He was so right about cars. I’m old enough to remember the days before this and even up to the start of the eighties it was better than now as most people could not afford a car. Just look at housing estates in the fifties and sixties and see how much space there is because their are no filthy cars making the place look over crowded but of course, because people prefer to do their shopping under one roof cars are needed more now to transport soulless people to soulless out of town shopping malls and supermarkets, funnily enough those same people bemoan the old days gone but never blame themselves for making it happen for business only develops due to consumer demand. Typical English ( and I’m English), blame everyone else for what they have created!
@@Anonymous-qw or if there is a greater political will to invest in public or local transport, but I guess there has to be business for that matter these days 😔
Unfortunately, I was only two and not old enough to understand or remember that period. I could have done with these programmes being repeated so I could watch and appreciate them for the quality of overall programming!
Not sure if John was using poetic licence when he said, traveling down Southend pier towards the coast of France. But at any rate, it sounds better than the truth, that you would be getting closer to the coast of north Kent.
Hah, I'm there now, the train on the pier is named for him He's right about Chaplin too, in his autobiography he remarks about having come back as an adult and walking down to the front the sea almost looms up at you, think of it every time I walk down
