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Living at Thamesmead, 1974 

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A semi-fictional account of a couple who live in the Thamesmead estate. This film shows the architecture and landscaping of Thamesmead and the everyday lives of the residents. Includes sequences showing social activities, sporting events, educational and health facilities.
Starring Julie Dawn Cole and Spencer Banks as the young couple.
Date: 1974
Reference No: GLC/DG/PRB/11/032/001
Collection: GLC
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@tomangler
@tomangler 11 лет назад
Oh my goodness! I've just seen my dad at the TCA meeting (at 18:17). He is the dark-haired balding chap in the grey/green jacket sitting on the left of the screen directly opposite Patrick Forbes. My dad died in late 1974 at just 46 years old so it is amazing to see him in this clip. And our house, 1 Redpoll Way, is in the background as the two characters walk up the walkway (19:20).
@dannykirton6445
@dannykirton6445 6 лет назад
IS your dad the one in the middle of the left side table ?
@daphne4983
@daphne4983 4 года назад
That's awesome!
@delilahhart4398
@delilahhart4398 4 года назад
Your dad was awfully young when he passed.
@matthewpotts5100
@matthewpotts5100 3 года назад
Pretty interesting that like ( not his death obviously)
@matthewpotts5100
@matthewpotts5100 3 года назад
RIP to your dad
@wearecity
@wearecity 7 лет назад
My nan lived in Thamesmead sometime during the 70's and 80's. I would have been 4 when this was filmed. Lovely reading all the comments about people's relatives in the film. Of course it's changed now, so has London, much more multi-cultural and I would imagine that nannying health and safety laws, would prevent a lot of what is seen near the beginning of the film, being doable now anyway. Kids riding and running around on concrete, oh no can't have that lol. For kids nowadays, staying in, is the new going out to play, with so much available in the home anyway.
@darrenobrien4434
@darrenobrien4434 11 лет назад
Amazing trip down memory lane. Was great to see my dad Ricky O'Brien playing darts in the Pyramid club. Great memories and what a lovely place then and even now! Thamesmead you are always in my heart.
@raypowell70
@raypowell70 11 лет назад
Brilliant video, Lived there for all of my childhood, loved the place and so many fantastic memories
@DonSuperbe
@DonSuperbe 3 года назад
It must have been amazing for a while to live in this brave new world. Before it all came crashing down.
@rachelobrien307
@rachelobrien307 11 лет назад
Thank you for sharing this. I was amazed to see my dad 'Richard (Ricky) O'Brien' @ 5:28 (the man in the blue shirt). Anyone who used to drink in the 'Pyramid Club' would remember him in the 1970s before and after his unfortunate accident in 1977. He has now passed away (9.7.01) but I'm pleased to see him at his prime in this historic video.
@thornbird6768
@thornbird6768 2 года назад
This looked amazing. , it was a city for the future and still should be . Such a shame lack of funds and maintenance ruined it .
@caligula4446
@caligula4446 2 года назад
You are perfectly right imho. Thamesmead should have been the ultimate guide for any 'planned' city or part of a city. (Look at the quality and beauty of the architecture!) But as you mentioned, a lack of funds, a lack of proper maintenance BUT most of all: that they (Greater London Council) didn't execute the plans as they where originally ( bridge over the Thames, one or two connections with the underground, a shopping center, the marina, etc,etc ) THAT turned Thamesmead into a non beloved, non wanted 'sink' estate...
@TylerVanner
@TylerVanner 10 лет назад
4:41 the same shot as used by Stanley Kubrick for ''A Clockwork Orange'' and before The Lakeside Pub too.
@unfazedjae2645
@unfazedjae2645 5 лет назад
I’ve been there
@AndrewChapman
@AndrewChapman 6 лет назад
I spent the first 22 years of my life in Thamesmead and then we moved away to Suffolk in 2010.
@clare2401
@clare2401 6 лет назад
Andrew Chapman I don't think any of the originals live there anymore
@wendyjane6634
@wendyjane6634 3 года назад
It looked an idyllic place to live back then sadly it just declined into poverty we called it the Concrete jungle!! I love watching these archive videos and wish was still in those times seemed so much simpler then people evened happy with what they had!!!
