We never had a bathroom in the 1970's North London, with the WC at the bottom of the garden and regular trips to the launderette on Silver Street to do the laundry and to the public baths on Edmonton Green to have a bath, my kids can't imagine this! Great show thanks Dan Cruickshank for exploring ordinary people's lives! 👍🏼🙏🏽
I'm from Malaysia and grew up in British made terraced house, it's still the most wonderfully designed house I've lived and same goes with my siblings. Big airy rooms with courtyard in middle and back of the house, even the common front is wide with big neem trees
Watching these series of programs I've come to realize we're back to the origins of the house. I've seen that the house started with one big area where everything took place, except perhaps there was a separate area for sleeping. Then it evolved into many separate rooms, each with a door and a separate function. Now we're back to the one big multipurpose room with maybe separate rooms for sleeping. Extraordinary, isn't it!
Loved watching this particularly as it gave insight to my family history. A relative Joseph Parry headed up the waterworks in Liverpool in the later part of the 1800s and I have read documents he stored in the Welsh archives relating to his passion for ensuring good clean water delivery to the city. When the presenter mentioned a Joesph Parry in the Census, I check him out only to realise that his father, also called Joseph Parry was a Welsh Builder! They were related to my ancester who was heavily involved in the Welsh Church, a composer, writing many hymns. I couldn't work out why he was so well known in Liverpool as I read his death resulted in thousands of people going out on the streets, singing his Welsh hymns. Having seen the importance of the Church, with the role they played in ensuring employment for the builders - it has really helped me understand my own ancestry more.....
There does seem to be a bit of decline here. In the 18th century the poor lived in detached country cottages, in the 19th century it was the urban terrace house and in the second half of the 20th century to the present its the high rise tower block.
Great documentary. Images of the dilapidated terraced houses in 60's and 70's London are very accurately depicted in the 1973 film "The Wild Little Bunch" also called "The 14" starring Jack Wild. Such a depressing film but so realistic and accurate.
i remember my gran and grandad had an out side toilet in there NCB house in the late 70s still, freaking freezing going to toilet outside,and no toilet paper ,frozen newspaper.They also cooked chips on the coal fire as it saved electric...them were tut days
If i remember correctly, the colour yellow donkey stoning of your front step and any other stone was working class - those with better jobs such as office workers could use white donkey stones and those who were posher than than could use cream donkey stones and of course, many arguments happened because some people tried to use the wrong colour donkey stone such as white when your occupation said yellow. All very much class driven.
Very good documentary. It is important to show historical aspects of a dwelling in a large city, as it can be seen in the video. This kind of matter explains the causes of Liverpool's architecture format and tells us in details how a city can be modified in many situations by a large movement of immigrants settling in a place for job opportunities.
Holy shit, I used to live on Cairns Street! It was full of roaches and you could hear rats scratching around in the attic at night. An empty backyard opposite of our shared yard was full, and I mean FULL of rubbish. The doorbells for our house and the one next door were both on the same side. We were forever inundated with old Somali men looking to buy Khat from the neighbor.
wow i moved into an end terrace house in Barry south wales in 1989 didn't have a bathroom just an outside toilet at the bottom of the garden, did have a gas geezer above the kitchen sink for hot water
I wonder why they havent moved to terraced housing in Canada......lots are continually shrinking, and land costs ever rising......terraced housing has character, and yet people still have their own front and back yards(albeit small) for their own use......I suppose condos are still cheaper.....but then you have maintenance fees, and ugh, strata councils....
FMHammyJ they have town houses in Canada and semidetached houses. Go on google maps into new neighborhoods in Canada. They have tiny cheaply built polyvinyl boxes selling for McMansion prices in America.
haha, people wonder why there is so much obesity these days..............no chance back in the day, people did a hard days graft, came home for a bowl of stew and potatoes.............no need for gyms.
Can one of my British friends please explain why they are called Terrace homes? Is it because they are multi-storied or what? I didn't catch an explanation in the video. The presenter is awesome! Thanks!
@@GenerationJonesi They are called Townhouses or Duplex here in Memphis, TN too. It's the word "terrace" that confuses me. Usually that's a word that we hear in gardening, not in home descriptions. Thanks so much for answering!
