How I escaped Tees Street/Birkenhead : I got 7 CSE's from St Hugh's High School [Grades 2-5 = COMPLETELY USELESS] so I studied O'levels at Birkenhead Tech and scraped [5 C's] whilst living in abject poverty with Dad who was very angry & depressed and regularly told me I was the "thickest of the bunch" and "would amount to nothing" etc etc (I HAD TO ESCAPE OR DIE !!). I was taking no chances and applied to EVERY School of Nursing [except London] . The DOLE called me in to cut off my benefit but I showed them hundreds of Job Applications and by then I had 50 Interviews. They were impressed and gave me Travel Vouchers to attend the first 7, all seven offered me a place [Dad refused to speak to me because I was leaving]. I chose Redhill in Surrey, one of the most affluent parts of the country. I never saw the majority of my friends again, amazingly the Dole gave me a weekly grant to help me relocate for the first year. Of course I STUCK OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB, I had a chance and passed everything and became a Registered Nurse. I certainly proved I was not anencephalic but could never be like "the Lady with the Lamp". Peter Carey - Cert Couns, RGN, RMN, RNT, B Nurs [Hons], PGCE, Pg DIP, RN [ALWAYS PROUD TO BE NORTHERN SCUM].
@sarahsmith-el8br6 жыл бұрын
Peter Carey - good on you, male as well couldnt be easy to kick against the grain x
@DudeSilad6 жыл бұрын
Well done Peter. I lived in Wallasey but leaving school, there was nothing but schemes with nothing at the end. Eventually I joined the RAF and did well afterwards. But leaving school during those years was a depressing time. Being young, it didn't seem so bad as we still had optimism but if you were older with a family to provide for, it must have been horrendous.
@stephengriffiths33025 жыл бұрын
You should be proud mate, I am still in the North End of Birkenhead and things have not changed that much around here, though I have a full time job as a Manager and not one of the unfortunate ones, but well done to you for striving so hard to achieve what you have.
@imreallydead.235 жыл бұрын
peter carey Well done peter hope you’re proud of yourself mate sounds like you really worked to get where you are and to work as a nurse as well is commendable fair play to you
@gbwildlifeuk82695 жыл бұрын
👍 well done! I was in apprentice training and there's still a lot of no hope and why bother attitude today. If you want it bad enough you'll get it but no one will knock on your door and offer it.
@beatonthedonis5 жыл бұрын
I'm the same age now as Mick Searson was in 1980. I look 42 years younger than he did. Physical labour and poverty are no joke.
@lorrainewadsworth90195 жыл бұрын
Povety ages people.
@spidyman88534 жыл бұрын
beatonthedonis47 I don't know about Physical labour but food poverty does have an affect.
@Roo9863 жыл бұрын
Physical labour is good for health, so long as you don't overdo it, humans are not meant to be sedentary...
@beatonthedonis3 жыл бұрын
@@Roo986 Yes, that's why rich people in Kensington and Chelsea live 10 years longer than poor people in Glasgow. It's all the physical labour they do.
@Roo9863 жыл бұрын
@@beatonthedonis It's a little bit more complicated than that chum...
@Jefferson1969-u4s5 ай бұрын
I somehow escaped such a street. It took a long time. But here I am , just turned 60, in Australia and doing far better than I would have if I had stayed home.
@salus12314 ай бұрын
I also grew up in such circumstances as portrayed here. Thought about emigrating mid 20's. Didn't as despites it all I am a homebird and never regretted that decision and I have visited a fair few places including OZ. The UK has 3 advantages over most other place on the map. It's landscapes it's history and no1 it's people and yes I know it has sewer scum too
@jonathanturbide22326 жыл бұрын
I adore these vintage UK documentaries, powerful. 👍
@anneshields20105 жыл бұрын
You should watch the family it’s about a U.K. family in 1974 it’s really good I watched it 2 days ago on here
@prepperjonpnw64824 жыл бұрын
Anne Shields how do I find that show?
@Concurr4 жыл бұрын
@@prepperjonpnw6482 Just search 'The Family Episode 1' on here, there's about 10 of them I think.
@petersean74129 жыл бұрын
I am originally from Scotland I have been living in Birkenhead for the last 15 years and I can honestly say that Birkenhead people are some of the most hard working friendliest I have ever met in my life is life.
@stephanblack45585 жыл бұрын
Yeah they work hard a robbing houses.
@phnxarisen46044 жыл бұрын
I'm from Scotland and have been living in birkenhead for the past 2 years now a days there just like everywhere else there's more work for people down here tho
@porterhall274 жыл бұрын
@@stephanblack4558 fuck off
@ultimatemagic21256 ай бұрын
Shame about the accents though.
@coolstreams10125 ай бұрын
@@ultimatemagic2125khun mai mi samong.
@mcmcolm5 жыл бұрын
0:20 Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, give him a fishing rod and he can sell it to buy cigarettes.