@MyFrank71
@MyFrank71 Год назад
very well said ,i lived in binsey walk in 1999 loved it
@Crypto-Live
@Crypto-Live 2 месяца назад
All changed once the boat people arrived I think. Plumstead steadily became more like a ghetto too. It’s the people who make or break a place. I was there from around 1972 at 5 years old. Loved it. Amazing place to grow up.
@jackiedawes1184
@jackiedawes1184 3 года назад
Its dwn to local councils who build these places to keep them updated and not to let them become run down im sure it was paradise to the people that moved there when it was first built
@alexasare123
@alexasare123 11 лет назад
Its amazing how this place has changed
@ajs41
@ajs41 Год назад
Yes. It was a pretty awful place in the 80s and 90s apparently. It's okay now, and it was okay when it first started.
@boleynali
@boleynali 8 лет назад
The Glock family got so angry they went out and started a gun factory.
@DOOMGENERATION
@DOOMGENERATION 6 лет назад
Hahaha.
@mistofoles
@mistofoles 5 лет назад
Interesting, I've never seen a production that features actors and "non-actors" together.
@dark108x
@dark108x 9 лет назад
That grey concrete was already looking a bit stained then.
@mmacsds
@mmacsds 11 лет назад
It looked like such a nice place to be. I'd love to see a comparison of then to now.
@ajs41
@ajs41 Год назад
It's not too bad now. It was absolutely hell in the 80s and 90s apparently.
@tcampbell1106
@tcampbell1106 5 месяцев назад
RIP, Original Thamesmead.
@Nanancay
@Nanancay 4 года назад
Dude why did southmere lake look so good back then LOL. It's not bad now but damn that was like an actual community
@kirstierussell5356
@kirstierussell5356 6 лет назад
I use to live in thamesmeas back in 2008 till 2013 The old flats been knock down and all this in the film has gone It really have change
@mumbojumbo766
@mumbojumbo766 11 лет назад
the film , beautiful thing was filmed there
@DeadSetOnDestruction
@DeadSetOnDestruction 3 года назад
Of all movies filmed in Thamesmead, including Clockwork Orange, this is by far the creepiest knowing how the development eventually turned out.
@thornbird6768
@thornbird6768 2 года назад
It was left to rot and sold on to an association who also left it to rot and is now in the hands of private developers for gentrification !!!
@ajs41
@ajs41 Год назад
Funny thing is this was filmed about 3 years after Clockwork Orange.
@SlipperyBream
@SlipperyBream 12 лет назад
lol, I wonder if my nan saw this before moving to thamesmead from the old kent road in the late 70's?
@bjoernaltmann
@bjoernaltmann 11 месяцев назад
Why didn’t this work? Two reasons, and this applies to any of these estates: the people who live there need to care and the council or housing association need to care. If one of these pillars is missing, it goes downhill very quickly.
@antisatanist5017
@antisatanist5017 2 года назад
This is SO beautiful! I've never seen anything this beautiful in my whole life! How could they destroy it?
@LdnMetArchives
@LdnMetArchives 11 лет назад
Unfortunately, the only other Thamesmead film we have is an earlier version of Thamesmead 70, made in 1967/8. In terms of content there is no real difference, except that the earlier version obviously doesn't show the improvements made by the production of later version.
@kevbee8325
@kevbee8325 8 лет назад
I remember the barn owls, heronry's , pipistrelle bats, water shrews and voles, Chris Packham some years later rescuing them, bullets and mortar shells in the moats while looking for newts, grass snakes, the natural life that had taken over the Arsenal was awesome, then this concrete jungle...
@paulthewall1
@paulthewall1 Год назад
Lived there 75 to 96 mangold way . Mum lived there till her passing in 2008 . Brilliant place to grow up. Playing Run outs ,40 40 and bulldog in the squares with all your mates i Fell off the elterskelter at tavy bridge playground when i was 8 had 7 stitches in my cheeck scared for life . What would have been good was to show thr adventure playground by southmere lake .no matter where you are in the world you can allways tell a thamesmeadean . We are unique
@gadgieschate
@gadgieschate 3 года назад
Me and my wife met in the Pyramid Club over 30 years ago. The people have changed and its not the same.
