BBC 40 Minutes Documentary on Cardross Street Hammersmith.

BBC 40 Minutes Documentary Two Side's of a Street. Cardross Street.
In Hammersmith West London.

[@heinkle1]

Imagine living in the same house, married to the same person, for 66 years. Harry and Gladys would have married in 1923. One cannot fathom the social, political and economic change they witnessed in that time.

[@RaphaelDawkinsCombatRadio]

And renting the whole time.

[@martinabest9022]

“I’ve been taken off the shelf and dusted once or twice” absolute gold!

[@kville5796]

Brilliant!

[@RaphaelDawkinsCombatRadio]

I wondered how thorough the dusting was❓🤔

[@helenshingler7646]

I was so happy to find this documentary as my Grandparents Rose and Albert Ransley lived in No 24 Cardross Street and my parents lived with them for a few years after marrying and I did too when I was born. It was so lovely to see Harry and Gladys Weller from No.26 I remember them from my childhood. My grandfather is listed as living there with his first wife, seven children and a boarder in the 1911 census! I'm not sure how long before that he occupied it but I am researching family history. My grandmother Rose died in 1971 and my uncle Don (Donald Stuart) lived there for a while after that before he sold the property. I loved that house so much and have many happy memories over the 17 years of my own life connected to it. Having seen it sold in 2012 for £760,000 and barely recognisable inside now it's unbelievable that I think my Uncle bought it for £600. How the world has changed.......progress is a strange phenomenon!

[@aloheyio6335]

Still looking good babe

[@mjh5437]

@@aloheyio6335 Cringe

[@doopdapps1088]

I used to go brackenbury school in the 70's and had a friend called Portia and her mum used to live on Cardross Street 😁

[@headron66]

You won’t get that kind of price increase for a house nowadays that’s for sure!!

[@jcs3330]

How wonderful to have your family generations history living in that street and to be able to see it on this documentry.

[@thehealthjunkie8996]

these lovely people had a lovely simple life. Fishmongers, veg, ice cream. So much better than going to Sainsburys.

[@jintsfan]

We’re all guilty for the demise of the local shops.

[@debbiejames3096]

@@jintsfan yes but greedy landlords asking impossible shop rents are more to blame

[@larkatmic]

Same here in USA. I saw it begin in the 1980s. We had a good run. Population collapse will make a country suffer. You can’t sustain civilization, once prized, when you live at the alter of self. I remember when staring a family was a good thing, not something many today under 30s have contempt for.

[@sharonlayhe4071]

I would hate to live in the USA🫥🥺🫤🥺

[@moerahman6749]

The artist in the beginning of this video, Luciana Arrighi, went on to win an Oscar in 1993 for Best Art Direction for Howards End.

[@sararichardson737]

I lived on a neighbouring st and know the area really well. Our neighbour. Lilly Davis, was born in her house and lived there until she died aged 102. I loved hearing about how life was during the war. It’s s lovely village like part of London.

[@maddang1797]

There's an awful lot of dilapidated properties these days. I'm not sure if that's from the expense of maintaining them or just neglectful freeholders freeholders

[@pipfox7834]

​@@maddang1797land banking! A pernicious practice of deliberate devaluation of housing

[@clipstone]

Broadcast: 4th May 1989 - according to the BBC.

[@MamaLinz123]

Thank you!! 🙏🏻

[@ForceFreeTrainergirl06]

oh wow, I would have put it before that! That is even more appalling to think that people were living in those conditions at that time. I thought it was maybe the 70s or early 80s.

[@skylargardner5351]

The piece of mail said 1983

[@pikkyndan]

Thankz. I thought so but the footage looked aged.

[@llnny863]

"It's a charming little street" and then they move in and destroy everything that was charming about it! The irony.

[@abdullahmatteo9316]

instablaster...

[@eamoc]

Hoxton, Shoreditch.... Peckham FFS!

[@annoyingbstard9407]

And the film being produced by the very people responsible for the destruction.

[@matthewperry848]

As Vera Duckworth would say, those damm yappies!