@@lilitharam44 The term terrace was borrowed from garden terraces by British architects of the late Georgian period to describe streets of houses whose uniform fronts and uniform height created an ensemble that was more stylish than a "row". hope this helps👍
That urban myth has been spread around for a long time in the United States too and that’s exactly what it is: an urban myth. It doesn’t mean anything. Just bored boring people flinging shoes on the power lines because they can.
39:00 seeing this outside bathroom that was a water flush toilet and how much of a difference it made in these people’s lives, well, it makes me think of what I’ve learned about the vast majority of even semi rural Russia. A very large part of the territory of Russia people still use out houses, and I’ve seen interviews of a Russian POWs being interviewed by Ukrainian journalists, and these POWs are completely clueless about what it means to have an indoor bathroom. One guy said he thought it was gross because then you’d have this messy toilet in your house, and who would be responsible for cleaning such a horrendous mess?! And I’m listening to him and realizing, “This guy has never seen a normal indoor bathroom!” And it’s the 21st century. That is seriously nuts! No wonder those stupid Russian soldiers were stealing toilets from Ukrainian homes. They didn’t even know that you needed plumbing and a septic/sewer system for it to work. I also watched a video back I think in 2021 where a Russian Vlogger was walking through his hometown of Rostov-on-Don and shows a fairly normal looking inner city older urban neighborhood. Kind of looked like it popped out of the film Doctor Zhivago. The author walks up to a tap in the street and says, “this is how the people in this neighborhood get water.“ Took a while for that to sink in… A large city and a 21st century country that is supposed to be “developed“ does not have water to an entire neighborhood of its city… That means those people in that neighborhood don’t even have flushing toilets. And I am like, “where do they go poop? And what do they DO with it?!” it was insane!
Kirbz Adlington how is that any different than what we hear in apartments - at least with terrace housing you get “a back garden” rather than a balcony
Elizabeth Johnston because I don’t choose to live in an apartment for that exact reason! We live in a house. You kind of expect it when you’ve got people both sides, above or below or all but in a house you don’t. Walls one brick thick! All well and good when there were no flat screen TVs, sub woofers and people with absolutely no consideration for Anyone else (in 1900) but they aren’t fit for purpose anymore. It’s like living in a prison except I’m surrounded by my own furniture.
I know two people who have the same problem in a 1930s semi detached, you can heae the family on the otherside. Like you said life is louder today, TV, music, appliances, etc....
Fascinating and educational and mesmerizing, all in one, made more so by the ever interesting host. Looking forward to watching the other episodes. Makes one most appreciative of what we have and take so much for granted, such as the simple act of opening a tap to enjoy fresh water. We truly are, even the most humble of us, the pampered elite. TY.
What's that woman's problems with new builds (5:00)? As an American I would NEVER buy a house over 30 years old if I could help it. But she prefers old houses? Why? Old houses are dated inside and out and they are vastly smaller than today. In 1990 (29 years ago) the average American house was 2000sqft now it's 2600 sqft. That means someone buying an old house is missing out on 600 sqft !!!! That's not a good trade off for an out of date house!!
I've lived in a detached modern home and it was soulless and I hated it. My house I have now was built in 1890. I love the history and its Victorian features. It's also so solidly built I cant hear my neighbours TVs etc. We all have our personal reasons...and remember every man's or womans home is their castle. Enjoy your home for what it is and be grateful that we have a roof over our heads.
There’s more to home buying than just getting the most square feet per dollar. Older homes are generally built with solid, reliable materials vs newer houses that tend to built with composites and synthetics and “builder’s grade” materials. Also consider that modern houses are only built to be comfortable with the use of heating and cooling systems. Older homes are generally built to take advantage of prevailing winds for ventilation, sun positioning and landscaping to help warm/cool the house, and fireplaces. Possibly one of the most important benefits of older homes is that they can be cheaper. Not just their purchase price, but the utilities and the taxes. Larger homes tend to have larger property taxes, and require more electricity to run. There’s other benefits to older homes as well, but I think I’ll stop here. New homes are beautiful and can definitely be well built, but it’s usually more expensive to do this vs retrofitting an older house to suit modern needs.
