1970s Liverpool | Poverty | Education priority areas | Teaching in the 70s | This Week | 1971

[@Theocracy8]

Poverty yes, but not deprived in morality. Now we have both.

[@MrDanielfff777]

True

[@stockgorilla4999]

Lol I haven't seen uk kids playing in dirt the last several years 😂

[@missmuffet3874]

You are deluded. So there were no murders, rapes or domestic abuse years ago? There were no red light districts or dodgy goings on? If you think there is more crime and immorality about today it’s because it’s reported more frequently. A lot of cover ups and sweeping things under the carpet in those days.

[@missmuffet3874]

@peoplearedumbnow3886what about our homeless problem or were you being sarcastic?

[@j.m.4444]

50 years later same problems. Nothing has changed. Well done!

[@drubber007]

All by design.

[@dortkommendieclowns1474]

Multicultural

[@CA999]

Are they allowed to say the word "poverty" anymore on television about domestic issues? Thank you for the upload to remind us of what television was and still should be.

[@MrDanielfff777]

Wym?

[@buddha1736]

I lived down south it was grim in School and our council estate wasn’t much better, the best thing I learned from School was to Read, I do love reading a good Book. 😍

[@mindblast3901]

Reading and writing bit of maths that will do work the rest out 70,80,s school south east oh what fun we had LOL

[@buddha1736]

@@mindblast3901 Deffo mate, do you remember the old Damp, Cold 🥶 Portacabins things lol. 😂

[@mindblast3901]

@@buddha1736 oh yes with odd one leaking roof catching rain drops in those grey class room rubbish bins

[@buddha1736]

@@mindblast3901 😂👍🏻

[@stevefoster5138]

@@buddha1736 I can see a wedding coming on here !!!

[@anthonyhulse1248]

I come from Wythenshawe, south Manchester. Many of the same issues, poverty, deprivation, lack of investment in kids. I’m grateful in many ways for the Catholic grammar school that literally thrashed a decent education into me. I was the first of my family (30 first cousins and all previous generations) to go to university. I’m now a teacher and love working with students from similar backgrounds to these kids.

[@zeddeka]

Thank god we don't "thrash" kids any more. The last vestiges of Victorian Britain.

[@markallan3842]

2021 and we still have all these problems when will it ever change ?

[@mt6271]

Liverpool has come a long way since this video. Still more investment needed but I remember the docks back then and it’s looking better all the time.

[@gerardrimmer1601]

I enjoyed my childhood in Liverpool , l was born 1950 the standard of education growing up was absolutely shite , the employment situation was dire when l left school not that l had a choice about having a job it was basically trying to decide what kind of shit l preferred to shovel etc, l had to leave Liverpool to find a better life for myself and l succeeded, l raised a family worked hard and l bought my own house along with my wife of course.

[@markydee1133]

Well done mate

[@OTMM22]

Good for you. Went to Liverpool last year and was shocked by the level of deprivation. It was quite sad really.

[@thomastereszkiewicz2241]

kids look pretty happy in this film, hurrah for Liverpool, with all its challenges, still keeping their children a priority, well done indeed!

[@RetroReminiscing]

Llove watching all the uploads for this channel, thank you

[@janeporter818]

This is sad to watch even if it was 50 years ago💔

[@shizueleighhicks6174]

Friendly, down-to-earth people is what I remember from the mid1970s. Sense of humor? Even the kids used to make me laugh. I (an American) was in my mid-twenties,fell in love with a Scouse and enjoyed the pleasure of his company with two other native Liverpudlians in a nineteenth century humongous former mansion turned into three bedsits and an apartment for the elderly landlady and her middle aged son. Shillings in the meter for gas for cooking and more shillings in another meter in the bath for bathwater boiled 10 gallons at a time in a geezer. The 70s were very romantic. Showed me a new way to live in an 8 pound per week bedsit with share bath and kitchen. At one point during those couple of years the bin men went on strike. A big corner empty lot near us turned into a temporary garbage “tip.” Smelly and covered with rats by the end of the first week. From what I see of the gentrification of Edge Lane and the rest of Liverpool, the place has changed a million-fold. For the better? I don’t know. I don’t remember homeless and food banks. Would I give up the chance to be there in the 1970s? No chance! Would I want to be there now? No chance!

[@Nortekman]

The UK in the 1970’s and 1980’s always looks bleak, depressed and polluted.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

And cold

[@TheStevenWhiting]

This was up North. It never was great up North with all the coal mines closing etc. But also have to remember the filming quality back then was never great.

[@4-dman464]

The media now makes it look that way. Is the planet LESS polluted now? Any study by any environmental team would have to observe that the planet is far more polluted now than then, and the gap between rich and poor far more extreme now than then, and the number of homeless people far more prevalent now than then, and tenants' rights far more eroded now than then, and human rights generally (starting with the right to privacy and on up) far more eroded now than then, and overpopulation far more problematic now than then.... so if the 1970s was troublesome, how would we characterise today?

[@earthredalert]

It was - although the planet is even more screwed today than it was back then. By a long long way.

[@sutapasbhattacharya9471]

And yet the surveys show that the British people were at their happiest in 1977 when there was far less inequality in housing etc.

