1970s London | The Westway | Residents demand re-housing | Today | 1970 

You can bet your life that the people who gave the go ahead to build those roads didn't live anywhere near them.

The old man with the grocery shop was probably a veteran of WW2, what a reward for serving your country. Now people are killing themselves to buy property in Hendon for instance near that motorway.

This reporter is a legend...... He isn't just reporting the news, he's actually experiencing what the residents experience just to get the proper information

There was a time when Journalists listened to the working class & gave them a voice - now they ignore them

The poor being abused has never changed.

Motorways through residential areas is outright criminal. You can be rest assured that none of the 'planners' will be effected by this nonsense. Greetings from a Brit residing in USA.

Those houses actually sell for over a million today

That smug bastard at 3.00 i bet he lived in a detatched house in a leafy suburb

I lived in Acklham road, as this was being built , i went to Bevington School and then lived in Aldermarston St ,opposite travellers site , and then many other local places, with eviction a constant . No happy memories of living in SLUMS !

People used to write songs about this sort of thing, many years ago. Well, it's not exactly 'paving paradise', but it did literally divide communities.

Those in the countryside houses are now getting the same with HS2.

Those poor people. Abandoned and forgotten in the name of progress.

It was planned to have these motorways all over London. I lived near Orpington and my parents house lost value as a motorway was planned there too. Probably the reduction in house prices is what stopped all the motorways being built throughout London.

Nothing has changed governments and councils couldn’t give a toss

A house swap between researchers and residents would have resulted in compensation and re-housing. To avoid this they have the residents believe for a number of years, "research" is being done.

This London was great. London, now, is hell on earth.

I remember being driven over the Westway by my dad many a time in the 70s to visit family in London. Used to think how close the houses were to it.

50 years later and all those houses are worth a fortune no matter if they back onto the Westway. It was lovely to hear some of those voices, took me back to how people I grew up with used to speak.

Now it's all private foreign investmenta all around and Noone left complaints

6.57 Mr McSherry went to the hairdressers and said can I have a 'Michael Foot' please.They amazingly obliged.

Adelaide Terrace houses sell for about half a million now.

wow...not much health and safety then with those little kids just feet away watching the digger - sad but sweet

Imagine buying a flat and they build a motorway 11 feet from your flat window lol. 😬😂

You could argue the Westway has become iconic and part of the cultural fabric of the area.

Peter Taylor, a magnificent journalist.

The parasites of politics and greed feeding from Joe Public will never change xD

They thought times were bad then, if only they could see Britain now they wouldn't believe it

Is that Eric Idle doing the voiceover? Puts a completely different edge on the program, 😂

Thankfully they didn't turn London into LA back then!

Politicians back then talking rubbish with the right accent. Any resemblance to any MP or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. .

09:20 no health and safety back then, but too much today. Madness. .

I remember in Bristol my fathers family being paid off so the M32 could go through their business of 3 generations x

Proper reporting Unlike the Spineless Tosspots of today

Why didn't they attempt to put sound absorbing walls at the side of the motorway,🛣️ OK the cars & lorries🚚 would have no view of London Town but it might of helped the residents especially if triple glazing was offered in all their windows for free!? 🤔

0:06 Trellick Tower being built 😋

House in Adelaide Terrace on right move £590,000. Or 100 times what Mr&Mrs McSherry paid for it. Could buy a whole Scottish island with no means of transport at all. Bliss.

They should of put the west way underground now it’s a eyesore covered in graffiti even the lights have been removed from the road way,part of it is a roof for Westbourne Park bus garage , horrible garage , if you look at the piece showing the large roundabout you see two sections sticking out towards some houses that was going to be a connection to the M1 so mire demolition thank goodness it wasn’t built also that motorway was going the other way to Clapham junction with a major intersection on Clapham Common ,it was all part of the London box motorway scheme abandoned in 1973 ,the area under the west way is scruffy and unpleasant and as I’ve been reading nothing to do with colour or race it was a poor area until it was yuppyfied needs putting in a tunnel

Walmer road is now tiny

Lived between Liverpool St main line and East London line 30 years. Ladykillers effects when old diesels climbed up to Bethnal Green. Had to keep pausing conversation all crockery rattled. Played lots of loud reggae.

Preople should been helped more

Interesting.

The old Paddington Green Police Station was under the part of the west way then got knocked down and a roundabout now lol

£1,000 in 1970 = £11,000 today

Imagine the traffic in rush hour if there was no A40 or M4 to use

Sleep deprivation, and constant noise no sunlight..

Motorways in cities were/are awful ideas

Housing near the Westway are now choc a bloc with residents in high rise blocks

They should never have built this monstrosity

Poor people!

0:14 ... Goldie Lookin Chain!

This gentleman [ beginning story ] must be have he's grandchildren have compensations !

Non permission's building houses for people around motorway , speed road !

Adapt and progress, adapt and progress people of 1970, that’s whatcha gotta do

Why does the old man at the start have a Jamaican accent?

10 or 20 years - that's 3 generations. Utter bollocks.

Sad

So one of those houses should cost £5k to buy, yet that guy said part of his house where ever that was...was damaged by the workers making the flyover yet it cost him about £2.5k to fix the damage...that is half the price of the house yet it seemed to just be a outside wall that was damaged lol

ear plugs help me sleep

If only those resident had learned to go to France and get in rubber boats to row over to Britain, they would have gotten all the free housing & hotel living they want for free.

Another example of the brutalist architecture forced upon the people of those times 😖

The damage done by a Tory led GLC. Tories ruin everything, thankfully Londoners kicked them out and the rest of the project was scrapped.

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When London was English

Amazing to see so many actual English people in London. Seems a different place to the hellhole it is today.

Yes, but they did rehouse them then they knocked the blighted homes down and built new homes just as close and people are happily living there.

When the west was White.