The lady at the beginning and the very end was Amy Brown. She was wonderful and soon after this documentary was made she went to live in Ethelburga Tower block, overlooking Battersea Park. She lived there very happily till 2015 till she died aged 94. She was loved by all in our community and I miss her daily even now!
So true her words, that when you live in a house you are free and in a flat your are not, especially with children .. or elderly people , at young age we usually busy working , but when we are kids or old we rely o our home to feel good ....
@@garnhamr Yes they certainly do not care about people,cram them in mouldy concrete high rises and collect the rent knowing full well they would not live in such deprived squalor themselves,it makes me sick to see children pale and lifeless dossing around filthy landings .
Its your goverment and councils that set the building standards. Sadly your councillor can overide this to build bloody horrible things and they are never held to it.
Studied planning. Got a nice little degree that I don't use in work today - why? Because even though students are warned about what happened when people were crammed into flats without adequate social space, shops or places to go, the people who employ us don't give a shit. They want to keep on building soulless suburban housing estates and tiny little flats. I'd love to be able to do something about it, but it's going to take decades for recent crops of students to get into positions where they can actually sway decisions - and even then, you have to hope they remember this stuff instead of just chasing profits.
When that sweet lady said at the end, “You’d think they (the architects and planners) might have asked us ordinary people how we would like to live,” I broke down and cried.
Its the government fault.they are evil.the council are the other evil.they shovel people in those monstrosities....today its 2023.and the governnent is still chucking people into these monstosities.
The architects and planners she mentioned were pretentious ladder climbing idiots - whose only consideration was for their immense egos. Maintaining the social structure according to class. Disgraceful.
Oh I know. It’s so sad. No one cares for the average person. They want the image of something nice and geometric to hide away from the suffering of the average person and their mental state.
Blame it on predictive programming, for which read: just about everything you see on TV. People copy what they see in programmes like Eastenders and Coronation Street, whose story lines are completely interchangeable: infidelity and murder are the norm. They adopt the attitudes, behaviour, language and even the dress sense. I believe that this is ultimately why these programmes are made, and to think that they are made purely to entertain, strikes me as very naive. Just look at how TV adverts have changed over the last 30-40 years. It's all part of the deliberate erosion of society and the community spirit. We're living in frightening times.
Totally agree,, The people who had jobs were safe,many boss's still of age that served during the war,,people lived with realistic aspirations and saved for things,,,,,I loved growing up in the 70s the toys,TV were great,,,,
Thats just what i always think too.I was born 1974 but knew lots of old folks,my Great Nan born 1885,Nan 1909 etc etc,and they were a different type.My Nan said to be genteel was what people wanted to be when she was young.I wonder if they said that about old folks that were dying in the 1900s being different?
nothing ever changes somebody in mainland china is probably moaning about being forced from his home and moved to a flat right now even when you riot all you get at most is a little more money you still got to move
@Sara Many people were forced to live there - that's the point. Their terraced homes were considered to be slums and were subject to compulsory purchase orders, the tenants and owners evicted by the government and then given homes in these tower blocks, destroying their wel-established communities.
Exactly what I thought especially when they talked about the teenagers not having any where to go or things to do which then leads to anti social behaviour. 50 years on and the same concerns are raised by parents in social housing today. Its shameful that no progress has been made.
Their solution was to splash a bit of colour here and there and call it a revamp. Same problems & issues are still present, just looks a bit more colourful. It's all about saving money. Best way for them to do that is cram as many people into one space as they can. They wouldn't be seen dead living there themselves though. Disgusting really that nothing has really been addressed deep down 😩
Zelda Fitzgerald fascinating to see people from that era alive and hearing their stories. My great great grandfather was born in 1882. Worked as a farm hand and in a coal mine until 1924 when he lost three fingers and a thumb in the mines. He lived until 1962 when he died. I have pictures from his funeral when my great grandmother and her sisters were crying. Such a strange tradition take pictures of people grieving.