@rebeccarosehirschfield73865 жыл бұрын
KInda my thoughts exactly.
@peterroberts27375 жыл бұрын
The guy in the shop has probably seen that fishing rod hundreds of times
@stephanblack45585 жыл бұрын
And I bet the rod was robbed.
@damianjones75545 жыл бұрын
Probably the only pleasure left in life for him a smoke, would you deny a man that?
@nigel20935 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@garolstipock3 ай бұрын
THIS is why my family emigrated back in the early 80's. An era of pervasive hopelessness and diminished horizons. People finished school and signed on. Around us was an ocean of poverty and hardship, while the tv shows the affluence that apparently existed elsewhere that only served to reinforce the hopelessness of your circumstance. That was tough to square, but I was 8 years old at this time. I still am not sure how my family gathered the funds together to pay for all the costs involved in emigration, but we did, and our collective horizons and prospects emerged. Still dearly miss 'home', but my life took off elsewhere and so far I've never had a need that could not be met. 40 years and counting... Have mercy, the fellow in the suit that was 42 years old looks 66. Such I suspect was the hard scrabble of life, and hardships.
@ihateyoumother-fucker32044 жыл бұрын
That 42 year old looks like an old, retried World One veteran @ home in his armchair.
@kjp123211 ай бұрын
It's from growing up in smoke filled pubs and living off nothing but walkers crisps and onions😂
@steveensom72386 ай бұрын
He was just protecting his plenty of fish profile
@matthewbates5495 ай бұрын
No chance is he 42. Probably get more on the Dole than a pension
@DMWBN35 ай бұрын
I know. Looks like he’s in his 70’s.
@jesusislukeskywalker42944 ай бұрын
@@kjp1232🚬🤠
@keithdempsey3996 Жыл бұрын
My grandparents lived at No 5 during the 40s, William and Elisabeth Dempsey R.I.P.
@TheDaisypurple12 жыл бұрын
A brilliant piece of social history, thanks for the upload. I really hope that they all found some happiness eventually.
@tone38174 жыл бұрын
Well, that cheered me up no end.
@laetitialogan20173 жыл бұрын
Lol
@ianwatkins96022 жыл бұрын
I was depressed. I'm great now..
@ungrateful-665 жыл бұрын
I was only born in 1985, but remember well, back when TV was good and such NEWS PROGRAMS as this actually served the public interests.
@hslmedia26634 жыл бұрын
Same but all i can recall is a guy standing on a floating island telling me the weather.
@DominicBoddy10 ай бұрын
@@hslmedia2663 lol
@MrMusicbyMartin6 ай бұрын
The young lawyer featured here was an absolute star for doing what he did. I was brought up in Birkenhead - I sat my A levels at Borough Road Tech, while signing on, and I was expected to drop the course if a suitable job came up. Both mum and dad worked to support me and my younger siblings. I was also lucky that a full grant was available for university - I would not have been willing to accept the debt students have today. After paying tuition fees, my grant came to £2100 a year for food, books and rent (13 quid a week!) My Birkenhead friends were not all so lucky - several of them succumbing to the scag (which saturated the place from 84-87 ish) or doledrums. It’s sad to watch the disenfranchised young man playing darts who had given up trying to improve himself - I recognise the effects of schooling and surroundings in shattering dreams of success and breaking people’s spirit.
@patrickjm34873 жыл бұрын
Got to love Danny who is blind What a man he is and may god bless him,, I’m still in shock at Danny working with no complaints from him,, He is just unbelievable man with bad eye sight he gets up early than go’s to work,, God bless ya Danny
@craiggilchrist42236 ай бұрын
Look how clean the streets are.
@gorkys610 жыл бұрын
Made in the days when programme makers had a certain amount of social conscience. Unlike today, where the occupants would be used, abused, blamed, scapegoated, then cast aside as empty shells, while the TV company responsible picks up the fat cheques and moves onto the next project.
@user-blaster_20126 жыл бұрын
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will change that...
@hesnotthemessiah16625 жыл бұрын
This is because TV today is commercial rather than Independent. In those days, ITV had the monopoly on commercial TV and subject to public service broadcasting obligations. Today, they just chase advertisers who in turn now influence programming. Advertisers like the vilification of the marginalised and dole claimants. It's not an image they want to tie their product to. British TV programming has become superficial as a result. It used to have a plethora of working class hero characters in comparison to its American counterpart
@Kblog7775 жыл бұрын
This, World in Action and Panorama we’re proper reality tv not the exploitive freak show garbage we have now.
@angelicupstart19775 жыл бұрын
Talking of fat, that coffin was huge!
@kailashpatel17065 жыл бұрын
Benefit street was a prime example of how PSB had dropped, in the 1980s Channel 4 would have a programme on why people in the UK are poor, now it laughs at them..
