My uncle was an apprentice at Grayson Rollo beside the landing stage, during the war until he was called up in 1943. He was recruited into the RE, Port Reconstruction Battalion. Served until 1947 with his last deployment at Nagasaki.
@@colinhamlet2425 *you're (as in you are going to make statements, use some grey matter ffs), 'you're' is a shortened version of 'you are'. 'if your going to make statements' makes no sense. I hope this basic school level grammar doesn't go over any heads/grey matter (ffs)
Progress ? Birkenhead? Meh. The place was more modernised, civilised and more pleasant in 1934. Well done Wirral Council & owned affluent businesses for literally doing f-all in 90 years.
Yes but its so easy to look back at the past through " rose tinted spectacle's " I am very interested in ships and hanker after Lpool and Bhead when they were full of ships. But I would be viewing them from a bicycle, not a car and I would be going home to an outside toilet and tin bath with perhaps only a radiogram for entertainment. On balance perhaps life was not as charming !!
the Wirral is a beautiful place spoilt by a small percentage of human pond life just like every other area in UK nowadays.. its pretty sad to see the amount of homeless in the once thriving shopping center. that's what 40 years of neo liberalism has done.
@@fredworks4907 I'm not sure you understand what neoliberalism means? A political approach that favours free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending. Pretty much the complete opposite of a Nazi state? Or are you saying master plan is a Nazi for being against the Thatcher years of cutting anything that wasn't the "City"
You say pond life . But society is the way it is by design. Government flooding the streets with heroin. In the 70s. Don’t say it was some idiot of the ford . Obviously government. Then the constant peppering of guns gangs and drugs in the music people listen too.
@@sniffmearse i knew many people who got addicted to heroin back in the late 70's 80's, under the pretence that it was not addictive, i was not referring to the so called smack heads of the day,
why am i reminded of when rodney makes a film at the art college and del has sold advetising to all the local businesses so the story gets lost amoungst the continuous mentions of local firms
"Why Greyson they look like people from the north do they smell" Full on Mr Chumley Warner in this clip. Harry Enfield had obviously researched well. I drive through a fair bit of it every day to work in Liverpool and its quite sad how things have been chaved along the way
Outstanding... Could almost feel I was their ... it's a sobering thought that the world now in 2016 is populated by a completely different human race...whilst almost everyone in this video of busy Liverpool area 1930s is no longer with us.. A true look in time
As a softie southern - it's good to know Chumley Warner was as real as I expected and this documentary of modern northern life has solidified my prejudice and characterture of 'The North' as a living museum ... A wonderful time capsule of life before that hateful hun Hitler had his evil way - life was so positive and progressive... Even in the north! This was early industrial-scale property marketing at it's pre-war finest.
@@cbrboy76 my dad started work in 1931 at 15. He worked a 57 hour week including all day Saturday, half a day off midweek. He earned 9s 6d a week, about 48p. No paid holidays.
Imagine this these days, "and here we have a section for the none binary transsexual vegetarian left wing everything must be giving to you on a plate because life is too hard" kind of people, HAHAHA
Ha, that gave me a laugh. It is hard to believe these weirdos actually exist, my step daughter had to educate myself and my wife a couple of years ago as we had not heard of these binary people, poly wotsits, and all the rest of the alphabet pronoun wacko’s, we were both under 50 at that time ( at least, I still am). These wackos make Autistic people look normal ..
i'm 33 2018 and i'd give anything to go back raise my kids and live in a socirty like this , manufacturing jobs generally your own country no islam no muggings most ppl are English look how it's ruined nearly 100 years later .mass unemployment , multi cultural hell hole if your working class your considered scum ,zero hour contracts no decent work no chance of owning a decent home oh god how i'd yearn for these days back .
I feel you on this man. 21, born & bred here & I honestly can't wait to take my partner & leave this place. The destruction of local industry by successive neoliberal governments & their lapdog councils have completely decimated this area.
Fuck off mate no one wants you here anyway. Try going to an all white society... oh wait you can’t because you wouldn’t have enough money. How does it feel that my dad is Nigerian and I’m going to do my masters in a month when your probably on the dole with a shitty house and family😂😂multiculturalism all the way.
@@tropicalnofruit1419 Said in the voice of the narrator in this video: "And here's a pair of delinquents whose sole purpose in life is to seemingly ruin it for everybody, every word uttered from their mouths are vulgar, and almost certainly points to an upbringing of very meagre schooling"