No airs or graces, gratitude, realism is what she learned early on. A bath every day is a luxury and these so called small pleasures are taken for granted. Good solid inspiring soul she was!
The old lady is so right when she says, 'You've got to make your own company.' If you're just thinking, how lonely I am, you're going to get depressed. Make the best of what you have and always be grateful. I love how she does an impression of the other old people who have 'gone like the horses'! She's definitely all there!!!
Most of those people were just moaners. The same people they lived with in the terraces lived with them in the flats. I bet they didn't really socialise when in the terraces. Just lazy, poor people complaining regardless of their situation
My dear auntie Millie gave an interview in this programme at around 20.53. She passed away in 2011. She didn't like living on that estate. She felt vulnerable being almost blind. But it's great seeing her again. God bless auntie Millie. Xx
just like always, they ignore the people who directly experience these things in favor of top down planners who "know better" because of some abstract theory.
I mean, it's a pretty basic equation. You have a limited amount of land and an ever growing population. You cannot build more houses without destroying rural areas. So you have to build up. It's true though, they should have been better designed.
@WessexFox99 since the late 60's huh? That's a funny lie, since the late 40's would be far more accurate. Now why would Britain ask for large amounts of foreign labour in the late 40's. Maybe because of the war? You absolute cretin. And what are you babbling about with this "log cabins" shit, do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds, you clearly have no idea what infrastructure is, or the mechanics required to provide people with basic living standards. How are there this many absolute morons on youtube? Where do you come from? do you actually exist in real life? Are you capable of feeding yourself? "Lets all build log cabins, because i'm such a conservative i want to go back to the iron age, before we invented building with fucking bricks."
It’s all about money , still is today !! The only thing I will say is if these new estates had been maintained and managed properly they would have stood the test of time ! Now they have become the slums and are being demolished , history repeating !! and the people are being moved on again only this time the replacement estates are posh and expensive and for sale !!!
Thankfully my parents moved from Wandsworth in 1969, when I was 4 years old. I was fortunate to grow up in Wiltshire, still lived in a council house, but it was a brand new estate, a 4 bedroom house and a wonderful community. High rise blocks are so detrimental to communities.
The destruction of people's sense of community, humanity and decency towards wach other, was by design - social engineering at its most nefarious, slowly but surely over generations is how its done by stealth so that the people who are being subjected to it, dont even feel or notice what is being done to them or realise until it is too late and hey are living entrenched for a couple generations or so, in community breakdown and poor mental health and daily struggle, which is then normalised for each subsequent generation, who grow up not knowing anything different, because thats all they have ever had a chance to experience. These environments are just containment camps for the masses of low income or working class families, who are then squeezed and destroyed on the economic front through dead end hopeless jobs, which dont earn enough to live a a fulfilling life of hope and promise, the best they can hope for is just hand to mouth from one pay check to another, which causes demoralisation and social breakdown of families, through divorce due to financial pressure, which in turn leads to mental and social deterioration, which in turn leads to children growing up in a state of breakdown not knowing any better, and this in turn leads to generational dysfunction which gets passed on and gets worse from one generation to another, until you get a situation, where the dysfunction is so entrenched that anti social behaviour, crime and violence become a reality, because the disregard and breakdown of community values and togetherness has been deliberately broken down over many years by design. This is social priming of the masses so that later on, ie, now, when people are so broken down and hopeless, that they can be demonized and alienated by wider society, and then they are ready for even more social and totalitarian control, because their ability to resist tyranny and come together in their own interests and humanity, has become eroded and depleted over generations of policies and environments that have socially engineered their economic, social and mental dysfunction and human community values, by design.
Amazing film. I am a council tenant living in a tower block that had just been built when this film was made. Now our council estates are coming down aka Regen aka Demolition, but not to make way for the poor but to make for the rich.
yeah all them people you see in that documentary took up their right to buy when thatcher came in 1979. they all bought their flats on the cheap and sold them to rich foreigners for a bundle so dont feel sorry for that old 1970s mob.