I've seen some of the Modern American Homes and I found them terrible. Many are built flimsily with cheap materials, like drywall where you can punch through and using balloon framing. They are often built the same way and look the same across the country. So that buildings in the hot humid South are similar to buildings in New England. Instead of adapting them, ppl completely rely on ACs, which is quite inefficient. It's not all about space, it's about quality too.
It's the opposite in the UK- house and room sizes have been decreasing over time. I live in a 1878 terrace, it has two bedrooms however the overall space is bigger than my mum and sister's houses. They are 3 bedroom detached houses built 15-20 years. It was also significantly cheaper than it's newer equivalent. It's also very solidly built, cooler in summer and warmer in winter.
We never had a bathroom in the 1970's North London, with the WC at the bottom of the garden and regular trips to the launderette on Silver Street to do the laundry and to the public baths on Edmonton Green to have a bath, my kids can't imagine this! Great show thanks Dan Cruickshank for exploring ordinary people's lives! 👍🏼🙏🏽
Dan Cruikshank is a national treasure..... thank you for this.
I met him in King's Lynn a couple of years ago. What a gentleman he is. Enormous talent.
I love a good British documentary!
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100,00,00,000 times better than living in a high rise!!!!
I'm from Malaysia and grew up in British made terraced house, it's still the most wonderfully designed house I've lived and same goes with my siblings. Big airy rooms with courtyard in middle and back of the house, even the common front is wide with big neem trees
Dan Cruikshank is the most listenable of presenters.
But where is he now?
Watching these series of programs I've come to realize we're back to the origins of the house. I've seen that the house started with one big area where everything took place, except perhaps there was a separate area for sleeping. Then it evolved into many separate rooms, each with a door and a separate function. Now we're back to the one big multipurpose room with maybe separate rooms for sleeping. Extraordinary, isn't it!
Loved watching this particularly as it gave insight to my family history. A relative Joseph Parry headed up the waterworks in Liverpool in the later part of the 1800s and I have read documents he stored in the Welsh archives relating to his passion for ensuring good clean water delivery to the city. When the presenter mentioned a Joesph Parry in the Census, I check him out only to realise that his father, also called Joseph Parry was a Welsh Builder! They were related to my ancester who was heavily involved in the Welsh Church, a composer, writing many hymns. I couldn't work out why he was so well known in Liverpool as I read his death resulted in thousands of people going out on the streets, singing his Welsh hymns. Having seen the importance of the Church, with the role they played in ensuring employment for the builders - it has really helped me understand my own ancestry more.....
What a cool story! 👍
There does seem to be a bit of decline here. In the 18th century the poor lived in detached country cottages, in the 19th century it was the urban terrace house and in the second half of the 20th century to the present its the high rise tower block.
Great documentary. Images of the dilapidated terraced houses in 60's and 70's London are very accurately depicted in the 1973 film "The Wild Little Bunch" also called "The 14" starring Jack Wild. Such a depressing film but so realistic and accurate.
cracking programme..........loved it............and i love terraced houses.
david tunnicliff do you mind hearing neighbours
I love terrace houses too.
The lack of trees on many British streets will never cease to amaze me.
I love terrace houses, always wanted to live in one. Hope to downsize to one in the near future!
Thank you for uploading!!
So interesting and educational. Thank you.
This is so interesting. Thank you for posting.
I lost access to the archive I was watching this on before I could finish the series and was pretty sad about it. Thank you for the upload!!!
i remember my gran and grandad had an out side toilet in there NCB house in the late 70s still, freaking freezing going to toilet outside,and no toilet paper ,frozen newspaper.They also cooked chips on the coal fire as it saved electric...them were tut days
Those terrace homes are tiny, but i wouldnt mind living in one.
If i remember correctly, the colour yellow donkey stoning of your front step and any other stone was working class - those with better jobs such as office workers could use white donkey stones and those who were posher than than could use cream donkey stones and of course, many arguments happened because some people tried to use the wrong colour donkey stone such as white when your occupation said yellow. All very much class driven.
That’s wild.
Thanks for sharing this, I missed out on the original program
thanks love ur videos!
Shocking to see that the same plague of "slum-clearing" through demolition was happening here.
