Living in Victorian times | Victorian Lady | Nanny | Aldershot | Good Afternoon | 1972

[@w00df0rd]

Fascinating. If we'd realised how precious interviews with those born in the 19th century were, TV companies would have interviewed ten times more in the seventies.

[@painstruck01]

America had a guy on one of their gameshows that witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

[@carlgharis7948]

​@painstruck01 ya he was like 5 years old when it happened. He was pushing 100 when T.V. was really beginning

[@marksquires4836]

Such a dear old soul. Our ancestors of her generation were the salt of the Earth. The sacrifices they made built modern civilisation.

[@tula1433]

Yes and this new generation calls them all sorts of horrible names. These people fought through more then we could even imagine!

[@JimmyChappie1]

Incredible to be watching this over half a century later. She was born 133 years ago 🤯 What an valuable record. RIP.

[@MrGargled]

Superb piece of history. Mavis herself only passed away in 2022 at the wonderful age of 91.

[@MG63]

God bless her. Nobody alive now from Victorian times. May she RIP. ❤

[@stopyulin3226]

Bless her! I could sit and listen to her all day .. ✌🏼❤️

[@Netehope123]

She is a delight to listen too. She has a soft voice, and loved her stories. God bless her.💛

[@acommentator4452]

Note the pride with which she speaks of being honourable and respectful to her parents with absolute obedience. She never had been to those streets in Aldershot which her mother forbade her. Even now and throughout her whole life. And no bitterness for her mother not allowing her to be a school teacher nor a hospital nurse.

[@dkizxpt-su3ze]

Watching these pulls my heart strings. I love England.

[@hermajesty52]

Me too. I’m American and a confirmed Anglophile. A better time despite wars, poverty, illness etc. because there was a moral underpinning we have lost. Prayers for your dear country 🙏🏽

[@acommentator4452]

​@@hermajesty52thank you so much and prayers for your country too. Are you in the Midwest. ?

[@hermajesty52]

@@acommentator4452 Western New York--near Niagara Falls

[@karlgriffiths5956]

Wonderful my mum is 90 and its2024 god i had to call mum as this lady made me think of her. God bless this lady

[@mcraig1969]

I'm very proud that we were able to first audio record my grandmother b. 1907, several of her brothers born in 1890s and even one of her father born in 1871. His father gallantry fought for The Confederate Army and both my great uncle in WW1. We have first hand accounts of the War for States' Rights as we call it in the South and of WW1 and 2 S well as life in rural Ga. during Reconstruction as well as The Great Depression.

[@Catmad65]

Oh wow , I love this , more please 🙏

[@heatherwhittaker6169]

Same age as my grandmother..I taped a conversation with her and was searching for it just yesterday.❤

[@kathleenmckenzie9500]

None of us knew Queen Victoria. This lady actually did. Marvellous conversation, so true full that it reeled you in. I wonder if she wrote poetry or was a song writer as well as nanny or governess. Totally spellbound. That was not a easy interview. You really had to be in her atmosphere of thought. Well done interview of respect to the person.❤

[@gabriellaj.o.6180]

Lovely. How sad her choices in life were determined by her mother. I said to my mum whose nearly 83 now that i feel like a relic from a bygone age and yes the uk of 2024 is not the uk i remember as a child.

[@JAJones-qz4vv]

The opening shots of Violet Turner looking upon the baby in the pram is timeless and sets the subject up perfectly - and also shows the high quality of presentation of interviews that doesn't exist now.

[@Bille994]

It's this sort of thing that makes me sure that modern British people shouldn't have to bear the responsibility or guilt of the empire. The vast majority of Brits had such a lowly existence in the 19th century. The fact that this wonderful lady was quite high in the social hierarchy and still seems to be totally subservient to the aristocracy is so telling

[@honeyfungus4774]

All that white privilege, 🙄

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

There was no white privilege for the majority of the population who lived to their dieing day in fear of the workhouse. Living conditions were unimaginable for the poor, urban and rural. Starvation was real and common. If you think that history is portrayed in costume dramas and social media then you might be able to throw 'white privilege' around, but if you actually read accounts of those lucky poor white people you might gain a little deeper understanding about how class and social privilege is the root of all evil, not skin colour.