[@sharonlayhe4071]

Lovely old people, lovely old houses.Why does everything have to change??😢😢😢

[@doopdapps1088]

"Mind you... I do like a man's company but I couldn't settle down with one"!!!! 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾👌🏾

[@nicolemurphy2629]

🎉

[@user-ck5ho3di2o]

Makes me want to cry looking at those old people all by themselves

[@annoyingbstard9407]

Prepare yourself…..half of us end up alone.

[@baylorsailor]

​@@annoyingbstard9407that's why surrounding yourself with children helps ease that. I understand some people can't have children. But there are many people today who are deciding to not even try out of fear it will cramp their "lifestyle".

[@annoyingbstard9407]

@@baylorsailor Ease that? I’m alone now and love it.

[@VicFlange]

@@annoyingbstard9407Let’s see if you still feel the same in 20 years.

[@annoyingbstard9407]

@@VicFlange The chance of me being alive in 20 years is remote to say the least. 😀

[@Merseysiderful]

11:34 Terrible that the Estate Agent was too ignorant to even say Hello to Charlie George. Treated like he was some sort of low life.

[@spidyman8853]

Maybe she might have said hello to Charlie before the recording of the video. We will never know.

[@user-ck5ho3di2o]

What a rude woman,let's hope someone treats her like that,

[@sharonlayhe4071]

I thought that,both these women completely ignored the old gentleman 😢

[@ROBBUK]

They would have greeted him before they recorded the segment. Maybe even had a little chat. They probably had to film the same segment 2 or three times.

[@bteuben-faber8215]

I enjoyed the lady who have bought the house of her (lovely) neighbours and the way she talked to them (and was aware of their standards) ❤ Love from Holland

[@jacqui9176]

Number 77 where Charlie George lived is now worth £1,254,325.

[@Ponkelina]

😱

[@paulmcdonough1093]

i grew up in toxteth liverpool i was a teen in the 80s it was a real community we had a real laugh genuine folk

[@zaftra]

in betweeen the riots.

[@jaimz33]

Me too. I loved Tocky but it changed after the riots. But I only moved because they knocked Entwistle down

[@ricardopelc-wesoly3483]

All those lovely old people sadly no more alas now all those young people now sadly grown old.

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

Well a lady who was only 72 was referred to as “old”! Oprah is 70, Sharon Osbourne is 71!!

[@sallyarmstrong8612]

So what age would you consider to be old?

[@ricardopelc-wesoly3483]

Well today's seventy is the new fifty, my mother is coming on one hundred then again you are only as old as you think you are!@@sallyarmstrong8612

[@GhastlyCretin85]

​@@handsoffmycactus2958They are both old though...

[@christopherpowell1880]

I lived in Tasso Road W6, a dead end street, in the mid 90’s. I was very lucky as it was still full of the lovely original families who were in the majority. Everyone did know each other, pub and shop at the end of the road etc, but within 10 years or so the place had become much more transitory . Much like Cardross Street. Lovely programme of a time too long gone

[@Nousmourronsseuls]

I moved to Cardross Street in 1990 and lived there for eight very happy years. The Andover Arms at one end of the street and The Anglesea Arms at the other. I do recall a very few elderly residents and some of them dying or moving on during my time there. Inevitably younger people like me moved in and spruced up the old places. Just like pretty much everywhere else in central London. I went back to visit five years ago and not much has changed (apart from the prices). Still a lovely street to live in.

[@elwoodblues5110]

I like Charlie Georges' attitude..."as long as they're alright.."

[@mandynewey7215]

Thank goodness someone made this documentary. I'm not sure, but think it is at least 30 years old and all those lovely elderly have gone. How different London is now. All the family I had there have gone now too.

[@doopdapps1088]

I lived in Raynham Rd in the 70's & 80's and that was the best years of my life, so much things to do as a kid, Bradmore youth club, brackenbury school, Hammersmith palais all great times 👍🏾👋🏾👊🏾😀

[@dtaylor939]

Harry is really the son of Diana's horse-riding teacher.

[@davidlondon2810]

Dennis Neale, Oh my goodness, this brings back memories. I saw this when I lived in Iffley Road (1983-1989). It was such a good, slice of life little documentary about the changing times of “Brackenbury Village” and the people who lived there (the original residents and the newcomers like me). I loved the area. It had a lovely villagey feel. Cardross Street was picture-postcard pretty with wonderful cottage gardens in summer. It is all now 30 years ago for me. I went back last year and walked through the village which did not seem to have changed (apart from the astonishing house prices). However, the areas to the south (Hammersmith Broadway) and the north (Goldhawk Road) had really changed.

