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  • @catgladwell5684
    @catgladwell5684 2 года назад +4308

    Another depiction of the "working class" north vs the "middle class" south. They never compare a wealthy northern area with a poor one in the south - and there are many examples of both.

    • @jamesswindley9599
      @jamesswindley9599 2 года назад +413

      So true. I’m a southerner, and my northern family is posher and more stuck up than anyone I know near me 🤣😂🇬🇧

    • @LRC92
      @LRC92 2 года назад +234

      Especially in the South West, the poorest county in England is Cornwall.

    • @paulhunter123
      @paulhunter123 2 года назад +15

      thats true

    • @oddities-whatnot
      @oddities-whatnot 2 года назад +1

      The media has always liked to depict the north as poor because the media has always been biased towards the south.

    • @catgladwell5684
      @catgladwell5684 2 года назад +205

      @Funky Monk Not at all. The premise of the Man Alive episode was the north-south divide, and they chose somewhere that looked like Coronation Street as a paradigm of the north of England. They could have used some leafy Cheshire village. Or a Corry equivalent in the south. In fact, as I am sure we all realise, you can't prove anything anecdotally.

  • @dannyward673
    @dannyward673 2 года назад +1465

    I’m a east end cockney and my step father was from Hull or as he said it Ull. One thing that I noticed was the humour up north it’s a dry sense of humour which I absolutely love and makes me laugh no end. Working class is working class no matter north or south. Both the salts of the earth.

    • @MrNanomonkey
      @MrNanomonkey 2 года назад +25

      Ah when I lived in London one of the things I really missed was the Yorkshire wit.

    • @dannyward673
      @dannyward673 2 года назад +15

      @DnB and Psy Production I don’t eat ells and besides the traditional pie houses serve steamed ells not jellied. I see you have DnB as your name ? Actually the sound that you affiliate too began in a warehouse club in Marshgate Lane, Stratford east London called telepathy back in 1990/91 I was a early raver to it. Funny how we southerners adopted the pies from northern dockers back in the day and now you have adopted a sound that started from the very council estates I grew up on. 👍🏼

    • @adailydaughter6196
      @adailydaughter6196 2 года назад +40

      Northerners are a great antidote to people who take themselves too seriously 😅 and I'm a southerner 🤣

    • @joesmith8701
      @joesmith8701 2 года назад +14

      @DnB and Psy Production pie and mash is lovely dispite how horrible it looks but sod jellied eeles

    • @Jmf1190
      @Jmf1190 2 года назад +21

      Northern comedians are just funnier. It’s the delivery and accent (I’m a southerner)

  • @lauraswann5543
    @lauraswann5543 2 года назад +1298

    What I was thinking during this was; if the Northerners all cooked everything in one pot, then how did they have so many saucepan lids to all eat from?

  • @bessofhardwick9311
    @bessofhardwick9311 Год назад +447

    This reminds me of my childhood in the 70s in the North. Never saw or heard of anyone eating off saucepan lids LOL Fish and chips were a once-a-week treat on Fridays to give my gran an evening off cooking for 5 people.

    • @Freedom4Palestine3672
      @Freedom4Palestine3672 10 месяцев назад +19

      Much like what most people do now with a Friday night takeaway.

    • @fidelismcall6890
      @fidelismcall6890 8 месяцев назад +5

      Was it pot noodles the rest of the week😂

    • @aliorr9356
      @aliorr9356 8 месяцев назад +5

      You say that like pot noodles are cheap 😆

    • @danielle5360
      @danielle5360 8 месяцев назад +7

      Exactly 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻✌🏻❤️❤️✌🏻🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 I'm northan from Yorkshire, born in the 70s and totally agree with you 100% 8 neither new of anyone who ate off sauce pan lids never thats a right load of rubbish, thay must of bin proper poor if thay couldn't afford to eat l off a plate, never met a family yet5at did have plates. 🤬🤬🤬

    • @pizzamad3334
      @pizzamad3334 7 месяцев назад

      i go camping and eat off the saucepan lid .. bread and jam will do !

  • @BlackStar-yk7iz
    @BlackStar-yk7iz 2 года назад +1522

    The interviewer is a blatant troublemaker, running back to the northerners to tell tales on the southerner just to stir up a bit of hate lol 🤣

    • @sidvyas8549
      @sidvyas8549 2 года назад +77

      Gotta stir the pot lmao

    • @pdillon1987
      @pdillon1987 2 года назад +116

      @@sidvyas8549 then eat from the lid ;-)

    • @harryf1ashman
      @harryf1ashman 2 года назад +26

      Agreed. Why not go to Bristol or Plymouth. The reality is that this is london/surrey vs the rest

    • @overlordnat
      @overlordnat 2 года назад +9

      That must be his Northern sense of humour as Melvyn Bragg is Northern himself!

    • @AMPProf
      @AMPProf 2 года назад +1

      but was it true?

  • @StrudelShaft
    @StrudelShaft 2 года назад +1678

    You can see the light going out in the husband’s eyes with every word the wife speaks 😂

    • @1969Kismet
      @1969Kismet 2 года назад +95

      He must have thought of the welcome commitee he would be getting if he so much as dared crossed that North/South divide.

    • @zacmumblethunder7466
      @zacmumblethunder7466 2 года назад +11

      Watching them play cribbage is one of the most dismal things I've ever seen.
      It's like slow euthanasia.

    • @baabaabaa2293
      @baabaabaa2293 2 года назад +89

      Yeah, poor man married Dame Edna!

    • @Patrick3183
      @Patrick3183 2 года назад +45

      He’s handsome AF

    • @MrGoneTroppo
      @MrGoneTroppo 2 года назад +83

      Game of cribbage, dear? Yes love 😀

  • @hoisin75
    @hoisin75 2 года назад +677

    I'm a south Londoner now living in Grimsby. People are people. Some good, some bad...just different accents. It's all perception.

    • @swaneknoctic9555
      @swaneknoctic9555 2 года назад +34

      I have said this for years. People are people, the same the world over, they cry they laugh etc.

    • @carolineridlington5010
      @carolineridlington5010 2 года назад +11

      Good old Grimsby...am from Grimsby and moved south...🥰... l do lunch with the southern dwags....dog walking ladies..who do lunch...gossip just the same....😂

    • @paulcarruthers8646
      @paulcarruthers8646 2 года назад

      Just how the government planned it they don't want a united England it's easier to control fighting eachother

    • @GuessMyName234
      @GuessMyName234 2 года назад +25

      I'm from the North but I think Grimsby is a miserable place clues in the name

    • @carolineridlington5010
      @carolineridlington5010 2 года назад +8

      @@GuessMyName234 it wasn't when I lived there...Great Grimsby...clue is in the name..🥰

  • @ummmusa162
    @ummmusa162 11 месяцев назад +183

    As a bury ‘lass’ I very much enjoyed listening to this- their voices reminded me of my grandparents who have both now passed away. All my family in past generations have worked the cotton mills. Was lovely to listen and look in on their lives ❤

    • @mariabolt3881
      @mariabolt3881 10 месяцев назад +7

      N'ther Bury Lass, born 'n bred. Am still 'ere, n' all!

    • @gwdesign1
      @gwdesign1 8 месяцев назад

      Broadcast a week after I was born, in Bury.

  • @williamwilson6499
    @williamwilson6499 8 месяцев назад +264

    As a Yank, I had the privilege of living in North Yorkshire for five years, 85-90, and I dearly loved it.

    • @Joanna7428
      @Joanna7428 8 месяцев назад +15

      Ooh some parts in North Yorkshire are beautiful - it's quite expensive to live there these days.

    • @phillipl2267
      @phillipl2267 8 месяцев назад +9

      Menwith Hill I presume. I was there in the 80s and 90s, great place.