[@maryyasaeed3190]

It's quite hard to understand how british empire colonised so many countries and brought/looted so much wealth from these other countries but still their own people suffered in poverty.

[@TheSusieTom]

​@@honeyfungus4774I bet you're only 20 or so. I.e naïve

[@TheSusieTom]

​@@maryyasaeed3190welfare state was invented then. It was really about getting on in life for all classes.

[@pgree6176]

My grandmother was born in 1886 and lived till 1975. Twelve children. No idea of her Victorian life as a child

[@anastasia10017]

she sounds so innocent.

[@jacqueline8559]

Too innocent. She doesn't sound as if she, herself, was very educated

[@acommentator4452]

Because she is

[@acommentator4452]

​@jacqueline8559 And yet trusted with the care of the children of the gentry ? I disagree that she doesn't sound educated. She is wonderful.

[@magirusdeutzjupiter2234]

My Gran was born in 1911, so her parents were Victorian. My Gran would often say that her parents were brutally strict with her about every thing.

[@louisehogg8472]

A lot of that generation were. After all, mothers had a dozen other children, including 'the baby', to be looking after. So older ones had to be relied upon to do as they were told at the first telling. Had to keep quiet indoors, when most were sharing one family to a two-room flat with thin walls between next door. There were no spare adults to physically stop them burning themselves in the fire. No spare clothes if they tore the one or two outfits they had (four outfits was the maximum wall-presses were really designed for). They had to be responsible enough to listen at school in a class of seventy children, if they were to learn anything. And had to be reliable enough to walk to work, do a long shift and walk home, by twelve years old. So they had to begin learning that much earlier. A lot of it was very harsh discipline, but to be fair, there simply weren't resources or time, to allow for left-handers (like me), neurodivergence, attention seeking behaviour, allergies, disabilities or any individual special treatment. About one in five children were going to die of infections before five years old, so parents probably became harsh to hide their fear of bereavement from past experience.

[@cecilefox9136]

You' re so right!😊

[@acommentator4452]

​@@louisehogg8472interesting observations. I think largely children behave as expected. Nowadays they are babyfied even at age 20. When I was young the vast majority were pulling in a wage at 15 and contributing to the household in every way even before that age

[@Paul-g9y1t]

Live in the past, hate the constant hassle of life today.

[@hermajesty52]

Yes. Harder physically but easier emotionally

[@rl3293]

How sad the choices these young girls were limited to. Bless this lovely lady and the long life she lived. How the times have changed and most for the good but of course some things could be better, but that's life.

[@sargee97]

Wonderful to listen to this lady. Very interesting indeed.

[@garybrockwell2031]

Mavis was great, interesting woman 🙏 8 Sept 2022 rip Mrs🇬🇧 Edit- 91 year's ❤️

[@BimBop83]

gtfo with your BS. She was 82 years old in this video, and the video is from 1972. She would have been 132 y/o in 2022.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

She was very content with her life. It sounds like she lost opportunity but she was still happy here.

[@juliemorgan1118]

Wonderful. We could worse than go back to those days when people spoke politely and clearly

[@itsweb1584]

The good old days of malnutrition, poverty, disease and racism ❤

[@honeyfungus4774]

@@itsweb1584 You had to bring racism into it didn't you.

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

It's an English film, not American.

[@velevetyy]

lol ok julie

[@londongirl1733]

@@itsweb1584 yawn could not resist could you!! There was no need to be racist as unlike the BBC who will try and gaslight us all into believing all the bullshoot lies we the working class were the ones put upon and taken advantage off!! If you looked a little further than the colour of someone’s skin you could learn a lesson or two!!

[@ravenhill_the_guvnor-1968]

my beloved old england, fast changing into a place i don't recognize.

[@UrsulaDawsonbates]

I know. Its so sad

[@gabriellaj.o.6180]

It is sad.

[@ravenhill_the_guvnor-1968]

@@gabriellaj.o.6180 i agree.

[@comically_large_cowboy_hat3385]

it will continue to change forever and ever….best get used to it rather than fight against the inevitable

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

The interesting thing is that you never hear people of this time being either sentimental about the past or negative about the future. The Victorian culture was full of enthusiasm. A time of discovery, travel and invention as well as great social change. and although there were some terrible faces to that people could see great changes taking place and instead of being fearful they were hopeful for the future. Now, maybe we've gone further than most people need or even want and we understand that the world isn't just a resource for us to plunder.

