Living in a Tower Block | London Tower Block | Thames Television | 1970's
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- Опубликовано: 6 ноя 2016
- Concerned parents explain what it is like for a child Growing up in a 1970's Tower Block.
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The kid the first women is holding is about 50 now and she is about 80 let that sink in
That's wot I was thinkibg
Scary thought. Time goes by in the blink of an eye.
She has a wonderful deep beautiful voice
The unfortunate reality is that the mother may not even be alive. A lot of people don’t even reach the age of 80.
If I'm correct, they're the flats overlooking what is now the Shepherd's Bush Westfield.
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
How grim.
Tragic to hear of the people committing suicide due to living in these. I lived in one for the first six years of my life in Charlton (Morris Walk Estate, now demolished). I found it OK. The difference between me and these kids is I was content to stay in and do art and stuff. Watch Rainbow on telly as well lol. My dad took me to the park across the road every day or nearly every day. The flat lifts were maintained well. That was just my experience. I can't say how the neighbours viewed it. I was an only child until I was eight so it was probably harder for the parents with two, three, four kids plus. They probably saw it worse than I did
That would be great i mean look at the views. wish i could live in one of them heir in sydney.
You live in High Rise town, the lifts not working & the stairs are getting you down!
High Rise Town - The Lanterns
yea they are a good band
Tower blocks were never meant for families; they were meant for single occupiers or couples with no kids at best. Doesn't help that they were literal concrete jungles, but cramming young families in them was the beginning of the end for social based high rise living.
It’s the utter lack of character of their surroundings that is gut-wrenching. Their parents and grandparents probably had at least the character of their surroundings as a consolation. There is nothing of consolation for these people. All the problems of the modern age were set in train back then.
Felicity Kendall not living the Good Life?
If you've got anything horrid to say about Felicity Kendall, you can just about blummin' well say it to me first!
Not just multiple living in a tower block, let's stick it next to a major road link & a mass expanse of undeveloped land! DID THE ARCHITECTS & PLANNERS, THEMSELVES, LIVE IN PLACES LIKE THIS?!! NO - THEY BLOODY WELL DID NOT!!!!!!
It was good enough for Mary, Mungo and Midge.
yes but there lift was never out of order
I used to watch that in envy As they press those buttons And the door the lift door that opened automatically from my council house in Manchester complete with front back and side garden built in 1932
Nothing more than a prison for the poor.
They could try being economically productive for once, dare I say it..
but better than the cold hard dirty streets and sidewalks
@@Emma-py8qe
You are implying that they are a bunch of slobs. Another silver spoon.
Wouldnt go that far, I was made up when I got my flat in a tower block, cheap rent, close to all the transport and roads links etc.
Id live in one again but im not a foregner so fat chance lol
The first woman seems quite posh/ well to do ...wonder what her story is..anybody??
She’s putting on a posh accent.
Yes somebody 40 years later will know a random woman
@@diggintheblueswithaparrot1329 lol
@Hardangervidda Sondström Where's she from??
@@diggintheblueswithaparrot1329 well you never know..she just sounds lovely it's a pity
I lived in a tower block . Hazlewood tower for 6 years
luv the 70s
Seem like nice decent people to me... being welsh I would have loved to have spent some time living in London.....
its still there
To think that some people were prepared to pay 350k for an ex council flat a few years ago.
Now the bubble has burst!
No it hasn't If you buy one you rent it back to the council For those on benefits or asylum seekers Guaranteed rent for the next 10 years
Dear Thames,
There's no apostrophe in 1970s - unless it owns something!
Your name forename and Surname should be in capitals! 😉
@@petetaylor9370 Qué?? 😎
@@petetaylor9370 Oh, yes. The penny's just dropped! I think I might actually change it, now that you mention it...
Does it really matter...
@@lushkarma2012Yes. I know it seems like trivial point, but I numbers written this way so frequently. A misplaced apostrophe can change the meaning of a whole sentence, hence the existence of punctuation.😎
If people were made to live in boxes god would of given them string to tie around their selves at bedtime. (P Weller1982)
Paul weller know shit hes from guildford lol
@@mcpainters Shearwater not Guilford and it's a massive council estate.
@@koont666 paul weller is from woking
@@simonsmall6446 Shearwater is woking,mate .
Young families today are still being housed in these today! Soooooo many years later and we haven't learned anything or even worse maybe we have but they don't care! My dear friend has worked night and day for twenty years and just lost everything her business that failed in covid but was over the moon that at last the council would help her and her two children and has just been given one of these. I could cry for her. They aren't fit for anyone but especially children. They were in an old Victorian terraced house before. Her neighbours are now druggies. I live miles away and feel helpless to help her. Two neighbours have already taken their lives and had a drugs raid within the block in under a month. My friend went to an animal shelter to home a pet to help the children with the move and the shelter said " we won't rescue our animals to tower blocks" SO IF THE TOWER BLOCK ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR PETS HOW ON EARTH COULD IT BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR CHILDREN!
I sympathise with them but there are even more high rise blocks today than back then!
