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-el8br5 жыл бұрын
Peter Carey - good on you, male as well couldnt be easy to kick against the grain x
@DudeSilad5 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.
@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.
@rebeccarosehirschfield73864 жыл бұрын
KInda my thoughts exactly.
@peterroberts27374 жыл бұрын
The guy in the shop has probably seen that fishing rod hundreds of times
@stephanblack45584 жыл бұрын
And I bet the rod was robbed.
@damianjones75544 жыл бұрын
Probably the only pleasure left in life for him a smoke, would you deny a man that?
@nigel20934 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@beatonthedonis4 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.
@lorrainewadsworth90194 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...
@jasontimperley9199Ай 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.
@salus1231Ай 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. 👍
@anneshields20104 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?
@Concurr3 жыл бұрын
@@prepperjonpnw6482 Just search 'The Family Episode 1' on here, there's about 10 of them I think.
@ihateyoumother-fucker32044 жыл бұрын
That 42 year old looks like an old, retried World One veteran @ home in his armchair.
@kjp12328 ай бұрын
It's from growing up in smoke filled pubs and living off nothing but walkers crisps and onions😂
@steveensom72382 ай бұрын
He was just protecting his plenty of fish profile
@matthewbates5492 ай бұрын
No chance is he 42. Probably get more on the Dole than a pension
@DMWBN32 ай бұрын
I know. Looks like he’s in his 70’s.
@jesusislukeskywalker4294Ай бұрын
@@kjp1232🚬🤠
@keithdempsey3996 Жыл бұрын
My grandparents lived at No 5 during the 40s, William and Elisabeth Dempsey R.I.P.
@petersean74128 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.
@stephanblack45584 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
@ultimatemagic21252 ай бұрын
Shame about the accents though.
@coolstreams10122 ай бұрын
@@ultimatemagic2125khun mai mi samong.
@TheDaisypurple11 жыл бұрын
A brilliant piece of social history, thanks for the upload. I really hope that they all found some happiness eventually.
@funDAYsmiling4 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.
@DominicBoddy7 ай бұрын
@@hslmedia2663 lol
@tone38174 жыл бұрын
Well, that cheered me up no end.
@laetitialogan20173 жыл бұрын
Lol
@ianwatkins96022 жыл бұрын
I was depressed. I'm great now..
@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
@littleredrose62547 жыл бұрын
Depression ages people.
@gcfcos7 жыл бұрын
Poor families just thrown on the scrap heap. That guys nuts climbing onto that roof
@Gfresh8447 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I've never seen anyone look that old at 42...
@BintAlAbla19996 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!
@gorkys69 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...
@starquant5 жыл бұрын
Bitcoin is stuffed !.
@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.
@angelicupstart19774 жыл бұрын
Talking of fat, that coffin was huge!
@craiggilchrist42233 ай бұрын
Look how clean the streets are.
@MrMusicbyMartin2 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
@ScouseTimes4 жыл бұрын
WE NEVER FORGET ..WE ARE NOT ASHAMED!
@andywfc13 жыл бұрын
well ya should be bone idle ponces
@apathyintheuk2654 жыл бұрын
I think the rest of the street is tapping into June's supply.
@Elbowspurs4 жыл бұрын
10 fucking kids , no fella and wonders why she’s skint!!!🤔🤔🤔silly bitch!! Keep em closed darling 😩😩😔😔
@TheGodParticle4 жыл бұрын
I know I shouldn't but lmao at your comment. cheers
@Roo9863 жыл бұрын
@@Elbowspurs Apply your own advice to your mouth....
@helenamcauley3135Ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@dogshitonastick40084 жыл бұрын
9:45 worlds oldest ever 42 year old. 🤥
@rocket76974 жыл бұрын
Christ he's the saddest case Ive ever seen. he's probably been like that since he was 5.