@royal-arsenal-history
@royal-arsenal-history 12 лет назад
Thanks for uploading my request.
@kidfromtheseventies
@kidfromtheseventies 10 лет назад
1973 Thamesmead, fantastic! Apparently it's not like this anymore which is a shame. What went wrong?
@devally2432
@devally2432 5 лет назад
They let humans live there. Guaranteed to fuck a place up!
@ajs41
@ajs41 Год назад
@@devally2432 There are humans living in the Barbican estate, but it seems to be very nice there, even now.
@TylerVanner
@TylerVanner 10 лет назад
Loved it there. Redbull should go talent hunting there. Almost everyone was Motor crazy in my day. Me included.
@realdavidii
@realdavidii 4 года назад
4:41 That's where the Flat Block Marina scene was recorded in A Clockwork Orange, i guess?
@archive303
@archive303 4 года назад
Where is this place??!! Its like a paradise!!
@previous1591
@previous1591 3 года назад
Trust me, ur mind will change seeing it now
@ajs41
@ajs41 Год назад
Amazing to think this was less than 50 years ago.
@darthstarkiller1912
@darthstarkiller1912 8 лет назад
Only 3 years after "Willy Wonka" and MAN Julie changed in that short time.
@gettinoveritgettinoverit1062
@gettinoveritgettinoverit1062 Месяц назад
🫧 😋 🍫 🍭 🐦:I GOT A BAD FEELING ABOUT U!!!😊
@TheMelamia
@TheMelamia 9 лет назад
Where are the travellers driving their horse drawn carriages down the street?
@thethirdeye5850
@thethirdeye5850 9 лет назад
Thamesmead before the change
@ajs41
@ajs41 6 лет назад
What change did you have in mind?
@ajs41
@ajs41 5 лет назад
The people who first moved in, and lived there for about 10 years, knew how to conduct themselves. What interest me is why the next generation were so badly behaved by comparison. Maybe they were given too much freedom and they used it in bad ways.
@doktoruzo
@doktoruzo 7 лет назад
Oh what a beautiful utopian, egalitarian paradise....the 'New Jerusalem' no less!! What's it like these days?
@clare2401
@clare2401 6 лет назад
It's been pulled down. The houses are worth a fortune now because of the rail link
@alisonlee3314
@alisonlee3314 5 лет назад
It's been demolished. The area rebuilt and gentrified.
@Barbarellacapsule
@Barbarellacapsule Год назад
I love the open space & I guess its been built up more now..... Quite a close knit Community... Just like when i was a kid on the Estate in Yorkshire.... Things where So different & lots of us have find memories... Bet some of those Flats & Masonetts where quite roomy... Kind of Groovy😊 I guess lots of people will of bought up the places.. Nice to live away from the big smoke & some parts of the Thames is quite nice...
@kamranchuahan8025
@kamranchuahan8025 3 года назад
I think that a "a clockwork orange was filmed in this estate
@routemaster6639
@routemaster6639 3 года назад
That's exactly where Alex threw his brothers into the lake!
@transporttechnologykent5829
@transporttechnologykent5829 2 года назад
This video expresses the fun times people were experiencing In Thamesmead. But sadly it’s going now. 24:10 already pulled down. Sad
@midnightmosesuk
@midnightmosesuk 4 месяца назад
My family moved here in '72 when I was just 6. It was every bit as good as this and I have nothing but great memories of living here. We lived on Maran Way and I think that some of this was filmed very close by. We moved out in 1977 which, by the sounds of it, was probably a lucky escape as I've been led to believe that the place rapidly went to pot in the years following. Such a shame that so much potential went to waste. It really was a great place to live and they had very high standards for potential tenents. If only they'd maintained those standards, Thamesmead might have become a beacon of what's possible with good planning.