@@trinihammer Bullshit, a minimal portion did if they were lucky to have consistent employment, because without that they couldn't attain a loan (& only if you were a man as most women couldn't get loans & then only if they were working, married & had their husbands permission) this was a time of great social upheaval in poor & working class employment, when tens of thousands lost their jobs due to mechanisation, there were fewer women in the workplace to fill in financially because they had bigger families & so we're stay at home mums. Then later, Thatcherism swept in & as some of her fellow ministers recently admitted (after lying & denying it for years), she wanted to smash workers & their entitlements & the trade unions (especially in Liverpool) because they were making her government look ridiculous & ineffectual. Try again.
This was so depressing but I don't remember life being like that. I was 14 in 1971, lived in east London in a house with no hot water, no bathroom an outside toilet and one coal fire. But we were all happy, had great friends, played games and football outside. And we loved playing our records, a fantastic time for British music. Wonderful memories.
I think no matter what era you are at 14 it is gonna seem "wonderful" , for me it was the 90s but , there were some very selfish people in this era it would seem but would be the same as any other era. People never change.
"Survership bias" drastically distorts what the conditions at the time were really like. This leads to overly optimistic beliefs and incorrect conclusions.
Stunningly shot documentary, way ahead of it's time, shining a mirror on such a negative period of social experimentation. Wonder why society is the way it is watch this they knew it would end badly from the very start. From the elderly lady who came out of hospital not being able to walk and never saw a soul for 13 weeks to the young mum who wasn't allowed to let her kids play, makes you want to cry.
Most people are much better off now compared to then. In those days a lot of poor people looked about 20 years older than they actually were. That doesn't happen today even with the poorest people.
they could have built houses there instead, everyone wanted houses even back during post ww2 reconstruction, the areas may be poor today even if houses were built but nothing like what they are today as towerblocks and flats. And they should have built them in the 1930s style that is common across the UK which may have made the areas more nicer to live in
I love the old lady who comes on at about 26 mins in. She's so independent and wise and she appreciates what she has. Wish I could have given her a hug! RIP
What a wonderful lady. Her Christmas Day story was so heartbreaking. Totally inspirational and very humbling. Hope you are living like the queen you were, in Heaven xx❤
I lived in a high rise block in the north of England in the middle 70s to middle 80s, and I must say I loved it. It's not the same now I know, certain political policies have had a huge negative impact on living conditions - but back then it was a breath of fresh air. We had lived in a traditional semi detached in a cul-de-sac, but after my parents separation, my mam & I were offered council housing in a high rise that still stands today. We were skeptical at first - but soon grew to love our new home. Suddenly no more coke fires to build every day during the winter months - we had central heating and double glazing. My mam delighted in a large outdoor shopping centre, complete with public baths and library (plus a social club for a few pints) I had many more kids to play with on the estate compared to our previous house. I can honestly say I have fond memories of my time there and still dream of our old flat from time to time.
@@ObsoleteOddity I should have known. But I did say your voice reminded me of Australian TV presenter Steve Dunleavy. We always seem to end up where fate wills us do we not? (You could do worse than the Alps)
interesting to hear some balance in the comments section (most thought they were terrible) perhapsyou were just an optomistic kid... though I guess your reasons were sound
Jason Coleridge I’m sure this is Amy Brown, and she was wonderful. She did live a good life, a couple of years after this documentary she moved to the newly built Ethelburga Tower, over looking Battersea Park, and she lived there almost till she died aged 91. She was a much loved member of our community and she is still missed by us all.
My grandparents moved from a 3 bedroom house into a 2 bedroom highrise flat in the 60s. The 1st tennants to get there keys , It was heaven to begin with, all modern and new. They knew everyone in the block. Fast forward 20 years it became hell. Lifts braking down . Due to their disability sometimes couldn't get out for 2 days until they got repaired. People they knew Started dying off has they got older and got replaced by people who didn't give a s!@te .