    • @williamwilson6499
      @williamwilson6499 8 месяцев назад +6

      @@phillipl2267 I will neither confirm nor deny.

    • @alisonmckie3818
      @alisonmckie3818 7 месяцев назад +6

      We.r a friendly bunch 🎉

    • @emmajanewatts4388
      @emmajanewatts4388 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@williamwilson6499not far from me at all

  • @elenae3876
    @elenae3876 Год назад +83

    The interviewing was really stirring the pot. "She said this and she said that". Oh lord.

  • @ruboo8053
    @ruboo8053 2 года назад +300

    Lol not the reporter going back to the mill with the gossip 😂

    • @annawithaj1
      @annawithaj1 9 месяцев назад +7

      🤣 you're sharp

    • @Humble_abode-k2h
      @Humble_abode-k2h 8 месяцев назад +17

      Yes. Must of been like " guess what she said"😂

    • @pizzamad3334
      @pizzamad3334 7 месяцев назад +1

      we've not got over it still haha. immigration is so bad right now here in Yorkshire. 2024.

    • @Bombabingbong66
      @Bombabingbong66 5 месяцев назад +1

      Yes he did. 😂😂😂

  • @LuPoj
    @LuPoj 2 года назад +452

    This channel is underrated. For a lifelong language learner like me, these glimpses into the UK's past are THE BOMB.

    • @claredavies21
      @claredavies21 2 года назад +7

      Amazing to be honest.

    • @t.castro4493
      @t.castro4493 2 года назад +20

      For sure. I'm Brazilian and it's cool to see the evolution of British dialects and the cultures of the countries in the UK.

    • @Helen-vb3nh
      @Helen-vb3nh 2 года назад +5

      I’m sure you’ll soon realise British people never think to slow down, speak clearly or try to tone down the accent! I’m a northerner who’s lived abroad and I really realised how people’s expectations of us is not often the reality, unfortunately! Is this north/ south divide something your country has too?!

    • @LuPoj
      @LuPoj 2 года назад +6

      @@Helen-vb3nh It was a thing before the war. Now: Definitely not. After WW2 borders were reshaped, which forced massive exodus westwards. Those who lived on the eastern frontier had a specific sway and soft ring. However, forced to relocate to different parts of the country, plus massive job-seeking movement, people reduced the differences over time.

    • @al1665
      @al1665 2 года назад +2

      "These glimpses into the UK's past are THE BOMB". Any resemblance to real events is merely coincidental.

  • @julianhermanubis6800
    @julianhermanubis6800 2 года назад +1410

    As an American, it took me a while to realize that the English North is treated like the American South in the national media of each country.

    • @aaanawaleh
      @aaanawaleh 2 года назад +160

      Yes, the working class and neglected portion of society is often thought of as the north. The south (with London and the posh countryside) is often thought of as posher and a bit snobbish.
      Of course, this is the general stereotype and it’s changed a bit over time. Nowadays, London is well known for the roadman culture and isn’t thought of as being as posh.

    • @tommiatkins3443
      @tommiatkins3443 2 года назад

      Not exactly. There are many racists in the North, but very few white supremacist. The North is also very similar to the south as in belief in fairy tales such as religion. The UK doesn't have guns, except in Manchester they have a few, and of course that's where the deaths happen.. About five a year. Northerners in the UK don't tend to drive pick up trucks shooting fully automatic weapons into the sky. They never turned traitor to the UK so they could enslave humans and fought a war over it. Generally they vote left wing, because being stupidly rich is seen in the UK as something seedy and disgusting. There IS more obesity in the North, such as you get in your South. Education is poorer like your South, but decency is still a value there unlike the southern states. There is also more homophobic bigotry in the North of England. People tend to rage about pathetic childish stuff like a man wearing a dress and other meaningless trivial things , and our media is set up to fuel this rage, but even that's different. Almost nobody is beaten to death or no go areas for sections of the public.
      We went very different directions when your revolt succeeded.
      We progressed. Taken a few steps back since trump made being awful acceptable, but still Generally a land of peace and freedom.

    • @emilydavison2053
      @emilydavison2053 2 года назад +62

      In Italy, the north is the posh part.
      Watch the end of laurel and hardy's 'way out west'. 'Shut my mouth, I'm from the south!' Although Stan Laurel was from the north of England.

    • @tkokflux6322
      @tkokflux6322 2 года назад +18

      @@aaanawaleh quite frankly its sad that London is getting that kind of a rep considering that its a capital city in usa being capital city doesnt have that much influence but here over europe due to our small size capital cities usually r representative of our nations

    • @jennytaylor3324
      @jennytaylor3324 2 года назад +20

      This is an astute observation.

  • @carbonblade1
    @carbonblade1 11 месяцев назад +92

    I must say watching this is fascinating and I really like the lady in the factory who does most of the talking. Looking at clips like this makes me wonder what the rest of their lives were like. Now I find myself thinking if they were 25 then they’d be nearly 80 now if they’re still alive. These are like a time machine.

    • @Freedom4Palestine3672
      @Freedom4Palestine3672 10 месяцев назад +14

      It'd be nice if they managed to track anyone down from the episode, if they're still around.

  • @carolcr4024
    @carolcr4024 Год назад +51

    I was brought up in Bury in the 50s - 70s and we had proper meals and NEVER ate off pan lids!

  • @bluejeanmeanie
    @bluejeanmeanie 2 года назад +318

    I’m seventeen and American and I can’t get enough of stuff like this 👍

    • @JustDaniel6764
      @JustDaniel6764 2 года назад +28

      🤣 Absolute mad lad

    • @jayveebloggs9057
      @jayveebloggs9057 2 года назад +13

      wow what do you make of it? Pray tell...

    • @Belfastboi
      @Belfastboi 2 года назад +4

      How brilliant

    • @richardg5942
      @richardg5942 2 года назад +2

      Then you should watch Spring and Port Wine (1970)!

    • @iamgod6464
      @iamgod6464 Год назад

      Yes these people are where your ancestors came from.😂🇺🇸🇬🇧

  • @UKGeezer
    @UKGeezer Год назад +95

    When we moved from Kent to Cornwall in the early 80s, I remember everyone at school thought my accent was Australian, lol. I had a real hard time understanding the Cornish accent, it was like learning a foreign language. So many accents for such a small country.

    • @sgabig
      @sgabig 11 месяцев назад +5

      I needed to read the closed captioning of this video

    • @kubhlaikhan2015
      @kubhlaikhan2015 11 месяцев назад +5

      That's funny. I moved in the reverse direction and everyone thought I was American.

    • @deserteagle-nx1hl
      @deserteagle-nx1hl 10 месяцев назад +5

      Medieval England's serfs were confined to their villages by their aristocratic lords so every village developed its own accent. Such is one theory.

    • @cycillak4918
      @cycillak4918 8 месяцев назад +3

      Its really weird cos when i moved up to York everyone thought i was australian too

    • @christschool
      @christschool 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@kubhlaikhan2015 Cornwall contributed much of America's Anglo population. As an American, I understand people from Cornwall better than any other region of Britain.

  • @neitan6891
    @neitan6891 2 года назад +372

    Lady: “None of them cooked”
    20 seconds later: “Yes, they worked in the factory”
    Um, maybe that’s why they don’t have the time or energy to cook an elaborate meal from scratch?

    • @janebaker4912
      @janebaker4912 2 года назад +18

      Exactly!

    • @annnee6818
      @annnee6818 2 года назад +6

      Yeah really

    • @peezebeuponyou3774
      @peezebeuponyou3774 2 года назад +35

      Lasted literally five minutes in t'mill.😂

    • @danielsmith5143
      @danielsmith5143 Год назад +41

      @@peezebeuponyou3774 aye, she were buggered after one day! Bet she didn't do any cooking when she got home that day either. Probably why she married a chef a nall

    • @Jkk55
      @Jkk55 Год назад +16

      My mother worked in the mill all day then came home and cooked for all the family fish and chips on a Friday (payday)

  • @RichPickingsBT41
    @RichPickingsBT41 11 месяцев назад +28

    As a Salford lad living down south , this had me going down memory lane from the 70's. Loves the man in the mill summing up the southerners, he's bang on by the way.