[@LeeEnfield-iw3qk]

Hiya I lived in Hebron Rd and had lots of friends in Iffley Rd, I got married and left when I was 21 in 1966.

[@davidlondon2810]

@@LeeEnfield-iw3qk Hi, Lee. I remember Hebron Road well. I was back in Iffley Road last summer, just walking through the area out of curiosity. Not in touch with anyone from the area any longer. Hope life is good for you.

[@jmshrrsn]

I was really enjoying this, but the last ten mins is missing. What a shame. 😢. Still, terrific to see real people as they used to be. I’ve lived in my terraced house for 33 years - suppose I’m one of the old boys now . . .

[@argopunk]

I Google street viewed Cardross St. Nice looking place to this day.

[@vickythefist7062]

Wonder what this street is like now ??? All those old folks will be gone now .and the young ones will be old folks themselves THE CIRCLE OF LIFE I SUPPOSE.!! Something about this film makes me very sad

[@Harryavida]

Love watching these historic BBC documentaries - thanks for posting them! Is the Part 2 of the Cardross St ep available?

[@mjh5437]

Enjoyed that,shame the last 10 minutes are missing though!!

[@countesscable]

It’s weird that those terraced houses that were built for the working classes, are now being inhabited by ‘posh’ people!!

[@jameshorgan5905]

No Parking metres, them days where safe & happy. God bless that olden,

[@paulanderson7796]

I will translate into English:- "No parking meters, those days were safe and happy....."

[@elrjames7799]

I lived for three years at 27 Brackenbury Road above (what was then in the 1970s) the fish and chip shop (the proprietor of which was Petros, the landlord) next to the Post Office. Gas central heating and hot water included for £9 / £11 per week. Two pubs: the Wheatsheaf at the Goldhawk corner of the Road and the Andover Arms at the other end (up market, adjacent to Cardross Street), from which a pleasant and memorable evening comes to mind with Linda. A travel agency (in which an episode of 'The Sweeney' was filmed), a mini cab office, newsagent and hard ware / grocery store. Banim Street saw the Royal Oak (a 'drag act' on Saturday nights) but now a so called 'gentlemen's club' in pink and black .Fond memories of families (like Pearce) that befriended me. Now the 'village' seems to be just soft furnishing outlets, et alia.

[@paulinemoriarty3627]

Glad this is taped, we are losing our history, people in the future will think it was all iPads, smartphones and new age houses

[@opendiseno5897]

"We've got butchers and bakers close to hand..." You mean we did have until our clients priced them out of the area. The yuppies who moved into these streets were so ashamed of how down market King's Street was with the paddy taverns that they all got black cabs to Chiswick or down to Fulham Broadway to be closer to their chums. As for the estate agents: glorified apple and pear sellers.

[@leonorahaig3071]

Thanks so much for uploading. Great film.

[@zamiadams4343]

I live in the local area, great to see and hear the history.

[@kville5796]

Thank you for sharing; that is truly fascinating!

[@simon-oy6um]

All passed away now sadly 😢

[@Bloggingidiot]

Well done 😂

[@kevinwhelan9607]

Advertising and marketing man Nigel Mersh: that's straight out of the Fast Show!

[@andygretz]

I lived in Hammersmith in 1986 -1989 Rainville rd, fascinating time the River Cafe opened up there and the whole place changed so quickly but the area played second fiddle compared to Fulham and Chelsea.

[@davidlondon2810]

I was in Iffley Road from 1983-1989. The speed of change was amazing. Very happy memories of the area.

[@karenmurphy3365]

I lived on Furber street just round the corner for 7 years from 2000. I loved the area everyone greeted each other when passing in the street. Sadly the landlords sold the house so I had to move out.

[@davidlondon2810]

Dennis Neale, I forgot to thank you for uploading this in my previous comment.

[@thehealthjunkie8996]

Thank goodness the Barnes allotments are still there.