This is exactly the point! We have literally reverted back to the 70's with tower blocks a plenty being built across the capital. But of course they're no longer called Tower blocks ( penthouses) and they're no longer built on estates (developments) and they're no longer flats (apartments). If these tenements were bad in the 70s what on earth makes them acceptable in 2019?
We’ve come a really long way haven’t we.
MDQC71 Yes and they are now for high paid single professional people or young professional couples who have the advantage of being able to sell up for a great profit and move to the suburbs or countryside as soon as they get pregnant !! These people did not have that luxury !! They were purpose built for the masses with no concern for family size or age groups !!
honestly as someone born in the 21st century the idea of life in towerblocks is so normalized for me. watching these women speak really shocked me and made me take a step back
@@jayrobthorn6847 not really
I've got an older one of about five? You don't even know how old your child is?!
Domine Wimbury may be she was nervous being in front of a camera and it just came out like that
Wouldn't suprise me given the typical slag single mothers that live in these blocks lol
That would be the valium kicking in.
Well unless the child was 5 that day, they're 'about five' aren't they?
Up In Heaven (Not Only Here)
nothings changed then!
it just doesn't fit with the UK mentality. Works in Spain (kinda works).
Interesting comment. Flats also seem to work in places like Germany, China, Japan, Hong Kong, etc. You need people with a very disciplined and introspective nature. More care-free people won't like them, although I'm not sure how that fits with the Spanish example you gave.
@@ajs41 That's interesting. I'm a Spaniard and here people are more used to living in flats and maybe have a house as a secondary residency if they can afford it.
@@triscofr Are the Spanish flats usually constructed in the brutalist architecture style? I think that's one of the problems with the British ones.
Works in Bournemouth I.e. sea views
@@triscofr in Brazil too
Now we put children infront of a playstation and they give no bother in high rise flats but they grow up brain dead
No different to the tv before it.
@@riks081 well not really because in those days there was very limited channels available and none of them were specifically dedicated to children...there might have been one or two programs for kids in the evening and thats it. But now theres unlimited times and channels and programs and video games.
Looks like East London to me.
That's the Edward Woods estate in West london. Those towers are still there.
@@oscarfeatherstone6688 thank u
@All in The Game cheers
Planners dream tenants nightmare...how much thought went into putting very young families on the 22nd floor...I grew up on a brand new council estate in 1961 in east London they were way better designed..eight blocks of only two story high masonettes..25 floor blocks are completely unacceptable for young families...whoever thought they were was obviously clueless.
wonder who got rehoused first out of them eh ?
Il hazard a guess
Now come on that's a little naughty However that said believe it or not it wouldn't have been the black lady, it would have been the posh girl the 1st one to speak She looked like she came from a good family And that has its benefits as life moves on
I cant' find anything wrong living under a roof. If you want a better house find a better job..
NIGHTMARE..
Be glad you have a place to live.
Try the street. Maybe you’d like it better.
You must have lived on the street, yourself - otherwise, you wouldn't be saying this!!!
@@SiLoJayLo I did. Your right. Your very observant. But. I also believe there are a lot of lazy people on the street.
Problem is with all three of these young girls is they had not grown up in the slums from the 40s and the 50s they got pregnant in the late 60s and let's be honest here probably to get their own place They probably didn't know they were born Compared to what their grandparents had to go through At least they had an inside toilet And no mould on the on the walls Well that is until 1980
Liam Hennigan...I'm not sure she definitely didn't belong there
This governing system is rotten and in 2019 must go #buzzofftoxic
lll
Whining and whining... like it's that big of a deal.
it is.
This young woman's, its a individ... born london, certained lots, for lower standard for individ... trys too gets out this dreadful lots, but realized if not higher standard living, stopped the madness becuz...aint gots times for chained.. so be gladly you's lived n.. a flats with units# kitchen, other's units# living quarters, rooms so individ... can have's spaced so it's narrow can't moved but other's, has been rented, takes its stopped.. quarreling abouts it's gets on with your's selves, only solutions it's those dreadful rodents, and also those pessi insects, it's a solutions it's too keeps your's flats tidy and n kepts cleaned,
You need to get out and have a walk or something mate
She lives in poverty but she's just back from holiday. Nothing changes in this pissant country. If you work full-time like me, you're skint. If you're on benefits, you're loaded.
Who's the idiot then? Either way this woman isn't claiming she lives in poverty and people in Tower blocks do work. Maybe you just need to work harder.
she said they had been in the country - maybe she has relatives that she stayed with that live of London
Her holidays probably involved a trip to Scarborough.
You must be taking the piss. I cant afford shoes so am stuck indoors currently. I cant afford fruit and veg. Ive not been on holiday since 2008. No car, no new clothes - thays how 'loaded' I am. Oven is broken and I cant do a damn thing about it.
Not sure about this clip.
The cycle of endlessly having babies and expecting the taxpayers to pay for there existence isn’t fair. If they don’t like living there stop having babies then get a job or maybe 2 jobs like some people do to get ahead.
You can't say that(!!) Lol
I'll pay , you just sound like a selfish person or a slacker who's never bettered themselves, wonder what I'll be subsidizing you for!
Maybe the father ran out on them?