Central London residence being forced out of their homes in order to build office blocks. First shown: 09/08/1973 If you would like to license a clip from this video please e mail: archive@fremantle.com Quote: VT8124
Matching bedroom furniture (wardrobe, dressing table, chest of drawers) were often a principal wedding present. What was this poor woman meant to do with hers? Put it up at a local saleroom? Disgusting way to treat people.
OMG these ladys in the face of heartless Westmister council taken they home away for real good reason, one lady having to go to a bedset and leave all her bedroom stuff is just as bad as it gets, and here we are today 2020 and the poor being pushed out of London all togather just to help the super rich, these people who have to leave are the real backbone of London and central London now has lost so many of the old communitys gone forever, no good reason to take they homes away, truely shocking, shame on Westmister council, shame.
Irony - evict those who have lived in central london for many generations with great communities, only to build office blocks that eventually became empty (and accelerated by the pandemic) and then turned into multi million pound flats !!!
What articulate and well spoken women. I guess the education system functioned better when there was less money thrown at it and focus was on reading, writing and arithmetic.
Education today is a large disadvantage to men how it's set out especially the physical education side. 70s P.E was nothing like today. You're left with bored young men with too much energy. No wonder crime is up and attendance low.
@@tina5203 They weren't just thrown out, they were offered alternative accommodation. I don't think it's right for the taxpayer to fund those that often don't want to work. I think if the alternative were the workhouse or living on the streets, you'd be surprised just how many got a second wind.
@A O It sounds like you're justifying all of Germany's actions in the 30s because of her loss of territory and colonies in WW1? I suppose the central powers wouldn't have taken anything from the Allies if the outcome of WW1 had been different? 😂
Aparently the poor people of England have got No right if they are normal working class they have got No rights aparently the working class aparently !!! Think !!they own there council houses that's according to a yank with some cement on u tube this has got my back up ,how dare some one from another country slag my working class fellow english man
NO ONE person ever wins with the council , they are a law unto themselves they are the richest landlord's of the land, when they say jump, you say how high, so only winner's will always be council, so heaven help us all
I saw a documentary where they said good solid attractive Victorian terraces that were structurally good and with long standing community's were deemed unfit as there had not been a modern bathroom installed and so street after street was demolished to make way for hideous concrete housing estates .All that demolition on top of what was lost in the blitz too makes for so much depressing ugliness we have nowadays .
@@seansands424 very true wonder what's behind all this ripping down good solid buildings to build ugly square buildings, that don't stand for long as they fall down, there more to this pulling our country down than meets the eye I tell you.
2:20, this lady looks an AWFUL lot like the wonderful old lady from the documentary 'where the houses used to be' I wonder if she ended up being as contented as that lady was. I'll remember her story forever, hard as nails, they don't make people with that sort of fire in their belly anymore.
Assured tenancy agreements obviously didn't exist at the time. Surely this would have given them some sort of legal standing to stay in that particular building?
@@booth2710 Not true. Look up the Hendon Waterside development. It is a private development that required the eviction and removal of an entire council estate. People fought against it for years, but still had to go.
Lacoste Alot yip 16 mins away on a bus. People would be moved enmasse. New legislation would be to improve these people’s environment and councils had to act
The rise of the man presenting the piece is an ironic symbol of the fact that ordinary people must be turfed-out. It's still happening today (2023) as places like Kentish Town & along the canals of Camden, Islington & even Hackney have become impossible to live in affordably due to the developers, designers, media types & well-off students from far away places.
I lived in a area that was half housing half owners and they knocked down 100s of houses, you cant do a thing about it even if you owned your house, a young nurse just bought her house for 90 grand and not even a year later she found out they were knocking them down and they only give her 70 grand so she had that mortgage still to payback. Alot of the older people in the area died during and not long after they knocked the houses down, probably born in the houses and lived there all their lives.
It's ruling people ,England has never been free of being ruled, and today we are ruled even worse what to not eat what to notsay or think it's Ruled ,we as humans ,only filthy rich, live where they want ,eat and speak what they want
why should taxpayers have to pay for some people to have subsidized flats in central london? council flats in charing cross road? what genius thought of that?
@@thomasingram7146 Thanks for that. My impression was many of those old tenement blocks were pretty awful places to live. One of the problems of living in council housing is you're at the mercy of the government.
The biggest mistake that councils / housing authorities still make is the ‘dream’ of better accommodation for tenants, whilst sacrificing common community and good neighbourly relations, which are often actually more important.
Wow, so regular, decent English people have always been treated like sh*t in this country; it's so sad. London is so dislocated, with many people from the Paddington/Little Venice area now in Milton Keynes, of all places!
As an American, I don't get why Council tenants feel they have a claim on a certain area. You are getting free or low cost housing. As long as it's safe, you should go where units are available. The audacity, even in 1973, to think you get prime Central London real estate!
Central London was all some of these people knew.....they weren't thinking of it like that. To this day there are council flats all over Central London. Except the quality of tennants is decreasing year on year
Yes but not to many council estates are safe places to life so if these poor people liked where they lived and felt safe ,why the he'll should they be forced out of there own homes to live in some god forsaken he'll hole
Local government logic : "Let's chuck everyone out " Local government logic 2 mins later ..." Let's chuck everyone out and then fill the place with homeless people" 🥴😵💫....clowns 🤡🤡🤡🤡