[@GaryHynes-im5di]

I was born in netherwood road about 5 minute's away... properties in that area will be at least a million quid now.. incidentally Holland park avenue is only ten minutes away where property goes for 5 million and much more...

[@seanhancockphotofilm8960]

£150,000 was expensive then and with inflation it would be like paying £350.000 now. My M&D bought their 3 story, 4 bedroom house on the east cost for £56,950 same year. As someone else mentioned these houses would be easily well over a million now.

[@RaphaelDawkinsCombatRadio]

Indoor baths only came about in the last few decades in the UK. Previous tp that people used bath houses. Quite fascinating.

[@vickythefist7062]

That lady landlord owns 8 houses but moans that she has to do repairs . Slum landlord at it's best . Yet she's happy to take the rent money every week !!

[@hughjass2745]

that's never changed, there's 1,000s of private tenants trapped living in mould infested shitholes

[@deeppurple883]

I don't understand why we disregard the elderly. We should think 🤔. We all have to get old but don't give it a taught. When you arrive at this stage of life you will say a, we should have made thing's better when we had the chance. Never to late to start. ✌️ ☘️

[@GiullarediDio]

Do you have the other 10 minutes?

[@katesleuth1156]

I couldn’t live there b/c I’m so bad at parallel parking.

[@TyJeffriesComposerLyricist]

where’s the rest of it! this was wonderful,

[@cosmic687]

£150,000???!!!!! that house would be worth about £1.3 million now!!

[@ajs41]

10 years before this it would have been worth about £15,000 probably.

[@edward6960]

People wete still going to communal baths as late as 1989!? 😲

[@lindaduffell4386]

by Ambulance!!!!

[@davidknight6868]

Dennis, thankyou for putting this up. My auntie and cousins lived in Nasmyth street, the next road along. I think they were there from about 1967 till 72. I was lucky enough to spend many weekends and summer holidays there. We would hang around with the kids from cardross st at the bottom of the road outside the shops on Dalling rd. Magical memories abound for me of those days. I watched this documentary when it was first broadcast and just thought of it tonight. I looked on you tube and there it was! What year was this film made? I'm guessing 95? Kind regards David.

[@dennisneale142]

Hi David l think you are right about the date. I was born at No 9 cardross street my father is in the program non speaking roll. Unfortunately the last 10 minutes is lost, as it was transferred from VHS. The name knight does ring a bell. The house in 67 was priced at £12000 Now around £900,000.

[@sianwarwick633]

Judging by the fashions, and people's mindset, I'd say 1985

[@spidyman8853]

late 80s or possibly 1990. The cars, the fashion, tends to give it away.

[@darshnishah5048]

More like the 80's

[@Fritha71]

1989 was the year this was filmed and broadcasted...

[@michaelbullen2390]

Nice to see the early development of Metropolis Studios , iconic studios that recorded with some of the modern best. Amy Winehouse, MJ, U2 Queen. Shame the last 10 mins is missing.

[@Johg777]

House prices have increased by almost £1000 a month since this was made 35 years ago.

[@evelynwilson1566]

It's horrible how people with plenty of money move to poorer areas and drive up prices but they aren't even interested in the community.

[@MsTimelady71]

When I visited London in 2001 there were still a few neighborhoods like this where the elderly had lived there for years. Unfortunately now, London is just too expensive for anyone but the wealthy.

[@cristianlyon1497]

great documentary! when was it originally broadcast?

[@Fritha71]

1989. The elderly couple who had been married for 66 years celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in '83.

[@lynnedanieli2537]

I feel sorry for Harry when he was dusting the mantle piece and his awful bossy wife telling him off . Then asking him what's dor sinner. Bossy ole mare.

[@midnightrider4066]

I'm 47 and just remember this generation with my gramps being in war,all were so nice even though they grew up through two wars with no luxury

[@Johg777]

BBC 40 minutes Doc but it’s only on 30 mins!

[@harnekkallah2656]

Million + now

[@cosmic687]

lack of community even in the 80s

[@ajs41]

A few miles from the middle of London, not surprising.

[@valleysofneptune]

Like my father told me….since the early 90’s , society has broken down…how right he is. I think these people, if alive today, would be shocked at the mess of London now, especially under Khan.