    • @rozdoyle8872
      @rozdoyle8872 9 месяцев назад +3

      As an Irish Woman who lived in Irlam of the Heights for 10 years ,I absolutely loved the place , the people were good old fashioned down to earth decent souls . Bury Market was one of my favourite haunts .

  • @donnanew6129
    @donnanew6129 2 месяца назад +11

    Aw I loved this my mum was from Rochdale. Moved south when I was small in 1970. My aunt still
    Lives in Bury.
    My mum used to say. As you go north the weather gets colder but the hearts get warmer 🥰

  • @Ravenswalk
    @Ravenswalk 2 года назад +84

    Doesn't sound like my Mum I was brought up in West Yorkshire and Mum had a cooked meal on the table every night if we had Fish and Chips it was on a Saturday after doing the shopping. My parents both worked hard as did all the parents on our street it was a warm wonderful place to grow up.

    • @SenorTucano
      @SenorTucano 10 месяцев назад

      British fish and chips is simply awful. Heavy batter, soggy chips and all soaked in grease.

    • @kanderson4417
      @kanderson4417 10 месяцев назад +4

      Fish and chips was the only tae away back then.

    • @hho200812345
      @hho200812345 10 месяцев назад +5

      Sounds just like my upbringing.. 3 square meals a day and both my mum and dad worked. My dad ran 20 looms and when someone on his shift was off sick he ran 40. He never stopped.. my mum was a spinner but then went to work in the local school kitchen so that she could be at home when it was school holidays. I miss those streets and that feeling of community.. gone forever I’m afraid..

    • @kashd4668
      @kashd4668 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@SenorTucano Aaahhh! Lovely! That's made me feel hungry. Can't wait for the Chippy to open later today! Yummy!😊😊❤❤

  • @Stevenhamer82
    @Stevenhamer82 2 года назад +195

    I'm from the south and moved up to Geordie land, never regretted it. Love living in the Northeast

    • @jayveebloggs9057
      @jayveebloggs9057 2 года назад +17

      Great to have you here!

    • @angelofthenorthgirl
      @angelofthenorthgirl 2 года назад +7

      Aye we're a canny bunch

    • @fellspoint9364
      @fellspoint9364 2 года назад +6

      What’s the rent up north? I’m trying to flee Baltimore before I get shot. The murder rate is crazy .

    • @tytube3001
      @tytube3001 2 года назад +1

      you must be a coffee addict

    • @Stevenhamer82
      @Stevenhamer82 2 года назад

      @@tytube3001 you're right 😂

  • @RudeSkaBoy007
    @RudeSkaBoy007 2 года назад +235

    Absolutely love these types of documentaries. A wee snapshot into the not so distant past. Plenty of work but conditions and pay were terrible.

    • @icydsting6037
      @icydsting6037 2 года назад +15

      has much changed? lol

    • @CJ-ji1pq
      @CJ-ji1pq 2 года назад +7

      Takes me back to my childhood, when about 8 or 9 of us family members from Fife would travel down to stay with our Yorkshire relatives in Donnie & Barnsley during the summer holidays. I remember running in and out of the smoky, loud Working Mens Clubs (just like the one shown) with my cousins while all my family, grandparents, great aunts and uncles, drank and laughed inside. Those people and time, just a memory now.................

    • @gitsurfer27
      @gitsurfer27 2 года назад +2

      £3.50 for a 4 bedroom house....conditions we're terrible in certain areas in certain times, but in general they didn't have it worse than we do now.

    • @valuetraveler2026
      @valuetraveler2026 Год назад +2

      face it it was far better then

    • @oliverhendrick393
      @oliverhendrick393 11 месяцев назад

      @@icydsting6037plenty of work maybe?

  • @thewickedpixie63
    @thewickedpixie63 9 месяцев назад +14

    Chippy Friday 🙌 Friendliest ,most down to earth people. No fuss, no frills but bloody good hearts.

  • @hermanmunster3358
    @hermanmunster3358 Год назад +29

    My family were/are working class Northerners from the North East, and my Mother ALWAYS cooked, for NINE of us. Sometimes in one pan, if she made a stew or cassetole. But often we had meat and three or four veg. So my memories are quite different to that Southern bint In The glasses, a typical Southern SNOB!
    Fish and Chips was a rare treat in our house, even though
    my mum worked part time during school hours, and my Dad worked full time, always.
    I live in the South now, and the Coffee and Gossip culture is WAY more prevalent down here, than it ever was where I was brought up.

  • @Iazzaboyce
    @Iazzaboyce 2 года назад +37

    I was born in the south, but my parents were from the north. When I visited Gateshead in the 70s I went out for a walk on my own - next thing there was ten kids after me - I reckoned I was in for a hiding - they just wanted to know who I was and did I want to play football. Where I came from it was usually 'If I don't want someone to play - I'll take my ball in'..

  • @vicesquadpunk
    @vicesquadpunk 2 года назад +207

    The Southern lady didn’t appear to be very happy…. Happiness can’t be bought! ❤️

    • @Wagoo
      @Wagoo 2 года назад +58

      Not a peep out of 'er poor old long sufferin' 'usband 'n' all

    • @johnp8131
      @johnp8131 2 года назад +33

      She doesn't sound very Southern though? If you listen carefully she has a mild Mildland twang?

    • @Darthshearer
      @Darthshearer 2 года назад +9

      That is southern to us northerners

    • @paul64774
      @paul64774 2 года назад

      No she didn’t look happy. Probably mentally damaged form her time up North.

    • @MrGroganmeister
      @MrGroganmeister 2 года назад +36

      Sad bitter woman with an inferiority complex and a bad attitude. Poor hubby.

  • @MePeterNicholls
    @MePeterNicholls 2 года назад +190

    No one can afford fish n chips for a family more than once a week now

    • @gooderspitman8052
      @gooderspitman8052 10 месяцев назад +9

      We couldn’t then.

    • @Saltine_the_clown
      @Saltine_the_clown 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@gooderspitman8052Debatable

    • @heatherives8646
      @heatherives8646 9 месяцев назад +11

      So true and also the fish 🐟 always taste better in the 70's wrapped in newspaper.

    • @jacko717
      @jacko717 9 месяцев назад +5

      Family of 3, no change out of £20 for fish chips and peas now!

    • @petermilburn1214
      @petermilburn1214 9 месяцев назад +6

      Last time my wife and I had fish and chips it was £25, not cheap.

  • @davechristian7543
    @davechristian7543 2 года назад +10

    Loved the 70s n 80s growing up best years ever.simple but also exiting.theses ladys r my mum n dads age.fun to watch especially for an Aussie.

  • @stevenwyatt1670
    @stevenwyatt1670 9 месяцев назад +8

    Live in the north west I’m from Hong Kong and I love it here.

  • @qxqp
    @qxqp 2 года назад +346

    You can just feel how much calmer and content people were back then just by watching these videos. If they time travelled forward to today I'm pretty sure they'd have a heart attack within a week.

    • @TrueFilter
      @TrueFilter 2 года назад

      Yes so much more content. Hiding their sexuality. Open racism. Feeling pressured to live as a housewife.

    • @maskedavenger2578
      @maskedavenger2578 2 года назад +101

      I lived back then & I am still around today ,the difference back then working people didn’t expect the luxury’s that those even unemployed enjoy today They also called things out for what it is & none of that political correct nonsense or victimhood . People just got on with it .this lot today would have a heart attack if they ever had to go back to our times ,now they get offended by comedy .