@royfr81364 жыл бұрын
Exactly WTF....42.......more like 72
@ColtSSR4 жыл бұрын
Fuck im that age and dont look like that lol
@julieattard70984 жыл бұрын
42!!! old in the mind .. he dressed old too! bless him .
@willrich39084 жыл бұрын
should have joined the circus
@Ladygaga40474 жыл бұрын
That 42 year old finally looks his age around now!
@Elbowspurs4 жыл бұрын
Fuck he’s death warmed up!!! Yoda looks younger than him!!!😳😳
@psycoticbastard4 жыл бұрын
I think he has been drinking the water from the Mersey
@jeffchurchill61414 жыл бұрын
Only 42... He looks 72
@user-nk9wo3il8j2 ай бұрын
Surely must ov been a 7 that looked like a 4
@user-nk9wo3il8j2 ай бұрын
9.25 how times have changed the train doors open the very second it stopped
@stuartkelly31064 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-Wunjo4 жыл бұрын
Haha!
@sam-di4oz4 жыл бұрын
🤧🤧🤧🤤🤤🤤😂😂😂😂
@caitgems14 жыл бұрын
That was just to run her vibrator.
@MrAlwaysBlue4 жыл бұрын
Some say he is still trying to solve the mystery of June’s electricity bill.
@stuartkelly31064 жыл бұрын
@@MrAlwaysBlue indeed a never ending conundrum for him....
@carolinesmyth1274 жыл бұрын
I remember those depressing boards in the jobcentres/dole offices...
@stepheningermany4 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.
@MrAlwaysBlue4 жыл бұрын
He couldn't get a phone, then he didn't want a phone, am I missing something?
@matthewbritton41494 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.
@jj-iu3ni4 жыл бұрын
Look how clean the street is though
@paulwilkinson39632 жыл бұрын
My god Mick looked like he was in his 70's
@ronniebiggs40264 жыл бұрын
A solicitor on a push bike .....Quality
@stuartclarke31712 ай бұрын
His car was on bricks that morning?
@jonnysegway78662 ай бұрын
@@stuartclarke3171nah, they weren’t the rip off merchants they are today
@DMWBN32 ай бұрын
Car will be stolen.
@stuartclarke31712 ай бұрын
@@DMWBN3 But it's easier to steal a bike?
@DMWBN32 ай бұрын
@@stuartclarke3171 less cost £ hassle to his employer. Replace a bike. ??? Replace a car ??
@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.
@classicartfoundation6394 жыл бұрын
"Vince Baker is short of money for cigarettes" Lol that sets the tone for this documentary
@patrickbonham9494 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@user-of2cd2cf4cАй бұрын
A lot of smokers will choose cigs over food any day. That's the power of addiction. What do you mean by tone?
@nigel20934 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!
@user-py6oh9nc8l4 ай бұрын
Ha ha thanks I did get the job
@stephanblack45584 жыл бұрын
The pawn shop called macs spell it backwards and it spells SCAM.
@caitgems14 жыл бұрын
Nowadays it spells SMACK.
@horizon06694 жыл бұрын
@lunar moon bastard that's blasphemy
@garolstipock5 күн 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.
@rexterrocks4 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.
@colshythecomedian4 жыл бұрын
Mike seerson 42???!!! That poor boy had one hard hard life!!!
@thetruth156real34 жыл бұрын
It seems to be the North’s cruelest joke,,,,,,giving the blind terrible hair cuts.
@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
@DavidKnibb8 жыл бұрын
Mac's in the fourth minute was where I got my first guitar. Nice to see it still going in 1980.
@liamkatt6434Ай бұрын
Great people in Tees Street in the early 60s. So sad it has gone.
@runintoabrickwall33424 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.
@davelowe19774 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.
@peterscotney16 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 !
@lodersracing4 жыл бұрын
Love these documentaries!
@keithdempsey3996 Жыл бұрын
My grandparents lived at No 5, 40s and 50s
@MrAlwaysBlue4 жыл бұрын
Danny Doyle, bless him, had a cracking moustache, and probably didn’t know it.