What a lovely, intelligent lady at the start of this programme, typical of the type of person who lived in council houses of the past. The soul-destroying estates did exactly that! The estates contributed to the destruction of the old-school decency that was the norm in working class London (and probably other places who had these vile rabbit hutches on stilts inflicted on them). London has lost so much over the years ...
I lived in exactly the same type of Terraced house with a similar garden and though very young I sensed a Community near The Elephant and Castle and then came The Aylesbury and Heygate Estates and now 45 years later THEY are being knocked down !
Her name is Amy Brown, she was wonderful, she went to live in Ethelburga Tower, overlooking Battersea Park, soon after this documentary was made. She lived there happily nearly till she died, aged 94, in 2015. She was loved by everyone in the community, and I miss her now!
You people are so shameless and ungrateful, most of these people did not pay for these flats, they got to live in the for free, payed by the government, and yet you idiots still complained when there are people in this would with no shelter over there head at all and would only dream of living some where like this. Self entitled pricks, I'm glad your country is being taken over by minorities that's your punishment for being ungrateful.
I lived in Jay court on the 15th floor. It still stands but it’s now been changed to private flats. Battersea has changed a lot now, it has become a playground for the rich. Great documentary
I remember the smell of urine in our lifts. My mum used to disinfect them weekly. Well, she’d disinfect ours. That’s if it was actually working of course. Lol!
Yes I remember that too, there were the minority that had been raised to take pride in their dwellings, but sadly as Lenin once said "all socialism leads to Communism" i.e you don't treat a hire car aswell as the one you bought with blood sweat and tears.
@freebeerfordworkers It is not normal to piss in a lift. It is a metter of education and upbringing. I've never met anthing like this in my country. If there is a needed people piss into a bush in park coz, you know, it is a nature and can handle it. But in a lift...?
What a brilliant documentary. I found it interesting to hear how london people spoke back then. They didn’t have the attitude of people today who all imitate other cultures, with their street slang. They were just down to earth, hard working people trying to survive the best they could. Not one mention of the dole or other benefits.
We still exist! Not all of us have morphed into that odd fakery you rightly describe! But the destruction of many poorer uk city neighbourhoods hasn't improved that much since this documentary, the poverty has moved though, places like Battersea are really upmarket now. I fortunately avoided tower block living, instead ended up in low rise on quiet estates. Always found tower block types bloody cold & creepy. Especially those damn metal lined lifts!
You should read the book "Londonstandi". I live in Portsmouth & half the kids talk like they're mixed race. Even blokes my age talk they're from the west indies when they've never even been there. It's just where their absent father's are from. I'm 42 btw,I was married to a Muslim man for 11 years & they used to look down on the way we treat our elderly & needy. They also found it embarrassing that white youths were copying their accents (half of our mosque were African). I find it quite sad that youngsters can't be comfortable just being themselves. I guess that's why they join gangs....to belong, be part of something 😔
1971 this was way before my time i was born in 1994 but it was a really well made documentary and the audio and video quality is really good quality to say it was the 70's. Bless the elderly lady she was sweet may she rest in peace wherever she's resting.
People under-estimate how bad the living conditions were in the "houses" that the tower blocks replaced. Families living in a single room with no bathroom, no kitchen (just a small ring or range) and a toilet shared between 20 families.
I totally agree with the lady at the end of the film. “Why didn’t the architects design the flats so that they were not so depressing” Maybe if they’d designed them better then life would have been a little better.
dont you worry about them lot they all took up their right to buy option from thatcher bought their flats dirt cheap and then sold them to foreigners for a massive bundle.
@@pete3816 yes, i know the truth hurts. what is boring is everyone coming on this forum and saying how sorry they feel for those people in this video. nobody has a clue. that area is called south chelsea now.