@nickyuk3033
@nickyuk3033 11 лет назад
OMG there is me at 2 years old at church of the cross tap dancing at 2 years old going in to hiding sooo embarrassing my bit is at 12 mins 20 secs pmsl
@MiKeMiDNiTe-77
@MiKeMiDNiTe-77 2 месяца назад
Wow what a snapshot back in time, people arnt acting like theyre in 1974 they ARE in 1974...splendid
@tomangler
@tomangler 11 лет назад
I've just seem my dad too! (See my comment on here). He died in 1974.
@richardfrost6473
@richardfrost6473 Год назад
Thamesmead was a great place to live in the 70s and early 80s .not much trouble but .its very different now sadly .this when people were proud to move into a council house and make the most of it . I guess family values existed then .
@infinitesimotel
@infinitesimotel Год назад
That's because it wasn't rampantly infested with 3rd world masses that are genociding us.
@7dave2ful
@7dave2ful 10 лет назад
Great that someone has argued that the D.L.R should now bridge across to Thamesmead. Like the both the Lewisham & the Woolwich tunnel links. Crossrail will be useful for people who want to travel to either Canary Wharf or centrally westwards. By 2018-20 completion date. A new river crossing is needed a.s.a.p by 2025.
@Randomaited
@Randomaited 7 лет назад
A lost dream, the idealism of mid century modernity is sadly long gone. Shame really.
@mrjodoe
@mrjodoe 6 лет назад
end times story my friend...
@ajs41
@ajs41 6 лет назад
Ordinary people have to take some of the blame as well as politicians. They became cynical about life and that always makes things worse in the long run. People decided to give up on religion, standards, patience, politeness, fair play, etc, and instead chose narcissism, hedonism, selfishness, impulsiveness, etc. And it wasn't all the fault of politicians, it was also the free choice of ordinary people. Now life is shit in places like Thamesmead.
@henrikg7661
@henrikg7661 5 лет назад
Think of all the new and exciting modernities you have gained instead: terror attacks, acid attacks, rapes, drug dealing, robberies, assults,...Diversity at it´s best.
@halflife5728
@halflife5728 5 лет назад
@@ajs41 there are a lot of pyramid accentuate in this has anyone noticed?
@ajs41
@ajs41 5 лет назад
The most important thing is the attitude that people have. You can have physical surroundings that are actually pretty bad but if people have the right approach to life they can overcome it. Conversely, you can have a relatively nice physical environment but if people have an bad attitude it won't work. For example, in East Asian places like Singapore and Hong Kong millions of people live in tiny flats in tower blocks, but they're mostly in a fantastic condition and state of repair because most of the people have the right attitude to living in that sort of environment.
@dadler9705
@dadler9705 5 лет назад
A brutalist paradise 😍😍😍
@thornbird6768
@thornbird6768 2 года назад
The height of modernity when it was built , cool looking buildings and right on the river .
@JoshySimps
@JoshySimps 11 лет назад
It is actually terrifying how it looks today compared to how it looked back then. I'm actually speechless. Back then it looked like (dare i say it) a nice place to live. Nowadays it looks like Pripyat's little sister. Please, someone tell me, what happened to the area? Given the fact that I can see elements such as the children's play park I can only assume the council stopped funding to keep it nice/more and more homes were built in the area ruining whatever 'atmosphere' there was ?
@Lovemy911
@Lovemy911 Месяц назад
Aaah....when it was all clean New looking & safe to walk the streets without fear .... RIP London 😮 I wonder why it all went wrong after this era ....😮
@JUANOLIVARES
@JUANOLIVARES 10 лет назад
good to have seen Mr Seal lol after all these years..... how is Begoña?
@simbaman1964
@simbaman1964 8 лет назад
+JUANOLIVARES i heard they divorced..
@tel1noone821
@tel1noone821 Год назад
The sad thing is most if not all that you are watching is gone the doctors surgery, tavey bridge itself, along with the shops, pyramid club Bisney walk Coraline walk the play area pulled down. Yes I loved living there from 1969 to 1980 great place to grow up went back shocked to see so much gone . My Father Arthur Norton drunk in the pyramid club mostly Thursday nights and run the Children’s Saturday morning picture show.