[@kieranharford8755]

I worked there as a cabbie , full of bin divers + doing a runner customers

[@ghowe79]

What year is this?

[@kevinwhelan9607]

I wish I knew what year this was.

[@WillVenusASMR]

Does anyone know the year in which this was made?

[@OkaniJMCA]

1989

[@kevinwhelan9607]

I've just discovered this was filmed in 1989.

[@joemorgan636]

How about Kerry in his Mercedes 280 Pagoda Back then they was between £7,000 to £10,000 1989 yes same like the houses CHEAP but was they no no not really was still big money car back then. Today they are anything between £180,000 and £250,000 house on Wheels. I know because I owned one in 1987 gave £7,000 cannot believe it and the thing is it doesn’t seem that long ago, but as I remember it like yesterday right from the 80s and the 90s. I’d imagine a lot of those people passed away now I wonder if some of the young people still live there I’d be fascinated to know

[@kevinwhelan9607]

Gladys Weller was an extraordinarily beautiful young woman and remained so. Lucky Harry! What a lovely couple❤

[@signaldrift2274]

from 1989

[@Dianaemanuel]

Current prices for a two bed terrace: £1,450,000

[@jcs3330]

I completely respect these individuals who have lived in their homes/street all their lives etc and have such history of the community that once was. Personally though, I have always been self aware not to stay in the same area/house if possible due the fact that I feel everyone moves on through life and the fear of being 'stationary' etc. I suppose that came from living my teens to my adulthood in the same home for 38 years having family and neighbors move on or die around me. But what a great insight and documentary. (and when dogs were welcomed in pubs, shops etc...when we all knowingly knew that they were better behaved then children 😆).

[@mikewatt8706]

i was working in a house in another street just around the corner and the 85 year old woman told me she bought it 60 years ago for 65000. a Russian neighbour offered her 3 million to move out. she said no.

[@silversteel6312]

But what was the year?

[@GhastlyCretin85]

1989

[@AdamGillett]

It's quite something that this was 32 years ago, and yet it feels like Cardross Street and environs are being gentrified *now* with almost the same extent and speed. And yet Hammersmith still somehow feels diverse and lively. I worry that this wave of gentrification will be the hardest yet, push less wealthy people into ever-smaller pockets and then ultimately sanitise the whole place.

[@mjh5437]

Its good to get the peasants out.

[@ajs41]

I somehow doubt that a humble personnel officer would be able to afford to buy two houses in this street today!

[@yorkshirelad3524]

Sad you missed off the last few minutes of the video

[@selfraisingsugar898]

What year was this made?

[@davidlondon2810]

I think it was 1986/87 ish. I was living nearby and saw the original broadcast.

[@selfraisingsugar898]

@@davidlondon2810 thanks for the insight! Was struggling to place it.

[@davidlondon2810]

@@selfraisingsugar898 I’ve since read a few comments here which state that it was 1989 so I might be out by a couple of years!

[@BIJOU167]

Now worth over £1.5 million per house on average

[@wesstarmedia]

The right to buy statute has proven to be extremely damaging, and for the most part, irreversible.

[@patscanlan2678]

Charlie George has gone very thin on top since his Arsenal playing days...😀

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

7:53 she’s 72?!?!?! Jesus! Sharon Osbourne is 71… Oprah Winfrey is 70! It’s crazy how she nowadays is so different to how it was back then. 72 is not old. It’s older

[@edward6960]

Hardly the best example😂 Sharon Osborne looks absolutely dreadful 😂 Far better to age with grace and dignity.

[@Johg777]

That’s two women that have had loads of plastic surgery. Hardly typical.

[@anjke]

The Yuppies and Thatcherism. When I think back there was a massive disconnect between even the indigenous Brits back then. London doesn't even seem to be England any more.

[@davidlondon2810]

As a former 1980s “Brackenbury Village” “yuppy” (who came and went), I had a great mix of local friends which included people who had lived there all their lives and newcomers, including, yes, yuppies and luvvies (BBC studios at Shepherds Bush were 10 mins away on foot). Thatcherism and the economic boom certainly added fuel to what happened but London has always been a mix of locals and newcomers as have most British communities (think villages with new housing estates), with all the (often exaggerated) accompanying sense of “them” and “us”. PS: I think even John Pitman (who made this documentary) may have lived locally!