@@pete3816 well you better get used to me because i am here to stay. let me let you into a little secret asshole everyone who lived on that estate pre 1990 sold up and got out moved out to surrey. places like richmond,kingston,woking,virginia water and epsom. hey dummy i sold my flat for 140 thousand and was able to buy a house for 140 thousand all this back in 1990. so back in the nineties 140 thousand was a lot of money then considering i bought the flat for 30 thousand . so i was very smart not to wait around till 2020 to purchase something more fool you asshole. oh let me not forget to mention that my house now out in surrey is worth 500 thousand you numpty.
They should have designed in recreational spaces for every age group and advertised for residents to run supervised daycare and before/after school care and sports/activity clubs for teens and adults. Also they should have designed in green space for residents to enjoy some fresh air. Those tower blocks could have been vertical villages, but they took ownership away from the residents and then wondered why no one felt at home there.
I love ❤ watching these old documentaries from the early 70s - I time when I was a very small child..I’m learning so much about what life was like in those tough days 🙏 thanks to everyone who shared so much of their lives 👍
"I don't know anybodies name, I know nobody upstairs, I know nobody downstairs." - Cause "I'll give it 20 or 30 years before they become slums". - Affect
I do indeed remember those old style milk bottles as I used to deliver milk way back in the day. If you got 8mph out of the float you did well...up at 3am, load the float and out on the round by 4am...done by 7:30am and off to work at the factory after that....yip...they were the days....I miss them so much...so, so much...
I save all the public housing documentaries. It baffles me that they never learn! I'm in the US, but it's the same problems every time. They are all gung-ho on building "high density housing" here in California, like it is some new & innovative idea that will encoursge people to take public transit, which in turn will prevent more 'global warming". Its just a place to put the least desiteable members of society in boxes & off the streets. There's no "mixed" housing, with Market-rate renters as well as low-income residents living there! Nobody who will pay market rate rent is interested in living with people who get their rent government subsidised- for the same reasons that these projects have always turned into slums. Its not because the buildings are "high-density" (many units)- Trump Towers are high density too!
What a treasure that video. I have been, once again, moved and touched by their testimonies. I really do not understand how architects could design such structure and buildings, honestly, it looks gruesome, even at that time. Thank you so much for sharing that documentary.
Quite sad this really. They said at the beginning of the film that the same amount of people lived in the flats as did in the houses. I'm from the north of England where o grew up in terraced houses in the 80s. I knew all my neighbours and my mum would open the front door and let me out to play. I can't imagine how it must have been for kids growing up in these flats.
Yes, my son grew up with me in a terraced house in Brighton in the 80s-90s, it was lovely: we knew most of the people on the street and the kids played out together, a real community.
The old bird who comes in at 26 mins brought a tear to my eye she thinks she's well off and lucky crawling around the floor on Christmas day not getting help or visits from any of her own ... nobody even brought me a 1/4 of tea she said ....... God bless her
@@Gadfly333and that's supposed to be funny?. As the expression goes, YOU don't know you're born!!!. Idiot. I bet this woman never had one carer visit her. She probably didn't live into the mid 1970s. My take is, she probably died alone. I hope this doesn't happen to you!.
Na Noid no more the people that came n moved in from all over the world laughed at the concept of leaving full milk bottles laying around, yet another easy picking from the land of milk n unny,
the old lady is a character, if I saw her in my day I would check in on her and listen to her stories of her workhouse days, i always love listening to old people they have great stories to tell, nobody seems to be interested in other peoples past these days unless their a celebrity, life is precious and we are all special, watching this I don't see any change for the better , we have the internet and new tecs but attitudes are the same now as they were in this documentary ,sadly not much progress has been made.
Me too! I could sit for HOURS listening to what went on before my time. Hence why I watch things like these. I'm only 20 and I'm more interested in what happened in the past than what's haopenig right now.