[@blink997]

More of these please!

[@Loraann54fi10]

That's so sad that no one in her family wanted that little case. She thought it would end up in the trash. I treasure every single thing that has been passed on to me. I see myself as only a caretaker of my family's history. I passed on the stories from every item to my boys, and someday, the items will be passed on to them to go with the stories and history. They care about the family heirlooms just as much as I have. I'm very thankful for that.

[@jakecavendish3470]

People aged so suddenly back then, I know three people in their early 80s and they look 20 years younger than her

[@rogerwinters9856]

@people had it much harder living than today, to much instant everything, machine does so much today, and just being poor was harder.

[@thehapagirl92]

My grandma is in her late 80’s and she doesn’t hunch over and she also looks way younger

[@OfficialPotato1]

Would've been so interesting to hear more detailed stories of her life, does anyone know if she ever did any other interviews?

[@Dianaemanuel]

LOVE this! What a character! :-)

[@sandylaws8648]

My father was born iqn 1916 he did say that when they went to visit his grandparents the children had to sit under the table and be quiet.

[@acommentator4452]

Sounds fair enough.

[@mordecaiesther3591]

❤❤❤-->>> Listening to this … life was so much better then . I wish I lived when she was born . Todays time is rotten to the core

[@SusanBates-ox1kf]

What a lovely lady. Good interview

[@deadlykitten.5908]

In 2003 I looked after a lady born in 1895. She had breathed the air of 3 centuries.

[@painstruck01]

i love how she's basically describing a culture of prostitution.

[@beatdizzy]

Aldershot, yes! The officers. 'we knew what they were'

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

Yes, those lucky privileged white girls! Prostitution was huge in Victorian times because wages for the poor were not enough to keep a person fed, especially women. Shop girls were notorious for obliging extras in the back of the shop. Rural girls & their parents were duped with offers of apprenticeship to leave their homes and travel to the cities to find that they were kept imprisoned in brothels. And to this day, wherever there are large numbers of men in barracks, poor women will gather to a ready market! Even though my small rural town has not housed soldiers for over 200 years, there are well recorded accounts of the women at the other end of town, which was a collection of shacks and hovels by the river (so also prone to flooding) who would donate white apron as a code for 'being available '! The workhouse was such a feared institution that most people would rather do anything, including selling themselves as indentured labour,than being taken into one.

[@jakecavendish3470]

Yeah, it was mad how much sexual abuse went on back then, even my grandmother who was born in the early 1920s was always saying "oh yes, he was well known for interfering with children so we weren't allowed in his shop unsupervised" etc

[@TheSusieTom]

What is it with Aldershot

[@andrewmacdonald4833]

Her mother sounded like a control freak...totally stunted her daughter's future..

[@Melly3112-ox3ey]

Her mother was a victim of her generation. As was Mavis.

[@BIGT537]

She may have known my great grandmother, a bit older than her and living in the same town.

[@umbongonights]

She says about being a very highly trained nanny, I wonder if she is a Norland nanny.

[@iseegoodandbad6758]

My God older people were healthier, sharper and better looking than a lot of pensioners today!! I wonder why?

[@anneyeo3985]

Wonderful lady ❤

[@Xerbraski]

If she's still alive, she's probably around 135 years old now

[@timcolledge6813]

Very interesting indeed !!!

[@cmoto1]

The only British "interviews" I watched in the 70s and early 80s were done by Monty Python and Benny Hill. I can't help chuckling even watching a real interview from that era.

[@marclaw4511]

To think she was born in 1889 seems surreal.

[@Patrick3183]

There are videos on KZbin filmed in the late 1920s of elderly people being interviewed about their youth and some civil war veterans

[@nickmiller76]

@@Patrick3183 There's one somewhere on KZbin of a Bertrand Russell interview where he describes how he met Lenin in 1920, and how his grandfather, by whom he was brought up, met Napoleon in 1814.

