Living in Victorian times | Victorian Lady | Nanny | Aldershot | Good Afternoon | 1972

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  • Опубликовано: 23 фев 2024
  • Good Afternoon' presenter Mavis Nicholson speaks to 83 year old Violet Turner, who for most of her life was a Nanny to many a well to do household. In this clip, Ms. Turner speaks about her early life in the Military town of Aldershot, and what she would have liked to have been.
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  • @w00df0rd
    @w00df0rd 3 месяца назад +65

    Fascinating. If we'd realised how precious interviews with those born in the 19th century were, TV companies would have interviewed ten times more in the seventies.

    • @painstruck01
      @painstruck01 3 месяца назад +3

      America had a guy on one of their gameshows that witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  • @marksquires4836
    @marksquires4836 3 месяца назад +32

    Such a dear old soul. Our ancestors of her generation were the salt of the Earth. The sacrifices they made built modern civilisation.

  • @JimmyChappie1
    @JimmyChappie1 Месяц назад +16

    Incredible to be watching this over half a century later. She was born 133 years ago 🤯 What an valuable record. RIP.

  • @Netehope123
    @Netehope123 2 месяца назад +26

    She is a delight to listen too. She has a soft voice, and loved her stories. God bless her.💛

  • @karlgriffiths5956
    @karlgriffiths5956 Месяц назад +12

    Wonderful my mum is 90 and its2024 god i had to call mum as this lady made me think of her. God bless this lady

  • @gabriellaj.o.6180
    @gabriellaj.o.6180 2 месяца назад +11

    Lovely. How sad her choices in life were determined by her mother. I said to my mum whose nearly 83 now that i feel like a relic from a bygone age and yes the uk of 2024 is not the uk i remember as a child.

  • @JohnSmith-su3ze
    @JohnSmith-su3ze 3 месяца назад +21

    Watching these pulls my heart strings. I love England.

  • @MG63
    @MG63 3 месяца назад +23

    God bless her. Nobody alive now from Victorian times. May she RIP. ❤

  • @stopyulin3226
    @stopyulin3226 2 месяца назад +13

    Bless her! I could sit and listen to her all day .. ✌🏼❤️

  • @user-tz1zo6nu3n
    @user-tz1zo6nu3n Месяц назад +7

    This pioneering afternoon TV programme with Mavis Nicholson was far better than 'it should have been' - and really showed up those who sneered at it as 'housewife's TV'. And Mrs Turner here was quite right about Queen Victoria - she really was almost as broad as she was tall.

  • @heatherwhittaker6169
    @heatherwhittaker6169 3 месяца назад +12

    Same age as my grandmother..I taped a conversation with her and was searching for it just yesterday.❤

  • @Catmad65
    @Catmad65 3 месяца назад +14

    Oh wow , I love this , more please 🙏

  • @ravenhill_firelord_1968
    @ravenhill_firelord_1968 3 месяца назад +50

    my beloved old england, fast changing into a place i don't recognize.

    • @user-qi8mq8fb6s
      @user-qi8mq8fb6s 2 месяца назад +9

      I know. Its so sad

    • @gabriellaj.o.6180
      @gabriellaj.o.6180 Месяц назад +8

      It is sad.

    • @ravenhill_firelord_1968
      @ravenhill_firelord_1968 Месяц назад

      @@gabriellaj.o.6180 i agree.

    • @comically_large_cowboy_hat3385
      @comically_large_cowboy_hat3385 Месяц назад +1

      it will continue to change forever and ever….best get used to it rather than fight against the inevitable

    • @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts
      @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts Месяц назад +1

      The interesting thing is that you never hear people of this time being either sentimental about the past or negative about the future. The Victorian culture was full of enthusiasm. A time of discovery, travel and invention as well as great social change. and although there were some terrible faces to that people could see great changes taking place and instead of being fearful they were hopeful for the future. Now, maybe we've gone further than most people need or even want and we understand that the world isn't just a resource for us to plunder.