I’m from the Midlands but one of our houses we lived next door to an elderly woman and I always went round to see her in my early teens to listen to her stories. Fascinating!
"I don't think I'd give these places 20 or 30 years before they become slums. I think I'd give it two or three years, the way they're going at the moment" look at them now, she was right.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams................................
Actually, Erno Goldfinger did live in Balfron Tower for a little while after constructing it. Apparently he used this experience and the feedback he got from his neighbours to do a better job on trellick tower, which he built afterwards.
@Minix Tvbox You seem to be pulling things out of your arse? He lived in Balfron for two months apparently. The house he lived in and built himself is a modernist terrace house, 2 willow road, not exactly a Victorian mansion! Whilst it's certainly nicer than any of the flats in the towers he made, I can attest that a lot of the design language is very similar. Fun fact, some old cottages had to be knocked down to make way for his house, which pissed off the locals, including ian fleming, who went on to name the bond villain 'Goldfinger' after the architect.
@Minix Tvbox you certainly aren't wrong about the state that some of these estates ended up in, although I would argue that this was less down to the core elements of the architecture, and more the council refusing to provide necessary funding for maintenance and suchlike. Some of them were also used as sink estates to dump 'problem families' in. Trellick tower was a complete no go zone rife with crime not so long ago, but now some more money has been spent on stuff like having a security guy/concierge manning the doors, and it's suddenly a highly sought after place to live. I was in one of the flats a few months ago, you get some lovely views and a really nice living space. I'd certainly swap my Victorian house with a garden for a flat there. Different strokes I guess!
I grew up on the 5th floor of Rundell Tower in Stockwell. I had no idea there were playrooms. We wren't allowed to go downstairs to play out anymore after some psycho on drugs broke my dad's arm in the car park and the slightest noise echoed on the landings so that was out of the question.
This docu is a positively damning argument against the hipster adoration of so-called Brutalist architecture -- soulless, faceless, boxy blocks of concrete and stucco.
You go to those same estates today and there's a sense of community and people are livid at the thought of demolition. It isn't so much a damning argument against brutalist architecture as much as it's a damning argument against change.
Wow those houses at the start they are knocking down would be worth a bomb today, they are gorgeous. Another bit of history lost. So true what the lady at the start says about community. It is so important to our feeling of happiness and security to feel part of a community
I really relate to the first lady describing a flat not feeling like home but temporary. Its so unfair our generation have next to no chance of owning out own home that we can do what we please with and not have inspections or random strangers living basically in another room
I love the fiesty old lady. And yes she sure had it a lot better in that time in that little flat than she and the majority of British did in the 1800s and early 1900s with no hot water, Private bathroom, etc.
My great grandmother was born in about 1885 in Tennessee, just 20 years after the Civil War. She died when i was maybe 8 and I remember chatting with her about my school. Trippy!
This just puts things in perspective. I complain about my suburban neighborhood for being so boring and kinda cold and impersonal. But this would probably make me go insane.
In that area, the flats could be worth half a million each. Don't think they wouldn't sell! People pay a lot more than that to live in the Barbican, which is the same sort of sixties design. The only thing that might put off the yuppies is the presence of working-class people....
@@juliantownsend4172 only worth money to landlords to rent out to low paid workers. Noone in their right mind would live there if they have enough money for a five bed house with land outside the city
It would be interesting to follow up with the people who grew up there, hopefully their lives turned out well. Such nice, soft spoken people in this documentary
I remember as a kid going round a large area of terraced houses that where deserted they where streets of them, seemed really surreal going in houses, pubs and shops that where all totally deserted. They where all knocked down and years later the local authority admitted it had been a big mistake,......Much to my shame I put a brick through a big bar mirror in a deserted pub .
