Looks like Myrtle Gardens. Anyone know what became of Christy and Ann Ryland at #55. Thanks very much from San Rafael, California🌈😀
@user-bt8cz9nv4xАй бұрын
They converted old slums into sardine cans of flats that quickly became new slums! No wonder people want to leave the UK!
@lizziekaygreenwood3163 ай бұрын
Fabulous video thank you 🥰 people looked after their homes back then & each other 😢 it’s sad how society has changed
@Glen-ft8ch10 ай бұрын
UK is full today. No more immigration is needed.
@terrysmith7441 Жыл бұрын
Having left as a child to Canada, I remember well playing in bombed out buildings. And people were still poor, the lions share went to the Alehouse.
@topcatcoolio8807 Жыл бұрын
Go and have a look at yourself.
@Chelsea-mf4rp Жыл бұрын
Awful place...regardless of the year
@davidedwards7835 Жыл бұрын
Sir Thomas White Gardens was a great place to live.
@davidedwards7835 Жыл бұрын
so if this film is 1939...paddy s wigwam wasn t built then ,or am I wrong.
@lynneforsyth8231 Жыл бұрын
All these beautiful homes are still standing around Liverpool. Springwood Avenue has the same buildings...they are stunning..
@lynneforsyth8231 Жыл бұрын
I worked in Radiant House on Bold St in 1971..Meter Control..a lovely building. I remember George the lift man..The building is still vibrant art deco and stands out amongst the other buildings. "Good morning,meter control"
@ericwilliams2122 Жыл бұрын
Two cathedrals?????????eh?
@user-bt8cz9nv4xАй бұрын
They can’t even support one cathedral never mind two!
@gjones8847 Жыл бұрын
The narrator seems like a decent public servant with concern for the young and the elderly, unlike todays crop of nest featherers.
@deeppurple883 Жыл бұрын
How near sighted young people are about living conditions for the elderly. Most elderly will end up in a nursing home, we know this for a fact. So it would be beneficial for future citizens to put more pressure on politicians now to make changes to the standard of living and care in nursing homes. Look after the workers in these home's, happy workers happy residence. We all get old and have a thke notice, it could be you 👇👵🏾👴🏽
@irenedavo3768 Жыл бұрын
Newly Married and Spinsters
@irenedavo3768 Жыл бұрын
Remember to Thumbs Up 👆
@groundhoglife Жыл бұрын
Narrated by Harry Enfield as Mr Cholmondley Warner 😆
@jumpfortyfour9965 Жыл бұрын
no black kids in sight happy days
@spiffenage1 Жыл бұрын
1939 was an unfortunate time to be building multi storey tenements as the occupants would have had to dash down flights of stairs to an air raid shelter.
@user-bt8cz9nv4xАй бұрын
The idiots then built homes fit for heros after the war; the only problem was that many of these homes were bungalows built of asbestos sheets!!
@MrKevonski Жыл бұрын
It must have been hard moving into the top-floor flats.
@Germanicworlds2 жыл бұрын
Apparently council estates took a nose dive when councils starting giving priority to the most desperate people in society - drug addicts, unemployed etc.
@peterwhitaker40382 жыл бұрын
at 1:12 he stated liverpool was proud of it's two great Catheadrals. e=he was speaking in 1939....the Cathedrals were not finished until 1967 and 1977
@Spherical_El Жыл бұрын
I noticed that. Maybe our Catholic cathedral had an earlier makeshift building?
@misspurrr-fect36842 жыл бұрын
6:21. Those flats on Muirhead ave are still absolutely STUNNING to this day They now have listed building status . I doubt we will ever see the building standard & craftsmanship like this for social housing ever again . 🙁
@MrDaiseymay2 жыл бұрын
YEP---but first, we need to flatten all these disgusting piles of crap, wait a minute, the LUFTWAFFE have offered to do it for free.