    • @scottw.3258
      @scottw.3258 2 года назад +18

      @@maskedavenger2578 You hit the nail on the head!!

    • @maskedavenger2578
      @maskedavenger2578 2 года назад +30

      @@scottw.3258 Funny you should mention that . I have been hitting nails on the head most of my life ,as I am a retired Joiner 👍

    • @nektekket852
      @nektekket852 2 года назад +63

      I was around then too, and in my opinion people were just more docile and uneducated back then, readier to tug the forelock for the ruling classes, which it seems northerners these days are keen to get back to. And if by "political correctness" , you mean "not being a rude a***hole" , I'm all for it!

  • @jamesroyle6888
    @jamesroyle6888 2 года назад +316

    Working class is working class. Whether its North, south, scottish Welsh, or English.
    We're all under the same boot.

    • @darynweir97
      @darynweir97 2 года назад +4

      Being Scottish is better but & any english man and Irishman would agree

    • @tub19
      @tub19 2 года назад +1

      Here you for got us in the Midlands lol.

    • @bethhague8470
      @bethhague8470 2 года назад +9

      Statistically not really. Northern working class children do much worse at school and have a lower age expectancy in comparison to Southern working class children. Funding for free buses, schools and sports programmes overwhelmingly afforded to southern children improves their quality of life

    • @jessrabbit1877
      @jessrabbit1877 2 года назад +3

      do not resign yourself to your parents classage. you can be whatever you want to be. class terminology is nobody's friend.

    • @Sigma-xb6kn
      @Sigma-xb6kn 2 года назад +12

      @@jessrabbit1877 Well, that's just an excuse to ignore the systemic problems poor people face.

  • @Ras6200
    @Ras6200 2 года назад +116

    As a Southerner I always love the North for the reasons the male worker said! Less pretentious and much more friendly. Cosy feeling of being part of things when you're out and about. Like in a pub. I know the North are supposed to dislike southerners but that's probably those who don't respond to the warm ambience and set themselves apart.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 2 года назад +17

      Don't you think those are stereotypes? I've encountered plenty of rude people in the north, and plenty of friendly people in the south. I'm from the Midlands myself.

    • @richardboswell9306
      @richardboswell9306 Год назад +4

      ​@@ajs41that explains it you don't know where you belong north Derbyshire, North Nottinghamshire ,North Lincolnshire all will say they are northern

    • @holdtightadele8017
      @holdtightadele8017 Год назад +1

      But it’s hard to draw parallels.
      I’m from the south east in what used to be a humble little town. Pretence is not something g I’ve seen an abundance of.

    • @RichPickingsBT41
      @RichPickingsBT41 11 месяцев назад

      😂👍@@richardboswell9306

    • @nigelreardon7535
      @nigelreardon7535 9 месяцев назад

      My mate said that Northerners are more laid back than Southerners and Channel Islanders

  • @CarlHoare
    @CarlHoare 6 месяцев назад +8

    When I watch old interviews with the working class or otherwise, there is literally never any umming and arring as a means pausing or thinking of what to say next, everyone doesn't now!

  • @Miller4866
    @Miller4866 2 месяца назад +18

    That meal in the saucepan, my dear, is called a stewpot. It's arguably the best meal ever created in the UK. Plus, it's full of goodness, so give it a try, my old duck. You might enjoy it. 😋

  • @PTD2023
    @PTD2023 2 года назад +62

    Lived both north and south - and I do miss that northern hospitality. A spades a spade as it should be.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 2 года назад +1

      Have you lived in the Midlands? There are about 10 million of us here.

    • @Bonypart
      @Bonypart 2 года назад

      Except you might be accused of being of a certain leaning if you used that expression these days. Got to be so careful in this woke world.

    • @AMPProf
      @AMPProf 2 года назад

      not a sheep wolf.. but the crimes

  • @johnp8131
    @johnp8131 2 года назад +27

    I was born in the late fifties in rural Hertfordshire, before most of the "New Towns" were built. In the sixties, every Easter we would drive, up to see my "posh" Aunt in Co Durham. That was pretty much the opposite of what's shown here?

  • @painfulsilence316
    @painfulsilence316 2 года назад +205

    How sad that woman is like "oh in the north they just hang out drinking coffee and socializing, how terrible!". The way we've been beaten into thinking that not working for one second is sinful...

    • @edp3202
      @edp3202 2 года назад +14

      Exactly. Women demonized all around.

    • @happyuk06
      @happyuk06 2 года назад +21

      Or eating fish and chips??
      I've never understood the snobbery associated with eating fish and potatoes (which man has been eating for millennia).

    • @edp3202
      @edp3202 2 года назад +3

      @@happyuk06 it's seen as poor man's meal?

    • @happyuk06
      @happyuk06 2 года назад +14

      @@edp3202 Yes, it traditionally has been, though fish is much more expensive now. The people doing the denigrating of working class diets were not scientific in any way, merely snobbish.

    • @painfulsilence316
      @painfulsilence316 2 года назад +9

      @@happyuk06 I've never been to the UK but I say keep that snobbery alive and well, lest it become like lobster in the USA. Nobody should be paying $30 for "fancy" fish and chips

  • @jessrosefawkes2721
    @jessrosefawkes2721 11 месяцев назад +16

    I’m from Wakefield , a Yorkshire lass born and bred and proud and I’ve got family from Barnsley too. Leeds united till I die!!xx

    • @AkiraGuitar777
      @AkiraGuitar777 9 месяцев назад

      Sexy northern lass never change..... To a Londoner like me your more exotic then any bird from the other side of the world ❤❤❤

    • @micheledibenedetto7780
      @micheledibenedetto7780 8 месяцев назад

      Im a cockney and burds from wakey are tip top bang on , love a rump and up the gary too plus you get a nice slap up pie n chips after youve done the bizzo . Bootiful

  • @deelatham5080
    @deelatham5080 11 месяцев назад +28

    I’m from Bury now living in the south and I can’t wait to retire so I can go home back to my friendly welcoming people … it makes me proud to be northern!

    • @ConfusedAlien-th1ls
      @ConfusedAlien-th1ls 8 месяцев назад

      I live in bury, never met people so lazy, everyone thinks they are part of green street

    • @Bogna1
      @Bogna1 7 месяцев назад

      @@ConfusedAlien-th1ls lazy or unemployed?

    • @ConfusedAlien-th1ls
      @ConfusedAlien-th1ls 7 месяцев назад

      @Bogna1 both unfortunately

    • @annemariecandyflip6531
      @annemariecandyflip6531 5 месяцев назад

      @@ConfusedAlien-th1ls Blame Margareth Thatcher for it

    • @Me-xp3ts
      @Me-xp3ts 2 месяца назад

      I'm 100% with you! There's newt like folk! I really hope you manage to retire & go home, if you haven't already done it, if/when you read this reply 🎉

  • @rooneye
    @rooneye 2 года назад +23

    1:37 Man i miss workmans clubs like that. Used to go on trips and that. All dead now. If you see one still open and go in they're depressing places now. You can see the past remnants of old glory days.
    Theres one near me thats huge and has a whole floor with its own bar and snooker hall and everything never has a single sole in it apart from maybe a couple people will play snooker once in a while. Its very like grand victorian and a huge ornate space with high ceilings etc. and you can imagine it being packed and full of life. but its totally dead 😔even the bar downstairs doesnt fill up even on a weekend. years back would have been full every night.

    • @MahiTanMazy
      @MahiTanMazy 9 месяцев назад +2

      What changed to make it empty?