[@DC-wp6oj]

A degree today has been totally devalued. You can be a complete failure at school and college and still get accepted to university and get a degree. Not worth the paper its written on.

[@FN_FAL_4_ever]

That is only becoming increasingly apparent with each passing year. The entire college/university education system (and I use the word "education" very loosely) is a money pit.

[@jasonayres]

Out of curiosity, Liverpool FC is an internationally renowned club. The Beatles, and their ilk, were internationally known. This is not the first video on poverty in the region, at the time. Were any of these celebrities, in their own way, helpful to the region, back in the day?

[@civlyzed]

Those are interesting questions, and I'd like to know the answers as well.

[@marklola12]

i actually tried to look this up a while ago and i found nothing saying the beatles when they had fame did anything for liverpool or their communities as such as giving money to local charities etc, i know Lennon supported some charities but they were not local ones or ones to do with liverpool

[@jasonayres]

@@marklola12 Thanks. This is a sad shame, considering what we saw in the above video.

[@dogdayaftertaste]

@@marklola12 Paul McCartney, founder of LIPA, is an ex-Beatle I believe.

[@dogdayaftertaste]

@WhatHappenedToSociety for some strange reason you seem to think I gave you permission to tell me what to do. You couldn't be more mistaken.

[@Herlrzax]

Thank you very much for upload.

[@noteverton]

I was 13 then, growing up in Liverpool.

[@MargaretPinard]

Paddington Playmobile! That's fun.

[@joanne26]

Liverpool was like most big metropolitan cities like Birmingham and Manchester they had the same issues of POVERTY, Education issues and Teaching issues back then. I started school in Birmingham in 1971 and enjoyed the first 6 years but education did nothing for me. When TONY BLAIR came to power in 1997 it was all about EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION and aiming to get a huge % to go to UNIVERSITY. Where has that got us? I feel we need to learn about LIFE SKILLS and more learning hands on SKILLS TO MAKE THINGS and i feel that the SUBJECTS/CURRICULUM needs to change to cope with the world today

[@ctcurry1777]

Nothings changed apart from a population explosion. This is hard world and its getting harder. Parents must take more responsibility for thier children's education.

[@albear972]

What the heck? Some instincts came out at 4:37

[@paulmcdonough1093]

i noticed that

[@blackinton2526]

Annoying white girl

[@helenhughes9420]

Government have made this kind of help with learning impossible because it wasn't profitable!!

[@syedadeelhussain2691]

I would advise you to read Dr Amartya Sen.

[@lindabishop7266]

I lived in river Avon street I don't think we lived in poverty I passed my 11 plus went for a year in grammar school before moving only because my step father got offered a new job and a house loved my childhood in Liverpool

[@simonba9944]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@marklola12]

The state of that bus lol they could have even back then clean the inside where the kids go lol

[@earthredalert]

Liverpool is still mostly a socialist cesspit all these years later, unfortunately. Very red, oh what good that ideology did for them. The only good thing about Liverpool is its glorious victorian buildings, great maritime history and museums and of course LFC. Worth a weekend visit if you've not been.

[@philipcurnow7990]

I think your grammar needs some work. I don't quite understand your point.

[@AA-jj6jv]

Liverpool much like Manchester and other cities have those problems. However Liverpool has more then just what you've stated. Yet it is ran by a bunch of woke socialist idiots.

[@bt3743]

@@AA-jj6jv again how is Liverpool socialist. In what way is the economy of liverpool controlled by workers

[@Jason-Scott]

Agree Liverpool is proper communist.

[@Simnuvo]

"what good that ideology did for them", you're talking as if there's been any socialist governments since Clement Atlee's in the 1940's or as if Liverpool is an independent country... Liverpool had the misfortune of being deliberately put on a "managed decline" by Thatcher - mistreatment on steroids compared to the other mistreated Northern cities and towns that have degraded dramatically thanks to successive conservative and neoliberal governments. If the people of Liverpool actually got what they voted for, the story would've been very different and misguided people like you wouldn't leave such ignorant comments.

[@michaelsalt4565]

Education only works if the students want to learn. There appears amongst many from deprived areas that there is no motivation to learn, better to live off benefits then actually work for a living is the attitude of some

[@JerkerDahlblom]

What a load of nonsense.

[@michaelsalt4565]

@@JerkerDahlblom my daughter is a teacher at a school in one of the most deprived areas in England. Now give me your source for your comment.

[@JerkerDahlblom]

@@michaelsalt4565 You will find people with the same attitude in all social classes. Your daughter speaks for all impoverished people?

[@michaelsalt4565]

@@JerkerDahlblom so my comment isn't nonsense then, you agree it's the reality of the situation.

[@JerkerDahlblom]

@@michaelsalt4565 It is a nonsense comment as such, the problems these people faces are complex. Your comment makes them one dimensional people with only one goal in life - live off benefits (as if the monetary amount of benefits you get enables a "comfortable life" ).

[@thehoneyeffect]

Notice how they all say ‘his’ instead of they when referring to all of children. How have assets back a poverty stricken boy was in Liverpool, a girl was more sad

[@barbaraannecortina7899]

not even a full fucking programme...disappointing!

[@vasili1207]

that's white privilege

[@Layla-mt9pc]

We were empty in pockets full in life❤boss la🫶💋🫶