  • @Bille994
    @Bille994 Месяц назад +10

    It's this sort of thing that makes me sure that modern British people shouldn't have to bear the responsibility or guilt of the empire. The vast majority of Brits had such a lowly existence in the 19th century. The fact that this wonderful lady was quite high in the social hierarchy and still seems to be totally subservient to the aristocracy is so telling

    • @honeyfungus4774
      @honeyfungus4774 Месяц назад

      All that white privilege, 🙄

    • @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts
      @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts Месяц назад +6

      There was no white privilege for the majority of the population who lived to their dieing day in fear of the workhouse. Living conditions were unimaginable for the poor, urban and rural. Starvation was real and common. If you think that history is portrayed in costume dramas and social media then you might be able to throw 'white privilege' around, but if you actually read accounts of those lucky poor white people you might gain a little deeper understanding about how class and social privilege is the root of all evil, not skin colour.

    • @maryyasaeed3190
      @maryyasaeed3190 4 дня назад

      It's quite hard to understand how british empire colonised so many countries and brought/looted so much wealth from these other countries but still their own people suffered in poverty.

  • @painstruck01
    @painstruck01 3 месяца назад +12

    i love how she's basically describing a culture of prostitution.

    • @beatdizzy
      @beatdizzy Месяц назад +3

      Aldershot, yes! The officers. 'we knew what they were'

    • @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts
      @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts Месяц назад

      Yes, those lucky privileged white girls! Prostitution was huge in Victorian times because wages for the poor were not enough to keep a person fed, especially women. Shop girls were notorious for obliging extras in the back of the shop. Rural girls & their parents were duped with offers of apprenticeship to leave their homes and travel to the cities to find that they were kept imprisoned in brothels. And to this day, wherever there are large numbers of men in barracks, poor women will gather to a ready market! Even though my small rural town has not housed soldiers for over 200 years, there are well recorded accounts of the women at the other end of town, which was a collection of shacks and hovels by the river (so also prone to flooding) who would donate white apron as a code for 'being available '! The workhouse was such a feared institution that most people would rather do anything, including selling themselves as indentured labour,than being taken into one.

    • @jakecavendish3470
      @jakecavendish3470 14 дней назад

      Yeah, it was mad how much sexual abuse went on back then, even my grandmother who was born in the early 1920s was always saying "oh yes, he was well known for interfering with children so we weren't allowed in his shop unsupervised" etc

  • @user-wt8nk9xc8m
    @user-wt8nk9xc8m Месяц назад +4

    Live in the past, hate the constant hassle of life today.

  • @Dianaemanuel
    @Dianaemanuel 3 месяца назад +3

    LOVE this! What a character! :-)

  • @blink997
    @blink997 3 месяца назад +2

    More of these please!

  • @magirusdeutzjupiter2234
    @magirusdeutzjupiter2234 13 дней назад

    My Gran was born in 1911, so her parents were Victorian. My Gran would often say that her parents were brutally strict with her about every thing.

  • @garybrockwell2031
    @garybrockwell2031 3 месяца назад +6

    Mavis was great, interesting woman 🙏
    8 Sept 2022 rip Mrs🇬🇧
    Edit- 91 year's ❤️

    • @BimBop83
      @BimBop83 3 месяца назад

      gtfo with your BS. She was 82 years old in this video, and the video is from 1972. She would have been 132 y/o in 2022.

  • @juliemorgan1118
    @juliemorgan1118 3 месяца назад +17

    Wonderful. We could worse than go back to those days when people spoke politely and clearly

    • @itsweb1584
      @itsweb1584 Месяц назад +5

      The good old days of malnutrition, poverty, disease and racism ❤

    • @honeyfungus4774
      @honeyfungus4774 Месяц назад +2

      @@itsweb1584 You had to bring racism into it didn't you.

    • @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts
      @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts Месяц назад

      It's an English film, not American.

    • @velevetyy
      @velevetyy 28 дней назад

      lol ok julie

    • @londongirl1733
      @londongirl1733 18 дней назад

      @@itsweb1584 yawn could not resist could you!! There was no need to be racist as unlike the BBC who will try and gaslight us all into believing all the bullshoot lies we the working class were the ones put upon and taken advantage off!! If you looked a little further than the colour of someone’s skin you could learn a lesson or two!!

  • @anastasia10017
    @anastasia10017 23 дня назад

    she sounds so innocent.