@sandwormgod47712 жыл бұрын
So that was the Liverpool accent back in 1939. How I've got an accent, the one I have today, is beyond me. Most of those tenements that were built, in and near the city centre, most have been pulled down having been deemed as slum's, and yet a few remain, now privately owned? Strange that those owned and run by the council were slums and yet those privately owned are still sought after? All those beautiful new housing developments are all classed as deprived areas today. Dovecot, Norris Green, Speke are hives of criminality by the few, and that has an adverse effect on the majority. It's not property that are slums, it's the people you put in them. One bad tenant harms all around them.
@robmccarron8659 Жыл бұрын
I can confirm that Mrs Greaves in the film was a real Liverpudlian yet spoke like that - she was my grandmother. She was born in 1898 so would have had got her accent from those around her in the first few years of the 20th century. (However, the officials in the film don't sound at all local.) Ironically, she and her family moved out of Myrtle gardens to run a shop in Cockburn Street only for all streets in that area to be demolished in a later slum clearance programme.
@Spherical_El Жыл бұрын
@@robmccarron8659 hey great to hear from you. I payed particular attention to your grandmother's accent and I could fully hear the lands + scouse roots of how we speak today. Fantastic for you to see her like this.
@bcqbhg77712 жыл бұрын
I lived in Portland Gardens...knocked down in the 80s as they were considered slums. Yet i have NEVER had a bedroom as big as the bedroom i had there as a child,nor ever felt as safe as i did when i lived there nor have i ever had as good neighbours as i did when i lived there. Even now as a fully grown adult home owner...Portland Gardens was my favourite home. I may be looking back through my childhood mind but i never wanted to leave there & was horrified when my parents made us move into a house that was much smaller.
@irenedavo3768 Жыл бұрын
Wow
@patthompson2401 Жыл бұрын
I lived in Eldon street then moved to Burlington street all gone now
@bcqbhg7771 Жыл бұрын
@@patthompson2401 Do you rem...the newcomb,Mcganns,Burns,Feeneys,Fenlons,Delaneys,Parrys,Gibbons,Dunnes,McCormicks,...cant think of other names
@efcroipsm Жыл бұрын
I lived in top Burly - lots of familiar names there 😊
@seansands424 Жыл бұрын
They don't look like slums to me why did they pulled them down
@Arounadabout2 жыл бұрын
see kids, this is why drugs are bad
@franceskronenwett35393 жыл бұрын
Those new estates of flats and houses looked extremely attractive. A vast improvement to the dreadful slums that these people had left. These were decent hard working people with standards and I am sure that they took pride in their new homes and kept both them and the surrounding areas clean and safe. It was nice to hear a local lady's account of living in her new home. One thing that struck me the most was the absence of traffic which meant that in spite of the playgrounds children could play safely in the streets - heaven.
@bm87253 жыл бұрын
From old slums to new ones
@TheHandsomeman3 жыл бұрын
Why do all the owl women, them days "Look like my nan"?
@MrDaiseymay2 жыл бұрын
a life so tough, we wouldn't laST A WEEK.
@pattifenwick4437 Жыл бұрын
ha ha, I could have sworn one woman could have been my nan. the coat, camel with a belt, the round specs, slim, and the shoes. it was a nice memory for me though,
@TheHandsomeman3 жыл бұрын
No children's playgrounds now, greedy politicians fleecing the funds.
@divadllewdlac73443 жыл бұрын
Ironic, these beautiful buildings erected in 1939 and flattened by Germans in 1940
@kevintravis51233 жыл бұрын
coal only 3/10 per week.. thats about 17p in todays money... wow soooo cheapb!
@kevm46703 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful piece of documented social history.
@MrDaiseymay3 жыл бұрын
But why hasn't it been in the public eye before? there must be many such local films, hidden by the City Council archives.
@arceusmewtwo77743 жыл бұрын
WHO'SE?
@misterwint3 жыл бұрын
Also eBay!
@stevendougherty88243 жыл бұрын
Anybody got anything nice to say... faceless people hiding behind a keypad...🤣🤣
@MrDaiseymay3 жыл бұрын
I like Apple pie and custard.