@giuseppenero1108 жыл бұрын
At 0.34 secs. the old guy named Mick is declared to be only 42 yrs of age? 82 is more like it
@littleredrose62548 жыл бұрын
Depression ages people.
@gcfcos8 жыл бұрын
Poor families just thrown on the scrap heap. That guys nuts climbing onto that roof
@Gfresh8448 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I've never seen anyone look that old at 42...
@BintAlAbla19997 жыл бұрын
Giuseppe - Be kind to people. Mick has had a lot of things on his plate. He has 3 kids. He lost his wife. How would you feel after that? How would you feel if somebody made unpleasant comments to you after all the above? Think before you post, and show respect.
@karlcalito59166 жыл бұрын
Alistair Boom Calm down, Mick is long dead, and his kids are in there 40,s now!
@apathyintheuk2655 жыл бұрын
I think the rest of the street is tapping into June's supply.
@Elbowspurs5 жыл бұрын
10 fucking kids , no fella and wonders why she’s skint!!!🤔🤔🤔silly bitch!! Keep em closed darling 😩😩😔😔
@TheGodParticle5 жыл бұрын
I know I shouldn't but lmao at your comment. cheers
@Roo9863 жыл бұрын
@@Elbowspurs Apply your own advice to your mouth....
@helenamcauley31355 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@seabassmcgee33672 ай бұрын
I think her sons are growing weed in the loft
@ScouseTimes4 жыл бұрын
WE NEVER FORGET ..WE ARE NOT ASHAMED!
@andywfc13 жыл бұрын
well ya should be bone idle ponces
@carolinesmyth1275 жыл бұрын
I remember those depressing boards in the jobcentres/dole offices...
@ajs416 жыл бұрын
The ironic thing is the houses in this street actually look relatively nice. I've seen a lot of streets in quite prosperous areas which look a lot worse than this on the surface.
@octaviussludberry90162 жыл бұрын
They knocked them down in the mid 80s and built some new ones, then knocked them down about 10 years ago because they were derelict. They've now built new ones again. These replaced the dock cottages that were there and knocked down in the 60s.
@MichaelSearson-y6u3 ай бұрын
Where Tees Street was is now a car park behind Birkenhead North train station
@richardlaversuch94605 жыл бұрын
I would encourage people to believe one can come back from even the worst circumstances. I was out of work, in near despair; but kept searching, even engaging hobbies and things got hugely better.
@howey9354 жыл бұрын
I agree Richard life is full of ups and downs and the downs never last for ever. If we never had downs the good times wouldnt seem half as good.
@dogshitonastick40085 жыл бұрын
9:45 worlds oldest ever 42 year old. 🤥
@rocket76975 жыл бұрын
Christ he's the saddest case Ive ever seen. he's probably been like that since he was 5.
@royfr81365 жыл бұрын
Exactly WTF....42.......more like 72
@ColtSSR5 жыл бұрын
Fuck im that age and dont look like that lol
@julieattard70985 жыл бұрын
42!!! old in the mind .. he dressed old too! bless him .
@willrich39085 жыл бұрын
should have joined the circus
@stepheningermany5 жыл бұрын
11:37 The days when ariel fitters just looked like they came out of a pub and just climb onto a roof without any consideration for safety.
@MrAlwaysBlue5 жыл бұрын
He couldn't get a phone, then he didn't want a phone, am I missing something?
@matthewbritton41495 жыл бұрын
Lmao no health and safety back then😃👏👏🇬🇧🏴👍
@revolverboomboom97764 жыл бұрын
@@MrAlwaysBlue Business was already failing, grant would have paid for 3 months of service back when their was one provider that would have tied him into a minimum of 12 months service.
@DavidKnibb8 жыл бұрын
Mac's in the fourth minute was where I got my first guitar. Nice to see it still going in 1980.
@timo79683 жыл бұрын
I only ever went to Tees Street once in my life... in the early 90s to identify the burned out shell of my Vaxhaul Cavalier, that was nicked from my flat near Birkenhead Park. The fire was so hot, the number plate had melted and fallen off onto the road, so that's how I knew it was mine. Ah... memories.
@philipalmond69082 жыл бұрын
Hay your a man after my own hart lol
@jj-iu3ni5 жыл бұрын
Look how clean the street is though
@stephanblack45585 жыл бұрын
The pawn shop called macs spell it backwards and it spells SCAM.
@caitgems15 жыл бұрын
Nowadays it spells SMACK.
@horizon06694 жыл бұрын
@lunar moon bastard that's blasphemy
@petercarey80306 жыл бұрын
My family lived on Tees Street [Catholics] , there WAS a way out. I am a Nurse, taught at several Universities and live in Adelaide, Australia, Dr Marg has a Doctorate Psychology and was a successful, Tax Lawyer [London], Owen University Lecturer [China/Cyprus], Kath Librarian [Wirral], Bob [Businessman], John Butcher + Law Graduate [Essex] and DrJoe DPhil [Oxford] MBA [Cambridge] CEO of Pharmaceutical Company [Cornwall]- Joe actually failed most of his O'levels at the first attempt then stayed in the house for a year and got mostly AAAAAAAs. It is fair to say WE DID HAVE A BRAIN and WE ALL GOT JOBS !!!