Whatever programme he appears in, I can't help noticing that Dan Cruikshank always has to have his own name in the title
Very good documentary. It is important to show historical aspects of a dwelling in a large city, as it can be seen in the video. This kind of matter explains the causes of Liverpool's architecture format and tells us in details how a city can be modified in many situations by a large movement of immigrants settling in a place for job opportunities.
Holy shit, I used to live on Cairns Street! It was full of roaches and you could hear rats scratching around in the attic at night. An empty backyard opposite of our shared yard was full, and I mean FULL of rubbish. The doorbells for our house and the one next door were both on the same side. We were forever inundated with old Somali men looking to buy Khat from the neighbor.
wow i moved into an end terrace house in Barry south wales in 1989 didn't have a bathroom just an outside toilet at the bottom of the garden, did have a gas geezer above the kitchen sink for hot water
I live in a terrace house
good
Why did those outdoor flushing toilets not freeze?
I wonder why they havent moved to terraced housing in Canada......lots are continually shrinking, and land costs ever rising......terraced housing has character, and yet people still have their own front and back yards(albeit small) for their own use......I suppose condos are still cheaper.....but then you have maintenance fees, and ugh, strata councils....
FMHammyJ they have town houses in Canada and semidetached houses. Go on google maps into new neighborhoods in Canada. They have tiny cheaply built polyvinyl boxes selling for McMansion prices in America.
but those poor brick workers bending over like that moving bricks, it must have eventually ruined their lower backs.
haha, people wonder why there is so much obesity these days..............no chance back in the day, people did a hard days graft, came home for a bowl of stew and potatoes.............no need for gyms.
Can one of my British friends please explain why they are called Terrace homes? Is it because they are multi-storied or what? I didn't catch an explanation in the video. The presenter is awesome! Thanks!
Hi Lilith. We call them row houses, or townhouses, here in Canada. :)
@@GenerationJonesi They are called Townhouses or Duplex here in Memphis, TN too. It's the word "terrace" that confuses me. Usually that's a word that we hear in gardening, not in home descriptions. Thanks so much for answering!
Hi Lilith, I agree. I think we use the word a bit different here in North America :)
@@lilitharam44 The term terrace was borrowed from garden terraces by British architects of the late Georgian period to describe streets of houses whose uniform fronts and uniform height created an ensemble that was more stylish than a "row". hope this helps👍
@@crazyhazy456 Thanks so much for explaining that for me. I admire British architecture.
Postwar Liverpool is what happens to any advanced civilization that exports its manufacturing jobs to 3rd world countries.
3:13 - a pair of trainers hanging on the phone lines means drug dealers operate in that area
@@lerhodes2236 No, I was told what this symbol means by a friend. I had no idea until they said what it was.
That urban myth has been spread around for a long time in the United States too and that’s exactly what it is: an urban myth. It doesn’t mean anything. Just bored boring people flinging shoes on the power lines because they can.
39:00 seeing this outside bathroom that was a water flush toilet and how much of a difference it made in these people’s lives, well, it makes me think of what I’ve learned about the vast majority of even semi rural Russia.
A very large part of the territory of Russia people still use out houses, and I’ve seen interviews of a Russian POWs being interviewed by Ukrainian journalists, and these POWs are completely clueless about what it means to have an indoor bathroom. One guy said he thought it was gross because then you’d have this messy toilet in your house, and who would be responsible for cleaning such a horrendous mess?! And I’m listening to him and realizing, “This guy has never seen a normal indoor bathroom!” And it’s the 21st century. That is seriously nuts! No wonder those stupid Russian soldiers were stealing toilets from Ukrainian homes. They didn’t even know that you needed plumbing and a septic/sewer system for it to work.
I also watched a video back I think in 2021 where a Russian Vlogger was walking through his hometown of Rostov-on-Don and shows a fairly normal looking inner city older urban neighborhood. Kind of looked like it popped out of the film Doctor Zhivago. The author walks up to a tap in the street and says, “this is how the people in this neighborhood get water.“ Took a while for that to sink in… A large city and a 21st century country that is supposed to be “developed“ does not have water to an entire neighborhood of its city… That means those people in that neighborhood don’t even have flushing toilets. And I am like, “where do they go poop? And what do they DO with it?!” it was insane!