I think we have been slowly conditioned to accept mere existence the dream of an actual life is reserved for the one's who can escape and importantly afford their freedom
At age 10 we had no option but to move to a council estate. I was a bit of a shock for the whole family. My mother had been a housekeeper. Our family grew too large and we had to restart. I lived in council property until age 23. The concrete boxes were ugly, the rain made them even uglier. The heating didnt reach the 3rd floor....black mould did and ice on the inside of the windows. I survived. The view of the Regent Canal was a lifesaver. Im grateful that we had a home.
i wouldnt feel sorry for anyone in this video they all exercised their right to buy from thatcher bought the flats dirt cheap and sold them on to foreigners for 20 times what they bought them for. that lot in this video are the reason you and i cant buy a flat in battersea for less than 400 thousand pounds now.
nah i saw one documentary were poor americans have to sell blood plasma 2 times a week to buy food blood farming in 2020 is real and supply's 70% of the world poor people have always been exploited
My heart bled for the young mum from 5:30 ..." we used to cook in the toilet ...". What sort of 20th century, developed country is it which arranges it's society to be like that?
She meant she used the sink in the bathroom because apparently they didn't have a kitchen in the flat. Not that she actually cooked in the toilet bowl.
My relatives couldn't wait to get into one of them. Some housing was really slummy back then, and to get a flat with no damp, central heating, all mod cons was luxury. They were good when they new but the trouble is they've not been maintained well in a lot of cases.
" the trouble is they've not been maintained well in a lot of cases." because they're inherently difficult to maintain. If you look back at what the architects, engineers and urban planners at the time wrote, they were aware that they'd be difficult to update or maintain, but built them out of concrete on the assumption that it was basically indestructible and didn't need maintainence.
Tbh I don’t even think she even cares too tough. She probably acts like she does every now n then so that we don’t turn against her but at the end of the day she got her palace n she’s living the high life. I hope she does decide to help even more than she’s doing now though.
@@russcooke5671 so in your books how cynical and negative should we go exactly , you sound defeated , are you saying you are defeated by that stupid ugly miserable cunt satn that controls all these people.
@@pinarellolimoncello hi Alistair Sometimes all this bollox just brings you down. It’s all bad news every where you look. I am usually quite positive in my outlook. but then I sometimes dwell to much on the negative side of life. So I am trying to be more positive 👌👌👌👌👌❤️❤️❤️❤️
Nothing is a bigger threat to the system than individuality and a sense of community.......which is why the system has successfully destroyed both in the uk, with what successive governments have done using housing and cuts of various kinds.
You people are so shameless and ungrateful, most of these people did not pay for these flats, they got to live in the free payed by the government, and yet you idiots still complained when there are people in this would with no shelter over there head at all. Self entitled pricks, I'm glad your country is being taken over by minorities that's your punishment for being ungrateful.
My son said i should watch this. Like lots of little villages in the 50's they built a "Row" or small estates of council houses . I lived in one in sleepy west sussex..my childhood was idyllic ..as was my kids as i ended up back there as a dad. Can't begin to imagine living in a world like this documentary portrays ..very humbling and makes me feel how lucky my family were x
I've only just found this documentary and seen it for the first time. I was born in Longhedge Street, Battersea and lived there until I was eleven, when they pulled down our houses to build the Doddington Estate. We moved to a flat in Blondel Street, which was around the corner and I remember that it wasn't long before the Doddington Estate flats were destroyed. It was such a shame as many of the families who lived there I'm sure thought they were moving to Shangri-la as they'd come from old houses with no bathrooms, outside toilets and no proper kitchens. I remember hearing the reports of the windows being broken before tenants had moved in. I even lived in Jay Court for a short while. If you were sitting reading, you could hear the conversations of other tenants downstairs and next door, the walls and floors were so thin.
In 2019 depression is rife in Western society. The doctors and "new phrase" makers, blame everything but that which it really is. Here you see the start of the problem, isolation, regulation, boredom and everything else which this kind of terrible housing causes. Cheap, not built to last, a lot of these blocks have already been demolished.