@juliahartshorn2473
@juliahartshorn2473 3 года назад
13:19 Father Jim 🌷😊 Do you know he went on to become Bishop of Bath&Wells, and so on. Shame he is gone, he was a fab family/community priest 👍
@milkboccle
@milkboccle 11 лет назад
thamesmead is grimey now
@milkboccle
@milkboccle 4 года назад
Riley Schrieber really? Haven’t been near that area in a while!
@clare2401
@clare2401 3 года назад
What do you mean "now"....its always been like that
@WickedKirsty
@WickedKirsty 5 лет назад
12:20 is my mum :)
@WickedKirsty
@WickedKirsty 5 лет назад
yup lol
@mark-1rc502
@mark-1rc502 3 года назад
Pick a winner 🤣
@royal-arsenal-history
@royal-arsenal-history 11 лет назад
Do you have any more Thamesmead Videos?
@LdnMetArchives
@LdnMetArchives 11 лет назад
Hi Rachel/Darren, Thank you for posting about your dad, this is amazing. Do you recognise anyone else in the video? Friends of your dad, for instance? best, LMA
@PERCYxyz
@PERCYxyz 7 лет назад
I grew up in Thamesmead around this time - I recognise a number of people in it. The teacher is Jeff Seal, who taught at Riverside. The vicar at 13:47 is Jim Thompson, who subsequently became the Bishop and Stepney and later the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The guy who appears to be the chair of the meeting (which was probably the Thamesmead Community Association) at 19:01 is Steve Chantrell. The man who mentions rent controls (to Steve's left) was called Melvin... but I can't remember his surname.
@bobikdylan
@bobikdylan 2 месяца назад
I grew up in Abbey Wood when Thamesmead was new. It seemed to have been designed for hooligans, with boot-level lighting on the walkways. Between where I lived and Thamesmead was the caravan site, from where feral kids terrorised us. People look back on those days with rose-coloured glasses. It really wasn't so great.
@caramelcow7720
@caramelcow7720 6 лет назад
To me, living in those postwar estates only seems enjoyable In the late 80s and 90s. Life seems so much more boring in these kinds of estates before that, what did people even do in those towers blocks in the 70s? You didn’t have the novelty gadgets, tv and music you had in the 90s which would have fit well with that grimey tower block estate feel and create a recipe for nostalgia if you get where I’m coming from!!
@CertifiedRealism
@CertifiedRealism 6 лет назад
I get exactly where your coming from
@ajs41
@ajs41 6 лет назад
People did things with other people, like holding conversations with each other, and playing games and sports. You don't need "stuff" to entertain yourself, you can do it with other people, like human beings have been doing for thousands of years.
@jeremyrogers1247
@jeremyrogers1247 2 года назад
Good point, I think expectations were lower back then, and also people were more sociable in public then they are nowadays.
@thornbird6768
@thornbird6768 2 года назад
They used the community centre , pub , church , shopped locally .
@esssexboy
@esssexboy 3 года назад
Thamesmead is the the cheapest area in south london to buy a place at the moment
@davidbrooks187
@davidbrooks187 5 месяцев назад
Julie Dawn Cole as played Veruca Salt. In Charlie & the Chocolate factory.
@life_seeker6102
@life_seeker6102 4 года назад
Is this town/estate still standing?
@chrisredwood1969
@chrisredwood1969 6 лет назад
Is it true they have knocked down stage one the original thamemead buildings in this film? i lived in neighbouring abbeywood .
@TheRealSimpsons1
@TheRealSimpsons1 6 лет назад
jazzlad1970 yep all gone Tay Bridge and surrounding area is now new blocks. Total toilet.
@clare2401
@clare2401 6 лет назад
Yeah it's not an improvement it's just an expensive shithole now. I went back a few weeks ago for a laugh (parents live in Bexleyheath, sister lives in Belvedere and works in Erith) couldn't believe the house prices round there now, you'd have to pay me to live there
@lapps22
@lapps22 5 лет назад
@@clare2401 There mostly forien who pay silly price for a house, they dont know what it's realy like there.