That's derelict? Looks more like Henry VIII had access to the Luftwaffe.
I live in a terraced house and believe me it’s no love affair! If you want to hear your neighbours every conversation move to a terraced! 😩
Kirbz Adlington how is that any different than what we hear in apartments - at least with terrace housing you get “a back garden” rather than a balcony
Elizabeth Johnston because I don’t choose to live in an apartment for that exact reason! We live in a house. You kind of expect it when you’ve got people both sides, above or below or all but in a house you don’t. Walls one brick thick! All well and good when there were no flat screen TVs, sub woofers and people with absolutely no consideration for Anyone else (in 1900) but they aren’t fit for purpose anymore. It’s like living in a prison except I’m surrounded by my own furniture.
A balcony and peace and quiet would be lovely. Your welcome to my garden but bring earplugs for the house 👍🏻
Kirby S didn't he say the Britishins like to snoop on the neighbors?
I know two people who have the same problem in a 1930s semi detached, you can heae the family on the otherside. Like you said life is louder today, TV, music, appliances, etc....
British climate is so rainy..im surprised they get anything built outdoors
It doesn't rain every day
He said racism....
terrible sound quality
Fascinating and educational and mesmerizing, all in one, made more so by the ever interesting host. Looking forward to watching the other episodes. Makes one most appreciative of what we have and take so much for granted, such as the simple act of opening a tap to enjoy fresh water. We truly are, even the most humble of us, the pampered elite. TY.
Thanks for ruining a brilliant program with so many adverts ALL THE WAY through it, preferably bunch them at the beginning
He said "Liverpool was the most densely populated city on earth" . What shocking ignorance.
Isn't Nasra a lovely young woman? 😀
IMMIGRANTS DOING WHAT THEY DO BEST -- RIOTING
I do not consider anybody who is not white and from England to be English
Get your DNA done and prepare for a shock .
@@terrywashington8908 True. To be English is also to be a North-West (Germanic) European. All ethnic Europeans are white.
This convo worries me...
Thank you RUclips
What's that woman's problems with new builds (5:00)? As an American I would NEVER buy a house over 30 years old if I could help it. But she prefers old houses? Why? Old houses are dated inside and out and they are vastly smaller than today. In 1990 (29 years ago) the average American house was 2000sqft now it's 2600 sqft. That means someone buying an old house is missing out on 600 sqft !!!! That's not a good trade off for an out of date house!!
I've lived in a detached modern home and it was soulless and I hated it. My house I have now was built in 1890. I love the history and its Victorian features. It's also so solidly built I cant hear my neighbours TVs etc. We all have our personal reasons...and remember every man's or womans home is their castle. Enjoy your home for what it is and be grateful that we have a roof over our heads.
There’s more to home buying than just getting the most square feet per dollar. Older homes are generally built with solid, reliable materials vs newer houses that tend to built with composites and synthetics and “builder’s grade” materials. Also consider that modern houses are only built to be comfortable with the use of heating and cooling systems. Older homes are generally built to take advantage of prevailing winds for ventilation, sun positioning and landscaping to help warm/cool the house, and fireplaces. Possibly one of the most important benefits of older homes is that they can be cheaper. Not just their purchase price, but the utilities and the taxes. Larger homes tend to have larger property taxes, and require more electricity to run. There’s other benefits to older homes as well, but I think I’ll stop here. New homes are beautiful and can definitely be well built, but it’s usually more expensive to do this vs retrofitting an older house to suit modern needs.
I've seen some of the Modern American Homes and I found them terrible. Many are built flimsily with cheap materials, like drywall where you can punch through and using balloon framing. They are often built the same way and look the same across the country. So that buildings in the hot humid South are similar to buildings in New England. Instead of adapting them, ppl completely rely on ACs, which is quite inefficient. It's not all about space, it's about quality too.
It's the opposite in the UK- house and room sizes have been decreasing over time. I live in a 1878 terrace, it has two bedrooms however the overall space is bigger than my mum and sister's houses. They are 3 bedroom detached houses built 15-20 years. It was also significantly cheaper than it's newer equivalent.
It's also very solidly built, cooler in summer and warmer in winter.