  • @tehf00n
    @tehf00n 2 года назад +139

    It was tough growing up with a class divide when as an intelligent northern lad I couldn't get a second look from a southern company as soon as I spoke my stereotypical accent. The best thing about the internet is that divide is being whittled away. Game of Thrones helped a bit too :D

    • @al201103
      @al201103 2 года назад +17

      Pretty disgusted to read about your experience. Born and raised in the South and wouldn't dream of judging someone on their accent. Shame on those that overlooked you for such a ridiculous bias. Hope you're hugely successful in whatever you do!!

    • @tehf00n
      @tehf00n 2 года назад +17

      @@al201103 I am now. I work for myself as a freelance game developer where accents mean nothing and skill experience is everything.

    • @al201103
      @al201103 2 года назад +6

      @@tehf00n Fantastic!!

    • @stephenhumphrey7935
      @stephenhumphrey7935 Год назад +5

      E by gum lad.

    • @tehf00n
      @tehf00n Год назад +1

      @@stephenhumphrey7935 bit right of norf tho. I drink PG Tips not Yorkshire tea. :D

  • @pollyparrot8759
    @pollyparrot8759 2 года назад +158

    The southern woman seems to be fighting a one woman battle to prove the north's contention that southerners are snobs. She seems to have totally mixed up dire poverty with lack of standards and as for her children refusing to eat food given to them as a guest, well a few lessons in good manners wouldn't have gone astray. I live in the south and am glad to say that she is not really representative of southerners and her examples are not representative of northerners and they never were. I know this is an old video but even when it was made it was rubbish.

    • @ticketyboo2456
      @ticketyboo2456 2 года назад +10

      Polly Parrot I think northerners are more likely to get their knickers in a twist over stereotypes than southerners.... you for instance....

    • @pollyparrot8759
      @pollyparrot8759 2 года назад

      @@ticketyboo2456 You are of course welcome to think what you like, my own thinking is that the producers of the original programme had deliberately looked for and found a southerner with ridiculous stereotypical views. Anyway, I can't waste time lollygagging with you I have a whippet to walk, a flat hat to clean and the pigeons to feed before cracking on and making hisself's snap for work tomorrow. By eck a wuman's wurk is never dun!

    • @queeniegreengrass3513
      @queeniegreengrass3513 2 года назад +1

      As ever the BBC spends time dividing people rather than uniting them, over petty or indeed real differences...

    • @pollyparrot8759
      @pollyparrot8759 2 года назад +2

      @@queeniegreengrass3513 Yes they've been doing it for decades.

    • @mattylamb9194
      @mattylamb9194 2 года назад +3

      She actually sounds like she is from the Midlands anyway

  • @steveneardley7541
    @steveneardley7541 Год назад +92

    As an American the main thing that hits me is how entrenched everyone is. The north and south of England are SO close together. The journey would take just a few hours by train or a bus. But I get the impression that there is very little travel. The fact that you travel 50 miles and the accent is totally different suggests the same thing--that the English stay where they were born.

    • @CalvinistBriton
      @CalvinistBriton Год назад +20

      And each half of England thinks the other is a breed apart.

    • @fredkay6743
      @fredkay6743 Год назад +40

      Because traditionally, that's how life was for the vast majority of people. Forget England, pretty much everyone in the whole world before the invention of trains would live and die within the same area because travel was difficult, dangerous and often expensive. This is why we have accents within a relatively short distance by modern standards, because there was once a time when pockets of people were living isolated from the rest of the world and were only mixing with people within their own community.

    • @davidconcannon5927
      @davidconcannon5927 Год назад +27

      Back in days gone by, your perception would be true. However, this video was filmed 53 years ago. It's nothing like the same now. Even the accents are very much diluting now. The idea that English all stay where they are born is very much outdated.

    • @ethelthecat1
      @ethelthecat1 Год назад +7

      You're right to extent, but the rich, young and marginalised have always travelled. Hence the British Empire & Navy that colonised a quarter of the world including the US.
      The entrenchment has more to do with class. It was waged slavery, for both the north and south, but because the British are so class and hierarchy obsessed, the Southern poor liked to think they were superior to the north, mainly due to their accent.
      For those who couldn't stand it, they left and moved to the colonies.

    • @ianmuir3640
      @ianmuir3640 Год назад +2

      You can travel a couple of miles in Scotland and the accents are completely different

  • @adrianh332
    @adrianh332 2 года назад +37

    My dad was from Bury and he married a southern girl (my mum) we lived in the south but my dad and I took a holiday to Bury to see my aunt every year so I'm half northern and saw both sides of the divide and it's true what they say people in the north are much more relaxed and friendly than southerners but prejudices run deep my mother still believes to this days that northerners eat nothing but fish and chips pies etc etc inspite of being married to my dad for 50 years before he died and being repeatedly told the stereotypes were false.

    • @thomasranjit7781
      @thomasranjit7781 2 года назад

      Pity women can't get into kitchen and prepare some lovely meals for family due to work...

    • @reddragon3163
      @reddragon3163 2 года назад +1

      Very interesting comment.
      Translate that over to how people must of viewed foreigners then and you can see why so many old people hold so many illogical racists views.

    • @robertclive491
      @robertclive491 Год назад

      You spread false stereotypes about southerners so you're hardly immune.

    • @DaniG.German883
      @DaniG.German883 10 месяцев назад

      @@reddragon3163hop off

    • @adrianh332
      @adrianh332 Месяц назад

      ​@@robertclive491 And what false stereotype would that be because I can't see it. All I said was people from the north are more relaxed and generally friendlier that's my subjective lived experience of the north south divide.

  • @buckfastdead5989
    @buckfastdead5989 2 года назад +137

    I'm a northerner and I feel that since we've been able to communicate and travel more the divide is less than what it was. We're all flesh and blood and I'll always welcome my southern brothers and sisters.

    • @jaxcoss5790
      @jaxcoss5790 2 года назад

      Spot on!

    • @adonaiyah2196
      @adonaiyah2196 2 года назад

      I got family up north and ive lived in London for a lot of my life

    • @oo--7714
      @oo--7714 2 года назад +3

      No just look at job opportunities, or placements, all in the south

    • @carltonlambert7608
      @carltonlambert7608 2 года назад +2

      Definitely and I totally agree. People aren't funny like that anymore unless your quite old or super rural.

    • @oasis4life014
      @oasis4life014 2 года назад +1

      Im from the midlands I wouldn’t ever wanna live down south

  • @mattdns162
    @mattdns162 2 года назад +41

    This channel is a time machine. Great content.

  • @robertsmith5970
    @robertsmith5970 2 года назад +112

    I find you can have a good chat with people you don't know when out and about up north more so than down south ,not to say it never happens in the south .I always think the northern attitude comes from the industrial revolution when large numbers of people leaving villages and small towns to work in the big industrial places had to get on as incomers together , rather than the south where though its changed a lot more recently, more people stayed in the same small towns and villages and were a bit untrusting of outsiders.

    • @Alfred5555
      @Alfred5555 2 года назад +2

      @@aduantas Only London has a much higher population density, the North as a whole has more and larger cities than the South. Of the top 10 most populated cities in Britain right now, 6 are in the North, 1 in Scotland, 1 in the Midlands, and 2 in the South, one of which is London. Excluding London the North is much more densely populated than the South.

    • @thedarkness111
      @thedarkness111 2 года назад +6

      People always say that as if southerners are somehow missing out. I don't want random people talking to me on the bus etc. I literally can't imagine anything worse...

    • @BrightSeaStar
      @BrightSeaStar Год назад

      @@thedarkness111 I'm an American, and I find it rather fun.

  • @SMWalkerAtelierDeCouture
    @SMWalkerAtelierDeCouture 8 месяцев назад +4

    I come from wigan. Im proud of it. Love the northerners they are the friendliest people you will ever meet. I live in France now.