@JVCarey6 жыл бұрын
Actually I failed them all but got a GCSE (Grade I) in RE. It was a wake up call. In 1980 it was grim but does not seem to have improved much today for people there. The only way is to get away ASAP, there is a world out there. There are people worse off than shown here, and much better off of course. The point is for most people there is choice.
@rebeccarosehirschfield73865 жыл бұрын
Peter, you're getting quite snotty/pompous now. Become aware. Thanks.
@DO-zh5ol2 жыл бұрын
Your dad didn’t love you tho I rem you saying 😂so you had to go had no choice m8
@eeeb21405 ай бұрын
NOT SURE WHy THE UPPER CASE BUT GOOD FOR YOU
@robertwoods-dc4wo2 ай бұрын
Peter Carey well done my friend sometimes we have to make big choices in life it worked for yourself proud of you.rab Scotland's
@peterscotney17 жыл бұрын
as the narrator walks down tees st at 5.05 i noticed that there was no cars parked up on the street , a rare sight indeed !
@BintAlAbla19994 жыл бұрын
Perceptive comment Peter. I can only feel that's a good thing, though some may differ.
@jaysmartin2 жыл бұрын
@@BintAlAbla1999 not that good .. most of them couldn’t afford cars! It’s okay we’ll get back to this with pcp contracts on electric cars and fuel at £2+ per litre
@janeycastle3819 Жыл бұрын
I left in 1984 and never looked back. my mum even moved to Prenton after I left. North End was the backside of the world and that's polite
@peterscotney1 Жыл бұрын
@@BintAlAbla1999 I made up for that street by owning 8 cars at one time !...lol
@peterscotney1 Жыл бұрын
@@jaysmartin I,m into old Volvo's, my current car is 27yrs old ...and it will probably last me another 20 !...I would never buy an electric car !...ever !
@robraver5 жыл бұрын
I was there in 1989, for drydock. Still remember all these warehouses, all derelict, as we went through the docks to the drydock basin. It was situated right next to an disused power station and a huge old tobacco warehouse. I used to try imagining all the workers being there..it was so derelict and sad.
@rexterrocks5 жыл бұрын
Back when bin men(refuse technicians) actually used to pick the dustbin up on their backs. I can't imagine people doing that in this day and age.
@kidzngrandkidz8404 жыл бұрын
They don't even walk up the path for the bin, we have to put it on the kerbside for them, my neighbour is 91 and she is expected to drag a bin down her path for some young fellas to put it on a automated lift, madness.
@nigel20935 жыл бұрын
9:19 They'll be no job left for him if you don't shut your cake hole and let him get on the train!
@Michael-x4h9b8 ай бұрын
Ha ha thanks I did get the job
@Ladygaga40475 жыл бұрын
That 42 year old finally looks his age around now!
@Elbowspurs5 жыл бұрын
Fuck he’s death warmed up!!! Yoda looks younger than him!!!😳😳
@psycoticbastard5 жыл бұрын
I think he has been drinking the water from the Mersey
@jeffchurchill61415 жыл бұрын
Only 42... He looks 72
@Jim-b6o6 ай бұрын
Surely must ov been a 7 that looked like a 4
@Jim-b6o6 ай бұрын
9.25 how times have changed the train doors open the very second it stopped
@classicartfoundation6395 жыл бұрын
"Vince Baker is short of money for cigarettes" Lol that sets the tone for this documentary
@patrickbonham9495 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@IngaBinga-j4y5 ай бұрын
A lot of smokers will choose cigs over food any day. That's the power of addiction. What do you mean by tone?
@runintoabrickwall33425 жыл бұрын
Recent declassified documents have revielled that the Tory Government at the time, waged economic warefare on Liverpool, basically untying Liverpool and pushing it off to it's own catastrophic demise as is seen here during the mid 1980's. For a Government to do that to it's own People, to actively plan and prosecute such an act sends a cold shiver down the spine.
@davelowe19775 жыл бұрын
Run Into A Brick Wall Prove it please.
@jillianhorsley59854 жыл бұрын
Strong Union values, Thatcher wanted to crush the spirits then the souls of good people.
@runintoabrickwall33424 жыл бұрын
@@jillianhorsley5985 Thatcher had three "generals" who basically came up with a mind map of how to "curb" the Unions. But over the course of time, this became how can we completely destroy the Unions. Utter psychopaths.
@stuartkelly31065 жыл бұрын
No one understood June's extraordinary high electric bill until they came to realise that she was growing tonnes of cannabis plants in the attic
@Wunjo-Wunjo5 жыл бұрын
Haha!
