Its bizarre, even back then scrap metal was worth a fortune, the dealers just kept quiet and said they HAD to charge for removal of cars, metal etc....they coined it in...millionaires even back then....they just lied about cost.....what a great programme this waz, i love it.
Wow !! Thank you so much for this video. I remember some of these landmarks before they were demolished, it takes me back to my childhood. Fantastic work !!👍👍😊
How wonderful britain was then, full of happy hard working indigenous british folk all enjoying theyre way of life, hard work, holidaying, what a life the children and animals had.....all well before illegal immigration destroyed our once beautiful country 😖😪
Just fabulous...i only discovered this programme a few years back and i watch it avidly, its all before my time but just seing how great britain was then and how happy people seemed in contrast with todays terrible problems, knife crime, illegal immigrants flooding in destroying whole areas of the country.., drugs etc...its hard to believe its the same country
Couldnt you just tell it was white hart lane...one of the worst pitches in history...just a sea of soil and mud when it rained..appalling....had some great times there as an evertonian...some shite ones as well ....fckin clive allen ...again 😡 🤣😂🤣🍻
A depressing contrast: 21 years later, the equivalent ships of the US Navy were bombarding Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, warning/reminding our adversaries of the consequences of taking-on a "Big Dog"; Britain's economic duress and short-sightedness were why she was not in the Gun Line, off Beirut (1983) or indeed Kuwait (1991) .
What wonderful memories lived on hipper street south till 1970 still live in the town wouldn't live anywhere else thank you very much with tears in my eyes
It was nothing to do with salvaging materials, it was America who just couldn't bear old Blighty having such a powerful ship in what was part of the post war policy of driving the UK onto its back, after all the US kept their battleships why not we keep Nelson, Vanguard etc as proud reminders of the most powerful military and economic power in earths history but nope, it like the old carriers and cruisers all had to go because Washington said so...
In the 70's visiting my uncle's sub Warspite at Chatham, I saw Vanguards sister Triumph being prepped for scrap towing and I was given by a navy rating a hunk of her flight deck sadly lost when my late father's second wife had everything thrown out when he passed and she went into a home :( Vanguard was also the only battleship my late grandfather never got to ride during the war, he was a specialist Comms CPO based on the beached Iron Duke in Scapa Flow and he and his team would "hop on" to transiting ships upgrading and training crews all the radios and other comms equipment, he was a fairly popular chap being a navy boxing champion drubbing the other two branches often. They would work ships on their outward journey crossing over on bosun's chair after each ship upgraded then a days rest in somewhere like Gibraltar then work a convoy back to Scapa or another home port and either RAF it or passenger on a home fleet heading that way.
I cant tell you how wonderful this video is. I was born in Chesterfield in 1967 but moved in 1991, to Worcestershire. How I miss the town as it was, walking around the market with my grandma (market traders used to flirt madly with her!), and tripping on the cobbles in high heels as a teen. Chesterfield was a great place to live, and it probably still is. Thank you so much for this walk down memory lane :))