  • @AkiraGuitar777
    @AkiraGuitar777 9 месяцев назад +6

    I'm born and raised in London and I LOVE northern birds, they are just different to girls around here, quality girl's ❤😊

  • @docmarten8382
    @docmarten8382 2 года назад +200

    Wish the BBC would make quality programmes like this now!

    • @illstuffamattresswithyou5657
      @illstuffamattresswithyou5657 2 года назад +21

      People change and making a show like this now just wouldn’t work with the way people are

    • @Greenpoloboy3
      @Greenpoloboy3 2 года назад +43

      They can't . It might upset someone

    • @GEricG
      @GEricG 2 года назад +8

      @@illstuffamattresswithyou5657 that's true but most people's reason for having a go at the BBC is for cultural reasons. Of course the BBC has changed over the years just like a lot of media and of course it has had to become more representative. One cannot ignore the fact that we live in a more diverse society - like it or not.

    • @paulhunter123
      @paulhunter123 2 года назад +4

      @@illstuffamattresswithyou5657 why wouldnt it people are still people just in a later time

    • @spritesheets
      @spritesheets 2 года назад +3

      @@Greenpoloboy3 I bet you get upset about a lot on TV...

  • @Greenpoloboy3
    @Greenpoloboy3 2 года назад +113

    7:25 "We sleep in beds you know, we're quite normal"
    This lady is hilarious.
    I live in the South. There are 2 places I'd love to of lived at this time: East London, and the North. People just seem so funny and interesting. I could imagine having a cup of tea with these people and a good ol' chat

    • @pureboxofscartcables
      @pureboxofscartcables 2 года назад +7

      I think I am in love with her..

    • @spudwish
      @spudwish 2 года назад +6

      *have

    • @richardsawyer5428
      @richardsawyer5428 2 года назад +1

      The same with the North East and South West. It's definitely the people that make the place.

    • @Greenpoloboy3
      @Greenpoloboy3 2 года назад +2

      @spud spuddy All adds to the flavour

    • @Greenpoloboy3
      @Greenpoloboy3 2 года назад

      @@richardsawyer5428 Exactly!

  • @soundseeker63
    @soundseeker63 2 года назад +189

    I think today its more of a class / income divide than an actual North/South thing. But it is definitely still true to say that northerners are generally more friendly and open towards others. Spend half an hour listening to people at a bus stop in Leeds, then do the same in London, and you'll see exactly what I mean. As for eating off pan lids, what a load of tosh! I feel a bit sorry for the bloke in that clip being married to such a snooty old madam! He looks proper miserable..

    • @josephcole8046
      @josephcole8046 2 года назад +18

      I'd say its more of a community, but a community that don't like outsiders so I certainly wouldn't say northerners are more open to others as a general rule. I'm basing this on my experience living in Liverpool where one would constantly be called a 'wool' etc.

    • @chubbec
      @chubbec 2 года назад +10

      London isn't the entire south and isn't really comparable to Leeds

    • @Alfred5555
      @Alfred5555 2 года назад +7

      @@josephcole8046 Liverpool is particularly and increasingly insular area haha. Scouser has for over 100 years practically been it's own ethnicity.

    • @Alfred5555
      @Alfred5555 2 года назад +1

      @@josephcole8046 That probabaly plays a role.
      But most people in England would absolutely recognise a difference between the North and South as being a real and fair distinction to make. There's just different layers and resolutions you can look at the cultures of Britain, but in England the main distinction is North and South.

    • @josephcole8046
      @josephcole8046 2 года назад +7

      @@Alfred5555 Yep, although I'm sure it stems more from economic factors. It just so happens that, in England, that fits perfectly with the North and South divide. Although, London, Manchester etc are fast becoming essentially the same place, but in different locations. Very little community, identity or cultural differences outside of architecture these days from my experience. There are subtle differences, but when a city is built for tourists, they all become the same and the people living there follow the same trajectory.

  • @EMD1792
    @EMD1792 9 месяцев назад +38

    What a shame to see England disappear in front of our own eyes

  • @alicelight2633
    @alicelight2633 2 года назад +105

    As a southerner who moved north growing up, I was badly bullied for years just because of my accent. I trained my voice so I could fit in. Everyone assumed i was rich because I sounded 'posh'.

    • @ALBUMOF2008
      @ALBUMOF2008 2 года назад +26

      Aww that must’ve been so hard for u 🥺👉🏻👈🏻 try being a northerner in the south.

    • @alicelight2633
      @alicelight2633 2 года назад +5

      @@ALBUMOF2008 what was that like for you?

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 2 года назад +3

      Not talking about you, but, say, an Estuary accent doesn't sound posh at all despite being from the south.

    • @ommk9650
      @ommk9650 2 года назад

      Yeah, the idea southerners are all horrible and northerners are all lovely is one of the most enduring British bullshit myths.

    • @TheZumph
      @TheZumph 2 года назад +1

      Good

  • @PCamb1234
    @PCamb1234 2 года назад +73

    Not even for thirty quid? By heck,he had some principles on him that lad

  • @Plbay335
    @Plbay335 2 года назад +64

    Look as an Anglophile Irish man, I love ‘em all, however as a tourist, the North has always felt more at peace with itself.

    • @usarugbyleagueunionfan
      @usarugbyleagueunionfan 2 года назад +4

      Me too as a Yank.

    • @dylanmurphy9389
      @dylanmurphy9389 2 года назад +3

      Me Three

    • @chillijoe8264
      @chillijoe8264 2 года назад +4

      can’t stand the place.

    • @chillijoe8264
      @chillijoe8264 2 года назад +8

      @Lily Wood
      it’s towns are dire, the weather is awful, and they seem to have this childlike belief that everyone from the south is wealthy.

    • @aimée_sao
      @aimée_sao 2 года назад +1

      i've lived in ireland, south england, north england, and wales. ireland wins, closely followed by wales. 😂

  • @user-jq7di9pz8m
    @user-jq7di9pz8m 2 года назад +49

    Even to this day, im a southerner living in liverpool and I been asked by a person since I been up here if I had a golf course near me and what it's like living in a poorer area now 😄 I grew up on a council estate in Portsmouth, some northerners think we all live in Downton Abbey or something

    • @SallySturman
      @SallySturman 2 года назад +6

      🤣 Some people love their sweeping generalisations

    • @molimolinana
      @molimolinana 2 года назад +8

      As an English teacher in Spain I have heard endless, often hilarious stereotypes about English/British/Londoners... Not only does most of the world seem to believe we *all* live off fish and chips (and it's tough to convince them otherwise 😅), most people thought my freckles were a skin disease like ezcma, and once I was even asked - straight-up - if I'm a hooligan 🤣🤣🤣
      Often comments and questions are down to innocent ignorance though, and we all do it in our different ways wherever we are in the world... That's why it's important to communicate with people of all backgrounds, and to travel as much as possible - including within one's own country of birth.

    • @jdlc903
      @jdlc903 2 года назад

      @@molimolinana deary me, those Spaniards.

    • @molimolinana
      @molimolinana 2 года назад +1

      @@jdlc903 well, to be fair, the Brits (and people from all over the world) make their fair share of stereotyping clangers too! 😉 This is one reason reason why being a teacher is a fun and creative opportunity to break /down/ barriers and open up people's minds :)

    • @jdlc903
      @jdlc903 2 года назад +2

      @@molimolinana yo pienso que los Españoles tiene un prejudicia anti ingles muy fuerte.en general puede ser algo simpatico y buen educado pero tambien solo tienen cosas negativo que dice sobre los ingleses .he vivido en España por mucho años.pero tambien me gusta España mucho.

  • @jasondowtychristianmusic9401
    @jasondowtychristianmusic9401 10 месяцев назад +3

    "It's rough, it will probably smell of beer but its warm, and thats what the North's about": pure gold.