@royal-arsenal-history
@royal-arsenal-history 11 лет назад
If you would like to see more on Thamesmead visit/search for the facebook group - Thamesmead Stage 3 - SE28
@miamijim5964
@miamijim5964 Год назад
When dreams out reach reality... a positive future was thrown away by bad decisions and short termism, there was so much promise in Thamsemead.
@ajs41
@ajs41 Год назад
The main problem was they started to use places like Thamesmead to house drug addicts, ex-criminals, hooligans, etc.
@mistofoles
@mistofoles 5 лет назад
Lookit them flairs !
@mistofoles
@mistofoles 5 лет назад
"Look, what is this flower growing in ? It's not soil.." "Shit, sir?.."
@charltoncec1798
@charltoncec1798 10 лет назад
Concrete jungle forever. Thameamead will always be a poor man's place full of pikeys these days
@chrishenniker5944
@chrishenniker5944 7 лет назад
Charlton CEC Hate the place.
@jasonhardingham6863
@jasonhardingham6863 3 года назад
Lived there from 75 till 80...Disraeli close....👍👍
@mistofoles
@mistofoles 5 лет назад
That's a bit mean, using a guinea pig as a live roulette table !
@TylerVanner
@TylerVanner 10 лет назад
Are any of these people genuine Thamesmeadians? Or just a coach load of actors come to make an advert to sell the place ?
@TylerVanner
@TylerVanner 9 лет назад
Thought so Veruca Salts?
@claude282001
@claude282001 9 лет назад
Tyler Vanner Julie Dawn Cole
@julietanner86
@julietanner86 9 лет назад
Tyler Vanner I was a resident o fThamesmead and most of the people in it actually lived there. I am in the film.
@orsoncart9441
@orsoncart9441 3 года назад
I have just been ther today. A lot of it has been demolished. Tavy bridge has gone and also Biney way. Peabody(the owners of the estate now) are going to make a killing off this estate like no one can even imagin, it is being ripped to bits and new affordable(LOL) housing is being built. When crossrail starts watch the affordable housing become minimum £750,000 affordable(LOL). The entire system is corupted in London due to the developers controlling all the land. Just walk round it and see the money crushing the poor and there way of life. Feckin Thatcher what an idiot she was.
@VioletaaaxambiVEVO
@VioletaaaxambiVEVO 4 месяца назад
Por que hay comentarios tan recientes?
@zootius
@zootius 5 месяцев назад
This film is the prequel to Logan's Run.
@marksparkes1
@marksparkes1 4 года назад
That bird guy reminds me of Joe Wilkinson
@shay5518
@shay5518 5 лет назад
Is she the same actress who played verruca in the first charlie and the chocolate factory? They look so alike 😂
@mistofoles
@mistofoles 5 лет назад
That is correct, Julie later went on to play a nurse in the medical drama "ANGELS" .
@previous1591
@previous1591 3 года назад
15:41 I'm glad I'm not the only even in 2020
@juantaricco6309
@juantaricco6309 5 лет назад
i can hear G F Handel at the begining. Water music - 3. Adagio e staccato
@jonwizard3989
@jonwizard3989 Год назад
at 4:37 is that where Stanley Kubrick filmed part of Clockwork Orange?
@tonemc6047
@tonemc6047 Год назад
Yes Binsey Walk
@frazzleface753
@frazzleface753 6 лет назад
You'll like it, no you really will. No, you don't understand, you WILL like it.
@craignunnallypurcell
@craignunnallypurcell 5 лет назад
What happened ?
@dominickcsoliz
@dominickcsoliz 4 года назад
Is that verka salt lol in this little movie ..?
@kristinesharp6286
@kristinesharp6286 8 месяцев назад
Gosh it was easy to get a flat.
@TylerVanner
@TylerVanner 10 лет назад
That's her out of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
@turboslag
@turboslag 10 лет назад
Did those flares need a licence?! And did I spy Richard Rogers in that residents meeting? Personally I think Thamesmead looked fine, obviously something went wrong with implementation and development.
@daphne4983
@daphne4983 4 года назад
This is so much better than where I grew up. Bijlmer, Amsterdam. Same idea but uglier.
