Michael, these are good points that you are making. Obviously, 'everyone knew one another' is a colloquilism. No-one expects that everyone actually knew one another, but it is the kind of thing that people say to connote that a community was close and that people were friendly. Yes, on the comment about women and work. We also have Mrs Magold talking about her mum working and herself. I do think our interviewee was trying to indicate that the world of work for women has changed since shje was a young woman and the expectations of women at work pre and post WWII. We intend to look into this and will follow up with more information about woman and work in the factories in the area.
Some excellent old footage in this, but filming people saying 'Everybody knew each other in Bermondsey' is making a mockery of the truth. We didn't know everybody, we knew the people in our street and in our flats, but would never know hardly anyone on the next estate or those a couple of streets away. And to put in someone saying 'in those days women didn't go to work ' is outrageous! Who kept Peek Frean's going? Watch this 1906 film of Peek Frean's and see how important women were to local industry: ruclips.net/video/8O2EYrueHNE/видео.html
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Michael, these are good points that you are making. Obviously, 'everyone knew one another' is a colloquilism. No-one expects that everyone actually knew one another, but it is the kind of thing that people say to connote that a community was close and that people were friendly. Yes, on the comment about women and work. We also have Mrs Magold talking about her mum working and herself. I do think our interviewee was trying to indicate that the world of work for women has changed since shje was a young woman and the expectations of women at work pre and post WWII. We intend to look into this and will follow up with more information about woman and work in the factories in the area.
A superb short film. Utterly fascinating.
I really enjoyed this.
Some excellent old footage in this, but filming people saying 'Everybody knew each other in Bermondsey' is making a mockery of the truth. We didn't know everybody, we knew the people in our street and in our flats, but would never know hardly anyone on the next estate or those a couple of streets away.
And to put in someone saying 'in those days women didn't go to work ' is outrageous! Who kept Peek Frean's going? Watch this 1906 film of Peek Frean's and see how important women were to local industry: ruclips.net/video/8O2EYrueHNE/видео.html
Michael 'everyone knew each other': it wasn't meant literally. And the lady went on to say how women then were accepted into the workforce.