@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.
@howey9353 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.
@johnk16394 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 :)
@petercarey80305 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 !!!
@JVCarey5 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.
@rebeccarosehirschfield73864 жыл бұрын
Peter, you're getting quite snotty/pompous now. Become aware. Thanks.
@DO-zh5ol Жыл бұрын
Your dad didn’t love you tho I rem you saying 😂so you had to go had no choice m8
@eeeb21402 ай бұрын
NOT SURE WHy THE UPPER CASE BUT GOOD FOR YOU
@elih97004 жыл бұрын
Mick Searson aged 42 you're aving a larf.
@dirkbogarde444 жыл бұрын
People aged differently then.
@elih97004 жыл бұрын
@@dirkbogarde44 True enough, poor diet, home heating etc.
@spidyman88534 жыл бұрын
@@elih9700 And depression
@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.
@robraver4 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.
@brianburt22444 жыл бұрын
Can't get over the geezer who was 42, looked 72
@deeppurple883 Жыл бұрын
So did everyone else, I think they got it wrong, his age. There's more life in 72 old that his 42 years. He's a barrel of laughs and single. 🤣👴🏽
@meanontoist4 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
@chrisl96204 жыл бұрын
Classic.
@ItsNotRealLife4 жыл бұрын
mcmcolm already said that
@meanontoist4 жыл бұрын
@@ItsNotRealLife oh so he did, didn't see that
@saulwest82544 жыл бұрын
👍😂
@Wunjo-Wunjo4 жыл бұрын
Is this where they got all the contestants for 'Bullseye' from?
@stuartkelly31064 жыл бұрын
Lol
@chrisl96204 жыл бұрын
Excellent!
@Elbowspurs4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂👌👌
@blacktooth4214 жыл бұрын
Looks like it. Wheres the caravans though?!
@Wunjo-Wunjo4 жыл бұрын
@@blacktooth421 In the back gardens with the speedboats.
@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.
@anneshields20104 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
@redsquirrelrichard87804 жыл бұрын
Yes that will be the Margret Thatcher years,.
@valuetraveler20262 ай бұрын
so goes the meme
@jeffreybail3532 ай бұрын
it will never change unless we change
@Fatima-fe5bl2 жыл бұрын
The fishing rod comments at the start cracked me up. 🤣
@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.
@classicartfoundation6394 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.
@valuetraveler20262 ай бұрын
I wonder if his dream came true
@fl31624 жыл бұрын
Skills are everything.
@mick78dom787 жыл бұрын
I'm from this area and im proud of it aswell
@lorrainewadsworth90194 жыл бұрын
Good so you should be. A blossom tree can grow and bloom in a 'bog'. We need to remember our roots.
@dominewimbury20394 жыл бұрын
Aww that poor boy at his mother's funeral 😭
@marieyenson99296 жыл бұрын
I'd love to know what happened to these people, I hope they're all ok now!
@rockportlad694 жыл бұрын
probably all dead
@damianjones75544 жыл бұрын
Aye, I'd like to see an update, see what become of them.
@patkeeler66454 жыл бұрын
Booms & busted
@classicartfoundation6394 жыл бұрын
All dead and their clothes are in charity shops to this day, especially Mick Searson's three piece suit
@gary19614 жыл бұрын
Poor June is still trying to pay off that huge eleccy bill at ten bob a week.
@Joe-dj4xz4 жыл бұрын
I noticed the streets kept clean, not like today with beer and coke cans thrown everywhere.
@HURRYUPnDYE4 жыл бұрын
Bono has done well without a phone.
@johnsmith-wx5fb4 жыл бұрын
Ha ha was gonna say. The letterbox mouth and the shades.
@sandrafinbar4 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
@darrenbrown44955 жыл бұрын
This documentary is from 1985 not 1980 😎
@tearitloosetearitloose4670 Жыл бұрын
God bless one and all.
