For some reference of money purposes, £15 in 1954 is just over £510 per week. £2000 a month. Rent for 2 bedroom flat (not house with garden) is £1250 without a single bill. Council tax on top of £200 -that’s £1450 gone without even eating a bit of toast!! So picture that! You’ve given away 3/4 of your wages and you haven’t bought ANYTHING yet. Would that reporter even survive a year like that? THE UK IS A CORRUPT CESSPIT.
true, but nowadays a 2 bedroom flat means you probably have a husband or wife, and so have two wages coming in, so 4,000 quid a month rather than 2,000. If you are living on your own, and so only have one wage, you probably have a 1 bedroom flat which is going to be cheaper.
That's because there were no drugs flying around the place. When prison authorities banned smoking tobacco, the smuggling in of illegal drugs increased threefold.
And why’s that then? Seriously? It’s exactly the kind of price the decision makers wanted for us. Go see what Tony Blair said about this country and how he hates it then look at his decision to let millions in! Now you NEVER hear accents like this,it’s all some ghetto version of a black mans accent. We’ve been having certain people decide Britain’s path that actually hate us today.
Remember my dad doing 18 months in Wandsworth, would have been 70/71 I think. Strange seeing what he would have lived through. Once a month visits, taking him his bit of Old Holborn. He worked in the kitchens, so when he came home his speciality was spam fritters 🤣
@@senecaknowledge2274 How very perceptive of you! Yes, I did end up going the same way. Even at 8 years old I could see that prison life was the life for me. Well, it was bound to happen, you know what people of my ilk are like. If only I could have been like you, if only I'd had that feeling of superiority and the confidence to name myself for such an intellectual giant. Things could have been so different.
Makes me laugh how the cons would get told off for not having their buttons done up. Now, in 2024, the landings are smelling of spice and crack. How far its standards have dropped since 1970
It also makes me laugh how one of them is complaining about being locked up for 22 and a half hours at weekends when it's now common for prisoners to be behind there doors for 23 you're a day all bloody week. No wonder everyone's on drugs.
The landings smelt much worse back then. They had no toilets in the cells back then. They had to slop out and 💩in a bucket or what most people would do is 💩on newspaper and throw it out the window ( shit parcels they were called).
Hilarious that you thought there were "standards" back then. We certainly have serious problems now, but you clearly know nothing about how bad jails were in that era. Go and have a read up about what was happening in Medolsmley Road detention centre back then for example. Paedophile officers abusing young prisoners. Violence that was off the scale. And you're talking about buttons? It shows the superficiality of your mind.
Mainly an 'allocation' nick back in those days. Wandsworth was run like a militaristic regime right up into the late 1980's. It could be brutal if it was your first time passing through that place. I remember being ordered to clean that Centre star with wire wool. The screws would stand in the middle & step on your hands. Needless to say, it was on purpose to send you over the top & I ended up in the block.
The large pile of books on the shelf in the corner... without a telly in every cell it was amazing how much and how widely the average man read while inside.
Typical self pity from the dunce, complaining that his kids run around in rags but he doesn't think of them when he's out thieving or make any effort to be there with them even if it meant working a boring job. Absolutely selfish attitude to life.
That fellow was explaining what it was like to be part of the working poor. No future. No way of ever owning your own home. Just working yourself to death just to survive. And all around you is the landed gentry. My ex father in law was from Hull and he said his greatest regret in life was not coming to Australia in the 1960's when he had the chance. It's harder here now but back then a working man could get ahead in Australia, raise a family, and buy his own home. England has always been bleak for the average working man.
Beautifull reportage !! Love it ; these prisonners today would be lost and taken advantage off.. Even criminals were way better back then what a world we are living in !
YES!!!! I saw him raise his hand up a couple of times while he was talking, & I was like, "Did he only have 3 fingers??" Kept watching, & YUP! Sure enough, there's only 3 there!!
That geezer being interviewed at the end did raise a valid point, & with all the current inflation, not a great deal has changed for the majority in these current times. Most mundane task jobs still pay pittance wages today. I maintain the word job stands for just over broke in many instances. Not unless we are skilled individuals with a trade, or possess the acumen to run our own business.
