Living with rats | poverty in the 1970s | London | 1970s Bermondsey | We was all one | 1972
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2020
- Some extracts from the award winning documentary - 'We was all one'
In these clips we hear how the locals living in social housing try and keep the rats at bay.
Narration: Benny Green
First shown: 07/03/1972
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I imagine if this building is still standing, rather than being renovated for the ordinary families of London, it has been turned into some poncy art studio or multi million pound apartments.
“The Residences at ... “
Most of these tenements have been demolished. My family came from a tenement that stood in Burgess Park as it’s known today
I have said it before this is real history and I love that you are showing these 👏👏👏
Blame communism
I've just lost years of food preps to mice, it was a bad enough sight to behold that I ended up breaking down in tears as my two teenaged boys helped form a chain to the bins, so this really hits home, hard, those poor souls.
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We had a rat in house once, cheeky sod was kipping on me tea bags, which I'd been using.
Watching this reminds me of the show "Call the Midwife" which takes place in the 50s and 60s Poplar.
As an expatriate I worked in Canary Wharf passing Bermon dsey everyday on the underground. Couldn't imagine it was in such bad shape
Quite similar to how people lived in postwar London. When they were 'slum clearances' in Notting Hill the mice moved up the street as they knocked each house down. Eventually, my mother's place was infested with them. These days Bermondsey is very desirable. These houses look in a terrible state. I wonder if they were pulled down?
Wow, imagine rats under your floor boards. Then the rats being so tame that they eat from your hand. The mind boggles, I would have been scared shitless.
We dont have to imagine it. I live in a mid terrace house in East Lancashire and have had episodes of rats under the floorboards and in the loft. They are not scared of humans because theres so many of them. Confident rats scuttling around in broad daylight. Its sickening
We’ve got really huge ones in Australia- they’re called wallabies!
it’s still happening in london. hackney is awash with rats. and the rats don’t give a fuck. and they’re biters too! everywhere else they’re scared of humans. but in london they’re the boss.
Keep them coming love these old vids , thanks.
Lovely people. They seem so humble and well raised
Lovely people! Bloody animals more like!
That's so pity when we live like that 😭
Thanks for this informative video!
ThamesTv I wish you would enable automatic subtitles for your non English native viewers. The last three videos have been sooo difficult to decipher. Other than that love your channel, thanks a lot!
Non-BRITISH. The country is "The UK", and comprised of English, Welsh, Irish and Scottish people (among others).
You should try to understand - just replay the video a few times. The accents aren't that strong...just be glad they're not Glaswegian, then subtitles would be a must.
Primal Convoy I was speaking about the English LANGUAGE, which is not my mother tongue... Sorry if that was unclear, I know what the UK is 🙄
DIETRICHCICCONE Yeah, I visited Scotland a few years back, wasn’t easy to understand 😳😂
@@mirgri7207 yes I got your point. Sincere apologies on behalf of my ignorant countrymen.
The guy at the start made real sense,fix things on Earth first!
Truth is,regarding poverty,things have not changed much really have they?!
Only difference in Bermondsey today is that the well off are foreigners,not locals!
The full doc is on RUclips I watched it yesterday for some reason this RUclips account only puts a few mins on in sections
What's it called?
@@arnoldlayne9918 we was all one
@@jamesmacdonald5881 thank you
The opening sentences sound like the beginning of Dark Side of the Moon.
I think that the street was called East Street, in Southwark or Bermondsey in South London.
What is and was disgusting is that these people expected the State to house them and take responsibility for their families.
Still got em. One looked at me the other day, no fear, just looked and then ran off when I hit the wall near it with a litter pick
Homes fit for heroes. Yeah, right.
problem is london homes are still riddled with either rats or mice. it’s a problem that needs really sorting out at the root cause level.
London is also riddled another kind of rats if you get me.
@@Cal-Valhalla no?
Now the rat's are in Government!
Those ol tenements, costly these times s, millions, today for middle class, standard.
Blendon Row is in Walworth not Bermondsey
The cats must have had a field day
Could it possibly be because of the trash in the kitchen?