@cherylharewood25494 жыл бұрын
Danny,, is in his late 60's today in 2019
@leoscott2914 жыл бұрын
You can't climb up a ladder like that now those days were wonderful
@davelowe19774 жыл бұрын
Leo Scott Why not?
@Kousaburo4 жыл бұрын
0:20 "I'm starvin' lad, I need a ciggie!" Lol, WTF!?
@classicartfoundation6394 жыл бұрын
Lol tobacco, the great appetite suppressant
@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
@pumbar10 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?
@m4ckm4n594 жыл бұрын
@@jonathanturbide2232 I guess she did...
@gary19614 жыл бұрын
@@m4ckm4n59 ... or fucking divorced him.
@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
@carld94515 ай бұрын
The fella getting on the roof class ha ha big time
@TrueBrit14 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.
@michaelcarlos8686Ай бұрын
The theme tune to this and world in action is iconic. Add the Sweeney tune and it’s a hat trick.
@birdman42744 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 😂😂
@fern14164 жыл бұрын
The wee boy at his mums funeral 😭
@damianjones75544 жыл бұрын
😢😢😢
@thullarok79172 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.
@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
@lloydyherbal5 жыл бұрын
Its a merseyrail park and ride carpark now
@FromSagansStardust5 жыл бұрын
@@daveflick12 Wrong side of the Mersey. Birkenhead, not Liverpool.
@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.
@salus1231Ай бұрын
Well ,Mick is now the age he looked in this documentary ! Hope he's still with us
@epermute3 жыл бұрын
Back then,we used to call the job centre the ‘joke shop’
@chrisl96204 жыл бұрын
Hello mrs Wilde I've come to have a look at your box !........phnar phnar.
@Falconer7104 жыл бұрын
Good old Great Britain 🇬🇧
@ItsNotRealLife4 жыл бұрын
Vince, stop smoking you've got two children to support
@Gfresh8447 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.
@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.
@rebeccarosehirschfield73864 жыл бұрын
This is also profoundly true, and helps account for some of the Brexit horror...
@seansands4244 жыл бұрын
@sarah jones very much so
@paulbroderick84384 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
@36ajames Жыл бұрын
My Late Uncle is in this documentary.
@pauldonnelly317910 ай бұрын
Who?
@Bustergonad96494 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.
@clarealdam63584 жыл бұрын
9:45 42???? You're joking! lol
@dommidavros22115 жыл бұрын
First minute and they tell the first lie! There is no way Vince is 42!! He looks about 72!!!
@dommidavros22115 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!!!!!!!
@ajs414 жыл бұрын
@@Luke-er6pg I can remember people in their 40s looking that old in the 80s when I was a very young boy.
@ajs414 жыл бұрын
@@dommidavros2211 He is 42. People used to look that old in those days.
@srtuco21548 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.
@rebeccarosehirschfield73864 жыл бұрын
Yup. Mebbe learn to read Roman numerals before postin', eh... ?!
@TheGodParticle4 жыл бұрын
I thought Mick was going to jump off that bridge for a moment, he seems very down in the dumps.
@classicartfoundation6394 жыл бұрын
Looking at the poor sod makes me want to do the same
@TheGodParticle4 жыл бұрын
@@classicartfoundation639 Damn, I know what you mean. nobody should be that down, i'm on hard times myself, but if I ever met mick i'd give him a few quid to pay his electric bill or gas, even for him to have a few drinks down his local. the most upsetting part is nouthing has changed.
@johnsmith-wx5fb4 жыл бұрын
Searson slumped on't settee seeing sloths slide past at speed
@Superfantastictop104 жыл бұрын
1000pound electricity bill in 1980! Unreal.
@gary19614 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
@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.
@Johnsmith-yk5kj4 жыл бұрын
Was that Bono fitting ariels ?
@Paintheshed4 жыл бұрын
this is bleak 42 year old what's his name looks about 65 and he's been out of work 10 years!