Yea but back then you worked longer hours for the same equivalent wages, and it was easy to fire some slacker on the spot. My grandfather worked as a full time delivery driver 48 hrs a week to pay all the bills with, then he worked 2 hrs each evening cleaning to pay for his cigarettes. And every Sunday in a pub to pay for other luxuries. He didn't consider himself hard done by, and past away at 68 years old, this was back in the late 70s. Life itself was tougher for the average person back then, he'd wander around local dumping grounds and back alleys picking up brown bottles and lemonade bottles that you get 3p or 5p for in the shops, he'd give his grandkids this money, he never owed anybody anything and would never buy anything on tick, credit, he'd save up and buy. Would seem odd to young people today, but there was nothing unusual in what he did, many people lived like this.. In his younger days it was even worse, joined the military served in ww2, was captured escaped, recaptured escaped again, and recaptured, spending 3 years in a pow camp in Germany. Again his life wasn't that much different to those of his friends
@@adrinathegreat3095 same here. My grandfather worked in a factory during the daytime, but (this is astonishing to people now) was a postman in the mornings too, doing early morning deliveries.
A great insight into prison life in 1970 and not one man was uninteresting to listen to. Why any system would expect these men not to go on to reoffend when they're being given no incentives to change their ways, is the real mystery
Back when nicks were proper nicks, sloping out, canteen on a Friday afternoon, visits every 2weeks, 1 film a week just after showers and clothes/ bedding exchange 1 for 1 😂
Every jail the length and breadth of the country was the same hence why the riots stated mid eighty's well the once that made the news .there all cess pits
One of the first lessons i learnt was when someone asks for a snout (cigarette ) dont give them your tobacco ,they will roll themselves a burn the size of a sausage !!!
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
I LOVE FAULTY TOWERS!!!!!!! "BASIIIIIIIIIIIIL!!!" I crack up every time I hear his wife call out his name. My kids LOVE Faulty Towers!! I corrupted them at an early age, lol....
Always amused me how the screws in Wandsworth called each other "Sir". The dread 'Centre' where the Chief would stand bang in the middle. Eagle eyed for minor offenses and haircuts. God forbid you went in the wrong direction round it.
That’s exactly how prisons should be run today instead of these holiday camps with absolutely no discipline. This country has gone far too soft in more than one way. Bring back the old style of Britain get rid of undesirables. go back to basics when a man was a man, and a woman was a woman instead of what we’ve got. Now Arthur wants to be. Martha and Martha wants to be Hartha. What a strange set up we have today with all the do gooders
@@hhuodod2209 yes exactly, we can start with you. I’ve changed to a wall feed your bread and water and leave you there at least 12 months you would come out a better person believe me
@@hhuodod2209 you can stay if you like, I will think of something good for people like yousomething you wouldn’t like, giving you a job and making you earn your living instead of scrounging off the state how do you fancy that dosser?
Most people had TV by the late 60s. It was a little different 20 years or so before that. My Grandparents,my Dad and other people from their village piled into the local Squire's house to watch Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation on his TV because they were rare in the 50s. By the mid 60s my Grandparents and most of the local working class owned their own TV sets.
@@Ron.M-yo9ht That's true. BBC was the same for everyone nationwide but ITV was run on a regional basis and every region had different broadcast scheduling. Good point.
I was in Wandsworth during 1975 was awaiting transfer to HMP Northeye. Worked in the Brush Shop. Constantly burning my fingers from dipping the brush hairs into the hot tar. Wouldn't be allowed today. Slopping out. The smell🤮
5:33 Stop taking things that don’t belong to you and then you can enjoy your weekends at home instead of in the nick ( is what I would of told him at the time) -
I got 12 months because the police said I would get 3 years if I went not guilty, so I went guilty for attempted burglary when I was young, I could not stop going back , police messed me up luckily my dad would always send me my money an clothes, in years 2000 to about 05
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