@alanmills67573 жыл бұрын
The opening shot is of Norris Green where my grandmother lived - the geometric patterns on such a scale were a feature of these new estates but Norris Green and Speke had the grandest of the schemes
@annprince52984 жыл бұрын
The new building tenement style was called the bull ring , it's supposed to be demolished so most of the tenants were removed , it was not demolished but used as student accommodation ,trees were planted, gates were put on the archway, tress planted for the students but not for the original inhabitants so much lies and a community was broken. Housing had no idea of what it meant or did they care, no! The lady speaking has the Lancashire accent which was strongly intertwined with the irish, Scottish and welsh the Lancashire in many cases had not been submerged, it is not surprising liverpool was in Lancashire county, that was the original accent we can still here the Lancashire dialect even we don,t all speak like Harry Enfield joke accent future councils made new ones.
@bettyprice63164 жыл бұрын
They might be classed as slums, but people had pride back then, no litter or graffiti to be seen and the community spirit was high.
@MrDaiseymay3 жыл бұрын
yer-but, today's slums were once 'bright ideas and futuristic' too. It's what certain bone headed people make of their surroundings, that affect the decent ones, and bring the whole area into disrepute. Nothing is learned.
@jennyburke56533 жыл бұрын
Your right they were spotless and had nothing
@andrewh54573 жыл бұрын
@@MrDaiseymay put a pig in a Palace and they will make it a sty.
@seansands424 Жыл бұрын
@@MrDaiseymay Lot of the time it is the people not the houses
@darksharkrafa15 жыл бұрын
All them gardens/tenemants gone now and the large council estates are mainly sold off(right to buy)
@m41incanis5 жыл бұрын
Cholmondley Warner.
@MrDaiseymay3 жыл бұрын
he was a bit---but it was compulsory then--wasn't it?
@layde15 жыл бұрын
The flats and amenities for the residents looked pretty good. I would have been very happy. If only this were happening today.
@maximoo98615 жыл бұрын
Liverpool accents seem to have changed since way back then, the woman speaking doesn't even sound like a scouser
@irenejohnston68023 жыл бұрын
Very true we are (were) Lancashire lads and lassies. I'm one aged 81yrs. Don't speak how the media promotes Liverpool
@patthompson2401 Жыл бұрын
I know lol!
@topcatcoolio8807 Жыл бұрын
Giz a ciggy
@tusharkanwaria2675 жыл бұрын
lmao
@philipgahan96496 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Speke, to see Speke from so long ago was wonderful, thank you for the video
@nevillemason67916 жыл бұрын
Five storey flats with no lifts. Tenants, I presume, were expected to drag their furniture (and shopping) up five floors of stairs! Most of the flats shown were not renovated in turn and deteriorated into bad housing and were demolished in the 1970s. Typical of L'pool City Council wasting money.
@nevillemason67916 жыл бұрын
I think that's a little harsh. The flats were heated by coal. Not many could drag a 1 cwt of coal up 5 floors. What about the elderly or mothers with several small children? The posh architect probably had his servant to do such mundane tasks and wouldn't give the poor tenants a thought!
@kristinesharp62863 жыл бұрын
Plenty of cities with 5 floor walk ups.
@Spherical_El Жыл бұрын
No lifts? They were happy to get theirs gas powered irons and a wall outlet for the radio - happy times:)
@martinlanigan92026 жыл бұрын
there is still inner city slums specially Manchester
@MrZart7 жыл бұрын
*pissez self!!* He's just been told the Courts joke!!!
@jblogs10007 жыл бұрын
all areas outside liverpool had to take liverpool people, i had to work with liverpool people who moved to my area, lazy is not the right word the best description would be die straights, song money for nothing the best thing about liverpool is the a580 road out
@barbaraannecortina78997 жыл бұрын
the calm before the storm it would seem
@MrDaiseymay3 жыл бұрын
Yes--how ironic it is, 1939 ! ''Demolition? ' just wait a month or two more.