[@mayena]

Original broadcast year 1989? because the custume designer used the word yuppie. I first heard that word around 1988 I think.

[@spidyman8853]

I heard that in 1985

[@Spectrescup]

The Yuppie Handbook was published in 1984.

[@sianwarwick633]

Incredible series of videos. Gentrification, eh

[@alastairgreen2077]

Sides, not side's.

[@deidraboswell8451]

Someone should've taken care of that old gentleman

[@tonyclifton265]

a house there cost £150k lol oh man they'll be at least £1m each now.

[@ForceFreeTrainergirl06]

You know, I had to stop watching this. It made me so sad to see these elderly people living in such terrible conditions with landlords that didn't care and who were just waiting for these tenants to die so they can sell the house. The difference in living conditions between the elderly and the new yuppies was so stark and really awful. I'm not sure what year this was? Probably the 70s or 80s I imagine. I bought a flat in a Victorian house in south London in the mid 80s for 18,000 pounds. I remember when I was flat hunting, seeing houses with a bath installed in the kitchen and covered in a work top to disguise it. Some flats had no bathroom or inside toilet and I'm presuming those were flats where the elderly had just passed away. Those flats the same street are now on the market for around 450,000 pounds. The estate agent in the red jacket that was showing the prospective buyer around was so ignorant that she couldn't even say "good morning" to the elderly gentleman standing on the front step. The prospective buyer was just as bad as she could have spoken too.

[@evelynwilson1566]

Where do people who do low paid jobs live in London? I mean minimum wage or thereabouts. Some of them must have long and expensive commutes on top of rent.

[@lporquai9048]

I've often thought this too

[@cidercik]

10:43 this one's hilarious. I'd want her as a neighbour!

[@larkatmic]

When you stop having babies and tell god to leave the room. And when you live at the alter of self. Civilization so prized is over. Population collapse is eminent. We had a good run. We used to know one should overcome the ego, not live in it. What a mess.

[@pw191164]

What would those dear old people think of their London today....crime, out of control immigration, woke policing and government.

[@moominmay]

Give it a rest ffs people like you make the same hateful comment on any film that’s old. You do realise elderly people still exist why don’t you go ask them instead of posting your stupid Q to strangers on KZbin? 🙄

[@moominmay]

Elderly people still exist go ask them if you really care but you probably don’t and just want to moan 🙄

[@Leonards-leopard]

What does woke mean mate?

[@tonyclifton265]

lol they said 1970s/80s yuppies "worked too hard".. hahaha they should see 1990s and 21st century yuppies. holy shit. they had it so easy

[@mikewatt8706]

the old bat with 8 houses died and made someone else rich.

[@DwightWalker]

Rather lovely story of old London before all the yuppies took over and stripped out all the fittings and renovated the places. Bit sad. Lovely to hear their old English voices chattering along.

[@OkaniJMCA]

This was back when actual English people lived in the capital city of England.

[@moominmay]

And? 🙄

[@jasonleon1976]

Romans, North africans, germanic lived there once upon a time. Not to mention the french moved in, in 1066. London was a hub of global trading during the middle ages and ever since. London has been a hot pot of different cultures for a lot longer than some people choose to believe. "Denying the truth doesn't change the facts."

[@moominmay]

@@jasonleon1976 exactly it was all these traders of different nationalities with their different wares and skills that helped lay the foundations of London and send it on a nonstop growth and make it an exciting place to be which in turn further accelerated its growth. It’s usually the uneducated who make such nonsense observations and deny England was ever anything but fully white until the 50s or so.

[@Zalley]

1989 documentary

[@Gogetemscoobie]

I bet they go for half a million now

[@NoLefTurnUnStoned.]

1 million

[@davidlondon2810]

£1.5m!

[@manpreetbrar838]

Early examples of white flight and segregation that enoch powell told us were occurring at the time.

[@movesky6696]

2018 cost £1'500'000 house cardross st (form £150'000 1980s )

[@rosarose3443]

How much 30 years prior to 2018 and so on?