[@emanaeemanae4002]

She sure was precious 😂❤

[@tonggao08]

"It's rather gruesome but it's very pleasant"😅

[@GodLovesYou1980]

Thank you

[@aliciahilton9240]

My grandmother worked as a nanny im America

[@SuperAna1954]

Why no subtitles 😢😢😢?

[@cecilefox9136]

It's an old TV programme

[@SuperAna1954]

@cecilefox9136 never the less

[@nickeep8398]

❤❤

[@marypoppins8083]

This Ladies facial expressions remind me of princess Diana i think had she of lived she may of looked like her in her later years

[@kylesanders9]

Possibly the ‘doe eyes’?

[@hopebgood]

"had she lived she may have looked like her in her later years"

[@marypoppins8083]

@@hopebgood ?

[@independentpuppy7520]

It's sad what the UK has become now.

[@OfficialPotato1]

Sad that she had nobody to pass the momento on to, I wonder if it did make it into the rubbish.

[@bmc5075]

So harrys kids dont have titles

[@janjordal9451]

❤

[@RADIUMGLASS]

C. M. Burns was born in 1889.

[@mS-ll4ue]

Ask her if she meet bethovan

[@bid84]

Pretty sure she’s brown bread

[@bernadettemurray2016]

Wow she'd be born 1889

[@PETMonique]

I would of loved living in them days

[@BimBop83]

I’m guessing you’re not a woman, or non-white lol. Or if you are then you’re just incredibly naïve.

[@s.m975]

Really? overcrowding of cities, the exploitation of women and children (because they work more and cost less), the building of Workhouses and the growth of slums. Disease and early death were common for both rich and poor people.

[@Tom_Ka_Guy]

Dental care was likely non-existent for most people then.

[@PETMonique]

True, but they sure did live long lives . It's rare to see people living past there 70's and 80's

[@sneakerfreak2002]

Riiiiiight

[@robp8218]

If the Tories get in again, we'll be back there again soon 😢

[@michellebooth327]

I don’t think you have a clue what could be in store for us,especially when you think different parties are different from each other and not just different cheeks of the sam arse.

[@michellebooth327]

Same*

[@robp8218]

@@michellebooth327 This is the common response of someone who kind of realises, but won't fully admit they backed the wrong horse: THEERE ALLL THE SAAAME. lazy thinking 😏

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

A lot of places already feel like they are. Just that now we have cocktails of drugs to add to the misery. Although such choice Victorian careers as mudlark,'pure' collectors (dog mess, for the tanning trade) tanners(who rub 'pure' into hides),bone grubbers&sewer hunters have not yet made a comeback!

[@londongirl1733]

@@michellebooth327 True all WEF puppets!!

[@bmc5075]

6.03 did she say what sounded to me the nannys had to strp in if the mother had an affair had the baby and asked them to take the baby to a brook that a river and then the other staff raised the baby

[@SunriseSunsetK]

No, she said women back in her day used their instincts and take responsibility to raise up kids, and women now (back during this interview) had to look for advice from books

[@Patrick3183]

Can someone get her a wig? Sheesh

[@adam_p99]

She’s probably dead now

[@hopebgood]

Such an insightful comment.

[@greglinski2208]

Ok boomer this isn’t story time

[@michellebooth327]

Silly child.

[@A..Shadow..]

Definitely not a boomer. Learn to speak facts before you speak next time princess. 👸🏼

[@honeyfungus4774]

Bugger off, Yank.

[@Joyride37]

The joke went over their heads

[@TheSusieTom]

Another dumb comment

[@cherylharewood6125]

+++###I hope/pray that every African nation and people of African-descent file lawsuits for reparations from the Royal families, and Western nations including the USA🇺🇸 every day to the coming again of JESUS CHRIST🙏.And thank JESUS CHRIST FOR MAKING AFRICA GREAT AGAIN(MAGA).###++

[@michellebooth327]

🤣 clueless.

[@jackr1779]

Piss off with your reparations & greed.

[@londongirl1733]

😳😳😳 well that gave me a good laugh 😂 you need to look at history and check out what was happening in Africa before white man stepped a toe there!! No worries though you don’t have to Thank us all for the billions spent on ending slavery!! Take it as a freebie!! Most of you do anyway.

[@TheSusieTom]

Don't forgot to file lawsuits in African nations too, they were in on it too, in case you didn't know.

[@danielle82222]

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