  • @nancydupuis8083
    @nancydupuis8083 8 месяцев назад +4

    I love these videos showing England as it was. I'm from the US and even as foreigner I feel a sad nostalgia for the disappearing culture. I love hearing the people talk. I know England has many different accents but I have trouble telling them apart.

  • @Cordelia-again
    @Cordelia-again 2 года назад +61

    I'm a Southerner living up North - I'm peeing myself laughing - funniest thing I've watched in years.

  • @dawn5227
    @dawn5227 2 года назад +10

    I'm from the South and I've visited the North and people are just generally so much nicer up north, it feels like it's more of a community up north. Down here everyone has there heads down with grim looks on their faces. We certainly are not all snobby rich people though.

    • @summerrr1
      @summerrr1 2 года назад +5

      You’ll get sick of everyone knowing your business after a while.

  • @TheOtherDerek
    @TheOtherDerek 2 года назад +12

    I have no idea what the old dude at the end is saying but he definitely drinks beer every day.

    • @HaiLsKuNkY
      @HaiLsKuNkY 8 месяцев назад

      that is the local accent

  • @besidestheobvious666
    @besidestheobvious666 10 месяцев назад +23

    I'm originally from east London and when i moved to Newcastle just over 10 years ago everyone told me it was grim up north, but I don't see a problem with eating fish and chips everyday, it's delicious. And I have a lot more free time now I've stopped brushing my teeth and started drinking larger in bed. I couldn't be happier.

    • @mokisan
      @mokisan 10 месяцев назад +3

      😂

    • @judegrindvoll8467
      @judegrindvoll8467 8 месяцев назад +2

      🤣🤣🤣 that’s hilarious

    • @johncaygill878
      @johncaygill878 8 месяцев назад +1

      You have probably stopped being a bender also.

  • @Mrhokey
    @Mrhokey 7 месяцев назад +2

    'its rough, it will probably smell of beer, but its warm. thats what the north is about.' had my dying

  • @Musika1321
    @Musika1321 2 года назад +16

    I am originally from 70s West Yorkshire where my mum never went to coffee mornings (though she was far from antisocial) and all our meals were home cooked. I don't know if she was typical but most folk I knew from the north are hard working and down to earth.

  • @theurbancrystalhealer6952
    @theurbancrystalhealer6952 2 года назад +11

    Even to this day people up north are warm, genuine and friendly, they give you everything they got- down south it’s all about survival

    • @AMPProf
      @AMPProf 2 года назад

      It is/they are right up.. till ya get stabbed

  • @beeniemen
    @beeniemen 2 года назад +11

    How everything changed . I cannot imagine in 30 years from now

    • @karlosthejackel69
      @karlosthejackel69 2 года назад

      In 30 years, the BBC will say this footage is fiction

  • @steveodonoghue2772
    @steveodonoghue2772 11 месяцев назад +21

    Fish and chips is bloody expensive these days.

    • @normanpearson8753
      @normanpearson8753 Месяц назад

      Lancashire Oct '24 . Fish and chips , mushy peas ,£9.4 0 . 1960 was 1/6 d .

  • @infohound41
    @infohound41 10 месяцев назад +3

    Time is so weird - it goes by so fast and so slow at the same time!

  • @foylad4862
    @foylad4862 2 года назад +61

    I find it strange how our accents are so different, when we're all on the same relativley small island. From scouse, to cockney, geordie and brummy.

    • @booth2710
      @booth2710 2 года назад +4

      due to centuries of multiple invasions ..

    • @sandrafinbar
      @sandrafinbar 2 года назад +12

      Due to villagers not moving far from their home in years gone by.

    • @rscoops3986
      @rscoops3986 2 года назад +6

      Yet in the US (albeit a relatively new country) the UK is the same size of Kansas which I doubt has much variation at all.

    • @karlosthejackel69
      @karlosthejackel69 2 года назад +4

      @@booth2710 it is due to the industrial revolution, not invasion

    • @urmum3773
      @urmum3773 2 года назад

      ​@@booth2710 Many places have been invaded far more than Britain, but don't have such a variety of accents.

  • @booth2710
    @booth2710 2 года назад +7

    My dad was Yorkshire through and through and he always used to say 'Huh London ... ya can keep it!"

  • @Matt-vp6eq
    @Matt-vp6eq 2 года назад +33

    Everyone in this video looks around 40, but I can guarantee the vast majority were in their 20's!

    • @sarahjones-jf4pr
      @sarahjones-jf4pr 2 года назад +3

      Matt It is the hard graft for putrid wages that ages these down to earth souls.

    • @Canyouseeanypartofme
      @Canyouseeanypartofme 2 года назад

      Bc you think there style is old

  • @knuteboy3778
    @knuteboy3778 8 месяцев назад +16

    I like the talkative lady in the factory. She's sassy and cute lol. As an American I just love these old school British women

  • @lavettacannon3138
    @lavettacannon3138 4 месяца назад +2

    I LOVED these salt of the Earth Northern accents. Especially the brown haired lady in the light blue smock!❤

    • @AgingStudent
      @AgingStudent 25 дней назад

      Love her facial expressions❤💞

  • @Betterthantelly
    @Betterthantelly 2 года назад +3

    Harry Enfield is a genius with the make up you can’t tell it’s him.
    6:50 what a great lady.
    Brilliant snapshot of a past reality.

  • @bettyprice6316
    @bettyprice6316 Год назад +24

    Oh my gosh look at the social clubs, look how happy people were even though they thought they had it tough. Now days there is no social clubs and pups are going fast. I would love to go back to those days.

    • @seansmith445
      @seansmith445 Год назад

      There are still quite a few social clubs left actually.

  • @wagwanbennydj6003
    @wagwanbennydj6003 2 года назад +38

    As someone from the South I've never harboured any hate for anyone and wouldn't discriminate anyone due to tone of voice accent dialect etc anything... how far we've come 💪

  • @Mark12367
    @Mark12367 2 года назад +20

    5:56 The way other girls went quiet when Nosey Nora said she doesn’t like to gossip…

    • @catnior
      @catnior 9 месяцев назад +3

      Such an accurate depection of woman-hood. When your bestie is clearly lying so u gotta stay quiet.

    • @TheAwesomeCookielord
      @TheAwesomeCookielord 8 месяцев назад +1

      The woman who started "Coughing" lmaooo

  • @TA-kp4bk
    @TA-kp4bk 11 месяцев назад +4

    At 7:42 when he mentions drinking so much beer her hand rubs her neck in guilt uh oh 😭

  • @eddionrodanronnie
    @eddionrodanronnie 2 года назад +23

    My childhood was in North London & then disaster I went up North
    I absolutely hated it
    Depressing & I was home sick
    But it could have been the other way around
    I think it’s where you start your life
    There’s wonderful people in the North & the South, we’re just a small island

    • @edp3202
      @edp3202 2 года назад +1

      Those childhood memories stay with you.

    • @moaningpheromones
      @moaningpheromones 2 года назад +2

      Try moving UK to NZ age 8. Yikes.

    • @edp3202
      @edp3202 2 года назад +2

      @@moaningpheromones you hated NZ?

    • @TheZumph
      @TheZumph 2 года назад

      He loves being surrounded by foreigners now

    • @mick4247
      @mick4247 Год назад +1

      No we're not. We're the 9th biggest island in the world.

  • @matthewpayne42
    @matthewpayne42 2 года назад +34

    As a southerner from eastern England I have been told its grim up north. But there's no doubt the best music comes from up north.