@sam-di4oz5 жыл бұрын
🤧🤧🤧🤤🤤🤤😂😂😂😂
@caitgems15 жыл бұрын
That was just to run her vibrator.
@MrAlwaysBlue5 жыл бұрын
Some say he is still trying to solve the mystery of June’s electricity bill.
@stuartkelly31065 жыл бұрын
@@MrAlwaysBlue indeed a never ending conundrum for him....
@lodersracing5 жыл бұрын
Love these documentaries!
@keithdempsey39962 жыл бұрын
My grandparents lived at No 5, 40s and 50s
@colshythecomedian5 жыл бұрын
Mike seerson 42???!!! That poor boy had one hard hard life!!!
@johncooper36111 жыл бұрын
The TV Eye episode "Tees Street isn't working" wasn't broadcasted in 1980, it was actually broadcasted on Thursday, 28 November 1985.
@darinmazzie30266 жыл бұрын
John Cooper Yep. I heard the 2 ex-binmen say the refuse collection was bought out in 1983.
@MichaelSearson-y6u3 ай бұрын
It was 1985 ,as that's when Mick Searsons wife died .Also the fact that it was a few weeks after the funeral .how I know it was my mum
@redsquirrelrichard87804 жыл бұрын
Yes that will be the Margret Thatcher years,.
@valuetraveler20266 ай бұрын
so goes the meme
@thetruth156real35 жыл бұрын
It seems to be the North’s cruelest joke,,,,,,giving the blind terrible hair cuts.
@anneshields20105 жыл бұрын
Wonder what their all doing now almost 40 years later these documentaries from the past are fascinating and a grand for an electricity bill wow omg that’s even a lot today
@ameliamearns66033 жыл бұрын
my great uncle is the ariel fitter at approx 11 mins - he recently passed away, but did some work as a freelance photographer alongside being an ariel fitter :))
@tenrgn2 жыл бұрын
Growing cannabis in the attic I heard
@MrAlwaysBlue5 жыл бұрын
Danny Doyle, bless him, had a cracking moustache, and probably didn’t know it.
@liamkatt64345 ай бұрын
Great people in Tees Street in the early 60s. So sad it has gone.
@Lakenbeer5 жыл бұрын
Give a man a fish he will eat for a day Give a man a fishing rod he will sell it for smokes
@chrisl96205 жыл бұрын
Classic.
@ItsNotRealLife5 жыл бұрын
mcmcolm already said that
@Lakenbeer5 жыл бұрын
@@ItsNotRealLife oh so he did, didn't see that
@saulwest82545 жыл бұрын
👍😂
@MareeMarshall4 ай бұрын
There but for the grace of God go I ,
@johnk16395 жыл бұрын
9 months before you got a telephone! If my internet goes out and it isn’t fixed within 24 hours I’m going crazy.
@Mitch-Hendren4 жыл бұрын
John K 9 months was fast in 1980's. my mum got ours in 1979, even then it was a party line. she'd been on a waiting list since 1968! you literally had to wait till someone died and they re allocated the number.
@clairehannah68333 жыл бұрын
I remember when you had to be on a waiting list for a telephone line
@ameliamearns66033 жыл бұрын
my great uncle davey is the ariel fitter :)
@syedadeelhussain26914 жыл бұрын
I am not British, but I do have an interest in Economics and History. I think Maggie Thatcher and Norman Tebbit have got something to do with this? Her cabinet's economic policies completely ruined the working classes in the early 80s. Yes, London aka the CITY, benefited with all those computers and fund managers and fancy MBA degrees, but the rest of the nation was a BIG TEE STREET! SAD.
@TrueBrit15 жыл бұрын
Quick google and found out all the houses in this street were demolished some time ago. Now just grassland. Wonder what happened to the people? It's easy to joke about this film and the area, but fact is it must have been so depressing and soul destroying living there with such a grim existence.
@thedolphin54284 жыл бұрын
Yep. Here's a pic. commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tees_Street,_Birkenhead_-_IMG_0339.JPG Wow. Yeah. Senseless. Who obliterared so many perfectly good homes? No wonder there's a housing crisis to this very day.
@Patrick31834 жыл бұрын
True Brit are u sure u googled the correct search terms? I google earthed the site and it doesn’t seem like grassland
@octaviussludberry90164 жыл бұрын
It's not grassland, it's waste ground. There's one house left in which someone lives.
@YJB8CCFC4 ай бұрын
June with ten kids! No wonder the electric was so high. Think of all the electricity being used on play station games, use of the power shower and laptops.
@marieyenson99296 жыл бұрын
I'd love to know what happened to these people, I hope they're all ok now!
@rockportlad695 жыл бұрын
probably all dead
@damianjones75545 жыл бұрын
Aye, I'd like to see an update, see what become of them.
