and always have.) People thought better of other people, back then, unlike the cynical, suspicious times we live in today.
JFredUK 1 year ago
@MeerkatShakes My Mum Calls Her Smelly Winnie
ThomasNTUGS 1 year ago
love this
8492grob 1 year ago 2
I played guitar on this track! & on Camberwick Green, Trumpton etc.... See those sites.
martynpank 1 year ago
@martynpank really?
rugshort 1 year ago
@rugshort I put my hands up! No. I was having a joke with a mate! I wish I had! A beautiful piece of music that I played the percussion on! ...........No, that's crap aswell!!!! I just love 60's incidental music!!!! Sorry!
martynpank 1 year ago
Christ on a cross! This brings bacl memories...
K1w1scot 1 year ago
Joking aside, (all this talk of proletarianism, etc.), didn't Mr Phillips produce some excellent music?
JFredUK 2 years ago 2
bolshevism aside, i always thought windy miller would get hit by a sail
ricardo2323 2 years ago
@ricardo2323 I alway wished for it. Is that wrong?
catbells69 1 year ago
Ha -that perhaps explains it ! A form of far eastern utopian communism that allows a hierarchy to still retain it's control over the masses (via State/private owned factories etc) whilst encouraging the workers to be happy and productive via exercise and positive thoughts etc. Hence Chigley's well oiled format.
dali366 2 years ago
Hint of nationalsocialism or poss East block communism or middle European workers enlightenment, early 60's suburbia? Dunno.
dali366 2 years ago 2
I think you might well be on the right tracks with that.
Although in Brian Cant's autobiography he does mention that this series was to be called "Pyongyang".
However, they couldn't rely on the puppet suppliers - and doing mass gymnastics scenes would have tangled the strings.
AdaptorPlug 2 years ago
@AdaptorPlug There wasn't any strings, they were real people made to look like puppets by early CGI. The biscuit factory was indeed a real place, sadly now it has been turned into modern apartments...part of the mid eighties property boom. Biscuit production went to the far east, and the factory is now in China.
Sadly, Mr Cresswell is now in that big biscuit factory in the sky. And the Green at Camberwick has been made into a pay and display car park. Bloody tourists.
blagger56 1 year ago 2
Dance proles, dance.
Someone should have put a bullet through Brocket's head.
PilesDriver 2 years ago
I hope the management boys at Kraft watch this, before they attempt to buy "our Cadbury."
AdaptorPlug 2 years ago 4
By 6 o'clock I'd wanna go home or down the pub or have to go shopping. Don't these people have families!
spiliph123 2 years ago
Remember this!
MerseysideAlice 2 years ago
I wouldn't have fancied the job of animating all the little men coming out of the biscuit factory.
Cool2BCeltic 2 years ago
yes but all you can eat...nnnice
yesindd 2 years ago
Ahh, Chigley, I Love This (:
cazloveshaz 2 years ago
the 2 guys at the front seemed to be happy, with their hands in their pockets , watching........
Phuqueknoze 3 years ago
wha was the six o clock whistle for, if theres no reason then its just worthless
unfatiqueisfrench 3 years ago
The 6.00 whistle signifies the Master's control of the time - and therefore the asset - of "His" industrial proletariat.
In this example the whistle indicates the end of a shift change and, superficially, the transition to the worker's "own" / leisure time.
Deeply, the whistle shows how "philanthropic" Masters aim to control worker's time with acceptable pursuits (to him) and stop them going to the pub.
("One step away from compulsory recreational drug testing." JS Mill.)
AdaptorPlug 3 years ago
I used to feel so gutted at this music because it meant the end of Chigley!
MoleinaHole 3 years ago
That would be "Arthur Scargill Biscuit Maker."
AdaptorPlug 3 years ago
Well what a blast from the past,brilliant
tiptonscut 3 years ago
How surreal is it now eh? They weren't too far off about the 6'o'clock whistle, just that we flex off then end up the ale house and dance on tables....and talk about what a bunch of tossers the management are. Utopia. So near but yet so far! Thanks for the great vid. Nice one!
RedBreenie 3 years ago
Thanks for this!.
Typical 1930s corporate utopia.You slog your guts out all day in Lord Belborough's biscuit factory then you have to dance for him at 6 o'clock!.
soapbox5 3 years ago
Not to be a pedant, but the biscuit factory was owned and operated by Mr Cresswell, who was not motivated purely by profit. For example, he commissioned a fountain for the factory premises on the basis that it would 'look nice', despite delivering no material ROI.
radiodelevine 3 years ago 10
Cresswell, if anything, was an enlightened capitalist, betting that happy workers are productive workers. Belborough's involvement was pure philanthropy. As a landed gentleman who didn't need to work, he saw his function as a support to the community and was constantly volunteering to help out neighbours at his own expense.
radiodelevine 3 years ago 5
Lol!-I'd be tempted to throw a spanner in the factory works!!.
soapbox5 3 years ago
heh heh - rebellion is healthy !
radiodelevine 3 years ago
maybe for those who observe from the comfy armchair
MickeyLove01 3 years ago
Well Sptted :)
kittiboo 2 years ago
But they did make bloody nice biscuits. My dad used to buy a couple of pounds of broken biscuits from Mr Murphy's bakers shop on the green, every Friday night on his way home from work. They were bought in bulk from Mr Cresswell's factory.
Friday was payday, and dad always brought us a treat in on Friday night. I always wanted a dog, but he used to say "you can't eat a dog son".
Why he used to say that is a constant mystery.
Our winter nights used to just fly by, such was the jovial banter...
blagger56 1 year ago
Best thing ever......
john02dawson 3 years ago