6:21. Those flats on Muirhead ave are still absolutely STUNNING to this day They now have listed building status . I doubt we will ever see the building standard & craftsmanship like this for social housing ever again . 🙁
I lived in Portland Gardens...knocked down in the 80s as they were considered slums. Yet i have NEVER had a bedroom as big as the bedroom i had there as a child,nor ever felt as safe as i did when i lived there nor have i ever had as good neighbours as i did when i lived there. Even now as a fully grown adult home owner...Portland Gardens was my favourite home. I may be looking back through my childhood mind but i never wanted to leave there & was horrified when my parents made us move into a house that was much smaller.
yer-but, today's slums were once 'bright ideas and futuristic' too. It's what certain bone headed people make of their surroundings, that affect the decent ones, and bring the whole area into disrepute. Nothing is learned.
Apparently council estates took a nose dive when councils starting giving priority to the most desperate people in society - drug addicts, unemployed etc.
I worked in Radiant House on Bold St in 1971..Meter Control..a lovely building. I remember George the lift man..The building is still vibrant art deco and stands out amongst the other buildings. "Good morning,meter control"
The new building tenement style was called the bull ring , it's supposed to be demolished so most of the tenants were removed , it was not demolished but used as student accommodation ,trees were planted, gates were put on the archway, tress planted for the students but not for the original inhabitants so much lies and a community was broken. Housing had no idea of what it meant or did they care, no! The lady speaking has the Lancashire accent which was strongly intertwined with the irish, Scottish and welsh the Lancashire in many cases had not been submerged, it is not surprising liverpool was in Lancashire county, that was the original accent we can still here the Lancashire dialect even we don,t all speak like Harry Enfield joke accent future councils made new ones.
The opening shot is of Norris Green where my grandmother lived - the geometric patterns on such a scale were a feature of these new estates but Norris Green and Speke had the grandest of the schemes
I can take u round Anfield and the first five minutes is nearly the same exactly the same on Breck Rd..shame o the trash in city hall Derek Hatton LFC et al, who destroyed Anfield, Wavertree, and Maggie Thatcher and nest of thieves who plundered the docks.
So that was the Liverpool accent back in 1939. How I've got an accent, the one I have today, is beyond me. Most of those tenements that were built, in and near the city centre, most have been pulled down having been deemed as slum's, and yet a few remain, now privately owned? Strange that those owned and run by the council were slums and yet those privately owned are still sought after? All those beautiful new housing developments are all classed as deprived areas today. Dovecot, Norris Green, Speke are hives of criminality by the few, and that has an adverse effect on the majority. It's not property that are slums, it's the people you put in them. One bad tenant harms all around them.
I can confirm that Mrs Greaves in the film was a real Liverpudlian yet spoke like that - she was my grandmother. She was born in 1898 so would have had got her accent from those around her in the first few years of the 20th century. (However, the officials in the film don't sound at all local.) Ironically, she and her family moved out of Myrtle gardens to run a shop in Cockburn Street only for all streets in that area to be demolished in a later slum clearance programme.
@@robmccarron8659 hey great to hear from you. I payed particular attention to your grandmother's accent and I could fully hear the lands + scouse roots of how we speak today. Fantastic for you to see her like this.
Those new estates of flats and houses looked extremely attractive. A vast improvement to the dreadful slums that these people had left. These were decent hard working people with standards and I am sure that they took pride in their new homes and kept both them and the surrounding areas clean and safe. It was nice to hear a local lady's account of living in her new home. One thing that struck me the most was the absence of traffic which meant that in spite of the playgrounds children could play safely in the streets - heaven.
Five storey flats with no lifts. Tenants, I presume, were expected to drag their furniture (and shopping) up five floors of stairs! Most of the flats shown were not renovated in turn and deteriorated into bad housing and were demolished in the 1970s. Typical of L'pool City Council wasting money.
I think that's a little harsh. The flats were heated by coal. Not many could drag a 1 cwt of coal up 5 floors. What about the elderly or mothers with several small children? The posh architect probably had his servant to do such mundane tasks and wouldn't give the poor tenants a thought!
1939 was an unfortunate time to be building multi storey tenements as the occupants would have had to dash down flights of stairs to an air raid shelter.
@@MrDaiseymay When my gran asked when I was getting married I replied ''never''. She looked at me aghast and said ''we can't have a Spinster in the family''. I said ''you'll have to get used to the idea because I don't intend to get shackled to a man, ever''. She tried to bribe me with money and sponsoring a business of my choice, then said she's buy me a house if I found a local guy to marry. I waltzed off into the big world, travelling and working in many countries. Some great adventures and some mistakes, but I never did marry and am happy as can be. I do have a partner but gran would consider that ''living in sin''.
How near sighted young people are about living conditions for the elderly. Most elderly will end up in a nursing home, we know this for a fact. So it would be beneficial for future citizens to put more pressure on politicians now to make changes to the standard of living and care in nursing homes. Look after the workers in these home's, happy workers happy residence. We all get old and have a thke notice, it could be you 👇👵🏾👴🏽
ha ha, I could have sworn one woman could have been my nan. the coat, camel with a belt, the round specs, slim, and the shoes. it was a nice memory for me though,
all areas outside liverpool had to take liverpool people, i had to work with liverpool people who moved to my area, lazy is not the right word the best description would be die straights, song money for nothing the best thing about liverpool is the a580 road out
