I know we have a much better quality of life now but I heard, "it's a choice between heating and eating" which is what we are starting to hear again in 2022.
As a apprentice plumber in the 1970s, i remember working for people in these conditions. When i fitted a new cooker for them they were over the moon and phoned all the family in excitement.
Loved Leicester when I was there in 92-95. As students we were told not to venture into Braunstone, which seemed a different world to a few miles in towards the city. Our local was the Huntsman, not sure if it’s still going. Great memories, and always have a soft spot for Leicester since.
I lived on the other side of the park in 1998 Known as Dodge City, Overpark Avenue is Texas, still a shit hole ,like most areas, but nearly worked all my life from 16-52 apart from 2yrs max, the pay in Leicester does not pay to work , about 40p-£1 difference from minimum pay in most Leicester companies now or they think as you work for them, they own you and you can be treated how Bosses/Managers suits them, But I work for the companies best interests not the Bosses perks etc
Leicester has the 4th highest rate of unemployment in Britain. The English becoming a minority. It has high rates of illiteracy, is one of the worst 5 municipalities in England for education. A survey "Muslims in Leicester" says that Muslims in the city are prone to underachievement & unemployment and says the Spinney Hills Muslim area, has the lowest rate of full-time employment, highest rate of unemployment/economic inactivity/"no qualifications" for work and highest level of social housing.
@rodtemplar, You are no doubt talking of your youth in Braunstone in the 60's. Yes as youths we made the best of what we had. In retrospect as an adult now, would you want more than just tea & biscuits for your children? does it not occur to you that maybe 'putting up & shutting up' builds an easy controlled community, a community destined to be doormats? Whilst we 'put up and shut up' we are left behind as other communities shout from the rooftops their wishes, needs & concerns & are helped.
If you ask anyone from folville/roxy area where the dodgites live, they will say gallards hill, if you ask anyone from brauny town where the dodgites live, they will say the other side of brauny lane.
@Ashtree1976, The 'Family Rescue Centre' was a state funded 'placebo'. It was part of the system that caused the poverty; do you think the system would set something up to oppose its own system? It was set up to give the impression that you were being assisted by the state when it was just giving you the bare essentials which is all the state wanted you to have whilst they had comfort and at times it couldn't provide the basics i.e. Did the parents look thankful with it in this film? No.
Every country in the developed world has an optimum population for everything to work including housing, education, health care and public services. Double it, triple it and it all collapses.
@Diddy676, I don't blame immigrants, I blame the UK Government of the time 'Conservatives' who just like the Labour Party UK Government & Con-Dem coalition UK Government handle immigration poorly without care or fairness and just use immigrants as the new slaves as the English sussed the enslavement and started to campaign against it and challenge it, so consecutive corrupt greedy rich UK Governments bought in poor desperate folk from other countries to simply replace the awakened English. .
This isn't just true of Braunstone, I used to go through Netherhall every day to school in the 70s, and I had many friends there who lived in bad conditions and poverty.
My dad delivered on the brauny estate in the sixties for frears and blacks delivering bread said they were decent you knew where you stood with them .lived in le3 from birth till 2020 .
Sounds to me like you are doing a lot of whining. I grew up on Hand avenue in the 1960's and we had shit all to call our own. We were lucky to have tea and biscuits for dinner! None of us ever whined. Ask the Cooling family, or the Tamms, or Nethercotts, or Trevors. We are the REAL brauny boyz!
@Ashtree1976, Yeah thank heavens they didn't take you away from your family due to the poverty that their system caused? Werent we lucky to not know where the next meal was coming from? to have parents with depression? to have lived in deep poverty where our families paid for rich Brit greedy Government's colossal miss handling of the economy? Not forgetting those who had their kids taken from them despite the Family Rescue Centre due to bad parenting of not being able to afford Gas&Electric?
Was drinking one time in the working mens club up there the vic a fair few years back now when a young simple lad walked in and told us all that his cousin was pregnant. Then he told us that he was also excited about becoming a father 🤦♂️
@coltsuperocean10, on reading my post below concerning settler communities in Leicester connected to unemployment and illiteracy etc do you have the same abusive view of these settler communities now in the same situation, or do you only reserve such abuse and negative comments for the English community in the same situation? which is discrimination of course and here you are throwing around the racist accusation??? this is typical double standard anti-Englishness which we can pull apart easy.
This is best shit we've seen we live here 😂 all are grandparents an fam are from around here it was crap then cash straped worse now least it was for the people in 90s fun times now its like la la land 😅 politicians drained it all no party on park fates social place's its a joke what are the kids ment to do..should of bin left alone lot less violent crimes back then till they got involved