@patkeeler66455 жыл бұрын
Booms & busted
@classicartfoundation6395 жыл бұрын
All dead and their clothes are in charity shops to this day, especially Mick Searson's three piece suit
@gary19615 жыл бұрын
Poor June is still trying to pay off that huge eleccy bill at ten bob a week.
@ronniebiggs40265 жыл бұрын
A solicitor on a push bike .....Quality
@stuartclarke31716 ай бұрын
His car was on bricks that morning?
@jonnysegway78665 ай бұрын
@@stuartclarke3171nah, they weren’t the rip off merchants they are today
@DMWBN35 ай бұрын
Car will be stolen.
@stuartclarke31715 ай бұрын
@@DMWBN3 But it's easier to steal a bike?
@DMWBN35 ай бұрын
@@stuartclarke3171 less cost £ hassle to his employer. Replace a bike. ??? Replace a car ??
@classicartfoundation6395 жыл бұрын
"How do you see your future? Vince Baker- "I see myself being on the dole for the rest of my life" A man of great ambition lol
@BintAlAbla19994 жыл бұрын
I think it was an honest comment at that time. Seriously. Hopefully, things have improved.
@valuetraveler20266 ай бұрын
I wonder if his dream came true
@paulmcdonough109311 жыл бұрын
I am from the area i know where they are coming from i hope they all found some kind of hope and help.
@stevenhull50253 ай бұрын
Thank God my father decided to emigrate in the mid 60's
@terrykemp81316 жыл бұрын
There has always been a Noth/South divide, made worse by the Uk government inability to create employment, where they had previously discontinued industries that have previously supported Northern communities.
@rebeccarosehirschfield73865 жыл бұрын
This is also profoundly true, and helps account for some of the Brexit horror...
@seansands4245 жыл бұрын
@sarah jones very much so
@jeffreybail3536 ай бұрын
it will never change unless we change
@Wunjo-Wunjo5 жыл бұрын
Is this where they got all the contestants for 'Bullseye' from?
@stuartkelly31065 жыл бұрын
Lol
@chrisl96205 жыл бұрын
Excellent!
@Elbowspurs5 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂👌👌
@blacktooth4215 жыл бұрын
Looks like it. Wheres the caravans though?!
@Wunjo-Wunjo5 жыл бұрын
@@blacktooth421 In the back gardens with the speedboats.
@darrenbrown44956 жыл бұрын
This documentary is from 1985 not 1980 😎
@Edfc2002 ай бұрын
The streets are so clean snd no cars outside any of the houses
@dominewimbury20395 жыл бұрын
Aww that poor boy at his mother's funeral 😭
@bigrobbo753 ай бұрын
Im sure they would love to live in the Birkenhead not far from me here in Auckland , New Zealand . its an absolutely lovely place .
@tearitloosetearitloose4670 Жыл бұрын
God bless one and all.
@tinterlight Жыл бұрын
Hated the 80s in the UK. Definitely wasn't loadsamoney for everyone... the 90s were a breath of fresh air but things seem to have gone downhill since 9/11
@ÆCME6 ай бұрын
Precisely 💯 The world seemed to a high , now there's this strange, distrust..gloomines, tension
@LaLaura-he1zf3 ай бұрын
Blame mass migration from Africa and Asia. They're taking houses and places yet there are no jobs. Leaving EU was a huge fuck up. More of immigrants you dont want.
@leoscott2915 жыл бұрын
You can't climb up a ladder like that now those days were wonderful
@davelowe19775 жыл бұрын
Leo Scott Why not?
@HURRYUPnDYE5 жыл бұрын
Bono has done well without a phone.
@johnsmith-wx5fb5 жыл бұрын
Ha ha was gonna say. The letterbox mouth and the shades.
@sandrafinbar5 жыл бұрын
So like Bono ! lol
@HURRYUPnDYE4 жыл бұрын
@@johnsmith-wx5fb why was you watching this video in the first place? get lost?!?!?! 😂
@HURRYUPnDYE4 жыл бұрын
@@sandrafinbar ⬆️
@steelernation19893 жыл бұрын
That's Phil Collins
@laetitialogan20173 жыл бұрын
I understand...it was bad in Ireland also back then..in fact it was diabolical...50, 000 left that year for USA, Australia and UK...we worked morning, noon, and night if necessary to pay rent at London prices. The accomodation was rough, the pay wasnt stunning..hence always 2 jobs. The men did better, nothing less than 100 sterling a day, half day Saturday.
@srtuco21549 жыл бұрын
The year at the end states 1985 - not 1980 - as in the title of this video. Some parts of the programme do pass for 1980, but others are more '84-'85 era, going by people's clothes, hair styles and cars in the street.
@ajs416 жыл бұрын
The start of the film is definitely from 1980 I'd say.
@SE10GREENWICH5 жыл бұрын
Its about 1984/85. Those jags in the funeral cortege were B reg which was from late 84 to summer 85.