  • @jakecavendish3470
    @jakecavendish3470 14 дней назад

    People aged so suddenly back then, I know three people in their early 80s and they look 20 years younger than her

  • @iseegoodandbad6758
    @iseegoodandbad6758 Месяц назад +1

    My God older people were healthier, sharper and better looking than a lot of pensioners today!! I wonder why?

  • @marclaw4511
    @marclaw4511 3 месяца назад +5

    To think she was born in 1889 seems surreal.

  • @umbongonights
    @umbongonights 29 дней назад +1

    She says about being a very highly trained nanny, I wonder if she is a Norland nanny.

  • @nickeep8398
    @nickeep8398 3 месяца назад

    ❤❤

  • @janjordal9451
    @janjordal9451 3 месяца назад

  • @independentpuppy7520
    @independentpuppy7520 3 месяца назад +6

    It's sad what the UK has become now.

  • @robp8218
    @robp8218 3 месяца назад +7

    If the Tories get in again, we'll be back there again soon 😢

    • @michellebooth327
      @michellebooth327 3 месяца назад +3

      I don’t think you have a clue what could be in store for us,especially when you think different parties are different from each other and not just different cheeks of the sam arse.

    • @michellebooth327
      @michellebooth327 3 месяца назад +2

      Same*

    • @robp8218
      @robp8218 3 месяца назад

      @@michellebooth327 This is the common response of someone who kind of realises, but won't fully admit they backed the wrong horse: THEERE ALLL THE SAAAME. lazy thinking 😏

    • @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts
      @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts Месяц назад +1

      A lot of places already feel like they are. Just that now we have cocktails of drugs to add to the misery. Although such choice Victorian careers as mudlark,'pure' collectors (dog mess, for the tanning trade) tanners(who rub 'pure' into hides),bone grubbers&sewer hunters have not yet made a comeback!

    • @londongirl1733
      @londongirl1733 18 дней назад

      @@michellebooth327 True all WEF puppets!!

  • @PETMonique
    @PETMonique 3 месяца назад +2

    I would of loved living in them days

    • @BimBop83
      @BimBop83 3 месяца назад

      I’m guessing you’re not a woman, or non-white lol. Or if you are then you’re just incredibly naïve.

    • @s.m975
      @s.m975 3 месяца назад +5

      Really? overcrowding of cities, the exploitation of women and children (because they work more and cost less), the building of Workhouses and the growth of slums. Disease and early death were common for both rich and poor people.

    • @Tom_Ka_Guy
      @Tom_Ka_Guy 3 месяца назад +1

      Dental care was likely non-existent for most people then.

    • @PETMonique
      @PETMonique 3 месяца назад

      True, but they sure did live long lives . It's rare to see people living past there 70's and 80's

    • @sneakerfreak2002
      @sneakerfreak2002 3 месяца назад

      Riiiiiight

  • @mS-ll4ue
    @mS-ll4ue Месяц назад +1

    Ask her if she meet bethovan

    • @bid84
      @bid84 18 дней назад

      Pretty sure she’s brown bread

  • @greglinski2208
    @greglinski2208 3 месяца назад +2

    Ok boomer this isn’t story time

    • @michellebooth327
      @michellebooth327 3 месяца назад +11

      Silly child.

    • @A..Shadow..
      @A..Shadow.. Месяц назад +8

      Definitely not a boomer.
      Learn to speak facts before you speak next time princess. 👸🏼

    • @honeyfungus4774
      @honeyfungus4774 Месяц назад +1

      Bugger off, Yank.

  • @cherylharewood6125
    @cherylharewood6125 3 месяца назад +3

    +++###I hope/pray that every African nation and people of African-descent file lawsuits for reparations from the Royal families, and Western nations including the USA🇺🇸 every day to the coming again of JESUS CHRIST🙏.And thank JESUS CHRIST FOR MAKING AFRICA GREAT AGAIN(MAGA).###++

    • @michellebooth327
      @michellebooth327 3 месяца назад +6

      🤣 clueless.

    • @jackr1779
      @jackr1779 3 месяца назад

      Piss off with your reparations & greed.

    • @londongirl1733
      @londongirl1733 18 дней назад +1

      😳😳😳 well that gave me a good laugh 😂 you need to look at history and check out what was happening in Africa before white man stepped a toe there!! No worries though you don’t have to Thank us all for the billions spent on ending slavery!! Take it as a freebie!! Most of you do anyway.