    • @neil8194
      @neil8194 2 года назад +13

      I’m an American and stayed in Yorkshire for two months where my girl lives. York is a beautiful city. You’re right about the music. The Beatles are everything. 👊

    • @Gray504
      @Gray504 2 года назад +8

      As someone’s who’s travelled lots in Britain I think you will soon find that it’s grim everywhere. North straight to Lands End, they all have there nice points, they all have their grim points. But I am from Liverpool and I am proud that our city has kind of shaped modern music 🎵

    • @williamtoner8674
      @williamtoner8674 2 года назад +7

      tbf the south has plenty of good bands too eg pink floyd, led zeppelin, rolling stones, kinks, queen etc

    • @GuessMyName234
      @GuessMyName234 2 года назад +5

      I'm from the Lake District it's a beautiful place

    • @sim6699
      @sim6699 2 года назад +2

      Depression provides more creativity and being on the dole gives them time to practice

  • @CessBee123
    @CessBee123 2 года назад +25

    I'm from Essex and a proud southerner, but working class is working class isn't it? The north south divide is real, but really the bedrock of the country is the same, apart from accents. This feels like the BBC trying to create differences, but for the life of me I don't know why seeing as we're all in this together.

    • @meditationforgrowth
      @meditationforgrowth 2 года назад +1

      You do realise that this was recorded back in the 70s. Time was very different back then

    • @hmu05366
      @hmu05366 11 месяцев назад

      @@meditationforgrowththey are from Essex lol.

    • @RMetsy
      @RMetsy 10 месяцев назад +1

      COYS

  • @viggosimonsen
    @viggosimonsen 8 месяцев назад +11

    Love how the husband just sits there and listens to it all. No objections

  • @gkidd1963
    @gkidd1963 7 месяцев назад +1

    I’m from Midlothian Scotland this reminds me of our community before all the pits were closed

  • @tooyoungtobeold8756
    @tooyoungtobeold8756 2 года назад +47

    The North South Divide was manufactured by the media and they keep the myth going. I live in the south, came from the Midlands but my dad was from Yorkshire. Its all a load of piffle. I love the north.

    • @muckle8
      @muckle8 2 года назад

      Piffle indeed! At least seen through todays eyes, I grew up in Surrey, now live in the midlands , friendly AND miserable people all over the country

    • @Justin-jh4ym
      @Justin-jh4ym 2 года назад +3

      There is a North South divide, the south is more wealthy.

    • @me5969
      @me5969 2 года назад +1

      Nah, I remember when I was at merv in Colchester and when we had free time, you just could not get a decent chippy anywhere. They don't or at least didn't have either gravey or mushy peas, maybe both and definitely didn't do chips, curry and rice. You can't trust a man that can't handle a bit gravey. Honestly, they're absolute animals down there the way they live.

    • @jayveebloggs9057
      @jayveebloggs9057 2 года назад +4

      Not piffle. I live in the NE. I could get an ex council house for about £60k in some parts. The same home near my sister in Surrey/London borders is £500,000... the wealth difference is incredible and I have lived in both North & South

    • @tooyoungtobeold8756
      @tooyoungtobeold8756 2 года назад

      @@jayveebloggs9057 I think it was more about people, not property.

  • @dougie1968
    @dougie1968 2 года назад +26

    I'm from the South West and you can't get any poorer than there. Cornwall is one of the poorest regions in the UK and Northern Europe. 15 constituencies in Cornwall rank among the most deprived areas in the UK. There's clearly a South West - South East divide too

    • @unusedsub3003
      @unusedsub3003 2 года назад +2

      I went to university in Exeter and I quite like Cornwall. I had some great parties in Newquay.

    • @pmacc3557
      @pmacc3557 2 года назад +5

      I bet if I did a search for a nice little hol home in Cornwall i bet it would cost a pretty penny

    • @unusedsub3003
      @unusedsub3003 2 года назад +2

      @@pmacc3557 About the same as the Lake District.

    • @Bailey2006a
      @Bailey2006a 2 года назад +4

      As a fellow American, the same kind of conversation could take place between someone living in Manhattan and someone from upstate New York . Same state , totally different culture.

    • @unusedsub3003
      @unusedsub3003 2 года назад +2

      @GETITSORTED Everything is better in the South

  • @TeaLuck1
    @TeaLuck1 5 месяцев назад +3

    Incredible. Such a small country and So much clanishness !

  • @hondac7028
    @hondac7028 Год назад +1

    Mlim north east born and bred my dad was born north London seven sisters road Holloway he moved up here in 1962 as a thirteen year old my grandparents were from canning town they stayed up here till they died my dad's 74 now he says London has changed so much he would never go back and he still has the accent never lost it.

  • @huggybear441
    @huggybear441 11 месяцев назад +2

    6.20 reminds me of "To Sir With Love" ladies chatting on the bus.😅

  • @thaskoobz
    @thaskoobz 2 года назад +17

    This is absolute gold! 🤣🤣

  • @OlafProt
    @OlafProt 2 года назад +79

    I grew up in Surrey, and ‘northern’ people are friendlier. 100% true. People don’t look at you strange if you pass the time of day at a bus stop. Of course there’s grumpy so-and-so’s everywhere, it isn’t down to location. And also I think people from the north have been demonised and put down (mostly by Tories) for so long that they’re bound to be…. a bit unsure of southerners. And I think by southerners we really mean London/South-East vs the rest of the country! 😂🤣😂🤣
    I think the northern clubs are a perfect distillation of England. We used to be outgoing shouting laughing singing, and then at some point we turned into that awful snob at 2:45 halfway into this. Those Millie’s had it right.

    • @jemmajames6719
      @jemmajames6719 2 года назад +8

      My Auntie is from Surrey, she preferred the North straight away she thought it was far more friendlier. My family never had food like this woman said,I don’t know where she lived but that’s not the North I knew.

    • @richardsawyer5428
      @richardsawyer5428 2 года назад +4

      I couldn't agree more. There's a very different attitude in the South West to that where I grew up in the South East. That's probably why many of us have moved.

    • @WeMuckAround
      @WeMuckAround 2 года назад +4

      I'm also from Surrey and I will admit that I find *SOME* Northerners to come across quite blunt and standoffish. I know its just a cultural thing but as a born and bred Southerner, I do notice the difference.

    • @jemmajames6719
      @jemmajames6719 2 года назад +2

      @@WeMuckAround Northerners are more friendly as a norm, but obviously people are people and you met some people who were for whatever reason not so friendly. I haven’t been to London for twenty years can’t stand the place but last time I went everyone was lovely,friendly and helpful, whereas my sons have been a number of times and had the complete opposite experience.

    • @robertkarol8324
      @robertkarol8324 2 года назад +1

      @Al Akazam ok Abdul

  • @11UncleBooker22
    @11UncleBooker22 2 года назад +6

    "Keep them divided and we'll continue to rule over both sides." .... Every national leader.

  • @Officialm6
    @Officialm6 10 месяцев назад +56

    BBC stirring the pot since the 1970s

  • @chazzz284
    @chazzz284 2 года назад +2

    "Is it the truth that hurts?" her face was priceless

  • @karenbaker7168
    @karenbaker7168 2 года назад +10

    Quite correct, this type of reporting only creates a wider divide between working people.

    • @Voyager...2
      @Voyager...2 2 года назад

      The mass media is always up to no good.

  • @en4216
    @en4216 8 месяцев назад +8

    This used to be the real England good old day

  • @nathanielgrant3909
    @nathanielgrant3909 Год назад +4

    06:42 -to- 07:30 they don't make 'em like her anymore. Good, solid Northern woman: you can see where Victoria Wood drew her energy from, character wise. Lovely 🥰

  • @claireproctor1353
    @claireproctor1353 2 месяца назад +1

    The Lady from the South reminds me of Mrs Bucket character from the comedy Keeping Up Appearances 😅

  • @premikyam2726
    @premikyam2726 10 месяцев назад +1

    I grew up and lived in London til 1983.
    I now live between Leeds and Wakefield and absolutely love the life in West Yorkshire.
    In spite of the massive upheaval following the loss of coal mining, there is a lot to commend the community spirit and lack of snobbery. Oh and fish and chips once a week.