@Kblog7775 жыл бұрын
If they’re unemployed they can’t really afford the latest fashions tho.
@rebeccarosehirschfield73865 жыл бұрын
Yup. Mebbe learn to read Roman numerals before postin', eh... ?!
@steakandkidney Жыл бұрын
Oh man . Remember the job center 🙄 Nightmare. Left school 1981. Did a YOP for 12 months. Found a plastering job year later . Lucky
@richieallport12 жыл бұрын
tees street no loger exists, just waste land, thank you for the upload
@daveflick126 жыл бұрын
GunnersDream Gunz I know this is 6 years ago since youve written your comment. Ive just been on Google earth and its still there. Newer house's are there 1990s era
@lloydyherbal6 жыл бұрын
Its a merseyrail park and ride carpark now
@FromSagansStardust5 жыл бұрын
@@daveflick12 Wrong side of the Mersey. Birkenhead, not Liverpool.
@phil-zz5hk4 жыл бұрын
THE NORTH END WAS A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE WHEN I WAS A KID . I LIVED IN THE AVS (HARDING) . 2 THINGS DESTROYED BIRKENHEAD , RUNNING DOWN CAMMEL LAIRDS AND SMACK . BIRKENHEAD WAS CAMMEL LAIRDS , 12000 WORKERS AT ITS PEAK , AND ALL THE ANCILLARY JOBS . AND COINCIDING WITH SMACK , I WAS A DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN . SAME WITH ALL INDUSTRIAL TOWNS , TAKE AWAY THE WORK , PEOPLE GET PISSED OFF AND DEPRESSED . SAY NO MORE . PROUD TO BE A JEDI . LOL
@thullarok79176 ай бұрын
It’s strange how these people with nothing. No prospects, no future still have pride in where they live. No rubbish on the street. But nowadays there’s rubbish all over the streets.
@Joe-dj4xz4 жыл бұрын
I noticed the streets kept clean, not like today with beer and coke cans thrown everywhere.
@36ajames Жыл бұрын
My Late Uncle is in this documentary.
@pauldonnelly3179 Жыл бұрын
Who?
@epermute3 жыл бұрын
Back then,we used to call the job centre the ‘joke shop’
@Fatima-fe5bl2 жыл бұрын
The fishing rod comments at the start cracked me up. 🤣
@fern14165 жыл бұрын
The wee boy at his mums funeral 😭
@damianjones75545 жыл бұрын
😢😢😢
@mick78dom788 жыл бұрын
I'm from this area and im proud of it aswell
@lorrainewadsworth90195 жыл бұрын
Good so you should be. A blossom tree can grow and bloom in a 'bog'. We need to remember our roots.
@cherylharewood25494 жыл бұрын
Danny,, is in his late 60's today in 2019
@paulbroderick84385 жыл бұрын
The 42 year old bloke looks 20 years older or more!
@spidyman88534 жыл бұрын
Yep. Poor bloke he looked really old. He couldn't have been 42. He looked 60+ I guess depression does that to you
@paulwilkinson39632 жыл бұрын
My god Mick looked like he was in his 70's
@birdman42745 жыл бұрын
9:11 Unfortunately Mike missed that train and was late for the interview.
@yaramar344 жыл бұрын
Bird Man 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@robinjanz-buhr44273 жыл бұрын
I had the same fear!!!
@birdman42743 жыл бұрын
@@robinjanz-buhr4427 9:41 Do you reckon Mick is a bit older than 42 😂😂
@summernulty623 жыл бұрын
i live in birkenhead it looks so weird there but it still kind of looks the same but doesnt at the same time.
@pumbar11 жыл бұрын
I came from Moreton, All Birkenhead people were weirdos who wanted to kill us. That said; my wife is from Birkenhead (gulps and looks at bedroom door).
@sarahreid34676 жыл бұрын
Lol
@jonathanturbide22326 жыл бұрын
English Heart So...did your wife kill you?
@m4ckm4n595 жыл бұрын
@@jonathanturbide2232 I guess she did...
@gary19615 жыл бұрын
@@m4ckm4n59 ... or fucking divorced him.
@donkinghan15 жыл бұрын
Just seems the difference between then and now is that now there is access to credit and building up debts...
@Gfresh8448 жыл бұрын
"Selling his finishing rod to buy cigarettes" Lol, I bet they did that on purpose.
@Stevo_YouTube3 жыл бұрын
Mainstream media. They love causing division.
@Bustergonad96495 жыл бұрын
Merseyside still has the same trains. Suppose all the money was spent on crossrail !
@wagherbert4 жыл бұрын
If you need O levels...go back and get the bloody O levels. Honestly.
@Superfantastictop105 жыл бұрын
1000pound electricity bill in 1980! Unreal.
@gary19615 жыл бұрын
She's still trying to pay it off ten bob a week.