@davidbird380
@davidbird380 10 месяцев назад
i have worked loads of times over there, up on the roofs
@MikeTaylorEastStaffordshire
@MikeTaylorEastStaffordshire 2 года назад
Is that the actress who played Veruca Salt?
@stephenwalls1
@stephenwalls1 Год назад
Yes
@aces-ww8zl
@aces-ww8zl 10 лет назад
Is this trying to encourage teenage pregnancies. LOL!!!
@maaretrahkonen7706
@maaretrahkonen7706 3 года назад
25:23 You can see the guy started to regret it immediately.
@mason._.6480
@mason._.6480 Год назад
Sad, Thamesmead could of been a thriving community but started declining around the mid to late 1980s I would say. And now its all been pulled down.
@user-zb6sw4ut2i
@user-zb6sw4ut2i 4 месяца назад
Bet it doesn’t look like that now !! 😢
@thomashawes5741
@thomashawes5741 11 лет назад
glory days
@ShyTallKnight1976
@ShyTallKnight1976 10 лет назад
What happens now if a young couple put there name down for a flat?
@jusb1066
@jusb1066 5 лет назад
you wait 20 years, there are none , they all got sold
@thornbird6768
@thornbird6768 2 года назад
Not if you’re foreign , you get one within a few months 😡😡
@davidhunt6463
@davidhunt6463 6 лет назад
It's a grimy, grotty rabbit warren of stained and discoloured, graffiti covered concrete, narrow unlit walkways and roaming gangs of pikes and racist thugs. It has become a dumping ground for the worst, most anti-social tenants from across London, a real sink estate that's full of tension and fear. Just like the Ferrier Estate in Kidbrooke it should be flattened and totally rebuilt. The Ferrier was so bad the police wouldn't even venture in unless they went mob handed to a serious crime like rape or murder. The problem is that the gangs, thugs, junkies and trouble tenants in Thamesmead have become so accustomed to the drug fuelled, state supported way of life that they will never be willing to get a job and pay their own way, if they are dispersed they will simply resort to robbery, violence and intimidation to support their lifestyles and will infect other communities wherever they are moved to. The few remaining decent people in Thamesmead live in daily fear and the morons that designed the muggers paradise that it is never, ever lived there and neither did anyone who was high enough up the GLC tree to make any kind of meaningful changes.
@annother3350
@annother3350 6 лет назад
Nah, the ferrier wasn't that bad. I walked through it twice a day to get to school
@user-lf3wr8rh7r
@user-lf3wr8rh7r 6 лет назад
best keep them all in one place
@clare2401
@clare2401 6 лет назад
It's all been pulled down for redevelopment now. Problem is it'll always be known as Thamesmead, they need to change its name to get rid of the stigma
@ajs41
@ajs41 6 лет назад
Why were the bad people allowed to become dominant in a place like this? That's the big question in my opinion. In a country like Japan, for example, there are of course some bad people but they are kept firmly in their place by the rest of society. That should have continued to be the case in Britain as well, but for some reason they were indulged by do-gooders in the 70s/80s/90s. In a decent society it's the bad people who should fear the law-abiding majority, not the other way round.
@kristinesharp6286
@kristinesharp6286 8 месяцев назад
She reminds me of Veruca Salt.
@SierenH
@SierenH 8 месяцев назад
came here cause im a fan of willy wonka and the chocolate factory (one of my favorite movies), saw that one of the girls from that was in this so i thought id give it a try.
@notreallydavid
@notreallydavid 3 года назад
Wonderful, but where's all the bloody smoking?
@nobby3265
@nobby3265 7 лет назад
the place looked quite friendly and welcoming before the dirty gangs and tramps arrived in the 90s. What has London become?
@Isleofskye
@Isleofskye 6 лет назад
Exactly......I wouldn't say it was the 1st/2nd/3rd Generation Immigrants that caused the problems..but they did !!
@epfizerdoolittleajl2165
@epfizerdoolittleajl2165 6 лет назад
southeastern failways blame Tony Blair
@henrikg7661
@henrikg7661 5 лет назад
It has become a shithole.
@benwherlock9869
@benwherlock9869 6 лет назад
All the fish are dead now. Such a shame.
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