Back when everyone knew everyone neighbours helped each other.. People had respect . Really they weren't that poor (in spirit at least) they had each other . Money isn't everything but it certainly helps . The lady with no teeth reminds me of my late nan . 😢current times no one helps anyone and if they do it's for views . People ignore people hurting others to not get involved . Money was tight as a ducks back but they had morals respect and family and friends neighbours included . Altho councils and housing has improved if you compare to these times .. feels like 2 completely different lives compared to now . In some sense we're very lucky and in others it's got worse 😔. Tysm for this x
These people would be turning in their graves the way GB has turned out, it's on its knee's. I'm Irish but I'm worried about it it's frightening, all their acquisitions/counties have come home to roost and have bled it dry Their system has been abused left right and centre, my own included. Our country has done a 180 also. This is not about nostalgia far from it. We have become so commercial about everything. We have abandoned the qualities that make us what we we're thats gone. Greed, no one is ever satisfied they all want more and still not enough. You can't buy yourself self worth clothes won't do it goldfish lips 💋 won't do it either . It's a inside job. ✌🏻
These old girls and lads gone forever. Ugly, ugly UGLY modern concrete. Hideous. London is ruined. I lived in a squatted derelict house, 168 Swaton Road, E3.... it was condemned. Lovely atmosphere though inside it...Untouched since probably 1940's. I still have a piece of Victorian wood that backed an old mirror from that house...it is a strip of lithographed board that says ''Cadbury's'' with elves. I looked on google earth, and to my deep joy, it was still there, but priced at over half a million pounds now. The dark wooden shutters that I painted cannabis plants on were now painted white...The downstairs front room was where we lived, mainly, with a tiny scullery out the back and bathroom upstairs. I loved that old house.
Sad how the area is now so gentrified and for the well off. Born in Bermondsey and still live here.... it's a sad fact that real locals will never be able to afford a property in the area. There are still good people here but the community is not the same.
4:31-5:22: that's my grandad, James 'Ginger' Lucken. Not sure when this was filmed, but he died in 1976 (before I was born) so beyond what people who knew him tell me, this is the only record of him that I have.
I've watched this so many times. It's brilliant. Just looking at those terraced houses....There are some like this not so far away from me and you can't buy them because they are going for millions. Such a shame that they were pulled down. Also those kids about 31 mins in are probably almost 60 now 😮
Yes, indeed. Those kids should’ve done so much better than their parents and may own one of those £1m+ (& counting!) houses now. Unlike their kids who are probably still living at home approaching their 30s because they’ve been priced out of the London rental market (let alone the housing market). Things are supposed to get better from one generation to the next but that’s gone in to reverse. I’m lucky, I was born in ‘64 but I really worry for the future for the young uns today.
@@johnraftery7447I teach at University. I have seen how things have become so much more difficult for the next generation. With each passing year, it gets harder. But what I like is the way that they are kicking back. So it gives me hope.
I grew up in southeast London. My parents and I shared a big old Victorian house (which had been split into flats) with my dad’s aunt and uncle. They had a huge rat in their flat and I remember my dad going upstairs and killing it with a hammer. That was that.
I don’t think Islam was behind the building of the tower blocks somehow. 1960’s bad town planning decisions and mood for ‘new’ after the trauma of the war.
I was born in south London Lambeth 1948 us Londoners are the salt of the earth or cockneys as we are known we would talk to anyone and help anyone .l worked in Bermondsey 55 Leroy street which was called tobies gym club until there was trouble there and closed down l rented it and called it Annette display wigs and made them for the models in shop windows all over England and employed many people l am 71 now and l
@@annduffield9442 Bless you Ann,I'm from the North East but we both have lost everything,fractured communities and a loss of identity. They say change is good but I've seen nothing good about it.
@@Brittunculi I’m from south London and the night I met my Geordie wife, we ended up in the Thomas a Beckett and had one of the best nights of our lives. We live in Northumberland now and the south London of my youth could be a million miles away.
Painful to watch the past, and painful to see the hellhole my city has become.
My family from the East End ,our London not our own now 😢🙏🇬🇧
Back when everyone knew everyone neighbours helped each other.. People had respect . Really they weren't that poor (in spirit at least) they had each other . Money isn't everything but it certainly helps . The lady with no teeth reminds me of my late nan . 😢current times no one helps anyone and if they do it's for views . People ignore people hurting others to not get involved . Money was tight as a ducks back but they had morals respect and family and friends neighbours included . Altho councils and housing has improved if you compare to these times .. feels like 2 completely different lives compared to now . In some sense we're very lucky and in others it's got worse 😔. Tysm for this x
These people would be turning in their graves the way GB has turned out, it's on its knee's. I'm Irish but I'm worried about it it's frightening, all their acquisitions/counties have come home to roost and have bled it dry Their system has been abused left right and centre, my own included. Our country has done a 180 also. This is not about nostalgia far from it. We have become so commercial about everything. We have abandoned the qualities that make us what we we're thats gone. Greed, no one is ever satisfied they all want more and still not enough. You can't buy yourself self worth clothes won't do it goldfish lips 💋 won't do it either . It's a inside job. ✌🏻
These old girls and lads gone forever.
