Liverpool In 1972 - Colour (1972)

This material is shot in colour.
Liverpool, Merseyside.
Various scenic high angle long shots of mostly residential areas of Liverpool - council estates, building blocks, etc. People drying washing on balconies, using them as storage, etc. More shots of the building blocks - both already inhabited and in construction. More shots of the rooftops showing large residential areas. Panning to building sites with new blocks being built. More shots showing children's playgrounds, traffic on roads around, the buildings, dirty walls with various graffiti on etc. One of the graffiti reads 'Black Power is Cool' another 'Black Power O.K.' Woman is seen looking through the window, zoom out to show a new brick building covered in graffiti. Zoom in to several windows and balconies showing people looking and back to show barbed wire around buildings, racist and other graffiti, some using explicit language, etc. It looks as if there were some race related incidents in the area so that barbed wire needed to be put up.
FILM ID:3049.06
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[@bikinibabes666]

I LOVE Liverpool, and have so far spent eleven years there. And I hope to spend many more.

[@stephensmith4480]

The Tenement Blocks brought back some happy memories. I grew up in Caryl Gardens at the bottom of Hill St. They were some of the happiest days of my life, we had wonderful neighbors who all looked out for each other.

[@Galaxyofbrian]

Liverpool is now a thriving multi cultural city full of life with amazing places to eat drink sleep. Scousers will always always look after you if you are ever truly in need.

[@ericatkinson9285]

We lived in Rupert Grove off Rupert Lane fantastic warm solid houses all they needed was a bathroom fitted everyone knew everyone happy days.

[@ronniewilson6597]

Wow, i was 3 months old then. 🤦‍♂️👍🏻

[@liverpudlian6205]

Good old liverpool I remember it well

[@brianjoyce9907]

1972 and still bomb sites everywhere from the Liverpool blitz in WW2.

[@joegee6434]

The population of Liverpool in 1972 was about 1.24 million. Now it's just over 900,000. The population now is still 300,000 less than it was then. Such a shame.

[@georgecouch1762]

I think your number of how many reside here is well off

[@anonUK]

Are you including Knowsley and parts of Sefton and Wirral in that? Because the population of Liverpool City was about 500,000 in the 90s.

[@keithdavies1395]

Think you'll find they're trying to replenish it,and turn it into a Th,World, sh le.

[@eddiegrimm9462]

i think you got it wrong mate..the reason the population has gone down is because in the 70s they split liverpool up into boroughs like sefton bootle knowsley kirby..etc and each has its own council and population count which reduces the original liverpool count as a whole..put them all together and the population is well over a million lad

[@lynneleverton8825]

Liverpool certainly looks a lot better now then it did then. It's once again becoming the great city it used to be!

[@christinesmith461]

I grew up in a block of tenements it was good 😊 now all students flats every where and take away fast food shopping

[@Sebastian-xg6lw]

Windrush has been a disaster

[@desertrose1226]

Horrible houses. Horrible. I hate tenements and flats. When I was a baby my family lived in Winterburn Heights but we moved when I was 3 so I don’t remember much

[@kanekoo6620]

Is there no sound?

[@andydixon2980]

Pardon?

[@davidbowie2046]

Yes. Dolby Atmos is available 😂 What do you want to hear? Some cars going down the road 🙄

[@td370]

6:00 smh

[@TheLordHiggs]

What happened to it?

[@rickhardman7376]

it got better

[@ahassen1236]

Don't ever tell us again life was better then because it's simply not true. Here is looks like a poverty stricken dump but looking for Falkner Place L8 now on Google Maps is certainly a better place today then it was then. Far better.

[@alexmarcordes4130]

Well , I think life was not better at that time, only it was getting along slowlier than nowadays. But this way it appeared yo be easier for the individual subject. In these days, as the pace is so much higher today, the strain exerted on your nerves is relentless. Quietude was then, the rat race at cut throat speed is now

[@davidbowie2046]

Much better times. Simpler. If you weren't there, then you'll never know. Community and selflessness meant everything and the cost of your property meant nothing.

[@randyborstol2491]

@@davidbowie2046 and you could stand on the Kop for 15p and watch Shankly and the boys

[@princeysubasinghe5397]

Would like to hear from anyone who work ed at at Paul's eye hospital in n I n tee sev enty to nineteen seventy two as opthalmic trainees .

[@theshameofthesun]

sly the of the people filmed in their 108

[@julianpotentate5942]

rat city which is not in england its in wales

[@sugarkane4830]

Mmm I see geography is not your strong point.