1970s London | Poverty in the 70s | North Islington | Community Tension | This week | 1970 

The only difference is that poorer people were more articulate those days

Please upload more of these. It's so important to look back and learn from our history. Plus it's just fascinating to see social attitudes and commentary from decades ago

Regeneration decimated so many of Islington’s communities. We grew up poor in Islington in multi-occupancy housing. Poverty, homelessness, unemployment were constant issues for us all. Regeneration saw mass redevelopment, all sold to the highest bidders. The poor working class communities had to leave as it became too expensive to rent there never mind buy. Communities and families were broken up as a result of this. Very sad 😢

Thanks for uploading, having grown up in South London in the 1970s, we used to think North London was 'posh'. When people talk about 'poverty' in 2021, they have no idea.

i was 12 then it seems like yesterday now still got no money 52 years later////

I worked in Islington for over 20 years and there are still some of these adventure playgrounds still running! Still open and still there children to play together X

nice, 50 years later - Islington is almost unaffordable :) Also, the very last guy in the documentary is BOSS. #dosomething

Thank you for uploading this ThamesTV. So fascinating to watch for someone like me who was born in the 21st century.

Give the man at 11:00 an honorary sociology degree. He's knocks the whole situation right on the head there.

This channel is brilliant, so interesting to look back at our history

That park is still open today brought a lot of people together it was a tough area a few underworld villains came from that part of islington.

When I think of 1970s I'm thinking it's still 30 years ago. 50 years plus since then. I'm in my early 20s but would love to see that timeline back for a month.

Thank you for posting this. Really enjoyed watching.

that was hilarious watching the kids play like that, can you imagine the health and safety conscious folk these days allowing kids plating that way. lol

Great to see the children playing with hand tools, and doing something creative, even if it hammering nails in wood; I'm guessing this would not be allowed these days with overbearing heath and safety.

One thing that I remember and Is illustrated in this film, poverty is no respecter of race. We played together, went to school together, went in each others houses and called each others parents Mr and Mrs. The only time I saw any racism was when I attended a basketball match with my black mate and his white girlfriend where he was berated by black members of a visiting American team. Being from London we gave more back than we got.

This is why my family left in 1968 for Canada.

lets go to the adventure playground to play with some wooden pallets

When I grew up in the 1970s in the westcountry, in a concrete Cornish unit, we had no heating. It was basic living. It sounds like a 1960s sketch show, but if you tell the youth of today, they don't believe you (think Yorkshire accent and four Yorkshiremen in a gentlemen's club). What really angers me is the sanctimonious middle class of today, who have adopted woke as their cultish religion, wittering on about 'white privilege'. Yeah, the middle class woke have privilege, most of us didn't, and still don't. Cornwall (one of the poorest parts of the UK and western Europe, still).

Toffee Park and the one on Copenhagen Street.

My home N1

The housing crisis are like roaches, it’ll always be there forever 🪳

Used to play in an adventure playground near Naish Court off Copenhagen Street early 80’s , seem to remember it was called CromwellsCastle but I may have the name wrong, good memories

Is that place not posh now?

''He's a Fuckin Nuisance'' lol

i was in school in the 70s the council estate i grew up in in southend was a paradise compared to this

Kids can play anywhere but this is bad.

Sick of London and how poor they are . Take a trip up north and you will see why we no longer vote labor.