Lovely Jubbly
I'm going to go and get a new job as a rat woman!!
So let me think did they blamed immigrants back then?
Yep!
and ignorant people today talk about wanting to go back to those days ...
Exactly just ignore them people who don't appreciate that we are living in the present
@@Jake.03-g3k indeed jake we should
I think people always think that because of nostalgia and by this causes more and more hate in the present like I see comments like "oh no smartphones" oh life was so much simpler "oh no technology" but just imagine if modern technology existed back then they will probably be in love with it and mostly forget that this technology that they are hating on are actually keeping us entertained and actually curing people from the virus so no need to complain just because you miss your childhood I mean I miss my childhood but most people take it too seriously that they hate what we have today
@@Jake.03-g3k very true .. your right ... nostalgia gives ppl a sense of euphoria ... ppl have fond memories from particular moments in the past and block out all the bad things ... this is why when ppl view random videos shot in 1940s Britain .. they don’t mention the trauma ,wash houses , slums / poverty , ptsd from war etc , .. coz i bet ppl from those times would love to have experience the improvements that have been made
Wake up the documentary is about poverty.
I had a nest of rats in the garden for 1st time last year, cheeky gits were climbing through the dog flap up into the floor boards. Lockdown done it.
There was a rat climbing up a tree outside my classes window in Japan the other day. It's an international school, where very rich and famous Japanese send their kids.
In one house, down the road, next to a Porsche, there was a dead rat under a garden fence...
Moved in to a flat, where the previous tenants were evicted for illegally breeding small dogs and cats (- we were told, after having moved in -).
I caught a dozen of them in the old fashioned wooden mouse traps, over a few months.
I was advised against poison. They go away to die inside the walls and the roof, and leave an awful smell.
I have felt a strange sense of grief, looking at the little fellas, lying there.
Not that I gave them a tearful send off with a 21 gun salute or anything..
@@jasonayres Poisons also harm other wildlife and pets if they catch a poisoned rat and eat it.
@@jhibberd6290 🙂👍Thanks. I hadn't thought of that.
@@jasonayres I 100% support killing destructive disease ridden vermin. But sympathy one living being to another in the face of death is just healthy compassion.
These houses were horrible
Pretty fit
Aids
Don't worry, you will have it again soon. Just let Brexit do the job. 😂
To late the damage has been done. Close the door on your way out.
Blame Labour
Really? It was the Socialist policies of post war governmemts that led to Britain's highest ever levels of prosperity and lowest levels of poverty by the end of the 1970's. Sadly after 40 years of Thatcherism (and that includes Blair's New Labour) poverty levels are nearly as bad as they were in the 1930's.
@@freebornjohn6876 "Poverty"
Did the bloke moaning about toilets and putting men on the moon not realise it was the USA that spent money on doing it, not the UK!
It was seen a giant leap for mankind not just Texans. And the bloke was right, it cost billions to fake that & $56,000,000 per day since that. Could of housed the world but as usual screw poor people.
@@thomasmcdonnell7914 he never said they faked it or that they've paid huge amounts since the first landing to cover it up. How can he be right about something he never said? Re housing the world the USA gives huge amounts in foreign aid, the most of any country. In addition to that why should they take on responsibility to 'house the world' as you put it? Surely housing is the responsibility of each countries respective governments.
This video should be titled “an example of white privilege”
How exactly were these people disadvantaged because of their race?
@@samnicholson5051 How exactly was my comment talking about disadvantaged people?
You're confusing race and class. Personally I don't like the term as it refers to a lack of racial discrimination. I would rather target and define the racial discrimination itself, and of course the racists.
@@PERCYxyz are you sure it’s me that’s confusing it?
@@rollerbladinggeek5507 Yes. The term "white privilege" (which I do not like personally for previously mentioned reasons), relates to the lack of racial discrimination white people face. It does not relate to their economic class.
If your wife has side burns you should never have children. If you can't afford to have children, don't marry a women with them.
Shocking amount of white privilege on display here
“They should have done things here on earth before putting men on the moon”.
I agree they should have got a job but the US government isn’t in charge of motivating benefit scrounges in london.