You go off to war come back and the jobs are shipped overseas. Shame on the greedy who have no care for the needy.

We came from STRATFORD in the 40s and 50s found memories

Them days are gone forever 😢😢

Great I remember in the 70's Family and Kinship in East London was essential reading for Sociology students..wish I had seen this

I'm a Black Country wench from Dudley and proud on it!

It was all rosie before the government moved all these families out to seperate council blocks and destroyed the whole way of life. UK been on a steady decline ever since. British culture gone for ever.

Wow I remember this 1982 when I started Primary school aged 5

i was there from 69 till 72

Anybody have a DVD copy I could duplicate?

I wanted to be kizzy when I was younger,never afraid to speak up and all that freedom...saladdays ....

2025 now watching this.. I’m 28 and i wished i was born then.

What a lovely nostalgic film. I was a toddler living in the next Borough. My aunts and uncles lived in Bethnal Green. I looked out for them, No Luck, my uncle ran a famous sea food shop on the main Street. I wonder if Carol made it to Australia?

In the 1950's I attended a primary school in Manchester where the year 3 and year 4 pupils were taught in the same room by the same teacher. I have very happy memories of this school. The teachers were really committed to the children and the Headmistress gave extra lessons to 3 of us who were going to sit the examination for the Direct Grant Grammar School.

Very good film just like life❤

I'm back in Glasgow now, but I remember the fondness I had for the PROPER London I remember when I lived there for almost 4 years in the late 60's. Worked in Chelsea but moved around flats in Streatham, Brixton and Hammersmith. Recently walked up King's road past where the Birds Nest used to be. The place - and people - were unrecognisable. If only I could wave a wand.

Billions for the (old city) Bankers...war, debt and least possible living standards for the people ....

Loved watching this documentary: I was born 1952 : I can remember so much of this growing up : it’s all gone now : so down to earth and yes a struggle to make ends meet : but it was a simple time . Everyone helped each other: Memories 🇬🇧🇨🇦

my mum worked there 1949 . she used to get 100 free cigs a week the men got 200 lol

You have to laugh about equality , I have never seen a woman working on a road in sub zero temperatures at 2:00am in the morning with a pneumatic drill

Almost no ambition. Incredible

Real Great Britain, when men were men, all suited up and polished shoes and hat, and all women nicely dressed and well presented, All polite in every day life. Now it is nothing but warfare, and immigrants.

Some went North some went South and a lot of them went to Kent!! Grate video that left me feeling sad. Fantastic spirit and togetherness. The video ends saying that they hoped to move to some flats, little did they know, possibly the beginning of the end, sad.

Back in the day that Union Reps. actually worked for their colleagues, unlike the sell-out yes men scum we have now.

65 years later....all gone and replaced.

1958. The year I was born...it doesn't seem like another planet...more like another solar system or possibly another galaxy. These are not quite my memories because I'm American, but i can relate to the aching feeling of loss for what has been and is no longer. We of course have our own East End tragedies in the US, but they go by different names; Brooklyn and The Bronx, New York / Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey / North Boston / South Philadelphia / West Baltimore, and on and on. We are the people and we have been disinherited. We will not forget and will never forgive the unforgivable.

This could allegorically be applied to any point in history, including modern day.

Born and bred in East Ham 1960

There's a lot of questions in there, eh ?

The good old days ,looking after your own.Gone but not forgotten.

Does anyone know the names of the 2 young girls

Freddie Jones played a bacteriologist in The Satanic Rites of Dracula, so this was well within his wheelhouse.

I’ve read lots of books on the East End from 1940 to the mid 70s. This video is just so contrived by comparison. The people in this Play, and I mean Play, were directed by the maker of this bit of nonsense.

all yuppies should be made to watch this

I worked at Players factory very briefly, fixing the roof, it was closed by then, probably late 80's. It was a vast empty space, it must have been something else at this time but boring as hell to work in. Like the lace factories noisy too, I can still here the Rachel lace machines in my head 40 years later. Love the accent of the ladies, still got mine.

I think medicine was victim to the woke, fairy thinkers as well as this poor child and her parents.

I love it my children watch it with me when they were growing up 😊

I had no idea this series existed. A teacher read us the book in 1985 I was 10. My most favourite childhood book. Bought it last year for my granddaughter to read when she’s older. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS❤

13:12 It might be a bunch of blokes down the boozer, at least they're in suits and ties! 😂😂

Do the people still think more of their “pleasures”? Drinking, smoking, leaving their families behind? We take our children everywhere we go. I can’t imagine leaving them behind to focus on me myself and I. We’re a family. Church 2-3 times a week here. Bible daily. Drinks on holidays at home only. Own our own home with land just as my grandparents did just as my parents did.

Back when you could walk down the road and see more than 3 white people

Thank you for uploading this - I've had vivid memories of the dead bodies being slung on to the cart since 1980 and have been trying to find this for ages!

I guess I will have to read the book to know what episode 2 might have been about. Going to look for the book online now!😊

So lovely and all lost to cultural enrichment

Mr Cholmondley Warner at his finest!

When this programme aired in the 70s, some of my friends called their baby daughters Kizzy.

Catherine Cookson did a kids show?

I love this show and I’m just 15min in!! I love ❤ it even more after finishing it! I sure do wish that someone has Episode 2 somewhere and will upload and share it with us! I’m going to read the book to get the full story. Read (Title)free online and it came right up to read for free!😀

What a pompous patronising interviewer. And that stupid Here We Go Again, Happy As Can Be music. How happy would he be if his female relatives HAD to work in badly lit sweat shops or out charring for low wages.

Did I miss the part about going to church? I know in America most people still went to church in the 50s 60s and even into the 70s

Wonder what happened to these people. The kids may still be around. Wonder if that girl ever went to Australia.