@ashtonpope794 жыл бұрын
It was discovered in later years her son was growing a huge ganja farm in the loft and she never unplugged her plug in Dildo after every use!!!! True story!
@tenrgn2 жыл бұрын
She had a cannabis factory in the loft I reckon
@LoyalKJ12456Ай бұрын
See how hard it really was ..an look at today better off no matter what anyone is on .
@dommidavros22116 жыл бұрын
First minute and they tell the first lie! There is no way Vince is 42!! He looks about 72!!!
@dommidavros22116 жыл бұрын
Vince changed his name to Nick!! No way is he 42!!!
@Kblog7775 жыл бұрын
Dommi Davros Poverty can age you drastically tho.
@Luke-er6pg5 жыл бұрын
Bloody oath mate!! I’m 42 and by geez I hope I look nothing like that!!!!!!!
@ajs415 жыл бұрын
@@Luke-er6pg I can remember people in their 40s looking that old in the 80s when I was a very young boy.
@ajs415 жыл бұрын
@@dommidavros2211 He is 42. People used to look that old in those days.
@chrisl96205 жыл бұрын
Hello mrs Wilde I've come to have a look at your box !........phnar phnar.
@Kousaburo5 жыл бұрын
0:20 "I'm starvin' lad, I need a ciggie!" Lol, WTF!?
@classicartfoundation6395 жыл бұрын
Lol tobacco, the great appetite suppressant
@jennytaylor33244 жыл бұрын
'Maggie's millions.' Not a good decade to be young, old, ill, poor or working class.
@JamieR19884 жыл бұрын
The government was pushing millions upon millions of pounds into boat yards and steel works for over a decade. She had no choice but to stop that. The people didn't lose their jobs cause of Margret Thatcher, they lost them because companies started relying on the government to bail them out and keeping profits to themselves instead of reinvesting them back into their companies. Do a bit of actually research before opening your mouth. You have no idea what you're on about and are using other people's opinions.
@jennytaylor33244 жыл бұрын
@@JamieR1988 Tory voter, perchance?? I lived through the decade, just so you know, and was (light-heartedly) paraphrasing Mr. Kinnock's exit speech. Whilst I take some of your points, you'd have to go a long way to demonstrate that she didn't do a lot of damage to this country's poorer people, and help to ruin my senior education by marginalising the arts.
@JamieR19884 жыл бұрын
@@jennytaylor3324 Nope, certainly not, used to be Labour until they went down the ultra liberal route. I am a leave voter, however, definitely not right wing. She didn't ruin the working class. For one thing the working class was already on the downward spiral before she came into power. She only did what was necessary to save the country's massive debts. So yeah, of course people are going to suffer as a result of that. But would you rather she kept funneling money into dead end just to keep people employed? Also, when all these plants and places shut down many people stayed unemployed for years, some even decades, there was no excuse for that. They refused to go back to school or to learn something new. I lived through it as well. I'm from Aberdeen. My dad worked in the fishing industry and he also lost his job and so did my mum as she worked in a fish factory. However, both of them went back to school and got their degrees in business management and went and got jobs in the oil sector. The arts has normally supported itself. I respect that. However, I do feel sorry that you had your education hampered by the measures she took. I did not support Maggie, I just know that most of her choices weren't made with the intention of hurting people. She was trying to scrape Britain off the ground and save us from becoming completely ruined by debt. Unfortunately, years of Labour spending and a long while of Tony Blair and a war insured that Britain is now back on its arse.
@jennytaylor33244 жыл бұрын
@@JamieR1988 I see. But didn't she encourage the poor to buy their council houses, which was ultimately catastrophic? I do think she had to make some unpopular decisions over the unions, as you say, but she was a terrible (inverted) snob about the poor. She made a famous remark about anyone over 30 who had to use public transport as having "failed"!
@JamieR19884 жыл бұрын
@@jennytaylor3324 The working class buying their own homes was a good idea in theory, it just didn't work because so many people ended up defaulting on their payments. So tens of millions was loaned and never paid back. So yeah, it was good for the people who actually kept up payments, but it had a serious knock on effect and now young or 'poorer' people can't buy houses. Yeah, her opinion towards working class was shocking, you can't deny that. But my point isn't of her opinion, it's the utter disregard people use when talking about it all. She was used as a scapegoat by literally everyone. Well she's got a bit of a point. While I won't agree that people over 30 using buses are failures. I will say that a lot more needs to be done to make sure people over 30 are much better off than they currently are. My son in law just turned 30 and he's got basically nothing. He's had a job for years, but he just cannot get any finance on anything. Not a car or a house. It's quite sad.
@fl31625 жыл бұрын
Skills are everything.
@carld94518 ай бұрын
The fella getting on the roof class ha ha big time
@salus12314 ай бұрын
Well ,Mick is now the age he looked in this documentary ! Hope he's still with us