Ugly, ugly UGLY modern concrete. Hideous. London is ruined.
I lived in a squatted derelict house, 168 Swaton Road, E3.... it was condemned.
Lovely atmosphere though inside it...Untouched since probably 1940's. I still have a piece of Victorian wood that backed an old mirror from that house...it is a strip of lithographed board that says ''Cadbury's'' with elves.
I looked on google earth, and to my deep joy, it was still there, but priced at over half a million pounds now.
The dark wooden shutters that I painted cannabis plants on were now painted white...The downstairs front room was where we lived, mainly, with a tiny scullery out the back and bathroom upstairs.
I loved that old house.
Oh my gosh, the atmosphere was so good. It's criminal what they have done to it now. I can see Del Boy and Rodney in that lot.
Sad how the area is now so gentrified and for the well off.
Born in Bermondsey and still live here.... it's a sad fact that real locals will never be able to afford a property in the area.
There are still good people here but the community is not the same.
Great documentary I was seven then and all I cared about was my chopper bike!✌️
4:31-5:22: that's my grandad, James 'Ginger' Lucken. Not sure when this was filmed, but he died in 1976 (before I was born) so beyond what people who knew him tell me, this is the only record of him that I have.
This documentary was filmed in 1972.
Beautiful old Bermondsey people .. the salt of the Earth .. 🕊
I've watched this so many times. It's brilliant. Just looking at those terraced houses....There are some like this not so far away from me and you can't buy them because they are going for millions. Such a shame that they were pulled down.
Also those kids about 31 mins in are probably almost 60 now 😮
Maybe in their 70's now.
@@lewissmith3896 wow!
Yes, indeed. Those kids should’ve done so much better than their parents and may own one of those £1m+ (& counting!) houses now. Unlike their kids who are probably still living at home approaching their 30s because they’ve been priced out of the London rental market (let alone the housing market). Things are supposed to get better from one generation to the next but that’s gone in to reverse. I’m lucky, I was born in ‘64 but I really worry for the future for the young uns today.
@@johnraftery7447I teach at University. I have seen how things have become so much more difficult for the next generation. With each passing year, it gets harder. But what I like is the way that they are kicking back. So it gives me hope.
God bless Bermondsey!
Real Londoners❤😊!
I grew up in southeast London. My parents and I shared a big old Victorian house (which had been split into flats) with my dad’s aunt and uncle. They had a huge rat in their flat and I remember my dad going upstairs and killing it with a hammer. That was that.
A tragedy - those beautiful old houses! Why weren't they restored instead of building those suicide towers?
What a remarkable record Bermondsey boy ... when was the film made?
‘We Was All One’, the 1972 Thames Television documentary
@@Bermondseyboysteve Thanks. It's really good.
Benny Green narrating .
All individ... are from differences.backngrounds, faiths...cultured speaks diff dilects,n
What does the boxer's wife offer him to eat at 14:28? A "penny packet of..."?
Cocoa?
I don’t think Islam was behind the building of the tower blocks somehow. 1960’s bad town planning decisions and mood for ‘new’ after the trauma of the war.
This needs English subtitles ;-)
I was born in south London Lambeth 1948 us Londoners are the salt of the earth or cockneys as we are known we would talk to anyone and help anyone .l worked in Bermondsey 55 Leroy street which was called tobies gym club until there was trouble there and closed down l rented it and called it Annette display wigs and made them for the models in shop windows all over England and employed many people l am 71 now and l
@@annduffield9442 Bless you Ann,I'm from the North East but we both have lost everything,fractured communities and a loss of identity.
They say change is good but I've seen nothing good about it.
@@Brittunculi I’m from south London and the night I met my Geordie wife, we ended up in the Thomas a Beckett and had one of the best nights of our lives. We live in Northumberland now and the south London of my youth could be a million miles away.
The Thomas a Beckett is a restaurant now and the Marigold pub is closed the upper floors are luxury flats I hope it reopens 🤞
This was all destroyed by Sadiq Khan and Islam. Happy now?
So nice to see the old bermondsey the places the changes the people who still have family here to this day