“I’ve been put on to a home-grown alternative which I’m told is almost as good as the real thing.”
Nationwide’s James Hogg treats himself to a skiing holiday, touring the finest fake plastic pistes that the North of England has to offer. His first stop is Kidsgrove, near Stoke-on-Trent, which is rumoured to have the third longest plastic ski-slope in Britain. Next, he visits Kirkby, near Liverpool – home to “the plastic ski slope of your dreams”, before finally travelling to use the pioneering municipal plastic ski slope in the “English Alps,” Oldham.
Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, 13 January, 1975.
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Great stuff – nobody speaks like that anymore and it is a huge pity to whatever little remains of Britain and her natives…
Dig the 1970s skiing fashions, very Roger Moore.
Can we please see the Nationwide video of the presenter above, James Hogg, trying to survive stranded on a Scottish isle with little more than a machete? It sounds hilarious!
I love how English people talk all proper and posh but live like homeless people 😂
You imagine if the old fella could see what Woking Council has done and the billions in debt for council tax payers with their scheme. He’d keel over 😂
Councils don’t change, just get worse.
That’s a thing of the past – councils building white elephants……
I'm feeling like this is "Deja vu,all over again," after another recently unearthed video of the ski slope built next to a motorway.
They look like monuments, from afar.
Monumental disasters, I suppose.
This is great
Popcorn
Close your eyes and it's Arnold J Rimmer.
what car is he driving? its beautiful
Wearing a seatbelt in 1975? Wow, impressed.
5:40 ah yes, the 1970s!…i remember it well. 😒
Loved the old footage, and the cars! ☀️
This is so depressing lol
Kidsgrove got its ski center in the same place pretty much and quite a nice one compared to some
Respect to this man for the correct pronunciation of the word plastic!
Today the BBC think there is an 'R' in the word?
I have to admit it makes me sooo happy, to know that its not just modern-day councils throwing money away as it grows on trees
He missed out Rossendale and Sabden dry slopes 😂
Empty motorways – just goes to show the craziness of England’s main roads now.
Nice car!
Two words: fun bins
“By Job I needed that!” Killed me
I'm always fascinated to see stuff from this year, as it was the year I was born, but of course, I don't remember it.
And councils are still wasting money.
Apparently the UK was going through a weird ski slope phase in the 70's. And all with the same build quality of everything else British in the 70's.